Late at night, a group of extremely nimble men in black walked in the side courtyard of the palace, choosing to walk on some narrow roads and constantly avoiding the night watchmen in the palace.

Soon they arrived at the palace where the former concubine Hua was imprisoned. It was said that in the previous dynasty, Concubine Hua often sent people to torture His Majesty when he was young, and also killed His Majesty's adoptive mother. Now her limbs have been chopped off, and her mouth, ears and nose have all been destroyed, and she is being kept here.

Because Concubine Hua's current appearance was too terrifying and no one lived here at all, several men in black quickly sneaked into the palace to set up fire starters, and at the same time continued to divide their troops to spread special fire starters according to Concubine Shi's instructions.

Among them, they focused on sprinkling incendiary materials all the way in the direction of Bai Yaoyao, and finally sprinkled them around the house where Bai Yaoyao lived. No one spoke during the whole process, and all the actions were silent.

All this caused Bai Yaoyao, who had fallen into a deep sleep, to be unaware that danger had arrived.

Finally, at the scheduled time as planned, the palace where Concubine Hua was imprisoned was quickly ignited, and then turned into an extremely bright line of fire that rushed towards the surrounding houses. One of the fastest lines of fire rushed straight towards Bai Yaoyao's house, and all the houses on the way turned into fuel for the sea of ​​​​fire.

The most important thing is, no one knew what was stored in the newly built house near Bai Yaoyao. After being swept by the fire wave, it expanded instantly in the blink of an eye and swept around at a rapid speed. Bai Yaoyao's house was the first to be hit.

An incense stick of time had passed since the fire in this remote area west of the palace was discovered, and half an hour had passed by the time the army was mobilized to put out the fire. At this time, the palace where Concubine Hua was located had completely turned into a palace of fire, and the densely packed houses around it had completely formed a large sea of ​​fire, which had even begun to ignite the air, causing continuous explosions, making the speed of firefighting unable to keep up with the speed of the sea of ​​fire spreading.

The bright light created by the fierce flames illuminated the entire sky, and countless people in the capital city noticed the drastic changes in the palace.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry, speed, speed!"

The whole palace was in chaos.

…………

The flames had engulfed Bai Yaoyao's house, bringing up a large amount of thick smoke. The first person to be awakened by the smoke was Bai Xiaolu. Lu'er, who had been specially trained in this type of thing, woke up quickly, and after realizing something was wrong, she hurriedly woke up Yaoyao.

"Yaoyao, Yaoyao! Wake up, there's a fire!"

"Well?"

Bai Yaoyao woke up in a daze. The first thing she noticed was the bright light outside that was as bright as day, followed by the extremely choking smoke and the constant burning sensation on her skin.

On fire? Holy crap!

Bai Yaoyao woke up in an instant and quickly got up. However, as soon as she got off the bed, her overdrawn legs and feet fell down and she couldn't stand up at all.

"Why did you fail at the critical moment?"

Bai Yaoyao's weak attempt to stand up still failed. Her legs now felt like when her thumb and index finger suddenly lost strength while she was doing homework. She even had difficulty holding a pen. She had no strength at all.

"I'll hold you."

The situation was urgent. Bai Xiaolu could feel that the air around him was becoming turbid at a rapid rate. Breathing had begun to become difficult. There was no time to adjust her posture. She simply put the clothes on the bed on Yaoyao casually, and then picked Yaoyao up in her arms like a princess, and rushed out of the house. There was a raging fire all around. Within seconds of walking out of the house, explosions instantly appeared in the house, and it took less than three minutes for the house to be completely turned into a fire house.

"No wonder people are always trapped in fires. The speed at which the flames burn is too fast."

Bai Yaoyao couldn't help but secretly click her tongue as she watched the house turn into a fire. It took less than five minutes from the time the flames appeared in the house to the time it turned into a sea of ​​fire.

Yaoyao looked around while tearing off the clothes covering her body. She tore off strips of cloth to make a simple mask and put it on Lu'er first.

Escaping from the first house was only the first step. After walking outside the house, the dense flames all around made it impossible to run. In the end, he thought that the area around the emperor must be the safest, so he ran straight to Kunning Palace.

There was chaos everywhere, and Bai Yaoyao knew very well that Lu'er didn't have the physical strength to run fast enough to hold her. If they didn't speed up, both of them would die here.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Bai Yaoyao whimpered loudly a few times, successfully attracting Lu'er's attention, then got down from Lu'er's arms and was pulled by Lu'er to run.

