If you don't count, you will die

Lin Mu is 22 years old this year, and he has only reached the crown for two years, but he has sat on the throne for seven years. That is to say, when he ascended the throne, he was only 15 years old, even younger than Lin Mu now. It was at such an age that Lin Mu made his way out of a bloody road, overcame all obstacles to win the throne, and took the title of the most powerful country in the world within five years of Zhan Tianguo.

In the past seven years, countless times of life and death, countless times of life hanging by a thread, compared with the years before he took the throne, I don't know which side is more painful, maybe it's all pain, for Lin Mu, life is hell, How can we compare?

In the past seven years, intrigues, life and death, trust, love, and indulgence are not emotions that can be delivered casually. Behind these emotions is his life.

His life is still useful, and what he should pay is not finished yet.

But it was just this short period of getting along for more than a month, an encounter that was entangled with conspiracy from the very beginning, so that he couldn't help but get stuck in it and couldn't extricate himself. He was just a kid with a higher talent for divination. It's just an important pawn.

But can he really go on as planned, and stand on the sidelines as planned?

Lin Mu asked herself, but couldn't get an answer.

No, or the answer was already in his heart, but he refused to face it.

The innocent young man in front of him is giving him wholehearted trust, and a deep love that he himself has not yet understood.

This love is so heavy and so hot.

But the drama has already begun, and everything can't stop, besides, he should pay it back, sooner or later.

Lin Mu looked at the silence in front of him, and the smile on his lips was slowly and softly softened, it was a sincere smile that was different from the usual fake surface.

"Silence, I take back what I said before, you have to believe me, no matter what happens, you have to believe me, I will not harm you, only I will not harm you."

He still harbors secrets, calculations and a destiny that he has to fulfill, but there is a different existence in his heart, an existence that he wants to protect no matter what.

The blush that had finally faded on Shen Mo's face floated up again, he couldn't help stretching out his hand, and held Lin Mu's hand with both hands, only raised his eyes to look at Lin Mu's eyes intently, even without saying a word, but However, Lin Mu seemed to see thousands of words from those bright black eyes, and every sentence was full of attachment and trust.

Lin Mu clenched Shen Mo's hand backhand, and squeezed Mo Mo's two hands tightly with one hand, the strength gradually deepened until the veins on the back of his hand burst out, Mo Mo frowned in pain, he didn't let go, and Mo Mo didn't let him let go.

After a while, Lin Mu slowly let go of his hand, lowered his head, rubbed his cheek lightly in Shen Mu's pale palm, and looked at Lin Mu in front of him silently, feeling that something had changed in Lin Mu's eyes, something more serious Firm, but why, but can't tell.

Agitated in his heart, the secret that needed fortune-telling to continue his life suddenly turned into boiling water that he urgently needed to spit out. He looked at Lin Mu and couldn't help but want to explain everything about him clearly.

But there seemed to be another voice in my heart saying softly, don't say anything, don't say anything.

Two people each harboring secrets cuddle up to each other, carrying their unspoken intentions, like two frozen strangers tightly hugging each other for warmth in a lost snowy night, each harboring secrets and their own destiny, let go It's the pain of peeling and cramping, and it's the confusion of not knowing the future when you hug it tightly.

Everything will be different from now on.

At this moment, Silence's mind fell into a drowsiness of excessive joy, but ignored the sigh that seemed so small that it didn't exist.

Since then, Mo Mo has become a frequent visitor to the Palace of Thousands of Machines, let alone mentioning it for the time being.

Ever since Shen Mo encountered that weird incident in the abandoned palace, some terrifying rumors spread in the imperial palace soon.

I heard that there was a monster in the imperial palace that devoured human flesh at night, and that monster would wander around the abandoned palace at midnight, picking out those palace people who were alone or lost.

The beginning of this rumor was that a guard was suddenly attacked when he passed the abandoned palace while patrolling at midnight.

