Chapter 4: Family Secrets
The glowing sun slowly peeked out of the dark shadows, and the moon and stars disappeared.
When the first rays of the sun shone on the city of Dante in the far east, the servants of Dantingburgh began their busy day.
And Leo is still asleep, and all the trivial troubles of life at this age have nothing to do with him.
The servants in Dantedburgh prepare breakfast, and Leo wakes up to be served by Lucy in a comfortable and beautiful dress.
Washed under Lucy's service again, Leo was not used to it at first, but then he enjoyed it, after all, it is always good to have someone to serve him.
Lucy gently put on a napkin for Leo, while Leo tasted a children's nutrition package specially prepared for him in his own children's seat and dining table.
"Well, it tastes surprisingly delicious!" Leo put the cute poached egg in his mouth with a fork and chewed it.
After taking a sip of strawberry-flavored milk, Leo exclaimed in his heart: This evil feudalism!
At this time, Butler Marcy came over and said, "Lucy, when the young master finishes breakfast, take him to Mr. Hugh's laboratory." ”
Leo also stopped chewing when he heard this, "Lab, it doesn't sound like a good place. Leo thought to himself.
"Yes, Butler Marcy!" said Lucy respectfully.
Leo hastily finished breakfast, and followed Lucy to the door of Grandpa Hugh's laboratory, I don't know if it was an illusion or something else, Leo felt that this room was very gloomy, and there was a bad feeling......
In fact, Leo's feelings validated what happened next.
Lucy stopped at the door and said, "I can only lead you here, and you will have to go in for the rest." ”
"You go back, Lucy, I can do it myself. Leo nodded.
After Lucy left, Leo took a deep breath and pushed open the door, "What, is it still a hallway?" Leo spoiled.
Leo walked quickly through the small corridor to the innermost part, and as soon as he pushed the door open, he saw his grandfather Hugh, Grandpa Daniel, and his father Norton fiddling with some strange instruments.
Needless to say, there must be nothing good about it, and Leo suddenly wanted to go back.
Just as he was about to turn around and walk back, the sharp-eyed Grandpa Daniel said, "Little Leo~ Where are you going?"
Leo was shocked one by one: Oops!
Norton also spotted Leo and beckoned to him, "Come here, Leo." Leo had no choice but to go over obediently.
Hugh also smiled and said, "It's okay, don't be afraid, just do a small check." ”
Leo looked at Hugh who was smiling at us, and thought: I believe you are a ghost, you are a bad old man, you are very bad!
Suddenly, Norton hugged Leo, who was already tied to a chair when Leo was confused.
Leo shouted: "Norton, why are you like this!" The baby is bitter~
Norton shrugged helplessly, he knew that if he didn't do this, Leo wouldn't give in.
Hugh said, "Okay, let's get started, get the syringe out." ”
Children always have a natural fear of needles, "Needle!" Leo's eyes widened just in time to see the bright big needle slowly approaching, and it was still shining silver.
It must not be allowed to prick, and Leo began to writhe wildly.
"Like a seaweed, seaweed, swaying with the waves......"
However, it didn't work, and I saw Grandpa Daniel say with a wicked smile: "It doesn't hurt at all, it's true!"
"You bad old men are so bad!" Leo was bitter in his heart.
After a wail, Leo was still bloodied, and by the way, he cut a slice.
Leo, who thought it was over, went through all the instruments again with the "help" of the three adults.
In the end, Leo, who was not good, lay on the chair and quietly doubted life, it was really a bad experience, even more terrifying than the teleportation array.
On the other hand, Norton and the others are also arguing fiercely about what is "inhibition of foreign cell activity", "cell isolation and rejection", "number of xenogeneous cell compatibility", "separation and removal of polluted souls", "channeling and sealing of energy"......
In short, it's just some academic language that people don't understand, but it makes Leo very alarmed, after all, he has knowledge from another world.
Leo always felt that the adults were hiding something from them, so he shouted, "What are you going to do to me strangely?"
