Chapter 116: In A Small Box
But wait. Zen wasn't hurt at all! Why?
For the very simple reason that he had squatted down as soon as he sensed that the enchantment was coming his way.
“What an idiot!” Zen gazed at her with a mocking stare.
However, Yolande's face remained emotionless even when she saw Zen avoid her attack so easily. No matter what happened, she had always been serious and indifferent; her face's poker expressions were undeterred by emotions.
She merely cast another enchantment in the direction of the box, which was as easily avoided as the one before it.
Zen had curved up as most as possible and the enchantment had swept over his head with a gust of wind.
However, he was now in quite an uncomfortable position. His head was bowed and his hands were embracing his knees. He had bent himself into a ball and couldn't even raise his head as the area above it had been blocked by Yolande with the entanchement.
Zen saw Yolande's little snow-white feet, but was in no mood to admire them. Right now, he was more busy with his resentment about being stuck like this.
'What a shame! How can I be forced into such a desperate situation and die like this!' he thought to himself.
Just then, Yolande bent down and squatted in front of him. She reached out and was about to cast an enchantment once again.
If she succeeded, both Zen's limbs and body would be rent apart into two separate pieces.
He was stuck and couldn't move at all. All he could do at the moment was swallow hard with despair on his face.
At that very moment, a small silver sword flew right towards Yolande.
Without so much as a glance in its direction, Yolande deftly cast another enchantment to block the sword that was about to hit her.
“Yolande, stop!”
Lennie's crystal clear voice rang across the entire area.
Nina had started the Immediate Messager again when she had found out that Zen was in danger.
Lennie himself had been searching for the remaining demons to break their siege of the city with a group of Kung Fu masters
when Nina had summoned him. He had rushed here after completing his task but hadn't expected to see Zen almost die at the hands of Yolande.
He wondered
how Zen had provoked Yolande, who was a well-known killer and extremely mindful of her emotions.
Yolande looked at him coldly and asked, “Why are you stopping me?”
“Because I want to know why you are trying to kill Zen,” Lennie replied.
“He offended the imperial army and almost killed Hugh, so he must die,” Yolande replied matter-of-factly.
“What? He almost killed Hugh?” Lennie was shocked and couldn't believe what he had heard. And the surprise was to be expected. Anyone who hadn't seen Zen fighting Hugh Xu would have taken it as a joke.
But Lennie knew that Yolande was emotionless, so she wouldn't have been lying to him. Since it was her statement that Zen had nearly killed Hugh Xu, then Zen must really have the ability to kill Hugh Xu.
“You must have misunderstood!” Lennie tried to reason.
“I've already checked it out. There was no misunderstanding,” Yolande replied, and was about to cast the fatal enchantment towards Zen.
“Wait! Yolande, even if Zen committed a crime, it should be the Military Office to punish him, not you!” Lennie said.
He knew more about Yolande than anyone else and was using his wits to control her.
This Killer Girl was not only emotionless, but rigid as well. So it was almost impossible to ask her to help anyone. It was clear that if he wanted to save Zen, it could only be done by trying to invoke some rule that would stop her from killing him.
According to the rules of the imperial army, if the soldiers of the imperial army committed crimes or if there were conflicts between civilians and the imperial army, then soldiers would be handed over to the Military Office for adjudication. “Yolande, you should know that even if Zen is condemned to death, it should be the Military Office to execute him, not you,” Lennie continued.
Yolande thought for a while, tilting her head like a naive little girl. Who would have thought that she had killed countless demons and humans!
“You're right! This person shall be locked up before being judged and executed by the Military Office.” Yolande finally nodded in agreement. “But since a large troop of demons are attacking us, the Military Office has no time to judge such trifles. I'll lock him up and hand him over to the Military Office after the demons are defeated,” she continued.
“You're not going to lock him up here forever, are you?” Lennie asked with a bitter smile.
“Why can't I?” Yolande asked, blinking her grey eyes.
Lennie felt a headache coming.
Zen felt the same way.
'Is she serious? I would die soon if I have to remain curling up in such a small space all the time!' he thought.
In the small box, Zen couldn't even raise his head or look straight. He was feeling stiff all over after only a short while in the box. 'I'd rather die if I have to stay in this posture for more than ten days, ' he thought.
He knew that in her nature, Yolande would absolutely do so.
Yolande suddenly stood up before Lennie could find a way to convince her to change her mind. “I've made my decision. I'll keep him in the box until the demons are defeated.”
With that, she turned around and walked away. Zen moved slowly with her steps in the square box, like a pet following its owner.
“Hey! Hey...” Lennie shouted, trying to stop Yolande. But it was clear that she wouldn't change her mind unless he could win her.
