Raising Lucian, who has no intelligence, is a task that is both difficult and easy.
Lucian was wrapped in a furry cloak, curled up on the sofa on the other side. When Wade approached him, he shrank back in confusion.
He looked like some kind of furry, alert, ignorant little animal.
After Wade sat beside him, Lucian tried to lean back again, but he bumped his head. He bit his lip and showed an expression that he wanted to cry but didn't. Wade then reached out and held the back of his head and rubbed it.
"Give me your hand," Vader said.
Lucian:
"… never mind."
Wade could feel Lucian still trembling slightly. He placed Lucian's hand in his palm - this time it was finally not a furry cat's paw, but a young boy's soft hand. He carefully injected magic power to heal the chilblains.
The blue and purple blisters finally disappeared. Lucian opened his eyes and looked at his fingers, seemingly not understanding what kind of miracle this was. Seeing his current appearance, Wade suddenly remembered the past when Lucian had just returned to his world.
At that time, Lucian was pretending to be mentally retarded, but today, Lucian is truly mentally retarded.
He couldn't help but let out a faint smile, like a fleeting cherry blossom. Lucian was still staring at his fingers, pointing them at the sun, as if he didn't understand how the wounds disappeared. Wade's throat rolled, and he whispered, "Can you speak, Lucian?"
Lucian seemed to have made no sound in this world from beginning to end. Wade suspected that he was not only mentally retarded, but also a little mute.
"I," Lucian said slowly, his voice thin and weak, "Yeah."
He didn't seem to have a very large vocabulary. But when he heard his voice, Wade's heart was already beating like thunder.
He then patted Lucian's head and said, "It's okay, I will teach you little by little. For example, now..."
He held Lucian's right hand, intertwined his fingers, and whispered, "I healed your injury. You should thank me and say thank you to me."
"Thanks-"
He repeated it twice, but Lucian didn't seem to understand what Vader meant. Vader had plenty of patience with Lucian, so he said to him, "It's okay."
At this time, the servant's voice came from outside the door: "Master Demon King, the Hilbert family wants to see you."
The Hilbert family wanted to come to see him, presumably for Lucian and his brother Leo.
"Here comes the troublesome fly, I'll deal with him," said Vader.
He stood up to leave, but at this moment someone hugged him gently from behind.
"Thanks… "
The man's voice was small and hesitant, like that of a kitten. Wade's heart skipped a beat, and he turned around to face that innocent face.
"Thank you?" he said.
Lucian paused for a moment and rubbed his face against his. He seemed to have misunderstood the question as an imperative and was trying to express his gratitude.
A soft smile appeared in Vader's eyes again. Such an expression was extremely abnormal and terrifying in the eyes of the control center, his past world, and other people in this world who regarded him as the Dark Lord.
But Lucian didn't notice it at all, and buried his head back into his body.
Lucian was not afraid of him, whether he was intelligent or a fool.
"Have a good rest," Wade said, "I'll be back after I finish cleaning the garbage."
His voice was gentle, and he lightly touched Lucian's forehead, and Lucian fell into a dream.
…
Baron Hilbert stood on the carpet, shivering as if from the cold, even though the fire in the fireplace was blazing.
Finally, the sound of leather boots was heard, and Baron Hilbert broke out in a cold sweat.
Everyone knows that the Dark Lord Vader is an out-and-out tyrant.
He practiced deep and cruel magic, imposed heavy taxes, and hanged all those who disobeyed him. No one dared to look at him directly or say a word of disrespect to him, unless you wanted your head to be gouged out and hung on the city wall the next day.
"Sir Hilbert." The man's voice was as deep as a cello, without any madness. "What can I do for you?"
Baron Hilbert began to speak tremblingly.
"About my son, you..."
"Oh?" The man interrupted him as if he had realized something, "You want to see your son, Leo Hilbert?"
Leo is the heir of the family, but Baron Hilbert would never dare to say that in front of the Dark Lord. He wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief and said, "Oh, it's not Leo, but Lucian. We are very honored that you chose him to be your apprentice. The entire Hilbert family is very honored... But Lucian has never left home since he was a child. His mother and I are very worried. We want to meet him and remind him..."
Baron Hilbert's real intention was to try to communicate with Lucian and let him beg the Dark Lord to spare his brother. Although the Dark Lord might just see Lucian as an interesting toy... but their family could not lose Leo.
Even though Lucian was killed because he angered the Dark Lord by asking for mercy, the Dark Lord did not like to ask for mercy.
"Forget about communicating with him," the Dark Lord said with interest.
"But… "
"He is mentally retarded and cannot understand. It is obvious that you have lacked education for him in the past ten years." The Dark Lord looked at them with dark eyes and a bloodthirsty smile, "But I am very touched by the Hilbert family's concern for their offspring..."
Baron Hilbert showed a look of delight, and then he heard the Dark Lord say: "In that case, let the entire Hilbert family accompany Leo Hilbert. I think Leo Hilbert will also be very pleased."
"No... don't..."
Baron Hilbert knelt on the ground in despair, but was carried out by the guards. At the same time, the guards wearing black uniforms with gold buttons who had been lying in ambush near the Hilbert family mansion also came out.
Vader had no intention of letting them go from the beginning.
"I'm telling you not to ruin your character." The system reminded him quietly, "In this world, your character is a tyrant. If your character ruins it, you will be ejected from this world."
"I won't." Wade trimmed his nails, listening to the blood and screams, "The people in this world, except Lucian, have nothing to do with me. And being a tyrant..."
