◇ Chapter 66 Undercover
The hammerhead shark died, but apart from a brief panic within the Black Robe Society, there was no other ripples.
At that time, the guards of the Duke's Palace published an announcement in the newspaper, saying that Hammerhead Shark had killed and forced dozens of men, women and children during his lifetime. The evidence was irrefutable and his death did not deserve a pity. Bai Yu put down the newspaper and did not even think about sending flowers to the other party's grave.
The lady did not send flowers either. She was afraid that the identity of the Black Robe Society would be exposed, so she stayed indoors for three days. Hammerhead Shark had no family, and his body was left exposed in the wilderness, unclaimed, and finally buried by the Duke's personal guards.
On the second day after the burial, Bai Yu went to Hammerhead Shark's home under the cover of night.
The hammerhead shark once tried to catch Baiyu's cat, and the next day, Tuanzi disappeared. Maybe there will be clues in his home.
Bai Yu walked around the streets and alleys. Hammerhead Shark's home was at the end of Xike Street. There was a dilapidated low wall outside the door. Bai Yu held the flashlight in his mouth, supported himself on the red bricks with one hand, flipped his body, and landed easily on the ground.
Although the doctor is an intellectual, he is surprisingly skilled.
He used his elbow to break the glass in the front hall and climbed over the windowsill into the house.
The house was empty, with broken beer bottles all over the floor. The air was filled with the nauseating smell of stale alcohol mixed with the smell of fermented food.
Bai Yu started searching.
66 followed the patrol. As a system, 66's reconnaissance ability was obviously stronger than Bai Yu's. He glanced at the small living room: "Host, there is a bag at the base of the right wall, and it contains a living thing."
Bai Yu followed his instructions and saw a tied sack. He heard a slight cat's meow from inside the sack. He walked quickly forward and opened the sack.
…It’s a cat, but it’s not his cat.
Hammerhead Shark obeys the Black Robe Society and searched for stray cats everywhere. Tied up here are two kittens that he had looted but had not yet handed over. One is a budgie and the other is a hawksbill turtle. Both are lying listlessly in the bag, looking like they are dying.
Cute, but none of them are his cats.
Although Bai Yu is a veterinarian, he is very busy with work. He has petted countless kittens, but has never raised a cat. Although he occasionally thought about it, he was always worried that he would not be able to take good care of it, so he put the idea aside.
Tuanzi was the first cat he raised. He picked it up from the mud on the river bank, sutured its wounds, and took good care of it.
But it was gone.
Bai Yu searched everywhere on Xike Street, from the crowded market to the deserted corners of the streets, but he still couldn't find any trace of Tuanzi. Now he couldn't even find him in Hammerhead Shark's house. Bai Yu had to admit that his big-tailed platinum Tuanzi was really gone.
The doctor lowered his eyes, his gaze was cold and his expression was unclear behind his narrow-framed glasses.
66 floated beside him and poked him with the corner of the small screen: "Host?"
Bai Yu: “…It’s okay.”
He put the bags away and prepared to take the two cats back to the clinic. Otherwise, given their weak condition, they would soon die of dehydration if left here.
The doctor brought the two cats back to the clinic, released them, poured in the goat milk that Tuanzi had not finished drinking, filled in the fish paste that Tuanzi had not finished eating, and watched the two hungry cats squeeze in to eat.
Bai Yu sat down on the recliner and watched in a trance.
Every cat has a different personality. Looking at the two in front of him, Bai Yu couldn't help but think of when Tuanzi first came.
Although the platinum kitten was also very hungry, it was much more cautious. It licked the goat's milk and looked at the doctor's face, ready to retreat and jump away at any time. It was not until later that it put away its vigilance and revealed its soft belly.
Bai Yu sighed slightly.
The doctor had a cold expression and a cold voice, and when he sighed softly at this moment, he seemed inexplicably lonely.
He didn't know how long he had been watching on the recliner. Suddenly, 66 made a ding-dong sound, and the system made a sound, poking Bai Yu again: "Host, our second plot node is here."
After so long, they finally reached the second node.
