QWAPMP Chapter 16
by VolareThe midnight revelry ended, and everyone was drunk. No one remembered that the teammates who had gone out had not returned.
In the morning, an early riser suddenly helped a dying man in from outside.
The teammates who were not yet awake yawned, originally wanting to continue sleeping, but instantly sobered up when they saw the person he was supporting.
Before the man who brought the person in could say anything, he was surrounded by a group of teammates.
“What happened? Who killed him?”
Some people showed vigilance, drawing their swords, “Was it a vampire? Or a werewolf?”
Nan Ni, who had just walked down the stairs, stopped, her eyes fixed on the crowd gathered together, her gaze sharp, her fingers tightly gripping the stair railing.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s a vampire or a werewolf, we must avenge Awei.”
“Right, avenge Awei.” Someone in the crowd took the lead and roared, and the others echoed, “Avenge our dead brother!”
Voices rose one after another, waking up the injured and unconscious person.
Awei, who everyone thought was already dead, suddenly opened a pair of bloodshot eyes and difficult，“save……save……save命”
struggled to utter two words, “Help… help… help me.”
Raymond, who was closest to him and had helped him back, finally realized belatedly that he had forgotten to tell everyone that Awei was not dead.
Raymond put the man down, coughed dryly, and interrupted the excited and passionate teammates, “Wait everyone, Awei is not dead yet!”
The air suddenly froze. The person who was shouting the most excitedly and still raising their fist suddenly stopped their fingers in mid-air, looking at Raymond with a look of astonishment!
The expression seemed to say, “Did I hear that right?”
Raymond wiped the sweat from his forehead, chuckled dryly, stepped back, and let them see if Awei was really dead.
Facts proved that Awei was not dead, just severely injured.
And this injury… it didn’t look like it was caused by a werewolf or a vampire at all!
“What happened to Awei? Who beat him?” Someone asked.
Others shook their heads.
They were all drunk last night and didn’t know who Awei fought with.
And… was beaten like this.
Someone whispered, “Could it be one of our own people who beat him?”
Everyone immediately looked at each other, all shaking their heads in unison, indicating that it wasn’t them.
The person who spoke at first whispered again, “Not one of our own! Then it was someone else?”
“Awei is a hunter, right…”
“A hunter beaten like this by ordinary people?” Someone questioned.
Finally, everyone thought the same thing, “It’s truly a disgrace to them as hunters.”
And so, more than half of the onlookers dispersed, and no one cared about Awei’s life anymore.
As soon as they thought that he might have been beaten like this by ordinary people, they felt it was a disgrace to them as hunters.
Nan Ni and others walked over after more than half of the crowd had dispersed.
She went over and looked at Awei twice, her gaze falling on his bruised and swollen face.
After watching for a while, confirming that he had been beaten up, Nan Ni said faintly, “Find someone to treat him.”
Raymond nodded, indicating that he understood.
Song Xiao was sitting on the bed, lowering his head to wrap a bandage around his waist.
Hearing footsteps, his movements quickened, “Yan Ye, wait for me… Hiss, it hurts!”
The bandage pressed against the wound, and Song Xiao cried out in pain, his handsome brows gently furrowed.
After wrapping the bandage, he didn’t even button his clothes, as if afraid others wouldn’t know he was injured, wanting to walk out like that.
Yan Ye heard his voice and slowed his steps, but when he turned to look at Song Xiao, his calm eyes became deep and unfathomable.
Last night, Yan Ye had tasted the male supporting character’s blood briefly; it was an accident.
After the male supporting character beat that man, he fainted for a short while due to excessive blood loss.
It was Yan Ye who brought him back.
It was then that his body got stained with his blood.
And he was like someone possessed, actually dipping a finger to taste a drop.
Recalling the feeling of almost being controlled by desire, Yan Ye did not want a second time.
“If you don’t want people to suspect anything, put your clothes on properly,” Yan Ye reminded gently.
“Suspect what? Are you talking about me beating someone last night?” Song Xiao asked with a smile, then said nonchalantly, “Even if I put on my clothes and they didn’t find out I was injured, wouldn’t that man say something after he woke up?”
He had beaten the man to near death yesterday, and that man looked like a petty person. It would be strange if he didn’t say anything to Nan Ni.
At least, when he said something to Nan Ni, he had to let Nan Ni know that he was also seriously injured.
“He won’t,” Yan Ye said lightly, walking downstairs ahead of Song Xiao.
Song Xiao hesitated for a second, then pouted and lowered his head to button his clothes.
He would trust this man for once!
Not long after the two went downstairs, everyone was eager to return home, and the team quickly resumed their journey. Nan Ni also didn’t notice that Song Xiao was injured.
As for the unconscious Awei, someone carried him on their back.
Yan Ye felt a weight on his shoulder. He turned to look, and the male supporting character’s chin rested on his shoulder, his body pressing close to him.
Too close! Yan Ye was about to push him away when his ear was touched by something soft.
“Don’t go away, let me use you to shield me!” Song Xiao said helplessly. Because he had been walking continuously, the wound on his waist bled again, staining his clothes.
