Qin Lun vaguely remembered that he once had such a copper key. It was a piece of copper that he picked up from the garbage. It was so dirty that he could not tell what it was originally.
Qin Lun used the little spare time he usually had to polish the copper piece until it had the prototype of a key, and then used the iron wire he picked up to rub out the lock teeth bit by bit.
His purpose is very simple, that is to use this copper key to open the iron lock that fastens his sister's neck. It's just that he was very careful and never dared to let his adoptive parents, the Fosters, discover his secret.
The Qinlun siblings were adopted by the Fosters after their biological parents died in a car accident.
Foster and his wife are a pair of European and American immigrants. When Qin Lun and his sister were first adopted, Qin Lun, who is extremely intelligent, keenly saw that they had other purposes. But the reason why he didn't reject the Fosters at that time was because he thought that the two were just coveting the orphan relief funds from the Welfare Department, but he didn't think that the two were not good people at all.
After the Qin Lun brothers and sisters were adopted, they really lived a life without worrying about food and clothing in the early days. However, when the staff of the child welfare agency gave up on continuing to observe, the Fosters finally showed their true colors.
The nightmare of the Qin Lun siblings began. The two siblings were abused one after another. Even in order to control them, the couple usually only let one of them go free, while the other was chained like a dog in the basement.
If it was just like this, Qin Lun might continue to endure the humiliation, and wait for his sister to grow up a bit before trying to find a way to escape. However, this idea was shattered after overhearing the Foster couple's bedside conversation late one night.
The couple didn't have many conversations that night, but with Qin Lun's IQ, he can figure out a lot of the content by himself.
The Fosters turned out to be a pair of professional liars who had used false identities to adopt orphans more than once.
They traveled all over the Huaxia region, and each time they adopted a pair of orphans, they would stay quietly for a while. When the welfare agencies give up tracking and observation, they will kill the orphans, and then leave the area under the pretext of job transfer.
This process can be as short as a few months and as long as a year or two. Unlike the methods used by human traffickers to resell children, the orphans adopted by the Fosters will eventually be brutally killed. Because of their covert methods, neither the police nor the child welfare organization noticed anything until the Qin Lun brothers and sisters were adopted.
Why the Fosters did this, the real reason is still unknown.
It was not until Qin Lun entered the severe prison that he got some guesses from a psychologist. This is also the reason why Qin Lun first studied psychology.
In order to open his defenses, the psychologist carefully analyzed the behavior patterns of the Fosters and got some guesses from it.
The expert believes that the couple, who go by the pseudonym Foster, may also have been orphaned in childhood and had severe psychological trauma. This kind of trauma may have been bullied by other orphans, so as an adult, I have always hated the status of orphans.
Every time they adopt a pair of orphans, they will fantasize about their peers who bullied them in childhood, and then vent their grievances on the orphans, and use this to retaliate against the welfare institutions and orphanages that did not rescue them back then.
This purpose was indeed achieved after the death of the Fosters.
As more and more aliases and crimes of the Fosters were exposed, the child welfare agencies and orphanages that handed over the orphans to the Fosters for adoption were almost all sprayed into scum by the local media.
After Qin Lun heard some of the conversations between the Fosters that night, he knew that there was not much time left for his siblings, because the investigators from the local child welfare agency hadn't visited for a long time.
Qin Lun began to polish the copper block all night long, the slender wire and the sharp teeth of the key tore his palms again and again. The boy's blood soaked into the copper key bit by bit as it was polished, leaving many tiny stains that looked like rust spots.
These stains are exactly the same as the "rust spots" on the copper key in Harry's hand. This blond boy had the same experience as Qin Lun.
Although Harry's key is not to save his sister, but to liberate the black slaves in the manor, the actual effect is the same.
In the era when the Qin Lun brothers and sisters lived, he only needed to escape from the house of the Fosters and find the police station to be rescued. The Harry brothers and sisters are different. They live in an era and region where it is not enough to just escape.
Hundreds of years ago, the United States was still a large colony, and there were no social welfare institutions to uphold justice for orphaned brothers and sisters. What's more, the Wilson Manor is rich and powerful, if it is not destroyed first, the Harry brothers and sisters will still not be able to escape far.
"Brother, I'm late!" Elaine touched the copper key, big tears rolled down her face, buried her head in Harry's chest, her shoulders trembled slightly.
"It's not too late, as long as you come back from London safely!" Harry patted Elaine's back in relief, but Qin Lun felt something strange deep in his body. He had a feeling that the words of the little girl in Harry's arms seemed to mean something else.
