Imperial Treasure

Chapter 1414 - 822: Dream?

Later she secretly felt her way along the little path Ah Luo used to take her down...

Later she ran into Ah Luo’s parents...

Later they chased after her, holding pitchforks and sticks... shouting that she was a Monster....

"Don’t let her get away!"

"This Monster! A harmful Monster! It’s her fault it never rains here, all because of her!"

"Beat her to death!"

"Drive her toward the altar! Kill her and offer her up!"

There were people chasing from that side, and people from this side too..

Stones smashed into her body, it hurt so much.

She staggered and ran, ran, ran, just like before when Ah Luo would drag her along... dodging those children who threw stones at him..

"Foolish, Foolish, run.."

"Why are they hitting me... is it because I’m stupid?"

"No.. it’s because they all really like you, they like playing hide-and-seek with you, we can’t let them catch us. Run.... but Foolish, you really are stupid."

Run run run...

The altar was just up ahead..

Suddenly a stab of pain in her foot—turns out a fork had pierced her leg, and she fell.

Fire rose up on the altar.

They dragged her onto the altar and tied her up.

"Uncle... where is Luoluo?"

He looked at her with a gloomy, sinister gaze.

"That cheap slut really was bewitched by you, Monster, and turned into a Monster too... she’s long since been punished by the envoy sent from Heaven."

"Where is she?"

"Hmph!"

Until she lifted her head.

She saw on the cliff at the peak of that God Mountain a tree hanging out from the rock face, with many strips of red cloth tied to it. When the wind blew they were terribly pretty, but now there was more than red cloth hanging from the tree—there was a person...

Long ago, she had asked.

"Ah Luo, Ah Luo, there are so many red things on that tree, and birds too~~"

"Shh! That’s the Divine Tree and the Divine Eagles.... If you’re not good and make a big mistake, I’ll hang you up there and let those Divine Eagles eat you..."

"Wuu.. don’t.."

Hung on the Divine Tree, sacrificed to the Divine Eagles.

Who was that person?

It was just a skeleton now, she couldn’t tell who it was, it wasn’t Ah Luo.

She knew it wasn’t.

It definitely wasn’t.

"If she hadn’t been bewitched by you, Monster, and let you go, Ah Luo wouldn’t have ended up eaten by the Divine Eagles.. but it’s just as well she was eaten, the gods will forgive her, and in her next life she’ll still be a good girl."

"Exactly, if she’d told us where you were hiding, the gods wouldn’t have judged her as so stubborn and unrepentant, forcing us to hang her on the Divine Tree and make her a sacrifice....."

"Not a word from her before, and only when the Divine Eagles were eating her did she start screaming—serves her right!"

And then... then she didn’t even know what happened.

She only felt her own body sticky all over, covered in blood, and all around on the ground lay many people, their flesh and blood mangled, as if some beast had torn their bodies apart.

But she didn’t care, she only wanted Ah Luo..

She climbed up from the foot of the mountain..

Stumbling and swaying on the cliff, she carefully crawled onto that tree, stepping on the branches to look at the skeleton hanging amid the red cloth strips.

The flesh had been gnawed completely clean.

Nothing at all was left.

She stared at it for a long, long time, gathered the things in her arms closer, felt something sticky, reached into her palm.

The sugar figurines were about to melt.

"I couldn’t find that village... and I couldn’t find the person who sold sugar figurines.. I didn’t dare come back... so I searched everywhere... an old grandpa taught me.. look, these I made myself, two of them!"

"One for you, one for me."

"Greedy Ah Luo... didn’t get to eat the sugar figurines, and got eaten herself first..

She held one sugar figurine to the skeleton’s mouth.

The skeleton didn’t move at all.

One sugar figurine went into her own mouth, she took a bite.

So bitter.

The sugar figurine didn’t taste good at all.

Hah!

The quilt was suddenly flung aside, and Sui Yi jerked upright from the bed, one hand pressed to her own face, icy cold to the bone. Her fingers brushed across her lips, and she gave a slight lick—so bitter.

It had been a long time since she’d dreamed, especially after her Witch Body had fully transformed; she had almost never dreamed.

But this was not a dream.

Sui Yi sat on the bed for a long time, palm covering her eyes, waiting for the searing pain in her chest to gradually ebb...

They were right, seeking out the past was a very painful road for her.

The further back she walked, the further she went, the more it hurt.

A pain even a Witch couldn’t bear.

So with each life they shaved away her emotions, her spirit, and her powers.

Throwing back the quilt, Sui Yi got out of bed.

The brush traced out two characters on the white paper; as she lifted the tip and saw those two incomparably familiar characters, her face held an un-dissolvable weariness and desolation.

"Li Luo, ninth life."

Foolish, her ninth life... the dullest, most useless life of all, the one that got the girl who’d taken her in eaten alive until nothing was left but white bone.

If she’d known earlier that she wouldn’t wait for her to come back.

She definitely wouldn’t have left.

Sui Yi’s fingertips brushed across those two characters, and she closed her eyes, as if hearing in the darkness of night that faint, soft, clear voice.