Chen Lun declined Maledice's invitation and did not stay for dinner.
He said that he is now anxious to hand over the materials to the "organization" and that he will contact the other party as soon as possible after the matter is over to help treat his granddaughter's illness.
After he leaves.
The three people in the box were silent for a long time.
"Mr. Maledice, if you let him go like this, what if he deceives you?"
Siebert said with a worried look on his face.
Maledice lowered his eyes expressionlessly, and after a few seconds, he sighed.
"What will happen if we keep him?"
Siebert was slightly stunned, then he understood what his old boss meant.
The other party is a supernatural being from the mysterious realm and also a member of a supernatural organization. The three of us ordinary people really have no way to deal with him.
"This is the helplessness of mortals..."
Pompey couldn't help but think of the extraordinary events his family had experienced in Amber City and sighed.
If Mr. Jack had not come to the rescue, their family would have died.
"I hope he won't lie to me. Otherwise... even if I have to risk my reputation and go find my old friends, I must send out the extraordinary people in the shelter to suppress them!"
Maledice said wearily.
At this time, the waiter knocked on the door with food.
"Eat first. You two have worked hard to keep an old man like me running around."
Maledice asked the waiter to come in, then pointed to the food on the table and said to Pompey and Sibert.
"Old General, if you hadn't valued and promoted me, there wouldn't be Siebert today... Doing these insignificant things for you is nothing."
Siebert said with a smile.
Viscount Pompey ate his steak and expressed some words of gratitude to Maledice.
The old man smiled and said nothing.
The three of them were eating, but Pompey and Sibert sighed at the same time.
They had long seen that Mr. Maledice was so anxious about his granddaughter that he lost his mind.
They even turned to this illegal supernatural organization, which was involved in a secret cult that worshiped a suspected evil god... This was a typical act of seeking medical help in desperation.
But they couldn't say anything because Maledice wouldn't listen.
My old boss has always been a rather stubborn and stubborn person.
"I just hope that little Rui Yi can really be saved."
Pompey thought.
Outside the hotel building.
There was a figure hiding under a tree across the street.
Chen Lun leaned against a big tree, looking at the makeup mirror in his hand, which clearly showed the scene of Maledice eating.
He didn't go away at all, but was hiding here to eavesdrop on intelligence.
He heard every word of their conversation just now.
"Um……"
Chen Lun pondered.
"Let's follow them back to their residence and take a look."
Although he got the Sunset Chrysanthemum Dew, he still wanted to continue observing to see if he could get more information about the "Chrysalis of the End".
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late at night.
Maledice, surrounded by Pompey and Sibert, returned to a villa in the center of Pyrite City.
Chen Lun put on the [black-patterned cufflinks] and walked into the manor gate as if no one was around.
After he watched the three people walk into the villa, he walked to the other side of the building and looked up at a window on the fourth floor.
The lights were still on there.
In the room.
The walls are covered with pink wallpaper with some cute flowers painted on it.
An ugly girl who was as fat as a ball was sitting on the princess bed, looking depressed. The tear marks on her face were not yet dry, and it was obvious that she had just cried.
Knock knock...
At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and outside the door came Maledice's tired but loving voice:
"Ray, are you asleep?"
After a while.
"I'm already asleep, Grandpa Maleditz."
With a few relaxed chuckles, the door was pushed open and Maledice walked in.
"How can you answer questions when you're asleep, silly boy... and the lights are even on."
The old man smiled kindly and looked at the girl on the bed.
Pompey and Sibert did not come in. They stood at the door, looked at each other, and ignored each other, but their expressions looked dull.
"Grandpa, please don't work so hard for me anymore. I noticed your hair has turned white again these past two days."
Rei turned her head away, not wanting Maledice to see the tears on her face.
But these could not escape the old man's eyes.
He sighed secretly but smiled on the surface.
"Little Rui, don't worry, Grandpa has found a way to help you return to normal...Does your chest still hurt?"
"Um."
The girl nodded slightly.
But she didn't want to worry her grandfather, so she shook her head again.
"It's just a little bit, nothing."
Maledice took the girl's hand comfortingly and said gently:
"It will stop hurting soon, and Ruiyi will be able to return to her former cute and beautiful self. She can go out and play with her friends without having to care about what others think."
"Well, Grandpa, I believe you."
Rei nodded.
"It's late, go to bed, kid."
Maledice stood up and turned off the light in the girl's room.
"Goodnight, little Ray."
"Good night...Grandpa."
The door slowly closed. In her last sight, the girl noticed that her grandfather's back was a little hunched. She held back her tears and slowly lay down.
This way, the tears won't flow.
Her parents died in the war when she was very young, and she was raised by her grandfather, who was her only relative.
But because she was too playful, she touched strange objects that she shouldn't have touched and contracted a strange disease. She has become the disgusting person she is now, and she has also caused her grandfather to run around and work hard for her every day.