He recalled the plot of "Infernal Affairs" and smiled casually: "What's so difficult about it?"
The heavy snow covered the bloodstains in the entire Hilbert Mansion. Wade took a carriage back to the castle.
Now that the Hilbert Mansion has been destroyed, Lucian no longer has a place in this world that can be called his "home" or "origin."
Lucian belonged only to him.
And from beginning to end, it can only be his property.
"Hilbert came to me on his own initiative, which saved me a lot of trouble."
The fact that the Dark Lord had exterminated the Hilbert family frightened many people, and some even fainted on the spot after hearing the news.
The devil took away the Hilbert family's sacrifice instead of the apprentice, and even slaughtered the Hilbert family. How did he do that
But there are always people who are not afraid of death. A few days later, a maid from the Hilbert family sneaked into the Demon King's palace with great bravery and found Lucian in the castle.
She was Baroness Hilbert's maid, and had served the Baroness for many years, and had seen how the Baroness tortured her stepson. But now that she had entered the palace, she could not imagine that Lucian would actually live here.
This may be the most luxurious palace in the world.
The ground was paved with white jade and covered with thick rabbit-hair carpets. There seemed to be something else under the carpet, which was so soft that one's toes seemed to sink directly into it.
On both sides of the wall hung precious paintings, inlaid with large night pearls. Clear water was led to flow around the palace, and the sound of water could be heard even if you lived inside, not to mention the golden roof and the door decorated with gold threads. Even in such cold weather, the house was filled with crystal vases. Roses, lilies, roses, and tulips of various colors in the vases were gorgeous and had a warm and fragrant aroma.
Such extreme luxury made her dare not even move a step. After seeing the young man in the depths of the golden house, she could not believe her eyes at that moment.
That was totally different from the boy she remembered, who was deliberately treated poorly and dressed in a shabby manner.
The boy was wearing a silk shirt and barefoot, with a gold anklet with a ruby inlaid on it. A diamond hair ornament was pinned between his long silver hair, making him look like the most beautiful doll in the world, and as noble as a little prince who had been spoiled since childhood. Only his eyes were still ignorant, staring at something in a trance.
The maid then rushed forward without hesitation and began to cry.
"Your Highness has committed a crime against the Hilbert family. Please plead for the family... Young Master, the family raised you. He killed your relatives, your friends, your parents, and your brothers. They were all taken away and imprisoned in the place where the sacrifices were imprisoned... Please beg him, beg the Dark Lord, to let your family go..."
"Can you really bear to watch this? Master... Can you understand? He killed all your relatives... You should hate him... Beg him. Master, you should hate him!"
The maid screamed and cried, but the boy looked down at her with a blank look in his eyes. Several maids who were serving the boy noticed her and hurried over to drag her away.
Until another set of footsteps appeared in the palace.
At that moment, the maid finally collapsed in despair. She had gone through so much trouble to enter the palace, but the pressure made it impossible for her to open her mouth or move her eyes, and she could only tremble.
The man came behind Lucian, hooked his long hair with his hands, and let his head rest on his arms.
"Your Master doesn't seem to understand what you are saying," said the Dark Lord.
The maid choked.
"But I can take him to see you... to see you and say goodbye to his family." He said, "Okay?"
Lucian leaned in his arms.
"Take her away, and replace all the carpets along the way." The Dark Lord finally ordered, "Kill the guards who are derelict in their duties."
The maid was taken away like a dead body.
The next day, Vader brought Lucian to the altar.
Everyone saw this scene.
There were corpses everywhere, ghosts were crying and wailing, and blood was flowing like a river. The tyrant and his queen witnessed this scene from a high platform, letting him watch his people being slaughtered.
"Lucian, you don't need those, you only need me. Do you understand?"
He said these words to Lucian amid the blood-red setting sun and faint screams.
All the ministers knelt on the stage, trembling as they waited for the interaction between the tyrant and the queen.
Crazy, they thought, really crazy!
Bring your queen with you to witness his clan being exterminated!
But the queen did not cry or scream, or go crazy or jump off the platform as they imagined.
The queen just yawned. He rubbed his eyes, not caring about the red or white.
He just wanted to sleep.
"Come on, go back to sleep, Lucian," said Wade.
He held Lucian in his arms and brought him back to the palace.
The system shrank inside Wade's brain and trembled.
… Damn, Wade is really a lunatic! It thought with tears in its eyes.
When Lucian comes back, it will still have to find a way to get back to Lucian.
qwq.
The news of the devilish tyrant's behavior and his beloved but mentally retarded beauty queen spread across the continent in an instant. Everyone was trembling at his crazy tyranny and speculating when the mentally retarded beauty would be abandoned and end up like everyone else.
No matter how beautiful a fool is, he is just a fragile thing. Sooner or later he will be crushed.
And no one believed that a weak-minded person could tame the heart of the Dark Lord.
However, what these onlookers never expected was the conversation between the two people that took place in the palace.
"The one who held you back and hated you was killed by me."
"I will teach you everything you don't know or understand little by little." Wade stroked Lucian's hair gently. "In this life, I am your lover and your teacher."
Lucian didn't understand what he said. He stretched the other side of his head and looked at Wei De with innocent eyes.
He was never afraid of him.
Wade smiled at him and said, "Before you can fully realize that you need me..."
"I won't touch you," he said. "Don't worry."
Lucian rubbed his body.
"As long as you are here, I will not go crazy or fall." Wade said softly.
The author has something to say: There will be another extra chapter tomorrow! I wrote an update in advance today qwq