Since this is a banned novel, there are no details, only approximate nodes. The first node is that the doctor picked up a cat and then abused it. 66 estimated that Bai Yu performed surgery and injections with a cold face throughout the process. The temperament of the black doctor was captured perfectly. In addition, it was not realistic to ask a pet doctor to abuse a cat, so 66 did not intervene too much.
Of course, there is another point: the system itself cannot do it.
A soft little platinum ball, who can do anything to him?
So 66 just padded along the whole time, waiting for the plot to unlock, and now, they have completed the first one.
The doctor's cold expression finally changed. He half sat up from the recliner and tapped his sore knee joints: "What is it?"
66: "Undercover mission."
Bai Yu: “……?”
66: "In the original story, the Grand Duke Imur of Ilria returns to the throne with great force, and the entire Ilria is undergoing a great purge. The upper echelons are reshuffled one after another, and the blood of the nobles is spilled all over the execution ground. The Grand Duke's former personal butler and male servant are accused of treason and will be executed by firing squad."
Bai Yu: "I saw this news in the newspaper, but what does it have to do with me?"
66: "It's like this. The Duke's butler died, and he needed to re-select butlers and male servants. The Black Robe Society wanted to insert its own people around the Grand Duke, so they decided to select a few people from the organization who looked clean and had clean family backgrounds and send them to the Grand Duke for election. And Grand Duke Imur happened to be a person who was obsessed with looks and liked gorgeous and beautiful things the most. Host, you also know that you are very good-looking, right?"
The original owner was young, handsome, and had an outstanding temperament. He was an intellectual and had been running a clinic on Xike Street for almost five years. On the surface, he had no bad habits and his family background was clean. As for the illegal practice of medicine, the Black Robe Society could easily cover it up. There was no more suitable candidate than him.
Bai Yu: “.”
"So the Black Robe Society chose me? I need to be a butler or a valet for the Grand Duke and go undercover? And I just have to complete the undercover mission?"
"No! You don't need to complete the undercover mission. We don't have any undercover missions." A strange light flashed in 66's eyes, and he clenched his nonexistent fists. "Now I know why the mastermind assigned this mission to me, because what comes next is too easy!"
Bai Yu: “?”
He asked, "No undercover mission?"
66: "Because you'd already died before you received your first mission!"
Bai Yu: “……?”
What?
66: "The Grand Duke is moody. When selecting butlers and male servants, he will get inexplicably furious the first second he sees you. Then, he will get down from the main table, order you to kneel down, and then step on your head and grind your face into the dirt. He will then order the guards to arrest you on the spot, lock you up, and finally execute you."
Bai Yu: “…”
He asked, “And then I died?”
66: "And then you died."
Bai Yu: "No other plot?"
66: "There is no other plot."
Bai Yu: “Is it that simple?”
66: “It’s that simple.”
Bai Yu: “.”
66 comforted him: "Don't worry, host. We are just an NPC role-playing system. As NPCs, there are all kinds of strange ways to go offline. It is reasonable to die at the hands of a cruel Grand Duke. My colleagues have also played the roles of being hit by a car, choking to death while drinking water, being choked to death by a fish bone, etc. But these are not the main points. The main point is, when the Grand Duke kills you, you can go home!"
Bai Yu: “.”
He hesitated: "I just think this way of going offline is a little familiar."
He stepped on his head, crushed his face into the dirt, and then ordered the guards to arrest him on the spot and execute him... Isn't this the way a hammerhead shark dies?
Did the original owner copy and paste the way the hammerhead shark died?
66: "It's okay. Although the way of death is a bit humiliating, from the moment he stepped on you, I will considerately shield the host from perception. You just need to float beside and watch like a bystander. The execution process is painless and as comfortable as sleeping."
Bai Yu: “.”
Thank you.
Bai Yu asked: "So why did Grand Duke Yimuer kill the original owner the first time they met? Because the black robe would reveal his identity?"
66: "No, in fact, according to the node, the original owner's identity has never been exposed, so you, the host, cannot be exposed either. And the Grand Duke killed him for no reason. It seems that he simply didn't like him, right?"
Bai Yu: “…”
He raised his head and glanced at the dressing mirror. The person in the mirror was tall and slender, with a stern and handsome face. He would never be unpleasant to the eye.
