Chapter 199 "Your name is Natasha."

An unknown island in the Pacific Ocean.

The climate of this island is completely different from that of the outside world, as if separated by an invisible wall.

Although it was still snowy outside, the autumn wind of November blew across the ears of silver grass on the island. From a distance, it looked like a golden sea swaying and undulating slowly.

A heavily guarded castle is surrounded by clusters of reeds, and this dark fortress exudes a solemn and murderous atmosphere.

At this moment, inside the castle, the crystal chandeliers spread out circles of dim light, covering the bright red carpet and the noble dark golden throne.

Sitting on the throne was a white-haired old man, his hands resting on the scepter, the base of which was resting on the ground.

In front of him, a woman in a white dress was half-kneeling on the ground.

Although she lowered her head humbly and respectfully, the features on the woman's face were still so cold, gorgeous and noble, and her fair skin was so transparent that it seemed to be glowing, making it impossible to take your eyes away.

"Natasha, have you found out why we are trapped on this island?" the old king spoke.

"I don't know." The woman lowered her eyelashes like butterfly wings and said slowly: "But I found out that this is a sea area, which does not belong to the sea area of ​​our world."

"So, we have come to another world?"

"Yes, that's what I mean, Your Majesty."

"I see." The old king stroked his scepter and asked after a moment: "Natasha, how old are you this year?"

"Seventeen."

"It's been so long, since I brought you back." The old king's cloudy eyes lit up. "You know, I've been called incompetent all my life. The best thing I've ever done was to see a girl in the slums, a girl wearing dirty, tattered clothes, but with eyes full of coldness and arrogance."

Natasha lowered her head even deeper, her eyes were cold and sad, and her snow-white skirt swayed gently.

"I chose you, made you my wife, gave you supreme power, and gave you the most noble life in the world, but I never touched your body once, because I always treat you as my daughter."

Natasha said nothing. The king stretched out his old hand and stroked her chin lovingly.

"Do you hate me, Natasha?" asked the king.

"No, how could it be, you saved me from purgatory."

"That's good. Staying with an old man like me day and night is really not something a girl should do. All I can give you is absolute respect and all authority."

Natasha opened her lips slightly and said softly, "Your Highness, you are an excellent person. It is my honor to be able to accompany you."

"Natasha, I've read your picture book. The blooming sunflower is so beautiful. Your hometown... that small village is also beautiful, like a fairyland outside the world."

"That's just..."

The king shook his head and interrupted her: "Compared to the power struggles in the palace, compared to the wars and turmoil that continue day and night, you should want a peaceful life, but I dragged you into this chaotic and dirty world."

Natasha opened her mouth and after a long silence, she said, "Your Highness, from the moment I came to your side, I have never regretted it."

The old king looked at her cheek and smiled softly.

His voice was so hoarse, but he seemed to have returned to his youthful days, the boy who longed for the girls in the palace to look at him more.

"Natasha, I am old and no longer have the ability to lead this country." The old king said seriously, "In fact, I should have admitted that you have been making decisions on my behalf since six years ago. My subordinates often tease me, saying that I am a 'puppet king' and that I will only leave everything to you to decide."

"That's not the case, King Baifoya..."

King Baifoya coughed twice and interrupted her:

"Natasha, after I die, you will become the most powerful person in this country. You will become the empress of the Baifoya Kingdom, and the people will willingly submit to you with admiration and fear for you."

"Your Highness, I will protect this kingdom for you." Natasha said firmly.

"Natasha...tell me about the current situation of my country."

"The army sent by our enemy, the Kingdom of Cantiro, was also involved in this space travel. At this moment, they are fully armed and waiting outside the city wall, waiting for us to surrender."

"Do we have room to retreat?"

"No, this island is not as vast as our continent."

"So what do we need to win this battle?"

"There is no chance...anymore." Natasha whispered, "The troops and equipment they brought were too powerful. In the process of transferring our kingdom to this world, we lost our arsenal and most of our soldiers."

