His Royal Highness King Shen is an awe-inspiring and inviolable existence. His Royal Highness King Shen is elusive, and you never know what His Royal Highness King Shen is laughing at the moment and what will become of him the next. He speaks in a calm tone, his voice is gentle, he doesn't get angry when you say something wrong, at least not immediately, he listens to you with a smile and a smile, and you soon find that his smile doesn't change with your statement, and he can only maintain basic human politeness to you at the beginning, and this politeness can be maintained without change, and it seems that his temper is so good that it makes people doubt it, and it doesn't change at all. I know that he is not such a gentle person in his heart, but he can't guess his direction, after all, he can't feel joy, anger and sorrow, and the direction of his heart is also abnormal. Halfway through his conversation, he'll pause, and you'll have to think about whether you're offended, and he's likely to spend the next half of the conversation thinking about whether or not to keep you alive — most of the time for no reason, maybe just a sudden homicidal addiction.

To communicate with him is to risk being killed. Except for Lu Shihagi, almost no one can stay by His Royal Highness King Shen for more than three months, and His Royal Highness King Shen often sighs with a smile: "It's really useless." This sentence is almost a swan song before death, it is the echo of death, and everyone who hears this sentence from His Royal Highness King Shen will not live for long. But the cicada listened to Lu Shihagi, he was used to hearing this, it was just a mantra of His Royal Highness King Shen, and it was a scary habitual trick, and he listened to it in front of him. Do things well and don't think about anything else, nothing will happen at all. Do your thing, don t ask if there is something or not, even if I die, you still have to listen to others, but you will not come into contact with His Royal Highness King Shen, Lu Shihagi said. Ming Cicada hurriedly said, I didn't mean that, Lord Lu, it was the magpie who asked me to ask. Lu Shihagi smiled and said, go.

When Ming Chan and Lu Shihagi talked, they seemed to be equals, and Lu Shihagi and His Royal Highness King Shen were not surprised when they spoke. But if you let Ming Cicada communicate with His Royal Highness King Shen, it will definitely not work. Ming Cicada respects and fears His Royal Highness King Shen, because he lives by him, and he is afraid because of estrangement. His Royal Highness King Shen is unattainable, he has never been able to contact him head-on, what he heard is just some rumors, and over time he has formed a habitual impression, although he knows everything, he also pretended to understand the wolf ambition of His Royal Highness King Shen, and he also felt that his waist was hard and his face was shining, and by the way, he also sympathized with Lu Shihagi.

As far as he said just now, about the purpose of His Royal Highness King Shen, the people who helped him and the Huayang Sect, he also listened to the rumors, and he said it together, and he was lucky to say most of it. What he didn't realize was that although he had very few governors with His Royal Highness King Shen, it was still very important information for people who didn't know anything about the outside world.

Therefore, the moment he saw His Royal Highness King Shen, he chuckled in his heart. He never expected that His Royal Highness King Shen would come in person, and his appearance in front of him might be one of the few opportunities to communicate directly with him. When the magpie was ordered to come at that time, he must have been trembling with fear, the cicada thought to himself, but I can't sing the cicada, I have already spoken to His Royal Highness King Shen ten thousand times in my mind, after all, with my intelligence, it is only a matter of time before I become a confidant of His Royal Highness King Shen.

Ming Cicada doesn't know if His Royal Highness King Shen has heard this, how much he has heard, his voice is very light and weak, and he probably won't hear much. He is now burning all over his body and in pain, maybe it is the retribution of telling the secret, since there is retribution, can he change it if he knows his mistakes.

"His Royal Highness King Shen—" The voice of the cicada also seemed to have been burned by fire and burned to ashes, and the mourning and complaining rustled hoarsely, and motioned to him weakly, "I did my best." ”

His Royal Highness King Shen never listened to their subordinates. What he said was nothing more than invalid information. Therefore, he just had to do his best to say it to move himself, and maybe His Royal Highness King Shen would avenge himself - it was not that he had never done such a thing.

