Beyond Death

EP 18

"Hehe, Lan Zhan, I don't expect,Don't you hate my crooked ways the most?"Wei Wuxian sat down again and put away the talisman on the table.Seemingly asked sincerely. "Not annoying, it isuseful."The natural answer came from Lan Wangji's mouth,Wei Wuxian still couldn't believe.Tap the table with his fingertips one casually,He wondered again: "Hey, how could you use my talisman?"Finally Lan Wangji had to face it,The thing that blocked at the throat from the moment they met.It was really a fishbone stuck in the throat,Could't vomit, could't swallow,But eventually it would pierce the soft flesh of the throat,Making the words have the smell of blood foam.But Lan Wangji wanted to indulge once,Unwilling to mention the manuscript,Unwilling to mention the man who gave him the manuscript.Meeting Wei Wuxian was not what he thought that they were strangers.not what he longed in the soul and dream,But it was already very good.Behind every meeting of eyesight, He was able to Taste the a ten thousandth of gentleness,Like a drop of sweet water nourishing the wasteland,Lan Wangji calculated that after 10,000 days and nights,The desert spreaded out from the loss of Wei Wuxian,Would be enough to turn into an oasis.So, why bother to pull out that thorn himself?Let it stick there,Maybe there was just another scar over time,There were countless scars on his body,No more than one another.Wei Wuxian didn't mention it.Wei Wuxian couldn't remember. Let him be.Lan Wangji willfully didn't want to have anyonehaunting like a ghost in their rare reunion.Of course Wei Wuxian didn't know such disturbing thoughts disturbed at all.He just felt that Lan Wangji's answer was a little weirdly slow this time.Finally, Lan Wangji nodded as if determined.He said: "I learned it."It was exactly the same as Wei Wuxian's answer when being asked how to manipulate vicious ghosts, When they met for the first time after Wei Wuxian left the Mass Grave.Lan Wangji answered in the same way ,Wei Wuxian shut up immediately.He moved his eyes away a little quizzically.Counting the time,It was not far from the talismanthat sealed the ghost cultivators expired again,Lan Wangji was thinking about that it was more reliableHe briefly told the process that Jin Zixin led the Demon Camp detachmentTo kill ghost cultivators to Wei Wuxian."The most urgent task is to restore sanity for those cultivators."Wei Wuxian felt unbearable,the face that was flushed slightly because of laught began to turn pale again.Lan Wangji was afraid that he would overwork and fell into madness again.Explained quickly: "Don't worry,At least three days. "Wei Wuxian lowered his head and smiled sadly.Said: "What about after three days?If they fail to recover, they will be killed like pigs or dogs?Hundreds clans still don't treat people as human beings. "Lan Wangji knew what he meant:The remnant of Wen who were not saved on the Mass Grave,were killed as aliens without any reason..When Wen clan was very powerful,Hundreds clans fought against them because of killing dissidents,Now that the Wen clan was eliminated, the killing of innocents was still rampant,while the main killer had changed from the Wen Clan into the hundreds clans today.Lan Wangji firmly promised:"I am here, it won't happen."Wei Wuxian raised his head from painful thoughts.There seemed to be sparks flashing through the dark eyes,He relaxed the brow that had been frowning for a long time finally,A faint smile floated on the lips, and said:"Lan Zhan, you seem to be different somewhere."The clear amber eyes blinked,It was Lan Wangji's answer,Any words were superfluous at this time.I was different, when I left youThe moment I failed to protect you, I changed.Wei Wuxian continued: "These cultivators were clearly deprived of consciousness cruelly,Then deliberately dressed up like me,They were sent to Nanping City to create a false image of Yiling Laozu instructing ghost cultivators to make chaos. "He held the water glass, kept turning in circles at his fingertips."Moreover, in the past three months,Are there similar phenomena everywhere?"The last sentence was asking for Lan Wangji.Lan Wangji replied: "Yes.And so far, more than 600 people have been killed. "Wei Wuxian looked over in surprise.The water cup was slammed on the table,"Who are these people?"Lan Wangji sighed and said:"Hundreds clans also suffered casualties, but after all, most were ghost cultivators.""Then have they found out the identity of these ghost cultivators?""Nothing."Wei Wuxian gave another bitter smile."Well, the hundreds clans only need to destroy the remnants of Yiling Laoxu,Won't