Hidden eyebrows bit their lips and said nothing, and the rest of them held their breath and waited for the blue bird's next words.

Sangjie stopped whimpering, and probably heard the name and voice of the hidden eyebrows, and he changed from a state of wailing and squirming paralysis to a crazy sitting position, holding a small pebble picked up from the ground in his hand, and playing with it in the palm of his hand, while singing a minor tune in the local language with a hoarse voice.

"What's wrong with him?" Hidden Eyebrows didn't answer Blue Bird's request, but instead pointed at Sang Jie with his chin.

"I," even in the dimness, Hidden Eyebrows could see the blue bird's eyes shaking violently, and the latter paused as soon as he spoke, and it took a while to regain his composure, "I, I castrated the mulberry steps. ”

Except for Sang Jie, everyone tried their best to suppress the extreme shock in their hearts, and Yin Xinmei couldn't help but turn her head when she heard the news, and just happened to bump into Sether's gaze that also turned to her, and the silent gazes of the two people converged for a moment.

No one dared to speak at this moment, and even the Sang Jie suddenly became dead silent, and everyone looked at the blue bird with blank eyes.

"To this day, I still love him, when I was a child, if there was no mulberry step, I would have died a long time ago, at that time, he was the overseer who stole food for me every day, and he carried it for me when I got into trouble. "The money he earned from stealing things for others was to buy me a decent dress or a headband, or to bribe the overseers and butlers, for I was very weak at that time, but the slaves of Ansu, both men and women, had to work in the mines—so you can imagine that if it weren't for the protection of the Mulberry Rank, I wouldn't have survived at all." ”

"I will not recount all these things, for you will all get more precise details from the long letters I have written. Right now, I'm telling you these things roughly, just to make you Sangjie the person I love the most in the world. No matter what he has become now, how many sins he has committed, and how many evil consequences he has sowed, I still love him. In my mind, he will always be the fifteen-year-old boy who has been whipped by the overseer for stealing beef for me without saying a word. ”

"But I also know that the past is the past, and the present is the present. I don't want to lie to myself, and I don't want to lie to you. Mulberry he, mulberry ladder he," the blue bird's voice choked up again, "he's hopeless." He was poisoned, not conventionally, but in the soul, rooted in the heart, his soul was completely sunk, his conscience was long gone, his truth was no longer the person who was willing to suffer for me—he had changed a long time ago. ”

"When we were imprisoned in this cave, he went crazy several times, and you can see that the terrible scratches and scars on his body were left by himself when he was too hungry to fill it. His situation is even more terrifying than that of a drug-addicted person. ”

"I confess that I sneaked into this prison in the first place with the intention of taking him to escape, Your Majesty's scruples are not wrong at all, I don't want to betray Your Majesty, and I don't want to betray Wei Shengkai, but after seeing Sang Jie, I can't help but want to do what he wants, not what His Majesty wants. ”

"I tried to run away with the Mulberry Steps after I had poisoned and paralyzed the Black Iron Guard, but his eyes were red, and his throat let out a beastly growl, and the look on his face scared me—although I had seen him burning with lust at Wisson before, it was the first time that he had scared me. I thought that Jalal, that Cloud Castle, that bloody rose might have infected some terrible things into the spirit of the Mulberry Order, and I just felt horrible, disgusting, and creepy as I watched him scream and come over to do those things with me. ”

"Now, you can understand how I feel," said Yin Xinmei coldly, "but you are much luckier than me, after all, no one has put a steel whip snake belly sword against your waist, and then take you to the basement and skin you alive. ”

"You're right, I felt where you were, but it was too late. Without hesitation, Blue Bird admitted, "I felt like something was going to struggle to get out of Sanjie's body, and he kept howling, and his mouth was blasphemous curses and lustful yells that I had never heard before." So I put a strip of cloth in his mouth and sealed his mouth, lest his shouting attract the others, for it would not be long before the changing guard came. ”

I looked at Sang Steps, and I saw that he kept banging his head against the wall, and rubbing against the corner of the wall and the ground through his pants, making obscene movements. Although I have always been reluctant to admit it, his appearance is no different from that of the evil spirit. I looked at the mulberry steps like that, and even the beast looked more human than him. I couldn't control myself and cried, not for me, but for him. ”

It was probably my cry that awakened some memory or rather humanity of Sangi, and he looked back at me like a dog, and finally fell to the ground panting, a whimper in his throat, and I thought he was calling my name. So I hurried to his side, and for the first time since I entered this cell, I saw a little humanity in his eyes. ”

Sanjie kept whispering at me, and I knew he was begging me to save him. I wanted to kill him, to end his suffering, and to end mine, but I didn't do it, because I thought of Hidden Eyebrow - to be honest, I have been feeling bad since that night in the dungeon in the Prime Minister's Mansion, because I don't want to admit that Hidden Eyebrow is right and innocent, and I am evil, jealous and good and evil. ”

"I know that Sang Jie will not live long, even if he can survive, it must be better than death, like falling into hell; I can't see hope, I can't see the future, I've always been a cowardly person all my life, I've been living by Sang Jie since I can remember, and I've lived until now; if he dies, I can't live. ”

"In short, I don't want to die with guilt for Hidden Eyebrows, if you want to talk about who in this world is the most qualified to kill Sang Jie, then there is no one else except Hidden Eyebrows. I confess that I did not do this to atone for my sins, but to make my conscience good. So I can't kill Sangjie, my conscience wants me to leave him to the hidden eyebrows. ”

"But Sanjie had been begging me with what little reason he had left to save him from his pain, and I hadn't seen the look in his eyes for more than a decade — the last time I saw it was when I was seven years old, when he was twelve, and I was so angry that I didn't want to play with him again, and he cried and begged me. I don't know anything about witchcraft, so I can only end his suffering in the simplest and most cruel way. ”

So I drew my dagger and castrated him. ”