The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

411: Where is the Czar?

So why was she asking them to kill the czar? No matter how you looked at it, it was strange.

“His Royal Highness has been alive living in the city.” Small Jade’s face was pale as she spoke.

“You say! The czar is still alive?! That’s simply impossible.” Caesar shook his head.

“Yeah, everyone knows the czar is dead.
It’s impossible for him to live over ten thousand years and not become a god.” Even Zi Cheng, the transmigrating heroine, knew this.

Small Jade bit her lip, but because her face was neither male nor female, the gesture was a little scary.
“His Royal Highness has been alive and living in the moon.”

The moon.
Was it. . . ? Ming Xi came to a startling realization.

“The moon you’re talking about is it. . . ?” Yifu wanted her to clarify but Small Jade’s face suddenly changed.

“It’s too late! I have to leave! They’ll find out if I stay any longer!” Small Jade quickly disappeared in a puff of smoke.

She wouldn’t reappear no matter how much they called for her.
She really was gone.

“What should we do?” Mayleen asked.

“We’ve been here for a long time now.
Will our appearances really change like Small Jade’s?” Ailuna touched her pale face.
She was a popular beauty amongst the boys and the thought of losing her beauty terrified her.
She would rather die than live as a man.

“It must be true.
Look behind you and you’ll understand.” Zi Cheng pointed outside the main hall.

Ailuna silently turned her head to look.
What she saw outside was a large group of identical spirits watching her and the others.

Ailuna and Mayleen screamed so loud they nearly took down the roof.
Yifu was so frightened that her body trembled as she hid behind Zi Cheng.
It was just too creepy of a sight.

“They must be the kingdom’s people!” Zi Cheng swallowed.
It was the first time she had seen so many people who looked exactly the same.
It was an unnerving sight because it wasn’t just their appearances that were the same.

They were all in sync with the same movements, the same breathing, the same expressions.
It wouldn’t have been scary if it was just one person, but a large group. . .  it was definitely scary!

“I think so too.
Those poor souls.
They were tortured by the czar just because they didn’t save him when he was little.
It’s just too cruel.
You know, compared to the czar, I don’t think I’m not that bad a person.” One of the seven strange guys clicked his tongue in amazement at the realization.

“Say what?” Fang Li gave him a blank look.

“We’ll have to go to the moon to see.” Ming Xi said suddenly.

“Moon? Do you mean the red moon outside?” Zi Cheng asked.

Ming Xi nodded but didn’t say anything.

Zi Cheng knew there was no way she could get Ming Xi to like her, not after what happened on Demon Wind island.
It was a pity she would lose out on favorability points with him and his people, but she couldn’t see a way to salvage her image with him.

Well whatever, as long as he was willing to talk to her, she would take it one step at a time.
Who knows? She may find an opportunity to establish a new friendship with Ming Xi’s group.

“I guess it has to be there.
Other than the moon, where else is there?” Xier’s[notes] expression was solemn as he looked out of the palace main hall.

Caesar clenched the staff in his hand and spoke clearly.
“Let’s go meet the czar on the moon then.”

Everyone agreed to go to the moon to find the czar.
They had failed to find a way out, so it was probable the exit was where he was.
Killing him could make it appear.

The moon only appeared outside above the pile of bones, so to get to it, they would have to leave the city.

They walked across the silent streets again, but this time they could see it wasn’t empty.
Identical faces stared at them coldly and without emotion while some kind of hidden meaning flickered in their eyes.

The identical spirits didn’t pounce or didn’t stop the adventurers from leaving, so what were they after?

No one could answer the question.

Those who expected a tough fight were relieved.
They were outnumbered and the only one with any abilities regarding the dead was Feng Wu, and she wasn’t even a serious necromancer.

The odds of them getting any of the dead spirits to communicate with them was low.
According to Small Jade, once the transformation was complete, it wasn’t just the appearance that changed, but the personality as well.
Who knew what a group of distorted group like that would do?

After thinking it through from all angles, the group decided to keep walking.
They made it out of the city and into the desert.
Outside were just a pile of white bones; it was hard to believe the red light would bring them to life as skeletons.

The adventurers walked over the hill made of bones intending to enter the moon.
But upon cresting the hill they couldn’t find the moon at all.

“How can this be?! How is the moon gone?!” This was the most scared Mayleen had ever been in her life.
Her courage had almost entirely fled her.
The moon’s disappearance just made it worse.

“Where’s the moon?! Where did it go? What to do? What to do?” Ailuna was talking to herself absentmindedly.
For her, the scariest thing was to go back and wait, to slowly turn into the monsters in the city.

“Don’t panic.
I don’t think the moon is gone.
It just appears at certain times.
Don’t worry.” Zi Cheng’s soft voice helped soothe the girls’ agitation.

“All we can do right now is wait for the red light to appear again.
That is likely the time we can enter the moon.” Ming Xi’s words also helped the girls feel better.