Volume 1, Chapter 34: Ye Zi
TL: flarewk
"Don't panic, everyone; maybe the power tripped, I'll go take a look."
Calming everyone's mood down, the Prez then took out her phone to illuminate the way and was about to check the power supply alone; which I felt was an extremely dangerous thing to do right now.
"Prez! Don't go, at this moment you must never split apart from one another!"
"Then......"
"Straightaway return to our rooms and sleep! Since the males and females sleep separately, if anyone wants to go to the toilet make sure ask a few people to accompany along as well!"
For the sake of safety precautions, I had no choice but to nag a few words to the rest.
"Liu Xiong, amongst us, is there anyone who had been marked?"
"There isn't any on everyone."
"That's good then, hopefully we'll be able to survive past tonight peacefully."
Entering the pitch-black room, Wang Yi and the rest just patted my back a few times, as they gave me an encouraging hand gesture.
"Thanks....."
"Zhang Jian, in your opinion, what was "Ye Zi" exactly?
"I don't know, I have completely no idea at all........"
"That so? Well, if we know what was it in the first place, we could be mentally prepared for it too........."
Wang Yi sighed, as he and the others sat on the sides of the bed, and I had no clue on what they were thinking about too.
As the raindrops became noisier and noisier outside, the wind blowing through the gaps of the windowpanes felt like it was the devil's screaming sounds which repeatedly resounded within my ears. Occasionally dark-looking lightning bolts streaked past as well, illuminating the room, and after every flash, the room returned into darkness, which inadvertently made me feel that the next flash would probably reveal something lurking inside the room.
I sat on the chair and closed my eyes shut, as my body remained wide awake still, making it difficult to fall into sleep due to the intense stress onto my mentality, and the never-ending darkness surrounding me gave me some sort of ferociously pressurized feelings........
Tick~tock.....tick~tock........tick~tock...........tick~tock
As the clock kept ticking on, under these sounds that slowly hypnotizes me into sleep, my consciousness finally start to drift off..
Kerraak boom!
Unsure of how many times I was awoken by the sound of thunder, I had just blearily opened both of my eyes, glanced around the room and was about to continue sleeping when I noticed there's a figure outside the windows; that person's back was facing towards me.
The monster slightly different from what I've imagined, that person had very distinct female characteristics; with a pale golden colored long hair helplessly fluttering about in the raging storm.
It's Amelia! Why did she ran off outside!
Just as I was about to dash towards the windows and yell for her to return, she had already ran off towards the direction of the airport without even looking back.
"Tch!"
I clutched my tongue, and used my hands to wake up the rest of the people.
"Oi! Wake up! oi!"
But it was like as if they were dead from sleeping, no matter how I rouse them, they can't be awakened; and as I glanced at the almost disappearing figure outside the windows, I had no choice but to temporarily chase off after her.
"Amelia!"
Chasing behind Amelia, I yelled out her name wildly, but it was like she had turned deaf, for she completely ignored me, and just continued to run forward relentlessly.
I can't catch up with her......Amelia's physical capabilities are way better than me by a mile, I had already exerted my utmost just from barely catching up with her.
"Amelia! If you are able to hear me then stop right there!"
I screamed out loudly with all I've got, but was covered out by the stormy thunder sounds; and the heavy downpour had already drenched my entire body till it was completely soaked, as I didn't bring along any tools that provided light, I can only depend on the momentarily illumination when lightning flashed to proceed forward.
It was like as if Amelia was waiting for me, for everytime it seemed that I couldn't catch up with her, her pace would then slow down, and when I was almost able to catch up to her, she would run onwards even faster; just like that, the distance between me and her remained quite the constant large gap in-between.
Chasing after Amelia, I've finally reached the airport, and Amelia ran into that small path right beside it.
"No! Amelia, quickly come back!"
My yells still didn't had any effect as usual, and I could only helplessly watch her figure entering that small path so resemblent of hell's gate.
I really.......want to go back......
But if I was to go back, then what about Amelia?
Although I didn't have any duty to save her, but I really thought of her as my friend from the depths of my heart, plus, even if we weren't friends, I'll still strive my best to save her too.
I'm just such a busybody like that, and last time I was like that too, which got me into the gigantic trouble which was my girlfriend.
"May Buddha bless me!!!"
I loudly yelled, before begrudgingly poking my head into the pitch-black small path entrance.
There weren't any source of illumination inside the pitch-black small path at all, but luckily this small patch was laid in a straight-manner, so I slowed down my pace tremendously and used a rather steady speed to traverse past this pathway.
The small path wasn't that long, but I still used quite an amount of time before walking out of it.
Outside, the weather had already become serene and peaceful, and the silvery radiant glow of the moonlight clearly illuminated the surroundings easily for me to see.
At that mansion not far away, had a dullish fiery light flickering in it.
Traditional chinese zither sounds floated into my ears out of a sudden; it was a very touching melody, and beneath the joyous pace of the melody hid a slight trace of melancholy, and the melody seemed to have some sort of mystical power, for it subconsciously led me to walk into the mansion.
The interior of the mansion was extremely clean, you could even use the term 'not-even-a-speck-of-dust' to describe it, this had a rather huge contrast with the mansion's worn-down exterior.
Slowly strolling on the walkway at the mansion's courtyard, the pool right beside the courtyard even had carps swimming in it; this definitely is not a dilapidated mansion......
It can't be that the previous` natives still remained over here?
Finally, I entered the place where the sounds of the traditional chinese zither originated, which is the big hall of the mansion.
Ji ———— Ya~
-ch 34 end-
TL: i know i was suppsoed to take a break, but I couldn't resist~
Footnotes:
Childe: a way to address a youthful gentleman with utmost respect
small womanfolk: that lady dumbed down herself in a stance of humbleness
Han clothes: ancient traditional clothes from the Han era (google it!)
kneeled-sitting : think ancient chinese/ japanese style of sitting
Ye Zi's name: highlighted the idioms contextually translated, and underlined the portions where her name was being referenced from
Glossary:
Liu Xiong = had the Master of Stalkers title, able to distinguish whether someone had been 'marked' by anyone due to his stalking ability
-xiaojie = it's an appendix behind someone's name, it means "young lady", and in this case it's used to refer to Yè rather respectfully.
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