155: Chapter 99: The Monarch is Ill, a Heart Exposed in Proof_2 155: Chapter 99: The Monarch is Ill, a Heart Exposed in Proof_2 The head eunuch urged them on.
A few girls, already terrified by the barrage of rules, didn’t hesitate and immediately knelt down.
The King’s voice came from the northern loft, “Take your seats!”
Everyone looked at each other, unsure of what to do.
Gu Rongjie and the others instinctively looked to Lin Baici for an instruction.
They clearly had no choice but to take their seats at the banquet, but before he could speak, the King’s voice rang out again.
“What’s the matter with these people?
Why are they so dirty and unkempt?”
The King was dissatisfied, feeling the banquet was being sullied.
The crowd stirred into chaos.
Who’s he talking about?”
Du Xin was afraid, for her hemp robe was torn in many places, and having soaked in alcohol and stayed in the woods, she was filthy and ragged.
“Could it be the injured?”
Gu Rongjie speculated, glancing at Zhou Ya.
She was covered in wounds, stained with blood, completely devoid of energy and spirit.
There were a good ten or so people like her, some greatly injured, others less so, but all without exception looked terrible.
The King rebuked, “Execute them!”
A gasp rose from the crowd; the words “execute them” were like the hand of the Death God, snatching away the calm of everyone present.
The tension escalated.
The armored guards at the sides of the platform charged like wolves and tigers into the crowd, dragging out the unlucky thirteen who were injured.
“Help, help, I don’t want to die!”
“Boss Wang, help me?”
“God Lin, I beg you!”
On Lin Baici’s side, there were not many injured people, mainly those from Wang Mingfu’s team who were pulled out—one by one, thirteen in total.
Du Xin was originally standing next to Zhou Ya, but when she saw a guard charging toward them, she quickly moved aside.
Zhou Ya didn’t cry out for help to Lin Baici; having her face ruined by the Man-Eating Crows, she had already given up hope.
What was the point of surviving?
With these scars covering her face and body, she wouldn’t be able to find work.
Even looking in the mirror, she would loathe the sight.
Lin Baici thought to ask if there was any way to save Zhou Ya’s life.
Once the King decrees, her fate is sealed.]
The Eater God commented, [Moreover, she has lost the will to live, believing life to be meaningless.
It’s better to grant her that!]
[This ingredient has already lost its spirit.
There’s no need to consume it!]
The moment Zhou Ya decided to give up on life, she became unworthy of being consumed by Lin Baici.
The guards were very strong and beyond the resistance of these ordinary people.
They dragged them like chicks to the edge of the platform.
The guards pressed these people down by the hands, forcing them to kneel and lower their heads.
Some guards drew their swords.
“I don’t want to die!
I don’t want to die!”
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They shouted and called out in desperation, their minds breaking down.
As the guard behind Zhou Ya acted, his sword fell.
Zhou Ya’s head was severed, and with a thud, it tumbled to the ground and rolled a few times.
Crimson blood spurted out, splashing all over the ground.
With a shove, the guard pushed Zhou Ya’s body off the platform, then kicked her head.
The head rolled away.
Du Xin shuddered, wrapping her arms around herself.
Goosebumps covered her skin.
She didn’t resonate much with the deaths of others, as they were mostly strangers, but Zhou Ya was a college roommate she had lived with for four years.
Now, as Du Xin watched Zhou Ya being beheaded alive, her soul trembled.
She felt that she too, would end here.
Hua Yue Yu clutched Lin Baici’s hand tightly, her lips trembling.
As the guards executed the sentence, the screams and cries of those unlucky few abruptly ceased, and then their bodies were thrown off the platform.
Wang Mingfu’s group looked sickly pale as many good people shivered.
“Isn’t this a Hongmen Banquet?”
Guo Zheng’s scalp tingled; the banquet hadn’t even started, and already a dozen had died.
Who would survive after the meal was over?
“You there, what is your name?”
The King spoke again.
Everyone jumped with fright; whom was he addressing?
Xia Hongyao was worried; her eyesight was excellent, and she could clearly see that the King was looking down at Lin Baici.
“Haijing Polytechnic, Lin Baici!”
Lin Baici suppressed his immediate impulse to strike at the King.
Without enough information, he didn’t know what kind of creatures lurked within this Star-Picking Palace, nor what the King excelled at.
To inaugurate a war recklessly would lead only to a certain death.
The King was silent for a few seconds, then spoke again, “Take your seat!”
Only this man and the burly woman by his side did not show a trace of fear when they saw their companions being killed—these commoners.
They did not deserve for the King to inquire after their names, but this man, with his handsome face and strapping figure, along with his courage, must have a heart as sweet and exquisite as the Seven Orifices Exquisite Heart!
The King wanted a taste!
Under the eunuch’s arrangements, everyone took their seats, albeit tremblingly.
Fang Wengang sat cross-legged, only to be shouted at by the head eunuch.
The head eunuch scolded.
“What… What happened?”
Hua Yue Yu reminded him.
Fang Wen suddenly realized, having seen historical dramas, he knew this was an ancient etiquette.
“Quickly take your seats!”
The head eunuch urged on.
Everyone hurriedly scrambled to find their places.
Wang Mingfu wanted to sit next to Lin Baici, but by then there were no spots left.