The emperor entered the secret passage he placed in the imperial study.
He carried an oil lamp and walked down an old staircase. This is a spiral staircase leading to the ground about ten meters below.
For some reason, he suddenly thought of going there today to take a look.
He is the only person in the palace who knows this secret passage. The craftsmen who helped him design this secret passage at the beginning also paid them a hush money afterwards and went to a place far away from the capital. Because the project was carried out underground, no one discovered it.
Of course, it is impossible to leave no trace at all. At least Shaoqing noticed it, but so what
The flame of the oil lamp became weaker and weaker somehow. This is because the oxygen in the ground is not enough, but the emperor at this moment is a little palpitating because of this.
He has already issued an order to kill the prince.
He still remembers the scene when he was about ten years old.
At that time, he had just been established as the prince not long ago.
The first emperor established the country with force, and believed that the next generation of kings should rule the country with virtue.
When the first emperor established himself as the crown prince, many courtiers who founded the country opposed the first emperor's decision. Many people think that their origins are too strange.
His mother, Concubine Huang, was not a concubine favored by the late emperor during his lifetime. The late emperor just happened to be lucky with her once and conceived him. But on the day he was born, an unimaginable tragedy happened in Luoying Pavilion.
Born with bewitching purple pupils that are different from ordinary people, many people regard themselves as monsters.
But the first emperor valued himself very much.
When I was very young, I often visited myself, and taught myself to read and write, and invited teachers of martial arts and riding and archery to teach myself.
So the courtiers worried that they would become princes very early on.
One night that year...
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"do not come!"
The prince put the dagger on Shaoqing's neck, and shouted at the soldiers and guards who had surrounded him: "Anyone, no one come here!"
While doing so, he whispered in Shaoqing's ear: "I'm sorry... Shaoqing, I really have nothing to do now."
The prince never wanted to be bestowed to death by his father for no apparent reason. The only one who can solve all the mysteries is the Luoying Pavilion in front of me.
"Get out of the way! I want to enter Luoying Pavilion! If anyone dares to stop me, I will kill Yi Shangshu!"
Everyone's faces were ashen, and the shocking scene before them made them unable to believe their eyes. And the prince seemed to be crazy, no one could guarantee what he would do.
Seeing that everyone was not moving, Shaoqing frowned and said, "Are you all deaf? Get out of the way, do you want me to die?"
He decides.
Since the prince must die, at least let him see the truth about Luoying Pavilion with his own eyes.
After hearing what Shaoqing said, the guards finally stepped aside.
"Throw over the key to the gate of Luoying Pavilion! Quick!"
The head of the guard hesitated for a while, then untied the key and threw it to the prince.
The prince has quick eyes and quick hands, and he stretched out his left hand to take the key. Then, holding Shaoqing hostage, he walked towards Luoying Pavilion step by step.
The guards didn't dare to stop him anymore, and the crown prince came to the gate of Luoying Pavilion smoothly, handed the key to Shaoqing, and said, "Open the door!"
On the gate of Luoying Pavilion, the rusted iron lock opened with a "click"!
When the prince entered the gate, the guards and soldiers stood at the gate like sculptures.
No one dared to chase in.
Entering the Luoying Pavilion is a felony, and even the royal relatives are not spared. Unless you have a jade card specially awarded by the emperor, you can only enter and exit.
Everyone knows the emperor's decisive character. When the first emperor passed away and the emperor ascended the throne, the first thing he did was to use various means to kill the ministers who opposed the first emperor's appointment of him as the crown prince one by one, leaving no one alive.
"Quick... Hurry up and inform the emperor! Something big is going to happen!"
Luoying Pavilion, a very simple residence, is not a gorgeous bedroom. This is also because Empress Huang was not particularly favored by the first emperor back then, and she was only blessed once.
Over the years, it has become dilapidated. There are only a table, a few chairs, and a screen in the entire room. At least the outer hall is like this, but it is basically clean, it seems...
Someone cleans here all the time.
"Shaoqing, I'm sorry." The prince put down the dagger and said, "Let's go, take me there. I want to know what kind of secrets Luoying Pavilion hides. You were ordered by the emperor to read the imperial decree. I don't blame you. But... Why would father do that?"
Shaoqing was silent for a long time, looked at the prince's urgent eyes, sighed and said, "Why...you also..."
"What did you say?"
"At this point, it's meaningless to hide it from you. There's something I can tell you."
Shaoqing seemed to be making a lot of determination, and finally spit out a sentence from his mouth.
"The purple death disease does not exist. It is a lie we fabricated."
