I rely on cards to play through the end of the world game

Chapter 69

Since then, girls have been coming to me from time to time.

And I also know her name, her name is Bai Qiaoqiao, she is the princess of this country.

But even though she is loved, she is just a puppet princess who has no right to speak.

We hugged each other for warmth like two patients with the same disease.

But I know that I am the poorer one.

I killed my father self-righteously, I hated my younger brother with a small belly, I was reduced to the queen's blood bank, and I will die alone in this human country.

Perhaps speaking of it, I am not pitiful, and should be described as hateful.

But I deserve all of this.

But Bai Qiaoqiao's appearance seemed to inject a light into my dark world.

She became... my salvation!
She would come to the palace every day and tell me interesting things happening outside.

Today one concubine's cat scratches another concubine's face, tomorrow a beautiful court lady dances in the garden that the emperor must pass by...

Not only that, but she also brings me a lot of delicious food from the human world every day.

This is much more delicious than the smelly fish and rotten shrimps in the sea.

I found that I like to eat sweet food. I can't explain why, but my taste buds are loyal to sweet candies and cakes.

Later, I thought about it carefully, maybe my life is too bitter, so I like sweeter food.

There is a grand festival in the human world called the Spring Festival, they also call it the Chinese New Year.

That day, Qiaoqiao accompanied me to celebrate the New Year with a dessert she made herself.

When I saw her red hands splashed with oil, my heart was sweet and distressed.

Sweet, as the princess of a country, she is willing to do this kind of thing for me, a prisoner, and I feel sorry for her injured hand.

While enduring the pain of being drawn blood, at the same time enjoying the sweetness of living with Bai Qiaoqiao, a year has passed, I thought my life in the palace would be so painful and sweet, but I didn’t expect that God would leave me again made a joke.

I suddenly started rejecting all kinds of food.

Until one day the person sent by the queen to draw blood brought two fishy and smelly dead fish.

I was surprised to find that my taste buds were wide open. For the first time, I was greedy for a certain food, and that food was actually the food I hated the most before.

I tried to suppress this disgusting instinct, but I found I couldn't.

The next time Qiaoqiao brought delicious sweets, I deliberately pretended to be happy and ate them all, but then vomited them all out.

I saw her bewildered look at me, but I didn't know how to explain my abnormality.

But she seemed to have found something smart.

Later she no longer brought me human food, nor sweets, but fresh dead fish.

In fact, I prefer rancid dead fish, but I can barely eat fresh ones. In order to prevent Qiaoqiao from hating me, I ate the fish she brought with "satisfaction".

The days just passed by.

Gradually, I opened my heart with Qiaoqiao's company.

I think of Yinyue, Uncle Long said that everyone likes him because he loves to smile, and he smiles very nicely. For the first time, I started to practice smiling at the water surface in the pool.

When Qiaoqiao came to see me next time, I smiled at her.

She seemed happy and smiled at me too.

I always knew that she was beautiful, but at that moment, she was like a fairy descending from the sky, and she was firmly imprinted in my peaceful heart all my life.

From then on, I started to laugh a lot, and when facing Qiaoqiao, I became as "lively and cute" as Yinyue.

Sometimes I think that if I had met Qiaoqiao earlier and become like this earlier, my father and mother would have treated me the way they treated Yin Yue, instead of burying their love for me in their hearts.

Then I can become as happy as Yinyue.

It's a pity that Qiaoqiao and I met too late.

Although I looked happy on the surface, I actually became more and more scared behind the scenes.

Because, my physical condition became fragmented in the process of being drawn blood day by day, even though the queen often gave me some blood-enriching panacea in order to maintain the durability of my blood bank.

didn't work either.

It's okay to draw blood once in a while and then keep using medicine to make up for it, but such a long-term blood draw, even if I am a relatively outstanding mermaid in the clan, I can't withstand such damage.

I feel more and more that I am not far from death.

But in front of Qiaoqiao, I still pretended to be full of energy.

She probably likes me, and she will be sad when she knows about my death. I don't want her to be sad.

In this way, I live in the palace with two faces.

It was a certain day in the fourth year.

