"Xiao Jiu, are you really that poor?"
Murong Zhen walked over with a smile and slipped a hundred-yuan bill through the car window.
Xiao Jiu's eyes lit up. He grabbed the driver to give him his change and said to Murong Zhen, "I'm poor? I'm not poor at all! I always add two eggs to my jianbing guozi! The problem is the starting fare is five yuan, and he can only charge me five yuan. But since you've already given me the change, I won't complain. Give me the remaining ninety yuan!"
After the driver gave him his change, I pursed my lips. This wasn't an easy-going taxi driver. I wanted to curse him, but seeing that we were in the middle of nowhere, I didn't dare to say a word.
Xiao Jiu took the change with a big smile, stuffed it into his wallet, got out of the car with the late-night snack box, and then pulled a large black suitcase out of the trunk.
"What is this?" Murong Zhen frowned.
Xiao Jiu laughed heartily: "What a wonderful thing! Empress Xiao will definitely love it! I say, Military Advisor Murong, we've been eating jianbing guozi every day until we've developed stomach problems. We've finally managed to get a living person, so don't stop us! Empress Xiao hasn't eaten a human in a long time either; she's been thinking about it!"
Murong Zhen's face suddenly turned cold: "I'm asking you where these living people came from!"
"This... I didn't catch it!" Xiao Jiu shuddered in fright.
Murong Zhen once issued a decree: cannibalism was permissible, but only the most heinous criminals could be captured and eaten. A demonic corpse once violated the decree, capturing a child to enjoy, and was subsequently shredded to pieces by Murong Zhen himself.
He still can't forget Murong Zhen's cold expression at that time. A scholar, calmly carrying out the terrible torture of being torn to pieces!
What he couldn't understand at all was that the Empress valued this mortal more than she valued her brothers!
"I didn't arrest him, look!"
Xiao Jiu opened his suitcase, revealing a very pretty girl.
She looked to be about twenty-three or twenty-four years old. A few bloodstains on her light makeup only made her more beautiful and charming. Xiao Jiu showed no mercy, dragging Zeng Rou by the foot and fawningly saying to Murong Zhen, "I was just buying food for everyone. It's over there on the barbecue street. She fell down in the alley. I figured she was probably a living person who jumped off a building, so why not bring her back for everyone to share?"
"The alleyway of the barbecue street?" Murong Zhen squinted.
The entire county's topographical map was in his mind, and like satellite positioning, three small dots quickly coalesced in his mind, scattered across the three alleys of the barbecue street.
The surrounding buildings were like a holographic image, clearly reflected in his mind.
"The tallest building around those three alleys is only five stories high. The probability of a living person committing suicide by jumping from the fifth floor is very low. There's something wrong with this person!"
Murong Zhen gave the order directly: "Take it away and throw it away! Throw it as far away as possible!"
"No, strategist!"
Xiao Jiu was reluctant to part with this rare 'wild game'.
Just as he was about to offer some advice, the unfinished building suddenly emanated a terrifying, dark yellow ghostly aura, extremely deep and heavy, like the thick earth of the underworld in legends!
"A song of an owl, a song rarely heard in this world, who grows old?"
The Song of Two Owls: Life and death, prosperity and decline, are uncertain.
The Song of the Three Owls: You live, I die, and I weep for three lifetimes.
The Song of the Four Owls: I wish to grow old with you, I wish to be young with you, I wish to go through the cycle of life and death, through nine lives, nine deaths, nine old age, without end…
A faint song drifted from inside the unfinished building, devoid of any emotion, yet it evoked a profound sense of desolation, as if one had finally been reincarnated to find their beloved from a past life, only to discover that the person's hair had turned white, and when they entered the house and rushed towards them, the person's head was bowed, lifeless.
The greatest distance in the world is now, between life and death!
"Congratulations on your emergence from seclusion, Empress!" Murong Zhen said softly, his face still expressionless.
He was just an ordinary person, yet he used immense willpower to block the influence of the Empress's power. Xiao Jiu, who was already at the sixth level of the Technique Realm, knelt down with a thud, his eyes filled with bloody tears.
"Military Advisor Murong is indeed extraordinary, his heart is as hard as iron." The Empress walked out of the unfinished building, staring at Murong Zhen with a longing in her eyes. Meeting Murong Zhen's cold gaze, she could only sigh: "As expected of my Military Advisor Murong, there is no woman in the world who can make the strategist's heart flutter, is there?"
Murong Zhen smiled and said, "You are the master, and I am the servant. Murong Zhen can sit on any woman's bed, but I cannot be your guest."
"You're afraid that feelings will affect your judgment, strategist Murong, you're too cruel."
The owl seemed to resent and berate her.
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