It was just an ordinary night, and the guard walked around the abandoned hall as usual. Although the abandoned hall has been abandoned for a long time, the inspections that should be done cannot be abandoned because of this. Fortunately, the guard is very courageous and never believed He said something haunted, and took the initiative to take over the job of patrolling near the abandoned hall, and the monthly salary was higher than others because of this. He was also very satisfied with this, but he never expected that he would meet such a scary person one night. Weird thing.

According to the guard himself, on the night when he discovered the heresy, he walked around the abandoned hall as usual, planning to stay for a while before going back to sleep, but he didn't expect that on the way back, he suddenly heard footsteps behind him.

The footsteps were very light, as if he was a martial arts master. After the guards found out, they didn't dare to startle the snakes. They thought they were spies from the enemy country or something. They hid here when they saw the deserted palace, but today they bumped into them.

The guard stretched out his hand and quietly clenched the broad knife around his waist, ready to return to his senses at any time to attack the follower unexpectedly, but he didn't want the guard to turn around suddenly when the footsteps were getting closer, but there was no one behind him.There is only one straight and dark road. With the lantern in hand, although I can't see too far, I can see clearly that there is no one around.

Although the sound of footsteps disappeared, the guard did not take it lightly, but walked straight back a few steps while holding the handle of the knife tightly. After confirming that there was really no one there, the guard slowly turned around and turned around.

As soon as I turned around, I was pressed against a person's face, that person's face was pale, as if there was nothing.

The guard took a step back in fright, and immediately drew his knife and swung it out.

But he didn't want the person in front of him to disperse like a white mist, and then there was a severe pain in the back of the guard's neck, and the man appeared behind him again, quickly biting a piece of flesh from his neck.

The sound of chewing so close seemed to stimulate the guard's survival instinct. He didn't turn back to look for it. Instead, he picked up his energy and used his light work to quickly swipe away. He ran far away until he was on the brightly lit avenue. Exhausted all of a sudden fell to the ground.

Although the guard was dressed in black, it could not be seen that he was stained with blood, but a winding road of blood behind him was very eye-catching. Immediately, other guards and palace people surrounded him and asked about the guard's situation. After getting more, the heart that had been raised finally fell, and he passed out immediately.

When he woke up again, he told such unbelievable news.

Although it was unimaginable, the hideous wound on the guard's neck was true. Although the edge of the wound was torn, you could faintly see the existence of tooth marks, and it was indeed bitten by someone.

Could it be that a monster that eats human flesh really appeared in this imperial palace?

On the second night, the guards immediately specially set up a small team of more than a dozen people to patrol around the abandoned hall at midnight, but found nothing overnight.

Another night, still the same.

Until someone placed an order, he was immediately injured.

What he saw and heard was similar to the first injured guard.Linsen.

He only said that he couldn't see the face of the strange man clearly, he seemed to be moving strangely and seemed to have no entity, and the second injured man was also bitten off a piece of flesh and blood on his neck, but fortunately he ran away immediately. Life is not threatened.

Since then, the team patrolling around the abandoned hall has never stopped, but as long as they are not alone, the monster will never appear.

And as long as he accidentally placed an order even once, the monster would never let go of this opportunity. The number of injured people gradually increased, but no one lost their lives because of it.

Because this happened in the imperial palace, the emperor was soon alarmed.

After the emperor heard about it, he immediately summoned Silence.

This time the emperor summoned him, but it was not in the emperor's study, but in the emperor's sleeping hall, the Hall of Light and Ashes.

Silence was led by the palace servants, and he stood with his head bowed, looking at the emperor sitting in front of the table who seemed to be painting, and waited silently.

The palace man's announcement was not low, but the emperor didn't seem to hear it, he just concentrated on the painting under his hand, with the pen held by his wrist, hanging steadily on the drawing paper, he drew very seriously with every tick and turn.