This sentence successfully attracted the attention of the three adults, and the three stopped arguing, and the eldest Hugh hesitated for a moment and said:
"Leo, do you know why our Adrian family is the strongest family in the Far East, even in the top of the continent?"
Leo wanted to complain inexplicably: How do I know if I'm so young, you won't say that you are genetically good!
Then Hugh said: "That's right, it's the same as you think, it's the bloodline, it's not so much that the bloodline is strong, I prefer to call him a curse!"
"Every member of the family has to experience blood boiling, and those who survive, the weakest, can become legends, but those who have not survived have all died of spontaneous combustion without exception. ”
However, the number of deaths is far greater than the success, which is the fate of the members of the family and the fate of the family. ”
Hugh paused and said, "And you are far more terrifying than the blood boiling, blood, veins, tides!"
"What is a tide, like the tide of the sea, is like the tide of the sea, which is constantly reincarnated and never stops, and it will also be affected by other influences to explode early, just like the influence of the moon on the sea. ”
"What's more, no one has ever survived in the history of the Bloodline Tides family......"
Leo couldn't help but swallow, he understood what Hugh meant, and said, "That means I'm going to die at any time now?"
"No, only six days to live, to be exact. ”
"So you must have a way, right? Leo asked, uncertain.
Norton looked at Leo's light blue eyes and couldn't bear to tell him that he wasn't sure at all.
Norton smiled and patted Leo's little head and said, "Of course, it's not a big deal for the current family, it's just a small problem. ”
Daniel and Hugh, who were next to him, did not speak, but gave Norton the right to tell the truth.
What Hugh didn't say was that the horror of the bloodline curse was far more than that, and the entire family was now less than ten, five to be exact, and behind the family's prosperity was a terrible mortality rate.
Because of the curse, only one member of each family generation has the opportunity to have offspring, and after giving birth to offspring, the rest of the generation, including himself, will lose the ability to have children, and the fertility will be transferred to the next generation, and unless the next generation dies, no other descendants will be born.
What's even more terrifying is that every mother who conceives the bloodline of the family will die because of the curse the moment the child is born.
That's why Leo doesn't have a mother, or that every member of the family doesn't have a mother.
The pain caused by the bloodline is not something that ordinary people can imagine, the child has lost his mother, and the husband has lost his wife, so Hugh prefers to call it a curse.
In order to deal with the situation of severing the bloodline, the family had to formulate a series of regulations for the continuation of the bloodline.
Only those who give birth to offspring have the right to inherit, and each family member is not allowed to say the curse of the family before the birth of a new generation.
That's why Leo's father, Norton, was so hostile to the family, Norton was completely kept in the dark at the beginning, and he didn't know the family's secrets until Leo was born.
In fact, only Hugh and Dennis knew about the curse at that time, and even Daniel didn't know about it, but Daniel guessed some of it.
The first thing that a desperate Norton thought of at that time was his father, Dennis, and he had a big fight.
Norton hates Dennis for knowing why he didn't tell him so he wouldn't lose his wife, Alice!
Dennis also just smiled wryly and didn't say anything, because time will tell you everything.
What Norton didn't know at the time was that each generation of the family was repeating the same path as the previous generation......
The picture returns to Leo, and Leo thinks angrily: It's not fair that others cross with a golden finger and I bring a bomb!
Dennis also lowered Leo from his chair at this time, allowing Leo to move freely.
Leo thought about it and stayed away from this eerie place full of bad memories, so he quietly ran back.
And the three of Dennis are still having a heated discussion, and they are still recording something.
Leo, who was about to go back to his room, suddenly found that he was actually lost, and it was really a shame to get lost in his own home.
Leo also wondered why he hadn't met anyone for so long, and finally Leo decided to walk around and get acquainted with Dantenburgh by himself.
Turning around, Leo met a few people to greet Leo, but for the sake of face, Leo didn't say that he was lost.
Leo just walked around and stopped, looking here and there, and unconsciously turned to the vicinity of a strange monster statue.
Leo climbed up and touched here and there curiously, accidentally touched an eye, and then the statue began to glow blue, which really scared Leo.
