Chapter 75 So what does the master want me to do?
Gra looked into Scarlett's eyes, and the weak and artificial expression on his face at this moment was like sunshine shining into the haze, sweeping away all the affectation.
He raised his delicate eyebrows, a clean smile appeared on his face, and asked, "What does Your Highness want to know?"
Scarlett got straight to the point: "Are all your companions dead? What about your claim that Sophia sent you here? Is the Gu contract on your arm real or fake?"
"Be honest and don't lie."
Scarlett took out a strap and handed it over.
A dark green strap with a blue light tube attached to it.
This is a simple lie detector belt. Tie it around your wrist and the light will light up if you lie.
Gra knew this thing and was not opposed to it. After taking it, he tied it around his wrist obediently and told Scarlett everything she wanted to know.
"Two of my companions are still alive. One is called Locke, a scorpion, and the other is called Cooper, a spider."
"Before coming to the Lost Continent, I met Sophia at the underground exchange. The person she was in contact with at that time was Hela."
"The Gu Contract between Hela and me is real, but I melted that bug a long time ago."
Gra didn't say more or less, and responded to Scarlett's three questions with just three sentences.
The light on the strap is normal and no light is on.
Scarlett's questions didn't end there. She asked again, "Is Hela dead?"
As if he knew Scarlett would ask this question, Gra's mouth moved slightly, "Dead."
Hela was not supposed to die.
She was an S+ level female with life-saving items on her body, so even if her vital organs were injured, she would not be fatal. It was he and Cooper who dealt Hela the fatal blow before escaping.
They have followed Hela for three years and are her most loyal servants.
So I know how to kill her completely.
Scarlett saw a flash of resentment in Gra's eyes. She clenched her hands nervously at her side and continued to ask calmly, "How do you know who I am?"
"Mind reading."
When he mentioned this, Gra's eyes lit up, and he said confidently, "I can see everyone's inner thoughts. That little mermaid was worried about you outside, constantly praying and chanting your name. I saw his thoughts, and I also saw your beastly form, so I guessed it with just a little deduction."
Hearing this.
Scarlett's face changed slightly, and she looked at Gra warily, afraid that he would see what she was thinking at the moment.
She brought Gra out, mostly because of what she said about Sophia, and partly because she wanted to know whether Hela and her group were dead.
In a sense, she is their enemy and must be eradicated.
She never thought of taking Gra in.
Once she gets the answers to the questions she wants, she plans to hand him over to the imperial court.
As for the master-servant contract, she is the contractor and can break the contract by paying double the contract fee to the other party.
Seeing Scarlett's silence, Gra looked at her meaningfully and asked in a relaxed tone, "Your Highness, are you thinking of how to kill me?"
Scarlett's eyebrows twitched.
My mind was read!
She felt a little timid in her heart, but she remained calm on the outside. She looked up at Gra's face, even boldly looking into his eyes. "How could that be? You are my servant now. As long as you are loyal to me, I will let you live well."
"very nice."
Gra tilted his head back, gazing at the incandescent light illuminating the room. His red eyes were illuminated by it, as brilliant as the rubies on his headband. A smile played at the corners of his mouth, and he sighed slowly, "I used to work like a slave at the stock exchange, and no one ever promised me a good life."
Scarlett was startled and blinked quickly. Feeling guilty, she deliberately avoided Gra's words and did not delve into them.
But people are not plants or trees, so who can be heartless? She still asked: "Did you have a hard life in the past?"
Gra smiled and looked back at Scarlett. "I'm a slave in the slums, the lowest kind. My parents died very early. To survive, I have to follow the wild cats and dogs to pick up garbage to eat. If I can't find any, I have to steal from them. I'm covered in bruises every day."
"When I was ten, I sold myself to the stock exchange in exchange for a full meal."
"The rest of my life was spent either getting beaten or beating others."
At this point, Gra's smile grew wider, his fair, baby-faced face brimming with pride. "But after I turned fifteen, I was the one who beat everyone else, and I never lost once."
“Is this kind of life considered hard?”
He asked himself and answered: "It shouldn't be that hard, at least I'm still alive, unlike others who have long since become corpses."
Scarlett didn't respond.
In her opinion, everyone's pain is different, and their psychological tolerance is also different. She is a bystander and has not experienced the same pain, so she is not qualified to comment.
The air in the room was not circulating, and the longer I stayed there, the more suffocated I felt.
Scarlett didn't want to stay any longer and quickly asked the question she wanted to know: "Who killed Hela?"
Gra's heart skipped a beat and his gaze froze on Scarlett's face, not coming back to his senses for a long time.
He didn't expect Scarlett to be so perceptive that she actually knew there was something wrong with Hela's death.
Fortunately, he didn't intend to hide it and told the truth: "Cooper and I."
"Why did you kill her?"
"Bounty hunting is a hereditary system. Only by killing her can we succeed."
Scarlett's eyes narrowed, "So you can take her place now?"
Gra was silent for a second, then smiled knowingly, "Right. So what does the Master want me to do?"
Gra used the term "master".
Scarlett felt like her mind was being read again.
This ability is good, but it is not so good if it is not your own, as it seems that you have no secrets.
She paused, then asked, "Was the kidnapping a spur-of-the-moment decision?"
Gra shook his head: "No."
It's not a spur-of-the-moment decision.
That is to say, even if Sophia had contact with Hela, it cannot prove that this incident was related to Sophia, and she just happened to run into her.
But.
Why is Sophia, a star zone executive, connected to bounty hunters on the dark web?
Should we delve deeper into this matter?
After checking, Scarlett knew that she would enter another stage, and perhaps the future would be more complicated.
No check.
If I encounter the same problem again next time, I’m afraid it won’t be so easy to get through it.
She doesn't hate Sophia, but that doesn't mean she can't be on guard against Sophia.
Scarlett looked at the lie detector tape on Gra's wrist. She was silent for a few seconds, her face stern as she said, "Since you can replace Hela, then help me thoroughly investigate her relationship with Sofia. If you find out, I'll give you a generous reward."
Gra seemed to be attracted by the word "reward". His smile was brighter than ever before. He nodded and said, "Yes, Master."
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Outside the room.
Holst stood quietly at the door.
He finally remembered where he had seen Gra and wanted to come over to ask about it, but he didn't expect to run into Scarlett here.
He didn't interrupt and just listened to their conversation at the door.
When he heard the two people talking about Sophia, he knew that his memory was correct.
Scarlett was a little surprised to see Holst and was about to ask him why he was there.
Holst raised his eyes and gave her a meaningful look.
Scarlett understood but said nothing.
The two walked side by side for a distance, until they were far away from the servants' room. Then Holst said, "There's something wrong with his answer to the second question."
Instead of answering directly, he changed the topic to the dead Hela.
Holst was subtly reminding Scarlett.
(End of this chapter)
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