The number of houses burning around them gradually decreased. Under the bright light of the fire, the two soon spotted soldiers putting out a fire in the distance. Just when they thought they could escape, a black figure suddenly rushed out from somewhere, holding a dagger in his hand and running straight towards Bai Yaoyao's back.

"Yao Yao, be careful!"

Bai Xiaolu, who had been paying attention to the surroundings, was the first to discover that the man in black was very fast. In a split second, he could only try his best to stand in front of Yaoyao but had no time to fight back. He could only watch helplessly as the dagger pierced his chest.

Bai Yaoyao's eyes widened quickly and she hurriedly caught Lu'er who was falling backwards. The man in black saw that his first attack failed and wanted to draw out his dagger for a second attack, but his arm and wrist were tightly grasped by Lu'er and he was kicked in the abdomen. He wanted to fight back but noticed that the soldiers in the distance had noticed the movement here and were rushing over.

Seeing that there was no way out, the man in black turned around and fled.

"Green?"

Bai Yaoyao suddenly realized that her hands were covered in blood in a trance.

"Lu'er, you were stabbed?"

"Yeah, that hurts."

Bai Xiaolu was still holding the handle of the knife in his hand, and the entire blade had already stabbed into his chest.

Bai Yaoyao then realized something. This time it was her turn to pick up Lu'er and rush out. She instantly felt a sharp stinging pain on her arms, but Bai Yaoyao gritted her teeth and endured it. Then she successfully handed Lu'er to the soldiers, who then took her to the imperial physician for treatment.

"Green will be fine, right?"

Bai Yaoyao followed the soldier closely regardless of her dirty body. At the same time, she also opened the system store to quickly search for products that could help Lu'er.

“Why are props for helping other people so expensive?”

Chapter 12: Lu'er's Death ( chapters have been sent)

Bai Yaoyao looked at the props in the system store, beads of sweat breaking out on her forehead. Those life-saving props had to be used on people other than herself and the mission object, so the prices were extremely high, basically starting at five atonement points, and those that could really save lives required at least ten atonement points.

Things like the repairing agents in the world of immortal cultivation, or the universal healing drugs in the world of technology, etc., all cost ten redemption points.

"How did that happen."

When Bai Yaoyao was unable to find a solution, the imperial physician had already started treating Lu'er, and Bai Yaoyao still stayed closely by her side, never leaving her side, intending to exchange the five atonement points for a physical point and add it to Lu'er if anything happened.

This was the last resort she could take. Even though the price had increased fivefold and the cost-effectiveness was extremely low, she still felt obliged to do it.

"Hopeless."

The imperial physician came to this conclusion after observing for a while.

"what?"

Bai Yaoyao almost suspected that she had heard it wrong, and looked at the doctor in shock. Lu'er was fine before, how could she be dead after just a minor injury from a dagger?

Is there no cure at all?

The imperial physician seemed to recognize the girl in front of him as the newly appointed Bai Zhaoyi, whose rank was much higher than hers. He quickly bowed and explained, "The patient's knife wound has already injured her heart. If it is not pulled out for a few moments, she will die. At the same time, the knife is also poisoned. Anyone who touches it will die. I am powerless, not that I cannot save her."

It hurts the heart... and it's poisonous?

Bai Yaoyao felt as if a heavy hammer had hit her head. She was too dizzy to accept the reality.

Lu'er...wasn't she still fine? How come she suddenly...was beyond help...

As if she had lost all her strength, Bai Yaoyao sat weakly on the chair, staring blankly at the unconscious Lu'er, while the imperial physician had already gone to treat other wounded. This time the fire affected a wide area, almost the entire west side was burned, and the number of wounded who were constantly rescued was increasing.

All the imperial doctors were mobilized, and no one would waste their time on someone who was doomed to die.

However, due to Bai Yaoyao's status, the imperial physician did not drive the two out of the room. Instead, he changed to another room and continued to see patients.

"I just don't believe I can't find the right props!"

Bai Yaoyao did not give up and called up the system store to continue searching, but all the stores with keyword search would show up as soon as the search was done. The cheapest item that could bring people back to life required ten atonement points, and there was no way there could be any cheaper items.

and so……

"So I can only watch Lu'er die? And Lu'er died just to save me..."

Bai Yaoyao felt a strong sense of powerlessness in her heart.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Suddenly, Lu'er coughed from the bed. Bai Yaoyao was not surprised at all, but her palpitations became more intense.

