I'm a villain, not a devil

Block No. 66, this is the most luxurious and noble area in the entire imperial capital.

Because it is next to Huangshan, most of the people living in Block 66 are high-ranking people, either high-ranking officials or nobles. If an ordinary wealthy businessman wants to find a manor here, he will have to pay at least double what his 'neighbors' pay. The price is high, but even so, if a manor here occasionally becomes vacant, it will be immediately bought at a high price.

What is strange in comparison is that the blocks near Block 66 cannot even attract many middle class people. Over time, except for a few broad avenues for gentlemen to travel, the nearby blocks have become gatherings of poor people. land.

This is because Block No. 66 surrounds Huangshan and the overall trend is to gather upwards and towards the center, so there is no need to worry about the sewer system here - anyway, the sewage accumulated here will flow to the nearby areas with poor terrain. into the slums.

Many people who live in nearby slums occasionally sneer and say: This is the fat water that the gentlemen have shed out of their mercy.

Even more egregious than these sewer systems is the special estate known as 'The Mountain'.

These manors are all located on the edge of Block 66. It is not that they want to be close to the civilian area, but it is more convenient to start construction on the edge.

The height difference of the terrain was directly artificially transformed into a cliff. Either the top was filled with soil, or the bottom was dug. In short, the residents of the slums had to raise their heads to see some aspects of the manor.

All the wastewater and garbage in the mountain manor will be discharged directly from the cliff into the slums. In order to ensure that they are not disturbed by the poor, the cliffs of more than ten meters or even dozens of meters will be covered with thick steel spikes and iron bars. Tribulus terrestris to prevent daring poor people from climbing up the cliff and entering the manor to cause trouble in the middle of the night.

However, in order to show his generosity and to make his ordinary aristocratic life more fun, other than steel spikes and iron caltrops, no other defensive measures will be arranged on the cliff.

Yes, these things will hinder people from climbing, but the nobles who own them do not prevent people from climbing. In fact, the nobles will encourage it.

If someone climbed up, they would either receive a generous reward from the nobles or become a servant in the manor.

The rewards are impressive enough, and the aristocratic servants are even more eye-catching. In order to ensure the luxury of life and their own dignity, the aristocratic gentlemen mostly treat their servants generously. What is more important is that compared to other jobs, aristocratic servants , it’s really an iron rice bowl.

As for dignity?

Most of the poor people would laugh - you don't think that you can live with dignity just by being an 'ordinary resident of the empire', do you?

Therefore, climbing the mountain manor has become an opportunity for many people to give it a try.

Of course, those steel thorns and iron thorns will never become dull because they are stained with human blood, and the height of tens of meters is enough to shatter a person's bones.

At this time, nobles would sit in their alpine manor and watch the poor people climbing on the cliff through the huge floor-to-ceiling glass. Every time someone was stabbed to death or dropped, they clapped their hands and laughed happily, or opened a bottle of red wine that could buy many lives.

It is said that when this trend was most popular, hundreds of people died in the imperial capital every day while climbing. Some even specially built a mountain manor with a height of 100 meters, and set huge rewards-somewhat hindered Nobles who cannot afford to build it themselves will go there privately to enjoy the 'beauty', and then put some pleasant chips into the prize pool.

It was also that alpine manor that set a peak in the number of climbers - and at the same time, the record in the number of deaths was also refreshed.

However, the empire prides itself on the development of civilization, and some phenomena in aristocratic neighborhoods like No. 66 can be ignored, but these mountain manors are really a bit excessive, so over the years there have often been voices asking for it. Demolish all mountain estates.

"How many years have you been shouting?"

Luo Xi, who was walking on the road, suddenly asked.

She and Bai Ye were heading to the manor of Bai Ye's mother's family, and they were listening to Bai Ye tell the history of this place along the way.

However, after hearing this, Luo Xi couldn't help but ask.

Bai Ye didn't look back, but continued to walk forward calmly: "It's been almost seventy or eighty years, right?"

