"Bang bang...... Bang Bang ......"

Li Xuan, who was sitting in the train car, half-lowered his eyelids, and his angular features were a little tired and lonely. Having dreamed of traveling the world since childhood, Penzance was the last stop on his European tour, where his six-month trip would end.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to arrive at Penzance station......" The conductor's voice was very rough, and the unique rural atmosphere of Europe began to spread through the train broadcast, and the male announcer Li Xuan has been accustomed to it, unlike in China, many of this traditional train broadcast in Europe is more casual, and sometimes the station attendant forgot it, and even did not report the station, 2 months ago he missed the station because he did not report the station once.

Leaving the backpack behind him, Li Xuan put on a peaked cap, the sun was very sunny in Penzance in September, sitting on the train and watching the sea view all the way, the mood seemed to be much more open, out of the train station, the noisy market echoed with the sound of shoppers and merchants bargaining, and there was a faint aroma of coffee.

After leaving the market, he took a taxi to the car rental company booked online, and after paying the deposit, Li Xuan drove the car and started his trip to the last city.

The car drove smoothly and quietly on the road, Li Xuan didn't have a specific place he wanted to go, his trip to Europe was always like this, in a city, driving aimlessly. It doesn't matter what happens, good or bad, whatever. Li Xuan thinks so. Many memories flowed through his mind as the car drove through him.

Holding the steering wheel, his half-collapsed eyes were heavy tiredness and confusion.

Li Xuan has been a smart and agile person since he was a child, and he has followed his father to play various mobile games and computer games since he was a child.

Li Xuan's father is an executive of a computer game company, since elementary school, Li Xuan often stands behind his father, watching his father play many computer games on a retro desktop computer, the Legend of Sword and Fairy, StarCraft, Diablo and Heroes Invincible, etc., these many games Li Xuan especially likes Heroes Invincible, from the first time he held the mouse and manipulated a castle by himself after a hero attacked the city and plundered the ground, Li Xuan was crazy obsessed with this long-established game.

It only took a few months for Li Xuan to get started with this game, and then he fought with his father on the computer, and was brutally abused by his father a few times, and then studied it for a few months, and then challenged his father again, after several difficult battles, he finally succeeded in defeating his father, and after his angry father challenged Li Xuan a few times, he finally found that his hero was invincible in this game and was no longer his son's opponent, Li Xuan was 9 years old that year.

After that, Li Xuan gradually became dissatisfied with the stand-alone battle with the computer, and began to look for players to play against in many game forums and game salons. Then I got to know a lot of gamers from all over the world through Heroes of Invincible. Later, he played his own fame in the world's very small hero invincible circle.

After graduating from university, with the support of his father, he cooperated with several game companies in Europe and the United States to optimize the game of Heroes Invincible and moved it to the Internet, developed a very creative real-time strategic battle mode, and successfully promoted it to the world, becoming a popular Internet strategy game with more than 20 million registered users and more than 2 million online users.

Li Xuan's 29 years of life have been as smooth as the blessing of the Holy Spirit, except for his love life.

But at such a time, his medical consultant told him that he was in a bad condition after a routine check-up every six months. Then the next words "lung cancer to liver", "malignant", and "advanced" were like a hammer of steel, constantly hitting Li Xuan's chest.

Hiding from his family and friends, Li Xuan secretly made a will, put down his job, picked up his childhood dream of traveling around the world, and started his own free trip to Europe.

Li Xuan likes European-style architecture, and the strong atmosphere of ancient and mysterious castle-style architecture can always make him intoxicated, compared with China, many stone buildings in Europe are better preserved, and have not been demolished and commercialized by the ruling authorities.

chose an inconspicuous fork in the road, and the car took Li Xuan into the dense forest, and the wind in the forest blew on Li Xuan through the car window, which was cool and comfortable. The woods on both sides of the road are particularly dense, the branches and leaves almost all cover the entire road, a large amount of sunlight penetrates these branches and leaves and falls, forming a mottled and jagged pillar of light, bright and not dazzling, there are only a few fallen leaves on the road, it is very clean.

Not long after the car drove, suddenly patches of wheat fields and valleys appeared on both sides of the road, and not far away there was a manor in the embrace of the ancient city wall, and the small castle in the city wall was very good-looking, which made Li Xuan's eyes light up.

After the car slowly parked in the open-air parking shed at the entrance of the manor, Li Xuan got out of the car and looked at the manor happily.

Completely different from what you imagined when you saw it from a distance, the earthy yellow wall outside the manor was as high as a three-story building, at least 8 or 9 meters high, thick and serious, quietly telling the long history of the manor. There is also a living ditch more than 2 meters wide that acts as a moat under the wall.

