The saying goes: A dark moon is a night for murder, a strong wind is a day for arson!

  The weather hasn't been great these past few days, with occasional light rain. Although the rain stopped at night, the dark clouds were still very heavy, completely blocking out what should have been a bright moonlight.

  In the dead of night, those who should be sleeping and those who shouldn't were all asleep. The entire hospital was quiet, except for the nurse's station which still had its lights on. The inpatient department was pitch black, even the streetlights in the courtyard had gone out for some unknown reason.

  A dark figure, like a nimble monkey, flipped over the wall and stuck close to the ground, almost completely hidden in the not-so-long lawn. The shadow approached the residential building like a ghost, quickly and unnoticed by anyone, and suddenly climbed up the building like a gecko from the corner of the building.

  The black shadow stopped at the sixth floor, like a crouching beast quietly stuck there, waiting for the most opportune moment.

  The light at the end of the sixth floor ward suddenly lit up, it should be the nurse's rounds. The black shadow silently and quietly peeked into everything in the ward, its gaze paused on the thin figure on the hospital bed, it silently opened its mouth to smile, the nurse finished her rounds and left, the lights went out, and everything returned to deathly silence.

  After waiting for nearly ten minutes, the black shadow confirmed that no one would disturb it again. It flipped over and jumped onto the windowsill, silently entering the ward.

  The room had no light, outside the room there was no moonlight. The person who should have been adapted to the darkness couldn't see anything. A black shadow suddenly startled and turned around, wanting to jump out of the window and return by the original route, but...

  "Bang!" The light turned on at this moment!

  The black shadow suddenly froze in place, and due to the strong light stimulation, he uncomfortably narrowed his eyes. There was a glint of water at the bottom of his eyes.

  The black shadow hesitated for a moment, slowly turned its head, and unexpectedly yet reasonably saw someone who was hard to say whether he should be here or not.

  And also...

  What the heck, this isn't a hospital room at all, it's just a shabby office. Except for a desk piled with files and a chair with a white-shirted dude sitting in it, there's nothing else, so did he just hallucinate everything he saw on the wall? —— I'm going to die, I've been had!!

  Bai Xi sat comfortably in the chair, his elbow propped against the armrest, and his slender fingers supporting a tall-stemmed glass. The glass was filled with fragrant wine, which he gently swirled, leaving faint marks on the rim of the glass as the deep red liquid sloshed around - this was the basic movement for tasting wine.

  "These past few days, I've been restless and keep having the same dream. In the dream, it's from back when I first came to the mountain, and Master led me into the temple gates. The first person I saw was you; at that time, you were the wooden fish monk in the main hall, striking the wooden fish every day - I don't know why. Every time I heard the sound of your wooden fish, I could quickly calm down, so Master had you become my guiding monk."

  Bai Xi Jing's voice was low and gentle, with a hint of hoarseness that carried a deep sense of nostalgia and emotion.

  Black shadow……or rather, Dahe Shang joined his hands together and let out a sigh. "Yuanwu Shidi, you're still so sentimental...... Yuanchen Shixiong, you're still so fat——!" Bai Xijing smiled with his eyes narrowed. This genuine smile was almost identical to Xiao Jingchen's, but only "almost". At least, there wasn't a hint of laughter in the depths of his crescent-shaped phoenix eyes.

  To be honest, Yuan Chen is really fat, as fat as Maitreya Buddha. Probably to match the scene, he smiles at people with a third of his face, just like Maitreya Buddha.

  He clasped his hands together and said "Amitabha", then smiled good-naturedly, "Oh my, it's been so many years since we last met, and the first thing I do is nearly get your daughter killed. I'm truly sorry, I've failed to live up to your teachings, Master!"

  “Bang——” The high-heeled glass shattered into fragments and spilled all over the floor, the mellow grape wine staining his cuffs and emitting a blood-like color. Bai Xi looked at his wet fingers and silently laughed, “It seems I still haven't practiced enough, one sentence from you and I'm back to my original form.”

  "Hehe, after all, you're still my junior brother. It's better to be obedient in front of your senior brother." Yan Chong smiled harmlessly.

  Bai Xi Jing lowered his eyes and slowly wiped the wine stains on his hand, "Hmph, it seems that only I am nostalgic."

  "I'm also quite nostalgic, otherwise why would I have given my younger brother such a surprising big gift as soon as I arrived in S city? To thank my niece for taking care of my nephew, I really put some thought into it. Unfortunately, the good kid who helped me deliver the gift was torn to pieces by someone, tsk~tsk~"

  With a sigh of regret and remorse, he clasped his hands together, bowed his head, closed his eyes, and said "guilty, guilty".

  Yuè Chēn knew that from the moment he stepped into this room, he had already fallen into Bái Xī Jǐng's trap, so he was constantly trying to provoke Bái Xī Jǐng.

  Bai Xijing is a person who understands how to endure humiliation, but when it comes to Xiao Jingchen... his endurance is quite lacking.