care if they are human beings. "Lan Wangji felt it necessary to tell WeiWuxianWhy he came this time unmistakably:"I came here to find out the truth."Wei Wuxian said:"I always feel that you are different from them.You are you, they are they. "He laughed suddenly, "Only you,was the only one who went to my Mass Grave. "He didn't even look at Lan Wangji's expression after finished speaking.He stood up straight and walked towards the door,Leaving a sentence: "It's time to see those unlucky people."Lan Wangji couldn't understand the meaning of his words.Did it mean that he treated Wei Wuxian differently,Or Wei Wuxian treated him differently,And "the only person who went to my Mass Grave",Was him the only person he accepted,Or he was the only member of hundreds clans who went up.While guessing, he followed Wei Wuxian downstairs. There was no one in the lobby downstairs,The owner had already ordered the buddy to close the door,only an oil lamp was lit,Although the weather was fine outside,the daylight only penetrated through the yellowed paper among the edge of the window,The brilliance was gone.More than a dozen of ghost cultivators half lay down gloomily,They seemed very strange in the quiet, dark lobby.Wei Wuxian first saw the one dementing nail on the tablethat Lan Wangji didn't put away,So he took out the first nail they pulled out last night from sleeve,Comparing the two at the table, they are exactly the same."I haven't find out what kind of spell on them yet."There was some loss in his tone that could not be hiddened.Lan Wangji whispered:"It is not necessary to untie the spell,After the nail is taken out,how they react is unknown. "Wei Wuxian walked towards the ghost cultivator whose nail was pulled out last night.After a moment of hesitation, he took off the talisman.Lan Wangji closely followed Wei Wuxian's movements,Half a step forward, half of his body stood in front of Wei Wuxian.They immediately noticed that the ghost cultivator opened his eyes.On the place that should be the black pupil,It seemed to be covered with a layer of white fog, full of lifelessness. Then the man sat up straight,Turning his head very slowly, looking at both left and right,Finally turned back and stopped in the middle,Looking directly at Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian,The fish-eyed pupils made the eyesight extremely dull,Whether he could or could not see is unknown.Wei Wuxian stretched out a hand and shook it in front of him.The ghost cultivator's head turned following the hand a few times, and there was no other movement."He can see, but only respond to external stimuli,still don't have his own consciousness. "Wei Wuxian whispered, "Try again if he can speak."Stretched out two fingers against the cultivator's forehead,asked: "Do you know where you are now?"The cultivator just opened his eyes and didn't answer.Wei Wuxian asked again, "What is your name?" Still not answer.Wei Wuxian's actions did not arouse his deeper movements. Lan Wangji said: "I have heard thatThose captured ghost cultivators,don't know who they are, and they don't remember anything. "Wei Wuxian said, "When these people are alive,It seems that their soul has been extracted,They are refined into a living dead like a walking corpse according to my method of refining murderous corpses.And that Dementing nail allows them to act according to the spellcaster's will. "Lan Wangji asked: "Why do they use living people""I don't know." Wei Wuxian stared at the ghost cultivator.Suddenly thought of a possibility like being shocked by electricity,"Maybe the person behind this scene,want to use living people to refine murderous corpses like Wen Ning. "As soon as these words came out, their heart suddenly tightened.Couln't help but glance at each other,Seeing shock in each other's eyes,Vaguely thought that it should be so.Wei Wuxian continued: "Yes,Wen Ning is uniquely conscious,powerful and invulnerable high-ranking murderous corpse, who also recognizes the master very much,If one has hundreds and thousands of Wen Nings,He is powerful enough to command the world. ""Then these people..." Lan Wangji murmured softly.Wei Wuxian continued with this sentence: "They were semi-finished products.In other words, they are failed living corpses. "They were speechless and sad at the same time,There was obviously no wind in the lobby,But they really felt a deep chill,which spreaded rapidly from the end of the spine to the back.

Writer: Shenfen(China), https://shenfen283.lofter.com/
Translator: Chou Langshi, for more stories and comics, please visit https://www.patreon.com/wangxianlove