Before the wood demon could hear the location of the sound, the strange sound stopped.

Princess Changle was already frightened, and she shivered as she hid behind the wood evil.

"Don't be afraid, princess, I'll protect you! Mu Xie glanced at Princess Changle calmly, and stretched out his arm to block in front of the princess.

"Little Mu Xie, what kind of sound is this!

"I'm going to scare me to death!" Princess Changle's nervous eyes looked around, and even her breathing became short, and her body was almost crawling onto Mu Xie's back, so that Mu Xie could clearly hear the princess's coquettish voice and gasp, and she could also smell the faint fragrance on the princess's body.

"But I came here a few times when I was a kid and didn't find anything out of the ordinary. If I had noticed something strange, I would not have dared to come here again. Princess Changle said quibly.

Mu Xie smiled and said, "It's hard to say, there was something staring at you at that time! ”

Mu Xie said it casually unintentionally, but the princess was frightened and her face turned pale, and her body suddenly clung to Mu Xie's body, and her head was tightly close to Mu Xie's back.

"You're so bad, you dead wood, and you're deliberately scaring me! I'm really scared, please don't scare me anymore, okay? Please!" said the princess, her voice trembling a little.

Mu Xie squinted his eyes and glanced at Princess Changle, and it could be seen that the princess was really frightened. I really think of the princess who grew up in the palace, who is high up on weekdays, and is loved in every way, and has been opened with a golden key since she was a child, but she also has the weak side of an ordinary girl.

Mu Xie got serious, he held his breath and looked around, in this gloomy and terrifying courtyard, even if there are really ghosts, it is normal, after all, Mu Xie has been in this foreign world for so long, and monsters and monsters have also been seen, and there is nothing unusual, but what worries him the most is that he is afraid that the princess will be harmed, then he Mu Xie will be to blame.

Mu Xie shouted to the empty surroundings: "I don't know which senior master, whether he has entered the forbidden land of his predecessors below, please forgive me for one or two, we have no intention of offending." ”

The surroundings were unusually quiet at the moment, except for the echo of the shouts of the wood evil, only the rustle of the leaves in the courtyard.

"Well, maybe it's a wild cat or something! don't freak any more!" said the Wood Evil then comforting the princess.

Although Mu Xie said this, he didn't relax his vigilance in his heart, because he heard the strange sound clearly, but he really couldn't think of what it was coming from, and that kind of sound was like a human voice but not like a human voice.

"Princess, let's go depending on the situation, I can accompany you somewhere else!"

"Didn't you say it was a wild cat or something?"

"Are you lying to me, have you already heard what it is!" Princess Changle anxiously asked Mu Xie.

"I don't, in that case, I listen to the princess, didn't the princess say that she came to explore! Why don't we look around? and find this thing that makes a strange noise?"

The princess was silent suddenly, she seemed to be sad, and after a while, she said slowly: "Little Mu Xie, do you know? Everyone thinks that the princess's identity is high, and she should be the happiest and happiest person in the world. However, since I was a child, I often felt empty and lonely, and there was even a time when I longed for someone to be with me as equals, just like friends, and I really longed for friendship. ”

The princess paused and continued: "From childhood to now, when I am lost, I will feel inexplicable emptiness and loneliness, that loneliness, you know?"

"Once, when I was playing in the garden, an idea struck me, a desire to be free, so I left everyone behind and ran wildly, and before I knew it, I found this depressed courtyard. ”

"It was one of the few independent spaces I had, and I looked at the two sparrows in the tree and envied how free and unrestrained they were. They have wings and can fly where they want to go. As for me, although I am a princess, I have only been out of the palace a few times when I have grown so big. Princess Changle said, the corners of her eyes were already moist.

Growing up in the deep palace can't come out, this may be the sadness of the princess!

Mu Xie held Princess Changle's shoulders with both hands, and said slowly: "If the princess really wants to leave the palace one day, I can accompany you to the old street for a walk, where, there are many folk delicacies, ensuring that the princess can eat different delicacies from this palace." ”

"Okay, good, good! Pull the hook and pull the hook, it's a word. ”

As soon as the princess finished speaking, she stretched out her hand, and Mu Xie smiled and greeted it with her hand.

Suddenly, there was a fire outside the dilapidated gate, and Mu Xie was shocked, and hurriedly "shh

At this time, the firelight is getting closer and closer to the gate, and the wood evil quickly turns back to carefully inspect the door of the house, the lock on the door has rusted, and the wood evil has enough internal strength, and gently pulls it with his hand, and the rusty lock is easily opened by the wood evil.

Mu Xie hurriedly pulled the princess, and the two crept into the house. Mu Xie hurriedly closed the door and pierced a small hole in the window paper with the dagger Haoyue Pearl that he carried with him, through which he could clearly see the situation outside the door.

The room was dark all around, with a strong musty smell, and the princess was standing behind Mu Xie, but because she was afraid, she clung to Mu Xie, and almost got into Mu Xie's arms.

In a few moments, two elderly eunuchs came through the crack in the door, one with a torch for lighting, and the other with a wooden barrel in his hand, which seemed to be bringing food to someone.

