Unexpectedly, he only took a step back, but the soles of his feet twitched, and it seemed that he almost fell to his knees. Lan WangJi's expression changed, he rushed forward, clamped his wrist as tightly as he did in Dafan Mountain last time, stabilized him, and landed on one knee to check his legs. Wei Wuxian was quite frightened, and said hastily, "Don't stop Hanguang-Jun, you don't have to do this."
Lan Wangji raised his head slightly, his pale eyes stared at him, he lowered his head and continued to pull up his trouser legs. Wei Wuxian was still holding his hand, and he had no choice but to look at the sky.
His legs were covered in black silt and evil curse marks.
Lan Wangji looked at it for a long time, then said bitterly, "... I only left for a few hours."
Wei WuXian spread his hands and said, "It's been a few hours, and anything can happen. Come and heal yourself."
He pulled Lan Wangji up with his backhand, and said, "It's just an ordinary curse mark, just disperse it when it comes to me. Hanguang-Jun, you have to help me, I can't handle it if you don't help me. .Have you caught someone? Is it him? Where is it?"
Lan Wangji turned his attention to the guise of a store in the distance on the long street, Wei WuXian said, "Let's settle the stone castle thing first." Then he walked towards the store. I didn't notice it just now, but now I feel a little numb in my legs and feet. It should have been electrocuted by Zidian. Fortunately, Jiang Cheng also knew how to control the intensity of Zidian, and didn't directly electrocute him into a charred corpse that had been struck by lightning.
Lan Wangji stood behind him and suddenly called out, "Wei Ying."
Wei Wuxian's figure paused, and after a while, as if he hadn't heard the name, he replied, "What's the matter?"
Lan Wangji said, "Did it come from Jin Ling?"
This is not a question, but a statement.
Wei Wuxian was noncommittal. Lan Wangji said again, "You met Jiang Wanyin."
There is also a mark left by Zidian on the evil curse mark, which is not difficult to judge. Wei Wuxian turned around and said, "As long as both of them are alive in this world, they will meet sooner or later."
Lan Wangji said, "Don't leave."
Wei WuXian said, "If you don't leave, are you carrying me?"
"..." Lan Wangji looked at him quietly, Wei Wuxian's smile condensed, and an ominous shadow passed over his heart.
If it was the former Lan Zhan, he would definitely be choked by his words, and either leave with a cold face or ignore him. But it's hard to say how he will deal with the current one. Sure enough, when Lan Wangji heard the words, he stood in front of him, as if he really wanted to bend down, bend his knees, and humbly carry him. Wei WuXian was frightened again, and hurriedly said, "Stop it, I'll just say it casually. It was only numb after being slapped twice by Zidian, not because of a broken leg. It's too ugly for a big man to be carried on his back. "
Lan WangJi said, "Is it ugly?"
Wei WuXian asked, "Does it look good?"
After a moment of silence, Lan WangJi said, "But you also backed me."
Wei WuXian said, "Is there such a thing? Why can't I remember."
Lan WangJi said lightly, "You never remember this."
Wei WuXian said, "Everyone says that I have a bad memory. Well, it's not good if it's not good. Anyway, don't memorize it."
Lan Wangji asked, "Really don't carry it?"
Wei Wuxian said decisively, "No back."
The two stood at each other for a moment, and suddenly, Lan WangJi put one arm around his back, leaned over slightly, and copied his knee with the other.
Wei WuXian was shorter and lighter than him, and he was picked up as soon as he picked it up, and his whole body was held in the air by a pair of solid arms. Wei Wuxian never expected that this would be the end of "no back". No matter his past or present life, this was the first time he had been treated like this, and said in horror, "Lan Zhan!!!"
Lan WangJi hugged him, walked very smoothly, and answered very smoothly: "You said not to carry it."
Wei WuXian said, "Then it didn't tell you to hug me like that?"
Fortunately, it was night and there were no pedestrians on the street, so it wasn't too embarrassing. Wei Wuxian is not a thin-skinned person either, he was hugged and walked a few steps before relaxing, tugging at the belt on Lan Wangji's chest, making a gesture of pulling, and said with a smile, "You have thicker skin than anyone, right? ?"
The clear sandalwood lingered by his side, Lan WangJi didn't look at him, he looked straight ahead, and he still had an incomparably upright, serious and indifferent face. Wei Wuxian saw that he was deaf to oil and salt, so he tugged at his belt and thought, "I didn't expect Lan Zhan to be very revengeful. I used to tease him, but now he wants to get it back, call me. It's boring to eat. It's too advanced. Not only has the cultivation level improved, but also the face."
Wei WuXian said, "Lan Zhan, did you recognize me from Dafan Mountain?"
Lan Wangji said, "En."
Wei WuXian asked, "How did you recognize it?"
Lan Wangji lowered his eyelashes and glanced at him: "Want to know?"
Wei Wuxian responded affirmatively, "Yeah."
