MDZS Characters Watching the Future

69. Headless Corpse

As though somebody dumped a bucket of cold water over his head, the curvature of Wei WuXian’s smile froze at once.

"Way to ruin the moment." Wei Wuxian said with a pout.

"Stop pouting, you look like a f*cking duck." said Jiang Cheng.

Wei Wuxian pouted more.

Standing below the dead tree, the tall figure faced Wei WuXian. If a head sat atop his neck, he’d be staring silently at Wei WuXian for sure.

"It's giving me a bad feeling." said Nie Huaisang.

"Ready to lose, un-lan?" asked Jiang Cheng with a smirked.

"That's not my brother." said Nie Huaisang.

"Lets see." said Jiang Cheng.

By the bonfire, the juniors of the Lan Sect saw the shadow as well. Each of them felt their hair stand up. With widened eyes, they went for their swords at once. Wei WuXian put his pointer finger in front of his lips and softly shushed them.

He shook his head, then looked at them with eyes that said “no”. Seeing this, Lan SiZhui noiselessly pushed back Lan SiZhui’s half-unsheathed sword.

"Why are they always put on danger?" asked MianMian.

"Danger might have really loved them." said Jin Zixuan.

"Agree." laughed Nie Huaisang.

The headless man reached for the tree trunk beside him and felt it for a while, as if he was thinking or trying to figure out what it was.

He walked a small step forward. Wei WuXian could finally see most of his body.

A burial robe hung over the man, somewhat tattered. It was indeed the one that the torso buried in the Chang Clan’s cemetery had been wearing.

"But why is he pieced together?" asked Nue Huaisang

"Don't tell me you didn't watch over the pouches where he wss put." said Jiang Cheng.

"Maybe." said Wei Wuxian.

And, by the man’s feet, a pile of shreds lay scattered on the ground. Wei WuXian could tell that this was a couple of torn-up Qiankun Pouches.

Wei WuXian, My mistake. It seems that our dear friend has pieced himself together!

Now that he thought about it, after he and Lan WangJi entered Yi City, so many things had happened that they hadn’t played Rest for almost more than two days. During the time that they spent travelling, they only barely managed to suppress the parts again. Yet, since all limbs of the corpse had been collected already, the attraction between each part multiplied. Perhaps they had felt one another’s resentful energy and their desire to be put back together grew, now that Lan WangJi was out patrolling, they hurriedly rolled off to the side, barged out of the Qiankun Pouches that had bound them, and pieced into a corpse by themselves.

"You shouldn't left it alone there." said Jiang Cheng.

"It can cause danger to everyone he met." he added.

"That won't happen again." said Lan Wangji.

Unfortunately, however, the corpse still lacked a part. One most important part.

"If it only has a head, we might have already found out who he is." said Jin Zixuan.

"Just wait for a moment." said Jingyi.

The headless man put a hands to his neck, feeling the clean, crimson cut at his throat. After he had been at it for quite some time and still couldn’t find the object that was supposed to be there, as though enraged by such a fact, he suddenly slammed his palm into the tree beside him!