The return of petitions

It was a very long and difficult night. The two of them curled up in the cave holding their breath and listened to the movement outside. Every minute and every second was a torment.

After nightfall, all kinds of monsters and ghosts came out of the mass grave, and a lot of corpses crawled out of the tomb, and walked slowly past the cave where the two were hiding.

It is clear that there is no light at night, but whenever a murderous corpse passes by the cave, it can be clearly seen from the gaps covered by the branches and grass leaves, and the black figure slowly sways past.

The heavy empty tomb covered part of the aura of strangers, but could not completely cover it.

There are unjust souls attracted by the spirit of living people wandering on the tomb, and their long nails are inserted from the top of the tomb, and when they are pulled out, they bring up a cloud of dust.

Wei Wuxian clenched Yin Tie tightly with one hand, and held Xue Yang firmly with the other, fearing that if he couldn't hold back, he would run out and use himself as a bait to lure those evil spirits away.

Although Wei Wuxian knew that Xue Yang was not the kind of person who was willing to sacrifice, but now that his golden core had been lost, he could only sit and wait for death in this cave like a useless person. One life, Wei Wuxian really dare not say whether Xue Yang will rush out in a flash of his head.

The gloomy air of the mass grave at night penetrated from all directions, and the chill down to the bone made both of them shiver involuntarily. Wei Wuxian moved his arms very lightly and slowly to hold Xue Yang in his arms, Firstly, they can keep each other warm, and secondly, they can also take advantage of the situation to restrain Xue Yang to prevent him from running around.

Xue Yang had never felt that the night was so difficult. There were evil spirits all over the front, back, left, and right. Through the gaps in the leaves, he could still see black shadows going back and forth, which was really frightening.

I don't know how long it took, when suddenly a black shadow stopped at the entrance of the cave, Wei Wuxian's heart stopped for an instant, and his hand around Xue Yang couldn't help but tense.

The black shadow stood outside the cave, and after a long while, it moved closer to this side, and stretched out its hand to poke on the covered branch, making a slight sound.

Xue Yang and Wei Wuxian were so shocked that they even stopped breathing, their fingers trembled slightly due to fear, but they were also afraid of making a noise that would disturb the outside world, so they could only squeeze each other's wrists tightly, forcing each other's uncontrollable bodies to be quiet down.

That finger parted a small branch, and Xue Yang could even see that a bony finger had poked in. As long as it tore out a bigger hole, all the coverings on the hole would fall off.

Xue Yang turned his head to look at Wei Wuxian calmly, evoking a silent chuckle, as if he was saying something.

Wei Wuxian's eyes widened immediately, but his pupils shrank immediately, and his fingers pulled Xue Yang tightly with all his strength, not allowing him to move any more.

Just when the two were at a stalemate, a crow's cry came from not far outside the cave. Some sound came from near to far, and the evil spirits near the entrance of the cave were instantly attracted to them, even those who were still pulling the branches just now The black shadow also stopped moving and moved towards the direction of the sound.

Wei Wuxian and Xue Yang immediately breathed a sigh of relief, only to realize later that both of them were covered in cold sweat, and their backs were already drenched.

Wei Wuxian's whole body was stiff, but he still silently embraced Xue Yang in his arms, leaning his head against his neck to breathe.

This night seemed to have passed for a year, and it finally dawned—although the sunlight shone through only a little bit, the mass graves during the day were much better than at night.

After everything became quiet outside, Xue Yang pushed aside the pile of branches and climbed out to watch for a while, then pulled Wei Wuxian and dragged him out of the cave.

Wei Wuxian's hands were still shaking when he came out, Xue Yang hurriedly rubbed his hands and breathed upwards, and asked, "Are you scared? Don't be afraid..."

It was only after he spoke that he realized that his tone was trembling.

The two looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

After a night of intense mental tension and concentration, Wei WuXian was already so hungry that he let out a burst of noise.

Today's Wei Wuxian doesn't have a golden elixir, and because he can't rely on spiritual power to keep out the cold and fend off hunger, he feels quite embarrassed when his stomach growls.

Xue Yang was actually hungry too, but he was better than Wei Wuxian.

After looking around, Xue Yang pulled Wei Wuxian back into the cave, leaned over and said to him, "I'll go find some food and water, you wait here for me, don't walk away with the Yin iron."

Wei Wuxian nodded slowly, but didn't say anything about insisting on going together.

Xue Yang pushed back the mound of soil, and the branches and dry grass covered up the remaining opening tightly before walking forward stepping on the dry bones on the ground.

It's not that Xue Yang has never lived in a mass grave, so he naturally knows what's in the mass grave.

food?

Not without it, but normal people would not want to eat it, and it is really hard to swallow.

Xue Yang cut a small path along the way, stabbed and drove away many entangled souls, and finally he leaned on his sword and bent over to pant for breath.

Yiling Mass Burial Mound is different from ordinary mass burial mounds, even though he has already searched a large circle, there are only broken corpses and human bones around, not even half-height hay, not even a single wild fruit.

In the end, there was really no other way, and he was afraid that Wei Wuxian would wait a long time or something would happen there, so Xue Yang grabbed a crow with a talisman and plucked its hair and skin, and took Jiangzhu to cut off the meat piece by piece, and wrapped it in a leaf. superior.

