Lan Wangji stared at Wen Ning who innocently stared back, Lan Wangji ended up muttering "How..?" Wen Ning looked around and replied "How what?"
"How did you survive all those cultivators?"
Lan Wangji asked, Wen Ning realized and smiled, responding "Ah, I fought past them and ran away with a woman who helped me." A woman? Lan Wangji wanted to question Wen Ning more but he couldn't when the town of the undead began groaning, Wen Ning looked around afraid. Lan Wangji unsheathed Bichen and raised it to the surrounding crowd of zombies, their resentment wasn't threatening however, it seemed they were just town folk who happened to be caught in the main resentment point. Lan Wangji pushed each corpse down and walked right past their bodies, Wen Ning, being a nervous wreck panicked as each zombie fell to the ground while Lan Wangji walked past without a care. He had lots of questions for Lan Wangji, for example, why was Lan Wangji's clothes and ribbon stained with blood? Such a dark crimson color turned his clothes black! He also wanted to question why Lan Wangji could use demonic cultivation, he was sure Lan Wangji was absolutely against using such arts.
"Come."
Lan Wangji commanded, Wen Ning hurried after Lan Wangji walking beside him, after a brief moment of silence between the two men, Wen Ning asked again "Lan Wangji, where is master?" Lan Wangji glanced over at Wen Ning for a moment and replied "With someone."
"Who?"
"None of your business."
Wen Ning then officially shut up and continued walking down the village's walking path, which was narrow and a tight fit if it wasn't for the trees around the road. Wen Ning suggested "Should we just... jump on the roof?" Lan Wangji shook his head, explaining to Wen Ning "The resentment."
"What?"
"The resentment is stronger down here, the spirit must be hiding down here or is buried."
Wen Ning for some reason didn't sense any resentment, which was strange to Lan Wangji, he remembered White Resentment could feel the resentment, even he and Wen Yuan felt it, so why couldn't Wen Ning? A sudden rustle coming from a house caught their attention, the two stopped walking or even making a sound. Wen Ning's pupils became white and blended with the whites in his eyes. Lan Wangji unsheathed Bichen and struck down on the home, revealing two rabbits hiding in fear. Wen Ning's pupils came back and he said "Oh, it's just two rabbits." Lan Wangji sighed, about to sheath Bichen again before he heard a voice ask "Have you seen my baby?" It was the woman again, this time Lan Wangji struck her arm but realized he had already sliced that bit off. Lan Wangji jumped back and Wen Ning did so as well, he exclaimed "Who is this??" Lan Wangji shrugged, making Wen Ning panic.
Lan Wangji couldn't go to a nearby town to question anything near here, his only option was to investigate the area and hope he found some clue, Wen Ning looked up at the woman as she cackled, would they have to fight again? Lan Wangji took a sigh and looked back at the woman, it was a gory sight, she was bleeding from the legs down. Lan Wangji ordered "Wen Ning, go around and look for White Resentment."
"Who??"
"Someone in the silhouette of me, it is with Wei Ying and A-Yuan."
His voice was calm as he and the woman charged at each other, their sword and arms clashed and clanged as Lan Wangji shouted "Around them is the village entrance! I might've not searched well enough for their village sign but now I'm occupied! Look for it!" Wen Ning didn't want to leave Lan Wangji alone but he nodded and ran off.
In the distance Wen Ning was running around the town searching everywhere for the village's sign and label, finding nothing, he couldn't even find Wei Wuxian and A-Yuan! Wen Ning finally called out, "Master!? A-Yuan!" He ran with his claws digging into his corpse-like hands, when he received no call back he finally shouted around for someone else.
