Dark Contractor

up.Yue Sheng thought and thought, and finally decided to find a way by herself, so she walked out of the room.

Even under the moonlight, the castle can still be seen to be luxurious and magnificent.Yue Sheng was walking quickly, when he was about to go down the stairs decorated with portraits of past generations, he suddenly stopped.

He heard voices talking next to him.

Yuesheng naturally walked towards the direction of the voice and walked into the corridor.In front of the corridor, there is a room that looks like a study.Light shines through the crack in the door, and the bookshelves behind the door can be seen.

"What do you mean by your sudden visit, Alexis." A middle-aged man's voice suddenly reached my ears.

"Because my friend was suddenly not feeling well during the trip, I had to bring him here. We will leave as soon as he recovers, Baron."

Hearing him call him a baron, it seems that this man is Baron Dowding?Judging from his voice, he seemed much older than Alexis.Because she doesn't know much about the rumors in the social world, Yue Sheng is not familiar with Baron Dowding's matter.

"Enough! I should have said that you are not allowed to come to this house again!" The man said in a rough and powerful voice, which made Yue Sheng shrink back in fright.

Suddenly, there was a tense atmosphere in the air.

"It's really sad for you to say that. Am I so scary?" Although the words were polite, Alexis's words were provocative.

"Of course... you monster."

"It's rude to say you are a monster." Alexis dealt with the man calmly.Perhaps he knew very well that this move would incite the man's anger instead.

"Otherwise what are you, Alexis?"

Unable to grasp the content of the conversation, Yue Sheng propped his chin with his hand to think.

"That person was afraid of you until he died. Alexis—it was you."

"Fear is the basic emotion in the human heart. Denying this is tantamount to denying the human nature. It is a good thing to have a fearful heart. Even if you want to get close to the sun, your wings will not be burned." Alexis Si said these words, beyond Yue Sheng's expectation.

"Shut up! Don't make it sound like you understand it! You are obviously a cursed guy!" Baron Dowding roared in an excited voice.Alexis still chose to keep silent, maybe this made him more angry, the baron murmured again. "...Since you were born, everything in this family has changed..." The baron's words were filled with grief when the topic changed.

This man hated and feared Alexis from the bottom of his heart. "Because we are too afraid of your existence, our whole family wants to stay away from you. You chose that hateful job again, and it still makes me suffer."

The man's voice became weaker and weaker. "If you are a youkai, why...why did you choose to be born in our family!"

"It was my father who called me. If you have a problem, go and talk to my father...to heaven."

What is the root of Baron Dowding's fear?Although he has left God's sight now, and his younger brother who is engaged in exorcism is a bit scary, Yue Sheng thinks there must be other reasons.

"May you be cursed, Alexis." Perhaps it was Alexis' half-joking tone that made the baron even more angry, and Baron Dowding spat out extremely vicious words.

"You think I'm not cursed?" Alexis chuckled.

"From the moment I was born... I have always been cursed. Not even redemption."

Yue Sheng wanted to know what kind of expression Alexis used to say this, but he couldn't peek at the situation in the room.

"Then you should live a more pious and carefree life?"

"This is the result of my way of living piously and carefree. I don't want to trouble you."

"Then you will be cursed forever!"

The door of the study was opened rudely with a click, and Yue Sheng had nowhere to hide, so he had to stand where he was.

Lord Dowding was a thin man who looked like the man who had just appeared in his dream, but he bore no resemblance to Alexis.

Baron Dowding looked at Yue Sheng and asked fiercely, "Who are you?"

Alexis came out of the study a step late, and frowned slightly after discovering Yue Sheng.Maybe he has discovered that Yuesheng eavesdropped on the conversation just now.

"Sorry. I wanted to drink some water, because I heard voices from here..."

"Before you make an excuse, how about reporting your name first?"

His contemptuous tone made people uncomfortable, but Yue Sheng still lowered his head cautiously. "I'm very sorry. My surname is Cui. I run a Chinese medicine shop in London. This time I came to Yorkshire to buy herbs. I felt unwell on the way. Thank you very much for taking me in."

"You're still eavesdropping. You're a pretty good character. As expected of the person you brought, Alexis."

