I have a date with the devil

"When God visited the earth for the seventh time, he told the believers to beware of the devil. "The devil is a roaming serpent, the forerunner of laziness, pride, envy, covetousness, and all unknowingness. He disguises his sins with cunning and beauty, his irreverent and rebellious heart destroys eternal dogmas, and his sweet words and debauched lusts are his invincible weapons. "On the Day of Judgment, the saints under His spell will be sentenced to death in the winds of fury, plunged into the abyss of the wailing souls, into the lake of burning sulfur, into the long, dark night, stripped of their divinity, robbed of their light, crushed of their faith, possessed of their flesh, and sacrificed to their souls. ...... At that time, the devil, who has succeeded, will stand smiling on the knife's edge of hell. the tip of the sword of hell and laugh at His offering." *** The western firmament is vast and starry, the ancient flow of the Milky Way floats with millions of bright and twinkling stars, reflecting a bright and magnificent band of light, hazy light gauzy shrouded this mysterious sea. A large ship is sailing smoothly on the surface of the sea. The thick chimney puffed out gray smoke, only once condensed out of shape, immediately torn apart by the sea wind. The ink-colored sea tide beat heavily against the hard hull, splashing water, fine foam "gurgling" sound, irregularly attacked in all directions. On the eve of dawn, the whole ship was sleeping in the silent darkness. The door of the room at the end of the second floor of the cabin, but faintly seeped a dim glow. It was a rather splendid room. Crimson velvet curtains covered most of the floor-to-ceiling windows, the end of which draped over a lustrous carpet. A handful of fragrant red roses in a silver beveled vase on a decorative cabinet, next to an old heavy western mirror leaning. A restless moth is crawling around the hot glass lampshade, the shadows of the lamp are hazy, the tongues of flame flicker, on the wall a few heavy ink paintings of the Virgin Mary faltering leap. With an inaudible "click", the hour and minute hands of the brass wall clock pointed to zero at the same time. There was a young girl curled up on the sofa by the window. She was wrapped in a thin blanket, her long, lazy hair piled up at the nape of her neck, blocking most of her face. An arm as soft as a boneless hanging outside the sofa, the fingertips can touch the wooden floor. The silk nightgown is slightly wrinkled, and the thin belt is loose, exposing a small piece of snow-white shoulder. The corner of the sofa is also upside down with an old book with a blue hot silver cover. Apparently, she fell asleep accidentally while reading the book. The couch is not narrow, and the air is quiet. Instead, she seemed to be caught in a horrible nightmare, with her eyes tightly closed, her out-of-tune whimpers squeezed out of her teeth, and the tip of her nose seeping with a layer of crystal sweat. "...... Your Highness, Your Highness!" Half asleep, half awake, a few calls came from the ears, the throbbing organ in Ye Miao's chest suddenly tightened into a ball, eyelids trembled dramatically, awakened from the light dream. The vision is gradually clearing up, the slightly fat maid Margo is standing by the sofa with a nervous face, seeing her finally open her eyes, slightly relieved. Just a few minutes ago, Margo heard an odd noise outside the hidden door, knocked and no one answered, hesitated, but went into the room, towards the window where the noise was made. The first thing you need to do is to take a look at Ye Miao's sweat-soaked, even slightly distorted, declining face, which has nothing to hide from her eyes. The expression of the hidden and painful intertwining is very impactful, as if the owner of the body is involuntarily experiencing a secret and long ordeal, and the usual quiet and well-behaved look is very different. Margot was frozen on the spot, reflexively holding her breath for a few seconds before coming back to her senses and going forward to wake her highness up. The sky is not yet light, the night is thick. Ye Miao was drenched in sweat, slightly tilted his head and glanced at the time. Immediately after, he fell back to the sofa sickly, raised his hand to block his eyes, and tried his best to raise his moist slender neck, panting deeply. The chest rose and fell for a long time, but the suffocating hot feeling still lingered, numbness in the limbs and bones rolled. As if twisted by vines, the spikes are eating up the nerves around the body. The fourth time. She had that dream again. In the dream, she was completely lost in a strange ruin. The gray clouds were low-pressure, and the smoke was filled with the sickening smell of decay. Full of crumbling