While Jiang Chen had finished practicing with his magic control and was practicing extending the fire from his hand to his arm, Qiang Shen saw that someone was watching them.
"S**t, we've been discovered," he said. Immediately eliminated its presence and a jump, reached the roof of the second building of the school.
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The young man who had been watching Qiang Chen and co. in his practices the previous day, it was again observing them today, with the difference that on this occasion he didn't see Yin Xue with them. At first he had believed because of his need for urgent help he had made him believe that he had seen one of his Qianbei had lit his hand out of nowhere, that is why today he went back to the roof of the second school building to confirm that the previous day was not a dream or a product of his imagination, that he had actually witnessed the phenomenon of the previous day.
When he was staring at them, he realized that Qiang Shen-Qianbei had disappeared. "Then I did not imagine what I saw yesterday" he thought. "Who are you and why have you been watching us?" He heard a voice coming from behind him. When he turned around, he saw that Qiang Shen was behind him.
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Qiang Shen had jumped from one building to another, and stood behind the person who had been watching them. "Who are you and why have you been watching us?" he asked. When the person turned around, he was surprised that he was a young man. He was smaller than he, approximately 1.60 in height, thin, light brown hair neither very short nor very long and blue eyes.
When the young man saw that his Qianbei was behind him, he first saw him shocked but immediately began to cry. Qiang Shen was completely scared. "What did I do to make him start crying like that?" he thought. When he thought about how to stop crying, Qiang Shen began to listen to the young man who was still crying. "sob... sob... Qianbei... help me... please... please... save my sister!" said the young man.
Qiang Shen did not know what to say, he only listened to the young man who said the same thing over and over again. When Qiang Shen was about to answer him, the bell that marked the end of lunchtime began to ring. "Listen," he told the young man, "I'm willing to listen to what you have to say to me, but there's no time anymore, if you promise not to tell anyone what you just saw, I promise to listen to you and if I can, I promise to help you too.
With his perfected senses, and his perception activated, Qiang Shen could feel when a person had bad intentions directed towards him, something that he could not feel of the young man in front of him and felt his very real crying.
"Then we'll see each other at the entrance of the school, just tell me your name to know who you are," Qiang Shen told him. "Thank you, Qianbei, thank you very much, my name is Lu QingShan, I am from class 2-a" said the young man. Immediately Qiang Shen jumped back to the roof of the 3rd school building.
"Then who was the one watching us?" Jiang Chen asked. "He was a Houbei1 who needs help" Qiang Shen replied, "before asking anything he started crying and asked for help, I told him we would see each other after class".
While the classes continued, Qiang Shen continued with his plans to find more cultivators, but he did not know what else to do.
"I did not want to communicate with them yet but it is necessary to prepare, first I will communicate with that person on the side of the magicians" he said to himself and began to write on a sheet of his notebook.
ᚵᛆᛁᛆ ᛁᛋ ᛁᚿ ᛑᛆᚿᚼᛂᚱ ᛆᚿᛑ ᛐᛂ ᛐᚤᛁᛚᛑᚱᛂᚿ ᚮᚠ ᛚᛁᛚᛁᛐ wᛁᚤ ᚱᛂᛐᚢᚱᚿ ᛐᚮ ᛂᛆᚱᛐ ᛑᛂᛒᛂᛘᚮᛋ ᚱᛂᚢᚿᛁᚱᚿᚮᛋ ᚢᚱᚼᛂᚿᛐᛂᛘᛂᚿᛐᛂ
(Gaia is in danger and the children of Lilith will return to earth. We must meet urgently)
After writing the letter, he kept it and planned to buy an envelope to send it by mail.
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After classes, Qiang Shen and Jiang Chen were gathered at the entrance of the school while they waited for Yin Xue and the other young man.
"I was hearing that they were going to interview Sis Xue in the principal's office, and that her parents were already on their way to be with her," Jiang Chen began to say. This day all the attention was on Yin Xue so Qiang Shen could rest easy. During the whole day, he was not bothered by anyone and could walk quietly through the corridors.
"Then we just have to wait for Lu QingShan to be able to leave," said Qiang Shen. At that moment they saw the young man addressing them timidly. Before the young man could say anything, Qiang Shen just said "let's go" and walked away. Jiang Chen walked behind Qiang Chen and beckoned to the young man to follow them.
After the three left school, Qiang Shen went to buy an envelope for his letter and then went to the same Cafe where Yin Xue had avoided the robbery and asked for a table.
"Now, before listening to your request, first tell us what you saw" Qiang Shen said unexpectedly. "Mm," nodded Lu QingShan. "Yesterday I went to the roof of the second building of the school at lunchtime to eat, in that I saw that there were three people in the building opposite and when I approached the edge to see better, I saw that they were Qiang Shen -qianbei, Jiang Chen-qianbei and Yin Xue-xuejie, then I saw how Yin Xue-xuejie started to walk in a strange way, at first I thought that they were rehearsing a play, but then I saw Jiang Chen-qianbei getting in while you and Yin Xue-xuejie saw him... As I saw that Jiang Chen-qianbei did not move, I decided to finish my meal, and soon after I was planning to return my classroom, I saw that Jiang Chen-qianbei raised his hand. I do not know if it was because I was waiting for something to happen but I was watching and then I saw that his hand started to catch fire, I was really surprised, then I saw the flame in Jiang Chen-qianbei's hand pass from something that Qiang Shen-qianbei had taken out and I started to burn, I was quite surprised.
To know if I had not hallucinated, today again I went back up to the roof of the second building and I saw Jiang Chen-qianbei turn on his hand again" said Lu QingShan
"I didn't think we would be discovered so soon," said Qiang Shen. "Also stops calling us Qianbei" said Jiang Chen "as men who share the same secret, that already makes us friends, just tell me Jiang Chen or bro Chen, you can tell him Qiang Shen or bro Shen" he said as he pointed to Qiang Shen. "Mm" said Lu QingShan nodding "then you can tell me little Shan, my family also tells me like that" he said.
"Now, why did you ask for my help?" Qiang Shen said again. At that moment, little Shan began to cry again. "Bro Shen, help me. My sister was cursed, when we were children, she and I went into an abandoned house when we were looking for our cat, but when we were gone, she fainted and with difficulty managed to bring her back home but when she woke up, could not walk again, and after that day her health has been getting worse little by little and the doctor told us that if she continued like this, she would die in 2 years." said little Shan.
When Jiang Chen heard his story, he remembered his father so he thought his friend was going to help him, but what he heard surprised him.
"I'm so sorry, I can't help you with that," Qiang Shen said.
Notes:
1- It is the equivalent to Kohai (Japanese), Hoobae (korea), Junior (approximate translation).