"How can you say that?" King Baifoya said, "You are the smartest person I have ever met. If even you are so sure that this country has no hope, then..."

Natasha raised her cold face and looked directly at King Baifoya: "Your Highness, there is another way."

"What chance?"

"Qinghong."

Hearing this name, Bai Foya took a breath and said, "Qing... Qinghong?"

The old king, who was over fifty years old, seemed to recall a period of purgatory. His hands, covered with wrinkles and dark spots, convulsed violently, and the scepter he was holding tightly trembled as well.

"Yes, it was Qinghong who was imprisoned by you decades ago. From what I have learned recently, it is a demon from hell, possessing knowledge far beyond that of humans."

"What are you going to do?"

"It proposed a deal with me. If we let it go, it will bring us a power called 'Blue Rainbow Holy Fire'. However, to activate this power, we must pay a price."

After a pause, Natasha lowered her voice and said expressionlessly, "I will bear the cost."

"Natasha, you..." The king coughed violently.

"Your Highness, this is the last chance for the Kingdom of Baifoya to survive."

King Baifoya growled, "Natasha, you want to believe the devil's words?!"

"I just hope that Your Highness can die of old age instead of having your head chopped off by the enemy and hung on the city wall for public display." Natasha lowered her eyes and said in a deep voice:

"You are the most gentle person I have ever met, unlike any other monarch in the history of the Baifoya Empire."

"Really... there is no way out?"

"No more," said Natasha. "No more, Your Highness."

King Baifoya spread his left palm on the armrest of the throne, and supported his drooping forehead with his right hand. There was a light flashing in his cloudy eyes. After a long silence, he said:

"...That's all up to you."

"I see."

Natasha stood up, her white dress fluttering in the November autumn breeze. She walked out of the magnificent castle and went straight into the prison in the deepest and darkest part of the entire kingdom.

The flickering firelight, the dense layers of iron nets, and the strange and hideous face behind the iron nets.

Natasha opened the cell, her face and voice as cold as ever: "I'm ready."

"Forty years... a full forty years." The devil named Qinghong whispered, "Madam, this is the right decision. Thank you for freeing me. This is what you deserve."

Natasha stared at it, and saw the devil stretch out its sharp claws and carefully hand a seed emitting green flames into her palm.

"This is the Blue Rainbow Holy Fire?"

“Yes, hahahaha, yes, you deserve it!”

The devil suddenly laughed wildly, his mouth wide open, his playful eyes filled with violence and hatred.

"Believe me, Madam! In the future, you will meet another monarch, a monarch you are truly willing to bow down to. As for this foolish and incompetent old king, let me put an end to his foolish and ridiculous life!"

A raging fire rose from Natasha's palm, soon covering the entire prison, and then expanded to the entire Baifoya Kingdom. The November miscanthus instantly dissipated under the erosion of the flames.

The violent flames were like wild beasts, gnawing at every organ of the infected. Every jailer in the prison was roaring, and the roars were so hideous and chilling.

Natasha lowered her head and stared blankly at her hands. The flames she felt were warm. Perhaps this was a little bit of 'special treatment' the devil gave her before leaving.

"king……"

Her pupils suddenly contracted, and she whispered softly in the warm flames. Every nerve in her body seemed to be about to break. She struggled forward like a monster, and her once beautiful face and figure were gradually covered by stone.

On the desolate land, not only the people of the Baifoya Kingdom, but even the enemy soldiers waiting outside the city walls were all infected by the blue fire and turned into stone statues that froze in place.

Some of them were in panic, some were waving their spears, and some were crying to the sky. All their expressions and movements were frozen at one point.

Natasha's eyes flashed with blue flames. Under the privilege granted by the devil, she was the only one who could move even if she turned into a stone statue. She ran to the palace desperately, muttering incoherently:

"King... King... King... King..."

I ran into the palace and saw the king's body gradually turning to stone on the broken throne. He smiled and said in a hoarse and muddy voice:

"Natasha, you must live well and live for yourself. People... only have this one life."

