Chapter 24 - 15: Clothes Redder Than Maple, Skin as White as Snow
The crowd of white-clothed people had no heads atop their necks, wearing only prison garments as each one of them carried a single skull. They seemed to be a group of beheaded convicts, slowly making their way towards the ox cart while the heads within the crooks of their arms chattered ceaselessly.
Xie Lian lowered his voice and said to the other two, "In a moment, when they come close, do not make any noise."
San Lang tilted his head to the side and asked, "It would seem that gege
1, you are a person of extraordinary talent and a master of strange things."
With him sounding so intrigued, Xie Lian replied, "I wouldn't say a person of extraordinary talent and master of strange things. I only know a bit. They can't see us right now, but in a moment when they get closer, it'll be harder to say."
Upon seeing the white silk shoot through the air on its own, the old cart driver was dumbstruck. In addition with how he was seeing headless people on top of that, he was about to keel over with fright. He shook his head with great alarm, "No, no, no, I can't! I won't be able to keep silent! Dao Zhang, what do I do?!"
"....." Xie Lian replied, "Well, there is another way. Forgive me." Having said that, he swiftly tapped
3 the man on the back. The old man immediately collapsed on the cart, knocked out. Xie Lian gently caught and arranged him into a sleeping position, then sat down onto the driver's seat himself.
Suddenly, he felt movement behind him. Turning his head around to look, Xie Lian saw that the young man had followed suit and had sat down behind him as well, so he asked, "Are you alright?"
San Lang propped up his chin with a hand. "Of course not. I'm scared."
Even though there wasn't even half an ounce of fear in his voice, Xie Lian still comforted him, "There's no need to be scared. If you stay behind me, there will be nothing that can hurt you."