The prince only felt dizzy, and the dagger in his hand almost fell from his grip.
"You... what did you say?"
"Let's go. I'll take you... to see the truth you want to know."
From the left side of the room, there is a door. Push the door open, and there is a long corridor in front of you. At the end of the corridor is another room.
"Your Highness, let me declare first. What you see next is definitely beyond your common sense, and it is absolutely difficult for you to accept. But... it doesn't make much sense to say these now. I hope you..."
When Shaoqing said this, he couldn't find any better words to comfort the prince, so he sighed and said nothing.
At the end, the prince opened the door.
"Fei Yi, the Crown Prince is here. Imperial Physician Liang... don't be nervous, we..."
The prince couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the scene in front of him.
How could a normal person imagine such a picture
This room is huge.
It seems to have been remodeled, and the walls were knocked out and combined into one room. There is no furniture left.
The walls on all sides were painted black.
There are countless iron hooks hanging from the ceiling. The number is astonishing.
On each iron hook, there are at least four to five...
baby!
The emperor came to the bottom of the secret passage.
There, stood a coffin.
Walking to the coffin, he slowly opened the coffin lid.
It was a skeleton with clothes on.
Holding the oil lamp, approaching the bone, the emperor stroked the skull.
"Mother..." he murmured.
She was not favored by the first emperor, and she became pregnant with herself because of a chance encounter.
If a dragon son is born, the mother will definitely be more expensive than the son.
"That's what you thought back then, right? I'm just a tool of your desire." The emperor smiled sadly, and said, "The things that human beings fear... those things that people fear... I experienced them when I was a child. That night... On the night of my tenth birthday, that thing in a black robe, hidden in the darkness, appeared in front of me..."
Those purple eyes... are the markers.
It is a sign that a contract has been concluded.
Concubine Huang, in order to realize her desire, entered into a contract with Jiming Space.
A contract that should not be made as a human being...
"Why... is that, what is it?"
The prince stared wide-eyed at the dead babies who were hung up by iron hooks.
Is that really a human baby
None of those babies had a normal body and appearance, either they were distorted, or their facial features were extremely frightening. Only the white bones exposed from their shattered flesh and blood prove that they are human.
and…
All babies have purple pupils!
After careful calculation, the number of these dead babies is definitely not less than one hundred!
"The purple death disease and so on are made up by us." The imperial physician Liang who stood under the dead babies said, "The princes who announced that they died of the purple death disease are all in this place. These princes with purple pupils, all of them Born with such an ugly and terrifying posture. This is a disgrace to the royal family, and of course the emperor will bury them here."
The prince was speechless.
These dead babies... all have the same blood as him
Even though they are so ugly, but... They were deprived of their lives when they were born
Is it because I am not ugly that I survived death? Rather than not suffering from the purple death disease
Fei Yi knelt in front of the prince and said: "Your Highness, I know that in your opinion, our sins cannot be redeemed even if we die. However, I did not do that for myself. Before my mother died, I gave My will. In any case, the blood of Empress Huang, that is, your father and the children born to your father, cannot be allowed to survive. The reason why you are spared is because your situation is special, so I think Maybe you won't be chosen by the spirit of retribution... But, it turned out that was just my wishful thinking."
Those shocking dead babies made the prince feel dizzy. He finally couldn't bear it any longer, leaned against the wall and vomited loudly.
Here... it's hell on earth!
"Why... didn't you kill you?" The prince suddenly became furious, grabbed Shaoqing's lapel, and shouted: "Why didn't you kill you? It's you who are to die! Instead, it's Xiao Linzi and the others... why!"
"Because of the blood eye scroll." Shaoqing had expected the prince to have such a reaction, and replied: "That is the ghost eye mark printed by the former witch with witch power. Each of the seven of us has a copy. In addition Besides, there are quite a few backups... With that scroll, we can't attack us. However, the witch power has gradually weakened."
"Seven?"
"Yes... seven people. There are seven people in this palace who know everything about Luoying Pavilion."
"You... are not human!"
The crown prince punched Shaoqing fiercely, and the latter had just fallen to the ground when he punched him a second time, a third time...
"What am I? What do you think of me? I really regard you as a friend! But... but what have you guys done? You actually..."
Just when he was about to throw another punch, suddenly a strong hand grabbed his wrist.
When he looked back, it was... General Liu Zhen!
He is also one of the few people who has obtained the emperor's permission to enter the Luoying Pavilion.
The emperor closed the coffin.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew and the oil lamp went out.
The moment the lights went out, the emperor suddenly saw, beside the coffin, there was a terrifying face covered with red spots and a protruding left eye!