I have a date with the devil

Chapter 8

　During the night, Ye Miao tossed and turned in bed, thinking about the secret revealed by Shana.

Abil's late king infected the queen with a strange disease, which indirectly led to the death of both his wife and child. A room of retainers were also tragically involved in a month of disease and death, and the death of the most bizarre, people are still alive, the body has begun to rot and black, gangrene insects, the stench is unbearable.

Then, this strange and frightening disease suddenly disappeared. Amidst the uproar of the nobles, the queen ascended the throne, stabilized the situation, and announced to the public that the late king had died in the army, and the queen had died due to excessive mourning. As for the little prince who died at birth, the queen did not mention a word.

The truth of the matter was thus deliberately buried in the dust of history.

The Queen's approach, Ye Miao can actually understand. After all, this strange disease can not find the cause, nor is there a practical cure. If its existence is widely publicized to the common people, it will certainly cause widespread panic and unrest.

Besides, Abil was fighting a war with other countries at that time, and needed a big stable backbone more than ever.

Since the trouble had automatically disappeared, why should the queen bother herself?

The only thing that makes Ye Miao feel odd is that the timing of the appearance and disappearance of this strange disease is too coincidental. It's almost as if it appeared only to drive the previous king's family to extinction.

In addition to the three members of the previous king's family, the rest of the unlucky people who were implicated were almost all the queen's retainers.

This strange disease can be transmitted through daily contact, if it is really brought back from the battlefield, why is not rampant among the soldiers, just infected by the king to the queen's side of the people?

Ye Miao's mind slowly emerged a ridiculous speculation.

Is it possible - the source of the strange disease is not the previous king at all, but the queen? So the people affected are almost all distributed with her as the center of the circle ......

But that's a bit of a stretch. The queen has been staying in the palace, living a life of privilege, want to hand her something, have to go through a lot of barriers to check. How could a strange disease cross the human wall and directly reach her?

Unless, the so-called "strange disease" is just a piece of shame used to cover up the real cause of death.

Ye Miao opened her eyes.

The body rotting, the growth of gangrenous worms ...... such a disgusting way of death, indeed, and she read in the history books of the effect of some kind of dark magic curse is very similar.

However, the person who issued this insidious curse had to pay the price of life force himself. The first king and queen plus the retinue numbered close to twenty. To really give the curse one by one, the caster will certainly have a shorter life than them.

Shana also said that there are always women missing from the palace, which coincides with the legend of the man-eating monster. And the monster in the ground when embracing her, had said himself that he did not eat people.

Ye Miao recalled the eyes of the library. Could it be that these missing women were eaten by the ugly and disgusting thing that roamed the king's palace?

But it does not look like an intelligent creature, so why pick on the great prince's women?

The strange disease, the suspicious cause of death of the late king and his wife, the monster imprisoned under the abandoned palace, the missing woman, and the implicated grand prince ......

A myriad of questions came up, and for a while, it was impossible to find a connection between them. Curiosity exceeded reason, as if burning steel wire, slightly grinding the nerves. Ye Miao's brain seems to be stuffed with a mess of numbness. Unknowingly, he fell asleep at the head of the bed.

The next day.

"Ah-choo..."

The retribution for falling asleep without a blanket soon came, as the temperature dropped last night, and Ye Miao was a bit wilted from the morning. It just so happens that it has been raining outside today, with raven green dense clouds of low pressure, and the bitter cold wind blowing from the Serpentine Fuyang, as if interspersed with bone-chilling ice knives. The leaves of the trees were shaken and crackled. The glass window condensed with wet white mist, wipe a hand full of cold water.

In the evening, it rained a little harder. It was a day for nesting in a room.

Ye Miao finished eating, see the time is not early, intend to go to the bathroom to soak a hot bath before going to bed.

Since there was an additional mark on his body, Ye Miao began to consciously or unconsciously avoid exposing his body in front of Margot and Shana. The bath also does not need their service. The only reason is that she really doesn't know how she should answer the question of where it came from if Margot asks.

