Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Game Begins

"You say...... Did we really burn that moth to death......" Qiao Xiya, who was sitting on horseback, was a little distraught.

"Don't worry, it's been burning for three hours, and even if it's not burned to ashes, there will be no chance of living anymore." Mo Haoning pretended to be relaxed. Mo Haoning originally thought that the fire would be able to burn cleanly, but Qiao Xiya and Chunling's words always lingered in his ears. He wanted to know what they saw, but he was afraid to ask too much, and they were afraid.

"Lord?" Chunling's voice interrupted Mo Haoning's recollection.

"What does the prince think?" Seeing that Mo Haoning came back to his senses, Chunling couldn't help but quip.

Even if it was just the Mid-Autumn Festival, the sun still carried the spicy heat of summer, and this kind of sunlight warmed Chunling, and now she felt more and more that what she saw just now should be an illusion.

"This king is thinking, after solving such a big trouble, I should invite you to eat something and celebrate." Mo Haoning looked back at Qiao Xiya who was sitting on the horse, and couldn't help but tighten the reins in his hand, "What does Miss Qiao want to eat?"

"Milky mung bean smoothie." Qiao Xiya urgently needs to get in touch with some familiar flavors to stabilize her mind.

"Okay, it just so happens that the jujube flower cake you like is next door to the milk mung bean smoothie." After that, Mo Haoning turned around and said to Su Huaizuo and his forbidden army behind him, "Then let's all try the milky mung bean smoothie that our Lord Qiao will never forget today!"

"As long as Lord Hao has a treat, you can eat anything!" Su Huai coaxed from the left.

Mo Haoning smiled, it was a good answer. The group talked and laughed and returned to the lively neighborhood, the people on the street were bustling, and the shouts of doing business were endless, Qiao Xiya finally felt a trace of warmth in the sun.

"Master Joe, please dismount." Mo Haoning led the horse and stopped in front of a two-story pastry shop.

"Huh? When did you open a pastry shop here?" Qiao Xiya glanced at the tea shop next to her that also sold milk refreshments, and couldn't help asking.

"Miss Joe forgot? When I was in Huizhou, didn't our lord say that he wanted to place the shop and master who sold jujube flower cakes in Jin'an City? Otherwise, how could you have eaten warm jujube flower cake last time?" Chu Yun smiled.

"Just your mouth!" Mo Haoning glared at Chu Yun and scolded with a feigned smile.

"Got it! Got it!" The children's playing and cheering on the side attracted Qiao Xiya's attention.

"It's your turn to be Hades!" A child ripped the mask off his face and shouted.

"I'm not going to be Hades!" The face of the child who had just been caught was full of reluctance.

"But you were caught just now!" The child with the mask in his hand did not give up.

"Wait until you catch us, and you won't have to be Hades." An older child stepped forward and took the mask and put it over the face of the child who had been caught.

The moment the mask was put on, Qiao Xiya was stunned as if she had been struck by lightning. An expressionless mask, half black, half white, with two holes in the eyes that were dyed red by an unknown paint. The white half face is half black with a half black skeleton and the black half face is half white with a white skull.

"Weeping Blood Yin Yang Skeleton Moth ......" Qiao Xiya's voice trembled, her eyes stared directly at the mask on the child's face, and in the blink of an eye, Qiao Xiya seemed to see the face mocking her under the mask.

"What?" Mo Haoning, who was instructing Chu Yun to wrap all the jujube flower cakes and milk mung bean smoothies, was frightened by Qiao Xiya's appearance, he grabbed Qiao Xiya's shoulders, hugged the trembling person in his arms, and asked softly, "What did you say?"

Qiao Xiya raised her slender and cold hand and pointed directly at the children playing on the side, her voice full of fear: "Weeping Blood Yin Yang Skeleton Moth......

Mo Haoning looked in the direction of Qiao Xiya's finger, and saw a group of children running and singing: "White Lady, make accounts, black boy, make a house, blue gauze, silver gauze cover, the world is upside down......

"Yin and yang are down, the Hades are in the world, you have to run quickly, ......" Qiao Xiya recited nursery rhymes with the children in a trembling voice, and everyone was instantly frightened by the scene in front of them.

"Shia! Xiya, wake up!" Mo Haoning panicked and kept shaking Qiao Xiya.

But Qiao Xiya seemed to have fallen into an evil spirit, twisted her body, broke free from Mo Haoning, her face was expressionless, her eyes were dull, and she was reciting nursery rhymes in her mouth while walking towards the group of children.

"Shia!" Mo Haoning had never seen Qiao Xiya have so much strength, she could actually break free, seeing that Qiao Xiya was getting closer and closer to the group of children, Mo Haoning stepped forward and wanted to pull Qiao Xiya back, but Qiao Xiya waved her arm and actually pushed Mo Haoning away three or five steps.

Just when Mo Haoning was helpless, a loud rooster crow sounded in his ears, and he saw Qiao Xiya trembling, her apricot eyes widened, and she looked back at Mo Haoning at a loss.

Mo Haoning knew that it was the rooster that woke up Qiao Xiya, and when he looked back, he saw a man holding a colorful big rooster and hurriedly passing by.

"Hatsuunun."

Before Mo Haoning's words fell, Chu Yun smiled and walked towards the man holding the chicken: "This little brother, please stay."

Mo Haoning stepped forward to support Qiao Xiya, and before he opened his question, he met Qiao Xiya's tearful eyes.

"What's wrong with me......" Qiao Xiya looked around as if she had lost her memory.

"It's them." Mo Haoning pointed to the children who were still playing not far away.

The masked child was still trying to chase after his partner who was running away, but from under the mask came the child's helpless cry: "I don't want to play anymore...... I can't run......

"No, if you don't play, we'll all die!" The older kid ran and shouted, "Don't you want to see your mom and dad?"

"But I really can't run......" the masked child cried helplessly.

"Smack!" The masked child's fairy tale voice did not fall, and the little girl, who was a little smaller, fell to the ground with a weak leg.

"Catch ...... Hold on!" The masked child stumbled up and held the little girl down.

"Wow!" The little girl burst into tears.

"The ...... It's your turn to be Hades......" The masked child panted and pulled off his mask and handed it to the little girl.

"I don't want ......," the little girl cried and waved her hands, her face full of horror.

"If you don't wear it, we'll all die." The older child took the mask, reached out to wipe the tears from the little girl's face, and whispered, "I'm going to run slower, just come and catch me." With that, he put the mask on the little girl's face.

"White Lady, make accounts, black boy, make a house, blue gauze, silver gauze cover, heaven and earth upside down, yin and yang upside down, Hades is in the world, run quickly!" The children held hands in a circle, surrounded the little girl in the middle, and turned in circles while chanting, after the nursery rhyme was recited, the children ran away, and the little girl may be really tired, unable to run a single step, just standing in place and crying helplessly.

"Run!" The older child shouted at her anxiously.