Lost XV's wife and countless mistresses gave birth to a total of nineteen children for him, but this is just a vague number. There are only ten princesses and princes with names, only five of whom have detailed life stories, and the remaining nine do not even have their detailed names known.
Qin looked through the lists from oldest to youngest and eliminated the five with detailed biographies.
She was used to reading news quickly, and the books piled up around her were increasing rapidly. The book in her hand was a study on Lost XVI, the ninth child of Lost XV, who died at the age of twenty-two.
In this case, it is likely that we can directly look for the children of Lost XV. Unfortunately, the political power at that stage was extremely chaotic, and even the historical records were haphazard and careless.
In Qin Feichang's opinion, this cannot be called a serious historical record, but a mess of royal erotic history and tragic history. She found it difficult to sort out the various messy relationships in this family. Even she, who could remember the entire Qin family relationship tree, found it complicated.
But she still made a preliminary guess about the identity of the "bad princess" from those vague records and some minor evidence.
He was most likely the youngest son of Lost XV. His name, age, birth and death dates were not recorded, but a book recording Lost XV wrote that he loved his youngest son the most in his later years because this youngest son was born to his beautiful mistress and was exceptionally handsome.
She extracted the keyword beautiful.
Like all the incompetent emperors recorded in history, Lost XV started to do all kinds of things in his later years, such as building palaces on a large scale. He even built nine large palaces in one go, where he and his many mistresses could live in them in turn.
Because these palaces were built not long ago, they were burned down by the rebels when the dynasty fell. Only the Jiaxia Palace was partially preserved. Later, they experienced a century of war, so there is no record of where they were or what they looked like.
Today, people can only guess how magnificent these palaces were in the past from some poems and short texts that have been handed down, as well as the remains of the Jiaxia Palace.
Qin felt that this matter was already very clear. The world that pulled them in was definitely a palace built by Lost XV.
The next step was to screen the nine palaces that had disappeared in history to see which one she was looking for.
This place is indeed known as the library with the largest collection of books. There are many books on history and the royal family, and even many books on the mystery of the nine palaces, which saved her a lot of trouble.
However, the charm of history is like a beauty wearing a veil. No one has ever seen her with her own eyes, so it is unclear what she looked like. Speculations vary. In total, there are at least more than thirty places that are suspected to be the remains of a palace.
There are currently six confirmed sites, and three are still inconclusive.
But there was a record about Lost XVI that attracted Qin's great attention.
Not long after Lost XVI ascended the throne, he visited a palace. He was dissatisfied with his father's preference for the son who lived in that palace, so he had some unpleasant quarrels with his brother in that palace.
Although it was still speculation, she felt that it was very likely that the younger brother mentioned here was the little prince.
The records are not very detailed, with only one sentence being of particular value: Lost XVI went there on a large ship.
Since we need to take a boat, could it be on the island
She was about to look up more information on this when her vision suddenly became blurry. This familiar feeling, it was time to enter the ruined castle again.
Qin decisively put down the book, sat by the window in front of the bookshelf and closed his eyes.
Based on previous experience, it won’t take long to go there and you can continue watching when you come back.
In the hall, corpses that had not yet begun to rot were piled up, like the corpses that could not be refreshed in the game, but the shock they gave people was far greater than that.
Among the fifty or so young people who participated in this "game", some began to become numb, and some began to collapse.
Only Qin Feichang took a look at himself and subconsciously began to look for Egbert again.
Not found.
Egbert is not here.
After a little thought, Qin understood very well. The little lunatic was smarter and more decisive than she thought. She thought he would have to continue to tangle with her one or two more times before he could figure it out.
It’s better that he doesn’t come to bother her. It just so happens that she found a lot of useful information this time. She can verify her guesses here one by one.
"Wait, Loran!"
Leon, a handsome young man, walked up to her with a few people, stared at her and swallowed. Seeing his Adam's apple sliding, Qin knew very well that he might have been possessed by a ghost last time and had his head broken by her with a belt, leaving a little shadow.
"We have already met in real life. I hope you can join us. I think it's more convenient to talk face to face." Leon said, keeping a distance of three steps from her.
Qin said very straightforwardly: "Okay, I'll send you the address when I get back."
Watching her leave alone, the girl among the group whispered, "She seems like a loner, cold and cool, so amazing."
The others looked at her, and the girl looked back with her hands on her hips: "Isn't it true? Especially when she kills people, she is just like a killer, but she doesn't look like a killer at all. This contrast is so cool!"
Another boy muttered, "What's so amazing about that? My bodyguard can do it, too."
The girl rolled her eyes and said, "Your bodyguard is powerful, but you are not. If you have the guts, why don't you ask your bodyguard to come here to protect you?"
Leon interrupted them: "We agreed outside to fight each other before, who will go first?"
There was a moment of silence. They had met in real life. They all had similar family backgrounds and pride. At that time, none of them would admit defeat and said very firmly that they would commit suicide once they entered this strange world. Those who couldn't do it could ask the other party to help kill them. But now that it really came to this point, they were a little scared.
