I have a date with the devil

Chapter 14（1）

　Continue to stay here is not a solution. For now, we can only pretend not to hear anything for the time being.

Ye Miao took a deep breath, and put down the chaotic speculation, cautiously on the skirt of the grass and leaves and twigs are picked clean, to ensure that no one will find out that they have been to the forest, and only then wandered back to the banquet site as if nothing had happened.

The queen, the main attraction of the evening, was surrounded by attendants, smiling and seated in the most beautiful position in the view.

The first prince's seat was next to her. When the two masters are seated, the other nobles have sat down.

Ye Miao's position is not in front or behind, but fortunately there is no cover in front of her, so she can take in all the people's attitude.

She noticed that the Queen seemed to be in a very happy mood tonight, not only chatting with the people around her, but also drinking a few more glasses of wine.

As we all know, the relationship between the queen and the first prince has always been a bit tense. She has always been quite critical of the first prince's dalliance, dissatisfied with his failure to set himself up as the crown prince. The eldest prince is disobedient, in the rebellious period, has done a lot of brushing the queen's face ridiculous things.

In the past years, the enthronement celebrations were organized by the head maid. I did not expect that after the eldest prince came of age and moved out of the palace, mother and son distanced themselves, but their relationship eased and they began to understand each other. The eldest prince took on the responsibility of the crown prince and shared a lot of political work. The first time to prepare a large dinner, but also do a decent job, no wonder the Queen will be so happy.

Ye Miao lowered his eyes, sent a piece of roasted lamb to his mouth, chewed a few times, before not moving to look at the opposite side.

The second prince is sitting on the right side of the queen, with an elegant smile on his lips, slowly and methodically eating, occasionally responding to the queen's words, without the slightest difference.

As for the chancellor's youngest daughter, she is still sitting next to her father because she has not yet married the first prince. She seemed to be less calm than the second prince, and looked a bit distracted, occasionally glancing in the direction of the second prince without a trace.

Naturally, such a small movement, in this noisy environment, simply can not provoke a little attention.

If not just in the forest bumped into a scene of them hugging together, on the basis of the two this rusty performance, Ye Miao imagination is good, it is absolutely impossible to guess in that direction.

The brother pried the brother's corner ...... not, from the time succession, should be the brother in the mother's arrangement, inadvertently pried the brother's corner.

The two had an affair, I'm afraid not only the first prince, even the queen was also kept in the dark - after all, there are so many candidates for a concubine, and not the prime minister's youngest daughter can not. If you know that the second prince is in love with this girl, the queen should not be too confused.

Just ...... recalling the cold expression of the second prince that I unintentionally spied just now, Ye Miao felt hairy.

One never knows what the person on the pillow is thinking. The more intimate lovers are also separated by a layer of belly. The chancellor's youngest daughter was overwhelmed by love, while the second prince, whom she trusted with all her heart, was obviously far from the depth of her feelings.

Instead of saying that it was a rush for the red, for her to deal with the great prince, Ye Miao felt that it was more likely that the second prince used her name to approach the chancellor.

Ye Miao held up her wine cup, the gilt ochre bracelet reflecting the shadow of the lamp in the cup. She took a shallow sip of the lavender fruit wine, letting the astringency linger at the base of her tongue, suppressing her growing apprehension.

The party started in the evening and went on smoothly for a few hours. The guests were happy to watch the singing and dancing.

Nothing strange happened, could it be that she was mistaken?

Ye Miao breathed out, leaning back like a lazy bone. Afterglow inadvertently glanced over the not far from the Mantella River, suddenly amazed.

The river, I do not know when, floating a milky white hazy fog, the lights on the other side of the bank has been deflated into a dull point of light. The original gentle flow forward in the middle of the river, but the formation of several diameter of about two meters of the whirlpool. With its rapid rotation, the center of the water level continues to fall, there are constantly fine algae were strangled, with the water beads together was sucked into the abyss.

Not quite right!

Ye Miao hurriedly turned back, surrounded by guests immersed in lively singing and dancing performances, no one noticed the strange state of the river.