Just as Qin Lun was thinking about that sentence, there was a burst of fierce quarreling outside the living room door. The brothers and sister Harry, who were hugging each other, separated as if they were electrocuted. Harry looked at the door in panic.
"I told you that I have nothing to hide from Diana!" The living room door was slammed open, and a low-pitched male voice came from outside the door, suppressing his anger.
"Hehe, do you expect me to believe it? Thomas!" Another sharp female voice sounded behind the man.
"Hmph, so what, don't think I don't know you're in London..." The man sneered mockingly, but it stopped abruptly because he had already seen the Harry brothers and sisters in the living room.
Following Harry's gaze, Qin Lun saw the long-famous Wilson couple.
Thomas Wilson was a middle-aged man in his forties, with a burly figure and a neatly trimmed beard. He looked like a dignified middle-aged gentleman.
Keira Wilson was a fat, middle-aged woman with a fur scarf on her hand, a fleshy face, small eyes, and a wart on her nose.
Not only is her appearance ugly, but she also lacks the temperament of a lady. If she strips off her expensive dress and replaces it with burlap, she will look more like an ugly village woman who sets up a stall at the vegetable market.
Although Qin Lun had never met Diana, since the charming Susan was very similar to her, he could completely imagine what choice this Sir Wilson would make.
No wonder Sir Wilson has been married to her for so many years and has no real children. Qin Lun had a hard time imagining what kind of mood Thomas Wilson, who was still handsome in appearance, had to endure to flirt with her in bed.
This also shows how embarrassing Wilson was at the beginning, so that he wronged himself to marry this merchant's daughter.
"Get out!" The two couples who saw the Harry brothers and sisters looked indifferent, without any embarrassment of being exposed by their children, as if in their eyes, the Harry brothers and sisters were just a pair of pets.
"Yes, Father!" Harry lowered his head obediently, and led his sister towards the door.
"Slap!" The two children had just walked to Wilson, but saw a sneer on the middle-aged man's face, and without warning, he slapped Harry to the ground.
Qin Lun's vision spun along with Harry, and his heart burst into rage. He even felt that the slap had been slapped on his face.
"Brother!" cried Elaine, throwing herself on Harry, resting her head on the boy's shoulder. From this angle that no one could see, there were no tears on Elaine's face at all, but a gloomy expression that seemed to drip water.
Like Qin Lun, Qin Mei seemed to have been opened up to the darkest corner of her heart at this time, and she couldn't help substituting herself into the role of Elaine Wilson.
"The next time I see you with your sister without your consent, I'll break both of your legs!" Thomas Wilson's cold words made both brothers and sisters stiffen.
"Hey, what is this?" Keira Wilson's tone was calmer than before. She was not angry at Harry's beating at all. She picked up a copper key from the ground and asked the man with a frown. said, "The key you gave him?"
"Huh? Let me see!" Looking at Harry's face that instantly turned white, the middle-aged gentleman raised his eyebrows, and took the poorly made copper key from his wife, "I didn't give it to him, I don't know where this little bastard stole it from, it seems that I need to ask Parker."
The man walked to the corner of the living room and pulled a thick rope behind the window curtain.
Hearing the summoning bell, Old Parker came quickly, took the copper key from the man and examined it carefully. At this time, the Harry brothers and sisters had shrunk into a ball in fright, trembling all over and looking at the three in front of them.
"This is..." Old Parker's complexion suddenly changed. He took off a bunch of keys from his waist and compared them, his expression became more and more ugly.
"Master, this seems to be the key to the 'barn' of the manor!" After a while, Butler Parker finally wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said hesitantly.
"The barn? Which barn?" The middle-aged gentleman's face also changed, and he stared at the old housekeeper fiercely.
"It's... the barn where the slaves were kept!" Old Parker lowered his head lower and lower, obviously knowing that this was a terrible mistake.
"Slap!" Thomas Wilson slapped the old butler hard on the face this time, making him stagger, and five red marks like earthworms quickly swelled up on the old man's face.
"You old trash, this little bastard copied such a key, and you don't even know it!" The cold light in the man's eyes almost turned into reality, and he roared, "Go, call the overseer team of the manor to assemble, it's time Clean up those niggers again!"
"Yes, sir!" Old Parker almost crawled out of the living room.
"Hehe, it looks like you've been dazzled by that little bitch Diana, and you don't even know that the black slaves in the manor are going to riot!" Fat Kayla covered her mouth, laughing wildly, looking at the huddled The Harry brothers and sisters showed a sneer.
"However, I didn't expect my good son to have this ability, much better than his previous 'brothers'!"