Li Xuan has seen many castles in the past six months in Europe, all kinds of castles and styles are quite interesting, the manor in front of him has a moat like many castles, but Li Xuan noticed that the wall in front of him is more than 3 meters high is a defensive wall with a reverse slope, not only that, there is a very primitive suspension bridge at the entrance and exit of the city gate, and behind the suspension bridge is a very heavy iron gate.

This is not the first time Li Xuan has seen this defensive style manor. The suspension bridge was hoisted, and the gate behind it was also closed, Li Xuan looked around at the door, and found a sign on the side of the road that did not know whether it was copper or iron, with a round emblem in the shape of a big sword and a beautiful piece of English, which should be translated literally as "Stanlini" or "Stanleyni".

This is the surname of this manor, which means that the house is inhabited by a family named Stanrini, and the round emblem in the shape of a great sword is the coat of arms of this family. Li Xuan has seen a lot of family badges in Europe for half a year, but he can be sure that he has never seen this badge.

Just as Li Xuan was staring at the sign, a long "......" suspension bridge was slowly lowered, and after the heavy sound of landing, the gate was also "bang...... "呲呤" was raised.

Li Xuan turned around when he heard the sound, and looked at the hydraulic suspension bridge and gate very novelly.

A Mediterranean-style balding old butler with a tall nose bridge with black glasses walked out, his slightly chubby body and steady steps, and the black and white butler costume was neat.

Li Xuan remained cautious and stood still, waiting for the fat butler to come over, Britain is extremely sensitive to territory, such a large manor, it must also be within the scope of a private territory.

"Hello, sir, is there anything I can do to help you?" The slightly chubby butler pinned one hand behind his back, bowing slightly to Li Xuan, polite and gentlemanly.

"Oh, I'm very sorry, my name is Li Xuan, I'm from China, I'm a tourist to the UK, I was curious to see this beautiful castle in the distance, so I drove over and stopped to admire it for a while. Li Xuan first apologized to the housekeeper, after all, he stared at the door of people's castles for a long time, and was still watched by others, which was very rude.

"I'm leaving, I'm sorry to cause you any trouble. Li Xuan bowed slightly to the chubby butler as he spoke, and turned around and walked towards the car door.

Just as the chubby butler was quietly and politely preparing to see the strange traveler leave, a sound came from the portable headphones in his ears.

"Please wait a moment, sir, Mr. Stanlini would like to invite you to visit our estate and then invite you to dinner. Just as Li Xuan opened the car door, the slightly chubby housekeeper ran up and said.

"I'm sorry, what did you say?" Li Xuan didn't react.

"Mr. Lee, I said that Mr. Stanlini would like to invite you to visit our estate and have dinner together. The chubby butler politely and politely repeated what he had said.

"Of course, thank you very much, I would love to. Li Xuan followed the chubby butler with his right hand to his heart, made a gentleman's salute, and then followed the butler into the manor, Li Xuan was not worried that the other party would do anything wrong to him, the rented car had a dash cam connected to the external network, and there were also GPS records, which could ensure that he would not be kidnapped here.

Follow the chubby housekeeper to the manor, the chubby butler walked very slowly, Li Xuan collected his footsteps, walked through the gate and found that this city wall is far thicker than imagined, about 5 or 6 meters thick, the bridge hole is also bigger than it looks from the outside, you can pass a truck, the stone wall in the bridge is not wet, it is very clean, and the foot is a very ordinary stone slab, there is a kind of smoothness that has been polished over the years.

Walking out of the bridge hole, in addition to the lawn and small garden, the most conspicuous thing is the small white castle in the center of the manor. The castle looks younger than expected, with many traces of modernity, and in front of the castle door is a small fountain that is common, and the water looks very transparent.

Following the chubby butler up a few steps, I saw a white-haired old gentleman in a silver-gray casual suit walking towards him, with a pale face that was staggered with the ditches of the years, and a little shiny, and a little white hair, neatly groomed, lying on the back of his head and temples.

"I'm glad to see you, young man from the East, I'm George Stanlini, you just call me old George, Saul, you make a pot of tea for our guests, thank you. Here's please, young guest. The old man introduced himself very gentlemanly, asked the housekeeper to make tea, and then took Li Xuan to sit on the sofa in the small living room.

"I'm sorry to disturb you, but I saw this beautiful castle as I passed by here, and I couldn't help but stop and admire it. Li Xuan sat on the sofa with his hands spread out on his chest to express his presumptuous attitude to old George.

"It doesn't matter, it's God's will to have you here, Mr. Lee. I know you, Li Xuan. Old George made a few downward movements with his right hand, signaling that Li Xuan didn't have to apologize.

"Do you know me?" Li Xuan opened his mouth, a little surprised.

