On a cold winter day, a snowstorm is coming.
The dark gray Black Swan Castle is located at the top of the Leeds Mountains. The exquisitely carved spiers are layered on top of each other, tall and thin and straight into the sky. The black cross on the top is solemn and solemn, protruding sharply from the clouds, as if to penetrate the sky. The gray-white sky is generally cold and solemn. The whole castle stands like an ancient warrior standing in the middle of the snowstorm, singing in the gust of wind. Looking at it from a distance, there is no trace of popularity, only a few flashing figures can be glimpsed occasionally through the exquisitely carved rose windows.
Holding their trays with their heads held high, they walked quickly and steadily towards the room in the center of the castle, where Earl Hillier's servants were.
The leading senior manservant did not wear a silver-gray wig like the other manservants behind him. He wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose. It made him a little gloomy and weakened the gentleness in his smile.
He stood in front of the door, stretched out his slender fingers and tapped lightly on the heavy wooden door, first three times in quick succession, and then turned into a slow tap.
On both sides of the castle wall, there are exquisite candlesticks made of gold. Rows of candles flicker in the cold wind that occasionally blows through the corridor, making the beeping sound of burning flames, and the voice of the servant is clean and hearty, with gentle emotions calling the people in the house—
"Lord Josh, are you awake?"
Inside the house, the heavy curtains were drawn tightly so that no light could come through.
"Wake up, it's time for you to get up." No. 1 called Su Jinzhi coldly, "If you don't want to die again."
Su Jinzhi opened his eyes suddenly, and cursed in a low voice: "Do you think I want to die?"
"Hurry up and ring the bell, die again, you have to save the whole world to complete the mission."
Su Jinzhi stretched out his hand to pull the silver bell on the bed. As soon as the bell rang, the silver bell hanging at the door also sang a crisp tone in the cold winter air.
Hearing this sound, the corners of the senior male servant's mouth hooked up again, and the other male servants behind him immediately stepped forward to push open the heavy wooden door for him, and the senior male servant coughed with his free hand against his lips Twice, to dispel the noise in his throat and make his speaking tone more euphemistic and pleasant.
He entered the room with the tray and walked towards the gorgeous deep rose-colored bed in the center.
In the center of the bed lay a boy. He had golden soft curly hair shining like the sun, his skin was as smooth and white as milk, and his long eyelashes were thick and curled up. They were also light golden and expensive. The neckline of the silk shirt was loosely opened, exposing the owner's slender and fair neck like a swan's neck.
But the valet knew that the most beautiful thing about his master was his eyes.
How would you describe those eyes
He heard that there is a kind of expensive sapphire on the mainland called "God's Eye". After it is polished into a cambered shape, six starbursts will appear on the top of the gemstone, which are as bright as stars, and his master's eyes are like the six starbursts on the top of the polished gemstone. Bright and clean, exuding eye-catching brilliance.
Perhaps it takes all the poetic words that all the bards in this continent can praise to sing such beauty, the servant thought to himself.
He walked to the huge rose window and opened the curtains of the same color as the bed, allowing the young man to bathe in the clear and clean white light in the morning. Then he knelt by his side, his lowered head respectfully calling out to him:
"Lord Josh, my master, it's time for you to get up."
The eyelashes of the young man in the center of the rose trembled a few times, and finally opened slowly. Those clear sapphire eyes shone brightly in the light, attracting everyone's attention as if by magic, forcing them to kneel down Under his high seat, kiss his instep reverently.
Su Jinzhi looked at the man kneeling in front of him with complicated emotions.
No. 1 reminded him: "Be careful, if the avatar collapses again, No. 0 will not be able to save you."
Su Jinzhi took a breath and said, "What time is it, Reeves?"
The young man's voice was like the harp in the hands of the Elune forest elves, plucking smooth and moving strings that slid through his heart like flowing water, and then turned into thorns to bind him tightly. The manservant lowered his head even lower, hiding He suppressed the obsession in his eyes, and tried hard to control his voice so that it would not tremble too much.
He took out his pocket watch, and after confirming that it was correct, he replied to the young man, "It's just after nine o'clock, Lord Josh."
"Wait for me to get up." The boy passed the hand in front of him.
Those hands are delicate and fair, so pale that you can't see a trace of blood, but there is a soft pink on the back of the fingers, which seduces people to kiss.
The servant lightly held the hand and led the boy away from the bed, and then more servants surrounded him with expensive clothes woven from silk and embellished with precious stones. After everything was tidied up, the manservant finally opened the tray he brought, and presented the bright red liquid crystal cup in front of the boy—
"Sweet morning dew for you, Lord Josh."