In that moment, it was as if there was silence in the ears, all the noise was far away, as if people had entered the slow-motion, tall glasses resting on the stage, the plane of wine slowly shaking, spilling out of the semicircle of wine in the air out of a flat arc - the sound of the distant music was also dragged out, raspy like sandpaper scraping ...... only the ominous swirling faster and faster, reflected in the bottom of Ye Miao's pitch-black pupils, suddenly narrowed to a needle point -

"Splat - bang - !!!"

The river burst out of the water curtain up to more than ten meters high, the floor rupture of the loud sound exploded steeply, shaking people's eardrums sharp pain. Air waves wrapped in wood piles and stone fragments rushed up into the air, and then like rain like the sky smashed down. Glasses and saucers tipped and shook, fragments burst, screaming!

The people closest to the river were slapped away by the impact, shaking their mouths and spitting blood. Those who were unfortunate enough to faint rolled into a large hole in the floor and were instantly swallowed up by the rushing river.

The firm and stable platform shook violently, in the surrounding fearful shouting, a huge black shadow from the top below penetrated the heavy stone slab, with a long, harsh whistle and a rainstorm of water droplets, rose to mid-air.

The body was thick as a barrel, the part exposed outside the board was six or seven meters high, lined with shell-sized scales, a rotten odor that was hard to ignore rushed into Ye Miao's nasal cavity.

A snake head with a long dorsal fin drops from the mist, the red glowing eyes stare straight at the people underneath, slowly grinning a bloody mouth.

A noble lady was the first to react, beautiful red nails shaking and pointed at it, a scream of fear spilled out of her throat: "It's a snake! Run!"

Both the queen and the great prince could not anticipate this change, their faces were flushed with iron.

Ye Miao was hit by the force of the impact of the eyes, after climbing up, the first time glanced at the second prince - the second prince is also a look of disbelief, did not show the slightest difference.

The first prince came back to his senses, roared and asked his guards to escort the queen and other nobles out of the place, and himself drew his sword and surrounded the big snake together with the knights who had arrived.

The nobles woke up as if from a dream and ran together in the direction of the forest, escorted by their guards. The chancellor also stumbled and joined the stream with the help of his young daughter.

A low table of solid wood turned on its side and crushed the hem of Ye Miao's skirt. There were few girls like her, all crying for help, but the guards could not take care of them all. Ye Miao forced herself to calm down and save herself by using the half-meter high wooden table to block herself, while stomping on the heavy wood and pulling out her dress inch by inch.

Ahead of them, thunderous sounds exploded one after another. Ye Miao looked up in surprise, in the direction of the nobles fleeing, another identical snake broke through the wooden board and burrowed out. Several guards were caught off guard and were toppled into the sky and smashed hard into the forest.

A few moments ago it was a unique banquet venue, but now it has turned into an apocalyptic asylum. The floor seems to be a poke a hole in the thin paper, one after another giant snake from below, twisting in mid-air, easily will encircle the place.

Ye Miao pupils trembled dramatically, flying around the circle.

One, two, three, four ...... nine snakes!

Why are there so many snakes?

The queen has long been escorted away from the river bank. The second half of the people whose way was blocked by the giant snakes could only retreat and return the same way, where at least there were guards to protect them.

The nine snakes tilted their bodies and chased after them. The distance between each other shrinks smaller and smaller, fragile and fragile wooden boards were lifted up in succession, completely stubbed up, in mid-air was caught in pieces, revealing the snake body underneath -

The nine heads of the snake were actually attached to the same body!

This is a hydra!

Compared with the nine snake heads that can be flexibly flung, the body underneath, although twice as thick, but obviously much more bulky, moving very slowly, a large part of the snake scales are to take off not fall, the smell of decay is stronger, it is like a hideous monster just crawled out of the grave.

Ye Miao pinched her nose to death, the last cloud of fresh air in her lungs was nearly squeezed out. She recognized what it was.

Obviously Ye Miao was not the only one who recognized its identity, strange fearful screams cut through the night sky: "It's Hydra!"

"Hell, it's a Hydra!"

Hydra is the name of a notorious, ferocious and bloodthirsty hydra. It is extremely aggressive, its nine heads are not to be underestimated, and its scales are smooth and hard, making it difficult to enter with swords and spears. The most frightening thing is that the nine heads, the one in the center is unkillable, and after cutting off, two new ones will immediately grow at the fracture, transforming into a more powerful ten-headed snake, and so on, constantly fracturing, extremely tricky.