"Yes, I've been waiting for you for a long, long time. Old George spoke very slowly.

"It was fate that arranged for you to be here, Mr. Li. ”

"What?" Li Xuan was surprised.

"I hope you can do what you can, help my family, and if you agree, in exchange, I can give you a healthy body. Old George took a sip of tea and said slowly with a serious expression.

"You may not know my situation, Mr. Stanlini, I don't have time, and I don't know how to help your family. Li Xuan was very clear about his physical condition, and after the report of his medical consultant came out, he found several top medical teams in the world for a full body examination, and the conclusions were almost the same. Now suddenly in a completely unfamiliar environment, hearing that someone can give him a healthy body, Li Xuan feels that he has met a liar.

"First of all, you just need to agree to this condition, Mr. Li. Old George's deep blue eyes shimmered with a strange light.

"I still don't know how to communicate with you, Mr. Stanlini, I'm so sick that many doctors say I'm dead. After Li Xuan spit out the pronunciation of "death", his slightly trembling right hand clenched and released tightly under the table, and then exhaled.

"You just have to say yes or no. Old George looked at Li Xuan and emphasized again.

"I ...... , no, I mean...... Well, if you can cure me, I agree. If I can help your family. Li Xuan raised his hand and stammered a little after organizing the language for a while.

"So, you agreed. Old George said as he put the teacup in his right hand on the white tablecloth of the tea table, and took a handkerchief and wiped his lips gently.

"Yes, I mean, of course I agree with your suggestion. Li Xuan tried hard to squeeze a smile on his face, raised his hand and looked at his watch.

"Since you just promised to help my family, then you look at this agreement, and if there is no problem, you sign your name on it. Old George didn't seem to notice Li Xuan's movements in looking at his watch, and took a dark brown parchment roll from the butler's hand and handed it to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan saw old George staring at him, and set his eyes on this parchment scroll that looked a bit like thick rice paper.

Pulling open the parchment, the brown parchment-looking thing had only a few simple lines of English on it. The header is a line of capital letters "CONTRACT", which means contract.

The contract seems simple, but it is strange: "If the Stanlini family gives me a healthy body, I will always be loyal to the Stanlini family." Then there's a blank attribution area with nothing else.

Li Xuan glanced at this contract, which was as simple as playing house, and then looked at Old George and said, "Mr. Stanlini, I really don't know how to express what I want to say, but I still want to tell you that today is not April 1st. ”

"I know it's not April Fool's Day, and I'm not kidding you, Mr. Lee. Old George handed over a 20-centimeter-long gray-white quill pen.

"Are you serious?" Li Xuan only felt ridiculous and funny when he saw Old George's posture, but when he saw Old George's serious expression and demeanor, he couldn't laugh at all.

Li Xuan pointed to the blank signature area and asked, "Is it here?" Mr. Stanlini. As he spoke, he began to sign his name, feeling that he was also funny, although he had not studied law systematically, he could also see that such a contract had no legal effect at all. But seeing Old George so serious, Li Xuan smiled bitterly.

"Mr. Stanlini, is this okay?" Li Xuan quickly signed, put down the quill pen, and asked the old George in front of him with a smile.

"Yes, of course. Please follow me. Old George stood up, rolled up the parchment on the table, made a gesture of invitation, and motioned for Li Xuan to follow him.

Li Xuan also stood up, although he didn't know where Old George was going to take him, but he still followed Old George over. After turning around, I walked to a door. Old George fumbled around his neck to bring out a silver necklace with a fiery red key of unknown material hanging from the end of the necklace. After taking a breath, Old George slowly inserted the key into the lock hole with a trembling hand, twisted the key, and then pushed the door open.

The room was empty, the floor was densely carved with mysterious lines and runes, and there was a shimmering door frame in the middle.

Li Xuan looked at the ancient and mysterious door frame in front of him in shock, like a magical light curtain like water waves, shaking constantly. His eyes were full of disbelief and he turned his head to look at old George.

"Step through this magic door and you will be given a new life, Mr. Li, and remember our contract. Old George said flatly.

Li Xuan took a deep breath with difficulty, and the magic door in front of him made him feel extremely shocked.

"Stepping through this door?"

"Yes, step in. ”

Suddenly, Li Xuan realized that this magic door would completely change his fate, and in the last period of his life, he came to this city, met this castle, and met old George, all of which were dominated by a force in the dark.

Without hesitation, Li Xuan slowly closed his eyes and stepped into the magic door with his feet raised. Time and space suddenly seemed to tear, and the body felt a sharp tearing pain.

It was as if I saw my body shattered into pieces like a sand sculpture weathered for thousands of years, and then shattered into countless tiny particles, and finally all the particles suddenly disappeared into nothingness.

Li Xuan lost consciousness completely.