old buildings, the sharp tops of the fortress towers pointed straight up to the sky. Hungry predators hiding in the fog, narrow mouth cleft in the faintly visible long sharp tongue, sinister eyes drooling at her throat. As if the next moment will be a flurry, will she the single prey open gut, torn into pieces. In the case of outnumbered, people will more or less produce an ostrich mentality, rather than pretend to find nothing, rather than break the precarious layer of thin ice beneath the feet, falling into the valley of malice. Ye Miao is also like this, even though the fear of war, but also do not dare to easily show cowardice, can only force themselves to calm down, pretend not to notice the danger, white face to continue to go forward. Time flowed more and more slowly and became a sticky pulp. The long road is so long that there seems to be no end. The fragile heart hit the thin sternum, hyperventilating, rubbing out a clear and sharp thud. Suddenly, a creeping chill came over her, creeping up the back of Ye Miao's neck inch by inch along her backbone, causing alarm bells to ring in her head. No need to turn around, strong intuition seized her heart - not a delusion, right now, right behind, there is a more frightening than all the monsters that surround ...... trailing up to her without slowing down. If you can't escape, you'll be the thing that obviously came for her to unmercifully demolish and eat into the belly - vague, Ye Miao produced such a thought, cold sweat, can't help but walk faster and faster, and finally, can't care what the thing will think, she simply pulled her feet up and ran wildly. In the maze of ruins like panic fled, the lungs burned a fire. I don't know how long it took to finally feel the oppression of the shadow, she stopped exhausted, propped up her knees and rested for a while, gulped and looked back with hope to see if she had lost the thing. The first time she turned around, she crashed into the arms of the thing that had been waiting behind her for a long time. The moment she touched Him, her vision was clouded with a black veil. Clearly and the other side of the distance has been close to the nose-to-nose to the point, but still can not see his appearance. Vision is deprived, the more acute the physical senses. In the darkness, the thing would wrap its arms around her waist and force her to press against its body. Then he would bully his way down, his wet tongue licking slowly and methodically over her eyelids, earlobes, corners of her mouth, and collarbone. The viper swims in general, leaving a trail of wet water marks. It was as if the devil was pleasurably enjoying His self-surrendered sacrifice. Recalling this, Ye Miao's eyes trembled and moved away from the hand covering his eyes. In the sixteen years she grew up in the King's Palace of Kadam, she rarely dreamed. But since boarding this ship, during the short half-month voyage, she was unexpectedly dragged into the same unspeakable dream again and again by unknown forces, making out with someone she met for the first time - something that might not even be human. The annoyance of being confined in the arms of the wanton bullying, the iterations of ambiguous murmurs and spit, and the usual she would never be able to say due to pride and shame to beg around and show weakness ...... all of the above, after waking up, are still vividly visible. It is not a pure nightmare, but rather, it is a frightening and very real dream. The first thing you need to do is to get back from the palpitations, and the corners of Ye Miao's eyes are still tinged with red. Margo sat on the sofa, patted her back gently, and worriedly observed her expression: "Your Highness, are you okay?" Ye Miao closed her eyes, wiped the sweat from the corner of her forehead, pressed down all the distracting thoughts that disturbed her mind, and raised the corner of her mouth to Margo: "It's nothing, I just had a nightmare." When you open your mouth, your voice is still a bit hoarse and weak with uneven breath. 　Marg was stunned, suddenly understood what, heart swept a trace of understanding and pity, got up and poured a cup of warm water to Ye Miao. --Half a month ago, this big ship, from the Kardan country's frozen port, has bypassed the Chutul fjord, which is often whipped up by the Siren, and crossed the magnificent Serpentine Ocean, and is now speeding on the shortest route to the Abil Empire. The ship was loaded with gold and precious stones, shields and silver spears, crystals and spices, and other valuable items in box after box. Among them, the highest value, but not these inanimate rare treasures, but the young princess of the Kadan Kingdom in front of Marg - Ye Miao - Ezeka. To put it more bluntly, she was a hostage of the defeated Kadan in the war and offered