Chapter 55: Departure

Faced with such an answer, I was first extremely surprised, and then my mood became complicated. Leave the land of China? I had never thought about this! But now in this situation, I feel more and more like a little fish, facing a group of sharks hunting me down. I have finally found some shelter, but how can the situation allow me to choose?

So I took a deep breath, calmed myself down a little, and asked, “Going abroad is not that simple. Are we going to sneak out, or?”

“Don’t worry about the identity arrangements. Jenny said that we have a department head like Jiang Yi, so we don’t need to use him for nothing. The documents have already been taken care of for you. They are all fake names, which you can understand as ‘legitimate’ fake documents. Go with peace of mind.” Ge Quan’s voice came from the phone, and his words revealed his great trust in Jenny.

“Okay, but after we go to India, where should we go? What should we do?” I couldn’t help but ask.

“We’ll contact you about that later. First, we need to get out of here.” Ge Quan hung up the phone after saying that. I could feel the haste in his tone as he spoke to me on the phone, and it was obvious that he was being extremely careful.

The carriage was speeding across the grasslands in the no-man’s-land. Under the night sky, a crescent moon was shining. Everything was still quiet as usual. As the moon was a little sleepy and leaning against the carriage wall, it didn’t worry about where we were going at all. Facing the dazed me, Chengxin just lit a cigarette in silence and said, “If life allows, it’s always good to go to more places.”

“What’s so good about it?” I finally put down the phone, took a cigarette from Chengxin, opened the windows a little, and lit it.

“Well, I feel that the more places I visit, the more fulfilling my life becomes. Sometimes I have a very mysterious thought: we come from the earth, and the earth is like another mother. The more I look at it and the deeper I understand it, the more complete my life becomes.” When Cheng Xin Ge said this, the moonlight outside the window hit his face, and he looked like a poet.

“Oh, is this writing prose?” I replied lightly.

“As long as we are together, we don’t have to worry about going anywhere, and we will always come back,” said Chengxin, looking at me and smiling.

“That’s true.” I suddenly felt at ease.

The carriage was speeding through the wilderness. I felt that the horse pulling the carriage knew where it was going better than we did. It turned out that this was a horse with spirit. I thought to myself, if I took it to the racetrack, would it be worth a lot of money?

The carriage sped for an hour and then stopped automatically. During the ride, I asked Chengxin about their experiences during the time I was gone.

Compared to my experience, theirs was much simpler. After escaping from Hucun, they began to hide. Because when they left Hucun, the person who led them had hinted that it would be best to keep a low profile, to hide if they could, and then wait for news from me.

As a result, within two days, the news of my death spread like wildfire. At that time, they were hiding in a small town in another province.

After hearing the news, the first to break down was Ruyue. It was also at this time that Ruyue contacted Qinhuai, causing Chengqing to lose his temper and warn anyone not to contact family or friends.

“You know, you are a fellow disciple. In theory, Chengqing should not be able to calculate everything about you, but after learning the news that time, Chengqing paid a price that we didn’t know about, and calculated a result, saying that you still have a chance of survival, not a certain death. If we act rashly, it will change the situation you are facing, because we are all connected to your fate. Chengqing warned us not to underestimate the power of fate.” Chengxin said this with a heavy face, obviously because Chengqing had paid a price that he was still worried about.

I was also concerned, and couldn’t help but ask after hearing this. But Brother Chengxin shook his head with a bitter smile and said, “Don’t you know our Brother Chengqing? Don’t look at him as being taciturn, but he is the most stubborn in his bones. He is the same as our Uncle Li Hou. If he doesn’t want to say it, I’m afraid that he won’t say it to you even at the end of his life! You don’t know that part of the past, do you? It’s very interesting to talk about it, like a cycle.”

“Hmm?” I raised my eyebrows slightly.

“This time you caused a big commotion at the market, but many years ago, your master, my Uncle Jiang, did the same thing, only it wasn’t at the Dragon Gate Festival. I don’t know the specific details, but it was for our little sister-in-law. After that, the relationship between Uncle Li and Uncle Jiang fell to freezing point, and it wasn’t until that gathering that the ice melted.” Chengxin told me the story.

I remembered that the atmosphere at that gathering many years ago was a bit strange. Before that gathering, Master had never brought any of the other masters or my senior brothers and sisters to meet.

Did Master also make a big fuss? A smile came to my lips, and I said, “It’s reincarnation, but it’s not. Because there is no ice between our generation, but rather, we are more connected than ever. What do you think?”

