The immortal black snake just wants to live simply

3Chapter 16 Witch King: He is so kind to you only because you are my work!

'How could I have a useless bloodline like yours...'

'Shut up, you damn old man...'

'Do you really believe in gratuitous kindness?You are just a tool of that woman. She is deliberately trying to get close to you, and all she wants is to leave my defective products in the world...'

'To shut up……'

In the guest room that Gertrude arranged for Black Key, Black Key held his head in pain.

For some reason, when he set foot on this city, the voice in his mind that had been silent for many years no longer remained silent.

What is this voice?

Is it the reverberation of earthly sounds, or is it my own auditory hallucination, or is the other party really the clone left by the Witch King?Or... the Warlock King who has ruled Leitania with fear for decades is not dead yet?

He doesn't know.

And he didn't dare to ask the people around him.

Maybe Gertrude would know, after all, Black Keys remembered that the time when the voice began to fall silent was right after Gertrude visited Count Utica for the first time.

But Black Key still didn’t dare.

How can a Earl of Utica, who has an empty title, no rights, and a sensitive identity, deserve the kindness of a lord with real power?

Apart from the earthly voice in her body, the Black Keys could think of nothing else that made Gertrude treat him like his own son.

……

"Count Utica, do you need help?"

The servants of the mansion heard the noise outside and quickly found the door of the guest room, but Black Key locked the door from the inside.

"I'm fine...you don't have to worry about me."

A low voice came from the door, and the servant could clearly feel the resistance of the black keys.

"...Are you really okay?"

The servant had no choice but to leave in the end. After all, Gertrude had told him not to disobey the other party's wishes.

But he just clearly heard the other person seeming to be arguing with someone, but from beginning to end, the servant did not hear the other person's voice.

"..."

A terrible thought came into the servant's mind.

Even though he had dedicated all his life to Ms. Gertrude, he would never allow himself to be disrespectful to Ms. Gertrude's guests, but this did not prevent him from starting to panic.

Utica is the ancestral territory of the Witch King, so who is the Earl of Utica?

Moreover, the Origin Stone skills are full of destruction, like a human-shaped natural disaster, leaving only fear in his path...

Is it really dead?

……

Late at night, in the temporary medical accommodation provided by Furong, Bai Chuo's grandfather stared blankly at the young man lying beside his bed with his eyes closed and a haggard look on his face.

Bai Chuo ended the concert audition in the afternoon, and after calming down Black Keys' emotions on the way, he came to the temporary office in Rhode Island and took care of his grandfather who was getting worse until late at night.

He is very tired.

Bai Nuo's grandfather caressed Bai Nuo's cheek as if he were his own grandson, with a look of pity and love on his face.

'Poor child...you are obviously such a good child. '

In fact, as Gertrude discovered, the true identity of this old man who depended on Bai Chao was the Queen's secret agent.

Before the era when Her Majesty the Queen came to power, Letania's exploration of classical Originium techniques reached an insurmountable height.

So in order to reach this height, in order for Letania not to be despised by other countries, what price did this country pay?

It’s countless human lives, which naturally includes a large number of infected people.

At that time, some electors even made it a rule to regularly turn in a certain number of infected people.

But infected people are also human beings, so how can they wait to die?

So when there were not enough people, those nobles and officials found a very simple solution.

Just swipe the arm of a powerless and helpless non-infected person with an Originium fragment...

A new, low-cost infected person was born.

This is how Bai Chuo's grandfather got infected.

……

But luckily, before he was sent to the experimental site, the Twin Queens overthrew the Witch King's rule... so he swore to dedicate his life to the Twin Queens.

He was also the spy who discovered the remnants of the Witch King who were studying the sounds of the world. However, when he led his colleagues to discover this group, the experiment on Bai Chuo had failed, and the poor child had become a failure.

The earthly sound in the chalk body is incomplete and cannot be played.

The power contained in the earthly sounds is too unique and cannot be universally applied... At least, for the magicians in the current court, studying the earthly sounds is a thing that lacks value.

So at that time, the treatment of black keys and chalk became a problem.

At that time, Letania needed to announce the final failure of this plan and shock those young men with evil intentions, and Black Key, who had no health problems, was naturally the best choice.

However, Bai Chuo has become an infected person because of physical problems.

Not only that, the leaked earthly voices still have hidden dangers... Around Bai Chuo, as time goes by, the source stones in the infected people's bodies will slowly rise, and even non-infected people will increase the risk of infection. This is also Bai Chuo's The reason why my grandfather wandered around with Baichao.

They can't stay in one place for too long.

And if a child who has been brutally tortured by human experiments has to face death immediately after escaping from the clutches of the Witch King's remnants... that would be a bit unhuman.

So this old, half-dead spy gave Bai Luo a new choice besides death.

But fate has not let go of this poor child after all. The old man recalled the dispute he had with the secret agent from Xizhao District this morning.

……

"It must be your people who tricked Bai Chuo into coming to Viseheim."

"..."

"Except for the remuneration from the concert, everything I told him was all the truth, just to lure him into this situation who was eager to make money to treat me... But he has no enmity with you, why did you do this? ?!”

"If I heard the inside story, I wouldn't be able to let you go."

"I didn't have a few days to live."

"Okay, because we have worked together before, I tell you... the lord of Veselheim is already looking for chalk, and he has almost found it."

"So what? Bai Chuo is always by my side, which means he is always under your control!"

