Volume 1 The Philosopher's Stone Chapter 88 Clichés

"Father... Father? ”

After the [Vine of Desire] that had been surrounding him strangely turned into powder, Henry instantly lost the source of his self-confidence.

He had envisioned many scenarios about the scene in the room, the best of course would be the death of a few shepherds, and the best would be the disappearance of his father's body, and he would have obtained his father's secret, and by the way, he could ask the Shepherds' Club for an explanation.

As for "those people", when he gets the secret of his father's body, he can go away to other countries, and they can't even deal with his father, an old man, so that they have to ask for their own help, how can they find themselves who have obtained the magical item?

If it doesn't work, he can also continue to cooperate with "those people" and look for opportunities in the future.

Of all the expected scenarios, he was the one who benefited the most, finally getting rid of the shadow of death, the old man who had been staring at his body.

But he never expected that old Sir Goode, who had become a corpse, would come back to life, and the fear of his father made him even more panicked.

Martin heard the call with fear, and knew that the first step of his plan was complete.

He slowly turned his face to look directly at the middle-aged blond man standing not far away.

Henry saw the face in the high-backed chair, his eyes widened again, and he took two steps back in disbelief.

In his mind, if the voice could be imitated, what about the face? What about the old sir's unique gloomy temperament?

"Impossible! You're dead! ”

"I watched you breathe with my own eyes! The corpse that has been guarded for three days! ”

Henry was completely in a state of madness, he cried out like a psychopath, and the reappearance of his father turned his perception upside down.

"Ignorant and stupid."

In the face of the yelling Henry, Martin simply responded with two words, he was also afraid of saying too many mistakes, and was worried that Henry would find something wrong in his tone and mouth fetish.

After all, the voice can be imitated, but a person's thinking habits and speaking style have not been contacted, and it is easy to show the vest, especially if the other party is the biological son of the imitation object.

In this case, attacking and reprimanding mercilessly is the most logical way to speak, and Martin added some condescending and cold air to his tone.

Henry didn't respond to Martin's question, but turned and rushed straight to the gate after taking two steps back.

He wanted to escape.

But at this time, there were already two figures standing in front of the gate, blocking his way.

It's Eddie and Salomon.

Henry was blocked inside, he looked at Eddie with surprise in his eyes, he realized that something was wrong, he had already banned women from participating in the burial according to the requirements of "those people" in the commission terms, and the scene was repeatedly confirmed, how could there still be a woman?

He looked at Eddie's outfit and compared it to the three shepherds before him, and then Henry's mind came to the image of the dirty man, and the image of the two coincided, and he exclaimed in surprise:

"You're the short man!"

"You're a woman?!"

He froze for a moment, then looked back at Martin.

"You did it, didn't you? You already knew those people were looking for me! ”

"Otherwise, how could the shepherd break the terms of the commission!"

Henry connects all of this, the shepherd's breach of the covenant, the father's resurrection from the dead, and the instant removal of the vine on which he depends......

Martin caught the key word, and he understood that Henry had stepped into the trap they had set and could start talking.

"Why are you doing that?"

Instead of answering Henry's question, he threw another question in a deep voice.

"Why?"

Henry said gloomily.

"Don't you understand why?"

His expression began to grow fierce.

"Isn't all this you have done to me, and all this to everyone in your family, the retribution you deserve?"

What do you do in the family?

Martin found the right direction and continued to ask covertly down.

"It's not something you should know."

"Hah!"

Henry laughed strangely, and said in a mocking tone:

"You've done it all, are you still afraid that people will know?"

"I don't know anything, so I'll wait until you take my body?"

Seize the body?

Martin is becoming more and more interested in what happened between father and son, and judging from what he has said before, it may not only be an issue between these two people, but also the Goode family.

But according to the old Inke's statement before, there are only two people in this manor, Henry and Sir Sir, where is the so-called "family"?

Henry saw that the old man did not answer again, which invisibly strengthened his self-confidence, and he thought that this gloomy old man could not refute himself, so he said in a more rampant tone:

"Nothing to say?"

