The Earl of Van Domhain sat with his back straight, and felt that his back was numb for a while, and it was not good to say that a certain feeling of man was particularly supernatural, although the maid who poured him tea was as beautiful as a flower, and could be painted with a smile and a smile, but he could feel a creepy coldness from her, as if she were not a living person.

"Lang Jun, please use it slowly." The maidservant bent her knees to offer tea and pastries, her light pink ruffled skirt at her feet, her skin was as white as snow, her eyebrows were like daisies, and her ten fingers were as white as jade.

Count Van Domhain shuddered unconsciously with a chill on his body.

"If you like it, give it to you." The belated lord family arrived before the sound, and it was still the same light and arrogant as when the little one said goodbye half a year ago, and the maid respectfully bowed, stepping on the lotus and retreating silently.

"There is no shortage of servants in my house." Earl Van Domhain stood up and turned around, smiled and stretched out his hand, "I haven't seen you for a long time, Mr. Zhu." ”

"I haven't seen you for a long time, Lord Count." Winter clothes like dark colors, Kyogoku Yan is dressed in a crow blue thin coat, the reception is a little slack, but vaguely revealing a little closeness, Count Van Domhain's face is slightly relaxed, and Kyogokuhiko shook hands.

"Greetings for a long time, it's really nice to see that your demeanor is still the same."

Kyogokuhiko hooked his legs, leaned back in his chair and propped his head to look at Count Van Domhain, and said, "Your Excellency, but in just half a year, how can you be so haggard?" ”

The Earl of Van Dom Hain coughed twice and said, "There is something wrong with that ship's cargo. ”

Jing Jiyan raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "I didn't know that there were still people who dared to rob your goods." ”

"If it weren't for people, they would naturally dare to rob my goods." Count Van Domhain sighed, saying that he had been given a splitting headache by the elusive Akuma.

"Then what are you doing with me?" Kyogohiko was not interested, "Shouldn't you go to the Black Order?" ”

"The Black Order is also interested in what I have in my hands." Count Van Domhain said, "What the Queen asked me to take, both the Akuma and the Black Order wanted, and for the sake of the Queen's safety, it is still in my possession." As he spoke, he took out a pocket watch from his jacket pocket and opened it, and lifted the lid and poured out from it something made of bronze, a small one no longer than the length of a thumb, shaped like a key, with curved and irregular lines carved on the surface, and a hole in the top, which was supposed to be used as a pendant.

Kyogohiko pulled out the handkerchief that was stuffed in the belt of Dilumudo's chest and shook it open, picked up the pendant through the handkerchief and looked at it carefully, "It doesn't look like there's anything special. ”

Count Van Domhain said, "This should be part of a map. ”

"Treasure map?" Kyogokuhiko threw the pendant back into the hands of the Earl of Van Domhain, and the handkerchief ignited a pinch of flame, and with a flick it disappeared.

"Who knows?" Count Van Domhain smiled and put the pendant back in his pocket watch, then pushed it towards Kyogokuhiko.

"What does that mean?" Kyogohiko asked.

"Deal." Count Van Domhain had a gentle but undeniable smile on his face, "Count Van Damhain will die in an accident, and the secret treasure he protects is nowhere to be found, and his friend Mr. Zhu is entrusted by him to look after the young children until he accepts the title." ”

"You're dying." Kyogokuhiko was not surprised at all, the Van Domhain family had dealt with too many private matters for the royal family, and it was only a matter of time before they were completely uprooted, and this mission was already a prelude.

It can only be said that the Earl of Van Domhain still has a little brain, knows that his death is inevitable, and can still find a way to make full use of it to earn a way to survive for his young only son.

- A nine-year-old puppy, if there is no guardian, will only be completely swallowed by the icy night of London.

"When I took over my father's position, I expected that there would be such a day. Isn't there a saying in the East that you have a saying in the East, called the cunning rabbit dies, and the lackey cooks? The Earl of Van Domhein looked very calm and carefree, and he placed a beautifully wrapped gift box on the table, and said, "This is Vincent's birthday present, and it is a pity that I did not give him his birthday." ”

Kyogohiko propped his chin and listened to the chatter of the man in front of him who was not yet thirty years old, and suddenly asked, "Why me?" "The two of them have met once in total, and they have known each other for less than a year, and if you really want to trust Gu, the Earl of Van Domhain obviously has countless choices, and there is no need to find him.

"Because I can't trust anyone but you." It was precisely because they had just met him that they chose him, and Count Van Domhain could not trust anyone with ties to the royal family now, and, apart from Kyogokuhiko, he could not find a second person who could resist both the Black Order and Akuma's attack at the same time.

It was the best choice he could make in desperation.

