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They stood too tall to see the ants on the ground.

—Epigraph

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The fire flickered, and the darkness swayed.

In such a depressing scene, Julio had a look of despair, and very ungentlemanly tears flowed down his face, constantly chattering about the stupidity he had committed because of greed.

Li Guanqi stood behind him and listened silently, blood congealed on her knife, and her hand was glued together as if the two were going to be welded to death forever.

Julio's spirit seems to have collapsed, and he says almost everything, pee, and fart.

It's very messy, it's messy, and the huge amount of information makes Li Guanqi look bored - even if there is some important news in it, but given that Julio spent a full hour and a half going to the water, this is really not something to be happy for Li Guanqi, who once dreamed of returning to the opening speech scene.

But in any case, in this hour-and-a-half-long self-confession, Julio finally finished his life of sin.

"I ...... I'm done, I'll tell you all. Julio sobbed and asked, "Will you let me go?" ”

"No, I won't." Li Guanqi shook his head, paused, and then patted Julio with relief and said, "But I will end your life of sin." ”

"You, you don't mean what you say!" Julio shivered like chaff, and he screamed, screaming like a woman, "You said you'd let me go as long as I answered the question correctly...... You said that! ”

"No, what I'm saying is - if you get it right, I'll keep you alive for a few more seconds." Li Guanqi squatted down and looked at him expressionlessly, "Actually, I let you live for an hour and a half...... And not in seconds. ”

Julio's lips squirmed: "......"

"I can't hear you." Li Guanqi got up and suggested indifferently: "You can speak louder." ”

"I, I mean...... You're a liar! ”

Maybe he knew that he was going to die today, so Julio was angry, even if he couldn't see Li Guanqi's face because he was hanging upside down, he still stared, "You cunning! Damn! Deceiver! ”

"Alas...... How wronged. Li Guanqi sighed and replied indifferently: "I'm an honest man." ”

Given that the pain in his right hand was still so clearly visible until now, Julio was so frightened that he couldn't help but scream: "Is there such a terrible honest man as you?!" ”

Li Guanqi was stunned for a second when he heard this, and then immediately became happy.

"Then you have to reflect on what you have done to honest people."

Li Guanqi recalled the things she had experienced in less than half a month, and only felt that everything was full of drama.

"First the casino, I was going to make money, but I didn't expect to win the jackpot on the first shot, and I met a pervert, first my arms and legs, and then my eyes......"

"After leaving the casino, my companion and I met robbers who wanted to make money, these people had knives and guns, and they looked like they were not only robbing money but also killing people, which was really scary......

"Oh, and then there's that Ut chief on the border, and this banquet...... Yes...... Who knows I was a law-abiding citizen who had a good student even half a month ago? ”

Speaking of these, Li Guanqi couldn't stop as soon as he spoke.

As if she had finally found an outlet, she spent half an hour telling Julio, the dying man, everything she had experienced in the past half a month, from the casino to the alley distress, to the bloody banquet, and even the death reading.

"Maybe it's just a trivial matter for you, you just kidnapped and sold people to slave traders, and you didn't make a lot of money at any cost, and you didn't kill anyone, anyway, the slave trade is rare and common in this circle of your nobility, and the law allows it, so it's not a crime at all."

Li Guanqi said, pulling over the water in the bucket on the side, while cleaning the blood stains that had solidified on the surface of the knife, while half-tilting his head and squinting at the person, "You...... Know about black slaves? ”

“…… No, no...... I don't know ......."

Julio shook his head stiffly, he looked at Li Guanqi who was washing his knife with a dead face, already frightened and stupid.

"I ...... I haven't heard of that...... It's nothing to do with me, it's okay ......"

"Ah, I know, but it's similar in nature to what you do."

Li Guanqi turned his head away.

"Although it no longer exists, in that country it did happen and lasted for hundreds of years, so much so that it has been recorded in textbooks and circulated to this day."

"Oh, he's even been made into a movie, even if he cuts a lot of [cruel] and [real] shots during the screening, it can still make people even if they are on the screen with the blood and despair that rush to their faces, and the hatred makes every onlooker gnash their teeth."

"Yes...... Can...... But what does that have to do with me......" Julio shuddered, "I haven't bought or sold what you said, that, that black slave......"

Li Guanqi was silent, and washed her knife in silence.

Julio couldn't stand such a depression and tentatively said: "You ......"

"I don't care about that, at least not yet......" Li Guanqi smiled bitterly in the dark, even though there was a taste of blood in that bitter smile, she was still crying and laughing, "And the reason why I say so much is because I want to tell you that I know what happens to most slaves, and I know very well." ”

Li Guanqi closed his eyes, and his mind was full of bloody scenes for a moment, as well as the black slaves in the movie working day and night on the plantation, until the red and bright blood dyed every white cotton scarlet.

The dark-skinned people lay in shackles and screamed under the ground, and the white cotton was tightened and a bright red liquid flowed out......

The barking of the plantation, the nine-tailed whip, and the hyena was so horrible and deafening in the chaos of screams......

"I know too well what happens to slaves......" Li Guanqi took the knife and walked step by step from the firelight to the shadows, his expression was gloomy, "So, as an honest person, I am so afraid that people like you live in this world, so much so that every second of your breath makes me sleep, and I am so scared that I have a subconscious disgust for the fact of being alive." ”

"But, but I'm a nobleman!"

Julio's face was as dead as ashes, but a desire to survive drove him to make his last struggle before dying, even if that struggle was so stupid that it could be perfectly described as "which pot is not opened".