Luo Xi asked again: "How many buildings were demolished?"

Bai Ye's steps didn't stop, and his voice was inaudible: "Not a single thing was demolished."

"Heh." Luo Xi smiled.

Neither of them continued talking, but walked forward.

After a while, they finally saw their destination.

It was a ‘mountain estate’.

Bai Ye and Luo Xi stood under the cliff. The cliff was a hundred meters high. Looking up, they could only see a luxurious golden wall. What was more eye-catching than that wall were the steel spikes and iron caltrops on the cliff.

Every spike was stained with dark red blood. The sunlight was dim under the evil dome, and the densely packed dark red cliffs were a little dizzy just looking at them.

At the bottom of the cliff is a gray-white floor.

Bai Ye pointed there and said: "When people fall, they will 'splash'. Over time, this area even became a little strange. Therefore, the owner of the manor had people renovate the place and pave it with steel. 's deck.”

Luo Xi raised his eyebrows: "Isn't it because the sound of falling is more obvious?"

Bai Ye did not refute, but pointed to the side of the gray-white deck close to the cliff and said: "Someone washes here every night, so blood, brains, etc. will flow down the sink there."

Luo Xi walked over and took a look. This place had probably been abandoned for a long time. Even the tight-fitting steel plates had many flaws. There were even some weeds and wildflowers growing on the edge of the water tank, but those plants were all twisted and twisted. , ugly and abnormal.

"Has it been abandoned for a long time?" Luo Xi asked.

Bai Ye nodded: "Well, didn't you ask just now whether the Alpine Manor has been demolished? All the Alpine Manors are in good condition, only one has entered an abandoned state, and that is this one. This is also the highest Alpine Manor in the past."

Luo Xi looked up, then looked down at Bai Ye, with an inexplicable expression on her eyebrows.

"Then you brought me here?"

Bai Ye squatted down slowly. She gently touched the off-white deck covered with mud and dust, and whispered: "My mother fell to death here."

The air suddenly became stagnant for a moment.

Bai Ye continued to speak, her face expressionless, as if she was just telling a long-ago story.

"Even if someone proposed to demolish the Alpine Manor, who is not a powerful person who has the ability to build these manor? In addition, the owner of this highest manor has a noble status, so the protest raised at the court ended up with nothing."

"And the thing that caused all the alpine estates to stop climbing happened more than ten years ago. I was about three years old at that time... It should be three years old, right?"

She looked up and smiled.

"There were climbing activities held here as usual, and people kept falling down, and the people on top kept applauding and laughing. Then my mother had a quarrel with the owner of the manor. She couldn't stand these things, and she came out of the palace to stop it. "

"She stood on the edge of the cliff and wanted to say something... maybe she already said something. Then, due to accident, she fell off the cliff."

Silence fermented between the two for a while.

Finally, Luo Xi asked: "After you found out, didn't you have any doubts? The queen has a noble status, so she is naturally surrounded by experts. Ordinary people will fall to death, but the queen won't, right?"

Bai Ye shook his head: "I had doubts, but in the end, the investigation found that it was indeed not man-made."

"My father and my mother had a very good relationship. After my mother left, he was extremely sad. At the same time, like you, he thought this was a deliberate murder."

"But the final investigation showed that no one pushed my mother at that time, and it was not that the experts who were following her didn't take action - it's just that as soon as those people got close to the edge of the cliff, they found that they would get dizzy standing there, and they would feel dizzy if they looked down. There will be a strong urge to jump down, let alone use powers or prosthetics.”

"Including the emperor's uncle came to see it. He found that this cliff also produced some kind of 'pollution'. That was the culprit that caused my mother to fall and no one rescued her in time."

Bai Ye stood up, her expression did not change, she just patted the dust off her hands: "In order to verify, they went to other mountain manor and looked at it, and then they found that the cliffs in those places were similar. The pollution is just not as serious as this place.”

"In the end, this matter can only be determined like this - the experts who protected my mother were killed in anger, all mountain manors stopped climbing activities and sealed off the cliffs, and the owner of this mountain manor..."

