A hunting adventure [unlimited]

With dark circles under her eyes, Yu Zhen got off the sofa to find water to drink, and went to the bathroom to wash up after drinking.He stepped on the carpet with bare feet, slipped into the dining room soundlessly, and then he saw——

Du Yu actually sat there eating again, this time eating breakfast.

Baguette slices are coated with a layer of thick cheese, and then lightly toasted with butter, the fragrance is overflowing; the hot cocoa in the silver jug ​​is sweet and mellow, the juice milk coffee is complete, and there are a few pieces of dark chocolate wrapped in colored paper on the plate.

Yu Zhen salivated, and consciously went to take the seat where he sat yesterday.

"I want to eat," he said.

Du Yu raised his eyelids, pushed him an empty plate, and said, "You're welcome."

Yu Zhen took a bite of the crispy bread and hot cheese, her cheeks swollen, and her face was full of happiness as she chewed.

Regarding his eating, Du Yu showed a look of great interest, and asked, "As for it?"

Yu Zhen said vaguely: "You don't understand, when I was a child I had to grab food."

Du Yu: "What do you mean?"

"Because I..." Yu Zhen stopped the topic vigilantly, wondering why it was Du Yu's turn to ask him a question?He said with a sullen face, "Forget it, you don't understand even after talking about it."

He grew up in an orphanage. Like all orphanages, the food there is not good, and the toys are donated by caring people. Although he is well fed, clothed and able to study, there are few novel and delicious snacks and childhood fun. There are very few, if you can't grab it, there is none, so he has a special obsession with food.

He can't explain his experience clearly in a few words, even if he tells it, Du Yu, who was born with a golden spoon in his mouth and dreams of extravagance, will not understand it.

Moreover——it is obvious that he is lurking in other people's dreams to explore other people's inner worlds, how can he reveal his own affairs first?

Seeing that he didn't want to talk about it, Du Yu didn't ask him the bottom line. When his plate was empty, he said, "If you're full, let's start studying."

"I've already finished reading that book." Yu Zhen said, "You can ask whatever you want."

Du Yu was stunned and said, "All?"

Yu Zhen drank orange juice from a glass, showing her eyes, "Mmm."

Du Yu: "You didn't sleep?"

Yu Zhen: "Didn't you say that there will be a spot check tomorrow? I'll finish reading it all night."

"Tomorrow night is also tomorrow." Du Yu said coldly, "I'm not a slave owner, you go to sleep, we will start again after you rest well."

"I don't need to sleep." It was already in sleep.Yu Zhen wiped her mouth and urged: "Hurry up and start."

He was eager to get things done sooner, and he didn't want to stay in this ghost place for a day.

"What you saw last night was a pure-blooded wild mermaid." Du Yu stood by the window, sprinkled the crumbs that white pigeons love on the window sill, and stated plainly, "They are very different from the mermaids raised by humans. Irritable, very aggressive, and surprisingly lethal; taking care of it is not an easy job, and you regret it now, and it’s still too late to choose the job of an ordinary manservant.”

At this time, there were three knocks on the door, and a maid pushed in, picking up the tableware and leftover food in front of them.

"Yesterday, I wanted to ask." Yu Zhen secretly pointed to the maids behind and said, "They are responsible for your basic necessities, food, housing, and transportation. What exactly does the male servant do?"

In order not to appear offensive, Yu Zhen added: "I was in a hurry to find a job and saw the recruitment notice before going to the interview...so I don't understand, do you have to give me some training before taking the job?"

"You look a lot like an outsider who fell through a rift in time and space." Du Yu commented on him, "But that's why we're so alike."

"Ah?" Yu Zhen couldn't figure out the riddle of the other party.

"I've always felt that I don't belong to this world, that I don't fit in with it." Du Yu looked at him with probing eyes, "Now, I find that you are the same. Where did you come from?"

There is a show!Here's your chance!

"I come from another world." Yu Zhen told the truth openly.Concerned about the maid present, he waved to Du Yu, and when he lowered his head slightly, he stood on tiptoe, approached, and whispered, "I'm actually here to help you leave."

"Where's the evidence?" Du Yu asked in a voice comparable to his, "How do you prove it?"

A pink ball popped out like a bud, and the folds of the lemon-painted wrapping paper rubbed against the tip of Du Yu's nose.

"Remember this?" Yu Zhen shook the lollipop in front of the other party, "You gave it to me."

Du Yu took the candy and looked at it, with a hesitant expression, "Me?"

"Yes, you, a smaller you." Yu Zhen gestured at the position of Du Yu's temples, "about this tall, wearing a black peaked cap, a sweater, and a candy in your mouth. Let me come to the empire to find you who grew up. He And said you'd give me something nice."

Du Yu frowned slightly, unable to connect himself with this candy, but he did love candy when he was a child.

"Remember?" Yu Zhen asked expectantly.

"You must have dreamed about it." Du Yu returned the candy to its original owner, "I didn't know you before."

Yu Zhen: "Ah... that's correct."

The candy was indeed given to him by Du Yu in his dream, and Du Yu did not know him in reality. This is a weird fact; so how should he explain to Du Yu that we are still dreaming?

"Do you believe that this place is a dream?" Yu Zhen persuasively and persuasively.

