She covered her face and cried bitterly as she spoke, "For so many years, I feel like I've been driven crazy by him! How could I be like this?"
Su Li was horrified by what she heard, and some detailed pictures flashed through her mind. She always felt that what happened to the queen was similar to some of the events in her memory.
It's just that it's been so long that I can't even remember what it was.
While he was thinking hard, Xiao Lin beside him blurted out: "The art of refining people!"
Su Li was stunned: "Is this the art of refining people?"
"Have you heard of it too?" Xiao Lin turned to look at her.
Su Li nodded: "When I was in the Evil Spirit Realm, I heard people talk about this technique. However, we don't call it the Human Refining Technique, we call it the Soul Refining Technique! There are no people in the Evil Spirit Realm, only souls! They will detain some that they think are useful. The souls of those souls will be completely cut off from the escape route, and they will be tempered with various cruel methods. When they are in pain and want to live, they will be gathered with benefits, beaten with a stick, and given a sweet date. After a few times, these souls will be completely in despair. , and they eventually turned them into omnipotent soul beasts! Once these soul beasts are tamed, they will regard those evil spirits as their masters. Unless their souls are gone, they will be controlled by the people who trained them for the rest of their lives!"
"The same goes for human refining!" Xiao Lin replied, "It's just that compared to the soul refining you mentioned, this kind of human art is more cruel and terrifying! They use various jealous punishments to destroy people first. Muscles and bones, no matter how humiliating a person's self-esteem is, under extreme torture and pain, unless the person is particularly strong-willed, ordinary people cannot bear it! Not to mention that my mother was still a fifteen-year-old girl at the time, even if she was an internal guard trained by me, They may not be able to withstand such years of torture..."
When he said this, he turned to look at the queen.
At this moment, the queen seemed to be brought back to that long-lasting memory, and her whole body began to tremble again, like a grass in the wind, which might break at any time.
But she kept clenching her teeth and trying to hold on.
Although I was scared, I still tried my best to fight against the terrifying memories in my heart.
"Mother..." Xiao Lin took a step forward and held her hand.
The moment her hand was held, the queen immediately stood firm.
"Lin'er, my mother is fine..." she said in a tight voice, but she spoke every word, "Now that I've woken up, I won't be stupid again! It's just... the stupidities I made before will eventually become ...cannot make up for it...I..."
Xiao Lin slowly shook his head: "Mother, there is no need to talk about the past!"
"The culprit is Xiao Hao!" Su Li said, "Although you did something wrong, Madam, it didn't really cause any serious disaster! Besides, you are also a victim..."
Her eyes fell on the lantern, and her heart couldn't stop trembling.
If you can make such a big lantern, you don't know how miserable the queen will be!
Xiao Lin saw what she was thinking and felt increasingly uncomfortable.
"No wonder my mother has never allowed anyone in the palace to bathe you for so many years. I'm afraid you have..."
He closed his eyes and couldn't bear to say any more.
"These are all old wounds that no longer hurt!" The queen shook her head, "Let's stop talking. I'll take you to the basement!"
"Underground palace?" Xiao Lin was startled, "Is it here?"
The queen nodded vigorously: "I also discovered this place accidentally. Once I came to look for the evil thieves, and I saw them here from a long way away. Who expected that when I entered the living room, they suddenly disappeared. I felt strange, so After searching around, I heard movement behind the bookshelf, like the sound of a door opening. I looked around and saw a door suddenly opened on the wall behind the bookshelf. The two of them stepped inside, and the door closed automatically. Got it!"
He pointed to the bookshelf in the distance, "That's it! I'll take you there!"
Xiao Lin and Su Li looked at each other and followed her.
The queen went to the bookshelf and found the switch hidden on the wall with ease. It was in a painting of a tiger descending from a mountain, but there was a mystery hidden on the tiger's head. The king's forehead was where the mechanism was.
The queen stretched out her hand and twisted it twice, and the wall that was originally tight suddenly moved away, revealing a dark hole.
The entrance to the cave is not big, only enough for two people to enter side by side. The walls of the cave extend downward, and nothing can be seen clearly.
Xiao Lin picked up the candlestick on the table and shined it down. In the dim light of the fire, the stairs leading to the basement were dark and long.
"Has your mother ever gone in?" Xiao Lin asked.
"Go in!" The queen nodded, "I had just gotten married to that evil thief at that time, and he used that kind of magic to make all my eyes and heart focus on him. When I saw him with Xie Rou, I became very jealous... "
"At that time, Xie Rou entered the palace?" Xiao Lin asked.
"They already knew each other before I married him!" the queen replied.
"If that's the case, why do you still need to rely on Xie's connections?" Xiao Lin was puzzled.
"I don't know much about this..." The queen shook her head, "Maybe it's because Xie Rou's origin is unknown and she needs a suitable identity!"
"What do you mean by unknown origin?" Su Li asked, "Didn't you mean that she is the daughter of a distant relative?"
