CH 63

Chapter 63: Imprisoned.

Surprised, Qi Ci turned around and saw Lu Yu standing in the doorway, staring closely at him.

Then, Lu Yu walked over with big steps, grabbed Qi Ci’s wrist with extreme force, and his nails, which hadn’t been trimmed for days, pierced Qi Ci’s flesh: “Do you really think I still have a need to live?”

Even though Qi Ci was in pain, he didn’t care. He simply nodded with certainty.

Lu Yu didn’t say anything next, but he did let go of Qi Ci’s wrist. Then, he turned around, walked back towards the house, picked up the food box on the floor, and then slammed shut the door.

Qi Ci looked at his hand which had just been pinched and found that it was bleeding. However, he shrugged it off unconcernedly and walked back to the village.

Since the doors and windows were all closed, barely any light penetrated through the cracks of the closed windows. In the dark room, Lu Yu opened the food box, and with his hand stained with Qi Ci’s blood, he picked up a cake. The white glutinous cake was then stained with the red blood, but Lu Yu didn’t care and swallowed that pastry in one bite.

His slightly bulging belly suddenly protruded in the shape of a snake, which kept wriggling inside, like a monster that was about to break through Lu Yu’s abdomen, with the intention of running out.

Lu Yu smiled, reached out, and gently caressed his lower abdomen. If you looked carefully, you could see that Lu Yu’s ‘mutilated’ hands had grown black feathers: “I thought my identity was discovered… Hmm? You like it so much? Don’t worry, I’ll put you into his body soon, using his flesh and blood to conceive you.”

As he said that, Lu Yu turned his head to the three strange creatures standing at the corner of the wall, who had the corners of their mouths cracked to the root of their ears. Then, Lu Yu said: “You all go. They have been guarding for such a long time, we can’t let them down.”

The three creatures laughed brutally, and in their mouths, red snakes were wriggling recklessly.

After Bian Zhonghua received Lin Baihu’s letter, he immediately searched for cinnabar, red spider lily1, blue evergreen hydrangea2, and other medicinal ingredients. Then, he put them into a medicine pot, cut his palm with a blade, and dripped blood on the herbs. Finally, he boiled the contents of the pot.

After boiling the concoction for a whole day, and before the night fell, Bian Zhonghua filled several bowls with the medicine and ordered the servants to give it to the Gongzis without waiting for it to cool down.

Since those Gonzi had already been tormented to death by what was inside their bellies, they were willing to try anything as long as they could be cured, so when the servants arrived with the medicine in hand, the Gongzis started to scramble for it. Fortunately, Bian Zhonghua appeared to stop them and instructed them to drink one by one.

A Gongzi, while holding his stomach and waist, questioned out loud: “Why can we only drink one at a time?”

Bian Zhonghua smiled and said: “Because I don’t know what will happen to you after you drink this medicine. If all of you drink it at the same time and end up poisoned because of it, how will I explain it to Master Lu Ren?”

The Gongzis: “…..”

At that moment, no one fought each other again.

But now they were also unwilling to drink the medicine.

Bian Zhonghua wasn’t in a hurry, he simply stood in place, waiting. 

Then, a young Gongzi clenched his teeth, picked up a bowl, and said: “I’ll die anyway if this goes on, so I might as well die without suffering.”

As soon as he said that, he raised the bowl and drank the medicine in one go.

The eyes of everyone present immediately focused on the young man, who was also a little nervous. After taking two deep breaths, he seemed to have calmed down, showing the expression of someone who was determined to die. However, right the next second, he fell to the side, tightly clenching his fists that were trembling slightly.

The crowd waited for a while, but they couldn’t see anything changing on the young man. Right when disappointment began to appear on the faces of the young Gongzis, the young man that had drank the medicine suddenly turned pale.

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The young man then covered his mouth, arched up, and rushed out of the Residence. However, as soon as he took two steps, he suddenly bent down and vomited. As the young man vomited dark red blood, a burst of screams were heard around him.

