Running at night-II

In the past, only others came to ask him what to do. Now he is asking others what he should do. Moreover, no one could give him an answer.

Suddenly, Wei Wuxian felt a slight pain on the side of his neck, as if he had been pricked by a very thin needle, and his whole body felt numb. He had just been in a trance and lost his vigilance. After this feeling came, it took him a while to realize that something was wrong, but he had already tilted on the stone bed involuntarily. At first, I could still raise my arms, but soon, even my arms fell to the bed, and I couldn't move my whole body.

With her eyes red and tender, she slowly retracted her right hand and said, "...I'm sorry."

Originally, with her speed, she was determined not to hit Wei Wuxian, but just now, Wei Wuxian had no defense at all. The needle pierced hard, causing Wei Wuxian to calm down a little. His Adam's apple rolled up and down, and he asked, "What are you doing?"

Wen Qing and Wen Ning looked at each other, stood in front of him, and saluted him solemnly.

Seeing this situation, Wei Wuxian felt a surge of manic uneasiness in his heart, and asked, "What are you going to do? What do you want to do?"

Warmly said: "When you woke up just now, we were discussing. It was almost done."

Wei WuXian said, "What are we discussing? Stop talking nonsense, pull out the needle, and let me go!"

Wen Ning slowly stood up from the ground, still lowering his head, and said: "Sister and I have discussed it. Go to Jinlin Terrace and apologize."

"A plea?" Wei Wuxian asked in astonishment: "What plea? A plea on a thorn? Surrender?"

Wen Qing rubbed her eyes and said with a seemingly calm expression: "Yeah, almost. In the past few days while you were lying there, the Lanling Jin Sect sent people to shout at the mass grave."

Wei Wuxian said, "What are you shouting? Don't say a word with a slap, say it clearly at once! Finish!"

Wenqing said: "The Lanling Jin Sect wants you to give an explanation. This explanation is to hand over the two leaders of the Wen Sect's remnants. Especially the ghost general."

"..." Wei Wuxian said, "I'm warning you two, quickly pull out this needle."

Wenqing continued to think about herself: "We are the leaders of the Wen family's remnants. According to their wishes, as long as you hand us over, this matter will be over for the time being. Then I will trouble you to lie down for a few more days. This Once a needle is stuck on you, the effect will wear off in three days. I have told Fourth Uncle and the others that they will take good care of you. If there is any emergency in these three days, I will release you."

Wei Wuxian said angrily: "Shut the hell up! It's already messed up enough! Stop making trouble for me, you two. Please forgive me, did I let you do this? Pull it out!"

Wen Qing and Wen Ning stood with their hands down, their silences exactly the same. Wei Wuxian's body was weak, he struggled to no avail, and no one listened to his words, and his heart suddenly became weak.

He couldn't roar, couldn't move, and said with a hoarse voice: "What are you doing in Jinlintai? Those holes that are riddled with holes were not caused by me at all..."

"But they have already identified it as you," said tenderly.

Wei Wuxian tried hard to think of a way to deal with it, but suddenly his mind brightened, and he said, "Then find the real curser! Jin Zixun must have found a curser. The way to deal with this kind of curse is to fight it back." , will bounce back to the caster. Even if it can't all bounce back, it can still bounce back part of it. Just look for someone with the same curse traces on their body!"

"It's useless," said tenderly.

Wei Wuxian asked, "Why is it useless?"

Wenqing said: "There is a huge sea of people, where can I find it? Do we need to set up checkpoints on every road in the city and let everyone take off their clothes for inspection?"

Wei Wuxian said randomly, "Why not??"

Wenqing said: "Who is willing to help you set these levels? And when do you want to find it? You may be able to find it in ten or eight years, but are they willing to wait?"

Wei WuXian said, "But there are no traces of the evil curse marks on my body!"

Wenqing said: "Did they ask you during the interception today?"

Wei Wuxian said, "No."

Wenqing said: "That's right. I didn't ask you and just killed you. Do you understand? I don't need any evidence, and I don't need you to find out the truth. It doesn't matter whether you have evil curse marks on your body or not. You are Yiling Ancestor, you are the king of ghost ways. You are proficient in the evil ways. It would not be surprising even if there are no traces of rebound. And you don't have to do it yourself, you can send your warm dog minions to do it. Anyway, it's you, you didn't It cannot be denied."

Wei Wuxian cursed.

