The old man opened his mouth, revealing two rows of jagged yellow teeth:

"The evil rebel member of the Red Hearts broke into the palace and assassinated the Imp King, but the Devil Queen found and captured him, and then cut off his head, and then stuck his head and body here for people to spit on. ”

Hara looked at the golden crown on the head of the king of hearts, despite the bloodstain, the crown still shone in the sunlight, and the jewels set on it also reflected the brilliant light, as if death could not defile this crown.

The old man added:

"It was a fake crown poured after the King of Hearts robbed the commoners, he usually carried this crown all the time, and the Great Ghost Queen ordered him to carry this crown after his death, so that everyone could see how funny this pseudo-king was. ”

Hara looked at the king's lonely head hanging from the tip of a spear.

The skin of the head, like the rest of the body, was strangely pale in color, but it was completely different from the eyes of a normal corpse, and there was no sign of decay, and the brown beard looked disheveled, and it looked like it had not been taken care of for a long time, even before he died.

The King of Hearts closed his eyes tightly, and the corners of his mouth curved downward, always making Hola feel that he would open his eyes and shout in the next second.

But he died after all.

Peloris looked at the empty street and asked:

"Grandpa, why is there no one on the street?"

The old man laughed twice:

"Why? Because we have a plague here, don't you know?"

Peloris remembered the noun mentioned by the guard, and asked with an unchanged face:

"Is it so scary?"

The old man laughed out loud:

"Hahahaha, horror?"

The old man smiled and shook his head:

"For the patient, the process is not scary, although they know that they will eventually die, but all the patients will stop breathing with heartfelt laughter.

"Even in the moments before they die, they are happy.

"But in the eyes of normal people, it's just weird and going crazy. ”

Peloris looked at the old man's strange expression and couldn't help but take two steps back:

"And how did this disease spread?"

The old man smiled grimly twice:

"Hehe, of course it's contagious through laughter. ”

When several people heard this, they all immediately retreated, and even Peloris showed a frightened expression.

"Hahaha. The old man looked up and laughed a lot, and then said unhurriedly, "I'm joking, so maybe it's through laughter?"

A few people breathed a sigh of relief, but their eyes at the old man were a little more guarded.

The old man giggled:

"If it is only transmitted through laughter, then whether it is locking up all the patients, or wearing earplugs and communicating in sign language, it can greatly suppress the spread of the disease, but ......"

The smile in the old man's eyes became more and more intense:

"But you can't stop it, even if you isolate yourself in your room and don't communicate with anyone, you will get this disease.

"Nothing can stop the spread of 'happiness', hahaha,"

The old man stretched out his hand and pinched his cheek, forcing himself to stop laughing:

"No matter what other people say to you about being happy, he is lying to you, the moment you step into this country......

"Death is already predestined. ”

The old man covered his mouth and continued:

"But rest assured that it will be a long time before death comes, perhaps a month, or years, and you will be able to accomplish your own thing in that time.

"After all, you must have your reasons for taking such a big risk to enter the poker kingdom, and I won't ask you what you want to do, as long as you don't get involved with the rebels. ”

After saying this, the old man lost interest in chatting with a few people and turned around and left.

It was only after the old man had walked some distance that Antotica spoke:

"Let's go back....... ”

Fanny says:

"We don't have food and water, especially water, and if we don't come to the rescue for a few days or find a way out on our own, we're likely to die on the road, or even before that, we'll be incapacitated and waiting for ourselves to die of dehydration. ”

Inge said worriedly:

"But every second we spend here, we have the more chance of suffering from that happy disease, although it doesn't sound terrible, but if this is really a terminal illness that will kill the patient, we are already in danger. ”

Hola says:

"And we don't know what money they're using, and if they knew that the pound was the money of the people of the earth, they would probably find out who we were. ”

Fanny continued:

"Then we will be the next Prince Gawain. ”

Peloris took a deep breath and said slowly:

"Inge, you're the one who knows the most about this place, and tell us anything you know, even if it's probably wrong right now. ”

When Inge heard the question, he said without thinking:

"As far as I know, the country is ruled by the King of Hearts and the Queen of Hearts, and apart from the King and Queen, only one of the Crazy Duke of Spades has more power, and besides them, there are the Knights of Diamonds loyal to the King of Hearts, and Lady Plum is the wife of the Duke of Brown Sugar.

"If you treat this world as a fairy tale, the king and queen of hearts are the rulers of this world, with good hearts, but they don't necessarily help us much, the Duke of Spades and Lady Plum are a bit like the kind of villains who are hidden, and the Knights of Diamonds are the kind of righteous and good people on the bright side. ”

Fanny reminded:

"But this is not a fairy tale, no fairy tale would cut off the king and hang it on a spear for people to see, and if I look up now, I can even see the cross-section of his esophagus and trachea. ”

Inge explains:

"I'm just saying I know, and a long time ago, I believed that this country might really be like a fairy tale, but somehow it became what it is.

"In addition to the few people I have just mentioned, there are forty nobles, although they are nobles, but they do not want to be so hierarchical on the ground, they are simply divided into one to ten, four suits. That is, from the first of hearts to the ten of hearts, the first of spades to the ten of spades, the one of diamonds to the ten of diamonds, and the one of clubs to the ten of clubs. ”

Antotica's expression calmed down a lot:

"The ...... we just met"

Inger pointed to the corpse of the King of hearts and said:

"It's the one of hearts and the one of diamonds, I just counted, and there are thirteen dark hearts on his clothes, and in the legend, there are thirteen hearts on the robe of the king of hearts, plus the king originally means KING (king), so I can now be ninety percent sure......

"He is the former ruler of this land, the King of Hearts. ”

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