"You, an evil ghost who has lived for hundreds of years, did you ever think that there would be such a day before you took the bodies of those ancestors of your family?"

"You relied on the magical power in your body to survive until now, but you were still found by 'those people'! Do you know what they call you? ”

"A filthy container that smells of decay!"

"Hahahaha......"

The more Henry spoke, the more frantic he became, his face flushed sickly, like a madman who knew he was about to die.

He pulled out a gem-encrusted dagger from his waist and smiled cruelly.

"This is the blood that runs in my body, filthy and despicable, waiting only for you to take it, if you are a filthy vessel, then what am I? So what am I?! ”

As he spoke, he slashed the palm of his left hand with a dagger.

Red blood oozed from the wound and continued to drip onto the carpet, and soon became a small pool.

But Henry didn't care about it at all, he clenched his fists, and a large amount of blood was squeezed out.

This man is crazy.

That was Martin's first thought. But there is a lot to be said about what Henry said.

He said that the old sir "lived for hundreds of years" and "survived", and that he "relied on the miraculous power of his body" and "seized the bodies of his ancestors......

The words intertwined, and a conjecture came to Martin's mind.

He remembered that the "Libra" card in the old sir's body depicted a man lying in a coffin, and the name of the card was [Black Raven's Gift], and from these, it could be inferred that its abilities were related to death-related transformations.

He speculated that it was a resurrection from the dead, but then denied it, because even if such a thing existed in this world, it would never be something that could be done by a mere fifth-tier card.

But after listening to Henry's words, he began to speculate whether the card could be related to the "resurrection" in disguise by taking someone else's body, which is of course an incredible thing, because it can achieve "eternal life" by taking it continuously.

It's like what Henry called "a demon who has lived for hundreds of years".

Martin speculated that even if this could be achieved, it would have a very high cost, or negative effect.

These effects may have something to do with the mysterious "Black Crow" in the card's name.

"You are all my children, and I am the one who gave you life."

Martin pondered this and spoke.

"If I can give you life, you can take it back at any time."

"You should thank me, otherwise you wouldn't exist in this world at all."

He wanted to verify the guess and come up with more information.

"Thank you?"

The blood in Henry's palms gradually stopped, and his tone became a little erratic and a little proud.

"Thank you for what? Turn us all into crows? ”

He uttered the word that made Martin's eyelids jump.

"Do you know how painful this so-called 'family curse' is? Have you experienced the process of growing from a timid, fluffy lowly bird to a human being? ”

Henry said the most surprising thing about Martin tonight.

"Growing up in the fearful and disgusted eyes of those servants, expressing his emotions with a disgusting cry, he has a different feeling for rotting food and corpses..."

"Have you experienced any of this?"

"Do you think we'll thank you for all this?"

Henry wiped his face with both hands, the blood in the palm of his left hand had not completely stopped, and his originally handsome face was smeared with blood-red stains, which made him look like a ghost.

"The Black Crow's Gift, so that's what it was?"

Martin thought of the card's comment that it was both a gift and a curse, and understood.

He remembered the portraits on the stairs with a raven on each person's shoulder.

Martin wondered at the time, the crow was not a popular bird here, it could smell the smell of death or corruption, and it was a messenger of revenge, so why did the heads of the Goode family like to keep one?

But if every family member has ever been a crow, it all seems relatively reasonable.

"So the price of eternal life, that is, that all the people in the family will become crows... But in the end, it will still take on a human form, which doesn't seem to affect the seizure of the body..."

Martin weighed it, and if it was true, the negative effect of the card was simply too small.

It's like Henry, if he hadn't taken steps to cooperate with his so-called 'those people', then he would most likely have been robbed of his body, and the 'old sir' would still be reborn in the body of a normal person, and he would be at the peak of the other party's physical state.

"There's still something wrong......

Martin looked at Henry, whose face was half covered in blood, and noticed something unusual.

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