After a while, a girl who had been silent the whole time whispered, "Otherwise, let's go find Luo Lan. She didn't hurt me that much last time."
"No!" The girl who praised Loran earlier raised her head. "If she can do it, so can we. We agreed to rely on ourselves!"
"Then you go first."
Holding the pocket knife she brought with her, the girl gestured at her neck, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. Under the gazes of the others, she reluctantly gave herself a bit of face: "I think this small knife may not be able to kill me. How about we go and see if there is a bigger knife?"
Leon exhaled, "Forget it, I think we should just jump off the building together, it might be better this way."
They were all ordinary young masters and young ladies who had never killed anyone, so this was much more difficult than they had imagined.
A group of people came to the tallest bell tower. After much dragging, we climbed up. Looking up, we saw a figure standing on the top of the bell tower. He stepped on the slope of the spire, holding the top of the spire with one hand, and looked into the distance.
"Luo Lan? Why are you here? Are you here to... jump off the building as well?"
Qin Feichang, who was standing on the edge and looking into the distance, let go of his hand and came down from the top of the inclined tower. "No, I came up to take a look. I'm done, you guys go ahead."
Give them space to jump off the building.
Now that they had come up, even if some people regretted it, they could not retreat. Several people stood at the edge and looked down, and someone immediately burst into tears.
"Oooooh... I'm afraid of heights!"
Seeing them standing there for a long time without moving, like a row of pigeons, Qin Feichang asked: "... Do you want my help?"
With a crying voice, he said: "No, we can do it!"
Well, Qin Feichang grabbed the stairs and went down directly. She climbed to the highest place to see clearly whether this place was an island, but after coming up, she found that she could only see the wide castle complex, and the farther place was shrouded in a layer of white fog and could not be seen clearly.
Perhaps, you can’t see clearly from a high place, and you can only see clearly when you walk to the edge.
Qin Feichang left, and the few people who were standing on the edge still stood stiffly, not daring to jump down.
"Don't dare to jump... Do you want my help?"
It was the same words Qin had just said, but this voice almost immediately caused several people to react with conditioned fear.
It's that madman!
It’s strange to say, Egbert had killed them, and Roland had also killed them, but when they saw Roland they felt an inexplicable sense of security, but when they saw Egbert it turned into an inexplicable fear.
A boy saw Egbert standing behind him and was so scared that he ran forward without thinking. He probably forgot where he was standing and fell down while running.
A blood flower suddenly bloomed below.
The faces of the others turned green, and they wanted to retreat, but found that they could not move. Egbert walked slowly forward, and the clattering footsteps sounded like approaching death.
Leon felt a gust of wind behind him, and there was another person beside him. Egbert stood beside him, not looking at them, holding the cane that had stabbed them to death, wearing a new shirt and trousers, standing on the thin railing at the edge, half of his body in the air, as if he would fall at any time.
Leon thought he would push them all down, so he waited for a long time, until his heart was blown by the cold wind, but he didn't see him make any move. He began to stare at the hairband he tied his hair with in a daze.
Perhaps he had been staring at him for too long, and Egbert finally turned his head and glanced at him. Then he casually stretched out his cane and gently pushed him behind his back.
Leon felt his body lighten and he fell downward, getting farther and farther away from that scary face.
The second red flower blossomed below. Egbert looked even more bored as he watched the "blooming" scene. He used his cane to push the people standing there one by one.
Finally, he was the only one left.
The golden sunlight fell from the clouds and shone on my body, but I still felt cold.
He looked at the white fog in the distance and the desolate ruins nearby, and suddenly jumped down from a height. Halfway down, he disappeared without a trace.
Qin Feichang walked beside the half-collapsed building. She felt that the ruined castle was much quieter this time than the previous times. Before, no matter where she went, she could always hear some rustling sounds, like some insects crawling nearby, or like plants being blown by the wind, but this time, these subtle sounds disappeared, leaving only endless silence.
It was so unusually quiet that Qin felt like he was walking in a painting. It was too quiet.
She walked to the side of the road, stared at the rose bushes that were everywhere, and suddenly reached out and picked one.
In an instant, she saw all the ordinary roses move, staring at her, revealing the eyes in their stamens. The one she held in her hand also had its eyes rolling around.
Qin Feichang thought for a moment, could this be... surveillance
"Egbert, if you are watching." Qin Feichang paused for a moment, "Your father is Lost XV, you are his youngest son, and this is the palace he built, right?"
It should have been a question, but because of her certainty, it became an affirmative sentence.
Egbert did not appear, and the eye in the rose in her hand turned into a drop of blood and fell from the flower.
Well, it looked like he didn't want to show up or talk to her.
Qin Feichang threw down the flowers in her hand and continued to walk in the direction she had chosen before. If he didn't show up, then he didn't show up. She was still busy exploring the edge of the ruins.
The fallen flowers were stepped on by a boot and withered in the blink of an eye. Egbert took his walking stick and walked along the path Qin Feichang had walked, following her not far away.