Su Jinzhi looked at the cup of red liquid, felt disgusted, and asked No. 1: "Has your data chaos subsided? When will baby No. 0 come back? I'm still waiting for its seasoning pack benefits."
No. 1 sneered: "This is a punishing world, you still want benefits?"
"But this stuff tastes disgusting!"
"Control your expression, if Reeves finds out that you are wrong, he will kill you again."
Su Jinzhi had no choice but to take the crystal cup, drank it, and walked out of the room.
The male servant hurriedly took the warm velvet cloak and put it on the young man, and said respectfully: "The temperature dropped last night, Mr. Josh, please take care of yourself."
Number One said, "Praise him."
Su Jinzhi quickly stopped and turned to face him.
The male servant was so excited that he held his breath, watching a white hand reaching out in front of him, pinching his chin and lifting it gently, and then crashing into the deep blue—
"Thank you for your reminder, Reeves, you are really my most loyal servant."
"My body and my heart are yours." The servant once again bowed his head deeply, "I am willing to serve you, my beloved Master Josh."
The boy sneered softly, and the moment he turned around, the velvet cape he brought up brushed against the servant's heart like a feather.
His noble and elegant master, those vulgar bards did not use all the praiseworthy words to praise his handsome face like a god, and his eyes as clear as jewels, but used all the vulgar words that can be imagined Come to insult his master, scold him for being cruel, violent, bloody and vicious, just like the most evil dark demon, vampire, werewolf, killing and skinning, drinking the freshest blood and always maintaining his gorgeous and beautiful appearance.
A maid behind him stepped forward and reminded him that it was time to prepare the earl's breakfast: "Mr. Reeves, Mr. Josh—"
When the earl's closest servant heard his address, a frightening look suddenly appeared in his eyes. He turned around suddenly, slapped the maid severely, and shouted loudly: "Master Hill's name!" Is that what you can call it?!"
Blood flowed from the corner of the maid's mouth. She covered her face and knelt on the ground sobbing, and then gently touched the servant's slender shoe toe to apologize: "Mr. Reeves, I was wrong... Please forgive me..."
The servant lifted her chin with the tip of his shoe, with a treacherous smile on his handsome face: "Remember, you can only call him Earl Hillier."
"Yes, Mr. Reeves." The maid said with tears, the transparent warm liquid diluting the blood on her lips.
The male servant looked at the blood on the corner of her lips, and a red light flashed in his gray pupils. He took off his white gloves that were not stained with dust, and wiped the blood from the corners of the maid's lips with his slender fingers. He watched carefully, with a smile on his face. sick smile.
"You are very healthy." He said softly, "I think Master Josh might like you."
The maid opened her eyes wide in horror, and trembled even more.
The male servant admired her frightened expression condescendingly, and then he took out the beautifully embroidered handkerchief in his pocket to wipe off the blood, and said to the maid with a smile: "Next time, I will make you the morning dew of Mrs. Josh." .”
The maid bit her lower lip and trembled, not daring to speak. The man looked at her terrified look, and suddenly smiled again, with a loving and gentle expression on his face like a priest. He took out his silver pocket watch and checked the time. , sighed: "Oh, it's already a quarter past nine, it's time to prepare breakfast for Lord Josh."
After finishing speaking, he quickly put on the white gloves again, put one hand behind his back and the other behind his back, and in the most humble servant posture, he walked towards the direction where the boy left energetically.
Su Jinzhi was even more horrified when No. 1 told him what Reeves had done after he left, and quickly drank the blood that was full of fishy smell in the cup.
His servant Reeves is a psycho, and the original Earl Josh Hillier is also a psycho.
Josh Hillier suffers from a disease similar to porphyria, commonly known as vampirism, so he has been living in the Black Swan Castle on the Leeds Mountains where the wind and snow hover all year round and there is no sunlight, because the sunlight will make him The skin was tingling, red and festered; and the lack of hemoglobin made him drink a lot of blood every day to maintain his life and appearance.
So the people in the mainland scolded him for being cruel and ruthless, and drinking blood to maintain his appearance like a goblin, it was really right.
And his servant, Reeves, was originally the most promising paladin in the temple. The Temple suspected that Earl Josh Hillier was a member of the blood clan, so he sent Reeves to the Leeds Mountains to spy on Earl Josh Hillier, but he didn't know which dark heartstring in Reeves' heart was grown with The goblin-like Josh Hillier made a move, and he fell into the darkness from the bright side, willingly staying in Josh Hillier to be the most loyal dog, killing for him every day to get the blood. Incomparably gorgeous blood-colored morning dew.
