Exclusive Memory novel Chapter 70

"Damn it!" For the first time, Jasper cursed.

Three flashes of lightning fell from the sky at the same time, making a thunderous sound as if the sky was about to collapse.

With the light of the lightning, Ashley noticed the embarrassed look on Jasper face, and suddenly burst into laughter. As Jasper was annoyed, he heard the laughter from her and couldn't help but feel angry. "What are you laughing about? Hurry up. If you can't find a place to shelter from the rain, you will be killed by the lightning!"

They stood up with the help of a tree trunk. Ashley kept laughing as if she had been addicted to it so he could not stop it for a while. "I just feel you are funny... Haha Really funny..."

Jasper held her speechlessly, "Are you injured? Can you continue to walk?"

"No... I'm not injured... Haha However I felt a little pain in my butt Haha I can walk."

"Let's go then." The two walked more carefully this time. However, they were still trapped in the thunderstorm and there was a thunder in about five seconds and ten seconds.

Just as they were going to enter another steep slope hand in hand, Jasper had that strange feeling again. He looked up at the sky subconsciously, and then fell on Ashley who was laughing loudly. They rolled down the mountain hand in hand! At the place they sheltered a thunder struck down with a "boom". The tree which was cut down instantly was on fire, and the fire was extinguished by the pouring rain.

The bumpy road made Ashley feel pain all over her body. When she saw the amazing scene when the thunder stroke the tree, her smile stopped abruptly within few seconds at the moment she hugged Jasper rolling down the mountain. It was more useful than any panacea.

Jasper didn't care about the others. He didn't know where they were when they stopped rolling. He looked around with the help of the lightning from time to time and finally saw the surrounding situation.

"Ashley, there seems to be a temple over there. Let's go and have a look."

Hearing this, Ashley also grabbed the root of the tree and stood up, "really? Look at it."

When they approached, they finally saw the temple, which was dug out by hand in the mountain. They walked into the temple, holding each other. Another lightning flashed across, lighting up the statue's face, which was as ferocious as a ghost. Scared, Ashley hid herself in Jasper's arms. "What the hell!"

Jasper patted her back resignedly. "No, there's no ghost. It's God."

Ashley also knew the statue was a God. But in such a weather, even the statue looked very frightening. The entire temple was filled with a creepy atmosphere.

With a pale face, she grasped the clothes at both sides of Jasper's waist, trying to distract his attention by saying, "what gods?"

"I don't know him."

The weather was so heavy outside that she didn't dare to look around in his arms, "we finally find a place to shelter."

"Yes." The man's voice came from the top of her head, and his hand patted her on the back from time to time, like patting a child. "Do you feel any bleeding?"

"No. My whole body aches, but it doesn't hurt that much. How about you? Are you okay?"

"Don't worry. My condition is similar to yours."

"That's good. What time is it now?"

Jasper turn on his phone, "It's almost four o'clock I'll call grandpa...

"Okay." Ashley stepped back wisely.

Frowning, Jasper took her back, "don't move. I don't know what's in the temple."

He meant that there might be branches, dead leaves, snakes and rats in the temple and he didn't want her to walk around. But it was obvious that Ashley was wrong. After listening to his words, she swallowed unconsciously and hid back into his arms.

There was bad signal in the mountain, so it took Jasper a while to get through. "Hello, Grandpa... We are fine. We are now sheltering in a small temple... It seems that the mountain is very slippery. We accidentally found the temple, but we don't know where it is... Well, I'll see. But I'm afraid I'll have to stay overnight in the mountain... Don't worry Well, the signal is bad. I have to hang up, okay? "

As soon as Jasper hung up the phone, the woman in his arms raised her head. "Are we going to stay here overnight?"

"It's too dark. We can't see the road clearly. It's too dangerous to find a way in the mountain in rainy and thundering night. "

Jasper released her arms, and attempted to check the surroundings in the temple. Scared, Ashley reached out her hands and tried to grab his. "It's okay. You don't have to worry about it," said Jasper, holding her tightly.

He switched on his cellphone and flashed lights around the temple. The display in the temple was rather simple. A sculpture was placed in front of a celestial being, with many Sanskrit ribbons on the temples. Of course, the sculpture was holy and pure. There was no snake, insect, rat, ant that he worried about.

He turned off the phone and said, "it depends. We have to make do with it here tonight."

Ashley held his hand, "I... I'm a little scared. " She looked at the smiling statue, but dared not to look again, "... It's weird. "

"It's okay. It's just a statue."

"Don't utter a blasphemy."

"The Buddha is in our heart, not in these things."