As he spoke, he tore off a gold button from the silk shirt he was wearing next to his body, and then he began to cough violently:

"This button is the token of the Ratnes family. If you take this button to seek an audience with any Grand Duke and give the code of cornflower, you will be received. In the royal family, there is a blood book with powerful magic. This book contains the original blood of 387 nobles who were awarded when the country was founded. As long as they are their direct descendants, they can resonate with the sealed blood book, so they can go to the blood book to verify its authenticity."

"Even if a noble has been confirmed to be extinct and has had their fiefdom taken back, once they can pass the verification of the Book of Bloodline, the king must return their fiefdom and award them their title. This rule is recognized and upheld by all nobles. Because things are unpredictable and no one knows what kind of changes their family will encounter in the future, so even the most powerful and popular nobles will unite to actively maintain this decree. In fact, since the founding of the Delos Empire, at least forty or fifty noble families have relied on this decree to revive and rebuild their families."

After hearing what Count Ratnes said, Du Yuqi nodded. What he said was reasonable. In short, if it didn't require him to spend a lot of effort, he could agree to it. After all, it was just taking money from others and helping them get rid of their troubles.

Next, Du Yuqi thought about it and continued to ask Count Ratness some details, such as where this place was, where his illegitimate son lived, what his characteristics were, how big the territory of the Ratness family was, and other basic information.

On the one hand, he asked this question to collect some basic information, and on the other hand, he wanted to repeat some details that he was concerned about to see if there were any differences in what old Count Ratnes said.

As the saying goes, it is better to be safe than sorry. Du Yuqi had just been tricked by Zhou Qian, a familiar person. It would be strange if he trusted Count Ratness completely at this time. In addition to collecting information and intelligence, he was mostly testing him. However, Count Ratness was also an old man who was very experienced. After seeing what Du Yuqi meant, he told him everything he knew.

After a conversation, Du Yuqi nodded with satisfaction, and Count Ratnest fulfilled his wish. His spirit quickly weakened, and he continued to choke and cough, as if he was going to cough out his entire lungs.

Fortunately, Du Yuqi was accustomed to this kind of situation and had already prepared ways to deal with it, so he turned around and prepared the suction device. Given the current situation, he was still confident that the old man would not die within eight hours.

However, just as Du Yuqi turned around and took a few steps, he suddenly felt a strong threat coming from the door. He immediately shrank back and hid under the table next to him! Then he shouted in his heart that something was wrong and turned his head to look behind him!

There was only a muffled "bang" sound, and then a shell with a light blue smoke trail pierced through the door and hit the bottom of the gorgeous bed where Count Ratness was lying!

The shell penetrated under the bed and exploded with a deafening noise. A light blue shock wave quickly spread in all directions, breaking the entire bed into pieces. Count Ratnes, who was lying on it, was also shocked and flew into the air. Even Du Yuqi, who was not far away, felt an invisible and powerful shock wave coming at him, causing him to stagger back. The things in the room seemed to be blown by a twelve-level typhoon, making them a mess!

Immediately afterwards, a series of "da da da da da" sounds came from outside the door, and a giant man broke in with loud laughter.

His naked upper body had been completely integrated with the machine. A gun barrel extended from his chest, emitting smoke, and his left arm had been directly transformed into a rotating "Vulcan" machine gun. The bullets ejected from the muzzle of the machine gun were like pillars of fire, directly passing over the body of Count Ratnes who was flying in the air, and instantly tore the dying old man's body into scattered pieces of flesh and blood!

Time, freezes at this moment!!

“No...!!!” Du Yuqi’s eyes were suddenly filled with bloodshot, and his outstretched hand suddenly froze in mid-air. The next words in his throat were swallowed back, and a series of indescribable hoarse sounds came out of his throat.

At that moment, he felt that his whole life had become bleak, as if all the energy in his body had been drained away in an instant. All his ambitions, his deep hatred, had gone down the drain. The great fear from life and death immediately descended upon him. Everything before his eyes looked as if it had turned to ashes, with only Count Ratnes' flesh and blood being particularly eye-catching.

However, at this moment, a cold reminder suddenly came to the ears of the dazed Du Yuqi. It was the familiar voice when he was connected to the God of Contract. When this voice sounded, Du Yuqi felt even more desperate and decadent, because he thought it was a message that the contract of sacrificial summoning had failed. Unexpectedly, the next sentence made him shudder all of a sudden, and he jumped up in surprise:

"Count Ratness has survived for thirty minutes. There are still seven and a half hours left to complete the contract."

After hearing this, Du Yuqi's first reaction was that something must have gone wrong:

"How is this possible? Wasn't Count Ratnes torn to pieces by that machine gun just now?"

…

At the same time, in the secret room a few kilometers away, summoners Yangzi and Zhou Qian also received the news at the same time. Zhou Qian was not the only one who received the news. However, Yangzi, who was originally smiling and talking, suddenly had a cold expression on his face:

"No! Something must have gone wrong. Under normal circumstances, Count Ratness should have died when Pastor Du had just officially entered the Arad continent. Come, bring the butler who stayed behind to give him the medicine!"

Probably just after a few minutes, a middle-aged man in luxurious clothes was brought up. It was obvious that he had suffered a lot. His nose and face were bruised, and blood was still flowing from his forehead. His whole body was trembling slightly, and it was unclear whether he was cold or afraid. This man was Count Ratnes's butler, named Vince.