"That's what I said, but I don't think their relationship is like that of father and daughter!" the queen recalled, "That clan member was very respectful to Xie Rou! Historically, only daughters respected their fathers, how could a father respect his daughter? ? Moreover, Xie Rou is not like a woman who comes from a remote village! She knows a lot and feels that she knows everything! That thief and her are the real ones who have the same chemistry!"
"Do they know you came in?" Xiao Lin asked.
"Of course I know!" the queen smiled bitterly, "How could a stupid person like me, acting under their noses, hide it from them? The day I discovered this basement, I followed it in. I was very angry at that time. I felt that The evil thieves came to such a secret place without telling Xie Rou and I, so they must have taken her more seriously than me! I was dissatisfied, so I followed them, and they were soon discovered!"
"What were they doing at that time?" Su Li asked curiously, while slowly walking down behind Xiao Lin.
"I don't know what to say..." the queen considered the words, "They seem to be... doing something? The basement is full of colorful charms, and there are also paper little people and so on. They are piled up in a mess. I don’t know what’s going on! Anyway, you’ll find out later when you go in and take a look!”
"Did they beat you after they found you?" Xiao Jun suddenly asked.
"Of course this is inevitable..." The queen grinned, "I was beaten and scolded by them. It was a common occurrence. I had experienced torture. Those beatings were nothing at all! They were nothing more than whips, palms, mouths, and so on. Yes, it doesn’t hurt at all!”
Xiao Lin choked when he heard this, his eyes filled with anger, and Su Li also sighed silently.
When she saw what the queen did before, she thought that this person was no different from an idiot. If she could be so stupid and confused, she was probably the only one she could find in the world!
But now that I know what happened to her, I feel sour in my heart.
She thought that it was terrible for her to be so ravaged by the Jiang family.
I didn’t expect the queen to be worse off than she was!
Having your blood drawn every day is better than being tortured every day!
Furthermore, although she was tortured, Jiang Qingge never made her give in. Her soul was always free and awake.
The Queen has been controlled by them like a dog for so many years. This is the most unacceptable thing.
Both of them felt uncomfortable and were silent for a while.
The queen noticed that the two of them were in low mood, and knew that she felt sorry for her, so she hurriedly comforted you: "I won't lie to you! It really doesn't hurt! Moreover, it has been so long, and the injury has long been healed! I don't feel anything anymore!" "
Perhaps in order to reassure the two of them, she also went out of her way to tell the details, "They dislocated my arm at that time, but they quickly reattached it, and now I can move freely! It's not affected at all!"
As he spoke, he shook his arms again and again.
The moment he raised his hand, the long sleeves of his broad robe floated up, and a thin and pale arm was faintly visible in the candlelight.
Su Li always felt that the skin there was dark and white, and she suspected it was because of the flickering lights, but Xiao Lin beside her suddenly stretched out her hand and grabbed the queen's wrist.
This scratch left no trace of the scars on his arm.
Su Li only glanced at it and then couldn't bear to twist his head.
There was not a single piece of good flesh on that whole arm, and there were scars and knots everywhere, as if there were several big centipedes lying on it, it was horrifying to see!
Although I know what the art of refining is about, the feeling of imagining it and actually seeing it are still completely different.
Su Li felt suffocated just by seeing this arm. Xiao Lin beside him was trembling slightly.
"It's okay!" The queen hurriedly withdrew her hand and changed the subject with a forced smile, "You guys go faster! This basement is extremely secretive. After I found out, they all tried to kill me and silence me! After discussing it for a while, I was spared only after I was sure that I didn't dare to tell outsiders! Later, I discovered that they would enter the knife room from time to time. Of course, I didn't dare to follow them anymore and only looked out for them. ! They are so cautious, there must be something shady hidden in it! If you look at it, you might have a way to deal with them! "
She led the way, and after walking down another thirty or forty steps, she finally reached the basement.
As soon as he entered, Su Li smelled an indescribable smell, which was very similar to Jiang Qingge's darkroom.
Xiao Lin raised the wind lantern in his hand and looked at the dark room.
The darkroom is not too big, about the size of two ordinary rooms.
As the Queen said, the most common thing here is all kinds of fancy charms, which are almost all over the basement. The walls, the roof, and even the ground are all densely pasted.
Judging from Su Li's experience, putting so many talismans on them is most likely to suppress something.
But the strange thing is that although there are many charms in this room, they are all scattered and disorganized.
She and Xiao Lin looked at it for a long time, but they didn't find out what the charm was for, so they had to study the ornaments in the basement again.
Because there was only one candlestick illuminating the room and the light in the basement was dim, neither of them could see what these ornaments were at first. The round half circle looked like an irregular bowl with strange paintings on it. The fancy patterns are similar to the patterns on the sinful lantern outside. They are both extremely gaudy and ugly. You can tell at a glance that they are the handiwork of Emperor Xiao.
Su Li was about to throw it away when something suddenly fell from behind and Gu Lu Lu rolled in front of her.
She hurriedly leaned forward to take a look. The sight made her hair stand on end!