Don't ask me why I remember it so clearly, because Qiaoqiao spends the Spring Festival with me every year, and I just celebrated the fourth Spring Festival with her that year.

That day, Qiaoqiao suddenly told me that she thought of a way to rescue me.

I was secretly happy, happy that she did not forget the promise to rescue me, happy that I could finally escape from this prison, but there was also a secret reluctance hidden.

The first time I worked up the courage to ask her if she would come with me, I knew it was absurd.

She is a princess of a country, how could she just leave.

Unexpectedly, she actually told me that she would.

I was so happy, I tried to reach out and hug her for the first time, but she hugged me back tightly, that day was the happiest day in my life.

none of them.

But the sweet days are always short, just like the epiphyllum that Qiaoqiao once brought to me, it is just a flash.

After Qiaoqiao left that day, the Queen suddenly brought someone here.

She took me away from this palace. It was the first time that I fought back so strongly because I was afraid that Qiaoqiao would not be able to find me if I left.

It's a pity that it's just in vain.

I was taken to a water dungeon underground.

It is dark, dirty and messy, completely different from the previous luxurious palace.

No one knows that I am a fish that is afraid of the dark. I curled up with my fish tail and hid in the corner of the prison, thinking to myself, does Qiaoqiao know that I have been caught in prison? Will she look for me? Can she find me? me.

In the darkness, I heard the sound of the cell door opening outside, as if someone was being brought in again.

"Hiss—" There was an exclamation, and I recognized who was caught in, it was Yinyue.

After thinking about it, it's true, the two of us were arrested together in the palace, so we should be treated the same.

He will also be imprisoned in a luxurious palace like me, his blood will be drawn like me, and he will be caught in this dark and cold water prison like me now.

only…

I couldn't help but compare with Yinyue again.

It's just that this time I have Qiaoqiao, but he doesn't. I have a sweet life, but he doesn't. I secretly rejoice in my heart that I beat him again.

"Yinyue?" After those people threw him into the dungeon and left, I couldn't help but make a sound.

Only the 'tick' of the water can be heard in the silence of the water prison, so my voice is extremely obvious here.

"Brother?" After hearing my voice, Yinyue's doubtful voice tinged with surprise sounded.

"it's me."

"Why are you here?"

My younger brother is still as innocent and stupid as ever.

We were both caught together and treated the same, unless I or he did something, it was impossible for the two fish to have different experiences.

"Why didn't you stay in the clan well?" I didn't answer him, but started to ask him.

It was strangely quiet in the dungeon.

I know that my innocent brother must be thinking about how to say so as not to be reprimanded by my serious brother.

Finally, his slightly nervous voice sounded.

"I just wanted to come out to find you and father."

He probably didn't know, every time he lied, his tone was a little flustered like this.

I ridiculed his stupidity in my heart, but on the surface I maintained my character as a good brother.

"Ah."

I guess he who was on the other side at this time must have secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, I am still very happy that he exists at this moment, at least it makes me know that I am not a alone fish in this dark and cold water prison.

"Brother, do you still remember the little girl we met ten years ago?"

His voice was exceptionally loud in the water prison, as if a muffled thunder had exploded in my heart.

The memory suddenly returned to ten years ago, the scene when Qiaoqiao turned around and threw herself into his arms after seeing Yinyue, I thought I could forget it, but I still can't let it go.

I suppressed the uneasiness in my heart and answered him, "I don't remember."

He replied with disappointment, "Okay."

I deliberately asked him in a cold voice, "What's wrong?"

In fact, I was nervous about his answer.

"It's nothing, I seemed to have seen her that day."

"How did you see it?"

If my guess is correct, Yinyue should be trapped in a magnificent palace like me.

If that's the case, why would Qiaoqiao specifically look for him? Could it be...

I feel like a prisoner trapped in the dark, desperately hoping for the light to come.

"That day she pushed open my door in a panic. When she saw me, her eyes lit up suddenly, and she hid behind my door. Later, I found out that there were guards chasing her. I helped her fool the soldiers. She Call me 'beautiful brother' and I recognize her."

"Oh." I breathed a sigh of relief, as long as things are not what I thought.

The days in prison are boring and cold, not only physically, but also spiritually.

