Chapter 14 The old man took a fancy to me and wanted to force me to be his concubine.
Half an incense stick later, Mu Xingchen was ruthlessly thrown into a dark cell.
She held onto the cell door, stood up awkwardly, and angrily said, "Cough, cough, cough. Damn Li Yan, my voice is hoarse." She touched her neck, feeling a sharp pain. She took a long breath and gritted her teeth, "I really want to kill him. This is the second time I've been strangled this month."
Xiao Qi asked worriedly, "Are you okay, Xingchen?"
"It's okay, I won't die. He won't kill me either. I just have some internal injuries." Mu Xingchen covered her chest. "Now I think of that bitch again. It's better that the bitch is dead, otherwise I really want to tear her into pieces." When has she, Mu Xingchen, ever been so embarrassed?
Xiao Qi said speechlessly: "I still say the same thing. If he is not dead, it is not that you want to cut him into pieces, but you should be thankful that he does not find you now."
Mu Xingchen calmed down and carefully observed the surrounding environment. There was no light here, and it was pitch black all around. There were screams all around, and the air was filled with a faint smell of decay and a strong smell of blood.
"But why is the light black? This level should not affect people with high spiritual power. Aren't those who are locked up here guilty of heinous crimes? Then everyone should have high spiritual power." Mu Xingchen asked.
Xiao Qi quickly searched Mu Qing's memory: "The prisoners here have their spiritual powers abolished before they enter. When the lights are turned off, they can't see anything. Not being able to see anything is a form of psychological torture. When they are tortured, there are no lights on, which brings out people's psychological fear to the extreme. They never know what torture instrument will be dropped on them in the next second."
Mu Xingchen narrowed her eyes. "No wonder it's called the Dark Prison." She looked ahead and paused. "There's someone across the way, an old man."
"Cough." Her eyes changed, and she coughed. Then she stumbled forward and knocked on the cell door, shouting in a hoarse voice: "Is there anyone here? Help! Help!"
The other party is indifferent and ignores her?
Mu Xingchen continued to shout: "Help, someone come! Save me..."
Finally, the person on the other side grew impatient with being shouted at, and a rough, elderly voice came over: "Stop shouting, girl, no one here will come to save you."
"Who is it? Who is here? Who is talking? Save me, let me out!" Mu Xingchen said fearfully while looking at the old man opposite calmly.
The old man burst into laughter and said, "Hahahahahaha, I am just a prisoner. I can't even save myself, so how can I save a little girl like you?"
"But I was wronged, wuwuwuwu, I really was wronged." Mu Xingchen cried breathlessly, "Old man, can't the wronged people get out?"
"Unjust? Tell me what you have done wrong?" the old man asked jokingly.
"They slandered me as a member of the Yuegan tribe." Mu Xingchen stopped crying and sobbed, "Old man, did you know that a while ago, a member of the Yuegan tribe was imprisoned here? I think his name was Tushan or something. They arrested me and said I was his daughter, but I am really a human."
The old man was surprised and said, "Hey, if you are not from the Yuegan tribe, why did they capture you? It shouldn't be a mistake. It's easy to tell if you are from the Yuegan tribe. Just look for the demon core."
Mu Xingchen said in despair, "To be honest, old man, I was arrested because I offended Prince Yan. He took a fancy to me and wanted to force me to be his concubine. After I resisted, he arrested me and threw me into this secret prison."
The old man was surprised again, "Prince Yan? He fell in love with you? And you refused to obey?" He thought for a moment and then said, "It seems like something he would do, but I remember he had a little girl he loved very much, didn't he?"
Mu Xingchen retorted, "Don't you know, old man, that Prince Yan has a fiancée? If he really liked the girl you mentioned so much, he should have broken off the engagement and married the person you mentioned long ago."
The old man was silent for a long time. Mu Xingchen saw him sighing, sitting down and standing up, walking back and forth, then sitting down again and standing up again, as if he was very anxious and helpless.
Finally, he sat down dejectedly, sighed, and replied, "You're right, he eventually fell in love with someone else. As expected, a man can be relied upon, and a sow can climb a tree."
Mu Xingchen asked curiously, "Old man, do you know the woman that Prince Yan liked before?"
The old man subconsciously waved his hand and said, "I don't know him, I don't know him. I just know Prince Yan."
Mu Xingchen raised her eyebrows, her intuition told her that this old man should know Mo Fei.
But now is not the time to dwell on this matter.
She held onto the railing and continued crying, "Wuwuwuwu, old man, please save me, I'm really not Tushan, I'm a human..."
The old man sighed again and said dejectedly, "Alas, everyone thinks this dark cell is a place of countless tortures that make people's lives worse than death, but in fact, this dark cell attacks the heart." He then sighed heavily and said, "He was determined to capture you, so he deliberately slandered you as a member of the Yuegan tribe. Don't you know? Most of the people imprisoned in this dark cell are from the Yuegan tribe. That's why he accused you of such a crime."
