Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 291: Banquet (Part )

Xia Shou hesitated for a moment and replied, "I am here by order to find the secret of immortality and bring it back to the emperor."

"You can't take it back! Because you will die soon!" Charlie squinted his eyes and laughed through gritted teeth. The laughter was suppressed in his throat with a strong mockery.

Xia Shou's hair exploded, all the hairs on his body stood up, and every inch of his skin became extremely sensitive. The extraordinary power of the scorpion spine flowed along the invisible meridians formed by the curse power and allowed him to enter a flow state that was unimaginable for mortals. He even seemed to be able to see the scene behind him.

Are you going to be attacked?

No, not really!
The audience around was still cheering. The human in the gladiatorial maze had just had his belly torn open by a blood slave, and his internal organs were scattered all over the floor as he screamed.

The head in King Charles's hand was still winking and smiling, while the duke behind Charles still kept his head down in silence.

It seemed that no one wanted to attack him, but Su Weiyu had already placed the silver sword on Charlie's neck.

But even Charles I merely stared at him mockingly, with no intention of attacking him at all.

"Why?" Xia Shou asked in a hoarse voice.

Charles I blinked, threw the head back to Duke George, and then glanced at Xia Shou.

"follow me."

Xia Shou hurriedly followed, he had a feeling that this time they were really going to get to the point.

Xia Shou followed behind Charlie, who was walking so fast that he had to jog to keep up.
This time, none of the ministers who were following him followed him. Only he and Charles walked quickly in the silent palace corridor.

Su Weiyu tightly grasped the silver sword in one hand and held the pages of the Bible in the other, ready to take action at any time, but did not dare to get too close. She followed them closely at a distance of ten steps away, and secretly swore in her heart that she must practice idealistic martial arts well after returning, so as not to be so passive when encountering such a situation next time.

Then, Charlie pushed open a huge and extremely heavy metal door with one hand. The sound of friction from the door hinges proved that the door weighed at least several tons, but Charlie pushed it open as easily as a wooden door.

When he pushed the door, his palm touched the door, making a hissing sound, and a burnt smell spread in the air.

Xia Shou then noticed that this might be a door made purely of silver, and carved on it was a cross that was specifically designed to restrain vampires!
Why was there such a door in the palace? Why would Charles I allow such a door to exist?

Charlie walked in through the one-meter-wide gap in the door and said on the other side: “Come in.”

Xia Shou walked into the room, and as Charlie snapped his fingers, hundreds of white candles on a dozen hanging lamps lit up automatically, and the soft light filled the huge collection hall... Xia Shou thought of this place as a collection hall, because there were quite a few exquisite-looking utensils here.

"Look, take a look." Charlie pointed to a huge painting on the wall and showed it to Xia Shou.

Xia Shou looked up at the painting in confusion. The painting showed a very majestic man who was facing outside the painting, and a woman was kneeling in front of him. As only her back was shown kneeling, the woman's specific appearance could not be seen.

But just from behind one can feel that this woman is very beautiful.

Xia Shou looked at the painting carefully, but still couldn't see anything special.

Until his sight fell on the very corner of the painting, that is, the position behind the veil behind the man sitting on the golden throne. Behind the fluttering veil were a group of servants who were slightly bent over. Because of the obstruction of the veil, only their shadows were reflected on the veil. However, there was a person who appeared in the gap of the veil blown by the wind, revealing the lower half of his face and one eye.

Xia Shou's pupils dilated, and he looked at the area in shock, holding his breath.

A bit similar... no, actually very similar!
Isn't that Alice?!

How did Alice end up in this 16th-century painting?
“Haha, hahaha… saw it?”

Charlie raised his eyebrows, his expression was very intriguing, and he seemed to be very sympathetic to Xia Shou: "Master Xia, you don't seem to know who the possessed spirit behind you is."

Xia Shou frowned and quickly calmed down: "What's going on?"

"I don't know if you know the myths and legends of our country about King Arthur. The man in the painting is King Arthur."

"A little bit."

"Then let me briefly explain." Charlie reached into his shawl, and a golden wine bowl appeared in his palm. Then he reached into his hand again and took out a bottle of wine.

He placed the bowl on the table, looked at the huge painting, poured wine into it, and narrated:

“The name of this painting is “The Judgment of King Arthur”, and the kneeling woman is King Arthur’s queen, Guinevere.

It is said that Queen Guinevere had stunning beauty, enough to make all men fall in love with her, but she betrayed King Arthur and had an affair with Lancelot.

However, although the two had an affair, it was not adultery. It was just a simple platonic spiritual love that did not involve physical desire.

The final outcome for these two people was that when they were having a tryst in the palace, they were caught by Gawain and Mordred, who knew all the inside story and had ulterior motives, and they led 13 knights to catch them red-handed.

During the arrest, Lancelot fought hard to escape, and Guinevere was brought before King Arthur. Although King Arthur wanted to forgive Guinevere, under the condemnation of the knights and the king's majesty, he had no choice but to burn Guinevere at the stake.

And this is the scene shown in the painting now, King Arthur is announcing the final punishment to his queen. "

"That's not what I want to know. It's——"

"I know." Charlie chuckled, then shrugged, "But I don't know who she is."

"Since she appears on it, it proves that King Arthur really existed. Arthur was the king of ancient Britain, and you are the king today. And you tell me you don't know?"

"King... King... I am not the king of this country." Charles I laughed.

Xia Shou remained silent, his brain working rapidly.

"I am not a real royal family. The British royal family has always been divided into two sides." Charles I opened his arms, as if deliberately wanting to show off his figure to Xia Shou, raised his chin slightly, and declared self-deprecatingly, "I am the superficial king of Britain."

It seems that the British royal family in history is not as simple as it seems.

Xia Shou thought to himself.

"Now that we've come to this, let's not beat around the bush. What exactly do you want to do by calling me here?" Xia Shou went straight to the point.

"You are about to die because of the ghost behind you." Charlie said seriously, "Tell me, what exactly is this ghost capable of?"

(End of this chapter)