Chapter 418: The Killer in the Bronze Mask

With a "bang", Zhao Hang hit his head on the door frame, and the candle in his hand was violently extinguished.

It was pitch black all around, and Queen Le held her son tightly in her arms and slowly shrank to the corner of the wall.

In the darkness, the rhythmic footsteps faded away.

Empress Le secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but her heart immediately hung again, because she knew that the man in black with a knife in the back garden would definitely chase after her. The information on the note is true, someone is indeed going to kill them tonight! Empress Le gritted her teeth, she knew that the killer must have been sent by Zhao Xian! Zhao Xian was also a relative of the emperor, but he did not expect that he completely betrayed the Great Zhao Empire and gave the Great Zhao Empire's thousands of miles of rivers and mountains to the Great Chu Empire. The Great Zhao Empire exists in name only, and it will not be long before it will be completely annexed by the Great Chu Empire. When the emperor Zhao Hang of the Great Zhao Empire loses its use value, they will come to kill people! Empress Le and Zhao Hang have been imprisoned in this ruined palace for a long time, and they have no knowledge of the situation in the outside world, but they can also guess the changes in the situation in the outside world from the attitude of Prince Zhao Wei towards Emperor Zhao Hang. When the conspiracy of Zhao Xian and the Great Chu Empire is completely successful, that is, the death period of her and the emperor's son! Empress Le is not afraid of death, but she is not reconciled, and she is unwilling to let her son Zhao Hang die in the hands of that group of bad people! But what is the use of being unwilling? How can their orphans and widows resist the wolf-like soldiers under Zhao Xian?

It was pitch black all around, and there were no five fingers in sight, and there was no other sound here except for the breathing of Queen Le and Zhao Hang.

The smell of stale in the palace is in the dark, and this place looks like a palace, it is clearly a tomb!

There is nowhere to hide on the first floor, nowhere to hide, and as soon as the killer comes, she and her son will completely expose the target.

Queen Le tightly pinched one foot of the small round stool in her hand, but she knew that this embroidered small round stool could not threaten the tall killer at all, and that person could easily put them to death without the ghost head knife in his hand.

"You must go up to the second floor, there may be a chance to escape if you go to the second floor!" Queen Le thought so, and took her son Zhao Hang to slowly touch forward.

Dust, cobwebs, walls, door frames!

Queen Le is still not giving up, she believes that there must be a staircase to go up to the second floor, and even if there is no staircase, there will be a passage for climbing.

Zhao Hang couldn't stand it anymore, he cried and asked Queen Le in a low voice: "Mother, it's so dark here, I want to light a candle ......" He also felt the danger, but he didn't know that the man in black in the back garden was here to kill him. After all, he is still a big child who does not know the world, and he still doesn't know much about the dangers of the real world! He still fantasizes all day long that one day, he will go out of this hellish place and become an upright emperor!

Queen Le lowered her voice and said, "No! The candle is extinguished! Although we can't see the road, the bad guys can't see us either...... We touched in the dark to see if there were any stairs up the second floor......"

Zhao Hang said with a crying voice: "Okay......"

The hall on the first floor of the palace is divided into hundreds of small rooms of various sizes, except for a small door facing the back garden, the doors of the other small rooms are opened on the inner wall, the whole palace has three floors, but except for the small window facing the garden and the gate, there is no second window. The bright moonlight outside the palace could not shine in at all. Staying in such a palace is indeed like staying in a tomb!

Queen Le groped in the dark for a long time, but she didn't find anything new except dust, cobwebs, walls, and door frames. Could it be that to the second floor, there are no stairs and no passages?

Zhao Hang suddenly exclaimed: "Mother, I found ......"

Queen Le was overjoyed: "Is it a staircase?"

Zhao Hang did not speak.

There was a "stab" sound, the fire fold lit up, and a torch was lit.

The moment the firelight lit up, Queen Le was stunned. There were no stairs in front of him, only people, a man in black with a bronze mask on his face.

The ghost head knife in the black-clothed man's hand was behind his back, he grabbed Zhao Hang's neck with one hand, and held a torch in the other, looking at Queen Le coldly.

Queen Le was stunned for a moment, and immediately came to her senses, she rushed towards the man in black like crazy: "Let go of my child......" She rushed over, and the small wooden round stool in her hand had smashed desperately at the man in black.

The man in black didn't hide, and the small round stool smashed right on his waist.

The small round stool in Queen Le's hand flew out of her hand, but the man in black did not move at all, safe and sound!

The man in black let go of Zhao Hang.

Zhao Hang cried and pounced on Queen Le: "Mother......"

Queen Le hugged her son and burst into tears: "Child, how are you?"

The man in black suddenly said coldly: "I didn't pinch him hard, if I had used my strength, he would have died a long time ago!"

Empress Le looked at the hideous and terrifying bronze mask on the face of the man in black, and asked sharply, "Who are you, why do you want to harm us?" She stared at the back of the mask, those two shining eyes, and felt that these eyes were familiar for no reason!

The man in black said coldly: "I told you that someone is going to kill you tonight! You can't escape, that's your business, and my responsibility has been fulfilled!"

Queen Le was surprised: "You wrote the note in the dumb basket?"

The Man in Black didn't deny it!

Empress Le stared at the sparkling eyes behind the bronze mask, and asked again, "Who are you?"

The man in black shook the torch in his hand: "It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that as soon as the time comes, you will die!"

Queen Le's eyes flashed: "It's not time yet, do we still have any hope of surviving?"

The man in black said coldly: "When the time comes, I will kill you, you still have an hour!"

Queen Le nodded: "Okay!" She spoke, and then took her son Zhao Hang's hand and ran out. I just ran a few steps, but I turned back again, "Give me your torch!"

The man in black was stunned, but still handed the torch in his hand to Queen Le.

Queen Le took a torch, pulled her son Zhao Hang, and ran out without looking back.

There is still an hour! Empress Le must find a passage to the second floor in this hour.

The cold voice of the man in black came from behind: "Don't let me meet you again, if we meet again, the ghost head big knife in my hand will not know anyone!"

Empress Le held a torch and searched room by room, and on the thick dust on the ground, there were footprints of her and her son Zhao Hang, and their footprints were always mixed with the terrifying huge footprints.

I saw only huge footprints, no people, no shoes! The huge red embroidered shoes only appeared once, and then they were no longer visible.

Queen Le looked around, and she kept feeling a pair of eyes staring at her in the dark.

(End of chapter)