She paused obviously, and finally said: "I was punished a lot, but not long after, the owner of the manor committed suicide in the main hall. His clan members had no shelter, and they were all killed by my father to settle the score."

Luo Xi had some doubts: "Why did the owner of this manor commit suicide?"

Before Bai Ye could speak, another voice came out: "Guilty? I'm afraid it's unlikely."

The two girls turned their heads to look, and saw Sean appearing next to them at some point.

"You're back?!" The two of them shouted in unison, and then turned to look at each other.

Neither of them noticed that their own voices suddenly became much higher, but they noticed the change in the other's voice.

Sean opened his hands to hug them both, but Luo Xi and Bai Ye both rolled their eyes at him.

Sean had no choice but to give up. He naturally retracted his hand and walked to the edge of the cliff to look up.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, whoever came up with this trick is really a genius..."

A slightly gloomy look flashed across Bai Ye's face.

Luo Xi noticed what Sean just said: "Guilt? Why do you say guilt? Would the nobles of the empire who did this have such emotions?"

"Normally, there is definitely no such thing, but the identity of the owner of this manor is somewhat special..." Sean smiled.

Before he could continue, Bai Ye spoke.

There was still no emotion in her voice, and she seemed to be just a cold bystander.

"The original owner of this mountain manor, the one who committed suicide, was me... my mother's father, my grandfather."

Luo Xi's pupils couldn't help but shrink.

The air was a bit cold, and only the man's careless whistle had some comical meaning.

Bai Ye glanced at Sean: "You already knew that, right?"

Sean shrugged: "Although all news about this matter has been sealed for a long time, there was really a lot of movement back then, and there were a lot of clues left behind."

Bai Ye pursed his lips and looked up at the manor: "That's the inheritance of my mother's family..."

The atmosphere was a little bad, but Sean, a fool like him, never made the atmosphere serious.

He walked over and patted Bai Ye's perky buttocks in front of Luo Xi.

"Even though the legacy of your mother's family is what killed your mother, you've always wanted to inherit it - that's a good sign."

Ignoring the different looks from the two girls, Sean smiled and said: "Let go of the influence of emotions and hold on to what you can hold in your hands first. This is the proper quality of a queen."

The look in Bai Ye's eyes flashed, and she stopped mentioning other things and returned to her usual calmness.

"However, Grand Duke Yuan Tie came to me and told me that they had discovered the truth about my mother's death that year - they seemed to want to use this to attack the fourth brother's current status, although I have not yet thought of the cause and effect relationship."

Sean curled his lips: "Don't I want to cooperate with you? I don't even tell you everything about this? It's so insincere."

Bai Ye nodded: "I don't think it's sincere either, but the most important thing in doing business is profit rather than sincerity. At least in their eyes, I have no other choice whether it's from a profit or emotional perspective."

"What do they want?"

"You want my current reputation in the military department, and you want me to return the security bureau to my second brother."

Sean rolled his eyes: "Return? This is our thing, tsk, your second brother and aunt are idiots."

"It's stupid, but the third brother is going to expose the fourth brother in a few hours, and suddenly it happens again. Don't you let the third brother stop first?"

Sean smiled casually: "Stop? Baiyou is right, why stop? Besides, it doesn't matter if we put in more effort."

He turned and looked upward: "Go and take a look?"

"good."

Sean took the lead and walked in front. Those insurmountable chasms for the poor were just ravines that he could cross at will.

However, Sean did not fly up directly, but walked to the bottom and patted the deck.

The deck made an unpleasant creaking sound, and immediately began to move like a living creature.

He waved to the two girls, his face full of excitement: "Come on, come on, the ability I just developed, control of objects, is it good or not?"

The deck rose suddenly, and then crushed the steel spikes and caltrops into pieces of iron. The dark red cliff seemed to have been plowed directly by a bulldozer.

The place that was not demolished after the Queen's death was brutally destroyed.