Chapter 1: Tonight is the Time of Death
Datang.
Chang'an Kyoto.
Jiahuifang, Patrol Prison.
Bang –
The sound of heavy objects falling sounded.
Then there was a groan of pain, and the cacophony of sand and straw grinding.
The smell of dampness and mustiness, blood and rancid smell is strong.
"Where am I?"
Yuan Kang slowly woke up, his vision still blurred.
The eyes seem to be foggy, and everything they see is fragmented, hazy and cloudy.
"This ...... Is this a prison cell?"
Yuan Kang endured the pain all over his body, supported his arms hard, and struggled to get up from the ground.
Even this action made Yuan Kang's eyes blacken, his heart pounded like a drum, his ears buzzed, and there was a kind of dizziness that was spinning the world.
"Why am I in a cell?"
Yuan Kang looked at his surroundings.
Surrounded by sand and rotting straw, an eerie chill filled the surroundings.
The dark, rough wood was enclosed like a cage.
There was a middle-aged man lying on the left side with blurred flesh and blood, who seemed to have just been thrown in, trembling and moaning, his breath getting weaker and weaker, and he was not far from death.
On the other side was an elderly man, who must have died in the struggle, his hands and feet twisted and stiff, showing a desperate and painful death.
A tidal wave of memories came flooding in......
Datang, the first year of the heir, Chang'an Jiahuifang Street, Yuanjia wine shop......
The broken picture passed, and Yuan Kang finally knew his situation.
"I actually crossed the ......"
"And it's still a person who was framed and the prison started ......"
Yuan Kang, nineteen years old, is the heir of the Yuan family's wine shop. Due to the death of his parents, the liquor store was left to be managed by a faithful butler.
Who knew that in just two years, the housekeeper colluded with the captain of the city patrol, seized the wine shop, and put Yuan Kang in prison on trumped-up charges.
"Why this bitter and miserable story? This is not the ...... I want to cross?"
Yuan Kang wanted to vent his emotions, wanted to shout, and wanted to make some uplifting moves.
But when I moved slightly, my bones fell apart and I was drenched in cold sweat.
It's a blessing that the original owner, who has no power to tie his hands, didn't die in prison......
Although the person did not die, he was so hungry and thirsty that his throat and eyes were dry and smoking, and he was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back, and he was tortured for a day and a night, and he was on the verge of mental and physical collapse.
The reason why he was not killed was because the housekeeper needed Yuan Kang to sign and surrender the liquor store justifiably.
Those who were imprisoned with Yuan Kang were the cooks and old tents of the wine shop.
After the old tent was tortured, he spit out the account books in his charge, but he couldn't bear the torture and died in the struggle every night.
The cook, on the other hand, was half-dead, and had just been tortured again.
The pork soup and fish soup cakes of Lao Yuan Wine Shop are all ancestral crafts. At that time, Yuan's father accepted two apprentices, a cook and a housekeeper, one as a cook and the other as a shopkeeper.
No one could have imagined that the vulgar and unlikable cook apprentice would stick to morality and be unyielding on the verge of death. seems to be a shrewd and loyal butler apprentice, but he stabbed a knife in the back and ruined the master's family business.
Everything you know, everything you see, is cold and true.
Yuan Kang raised his right palm.
In the palm of the palm, there is a small red dotted black mole.
This is the fetal mole that Yuan Kang has had since he was a child, and Yuan's father praised "my son has the posture of wealth and power" after being drunk, so he named the word "Kang", which means that he can resist the blessing.
"Is it a plug-in! Is it a system! Open a ...... for me"
Yuan Kang's call from the heart......
Obviously, there is no use for luan......
Putting down his hand helplessly, Yuan Kang looked at the dying cook beside him.
What to do?
How can I escape?
Could it be that after crossing a scene, he was stabbed in the back and ruined his family?
At this time.
Strands of blue-green light suddenly appeared on the bloody and dying cook, and then extended upwards and converged into a "question mark" above his head.
The blue-green "question mark" shows Yuan Kang's eyes.
Yuan Kang was stunned.
What does this mean and what does it mean?
Click-
The chain of the cell door was pushed open after the ring, interrupting Yuan Kang's thoughts.
Look back.
Dressed in a white robe, a shrewd-looking butler, carrying a lantern, stepped into the cell.
"Yuan Xiaoer, those who know the times are Junjie!"
The housekeeper looked at Yuan Kang condescendingly:
"All you have to do is sign and you can save your life. I'll give you a few dollars with a kind heart, and when you are exiled to the frontier, you will be able to keep you fed and clothed. How?"
