Daxu Palace,

Tianxing Lake,

Westside road.

The bleak autumn wind pulled dying dead leaves off the trees, like yellowed paper money, flying all over the sky.

The palace maid Xiaomaqian pushed the wheelchair and walked slowly in the wind.

The wheel hub ran over the dead leaves, making a harsh and crisp sound.

Xiaomaqiu tightened his shoulders, suppressed his fear, and said softly: "Prince, this road is a bit gloomy. The wind blows on people's faces, which is all cunning."

Xia Yan knew what she was afraid of. This road was the most dead in the palace due to geographical reasons. Whether it was rebels, assassins, or civil strife many years ago, it would inevitably be related to this road.

The dead bodies will be thrown into the lake nearby. If it weren't for living water, it would have long since accumulated but not melted.

Seeing that he was unmoved, Xiao Maqiu thought that the prince seemed cold but actually gentle, so he continued to murmur softly: "Prince, the palace has not been peaceful recently. There is a plague outside the palace. Someone in the palace has also disappeared. I have been searching for many days, but I have not found it at all."

Xia Yan's expression moved and said, "Xiao Maqiu, let me tell me in detail."

"Slave..."

Xia Yan said gently: "It's not your gossip."

"yes..."

Xiao Maqiu has long wanted to talk to someone, so he has to talk to others more of such creepy things. If he talks too much, it seems that his sense of fear will spread.

She sorted out her thoughts and said, "Recently... there are many eunuchs and maids in the palace who have disappeared, but I know about five or six, and there is also a maid who sleeps in the cabin next to me, who has also disappeared.

The queen said that these palace maids and eunuchs could not stand the loneliness of the deep palace, so she ran away quietly.

But I know it's not.

The little palace maid I am familiar with was showing off to me a few days ago, saying that she was about to be promoted to the first-class palace maid and was happy.

How could she run away if she wants to become a first-class palace maid?”

"And, you are a good person. I told you that I have a guard friend. He quietly told me that the guard chief came to check the records of the pass, but... the missing palace maids and eunuchs were not registered.

You know, if you want to sneak out of the palace, it is best to take advantage of the opportunity to buy and leave the palace. No one will be so stupid that he will run away from the palace directly.

They will only seek out the outside of the palace first, and then seize the opportunity to escape, and this will definitely leave a record.

But there is no record.

Prince, do you know what this means?"

Xiao Maqiu became more and more afraid as she spoke. She stuck her whole body on the back of a wheelchair and said in a trembling voice: "This means that none of the missing people left the palace, but they can't be found in the palace. There is only one possibility... They are all dead, and they are all..."

Her eyes were straight towards Tianxing Lake, and from time to time she would also look at a well not far away. The well was originally a place where the palace maids were washing clothes to fetch water, but it was abandoned for some reasons. In this wealthy and prosperous palace, it was desolate and dazzling.

Xiao Maqiu didn't dare to say anything again and muttered: "Besides, it's not a chaotic world now. At least it's good to go up to heaven. The emperor is very talented and the prince treats people well. Where can there be eunuchs and palace maids think about running away?"

Xia Yan smiled self-deprecatingly. He was really a person who was indifferent. As expected, there were many things he didn't know, and it was all the elder brother and sister-in-law who had managed it.

It is not easy for the elder brother to be in charge of the outside of the palace and the sister-in-law to be in charge of the harem.

The two of them didn't tell themselves any worries, obviously hoping that they could live a prosperous life.

But now, something seems to be starting to change.

Whether it was what my sister-in-law said in Wu, or the turmoil inside and outside the palace now, it seemed to be a sign of some disaster.

Xia Yan narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance. His black hair moved with the cold wind and danced backwards. He didn't know if it was an hallucination. His more than ten white hairs always flew over the wrists and backs of the little palace maid from time to time, like a strange sharp blade about to cut the fragile human skin, but he was always driven away by the wind when he was about to pierce.

"Go to that pavilion, I want to see the scenery."

Xia Yan suddenly pointed to the distance, which was a viewing pavilion in the middle of the lake accessible by a pier of about a hundred meters long.

Xiao Maqiu gritted his teeth and endured his fear, and pushed the wheelchair to the pavilion.

Xia Yan said: "You go outside and wait for me."

Xiao Maqiu was stunned. Just as he was about to say something, Xia Yan's gentle but unquestionable voice came from his ear: "I want to be alone and quiet."

"Then... the prince is careful." Xiao Maqiu said worriedly and then surrendered.

In the center of the lake, there is only Xia Yan left.

He slowly took out the red paper man and grabbed it in the palm of his right hand.

The wind is strong here, so he presses it with his thumb again.

Then take a deep breath, and when exhaling, some irregular sounds like tremolo sounds made in your mouth, strange, complex, and extremely fast. Even if someone listens carefully next to you and imitates, he cannot spit out a complete syllable.

This is not a sound that human voices can make.

If Xia Yan had not obtained the "perfect" level of [small spirit control technique], he would not have made such a sound.

At this time, the fourteenth prince followed the method of [Little Spirit Control Technique] and completed the brief steps.

After he finished, he began to wait patiently.

Whether this [Little Spirit Control Technique] and [Dark Paper Man Technique] are real or your own fantasy will be immediately known.

If it is true, then what does this mean?

Is nightmare more than dreams?

After a few minutes, he felt a little rebellious when pressing the red paper man's thumb.

He slowly raised his thumb.

The paper man who should have been blown away by the wind in the middle of the lake was motionless, with a little cold and heavy feeling.

Gradually, the red paper man moved, stood up, and smiled strangely in front of Xia Yan.

But before the smile ended, Xia Yan heard a sharp hissing in his ears.

Immediately afterwards, the red paper man was drunk, and his body was to the left and right, as if there were a lot of forces in the world that were hitting the red paper man hard.

Xia Yan couldn't see what was going on, but he vaguely felt that many evil spirits were actually competing for the qualification to enter the Red Paper Man.

Therefore, whenever an evil spirit enters the Red Paper Man, it will be knocked out by a powerful evil spirit, and the powerful evil spirit will be knocked out by a stronger one...

In this way, the red paper man was dancing between his five fingers, sometimes shaking left and right, sometimes turning into a gyroscope...

Xia Yan pinched his thigh with his left hand. The severe pain came. He opened his eyes suddenly and the scene he saw still had not changed.

He already understood that everything was true, not an illusion.

After a long time, the red paper talent finally stopped moving, which meant that the competition among the evil spirits had settled, and the evil spirit hidden in the red paper human is the strongest one.

A gust of cold wind passed by, the red paper man looked up, and a strange smile began to appear on the corners of his lips...

The smile grew bigger and bigger, tearing more and more until the whole head was laughing...

The man from Hong Paper calmly grabbed his head and stuck it back on, and began to smile.

Even if Xia Yan could control it, he felt a little creepy.

He stopped looking closely, flattened the evil red paper man, threw it into his arms, and waved to the distance.

Xiao Maqiu hurriedly ran along the pier. This gloomy ghost place really didn't want to stay for a minute.

However, as soon as the two walked out of Tianxing Lake, they saw an old eunuch standing in the cold wind with his eyes squinting. The old eunuch bowed his waist slightly and stood with his sleeves down. When he saw Xia Yan, he said: "Fourth Prince, the Emperor wants to see you."
Chapter completed!