On the way back, he found a bloody puddle with corpses still soaking in it. Xue Yang squatted beside it for a long time before mustering up the courage to take a sip with his hands. Once it entered his throat, he took what was in his stomach with him. Spit it all out.

The strong smell of blood and rotten flesh spread from his tongue to the depths of his heart. Xue Yang was choked and coughed for a long time, and even tears were forced to flow down his face.

How could he be willing to let Wei Wuxian drink such filthy water.

Xue Yang poked a piece of bloody crow meat with Jiang disaster and stood on the soil bag and waited for a while. When a crow was attracted, he hurriedly grabbed it with a talisman, plucked it and took it back.

Wei Wuxian had indeed been waiting for a long time. It was not easy for Xue Yang to go all the way, and it took a lot of time to catch two crows back and forth. When he came back, Wei Wuxian still maintained the posture when he left, without moving Do not move.

"Ah Xian, I'm back." Xue Yang whispered to inform when he was outside the cave, and just started to pull out the branches and clods, the people inside also hurriedly pushed out the mounds and dragged Xue Yang in.

Xue Yang first handed the plucked whole crow to Wei Wuxian, and said softly, "Bite its flesh and drink its blood to quench its thirst."

Wei WuXian understood at a glance that if there was any other way, Xue Yang would not bring a crow back and let him drink blood as water, and he didn't say much, just silently biting the crow's neck, teeth hard Break open the raw meat and suck out the blood inside.

After taking a few sips to quench his thirst, Xue Yang took out the sliced ​​meat that was still bloody from the dead leaves, bent his lips and smiled, "Let's eat together."

Wei Wuxian reached out and picked up a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth to chew slowly. The meat was bitter and astringent and hard to chew, and the meat had a strong smell of decay. It didn’t take much thinking to know that the crows here were eating dead human flesh. grown up.

Wei Wuxian reluctantly ate one piece and never wanted to eat another piece, his stomach was so full that he wanted to vomit.So did Xue Yang.

But in order to survive, Wei Wuxian still took another piece and put it in his mouth. After taking a few mouthfuls, Xue Yang also started to eat the second piece, and his eyes suddenly turned red.

Wei Wuxian knew that Xue Yang didn't really need to eat these, his spiritual power was weak enough to support him to resist hunger for a few days, but he chose to eat together if he wanted to accompany him.

Wei Wuxian swallowed hard the bloody flesh in his mouth, stretched out his hand to caress the back of Xue Yang's neck, and pressed it against his forehead, his weak guilt and pain were hidden in a voice so soft that it was almost inaudible: "Xue Yang, I'm sorry... ..."

He should have been able to bear these pains and pains by himself, but he really didn't want his A Yang to accompany him to suffer these pains.

Wei Wuxian hopes that he can bear all the suffering and pain alone, and that Xue Yang can be happy and safe under his protection.

Now even this tiny wish can't be fulfilled.

Xue Yang stretched out his hand to stroke Wei Wuxian's hair, and said with a smile on the corner of his lips, "I don't want to be separated from you even if you die, let alone you are still alive. Wei Wuxian, you can't get rid of me, no matter where you are, go to heaven I must be with you even if I go to the ground." After a pause, he said again: "What you promised me belongs to me alone, do you remember?"

Wei Wuxian was so moved that he couldn't describe the joy in his heart with words. If it wasn't for the wrong timing and location, he really wanted to kiss Xue Yang.

"For the rest of my life, you are the only one." Wei Wuxian solemnly promised word by word.

"Me too." There was light in Xue Yang's eyes, and there was a touch of clinginess in his sweet words: "I gave you all my heart, you can't take it away."

"I want it." Wei WuXian chuckled, with tenderness in his dark eyes.

Outside the mass grave, there are many bones and ghosts, and the ghosts and ghosts howl wantonly, but they can't enter this small tomb, and they seem to be isolated from the world, flowing with tenderness.

After last night, both Wei Wuxian and Xue Yang knew that there were not only all kinds of lonely and wild ghosts here, but also an extremely large number of murderous corpses.

Xue Yang had refined ferocious corpses before, because he could tell that most of them were lower-level walking corpses, but it was difficult to kill the huge number.There are also some low-level murderous corpses, which should have been transformed by the monks who died here, and these are even more difficult to kill.

Wei Wuxian also knew that it was impossible to hide in this small grave all the time, and it was really dangerous to have nothing to cover him.But now he still has wounds on his body, no sword and no spiritual power, and he can't walk fast even if he walks. This mass grave filled with dense fog is so dark that it is difficult to find the way even in daytime. Where can he and Xue Yang go?

Xue Yang thought about it quickly, and said, "Wei Wuxian, I lived in a mass grave before, and you know that ordinary mass graves are actually cleaned by people on a regular basis, but the Yiling mass grave is too cloudy, and it gradually fades away. People dare to come again."

Wei Wuxian immediately understood: "You mean, if someone comes to clean up, there will inevitably be a temporary resting place?"

"En." Xue Yang nodded: "Even if it's not a place for ordinary people to rest their feet, there must be caves and the like, at least it's easier to hide people than this kind of empty tomb."

"Then let's look for it, it's better than just sitting here and waiting to die." Wei Wuxian said.

Xue Yang nodded in agreement.

After the two of them left the tomb, Xue Yang put Wei Wuxian's arm around his shoulders, and gave him the blessing of disaster relief, while he led Yin Tie with one hand and supported him with the other, and the two of them moved one foot deep and the other shallow. go forward.