Chapter 40: Night Encounter with a Female Corpse

  "Cough...cough..." I couldn't say a word, her strength was great, and I was shaken back and forth by her.

  Zhang's nanny led the palace maidens in a rush out, and it was only with great difficulty that they managed to rescue me from the empress's hands.

  "You..." Zhang's nanny was about to scold, but suddenly discovered that this crazy woman was actually the empress, and she couldn't help but be shocked and flustered. Her eyes were a bit frantic, looking around at the people on either side of her, unsure of what to do.

  "Everyone get down, it's nothing, I'm fine!" I ordered.

  All the palace maids retreated, and the empress also hid behind a tree, looking at us in terror.

  "Let's take her out, don't let others find out, it's best to find a place to settle her!" I whispered to Zhang Niang beside me.

  "Yes!" At this time, Zhang's nanny couldn't help but shed tears. The former glorious and noble empress didn't expect to end up in such a situation.

  Where can we go? This vast imperial palace, it's not like we can just find a place to hide, and what if someone finds her? If we're discovered, we'll be accused of abducting the empress.

  "Let's send her back!" suggested Zhang Nainai finally.

  "I won't go back, they'll give me medicine, lots and lots of medicine. I want to find my child!" The queen shouted frantically.

  "Your Majesty, I beg of you, please be well!" Zhang Mama said with a nose full of snot and tears.

  "Where is your child?" I didn't have the chance, maybe it won't be so easy to see the queen again later, she knows the secrets of this palace, tonight maybe I can get some words out of her.

  The rain was still falling and the three of us stood in it, there was a stretch of road leading to the Queen's palace, I had to get her words out before the people on that side arrived.

  "Are all your children dead? How did they die? Who wanted to harm them?" I asked the queen urgently.

  "Miss?" Zhang Mama couldn't bear to torment the empress after all they had been master and servant for a long time.

  "Ah...!" The queen shook her head frantically, staring at me in shock and confusion, with a hint of evasion: "I don't know, don't give me medicine, I don't know, I don't know anything."

  "Xuanyuan Zi, don't you remember your son?" That small and thin child, every time I see him, it makes my heart ache.

  "Don't kill my child, I beg of you, don't kill my child!" The queen fell to her knees, weeping and imploring.

  I also squatted down and looked at her: "Who wants to kill your child, do you know? Xuan Yuan Zi has found me, he doesn't want to return to the palace! But I heard that you're crazy, he's worried about you as a mother, so he came back."

  "No...I dare not say it, they will kill me, they have taken my child, I dare not speak!" The queen cried out like a madwoman.

  In the rain, there were several figures carrying lanterns walking towards this side, shouting "Empress Dowager..."

  Zhang's wife looked at me in surprise, heard the cry and reacted, waved her hand to me: "Girl hurry up, I will send the queen over!" Her meaning was to let me hide for a while.

  I ran towards the direction of Dong Gong, I tried to sort out what Empress Dowager had just said "I don't know anything, don't give me medicine!"

  The meaning of this sentence seems to be that she was given medicine not because of her illness, but in order to prevent her from saying something.

  I turned back in shock, and in the darkness of night, I could only see a few lights in the distance. The queen wasn't really crazy, but was driven mad by medicine? This realization made me terrified. Who in this palace is so ruthless that they wouldn't even spare the queen? Why did he drive the queen mad with medicine? Is it because she knew too many secrets?

  I walked back, in the rain, a piece of darkness, I could only move forward relying on memory and feeling. A flash of lightning passed by, and I saw a white shadow in front of me, with seven holes bleeding on its snow-white face, staring at me in the lightning.

  That face looks so familiar, it's Princess Yulan. Her complexion is deathly pale, with blood on her eyes, nose and mouth, just standing there!

  I was startled and turned around to run, she was right behind me, closely chasing after me. I turned my head to look at her, under the flash of lightning, I saw that her face was expressionless, moving very fast, just behind me.

  The body of Princess Yulan has some resonance with me, so Xuan Yuan Mu and Xue Qiu Feng will repeatedly remind me not to wander around and especially not to go to places with a lot of water.

  But I forgot, it rained tonight, and in this rainwater, the corpse of that woman can move freely.

  I was a bit too careless earlier because I heard that her corpse was locked in chains, but after she turned into a zombie, those chains didn't pose any threat to her at all.

  After transforming, Princess Yulan was extremely powerful. I hadn't run far when her hair grabbed me and pulled me down into the muddy water. She slowly approached me, her hair binding my legs tightly, making it impossible for me to move.

  "What... what do you want to do?" I knew in my heart what she wanted to do, but I just couldn't help wanting to stall for time, hoping that Xuan Yuan would come back soon and find me gone. Now the only person who could calm down the female corpse was him.

  The female corpse slowly approached me, her pale face with seven orifices stained with blood, and her eyes without luster. I saw that she had exposed the corners of her mouth, revealing long teeth, and under the lightning, she looked terrifying, stretching out her fingers to grab me.

  "Ah......" I screamed, but it was no use. She dragged me into the water and I sank beneath the endless surface.

  Xuanyuan, at this moment I really want to see him.

  Her fingernails had dug into my flesh, sending a stinging pain through my skin.

  The water was pitch black, I heard the sound of creaking, and felt that there were many corpses following me, swimming together with the female corpse towards the direction of Fengyue Pavilion.

  She let me go, and my blood flowed into the water, where the corpses following the female corpse were scrambling for the bloody water.

  She came over, wearing snow-white clothes, a swollen face, and eyes without luster staring at me. Her expression was icy, with deep resentment, just staring straight at me like that.

  She suddenly turned around, moving quickly, and wrapped her arms around me from behind. Her two icy hands rested on top of mine, and the swollen, pale head leaned against my shoulder. Her abdomen pressed against my back, and her legs were tightly entwined with mine, as if we were a single person stacked together.

  I wanted to struggle, but all my strength had vanished, my eyes couldn't even blink, and I just floated there in the water, staring at the unknown darkness with terrified eyes.

  Although I'm still wide awake and conscious, I have a kind of illusion that I am also a corpse, just like the corpses around me.