Wenqing listened to his scolding quietly and said: "So, you see. It's useless. And now, it doesn't matter who caused the disastrous holes. What's important is that the more than three hundred people on Qiongqi Road People, and...Jin Zixuan, was indeed killed by Aning."

Wei Wuxian said: "...but, but..."

But what? He himself couldn't think of a "but". I can't think of any reason to use to refuse or any excuse to use to excuse myself.

He said: "...but it's my turn to go. I'm the one who killed the corpse. Why didn't the murderer go, but asked for a knife?"

"Wouldn't it be better this way?" she said tenderly.

Wei Wuxian said, "What's so good?!"

Wenqing said softly: "Wei Ying, we all know. Wen Ning is a knife, a knife that scares them, but it is also a knife that they use as an excuse to attack you. We are gone, you are gone With this knife, they have no excuse. This matter may be over."

Wei Wuxian looked at her blankly, and suddenly let out a meaningless roar.

He finally understood why Jiang Cheng always showed extreme anger at some of the things he did, why he always scolded him for having hero disease, and why he always wanted to beat him up to wake him up. Because this feeling of watching others insisting on taking the responsibility on oneself, insisting on oneself to bear the bad consequences, and being unable to persuade others is really hateful and disgusting!

Wei Wuxian said, "Do you understand at all? What will happen to you two, especially Wen Ning, if you go to Jinlin Terrace to plead guilty? Don't you feel the most sorry for your brother?"

Warmly said: "Whatever the outcome, he deserves it."

 no. Wen Ning didn't deserve it at all. But he deserves it.

Wenqing said: "In any case, we should have died long ago. These days, we have earned it."

Wen Ning nodded.

He is always like this, nodding his head to whatever others say, expressing agreement and never objecting. Wei Wuxian had never hated his actions and his meekness so much.

Wenqing squatted down by the couch, looked at his face, and suddenly reached out and flicked Wei Wuxian on the forehead.

This bounce was so hard that Wei Wuxian frowned in pain. Seeing this, Wenqing seemed to be in a much better mood, and said, "I've finished talking, I've explained clearly, and I've said goodbye. Then, goodbye."

Wei Wuxian said: "Don't..." Wen Qing interrupted: "I haven't said this to you a few times, but today, I have to say something. I really won't have a chance in the future."

Wei Wuxian murmured: "...Shut up...let me go..."

"I'm sorry. And, thank you," said tenderly.

Wei Wuxian lay down for three days.

Wenqing's calculation was indeed correct. It took three days, no more than a moment, no more than a moment. After three days, he would be able to move.

First his fingers, then his limbs, his neck... After the almost stiff blood in his body began to flow again, Wei Wuxian jumped up from the steps and rushed out of the Demon-Conquering Cave.

The Wen family members seemed to have not slept for the past three days, sitting silently in the big shed around the table. Wei Wuxian didn't even look at them, he ran all the way and rushed down the mass grave.

After rushing down the mountain in one breath, he stood in the wilderness, breathing heavily, bending over and holding his knees with his hands, and finally straightened up. However, looking at the several mountain roads overgrown with weeds, I didn't know where to go.

Mass grave, he just came down from it.

Lotus Pier, he hasn't been back for a year.

Jinlintai?

Three days have passed. If I go there now, I am afraid that all I can see is Wen Qing's body and Wen Ning's ashes.

He stood in a daze, suddenly realizing that the world was so vast that he had nowhere to go.

Don't even know what to do.

Suddenly, a terrible thought arose in his heart.

This idea was repeatedly rejected by him in the past three days, but it still appeared repeatedly and lingered.

Wen Qing and Wen Ning left on their own. Perhaps, in his heart, he was grateful for this.

Because in this way, he does not have to be embarrassed about what decision to make. Because they had taken the initiative to make the decision on his behalf and solved the problem.

Wei Wuxian raised his hand and slapped himself in the face, shouting to himself in a low voice: "What are you thinking?!"

His face was burning, and he finally suppressed this terrible thought. Then he changed his mind, no matter what, he wanted to get the ashes of the corpses of the Wen siblings back.

So, he finally ran in the direction of Jinlin Terrace.

If Wei Wuxian wanted to sneak into a place silently, it would not be difficult. It was very quiet on the Jinlin stage, not as heavily guarded as he had imagined. After searching around for a long time, I found nothing suspicious.