Lan Wangji said, "You told me yourself."
Wei WuXian said, "Myself? Because of Jin Ling? Because I summoned Wen Ning? Not at all, right?"
There seemed to be ripples in Lan Wangji's eyes. However, this insignificant fluctuation was fleeting, and immediately returned to a deep pool. He said solemnly, "I think for myself."
Wei WuXian said, "I just asked you because I didn't expect it."
This time, no matter what he asked, Lan WangJi kept his mouth shut. He entered the inn with Wei Wuxian in his arms, except for the guy at the counter in the lobby who spitted water, no onlookers did anything too outrageous. When they came to the door of the room, Wei WuXian said, "Okay, here we are, let me down. You don't have any extra hands to open..."
Before he finished speaking, Lan WangJi made a very rude move. This may be the first time in his life so far that he has done such a rude gesture.
He hugged Wei Wuxian and kicked the door open.
As soon as the two doors opened, the person sitting inside immediately cried, "Hanguang-Jun, I don't know, I don't know, I..."
After seeing the posture of the two people outside the door, he reluctantly finished the last sentence: "...I really don't know."
It really is "one question and three unknowns".
Lan Wangji, as if he had never seen it, carried Wei Wuxian into the door and put him on the mat. Nie Huaisang's face was terrible, and he immediately unfolded the folding fan to cover his face. Wei Wuxian crossed the folding fan and looked at it. He, a former classmate, hasn't changed much over the years. What it was then, what it is now. He clearly has a handsome and elegant face, but he has an expression that can be kneaded at will. He has a good taste in clothes and is handsome, so he must have spent a lot of thought on it. To say that he is the master of Xuanmen, it is better to say that he is a wealthy idler. Wearing a dragon robe does not look like a prince, and wearing a long knife does not look like a fairy head.
He refused to admit it, and Lan Wangji put the piece of cloth that the black-maned spirit dog had bitten off on the table. Nie Huaisang covered his missing sleeve and said gloomily, "I just happened to be passing by. I really don't know anything."
Wei WuXian said, "You don't know, then let me tell you, see if you can hear it and you'll know something."
Nie Huaisang murmured, not knowing how to respond. Wei Wuxian then said: "There are rumors of 'Cannibal Mountain' and 'Cannibal Castle' in the Xingluling area of the Qinghe River, but there are no real victims, so this is a rumor. Rumors will make ordinary people stay away from Xinglu. Ling, so its real role is actually a line of defense. And only the first."
"Where there is a first, there is a second. The second line of defense is the walking corpses on Xinglu Ridge. Even if there are ordinary people who are not afraid of the rumors of the man-eating castle, they break into the ridge, or enter the ridge by mistake and see the walking dead. They will run away. But these corpses are small in number and low lethality, so they won't cause real damage."
"The third line of defense is the maze near the stone castle. The first two lines are for ordinary people, and only this one is for Xuanmen monks. But the scope of action is limited to ordinary monks. A cultivator who holds a spiritual weapon or a spiritual dog, who specializes in breaking the mystery, or a celebrity of the level of Hanguang-Jun, this line of defense can only be cracked."
"The three-layered defense is to prevent the stone fort on Xinglu Ridge from being discovered. Who is the person who built the stone fort can't be understood. This is the boundary of the Qinghe Nie Clan. Except for the Nie family, no one else can easily find it. Qinghe set up these three levels. Besides, you just happened to appear near the stone castle and left evidence."
"What is the purpose of Qinghe Nie's building a man-eating castle on Xinglu Ridge? Where did the corpses in the walls come from? Did they eat it? Sect Master Nie, if you don't make it clear here today, I'm afraid In the future, it will be stabbed out, and all the Xuanmen families will attack and question it together, when you have to say it, no one will listen to you and believe what you say."
Nie Huaisang said as if he had given up on himself, "...that's not a man-eating castle at all. That... that's just my family's ancestral grave!"
Wei WuXian said, "Ancestral Tomb? Whose ancestral tomb does not put a body in the coffin, but puts a saber?"
Nie Huaisang said with a sad face, "Hanguang-Jun, before I say it, can you swear an oath, for the sake of the two generations of friends and my eldest brother's friendship with your eldest brother, no matter what I say next, you... and you. The person next to you must not spread it out. In case it gets out in the future, the two of you will also say a few words for me and be a witness. You have always been the most trustworthy, as long as you swear, I will believe it. "
Lan Wangji said, "As you wish."
Wei WuXian said, "You said it wasn't a cannibal at all, so it hasn't eaten humans?"
Nie Huaisang gritted his teeth and said honestly, "...I have eaten."
Wei Wuxian said, "Wow."
Nie Huaisang immediately added: "But, only once! And the main fault is not our family, and it was already decades ago! Rumors of cannibalism on Xingluling began to spread from then on. I... I just fanned the flames. , just amplifying the rumors several times."