Zhao Li's arrival is still accompanied by a gorgeous backdrop, a five-flowered horse, a golden qiu, and an extravagant swagger. The tall Nan wooden sedan chair is brilliant, carved dragons and phoenixes, and even the sedan chair is sprayed with rich red lacquer on the lifting bars left and right, and the golden cloud dragon pattern shuttles among them. The girls carrying the sedan chair on the left and right were all young and beautiful, and their faces were lifeless and twilight, and the gorgeous clothes were too cold, so that their faces were blue and depressed. However, when the girl in charge walked to the sedan chair and wanted to lift the curtain, all the girls who carried the sedan chair cheered up and smiled suddenly, and the scene was extremely terrifying.

The curtain slowly opened, and as soon as the light from the outside world penetrated in, it reflected the resplendent reflection, which was the golden throne where Zhao Yan was sitting. Zhao Yan sat in the sedan chair with a face like a crown of jade, phoenix eyes, a piece of solid ice shattered his eyes, yiyi, extremely cold, more cruel than the snowflakes that fell during the landslide.

He slowly spoke: "Ming Cicada, don't you kneel when you see me?"

Suddenly being called by his name, the cicada was shocked, and he struggled to look up at him in great pain, and his voice was broken: "Shen, His Royal Highness King Shen...... It's the disrespect of his subordinates,......" he said, trying to get up from the ground, and the cold ground was like a cannon when he touched it, and his fingertips burned up inch by inch from the palm of his hand, and stabbed into his brain. He rolled his eyes in pain, opened his mouth and groaned, and the cool air he inhaled was scorching with smoke and dust from the side of the volcano. But compared to the fear of His Royal Highness King Shen, this kind of misery doesn't seem to be very worth caring about. He hoped that His Royal Highness King Shen could see his misery, so that he could forgive him a little.

But there was no smile on His Royal Highness King Shen's face. It was like an empty face, peeling off the mask, and it was hard to guess.

He really couldn't remember the last time His Royal Highness King Shen restrained his smile, and what the reason was, at least he was always polite when they first met.

Maybe it's because he's seen all the people here, so he doesn't really want to be polite.

"It's just an illusion. He sighed, "Really, it's useless." ”

- It's okay!

Lu Shihao said that it doesn't matter, you can't die, he has heard it too many times, His Royal Highness King Shen just wants to scare people.

However, the fear of the cicada was originally comparable to the pain he endured, but now, he couldn't sit still and couldn't lie down, he was so frightened that he wanted to get up - Lin was stunned and thought that it was a subordinate who saw the terrible boss and wanted to kowtow to apologize, but after all, the fear of the cicada was still deeper than he imagined. The cicada was like a cold fish fished out of the water, thrown onto a red-hot iron plate, his limbs were so painful that he couldn't move, only his torso was twisting and jumping, and the direction he was trying to go was not where Zhao Yan was, but - Lin was stunned to see him, and seemed to be trying to climb south. What was the south side? It was the window he had closed to ventilate and keep the bats out, another way to escape besides the door. He was slightly surprised, thinking to himself why he was afraid of being like this, no matter how severe and fierce His Royal Highness King Shen was, he would not directly punish people when there was a clear opposing camp, and the so-called settlement of accounts after the autumn would have to wait until he went back to discuss it, and maybe he could make up for it. Unless he's useless anymore.

Yes, what does His Royal Highness King Shen mean by "useless"? What is the cicada afraid of, are these two words?

Lin turned his head and saw Zhao Yan getting off the sedan chair.

"Getting off the sedan chair" is an ordinary action, just like getting off the horse, getting off the car, and going out as natural as it is unnatural, and few children will be tempted in this regard, making a momentary action complicated and boring. Only rituals are made to be extremely complex, and it seems that life that is difficult to even "maintain a minimum standard" on a daily basis seems more upscale, and makes up for the small things - as if that is what only the rich do. Lin Jingzhen has a lot of complaints about this, he always feels that most of the rules of rich people are because they are idle and have nothing to do.

