Chapter 39: Consumption
These words made Lin Jieyu stunned at first, then chuckled a few times, and then turned into a string of unstoppable sneers.
"Kill me? Why, just rely on Jia Yuchun's cheap life? Do you want to bet Bai Ling, the emperor won't hurt me at all-"
"I know." Bai Ling replied slowly, "Even the emperor secretly protects you for doing witchcraft in the palace, and he really puts Niangniang on the tip of his heart." β
ββ¦β¦ Now that you know, what are you talking about here? β
"I'm just curious," Bai Ling said with a smile, "If one day, your immunity from evil in the emperor's place is broken, depending on what you have done in the past, if you settle the accounts together, you will ...... How to die? β
How are you going to die?
The whole time, Bai Ling didn't say what she really wanted to do.
No matter how Lin Jieyu tried to provoke her, she always stood there with a little indifference, and those unexciting eyes turned Lin's heart upside down.
"No wonder Niangniang always likes to play with people's hearts."
Bai Ling sighed lightly, she put her hood on again, Lin Jieyu couldn't see her eyes clearly, but she could see the corners of Bai Ling's mouth rising slightly.
"It's really interesting to watch the people in front of you struggle desperately in a dead end...... Please do your best this time, let me have a good time. β
This admonition, with infinite arrogance and contempt, ignited the last of Lin's anger in an instant, and she screamed loudly, calling for the jailers who were on standby on the second floor.
Bai Ling stood there and looked at her for a moment, then retreated into the darkness in the corner with a smile on his face.
Countless footsteps and the flickering light of lanterns rushed down.
"She's there!! Get her!! Get her!! β
"Who? Who's where? β
"Boling! The priest of Chengqian Palace, Bai Ling, is there!! Lin Jieyu pointed to the corner where Fang Cai Bai Ling disappeared, and shouted angrily, "Don't let her run away!" β
Yuan Zhen quietly followed the back of the crowd, looking at the scene in front of him expressionlessly.
Several jailers carried lanterns and walked quickly in the direction pointed by Lin Jieyu, but the place illuminated by the lights was completely empty.
"She's got to hide over there - you guys go over there again!"
More lanterns came down.
Hearing that outsiders had slipped into the dungeon of the Criminal Division, everyone became nervous, but when the firelight illuminated all the corners of this floor, everyone's eyes turned back to Lin Jieyu with suspicion.
There is no exit at all on the underground three floors of the Criminal Division, and if someone really sneaks in, they can only escape through the only exit, and it is the one that has been guarded by many jailers, and it is impossible for people to escape.
That is, there are no outsiders here at all.
Yuan Zhen breathed a sigh of relief almost imperceptibly, and his gaze became more unpredictable than before.
Suddenly, someone in the crowd suddenly exclaimed, "Grandpa Jia", the body that fell at Lin Jieyu's feet was finally found by everyone, people pushed open the door and went in to see, Jia Yuchun had already lost his breath.
Everyone looked at Jin Buyao who fell to the ground, and then looked at Lin Jieyu who retreated to the edge of the bed, and froze there for a while, not knowing what to do.
"What are you doing stupidly?" Yuan Zhen, who was standing at the back of the crowd, spoke coldly, "Report to the emperor immediately!" β
Bai Ling, who was still lurking in the dungeon, quietly leaned behind Fourteen, watching the scene in front of him with cold eyes.
She had imagined this scenario many times.
She thought that this kind of feeling after doing evil should be complicated, empty, and even guilty.
However, no.
Bai Ling looked at the panicked crowd, and Lin Jieyu, who was huddled in the corner without saying a word, only felt as if there were countless bubbles hitting her heart wall, making her feel happy and numb.
It's the excitement of the prologue.
It obscured everything.
Above Bai Ling's head, the entire Punishment Division was boiling.
Yuan Zhen tried to stay in it for a while, and was immediately urged to wait for questioning in the Heart Cultivation Palace, he remembered the previous sentence of Bai Ling, "My father-in-law is waiting for me here", but at this time, I am afraid that staying any longer will cause people to be suspicious.
He took one last look at the eerie dungeon, and finally strode away.
Bai Ling lay on Fourteen's back and looked at Yuan Zhen's distant back, and sighed softly.
"Does it matter? Just let him go. Wei Fourteen asked.
"Forget it, it's okay." Bai Ling said softly, "He can carry it." β
It was almost noon when I left the Shenwu Gate. The sun in the sky was extremely fierce, and even though Bai Ling tried his best to protect the back of Wei XIV's neck with his sleeve, his skin still burned again.
The two of them waited behind a tree shadow, waiting for the limousine that was about to leave the palace through the side door for a whileβthat was how Bai Ling left the palace today.
The Shenwu Gate, which was supposed to be bustling with people, was empty at the moment, and Bai Ling saw an abrupt bloodstain on the ground not far away, and the road from Shunzhen Gate to Shenwu Gate was also blocked, and the ground was littered with incense ash and overturned wooden tables......
It seems that Zheng Shu's side has already done it.
The beginning of the matter went even more smoothly than she imagined.
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It didn't take long for Bai Ling to change back into his clothes in the courtyard of the Bai family, and he turned back into the little girl who was sitting at home waiting for her father and brother to come home.
The confrontation was more mind-consuming than she had imagined, and in one person's courtyard, Bai Ling leaned back in his chair with some detachment.
Her heart was still pounding, the previous vision and the future plan overlapping and playing in her mind at the same time, and she didn't want to do anything more at this moment, just sit quietly in the hall in a daze.
"Boling, we're back!"
Bai Yi's voice was as full of vitality as ever from outside the door, the door was not locked, and he pushed the door directly into the courtyard.
But today's courtyard did not have the aroma of food, and Bai Ling sat in the hall of the old house with a tired look.
Bai Yi almost immediately sensed that something was wrong, he put Bai Shijun's bag and ran into the house quickly.
He reached out again to probe Bai Ling's forehead, and the body temperature felt quite normal...... There should be no problem.
"What's wrong?" Bai Yi asked in a low voice.
Bai Ling shook his head, raised his hand and gently pushed Bai Yi away, "I am...... I'm a little tired, I haven't made lunch yet, why don't you go with my father-"
Before the words fell, Bai Yi grabbed Bai Ling's forearm.
Bai Ling looked at Bai Yi with some surprise.
"Your hand ......" Bai Yi grabbed Bai Ling's wrist and pushed his hand in front of her, "Why are you so dirty, did you dig out the stove at home in the morning?" β
Bai Ling was stunned for a moment, and then realized that he had not had time to wash his hands.
The walls and roof of the Sentencing Division were covered with mud and dust, staining all ten of her fingernails black.
Bai Ling withdrew his arm and looked at his gray palm again.
She smiled, "It's hard to wash it now." β