Huge ** ...... Oh no, it's the amazing fortune that has blinded Alva so much that he's been thrilled since last night until now.

Not only did he stay up all night — even on the plane, when his daughter slept from beginning to end, and his wife couldn't last long before falling asleep — he was still in good spirits as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.

And from time to time he was so excited that he trembled a few times, shaking his head and shaking his legs and feet.

Even the surrounding first-class passengers couldn't help it, and they asked the flight attendants with strange faces or protests.

After all, they didn't know it, so they naturally thought that the fool in the seat next to them might have something sick.

Alva knew about it, of course, but he didn't think so.

Because he is indeed uncontrollable and excited, and if he doesn't vent that excitement, he is already very aggrieved, how can he still be asked to be completely silent and calm on the surface?

- He's going to suffocate like that!

But since his eyes are blinded, and he hasn't closed his eyes for more than ten hours in a row, his thinking reaction will still be somewhat sluggish, and even the arrogance he showed before is also partly due to this.

So he didn't react at all at the first time, how could the white butler who should have stayed in the manor also appear here.

And it seems to have arrived at this place earlier than him......

Wait, he just said "master", which means that the old guy is also here, did Cedric fly straight with his special plane?

……

……

"Please come with me, don't keep the master waiting."

The white butler didn't explain why he was here, and even arrived here faster than the three of Alva.

He just talks to himself and smiles politely, which doesn't make people feel alienated, but it doesn't make people feel overly close, which is just right.

It's just that at this time, this polite smile didn't work as well as it should.

"Huh? Hey, can you make me clear...... Cedric! What kind of attitude do you have! ”

Finding that the other party did not answer his question at all, but put on a posture to make a notice, and then planned to turn around and leave, Alva's anger suddenly came up.

However, he didn't impulsively step forward and grab the other party's collar, and then move his hands and feet, which was too unstylish......

He just subconsciously imitated the posture he had recently learned, put his hands behind his back, and asked in an annoyed voice, trying to show a kind of momentum that was not angry.

But in the next moment, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the object of his imitation in the middle of the hall, standing majestically at the end of the red carpet on crutches.

So in an instant, his words stopped abruptly.

It was as if he had been stripped naked and thrown out into the street, when a cold wind blew, and after an instinctive shiver, he was awake.

"Uh...... Wei, Weiweiweiwei--Mr. Williams?! ”

The old man's expression did not change at all in response to the rude salutation that Alva stammered, and he did not even frown. He just nodded slowly, then hummed.

His hair was combed very carefully, without a trace of messiness, and the silver strands of white hair were clearly visible in the black hair.

In those slightly sunken eye sockets were a pair of somewhat cloudy but majestic eyes, sharp and bright.

Goosebumps, weather-beaten, and his face is carved with wrinkles left by the years, and he is completely an old man in his twilight years...... But it looks very healthy, and just standing there gives people a feeling of physical toughness.

- How can there be any old age and decrepitness, twilight remnants, and old dragon clocks?

But that's where the biggest problem lies! Shouldn't this old man Williams be in a state of sharp deterioration and decline day by day? Before, even the wheelchair was no longer suitable for use!

I can only lie in bed, eat some fluid food, and occasionally rely on intravenous drips...... It's completely like a wind and candle in the last years, and there are not many days left.

But how is this possible? Is it a return to the light or something?! Or is it ...... The sick look before was a disguise at all!

Just in this moment, Alva felt as if he had fallen straight from heaven to the deepest part of hell, and couldn't help but start thinking crankily, and his heart was also worried.

"Don't have too much pressure, the things you have decided will not change, you are still my chosen heir, and you will inherit my consortium smoothly, after all, we are just servants who take care of the mundane affairs of our masters......"

Old Man Williams' eyes were like torches, as if he could see at a glance what Alva was thinking, so he said in a deep voice.

His voice was full of anger, and he really didn't feel any weakness at all, but the words he said were really a bit terrible.

"Now come with me, what you are about to come into contact with is ...... The biggest secret of the surname Williams. ”

“……”

“……”

Alva, who finally reacted, gasped, only to feel a slight dizziness in his head, and the whole world seemed to become unreal in a trance.

What did he say? What did he just say?

The "master" in the mouth of the butler of Cedric did not refer to him, but to someone else? Even this old guy is the man's servant?!

It was too shocking, but Alva's heart was roaring wildly.

- I know! I knew it!

- How could this old guy be self-made!

- There is indeed a huge secret behind him, and it is even very likely that he is just a puppet on the surface supported by a certain force!

It is probably at this time that people will subconsciously seek comfort from those close to them and share the pressure, so Alva quickly turned his head and glanced at his wife and daughter beside him.

Then he found that his wife's expression was also frozen, and she looked frightened after reacting. But his daughter didn't show much consternation, but a look of "sure enough".

