She doesn't seem to be blind.
Jiang Yunshu felt as if she had been thrown into a gust of wind, tossing and turning non-stop. The nausea that surged in her stomach over and over again hit her, and she squeezed her eyes shut.
It felt like dozens or even hundreds of years had passed before the dizziness in his head slowly subsided. Jiang Yunshu suddenly ran out of strength and fell straight forward into the biting cold.
She took a deep breath and cautiously opened one eye to look at the scenery outside.
Well……
Um?
That's not right...
Jiang Yunshu knelt with her hands on the rough ground. The fine sand and gravel scratched her palms. She had only one thought in her mind -
How could she not see?!
The girl blinked repeatedly, but all she could see was still pitch black—real black, without even a hint of light or dark!
Jiang Yunshu was confused.
She remembered that she was sent to Yuan State, where the Jiang family's ancestors ruled thousands of years ago, under the premeditated design of the Jiang family, and became the imperial princess Jiang Jingyuan who fell into the water and died young at the age of eleven.
But now... she just felt cold all over, with a cold wind blowing on her back, and she didn't seem to have any other discomfort?
Even if it has been salvaged ashore, it can't be so quiet, right?
The most important thing is——
She doesn't remember that Jiang Jingyuan is blind!
Many thoughts flashed through her mind at once, and in the end she could only sigh in exhaustion. Even if she was blind, there was nothing she could do... After all, it was in her power, and this would not affect her getting what she wanted.
As long as she gets that thing, not only will she be able to survive, but everything else will no longer be a problem or difficulty.
Jiang Yunshu thought to himself, his movements were always cautious and did not make any sound. He even deliberately slowed down his breathing and groped back and forth on the ground around him with his hands.
As her thoughts wandered, the fingertips of her right hand suddenly felt cold.
Cold, bony...
Her hand reached up along that thing...
The girl's pounding heart shuddered violently, and her whole body froze instantly. She slowly curled up her fingers and slowly withdrew her hand.
Wrong, definitely wrong, it must be those old thieves from the Jiang family who made her come to the wrong place...
Sure enough, so many people sacrificed their lives but still couldn't get that thing, so how could she possibly get it? Now that she was here, she realized that there was something seriously wrong with those two women's magic!!!
This is too bad!
Damn those two damned swindlers—
How could those old thieves from the Jiang family be so naive? When they were trying to trick her, they were as shrewd as a thousand-year-old fox, but in the end, they believed what those two liars said...
Jiang Yunshu cried helplessly in his heart.
Yes.
Jiang Yunshu just touched a hand, a hand without a trace of warmth.
If her perception was correct—
In the darkness like the abyss in ancient legends, the owner of this hand was squatting quietly beside her, looking at her motionlessly.
Jiang Yunshu lowered his head and did not move.
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but the darkness in front of her eyes seemed to surge up because of the scream in her heart.
However, soon, the warm flames flickered three times and finally dispelled the thick ink, and the sky became bright.
It turns out she is not blind.
But now it doesn’t matter whether he is blind or not.
She is dying.
Jiang Yunshu's eyes were fixed on the blue-white stone floor between her hands. After a moment, she blinked her dry eyes, put on a cold face, and raised her head slowly and stiffly.
The muddy pink embroidered shoes appeared and disappeared under the layers of tulle skirt. The pale arms were draped limply on the knees, and a strand of frizzy, dry hair hung in front of Jiang Yunshu.
The withered yellow hair swayed in front of her eyes like the tail of some monster...
The two eyes on its pale face didn't blink as it stared at Jiang Yunshu, drooling.
When Jiang Yunshu looked up, it also opened its blood-red mouth, squeezing the muscles under its eyes so that all the muscles bulged out. The corners of its mouth on both sides stretched symmetrically to the ends of its eyes, which was weird and terrifying.
Jiang Yunshu's breathing suddenly stopped, and his ears kept buzzing...
Her pupils shrank, and she subconsciously raised her hand—
An invisible thread seemed to extend from the heart that was burning with fear, connecting to the soul. Jiang Yunshu felt a sharp pain from the back of his right hand to his arm. Red and black lines appeared on his pale skin, outlining a winding and swimming animal that looked like a dragon or a snake.
The animal's head was revealed on the back of the hand that was not covered by the sleeve, and it slowly opened its mouth.
A blood-red shadow like real silk poured out from Jiang Yunshu's fingertips, and with lightning speed, it lashed towards the "person" in front of him.
The next moment, before the blood-red ribbon could touch even a hair of it, the "person"'s body quickly swelled up into a ball, and exploded from the inside out into a bloody mist without any resistance.
Jiang Yunshu was startled and hurriedly raised her hands to cover her face with her sleeves. The smelly blood splashed all over her sleeves almost the next moment.
The stench permeated the darkness and lingered for a long time.
"Bang!!!"
Jiang Yunshu blinked and lowered her sleeves. Encountering this monster right after landing had caused her to misjudge and use a bit more strength...
