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There was no practical way to hide the fact that the Sunshot Campaign’s dread Yiling Patriarch was a homicidal amnesiac (a mad dog, they said, a crime and danger to keep around; leashed only by the Jiang siblings and Hanguang-jun, and how secure was that leash, anyway? Jiang Cheng held his head high and kept walking, because he didn’t have the time to deal with every little thing and he didn’t have a cogent counterargument.)

How could it stay silent? He was still Wei Wuxian; he didn’t have a subtle bone in his body. He bounced around each night’s camp greeting people like they were new and asking what they were doing like they hadn’t done the same thing yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that. He flirted with Lan Wangji so outrageously that Jiang Cheng was starting to think the Second Jade really must love the idiot, to tolerate it all. He still remembered Jiang fighting forms, even though he couldn’t do them all without a golden core; he whined to be dragged out of bed and then helped Jiang Cheng train the new recruits every morning, even though not once did he remember their names. He didn’t remember Jiang Cheng’s name, or Jiang Yanli’s, or where they’d grown up or...anything.

Sometimes he snapped in an instant from Wei Wuxian-typical smiling to something dark and cruel, and utterly heedless of political or other consequences. (So, exactly the same Wei Wuxian, a small, bitter part of Jiang Cheng muttered—no, that was what made it terrible. He so often kept smiling, too, almost the exact same smile.) Usually it was directed at the Wens, but more than one allied cultivator or mundane soldier died in cold blood because they said something rude—not so much to Wei Wuxian himself as to one of the people he “liked.” More to Jiang Yanli and Lan Wangji than Jiang Cheng himself, which was just fine by Jiang Cheng—the less, the better. Nie Mingjue tolerated the losses as part of war, which meant Wei Wuxian stayed, but the only reason LanlingJin didn’t pull out of the Sunshot Campaign entirely was that Jin Zixuan himself insisted he forgave the strangulation incident.

It was inevitable that the enemy tried to take advantage of it.

From the ground it was like this:

Jiang Cheng was in the thick of battle, wielding Sandu with no room for a whip, but that was fine because he had his disciples (new, all still new) around him to act as his second weapon and more. The Wens weren’t stupid: they came at him several at a time, hoping numbers could overwhelm his skill. He slashed at a red-robed fighter on his left, dodged a blow from his right, and pierced Sandu like a scorpion’s stinger through a man in front of him. Another strike came from the right and as he turned and brought up Sandu to block it, he thought, oh god, it’s contagious.

Because the cultivator was wearing Jiang purple (just an armband, but few of them had more than that), and yet he didn’t recognize her.

Then she tried to take his head off and he just barely parried, on reflex more than anything; the blade bit into his shoulder and he managed a clumsy riposte that bounced off her armguard. At the same time, he realized that he didn’t recognize her because she wasn’t one of his disciples.

The haunting dizi music that Jiang Cheng had come to accept as natural background to a fight, that couldn’t possibly suffuse all the area of a busy battlefield and yet always did, slid abruptly into a furious shriek. Before his foe could push her advantage, the man he’d just killed flung himself onto her sword, pushing forward up the blade so he could tear at her face, Around them the other Wen dead sprang up as well—as did the fallen of YunmengJiang, an awkwardness they’d all resigned themselves to. Sometimes Wei Wuxian thought to let their own dead lie, but most of the time he didn’t, and most of the time no one minded much—it was desecration, but in the name of fighting the Wen even beyond the very end.

But this time, they didn’t just attack the Wen. This time, the corpse of Liu Qingbiao, who had run away from her merchant parents to be a rogue and then Jiang cultivator, leapt from behind onto Huang Lao, who had taken up battle with the fighter on Jiang Cheng’s unguarded left. The Wen Huang Lao fought was torn down by one of his dead fellows; behind him, an unknown corpse with a purple armband ripped into another fighter in red. Around then, Wen and Jiang and not-Jiang turned furiously, awash with the dark smoke of resentful energy, on Wen and Jiang and not-Jiang.

A small corpse guard settled in around Jiang Cheng himself: three Wens, Huang Lao, and another man he didn’t recognize with a bloody purple sash around his waist.

“Wei Wuxian!” Jiang Cheng bellowed. “What are you—”

He lunged out between two of his unwanted corpse guards to stop a live Wen soldier who would have struck Yu Shanmei, who fought with them because Yu Ziyuan had been her favorite aunt. A moment later, the soldier got back to its feet, black-eyed, and lunged for her again.

“Wei– fuck.” Jiang Cheng flung himself onto Sandu and took to the sky. Toward the ridge overlooking the battle. “STOP IT, YOU IDIOT! YOU’RE KILLING OUR PEOPLE!”

