"Yeah." The fat guy and I nodded in agreement.
After each of the three men ate a cactus, they carried the unconscious Xiao Ding on their backs and walked towards the city.
The city gate has collapsed due to its age. If you want to enter the city, you can only go through the drum tower next to the city wall, walk to the top floor, and then follow the stairs of the drum tower to enter the city.
The Drum Tower has nine floors and looks normal from the outside.
But if you get closer, you can feel the resentment emanating from the building, the resentment rising into the sky.
I frowned and stopped, instinctively sensing the danger ahead, but when I turned to look at Jack with a cold face, I knew we had no way out.
Only by moving forward can there be a chance of survival.
With a sigh, he followed the two of them inside. As soon as he opened the door, he felt a cold breath hitting him in the face.
I shuddered violently, and the door closed behind me with a loud bang, and the room was instantly plunged into darkness.
The unknown darkness is sometimes more frightening than a powerful enemy, and it is easier to destroy a person's mind. I groped for a candlestick in the room, lit it with the lighter I carried with me, and the room instantly lit up.
There is a lobby on the first floor, which is very spacious and seems to be used by soldiers for regular inspections.
There is a round platform in the center of the hall, which is obviously a high platform for generals to stand when giving speeches, to show their majesty.
People always look up to those who stand taller, just like when facing danger, short people will unconsciously follow behind tall people and feel safer.
At this time, a little girl in white clothes was kneeling on the platform. The girl was so thin that it seemed as if only bones were left, and her short hair just reached her shoulders.
"Why is there a little girl here?" The fat man carrying Xiao Ding exclaimed in surprise.
Jack's body stiffened when he heard this, and he subconsciously covered the fat man's mouth, but it was too late. He saw the little girl who was kneeling on the stage with her back to them, suddenly raised her head slightly, her body made a sound of bones breaking, and slowly turned her head.
Jack was shocked and grabbed the fat man who was trying to move towards the platform, shouting, "Don't go near her, it's dangerous!"
I also realized that something was wrong in an instant and stepped back.
This was a secret deserted island. The little girl's presence here was obviously strange, so he had to be on guard. However, he couldn't help but frown and asked Jack beside him, "Do you know what's going on?"
Jack seems to know a lot about the secrets of this deserted island.
Jack looked at the little girl on the stage and explained, "The general's beloved wife was originally a princess, but because she was a concubine, she was bullied. During a war, the general led his army to attack her country and massacred the entire city, but he spared her life."
"The girl was only eight years old at the time."
Eight years old?
I subconsciously turned to look at the little girl on the stage, whose back was to us. Judging from her size, she seemed to be around eight years old. I was slightly startled, but still puzzled: "That general is so ruthless and murderous, he doesn't seem like a kind person, does he?"
Jack nodded and replied, "Yes, that general is not a good person. The only good thing he did in his life was probably saving this little girl's life."
"And the reason he spared the little girl's life was simply because she looked like his dead sister."
I nodded in understanding. The general spared the girl's life. The two fell in love and later got married.
Don’t ask me why the little girl would fall in love with the general even though her country was destroyed. Haven’t you seen Cinderella?
The little girl was a concubine's daughter and had been bullied in the palace since she was young. She must have hated everyone in the palace. Then a man appeared and destroyed her country, but only saved her life.
Not only would she not hate the general, she would be grateful to him.
"Wow..." At this time, the girl on the stage had turned around completely, her short hair dancing in the wind, and her little face looked like she was about to cry.
The crying sounded extremely aggrieved yet with a hint of coquettishness, which made people's hearts soften.
"Brother, it hurts..." The little girl blinked, her pale face wrinkled in grievance, and looked at me with eyes full of accusations: "They threw stones at me, beat me with sticks, cut off my long hair, and stripped off my clothes..."
My heart tightened, and the scene of the girl being bullied seemed to appear before my eyes.
Within the huge palace walls, the little girl was surrounded by a group of princes and princesses. She covered her head helplessly and begged them humbly to spare her. She wanted to go back to the cold palace to take care of her mother who was on the verge of death.
But those people just smiled viciously, cut off her precious long hair, threw stones at her, and beat her with sticks. She cried in despair, her palace clothes were stripped off, leaving only her pure white inner clothes, and she curled up on the ground in a mess.
So miserable.
On the day her mother died, she stayed vigil over her mother's spirit all night. She thought this nightmare would last her whole life.
Until the day the city fell and the young general stood before her with his sword drawn, she did not feel afraid at all. Instead, she felt a sense of relief. Surrounded by the corpses of people she used to be familiar with, she closed her eyes calmly.
However, what she waited for was not a cold sword, but a warm embrace.
Her body suddenly flew into the air. She opened her eyes wide in surprise and saw the young general smiling at her with his lips curved, captivatingly: "Little girl, come home with me."
It's not a question, it's a statement.
Her eyes suddenly lit up and she nodded blankly, feeling so happy that she didn't know why.
From then on, in her eyes and heart, all the joy, happiness, sorrow and despair in her life were tied to this man.
Waves of joy and sadness came over me. I knew something was wrong with my state, but I was forced to be stuck in that emotion and couldn't extricate myself.
"Don't look into her eyes!" At this moment, Jack suddenly stretched out his hand to block my eyes from looking at the little girl, and warned in a cold voice.
I shuddered suddenly, woke up from the hallucination, and broke out in a cold sweat.
"Wow, wow, wow..." Suddenly, I heard a loud wailing beside me. I was so scared that my whole body trembled. I turned around and saw the fat man kneeling on the ground crying with tears and snot mixed together. He looked extremely miserable.
The corners of my mouth couldn't help twitching, luckily I didn't cry as miserably as he did.
So embarrassing!
I rubbed my throbbing forehead and walked over to wake up the fat man, but I saw him suddenly put the little Ding on his body to the ground and rushed towards the little girl on the stage regardless of anything.
Seeing this, the little girl on the stage smiled even more innocently and sweetly, but a strange curve appeared at the corner of her mouth.
"Fatty, come back!" I looked at the fat man who suddenly lost control in shock, and quickly stepped in front of him to prevent him from getting any closer to the stage.
"Get out of here!" Unexpectedly, the fat man became furious when he was stopped and stretched out his hand to fight with me. I couldn't help but frown and knocked him to the ground with one punch.
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