Luckily, Su Bai didn’t hear the announcement: "mission failed", which meant Lam Ching-Ying was still alive. He stood up, walked to Lam, crouched down and felt his breath.
He was not dead yet, but dying, with more air breathed out than in. Gyatso thought Su Bai was under attack and had no time to think before hitting that Taoist. Most importantly, he didn’t know Ching-Ying Lam.
Kuan saw that his teacher got hit and was lying still, and immediately ran to him and cried "Master, master!" But it was not a movie cliche. Gyatso didn’t give him the chance to get closer, ready to break out with full potential and kill them all. With a sweep of Gyatso’s stick, Kuan was struck down and forced to lie still with the stick pointing against his chest.
Then Gyatso looked at Su Bai who was examining the Taoist:
"Don’t tell me that person is Ching-Ying Lam."
Su Bai sighed, "Right now, I really wish he weren’t."
