Approaching mid-November, a few days before the deadline for the mission, the old viscount once again held a social banquet.

Varina finally got the chance he wanted.

As on the previous occasion, he and the gardener changed into the costumes of a valet in the preparation of the banquet, and together with the other servants, they shuttled through the huge hive of the main building like industrious worker bees.

Entering through the main building, through a spacious and elegant foyer, you will arrive at the main hall, which can accommodate dozens or hundreds of guests to dance.

In the center of the main hall, a brightly colored thick carpet is surrounded by bright marble tiles, where pianos, stone carvings and other objects are placed, and stone pillars inlaid with ornaments support the second floor.

To the left of the main hall is a side hall that connects to the main hall, which provides a temporary place for guests to rest, talk and eat, where long tables are set up and a variety of food is placed at the beginning of the feast.

To the right of the main hall is a verdant lawn and blooming garden, and through rows of floor-to-ceiling windows, guests can enjoy the well-groomed landscaping.

The main hall is flanked by stairs leading to the second floor.

The cloister on the second floor is square-shaped, and the central empty part is the carpeted dance floor in the main hall, where guests can stand behind the railing and enjoy the dance party below.

There are many rooms on the second floor, including a living room, a lounge, a living room, a dining room, a washroom, a billiard room, and a large number of bedrooms, so guests will stay here if they need to stay overnight.

Of course, these are all passages for the master and guests to walk, and the servants naturally have another servant passage.

In the hidden place to the right of the main building, there is also a corridor with a staircase - this is the hub of the servant's passage.

Through it, servants can move through most of the main building beyond the sight of the master and guests, with the exception of the third floor, which is the master's private space and is only accessible to personal servants.

In preparation for the banquet, Varina was busy navigating the passages, carrying and arranging items.

Just after eight o'clock in the evening, the guests arrived one after another.

By this time, the servants had been relatively relaxed as the preparations had been completed, and many were even able to take a short break to rest against the wall in the middle of nowhere.

This is the time for Varina to wait for action.

He took an opportunity to creep into a break room on the second floor, turned on a gas lamp near the ground, and then lifted the blackened glass lampshade to extinguish the pale blue flame.

This does not affect the lighting in the lounge, as there is also a brighter chandelier on the ceiling of the room.

In fact, the light that Varina turned on should not be on now.

Only when the old Viscount Stott, who was over-exhausted, came here to rest and recuperate as is customary, would his valet turn it on and turn off the chandelier at the same time, creating a light environment suitable for the old Viscount to rest.

It was when Varina understood this that he had the initial idea.

In this era, although the development of medicine has begun to get on the right track, it is limited by the development of basic sciences related to chemistry and biology, as well as the suppression brought about by extraordinary drugs with miraculous effects, and not much has been achieved in fact.

Gas poisoning is one of those blind spots.

With the large-scale use of gas, of course, some people will die from gas poisoning, but because there is no clear understanding, the cause of death is attributed to other underlying diseases such as lung disease, asthma, or evil causes, and not enough attention has been paid to it.

When Varina thought of this method, she couldn't help but disagree with Russell in her heart.

He brought so many changes to the world, and even almost single-handedly set off the wave of the Industrial Revolution, which is certainly a very high achievement.

But it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish!

Scientific discoveries, and most importantly those inventions, are those laws?

No, absolutely not.

The most important thing is scientific thinking.

Scientific logical thinking, like a light in the dark, always shines on the way forward of scientific development. With its guidance, there will always be people who will reproduce the discoveries of their predecessors and eventually build the edifice of scientific theories again.

Obviously, Russell failed to bring that.

Of course, from this point of view, the "God of Steam and Machinery", who symbolizes human civilization, and the former "enlightener of civilization", is even more shamefully inferior to Russell, who was once called the "God of Craftsmen"?

How can this have even the slightest hint of "civilized enlightener"? No wonder even the potions weren't fully digested.

The banquet went on, and Varina kept counting the time.

At nine o'clock, he crept to the lounge on the second floor of the main building again and turned off the gas lamp again.

In this way, when the valet came to light the lamp, there was no way to detect the abnormality.

At this point, all that Varina can do has been done, and all that remains is hope and waiting.

The old Viscount Stott lived up to his expectations.

Before about ten o'clock, after greeting several important guests in turn, he went to the lounge on the second floor alone, followed by Te's personal valet.

In the lounge, after the old viscount sat comfortably in the chaise longue, the valet turned on the gas lamp near the ground, turned off the chandelier, and then closed the door and exited.

He shook his head, brushing away the slightest feeling of dizziness and patiently stood at the door.

Downstairs, the banquet without the presence of the old viscount continued.

At nearly eleven o'clock, when the guests were about to leave, the valet entered the door, as the old viscount had commanded, intending to wake him up and say goodbye to the guests.

However, he was unsuccessful.

The old viscount lay peacefully in his chair, having stopped breathing, his eyes wide and bulging, looking horrible and strange.

The poor manservant was frightened, he screamed in horror, stumbled out of the lounge, stumbling over the same sentence—

"The old viscount is dead...... The old viscount is dead......"

The panic began with the valet and soon spread to everyone, including the guests who came to the banquet.

The panic didn't last long.

Among the guests were some calm people who were not alarmed, and there was even a high-ranking official of the General Police Department, under their command and order, some of the servants who had regained their consciousness were in charge of controlling the scene, and some were responsible for going to the nearby police station and St. Samuel's Church to report the news.

After the situation was initially brought under control, Stott Jr. went to the lounge with several important guests to check on the old viscount's death.

After some examination, the family nurse hired by the old viscount's family came to a preliminary conclusion:

"The old viscount died of suffocation caused by acute respiratory failure."

Stott Jr. was a little dissatisfied with this conclusion: "How could my father, who had an occasional cough but no lung disease, suddenly die of respiratory failure?" ”

The family nurse nodded resignedly, stepping aside and not daring to say more.

Under such circumstances, a team of Night Watch from the Church of the Night Goddess arrived.