Ultimate Note: You Are Worthy

Finding You

Xiaoge

Ever since Wu Xie went out with Ah Ning and her team, Zhang Qiling had the nagging feeling that something was going to happen. Yes, they were just supposed to explore enough to find the missing companions that apparently had get inside the Devil City, either lost or looking for a better shelter from the sudden sandstorm that had hit them with its fury, but nothing in that place looked like an easy task, even when it should be.

Long hours had passed and the team was still searching and even if Wu Xie keep in touch from time to time, to let him known they were doing fine, he felt restless. Soon, night was going to fall and that hellish place will be very cold, not to mention it was like a huge maze of sand and rocks, in which it was easy to get lost at any turn.

At night, he signal Wang Pangzi and Pan Zi, so they could meet, as already planned and go looking for Wu Xie. To be honest, he was already impatient to have to deal with Ah Ning's bunch of idiots, which were not a match for him at all, but keep getting in his way. Soon, the two came looking for him and after Pan Zi deal with the remaining of Ah Ning's team, they left in search for their friend.

As time passes and there was no more communications with Wu Xie, Zhang Qiling anxiousness begin to grow to a point it was plain to see by both of his companions, who keep bickering all the way, probably influenced by the Devil City itself. As they camp on their second night, they can see Xiaoge staring at the night sky, looking lost and worry. Both of them knew that Xiaoge will not mutter a word of his inner concerns, but regardless of words, he will always care for Wu Xie the most, as his feelings for the young man may be carved in deeper into his heart that he probably wanted.

Thus, they keep on walking for long hours under that scorching sun and cold nights, going in circles at first, then in and out of deceiving paths, as they try to find their way towards the lost group, until they finally reached the place where they saw an old ship in that middle of that hellish desert. It looked like a bad omen and Zhan Qiling rushed to the site, hoping to finally find Wu Xie and make sure he was fine. In more than one way, Wu Xie had become a safe line in his mess up life and he will do anything on his power to keep the curious youth safe and unharmed for as long as he could. He was that important to him in that period of his life.

However, when he got close, the only thing he found was corpses laying in the ground below the broken ship and his heart sprinted inside his chest with the intense fear he will find Wu Xie dead as well. Death was the only thing left on the camp along with the broken vases and the wounds left behind on the skin of men on the floor, probably made by the corpse eating bugs. Qiling looked around with his gaze, desperately discarding those who he could clearly see, while deeply hoping not to find Wu Xie among the ones who had fallen. He was forcing his feet to drag along in search... searching... hoping for him to be lucky enough to had escape the cloud of death once again.

Nonetheless, there was one corpse half cover with Wu Xie's jacket and just thinking it may be him, make Qiling freeze on the spot and despite the heat of the day in the desert of Tamutuo, his body truly felt cold to the sight. He didn't dare to take off the jacket off the body on the sandy ground, yet Pangzi did it for him and then, he exhale a breath he was unaware to have it in hold, out of relief it wasn't Wu Xie and Fatty did the same on his own dramatically way, telling them that if it had been Wu Xie's corps, he would become a monk. The corps bug that came out of the remains of the man just killed by it, Qiling slashed it with his sword with more force than necessary. Those things had been a threat to Wu Xie, thus no mercy was shown to such cursed insects.

Next, was the struggle to find him as soon as they could. If they had encounter corpse bugs, then that was no small matter as just one of them was dangerous enough to kill a bunch of people, so Qiling pressed forward, from minutes to hours to almost the end of the day. The exhaustion didn't really matter at that point, only to find Wu Xie before it was too late, so they keep on going until finally, they found Ah Ning's Dangshi cooper coins scattered around, which give him renewed hopes to see him again soon.