OBS Chapter 343 Zhou Bin
Chapter 343 Zhou Bin
Qin Xiaochuan sighed and said, "I really didn't expect someone who is usually so quiet would do something like this."
The wood priest sighed and said, "Before I agreed to his request, I asked him, 'You must have someone you care about deeply, but what's the point of doing this? You should know about the curse of our Blood Witch Clan.' After a long silence, he told me, 'Our fate is that whatever we gain is meaningless, because what we gain will eventually be lost. So I think the meaning of our lives is not to gain, but to give. When we give our hearts to the one we love, that is the meaning of our lives, and that is what we can truly gain.'"
Qin Xiaochuan listened to the wooden priest's words in a daze, feeling as if he understood something in that instant, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was. Han Kexin could no longer control her emotions, and tears streamed down her face like a burst dam. Guo Shiyi hugged her shoulders and comforted her.
After finishing talking about Zhou Bin, the Wood Priest left the front hall. Han Kexin's emotions gradually returned to normal, but she was obviously tired and leaned weakly on Guo Shiyi's shoulder.
Qin Xiaochuan glanced at her, sighed, and said, "I don't know if it's appropriate to ask you this now, but I have a big question in my mind. According to what the Wood Priest said, Zhou Bin seemed to have known that you would be in danger a long time ago. How is that possible?"
Han Kexin stared blankly at the ink bottle on the table, as if she hadn't heard Qin Xiaochuan's words. Guo Shiyi gave Qin Xiaochuan a wink, and Qin Xiaochuan understood. He was about to say something to comfort Han Kexin when he heard her say weakly, "That was back in Kunlun Ruins. I asked the monk Hui to look into my future. In the vision, I saw my destiny. I didn't expect Zhou Bin to see it too."
Qin Xiaochuan stared blankly at her, never expecting that such a thing had happened in Kunlun Ruins without his knowledge. Looking back now, Han Kexin was indeed acting strangely back then, and he had thought it was because of the Bluebird incident.
"Brother Zhou is such a gentle person. Even though he himself has had a difficult life, he has always tried his best to take care of others and is always silently protecting them," Guo Shiyi couldn't help but say with emotion.
"How do you know he has a difficult past?" Han Kexin asked. "Has he ever told you about his childhood?"
"Because there happened to be things from his childhood in the past illusion," Qin Xiaochuan explained, briefly describing what he saw in the past illusion.
Qin Xiaochuan's words stirred up Han Kexin's memories. She was lost in thought for a while before suddenly saying, "I want to help him in the illusion of the past."
Qin Xiaochuan was stunned for a moment, but then he understood what Han Kexin meant. He said, "It's no use. We've tried, but no matter what we do, we can't change the fate of his parents' inevitable death. If we forcibly change their karma, it might even lead to Zhou Bin's death as well."
"How did you do it?" Han Kexin asked, frowning.
Qin Xiaochuan recounted his actions truthfully, concluding, "Through our experiments, we discovered that their predetermined fate was actually the best outcome for them."
"I want to try it no matter what," Han Kexin said calmly, as if she hadn't understood Qin Xiaochuan's words.
Qin Xiaochuan wanted to explain and comfort her, but Guo Shiyi quietly tugged at his arm. Qin Xiaochuan glanced at her eyes and instantly understood. He realized that Han Kexin wanted to alleviate her guilt in this way, so he said to her, "Okay, we'll go with you."
The three returned to the cultivation room. After Qin Xiaochuan opened his mental space, he asked Han Kexin, "What are you planning to do?"
"I want to bring forward the timing of the intervention," Han Kexin said.
So, following Han Kexin's instructions, Qin Xiaochuan loaded the past illusion during the day and told Zhou's parents that a heavy rain was coming and the quarry was about to collapse, giving them more time to move the important equipment from the quarry.
However, when they loaded the data to the next day, Zhou Bin's parents still had an accident. This time, it was because they remembered that a batch of explosives had not been properly disposed of at night, and fearing an accident, they rushed to the quarry overnight.
Han Kexin tried several more times, and each time unexpected situations occurred, leading Zhou's father and mother to their deaths.
After several failed attempts, Han Kexin appeared even more exhausted. Although the time spent in the illusion was not long, it was extremely mentally taxing. Qin Xiaochuan noticed this and said, "Why don't you rest today and try again tomorrow?"
"No need," Han Kexin said coldly. "This time we're going to the site of their disaster."
Qin Xiaochuan's eyes lit up upon hearing this. With their strength, rescuing two people from the quarry collapse wouldn't be difficult, and this might be the best way to save them.
So Qin Xiaochuan immediately took Han Kexin and Guo Shiyi back to the time when they first met Zhou's parents. After saying goodbye to the two, the three of them followed the two to the quarry.
The quarry is not very big; it is clearly a small quarry. Large areas of bluish-gray granite are exposed, covered with a thick layer of soil and pine trees. The entire quarry looks like a small mountain that has been cut in half, with steep rock walls at nearly 90 degrees, which certainly poses many safety hazards.
Qin Xiaochuan and the others did not disturb Zhou's parents, but silently waited by the nearby forest. The night grew darker and darker, and the starlight in the sky was covered by dark clouds. The rainstorm arrived as expected.
Boom! A bolt of lightning streaked across the sky.
When the thick layer of soil on the quarry was washed down by the rain, the scene was like a flood. Tall pine trees fell from the sky with the torrent, and the rocks that had already been cracked by explosives collapsed. Soil and gravel rushed towards the place where Zhou's parents were. They had built a simple wooden house there, but it was no match for the power of nature.
The three of them decisively rushed out of the forest. Facing the raging mudslide, Qin Xiaochuan released several fire walls in succession to block the mudslide, just to slow down its speed.
Han Kexin then unleashed a wind blade that completely destroyed the wooden house. Guo Shiyi immediately followed up by releasing her wooden vines to entangle Zhou's father and mother, attempting to drag them away from the danger zone.
Just when the three thought they had succeeded, a stone cone suddenly shot out from the ground, severing Guo Shiyi's wooden vines. Zhou's parents, who were pulled away, fell from the air. At the same time, a huge tremor suddenly came from the ground, and a crack three meters wide suddenly appeared in the ground. Zhou's parents were falling into the crack.