Because of their habits, they mostly inhabit the swampy areas where people don't go. They have been extinct on the continent of Ripass for many years. I never thought that they would reappear on earth today.

The first prince and the second prince led their soldiers to fight against the snakeheads. The nobles were scurrying like blind flies in the chaos, looking for a place to hide, where there was still half the usual poise.

The chancellor dragged his young daughter and squeezed behind the wooden table where Ye Miao was.

He was squeezed, Ye Miao nearly lost his soul, barely breathed, struggled out. Glancing back at the chancellor's youngest daughter, one could see that her face was extremely complex, both nervous and uneasy, but ...... did not seem to be much alarmed, and her gaze was no longer concealed, following the direction of the second prince all the way.

Sure enough, she knew that this hydra was the second prince's ......

The hydra is wild and untamed, never accepting human dispatch. What exactly did the second prince use to make this hydra obey his orders?

Ye Miao noticed that the snake scales of this hydra, it seems that there is no book written so swords and spears. Compared to its huge body size, swords are like small sticks. But a random sword down, can leave tiny scratches on the snake, even scales with a small piece of flesh to cut off, is definitely not good.

So much work, the back of the enemy's hydra is not as strong as it was at the beginning, by the combined efforts of the people cut off the side of the three heads.

What's even stranger is that there is no blood coming out of the wound, but the smell of decay is getting stronger. It was as if what made up its body was a bulging, completely unstretchable mass of gray rotten flesh.

Such a texture, always feel that I have seen somewhere ......

That's right, the rotten smell, the gray and white rotten skin - isn't it the same as the one that appeared in the library and on the balcony of her room, intending to eat her, the same one?

Could it be that even that cleft-jawed monster was the work of the second prince, the favorite concubine in the palace of the first prince, and that's how they were gotten rid of ......

At this time, a safe path finally broke out over there, and a bloodied head guard rushed over and dragged up the Chancellor: "Your Excellency, Her Highness the Prince Consort, and Her Highness the Princess, come with me quickly, this place is about to collapse!"

Under the escort of the chief guard, Ye Miao stepped over the shaking boards with fear and trepidation, avoiding a big hole and running towards the exit. But before they got close to the exit, a heavy black shadow slapped heavily on the plank in front of them, and several people fell to the ground at the same time. Sharp wood splinters flew across the floor, and a snake's head opened its fangs in anger, rushing towards the three of them.

"Clang--"

In the nick of time, the snake head was chopped off by the second prince who rushed in, but he was also completely knocked unconscious by the impact and fell down not far away and was picked up by the head guard. The chancellor father and daughter took the opportunity to run to the shore. Ye Miao was blocked by the falling snake head, so he had to shrink back behind the table.

The snake head is missing another one, the hydra is completely enraged, the most vicious snake body in the center is flying to slide this way, the shivering sound of snake scales rubbing the floor is creepy.

The big prince rolled in from the side and got in front of her, viciously confronting the snake's head with his sword. The snake's bloody mouth spewed out a fishy, rotten smell, hissing and spitting snake letters, crooked yellow teeth trailing saliva.

　The tension was frozen in mid-air, just one star of the fire, it can be detonated.

The guards were sweating coldly, not daring to breathe, for fear that a sudden surge would stimulate the hydra and bite the Great Prince right through.

The time passed, but the hydra remained in a drooping position, without any movement.

The prey reached the mouth, but it seems to be hesitant, cloudy small eyes in suspicion to stare at the big prince.

No, it's not right. Ye Miao toes tightened one by one, the pulsation of blood chaotic rhythm, the face was pale.

The hydra is not looking at the prince, but at her.

Its line of sight, crossing the obstacle in front of it, fell straight on her body.

The people around were both secretly relieved and puzzled - why did it stop attacking?

At that moment, the hydra suddenly fell backwards, its bulky body sliding into the Mantella River, section by section, disappearing into the blue water waves.

At that moment, all the people who survived the robbery were in a state of disbelief.

It just went away?

Ye Miao stunned, from the limbs flowing away from the physical strength a little rekindled.

In a trance, she heard a heavy landing sound.

It was the muffled sound of her heart, which was about to leap out of her throat, returning to its original position.

