Chapter 423 Death of the Queen

Block 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 must at least pay. Neighbors pay double the price, but even so, the occasional vacant manor here will be immediately bought at a high price.

The strange thing in comparison is that the blocks near Block 66 cannot even attract much middle class. Over time, except for a few broad avenues for gentlemen to travel, the nearby blocks have become It became a gathering place for poor people.

This is because the No. 66 Block surrounds Huangshan and the overall trend is upward and concentrated in the center, so there is no need to worry about the sewer system here - any sewage accumulated here will flow away. Go to the poor slums nearby.

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

Even more extreme than these sewer systems is the special estate known as the 'Alpine'.

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 Alpine Manor will be discharged directly from the cliffs into the slums. In order to ensure that they are not disturbed by the poor, those cliffs of more than ten meters or even dozens of meters will be covered with rough cloth. Thick steel thorns and iron caltrops were installed 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, and even encourage them.

If someone climbs up, they will 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 - and more importantly, the aristocratic servants Compared to other jobs, 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 caltrops 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.

Every time at this time, nobles would sit in their alpine manor, and then 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 in the process of climbing, and some even specially built alpine manor with a height of 100 meters, and set a huge Reward - Some nobles who are too embarrassed to build it themselves will go there privately to admire 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 are rising to 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, listening to Bai Ye's story about the history of this place along the way.

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

Bai Ye did not look back, but continued to walk forward calmly: "It's almost seventy or eighty years ago, right?"

Luo Xi asked again: "How many buildings have been demolished? ?"

Baiye's steps didn't stop, and his voice couldn't be heard: "Not a single thing was demolished."

" Ha." Luo Xi smiled.

Neither of them continued talking, but walked forward.

After a while, they finally saw their destination.

It was a ‘mountain manor’.

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 ones on the cliff. Steel thorns, iron caltrops.

Every spike is stained with dark red blood. The sunlight is dim under the evil dome, and the densely packed dark red cliffs are 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. , paved with a steel deck."

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

Bai Ye didn't refute, just pointed at the gray-white deck. The person on the side near the cliff 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 was about It has been abandoned for a long time, and even the tight-fitting steel plates have many holes exposed. Some weeds and wildflowers even grow on the edge of the water tank, but those plants are all twisted and ugly.

"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 one at the beginning. Alpine Manor. "

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 gray-white deck full of mud and dust, and whispered: " It was here that my mother fell to death.”

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 manors? In addition, the owner of this highest manor has a noble status, and the protest raised at the court was ultimately unsuccessful. The following. ”

“The incident that caused all mountain estates to stop climbing happened more than ten years ago, when I was about three years old... 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 said something. Then, due to accident, she fell off the cliff. "

Silence. It 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, and naturally she is surrounded by experts. Ordinary people will fall to death, but the queen will not, 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 away at the time. , it’s not that the experts 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 if they looked down, they would have a strong urge to jump down, let alone Use superpowers or prosthetic bodies."

"Including the emperor's uncle came to see it. He found that there was some kind of 'pollution' on the cliff, which was what caused my mother to fall and no one took care of it in time. "The culprit of the rescue."

Bai Ye stood up, her expression did not change, she just lightly dusted off the dust on her hands: "For verification, they went to other mountain manors. , and then discovered that the cliffs in those places had similar pollution, but it was not as serious as this place."

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

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

Shaun 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 gloomy look flashed across Bai Ye's face.

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

"Normally speaking, there is definitely no such thing. , but the identity of the owner of this manor is a bit 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, is me... my mother's father, my grandfather."

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

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

Bai Ye glanced at Sean: "You have known about it for a long time, right?"

Sean shrugged: "Although all news about this matter has been sealed for a long time, at that time The movement was really loud, 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.

"Although the legacy left by your mother's family is what killed your mother, you have always wanted to inherit it - this is a good sign."

Ignore it The two girls looked at each other with different eyes. Sean smiled and said: "Give up the influence of emotions and hold on to what you can hold in your hands. This is the proper quality of a queen."

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

"However, Grand Duke Yuan Tie came to me and said that he 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 causal relationship."

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

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

"What do they want?"
 "I want my current reputation in the military, and I want 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."

"Stupidity is stupid, but in a few hours, third brother will I went to expose the fourth brother, and this time happened again. Why don’t you let the third brother stop first?”
It doesn't matter if you put in some effort."

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

"Okay."

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 suddenly rose, and then Those steel thorns and iron caltrops were crushed into iron sheets, and 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.

(End of this chapter)