Chapter 12 — Two Fathers

But the light of the green light seemed to be able to seep through my eyes. As soon as it shook, the cries of many people rang out in my ears. There was the sound of a man roaring in anger. There was a woman's voice screaming. There was also the faint cry of a newborn. I cover my ears. Ta Vo Cuu turned around and held my shoulder. “A Dien, listen to me.” I raised my head to look at that person. His face was white and almost transparent. But the eyes are still very alert. “Don't listen to those sounds.” “Those are not my memories.” I bit my lip and nodded. The Queen Mother's voice came out from the light again. “Why not its memories?” “The night it was born, blood flowed into the East Palace like a river.” “Its first cry was to step on three hundred human lives and burst out.” My heart constricts violently. Ta Vo Cuu said sternly: "Shut up." The Queen Mother laughed. “Ta Vo Cuu, don't you dare talk to him.” “So who speaks for you?” “It is not a blessing.” “It is a fetus.” I suddenly grabbed Ta Vo Cuu's shirt tightly. Ta Vo Cuu turned around to look at me. "Not." That person spoke very harshly. “A Dien, you are not.” Looking at the urgency in that person's eyes, I suddenly wasn't so scared anymore. I asked the Queen Mother. "If you think I'm a fetus, why didn't you kill me twelve years ago?" The green light flickered once. The Queen Mother's laughter stopped half a beat. I continue to ask. "You've been looking for me for twelve years, not because you're afraid I'll live." “But you need me to live.” A ray of light flashed in Ta Vo Cuu's eyes. The Queen Mother's face slowly darkened. I don't know why I said that. Maybe because my father taught me. The more your enemy wants to scare you, the more you have to stare at the thing that scares them the most. The Queen Mother looked at me, her voice suddenly gentle. “You are smarter than Tham Hac Tranh.” “Not wrong.” “Who needs your blood?” She raised her hand and pointed to the middle of the stone room. “This is a dragon eye.” "That year, the Immortal Emperor guarded half of the national treasure under the secret of the Eastern Palace." "Only the blood of the Immortal Crown Prince can open it." I bowed my head and looked at the red gold token. The token fell next to the Truong Minh lantern, the dragon pattern still had traces of dried blood. The Queen Mother said: "As long as you drop blood on it, the dragon vein will return to its position." "Whoever can raise someone who really should sit in this world to the throne." I was stunned. “Should people really sit in the world?” Ta Vo Cuu coldly continued. “It's you.” The Phung family's lady's face twisted for a moment. The Queen Mother's voice burst out from her throat. “The world should be ruled by those who can keep it.” “The first emperor was stupid, the Crown Prince was weak, and the emperor was even more trash.” "Only someone can keep this country from chaos." Ta Vo Cuu laughed. "So you killed Crown Prince Tien, massacred the Eastern Palace, and buried the medicine man in the secret passage to wait for today." "What you keep is not the country." “It's your crazy obsession.” The Queen Mother did not laugh anymore. The fire in the blue light suddenly flared up. The white bones on both sides of the cold river began to vibrate. We hear the sound of joints rubbing. Each set of skeletons was buried in the rocks but slowly rose up. Some people still wear the old Eastern palace clothes. There is a broken sword in his hand. They have no eyes, but they all turn their heads towards us. My whole body is cold. Ta Vo Cuu pushed me behind the coffin. “Take the token.” I don't dare accept it. “What about people?” That person raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his lips. “I stopped her.” My eyes immediately turned red. “People can't stop it.” That person looked at me and suddenly smiled very lightly. "You haven't called me yet, I can't bear to die." My heart hurts so much. But just as I reached out to take the red and gold token, a soft sound suddenly came from inside the black wooden coffin. Coc. Like someone knocked from inside. I froze in place. Ta Vo Cuu also suddenly turned around. The Queen Mother's laughter echoed in the stone room. “Ta Wu Cuu.” "Do you think the person lying in the coffin is really Crown Prince Tien?" 12 The sound in the black wooden coffin rang out again. Coc. Coc. Like a heart buried for twelve years beating again behind the coffin board. My fingers stiffened on the red gold token, cold sweat immediately broke out. Ta Vo Cuu stood in front of the coffin, his face whiter than blood

shoulders. He did not immediately open the coffin. But the Queen Mother's laughter followed the green light echoing round and round in the stone room. "You searched for that person for twelve years, missed him for twelve years, hugged his old case and crawled to the position of Patriarch." “But you don't even know who the person in the coffin is.” Ta Vo Cuu raised his eyes. “Shut up.” Those two words are cold as ice. But that person's hands are shaking. I have never seen him like that. When blocking the sword, do not tremble. When bleeding, do not tremble. Facing the black armor full of electricity, he did not tremble. But right now, just because the coffin made a sound, that person felt like he was standing on the brink of his old dream collapsing. I was suddenly very afraid. Afraid that something might actually crawl out of the coffin. I'm also afraid there's nothing inside. Because I can see that for Ta Vo Cuu, the latter is even more cruel than the former. The green light is getting stronger and stronger. White bones crawled up on the cold riverbank and pressed to the outside of the stone chamber.