The blood-red silk passed through the blood mist unhindered and slammed hard against the bluish-white courtyard wall not far away.
She looked up and saw that the smoke in front of her had dissipated, leaving only a rotten pit on the wall, with gravel and lime still falling from the surface of the pit.
Only then did Jiang Yunshu realize that he was in an ancient courtyard.
The white walls and black tiles were decorated with large expanses of fiery red curtains. The ends of the double "囍" characters that were clinging to the wall and were about to fall off quietly flowed down the wall in winding streams of black blood, deeply stinging the eyes of the visitors.
A strong wind blew, picking up the red and yellow firecracker debris on the ground and then letting it fall down again. A feeling of desolation and absurdity instantly surged into my heart.
Jiang Yunshu raised his head and took a look with the help of the dim candlelight in the courtyard. Above the house, a large area of dark and heavy water was flowing slowly on the invisible barrier.
The dark water hides a mysterious mystery in its tranquility. Just one glance can make many people willingly drown in it.
whee……
The sound of drums and music suddenly rang out behind her, separating the loneliness and the joy.
Jiang Yunshu was startled, and when he came back to his senses, he saw the huge pit on the white wall not far away. Only then did he feel something was wrong, and his heart was shocked -
Although she didn't try her best, it was impossible for her to just leave a hole in the wall!
It seems that the danger level here is much higher than she thought... Jiang Yunshu calmed down, stood up and walked to the wall, climbed on the wall with both hands, and lightly turned over and jumped onto the eaves.
She carefully covered her body with an invisible barrier, occasionally flashing with dark red light.
Looking up——
A thick gray fog shrouded the courtyard, stretching as far as the eye could see.
Suddenly, a group of people dressed in bright red came out of the thick fog, beating drums and gongs, and their laughter could be heard all over the place.
They look like humans, with pale skin, strangely raised corners of their mouths, yellowish whites of their eyes, and ink blobs the size of rice grains dotted on them. They have no spirit at all, like puppets.
Before the carriage arrives, the cool and subtle fragrance leads the way, faint and almost imperceptible.
The curtains of the bright red wedding car moved without wind. A fair, delicate hand rested gently on the window, the bright red nails gleaming with bright white highlights, swaying softly and gently...
"Here comes the bride—here comes the bride!"
"Here comes the bride!"
As the sun sets, in the evening celebration.
Jiang Yunshu watched the wedding party walk into the gate, and she jumped off the eaves and walked briskly with the party into the hanging flower gate.
Boom boom boom——
Boom boom boom——
Children with pigtails and a dot of cinnabar between their eyebrows ran past her in groups of three or four, holding rattles. They grinned, revealing a few small teeth as big as rice grains, and babbled incoherently.
In the courtyard, the master of ceremonies shouted sharply:
"Wedding ceremony——"
The groom helped the bride slowly step out of the wedding car, stepped on the mat, stepped over the fire basin, and walked into the hall.
The incense of candles curled, firecrackers exploded, and the bride's red veil fluttered gently, her lips, faintly visible beneath, slowly curling up.
"Bow to Heaven and Earth——"
Jiang Yunshu looked dazed.
As the world spun, she seemed to see the groom's face pale and bloody, the lower half of his face covered in blood. Drops of blood slid down his jaw and hit the ground, and the dark hall floor suddenly became a mass of flowers...
When the world was finally settled, Jiang Yunshu looked again and saw that the groom had a handsome face, full of smiles and tenderness.
"Two bows to the parents—"
The beautiful lady in luxurious clothes sitting on the armchair and the master were in high spirits, smiling and nodding happily.
"Husband and wife bow to each other—"
The bride and groom smiled at each other through the thin red veil.
"The ceremony is over--" People laughed and surrounded the two newlyweds as they walked into the corridor and went to the backyard.
Amid the sound of drums and music, the guests took their seats at the three round tables in the courtyard.
The round tables were filled with meat dishes, and in the center of each of the three tables was a round, white, and tender pig's head.
Jiang Yunshu was led to sit down, and happened to be facing the pig's face. In a trance, she saw that the pig's eyes were covered with yellow-white pus and dark red blood.
"Pick up some food, it's time to eat!" The people at the three round tables all picked up the vermilion wooden chopsticks and reached towards the pig's head.
Jiang Yunshu subconsciously reached out for her chopsticks, but when the chopsticks pointed at the pig's head, her hand suddenly stopped.
The cold white pig's head kept changing in front of her eyes, sometimes it was a pig's head, sometimes it was a human head with rotting cheeks and pus.
Her thoughts froze, and she stared blankly at the pig's head in front of her.
The pig's head turned into a human head, and it closed its blood-red eyes in front of her. Blood flowed from the corners of its eyes, and the stench lingered at the tip of her nose for a long time.
Jiang Yunshu suddenly raised his hands to cover his mouth and nose, closed his eyes, and the stench made a crystal tear roll down the corner of his eye.
