Inner Demons Volume 1 Chapter 28

Li YunXin thought for a while, and said: “I see.”

Seeing his reaction, Yu Meng felt even more amazed.

It was so surprising that this guy didn’t beg him to have a blood oath with him, or flatter him at once.

Even after Yu Meng said that he was the current Dragon Head of the Escort Teams’ Guild of the Great Qing Empire!

Father was right, Yu Meng thought. Unlike those annoying children from the wealthy families in Wei City, people in jianghu were much more interesting.

Looking at Li Yun, Yu Meng felt he almost couldn’t hold back the joy in his heart. As Li YunXin had treated him like a man in jianghu, Yu Meng thought he also needed to behave more...mature.

Thus he rubbed his face, cleared his throat, and put on a serious face: “Well...I’m the current Dragon Head of the Escort Teams’ Guild of the Great Qing Empire. I’m here to acquaint with heroes in jianghu, under the order of my father. When I was on my way back to Wei, I smelt the guiding incense.”

“When you were vomiting?”

“Huh? Oh, no, no, no, back to Wei -- Back to Wei City[1].”

“Okay...please go on.”

“Em. I was talking about...when I smelt the guiding incense. The guiding incense was the first idea of mine, after I took up the place. Before that, the escort teams of the Great Qing Empire only cared about their own businesses. I thought that all escort teams should be like a big family, and everyone has the responsibility to help each other, and that’s why I made some people to create these guiding incense. Take them when you go for an escort job, and spill them when you got yourself into trouble -- only those who have smelt the second kind of incense could smell your guiding incense, and when they do, they will follow the fragment to...”

“Just now, I have smelt the guiding incense when I pa.s.s by. Seeing that you were all unconscious, I went for a search in the forest. *sigh*...It was too horrible to look at.”

Li YunXin frowned. He had no time to clean up the bodies. He thought that spring was coming, and when the weather got warmer, the corpses would have rotten really soon, or have been consumed by the animals in the forest. Thus, n.o.body would be able to know what exactly happened that night.

However, now Yu Meng said that he had followed the smell, and went deeply into the forest.

He must had found many abnormal things there.

When Li YunXin was thinking about what to do, Yu Meng paced up and down for a little while, and then clapped and said in a sorry voice: “What a pity. I had realized the risk long ago, but because of my economic limit, I couldn’t carry out my plan to get rid of them. You know that our Great Qing is a rich land, but there are still some wilderness. Along the way, beasts like tiger, leopards, jackals and wolves could show up, and when they are many, they will get the encouragement to attack pa.s.serby.”

He looked at Li YunXin with a painful face: “I’ve investigated the corpses carefully. *sigh* The heads of 4 or 5 of them were bit off, and the ground was all covered by their blood. There were others which seem to die from infighting. They must be too panic. It was too bad for you 4, an old, a young, a disabled and a woman to be left by the road. Ay-ay-ay, what a...”

...What an idiot!

Li YunXin heard he said all of these with a frozen face. He thought for many times, and when he was finally sure that Yu Meng was not cleaning the street[2] for him, he asked: “Then... How do you think about those burnt carts and goods by the road?”

“People would do anything for their own survival!?” Yu Meng sighed again, “When you were attacked by the beasts, you circled your wagons to defend yourselves. When you found that it was not working, you set up fire and wished to scare them away. To keep the fire burning, you were made to throw your goods into the fire. Then, the beasts finally broke their way into your defense. When eople ran for their lives, the fire which went out of control burnt your carts!”

“May I ask... How did you come up with this perfectly logical deduction?”

“Heh-heh, it’s not hard for me. I’ve read a book named ”A Beast Story”, in which a hero named NanKe[3] traveled in jianghu, solved cases and took down bad guys. Your situation also happened in his journey.”

Li YunXin took a deep breath, saluted Yu Meng seriously, and then he said: “Brother Yu, your eyes are like burning torches[4], and your knowledge is also rich. Please accept my respect. Things were exactly like what you have said. I need to tell you that this escort team is HongFu Escort Team of the Qiao family. This old man and me are just hitchhikers. After the attack of the beasts, only 2 from the escort team had survived. They are the leader of the team, Qiao DuanHong, who was seriously injured, and his daughter, Qiao JiaXin, who was frightened. If Brother Yu can help them back to Wei City...”

“It has always been the job of the Escort Teams’ Guild, you can count on me!” Yu Meng raised his arm, and that also raised his heroism to the sky. He was really satisfied about Li YunXin as a new friend.

He really didn’t know what did a Dragon Head of the Escort Teams’ Guild mean, eh?

He also didn’t know what the Yu family of Wei city was, eh?

That’s interesting...

On their way to Wei City, Li YunXin sounded out Yu Meng for many times, and he finally realize that he had met one of that kind of people who he thought only existed in stories.

Those “Oh my G.o.d that girl called me name yelled at me and was impolite to me, she was too different and attractive” kind.

That’s right, there was something wrong with Yu Meng’s brain. You can’t say his brain was disabled, but it worked in a different way from other people’s. Li YunXin guessed that the Yu family Yu Meng said may have been a super rich family.

The Yu family was not related to the escort teams at all. However, one day, the lord of Yu family was out of his mind. He donated money to every escort teams in the Great Qing Empire, and gathered them to establish the Escort Teams’ Guild. His son took up the place of the Dragon Head of the Guild, and did many thing interesting there, but no one had taken it seriously.

The only thing that the guild did, was to give out money on festivals. n.o.body would reject the money from the Yu family.

People said that the lord of the Yu family had his son in his old age, but fortunately this kid was dumb. The lord wanted to earn some reputation for his son, so he had spent all these money.

Liu told Li YunXin these in his ear when he finally woke up.

It seemed that the wok[5] of knocking them out shouldn’t belong to Yu Meng.  Li YunXin felt there was something important about the dream he had, but his attraction was soon drown by another thing.

The cat demon... didn’t look right.

The cat demon was awake, but horribly well-behaved. She didn’t talk, just sat by Li YunXin’s side, and stared at Yu Meng, like looking at a monster. Li YunXin was afraid that her wounds would rot and become smelly, so he checked them secretly.

Then he found that the wounds were abnormally pale, soft and bouncy, felt like rubber. What’s more, they were neither rotting or growing.

It might be a good news for him...

He thought it could be related to that dream.

In his dream, the self-addressed Black and White Yamas knew about his previous life. It’s nothing strange when happening in a dream.

However, thinking back about their last words “Seize yourself! Don’t provoke him! Let’s go. If there is any other souls related to him in the future, we’ll just ignore them, in case he causes troubles for us.”, and looking at Qiao JiaXin’s body which stopped rotting...

Li YunXin realized that the Yamas in his dream could have been real.

As a cultivator, he knew that in this world, the Underworld, the Yamas’ Palace and the Black and White Yamas did exist.
The Court of Yama.

Translator's notes:
[1]Back to Wei City返渭/反胃: In Chinese, stomach is also p.r.o.nounced “wei”, so “back to Wei” sounded like “back from the stomach”.
[2]Cleaning the street for sb.洗地: To help someone escape his accusations.
Originated from in which after some gangsters murdered some people and left the mess on the street, they yelled at a nearby police station: “Time to clean the street, cops!”
[3]NanKe南柯:Name of the hero in the book.
NanKe=Dreamland.
[4]Your eyes are like burning torches目光如炬:Perspicacious.
[5]Wok锅: A crime, especially one that wasn’t truly done by the accused person. In Chinese, “wok锅” and “fault过” have the same p.r.o.nunciation.

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Translator: Rienne