Capítulo 960: Chapter 960: Jack Wright and Elliot Wright
When a decent master takes the initiative to ask if you want to buy a talisman, unless your brain is completely scrambled, you’d choose to buy it.
Not to ntion… Scarlett just said the person who needs this talisman is her brother!
Her brother is a firefighter!
Jack Wright’s mind was instantly filled with bad premonitions, and he imdiately closed the live stream to transfer money to Scarlett.
Never mind three hundred, he’d even pay thirty thousand!
The audience in the live stream had just been excited about Scarlett selling a talisman for only three hundred, and the next mont, they were all kicked out of the live stream.
The netizens were initially bewildered, then started banging the ground in frustration.
Co on… bro! You can’t do this!
The audience is like God, don’t you get it?!
You just kicked God out of the room, do you still want your fan base?!
But Jack Wright had no ti to care about that, only nervously watching Scarlett.
Scarlett understood why he was reacting this way.
Because judging from his facial reading, his close sibling indeed faced significant danger recently, and there was even a chance of death.
If she hadn’t co across this, it’d be one thing. Since she knew his family mber was in mortal danger, she still felt the need to give a warning, especially since this person was a firefighter.
Using the talisman to look at a photo of the firefighter nad Elliot Wright, Scarlett confird her judgnt.
Though he’s a firefighter who deals with fire, this ti, his misfortune is related to water.
Facing Jack Wright’s nervous gaze, Scarlett didn’t keep him guessing and earnestly reminded him,
“Tell him not to go near water for the ti being, and if he must, make sure at least two people are together.”
With that, she took out an amulet, thought for a mont, then took out so talisman paper and a vermilion brush from her bag and drew another talisman on the spot.
Pointing at the first amulet, she said,
“This is an amulet. He must carry it with him.”
Then pointing at the newly drawn talisman,
“This is a Water Releasing Talisman. After the danger, let him place this talisman in water to let it flow away.”
Taoist talismans have specific classifications based on their usage, like amulets that need to be carried, which are protective charms.
Besides these, there’s the Digestion Talisman (burned in water for consumption);
Sticker Talisman (stuck on doors or special places);
Burying Talisman (buried in the ground or sites of construction) as well as Water Releasing Talismans, which must be applied according to the actual situation.
Jack Wright couldn’t discern anything special about the talismans but still took them seriously and carefully put them in his pocket.
He planned to go back to the dorm and make sure his brother placed them properly.
As for the rule against carrying personal items while on duty… he didn’t care!
He had to make sure his brother carried it, no matter what.
Scarlett handed him the talismans and, after receiving the money transfer, said no more.
She advised the strear not to wander around the mountains without reason and sent him down the mountain.
Jack Wright, thinking about his brother, didn’t seek out any more dragons and called his brother as soon as he got down the mountain.
Finding he couldn’t get through, he headed straight to the dorm and told his brother all about it.
Elliot Wright had heard of the master nad Scarlett Jennings, but he personally didn’t believe in this stuff much.
Moreover, having to carry this with him… it just didn’t comply with the rules.
Jack Wright knew his brother would grumble and imdiately called their mom, and the next second, their mom’s strong voice bood from the other end of the call,
“Listen to your brother! Keep those two talismans on you and don’t take them off! If your captain disagrees, tell him to call ! I’ll talk to him!”
It’s a dangerous job in the first place; if they won’t even allow a safety amulet, that’s just unreasonable.
Rules are dead, but people are alive.
In the end, Elliot Wright couldn’t argue against their mom, who never even wanted him to be a firefighter in the first place.
He could only glare at his little brother and promise to carry the talisman with him.
And then it happened just two days later.
While out running with teammates, they happened to see a man trying to drown himself in the river.
Seeing that he was a strong swimr, Elliot Wright had his companion call for help as he jumped in to save the man.
But unexpectedly, as soon as he saved the man, the man, intent on dying, not only wanted to die himself but also tried to drag Elliot down with him.
The man clung to Elliot’s body, forcing his head under the water.
No matter how good a swimr Elliot was, he couldn’t free himself, being repeatedly pushed underwater.
Struggling, he caught sight of the man’s agonized and ferocious face, a sense of despair unexpectedly welling up from within.
He had been careless.
His brother had clearly told him not to go into the water alone…
Just when he thought he was about to be dragged down to death by this suicidal man, the talisman paper on his chest suddenly heated up, causing the man’s grip to slacken, followed closely by the sound of water right by his ear.
Turns out, the teammate who was supposed to stay onshore had sohow also entered the water without him noticing.
The teammate swam over to the two of them, saying nothing, snapped the man’s hand away from Elliot as hard as he could, while pressing on several of the man’s joints with his other hand.
The man, who had been dead set on taking soone with him, imdiately released his hold on Elliot, who, along with the teammate, managed to forcibly drag the man to the shore with the help of others who had also rushed over.
They simply couldn’t stand by and let a living person die.
Because this was their duty.
But now that he was alive, the man would have to face the consequences for his actions.
Attempted murder ant jail ti!
After getting back to shore, Elliot Wright couldn’t stop coughing, still shaken from what had just occurred as he watched the man being taken away by the captain.
Though he’d responded to many situations, he’d only heard of suicidal persons wanting to drag others down with them; this was his first personal encounter.
In the aftermath, he couldn’t help but thank his teammate,
“If you hadn’t jumped in and subdued him, I might not have made it today.”
A dying man has a lot of strength.
The teammate, equally shaken, just waved it off,
“Thank your brother.”
He said,
“Your brother knew you didn’t pay much attention to his words, so he had a word with all your teammates in the squad, telling them to keep an eye on you and not let you go into the water alone.”
This thought occurred to him, which is why he’d tossed his phone to a passerby before jumping in.
Thankfully, he arrived in ti.
Elliot hadn’t expected the truth to be this, feeling both touched and regretful.
Because after his brother graduated and beca a strear, he felt that his brother wasn’t doing anything legitimate, and with the natural authority of an older sibling, he often didn’t really take what his brother said to heart.
Yet it was this seemingly directionless younger brother who saved his life.
Touching the spot on his chest where the talisman had heated up, Elliot Wright gazed at the obviously darkened talisman paper, now a believer.
Recalling the other instruction from his brother, he retrieved the other talisman, considered it, then unfolded it and placed it into the river that had almost drowned him.
To his surprise, as soon as the talisman paper entered the water, it began to dissolve like water, soon mingling with the flow and disappearing.
As the talisman paper flowed away, so too did the shadow of doubt about his chosen career and any self-doubt spawned by his near-death experience…
Jack Wright, receiving a call from his brother, was equally shaken, then with eyes red-rimd, sent a heartfelt ssage of thanks to Scarlett Jennings.
Scarlett Jennings had saved the pillar of their family!
The ssage went unanswered for a long ti because Scarlett Jennings was busy with other matters—
In Artefact Village, the gathered crowd surrounded the central space where Scarlett Jennings and Samuel Chalrs stood.
At that mont, Scarlett Jennings held a talisman in her hand,
“Treasure Sky Talisman, Three-Life Scale Fall, go!”
With this incantation, the talisman flew into the night sky, the next second, it emitted a spiritual light.
Bam!
A dazzling firework of spiritual light blood across the night sky.
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