My Zombie Husband

Chapter 61 Maze in the Dream

Translator: Cheryl_M

After the self-study was over, Xia Mingyu couldn’t find Sun Yaheng. Maybe Sun Yaheng realized that he shouldn’t keep following him all the time in case of being gossiped.

It was not so gloomy in the dorm room today, but the other people didn’t talk to Xia Mingyu at all, just as if he were air. However, Chen Yutian and Zhao Ziyi came over to ask this and that.

Probably because he could only see Xia Mingyu  at night, Zhao Ziyi almost kept following Xia Mingyu all the way, even when they were bathing. It was good that there were cubicles in the bathroom. Zhao Ziyi was much more talkative than Xia Mingyu imagined, perhaps because they didn’t get to talk before.

“Xiaoyu, are you alone now?” Along with the splash of water, Zhao Ziyi in the next cubicle asked. Xia Mingyu silenced and replied, “No.”

“Oh, so… Are you still with Taizun?” Taizun that Zhao Ziyi referred to was Zhao Yun. Xia Mingyu said, “Um.” It was kind of an answer.

“Xiaoyu, have you thought about what you will do in the future? You can’t always be with Taizun, can you?”

Zhao Ziyi’s words made Xia Mingyu who was putting away the spray head stunned. Xia Mingyu didn’t even have time to react, who seemed not to hear the questions, so Zhao Ziyi continued talking.

“Xiaoyu, you can’t always follow Taizun, can you? You should know that you will grow old, get sick and die in the end, but Taizun won’t. Besides, a normal life is your best choice.”

However, Xia Mingyu would not experience death or return to the normal life… He was the Heavenly Soul. Even if he wasn’t, he and Zhao Yun were bonded by the blood deed.

“Xiaoyu, if you encounter any trouble, you can tell me.” Zhao Ziyi knew that he could not completely guarantee the safety of Xia Mingyu at the moment, but he could still lend a favor anyway.

Xia Mingyu raised his head, and the water splashed on his face, dripping along his handsome face. It was such a good view in the bathroom.

Confusion glinted in his beautiful amber eyes. He couldn’t be with Zhao Yun forever… Then, if he left, where should he go?

“Xiaoyu? Are you listening?” Zhao Ziyi pulled Xia Mingyu back from the trance. Xia Mingyu washed his face and sighed. “I know, but…” He didn’t want to leave at all.

“Xiaoyu, I’m not very aware of your character, but I know that you prefer quietness and you won’t trust people easily. Chen Yutian isn’t a bad person, but it’s better not to get too close to him.”

Was this a warning from his elder brother? Xia Mingyu felt touched and smiled. Thinking of Chen Yutian’s grinning face, he said, “I understand. Don’t worry. I know what I should do.”

“Okay.” Zhao Ziyi replied. They remained silent for a while. While Xia Mingyu was washing his body, Zhao Ziyi said again, “Xiaoyu, I didn’t protect you well before. Do you blame me for that?”

The young man hedged and thought of the knife handed over by Zhao Ziyi when he was tied and sent into the tomb. He shook his head. “No. Brother, you’re a nice person.”

This was the third time that Zhao Ziyi heard Xia Mingyu call himself “brother”. Xia Mingyu rarely spoke before and didn’t call Zhao Ziyi as Brother. The appellation as Brother was familiar and strange, but it undeniably made him warm. After every psychological tactic and conspiracy, this young man’s voice could always relax him.

“Xiaoyu, I can protect you from now on.” Zhao Ziyi said in a much more confident voice. Xia Mingyu also smiled and made up his mind to become stronger. He would be able to protect others and stay with Zhao Yun openly one day.

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In the dream, you could hardly predict what would happen next or do a lot of things you wouldn’t do when you were sober, such as what he was doing now…

Xia Mingyu saw the strange corridor around him, the ghastly white wall was suffocating to him. He had been walking for a long time, but he could not get out of this place, as if he was going around in circles.

He couldn’t talk or act otherwise. He could only stride forward towards the unknown abyss. He knew nothing and almost forgot who he was. Where was he from? Why was he here? Why couldn’t he get out of here?

