Early morning in the slave camp, among the crowds of people coming and going, Bart was walking in the direction of their wooden house.
He has a handsome appearance and a lovable personality. Young women cast glances at him along the way. Normally, he would respond to these passionate glances, but today he was looking at the road attentively, for fear that he would trip over the debris on the road.
He was holding a big cloth bag in his left hand and a bowl of steaming noodles in his right hand.
The cloth bag was the food he had just received, and the bowl of noodles was brought to Ares by the woman who had been rescued by his brother.
Because of Ares's astonishing record, the two brothers had some savings in the past, but something happened later and most of them were looted, leaving only a little hidden savings. And it's been long since they've eaten something so delicious and hot.
Bart happily held the bowl, strode across several streets, walked to the cabin, kicked open the door with his foot, and got into it.
Ares was getting dressed next to the bed. Bart immediately went over and put the bowl on the table. He said happily: "The woman you rescued last time asked me to bring this to you, have a try, bro. It's still hot. That woman is quite nice, let's protect her more from now on."
In the round wooden bowl, the noodles are radiating heat, and some vegetables and meat can be vaguely seen.
The blurry face of the woman flashed through Ares's mind. She was a woman who looked old and downcast.
Bart put down the bag and took out two pieces of dry flat black bread. He took a bite of it with disgust before continuing: "She works in a mill three streets away. She said she usually gets a little flour at the mill and cooks the noodles in the morning, she wants to bring them over and just happens to meet me."
Ares nodded, dressed neatly, walked to the table, picked up a piece of black bread, and said, "You can eat it, I'll go out for a while."
"What? Ares, let's go after eating." Bart said quickly: "It looks delicious."
Ares bent down walked out of the wooden door and glanced at the time outside before saying, "Then leave me half."
As he spoke, he looked down and saw a skinny kitten stumbling up from the threshold, trying to climb over into the house. When it found that it couldn't climb in, it whined and looked very pitiful.
But Ares had no sympathy. He lowered his eyes and expressionlessly stretched out his toes to push it away before walking towards the bustling street.
Bart saw that his brother had left, he had no choice but to sit on the stool, pick up a spoon, and start eating noodles. The hot noodles rippled between his lips and teeth. Bart narrowed his eyes happily and continued to put the noodles into his mouth.
The kitten smelling the nice smell outside the door climbed anxiously onto the threshold, chirping loudly. Bart turned a deaf ear and enjoyed his meal.
The place Ares wants to go is the hot spring. He has already investigated it. The hot spring is unguarded only in the morning, and people are patrolling it at other times.
Ares shook the cloth bag in his hand and was about to get into the alley to take a shortcut. He suddenly remembered something and stopped on the spot. Then he turned around and Rushed to the cabin.
When he arrived at the door, he kicked open the door with a sullen face. The light penetrated the dim cabin, and he saw Bart squatting on the ground, holding the bowl of noodles in his hand and holding up a small spoon. Directly opposite, a dirty kitten was sitting, licking the dough dregs on the spoon. One person and one cat were frightened, and they froze in place for a long time without moving.
Ares walked over and took the wooden bowl from Bart's hand. The noodles had been eaten, but not much.
Bart stood up without knowing why and looked at the noodles and then at the kitten, wondering if he gave the kitten some noodles to eat, and made his brother unhappy.
But at this time, the kitten saw that the food was gone, couldn't help but scream anxiously, and was still spinning around Ares' feet.
Bart smacked his mouth, a little afraid that the little thing would be kicked out by Ares, but Ares didn't even look at the kitten. Instead, he reached out and pulled the silver necklace from Bart's neck and put it in the bowl.
Bart realized something now. This bowl of noodles was poisoned?
There was no need for Ares to remind him this time. He vomited directly into the barrel next to him. After vomiting twice, he also pulled the kitten next to him and clamped it against its throat.
A cat and a man were vomiting next to him, but Ares looked at the unchanged silver necklace with a cold expression.
The fact that the chain did not change meant that it was not poisonous, but his intuition told him that there was something wrong with these noodles.
Ares: "You said you saw the woman I rescued at the Lord's house last night?"
Bart wiped his mouth and nodded: "Yes, she works as a helper in the kitchen. When I saw her, she was eating leftovers on the steps."
At this point, he also realized that something was wrong. She ate biscuits last night, but she had no intention of sharing them with him. She just lowered her head and ate them hungrily. She didn't even share the biscuits, so why would she be willing to give him such a big bowl of noodles?
This was a scam. Thinking of this, Bart vomited violently again. After vomiting, he also pulled the half-dead kitten over.
Ares put down noodles and walked over to pull Bart into the light. He opened Bart's eyelids and took a look. Then he raised his hand to touch his forehead. Bart's eyes were not red and his body was not hot. He frowned and asked Bart: "How do you feel?"