When he regained consciousness, Jiang Yunshu wanted to take a deep breath, but the stench filled his face, so he quickly held his breath.
She opened her eyes and saw...
In the center of the round table was a human head with its eyes open, surrounded by various kinds of rotten white meat, and a plate of eyelid meat with eyeballs - it was unadorned, as if the meat had been dug out directly with a knife along the edges of the two eye sockets.
Jiang Yunshu looked up and saw a table full of men, women, young and old with pale faces, crunching the meat and cartilage in their mouths, and... looking at her.
Jiang Yunshu's eyes froze and his whole body froze instantly.
After a pause, she tentatively picked up a piece of meat and put it into the white porcelain bowl of the "person" next to her. The "person" immediately lowered his head and began to eat with relish, and the other "people" also looked away.
Jiang Yun breathed a sigh of relief, and glanced at her complicated dress which had been soaked in water and was very heavy and cold. Her eyes were fixed on a small and exquisite jade pendant hanging around her waist, with the word "Yuan" written on it.
She hadn't come to the wrong place... Huh?! Jiang Yunshu smacked his lips in surprise.
Didn't she come to the wrong place?
Shouldn't she be in the palace now, engaging in palace intrigue? Why was she dining at the same table with this bunch of demons and monsters...? Jiang Yunshu felt a wave of sadness in his heart again.
Considering Jiang Jingyuan, she's only eleven years old now. Although she's the daughter of Queen Rong, she's incapable of cultivation and keeps a low profile. Who brought her here? What's their purpose?
No.
No, Jiang Jingyuan fell into the water and died. The black water above the house now proves this.
This is the Imperial Palace Garden, but how could there be such a strange place under the Imperial Palace?
Jiang Yunshu's thoughts were in a mess, and he could only pick up his chopsticks to pick up food for the "people" around him to delay time.
Don’t think about these things, think about how to get out of here first.
What on earth was this place? Since she hadn't come to the wrong place, it was impossible for something she hadn't heard of to appear out of nowhere—either man-made or...
Jiang Yunshu had a flash of inspiration. Yes, her current situation was like she was in an illusion or a magical array!
Her heart was beating like a drum.
Not to mention whether there is anyone brave enough to set up an array in the palace. Even if there is, no one can do it alone - she thinks it is impossible for a group of people with high cultivation to run to the palace to cause trouble.
It's a magical weapon, she thought firmly.
No matter whether it is a magical weapon being controlled by someone, or a magical weapon that has not recognized its master and forms a killing environment to protect itself, she will have the opportunity to leave if she finds the source of the problem.
Where there is a deadlock, there will be a solution. Where there is a solution, it will be improved. Then there will be another solution... and so on and so forth. There will never be an absolute deadlock.
She was more inclined to believe that this magical weapon was ownerless. If it had an owner, she, an outsider, could just come in and destroy it.
Ownerless items are easier to deal with. The killing atmosphere created by the magic weapon itself protects the magic weapon itself and is also a test for outsiders.
Jiang Yunshu thought a lot, but in reality, she only picked up two slices of boiled meat. Her eyes turned and she was suddenly stunned. She saw the "person" next to her pick up a piece of white meat with chopsticks, which was almost connected to her eyeball, and then handed it to her bowl.
Was this her way of dealing with her? It seemed that at this table, anything put in the bowl had to be eaten.
What if you drop meat on the table or on the floor? What if you flip the table over?
She wants to try it.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yunshu picked up the chopsticks and tapped the "person" on the wrist!
The piece of eye socket meat fell unexpectedly onto the red cloth round table.
A sharp and shrill scream suddenly rang out in the courtyard.
In Jiang Yunshu's vision, the "person" instantly formed his hands into claws and gripped the table tightly. His head led his upper body forward and he madly stretched out his long tongue to roll up the piece of meat...
“?!”
Although Jiang Yunshu was startled by its behavior, he did not miss the opportunity. He turned his body to the side and slammed into the "person" next to him, trying to knock the "person" who was lying on the table away.
But the "person" held on to the table tightly and pushed it over.
Pots and pans were broken all over the floor, and rotten white meat was smashed to pieces on the ground.
At the same time, Jiang Yunshu had already left his seat and, ignoring the screams behind him, ran straight to the corridor.
She didn't notice that the two "people" sitting quietly on the armchairs in the hall were grinning in the same way.
The fiery red curtain was spread out, bright but cold.
Jiang Yunshu stood in front of the door of the back room, calmed his pounding heart, listened to the chaotic footsteps chasing after him, resolutely pushed the door open and walked in, then closed it tightly with his backhand.
Walking slowly around the screen, the exquisite and gorgeous red room felt festive yet desolate.
The room was empty, with only a large double "喜" character stained with blood and tears, staring back at her silently...
Jiang Yunshu's eyes were filled with trembling.
Where are the people?!
How come there is no one in the room? ! !
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