Crown of Silence

Chapter 319 Before dawn

When the real turmoil ended, confusion and fear belatedly began to appear in the sluggish city.

Emergency police officers rode horses and rushed to the streets to maintain the most basic law and order. But there were more troops running through the streets amidst the sound of clanging armor, following the Queen's orders to capture the rebels.

The silent uptown area was awakened by the sound of heavy footsteps. There were faint lights on in the darkness. There were faint cries and confusion. The baby was strangled to death in his infancy just after birth.

Therefore, there is still vague silence.

All the manors and houses involved in the House of Representatives were surrounded by water, and soon, a figure with a black hood on his head was escorted into a carriage and sent to the non-existent ‘fifth department’.

Those who cooperate with the arrest can enjoy the last bit of dignity, and those who dare to resist will be killed on the spot.

So, in this suffocating darkness, all the members of the House were uprooted one by one...

The fifth department, which has been silently searching for clues for a long time, has long been prepared for this day. These non-existent figures suddenly appeared on the streets like illusions, and then brought the prisoners into a different place. Where exists.

From then on, he disappeared from the world quietly.

It can be expected that in a short time, when the secret trial ends, the traitor's door will be covered with corpses. They sway in the cold wind like wind chimes, paying the price for what they have done.

On the top of Avalon, in the pure white palace, the tower stands, releasing the only light.

The light was like the cold eyes of a giant dragon, quietly overlooking its own territory and watching the death struggle of the rebellious ministers.

"It's all over."

Gavin staggered out of the bloody whirlpool, holding on to the wall and coughing crazily. He looked up at the lights in the sky, a trace of resentment and darkness flashed in his eyes, gritted his teeth, and ran towards home.

They must deal with all the clues and cut them off before the fifth department learns their exact situation.

Fortunately, just in case, before starting, he had sent all his family members to other places and arranged an escape route for himself.

Just start the equipment that has been prepared for a long time and leave a small spark, which is enough to burn it all.

Suddenly, he knelt on the ground, spitting out a large mouthful of smelly blood, and felt that the power in his body was disappearing rapidly. This was divine punishment.

The Hundred-Eyed Man was furious after losing his incarnation. As a priest, Gavin had lost all his favor. If he hadn't quietly prepared a lot of precautions, he would have been as miserable as the scapegoat in those secret rooms at this moment.

"vomit!"

He bent down, vomited out the green poisonous juice, took out the silver needle, and nailed it into his neck and brain, temporarily sealing the disaster in his body: now he had to race against time, he didn't have much time.

Staring at the turbulent firelight in the distance, he gritted his teeth, climbed over the wall, and fell into the garden of the old house - the robin puppet in the secret room, his letters, the passwords for the secret lines, and his own arrangements All deployments must be destroyed.

Destroy as much as you can.

Otherwise he will spend the rest of his life being hunted by the Royal Band. What a pity...all the planning for so many years was lost overnight.

He gritted his teeth, regained his composure from his rage, and pushed open the door.

Then fell into sluggishness.

"Father……"

He saw the man in the wheelchair in the hall. The aging man was still wearing a respirator, and his voice was muddy, as if his lungs were churning with water.

He is still here and has not evacuated.

"Father, why haven't you left yet?"

Gavin looked at him in astonishment, and quickly walked forward, reaching out to pick up the frail old man, "It's too late, I'll take you away first..."

His hands froze in the air. After taking two steps forward, Gavin lost all his strength and fell to the ground, unable to get up.

"Father……"

He raised his head dully and looked at the old man in front of him.

On his face, hidden tattoos lit up one by one under the skin, as if he was born with them and had already been wedged into his flesh and bone marrow from which he could never get rid of. The restriction that had been engraved in his body since birth locked up all his power, causing him to lose the strength to resist in an instant.

Then, an angry cane poked his face, as if trying to smash his cheekbones. He didn't expect that this dying old man would have such great strength.

"You still have the nerve to call me father?"

The old man gasped, got up from the wheelchair, stumbled, raised the crutch, and hit him in the face, once, again, and again... until he exhausted his weak strength and completely broke the bridge of Gavin's nose. .

"The Adrian family is finished!"

He glared at Gavin, looking at a scoundrel, a scourge that should not be left in the world: "Because of you! Gavin, because of you! All the honorable names of our ancestors have been tarnished by you!"

