Chapter 418: Killer wearing a bronze mask

With a "bang", Zhao Xuan hit the door frame and the candle in his hand suddenly went out.

It was pitch black all around. Queen Le hugged her son tightly in her arms and slowly shrank to the corner of the wall.

In the darkness, the rhythmic footsteps gradually faded away.

Queen Le secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but her heart immediately hung again, because she knew that the man in black with a knife in the back garden would definitely chase after him. The information on the note was true, and someone was indeed going to kill them tonight! Queen Le gritted her teeth, she knew that the killer must have been sent by Zhao Xian and the others! Zhao Xian was also a royal relative. Unexpectedly, he completely betrayed the Great Zhao Empire and handed over the thousands of miles of the Great Zhao Empire to the Great Chu Empire. The Great Zhao Empire was in name only, and it would not take long to be completely annexed by the Great Chu Empire. When Zhao Xuan, the emperor of the Great Zhao Empire, was Emperor Zhao Xuan.

When they lose their value, they will come to kill people! Queen Le and Zhao Xuan have been imprisoned in this abandoned hall for a long time and know nothing about the outside world. However, from Prince Zhao Xian's attitude towards Emperor Zhao Xuan, they can also guess the changes in the external situation. When Zhao Xian and the Great Chu Empire completely succeed, it is the death period for her and the emperor's son! Queen Le is not afraid of death, but she is unwilling to give up. She is unwilling to let her son Zhao Xuan dies at the hands of those bad guys! But what's the use of being unwilling to let go? How could their orphan and widowed mother resist the wolf-like soldiers under Zhao Xian?

It was pitch black everywhere, and I couldn't see my five fingers. There was no sound here except the breathing of Queen Le and Zhao Xuan.

The old smell in the palace is filled with darkness. It doesn’t look like a palace, it’s clearly a tomb!

There is nowhere to hide on the first floor or there is nowhere to hide. Once the killer arrives, she and her son will completely expose their target.

Queen Le tightly held one foot of the small round stool in her hand, but she knew that this embroidered small round stool could not threaten the tall and powerful killer at all. The man could easily kill them without using the ghost-headed sword in his hand.

"You must go up the second floor. You may have a chance to escape when you go to the second floor!" Queen Le thought so, and then took her son Zhao Xuan and slowly touched forward.

Dust, cobwebs, walls, door frames! Apart from that, there is nothing in the darkness!

Queen Le didn't give up. She believed that there must be stairs to go up the second floor. Even if there were no stairs, there would be passages for climbing.

Zhao Xuan couldn't stand it anymore. He cried and asked Queen Le in a low voice: "Mom! It's so dark here, I want to light a candle..." He also felt the danger, but he didn't know that the man in black in the back garden was here to kill him. After all, he was still a big child who was ignorant of the world, and he didn't know much about the dangers of the real world! He also fantasized all day long that one day, he would go out from this ghost place and be a dignified emperor!

Queen Le lowered her voice and said, "No! The candle is just right! Although we can't see the road, the bad guys can't see us either... Let's touch it in the dark to see if there are any stairs on the second floor..."

Zhao Xuan said in a crying voice: "Okay..."

The first floor hall of the palace was divided into hundreds of small rooms of different sizes. Except for a small door facing the back garden, the doors of the other small rooms were opened on the inner wall. The entire palace had three floors, but except for the small window facing the garden and the main door, there was no second window. The bright moonlight outside the palace could not be shined in at all. Staying in such a palace was indeed like staying in a grave!

Queen Le had been fumbled in the dark for a long time, but she had no new appearances except dust, spider webs, walls, and door frames. Did she go to the second floor without stairs and no passages?

Zhao Xuan suddenly exclaimed in a low voice: "Mom! I found it..."

Queen Le was overjoyed: "Is it a staircase?"

Zhao Xuan didn't say anything.

With a "sharp" sound, the fire broke out and a torch was lit.

The moment the fire light came on, Queen Le was stunned. There was no stairs in front of her, only a man in black wearing a bronze mask.

The man in black had a big sword in his hand behind him. He grabbed Zhao Xuan's neck with one hand and held a torch with the other, looking at Queen Le coldly.

Queen Le was stunned for a moment and immediately woke up. She rushed towards the man in black like crazy: "Let go of my child..." She rushed over, and the small wooden round stool in her hand had already smashed the man in black desperately.

The man in black did not hide, and the small round stool just hit his waist.

The small round stool in Queen Le's hand flew out, but the man in black did not move at all, safe and sound!

The man in black let go of Zhao Xuan.

Zhao Xuan cried and rushed to Queen Le: "Mom..."

Queen Le hugged her son and burst into tears: "Child, how are you?"

The man in black suddenly said coldly: "I didn't pinch him hard. If I had tried hard, he would have died long ago!" This was indeed true, without any falsehood!

Queen Le looked at the hideous bronze mask on the face of the man in black and asked sternly: "Who are you? Why do you want to harm us?" She stared at the back of the mask, and the two eyes with sharp light flashed, feeling for no reason that these eyes seemed familiar!

The man in black said coldly: "I told you that someone is coming to kill you tonight! If you can't escape, that's your business, and my responsibility has been fulfilled!"

Queen Le was surprised and said, "You wrote the notes in Ah Dai's basket?"

The man in black did not deny it!

Queen Le stared at the sparkling eyes behind the bronze mask and asked again: "Who are you?"

The man in black shook the torch in his hand: "It doesn't matter who I am, what's important is that when midnight tonight comes, you will die!"

Queen Le's eyes flashed: "It's not yet midnight yet, do we still have hope of survival?"

The man in black said coldly: "As soon as the hour comes, I will kill you. You still have an hour!"

Queen Le nodded: "Okay!" As she spoke, she took her son Zhao Xuan's hand and ran out. She had just run a few steps, but she turned back, "Give me your torch!"

The man in black was stunned for a moment and handed the torch in his hand to Queen Le.

Queen Le took the torch and pulled her son Zhao Xuan, and ran out without looking back.

There is still one hour! Queen Le must find the passage to the second floor in this hour.

The cold voice of the man in black came from behind: "Don't let me meet you again. If we meet again, the ghost-headed sword in my hand will not recognize anyone!"

Queen Le held up a torch and searched each room. The thick dust on the ground was printed with her and her son Zhao Xuan's footprints, and the terrifying huge footprints were always mixed with their footprints.

Only huge footprints were seen, people were not seen, shoes were not seen! The huge red embroidered shoes only appeared once, and they were no longer visible.
Chapter completed!