The Emperor's Daily Nitpicking

People in the ground confused the time in the intertwining of darkness and insect lights, but in fact, when they were sleeping on the spot, the sky was bright outside.

It was rare to take a break from the continuous torrential rain, giving the remaining water a chance to buffer.

The Wujin Suspended Palace on the Great Rift Valley God's Road was washed almost from head to toe, with a thick black stain.The water on the eaves hadn't run out, and it dripped into a series of water curtains beside the corridor, dripping, making the palace seem more and more quiet.

The bronze door at the end of the corridor suddenly creaked, and two servants led a thin figure hurriedly towards Sinya's room.

"Ann, I've been up for a long time! I've been waiting for you to tell me a story!" Sinya was restless even lying on the bed, and rolled twice while hugging the quilt, almost breaking her petrified arm. The female officer whispered again and again.

That thin figure was Angel, the white rabbit boy brought back by Kevin. Sinia told people that she didn't like to be called by her full name, and she always only called the first syllable in order to save trouble and remember.When he called "Ann" for the first time, Angel's ears turned red, and he kept saying, "Don't, don't, that's a girl's name."

It's a pity that Xinya, who is only four and a half years old, has the demeanor of her uncle when she was a child to a certain extent, and she took these words as wind on her ears, and disappeared after a whistling.When they met the next day, they still only yelled one word, so Angel could only do what she wanted.

Since her arm was petrified, Xinya couldn't go out and rolled all over the floor.The courtiers obeyed Oswald's order and watched over her from morning to night, so as not to stumble again.

It is a life-threatening thing for such a small child not to be able to go out, especially when Oswald is not around, she has no place to cry, no place to make trouble, and the difficulty of hanging herself is a bit beyond her IQ, I can only lie down obediently and accept my fate.

Because of this, Angel had to run to Xuangong every day.Fortunately, His Royal Highness Xinia has not developed any other hobbies for the time being except for listening to endless stories, so it is not difficult to serve.

"I finished the book yesterday." Angel said, "What are you listening to today?"

Sinya peeked out the door secretly, and saw that the servant was standing respectfully at the door, not intending to come in to catch her, so she hurriedly took out a book from under the pillow.

The sneaky look of such a small child looked a little funny, Angel was embarrassed to smile too obviously, and only pursed the corners of his mouth.He took the book from Sinya's hand and flipped through two pages.

No kidding, this book looks like it was just picked up from the trash.Angel turned the pages carefully, just like that, accidentally picked up a few pieces of paper.

Angel: "..."

He held the pages of the book with a slightly panicked expression: "Honestly, Your Highness, where did you find this book?" If it was an ancient book, if two pages were lost, he would not be able to pay for it even if he sold it!

Sinya lowered her voice seriously, and whispered secretly: "I stole it from my uncle's bookshelf last night."

Angel's hand just shook.

Can the emperor's things be taken indiscriminately? !

Sinya immediately became confident again: "But my uncle said that I can't take anything in his study except what is on the desk, and I can look at it casually! Besides, this book was put in yesterday. Anyway, my uncle is not here. It doesn't matter if I use it for a day!"

"Yesterday?" Angel asked.

The matter of Oswald's travels is not allowed to be spread outside, only those who often travel to and from the Xuan Palace know.Before he left, he made all the arrangements that needed to be made, so no matter whether it was the Priest's Academy, the Medical Official's Academy, or the three major military camps, there were no problems and they operated as usual.

When Angel left the hanging palace yesterday, he happened to see the old man from the Priest's Academy trembling into the study. If I'm not mistaken, the old man probably put the book in the study. After all, I heard him talking about giving the book to the emperor. Find a book thing.

Angel couldn't stand this little girl, so he obediently pulled up a chair and sat down by the bed, and took a cursory glance at the broken book like an ancestor: "Your Highness, are you sure you want to listen to this? What is said in this book?" It's all—"

How to dig the grave of God...

At least the two pages he flipped through were all about the period of Emperor Besseman, when a strange disease spread in the palace. There are missing pages, but intermittently mentioned many things that happened in the tomb of the gods.It's just that the words are extremely exaggerated and distorted, and the posture doesn't seem to be describing a certain historical fact, but rather like writing a fairy tale, who knows if it's true or not.

After reading it, Angel couldn't help turning back to the front and looking at the cover.

"What's the matter?" Xinya rolled unwillingly on the bed, seeing that Angel hadn't started for a long time, she couldn't help tilting her head and pounced on him, "Why didn't you tell?"

Angel simply closed the cover, "Why doesn't this book even have a name."

"It doesn't matter! What I listen to is the story, not the name." Sinia waved her small hand, "Tell me!"

"Okay. Then—then let's start with Emperor Besseman leading people into the tomb of God Faer." Angel read the book very quickly, and he knew the content almost by scanning it once.He raised his eyes and asked Xinya: "Do you know the tomb of God Phae?"

The little girl nodded, her black eyes were crooked with a smile: "I know! Uncle said that the most powerful god in the old era is sleeping there!"

Angel pursed his lips and smiled, looked down at the pages of the book and said slowly: "The tomb of God Phae is located in the area of ​​Baitou Mountain, below the Immortal Waterfall. There is no sunlight and it is dark all year round. It is a good place to sleep forever."

"Why would it be a good place without the sun?" Cynthia couldn't help but interrupted.

