Who You Are

Chapter 95 - Xinglu Ridge

"The people here are so gossipy that things like the 'man-eating castle' must have been fabricated as right... Such a waste of efforts, don't you think?"

Lan Wangji only started walking after a few more pushes from him. Before Wei Wuxian caught up, a series of wild barks suddenly came from far away in the cedarwood forest. Wei Wuxian's face changed instantly. He shifted behind Lan Wangji in lightning speed and squatted into a ball, arms hugging the other's waist.

Lan Wangji, "... It is still far away. What are you hiding for?"

Wei Wuxian, "I-I-I-I-I-I-I'm gonna hide first then see. Where is it? Where is it?!"

Lan Wangji listened intently for a moment, and responded, "It is Jin Ling's black-haired spiritual dog."

Hearing Jin Ling's name, Wei Wuxian stood up at once, but squatted back down after hearing a few more barks.

Lan Wangji continued, "If a spiritual dog is barking in such a way, something must have happened."

Wei Wuxian groaned a few times, then stood up with effort, his legs still trembling, "Th-th-th-th-th-th-then let's go and see!"

Lan Wangji didn't move at all. Wei Wuxian cried, "Hanguang Jun, why don't you move? Move! If you don't move, what do I do?!"

After a moment of silence, Lan Wangji replied, "First... let go."

Wei Wuxian looks at his hands clinging onto the man's waist, "oh, haha."

...

"Didn't look like you wanted me to let go," Wei Wuxian pointed out as he sat up on Lan Wangji's lap for a moment.

"I was slightly enjoying the moment," Lan Wangji admitted.

Wei Wuxian giggled, "if you wanted me to hold you, then just say so," he said kissing the man's jaw.

"It wasn't the right time," Lan Wangji said, "but I can now hold you whenever I want."

Wei Wuxian continued to giggle at his husband as he snuggled up close to him again.

...

The two pushed and staggered. Although they followed the barks of the dog, they only circled two times around the cedarwood forest. The spiritual dog's barks also appeared sometimes near, sometimes far.

Having listened to a long while of barking, Wei Wuxian finally grew somewhat used to it, at least ceasing to stammer as he spoke, "There's a maze array here?"

This maze array was definitely created by a person. A while ago, he said that the legends of the ridge were all hearsay, but, now, things were getting interesting.

After about fifteen minutes of barking, the black-haired spiritual dog still wasn't tired out. The two followed the sound after they found the method to exit the maze array. Not long afterward, the silhouettes of creepy, stone castles appeared amid the cedarwood forest.

The castles were made of greyish-white stones, its surface covered in green vines and fallen leaves. Every one of them was made into strange semi-spheres, appearing as if a few large bowls were turned over on the ground. Who would have known that there really were such stone castles inside the Xinglu Ridge? It seemed that the legends didn't appear out of thin air after all. However, it'd be hard to say whether or not this was a "man-eating castle", and what beings were inside of it.

Jin Ling's black-haired spiritual dog was outside of the cluster of stone castles. It ran around them, sometimes grunting in a low voice and sometimes barking wildly. Seeing that Lan Wangji approached, it backed off slightly out of fear, but, instead of running away, it barked even louder at them. It then looked toward the stone castles, its front paws restlessly digging into the ground.