Du Yu patted the bread crumbs off his palm and said, "You look like a poor liar."

Yu Zhen: "..."

Du Yu: "No matter what you say is true or not, I will not go with you."

Yu Zhen: "Why!"

The white pigeons that come to forage regularly flutter their wings and land in front of the window, and a few soft feathers float into the house with the wind.

Du Yu's retracted fingertip touched a light feather, he closed the window and said, "Because I have something to do, even if it's a dream."

***

The palace garden is full of roses of various colors, which are colorful and contrasting with the hedges. There are statues among them, which are beautiful and elegant.

If the empire wasn't an empire, Yu Zhen would be willing to stay in such a beautiful place for the rest of her life.

Du Yu did not have the qualifications to be a tour guide, he just took Yu Zhen for a stroll aimlessly, did not make an introduction, and only briefly answered the necessary questions.

The ground is paved with fine white gravel, passing by the Hedge Garden, Du Yu offered: "Go down and have a look."

The art field of the Empire is very accomplished in carving, and even each flower pot is exquisite and delicate stone carvings, but the base of the flower pot is outrageous.

It was a birdcage carved from bone, one-third the height of a person, with stone flowerpots held up on top of the cage; inside the birdcage, a teenager was folded into a kneeling posture, with his arms raised above his head, his wrists like offerings. He was hoisted high by a hook.The green leaves and vines in the flower pot hang down, half covering the beautiful and slender human body in the cage, like a real exhibit.

Yu Zhen saw Cyril.

The silver-haired young man was imprisoned in a narrow birdcage like an object, with fine beads of sweat oozing from his forehead and arms, and his lips were bleeding and broken from biting his lips; he knew that even if he didn't need to lift the flower pot, he could maintain such a painful posture, even Hours are unbearable.

Yu Zhen's eyes were dazed, he was at a loss and said, "What are you doing?"

"Didn't you ask about the job of the servant? That's it." Du Yu replied calmly.

"This is abuse." Yu Zhen said, he squatted down and held the bones of the birdcage, and called Cyril's name.

However, the other party turned a deaf ear, and the erratic eyes couldn't focus, like an animal injected with anesthesia, obediently digesting the pain and humiliation.

"He can't hear it." Du Yu said almost coldly, "In order to prevent them from complaining and spoiling the scenery, we will inject them with a small amount of hallucinogens every morning. They can survive without rain and snow; luck is better Some of them can still be favored by the nobles who come to take a walk, give birth to offspring, and live... It should be regarded as a carefree life."

Yu Zhen: "What will happen if I release him?"

Du Yu: "Leaving the post without authorization will be executed. What's more, where can you take him?"

Yu Zhen finally understood what Cyril said: no country would be so stupid as to send male spies to the empire, and the palace would not be afraid of a man plotting to do something wrong.

There is no need to deliberately inflict torture, since becoming a palace servant, one exists to be tortured.The value of existence is to be one of the bases of these flower pots, until one day it has a nervous breakdown or dies violently in extreme weather, it is replaced, and a new servant will live in it.

The saddest thing for him was that Cyril knew the truth, but still chose it.

If he had known early on that the result of living would be like this, he would never have comforted the sentence: Don't be afraid, we will all survive.

At least for him, he would rather die.

But what position does he have to show cheap sympathy for people in this world.

"The remuneration of male servants is very high. Once hired, their families will not have to worry about it in the next life." Du Yu was not surprised and continued to move forward.

Yu Zhen kicked the flower pot fiercely, but the stone sculpture did not move a single inch.

He spat: "Disgusting, all this is disgusting."

"Coincidentally, I feel the same way." Du Yu turned around, "Let's go, I'll take you to see the mermaid."

Across the courtyard, they passed a strange statue, which was strange in two ways.

One is that its modeling style is obviously inconsistent with other statues in the palace. The lines are more rough and primitive, with prominent edges and corners, as if centuries earlier. The stone body has been worn by wind and rain, leaving scars that cannot be washed away.The second is the content, which depicts two male mermaids mating, their limbs entwined, inseparable; the expression of the statue is carved delicately and vividly, with pain on one side and joy on the other.

Yu Zhen couldn't help but stop and look around.

There is also a strange poem engraved on the golden base of the sculpture:

"Musk roses and bright eyes, the goddess descends to the land of eternal dreams;

She kisses the miserable soul, filling the scarlet bullet hole in its right rib with nectar. "

"Wow." Yu Zhen opened his mouth wide and joked, "Is this allowed to exist?"

"Don't get me wrong, this statue has existed longer than the history of the empire. Some archaeologists speculate that it should have been born in the early days of land civilization, and its value is not comparable to that of those craftsmen." Du Yu asked him to look carefully at the base A row of letters above, "Pisces, Pisces, one of the signs of the zodiac."

Yu Zhen asked in surprise, "So there are twelve?"

"Well, logically there are twelve, but this one is the only one left." Du Yu regretted.

Yu Zhen clicked his tongue: "Such a precious thing, you just put it here and let it dry out?"

Du Yu looked at him and asked back, "Do you think it might be put in the museum or the Queen's room?"

According to Heflemar's moral standards, it is obviously not acceptable.