[Count of Monte Cristo] Love and hatred

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Another torch was extinguished as the woman left.

The cell was getting darker and darker, and death seemed to be beckoning to Mei Tess in the shadows, with a sweet and seductive aura.

However, the woman's words aroused her curiosity.

She wants answers, she has too many doubts to unravel.

It was not until the last torch was extinguished that the woman appeared again.When she gracefully opened the cell door, Mei Tess almost thought it was another dream.

"Follow me," the woman nodded to Plum Tess.

"Ma'am, where are you taking me?" Mei Tess asked suspiciously.

"Please call me Saturn," the woman said with a smile, "I will take you to find the answer."

As if hypnotized by that sweet voice, Mei Tess followed the woman who called herself Saturn out of the cell in a daze.Plum Tess had always sought refuge in the dark all this time, so when they came down a brightly lit passage she was finally freed from this illusory sense of security.

She began to observe, began to think... She noticed that Saturn had a dagger inlaid with gems pinned to his waist.

Plum Tess wanted to grab the dagger, but hesitated.The opportunity was fleeting, and Saturn was never so close to her after that.She led Plum Tess all the way down the spiral staircase to an empty circular field.

This is the lowest floor of the tower, surrounded by twelve iron gates like twelve bloody mouths, surrounding them.

Plum Tess narrowed her eyes slightly, and a pointed stool like a horn loomed in the door.She turned her head away in some fear, but saw a medieval "Iron Maiden" through the door on the right, as well as a blood-soaked iron hook and a wooden stake full of arrows...Plum Tess seemed to be standing there. In front of the gate of hell, fear was like a pair of pale hands, silently clutching her throat.

"Sometimes, the fear in your heart can hurt more than the things that scare you. Don't let it disturb you!" Saturn reminded, "You must use your heart to see the truth."

Plum Tess suppressed the fear in her heart and forced herself to look at each door. She saw a sign of a constellation on all the doors. "This represents the zodiac?"

"Yes, these are the punishments corresponding to the zodiac," the woman said coldly, "but that's not what I want to see."

Plum Tess nodded, seeing with her heart, she told herself, not with her eyes.She finally found that most of the locks were covered with rust, they had not been opened for many years.

Only that one...

A dark-skinned woman suddenly stepped out of the shadows. Perhaps because her skin was too dark, and the place was too dark, Mei Tess hadn't noticed her existence before.I saw that she went straight to the iron gate of "Leo" and opened the prison door.

Phoebes!

This was the first time Plum Tess saw the beast clearly.It was not a lion, but a strong black panther. It was prostrate on the ground in a hunting posture, slowly approaching them, and the stench in its mouth could be smelled several meters away from Mei Tess.

She wanted to run, but at that moment her legs seemed to have forgotten how to run.

"Mars, take care of your beast," Saturn said angrily.

The black panther roared at her, but the black woman stopped it as soon as it stepped out of its paws.

The black woman waved the whip in her hand, making a cracking sound, and then the black panther squatted obediently at her feet like a big cat.

Until then, Plum Tess was able to spare some energy to observe the appearance of the black woman.She was tall and tall, her skin was as black as ink, her hair was pulled into a long braid, and her body was decorated with animal teeth and feathers. She was arrogant and unrestrained, but she was beautiful.

It is a wild beauty.

Saturn exited the venue, and a few minutes later, she escorted another female prisoner down the spiral staircase, that girl who was a bit crazy!

No, no, the girl looked perfectly normal now, the only flicker of madness about her was her eyes.She went straight to Mei Tess and stared at her intently.

"You have to be careful, she is a dangerous character."

After Saturn finished speaking, he closed the bolt on the iron door of the spiral staircase.It wasn't until this moment that Mei Tess realized that this place looked like a small amphitheater, and there were piles of weapons on both sides of them.

"As punishment for escaping, you must fight and kill each other. The winning side will have the right to survive, while the losing side..." Saturn pointed at the black panther, hesitating to speak.

Mei Tess didn't know where the courage came from and blurted out, "What if we refuse?"

"In that case, Mars will put away his whip and let Phoebes play a pre-dinner hunting game. I don't think you want to see that," Saturn said before disappearing into the shadows.

Mei Tess still wanted to resist, but as the black woman named Mars swung his whip again, another girl rushed towards the pile of weapons next to her first.

Plum Tess turned around and picked up a bow on the other side, but before she reached the quiver, the girl had already rushed over with a short knife, and Plum Tess' bow blocked the first blow for her.

"We can work together," Mei Tess said in a low voice, "I can shoot that black panther with a bow and arrow, and you go and deal with that black woman, maybe we can all survive."

However, the other party turned a deaf ear and attacked her like a crazy beast.

It didn't take long for Plum Tess' arm to be cut open with a long cut.And the girl she saved took advantage of the situation and knocked her down, then rode on her.

Plum Tess gradually became exhausted, and the sharp blade gradually moved towards her snow-white neck.

Just when Plum Tess was about to despair, she suddenly heard two clapping sounds from above.Then the black beauty shouted in a language she didn't understand, "Stopa!"

They were still in a stalemate, and the black woman had already yelled several times before Mei Tess could barely hear her yelling to stop in her unproficient English.

Plum Tess wanted to do that, but the girl didn't want to stop.Before she could kill Plum Tess, the black woman lashed her whip and knocked her to the ground.

Mei Tess struggled to stand up, following the clapping sound just now, she saw the man she met in the town again.I saw him standing on the terrace, raising his thumb like an ancient Roman emperor, clenched his fist with four fingers, and looked at her with a half-smile.

She understood what he meant, it was the act of a Roman emperor pardoning a gladiator.At that moment, a thought flashed in her mind, everything is a test.But instead of feeling any joy in her heart, she was filled with a strong bad premonition.

The man walked forward slowly, his bright blond hair shining like sunshine in the firelight.

He said in an elegant and deep voice, "Welcome to Dark Star."