"Because there is no light to disturb, he can sleep for a long time without waking up." Angel replied, and continued to speak slowly: "There is a group of loyal and simple elves guarding the tomb door for him." , no one can easily break in. The undead are the steps, the thorns are the fence, and there is a heavy obelisk engraved with blessings for the living. Without souls to pave the way, the door of the tomb will never be opened."

Xinia interrupted again: "What do you mean paving the way without a soul, and the door of the tomb will never be opened? Then you said... um, how did the emperor get in?"

The little girl who could never remember people's names vaguely skipped the name of Emperor Besseman.

Angel couldn't laugh or cry and said: "How do I know how Emperor Ben-en got in?" He paused for a moment, and then said: "Maybe the soul paved the way."

"How does the soul pave the way?" Sinia asked.

"When you die, you have a soul. If enough people die, a road can be paved." Angel replied.

Sinya still half understood: "But...but doesn't God want to sleep there? Just like me lying on the bed, how can anyone who wants to come in at the door die there? How scary! Then Isn't it all souls as soon as the door is opened?"

Angel tilted his head: "Then it just so happens that you don't have to go out, and you should have been sleeping all the time."

Xinia muttered, "What does God think..."

"He doesn't have to think about it, he was already dead when the cemetery was built," Angel said.

Sinya raised her face and thought for a while, but she didn't understand, so she waved her hand and dismissed the question, "What if people don't die? Can you enter without paving the way with souls?"

Angel replied: "Then there is only one way."

"any solution?"

"God will open it himself."

The four-and-a-half-year-old girl suddenly became shrewd. She stared at the tattered book, seeing her eyes as cross-eyed. Angel said: "You are making it up! This page is obviously full of pictures, but only one line of words. You have already said so much, and you have already surpassed it!"

Angel's ears were red, and his face was pierced with embarrassment.He scratched his head and admitted, "Well, I guessed that God would open it himself..."

The second half of the winding path was so dark that you couldn't see your fingers. It wasn't until the last corner that I saw a little light. It was a bug lamp that Kevin dropped here before.

The Bug Lantern hung from the tip of the thorn branch, motionless because there was no wind.

The quiet yellow light just sprinkled on the obelisk on the ground, reflecting the rusty, mottled and blurred writing on it.

In fact, only half of the obelisk is exposed to the ground. The soil that was originally buried only at the base has become thicker and thicker over the years, gradually covering the lower half.

Kevin's footsteps were unhurried and silent. He walked to the obelisk and squatted down. He stretched out his long and thin fingers to scrape the soil a few times, and quickly pushed aside the loose layer of mud. The other half of the obelisk was exposed.

Stuck under the damp soil all year round, the other half of the obelisk has been more corroded than the top, and the characters engraved on the shallower side have been rusted away, except for a few extremely deep ravines that remain, like map lines Winding out from the center.

Kevin stared at the winding ravines for a moment, reached out and took off the dagger at his waist, and drew blood on the fingertips of the five fingers on his left hand.

In order to prevent the wound from healing too quickly, he made deep cuts with each cut, and the blood beads almost smashed into the mud in clusters.

The pain in his fingers was much sharper than other places, but he just frowned, and he looked like an old god again.He put his entire left hand on the obelisk.The obelisk suddenly came alive, and the bright red blood seemed to be sucked out, flowing quickly along the gullies, and soon covered the entire surface like a spider's web.

The rusty bronze monument suddenly turned scarlet, as if it had just been refined from a forging furnace. Some debris fell off and stuck to the thorn bushes, and it burst into flames in the blink of an eye. .

The fire surged extremely high in an instant, and the entire thorn bush was wrapped in golden-red flames, which spread rapidly from the center to the surroundings, and burned into a sea of ​​flames.

Amidst the crackling sound of the sea of ​​flames, the roars and screams of countless beasts and raptors loomed, appearing from far and near, as if they came from the end of hell.

Kevin stood in front of the sea of ​​flames with a calm expression on his face. The crazy flames were almost touching his face, but he didn't even blink his eyes.

He was looking behind the sea of ​​fire.

It wasn't until there was a sound of gold and stone rubbing slowly in the darkness behind the scarlet that Kevin's eyes moved——

Because the door of the tomb is open.

The door had probably been dusty for too long, and when it was slowly opened, there was even a smell of decaying dust coming from the fire.

Kevin took a sip, with a lukewarm smile on the corner of his mouth...

When he opened the tomb door alone, there was chaos around the fire in front of the cave.

Oswald woke up amidst the bewildered voices of the night watchmen.The moment he opened his eyes, there was an inexplicable "thump" in his heart.Not knowing whether it was his intuition or what, he almost instinctively glanced at the position where Kevin was lying.

empty!

The moment these two words crossed his mind, his body had already reacted first.He stood up almost instantly, and went straight to the winding path without saying a word.A group of Wujin iron cavalry hurriedly chased after him, with scattered footsteps.

He is tall and has long legs, and it is very difficult for others to chase him when he is running in big strides.Before reaching the corner, he saw a flickering red light.

It's on fire!

Oswald's face tightened, and he turned the corner with one step.

The scene at that moment will probably be unforgettable for him forever——

He saw the monstrous sea of ​​flames burning into pieces, the howling undead bursting out of the ground, the heat waves surging, and the sky filled with blood.

Kevin glanced at him in the twisting scarlet tongue, then waved his hand nonchalantly, turned his head and walked into the depths of the sea of ​​flames, disappearing completely...