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Chapter 1281 - Chapter 1281 Chapter 573 Purgatory Game

Chapter 1281: Chapter 573: Purgatory Game Chapter 1281: Chapter 573: Purgatory Game Turning around, she saw a maid gently tugging at her own sleeve, smiling yet with tears streaming down her face, “Miss, you and your husband should leave, go far away to a place where even the Dutian Heavenly King cannot find you, and live a good life.”

“Xiao Yun, what are you talking about?”

“I don’t hate Miss anymore, really.”

Su Yun held onto Yun Xiu’s sleeve, tears flowing ever more, “Let your husband kill Xiao Yun.”

“Xiao Yun, don’t be afraid, I will definitely protect you, I won’t let him hurt you.”

“No, Miss, that’s not it.”

Su Yun chuckled then wiped the tear stains from her face, “Originally in the underground prison of Longyuan, there were about thirty people, including Xiao Yun’s father and mother, the housekeeper from the third division, the head cook and his wife, and the laborers from the orchard, all familiar faces from Longyuan…”

“On the first day, the prison guard said that due to limited torture instruments, we had to choose one person to undergo torture. To protect Xiao Yun and mother, father went for the punishment and returned barely breathing.”

“On the second day, the guard came to fetch people again, this time he wanted three. Xiao Yun thought the elders we knew would step forward like my father did, but they didn’t; they pushed out my barely breathing father along with my frail mother.”

“The torture cells were aligned next to each other but separated, Xiao Yun could only hear the agonizing screams of her parents, then nothing at all.”

“On the third day, the guard came to fetch people, this time wanting five. The housekeeper and the able-bodied once again pushed us forward, I knelt and begged him, mentioning that father was already very weak and might die if tortured again. But Steward said someone had to be sacrificed, and since father already endured torture twice, he wouldn’t survive long in the cell anyway, so he might as well suffer one more time as a show of loyalty to the Yun Clan.”

“The steward even promised that if my mother and I survived the second time, someone else would be chosen for the next torture session, then he pushed us out.”

“Father didn’t survive that session, he died. Mother and Xiao Yun returned to the underground prison unconscious, and when I opened my eyes, the guard had come again.”

“It was still mother and me, but mother couldn’t take it anymore, so I begged them to let me go instead, not to take mother, but no one listened.”

“Why, why would this happen? Xiao Yun and mother had already suffered twice, why couldn’t they endure it once? They were clearly stronger, but why was it us?”

“The guard told Xiao Yun that this was human nature, survival of the fittest, but he could give me a chance; if I survived this round of torture, he would agree to let Xiao Yun choose the person for the next session!”

“Xiao Yun survived, but mother did not.”

“So I wanted the housekeeper to taste the flavor of torture… but he survived, he and a few others came back knowing that Xiao Yun had chosen them for the torture, so they wanted to kill me.”

“Hahahaha, funny isn’t it? Father and mother died, Xiao Yun suffered torture three times, they only endured it once, yet they wanted to kill me.”

“It turned out that in the underground prison, there was no protection or fairness after all. Xiao Yun understood, so before being killed, she loudly called out to the guard to confess.”

“I survived by betraying Miss’s information and some words that father and mother had once said, I survived.”

“Perhaps because the information was too valuable, so the guard said he could fulfill two small requests of mine, just one, I wanted them dead!”

“But the guard said that death is not frightening; what’s frightening is living a life worse than death.”

“He took me to watch the process of the housekeeper and a few others being tortured…”

“Father died, Mother died, the Housekeeper also died; only Xiao Yun was left in the Underground prison.”

“So, there were no more choices left, I was continuously tormented.”

“It turns out, in this Underground prison, no one was destined to escape, and living was actually more painful than death.”

“The Gu Master would often say during the torture, ‘Blame it on the Yun Clan who abandoned us; even having killed us at that time would have been better than leaving us to the king’s mercy.'”

“He was right, so I began to hate, hate the Yun Family, hate the eldest young master, hate the young miss.”

“The power of hatred made the torture devices seem more bearable, as long as I thought about the young master and miss undergoing the same purgatory, even the physical pain was somewhat alleviated.”

“This is the power that supported me to keep living, it is also the only reason why I am still alive.”

“But I realized I was wrong, I actually don’t hate the young miss, I was just too afraid.”

“I was too afraid of those jailers who tortured people, too afraid of the Gu Master, more afraid than death itself.”

“As soon as I close my eyes, those scenes of torture would repeat before my eyes, and my body would start to burn.”

“I really don’t want to live like this anymore.”

Su Yun knelt on the ground and begged Yun Xiu, “Please, miss, let your husband kill me.”

“Don’t be like this, Xiao Yun, please get up.”

Yun Xiu, also moved to tears, helped the little girl up, saying, “You survived so much suffering to crawl out of hell; how can you easily give up on your life.”

“Those who pass through purgatory will forever carry the fire of karma. The Gu Master has cursed me; whenever he recites the spell, I will suffer the agony as if thousands of insects were devouring my heart.”

Su Yun, wiping her tears, smiled wryly, “But Xiao Yun dares not hate him, Xiao Yun is too scared, so I only dare to hate the young miss because I know, no matter how unreasonable I act, as long as I talk about the past and pretend to be pitiful and frail, the miss won’t mind it anymore because she is truly too kind.”

“Just like the Father and Mother in the Underground prison, who believed whatever anyone said; even if it was the second or third time being tortured, they endured the pain without exposing any information, but Xiao Yun can’t do it.”

“Indeed, Xiao Yun was born with a bad heart, always stealing the miss’s hairpins to wear as a child; perhaps the Gu Master had seen long ago that Xiao Yun was such a person, so they knew, even without severe torture, Xiao Yun would confess.”

“Actually, the Xiao Yun that the young miss knew had long since died, at the moment she begged the jailer to punish the Housekeeper and even offered her body in exchange, she had already died.”

“So, Xiao Yun really doesn’t want to live like this anymore, please let Xiao Yun go to find Father and Mother, please.”

Surviving is human instinct, but seeking death is the last dignity a person leaves for themselves.

Just like an old, proud swordsman, when he finds his hand trembling as it grips the sword, he would issue the most solemn challenge of his life, hoping to die in a sword duel.”

There are also gravely injured warriors who, realizing they’re gradually losing control over their bodies, even unable to manage their own excretion, decide to sever their heart meridian and die, leaving behind their last dignity and decency.

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