The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and I hurriedly opened the door of the guest room next to me and hid in, and then gently closed the door.

But when I tried to listen closely, the footsteps disappeared.

What about people?

I was puzzled, and when I was about to go out to find out, I suddenly noticed someone behind me.

The moment his breath hit my neck, a hand quickly covered my mouth, stopping my screams.

"Shhh

It's Liu Yuanwan...... It's Liu Yuanwan!

Thinking about it, my tense body went limp, and I let his arms gently exert a slight force and pour into his arms.

In the inky darkness, the familiar fragrance of cangmu lingered on the tip of my nose, I pursed my lips, my nose was sore, and I almost shed tears.

The aggrieved emotions were realized, and I felt his arms greedily.

"Have you been here all along?"

I couldn't help but ask, but the next second I saw him shake his head, put his index finger to his lips, make a silent gesture, and then leaned over, pressed it to my ear, and whispered, "It's a long story." ”

I looked at him in a daze, until the footsteps outside the house sounded again, and I realized that the man had been there all along, and that he was testing me!

Fortunately, Liu Yuanwan stopped me in time, otherwise, I am afraid that I would have fallen into that person's trap a long time ago.

"Change into this outfit, and someone will pick you up early tomorrow morning."

The person who came was the second shopkeeper.

As he spoke, there was the sound of unlocking outside the house, and the dilapidated wooden door was opened, and something was thrown on the ground at random.

After a while, I heard the woman ask in a trembling voice, "Where am I going to be picked up?"

"The outer mansion of the king of the east of the city."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door was slammed shut again, and the sound of fiddling with the lock came to his ears again.

But didn't she say that everyone else was sent to the Qinglou, why was she the only exception?

I was puzzled, and when I was thinking about it, Liu Yuanwan next to me suddenly moved, and before I could react, he rushed out of the house in three steps and two steps.

What is he going to do!?

My heart rose to my throat, and I hurriedly followed, and then hurriedly lit the oil lamp, and what I didn't see was the corpse of the shopkeeper lying on the ground.

Quietly, everything happened too quickly, the knife fell in his hand, and the shopkeeper was gone.

This is the first time I have seen Liu Yuanwan like this. He pinched the dagger with the tip of the knife still dripping blood, bent down and picked up the set of keys on the corpse's waist, and the moment he raised his eyes to see me, the anger in his eyes faded, and his eyes were dizzy in the faint light of the oil lamp.

I stood there, clutching the oil lamp in my hand, and stared at him in a daze.

He withdrew the dagger, hesitated forward, and lightly covered my eyes with his palm.

I heard him say softly, "Don't look. ”

But I wanted to tell him that I wasn't afraid of him.

Liu Yuanwan pulled me back into the house, told me to stay here, then turned around and went back and opened the door to the guest room with the key.

"Do you know who the king is?"

I sat down against the wall with an oil lamp in my hand and listened quietly.

"The power outside the king is monstrous, and the capital is notoriously promiscuous. If you are taken to the palace tomorrow, I am afraid that you will be more than lucky. ”

Outside the king? Isn't it the king who is talking about it, and every once in a while he will marry a young woman into the palace? And these young women will disappear into thin air in a few days, and their fate is uncertain. From this point of view, compared to others, the woman in front of her may be as Liu Yuanwan said, and there is less luck in this way.

"I won't break my promise, I will find a way to get you out safely, but I need you to cooperate with me."

Won't break ......?

I remembered what the woman had said not long ago, and my heart moved, could it be that the person who promised to save her..... Is it Liu Yuanwan?

So he's always here? So where did Yang Yi go?

No, I denied in my heart, if he was here all along, why didn't he light the lamp? What's more, Zhou Yejing's purpose was to lead me to his room, so how could he let him choose here?

Just thinking about it, there was a sudden sound of fighting outside the house, I hurriedly got up and ran out, and saw that the men who were originally downstairs appeared quietly in the house, they were like ghosts, Liu Yuan held one enemy and ten, it was really a little difficult, and gradually fell behind.

I was anxious, and when I wanted to step forward, there was a small sound behind me, and I was hit in the back of the head, and my body went limp, and I lost my strength in an instant.

The oil lamp rolled to the ground, and in the chaos, Liu Yuanwan heard the sound, raised his eyes, and his eyes turned red for a moment. He roared angrily, but he could not break through the siege, and could only watch me be taken captive.

"Ayan!"

Faintly, in the faint light, I saw someone arriving.

It's Yang Yi.

A big rock fell to the ground in my heart, and I lost consciousness completely.

When I woke up again, I found myself tied to a cross stake, I struggled a few times, found that I could not move, and when I looked up, I found myself in a dimly lit room, with a few red lanterns hanging above my head, and in the room, there were many young women who had been tied to the stake.