He stuffed the bunjiàn hidden in his clothes into the bunjiàn bag he brought, and all the original things in the bunjiàn bag had been placed in front of Kyogokuhiko, "Please, at least, please let the children live safely!" ”

Silence, Kyogokuhiko didn't speak, he just stared fixedly at the Count of Van Domhain, who bent down towards him, and asked after a long time, "Is it worth it?" ”

"I don't know." Count Van Domhain replied, "But I have no regrets. ”

Whether it was worth it or not, he didn't know, he had been taught since birth the obligations and responsibilities that he should bear as the sole heir to a family that had been hidden in darkness for generations, and he saw the darkness of the city's underneath him compared to Midofort standing on the bright side, a deep pool that was so dirty that he could never get out when he stepped on one foot.

He must be loyal to the queen and the country, and he will not hesitate to charge into battle and die for an order. His father taught him this way, and he died like this, but he didn't want to be trapped in such a cage again, and he didn't want his children to be trapped in such a fate again. The reason why the queen made up her mind to get rid of him is probably because she saw that he was not very peaceful under his loyal and strict appearance.

The Earl of Van Domhain is a man who is sharp and unscrupulous, and he is still a crazy gambler, so he lives like a fish in water under the cover of the night in London, and even Kyogokuhiko has to admit that even if he knows that his pitiful posture is mostly acting, and more than ninety percent of the probability is full of calculations, he still has to step into the trap he has set.

This kind of person, if he had been born to meet the Lord at the right time, would never be what he is now.

"I'm not in the habit of helping people raise my son." Kyogokuhiko stood up and slapped Count Van Domhayne on the head, "Raise it for me." ”

Saying this, he still left what Count Van Domhain brought, squinted and smiled: "Why don't we talk about another deal?" ”

From beginning to end, Dilumudo stood quietly behind Kyogokuhiko, acting as a qualified vase, not talking, listening, or looking, calmly wandering out of the world.

doesn't speak, don't watch, don't listen, as if a qiē has nothing to do with him.

It was not until the Count of Van Domhain had taken his leave that he quietly arose and followed behind the distant carriage, like a ghostly shadow

The Earl of Van Dom Hain came to visit them that night when they were attacked, and a fire burned down the house of the Van Damme Hain, and the flames spread throughout the night until noon the next day, and the Count of Van Damme Hain, along with their two young children, were all burned to death in the house, and their faces were almost unrecognizable.

The whole palatial mansion was also burned to shreds by the surprising fire, leaving only the charred foundation and the frame of the mansion, and the servants escaped because of the Christmas holiday, but a few unlucky ghosts died in the fire.

But in any case, the family that once controlled the entire London underground world was completely wiped out after this day, and what is even more suffocating is that according to the will of the Earl of Van Domhein, all the property in his name was donated to the state to house those homeless orphans, so that all the coveted families were empty.

Later, the nationalized mansion was auctioned off by the state, and the new owner built a more magnificent mansion there, but died mysteriously less than a year after living in it, and after that, the mansion has been repeating the process of auctioning, building, dying, and auctioning again, until no one cares about it anymore.

This once beautiful place has become a famous haunted house in London and the whole of the United Kingdom, and the story of this place is still being told countless years later.

It is said that the ghosts of the Van Domhain family still haunt here, killing every human who sets foot in their home to pay tribute to their unjust dead.

"Done?" Kyogohiko asked, "Today's weather is very good, it is a good day for going to sea on the ocean, and it is also a good day for reading in the study.

"They're gone." Dilumudo said, and then frowned helplessly, "Before leaving, Lord Earl asked me to tell you a happy birthday. ”

Kyogokuhiko was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously turned his head to look at the gift box he put on the bookshelf, which was originally a birthday gift that Count Van Domhain had asked him to pass on to his son, but he never took it back, and gave it to him if he said yes.

The gift box was just the size of a palm, carefully wrapped in blue paper, with a cute bow on the outside, and a nutcracker inside, and Kyogokuhiko picked up the puppet and shook it, it didn't seem to be hollow, just like an ordinary gift that every father would buy for his young son, there was nothing special about it.

Kyogokuhiko looked at the puppet left and right, and with the force of his hand, he neatly pinched the puppet into pieces, and in the wood all over the ground, another bronze and key-shaped pendant rolled out, presumably embedded in the wood when the puppet was made.

The key was similar to the one given to Kyogokuhiko by the Earl of Van Dom Hain, but the patterns carved on the surface were not the same, and he found a note in the sawdust of the Nutcracker, on which was the Earl of Van Domhain's characteristic lettering, spelling out the address of an abandoned manor in the far suburbs of London.

Kyogokuhiko dropped the two keys on the desk and slapped the table out laughing.

At this time, the sea is calm, and a young brother and sister are lying on the side of the boat to enjoy the beautiful sea, and their father and mother are standing behind them. They were passengers on a large ship bound for the United States, middle-aged gray-haired husbands, frail and gentle wives, with a pair of children and several servants, going to the New World to do business.

No one cares about such an ordinary and ordinary family, there are dozens of ships from London to the world every day, each boat is full, the Van Domhain family has long been in the ground, and now the only ones who are alive are with countless money and safe and legal identities, looking forward to having a new start in the New World, the Vane family.

"I've given him all the heirlooms." Mr. Vane shrugged, and considered eating two more cookies while Madame was not looking.