Purple-green blood vessels bulged on his face. When he stared at Gavin, he gritted his teeth and said, "Sure enough, a scoundrel like you shouldn't stay in this world..."

Gavin was stunned. He stared blankly at this crazy man. His lips were pouting, as if he wanted to explain something, but he didn't know what to say.

Until there were footsteps in the distance, someone was leading a large group of people towards here, and the familiar voice shouted: "He's inside! Don't let him escape!"

It's Banner.

"Why...why?"

"By sacrificing you, the family can be saved." The old man looked at this embarrassing son with cold eyes: "Be taken away obediently and have nothing to do with the family. Do you understand? Don't implicate the family..."

"But...it's obvious..."

Gavin looked at him blankly: But, wasn't it you who asked me to join the House of Representatives? Father! Obviously, it was you who asked me to join the House of Representatives and please the big shots... Obviously, it was you who gave me the name Mockingbird...

Obviously...obviously...

"Obviously I have already done it, father."

He closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and held back his tears: "What I did was a thousand times better than what you wanted!"

Gavin roared amid the gradual footsteps.

He pulled out the dagger and gouged out the restriction imprinted on his face. Blood spurted out, and his pale cheekbones were exposed, full of cracks, looking like rotting corpses.

He screamed in pain and finally broke free from the shackles that had imprisoned him since birth, leaving only his flesh and blood and only his pale bones, as hideous as an evil ghost.

Seeing Gavin getting up from the ground and walking towards him, the old man was stunned. His body in the wheelchair was shaking and he wanted to retreat: "You... you... what do you want to do? Gavin, I..."

"I don't want to do anything."

Gavin smiled, stretched out his hand to stroke his sparse white hair, and said in a gentle tone: "Father, Banner has always cared about your health. This is the first time that our father and son are so close.

You are old and in poor health, so you should sit down and rest. "

As he spoke, he gently pushed the dagger into his withered chest. The dagger was close to his heart and nailed to the back of the wheelchair. They took root on the ground and fit together as one body.

As the old man screamed, Gavin bent down and stared into the old man's eyes with his iron-grey eyes: "As you wish, please put all the blame on me.

Like you said, Gavin died and the family was saved. "

He kissed the old man's forehead and laughed until his flesh was bloody.

He took out the robin mask from his pocket and put it on his face.

For the first time, there was no barrier between the mask and flesh and blood, and it truly transformed into his face, except that blood seeped out of the eye holes and fell down his cheeks.

No matter what, I can't stop it.

The robin laughed with tears of blood, pushed out the door, and pounced on the fire that was about to ignite itself.

A roar rang out from the darkness, and soon fell silent. The roar suddenly stopped, and the roaring sound of the music finally dissipated.

In this long dark night, an unknown amount of blood is destined to be buried under the rotten soil, along with the bones of the enemy and himself, and they will die in the world with their despair and anger.

In the darkness, the road of blood flows quietly.

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When dawn was approaching, a broken wooden boat sailed out of the hidden harbor and quietly left Avalon.

In the cabin, the riddled robin leaned against the wall, silently looking at his hands stained red with blood, and laughed softly. The laughter was full of hollowness and desolation, echoing in the cabin, and finally dissipated in the darkness.

"How long are you prepared to wait?"

He asked without looking back: "Should we settle this?"

"yes."

In the darkness behind him, the seemingly sleeping young man opened his eyes and looked at his back with pity in his eyes: "Have you noticed me a long time ago?"

"No, I no longer have the energy to sense my surroundings." Robin lowered his eyes tiredly: "But I didn't see you along the way, so I knew you were waiting for me here."

"I see."

Ye Qingxuan sighed and stood up slowly: "Gavin, the eldest son of the Adrian family, president of the student union, and an elite member of the Royal School of Music. He entered the Royal Music Orchestra as soon as he graduated and even became the master's deputy..."

"I know these things better than you. There is no need to read my resume."

"I just want to ask, with your ability, why do you need to be a black musician?"

"Yes, why? I also want to know..."

Robin laughed hoarsely, "If you insist on telling me, it's probably because of the family that has long since declined?

Starting from the previous generation of patriarch, this family has been expelled from the top. My father failed to resonate and was reduced to the point where he would suffocate to death without a wheelchair or a respirator. As for Adrian's family, after so many years, there is only an empty shell left... except for the name, there is nothing.

do you understand? Mr. Holmes, all the education and ideas I have received since I was a child are aimed at making this family rise again.

