Chapter 1213: Heartbreak
Heavy snow.
In Ancheng, which is only a hundred miles away from Shengjing, there is an arena for the nobles to play. It is built in a magnificent way. In the past, this place only had beasts fighting, but since some time, the beasts have become people. They are all slaves bought from human traffickers, or refugees who have nowhere to go and sell themselves because of disasters.
There are many dandies from Shengjing who come here to have fun, because the saint has been paralyzed on the dragon bed since the earthquake during the sacrifice to the sky last year. After half a year of care, he can finally sit on the bed, but he can't walk, and he can't even sit for a long time. His waist hurts when he sits for a long time.
Even so, he seems to have hope, but the saint has never stood up. In fact, from the gossip that has not been spread outside, the saint does not believe in evil and wants to stand up and walk. As a result, he took a step and almost fell down. This is still under the support of someone.
Having lost face like that, the Saint was furious and killed two imperial doctors. As for the young eunuchs and maids who served him, I don’t know how many of them had been replaced.
In the past year, in order to appease the hearts of the ministers and the people, the Saint also appeared in the court, but the number of times was counted with one hand, and he only sat for a while and had to leave the court in less than a quarter of an hour.
In view of the Saint’s unhealthy body, although the Imperial Hospital had been changing the prescriptions and acupuncture, and had invited many famous doctors to the palace for treatment, it still could not resist the cruel reality that he was getting older and weaker.
For this reason, the Saint’s temper became more and more irritable, and the imperial doctors of the entire Imperial Hospital had their heads tied to their belts every day. The eunuchs and maids serving in the bedroom died every day, and in the court, from time to time, an official would be exiled, his property confiscated and exiled, even if it was just a trumped-up crime.
The Saint’s temper was capricious, especially after he established the crown prince.
The prince has truly become a thorn in the saint's eyes, especially when he sees his strong and upright physique and mental outlook, which is glaring. The attitude towards the prince is more suspicious than trusting. Even if the officials move around more, the saint will suspect that they are forming a clique for personal gain, and will wonder if these people are secretly hoping that he will die.
Taking all these into consideration, no matter whether they are high-ranking or insignificant people, they all act cautiously, fearing that they will run into the loophole of the gun and become the soul under the knife. The powerful people in the capital also restrain their children at home. After all, the saint is a little crazy now, and exiling officials is like playing. If you run into him, the whole family will be finished.
With the restraint, the brothels for people to visit in Shengjing have become much more depressed. First, because there have been two consecutive years of disasters, everyone's wallets are a little tight, especially the treasury is empty, and there are frequent wars on the border that require military supplies and food. The Ministry of Revenue is worried about where to get money. You go to the brothel to spend a lot of money. Do you think this handle is not big enough?
In order not to give the Ministry of Revenue a handle or an opportunity to make trouble, each family ruthlessly cut off the expenses of the playboys. Without money, they would be restricted, wouldn't they be unable to go?
But people started to be dissolute, especially the playboys who knew how to play, how could they bear to be a good baby in the mansion? If they couldn't play freely in Shengjing, couldn't they play in nearby towns?
So, the Colosseum in Ancheng caught their eyes. What's more interesting is that the beasts used to fight here, but now they fight people. Isn't this more interesting than beasts?
As for human lives, they are just lowly people, and they are nothing in their eyes.
In troubled times, the least valuable thing is human life.
Heavy snow fell down.
Qin Liuxi looked at the children of different ages in the cages below. They were like young beasts who were just learning to forage. They fiercely showed their fangs and means and kept attacking their peers around them.
Their eyes were full of numb ferocity. They attacked instinctively and did not dare to stop at all, because if they stopped, they would fall down and be dragged to the mass grave like a dead dog, and then become food for wild beasts.
They wanted to live, and if they wanted to live, they had to be ruthless.
Qin Liuxi closed her eyes slightly. In her ears, ghosts kept crying and whimpering. The resentful souls were floating around, but none of them dared to approach her. They all hid far away.
That's right, in a place that mortals can't see, this Colosseum is filled with countless resentful souls, including some new ghosts of children, with yin energy soaring to the sky, and bloody and evil energy so red that it seemed to drip blood.
But those dandy boys who were dressed in fine clothes and fed with delicious food were completely unaware of this. They were wearing thick cloaks, clenching their fists, staring at the arena with red eyes, excitedly roaring their human-beast attacks, swinging their fists and biting.
They had no perception of the resentful souls following them.
Blood and flesh flew everywhere, and people's hearts collapsed.
Seeing the children lose their humanity one by one, the gamblers who cheered loudly still felt it was not enough. They screamed shrilly from their throats, wishing they could go on stage to fight for the trapped beasts they had chosen. Some even lost their minds and cursed and punched the people around them.
Qin Liuxi's eyes turned cold, and he looked at the dark red stone beast in the arena. The evil and violent aura continued to emerge, and the resentful souls in the arena also became ferocious, and some even pinched the necks of the strangers around them.
The blood-red evil spirit rolled up the snowflakes and swirled. Everyone was like crazy, roaring, screaming, and violent.
She flashed and soon appeared in front of the stone beast. The blood demon with a human body and a beast head formed by blood rushed towards her.
Buzz.
The divine weapon fell from the sky, making a deafening sword sound, slashing at the blood demon, and the mighty power turned into golden light, wrapping it and swallowing it bit by bit.
The stone beast was turned into powder by Qin Liuxi's hands.
The field was in chaos.
Those playboys who were originally clamoring for fighting and killing saw something and screamed, kneeling on the ground begging for mercy, with crazy expressions.
Qin Liuxi held the divine weapon that had swallowed up all the bloody evil spirits in her hand, and looked at its golden red sword body with a bit of disdain in her eyes.
The Mie Luo Sword expressed that it was very aggrieved. It was originally used to treat this, and now it is disdained again?
Qin Liuxi held it, filled it with spiritual power in mid-air, and drew a talisman with the sword spirit. The spiritual energy sank into the talisman, mixed with the infinite mighty power, and the dazzling golden light emerged in the entire Colosseum. The resentful souls with evil spirits cried out and turned into stars in the golden light and disappeared.
The arena became quiet, and some people woke up with a confused look on their faces.
Qin Liuxi split the cage in the middle of the arena. The children inside sat numbly, as if they had lost their souls. She pinched a spell with both hands and hit them.
Soon, some children jumped off the stage and fled outside.
A child who was only four or five years old was almost knocked off the stage. Qin Liuxi caught him and looked down to see a dirty and bloody face with black and bright eyes.
Qin Liuxi held his hand, said something, and then left gracefully.
The child kept watching her disappear, then lowered his head, pursed his lips and ran away quickly.
If you want to survive, go to the northwest.
The god-like person said so. (End of this chapter)