They were dressed in black dresses, all embroidered with strange red embroidery, and under the lanterns, they looked like strange smiling faces.

"Tick, tick."

I looked closely, and found that the women's white forearms had been cut open with a long, deep wound, and the blood from the wound was dripping into the white porcelain bottle at the feet.

All of them were pale and looked like puppets.

What a bloody and cruel picture!

The tip of my nose lingered with the thick smell of blood, and I felt indescribable fear welling up in my heart, and struggled with all my strength, and accidentally kicked the porcelain bottle with my toes, and the porcelain bottle rolled to the side with a "clang".

The women looked at me as if they had been awakened.

Within a moment, the door of the house was pushed open, and several servants walked in, looked me up and down a few times, and asked the man in black beside him with a smile:

"This is the new blood apparatus you just sent?"

Blood equipment?

My gaze swept over the puppet-like expression on the face of the man in black, and my heart was cold.

The man in black didn't say anything, only nodded slightly.

His movements were stiff, and I watched it, and a chill ran through my heart.

Over here...... It can't be the palace in the second mouth of the shop, right? Wouldn't those dying women be the rumored ladies who disappeared out of thin air just a few days after they got married......

In this way, they did not disappear out of thin air at all, but were locked up here, becoming the terrible and pitiful "blood tools" in the mouths of those servants!

I was instantly creepy.

It seems that this king is not so simple as being extravagant.

The leading servant seemed pleased with the horrified look on my face, and he stepped forward, drew his dagger, and gestured it on my forearm, muttering something in his mouth.

"This posture is much taller than the previous ones, if the master sees it, he will be very happy......"

The cold tip of the knife roamed my forearm, making my heart tremble like a snake, and I stared straight at the chaotic yellow eyes of the man in front of me, eager to tear him apart. But fortunately, he seemed to only want to scare me, and within a moment he withdrew the dagger, then took a few steps back, and asked in a loud voice at a sharp voice:

"Who is willing to serve the Lord tonight?"

As soon as the words were finished, the women in the room woke up and shouted, but they were hoarse and could only make some "babbling" sounds. I looked at their bodies as they tried to reach forward, as if there were ants crawling all over their bodies, and I felt numb.

Why do they want to serve the king so much?

The servant circled around, and his gaze slowly stopped on me.

He narrowed his eyes, smiled and screamed, "It's you." ”

My heart trembled and I shuddered.

As he spoke, he waved his hand, and the servant behind him stepped forward to untie the rope, and then restrained my hands and pressed me out of the house.

As they passed in front of the women, they twisted in anger and stared at me with hatred in their eyes, as if they were about to rush up and tear me apart in the next second.

I softened my steps, and my heart was full of despair.

Liu Yuanwan, where are you now?

The minions blindfolded me with a white handkerchief, holding me down where I was going, and the smell of blood lingered along the way, and I tried my best to breathe, but I almost vomited.

I was pressed down, I don't know how long I stumbled before I stopped, the white cloth in front of me was rudely lifted, I eased the pain in my eyes, and opened my eyes.

What caught my eye was a dilapidated house with only one candle lit.

The dim candle flame flickered, and I could faintly see a red dress hanging inside.

It's the same as those women.

My heart trembled, and I subconsciously turned around to escape, but I was grabbed by the hair by the prepared servants, who whispered and shook my hand, and I fell to the ground with a steadiness in my weight.

My back hurt, and I gasped and raised my eyes, and in the haze of tears, I caught a glimpse of the creepy scene.

Behind me was a lotus pond, and when the moonlight entered the water, the water rose and fell, revealing a lot—

The bones of a woman.

The bones were all pale and emaciated, as if they had been ...... Drained of flesh and blood.

They were not in the sparkling waters of the moonlight, rising and falling, tilting their bodies, looking directly at me, as if to tell me that they were not blind to death.

My heart was cold, and I knew that if I wore this treacherous dress today, I would end up like them, locked up in that room, and become what those servants called "blood tools".

I suddenly remembered that when the inn was attacked from behind, I caught a glimpse of a dress thrown on the ground in the confusion.

Now that I think about it, it's exactly the same as the one in front of me.

When the attendant saw that I was no longer struggling, he laughed and dragged me into the house.

Out of nowhere, several expressionless maids poured out, and they skillfully changed the dress for me, and then found a lot of pearls and emeralds, and meticulously pinned my hair to a bun.

I knew it was useless to resist, so I had to let them fiddle with it, quietly watching around with my peripheral vision, looking for an opportunity to escape.

On the upper body of the dress, I couldn't stop chilling in my heart. I looked at myself in the bronze mirror, my hair was full of pearls, and I was dressed in red, and I really looked a little married.

In a trance, the bloodless faces of those women appeared in front of me again, and I couldn't help frowning and nauseating.

What kind of palace is this, this is clearly purgatory on earth!