Wan Jie Hospice Care Company

Chapter 87 A Couple with a Tragic Fate

"Should we really run? The eeriness of the night is not something to be trifled with!"

Xiang Yu looked at Xu Yunhan beside him and sighed, "Do you know what that strange thing is?"

"Ah—I've never gone out at night, how would I know what that strange thing is?" Xu Yunhan scratched his head.

"Look, you haven't even seen it, how can you be sure about this? You're not going to believe everything you hear," Xiang Yu shook his head. "What if they're lying to you?"

'

He was still somewhat uneasy, but he couldn't find fault with what Xiang Yu said. Besides, with his frail physique, fifty strokes of the cane would be no different from being sent straight to his coffin. Since he was going to die anyway, he might as well escape under cover of night and take a gamble.

After Xu Yunhan agreed to the escape, Xiang Yu lay down in a corner of the prison and closed his eyes to conserve his energy.

Seeing that Xu Yunhan had finally nodded, Xiang Yu lay down in the darkest corner of the cell without saying a word, closed his eyes, and stopped talking to conserve his energy.

The sun slowly sank below the horizon. The light in the cell gradually faded, until even the faint yellow glow filtering through the cracks in the walls was swallowed up by the night. When it was pitch black all around, Xiang Yu finally opened his eyes.

He didn't rush to move; instead, he listened carefully to all the sounds coming from inside and outside the cell. The guards' footsteps had indeed become less frequent.

"Have these jailers gone home?" Xiang Yu looked out from inside the cell.

"They probably thought it was eerie at night and figured no one would dare to go out, so they relaxed their guard," Xu Yunhan said with a wry smile. "You see, everyone in Chang'an knows that going out at night is suicide."

"That's great." Xiang Yu smiled. "I was planning to take down a dozen or so before I could escape. But now it seems—three will be enough."

Before he finished speaking, he flipped his sleeve, and a thin throwing knife slid between his fingers, its cold gleam flashing in the darkness.

"Then—let's get started."

"Wait, we need to think this over first—"

"Nobody's going to wait for us to figure this out," Xiang Yu hissed. "Go!"

The moment his fist slammed down, the wooden fence snapped with a dull thud. Giving it no chance to recover, he followed with a side kick, a sharp crack echoing as broken wood flew through the air, splinters scattering in the darkness.

Without pausing for a moment, Xiang Yu grabbed Xu Yunhan's arm and pulled him up from the ground. Before the guards could react, the two figures shot off like arrows towards the prison exit.

The remaining candle flames on the wall swayed violently in the wind, flickering and casting the silhouettes of the two running figures onto the mottled brick wall, sometimes long, sometimes short.

"Prison break! Someone's escaped from prison!"

The jailers had just shouted when they saw two flashes of cold light, which startled them so much that they quickly covered their heads and crouched down to avoid them.

But the destination of the throwing knives was never them.

A cold glint swept across the wall and disappeared into the flickering flames. With a "poof," all the candles went out, plunging the entire prison into pitch-black darkness.

The jailers were taken aback, then realized the other party's purpose. So the men stood up and prepared to light the torches they carried for illumination.

"Bang!"

Just then, the jailer suddenly heard a loud noise beside him, but he didn't know what had happened, so he could only draw his sword and swing it wildly.

"Bang!"

Another loud bang. The jailer could no longer bear the fear of not being able to see anything. He hurriedly lit a torch with a tinderbox. Just as he was about to say something, he saw Xiangyu's face illuminated by the firelight.

"Hello there."

Before the jailer could react, a sharp pain shot through the back of his head, his vision went black, and he collapsed limply to the ground.

Xiang Yu and Xu Yunhan carried the unconscious jailer to the front of the prison. The two looked at each other in the darkness, and Xiang Yu nodded: "Here, use the Immobilization Technique to check their memories."

"Huh? Why? They're just jailers, they don't have any useful information."

"Judging from their appearance, these jailers must often work night shifts; they're probably low-ranking jailers." Xiang Yu tossed the jailers in the dark to Xu Yunhan. "Those at the bottom work day and night, so they must have the strange secrets of that incident on Chang'an Street in their minds. As long as we figure out the rules of ghosts, we can save our lives in front of them."

"Ah—is that so?" Xu Yunhan hesitated for a moment, but when the time came, he had no other choice but to bite the bullet, place his hand on the jailer's forehead, and cast a spell to immobilize him.

"Heh heh, sister-in-law, you were the one who swore you'd marry me back then, so why did you turn around and marry my brother instead?"

"What? So you look down on my brother too? That's great—I remember he's supposed to be on night watch in jail tonight, so come keep me company."

Sister-in-law, I'm coming in now—

Xu Yunhan withdrew from the immobilization technique.

"What, have you found a clue?" Xiang Yu asked.

Xu Yunhan hesitated for a moment, then said, "I saw it—two people were fighting."

"Oh?" Xiang Yu was taken aback. "A fight? Is it at night?"

"That's right." Xu Yunhan stroked his smooth chin thoughtfully. "The two fought quite fiercely, their clothes were torn to shreds, and they were rolling around on the ground."

"They're still using ground techniques?" Xiang Yu found it interesting. "But doesn't that have nothing to do with ghosts?"

"—I think so."

"Besides, I don't really feel like what you're saying is about fighting—"

"Never mind, there's another jailer." Xiang Yu tossed out another jailer. "Let's see this guy's memory."

Xu Yunhan continued to use the immobilization technique.

"Brother, why have you been spending so much time with your sister-in-law lately?"

"Oh? No, that's not true, brother. Don't worry, sister-in-law is from a respectable family and never goes out at night."

-

When did I say she went out?

"Ah—no, it's nothing. I haven't passed by her door these past few days when I've gone out."

"What?! You went out?! When did you leave—was it the night before?!"

Xu Yunhan withdrew from the immobilization technique.

He always felt that he had seen many things he shouldn't have seen.

"So—what did you see?" Xiang Yu asked.

"Ah—this person is questioning the person from before, asking him if he went out the day before yesterday."

"7

"The day before yesterday?" Xiang Yu began to ponder. "Go on, there's still one more person here."

Xu Yunhan used the immobilization technique again.

Sister, you know perfectly well that I actually—don't like women—

"What?! You knew all along, sister? I knew it! You're the one who understands me best in this world!"

-

-

"You ask me who I admire—to tell you the truth, I'm in love with my brother-in-law's younger brother; he's incredibly handsome."

"Huh? What? He's also in love with my sister?"

"Sister, you said—let me dress up as you tonight and spend the night with him?"

"Brilliant! Precisely because of this eeriness, he dared not carry a torch, for he could neither see faces nor recognize people!"

"Then it's settled, it'll be on the first day of the month! Only on that night will he dare to step out of his house!"

Xu Yunhan:

'

'

He raised his head, looked at Xiangyu, his lips moved, but he couldn't utter a single word for a long time.

His stammering manner made Xiang Yu uneasy: "What's wrong with you? Just say what you want to say."

Xu Yunhan swallowed hard.

"I think—" he paused, "that as you smashed along the way, it's like you've broken up a nest of star-crossed lovers."

Xiang Yu: "?"

>