Chapter 114 - He as a teenager
Chapter 114 - He as a teenager
Perhaps because of the conversation during the day, Ning Fei dreamed of the past for the first time in a long time at night.
He still had the face of a teenager, and was led by Yu Zhou to complete the debt collection task together.
“Let me out!!!”
The girl who traveled through time and space roared at Yu Zhou: "Luther and his mother will be arrested and lynched by the villagers tomorrow! By then, Luther's mother will be beaten to death by the villagers, and he will also be blinded in one eye by the villagers. Otherwise, he would not hate humans so much, and his devil's eye would not awaken! As long as I take them away in advance and send them to a safe place, all this will be solved at the source!"
"Have you read too many tear-jerking romance novels and thought you could save the hero and the world?" Yu Zhou leaned against the door, crossed his arms over his chest, and sneered, "Let's not talk about whether you can save him or not. What does this have to do with you? The original owner of your identity wanted to 'stay away from Luther'. Do you understand what 'stay away' means?"
"But if we leave him alone, his demon bloodline will awaken and he will definitely attack us again in the future!" The girl believed that what she was thinking was the perfect solution and did not want to back down at all. "We can just rescue the mother and son and place them far away so that they will never see each other again. Isn't that also 'stay away'?"
"No, 'stay away' means don't see him even once. Even if he calls you in the future, you are no longer a 'saint', but a history researcher living deep in an ancient book library. This has nothing to do with you." Yu Zhou responded coldly, "And who is 'we' to you? Ning Fei and I won't help you, and your family won't care about this trivial matter that has nothing to do with them. You are just a ten-year-old girl, how can you save her? Just say something and she will be saved automatically?"
"The whole country will be in turmoil by then, how can I study that crappy history with peace of mind?!" The girl retorted righteously, "You are so capable, it should be easy to save two people, right? I don't understand why you are so embarrassed. If you go today, you don't even have to fight with the villagers, just take them away. It's such a profitable thing, instead of arguing with me about the future, wouldn't it be easier to just send them away now? Or are you just in name only and can't even do this?"
"No need to use such a clumsy provocation. It's not within our scope of responsibility, so we don't need to deal with it." Yu Zhou sneered, "Besides, you are too naive. Will it be a big win if we send them away this time? Once they come into contact with people in the new place, Luther will be easily exposed. Ordinary people in this country and this world hate demons. As a son of mixed blood, Luther will be hunted down wherever he goes. If you find out again, what are you going to do? Save them again? Or are you going to hide them and raise them secretly?"
"... Stop trying to scare me. It's not that easy to be exposed!" The girl couldn't answer this question directly, so she could only retort, "They suffered a loss once, so they will definitely be more careful. Besides, if they live in the mountains and forests and rarely go out, it won't be so easy for others to find them..."
“Humans are social animals.”
A young boy's voice sounded from behind the girl. She turned around and saw a young man in a white robe with gold edges looking at her. His tone was cold and clear: "Luther is only seven years old now. If you throw him and his mother into the mountains and don't let them come out, he will hate you even more. Your self-righteous decision will make you go further and further down the wrong path. When he comes to take revenge on humans in the future, the first person he will kill will be you."
When he said the word "massacre", he showed no expression, but it made the girl's hair stand on end: "You, what nonsense are you talking about..."
"Ning Fei is right." Yu Zhou continued, "You think that if you know everything that happened to the original owner of Ladel, you can prevent the disaster from happening, but this is exactly the stupidest idea. Everything that happens in the world cannot be explained by a simple 'because, so'. So don't think that as long as you rescue Luther now, everything will be fine in the future. This is just your wishful thinking, little girl. Don't give away your ignorant kindness casually. No one will help you, and you can only talk about it."
"I see you are scolding me here only because you can't do it. What else can you do besides keeping an eye on my studies and my friendships? What tutor, what Holy Son? Don't you have any real power? Incompetent!" After being called "stupid" and "ignorant" repeatedly, Ladel finally couldn't hold back and broke down. "Forget it, if you don't help, I'll ask the guards to help me. Just rescue the poor mother and son, they will listen to my orders. Even if my parents ask about it later, they will only think that I am kind and did a good deed, and they won't blame me!"
She yelled at Yu Zhou hysterically, "Get out of the way! If you don't I'll yell 'rape'!"
Yu Zhou narrowed his eyes slightly. Just as he was about to say something, Ning Fei suddenly said, "If you do this, I will go kill Luther."
"!!!" The girl turned around in shock, her eyes widened, "What did you say?!"
"I say, kill Luther and put an end to it all." Ning Fei looked at her and replied calmly, "This way you don't have to worry about whether he will come to retaliate in the future. Isn't this your goal?"