"Kill me, and you won't end well! The law will sanction you! You'll end up hanging on the gallows! ”

Julio screamed and threatened, in fact, given the horror on his face at the moment, Li Guanqi couldn't tell whether he was screaming or threatening.

Especially when several emotions such as fear, hesitation, anger, despair, hatred, and luck converge and intertwine on the face of the same person, Li Guanqi only wants to praise the awesomeness of this "statistical chart", rather than really classify and plan for it in a few percent.

After all, she doesn't have OCD. (Stalls)

"Just kill me, and you'll never end up better than me! Utah won't let you go! You're dead! Julio was still yelling, playing with his stupid little cleverness in his stick, "but if you let me go, I mean...... If I were to survive, I would swear that I would not only be not guilty of this tonight, but would even promise you a large sum of money. ”

Li Guanqi: "......"

Li Guanqi was silent.

"Look, I knew you didn't want to take the life of a nobleman, after all, you're so young, aren't you?"

Perhaps it was Li Guanqi's silence that gave Julio the illusion that there was actually something to talk about, so he sniffed, wanting to make himself look more elegant, and flattered him step by step: "But as long as you let me go, not only do you not have to bear these things, but you can even ...... them."

He didn't finish the next words, but carefully looked at Li Guanqi's expression with expectant and flattering eyes.

"Oh...... So you're done? ”

Li Guanqi tasted Julio's insincere flattery, and looked at Julio strangely, with an expression of "Lao Tzu has let you live for so long to give you face, and you dare to bark".

"The fate of the nobles...... Do you think I still care about that? ”

“…… What, what? Julio's anticipation and flattery all stiffened on his face, forming a comical expression, "I, I ......"

"Actually, if you want me to say, the decay of the dynasty should have collapsed in the middle of the road a long time ago, so what does it matter if a royal nobleman like you dies?" Li Guanqi sighed softly, "Oppress the people, enslave human rights, and despise life...... Ha, before you die, reform your pedantic thinking, noble lord. You know, the fashion trend is the Tata Kai of the revolutionaries. ”

Li Guanqi raised the knife, measured the position, cut the major artery in Julio's leg, and then took out a rope to tie it tightly to slow down the bleeding speed, so that Julio would die, but not so quickly.

Julio couldn't see Li Guanqi's movements, only felt a pain in his thigh, and then the wet sensation spread from top to bottom of his body, passed by his back, then climbed up his neck, and finally fell drop by drop into the bucket that Li Guanqi had placed under his head.

Da, da, da......

"You, you, may be the first to die, but you will definitely not be the last."

Li Guanqi threw the knife in his hand into the bucket on the side, then squatted down and continued to Julio: "I promise, if the situation requires it, I will also raise those other royal nobles who are not like you who don't have long eyes, so that you can still form a football team and have fun while you are soaking in the oil pot in hell." ”

Julio: "......"

Julio wanted to say something more, but the moment he just spoke, he suddenly noticed the person behind Li Guanqi, who was dressed like an old butler, because of the back and forth in front of Li Guanqi, at some point, he had changed from a posture with his back to him to a perspective facing him, allowing him to see the other party's face clearly.

It's the old butler...... It's just that from his completely gray face, his bloodshot pupils, and the bloodstains on his face and the wound on his neck, it is not difficult to judge the reality that this person has been cold for a while.

It was then that Julio suddenly realized that the people around him were not in a coma as he imagined.

Rather, all of them were dead, and he was left alive.

The old housekeeper is his cronies, and he has accompanied him almost since he was a child, taking care of his life like a father, so he knows everything about him, even if there are some things he does behind the old housekeeper's back, but the old housekeeper can also guess a rough idea by virtue of his understanding.

So before the questioning of him began, Li Guanqi had actually asked about the information she wanted to know, so that when she asked him, she could immediately judge whether his answer was true or false almost without thinking.

Demon! This guy is a demon!

"He, they ......" Julio's voice trembled, his face contorted, his mind jumping back and forth on the verge of collapse.

"What's wrong?" Li Guanqi chuckled, "Did you see Meng Po and her old man standing on the Nai He Bridge with soup waiting for you?" ”

Julio: "Ah...... Ah......h

Julio was speechless.

A whop on the head.

At that moment, the laughter was like a cold viper, winding down his body, the cold scales crawling over his spinal cord, making fear bind his soul and make it breathless.

In an instant, Julio's blood in his whole body quickly cooled, and his teeth couldn't help but tremble, and his whole body was cold.

Dead silence......

"I, I regret it...... Really ......"

After a long time, Julio, who had only recovered from his fear, let out a funny and loud sob, "I shouldn't have done that...... I mean...... I'm sorry, really, very sorry......"

Julio finally stopped screaming, his voice was calm now, even if it was full of despair.

"I want to mend my ......"

He said sullenly, with a little obvious crying, and began to regret it with sincerity.

"I knew it wasn't right...... I'm just, fascinated by money...... I know I shouldn't have done that...... Please, I really don't look like I'm dead...... I can give you all my money, and I will be a good person in the future...... Just, please......"

"Alas...... I don't know if you're really admitting mistakes, but I hope you are...... Well, I'll assume you're really admitting your mistake, but it's too late. ”

Li Guanqi sighed again, "You can't wait for someone to regret it when they don't have a way to live, you have created a big sin, everyone is afraid of death, but you have to be responsible......

Li Guanqi said to Julio almost gently:

"I mean, you're going to die, it's not negotiable."