"You should know that her research on earthly sounds is very surprising. Moreover, the other party has known Count Utica for many years... She has studied that thing very deeply, but I don't know how deep it is."

"But she has had contact with Count Utica, so could the Queen..."

"Do you know what kind of trouble it will bring to the Queen to doubt an earl without any evidence? The electors will not allow another Witch-King to reside in the tower."

"..."

"What I'm afraid of is that if she continues her research, she might be able to use earthly sounds to do more terrifying things, such as triggering and inducing resonance at a greater distance... When she wakes up, the good grandson next to her will become Become a monster, is this what you want?”

"..."

"Instead of doing this, it would be better to just stuff the chalk under her nose, make her feel that time is not waiting for us, and push forward the plan while the technology is still flawed. How about it, do you still have any questions?"

"……No."

"For the sake of my many years as a colleague, let me remind you... After agents like you and I have experienced many tragedies, many tragedies caused by people who cannot be inhumane, you and I should have known for a long time - we cannot Be emotionally invested in everything.”

3Chapter 17 Black Key: Is it possible that Gertrude is even more beastly than the Witch King?

"Listen up, old man."

"I don't know what you are, a remnant of the sounds of the world, a sequelae of an experiment, or...you are really that cruel and ruthless madman."

"But since you only dare to bewitch me, does that mean that you can't interfere with my body at all?"

"Thank you for your teachings. Please give me some time to forget what you said."

"You must be wondering why I no longer shut you up when you spoke out like I did when I was a kid, right?"

"I've realized that yelling won't silence you or make my headaches go away, and by the way, I'm more concerned about the latter right now."

"Furthermore, I also discovered a very interesting thing... You are afraid of Ms. Gertrude. You are trying to sow discord between me and her to get me out of her sight."

"You, a deposed tyrant, a butcher who regards human life as nothing... The wounds you caused to the Letanians are still bleeding to this day. Why should I believe you? Believe a tyrant?"

"Gertrude treated me well. Why don't I trust her more and trust you instead?"

"evil?"

"Old man, you really know how to joke. Even if Gertrude is eyeing the earthly voice in me and trying to use this thing for her own benefit, even if she uses my identity to perform countless tricks at the banquet that I can't see. His machinations...could he be more evil than you and cause more harm than you?"

"Not to mention that in the land under my feet, who doesn't know the kindness and tolerance of Ms. Gertrude? Even the infected people in Letania will write one or two vulgar but true poems in the streets. , to praise the rule of Lord Veseheim.”

"Are you telling me that all this is a disguise? And even if it is a disguise, she has been pretending for so long...Who dares to say that she is not a good earl who is conscientious, friendly and close to the people? Even if she is His political opponents can’t find many faults.”

"...Will I regret it?"

"Ah!"

"Still saying that, why didn't I trust the Gertrude who took me out of the high tower full of oppression and suffocation and treated me well, but instead believed in a noise that wanted to lure me into madness?"

……

many years ago.

Like other noble children, Black Keys received the education that is essential for a Leitanian noble: etiquette, literature, the Originium Arts, and music that is inseparable from the Originium Arts, and sometimes even more important.

Many parents try their best to hire better music teachers for their children. These teachers also play a decisive role in the growth of noble children. Some nobles even use the reputation of the music teacher as one of the criteria for judging people. .

But Black Key's guardian didn't want to do that.

For this tasked guardian, his main goal is not to train Count Utica into a good lord, but rather to train him into a useless person.

The agent was given an order from above to get rid of the empress's most serious problem... but the two empresses themselves had ambiguous attitudes.

Maybe it involves a lot of interest disputes, or maybe some big shots pity the children... In short, the agent cannot directly attack the black keys, otherwise it will leave people with clues.

So what to do?The agent had a brilliant idea.

If Count Utica really becomes a dandy, a loser who only knows how to have fun, a drunkard who dies on the wine table...will he still be regarded as a threat?

……

The mediocre warlock became the earl's teacher, showing off his knowledge in front of this wizard genius who could compete with the voice of the lonely queen, trying to blind the eyes of this poor child with vulgar and disgusting praises.

"Your Excellency, your control of the Origin Stone skills is really superb!"

"What, more delicate operations? Haha, why do you have to make yourself so tired?"

The expressionless nobles became the count's most frequent guests. They observed that the count, who had an empty title, repeated meaningless conversations over and over again at a banquet that was not organized by the owner of the place, trying to imprint the empress's greatness on her. In the mind of this Witch King’s legacy.

"Your Excellency, have you forgotten something?"

"Before you eat, you should praise the name of Her Majesty the Queen."

The superficially flattering servants were minding their own business in the tower. They regarded the earl's orders as nothing. Although they were polite and humble, their actions were more like imprisoning their nominal masters than serving them.

"Your Excellency, you should be careful in your words and deeds and should not step out of your tower at will."

"You must know that everything you have is given by Her Majesty the Queen."

Everyone around him is trying their best to restrict Black Key's freedom and instill loyalty to the Twin Queens into his mind.

Everyone around him was praising Black Keys' talent in music and Originium skills, and then restricting his development in this area.

They don't even bother to disguise their fear and disgust.

It was as if the person in front of him was not a child who had survived human experimentation by the Witch King's remnants, but the Witch King, the nightmare that had brought them decades of fear.

is their enemy.

But what if the person standing in front of them was really the Witch King... the Warlock King who was so cruel that he could turn a living person into a statue.