Thor asked the townsfolk about Crane Horwood's reputation, and according to the townsfolk who knew him, Lord Crane had been a benevolent and kind man for the past twenty or thirty years.

It may be easy for a person to disguise for a while, but it is obviously difficult to disguise it all year round. Because you have to have enough perseverance, and you have to be able to hide your true nature at all times.

As a result of the inquiry, it seems that Klein has always been a good guy locally.

But Thor suddenly realizes that this doesn't seem to help him make any decisions, because when he decides that he wants to kill someone, it's not whether the other person is kind or not. And when he doesn't want to kill, even if the other party is full of evil, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with him.

In the days since he came out of the convent, Thor has been living like this, acting only according to his own heart.

After wandering outside the Crane family's mansion for a long time, Thor still didn't make up his mind, but he finally decided to sneak into Crane's house to have a look.

There are two normal guards at the entrance of the mansion, but it is certainly impossible to sneak through the main entrance. So Saul continued his usual trick of climbing over the wall, and landed in the garden.

At this time, Saul's sloppy dress and appearance looked like a beggar sneaking into the mansion.

The garden is full of flowers and trees, gravel paths stretch out, and a small fountain in the center of the garden with a statue of a cherub erected.

Thor quietly walked through the garden to the main hall, and the overall layout of the mansion was very wide, with columns and arcades and aisles, which also matched the pattern of a wealthy family.

Through the bright lights, the Klein family can be seen sitting around the dining table, enjoying the warmth of dinner. There are also a few servants standing around, and from the demographic point of view, the family is quite prosperous.

After looking at it for a while, Thor suddenly felt a little confused.

Because the people at the table were roughly swept through, but they all seemed to be young people, or at least a generation later than Crane in appearance, and they looked like they should be Crane's children and family.

Anyway, no one looked to be in their sixties, and it was clear that Klein wasn't there.

Why not?

After a moment's thought, Thor crept into the hallway and began searching the area of the mansion's back house.

He didn't search carefully one by one, but only pushed open the door of each room slightly, and roughly judged the possible identity of the occupant from the furnishings in the room. It didn't take much time, and soon Saul found Klein's bedroom.

It was a dwilight room, with no light in the room, and the furnishings were simple and stereotyped.

In the middle of the room, against the wall, there was a large bed with high legs, on which lay an old man in the twilight. The air in the room was filled with the smell of herbs, which Thor had been familiar with for a few days.

The reason why old Crane did not appear at the dinner table was obviously because he was ill. And when the family was reunited, he chose to lie silently in the dark, and it seemed that he was still very sick and was bedridden.

Thor sneaked into the room quietly, then turned around and closed the door, silently observing the old man on the bed from a certain distance.

On the bed, Crane looked scrawny, like most old men, with sunken eyes and lifeless drooping cheeks. Coupled with gray hair and deep wrinkles, it forms an old face.

He seemed to be in a deep sleep, or maybe he was just trying to get a little chance to close his eyes and refresh himself in his last breath.

Standing silently on the side, Thor was a little at a loss for a moment, and until now standing here, he still hadn't decided whether to kill such an old man who didn't seem to have long to live.

The head on the wall had sent a commission to himself in a dream, as if the old man named Crane had done some evil against him, but that sounded like it was twenty or thirty years ago.

Of course, the sins of the past don't go away with the passage of time, and Thor has always thought so in his heart.

As for whether what happened was really what the head on the wall said, Thor had no time or interest in investigating it, and it was strange that he was still cursed and haunted by his own insecurity, and that he had come here to seek justice for others.

"Are you here to kill me?" In the darkness, old Crane suddenly turned his head in Thor with difficulty, and the hoarse voice sounded like the toothed blades of a saw rubbing against the rings of an old tree.

There was a moment of silence in the room.

"How do you know?" Thor was really a little puzzled, in his perception, Crane on the bed seemed to be an ordinary person, he was outside his dark vision, so how did he perceive his existence, could it be some kind of ...... Gut feeling?

"That guy Laurent told me in a dream last night, and he said he had hired someone to deal with me and settle old accounts. Crane looked back at the rooftop, his tone not nervous or fearful, but as relieved as he sounded.

