In such a huge kingdom and a city-state with millions of people, it is extremely normal for one or two people to go missing.
Even officials from relevant agencies did not take this matter seriously. After all, human trafficking has always existed. They can only file a case but will not deal with it as a priority.
Until more and more people go missing.
From one or two people at the beginning, to ten people, and then to nearly a hundred people disappearing in one night!
In the kingdom, all the people were worried, fearing that they would be the next to disappear.
Because among those who disappeared, some suddenly disappeared at home, and their family members were in the next room.
There were also adult men, and even the kingdom's knights with extraordinary martial arts skills disappeared without a trace, just like all ordinary people.
This incident gradually spread throughout the kingdom and eventually reached the king's ears.
The king was furious and sent a wise prince to deal with the matter.
As expected, the prince of Zhimou found the culprit on the first day, but was unable to catch him due to his limited strength.
However, a portrait of the culprit was drawn and the truth behind the missing persons case was revealed.
Immediately, the people in the kingdom praised the prince for his wisdom, judgment and talent, and for finding the culprit - the ugly witch - in just one day.
The witch wanders in the night, captures lone people, brutally dismembers them, then reassembles them, and finally eats them into her bloated stomach.
The prince immediately issued an order that no one in the kingdom would be allowed to be left alone.
He drew a picture of the witch and offered a reward of a huge sum of gold, asking the Knights and the brave adventurers in the kingdom to team up to capture the witch and vow to give an explanation to the families of the deceased!
The next night, the people of the kingdom were not alone. Most of them stayed up, waiting to see the evil witch's murder caught. However, the knights and adventurers found no trace of the witch.
That night, thousands of people died in the kingdom...
But the knights and adventurers couldn't even find the shadow of the witch.
The king was furious and ordered the prince to solve the case and catch the culprit within five days.
The resourceful prince was also in a difficult situation. He had no idea how the witch killed people.
He went to the neighborhoods of the kingdom and searched for clues at the places where the deceased had died.
Finally he found a clue: a person who was not yet dead.
The man's face was completely disfigured, his hands were torn to pieces as if by wild beasts, leaving only bones, and his legs were broken.
There were also human handprints on his face. When he took off his shirt, a foul stench hit him in the face. Amidst the rolling flesh and blood, the prince found a dry, pale hand.
It's a witch's.
The man told the prince that the witch killed people in dreams! Once he fell asleep, he would be found by the witch and the people she controlled, and then killed.
Kill one and move on to the next.
And if he had not woken up from his sleep in the morning, he would probably have died at the hands of the witch and her servants.
The prince opened his eyes wide, feeling unbelievable. Killing people in a dream... Unless he didn't sleep, he would never escape the witch's clutches.
But fortunately, he discovered some patterns.
The prince issued another order, calling on all the people in the country to stay awake at night and never fall asleep.
A witch who cannot kill people in a dream will definitely appear in reality.
The king also came forward and mobilized the entire nation to execute the witch on the spot tonight, without mercy!
Soon, night fell and the third night arrived as expected.
Just when all the people of the kingdom were filled with anger, something strange happened.
Those who had died appeared everywhere in the kingdom. They smiled at everyone they saw, with torn corners of their mouths, and their smiles were particularly creepy.
The knights and adventurers drew their weapons and killed these zombies one after another.
But no matter how much damage was inflicted on them, the wounds would slowly heal, and then all the dead would float in the air and walk to the gate of the kingdom's palace.
He lowered his head, raised his head, and pointed his index finger towards the palace.
The witch didn't show up, and the third night ended in vain...
The people of the kingdom were uneasy and worried, and everyone was wondering why the dead man was pointing at the palace.
The king was on pins and needles and ordered the prince to find the witch and execute her on the spot tonight to prevent the forbidden witchcraft from harming the people of the kingdom.
The prince returned to his bedroom and looked at the beautiful princess. He couldn't help but hugged her and cried.
The princess felt sorry for the prince. She kissed his forehead, pried open his lips, entwined her tongue with his, and untied his belt...
Singing and dancing with the prince in the bathing pool, enjoying the misty rain of Wushan...
The prince was deeply moved and vowed to kill the witch, protect the kingdom, protect his people, and protect his lover.
The fourth night had not yet arrived, it was still dusk.
The prince speculated that the witch was going to use forbidden magic to resurrect the servants to attack the princess, so he took the princess's hand, stood on the palace wall, and looked down at the forbidden servants who were constantly walking towards the gate.
The Knights stepped forward to fight against the forbidden slaves, and adventurers also joined in.
However, the forbidden slaves seemed to be beyond life and death, and ordinary weapons could not cause effective damage to them. On the other hand, on the kingdom side, the forbidden slaves seemed to have awakened the law of killing. As long as they encountered a living person, they would kill him, and the dead person would be resurrected to become the next forbidden slave.
After going back and forth, when night fell, the kingdom was in complete disarray, with hundreds of thousands of forbidden slaves parked at the gate of the palace.
The prince was heartbroken and held the princess' hand tightly.
He understood that the country was beyond salvation. He had failed the king's hopes, betrayed the admiration of his people, and had no face to face his beloved princess again.
Just as the prince took out his sword, ready to protect the princess and fight to the death with the forbidden slave.
The beauty beside him... suddenly made a strange and eerie "clucking" sound. The prince remembered that it was the same sharp cry that came out of the witch's mouth when he saw her on the first night.
The prince trembled all over and turned around with difficulty, only to find that the beautiful princess had become extremely ugly and turned into... the thing he hated most in his heart - a witch.