For this, I will pay any price - even the destruction of Avalon, as long as the Adrian family can return to its highest peak. Being a black musician is only a small part of it. "

"Reviving the family?"

Ye Qingxuan snorted coldly, "Do your father and your brother really care about you? Banner even regarded you as a thorn in his side. Now, isn't it your father who betrayed you with his own hands?

You gave everything for something that doesn't love you and you don't love it either. "

"Does it make any difference whether you love it or not?"

The robin looked back at him with a mocking look in his eyes, seeming to be mocking him and also mocking himself.

"As you can see: a family that exists in name only, a father who uses me as a tool, and a brother who hates me from the bottom of his heart. These are the only things I have in this world.

They don't love me, I know, how could they love me? I am their eternal shame.

A bastard born guilty, if he had not been found to have a little talent as a musician, would have been drowned in the gutter long ago.

Raised by a maid, eating my brother's leftovers, wearing clothes that can only be touched when going out, and being beaten if they get a little dirty. This is already very good for me, very good, at least I am still alive, even if the price is to be a slave for a lifetime... What other options do I have?

I was born with no choice and no way to escape.

Ye Qingxuan, this is my fate!"

The robin's mask was lifted, revealing his pupils, iron gray stained red with blood, dark and dead, "So I will... envy you so much."

In silence, the boy closed his eyes sadly: "In fact, you didn't have to make so many mistakes."

The answer to him was a dagger full of cracks.

The dagger passed through the corner of Ye Qingxuan's clothes, nailed into the cabin, and broke. The iron piece shattered in the hand of the robin, embedded in the palm, and new blood flowed out and merged into the dried old blood, indistinguishable from each other.

"Enough, Ye Qingxuan."

The robin looked at him with fierce eyes: "Don't talk about those ridiculous principles. How can you be so merciful to a dying person?"

Ye Qingxuan was silent and motionless.

"Come on! Ye Qingxuan, what are you waiting for?"

The robin screamed, as if it was mad, but there was a hint of pleading in its fierce eyes: "Enough! Stop pretending to be friends!"

Looking at those eyes, Ye Qingxuan was stunned. After a long time, he showed a bitter smile:

"Yes, how can the vengeful evil spirit and the robin be friends?"

He lowered his eyes and raised his cane:

"-Gavin, you hurt my heart."

The moonlight shone, poured into the body of the robin, rising and engulfing him like a flame.

In the illusion-like flame, the blood-stained robin closed his eyes and fell into endless darkness.

Everything returned to silence.

——

When the boat returned to the dock, it had been tightly sealed by members of the fifth department.

The lonely boy walked out of the cabin, and the cabin behind him was as silent as a grave. Against the soldiers who rushed into the cabin, he returned to the shore.

As if he was extremely tired, he sat on the wooden stake in the awe-inspiring gazes, then took off his hat and threw it aside with his cane.

Someone came up cautiously and whispered, "Mr. Holmes, the higher-ups are asking for you..."

The boy was in a daze, as if he hadn't heard anything. After a long time, he looked up at him. Those quiet, dark eyes seemed to contain someone's corpse, which was so terrifying that people dared not look directly at them.

The visitor bowed his head in awe.

"Do you have cigarettes?" the boy asked.

"Hmm?"

The man was stunned, but soon reacted and looked back. Soon, a pack of wrinkled cigarettes was delivered to Ye Qingxuan.

Ye Qingxuan clumsily tore open the package, picked one out of it, and held it in his mouth.

The fire lit up, flickering, the boy took a deep breath, exhaled the embers of killing and darkness, and said in a hoarse voice: "You go, let me be quiet."

The man didn't dare to say anything, and made a few gestures to his companions. A black cloth bag was carefully taken out of the cabin and placed on the carriage.

The people from the fifth department withdrew quietly.

On the silent dock, he was the only one left.

Only the faint sound of the tide accompanied him.

I don't know how long it took, behind him, at the end of the ocean and the sky, there was a faint light, and a rising sun silently jumped out of the tide, casting a faint glow.

The faint light illuminated the lonely figure of the boy.

The long night ended.

It was dawn.

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I want to try to rush to the list this month. After all, it's been so long, I haven't dared to ask for monthly tickets. I hope everyone will come with a few more monthly tickets, and I will try to update more.