The villain and I have eight hundred minds combined

Chapter 177: Strange Things in the Theater (25)

There was a fence around the stage for hanging curtains. She found a gap in the fence and slowly walked in. Just after she took a few steps, the pitch-black front was illuminated by the non-existent strange "moonlight", allowing her to see the seats in front of the stage clearly.

This sight made her scalp tingle and she shuddered with fear.

The seats in front of the stage were densely packed with people.

A group of heads were sitting quietly on the stools with their backs to her, looking towards the stage without moving, and no one made a sound.

This scene was too terrifying, more frightening than a demon sticking right next to your face.

She swallowed, picked up the Cang Xue Sword and began to move quietly to her seat. It was very quiet around her, and only the sound of her and Su Miaoying's light footsteps could be heard.

When she moved to the nearest row of seats and looked forward, she was shocked to see a corpse with staring eyes sitting there, acting as a spectator.

There were obvious signs of re-attachment on the body's limbs. The body's eyes and mouth were open, and dark veins were faintly visible on its purple face. The last moment of its life must have been extremely painful.

She observed the clothes of the corpse and found that he was actually a disciple of the Wenxin Sect... It was a face she didn't recognize. If it wasn't Lu Yusheng who had just died, then it should be Zhai Tian who was the first to kill the "civilians" on the street and was judged to have violated the rules.

She looked to the side again and saw that all the "people" sitting in the last row were actually dismembered corpses, with all kinds of twisted and hideous faces after death. It was horrifying at first glance!

"It turns out... the body was dismembered in order to imitate the process of shadow puppet making, where the limbs of a living person... are put together to make a shadow puppet..." Su Miaoying followed behind her, and when she saw this scene, even the calmest person could not bear it and his voice began to tremble.

The two forced themselves to suppress the discomfort in their hearts and continued to look forward.

In the second to last row, Mu Hanxing saw the dead Lu Yusheng again. His death was no different from Zhai Tian’s. There was also Guangsheng... and all kinds of faces that she didn’t recognize but for which she felt pity.

Until the end, the two saw Xiaoli, who had died calmly, in the front row.

Su Miaoying stood in front of Xiaoli, her features frozen and her eyes blank, as if she was looking at an unfamiliar stranger. She asked in a faint voice, "Is she... Xiaoli?"

Mu Hanxing could only comfort her: "She must have been possessed by a ghost in her dream. In the dream... that's why her expression was relatively calm... She probably didn't feel any pain and passed away."

"That's good..." Su Miaoying lowered her eyes and looked at Xiaoli's face and said, "I really wanted to take Xiaoli out. That night, I went to Mr. Feng and asked him to give the first password to leave the city to Xiaoli. He didn't believe it, but I didn't care, as long as Xiaoli could get out... I just didn't want to owe anyone a life anymore... It didn't feel good, do you understand?"

She glanced at Su Miaoying in the dark: "So, after Xiaoli died, you felt that it didn't matter whether you went out or not. Suddenly you were tired and couldn't walk anymore, right?"

That's why she was so depressed, as if she had no interest in knowing anything that happened later.

"Yeah..." Su Miaoying smiled silently, "I suddenly felt that if I continued to struggle to live, wouldn't I be harming the next girl who would survive? Yue'er, Su Ming, Tao He, Xiao Li... there will be another one."

Mu Hanxing looked at her without saying anything.

She continued, "As a royal merchant, the Su family has done a lot of shameful things behind the scenes. Murder and robbery are common. Our Su family owes too many lives... It's time for my generation to pay it back."

"What do you want to do!?" Mu Hanxing realized something was wrong when he heard this.

Su Miaoying took one last look at Xiaoli's body, her eyes changed, and she suddenly yelled at the stage in front of her: "You are Princess Lanqin who died in that war, right! Ningguo and the Xirong people signed an agreement behind the scenes. The Xirong attacked openly, and Ningguo assisted secretly. The money looted on the battlefield belonged to the Xirong people, but the famous utensils, calligraphy and paintings, including shadow puppets of the Bo Kingdom, all belonged to Ningguo... I am from the Su family of Ningguo. I once helped Emperor Ning secretly come to the Bo Kingdom to negotiate with you Lan family. We... are willing to use a large sum of money to purchase all the spiritual civilization of the Bo Kingdom, but that negotiation completely tore the face of the two countries, and it can never be saved! In the end... you would rather die for your country than sell out the civilization of the Bo Kingdom. The Bo Kingdom has been destroyed, and later it was arbitrarily changed to the 'Drama City' by Ningguo. Your resentment... your evil spirit is all because of me, the loyal dog of the Bo Kingdom, who came to this land, right!"

Mu Hanxing’s face turned pale, his ears rang for a while, and huge waves of unrest surged in his heart.

Su Miaoying had already prepared herself mentally. She raised her head and exchanged words with the evil spirit: "I am Su Miaoying, the sixteenth generation descendant of the Su family! I have followed the will of my ancestors to protect Ningguo. I regard the orders of Emperor Ning as my world. I have stained my hands with blood for the monarch. I never regret it! In my life, I have run seven shops, supported countless people of Ningguo, supported countless dying loyal ministers and good men for Emperor Ning, and I have also embezzled military pay, accepted stolen goods, and killed thirty-two people... But now, I don’t want another person to die for me! I have lived enough in this life! Kill me if you want! Use my life to offset the descendants of my Su family! Offset your resentment and restore this place to its original state!"

"Su Miaoying!" Mu Hanxing could no longer stop her and could only shout her name loudly.

At this moment, a chuckle came from above: "Haha."

Mu Hanxing felt a chill on her back and looked up suddenly. The voice came from high up in the sky, as if there was someone looking down at this place, casually observing their fear, anxiety, doubt... and so on over the past few days, and "she" just thought it was a show.

"Okay... people from Ning country... hahaha... ah hahaha!" A hideous and terrifying laugh came from the sky.

Mu Hanxing drew his sword and rushed over to protect Su Miaoying, but the black shadow did not drop from the sky and grab Su Miaoying directly. The strange moonlight disappeared again, and the corpse in front of them was thrown back into darkness. Su Miaoying was ready to die with a calm face.

But at this moment, a ghost claw picked up a corpse on the seat in the darkness, and then the lights on the stage suddenly lit up, and the corpse that had just been taken away was projected behind the curtain as a shadow puppet, with the skin made of a living person and the limbs controlled by the invisible silk threads of the evil ghost.

There was a loud bang, and then a deafening gong sounded in my ears. Then, from somewhere, I couldn't see the sound of singing. The first shadow puppet started to perform along with the singing, and the "person" started to move...