Immediately after, someone shouted: “His stomach has flattened!!”

Mixed with the blood the young man had just vomited, there were pieces of meat with scales, and his stomach had decreased at an incredible speed until it returned to a normal size. At that, the young man no longer had anything to vomit, but his eyes were blurred and he ended up falling on the ground.

Bian Zhonghua stepped forward and pulled the young man up, pushing him towards a stunned servant: “Not bad, his courage is admirable. Take clean water to rinse the Gongzi’s mouth and then send him back to rest. Who’s going to drink the next bowl?!”

All of a sudden, a gust of cold wind blew open the door of the room, making the fire from the candles shake violently.

Bian Zhonghua paused, and the other two Secret Servants noticed it as well, looking at Bian Zhonghua in unison.

Bian Zhonghua slowly raised his head, and even though he was obviously smiling, his gaze and the tone of his voice could send shivers down one’s spine: “You’ve decided to show up.”

As soon as those words were said, the candles in the room were suddenly extinguished by a creepy gust of wind!

There were shouts of panic in the room, and everyone felt that something creepy had crawled on the beams of the roof. That thing moved very fast, producing the crunching sound of something scratching the wooden pillars on the roof beams. That sound felt like it came straight from hell, ripping your eardrums, tearing your brain, making you shiver with fear and wanting to scream, giving you the feeling of only wanting to escape from this place.

The thing that was making that sound went straight to one place….

And that place was where Bian Zhonghua stood.

Bian Zhonghua’s side was bloody and chaotic, while Qi Ci’s side was calm and quiet. It was already late at night, and Qi Ci had gone to bed early, but he couldn’t fall asleep. Qi Ci had been floating between being half-asleep and half-awake, feeling somewhat uneasy.

Finally, he was completely awakened by the cold.

Qi Ci got up and rubbed his eyes dazedly, but then he found out that the window of his wing room wasn’t closed, letting the cold wind blow inside.

After an internal battle between his rational side and his spiritual side, Qi Ci put on some clothes and went to close the window.

As he yawned, he put his hand on the window coffin, when all of a sudden, he felt a cold chill falling down his spine, making him shiver.

At that moment, Qi Ci remembered that when he was in the post station a while ago, the window had also been inexplicably opened like this. Then, when he looked up at the time, he thought that he had seen something that scared him to death!

Qi Ci scolded himself in his mind for being so paranoid, and as he pretended to be calm, he raised his eyes to look.

However, outside the window, there was a smiling person staring straight at Qi Ci. That person was extremely close, so close that he was within reach. It was as if that person could be face-to-face with Qi Ci if he was an inch closer!!!

Qi Ci’s heart almost stopped beating, and his whole body froze in place.

When the moonlight slowly faded behind the black clouds, that spooky man began to move.

Qi Ci moved one step faster, fiercely slamming the window close. Then he picked up a copper candlestick from a table, gritted his teeth, and held it high as he stared closely at the window.

As long as that thing dared to break through the window, Qi Ci would smash that thing’s head!

But after a moment of calmness, Qi Ci’s arms turned sore, and he didn’t see the monster barging in.

At that moment, Qi Ci remembered something all of a sudden.

Whenever they arrived at a place to stay, Bian Zhonghua would remain outside his room to recite a protective spell. 

‘Was it because of this that the monster couldn’t break in?’

As Qi Ci thought of this, a sudden knock came from the door of his room. Each knock was extremely heavy, as if the person outside the room was trying to break the door.

Qi Ci, who was already tense, was immediately frightened by the loud knocking on the door.

Accompanied by the loud banging on the door, there was a heartbreaking plea for help: “Your Highness! Open the door! The man in feathered clothes is chasing after me! I don’t know where to go, I can only escape to your room! Please help me!”

Daaammnn this chapter was so creepy!!! Now, imagine me translating this chapter at 1 am when all of a sudden, my cat decides it’s a good idea to jump behind my back…. right…. took me a long while to fall asleep late