After the water rose, Ye Miao wiped off the water mist on the mirror, habitually turned around and examined the back. This time, she fixed her eyes, but stiffened.

The imprint ...... disappeared.

Under the warm candlelight, Ye Miao's face was vaguely white, and her single shoulder trembled slightly.

The time when the imprint disappeared was when she returned to the monster - at that time, in order to coax the monster to send her away, she so promised Him.

Never thought that the time to fulfill the promise would come so soon ......

Trapped in the ground when she was thinking, as long as she can leave here, as long as the monster does not hurt her, then the harsh conditions she will not bargain. Back to normal life and then look backwards, only to wake up to what a terrible promise she had made.

Ye Miao put on her clothes button by button, pushed the door out, mechanically picked up the long-handled umbrella placed in the umbrella tube, hand pressed on the gate handle, but hesitated to press down.

Do you really want to go?

She has to walk alone through the leaking cold rain, dark corridors and courtyards, step by step, back to that monster ......

"Your Highness, are you going out now?" Margot came over: "It's so late outside, and it's raining heavily, where do you want to go? I'll go with you."

"I ......" Ye Miao couldn't bear to tell her the truth, so she had to say, "I haven't even left the house for a day, I feel a little bored and want to go out by myself to get some air."

Ever since she knew that a woman disappeared every month, Ye Miao has never acted alone in the dark, so this time even Shana was a bit surprised and advised, "But, Your Highness, you are not feeling well today, don't you want to rest earlier? What if you get wet in the rain and get a fever tomorrow?"

Margot nodded: "That's right, what's the matter, it doesn't matter if we go back at dawn."

Thunder rattling in the rain, distorted tree shadows like spirits and ghosts.

At this moment, Ye Miao's struggling heart tilted with a bang and swayed to the side of delay.

There is a saying that what you want to do you will exclude all difficulties to complete. Conversely, the rejection of things, even the wind and grass will become an excuse to put off your work. The original idea of not wanting to go out accounted for 70% to 80%, two maids of honor to discourage, to "miss the appointment" to add a lot of legitimate reasons for the act, seems to have a lot of courage.

I am not breaking the appointment.

Now it's too rainy, too late, and I'm not mentally prepared.

After dawn, when I'm ready, I'll definitely keep my promise.

Anyway, the mark has only just disappeared, so if it's a day and a half late, the monster won't find out, right?

He shouldn't be so bored that he's waiting for me from the moment the mark expires, right?

-- As if to suppress the uneasiness and shame at the bottom of his heart, Ye Miao so silently recited several times and forcibly convinced himself before releasing the door handle: "Then ...... I won't go out tonight."

It is the night, Margo still sleep with her. Probably because of the cool monster appointment, Ye Miao did not sleep soundly tonight, to suddenly wake up in the middle of the night, suddenly found that the long-lasting oil lamp in the room has gone out most of the time.

What happened? There should be no wind in the house ah.

Ye Miao confused elbows to support the body, the sight of a turn, swept over a certain place suddenly fixed, the spine ran up a chill.

Water ripples slide through the window glass, leaving a dull trail of shadows. Outside the glass door of the terrace, there is a thing standing.

Seeing Ye Miao looking at it, the hideous face with corpse spots, grinning a greedy smile.

Ye Miao's goose bumps all over his body came out.

At the same time, the few remaining oil lamps, suddenly flickered in unison, on the black and light less than half a second, that only a few meters away from the terrace door something, but instantly moved forward half the distance. As the firelight swayed, getting closer and closer ......

"Marg!" Ye Miao lips trembled violently, fiercely jumped on Margo, shaking her hand hard: "Margo! Get up! Margo!"

Usually, when pushed, Margot would wake up, but at this moment there was no response at all. The door to the room was also completely unpushable, isolated to a different space, relentlessly telling Ye Miao that no one could help her.