Lennie was confident in his own ability. However, thinking of the magical power of the enchantment, he gave up the idea of fighting her.
Nina was anxious when she saw Zen being taken away by Yolande like a puppy. “Uncle, what do we do now?” she asked. She hadn't expected that even Lennie couldn't save Zen this time.
“Well, there's nothing I can do now. I hope Zen can hold on until some help comes his way.” Lennie couldn't come up with any good idea except comforting Nina. Even the Lord of the city couldn't persuade Yolande to change her mind.
Zen was so depressed.
He wondered if Yolande was deliberately torturing him. The transparent box he was locked in was rubbing against the ground all the time and would turn over occasionally, so Zen had to face the ground in some cases and rolled over along the way.
When he was pulled forward by Yolande on the streets of White Emperor City, many soldiers and civilians came to watch.
“Hey, Yolande! Can you let go of me?” Zen pleaded, squatting in the box.
“Bang!” The box turned over again and Zen faced the ground again. It would take him a lot of efforts even if he wanted to see Yolande's feet.
“Since you're the offender here, why should I let go of you?” Yolande asked.
“I'm not an offender! I beat a guy named Yale who tried to kill me. He then asked his brother Josef to help him. However, instead of striking me down, he was killed by me. Then a guy named Hugh came. He wanted to kill me too.”
Zen had figured out Yolande's way of doing things, and so was trying to convince her by logical or legal reasoning.
“It's useless telling me anything about that. Whether you're guilty or not is up to the Military Office to decide.” With that, Yolande stepped forward and Zen began to roll again with the shaking of the box.
What Yolande had said nearly drove Zen crazy. This stupid girl was so stubborn! He could do nothing but curse her in his heart and sigh.
Finally, Zen “rolled” to his destination after a rather long and bumpy trip. He guessed that they had arrived at Yolande's home.
The building looked special. It seemed to be the kind that would be provided to high-ranking military officers of the White Emperor City. Yolande dragged Zen in and threw him into a corner. After that, she sat on a futon and began to meditate with closed eyes and crossed legs.
Zen was worried, but there was nothing he could do. During the hours of her meditation, Zen had to keep the same posture and couldn't even practice cultivation.
It was so boring! With incomparable difficulty, he managed to take out a book from his space ring.
Fortunately, he had accidentally thrown a novel into the space ring before. Now he could kill time with it at least. Although it was quite uncomfortable to keep tilting his head to read, he had no choice.
After several hours, Yolande suddenly opened her eyes before standing up and walking outside.
Zen looked at the door, but found nobody there. Then he began to knock the box with his head.
“Bang!”
The box rolled forward under the impact.
'Great!'
Zen thought excitedly. He twisted his waist, and the box rolled forward again.
“Come on! Let me try again!”
Then he hit the box with his leg, and the box continued to roll.
After a while, Zen finally mastered the method of keeping the box rolling. He could not only roll forward, but could also roll aside by hitting his head against the sides of the box.
Thus, he moved towards the door little by little through his rolling.
In front of Yolande's house was a staircase. Zen looked at it and took a deep breath before knocking his head hard onto the transparent box.
“Bang! Bang! Bang...”
The square box, with Zen inside, rolled down the steps all the way with several large bangs.
Zen got dizzy due to the bumps and when he finally recovered, he struggled to raise his sore neck. To his surprise, what he saw was nothing more than the skirt hem of Yolande's long colorful dress covering her long slender legs and her snow-white little feet.
As Zen looked up, he saw Yolande's emotionless face.
“Bang, bang, bang...”
Yolande dragged Zen back to her house along the steps, bumpy all the way.
To prevent him from escaping again, Yolande now decided to take him with her wherever she went.
After a short moment, Zen found out that she was pulling him into the bathroom!
After leaving Zen in a corner, she began to untie her nine-color long skirt.
The girl seemed to have no self-protection sense against men at all, or she wouldn't have taken off her clothes in front of a man like this.
After taking off all her clothes, she stared Zen for a while with her grey big eyes. There was a rare expression on her face--she frowned!
Then she covered the transparent box with her nine-color long skirt before walking to a big wooden barrel and jumping into it.
Although Zen had read many books, he had never thought of himself as a gentleman. He knew how rude it would be to look at a girl nude, but it was impossible for a young man of his age to have no physical reaction at such moment.
'If you're afraid I'll see you take a bath, you should at least have covered the box a little bit more tightly. Why did you leave such a big bar area uncovered?' he thought to himself. Zen wondered what Yolande was thinking. From the uncovered area, he could see her clearly.
'Be polite! Keep your eyes away from her!' Zen kept on reminding himself in heart. However, his eyes turned uncontrollably to her.