“Ughhhhhhhhhh——!”
The prince collapsed and tried to shake off the princess's hand... no, the witch's hand.
But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get rid of it. The prince swung his sword and kept chopping the witch's arm. The moment the sword cut the witch's arm, the witch's arm would recover as before.
Finally, the prince cut off his own arm, stared at the witch with a hideous face, and swung his sword continuously.
He cut off his lover's head, pierced her heart, severed her limbs, and crushed her internal organs.
But...but...
Whenever the prince inflicted a fatal wound on the witch, she would restore her appearance to that of the princess.
So pure, so beautiful... like a daughter given by God, so beautiful beyond words.
But the prince already knew that the princess was the evil witch. He killed his beloved wife over and over again, and the lover he had vowed to protect all his life.
Watching the witch transform into a princess, the prince repeats the process of killing her.
Because the prince knew that once he stopped, the princess would turn back into an ugly witch.
Out of guilt, out of anger, out of hatred, out of love...
The prince was furious.
The princess showed a painful expression and uttered a miserable groan.
She didn't understand why her lover would turn his sword against her, why he was so cruel, cutting her body over and over again.
The princess called the prince's name over and over again, trying to awaken the last bit of compassion in his heart.
But all the prince could do was to kill the princess over and over again with his sword. Only in this way could he let that beauty and innocence remain in the world for a short time, and only in this way could he protect the remaining people...
I don’t know how much time has passed, so long that the world’s number one sword broke, leaving only the broken sword with fresh blood; so long that the princess’s body became scarred and her voice became hoarse and unclear; so long that the prince was heartbroken and sang a heartbreaking song.
The prince could not accept that his lover had turned into a witch. After learning that he could not kill the princess, the prince jumped off the palace wall, his brain splattering and blood splattering everywhere.
The prince committed suicide.
Without the prince's cruelty, the beautiful princess became extremely ugly again, and let out eerie and strange cries from her mouth.
By this point, on the fourth night, the kingdom had fallen and all living people had been killed.
Perhaps because too many people died, their souls could not help but line up and walk towards the Yellow Springs Road step by step.
But then, dawn arrived, the light of day broke, and daylight descended.
The witch gradually turned back into a princess, but all she saw was the prince who had jumped to his death and the reality of the country being destroyed and his people dead.
The princess ran to the city wall and hugged the prince's body tightly. Even though she had been tortured and killed by the prince countless times, she still loved him deeply.
But the next second, the witch's memory gradually revived in the princess's mind.
She remembered how she had captured a lone person and killed him on the first night; how she had taken her slaves into the dreams of sleeping people and slaughtered them on the second night; how she had manipulated her slaves and exposed them to the public on the third night; and how she had killed everyone on the fourth night...
The princess collapsed, took the weapon on the ground, pierced her heart and cut her neck.
After countless attempts, she found that she could not die.
At this moment, the princess finally understood why the prince kept crying and tried to kill her with a weapon.
She is the murderer who killed everyone...
The collapsed princess knelt in front of the prince's body, her eyes dull.
The fragrant blood stained her long black and blue hair, and the dirt stained her beautiful face.
A heavy rain fell from the sky, soaking the princess's desperate soul and extinguishing the last flame of hope.
On the fifth night, only the princess survived, and she was trapped in the darkness.
That night, the princess walked into the church to shelter from the rain, and fastened herself to the cross, surrounded by dry grass.
Amidst desolate sobs, the princess lit the fire and fell into the cycle of life and death in endless pain and torture.
The flames devoured her flesh and blood, which would be burned and then restored. Without the interference of rain, she would die and be reborn, die again, and be reborn again endlessly.
In this way, she can atone for her sins and repay... the prince's pain.
After countless deaths and rebirths, how much time has passed?
The princess couldn’t remember, thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years... maybe even longer.
She kept murmuring the prince's name, expressing her love and apology full of regret.
If it happened again, he only hoped that the prince would not be so good to her again, because she, who killed everyone, did not deserve his noble love.
In one memory after another, reality is gradually distorted.
With death again and again, the world is restarted again and again.
One morning, the princess woke up in her bed in the palace. Everything seemed to be just a dream, a nightmare that was too real...
The princess quickly dressed up and rushed out of the bedroom, wanting to find her lover.
However, she met the king and learned from him that she would soon be sent to a foreign country to marry a foreign prince.
With mixed emotions, the princess came to a foreign country, where she met the prince she had been dreaming of!
But this time, the prince became strange...
He was no longer gentle, no longer kind, and even no longer loved her.
The princess was assigned the most difficult work, and had to work day and night, and endure the prince's scolding and abuse every day.
The princess was ordered around like a servant, bullied and humiliated by her colleagues.
Whenever the princess went to the prince to complain, she was always hurt by his indifference. The prince didn't care about her miserable experience at all and often spoke harshly.
In this way, from the age of twelve to seventeen, she was bullied by countless people, exiled to the smelly market, and lived with despicable people with filthy mouths every day.
Because of her status, no one dared to approach her, but everyone seemed to know that the prince would ignore the princess.
As long as the bottom line is not crossed, it is allowed for the princess to be bullied, have her food taken away, and be scolded.
As the days passed, in order to protect herself, the princess became less cowardly and began to swear, using cruelty, badness and vulgarity to disguise herself.
On her 18th birthday, the prince unexpectedly appeared before her.
He took out his sword and pierced her heart.
But this time, the princess seemed to be really dead. Her consciousness gradually became blurred and her body temperature quickly disappeared.
There is only boundless coldness that penetrates the heart.
This is where the story ends.
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