Inside the inner room, by the dim candlelight, Su Yunying was writing something in a thick notebook.
On the table was a multigrain pancake and a bowl of boiling water.
This is Su Yunying’s food, which is not even as good as those of the common people.
"Miss Su, may I come in?"
Shen Zhao's voice rang out from outside the door.
"Come in."
Su Yun wrote the last word in her notebook with all her might, then closed the book and opened another ledger to begin calculating.
Looking at Su Yunying, who was focused on her work at the table, and then at her house, which was even worse than the one he had just lived in, Shen Zhao felt a little lost.
Ever since Su Yunying followed me, even before they established a relationship, when had she ever lived such a wronged life?
Now look at her, her once exquisite face is now completely covered by a thick layer of dust!
The clothes she was wearing were even more unsightly. They were extremely old and almost forming a patina!
It looks like an antique that has gone through countless years of vicissitudes, revealing an air of decay and dilapidation.
For a moment, he felt a sharp pain in his heart.
What exactly happened to make the world like this?
"Is something the matter?"
Seeing that Shen Zhao had entered the room but hadn't spoken for a long time, Su Yunying looked up and asked directly.
Shen Zhao sighed and asked, "You live in a place like this?"
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"
Su Yunying didn't understand what Shen Zhao meant by those words.
Shen Zhao said, "As a commander, why don't you have any special privileges? At least your food and lodging should be better, right?"
Su Yunying smiled faintly: "Don't you know that food is so scarce right now? As the leader, how can I exercise my privileges to satisfy my own appetite?"
"Food shortage?" Shen Zhao was taken aback. "Is it because there's no money to buy food?"
Su Yunying was taken aback: "Where did you come from? It's hard to grow crops in the fields these days. Money is the least valuable thing, don't you know that?"
Shen Zhao frowned: "It's like this, Miss Su, I seem to have lost a lot of my memories, and I don't know where I am now..."
Can you tell me what's going on right now, and why you're hiding in these mountains?
Su Yunying closed the account book in her hand, her brows fixed on Shen Zhao.
After a long silence, she slowly said, "If you really have amnesia, there's no point in explaining anything."
I'll just tell you one thing: the outside world is now controlled by a demon called Blood Nightmare.
There are terrible monsters everywhere, and the Blood Nightmare's minions are hunting down the remaining people.
Food, water and other daily necessities are in short supply. People die every day in the Nine Realms, and some are assimilated into monsters.
All you have to do is stay here and not go anywhere. Once I find a suitable shelter, I will take you there safely.
Shen Zhao was stunned: "How could this happen? Aren't there various empresses controlling order in the Nine Realms? How could it have turned out like this?"
"Of the eight empresses, except for the Demon Breath Empress Leng Qingcheng, who defected to Blood Nightmare and became a pawn, the other seven all died in battle."
"What!"
Upon hearing this, Shen Zhao's face was filled with disbelief.
"How did they die?"
Su Yunying paused for a moment, then said, "Naturally, he was killed by the Blood Nightmare."
"impossible!"
Shen Zhao simply could not accept this fact.
"Leaving aside the others, Song Yanran and Bai Xinian are both powerful beings standing at the pinnacle of the Nine Realms, and have even reached the pinnacle of the Yuhua Realm. How could they possibly die?"
Su Yunying asked curiously, "Judging from your expression, you seem to care a lot about those empresses? Do you know them?"
Shen Zhao clenched his fist: "Tell me, what exactly happened in this world?"
"Sigh~"
Su Yunying sighed softly, got up and walked to the candlestick to fiddle with the flame.
"You said your name is Shen Zhao, right?"
Shen Zhao asked curiously, "What does this have to do with me?"
"It has nothing to do with you, but the whole thing started with someone who has the same name as you.
The exact time dates back fifty years.
"Wait..." Shen Zhao hurriedly interrupted Su Yunying, "What did you say, fifty years ago?"
Su Yunying nodded: "Fifty years ago, that son-in-law of the Great Yin Dynasty named Shen Zhao created the hell on earth we see today."
boom--
Shen Zhao's head felt as if something had exploded.
Su Yunying's words immediately made him feel that the matter was not simple at all.
"Fifty years ago, Shen Zhao, a son-in-law of the Dayin dynasty, seized power through ruthless means within a few years of marrying into the royal family, and rectified the decadent Dayin court."
He transformed what was once a second-rate country in the Eastern Region into a world-renowned first-rate empire.
The Seven Star Prefecture he founded, and the Tiger Guards under his command, fought across almost every corner of the Nine Realms.
Shen Zhao remained silent. Although the history of this world differed from his own, there were also many similarities.
Su Yunying continued, "At first, we thought this was just a normal drama of a dynasty dispute.
I was even pleased that a stable and powerful force had emerged in the Eastern Region.
But who could have imagined that the son-in-law of the Great Yin Dynasty would be so cruel and bloody?
She sat back down at the desk, took out the notebook she had closed earlier, opened it, and said:
"In the tenth year, in order to target the Xuan Tian Immortal Dynasty of the Northern Region, Shen Zhao did not hesitate to drive 500,000 innocent people from the Eastern Region into the desolate mountains to refine them into the Blood Fiend Array."
Then, he struck down six Quasi-Emperor masters from all over the Northern Territory, causing the deaths of millions of innocent people in the Northern Territory.
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