Lord of Rot

"Teacher James?" In the crypt, Li Qi's voice became farther and farther away.

James gritted his teeth and jumped down from the crypt. He was not afraid of a guy who was seriously injured and on the verge of death, so why should he be afraid? Maybe there really is some kind of treasure inside! And this mysterious crypt is also very suitable as the burial ground for Baron Reacher!

It was pitch black ahead, and the light coming in from the entrance of the cave was so weak that it was invisible. James could only move forward in darkness. After walking for a while, footsteps appeared in front of him.

The other party stopped in front of James.

"My lord?" James asked aloud, clenching his fists and preparing to punch the opponent hard in the heart.

Whoosh!

But the master of the footsteps acted more decisively. In the darkness, a scythe came down and hit James' shoulder hard. However, the rough scythe got stuck in James' shoulder muscles instead of cutting off his arm.

James' eyes widened in pain, and he howled angrily: "You are looking for death!"

He quickly reached out and grabbed the other person's wrist. The other person's wrist was cold, but James had no time to think about it. He didn't even think about why he couldn't hear breathing in the quiet crypt.

He suddenly twisted the opponent's wrist and grabbed the opponent's neck with his other hand. After pulling him in, he saw that it was not Li Qi who attacked him, but a farmer.

"It's you!" He remembered that the farmer in front of him was one of the four who followed them into the mysterious tomb yesterday.

"You took refuge in him? Haha, stupid farmer!"

James broke the farmer's neck, threw the body on the ground, took out the sickle stuck on his shoulder, grabbed it in his hand, and continued walking forward.

He had just taken two steps when his right foot was hugged by a pair of hands. James used the dim light from the hole to look down and saw that the person holding his right foot was actually the farmer whose neck had been broken.

There were footsteps again from ahead.

The three farmers rushed towards him with hoes, axes and other farm tools. James immediately waved the sickle in his hand. Even if the sword was not with him, as a "warg killer", he could still display powerful sword skills. In this narrow crypt, it is not a problem to fight one against three.

What's more, it's much easier for three farmers than to kill a vicious dog.

The sickle quickly passed across the necks of the three people, and the blade hooked the throat.

"Humph" James said disdainfully and continued walking forward.

But the next actions of the three farmers made him unbelievable. After their throats were cut, they did not fall down but continued to wave the farm tools in their hands. They hit James on the head with a hoe, making him dizzy. An ax hit the spot where the sickle had cut him, and struck his collarbone hard. His bones howled, his blood vessels were severed, and blood spurted out!

"what!!"

James exploded. He pulled out the ax stuck in his collarbone and chopped the three farmers in front of him into pieces. Then he covered his neck with his hands, but he couldn't stop the blood flowing out, and the strength in his body was drained away. Walk.

He didn't understand why the cowardly farmer would attack him desperately, and why he didn't die even after his throat was slashed.

Finally, James' body lost strength and he fell down, his eyelids heavy.

"Teacher James, why?" Li Qi's voice came from the depths of darkness, and he did not show up from beginning to end.

"why?"

Blood overflowed from James's mouth: "Because..., I want to become a knight, but my father thinks I am not worthy."

His vision began to blur, and fire finally appeared in front of him.

Li Qi stood in the distance holding a torch, looking down at James with a noble attitude like the former Porcupine Baron with an expressionless face: "Yes, you are indeed unworthy of betraying your lord and honor."

waited a few minutes,

After James died, Li Qi walked over, bent down and pulled up the still warm corpse, and walked slowly deeper into the cave. The corpses of the three farmers were already dead. Although the remaining corpse could be repaired, it could not be repaired. But it will waste a lot of gold. Unfortunately, the most lacking thing in Baron Reacher's castle is gold.

But now he has the body of a Warg Killer.

"The wound on the collarbone was very deep, and a dent was knocked out of the skull..."

It is not difficult to resuscitate a dead corpse. What is difficult is "completeness". The incomplete parts have to be filled with gold. Li Qi has begun to think about poisoning or assassination when killing enemies in the future. Care must be taken to keep the corpse intact, otherwise it will be too wasteful. .

After moving James' body into the coffin and putting gold in it for refining, he quickly left the underground cave.

It was already dawn outside, and the news that he had woken up must have been known to the stepmother at this time, so he had to go out and deal with her to show respect.

……

"Where's the pitchfork?"

Li Qi walked out of the room and did not allow anyone to enter his room. He was the Baron of the Porcupine Territory. What he said here were the orders that others must obey. Disobeying the lord's orders would be regarded as rebellion and would be whipped in the lightest case and whipped in the worst case. Hanging.

As for the injuries on his body, Li Qi just fooled around casually, and the absence of his manservant Pitchfork gave him a reason to fool around.

"He went to the farmers in Porcupine Territory to collect eye grass for you, my lord.

Pitchfork is your most loyal servant. During the night when you were in a coma, he tossed and turned, and his eyes were red and swollen from crying. He would be ecstatic if he knew you woke up. "

The man who talks so much about civilized words and wants to twist idioms into sentences is Li Qi's butler, "Rabbit" Simon.

He has brown hair and an excessively long forehead, which is the so-called "fullness of heaven." Apart from his eyelids that are still slack and wide despite his deliberate efforts to cheer up, the most unforgettable thing about him is his appearance. It is said that He had a harelip when he was born. Fortunately, his father found a scholar to perform surgery on him at that time. Although the harelip was cured, his was deeper than many people.

Li Qi recalled the other party's work and behavior in his mind. He had to say that Simon was very qualified as a housekeeper and could keep the interior of the castle in order. As for whether he participated in the murder of the baron, there was no need to worry, even if the porcupine Even if the castle were replaced by a hundred barons, Simon would still be a butler. Without heroic achievements and no noble blood, Simon would only be a butler for the rest of his life.

Betrayal requires sufficient benefits, and Li Qi's stepmother can't give others any benefits. Except for the teacher James whose brain was crushed by the warg's butt, no one will believe that she, the daughter of a knight, can give much benefit.

However, the butler Simon must have roughly guessed what happened after Li Qi returned from a serious injury, but he still wanted to be a butler, so he chose to pretend to be stupid. And Li Qi now has no helpers around him, so he also needs to pretend Silly, but disloyal people should be more careful when using it in the future.

"Eat breakfast. If I'm going to die soon, I hope it won't be from starvation."

Butler Simon immediately said: "I will arrange the kitchen preparations immediately, my lord."