Ten-year-old Carl was walking on an empty rural road, his hands were bloody, and the dried blood on his forehead had solidified and scabbed, leaving a long black scar on his forehead.
The beggar-like young master of the Bollen family was wearing a smelly, tattered white shirt. His originally beautiful and smooth golden hair was extremely messy at the moment, and his delicate and beautiful little face had also suffered from two days of running away.
And it was extremely dirty.
When people passing by Karl saw such a little beggar again, they didn't pay too much attention. Most people just covered their noses and walked quickly past Karl, as if they were avoiding some kind of plague.
Feeling the accelerated pace of the pedestrians around him and the disgusted and indifferent eyes, Karl said nothing, just lowered his head and continued walking forward.
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Just now, Karl, who was hungry and cold, met someone, a country old woman who looked very kind. Seeing that he was alone and his face was dirty, the old man took out a hot towel and wiped him with love.
With a dirty little face, he kindly gave him a piece of bread and a bottle of coffee.
Karl was ecstatic, excited and bowed to the kind-faced old lady. However, the next second he took the bread and coffee, Karl's eyes changed.
Slowly raising his head, faint blue light shot out from his pair of light blue pupils, and the old woman fell into the bloody servant.
Karl looked at the corpse on the ground coldly, and a mist appeared in his bright light blue eyes... But soon, he wiped away the tears in his eyes and continued to aimlessly alone.
on the run.
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"Kill him! Kill them all!" Two nights ago, Karl, who had gotten up to go to the bathroom, suddenly heard the cold voice coming from the dark room while passing by his grandfather's room.
And the owner of that voice was his grandfather who loved him very much.
At that moment, little Carl was stunned outside the door, because he had never heard his grandfather's voice so angry and gloomy, as if he was issuing the most insidious curse to a heinous enemy!
Karl was a little strange. He didn't know who his grandfather was talking to, or who he was talking about. Could it be some bad guy who was against the family?
Karl, who has shown a different calmness from children of the same age since he was a child, after hearing what his grandfather said, he did not choose to walk into the room innocently, sat on his grandfather's lap as usual, and asked curiously, "Grandpa, are you
Who did you just say you were going to kill?" On the contrary, he carefully hid outside the ajar door.
Standing in the dark corridor, a dim yellow light came from the unclosed door on the right. Five seconds later, a pair of pupils with a faint blue light appeared in the narrow gap outside the door.
Karl opened his magic eyes and looked at the people inside and his grandfather through the gap in the door.
He didn't know why he did this, it was just an intuition, the intuition given to him by the magic eye.
As the magic eye slowly opened, Karl looked at several twinkling figures in the dim room. However, five seconds later, there was no trace of color on Karl's delicate and beautiful face. He was even frightened.
I had to sit down on the ground!
Because he saw his grandfather's heart, he saw his grandfather's thin and pale face, which was so horrifying under the dim light! More importantly, he saw himself and his parents in his grandfather's heart.
,uncle........
At the same time, the noise coming from outside the door also woke up the people in the room.
"Who's outside!" exclaimed, and noisy footsteps suddenly sounded in the room. Karl, who had shown his strong psychological quality and unparalleled wisdom since he was a child, was not overwhelmed by the terrifying reality.
In an instant, he quickly climbed up from the ground, then jumped out of the window behind him, and escaped from his family's manor in the suburbs of Paris as quickly as possible.
And it was from that night that the endless pursuit and escape began.
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From the Burren family's estate on the outskirts of Paris, Karl fled all the way to a rural town called Senlis, thirty kilometers away. As he fled all the way, he did not dare to take a car or even appear in any place with public cameras.
, so he could only rely on his own two legs to escape for nearly thirty kilometers in two days.
In two days, Karl was attacked and killed four times. If you include the old woman just now, it was probably the fifth time.
Karl knew who the people who were chasing him were, and he also knew who the old woman he just killed was. They were members of the family, members of the Bollen family, people sent by his grandfather!
Why, why exactly is this?
Walking alone on a deserted country road, Karl tried his best to hide his whereabouts and try to avoid everyone's sight. In the past two days, from the initial confusion when escaping, he was able to escape several times with the help of his magic eyes and luck.
Compared with chasing and killing, now he can already choose the best escape route without relying on the magic eyes the first time he is in a completely unfamiliar environment! And when the pursuer appears in his field of vision,
At that moment, identify their identities and flee quickly.
But at the same time, little Karl kept murmuring and asking in his heart.
Why? Why did my grandfather do this? Why did my grandfather, who loved his grandfather so much and would hold me in his arms and tell him stories to coax him to sleep every night, kill him?