Without Qiaoqiao, my life seemed to suddenly become clear and boring.

Fortunately, there was still Yin Yue, so the two of us occasionally chatted to get through this lonely and cold prison life.

However, even if we are imprisoned in a water prison, the queen will still send people to take our blood from time to time. Human women are too obsessed with appearance.

But it's useless to say these things, after all, not everyone can have the vitality of a thousand years like the mermaids.

Maybe races with short lifespans have deep desires for these things.

In the water prison, not only did our living environment become extremely poor, but even the tonics after the blood was drawn were all deducted.

As a result, the vitality of the two of us became weaker and weaker.

I thought, maybe the two of us will die in this dark water prison like this.

I will go to hell together with this younger brother whom I hated but also liked since I was a child.

That seems to work fine too.

My life has been a bit sad. My brother, who was born in the same year, month and day, died in the same year, month and day, but he died with dignity.

It's just a pity, I really want to see Qiaoqiao again.

I don't know if it's because God finally heard my prayer, but I really saw Qiaoqiao that night.

I looked out through the only barred window in my water prison and saw her.

I am thankful for my habit of looking out through the bars from time to time.

She was dressed in black, with a black scarf on her head, and even a black hood around her face, holding a torch in her hand, and tiptoed in.

"Beautiful brother?" My heart seemed to fly to the sky, lightly.

But just when I wanted to answer, I hit rock bottom again the next moment.

Because I heard Yinyue's voice next door, "Qiaoqiao, I'm here—"

With a look of surprise on her face, she rushed to the water prison next to me, opened the door, and rescued Yin Yue inside.

One person and one fish were about to leave here, when Yin Yue seemed to think of me, "My brother is still inside -"

But Qiaoqiao just said casually, "I'll save her after I get you out."

The casualness on her face was as if I was just an inconspicuous stranger, and I knew she wouldn't come to save me.

But Yinyue nodded trustingly after hearing this, and said to me in the water prison, "Brother, when I get out, Qiaoqiao will come and rescue you."

I did not speak.

I am speechless.

In fact, I have seen you since I was a child, I have known you, and I have fallen in love with you, but I will never say it.

I won't talk about it in the future, because my love has died tonight.

I was soaked in the waste water of the dungeon, day after day.

A few days later, the people who came to draw blood finally discovered that Yin Yue had escaped.

They took me out of the dungeon, and at last I saw the sun again.

The sun is so bright, so hot, so far away...

I saw the queen again.

She asked me, "Where's your brother?"

I replied to her, "I don't know."

She started ordering the servants to draw my blood again.

At the same time, they beat my body again and again with a whip, and wounds appeared on my body one after another, but I still didn't speak.

Even when the whip hit me, I thought to myself, if only I could die.

Immediately afterwards I felt as if I had been drained of blood and then lost consciousness.

When I woke up again, I was lying in a wooden barrel, which was filled with potions. I was disappointed to find that I had survived again, and my weak body had improved slightly.

Without Yinyue, I became the queen's only life-saving straw, so I understand that she treats me so diligently.

only…

I looked at the various medicinal materials in this room, and a gleam flashed in my eyes.

In the past ten years, I have not only worked hard to learn various spells, but also practiced and identified countless medicinal materials, so I have not only become a strong fighter, but also a master of medicinal materials.

So I used what I had learned to try to prepare an antidote for myself.

It took me a month to get rid of the effect of the medicine on my body.

The strength in my body came back, and my body was no longer weak.

I also found that there was a very hidden compartment in the room I was in. I sneaked in with magic and saw countless mermaid corpses. They were not even whole corpses anymore. Do vicious research.

It was also from this moment that I no longer had hope and affection for human beings. I swore in my heart that as long as I lived for one day, I would kill all human beings.

I found the part of the mermaid in the medicine in this compartment. Judging from the ingredients, humans seem to be planning to make it into some kind of yang tonic.

So vicious these humans!

So stupid at the same time!
I scolded these stupid humans in my heart, but fortunately they haven't spread the medicine yet.

I quietly stole them all.

Human, are you ready for my revenge?

　I should be able to finish writing the side story tomorrow, and then continue to write the main text the day after tomorrow, and then start to conceive the next task~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)