"Rudolf Jidat Kontsev, are you awake. ”

The words that came to his ears made the eyes of the young man who had just woken up widen, and after adjusting to the darkness, the young man found himself tied to the corridor of his house, and outside the window it seemed to be night, and indoors, only a lamp was placed on the table where he was, and the candle on it was half lit.

The boy who was tied up in his home looked at the location where the voice came from: "Who are you and what do you want to do?" His voice was full of fear and incomprehension, because he couldn't hear anything outside the window, this is a great city, even at midnight, there will be stalls and pedestrians on the streets, unlike today, the silence makes him feel flustered.

"You can call me Qian Zhijiang, I am a foreigner, Mr. Rudolph, speaking of which, don't you have any doubts and puzzles about what happened in your family. A voice in the darkness said.

Rudolph frowned: "You said your name is Qian Zhijiang, I didn't know that you outsiders would also know the legend of the Mad King's butler." The boy never imagined that there would be a foreigner with such a name.

"It seems that the Kantsev family has not forgotten about me. This time, the owner of the voice came out of the darkness, Rudolph looked at him, and at himself on the scroll in his hand, and this time, the boy finally understood what it meant to 'not forget': "Oh my God! you really are ......"

"Yes, I am really Qian Zhijiang, I told your ancestors that one day, I will pass through the barrier that mortals cannot cross and return to the world...... It's a pity, young man, I am very disappointed in the performance of your family, how long has it been, you have forgotten everything that has happened to you, and it doesn't even take a hundred ......years to change from a victim to a perpetrator," the middle-aged man threw away the picture scroll, and he sat down in front of Rudolph: "I am very disappointed, and when I saw the aura in you, I finally chose the method that I least wanted to choose. The middle-aged man took out a package, placed it on the long table, and opened it.

"What do you want to do?!!" Rudolph asked screaming, looking at the various tools in the open package.

"You should ask the victims you buried in the backyard pool, they should be very informative. After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he took out a short knife with a long and narrow blade from the long package: "Since you know the meaning of the name Qian Zhijiang, you should also understand your current identity as a fish and meat, and tell me everything I want to know, I can at least let you die with dignity." ”

"Horizontal and vertical are going to die, why should I tell you!" Rudolph gritted his teeth and looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, and the young man said in a fierce tone that did not match his age.

"Of course, the road is the choice, but I still expect you to make the best choice for yourself after watching my performance. After saying that, the middle-aged man in Rudolph's eyes retreated into darkness, and it was only then that Rudolph heard a faint voice, which seemed to be someone struggling, or...... No, the middle-aged man carried a child back to the long table that the light could see.

"You should recognize it. When he said this, the man who claimed to be Qian Zhijiang, the housekeeper of the Mad King, used its pronunciation, and Rudolph, who was still wondering why the human form was pronounced by an object, saw the face of this little thing clearly, and immediately widened his eyes: "Stop! Let go of my brother!"

"Your brother?" The middle-aged man paused for a moment, then laughed and held the rope that tied the child in one hand, and held up the cub's chin with the other, and the rough movement made the child's eyes round in pain, while the middle-aged man fixed the child's head: "Do you have such a brother?"

Rudolph seemed to be choked by the neck, because his brother's blue eyes had now turned black, and there were no whites of the eyes, let alone pupils.

"This is your brother, and this is the funniest joke I've ever heard today. Tearing off the blanket that wrapped the child, Rudolph noticed the scales at his brother's joints, as well as the crotch that was bigger than his brother, and the middle-aged man reached out and rummaged through the disproportionate big guy: "The change in this little thing is indeed the best choice in addition to being an ingredient, the so-called natural selection, which is what it says." ”

"You killed my family?!" Rudolph glared, "How can you do that!"

"Why? Ah, wait a minute, I forgot, it's like I'm having a birthday party...... Oh, it doesn't sound like it, it is, young man, wait a minute. Throwing the little thing in his hand on the table, and then removing the fire from the candlestick, the middle-aged man retreated into darkness, and then one wall lamp after another was lit, and with each light on, Rudolph was attracted by the tragic sight of its lighting.

"This is your father, Chaos has changed his appearance, this is a failed evolutionary direction, look at its head, its eyes are completely degenerate, the hair on the top of its head is gone, only the brain wrapped in a layer of skin remains, of course your mother's mouth is striding in the direction of evolution, look at this mouth, if his esophagus is thick enough, it is enough to swallow your brother in one gulp. It was an ugly corpse, and Rudolph couldn't believe it was his father, but he noticed the wound on the corpse's chest...... It was my father's original wound.

"This is your sister, perfectly evolved, but it seems to have evolved so perfectly that it took me a lot of effort to kill her, and the wound in the heart wasn't fatal, so I had to cut off her limbs, and eventually her head. Standing beside the corpse, the middle-aged man walked into the darkness after the introduction, and then in the light of the light, he appeared in front of a human form with mutated organs: "This is your mother, she is also a member of the successful evolution, and to be honest, when I came in, she was having a lot of fun with your brother, so much so that after I killed her, that little thing didn't notice that anyone interrupted its ritual, it was simply a toy that couldn't stop." ”

"It's not like this! My body is so weird! I can move!" the tied little guy screamed as he squirmed and raised his head.

"I see, but it's no different, little guy, now my brother and I are talking about business, shut your mouth!" After speaking, the middle-aged man turned his head to look at Rudolph and smiled: "Don't talk about the next subordinates, anyway, they are either dead or eaten by your family, now, let me solemnly introduce you to today's protagonist......" Walking into the darkness again, the middle-aged man stood in front of a mirror, the newly lit lamp lit him and the silk outside the mirror, he pushed the mirror to the table, and then smiled at Rudolph and nodded: "How is it, are you mentally prepared to welcome your new life." ”

With that, he ripped off the piece of silk, and Rudolph looked at himself in the mirror, and couldn't help screaming anymore - the mirror was no longer as handsome as he used to be, an ugly head made of twisted horns and disgusting pieces of flesh, and the mouth full of fangs that was now wide open.

"Well, how do you feel about your new life, young man, I know that it is very unlikely that you will be able to retain your original personality after being mutated, but for the sake of you being one of the lucky ones, I would say that to you. ”

"Kill me, kill me!" Rudolph wailed, looking at himself in the mirror, and then at his weeping brother, the boy looked up at the man in front of him: "Kill me and my brother! Please! Purify us with fire! Even if you die!

"It's easy to kill you, and it's okay to let you and your brother's souls return to the River of Mana, but you have to tell me if there are any other families in the noble district that are in collusion with the Chaos Cultists. The middle-aged man said.

"I don't want to die!" the younger brother cried.

"He said he didn't want to die. The middle-aged man looked at Rudolph.

“…… Kill him. Rudolph, who had made up his mind, gritted his teeth and said: "Kill him, I will tell you everything I know, and then kill me, you swear." ”

"In the name of the nameless, stake the glory of my surname, young man, and I will fulfill your request word for word, as I have carried out my mission. After speaking, he picked up the short knife, and the middle-aged man stabbed it into the back of the cub's head on the table, and then twisted it hard, and the squirming child immediately stopped struggling: "I have already paid the handling fee, and next, it is the moment when you show your sincerity." ”