Laurent Saul instinctively thought it seemed to be the name of the head on the wall.

Thor was silent because he felt like a killer in the whole thing, like a killer who had been hired by someone else, and the question was not and did not want to be.

"Do it, I hope you can do it neatly, preferably just cut my neck or crush my heart in an instant, so that I can fall asleep faster. I've been waiting for this day for so long that I've not slept well all these years. ”

"Also, if I can, I would like to ask you not to endanger my family. Klein said to Thor suddenly.

Hearing the words 'let's do it', Saul instantly had a sense of the fact that Crane didn't look back on the past or justify himself in the slightest, and it seemed that the old things that Laurent's head on the wall said might be true.

"Since your heart is so heavy, why don't you solve it yourself?" asked Thor with great interest.

"That's not the same, to atone for the sins I committed when I was young, I can't leave this world on my own. It has to be Laurent himself, if not if he can't at least be his people, like you. Klein replied.

"Do you want to die a bit of a ritual at the end of the day?" Thor sighed with a smile.

"Ritualistic? Oh, that's a fitting description. ”

"It's impossible to say how deep the repentance is about the whole thing, and even if I go back in time and do it all over again, my choices may not change much at that point in time, after all, resistance to some temptations is always weak at that age. ”

"Now that I look back, I don't approve of what I did, but understandably, that's all. ”

"To be honest, I've had a hard time over the years, both mentally and physically, and I've been lying on this broken bed for three whole years, and I've forgotten the taste of my favorite veal dill. ”

"So, in order to finally embrace the gods cleanly, I'm glad I still have a chance to be killed. ”

"Life is divided into stages, different periods have different moods and needs, and the horizon is gradually changing. ”

"For the same thing, maybe you already know what methods to use to achieve what results, but if you do it at a different time, you may abandon the old methods and use the new ones. ”

And maybe the root cause of the change is simply because you don't want the original outcome anymore. ”

Old Crane's cloudy old eyes flashed with the wisdom of life, and he talked eloquently to Thor.

Life is a phased ...... Saul agrees with this sentence, and he seems to have always thought so.

"Well, it's too much trouble to cut off your neck or something, and it's bloody and filthy. I'll give you a packet of poison, and you'll be able to sleep forever after a brief labor pain, and at least you'll be able to retain the last of your dignity. ”

"How about I provide the poison, and if Laurent borrowed my hand to complete his revenge?" Thor finally suggested.

"Oh, that sounds like a good idea, okay, deal!" Crane smiled with a wrinkled face.

Thor took out the poison and handed it to Crane, who swallowed it without hesitation.

"This damn life is finally over, thank you for being willing to talk to me for a while at the last moment. Also, I ask you once again not to endanger my family, or someone else will kill you one day. Crane looked at Thor with sparkling eyes.

"Well, I promise you. Thor nodded solemnly.

"There's a drawer in the cupboard, and you open the box in the drawer, and there's some money in it. Take the money and take a good shower and fix your hair. No offense, although I know that most of the people who do your business are informal, but to be honest, the smell of your body still smells to me. ”

Old Crane shook his chin at the cabinet on the side of the bed, left a heartfelt suggestion, then lay down again and put his hands in a more peaceful place, and finally closed his eyes peacefully.

Thor touched his nose a little embarrassed, he had been tortured by a curse during this time, and he was a little inhuman. After a moment of silence in the darkness, he turned and opened the door and quietly left, and the room fell into a permanent silence.

Leaving the Crane family's mansion, Thor suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

As night wore on, the chill felt to his bones receding, and Thor knew that the pain was coming again, so he mustered up the spirit and courage to prepare for the curse.

After struggling to survive until the next day, Thor was suddenly pleasantly surprised to find that his physical condition had changed, and the symptoms of cold, heat, high fever, and pain seemed to disappear. Even after Saul slit his finger with a dagger, he found that the color of the blood had changed from green back to bright red.

What was the reason? Was it because he had been paid for completing the commission of the head in his dream? The curse had been suppressed or removed? Can the curse be cured? Thor had a myriad of questions in an instant.

However, it didn't make him happy for long, and soon he found that there were five more violent desires in his body.

Destruction, killing, blood, sex, appetite.