Mu Xingchen's mouth froze. What did they mean by "most of them are from the Yuegan tribe"? Were there other foxes among them? Could he have mistaken someone?
Xiao Qi said speechlessly: "It's troublesome. It would be too time-consuming to search for them one by one."
The old man said regretfully, "If you could find that Tushan and get him to come out and identify me, there might be a glimmer of hope. It's just a pity that you're locked up here too. It's a dead end, a doomed one."
Mu Xingchen's eyes lit up: "Does the old man know where he is? A glimmer of hope is better than no hope at all."
The old man yawned and said, "Who knows? Maybe it's right next door to you."
Next door? Impossible. If they were next door, then there shouldn't be no sound when I heard their conversation just now.
"But little girl, I advise you to give up. Prince Yan will do whatever it takes to get what he wants. He won't give up until he achieves his goal. There's no way you can get away."
Mu Xingchen said righteously, "No, old man, I believe that good will prevail over evil, and that light will eventually triumph over darkness. I will definitely win!"
The old man laughed and said, "Hahahaha, little girl, you have ambition!"
"Uncle, what crime did you commit to get you arrested? Are you being wrongly accused?" Mu Xingchen suddenly asked.
The old man suddenly laughed out loud: "Hahahaha, unfair? Hahahaha, to be honest, I, an old man, also felt that I was wronged at first. And it was an injustice even worse than that of Dou E, an injustice that broke my heart."
He was silent for a moment, then his voice turned melancholy. "But after staying here for a long time, I suddenly felt that I wasn't wronged. How could I be wronged, old man? I clearly deserved it. I deserved death. The fact that I'm still alive is because God is allowing me to atone for my sins. However, today..."
"What are you talking about!" A fierce voice came from outside. Mu Xingchen looked in the direction of the voice and saw that it was a team of prison patrols.
The prison guard walked up to them, glanced around fiercely, and then said coldly: "Are you the two who just spoke? Take them away!" At this time, one of the prison guards stopped them and said: "Wait, you can't take this woman away. She is Prince Yan's fiancée."
The leading prison patrolman gave Mu Xingchen a strange look and said, "Then take the old man away."
The old man suddenly laughed and said, "Hahahaha, I have finally had a conversation with someone before I die. I have finally waited until today. I have really had enough of life. Thank you, little girl, but it's a pity that I can't help you."
"Stop talking nonsense and take him away!" Immediately afterwards, the old man was escorted out by two prison guards. The iron chains on his feet made a "sizzling" sound with every step until he stopped in front of the prison door. He tried to grope in the darkness with his eyes, but unfortunately he could not see anything.
"Let's go! What are you dawdling for!" the prison patrol said fiercely.
The old man was being escorted forward. He turned around and shouted, "Goodbye, little girl!"
Mu Xingchen frowned as she watched their backs. She speculated, "Xiao Qi, are you saying that the prisoners here can't see anything and can't speak. If they speak, they'll be taken away?"
"That should be the case. No wonder there are people imprisoned everywhere, but no one dares to make a sound."
No wonder the old man said that this is a psychological attack. If a person cannot see, cannot speak, and has to worry about being tortured all the time, let alone being locked up for a few years, he will probably go crazy in just a month.
"But what do you mean by 'lived enough'? Does it mean that the old man just spoke and then he will be executed?" Mu Xingchen frowned.
Xiao Qi: "I don't know. This is beyond Mu Qing's memory."
Mu Xingchen looked at the disappeared person, a hint of coldness in his eyes, "Looks like we have to act quickly."
She began to scan the cell carefully. It was completely empty, without even a piece of dry grass. There was only a lock hanging on the cell door. To the naked eye, the lock looked no different from an ordinary lock. The only difference was that it had no lock core.
Mu Xingchen walked over to take a closer look at the lock, but as soon as she touched the edge of the lock, it was shaken open. She took a step back to steady herself and said speechlessly, "Spiritual lock?"
Xiao Qi was also amused: "The spiritual power of the people imprisoned inside has been wasted, and they still use spiritual locks. They think too highly of them."
"I'm afraid they're guarding against the Yuegan Clan outside." Mu Xingchen stepped forward again, gathering a trace of spiritual power in her hand and probing towards the spiritual lock. She withdrew her hand, holding back the slight pain in her chest: "Fortunately, I can open it after recovering my spiritual power."
Xiao Qi reminded him, "It's okay, Xingchen. The Seven Star Tower will charge you three times, each time for an incense stick of time. During this time, it will protect you from the backlash of spiritual power."
Mu Xingchen said solemnly, "I know, but this spiritual power must be used on the tip of the knife. Calculating the time, it should be the evening hour outside now. It's not dark yet. Let's wait a while and act after it's dark."
Xiao Qi: "Okay."
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