But at this time, Williams obviously didn't intend to let them think about it, just paused for crutches, and then said in a deep voice:

"Alright, you all come here...... Others do whatever they want. ”

The black-clothed men standing in a row around nodded silently, their movements were uniform, and then they turned around and walked in different directions, two of them walked to the door and slowly closed the door.

Boom......

The dull voice was like a heavy blow to the soul, striking the souls of the three people.

"Three, please follow me."

Butler Cedric smiled slightly, leaned sideways and made a gesture of signing.

Alva's face was bitter, and when he reacted, he found that there was no way back at this time.

He opened his mouth but could not speak, and could only walk forward step by step under the deep gaze of the old man at the end of the hall.

“……”

“……”

The air was silent, except for the dead silence of a falling pin.

Not only the old man, but also the butler of Cedric, as well as the bodyguards, maids, etc., all silently watched what was happening around the hall.

They don't look like anything special, but they always make people feel that they don't seem to be angry at all, cold and expressionless, as if they are a corpse that can move.

Damn it! Why did you never find out about such a thing before?!

There's definitely something wrong with these guys! Are they all brainwashed or what?

Alva's scalps were numb, and under the gaze of the silent gaze, they all felt that they and the others were walking through the morgue in the hospital.

The sight was cast from the freezers around it, so it looked extremely terrifying.

Fortunately, nothing terrible happened until the three of them followed the white butler to the end of the red carpet.

But then, instead of leading them up the spiral staircase on either side, the old man walked to the wall at the end of the hall that was sandwiched between the two staircases, where a small oval mirror hung from it.

"......" Firia's eyes moved slightly, and she suddenly had a hint of realization, because such a mirror also had a side in her room.

It's just the little things that have been added in the past few days, and most importantly, the real nightmare she started to have, when she was entangled by that shadowy evil spirit, when she got the mirror.

Nor could she tell if it was the strange document or the strange mirror.

But now, she tends to have a problem with the mirror.

Old Williams didn't explain, just walked straight to the mirror, seeing that he was about to hit the solid wall without slowing down, Alva instinctively raised his hand, wanting to stop the other party.

But he didn't have time to utter a syllable, and he watched as the old man's figure suddenly disappeared.

“……”

“……”

The three of them were all in their hearts, and this kind of daytime scene sent chills down their spines, what was this unfolding.

They all turned their heads to look at the others in the hall to see if they had a problem or if they had seen it, and all of them had calm, natural expressions.

The butler next to him was still reaching out as usual and motioning for them to follow:

"Please, three, don't waste time."

“……”

“……”

The family of three looked at each other, and then Alva could only grit his teeth and follow, which was completely unexpected for him.

However, I can barely explain it with excuses such as "high-tech", "holographic projection", and "this wall is simply an image".

Forcing himself to crash into the wall, Alva could only close his eyes and force himself to continue walking, rather than instinctively stopping...... Immediately afterward, he took three or four steps in a row, unhindered.

“……！！”

When he opened his eyes, his pupils contracted suddenly.

Surrounded by a vague and bleak scene, like a movie negative, only black and white, he saw the outline of the villa, the garden outside, and the streets and cities outside......

The farther away you go, the darker and more blurred the black and white outlines become.

It was as if he had suddenly entered a phasic space. As with the area opposite the real world, there is only one path underfoot...... But it wasn't the "road", it was the long, long, snaking body of a large, scaly creature.

The old man on crutches was walking along the path of the giant serpent, and Alva subconsciously looked back, and then found that his wife and daughter also appeared behind him at a loss.

And where I entered, there was a half-human-high stone platform like a shrine in the mirror, on which the image of the "snake" was also enshrined.

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"Turned into a gust of wind and flew away? Isn't that good news......"

In the midst of the ancient ruins on an island in the Mediterranean, Paul couldn't help but smile bitterly as he listened to the latest sightings reported by local intelligence officers.

"Strong winds often have no fixed form, and there are too many legends of gods and goddesses around the world who have the godhead of the wind......"

Erica looked at the ruins around her, tugged at her scarf in the cold wind, and looked at her uncle.

She blinked: "Can you be specific?" ”

The latter shrugged his shoulders and explained, "As long as the lesson of mythology is not left behind, you will find out how useful information it is for us to fix some kind of incarnation of a god that can recognize and understand the image——"

"Just as the ox and the sheep represent great power, a bountiful earth, and the bounty of life force, just as we see the deity manifest such an incarnation, we can speculate on the nature of the power he possesses, and then narrow down the scope to his myth."

Or "snake", for the ancients, such a strange creature was unique...... In winter, he will go into a long hibernation, and then wake up in the spring as if he had risen from the dead, as if he had easily crossed the gap between winter and spring. ”

"The serpent, which constantly hibernates and wakes up, is a creature that symbolizes the cycle of death and rebirth, and the migration of the seasons, and is often involved in this image, which is often related to the ancient gods of nature and the underworld......