After Dijun finished painting, he picked up the painting and shook it carefully, then gently blew on the portrait until the ink on the painting was completely dry, then carefully rolled it up and put it aside.

Although Shen Mo couldn't see what was painted on the portrait, he could see that Dijun cherished this painting very much.

Only then did the emperor look up at Shen Mo, and said bluntly, "Have you heard the rumors in the emperor's palace recently?"

Nod in silence.

"I said last time that in the future, such weird and weird incidents that ordinary people cannot solve will be entrusted to you. This time it will be. Go, solve it, and don't let me down."

When Shen Mo was summoned, he had already guessed why Dijun saw him this time. Without him, when nothing happened, Dijun would never remember that there was such a national teacher as him.

And he really needs to do a few more divinations to quickly increase his lifespan.

In the past, Shen Mo didn't want to die. He always felt that there was something in this world that he should be very attached to. Now...he didn't want to die even more.

He has more expectations, more yearning for future life.

After receiving the emperor's order, he immediately went to the Hall of Thousand Machines.

But he was empty in the Hall of Thousands of Machines, and he didn't care about the silence. It seemed that Lin Mu was always not in the Hall of Thousands of Machines. He ran to the back hall freely, entered Lin Mu's very simple bedroom, and walked around a few times to look at him. Rihe is already a frequent visitor here, and Lin Mu didn't stop him from coming, but instead let him wander around in the Hall of Thousands of Machines at will, except for not letting him touch the exquisite things placed everywhere, it is simply unbelievable to indulge.

Shen Mo yawned, and got up early today to be summoned by the emperor, and at this moment, he felt a little sleepy.

He touched the blindfold in front of him, reached out to take it off, took off his shoes and climbed onto Lin Mu's bed, lay down on his side, wanting to take a nap.

As soon as he lay down, drowsiness came over him violently, he blinked his increasingly heavy eyes, and finally couldn't beat the drowsiness, and fell asleep.

At this time in the Hall of Embers, a person suddenly appeared in front of the emperor kneeling respectfully, and the guard in black said without emotion: "Go back to the emperor, he went to the Hall of Thousand Machines."

Who he is is self-evident.

The masked Dijun frowned, and the person in front of him immediately left with a wave of his hand.

And Di Junzhan also stood up leaning on his cane, walked slowly to the inner hall, and did not come out for a long time.

And not long after, near a rockery group of stone forests not far from the Temple of Thousand Chances, a man in black robes and brocade clothes appeared, with a face of peach blossoms, a pair of sentimental eyes, and a gentle smile on his lips, walking slowly towards the Hall of Thousand Chances. Walking, there is a sense of leisure and wantonness between the steps.

But Shen Mo was sleeping on Lin Mu's bed at this time, but it was not comfortable.

He felt a little oppressed, as if something was weighing heavily on him, making it hard for him to breathe.

Immediately, there was a cold, wet touch on his face, as if something disgusting had slid across his face, leaving a water stain.

Shen Mo frowned, woke up from sleep, and when he woke up, he saw the mouth that was opened wide in front of him, and he was about to bite it. The mouth was full of stench, and the teeth were sharp. Mo Mo was startled, and immediately turned back, He lifted his foot and kicked it out.

The man was kicked and groaned. At this moment, footsteps could be heard outside the door. Lin Mu flew in immediately when he heard the movement, but only saw a dark afterimage of leaving quickly.

And Shen Mo was shrinking at the foot of the bed, his eyes were wide open, filled with unbearable panic.

Lin Mu's heart was suffocated, and he immediately stepped forward, raised his hand and hugged Shen Mo into his arms.

Although Mo Mo still had no expression on his face, there was unconcealable fear in his wide-open eyes.

Now nestled in Lin Mu's arms, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately stretched out his hand to hold Lin Mu's skirt tightly, without letting go for a while.

Lin Mu pressed his chin on the top of Shen Mo's head, hugged him even harder, and said softly: "It's okay, don't be afraid."