to the victorious Abil. This is a splendid and fascinating world. In addition to humans, there are also mermaids, dwarves, sirens, sirens, swamp trolls, unicorns and other wild and untamable foreign species. On the blue ocean, thousands of islands are sparsely scattered around the rich and vast main continent - the continent of Ripus, together forming a complete world map. Two hundred years ago, the elves, in charge of magic and order, abandoned their last territory on the main continent and returned to their homeland through the Rainbow Mother Tree. Once the elves left, the humans, who had been second to the elves for 10,000 years, finally took over, but were unable to take over the "magic" because of the rift in their bloodline, and abandoned the "order" that had been in their hands like a clog. From then on, the continent of Ripus began to be divided, becoming a pandemonium, no longer peaceful. Numerous kingdoms sprang up in the vast land and fought over the interests of each other. Kadam and Abil two countries, is the continent's two neighboring behemoths. As the saying goes, one mountain does not allow two tigers, with the growth of national power, it is inevitable that the interests of strife. The two sides in recent years, the relationship between the gradual deterioration of friction. Half a year ago, the long-standing grievances of the two countries finally broke out in war, smoke leaping up quickly. After three months of an evenly matched stalemate, the scales of victory began to tip in favor of Abil. The Khatan front was routed and crushed by the enemy army into the hinterland, and the dynasty that had lasted for centuries collapsed. The king was sent to the gallows and his brother, Prince Al, took over. In order to save the rest of the royal family, Ayer had to accept the condition of bowing down and ending the years-long struggle between the two countries with an agreement. According to the custom, Kadam had to present gold and gems for Abil to show the sincerity of submission. In order to prevent Kadam from doing anything in secret, Abil also asked King Ayr, who had only one son and one daughter, to present a princess in the truce agreement. Nominally as a VIP envoy to Abil for a few years, but frankly, is a pawn to hold Kardan hostage - your pearl is still in our hands, want to play tricks to tear up the treaty, have to weigh in the heart first. Margot as Ye Miao's personal maid, from Ye Miao's childhood began to take care of her, loyalty, simply like her half sister. Therefore, this trip also traveled together, to Abil to continue to take care of the little highness. Ye Miao even drank two cups of water, the sweet water nourished the thirsty throat, but also let her face slowly regained its blood color. She put down the cup and felt that her body was still sticky and uncomfortable, so she planned to take a shower. Although this ship is a hostage ship, but the facilities are all in place, not at all sloppy. Ye Miao room connected to the bathroom there is a bath. Misty, the sound of water clattering. Ye Miao leaned on the edge of the stone pool, let the hot water flowing out of the hose poured in the back, feeling the couples of the body are stretched out, the tight string in the mind also slowly relaxed, comfortable light puff. To soak the fragrant spray, she stepped out of the pool, and wiped away the water vapor from the mirror in front of her. The mirror reflected a young girl of about 16 or 17 years old, a very good-looking Oriental girl. Fair and clean, long black hair, light brown pupils, the shape of the eyes is clearly up, but the lower arc is round and wide. When the eyes droop, as if half containing an intoxicating spring, looks both warm and innocent. The water droplets slid down her narrow and smooth jawline with a slight snap, falling on the stretching graceful shoulders and neck. The skin full of water ripples with a little starburst, as if paved with a layer through the grinding of diamond powder sand. In the continent of Ripass, the mainstream looks, are high nose bones, deep-set eye sockets, deep contours of westernized looks, hair color and eye color to blonde hair and blue eyes as the standard. However, although people's skin is white, the skin quality is not too good, easily wrinkled, or freckles, red blood. The above qualities are not linked to Ye Miao at all. This is probably from her mother's credit - the current queen of Kardan, originally surnamed Ye, flowing in the continent of Ripass long extinct Oriental blood. This is the reason why Ye Miao obviously has a blond father, but she has a face with oriental qualities - all from the queen's genetic heritage. Her name, the word Ye, is also taken from the Queen's surname. When they first learned that Abigail wanted someone, her brother