He waved his hands as he shouted, regardless of the dangerous silhouette he was presenting. He didn’t need to worry—one arrow flicked past him and the music changed again; deep and fast as an ocean current and shadows sprang up around him, half-substantial ghosts and tendrils of pure resentful energy. A sudden chorus of cries from the treeline was no doubt suddenly doomed archers.

The shadows only thickened as he approached the ridge, where the Yiling Patriarch stood alone. Wei Wuxian didn’t acknowledge him. His attention remained fixed on the nightmare of a battlefield, his terrible dizi at his lips.

Jiang Cheng landed directly in front of him and yanked the dizi down. “Wei Wuxian, stop!”

There was a moment (there was always a moment) in which he thought Wei Wuxian wouldn’t recognize him. His eyes were as dark as the dead’s and his face showed nothing but implacable cold. By a narrow margin, Jiang Cheng’s heartbreak beat out his awareness that he was likely about to die.

Then Wei Wuxian blinked, some of the darkness receding, at least enough to show the whites of his eyes. He lowered the dizi another inch of his own accord (Jiang Cheng had barely been able to drag it down to shoulder height, even though he was still pulling. Wei Wuxian was weak without his golden core, but the shadows that wreathed him lent him plenty of strength.)

“Are you alright?” he asked, worried like Jiang Cheng had just hit his head on the dock, and nothing worse. He raised one hand to Jiang Cheng’s shoulder. “You’re bleeding.”

Jiang Cheng batted it away. “Stop the corpses!” he shouted. “You’re killing YungmengJiang—” Wei Wuxian remained silent, watched him curiously; names, fuck, names. “The people in purple! You idiot, stop killing them!”

They had so few people to lose. Yu Shanmei was likely already down, unable to perform her best without room to snap a whip. Han Lingya was already recovering from a wound in her arm; Jiang Cheng should never have let him on the field today in the first place. He’d have to write to Liu Qingbiao’s parents, and Huang Lao’s, and Shen Chiwu and Wen Sichen (no relation) and Xi Yanji (they’d get him on the backstroke; he always left himself open—) Jiang Cheng couldn’t look down at them or he’d be lost; he just had to shake his death-eyed, half-gone brother until he stopped—

Wei Wuxian’s hand had come away with some of Jiang Cheng’s blood on it. He licked it off one finger, glancing away like a child who knew he’d done wrong. But when he looked back, his expression was familiarly mulish, save for all the dark and cold.

“They started attacking you. Someone lied to me. I know some of them are our fighters, but I can’t tell which ones, so it’s safer to just kill them all.”

It was funny because less than a year ago, Jiang Cheng would’ve been quietly ecstatic to be the absolute center of one person’s devotion. Not, admittedly, that he had that dubious honor even now—Wei Wuxian remembered Jiang Yanli better than anyone else, since that terrible night with the sliced wrist, but she was safe at base camp (thank fuck), and even Lan Wangji was with the forces at the other end of the valley.

“I know which ones!” Jiang Cheng snapped (begged). “And so do the ones who are actually Jiang Sect! Just—” they might be equally lost if the corpses stopped completely; they were still wildly outnumbered—“focus on the people in red! A-jie– your shijie would want you to leave the people in purple to sort themselves out!”

Wei Wuxian pouted, with a edge of real disappointment (he only ever seemed truly content anymore when he was slaughtering whole battlefields). “All right.”

He raised his dizi again (Jiang Cheng let go), and after a shuddering moment, Jiang Cheng forced himself to turn around around and watch. There were half as many YunmengJiang cultivators standing as there had been when he’d left, and a quarter as many mundane troops—well, standing and alive. Almost all were upright. It was too far to pick out individuals, but he could tell from the fighting style—he’d been training them all himself for months.

Their dead turned their focus back to the Wen troops in red, as did the Wen corpses themselves, and Jiang Chang let out a breath for what felt like the first time in several minutes. He fought to steady it, to calm his fluttering qi and push it into his shoulder to heal, while beside him, the Yiling Patriarch finished the battle.

It didn’t take long. It had already been hitting the critical point of dead overwhelming the living, before this terrible interlude. Jiang Sect’s fighters knew each other, cultivator and mundane alike; they dealt easily with the few remaining imposters.

As the battle died down (ha), there was a cloth-on-rock scraping to their left. Jiang Cheng turned to see a trio of long-nailed female ghosts—some of Wei Wuxian’s favorites—dragging forward the bloody remains– no, the bloody body of a still-living man. Though from the ghost women’s giggles, he wouldn’t be alive for along. Certainly he must already wish he was dead.

He had a Jiang-purple cloth tied around his left bicep. Jiang Cheng squinted at him, as the ghost women dropped their prize at their master’s feet, and didn’t recognize his face. Ropes of shadow wrapped around the man, cutting more lines of blood into his skin.

