Chapter 941

"You are lying."

The Wolf Butler suddenly turned around and tore off his bowtie, as if preparing to strike.

"Is that so? Then just wait to become a pile of scrap. Once you become scrap, perhaps Alice will manufacture a new Wolf Butler?"

"?!"

Hearing the term "new Wolf Butler," the Wolf Butler's face twisted. He didn't fear extinction; what he feared most was Alice manufacturing a new Wolf Butler and thereby forgetting him.

"Or perhaps, your distorted loyalty to Alice has turned into adoration? When a new Wolf Butler appears, you will be nothing but a pile of scrap metal. Your Queen Alice will forget you, or rather, what will happen between her and the new Wolf Butler? Your Queen and your replacement—what exactly will happen between them? Interesting."

Su Xiao's words were like knives stabbing into the Wolf Butler's heart, even though he had no heart.

"Absolutely impossible. The Queen will not forget me."

The Wolf Butler's hands were shaking. This was his greatest fear. He had accompanied Alice for too long; he had never actually thought about having anything happen with Alice—he just wanted to be able to stand behind her. And now, he was about to become a pile of lifeless alchemical materials.

"Who knows? I manufactured an Alchemical Raven half a month ago. Now that I think about it, I seem to have forgotten where I put it. Oh, right, here it is."

Su Xiao took out the discarded Alchemical Raven. He hadn't actually forgotten this raven; the little thing had helped him with quite a few tasks.

Seeing the Alchemical Raven in Su Xiao's hand, the Wolf Butler's pupils constricted.

"This is just a little toy I made on a whim. Its shared vision ability is quite good, but unfortunately, its core alchemical array is shattered."

Bubu Wang, standing to the side, rolled its eyes. Its thought at that moment was: "You say you forgot, but you've actually been carrying it in your storage space the whole time."

"A pile of discarded alchemical materials—that is its current state. Repairing it is simply impossible. As for mutating it, I don't have that ability for the time being."

The Wolf Butler kept staring at the Alchemical Raven in Su Xiao's hand, which made him think of himself. Would he also become like this? No, he definitely would. He would become a pile of discarded materials, placed in some corner of the ancient castle. He would no longer be able to host the castle games. If he were lucky, he would become an ornament, and a new Wolf Butler would accompany Alice by her side.

"Wolf Butler, haven't you noticed?"

"What?"

The Wolf Butler's train of thought was interrupted by Su Xiao.

"Your core materials... have been reused. In that case, you might be a replacement for other Wolf Butlers. Are you the second Wolf Butler, or perhaps you are already the hundredth? Where did the previous Wolf Butlers go? Could it be that Alice used those discarded materials to manufacture other things? Waste utilization—that is something alchemists often do."

This sentence from Su Xiao was no longer just stabbing the Wolf Butler's heart with a knife; it was like piercing him from the crown of his head down to his footplates with a great sword.

The Wolf Butler stood frozen in place. He had considered this matter as well, because from the moment he had memories, the castle games had been proceeding in an orderly fashion, and those old tenants imprisoned in the castle seemed very familiar with him.

Seeing the Wolf Butler's reaction, Su Xiao's eyelid twitched. He had just been guessing blindly, but it seemed he had actually guessed right—there had been a predecessor to the Wolf Butler.

"Does the mutation process... pose risks to the practitioner?"

The Wolf Butler regained his composure.

"Who knows? I said before, I don't know much about mutation."

Su Xiao stopped speaking, and both sides fell into silence. However, a seed had already been planted. When this seed would sprout depended on how much time the Wolf Butler had left. For an alchemical creature as high-level as him, existence for a long time was normal; several hundred years was standard.

Boom.

The wooden house stopped. The Wolf Butler pushed open the door, and Su Xiao observed him from behind.

The hostility hadn't vanished; it had actually become more intense. But the Wolf Butler no longer expressed it directly. As for mutual destruction, now that there was hope, it was unlikely the Wolf Butler would do so, unless Alice gave a direct order.

Su Xiao walked out of the wooden house and entered a treasury. To be precise, it looked more like a palace.

The treasury was filled with square stone pillars, and inside were rows upon rows of antique wooden shelves. The number of shelves was so vast that one couldn't see the end at a glance, and they were filled with collections.

Alice's collection totaled 1,582,043 items. From the sheer number of items, one could imagine how large this treasury was.

The lighting in the treasury was somewhat dim and yellow, which cast a dark golden hue over the room. Gold threads were outlined on the red carpet on the floor, and there were several murals on the ceiling. Su Xiao stopped to watch.

First mural: A female warrior holding a long blade is fighting a man with a wolf's head and a human body. Beside them is an iron cage, which is pitch black inside.

Second mural: The female warrior holds her long blade high, her eyes blood-red. In this mural, the female warrior's style leans toward evil.

Third mural: One of the female warrior's arms is severed. The surrounding Void is full of holes, as if caused by the battle. The female warrior is stepping on the iron cage.

Fourth mural: The female warrior's arm has recovered, blood drips from her long blade, and in her other hand, she carries a wolf's head. The iron cage has disappeared.

Fifth mural: The scene has changed. A headless body is carrying the iron cage, and two arms reach out from inside the cage, grabbing the hands of the headless body.

Sixth mural: The headless body falls, and the iron cage is opened.

There were only six patterns, seemingly telling a story. After viewing these murals, Su Xiao felt that the Wolf Butler was somewhat similar to that wolf-headed man, but only similar.

At the end of the murals, a line of text was written.

"Yin Silver Epo, the love of my life. You traded your life for my freedom. What I must do is definitely not just survive. In my castle, you will live forever."

Connecting this to the content of the murals, Su Xiao felt that this was likely a crisis Alice had once encountered, after which she was saved by a wolf-headed man named Yin Silver Epo.

One thing Su Xiao could be certain of: that wolf-headed man was not the Wolf Butler. The temperament and facial details were different. Perhaps the birth of the Wolf Butler was originally a replacement—a contradictory replacement. The core was crafted from that iron cage, yet the appearance resembled the wolf-headed man. Did this represent imprisonment and salvation?

The Wolf Butler was also looking up at the murals, his thoughts unknown.

"You have ten minutes to make your choice."

The Wolf Butler left this sentence and walked toward the depths of the treasury.

"Ten minutes..."

Su Xiao looked around. He felt he had been tricked. The antique wooden shelves around him were indeed filled with a large number of items, but these items were "plain and unremarkable," with nothing special to be seen. He tried touching one item.

【Cup of Sealing】

Quality: Sealed State

Category: Sealed State

Rating: Sealed State

Introduction: Sealed State

Apart from the name, all other information was completely unknown. Were the collections in Alice's treasury definitely good items? The answer was not necessarily. Over 90% of them were likely souvenirs—that is, relics left behind by players. He had already found evidence.

On a wooden shelf not far from Su Xiao, there was a somewhat familiar item: a pair of glasses with one side broken. This thing was definitely a relic of the gold-rimmed glasses man.

This result was not unexpected. Alice's treasury had 1,582,043 items. No, now it was 1,582,044 items.

Among such a vast number of collections, there must be many souvenirs. If they were souvenirs, items of white, green, or blue quality could all appear; after all, the value of a souvenir is not the item itself, but the meaning it represents.

What Su Xiao had to do was find something good among these 1,582,044 items. This was very difficult.

PS: (Thanks to the Alliance Leader 'Su Xiao Chan~' for the donation. Ahem, Feiwen already owes Alliance Leader Su many chapters; I'll work hard to pay off the debt.)