"But Luther is just a child now, he didn't do anything! His mother is even more innocent! What's the difference between what you did and those crazy villagers?!" Ladel was very surprised, and then she thought of something, "I don't believe you can do such a thing. You are the Son of God, praying for children every day, and I have never heard you say a harsh word. And you are still so young, you must be trying to scare me with such words, right?"
"Being the Holy Son is just to take your place and cut off your path to the church." Ning Fei said, walking to a bird cage nearby and opening it. "Do you think I'm just verbally threatening you?"
Radel watched him take out the canary from the cage and frowned, "What do you want to do? That was a gift from the second son of the Duke's family...Ah!"
She covered her mouth in shock.
Because she saw with her own eyes how Ning Fei grabbed the canary's head and twisted it with force. The canary, which was still struggling by flapping its wings, immediately stopped moving.
Ning Fei threw the canary's body at Ladel's feet: "Am I still verbally threatening?"
"You're crazy!" Ladel looked at the canary that she had caressed many times and involuntarily took a step back. "If people knew that you killed people, you'd be doomed!"
"Who would know?" Ning Fei asked, "Who would believe it?"
"Canaries are fragile creatures, so it's normal for them to die. Who would care about the death of a canary?" Yu Zhou chuckled in the background. "Now, Luther's life is even worse than that of a canary. He is just a wild bird, a sparrow on the roadside. If a sparrow is caught and killed by a wild cat and eaten, why would a passing human care?"
"Speaking of cats... Miss Radel also has a long-haired white cat, right?" Ning Fei also smiled, "If you think the lesson a canary taught you is not enough..."
"No, no! Stay away from my Koko!!!" Ladel screamed, "I believe it, I really believe it! I won't go, don't touch Koko!"
Ning Fei and Yu Zhou looked at each other.
Yu Zhou joked, "Look, Ladel, you don't dare to take risks. Luther's fate is no better than a pet cat in your eyes."
***
Afterwards, Yu Zhou reminded Ning Fei that killing important people in the original owner's life trajectory could be used as a threat, but it was best not to do so unless necessary.
It’s not because of any moral standards or legal regulations, but simply because doing so may affect the assessment of the debt collection task. If you work hard but your KPI is only 2.5, it would not be worth it.
Ning Fei said that even if he could kill it, he would not waste the energy to do so. He was too lazy to even kill a cat. Killing the canary was a simple matter, and scaring a little girl was enough. If he judged that this was not enough to intimidate Ladel, he would not touch the canary at all.
"It's a good judgment." Yu Zhou said, "If she still doesn't obey, she will suffer more."
And the opportunity to show this "suffering more" will soon come.
After Yu Zhou denied her plans several times in a row, Radel had to stay at home, but she also started to slack off. She wanted to study history, which required good grades, especially in an era when women generally did not study much. However, she suddenly felt that there was no point in working so hard. After all, she was already a noble lady. No matter whether she studied or not, she could live a rich life before Luther came to kill her, and it would be difficult for her to resist after he came. Moreover, in such an era, being a historical researcher sounded meaningless and she had no motivation at all.
Yu Zhou warned her that no matter whether she thought this dream was meaningful or not, she had already promised the original owner to achieve it, and this was also the condition for her to obtain the original owner's life. If she continues to be lazy like this, the debt collector will make her realize that all this is not something she can get for nothing.
Ladel didn't take these words to heart, and then she really tasted the hardship of life.
Her luck suddenly started to get bad, very bad. I was dragged into a gambling game, got cheated, and finally got out of town for a trip only to encounter a rainstorm. She kindly let some refugees get on her carriage, but she didn't expect that these people lied to her that it was just a minor cold, but in fact it was a serious infectious disease. During this short journey, Ladel was infected and fell down. Then the infection spread to two, three, and everyone around her was infected. After the doctors and the Vatican came to see him, the king directly ordered the entire mansion to be sealed off.
The blockade these days is not like in the technologically advanced world where there are staff inside to help with medical treatment and care for daily life. The servants in the mansion could still do some work if they were still able to move, but if they fell ill, even the nobles would not be able to call on them.
For example, Ladel was the first to become ill, and when she was at her worst, that was when the most people fell ill. It was truly a situation where no one could help her.
When the situation was at its worst, no one gave her water even after she shouted for a long time. She could only get up by herself, trembling, and touch the cup on the bedside to see if there was any water left in it. However, when she picked up the cup, she saw the corpse of a cockroach that had died at some point in time inside. She was so scared that she let go of the cup and it shattered to the ground.
Finally, when the doctors and the drivers delivering supplies were increasingly reluctant to approach this diseased place, Radel received a letter.
No signature, no greeting, just a question.
——Have you learned to be obedient?
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