and mother were struck by lightning. The youngest brother even had the idea of "finding someone to replace his sister", but on the one hand, it was too difficult to find a girl with an Oriental face, and on the other hand, there was no way that Abigail would be deceived by this clumsy trick. Once revealed, it will certainly provoke a dispute again. Ye Miao knew he couldn't avoid it, but instead acted more calmly than they did, and also went over to appease his worried father before stepping on the boat to Abil. After drying off, Ye Miao changed into a clean nightgown and collapsed on the sofa, picking up the book she had just read halfway. Margo dutifully stood behind her to wipe her wet hair, but her thoughts drifted away unconsciously. Now that Kadam had become a vassal state of Abilene and obediently surrendered the princess, Abilene could not afford to be aggressive. It is true that the "envoy" is only a cover, but when you go there, you will still be treated as you should. If I'm not mistaken, Her Highness will have to stay for a long time in the magnificent royal palace in the capital of Abil to receive the hospitality of the top guest. Or, to put it bluntly, to be properly placed under house arrest there. The flaming heart of the oil lamp suddenly darkened, the hovering shadows like huge bony wings, enveloping the back of their collars. The heart of Margo for no reason grew a chill, lips shivered slightly. Unluckily ...... about that royal palace, on the continent of Ripass, there is a widely known horror rumor - Abil's man-eating monster. Rumor has it that there is a horrible bloodthirsty monster hidden in the royal palace of Abil. It is cruel and cunning, love to lick the flesh of blood. Its hideous appearance, with a human silhouette, but with dorsal fins, sharp teeth and claws, tearing to the root of the ear mouthpiece exposed in the air, long scarlet tongue sharp as a blade. It can climb upside down in any upright place, as if it were a dark ghost, haunting the palace and hunting the living who fall alone. There are gossips that it is a monster captured back from the crater of Yulun by the governor of the Royal Knights. Because it was so rare, it was never killed, but was imprisoned for viewing and abuse for fun to satisfy the curiosity of certain nobles. There are also rumors that it is a fierce beast coalesced by the unjustly dead for more than a hundred years, ordinary weapons can not stop it from eating people, only the magic of the elves can kill it ...... There is no denying that there are very few people who scoff at this legend, believing that the so-called monster is just a false image that Abil deliberately made up to intimidate foreign enemies. So far, Abil has never admitted the existence of this monster. But the empty cave must come wind, all kinds of strange things that can not be traced to the reason, undoubtedly supports the chilling monster is not created out of nothing. The magnificent gates of the royal palace seemed to have transformed into a bloody mouth that devoured everything. Although Her Highness has been behaving as usual since the day she boarded the ship. But how could she not have heard any rumors of this monster at all? Will be afraid, will have nightmares, can really not be strange at all. Suddenly, Ye Miao's body stiffened slightly. Only then did Margot realize that she had just been too absorbed in her thoughts and could not help but ask the question. Ye Miao's fingers holding the page are a little shaky, vaguely white from excessive force. But this is not because of fear, but because, in hearing and "monster" related issues, her mind, actually flashed back to the "nightmare" that she had dreamed of three or four times in bits and pieces. The earlobe recalled the feeling of being brushed by the ambiguous breath, suddenly hot, and even the pink toes curled a little. She closed the book hard, fixed her mind, before frowning and seriously gave her opinion: "Of course I have heard of it. But that should only be in blackmail." In detail, this legend, probably when she was six years old, that is, ten years ago appeared in the continent of Ripass. The source can no longer be traced now. Ye Miao liked to read books about magical creatures in her spare time, but could not associate any account that was even remotely similar to the monster in the description. Besides, if the ferocious monster that eats people around really exists in Abil's royal palace, the possibility of it being at large for so many years and not being caught is too small. Abil's royal family guarding a palace that will kill them at any time, refused to move to another place to live the possibility, it is close to none. So it seems that the so-called "Abil's man-eating monster", most likely just an exaggerated story.