  Bai Xi Jing finally put away his hypocritical smile, he slightly tilted his head, his eyes staring coldly at Yuan Chen, the corners of his mouth curled up in an extremely cold smile. "For your nephew? You think I would believe such a ridiculous reason? Yuan Chen, have you forgotten why you were expelled from the sect back then? Someone who doesn't even care about the lives of their fellow disciples and brothers, would they care about a nephew three thousand miles away? Besides, Tang En was only imprisoned, not in danger of losing his life. For such a small grudge, you actually hired an assassin to kill a twelve-year-old girl, especially one who is not only from the same sect and clan as you, but also my daughter and your junior sister. If you want to deceive me, please come up with a more plausible reason."

  She raised an eyebrow, shrugged her shoulders, and smiled with a calm demeanor, "Believe it or not, what I said is the truth."

  "What is the truth, let me tell you!" Bai Xijing stood up, his long fingers adjusting the wet cuffs, and his eyes behind the glasses were deep and dark like a black hole. "You killed Jingchen because she was your greatest sin in life. As long as she lived, you would be tormented by guilt day and night. So, she had to die. Her death would put an end to your sin, and only then could you find relief."

  His expression changed slightly, and with a stern face, he shouted, "What nonsense are you talking about? I'm a monk, how can I have such a big daughter?"

  "Hmph, don't try to change the subject here," Bai Xijing said, unaffected by him, "You're very clear what crime I'm referring to. It was you who secretly took her away back then, but you didn't think she could survive until now. So, you're afraid, you're afraid that her biological parents will find her, you're afraid someone will discover the secret on her body. At that time, it won't just be you who dies, even exterminating nine clans would be too light a punishment."

  As Bai Xijing approached, Yuan Chen's calmness crumbled bit by bit. At this moment, the emotions of the two people were completely reversed, and Bai Xijing became the one who controlled the other person's emotions. He was trying to dig out the deepest fear in Yuan Chen's heart to dismantle his cold psychological defense line.

  She clasped her hands together and slightly bowed her head, avoiding Bai Xijing's line of sight. "I don't know what you're talking about." But a cold sweat had already seeped out from the back of her neck.

  Bai Xijing didn't care about his reaction, as if he hadn't heard his excuses. Bai Xijing's voice was still calm and gentle, but Yuan Chen had already begun to waver. "Master said that he found Jinglian in the depths of the back mountain. I'm very curious, those ten thousand great mountains are impassable even for me, who has the ability to abandon a baby inside and still escape unscathed? Heh ~, besides Master Brother, who else has studied the notes of our ancestors?"

  Yuan Chen involuntarily took a step back, suddenly raised his head, and met Bai Xijin's icy gaze with a calm expression. "Younger brother, you really love to joke around. She's just an abandoned child, even if her biological parents found her, what does it matter? Who can prove that I did it? Am I worthy of killing someone over something like this?"

  Bai Xi Jing was taken aback, as if his words had struck a chord. Yuan Chen secretly let out a sigh of relief, finally able to regain some ground. He didn't like this junior brother of his; he was too sharp, too revealing, and too overbearing. After leaving the temple all these years, he never thought about coming to find this former junior brother again. If it wasn't for... he absolutely wouldn't have set foot in S City again. The shadow in his heart from six years ago was still too great!

  In my mind, I was thinking of something, and I thought I had already grasped the intense gaze of Bai Xijing, but unexpectedly, his unintentional glance swept by, and I saw the corner of Bai Xijing's mouth slowly curling up, not that kind of chilling smile, but a devilish smile that makes one's soul tremble. In an instant, my hair stood on end, and a very unpleasant feeling rose in my heart.

  Bai Xi Jing took a few steps back, slowly and calmly sat down in the chair, stretched out his paws, and said, "Actually, I've always been very curious. Jing Xue grew up in the deep mountains and old forests, living a life isolated from the world. Her personality is simple and normal, her temper is straightforward, she doesn't understand human relationships or have any common sense of life, which is also normal. Even though she didn't receive any basic education and developed acquired learning disabilities, I'm still willing to consider that normal. But, but, can you tell me where her strange powers, completely beyond what a normal human should have, come from? ... Back then, at the Shu Mi laboratory explosion, after cleaning up the scene and piecing together all the fragments, it was discovered that only one bottle of M1371 was missing. Can you tell me where that bottle of medicine is now?"

  With a stunned expression, he stared at Bai Xijing in disbelief. Bai Xijing silently laughed, revealing rows of white teeth, "It seems that you didn't do your homework thoroughly and didn't even investigate Jingchen's background before taking action. This isn't like your usual style, or...". He casually picked up a file folder from the table and threw it to the ground, "Did seeing Jingchen's youthful face remind you of someone, causing you to completely lose your composure and overlook everything else?"

  The folder fell to the ground and automatically flipped open. The font of the information on the first page was simple and small, but it was so shocking.

  The fingers covered by the monk's robe trembled uncontrollably for a few moments, and Yin sneered, gritting his teeth at Bai Xijing, "You actually know everything!"