If the hydra was not an ordinary hydra, but like that ugly cleft-headed monster, a strange thing that the second prince had pounded out, then it was not surprising that it would listen to his commands.

Does this end ...... that the second prince did not give it instructions to kill the big prince and just let it make a fuss?

When being helped up, Ye Miao subconsciously covered his heart. Under the thin garment, the piece of skin where the monster left its exclusive brand, seemed to be flushed with an odd and slightly hot numbness along with it.

Suddenly, silver lightning flashed in the heart.

I'm afraid that the hydra turned and ran, not because of coincidence, but because - the mark on her body.

The monster's scent can block many things from nuisance to her. It's just that the scene was too chaotic, and the hydra didn't notice the scent on her until it got in front of her.

Ye Miao heart flooded through a trace of indescribable movement. No matter how bad the monster is, he did protect her again and again in life and death situations ......

The contract with Him was a compulsion, but also destiny. If she hadn't bonded with Him, her fate might have been the same as the concubines in the Grand Prince's harem, quietly being divided by those things on some rainy night, experiencing unbearable pain and fear before dying a tormented death.

Moreover, the monster, the first "man" to embrace her and kiss her, occupied her memories of the first time in every sense of the word.

The parents and brother in Kardan could never have guessed that their impression of their good and innocent daughter, here in Abil, with a forbidden monster in the dark, tangled gasping for breath, has been counted more times.

The monster sometimes kissed with pleasure, will also hold up her hips, hanging her against the fence, so that she has nowhere to hide, can only hang on Him, wrapped around His shoulders, like a sacrifice exposed throat, weakly whimpering, by Him to give and take.

Her tears, saliva, will be licked away by Him fascinated, and then forced her to open her mouth to taste.

Such an exciting and doubly thirsty experience ...... was probably hard to forget even after returning to Kadam.

"Your Highness, your face is so red, are you uncomfortable? Come and sit down."

A maid interrupted Ye Miao's thoughts and helped her to a rock on the shore.

Ye Miao inhaled lightly and shook her head, somewhat ashamed - she was hopeless, and at this time she was actually recalling the details of her encounter with that monster .......

Until far enough away from the Mantella River, the nobles were paralyzed to the ground. Looking back, the extremely fantastically decorated banquet site, now broken as there is a gale. I'm sure that the news of Hydra's appearance in Abil will spread to several nearby countries tomorrow.

The fainting second prince was carried to the grass, his breath very faint. The queen immediately ordered her servants to escort him back to the palace for medical treatment.

The banquet was supposed to be almost over, and the carriage that came to pick them up was already on its way. During the waiting process, there was a lot of commotion and wailing.

Someone could not stand it and went up to the queen and said, "Your Majesty, how could Hydra appear in this place?"

This statement was made as if a small opening had been torn open. The crowd spoke up.

"That's right, Father Okwe, do you know what's going on?"

At the scene, there were still remnants of Hydra's trimmed flesh, and the guards got them all over. Under the illumination of the bright torches that had been rekindled, Ye Miao squeezed through the crowd and came to the front, seeing that the meat was not fresh and blood-stained, but had withered and shrunken inside, with white gangrenous worms twisting and burrowing.

Sure enough, she guessed correctly, this hydra, like the kind of cleavage monster, are rotting flesh shaped body.

"Strange, wasn't this just chopped off, how could it rot so fast!"

"In that case, I remember that from the beginning, when the hydra appeared, it already smelled a very strong rotten smell. Could it be that it was already dead then?"

"How could it be, if it was already rotting inside, how could it still attack people?"

Father Okwe squatted down and examined it for a while, and got up and said in an old voice: "Your Majesty, as far as I can tell, this is not an ordinary Hydra, but a Hydra corpse dragged out of the earth."

"How can the corpse move?"

"From what I can see, this snake corpse should have received the baptism of dark magic. After being bred by someone with sinister means, it will become a loyal dog that only obeys its master's orders and never hurts him. This is, after it grows, it is likely to have its own will, once the master is negligent, or can not care to watch it, it will run out of chaos. And ......" Father Okwui a meal: "Most likely, its owner is present."

At these words, the four seats were in an uproar.

The queen stood up, turquoise blue eyes full of gloomy anger, looking around the week, gritted her teeth and said: "This matter, must be thoroughly investigated."