A few minutes later, a helicopter descended from the sky and landed in the courtyard of Longyan Temple.

Two fully armed soldiers carried a stretcher out of the cabin, and on the stretcher lay an elderly man tightly bound by a restraint strap.

"That's Lee Yuan," Yang Qi said, jumping down from the helicopter and speaking to Sun Hang.

Sun Hang glanced at the elderly man on the stretcher, noticing his eyes tightly shut, his breath faint, and his shriveled skin full of brown age spots, completely unrecognizable as the clean monk Sun Hang had seen in memory fragments.

He crouched down, reached to turn the man's head to the side, revealing a black mole the size of a coin in the middle of the sparse white hair at the back of his head.

"Inspection complete; it's definitely him," Sun Hang nodded. "Where did you find this guy?"

"In the VIP ward of Tianfu City Central Hospital," Yang Qi replied. "This guy has lung cancer. According to the doctor, he doesn't have many days left... Basically, he's keeping this life afloat with huge amounts of money every day."

"Is he very rich?"

"Yes, he's ranked among the top 300 wealthy individuals in Tianfu City. He made his first fortune by contracting civil engineering projects and later switched to the building materials business. He owns six companies, with publicly assets worth about 800 million," Yang Qi said. "When the Public Security Bureau went in to arrest him, there was a violent clash with his bodyguards, and several people were injured."

"Did you find out where his initial funds came from?"

"No... This guy and the initial money he used to start his engineering projects, there are no records at all, as if they appeared out of thin air. Even his citizen identity was reissued later... Because he sponsored a large sum to the Celestial City Management Committee at that time, all procedures went smoothly. If it weren't for today's special investigation, we wouldn't even know about his past deeds," Yang Qi explained.

"Can you wake this guy up?" Sun Hang asked, looking at the old man who was already half-dead.

"Yes," the accompanying medical soldier nodded, "but..."

"Don't consider the consequences, just wake him up."

The medical soldier hesitated for half a second, then took out a dose of adrenaline from the medical kit and injected it into Lee Yuan's arm.

A dozen seconds later, Lee Yuan slowly woke up, struggling to open his eyes. He glanced at the medical soldier and then at Sun Hang, asking, "Who... who are you people? I... where am I?"

"Lee Yuan... no, Jueyuan," Sun Hang said, noting that when he called out "Jueyuan," Lee Yuan's pupils visibly shook.

"You! Who are you?!"

"Who I am doesn't matter, but I can answer your second question," Sun Hang stepped aside, revealing the grand hall behind him, "Do you recognize this place?"

Lee Yuan's eyes widened, and his body began to tremble, "No... no, I don't want to be here! Take me back! Quickly! I order you! Take me back to the ward now!"

"I'm afraid I cannot comply," Sun Hang smiled and bowed slightly, "After all, I'm not your bodyguard... Besides, there's an old friend here who wants to see you."

Old friend... Sun Hang silently thought, indeed quite old... and quite familiar.

After all, that fire back then was started by the very person lying on the stretcher.

"No! Don't! Get me out of here!" Lee Yuan's breathing became rapid, and the portable vital sign monitor beside him started issuing dense alarm sounds, "I can give you money! I can give you a lot of money! A hundred million! No, two hundred million! I'll give you two hundred million, let me leave here! I beg you!"

"He's dying," Sun Hang coldly looked at the monitor screen, "Give him another injection of adrenaline; he must stay alive, at least until he goes inside."

A chilling sensation inexplicably emanated from the slightly ajar temple door of Longyan Temple, causing Yang Qi, the medical soldier, and the accompanying soldiers and Hunters to shiver. As for Lee Yuan, he had already fallen into complete madness; without the restraint strap, he would probably have struggled to roll off the stretcher.

Sun Hang silently watched as the medical soldier administered the second dose of adrenaline to Lee Yuan, then, with a flash of cold light at his fingertips, the restraint strap snapped one after another. Like lifting a chicken, he picked Lee Yuan up from the stretcher and walked toward the grand hall.

"Sun Hang..." Yang Qi called out from behind, "Is this... really going to work?"

"We'll see, even if it doesn't work, it's no loss," Sun Hang replied, "Besides, he's going to die soon anyway... he deserved it."

Sun Hang reached the entrance of the hall, faintly hearing the sound of indistinct murmuring inside as if monks were quietly chanting scriptures, or whispering of hidden sinister things in the dark.

He noticed that the heads of all the Buddha statues inside the hall had been restored, each face facing toward the entrance, with dozen pairs of sightless eyes staring fixedly at Lee Yuan held in Sun Hang's hand.

"I hope you enjoy the conversation," Sun Hang said, throwing the utterly despairing Lee Yuan into the grand hall, then closed the temple doors.

He slowly stepped back a few paces, hearing a soft "hiss" as a flare of fire flashed inside the hall, and soon, the entire hall burst into blazing flames.

Just like the side room that was set aflame back then.

Sun Hang turned his gaze to the Garuda in the distant sky and shouted to Yang Qi, "Inform the command center to halt the operation and let Bao Si cease her powers."

"Are you sure? If Dragon Rock Fortress moves toward Tianfu City, do you understand the responsibility you'll bear?" Yang Qi frowned, "Perhaps... monitor it for a bit longer?"

"If the situation changes, Bao Si can re-emerge... she isn't a one-time-use item," Sun Hang said.

"..." Yang Qi remained silent for a few seconds, then faithfully reported Sun Hang's exact words.

A few minutes later, the Garuda began moving away from Dragon Rock Fortress, and Sun Hang and the others boarded the helicopter, leaving the transformed fiery sea of the ruined temple behind.

"Induced operation temporarily halted, all units remain in original positions, constantly monitoring target status..."

"Bao Si returning to the safety module, target starting to decelerate!"

"Target stopped moving!"

"Target starting to change direction!"

Hearing the words on the communication channel, Yang Qi subconsciously clenched her fist.

Whether Sun Hang's "method" worked would depend on which direction Dragon Rock Fortress would turn in the next few seconds...

"Target direction change complete, starting to move, moving direction is... southwest!"

"Target starting to accelerate... expected to cross the Shuzhou border and enter Yundian Plateau Surrendered Area in four hours!"

Yang Qi let out a long breath, her body suddenly leaning back against the back of the chair.

Yang Lian's voice sounded in Sun Hang's earpiece: "How did you manage this? What's really going on?"

"We'll talk when we get back." Sun Hang said, then directly removed the earpiece, turning his gaze to the window — watching the massive mountain body gradually move away from Tianfu City, while the fire on the peak had extinguished, leaving behind only a scorched ruin and thick smoke rising to the sky.

"Quite trustworthy indeed..."

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