Ye Miao burrowed back into the quilt and shrank down next to Margo, the bottom of her pupils wavered with thin tears of fear.

In the fall in the predicament, was blocked all the way to escape life, close to the living with warmth, can give a sense of self-deception of security. Even if you don't get a response, it is salvation.

Bury your head in the quilt, the outside world is much less loud, she vaguely heard a heavy "bang", the door to the terrace was hit hard, the metal frame are trembling.

She did not understand, this time to sleep with an oil lamp, can sleep until dawn. Why does it seem to be no longer effective today?

Could it be that, all this time, what had been shielding those things in a place where they could not touch her, was not candlelight at all, but - the mark left on her back?

Was it the creature's residual scent that had worked? Was He really protecting her?

Indeed, it was after the mark on her back disappeared that these strange things made a comeback.

If she had taken the initiative to go to the monster before the mark disappeared, perhaps she would not be in such a mess now ...... only that it was too late to say anything.

The glass cracked at the sound of the increasingly violent banging on the door. But did not wake anyone up, only lashing Ye Miao's heart one by one.

The inserted lock slid open with a crisp ding.

The whistling wind and rain poured in.

Ye Miao's tears seeped out of her eyes and clung to Margo for dear life, fear clogging her throat so that she could not utter any syllables of distress.

After a long time, but did not wait for any movement.

Suddenly, by her close next to the Marg moved, confused turn, found Ye Miao as if grabbing the straw to pick her, suddenly woke up a few points: "Your Highness, what happened to you ......"

Ye Miao froze, stiff shoulders abruptly loosened, lifted a corner of the quilt, found that there was nothing pressed next to the bed, and the door to the terrace was closed.

However, on the glass, there were still obvious cracks, proving that the party was definitely not her hallucination.

After a frightening night, Ye Miao no longer had the heart to procrastinate. After eating breakfast, she found an excuse to avoid the others and headed for the forbidden palace in the north.

This time when she broke into the forbidden land, she was not as shrinking as she was at the beginning. Ye Miao went straight to the place where the mechanism was touched, and prepared for the worst to fall again. But unexpectedly just walked into the dark corridor, the surrounding darkened.

A wind blew from behind, pushing her forward.

After passing through the fog, she looked around and found that she had been seamlessly "invited" into the underground palace where the walls were glowing with phosphorescence, and even the step of falling down had been omitted.

Eyes have not yet adapted to the light, Ye Miao did not go haphazardly. The monster got her here and must soon show itself.

She took a slightly nervous breath, suppressing her disordered heartbeat, and exhaled in small sips.

Suddenly, a cold, eerie voice rang out around her, it was empty, escaping, and seemed to be everywhere: "You didn't keep your promise."

Ye Miao was startled, her lips opened, wanted to defend a few words to the air, but last night's missed appointment, indeed, is entirely due to her excuse to escape, she had no way to argue, only silence.

The shame of having her mistake pointed out to her face, and the uneasiness of having her account settled later, stirred her thoughts into a mess. She clutched the object in her arms, her voice like a mosquito cry: "Sorry, I didn't come."

The monster's voice seemed to snort coldly, "I returned 'freedom' to you, but you didn't fulfill your promise, in that case, my reward will be increased in the future."

Ye Miao was stunned. Does the increase in reward mean that in the future, not only will you have to come and talk with Him, but also do more things for Him?

She was the one who was wrong in the first place, and it was normal to be increased by Jairus. It was much better than expected that the death sentence was not pronounced after the inquisition.

As if resigned to the fate of the lamb to be slaughtered meekly waiting for the guillotine to fall, Ye Miao closed her eyes, gathered the courage to say: "Okay. What reward do you want?"

The monster was silent.

Every second of the slaughterer's consideration time is intensifying the lamb's apprehension and trembling.

Finally, in the midst of Ye Miao's seven ups and downs, the monster spoke, darkly and clearly spitting out a sentence that was unexpected to her: "I want you to kiss me."