It's like a marriage ceremony, which is the most important one in life for ordinary people. If Lin Long gets married, it will probably be the top priority in her life. When the bride gets married, according to custom, her feet cannot be directly stepped on the flat ground, so she commits the taboo of "stepping on the poor land". So people will put red felt on the place where the bride gets off the sedan chair, let the bride step on the felt and walk over, step on the new house all the way from the door, and the maid will lay the felt over - Tsing Yi turns into a felt mattress, and the splendid is oblique.

Because it's the only time, red tape seems forgivable.

But Zhao Tong is not.

Apparently he had become accustomed to this kind of tormenting behavior, bringing solemn etiquette into his daily life, but the strictness of the requirements had not changed, and he enjoyed it. Essentially, torturing people brings him some pleasure.

Before Zhao Tong got off the sedan chair, the maid led by him clapped his hands three times, and soon, seven maids came up from behind the sedan chair, all dressed in bright red clothes, with graceful figures, and trembling with laughter. The maid glared at them, and they immediately forced themselves to laugh, frowning, and the corners of their mouths were trying to hook up, a pitiful smile that wanted to cry or not, a frightened little beast. One by one, they came over, knelt down in front of the ornate palanquin, and then leaned down, bending their backs in an elegant arc, as if bullied by the tide, and put their hands on the body of the previous person to prevent the rupture of this human bridge.

Zhao Tong opened the curtain and walked out.

His foot stepped on the body of the first maid, and the maid's waist sank, and then she bit her lip to prevent herself from making a sound, waiting for Zhao Yan to walk over her, and her pain could end. Zhao Yanyou walked over elegantly, as if walking on the ground, like walking on the carpet of marriage, every step he took, brought out a thousand strands of red—it was to tear up the bright red clothes, to bring up the blood spurt, every step was like a mandala on the bodies of these maids.

"Is there a knife on his shoe?" Lin was stunned and gasped.

"Nope. Bian Yi said in a low voice: "He concentrated his strength on the tip of his toes, and when he stepped on it, his skin and flesh would open, and blood would inevitably spurt." ”

Lin Jingyu suddenly felt that Wang Chuli beside him moved, and he looked down to see that Wang Chuli's hand was moving, and she was holding her bow.

It was the murderous aura that was too heavy, and this sense of terror made her unable to sit still.

Every step Zhao Yan took, the maid who had been stepped on by him snorted, so much so that when he reached the seventh step, when he arrived in front of them, the whole felt of human flesh was trembling slightly, like a snake exposed to the sun. The last maid whispered in pain, and Lin was shocked to see her tears fall to the ground, and the person began to cough.

The maid who was standing by the sedan chair immediately looked at her with a knife in her eyes and cut her body inch by inch. She quickly realized her great disrespect, and her whole person trembled violently, and she couldn't act rashly - Zhao Yan was standing on top of her. She looked back at the maid at the head with the last trace of luck, and found that her fierce gaze was like five thunderbolts in her heart, and she cried bitterly. The people behind her all bowed their heads, and the maids by the sedan chair looked at them in horror—they had seen the punishment too many times, but instead of being numb, they were unable to control themselves with fear that was deepening day by day.

Zhao Yan walked down from the last maid with an expressionless face, stopped in front of Wang Chuli, slowly squatted down, supported her face, and made her look up at herself. Wang Chuli's eyes glanced to the side, but he didn't want to look at him, but his body was trembling. Zhao Yan smiled, twisted her snow-white neck, pressed her head in front of her, forced her to look at herself, and said, "Miss Wang, how dangerous it is outside, it is better to stay in my house and live with good food and drink, and there are no worries." ”

"Don't talk nonsense. Wang Chuli looked him in the eye and sneered, "Aren't you the one who wants to kill me?"

Zhao Yan laughed innocently and said, "I, King Zhao Yan, would never do that kind of thing, and it would be too stupid for me to ask for trouble." If I kill you, will your brother let me go? Really, not me. My people won't do anything other than what I command, unless—"

His expression suddenly distorted, he laughed, his facial muscles wandered, his eyes cracked with laughter, his teeth were snow-white and his gums were blood-red, the whole thing was like a rakshasa laughing angrily, it was the excitement of seeing blood. He grabbed Wang Chuli's jaw with one hand, and the other hand stiffly stretched out to his mouth to cover it, as if only such a smile was something he couldn't control, it was extremely terrifying, extremely excited, and one of the few things that could touch his heartstrings.