By the way, he was just a chess piece.

Each piece had a specific position. Perhaps he was moving towards the position where he should be. Where was it? What would happen?

There seemed to be a voice whispering to his ear, “A chess piece ought to do what it should do. You mustn’t overstep your position.” Therefore, what did other things to do with him? He was only a chess piece…

The scene in front of him gradually changed. Red blood streamed down along the white wall, as if countless bloody hands pulling his body. Xia Mingyu was contained, and he even started to lose consciousness. Who was he? Where was he? He had no idea…

Xia Mingyu looked up at the bright sky, as if he forgot something important. He tried to recall it, but he was in a daze. He really felt like sleeping…

White cloud… Don’t leave…

Xia Mingyu suddenly came to his sense and now in front of him numerous bloody walls kept pressing on him. Xia Mingyu hurriedly struggled to get rid of the bloody hands, turned around and ran away. The endless corridor wound and forks began to appear. He couldn’t find the way.

He ran like a headless chicken and this maze was unbelievably big. When Xia Mingyu ran into a fork again, he found that it was a dead end. He turned around and wanted to escape again when the bloody wall had already came over him again. He took a few steps back. However, pulled by the bloody hand hidden in the darkness behind him, he couldn’t break free this time.

“Let go of me! Let go of me!” Xia Mingyu was struggling hard when a figure arose from the bloody wall before him. The young man was stunned.

“Xiaoyu.” It was the familiar voice. It was the familiar person. A man in white was standing before the bloody wall, Xia Mingyu stopped struggling and stared at Zhao Yun. How strange! Why did Yun appear before him?

“Xiaoyu, will you go with me?”

Zhao Yun took a few steps back. Almost subconsciously, Xia Mingyu followed him. The bloody hands turned into liquids and clung to him, which devoured his body bit by bit. The young man, in a daze, stared at Zhao Yun with a pair of dull amber eyes.

“Xiaoyu, come here.” Zhao Yun stood in the bloody holes turned by the bloody walls and ordered the young man. Xia Mingyu walked over step by step and the blood spread throughout his body, and began to submerge his face.

Xia Mingyu approached and rushed towards Zhao Yun’s outstretched hand. However, he was stopped at a close call by the young man with stern purple eyes.

“Xiaoyu, come here.” Zhao Yun was still calling, and Xia Mingyu continued walking forward without hesitation. The young man with purple eyes frowned and stretched his hand to disperse the illusion. Xia Mingyu stopped his footsteps with a vacant face.

“Damn it. The Gu poison has got so deeply within one day or two?” The purple-eyed Evil Soul grunted fretfully, focused his power at the tips of his two fingers, and pointed at Xia Mingyu’s eyebrows to help him remove those blood marks.

“It’s getting more and more obstinate. If it is not eradicated, even I can’t do anything about it…” He sighed and saw the blood marks fading away. The young man with purple eyes shook his head slightly and hugged the other one tightly. “You idiot. Why do you always cause trouble? Go to sleep. I’ll take it from here.”

The maze gradually disappeared and turned into nothing. The chains that arose in the sea of consciousness tied up the amber-eyed young man. Looking at the red marks on the exposed body of the Heavenly Soul, the Evil Soul closed his eyes resignedly.

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Night was always more frightening than daytime, so dark that people had nowhere to hide. When Xia Mingyu woke up, day almost broke. He stretched himself and thought about what had happened.

Curse, ancient tomb, death… That’s pretty much all. He needed to find the tomb so as to solve all the problems. And he couldn’t find the tomb in a normal way. Maybe he could ask the ghosts about it.

The young man grinned evilly. No hurry. He should have a rest first. It was almost dawn. He lay down and turned over. Yet, he didn’t notice Chen Yutian’s suddenly opened eyes.

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“The lover is far away; the rain falls in the alley. The young man stands on tiptoe to snap the plum blossom, with the petals falling on his clothes…” The ethereal girl’s voice echoed in the air. Chiji had thrown away the body that had been drained of blood by herself, looking afar with red and terrifying eyes.

“Mingyu, are you going to do away with my dwelling? Then you have to be careful, or you can’t find it. Haha…”