The darkness of dusk deepened, making the atmosphere in the small courtyard of the blacksmith's shop more and more solemn.

The last rays of sunlight slanted through the fence into the courtyard, painting the shadows of the stalemate on the wall, some standing tall and some humble.

Ines and Robert didn't know the word rabbit dead dog cooking. But they also knew that Robert, who had told all the information, had lost the initiative, and his fate only depended on Xiao Chen's words.

Xiao Chen put away his mental coercion, Ines found that he could finally speak, he looked at Robert cowering, sighed and said, "Your Excellency Xiao Chen, please tell me how to let Robert go." ”

Xiao Chen held up two fingers, "I have two requests. First you need to look for an opportunity to get the Baron's family together, and then let me know in time. Secondly, I need you to stabilize all the sales networks, no matter what happens to the Baron's family, all the distributors can't mess up!"

"You want to?" Ines' waist bent lower,

"The capture of the baron, of course, and the control of his family. No one can go unpunished after our murderers. Xiao Chen said.

"You will cause fear and resentment among all the nobles around you. Even if there is a conflict between the nobles and the magic tower, everyone will negotiate to solve the problem. The China Tower you are in is, after all, a nascent force, and you don't want the forces around you to cut off contact with you!" Ines said.

Xiao Chen's expression couldn't be seen clearly in the dimness, and there was a line of bright color on the side face facing the setting sun that made him look angular, Ines saw the corners of his mouth curled, this smile did not give people any soft feeling, but made the contours of his face appear sharper, "No one will waste their own interests on fighting the baron, on the contrary, I believe that there are still many people who are happy to see the baron lose power." Instead of having a problem with me, these people will work more closely with me. It's an established thing, and you can't convince me. ”

"I can't do it. I can't betray the baron like that. Ines's voice was not loud, but his tone was insistent.

"Even at the cost of your life and your son's life?"

Ines knelt down, "You wouldn't do that. I know that you are a person with a good heart and that you have a noble soul. I wouldn't do this to someone who was powerless to resist......"

"I'm usually like that, except for the enemy. Especially when someone is trying to blackmail me with this!" Xiao Chen interrupted him rudely, "An ancestor said that the enemy should be as cruel and ruthless as winter. ”

Xiao Chen glanced back at Robert, stretched out his hand and pointed at him, the snowflakes began to condense from the air, these snowflakes fell on Robert and did not dissipate, but quickly accumulated, and soon, white frost appeared on his body.

Robert struggled to avoid the snow and ice with a look of fear on his face, but the cold made his body sluggish and sluggish. He only took two steps before his feet were completely frozen and unable to escape. Thicker and thicker blocks of ice stretched upwards from his feet, and he waved his arms in vain, and it didn't take long for them to turn into ice sculptures in odd postures.

Ines couldn't move a single part of his body the entire time Robert froze to death, and all he could do was watch in despair as his son turned to ice.

It wasn't until much later, when Ines finally felt the pressure around him loosen, that he crawled hand and foot at Robert, letting out a terrible wail as he crawled. When he was about to touch Robert, he gave up on his feet and fell on top of Robert, and the iceman was knocked down by him, and smashed on the stone floor with a dull breaking sound, and the ice cracked, and Robert also broke into pieces.

Ines picked up two pieces of blood-colored ice, which seemed to be Robert's heart, and wrapped them in the ice and shattered into two pieces.

"It's not true, it's a dream, it's a dream. However, the sharp pain in his heart, the hard stones under his knees, the biting cold in his hands, and the cold expressions of the people around him made him believe that everything was real.

Ines put down the fragment in his hand and turned his head to stare at Xiao Chen viciously. His face was almost like a beast, and he hissed and roared, "You, you butcher, I will never cooperate with you! Die, die! I want you to die with you." ”

The power that came from nowhere burst out of Ines's heart, turning into the energy in his body, and he suddenly stood up from the ground and pounced on Xiao Chen like an old lion.

Xiao Chen didn't dodge and let him rush, but when he pounced on Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen turned into smoke and turned into darkness along with everything around him.

"It's ......" Ines suddenly realized that he was still kneeling, the darkness because he had closed his eyes. He was very tired, drenched in sweat. Reluctantly opening his eyes, he found that everything seemed to regress before Xiao Chen said the sentence "as cruel and ruthless as a harsh winter". His son, Robert, was still standing there, but his eyes were closed. Tears welled up in Ines' eyes.

"Sure enough, it's a hallucination...... but such an illusion is too real and terrifying.

"What's the difference between that environment and reality? That nightmare can go on as long as I want, and I can let you go through it countless times, and you won't know which death is real, but all the pain is certainly real. ”

Ines was silent.

At this time, Robert on the other side also opened his eyes, and he muttered: "Why are you here again? Didn't I take a nap at home? Why did I come to this nightmare again, more than ten years later, I still can't escape the torture of this dream." ”

He glanced at Ines with disgust: "Father, please let me go." More than ten years ago, I threw you to that damn Xiao Chen, and then went to report to the baron, and then let you be executed by the Chinese. But the baron has been saved, and our family has prospered, isn't that exactly what you want? The Tower of China was destroyed ten years ago. Can you just just disappear and stop tormenting me in my dreams?"

Xiao Chen glanced at Robert meaningfully, and said to Ines: "His illusion is different from yours, it is a test of my character, it is a dream that lasts for many years. But it seems that he gave up on you in that dream, and he is doing quite well in other aspects. Since he will give up on you, then I can't detain you and force him to do something. ”

"What are you talking about?, why is this dream different?" Robert looked at Xiao Chen and wondered.

"Welcome back to reality, how does it feel to dream for more than ten years?"

"What's the joke! This, this dream is not right, this is a nightmare. Those things can't be fake, my wife, my kids, and the big house. Robert was about to break down, he looked worse now than his father had come out of his dream, "How could it all be fake." Am I living in vain?

"It's horrible. Ines suddenly discovered that what Robert had experienced was even more terrifying than he was. Do it twice like this, and he's going to go crazy.

"So, please think about whether you are ready to continue or if you are considering doing what I say. I don't want to kill you. But this benevolent cruelty is perhaps even more terrifying. Xiao Chen said.