In Su Jinzhi's view, there is no need to kill people just to get blood. It is only necessary to use magic to erase their memories after the blood is taken and let them go, so he did this.
Then he was stabbed through the heart by the berserk Reeves and died.
But the real cause of Su Jinzhi's death was not letting people go. Josh Hillier did the same thing in the past, and even rewarded those people with a sum of money when he was in a good mood. It was only later that Reeves came. In order to see if the people from the temple were really loyal to him, he ordered Reeves to kill him and take blood for him. Who knew that Reeves killed people faster than him , One stab is sure and ruthless, and one drop of blood will never be wasted.
Josh Hillier was very happy, so he made Reeves his closest servant.
The real cause of Su Jinzhi's death was that he was too kind to Reeves, treated him as a human being, and collapsed. He beat and insulted slaves and servants. He was never treated as a human being, but as a dog. Reeves suspected that Reeves felt that his master was no longer moody, and occasionally slapped him a few times, suspecting that his soul was replaced by a demon, so he took the holy sword and liberated Su Jinzhi, causing him to die without even seeing a rescue target died.
So Su Jinzhi felt that the master and the servant were both insane.
"As compensation for the increased difficulty of the task caused by the data confusion, I have already reverted to you again." Number one talked to him, "But now that the data has returned to normal, it will be more difficult if you die this time. .”
Su Jinzhi looked desperate: "Is it more difficult?"
Number one said: "If you don't die anymore, it won't grow bigger."
Su Jinzhi asked him: "What if I collapse again? Reeves will stab me to death."
Number One said, "Then I will help you now."
Su Jinzhi: "???"
Before Su Jinzhi understood what No. 1 meant, he saw several maids walking over with silver food trays. Su Jinzhi quickly sat upright, and turned his expression into an arrogant and indifferent mode. Reeves walked in front of him with a smile, spread out the napkin and put the neat knives and forks on him, and then stepped aside respectfully.
The maids lined up and went to the dining table neatly to put down the food, and then removed the silver cover, revealing the light chestnut-colored piece of meat about one centimeter thick on the dinner plate. The piece of meat was wrapped in a ring of pale yellow goose fat, and decorated with tender broccoli, perhaps in order to meet the taste of Earl Josh Hillier, and a layer of bloody viscous was poured around the piece of meat. Juice, but no matter how you decorate this piece of meat, it can't change the fact that it is a piece of fatty foie gras.
Looking at the plate of fatty foie gras, Su Jinzhi felt anger coming from somewhere, or a sudden fear in his heart, he stood up abruptly and waved the silver plate away, then gasped for breath while holding the table.
The silver plate fell onto the rose-colored soft velvet carpet, making a dull sound. The light maroon fatty foie gras bounced on the ground twice and then stopped still. The blood and goose fat on the plate also slowly melted into it. In the carpet, there were dark and greasy circles and marks.
"Who asked you to make foie gras?!" Su Jinzhi opened his eyes wide and shouted at the maid who was serving foie gras, his voice was a bit shrill.
The maid was so frightened that she fell to the ground and cried on the ground, unable to say anything, she only knew to call Su Jinzhi in multiple voices: "My lord..."
Reeves frowned slightly, took out a white veil from the left breast pocket of his jacket, walked up to the piece of fat foie gras to cover it, and blocked Su Jinzhi from seeing the piece of foie gras, and then said to The maid said: "Lord Josh doesn't like foie gras, is the chef new here?"
The maid looked at him with tears and replied, "Yes, Mr. Reeves."
"My master, don't be angry." Reeves got the answer, turned around and walked to Su Jinzhi with a smile, helped him sit down on the chair again, "The new chef doesn't know your taste, he may think Master Josh, like other nobles in Novi City, you like to eat creamy foie gras."
The maid continued to lie on the ground tremblingly, not daring to get up. The chef is new, but she is not. No one thought that Reeves was pleading for the chef by saying these words, he just simply didn't want Earl Hillier to have a bad mood early in the morning - only Reeves could calm the Earl who was in a rage.
Sure enough, after listening to what Reeves said, the earl loosened his tightly furrowed eyebrows, and snorted coldly: "Cream? That's the most greasy and disgusting fat smell!"
Reeves smiled and didn't answer the earl's words. He took a piece of bread and evenly spread the freshly brewed blueberry jam, then handed it to the earl, and turned to the maid who was still lying on the ground and said: "Let the chef prepare for Joe Lord Xi, make another breakfast
"Yes." The maid didn't dare to look any further, and hurriedly left after answering.
Su Jinzhi was still in shock, and while eating the sweet bread with blueberry jam, he said to No. 1, "Is this what you mean by wishing me a helping hand?"