Wei Wuxian didn’t stop playing until the last red-robed Wen on the battlefield was dead, his eyes dark and his expression cold. It didn’t change as he left a few notes lingering in the air and looked down at the shadow-bound prisoner.

He bumped Jiang Cheng’s shoulder with his own like they were kids walking streets of Lotus Pier. “This is the one who came and told me there were reinforcements joining you from the rear, and to clear them a path. The ladies confirm it. Do you know him?”

“No,” said Jiang Cheng, just as cold.

“Well then.” Wei Wuxian nearly sang. The ropes that spread out from his shadow yanked their prisoner to his feet. The man’s mouth was gagged with twisting darkness; his eyes were bleeding but wide with fear.

Wei Wuxian smiled brightly and tipped the man’s chin up with the end of his dizi. “I can be patient, you know. We can ask him questions before I tear him apart.”

#mdzs #the untamed #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #FUN TIMES HERE GUYS #...i did not check to see if any of these are real plausible chinese names before posting hm #i shold probably do that #anyway this whole thing was def meng yao's idea so uh...blame him #also don't worry we're just gonna take this as a very pyrrhic victory and henceforth th yiling patriarch is going to have an ASSIGNED MINDER #for every fight #...and it's probably gonna be jiang yanli tbh #jc: you cannot put my sister near a battle!! what the fuck are you going to do next - ask /huaisang/ to do it?!#nmj: ok a) don't fuck with me or my brother. b) YOUR brother is a half-feral death monster and i'm ONLY letting this continue bc i fucking #HATE wen ruohan and he's undeniably good at helping us kill his minions - but apparently only if he's TIGHTLY AND COMPETENTLY CONTROLLED #and i respect your sister's ability to do that #jc: ...yanli IS the most competent person in this camp. and the world. except for her taste in men.

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Violence Erupts During Latest Anti-Extradition Protest in Hong Kong

Adhering to a day of sit-ins, tear gas, and clashes with law enforcement, Hong Kong learners and civil rights activists vowed Wednesday to maintain protesting a proposed extradition bill that has turn out to be a lightning rod for issues above higher Chinese control and erosion of civil liberties in the former British colony.

The violence marked a important escalation of the major political crisis in many years for the semi-autonomous Chinese territory and forced the delay of legislative discussion on the contentious invoice.

University university student Louis Wong explained he regarded as the blockade of federal government headquarters and the Legislative Council a achievements since it appeared to reduce Beijing loyalists from advancing amendments to a pair of legal guidelines that would make it simpler to send suspected criminals to China.

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“This is a general public space and the law enforcement have no ideal to block us from being here,” Wong said, surveying a garbage-strewn intersection in the Admiralty community that experienced been blocked off by stability forces immediately after protesters broke via a law enforcement cordon and entered the government advanced.

“We’ll stay till the federal government drops this legislation and [Chinese President] Xi Jinping provides up on trying to change Hong Kong into just one more metropolis in China like Beijing and Shanghai,” he explained.

Law enforcement fired tear gasoline and utilized pepper spray on protesters who had massed exterior the govt building overnight Tuesday and began pressing from the law enforcement early Wednesday.

The overwhelmingly youthful crowd experienced overflowed onto a important downtown highway as they overturned limitations and tussled with police. But when some appeared to have breached a cordon all-around the developing, the police released their reaction.

At a temporary news convention held as the chaos swirled just outside, Police Commissioner Stephen Lo Wai-chung mentioned the “serious clashes” forced police to use pepper spray, bean bag rounds, rubber bullets, and tear fuel. He added that law enforcement were being nevertheless counting how quite a few people today ended up wounded.

Officers were also hurt, some significantly, by rocks, bottles, site visitors cones, steel barricades, and other objects thrown by protesters.

Lo named the demonstration a riot. That could signify prolonged jail conditions for anyone arrested, introducing to fears that Hong Kong’s governing administration is working with general public disturbance guidelines to intimidate protesters.

“We condemn these irresponsible conduct,” Lo claimed. “There’s no have to have to damage harmless individuals to express your thoughts,” he stated, including that individuals really should not “do just about anything they will regret for the rest of their lives.”

Law enforcement spokesman Gong Weng Chun defended the use of tear gas and other nonlethal weapons, stating officers would not have had to do so if they weren’t going through a risk that could lead to significant injuries or fatalities.

A curt governing administration statement said a scheduled 11 a.m. legislative session would be “changed to a later time.” Officials gave no sign of when that would be, and Hong Kong chief Carrie Lam canceled a news briefing.

Some corporations also shut for the working day, and labor strikes and course boycotts have been identified as.

The protests by the bill’s opponents are the premier due to the fact pro-democracy demonstrations closed down sections of the Asian economical center for a lot more than three months in 2014.