Karl is very smart, and at only twelve years old, he has shown calmness and wisdom far beyond that of an adult. However, he is just a child, but a child whose mind has not yet matured.
He couldn't figure it out. He really couldn't figure it out. Did he do something wrong? Or was the world really like what was written in the book? Even the people closest to him would betray themselves without reservation, or even ask for help.
Kill him?
But what exactly did he do wrong?
Karl has been on the run for two full days. If it had been in the past and the young master of the Bollen family had disappeared, the whole of Paris would have been shaken. Countless military police would have been dispatched to find his traces, and the TV news would have broadcast his story 24 hours a day.
For missing information, as long as he can provide some information about himself, the family will give out at least half a million pounds as a reward! And if someone can find him, the family may give him wealth that he will never use up in his lifetime.
But a full forty-eight hours have passed, and Karl has not seen any searchers who are kind to him. As a young man, all he has seen is a steady stream of pursuers, and some like the old woman just pretending to be
Carefully give yourself some highly poisonous food, and finally let him die slowly from a feast.
In fact, the old woman was pretty good. Karl even regretted killing her just now and just injured her. After all, she was pretty good. Unlike the previous waves of pursuers, they either chose to be ruthless or ruthless.
He shot him in the back, or the servant pretended to be searching for him. After a while of greetings, he suddenly took out the pistol in his arms.
In just two days, twelve-year-old Carl saw the cruelest side of the world. He had no money, so he got nothing. He even only exchanged a rose gold watch for a small bag.
biscuit.
The world in the book is right. Walking on the rugged country road with his head lowered, Karl's face was extremely pale, and his magic eyes were extremely dim. As he swayed, he secretly thought in his heart, yes, I used to be a uncle.
I am the young master of the Lun family, so wherever I go I will be greeted by everyone. Now I am nothing. If I stand in front of the bakery and look at it more often, I will get an impatient scolding from the owner.
Even if I meet kind-hearted people, they are just pretenders sent by my family, or... they just take a fancy to my valuable accessories, such as thimbles and pocket watches.
Yesterday, Karl, who was on the run, met a very familiar person next to a gas station on a suburban highway. He was a wandering painter on the streets of Paris who made a living by sketching people. He had just arrived in Paris five days ago.
At the beginning of this year's spring trip, Karl met him by chance in the square next to the Champs Elysées, and politely asked him to draw a sketch for himself as a collection.
Thirty minutes later, looking at the not-so-excellent painting in front of him and the painter looking at him nervously, Karl smiled slightly, turned around and left under the leadership of his parents.
And the painter also received a full 20,000 pounds at the moment Carl smiled! Carl still remembers that when he left, the wandering painter sincerely bowed to him to thank him, and kept shouting "May the Lord bless him".
But yesterday, Carl saw the homeless painter again at the gas station. It was obvious that the homeless painter also saw him. The moment their eyes met, both of them were stunned.
After thinking carefully for five seconds, Karl walked up hesitantly and wanted to ask him if he could give himself a sip of water. He was really thirsty.
However, before Karl could get in front of the wandering painter, the man who kept shouting "May God bless myself" rushed towards him as if he was crazy, his eyes full of greed!
Karl froze on the spot.
The next second, a faint blue light shot across the sky, piercing the painter's heart. Amidst the exclamations of the people around him, Karl turned around indifferently and continued to escape without any regrets.
That was the first person he had killed in his life, and he killed him very cleanly, without any hesitation.
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Karl didn't know what happened to his parents, and he didn't bother to think about it. Now he just wanted to eat something, drink a sip of water, and then find a sheltered place to have a good sleep.
Because he was too tired. After running away for two consecutive days and using his magic eye non-stop for two consecutive days, it was difficult for his small body to continue to bear it. Every time he used the magic eye, it was a huge pain for him.
Great consumption.
At six o'clock in the morning, most of the residents in the small town of Senlis had not yet gotten up. In the narrow and empty alleys, only Karl's figure staggered across the uneven stone pavement.
Looking at the small buildings around him, Karl's eyes closed up and down, and the steps he took with his feet became more and more staggering. Because he was very tired, he felt that his body was getting heavier and his mind was getting heavier and heavier.
Drowsily, there seemed to be some kind of double image in front of his eyes. Karl knew that he would fall down in the next second, forever...
Tiredly, he walked outside a very clean white building. Karl looked up and seemed to see a figure flashing by the window. But before he could see clearly, he fell straight down due to extreme fatigue.