After speaking, the housekeeper added meaningfully: "Time is not much, Cao Duwei is in a hurry to wait for a reply." If you resist and are killed, I can draw it with the hands of a dead man. ”
Yuan Kang looked at the housekeeper coldly: "Dog, do you still have the face to see me?"
The housekeeper didn't care, slowly squatted down, and stared at Yuan Kang:
"Yuan Xiao'er, don't be ignorant. I'm helping you and leaving a bloodline for the Yuan family. Otherwise, your family will be ruined and you will have nothing. Do you understand?"
Poof-
Yuan Kang spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva and hit the butler in the face.
The housekeeper's face turned from white to blue, from blue to purple. He stretched out his sleeve to wipe away the saliva, his eyes were extremely resentful, and he slapped Yuan Kang's face with a slap.
Yuan Kang struggled to dodge sideways, but after all, he slowed down, and his face was scratched by the butler's nails, tearing blood.
The scorching pain spread, Yuan Kang clenched his teeth tightly, and endured the dizziness that exhausted his strength.
"After tonight, it's your time of death!"
The housekeeper had a gloomy face and stood up, "I'm waiting for your reply from the torture cell outside the prison, as long as you sign and draw the charge, you can avoid death! Otherwise, no one will collect your body!"
Click-
The cell door closed again, and the faint light of the lantern faded away.
Yuan Kang's eyes fell into darkness again.
Squeak squeak...... Creak...... Squeak......
The sound of sparseness sounded in the cell, and several huge black-haired rats scurried around. They seem to sense something, and appear restless.
There are often piles of rats in the cell, and Yuan Kang has seen too much of them, so he didn't take them to heart, and struggled to crawl towards the cook.
The turquoise "question mark" is still clearly displayed in front of you.
Only I can see?
The housekeeper didn't look at the cook when he went in and out, indicating that the housekeeper couldn't see the blue-green "question mark" at all.
Yuan Kang was silent for a moment, tried to reach out, touched the cook's arm, and gently pushed.
In an instant, the cook's body was like a strange and distorted afterimage, with the illusion of fragmentation and reorganization, but fleeting, as if it had never happened.
Suddenly!
Behind the cook, it is like uncovering a layer of "skin".
This shadow-like pitch-black shadow suddenly separated and stood up.
The image of the shadow puppet is exactly the same as that of the cook, but the face is pitch black, and the whole body is covered in black mist. He was holding a jet-black three-strand steel fork in his hand, with a fierce expression.
Yuan Kang was stunned, his scalp was numb!
He didn't expect this to be the case.
But the shadow-like black murderer turned a blind eye to Yuan Kang, as if he couldn't see Yuan Kang, and Yuan Kang couldn't see him.
The dark murderer just stared at the cook, and said in a vicious voice:
"Back then, when you were fishing in the East China Sea, you gave the monkey a bowl of soup and food, and instructed him to go to the mountains and visit the immortals. He was retributed, and he was poor for hundreds of years. If not, how would you end up in prison today?
As he spoke, the black murderer shook his palm, and the black mist around him turned into a black long whip, and he whipped it fiercely every time he said a word.
Behind the cook's back, every whip he took place, let out a terrible scream.
Yuan Kang saw the scene in front of him completely clearly.
But the strange thing is that the cook is still lying on the ground dying, unaware. But behind the scenes, the dark murderer was whipping fiercely, but there were terrible screams.
What's going on here?
Yuan Kang was shocked and surprised.
At the same time, suddenly!
The turquoise "question mark" is gone.
Yuan Kang's spiritual resonance was prompted:
"Variables from Gong Ping +100......"
"Remaining variable: 100 points. ”
Gong Ping is the name of the cook, what is the "variable"?
Yuan Kang had just received a hint and had not yet come back to his senses.
The rats in the cell became more rampant, and more than a dozen of them rushed to the cook's body and began to bite wildly.
Seeing that the cook's rags were torn to shreds, and his fleshy body was also violated, Yuan Kang couldn't care about thinking about any "variables" anymore, and hurriedly worked hard to drive away the rats with his hands and feet.
Suddenly!
A black-haired mouse with a large size was stimulated to be ferocious and pounced viciously on Yuan Kang.
In a hurry, Yuan Kang desperately waved his right hand and hit the ferocious big mouse.
Poof-
The black-haired mouse suddenly disappeared into Yuan Kang's palm, leaving a wisp of green smoke drifting away.
"Variable-10......"
"Remaining variables: 90 points ......"
"Obtain the ...... of Spell: Rat Spirit"
Yuan Kang's spiritual resonance was prompted again.
Immediately, a light poured into his sea of knowledge. Like a glorious talisman, it rises and falls in the sea of knowledge.
In an instant, Yuan Kang had mastered this spell!