"I'm very sorry." Yue Sheng apologized again, Baron Dowding seemed to have found the target of the attack.

"...I see. I remembered," Baron Dowding looked at Yuesheng carefully with contempt and hostility in his eyes. "There seems to be a Chinese who curry favor with London nobles. I heard that he uses Chinese secret arts to please gentlemen and ladies... It's not difficult to understand. Anyway, you must be using some kind of black magic to deceive them, right?"

The word "Secret Technique" can't help but remind people of male prostitutes. Although it is an obscene word, it is nothing compared to the insults Yuesheng has received as an oriental.

"In a night like this, are you looking for someone with golden eyes? Or Alexis, are you bringing this kind of man here, are you planning to stretch out your murderous hands to me? Could it be that you are crying because you can't pay?" Come to me for help?"

"Could you please stop insulting Yuesheng?" Alexis raised her voice a few degrees, Yuesheng was startled. "He is an excellent pharmacist. He is skilled and capable. People in the upper class like him, which is the result of Yuesheng's own efforts. You have no reason to deny Yuesheng's personality."

Yue Sheng never thought that he would cover herself.Even if you want to satirize Baron Dowding, you don't need to praise Yue Sheng like this.

"What did you say?"

"If you have a problem with me, just tell me. Such an act of insulting others just to vent your anger will make me doubt your own character."

After hearing Alexis' words, Baron Dowding's face turned black with anger. "You can visit as you like. But, if there is one thing missing from our house, I will chase it to London. Fake exorcists and fake pharmacists are quite a match."

Hearing the other party's hateful words, although he could only smile wryly in his heart, Yue Sheng didn't feel angry.

"Thank you." Yuesheng nodded graciously, but Baron Dowding didn't even look at him.

"Alexis, you are not allowed to come to our house again. Let the fire of hell consume your filthy blood!" The strong curse contained the same degree of fear as hatred.

Baron Dowding seemed to have finished speaking, and left the corridor angrily.

The two were left behind, and there was silence around them.

Yue Sheng didn't know what to do, Alexis said to Yue Sheng: "Sorry."

This abrupt apology made Yue Sheng wonder why he wanted to apologize.

"Makes you feel uncomfortable."

"Compared to what you usually do to me, this is still within my tolerance."

Startled by his frank apology, Yuesheng couldn't help but blurt out something unlovable.However, he remembered that the fault was now his own. "And it was me who was wrong. Although I didn't intend to do it, I overheard the conversation between you."

"I don't intend to hide it from you. As long as I'm in this house, you should see me being insulted all the time."

"By the way, there seems to be a lot of age difference between you and Baron Dowding."

"Yeah." Alexis' smiling expression made Yuesheng feel a little strange, but he didn't know the reason.Although he wanted to investigate further, all his doubts dissipated when he saw a certain portrait.

His heart was beating so fast. "This is..." Without realizing it, Yue Sheng took a few steps closer to the painting.

"Rob Dowding, No. 12 head of the Dowding family. 』

One is a middle-aged gentleman with dark brown hair and luxurious clothes. He wears a ring carved with lions and dragons.The other one is a silver-haired young man who is so beautiful that people feel strange.Both of them were just as they were in his dream.

"You are my compatriot. 』

Definitely, it's impossible to get it wrong.He is Uberu Du Weiler.

"You Beiru...?" Yue Sheng felt a chill behind his back, staring at the portraits of the two of them carefully.

"This is Uber and Baron Dowding three generations ago. It's quite nostalgic."

"... Just now, I had an unbelievable dream. I dreamed that Baron Dowding and Uberu were talking." Before saying that, Yue Sheng suddenly felt incredible, why did Alexis know Uberu?

"You and Uber..."

"We met. He said it as if he knew me very well, so that's it. Is that lock the same design as his ring?" He murmured like a man talking to himself. , and suddenly called out: "Look, Yuesheng." Alexis held a lamp and pointed to the artist's signature in the lower right corner, with numbers written beside it.

80 - Isn't this the year [-] years ago!It hasn't changed since then, he hasn't aged after living for so many years.That Yuberu even said that he was his accomplice.That is the proof that he is a demon just like Yuberu.

"What you see is a phantom of the past."

"phantom?"

"perhaps