She knew this, having died many times.

This is most likely Lu'er's last burst of energy.

"Yao, Yaoyao?"

Bai Xiaolu coughed lightly and opened her eyes, and saw the princess standing beside her. Her fair face was covered in gray, which looked funny.

"Haha, Princess, your face is so dirty—cough cough."

As Bai Xiaolu kept coughing, blood flowed out from the corners of his mouth. Blood on his chest also kept flowing out, soaking his clothes. Bai Yaoyao was so scared that she quickly waved her hands to indicate that she should not talk anymore, and that there was still hope and she should hold on.

"Yaoyao, I know my body is no longer able to function."

Bai Xiaolu spoke softly, her voice was very soft, and Bai Yaoyao quickly lowered her head to listen.

"I know my physical condition very well, Princess, please don't lie to me. Besides, I'm already very happy that I was able to save the princess, ahem."

Bai Yaoyao quickly held Lu'er's hand, which was icy cold to the touch, and the palpitations in her heart became even stronger.

"Can I touch your face?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Bai Yaoyao lowered her head, moved closer to Lu'er's cold little hand, and then let the little hand cover her face.

Bai Xiaolu looked at the princess' face again in a daze. The increasingly intense pain in his chest and the dizziness in his brain were already foreshadowing that his body was about to collapse.

She would soon no longer be able to see the princess's face.

"But it's not bad to die for Yaoyao."

Bai Xiaolu used up her last bit of strength to wipe off the black dust on Yaoyao's face. After taking one last look at the princess's face, she closed her eyes weakly.

Before she fell into a coma, fragmented images kept flashing through her mind, as if time and space were reversed, and finally converged on the time when she was four years old and was brought in front of a one-year-old girl. That was the young Yaoyao.

"Good! I am Yaoyao~"

This is the baby voice of a little girl.

"Your hair is so green, how about calling me Ni Xiaolu?"

From this moment on her name was decided, and she also fell in love with this very cute little girl.

As the image completely disappeared, consciousness fell into darkness.

"Still... I really can't bear to leave the princess."

………………

"Green, Green?"

Bai Yaoyao opened her mouth and made a strange dull sound, trying to wake Lu'er up, but what she got was a stopped pulse.

Green is dead.

Died for her.

Bai Yaoyao was stunned as she looked at Lu'er's peaceful face. These two sentences were the only ones in her mind.

"Lu'er...died to save me..."

Hidden deep in the soul, one of the souls that had disappeared seemed to condense into a phantom in a trance, but it shattered and disappeared into nothingness in the blink of an eye.

Bai Yaoyao didn't know all this. She only knew that Lu'er died for her, but she failed to save Lu'er.

The stuffiness in my chest is indescribable. Lu'er's sweet laughter from last night is still lingering in my ears. Her shy and blushing appearance is gradually overlapping with what I see in front of me. The sounds in my ears are noisy and chaotic, and the scenery in front of me is sometimes far and sometimes near, sometimes blurry and sometimes clear.

For a moment, intense sadness swept through her brain, as if the whole world was spinning, and even her consciousness became a little unclear. Although she quickly returned to normal, Bai Yaoyao's eyes were still staring at Lu'er in a daze.

"I finally found someone who cared about me, but the warmth didn't last long..."

Lu'er is really dead.

It took Bai Yaoyao a long time to realize this reality. Bitterness continued to fill her chest. It was not until her vision became completely blurred that she realized that her tears had already flowed all over her face.

"Green..."

………………

There is no need to explain the subsequent process. After dealing with the fire in the west, Di Muxi saw Bai Yaoyao standing beside a corpse covered with a white cloth with lifeless eyes. Her clothes were still dirty, only her face was slightly cleaner.

"What are you-"

Soon, a soldier whispered something in Di Muxi's ear several times and she finally realized that it was the personal maid that Yaoyao cared about the most who had passed away.

I think her name is Lu'er, right?

"Well, the dead are gone, so we should live in the present moment well."

Di Muxi didn't know how to comfort Yaoyao either, because she was obsessed with something, and comforting Yaoyao might have a counterproductive effect.

The body was taken away for burial. Out of guilt towards Bai Yaoyao, she specially arranged a separate tomb for the maid, which was considered quite impressive.

The girl's beautiful eyes were still lifeless, and she was unaware that Lu'er's body had been taken away.

Chapter 65: Yaoyao's Darkening

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