“Yes, we are more connected than our relatives. It’s very warm to think about it. Anyway, after that, Brother Chengqing temporarily directed us to hide. Every day, he was acting mysteriously and I didn’t know what he was doing. Anyway, I saw him getting weaker and weaker every day. Sometimes he would wake us up in the middle of the night and move to a different place. I didn’t know until recently that he suddenly said that there would be an opportunity in Dashi, and that we had to come here no matter what! I can’t forget the expression on his face that day. Do you know what it was like? Chengxin’s eyes narrowed as he fell into his memories.

“Like what?” I asked.

“Like a gambler,” he said. “He said that the divination he used to calculate that you had a chance of survival was not one that gave him 100% certainty, even if it cost him. But this chance is one that he is very sure of. Whether you live or die depends on this chance. We can only wait for you. He… he said that without the Mountain Character lineage, he could not be the eldest brother. The true eldest brother can only be the successor of the Mountain Character lineage! It felt like he cared about you more than we did. Just like Uncle Li Hou cared about Uncle Jiang more than anyone else, and this is what Master told me. Brother Cheng Qing’s expression at that time really looked like a gambler. It was true, just like the last card. He was crazy about it and told everyone that it was a good card! Brother Cheng Xin smiled, but there was more of a touch of emotion in his eyes, moved by the pressure that Brother Cheng Qing was under at that time, leading everyone and his friendship with me.

The night in the no-man’s land was cold. I exhaled a white breath into the air and, like my brother, narrowed my eyes and said, “You say he’s mysterious and don’t know what he’s doing, but he’s actually using his magic to hide your whereabouts. Someone is plotting against you, and Brother Chengqing has hidden your whereabouts with his own strength. I paused here, then said with a smile, “But he was such a hard-working gambler, and in the end, he really got a good hand. I came back, and then we got shelter. The most important feeling of this shelter is that we are not alone.”

At this point, I smiled and patted Chengxin’s shoulder. Chengxin also smiled and patted me on the shoulder.

The carriage stopped and we got off, and everyone gathered together again.

The Li family, Ruyue, Huigen, Xiao Dasha, Lushan, Taobai, and Jueyuan, who had left Hucun early in the morning to receive part of the inheritance of Master Hongren, had finally gathered together in full force.

I didn’t care about Chengqing’s strange gaze or his fake expression of disgust. After getting off the carriage, I gave him a bear hug. He was as cool as before, frowning lightly and saying, “Thanks for the trouble.”

But I said very seriously, “Thank you for your hard work!”

He turned his head away, and I couldn’t see his expression, but I saw that in the wind, his hair was dancing, and there seemed to be a few more gray hairs.

Three modified Wrangler vehicles were parked in front of us. In this uninhabited area, such off-road vehicles are obviously extremely suitable. I pointed at the three vehicles and said, “Ours?”

Chengxin shook his head and said, “No!”

Obviously, this car should also be prepared by Jenny for us.

At this time, Lushan had already begun to check the car and the trunk of the car, and found that the trunk was relatively well-prepared with the supplies we needed.

“I’ll lead the way. Even in the middle of nowhere, I won’t get lost,” said Lushan after checking the car.

In the darkness of the night, looking at this man, who is full of secrets, I couldn’t help but ask, “Why are you so sure?”

A look of melancholy flashed across his face, and he said, “I used to think that I was connected to this plateau by fate. Even the dangerous no-man’s land is a place I love, because I once survived in the no-man’s land for three years. Do you know? A man and a horse survived for three years! I have many stories here. Chengyi, when we escape, let’s drink together and I’ll tell you these stories, okay?

I patted Lu Shan on the shoulder and nodded solemnly, saying, “Okay!”

Lu Shan smiled, with a hint of emotion in his eyes. I sensed that under the moonlight, Tao Bai, who was behind him, also had a hint of emotion in his eyes. At this moment of silence, I felt that the two of them seemed to be a little closer to us.

After a short silence, Lushan was the first to jump into the car and said to me, “Let’s go. This no-man’s land is not an obstacle. The key is where we are going next.”

Where to? I looked up at the sky and said with a faint smile, “Oh, we’re leaving China. We’re going to India.”

My voice was not loud, but on this quiet night, when all that could be heard was the wind, everyone heard it. Unexpectedly, everyone’s reaction was no different from that of Ruoyue Chengxin on the bus, and there was not even any surprise.

Lushan in the car decisively started the car, and just said, “Get in, let’s go!”