"Isn't the effect of the experiment pretty good?" No. 1 asked him back, "You just need to continue to maintain such a moody and brutal image, and you can beat people if necessary."
Su Jinzhi hummed absently, wondering why he was so abnormal just now.
Could it be that the original Josh Hillier really hated eating foie gras, so this emotion affected him
In Su Jinzhi's memory, he should have eaten foie gras. The taste is really delicious. Once he eats it once, he will never forget it. But for some reason, when he recalls it now, he always has a feeling of nausea .
After breakfast, Su Jinzhi took another casual walk in the castle.
Josh Hillier's territory is the Leeds Mountains, where the wind and snow are very harsh all year round. Although the environment of this land is very harsh in the eyes of others, it is an extremely comfortable place for the original.
He is not a commoner. There is always a fireplace burning in the castle, and there are flame magic stones to keep it warm. It is as warm as spring. Those cold blizzards have no effect on him, and he cannot see too strong sunlight. The Leeds mountains are white and bright The light without a trace of warmth is very suitable for him.
More importantly, there are several mines in the Leeds Mountains, which contain countless types of magic stones. It is said that more than half of the magicians in the Nord continent use magic stones from the Leeds Mountains, so Josh Xi Lear is one of the best human nobles on the mainland, and it is even rumored that his wealth is comparable to that of a dragon, so no matter how cruel and violent he is, no one dares to do anything to him.
Of course, it's not that no one has assassinated him, but those who assassinated him were finally solved by Reeves.
The temple was almost laughed to death because of Reeves, and they laughed and said that Josh Hillier used his beauty to conquer all enemies, so he can live safely until now.
Su Jinzhi also agrees with this argument.
"I'm so beautiful."
He looked at himself in the small mirror and sighed deeply.
He wandered around the castle for a while and then ran to the study, and he didn't want Reeves to serve him, saying that he was reading a book but actually admiring his beauty. His appearance in this world has also been slightly adjusted, the eye sockets have become a little deeper, and the color of his hair and pupils has also changed, but because he looks like a teenager, his facial features are softer and not too westernized.
"By the way, how old is Josh Hillier?" Su Jinzhi asked No. 1, "Why does he look so young?"
Number one answered him: "Twenty-two, he is also a magician and a senior magister. Even if he has not made any progress, he can live to be more than three hundred years old. It is normal for his appearance to age slowly."
"He can also use magic?" Su Jinzhi exclaimed, "How can I do it? Why didn't I know I have magic?"
No. 1 said disdainfully: "There is no staff, no robes, no magic stone blessing, and you can't even read magic spells. Do you think you are an elf who doesn't need to sing and can use magic directly?"
Su Jinzhi was a little disappointed: "I still have to sing, forget it."
The human nobles on the mainland almost all have magical talents. They usually go to the Academy of Magic and Martial Arts to receive education after the age of fifteen, but Josh Hillier can only stay in Black Swan Castle to study by himself because of his health. He is very talented, and he became a senior magister as soon as he studied.
Su Jinzhi was half narcissistic looking at himself in the mirror, when Reeves suddenly knocked on the door. He hurried back to the mahogany table and sat down, posing as a lazy and proud earl, before calling Reeves to come in.
Riversto came in with a glass of red liquid, which looked extremely clear and coquettish under the ambiguous orange candlelight.
"Lord Josh." Reeves's eyes shone with a sick light. He held the cup of blood and respectfully half-kneeled in front of Su Jinzhi, as if the most pious knight and believer presented the cup of blood to Su Jinzhi.
Su Jinzhi has now figured out some of Reeves' temperament, so he didn't take the blood immediately, but raised his eyebrows, raised his thin white chin, and looked at Reeves with those sapphire-like pupils: "new goods?"
"Yes, Master Josh." Reeves smiled slightly, "You can try it first."
Only then did Su Jinzhi reluctantly take out the wine glass, pressed his lips against the wall of the glass and took a sip, then closed his eyes, as if he was savoring the feeling of this glass of blood.
However, in fact, Su Jinzhi was desperately calling out to No. 1: "No. 1, No. 1! Come out and tell me whose blood this is!"
Su Jinzhi really doesn't know how Earl Josh Hillier's tongue is so long that he can taste the blood of different people, just like a real blood, whether it is a holy believer or a despicable snatcher, pure Young girls or humble slaves, mixed blood and pure blood, nobles and commoners, everyone's blood, Josh Hillier can accurately guess their identities as long as he tastes them.
But that was Josh Hillier's talent, not Su Jinzhi's. To him, the blood tasted the same - salty and fishy, and the taste was only a little better than the poisonous wine No. 1 gave him.