Alien world

Chapter 1587 221. Lich Griffin

Griffin's objection was overruled, upholding the authority of the code.

Griffin was sent to the gallows inside the prison, and the trial had few spectators except for the unforgiving family members of the victim.

Annan watched as a noose was put around Griffin's neck. As the trapdoor beneath his feet opened, his frail body had no room to struggle and his neck was torn off.

No matter how glorious a person was in life, he would all look the same on the gallows.

Annan turned to the boy, whose fists were clenched and eyes were red. "The murderer of your relatives is dead. You have avenged yourself."

The boy's fist gradually moved forward, and the reflection of the body dangling on the noose showed confusion in his eyes.

"Do you have any other family members?" Annan asked him.

The boy shook his head.

"What's your name?"

"Jimmy."

A very common name, not much less common than Jack.

"Are you willing to stay in Liberty City? Here you can receive an education and choose to be an apprentice, a worker, or a soldier when you grow up." Annan admired the boy very much.

He can understand those who have to compromise, but that doesn't mean he doesn't appreciate those who are unwilling to compromise.

"You are an adult, and you are here to avenge me. I am willing to stay!" Little Jimmy said with a firm look in his eyes.

"Very good, go find Yingge, she will send you to the other children."

After all the strangers left, Annan looked towards the corner.

A tall cloaked skeleton king walked out of the shadows and said, "Let's start."

……

"Tyr, what's wrong with you? You keep making mistakes."

Facing his companions' complaints, Tyr said embarrassedly: "Sorry, I was distracted..."

"Let's stop here today." Yuli, the team leader of the preparation room, said, throwing away the failed products. "Counting the 2% that Tyr made a mistake, our success rate is close to one-third!"

Tyr's encouragement played a significant role. The students in the Potions Workshop were all working hard to give Griffin a surprise, and the pass rate steadily increased.

Tyr cheered up: "Everyone take a two-hour break, and we will continue working overtime later. As usual, don't run around. If one person is missing, no one can do the work."

"I know, why didn't I see you were just a little assistant earlier?" Shulkin said lazily. When Professor Griffin was here, Tyr was lost in the crowd, but after he left, Tyr stood out.

The students packed up the lab tables and walked out of the alchemy room one after another.

Yuli fell behind a little and walked side by side with Tyr, who was walking at the end.

"You seem distracted?"

"Is it obvious?"

Yuli pointed to his head. "Although you're not the best performer, you're not so clumsy that you make more mistakes than McCoy, so are you in trouble?"

Not only was I in trouble, I was in big trouble...

Tyr stopped his companions from running around, but he received complete information from the outside world and learned that Professor Griffin was executed for a serious crime...

Sooner or later, the truth will no longer be hidden. Should we tell them the truth?

"Professor Griffin, he..." He was halfway through his words when there was a sudden silence in front of him. He looked up and saw a lich wearing a familiar wizard robe, with a pale skeleton and soul fire burning in its eyes, standing at the door of the potion workshop.

"Tyr, are you talking about me?"

The students opened their mouths wide, unable to make a sound for a long time.

"Professor Griffin?" Shulkin asked in disbelief.

Griffin said, "I went for a beauty treatment. Do you like my new look?"

"Mr. Griffin, how are you..."

How come the professor turned into a lich after going out...?
Griffin said enthusiastically: "I realized that the human body has its limits. It has to face birth, aging, illness and death, be driven by desire, pursue the infinite with the finite, and suffer physical pain. This appearance allows me to pursue endless knowledge!"

This is the best of both worlds that Annan can think of: to maintain the justice and position of Liberty City, kill him, and cherish the valuable knowledge Griffin possesses, and resurrect him.

Griffin recalled what happened after he was hanged:

Annan summoned the Skeleton King. The tall undead king waved his hand gently like the god of death. A cold wind blew by, and an illusory outline floated out from Griffin's incontinent body.

"Lord Annan?"

The confused focus gradually gathered, and Griffin maintained the etiquette he had in his lifetime and saluted Annan and the Skeleton King.

Annan looked up at Griffin, his posture was as if he was looking down on him: "You paid for the victim's life, although it was only a tiny bit. Griffin, are you willing to continue on the path of science and atone for your sins?"

Griffin, who never looked back at his own body, said enthusiastically, "I do."

……

Griffin canceled the evening overtime and sent all the students back.

It also does not approve of the method of forming muscle memory through fatigue alchemy, although it no longer has to worry about this now.

The students left absent-mindedly, as they needed time to accept the fact that their "kind and harmless" professor was actually a crazy alchemist.

Griffin stood in the deserted potion workshop, looking at everything around him from the perspective of a new lich.

Is transformation into a lich a punishment?
Perhaps, even a paranoid person who longs for eternal life would not want to become such an emotionless lich.

But for someone who has long decided to devote his life to science, isn’t the “price” of being able to devote himself to his experiments without being entangled in emotions, without the need for meditation and rest, a “blessing”?

With the life box in Lord Annan's hands, Griffin felt relieved and more unscrupulous - he finally didn't have to hide his true nature anymore.

The first thing it did after its transformation was to ask Annan for some death row prisoners for experiments.

“They are all useful.”

There are fewer and fewer criminals around Liberty City. Annan has started to think of asking Commercial Street to buy death row prisoners from all over the place. The Other World Tree does not have enough food to eat, so how can it be divided for Griffin to do those bottomless experiments?
"Can you ask the soldiers out front to capture some live ratmen and bring them back for me to experiment with?"

If Griffin wanted to use the ratmen for experiments from the beginning, Annan would definitely refuse under the banner of "racial equality". The lives of the ratmen are also lives!

But he had just said he wanted death row prisoners, and now as a second choice, he wanted ratmen. Annan felt that it was worth considering.

Moreover, the humanity of the ratmen is almost negligible, and giving them to Griffin is like making good use of waste.

"What experiment are you going to do? Not to mention testing the 'water content' in the rat people's bodies..." A flash of disgust flashed across Annan's face.

In his opinion, there are many ways to study science, but Griffin chose the least acceptable one.

Griffin's fanatical emotions and the lich's cold voice were full of contradictions: "Skaven are also flesh and blood creatures, no different in essence from humans. I want to know how they are immune to those plagues and germs?"

(End of this chapter)