MDZS Characters Watching the Future

45. Yi City

The Shudong area was abundant in rivers and valleys. With towering peaks and a rough terrain, only faint breezes passed the area, causing the majority of places to be enveloped in mist.

"Now, we're back to that timeline." said a random cultivator.

"Can't it just showed us those beautiful scenes?" asked a female cultivator.

"Or else, we're going to lose our sense because of your screams." said a man next to him making her glare at him.

"It is my first time hearing about this place." said Nie Huaisang.

"That place seems exciting for a night hunt." said Wei Wuxian.

"Yeah, it will be fun. Lets go there then." said Jiang Cheng.

"Do you guys go on the dangerous place for a night hunt?" asked Nie Huaisang.

"For new experience ang knowledge." answered Wei Wuxian.

Walking straight toward where the left hand pointed, the two of them came upon quite a small village.

A few rails of fencing encircled thatched houses made from mud. A brood of colorful chicks scuttered in and out of the yards, pecking on the ground for rice. A large, bright-feathered rooster stood single-legged on a roof. With a twitching comb, it looked downward loftily, its neck turning left and right. It was fortunate that nobody had any dogs. It was likely that these villagers could only get their hands on a few chunks of meat a year, much less have any leftover bones to feed the dogs.

"I would've run from there if there is one." said Wei Wuxian.

"Luck is with you, then." said Jiang Cheng.

"Which didn't happen for a lot of times." he added.

In front of the village, there was a fork road, leading to three different directions. Of these, two were rather bare. Covered with a great deal of footprints, it was clear that they were often walked upon. Yet, the last one have been overrun with weeds. A square sign made from a piece of rock was positioned slantingly at this road. Subject to age and weathering, the sign was split down the middle with a large crack. Even from within the crack, withered weeds peeked out.

"This is it guys, we're going to have an earful of a scoldings." said Jingyi.

"Why?" asked Wei Wuxian.

"Nothing." answered Jin Ling.

Two large characters, which appeared to be the place that the road led to, had been carved onto the sign. One could manage to tell that the bottom character was the character for “city”. However, the top character was complex in both form and brushstrokes. The crack just so happened to have run through it, causing a few broken bits of rock to lay scattered on the ground. Wei WuXian bent down and pushed the weeds aside. Even after staring at it for a long time, he still couldn’t figure out what the character was.

Coincidentally, the direction that the left arm pointed at was indeed this path.

"We will find out another mystery." said a random cultivator.

"What is it this time?" asked his friend.

"I don't have a good feeling about this place." said Wei Wuxian while looking at the juniors.

Wei WuXian, “Why don’t we ask the villagers?”

Lan WangJi nodded. Of course, Wei WuXian didn’t expect him to ask. With a large grin over his face, Wei WuXian walked toward the villager women who were feeding the chicken.