"Be quick. Hide in the cabinet."
Yanice's words surprised Nicole and Samuel a bit, but they thought Yanice might not have time to
explain to them. For safety, Samuel quickly pulled Nicole into the cabinet.
Samuel didn't know why, but he trusted Yanice.
Inside the cabinet, Nicole was held in Samuel's arms. They even could feel each other's warm breath.
It was a bit uncomfortable for them to stay in such a narrow space as Samuel was tall and strong, but it
was a new experience for Nicole.
The sound of the chains got louder. Nicole and Samuel could hear it clearly even in the cabinet. They
exchanged glances and heard Yanice's cold voice from outside.
"Do you want to see me starve to death? It takes much longer to deliver food. Why? Is Leo getting
impatient with me now?"
Although Nicole did not know who Yanice was talking to, she knew there was anger in Yanice's tone.
Suddenly, it was silent, and then they heard a deep male voice.
"Miss Yanice, you must be joking. Our king cares about you very much."
"Really?"
Yanice snorted. She looked at what was in the man's hand and sneered, "The snowstorm is coming
soon. The king only gave me that to keep warm. Is he going to see me freeze to death? Since this is
the depopulated zone, no heating is provided. If you don't prepare some coal for me, how can I survive
in such a cold winter?"
The man said respectfully, "Miss Yanice, king has something big to deal with recently. He said that you
need to be patient these days and he will give you coal and clothes."
"Be patient these days? I' afraid he wants me to die. He hasn't gotten anything valuable from me for so
many years, so he gave up on me and left me to rot, right?"
Yanice was extremely angry, but the man didn't change his attitude. He still said respectfully, "Miss
Yanice, you must be kidding. Your identity is the most valuable to us. Our king won't let you die. But he
heard that some strangers came to the depopulated zone, and he hopes that Miss Yanice won't contact
any outsiders."
"That is really funny. You call this place the depopulated zone, so how could any man enter this place?
Are they ghosts?"
Yanice snorted. Obviously, she didn't intend to respect the man.
The man looked around. As he saw three steaming teacups, he frowned.
"Miss Yanice, you have guests here?"
"Guests? You don't let anyone in. How can I have guests?"
Yanice also noticed the teacups on the table, but her expression did not change, which confused the
man.
"Miss Yanice, these three teacups are..."
"I'm too lonely by myself, so I imagine someone coming to visit me. Can't I make tea for them and have
a chat?"
Yanice said as if it was true.
The man didn't believe it. He wanted to go into Yanice's bedroom to check, but Yanice stood in front of
him and snapped, "How dare you! Who are you to enter my room?"
"I dare not, but if you hide someone else here, I will not be able to explain to the king. Therefore, Miss
Yanice, you'd better move aside and let me take a look. It's right for both of us."
Although the man was polite to Yanice, his words were quite annoying, at least for Yanice now.
"How dare you ask me to do so? Besides, how can I hide someone in such a small place?"
"I have to check before I know."
After the man finished speaking, he pushed Yanice away without the slightest bit of respect. Yanice
gritted her teeth. She was so angry that she wanted to kill him.
Nicole's heart suddenly rose in her throat.
'Who was that man?'
'How could he be so arrogant?'
Samuel was ready to kill that man at any time. As long as the man opened the cabinet, Samuel would
kill him.
The atmosphere was so tense that a fight seemed to take place at any moment.
The man looked around in Yanice's room. Seeing that he was about to walk towards the cabinet,
Yanice knitted her brows and threw out the teacup in her hand.
The teacup hit the man's head squarely. The man was stunned for a moment, and then he heard
Yanice's cold voice, "Do you really want to die? I don't mind killing the minion sent by Leo. Since you're
dead, there will be someone else to take your place."
Yanice sounded merciless. Nobody knew when she held a dagger in her hand. The man saw the cold
light of the dagger, lapsing into silence.
"Miss Yanice, you must be joking. This is some food the king prepared for you for the next three days. If
you are not starving, Miss Yanice, please don't eat too much each time. Because the snowstorm is
coming, and we might not be able to get out."
The man was back to his normal, but Yanice was not appeased.
"Get lost!"
The man didn't care about how Yanice treated him at all. He left after Yanice said that.
The sound of the chains rang out again, but growing more and more distant this time.
Nicole wanted to get out, but Samuel stopped her.
He shook his head at her.