Bian Yi rushed over and said angrily: "You let her go!"

Zhao Yan didn't even look at him, sneered, waved his palm, Bian Yi saw a sharp knife light, Xue Liang hit him sharply, he raised his hand, and his clothes were directly torn apart by this knife light, until he was split into the flesh, brushing the ground and cutting a bloody wound. He looked up at Zhao Yan incredulously, Zhao Yan quietly put down Wang Chuli, then stood up and turned around - to the maid who had just spoken.

"I hate unruly people. His voice was calm, "But I hate noisy women more than that." ”

The sound of the cicada was accompanied by a moan: "His Royal Highness King Shen...... Angry. ”

"Angry?" Lin Long repeated and asked, "What will happen?"

The cicada laughed dryly and said, "Will kill me." I beg you to give me the antidote, let me escape. I don't want to be killed by His Royal Highness King Shen. Please. ”

Lin Long shuddered. She couldn't help but glance up at Zhao Yan, this familiar and unfamiliar man, his expression at the moment was not as gentle and elegant as the first time she met, but the wind and clouds were treacherous, and the stormy waves could not be stopped, like the sky that was torn apart when the storm came. She'd seen it many times. She began to realize that his heart seemed to be hidden beneath the exterior, sent directly into the human mind through a heavy sense of oppression.

"But," she said apologetically, "it's self-defense, and I haven't developed an antidote yet." You can only wait until two hours have passed, and the effect of the drug will wear off automatically. ”

The cicada said abruptly, "What, what?"

Lin Long said quietly: "But I think you deserve it." ”

Ming Cicada sneered: "Crime deserves? How can there be any crime that is not evil, good and evil, His Royal Highness King Shen kills people without distinguishing between good and evil, right and wrong, he himself is the god of judgment." If he kills me, you won't be able to escape, none of you will be able to escape!"

She watched as the cicada crawled on her elbow for a long time, as if her lower limbs were paralyzed, only slightly closer to the window. The cicada raised his head and looked at it, lowered his head again, and crawled over with all his heart, as if he could avoid Zhao Li, this gloomy and crazy prince, who was more terrible than death in the mouth of the cicada.

The next second, she saw a blood-red flower blooming above the maid's head. The petals of thousands of strands of flowing water burst out blood-red and blood-red, as if a dancer flew out of her bright sleeves and brushed over people's faces.

The bright red flowers flew straight towards Lin Long's face. Lin Long smelled a fishy smell, and she closed her eyes in shock.

"Miss Lin," Bian Yi picked up Wang Chuli and asked her from a distance, "Are you okay?"

Lin Long nodded and shook his head. She got up and began to back away. Because she saw Zhao Yan turn around from the dead maid and walk in her direction, with that crazy and terrifying smile on his face. He was getting closer and closer to her, and at the moment she felt like she had been nailed to the ground and couldn't move—she couldn't breathe when His Royal Highness King Shen approached.

When Zhao Yan passed by her, he paused slightly and said, "Hello, Miss Lin." ”

Lin Long trembled and said, "What a coincidence, His Royal Highness King Shen ......"

She heard the voice of the cicada change: "His Royal Highness King Shen, His Royal Highness King Shen spares his life, the little one is not ...... The little one didn't mean to kill them, the little one assured that he just wanted to scare them—"

Zhao Yan said quietly: "Do you know that Miss Wang can't be injured?"

"What?" Mingciao's voice trembled with a hint of surprise, "His Royal Highness King Shen, if you want to arrest someone, how can you not let her get hurt? If you are injured a little, you won't die at all...... Land Time ...... Lord Lu, he didn't say anything, he just asked me to send Miss Wang over, and he didn't take care of anything else!"