A Way to Heal

Part 31

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When the lights turned on, the juniors and Mo XuanYu were already standing in a field of grass. His travel companion donkey, little apple, was near them munching on the green grass and all of them were surrounded by round, white snow balls. They were running here and there, some of them trying to annoy the little apple and the donkey exhibiting his irritation with a loud bray.

"ooh this is the morning after", said Lan SiZhui remembering them taking Wei Wuxian to the grass field to tame his vehicle.

Lan Jingyi without hesitating even for a moment threw Wei Wuxian under the bus. "Han Guang-Jun, he told us he wanted to roast your rabbits". Lan Wangji raised his eyebrows to his husband demanding an explanation. A very obvious terror was covering his face. This is not the first time Wuxian talks about roasting his dear rabbits. Wuxian himself was quite fond of those fluff balls, in spite of that these constant alarming comments made Lan Wangji afraid that one of these days Wei Wuxian is going to roast his dear rabbits for real.

"You know I won't do that", Wei WuXian tried to coax his husband through sweet words. He throws a betrayed face at Lan Jingyi before continuing, "they are your kids, which makes them mine as well. I won't eat my kids Lan Zhan. Just look at them, how can someone even think of killing them?"

"Wei Ying can", WangJi said with a heavy voice.

"Of course he can, that's his favorite meat after all", Jiang Cheng commented winking at his ShiXiong.

"hahahha I can. But I won't, I promise", he said raising his three fingers in the air making a promise. "come come let's watch, it's gonna get interesting from now on".

Suddenly, rings of the bell came from the western side of the Cloud Recesses.

These rings were completely different from the ones that told the time.They were hurried and violent, as if a madman was striking it. With a sudden change in their faces, Lan JingYi and Lan SiZhui both stopped joking around with him, dashing toward the bell at once. Wei WuXian knew that something was wrong and quickly followed.The sound came from a watchtower.

The watchtower was called the "Mingshi". When the bell of the watchtower started to ring on its own, it only meant one thing—that an accident happened to the people performing the summoning ritual inside.Outside of the watchtower, more and more of the Lan Sect's disciples started to crowd around, but nobody dared to go in without careful consideration. The door of the Mingshi was black and made of wood. It was tightly locked, only able to be opened from inside. It was not only difficult to violently destroy it from the outside, but it was also forbidden to do so. It was extremely scary for an accident to happen during the spirit summoning ritual, since nobody would know what being it would summon or what would happen if someone broke in. And, ever since the Mingshi was built, there were almost no cases where the summoning failed. This made everyone more worried.

Seeing that Lan WangJi didn't appear, Wei WuXian had a foreboding feeling. If Lan WangJi was still in the Cloud Recesses, he would have hurried over immediately, as he heard the alarming chimes of the bell, unless... Suddenly, the black door burst open with a bang. A white-clothed disciple rushed outside, staggering and stumbling.

As his legs weren't steady, he rolled down the stairs as soon as he came out. The door of the Mingshi instantly closed again, as if someone angrily slammed it shut.

In confusion, the bystanders quickly helped the disciple up. After he stood up, he immediately fell down again, his face covered in tears beyond his control. He held onto the people around him, "We should have... shouldn't have summoned..."