Nicole was slightly surprised, but she did as she was told. In such a place, she subconsciously thought
Samuel was reliable. She believed that any decision made by Samuel was right.
They waited for a while. Yanice did not come in. Instead, she threw the water in the tea cup away and
refilled it. Then, she said to herself, "Morty, come here. Taste the freshly brewed tea. If you can tell
what kind of tea it is, I will give you a reward."
Nicole was stunned a bit, and Samuel was also speechless.
Even when Yanice was trapped here, she was still thinking about Morty.
Rumors had it that she had raised Morty as her own son. It seemed to be true.
Nicole felt sympathy for this woman.
At this moment, they did not heard the chains, but the man left before now came in.
Yanice directly threw a pot of hot tea at him.
"Do you want to die?"
That was probably the first time the man had seen Yanice lose her temper. He tried to dodge the pot,
but failed.
Yanice's teapot did not hit him but the wall beside him. The man was splashed on the face by the hot
water in the pot.
"It hurts!"
The man cried out, but he suddenly felt something was wrong. He tried to defend himself in a hurry, but
Yanice kicked hard at his abdomen and sent him flying.
It seemed like she really wanted to kill him. Yanice now swung at him with a chair.
The man didn't dare to fight back. Seeing that the chair was about to hit him, he hurriedly opened his
mouth.
"Miss Yanice, I didn't mean to come in. I just want to tell you that the king said that this area is not
peaceful lately, so he asked me to tell you not to go out."
The chair was only five centimeters away from the man's head.
Yanice's face was livid with rage, and she sounded furious.
"If you dare to spy on me again, I guarantee that I'll knock you off next time!"
The man could feel that Yanice was serious. His heart beat wildly, and his palms sweated.
He had always known how scary Yanice was. This woman had been locked up here for so many years,
and she became lunatic a long time ago. Prior to him, there were a few people who were sent to deliver
her food, but they all died. Knowing that, the king did nothing but gave a large sum of money to their
families.
The man definitely didn't want to die, so since he started to deliver food, he had always been respectful
to Yanice.
He found that as long as he treated Yanice with courtesy, Yanice would not make trouble for him.
Today, if he didn't feel there was something wrong, he wouldn't have returned. However, he did not
expect that what he did would enrage Yanice.
Though Yanice was a woman, her strength would scare a man when she went crazy. If the chair landed
on his head just now, he would definitely die. Thinking of that, the man felt sweat breaking out on his
forehead.
"Miss Yanice, I'm not lying to you. I forgot to tell you that, so I came back."
The man hurriedly said.
Yanice knew that he wasn't telling the truth, but she didn't bother to argue with him now.
She casually threw the stool away and said coldly, "Piss off!"
"Alright. I'll leave immediately!"
The man fled quickly.
Yanice frowned as she looked in the direction where the man left.
During the fifteen minutes after the man left, Yanice did not move at all, so Samuel did not let Nicole go
out.
Nicole thought that if she didn't listened to Samuel, she would have been caught by the man.
When she thought of that, she was a little frightened.
After a few minutes, Samuel whispered to Nicole, "We can go out now."
"Should we wait any longer?"
Nicole asked worriedly, afraid that the man would come back again.
Samuel shook his head with a smile and said, "It's alright. I think he's gone. He must be scared by what
Yanice did just now."
"I was also scared."
Hearing Nicole's words, Samuel couldn't help but tap her head with his fingers.
"When did you become so timid?"
"Now, with you by my side, I have the least courage."
Nicole stuck out her tongue. Samuel thought her mischievous expression was charming.
The woman was becoming more and more attractive to him.
Samuel took hold of Nicole's arm and got out of the cabinet.
Yanice looked at them and whispered, "Did you notice that?"
"Yes."
Samuel nodded, but Nicole was confused.
"What did you find?"
Nicole suddenly felt that she could not understand what they were talking about.
What happened?
Samuel looked at Nicole's confused face and said in a low voice, "The man came in with the sound of
chains the first time. That meant there should be chains on the door. However, when he came back,
there was no sound of chains, so there might be a second exit or entrance."
"That's right. I always thought that there was only one entrance. After all, the entrance was sealed. But
now, it seems that I was wrong. Also, that man was very careful. He should have noticed something
strange here and didn't dare to do anything to me, so he went to Leo. We are in great danger now. I
only have one question. Can we go out now?"
Yanice's words immediately made Nicole and Samuel upset.
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