Chapter 77 (1/2)
Chapter 77
Chapter 77: Nightfall—Part Two
Translated by K of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
In the past, there were only others who asked hi others what he should do, and nobody was able to give him an answer
Suddenly, Wei WuXian felt a faint pain at the side of his neck, as if he’d been stabbed by a sharp needleHe felt his body grow nuuard due to the mo after a few moments had passedInvoluntarily, he had already collapsed onto the rock bedAt first, he could still raise his arm, but soon, even his arer move
With red eyes, Wen Qing slowly reht hand, “… I’m sorry”
She shouldn’t have been able to land an attack on Wei WuXian with her speed, but Wei WuXian wasn’t on the alert at allWith the pain, Wei WuXian felt his mind calm down a bit as wellHis Adam’s apple bobbed before he opened his ?”
Wen Qing and Wen Ning exchanged a glanceStanding before hiranted him a solemn salutation
Seeing this, a restless sense of foreboding rose within Wei WuXian, “What are you going to do? Just what are you doing?”
Wen Qing, “When you woke up, ere in theitI think we’ve come to a conclusion”
Wei WuXian, “Discussing what? Stop talking nonsenseTake out the needle—let o!”
Wen Ning slowly got up fro low, “Sister and I have coive ourselves up”
“Give yourselves up?” Wei WuXian was shocked, “How are you going to do that? Apologize? Surrender?”
Wen Qing rubbed her eyes, her expression appearing to be calJin Sect sent people to give a feords at Burial Mound”
Wei WuXian, “Give a feords about what? Don’t talk one word at a timeSay it all at once! Finish your explanation!”
Wen Qing, “The LanlingJin Sect wanted you to give them an answerThe ansould be to hand over the two leaders of the re Wen Sect members, especially the Ghost General”
“…” Wei WuXian, “I’ht now”
Wen Qing continued on, “The leaders of the re to them, if you hand us over, this incident would teht have you on the bed for a couple more daysThe effects of the needle inside of you would cease in three days’ timeI’ve talked to Uncle Four about it alreadyHe’ll watch over you and let you out if an eency happens within the three days”
Wei WuXian raged, “You can shut the fuck up! It’s already pande more trouble onto my platterGive yourselves in my assDid I tell you to do this? Take it out!”
Wen Qing and Wen Ning stood still, arms lith in his bodyHis struggles were of no use, and nobody listened to hith in his heart either
He could neither shout norto Koi Tower? I wasn’t the one who cursed him with Hundred Holes at all…”
Wen Qing, “But they have set their minds that it was you”
Wei WuXian tried his best to think of ways to deal with thisSuddenly, he thought of so, “Then find the real person who set the curse! Jin ZiXun’s definitely gone to experts of cursingThe most common way to deal with these curses is to hit them back, let the effects rebound back to the one who placed the curseEven if not all of the power could be rebounded, a large portion canWe can just look for someone who has the same curse marks on them!”
Wen Qing, “There’s no use”
Wei WuXian, “Why not?”
Wen Qing, “There are so many people—where could we look for them? Set up a checkpoint on every street of every city and make everyone take off their clothes so that we can check?”
Wei WuXian protested, “Why not?”
Wen Qing, “Who’d be willing to set up these checkpoints for you? And for how long do you intend to search? We could perhaps find the to wait?”
Wei WuXian, “But there are no rebounded curse marks on me!”
Wen Qing, “During today’s incident, did they ask you?”
Wei WuXian, “No”
Wen Qing, “That’s rightThey didn’t askThey straight-up prepared to kill youDo you understand now? They don’t need any proofThey don’t need you to find the truth eitherWhether or not you have cursePatriarch, the King of the Demonic PathYou specialize in dark curses, so it wouldn’t even be strange if you didn’t have curse marks on youOn top of that, you didn’t have to do it yourselfYou could’ve gotten Wen-dogs, your slaves, to do it for youIt’s you no matter whatYou won’t be able to deny it”
Wei WuXian cursed
Wen Qing waited quietly for hi, “And so, you see? There’s no useWith the way things are, the identity of the one who placed the curse of Hundred Holes is no longer importantWhat’s iqi path and… Jin ZiXuan were indeed killed by Ning”
Wei WuXian, “… But, but…”
But what? He himself didn’t even knohat to put after ‘but’He couldn’t think of a reason to give, an excuse to use
He spoke, “… But even then, I should be the one goingI was the one who o instead of the murderer?”
Wen Qing, “Isn’t it better this way?”
Wei WuXian, “Better as in what?!”
Wen Qing’s voice was cal is a knife, a knife that scares them, but also a knife that they use as an excuse to attack youIf we go, without the knife, they’d no longer have an excuseThis entire thing ht finally be over”
Wei WuXian stared at her in shockHe suddenly let out a less roar
He finally understood why Jiang Cheng would always express extres he did, why he’d always say that he had a hero complex, why he’d always see others take the responsibility onto their shoulders no ative consequences, unable to be stopped at all—the feeling was the utmost detestable!
Wei WuXian, “Do you two understand or not? By giving yourselves in at Koi Toould happen to you two, especially Wen Ning? Aren’t you the one who loves this brother of yours the most?”
Wen Qing, “Whatever that happens to him would be what he deserves”
NoWen Ning didn’t deserve it at allHe was the one who deserved it
Wen Qing, “Anyhoe should’ve been dead since a long tioThese days have been a strike of luck for us”
Wen Ning nodded
He was always like this, nodding at whatever others said, agreeing and never objectingWei WuXian had never abhorred his nod and his docility so much
Wen Qing squatted by the bedGazing at his face, she suddenly reached out and flicked her finger against Wei WuXian’s forehead
She put quite soth into her flickWei WuXian frowned fro seemed to be in a much better s, said farewellThen, good-bye”
Wei WuXian, “No…”
Wen Qing interrupted his to you beforeBut now that it’s today, there are indeed a few things I should sayI really won’t get a chance to say the interrupted his to you beforeBut now that it’s today, there are indeed a few things I should sayI really won’t get a chance to say them after this”
Wei WuXian whispered, “… Shut up… Let o…”
Wen Qing, “I’m sorryAnd, thank you”
Wei WuXian was lying for the entire three days
Wen Qing’s calculations were indeed correctThree daysNot a moht after the three days had passed
First his fingers, then his lian to flow inside of him once more, Wei WuXian leaped up fro Cave
The Wen Sect’s people seemed like they hadn’t had any shut-eye within the three days eitherIn silence, they sat within the large shack, around the tablesWei WuXian didn’t even spare the as fast as he could, he dashed down Burial Mound
After he got down thehis breathBent down, he propped his hands against his knees for a long while before he stood up straight againYet, looking at the wild grasses that covered o
Burial Mound—he’d just gone down from there
Lotus Pier—he hadn’t been back in over a year
Koi Tower? Three days had passed alreadyIf he went now, it was likely that Wen Qing’s corpse and Wen Ning’s ashes were the only things left
He stood blanklySuddenly, he felt that the world had no place for hie it wasHe didn’t knohat to do either
Out of the blue, a frightening thought eed from the depths of his heartWithin the three days, he had denied this thought over and over again, but it kept on appearing, unable to be wiped away
Wen Qing and Wen Ning left on their ownPerhaps, he was glad, somewhere deep inside of hiht bethat choice to makeThey had already made the choice for him and dealt with the difficulty
Wei WuXian raised his hand and slapped himself on the faceIn a low voice, he scolded, “What are you thinking?!”