Bart felt it and frowned: "I don't feel anything."
As he said that, he looked down at the kitten at his feet. Although it had been tortured by the vomiting, it couldn't see the convulsions and pain. It seemed like there was nothing wrong. Bart was a little doubtful.
But Ares did not waver at all. He took a look, reached for the wooden bowl, bent down, and put it in front of the kitten.
The kitten was still hanging its head, but as soon as it smelled the food in front of it, it immediately stumbled over and crawled over, just as it was about to take it, Bart suddenly pulled it away. Bart begged pitifully: " Ares, don't try it with it, please, it looks so pitiful."
Ares looked at Bart with a cold face. Bart was so frightened that his buttocks tensed up, but he still gritted his teeth and stuffed the little thing that was about to die into his clothes.
Ares didn't say anything when he saw this, he just walked to the corner and poured a whole bowl of noodles on the ground, then put down the bowl and walked out.
Bart was about to follow him out, but when he saw the noodles in the corner, he stopped. He walked to the table, picked up a piece of black bread that he had previously disliked, and started to nibble on it. The kitten in his arms didn't know that it had escaped from death just now, was making a noise, but Bart didn't mind it, so he stuffed some chewed black bread into its mouth, and it became quiet.
In the mill, the woman who was saved once by Ares was squatting on the ground tying a sack. She looked dark and a little uneasy and looked outside the door from time to time.
Seeing how passive she was in her work, the supervisor took out the whip from his waist approached her, and was about to whip it down hard. Suddenly, the small door of the mill was pushed open, Ares stood outside the door with a gloomy expression, glanced at everyone in the mill, and then cast his gloomy gaze on the woman.
The woman saw him too. She stood up in panic and took a step back to run away. However, after only two steps, a strong arm grabbed her neck and pulled her back. She was dragged to the back alley. The woman still wanted to beg for mercy but was grabbed by Ares.
He lowered his eyes and looked at her with a cold face. He didn't say anything and just pinched the woman's neck using his strength little by little. Soon, the woman's eyes were bloodshot and her face turned purple due to suffocation.
She struggled hard and kept pushing Ares with her palms, but her strength was not enough against the tall and strong man. She could only stare at Ares in despair, and the fear of death swept through all her senses.
About ten minutes later, Ares walked out of the back alley and back to the cabin. He opened the door and found Bart squatting in the corner holding the kitten and looking at something. Ares walked over, took a look, and found a dead rat foaming at the mouth lying next to the noodles. There were signs of struggle on the ground. It was obvious that it was very painful when it died.
Ares glanced at Bart again, who quickly said: "I'm fine." Then he raised the kitten to show him. "The kitten is fine too."
Ares walked to the bed and lay back. After a while, he said in a hoarse voice: "He is looking for death..."
In the castle, Elizabeth was eating breakfast and flipping through her father's letters. When she was halfway through reading, Bili came to her leaned over her ear, and whispered something. Elizabeth frowned and put down the milk in her hand heavily on the table.
She knew that the male protagonist had high strength and that Carl's thugs could not kill him, so she signaled Carl to poison him in a roundabout way, but she did not expect that it would fail easily. Elizabeth didn't even know whether it was Carl who was too useless or the male protagonist's aura was too strong.
She was a little scared and looked sideways at Bili: "How about that woman?"
Bili touched Elizabeth's back comfortingly and whispered: "She's not dead, but her left hand was twisted off."
Elizabeth's heart tightened when she heard this, and she seemed to feel a dull pain in her arm.
Her eyes fell on the letter, and when she saw the news that her father would be returning soon, she felt that the right time, the right place, and the right people were gone. There was no time, she had to think of another way. It will be even more difficult to operate when her father comes back.
After a moment of silence, Elizabeth whispered: "Take care of that woman, don't let her die."
Although the woman also accepted Carl's benefits, the mastermind behind the whole thing was Elizabeth. She wants to kill the male protagonist to survive, but she doesn't want to implicate innocent people.
Seeing Bili nodding, Elizabeth continued: "You said that last time, Ares was bought by Father because he charmed the former lord's wife, right?"
Bili: "Yes, I heard that the lady was obsessed with Ares, to the point of going crazy. Her husband had no choice but to sell Ares to our lord."
Elizabeth picked up the milk and took a sip before asking: "Then she shouldn't know Ares is here, right?"
"I don't know. But I heard that he was bought secretly." Bili said hesitantly: "Maybe the lady is still looking for him now."
Elizabeth drank the milk in one gulp, wiped her mouth with a silk handkerchief, and then said meaningfully: "Then go and tell her that Ares is living a miserable life here and is about to be tortured to death..."