The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

"...You..." Mi Nian sniffed the blood close to her nose, and remembered that the person in front of her had emphasized the words about eyes several times. She asked uncertainly, "What did Miss Yuan see?"

"I saw them peeling off the skins of their own kind and draping them on their bodies to decorate themselves. I saw them stepping on the bones of their own kind and feeling complacent about it. I saw them devouring the flesh and blood of their own kind and eating themselves into obesity..." Lu Weiyuan covered his mouth and vomited a little, frowning. "It's so disgusting, so disgusting. Although my mother has long warned me that I might encounter something that will make me feel uncomfortable and want to kill people, it's disgusting, but why can't they just get together and disgust me!"

For the first time, she had such an irritated expression on her pretty face: "Disgusting, disgusting, disgusting. If I don't burn this place down, I'm afraid my mind will be blocked from the future and my thoughts won't be able to flow!"

While Lu Weiyuan was talking, Mi Nian suddenly felt as if she heard the sound of rushing water in her ears, but when she wanted to listen carefully, she could not hear anything. After all, this cave was at the bottom of the lake, and it was normal to hear the sound of water and waves occasionally, but for some reason, Mi Nian always felt that the sound just now was closely related to the person in front of her...

Lu Weiyuan calmed down, and those Hua Niangs who didn't know how to escape finally screamed enough.

The temperature at this time of year was not too high, and this place was at the bottom of the lake, making it even colder. These girls were only wearing bellybands or tube tops, a thin skirt or slit-legged trousers, and only a gauze dress on the outside that was so thin that you could see the skin texture clearly.

They were already shivering with cold when they were walking, and now they instinctively huddled together, whether because of the cold or because of fear, like a group of helpless little animals.

Hu Ziyi put away the knife and looked at Lu Weiyuan habitually, and was startled by the anxiety on the latter's face: "Miss Yuan?"

Lu Weiyuan took a breath and puffed up her cheeks, then exhaled heavily: "I'm fine, it's just that, how should I put it, I was still a little caught off guard, you guys -" She looked at the group of shivering girls and said in a commanding tone, "Stand aside in groups of two according to the current order, pull down the curtain here and wrap yourself up, don't freeze to death."

No threats, no inducements, just simple orders.

What surprised Mi Nian was that although these girls were frightened, they were still extremely well-behaved and docile, and followed Lu Weiyuan's instructions meticulously, as if they were just a group of puppets, and the strings controlling the puppets were in Lu Weiyuan's hands.

Something familiar.

Mi Nian suddenly realized something and immediately felt a biting cold.

Isn't this what the women in the Hongyang Sect who were tortured to the point of numbness looked like?

Like the walking dead, but that mostly happens to older people who have completely given up all hope, while the women in front of him are young and lively, and the expressions in their eyes are not numb, but timid, mixed with fear and pleading...

Why are you so obedient?

Just like a tamed cow or horse.

And this docile behavior conflicts with the lively emotions revealed in their young eyes, as if... it's like encapsulating the soul of a living person into the body of a puppet!

They may be unwilling, but they can no longer control themselves from obeying.

Whenever she thought about what this place was, Mi Nian felt her stomach suddenly swell and ache. The stomach wall contracted and the gastric juice rolled up and forced into her throat. She suddenly covered her mouth and twitched and made dry heaving sounds.

"I caught the butterfly in my palm and watched it flap its wings desperately between my fingers. Its scales and powder flew around as it flapped its wings until it died of exhaustion but could not fly away. It is so beautiful and fragile. But why do I feel so disgusted when the same thing happens to humans?" Lu Weiyuan asked in confusion. She pulled Hu Ziyi's sleeve and moved closer. This action finally made her look like an ignorant teenager.

Hu Ziyi carefully caught the little princess: "Maybe because we are both human beings."

"That's right." Lu Weiyuan leaned in for a while, wiped away the confusion on his face, and said happily with a tone of sudden enlightenment, "I am a human."

"Your Highness is a very good person." Hu Ziyi actually couldn't understand what Lu Weiyuan had realized in just a few breaths. There were many strange people in the Lu family, and the most serious ones looked like some kind of mountain spirits and monsters in human form. If the two supreme emperors and empresses had not kept their responsibilities in mind while they were going crazy, the common people would have suffered from the disaster of the royal family.

Fortunately, the internal strife in each generation of the Lu family is very serious, with more births and deaths, and to the Queen of God, they are usually the victims of oppression and manipulation. But it is also because of this that when it comes to harming ordinary people, the Lu clan members behave like good people than some corrupt officials and playboys.

As Princess Yuyi's study partner, Hu Ziyi certainly hopes that her little princess will be the one who teases others in the future, rather than being teased by others.

Even if she was one of the people she played tricks on, but... Hu Ziyi had basically emptied her mind and allowed Lu Weiyuan's thoughts and instructions to take in, so that she could better understand her emotions that were different from those of ordinary people. It was also because of this previous connection that Hu Ziyi could sense better than anyone else that Lu Weiyuan's mind, which had always been jumping and flying high in the sky, had suddenly become much calmer and closer to the human world.

So subconsciously, Hu Ziyi wanted to give her another hand so that she could be closer to the secular world.

But Lu Weiyuan's thoughts were really jumping too fast. For ordinary people, the inspiration would disappear in an instant and could not be caught. But for her, it was long enough for her to understand certain truths.

Then that relaxed and happy smile appeared on Lu Weiyuan's face again: "Let's keep moving forward. They can't disgust me now. But since we are here to represent justice and light, these things hiding in the darkness should have nowhere to escape!"

The ten fingers of her hands danced nimbly, and fell on her heart to form a lotus shape.

Mi Nian heard the sound of surging waves again, and this time she was sure that she was not hallucinating, because as the sound of the waves rang out, the entire underground cave shook gently twice.

The hurried footsteps of countless people, near and far, were accompanied by cries of fear, as they feared that the cave, which had been used for many years, would suddenly collapse.

Mi Nian turned around and saw the group of puppet-like girls still sitting there obediently, wrapped in curtains, not moving, with tears filling their eyes.