Seeing the light flash, Leo came to a strange place, surrounded by humanoid statues.
Leo ran to the nearest one to take a look, and it was inscribed: Matthew Adrian, and a brief description of his life, and the only thing Leo noticed was that he was 37 years old.
Leo suddenly understood that this should be the family's memorial or something, and his curiosity was filled with curiosity.
Leo looked at all the sculptures and saw that they were all male, not a single female statue, and the large statue in the center was holding a book in his hand.
Leo climbed up with great difficulty, sat on the palm of the statue's hand and began to read, only to see that the old parchment book was impressively written: family origins.
Leo flipped it and read it, not the usual full-text, but two-line pictures and texts, which was exactly what Leo wanted.
The first page of the book depicts the strange statue that Leo saw, only the more bloody and violent of the book.
The spherical body is overgrown with the organs and limbs of various creatures, and it looks bloated and chaotic, as if it looks like an impact on people.
Leo only looked at it twice before feeling uncomfortable, and quickly flipped over.
Leo started out as a regular documentary book, but the more he got older, the more unusual he became.
From the book, Leo not only saw the blood boiling and blood tide mentioned by Grandpa Hugh, but also saw the real secret of the family.
It turns out that the family was a famous demon hunting family in the ancient dark era, specializing in dealing with dark creatures and nether creatures, as well as powerful and strange gods like exotic evil gods.
And the birth of the family has a lot to do with the exotic evil god, and the evil god is the deformed monster at the beginning.
The first generation of the family, Abraham Adrian, accidentally summoned a powerful half-step epic evil god, and the world began a frenzy of destruction, and countless races perished.
In order to make up for his mistakes, Abraham took the initiative to lure the evil god to devour himself after making preparations, and he took the opportunity to seal the evil god in his body, and then detonated his source power and died with the evil god.
As Abraham, who is also a half-step epic, what he didn't expect was that the evil god simply lost his body, and most of its power was strangely transferred to Abraham's descendants through the connection of blood.
The curse of the family was born, and the tragic fate of the Adrian family began.
Seeing this, Leo couldn't help but sigh: "What a great ancestor!"
Leo continued to look down, the bloodline is a double-edged sword for the family, the family relies on the gift of the source power of the evil god, almost every generation has a legend born, the price is that all the people cannot advance to the epic, and the life is short, and beware of the evil god to be reborn.
Later, members of the family developed the bloodline sealing technique based on the sealing technique left by Abraham, and engraved it in the bloodline, which curbed the short-lived situation of the family at that time.
This was followed by the birth of the blood boiling and the blood tide, and the different families of the blood boiling and the tide were also studied, and finally came to the conclusion:
Talents are different, every member of the bloodline tide has a talent for achievement epic or epic, and bloodline boiling is only a normal situation of legendary-level potential, which means that Leo's potential is also epic at the minimum.
From this, the family speculated that the bloodline tide was a sign that the evil god hidden in the bloodline wanted to take it away and be reborn.
But Leo wasn't happy at all, and he had to live until that time!
Leo turned to the last page, and was pleasantly surprised to find the magic circle diagram that sealed the evil god, looked left and right, tore it off and put it in his pocket.
Leo then quickly activated the circle and returned to the castle, just in time to meet Butler Marcy.
Butler Marcy saw Leo and said kindly, "Young Master Leo, are you lost?"
Leo hurriedly said, "Yes, Grandpa Housekeeper, can you send me back to Lucy?"
Butler Marcy made a gentlemanly gesture of please, and said, "Of course, Master Leo, please come with me." ”
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Leo followed Marcy's housekeeper and quickly found Lucy, who was working.
Butler Marcy said, "Okay, Master Leo has found Lucy, and I will retreat." ”
"But," Marcy said meaningfully, "Master Leo, you're really naughty. ”
Leo pretended to be casual and said, "Thank you Grandpa Butler, I won't run around next time." ”
Butler Marcy shrugged and said, "I hope!"
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Time always flies, and in the alternation of the sun and the moon, it soon comes the last day of Leo's seal......