At this point, his lips were also covered by the stone layer, and the old smile on his face froze: "Bringing you back from the slums is the best decision I have ever made in my life."

"king!"

Before long, the Puppet King became a stone statue, forever frozen on the throne.

Natasha lowered her eyes, the flame flickering in her pupils dimmed, as if it would go out at any time. She knelt in front of the throne for a long time, gently stroking the cheek of the stone statue of the king with her hand.

The girl cried bitterly under the throne, crying her heart out.

She walked on the desolate land. Everything was so silent, and all life was wiped out by the blue sea of ​​fire.

Natasha walked for a long time without eating or drinking. All she could see were stone statues with terrified expressions. The people of the Baifoya Kingdom had all turned into stones that could not be awakened.

She walked from the Kingdom of Baifoya to the outside of the city wall, and what she saw were the same lifeless stone statues. There was no sympathy in Natasha's eyes, she thought that these were all people who deserved to die.

She walked from outside the city to the forest again. The creatures in the forest were no longer moving. She stretched out her slender hand and stroked the bird that had solidified into stone on the branch. Blue flames danced in her pupils.

Finally, Natasha walked from the forest into the mountains. She stopped at the edge of the cliff and closed her eyes. The blue flames in her pupils stopped flickering, and the November autumn breeze blew across her cheeks.

However, she could no longer feel the touch of the wind.

monster……

I am a monster...

The girl thought so, lowered her eyes, took a step forward, and her body was already approaching the cliff.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind her: "Queen Statue, I'm here to see you."

It was clearly a voice she had never heard before and a language she had never learned, but it sounded so familiar to her ears, as if she had heard it somewhere before, very familiar.

Natasha slowly opened her eyes, turned her head, and looked directly at the other person with her cold blue eyes.

"Do you still recognize me?" The boy pointed to his face.

Natasha always felt that his appearance was somewhat familiar, but she still shook her head.

"It doesn't matter. I just know you. Come with me." The boy said, "I will take you away from this island. We can go to many places."

"what are you up to?"

"Well, this is a difficult question for me. I can't do anything, but I need you to be by my side."

Natasha lowered her head and whispered, "I am... a monster."

"You're not a monster. I just realized you're so good-looking. Your previous chess form was a bit old." The boy put his hand on his chin, "Well...it may also be because of the costume."

"What on earth are you... talking about?"

"I say..." The boy shrugged, "Come with me, it's so boring to stay here."

"Where are you going?"

"Go see the whole world."

Natasha hesitated for a long time, the blue flames in her pupils flickered, and after a long while, she nodded: "Okay, but it may not be convenient for you to bring a monster with you."

The boy stared at her cheek and asked, "Speaking of which, I've always wanted to know what your name is?"

"Natasha."

"Natasha, let's get to know each other again."

"And you?"

"My name is Anson Deer." The boy said as he stretched out his right hand to her.

Natasha stretched out her petrified right hand, paused, and then retracted it. "I will bring misfortune. I killed my own people, I killed my king, I..."

She whispered, her voice choking a little.

"It doesn't matter." Anson Lu took a step forward, grabbed her retracted hand, and teased: "I am also a jinx. I killed my parents when I was young, and the few people who cared about me were also killed by me."

He ruffled Natasha's hair and said, "It's okay. We two jinxes can keep each other warm."

Natasha felt the warmth from above her head and suddenly asked, "Can you hug me?"

Anson Lu was stunned for a moment, thinking why it was so sudden, this chess species investigation task was also strange, wasn't it? Although he was very confused, he finally hugged her gently.

"Like this?" he asked.

"Thank you." She closed her butterfly-like eyes and said softly, "When I was still in the slums, King Baifoya also gave me a hug like this. At that time, I decided... to follow him and be loyal to him in the future."

"Oh, then should you come with me from now on?" Anson Lu asked with a chuckle.

"Well, I'll go with you."

As the sun sets, the stone layer on the girl's cheek crumbles away under the dim afterglow. Her cold eyes are filled with tears, but there is a faint smile on her lips.

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