Guilt and uneasiness lingered in Rui Yi's heart.
She even thought about ending it all, but she didn't want to see her grandfather sad.
The complex emotions made it difficult for her to fall asleep. She thought of her past self, her friends in the academy, and some places she wanted to go but never got to...
suddenly.
She felt the moonlight shining into the room dim, as if something was blocking the windowsill.
She struggled to get up and looked, and she almost screamed.
A figure was sitting on the windowsill, seemingly still looking at her quietly .
Looking closely, it was a handsome young man in a black hat, holding a nice silver cane in his hand.
"Mr.... Sir? Who are you?"
Rui Yi has been very brave since he was a child and did not feel afraid.
Besides, what could be scarier than a strange disease? I'm going to die soon, right?
"Oh, dear girl, I am the angel of the God of Foreign Lands. You can call me Mr. 'Black Messenger'."
Chen Lun looked at Rui Yi and deliberately pretended to sing in a strange tone.
"Black Messenger... sir?"
Rui Yi muttered to herself that she had never heard of the Foreign God and the Black Messenger, but she still found it difficult to resist the other person's appearance.
After watching it again and again, I couldn't help but develop an uncontrollable liking for this man.
"Is the God of Foreign Lands an evil god? And you don't look like the angels in fairy tales..."
Ray asked hesitantly.
"Oh, the God of Strangers is certainly not an evil god. He protects all wandering strangers... As for me, you see."
Chen Lun looked at the girl who was actually only fifteen or sixteen years old. He became playful and jumped into the room, then snapped his fingers.
Two pairs of colorful scaly wings emitting a white halo appeared behind him.
"Wow!"
Rei exclaimed, then covered her mouth.
A few seconds passed.
"You...you really are an angel, with such beautiful wings!"
Chen Lun folded his wings, smiled slightly, then pointed with his cane and a chair floated over and landed in front of the bed.
He sat down on it gently.
"Mr. Black Messenger, aren't you afraid of my current appearance?"
Rui asked shyly, turning her head away.
"No……"
Chen Lun smiled slightly.
"Appearances are just illusions, your heart is pure and beautiful."
Hearing him say this, Rui Yi laughed happily and liked the black messenger even more.
Chen Lun saw that the time was right, so he asked Rui Yi a few questions.
The girl had already believed that Chen Lun was the "angel" of the God of Foreign Lands. At the same time, because of her good impression of him, she felt a little close to him, so she answered those questions obediently.
It turned out that the reason why she became what she is now was because a month ago, when she was out playing with her friends, she met a strange merchant selling toys.
At that time, Rui Yi was attracted by a black rose ornament on a toy stall. After buying it home, she accidentally got her finger pricked by the thorns on the ornament. This was when her appearance began to change, and even her heart began to hurt.
She usually likes things about the occult, collects a lot of related small items, and even organizes a mystery club with her friends.
But I never thought that I would actually encounter misfortune in the mysterious realm.
She didn't dare tell her grandfather the truth, and even hid the black rose ornament in the garden.
"Little girl, I know everything that happened to you... Now, please have a good sleep. Maybe in a few days, you will feel better."
Chen Lun put this information in his heart and smiled.
"Mr. Black Messenger, do you want to use magic to make me better after I fall asleep?"
Rui Yi has a fat and ugly face, but has a pair of bright eyes.
Chen Lun couldn't help but be stunned.
"Hehe, angels in fairy tales always help others in this way."
Rei said.
Chen Lun smiled and lied in a kind way:
"What a clever girl... Because I still need to chant a spell, and this spell cannot be heard by mortals, otherwise I will be punished by the gods."
"ah……"
After hearing this, Rui Yi quickly lay down and closed his eyes.
She said:
"Mr. Black Messenger, I'm going to sleep now. I can't let you be punished..."
After a few seconds, worry appeared on Rei's face.
"Mr. Black Messenger... I know that you will consume energy when casting magic. Well, if it hurts you, then don't help me. It's okay..."
She was still talking quietly.
Chen Lun smiled slightly and sighed to himself:
'What a kind little girl.'
He used the hypnotic power of [Siren's Song] and whistled a gentle melody, causing Rui to gradually fall asleep.
"I'll have to bear with you for a few days... We can't alert the enemy for now."
Chen Lun murmured something, turned around and jumped out of the window.
He has already discovered the problem with Rui Yi. It is indeed a curse, and it is very similar to Noah's situation, which makes him a little confused.
To confirm, he dug out the black rose ornament from under a tree in the garden based on the clues provided by Rui.
"really……"
Chen Lun narrowed his eyes when he saw the prompt box that popped up on the panel.
[Extraordinary Thing - Black Rose]
Item description: A cursed object with a hint of blasphemy, it looks like a black rose.
It seemed to be a funeral flower adorning a holy sword, tainted by the profane power of the holy sword.