The demonstrations pose a problem to Xi, who has mentioned he would not tolerate Hong Kong becoming applied as a foundation to dilemma the ruling Communist Party’s authority. But they are also offering a voice to the youthful in the territory who feel alienated by a political course of action dominated by the financial elite.

The point out of the legislative approach for the bill remained unclear adhering to the violence, which had mainly finished by about 5 p.m. following police herded demonstrators throughout a pedestrian bridge. Site visitors in just one of the busiest areas of the metropolis remained blocked, nonetheless, and various hundred protesters seemed in no hurry to leave.

The protesters mentioned they hoped the blockade would guide to Lam’s administration shelving the evaluate.

“We want the governing administration to just set the legislation apart and not carry it back again,” claimed a protester who gave only his initial identify, Marco, because he feared probable repercussions from authorities.

A further protester, who gave her name only as King, also out of worry of repercussions, explained the protest was a watershed moment for Hong Kong’s younger technology.

“We have to stand up for our rights or they will be taken away,” she explained.

Dressed in black T-shirts and jeans, many protesters appeared undaunted by law enforcement requires to disperse. The demonstrators also appeared aware of Beijing’s increasing use of digital surveillance such as facial recognition engineering to build dossiers on those it considers politically unreliable, and quite a few of them wore surgical masks to conceal their features as effectively as lessen the effects of tear gasoline.

These kinds of protests are never ever tolerated in mainland China, and Hong Kong citizens can encounter travel bans and other repercussions if they cross the border.

“Most of these protesters never assume the government to compromise. They just want to convey their own opinions,” stated Joseph Cheng, a prolonged observer of Chinese and Hong Kong politics now retired from the Town University of Hong Kong. “The anger is even now there and the anger will burst yet again at the subsequent possibility.”

In an job interview with Hong Kong broadcaster TVB, Lam denied she was “selling out” Hong Kong with the extradition invoice but conceded the measure would go on to bring in criticism.

“It’s time to permit lawmakers with distinctive opinions specific their sights under the legislative process,” she explained. “On regardless of whether to retract or push it by way of … our thought is this: There is no question this problem is controversial. Explanation and dialogue are valuable but most likely that has not solely dispelled worries.”

Talking of her dedication to her position, her voice cracked as she stated: “They stated I’m marketing out Hong Kong. How could I do that? I grew up listed here with absolutely everyone else in the metropolis.”

Lam added that she has hardly ever “felt guilty” around the issue and insisted she considered she was doing the correct matter. She said she felt “worried and sad” about the youthful protesters on the streets, but explained that as a father or mother to two sons, she believed it would be wrong to cave in to “willful behavior.”

Below its “one state, two systems” framework, Hong Kong was supposed to be guaranteed the right to keep its have social, legal, and political units for 50 several years adhering to its handover from British rule in 1997. However, China’s Communist Bash has been observed as progressively reneging on that settlement by forcing by way of unpopular legal guidelines.

The Hong Kong authorities experienced pushed forward with the extradition evaluate inspite of a weekend protest by hundreds of countless numbers of persons in the largest political demonstration in additional than a decade.

Lam mentioned the laws is desired to close legal loopholes with other international locations and territories. A vote is scheduled on June 20.

At briefing Wednesday, China’s International Ministry recurring its aid for the invoice. Spokesman Geng Shuang also denied Beijing has been interfering in the city’s affairs in a way that violates agreements made when Hong Kong was handed back to China.

“Hong Kong people’s rights and freedoms have been totally assured in accordance with legislation,” he mentioned.

The protests are broadly found as reflecting increasing apprehension about relations with the mainland, the place Xi has explained he has zero tolerance for individuals demanding greater self-rule for Hong Kong.

Critics imagine the extradition laws would place Hong Kong inhabitants at hazard of starting to be trapped in China’s judicial technique, in which opponents of Communist Party rule have been billed with financial crimes or ill-described nationwide stability offenses, and would not be assured cost-free trials.

Lam said the government has regarded considerations from the non-public sector and altered the invoice to make improvements to human legal rights safeguards. She said with no the changes, Hong Kong would risk turning into a haven for fugitives. She emphasized that extradition cases would be made a decision by Hong Kong courts.

Opponents of the proposed extradition amendments say the modifications would noticeably compromise Hong Kong’s lawful independence, extended seen as one particular of the vital variations involving the territory and the mainland.

Hong Kong at present boundaries extradition to jurisdictions with which it has current agreements and to other folks on an particular person foundation. China has been excluded from all those agreements due to the fact of concerns around its judicial independence and human rights report.

By Christopher Bodeen for The Associated Push. Associated Push journalists Raf Wober and Alice Fung in Hong Kong, Johnson Lai in Taipei, Taiwan, and Sally Ho in Seattle contributed.

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