What's more, Grand Duke Imur is too cruel and capricious, as he would kill people just because he doesn't like them.
Bai Yu doesn't like such people. They remind him of some unreasonable customers in his previous life. Fortunately, the original owner is about to die, so he only needs to perform one more scene to complete the mission.
Bai Yu: "Then what should I do?"
System: "You don't need to do anything. Just wait for the organization to notify you."
For the next week, Illia's upper echelons were in a panic.
The missing Grand Duke returns with a vengeance, and his uncle Tia, who was in charge of government on his behalf, has to give up his power and stay out of the spotlight for a while.
After the Grand Duke returned, he began to deal with the incident of falling into the water. The horrific purge made all the nobles feel insecure. The blood on the land of the parade ground west of the city was never dried. The housekeeper of the palace and two personal male servants were executed one after another.
Afterwards, a job recruitment notice was published in the newspaper, stating that the Grand Duke needed to select several people with clean family backgrounds, good looks, and profound knowledge from the public to replace the executed butlers and servants.
Although they were only butlers and male servants, once they entered the Grand Duke's Palace, they would automatically obtain noble titles. When they retired in the future, they would be more or less barons. Moreover, the Grand Duke's Palace offered fine food and clothing, and generous remuneration, which attracted many people.
Bai Yu was lying in a rocking chair reading a newspaper. He flipped the page and said with a smile, "Grand Duke Imur is quite ostentatious, just like the emperor's selection of concubines."
Afterwards, he also received arrangements from the Black Robe Society.
A wax-sealed letter was delivered directly to the home, asking Bai Yu to go to the west city church. Bai Yu put on his hat and went there in formal attire. Once again, someone pushed his head against the church's center and carried him there. This time, he was no longer one of the many churchgoers attending the meeting, but was talking face to face with the upper echelons of the Black Robe Society.
He sat down on a soft chair covered with silk cloth. The person opposite him was wearing a thick black robe, his features completely hidden underneath it. His hand was placed on the table, with a lapis lazuli ring the size of a pigeon egg. His fingers were skinny, the skin on the back of his hand was wrinkled, and veins bulged. He was obviously an old man.
The old man's voice was dry and hoarse, like gravel rubbing against his mouth. He looked at Bai Yu from his dark eyes and spoke slowly: "Raven, my good boy."
Bai Yu got goosebumps all over his body. He resisted the urge to punch him and said politely, "Hello, it's my honor to meet you."
The old man nodded and pushed a glass of water towards him.
66: "It's the same thing the hammerhead sharks drank last time. It's poisonous, but the concentration is higher."
Unlike last time, the plot points are now very clear. Bai Yu is about to die. Is he still afraid of this?
The doctor picked up the glass, drank it all in one gulp, and then turned the glass over like a gentleman, like a nobleman showing that he had finished the wine at a banquet, and raised his hand to show the old man that there was not a drop left.
The old man nodded with satisfaction: "Raven, I have a very difficult task here that I want to assign to you."
He roughly described the task, which was similar to what the system said. He had to participate in the selection of butlers and valet for the Duke's Mansion, but Bai Yu did not have a noble status and could not compete for the butler position. The position assigned to him by the organization was to be the Duke's personal valet.
According to the old man's description, the Black Robe Association will take care of everything, Bai Yu will successfully pass the preliminary and re-examinations, and come directly before the Duke to participate in the final personal selection.
At the end of the meeting, the old man patted Bai Yu's shoulder with his skinny hand and said, "Good boy, the Duke likes young and handsome men, and there is no more handsome man than you in the whole of Illia. He will definitely like you very much."
“…”
No, the Duke would call his guards to drag him directly into prison and then shoot him.
Bai Yu nodded with an awkward smile, speechless, while 66 had already started celebrating in advance.
The system cheered: "Host, this is the last scene, let's go!"
The author has something to say:
Original script: Cat Duke discovered that the handsome man who came to interview the male servant was the black doctor who abused him. He became furious on the spot, arrested and shot the man, and Bai Yu went home.
New script: ??? (unknown)
There are still some in the evening, but not very early.
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