Like a ghost, he wanders around the palaces of Jinlintai, hiding when he sees anyone and leaving when no one is around. He didn't know what he was looking for or how to find it, but when a baby's cry came, his steps froze, and a voice in his heart urged his body to walk towards the source of the sound.

The cry came from a dark hall.

Wei Wuxian silently sneaked to the door and looked in through the gaps in the wooden windows carved with delicate patterns.

There is a dark coffin in the hall. In front of the coffin, two women in white were kneeling.

The woman on the left has a frail figure, and he will never mistake her figure from behind. Growing up, he had been carried by the owner of this back countless times.

It's Jiang Yanli.

Jiang Yanli knelt down on a futon and stared blankly at the shiny black coffin in front of her. The baby was in her arms, still crying softly.

The woman on the right whispered: "...Ali, please stop sitting. Go and rest."

Jiang Yanli shook his head. Mrs. Kim sighed.

This is a woman who is quite similar in temperament to her good friend Mrs. Yu. She is very strong and her voice is always high-pitched. But the few words she just said, her voice was low and hoarse, making her look extremely old.

Mrs. Jin said again: "I'll just guard here. Don't sit down anymore, you won't be able to bear it."

Jiang Yanli said softly: "Mom, I'm fine. I want to sit down for a while."

After a while, Mrs. Jin slowly stood up and said, "You can't continue like this. I'll get you some food."

She must have been kneeling here for a long time. Her legs and feet were numb. After she stood up, her body swayed slightly, but she immediately stabilized. Turning around, it turned out to be the face of a woman with a somewhat firm outline.

The Mrs. Jin in Wei Wuxian's memory was resolute and resolute, with an arrogant expression, nobility, and dazzling golden light. Her appearance is well maintained and she looks very young. Some people would believe her even if she said she was twenty. But at this moment, what Wei Wuxian saw was an ordinary middle-aged woman dressed in plain clothes, with frosted hair on her temples. There was no makeup, her face was ashen, and there was a layer of dead skin on her lips.

She walked over and was about to push the door open. Wei Wuxian immediately stepped away and tapped his feet. As soon as he swam up the brackets in the corridor, Mrs. Jin stepped out, closed the door behind her back, took a deep breath with a cold face, and adjusted her position. He moved his facial muscles, as if trying to make his usual majestic expression.

However, before she finished taking this breath, her eyes turned red.

Just now in front of Jiang Yanli, she never showed any signs of sadness. However, as soon as she went out, the corners of her mouth dropped, her facial features shrank, and her whole body started to tremble.

This is the second time Wei Wuxian has seen such an extremely ugly and heartbroken look on a woman's face.

He really didn't want to see such an expression again.

Wei Wuxian inadvertently clenched his fist, and unexpectedly, his finger bones made a crisp sound. Hearing the sound, Mrs. Jin immediately raised her eyebrows and shouted: "Who!"

When she looked up, she saw Wei Wuxian hiding beside the bracket. Mrs. Jin's eyesight was very good, and she could clearly see the face hidden in the darkness. Her face was twisted for a while, and she screamed: "Come here! Come here! Wei Ying - he is here! He sneaks in It's Jin Lintai!"

Wei Wuxian jumped down the corridor, and suddenly heard a rush of footsteps. Someone was running out of the hall, and he couldn't help but run away.

At this moment, he didn't dare to even look at Jiang Yanli's expression, let alone listen to her say a word to him!

After escaping from Jinlin Terrace and exiting Lanling City, Wei Wuxian lost his direction again and began to walk around in a daze, confused and non-stop. He walked through several cities and suddenly saw a group of people gathering. In front of a city wall, there was a lot of discussion, the atmosphere was lively, and the crowd was excited.

Wei Wuxian originally ignored these people, but when he walked past, he suddenly heard the words "Ghost General" whispered from the crowd. He stopped immediately and listened carefully.

"The ghost general is really cruel... He said he came to plead guilty, but suddenly he went crazy and went on a killing spree at Jinlin Terrace!"

"Fortunately I didn't go that day!"

"As expected of the dog Wei Wuxian taught, it bites every person it sees."

"That's true of Wei Ying. If you can't control it, don't practice blindly. If you make a mad dog without tying it up, sooner or later it will suffer backlash. According to this trend, I think that day is not far away."

Wei Wuxian listened quietly, his knuckles and facial muscles twitching slightly.

"The Lanling Jin family is so unlucky."

"The Gusu Lan Sect is unlucky! Most of the thirty people killed were from their family. They were obviously just here to help calm the trouble."