This can be seen from the clothes they are wearing, the one carrying the barrel has a white cloth around his waist, and it is obvious that he is the father-in-law in the room.

From a distance, the father-in-law with the torch kept urging the father-in-law in the room.

The two hurriedly walked through the corridor next to the main hall and walked to the backyard, the lights slowly fading away.

Seeing this situation, Mu Xie secretly thought to himself: "Could it be that there is someone in this backyard?"

He glanced at the princess with a look of surprise, but the princess did not know what was going on, and stared at Mu Xie with a blank face.

After a while, the two fathers-in-law came out of the backyard one after the other, and hurriedly walked to the gate.

Mu Xie only heard the father-in-law of the torch complain, "It's really unlucky, such an errand in the old stall!" The two left the courtyard as soon as their voices fell, and they didn't even bother to close the gate tightly.

Convinced that they had left the courtyard, Kisa led the princess out of the house, and he told her to wait a moment, then walked to the door himself, and locked the rusty lock again.

"Princess, I think these two fathers-in-law sneakily went to the backyard, do you know what's in the backyard?" asked Mu Xie in a low voice.

"I don't know, I've only been to this courtyard twice, but I've never been to the back yard!" replied slowly, the princess slowly replying, a look of doubt on her face.

Wood Demon quietly walked to the aisle and looked into the backyard. The backyard was quiet, and nothing unusual was found.

"Princess, aren't you going on an adventure? How about I take the princess to the backyard this time?"

"Hmm!" the princess nodded.

Mu Xie led the princess around the backyard, but he didn't find much except for a dry well. According to Mu Xie's calculations, there should be someone in this courtyard.

There was a faint sound of collision at the mouth of the well, which was extremely small, and it would not be heard if it were not for a person who practiced martial arts with profound internal strength.

Mu Xie fixed his eyes. The dry well was overgrown with weeds and covered with fallen leaves, but in the direction of the corridor leading to the well, there was clearly a path that someone else had stepped on.

This also shows that the place where the two fathers-in-law went just now should be in this dry well.

Mu Xie walked into the dry well, and the princess also followed Mu Xie to the dry well, Mu Xie glanced back at the princess, took out the Haoyue Pearl from his waist, and handed the dagger Haoyue Pearl in his hand to the princess.

"Princess, you take this dagger first, be careful! This dagger is called Haoyue Pearl, it is extremely sharp, don't hurt yourself, you wait for me above, I'll go down to the well to see, if there is anything fun, I'll come up and tell you!" Mu Xie smiled mischievously, then turned his head to look at the darkness of the dry well, and Mu Xie's expression became serious.

"This... There's something to see in this well, I think you'd better go out with me! I'll take you somewhere else!"

"I... I don't think it's a little scary!" the princess looked around in a panic.

"Where is it, in broad daylight, don't worry, I'm here! I'm notoriously bold!" Kiyoshi boasted and grinned.

"Wait a moment for me, and I'll be back soon. As soon as Mu Xie's words fell, he quickly jumped into the well.

The princess whispered anxiously, and retreated to the corner, where she crouched down against the wall with a look of fear on her face.

With a "poof...", a bright fire lit up in the darkness, and the fire fold in Mu Xie's hand lit up. The wood demon had jumped into the bottom of the well, and just as he had expected, it was indeed a dry well, and the well was very dry, and there was no trace of water in the slightest. You can even vaguely feel where there is a surge of air, and the bottom of this well is ventilated, so naturally you will not feel stuffy.

This dry well is about five meters long, the hole is narrower, the bottom of the well is much more wide, and there is a soft ladder at the edge of the hole, so it can be seen that the two fathers-in-law must have come down from the soft ladder. The top of the ladder is hidden at the edge of the darkness, so it is not easy to spot from above.

There is a hole at the bottom of the hole, about half a meter high, that adults can enter by simply possessing themselves.

Mu Xie carefully entered the entrance of the cave, he felt a little flustered in his heart, and an inexplicable fear hit his heart.

The cave is wide and high, so you can stand up straight.

Just as Mu Xie was holding the fire fold and looking around, there was a sudden strange sound next to the cave entrance, this sound was thick and poignant, and Mu Xie was startled, isn't this what he heard in the courtyard?

In a moment of consternation, the Mo Evil Sword was in his hand, reflecting the firelight, and the Mo Evil Sword blocked in front of the Mu Evil.

At this scene, Mu Xie was stunned...

Next to the entrance of the cave was a large wooden barrel, and in the barrel there seemed to be a person in it, and it was a little reluctant to say that it was a person, and it was more accurate to say that it was half a person.

The person was bald, his ears were cut off, his eyes were gouged out, his nose was only two nostrils, and his mouth was originally stitched up, presumably to save her life, so an irregular small opening was torn in her mouth that had been stitched.

Mu Xie didn't even dare to look at this scene anymore, he had only known about such a tragic situation before when he was reading the wild history, but he didn't expect to see it here with his own eyes. The sinister nature of man is unpredictable.

For such a person whose hands and feet have been cut off, and whose facial features have been completely lost, are people still afraid that she will run away? There is still a thick iron chain around her neck.

Mu Xie knew that she couldn't hear it, she couldn't see it, and she didn't even feel it at all.