Yan Ye stopped his movement to leave. He turned back to look at the two people behind him, his lips parted slightly, but at the moment Song Xiao looked up, he closed his mouth again and just nodded.
The two walked for a while, intentionally and unintentionally slowing down. When they were some distance away from the others, Yan Ye threw a black coat to Song Xiao, “Put it on!”
Song Xiao didn’t put it on immediately, but asked, “Won’t Nan Ni find out?”
Suddenly changing clothes would be too strange.
“Find out what? You’re afraid of the cold, I’m being kind, is it not okay for me to give you clothes to wear?” Yan Ye asked.
Song Xiao’s eye twitched, and he said sarcastically, “Then you are really kind!”
Yan Ye sneered, “Good that you know. Be more sensible in the future, and don’t make things too difficult for me.”
“When did I make things difficult for you?” Song Xiao asked while putting on his clothes, his eyes innocent.
Yan Ye stared at his innocent eyes for a few seconds, a smile in his eyes, but this smile sent shivers down one’s spine.
Song Xiao met his gaze for a few seconds, then was the first to back down, shifting his gaze. Immediately after, he ran towards Nan Ni.
Yan Ye chuckled, just about to follow, when he heard a surprised voice.
“Awei is awake!”
“Finally awake, let’s ask him first who beat him.”
Awei? So the person Song Xiao beat last night was named Awei!
Many people gathered around Awei, and even Nan Ni walked over.
Yan Ye saw Song Xiao. He seemed to want to go over as well, but after taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped.
As soon as Nan Ni arrived, everyone consciously made way.
Nan Ni’s voice was not loud, “Who did you meet last night?”
Awei, who had just woken up, had a grim expression. His bruised and swollen face made it impossible to discern any emotion, only burning rage could be seen in his eyes.
His eyes shifted restlessly, as if looking for someone.
Until he scanned everyone and fixed on Song Xiao outside the crowd.
“Uh… it’s…” Awei was just about to point out Song Xiao when his angry eyes suddenly turned fearful, as if he had seen something terrifying.
His voice stopped in his throat, and that sentence was forced back down.
Yan Ye faced him with a smile, his smiling eyes filled with threat.
Awei’s pupils trembled. He was so scared that he lost his voice and couldn’t say a word. He wanted to point out the person with his finger.
After raising his hand, a memory seemed to be forcibly implanted in his mind.
“No, don’t cut off my hand, no…” Awei shook his head, terrified, his pupils widened, as if something horrifying had scared him.
Yan Ye curled his lips with satisfaction. He had only used a little hypnosis on the person.
Awei didn’t say anything. He was delirious for a long time. When he calmed down and found Nan Ni to talk about what happened last night, the moment the words reached his lips, the images of his tongue being pulled out and his fingers being cut off kept appearing in his mind.
Once was enough, but two, three times it was like this, which truly scared him witless.
Song Xiao also continued to follow Nan Ni and their team because Awei couldn’t say that he had beaten him up.
Leaving the town, their next resting place was in a small village church.
A light rain started outside. The church was not big, with only the pastor. All the hunters squeezed inside together.
The pastor made a sign of the cross on his shoulder and said, “God bless.”
The hunters all devoutly lowered their heads and made praying gestures. They were all believers in God.
Including Nan Ni.
She also lowered her head and prayed.
Song Xiao pretended to lower his head and close his eyes to pray. After three seconds, he secretly opened one eye to look at Yan Ye.
Yan Ye was too lazy to even pretend. The pastor looked at him again and walked towards him with a Cross and a thick book.
Seeing this, Song Xiao opened his eyes and stretched, wanting to do something, but his outstretched hand stopped in mid-air, his brows furrowed again and again. Finally, he forced himself to endure the pain and slowly lowered his hand.
At this time, everyone finished praying. As the team leader, Nan Ni went over to talk to the pastor, “Sorry to bother you tonight.”
The pastor shook his head, went to the fireplace, and helped them light the fireplace so everyone could warm themselves by the fire.
Song Xiao moved closer to Yan Ye, lowered his head, and whispered, “That pastor was looking at you just now! Did he find something?” Like his identity!
You know, a long time ago, the Hunter’s Guild and the Church Guild were one entity and not clearly separated. The people who killed the most vampires were this group.
Yan Ye closed his eyes to rest. Hearing this, he said nonchalantly, “Do you hope he found something?”
Song Xiao was so choked by him that he was about to retort, “What are you…”
His voice rose slightly, and people close to them cast confused glances.
Only then did Song Xiao realize something and lowered his volume, saying testily, “I hope he found out your identity, alright!”
This was completely different from what he had just wanted to retort, and there was a hint of sulkiness in his tone.
After Song Xiao finished speaking, like the other hunters, he casually sat down on the ground, only his position was very close to Yan Ye, but his face was turned to look at the rain outside the window.
On a rainy day, there was no night view to see, only the sound of the rain pattering.
Even so, Song Xiao watched the rainy night for half the night.
Everyone else was asleep, only he kept his eyes open, looking outside.