"Fortunately, the ghost general was finally burned down. Otherwise, the thought of having such a thing hanging around all day long and going crazy from time to time would really make me sleep uneasy."

Someone spat: "Wen Gou deserves to end up like this!"

"The ghost general has been burned to ashes. Wei Wuxian should know how powerful he is now, right? I heard that many family heads who were preparing to attend this swearing-in meeting have spoken out. So happy!"

The more Wei Wuxian listened, the more indifferent his expression became.

He should have understood this long ago. No matter what he does, there will never be a good word in the mouths of this group of people. When he is proud, others are afraid of him; when he is frustrated, others are happy.

After all, it's all evil and evil, so what does his persistence mean? For what reason?

However, the more chilling his eyes were, the more furious the fire of karma in his heart became.

One person was very proud, as if he had made great achievements in this, and said: "Yes, it's great! It would be fine if he just huddles on that broken hill with his tail between his legs from now on. What if he still dares to come out and show his face? Hey. , as soon as he comes out, he will..."

"That's it?"

The people who were having a heated discussion were startled when they heard the sound, and all turned around.

A young man in black clothes with a pale face and two dark spots under his eyes was seen standing behind them and said coldly: "As long as he dares to come out, what will happen?"

The sharp-eyed people saw the flute with bright red tassels on the man's waist, and were immediately frightened and blurted out: "Chen Qing. It's Chen Qing!"

Wei Wuxian, the ancestor of Yiling, actually came out!

In an instant, with Wei Wuxian as the center, the crowd cleared a large area and fled in all directions. Wei Wuxian blew a shrill, shrill whistle, and all of them suddenly felt their bodies sink and they all fell to the ground. Looking back tremblingly, he found that behind everyone, including himself, there were several Yin spirits of different shapes, with blood hanging from their mouths, heavily pressed against them!

Among the people who were staggering and unable to move, Wei Wuxian walked slowly and slowly, saying as he walked: "Hey, what's wrong with you? You were talking about me behind my back just now, wasn't it very arrogant? Why are you in front of me? Another face that is so prostrate?"

He walked up to the person who spoke the most cruel words just now, stepped on his face with his foot, and laughed loudly: "Say it? Why don't you say it anymore? - Knight, what on earth are you going to do to me?! "

The man's nose bone was broken due to his kick, his nosebleed violently, and he screamed in agony. Several monks were watching on top of the city wall. They wanted to help but did not dare to step forward. They shouted from a distance: "Wei... Wei Ying! If you are really capable, why don't you go to the heads of the big families at the swearing-in meeting?" ? Coming here to bully low-level monks like us who have no power to fight back, what kind of skill is that?"

Wei Wuxian blew another short whistle, and the monk who was shouting suddenly felt a hand pulling him violently. He fell from the top of the city wall, broke his legs, and howled loudly.

In the midst of wailing, Wei Wuxian said without changing his expression: "Low-level monks? Because you are a low-level monk, do I have to tolerate you? Since you dare to speak, you must dare to bear the consequences. Since you know that you are insignificant and humble, You bastard of ants, why don't you know how to keep your mouth shut!"

Everyone's face was ashen, and they were as silent as cicadas. For a long while, Wei Wuxian didn't hear any more gossip and said with satisfaction, "That's right, that's it."

After saying that, he kicked again, knocking off half of the mouth and teeth of the person who was arranging the most vigorously!

Blood spattered all over the floor, and everyone shuddered and changed color. The man had already fainted from the pain. Wei Wuxian lowered his head and crushed the blood stains on the soles of his boots on the ground, leaving a few bloody footprints. He looked at them for a while and said calmly: "However, you bastards are right about one thing. It's a waste of time with people like you. Time is meaningless. Do you want me to go find the big ones? Very good, I'll go and settle things with them."

He looked up and saw the huge notice posted on the city wall. The group of people just now were discussing around this notice.

At the top of the notice, there are four words "Swearing Ceremony" written. The content is that the four major families headed by the Lanling Jin family, the Qinghe Nie family, the Yunmeng Jiang family, and the Gusu Lan family are going to be abandoned in the Qishan Wen family. On the ruins of the Evernight City in the Immortal Mansion, the ashes of the remnants of the Wen family were scattered, and at the same time they swore an oath to be incompatible with the Yiling ancestors who occupied the mass graves.

The city that never sleeps, the swearing-in ceremony?