usatvline Chapter 527 Poisoning
Chapter 527 Poisoning
Killing someone and killing someone you know are two completely different concepts.
Judging from Christina's past performance, she has undoubtedly received training in killing and has killed some people, but in normal times, she still behaves like an innocent little girl.
This is not because she is hypocritical, but because in the past she killed people she did not know or understand.
She will not know the experiences of the people she killed, will not know the relatives and friends of the deceased, will not know who will shed tears for the deceased, and will not know what the people the deceased cared about before they died looked like.
Perhaps it was out of ignorance, or perhaps it was out of self-protection. For Christina in the past, it was more like playing an assassination game than "killing".
Players don't need to care about the NPC's inner world, nor do they need to have moral entanglements. They just need to use their skills to eliminate the target more efficiently and accurately. If they can give the NPC a quick death instead of killing it for fun, it can be considered a high cyber conscience.
Outside the game, players can break away from the roles they play and become their true selves again.
This was the case with Christina before. Although this is very strange from the perspective of the values of the world before Howard traveled through time, in this universe, Christina can be said to have a cyber conscience. After all, according to her performance, Christina usually kills people only after receiving orders from a higher-level authority. If there is no order, even if she has the ability to kill, she probably won't have the idea of hurting others even if she is bullied to death.
And now, Cecil asked Christina to kill someone she knew, and even that person had a good relationship with her. This was equivalent to breaking the boundary between Christina's inner game and reality. The shock she received at this moment was unimaginable.
Christina took the ring box away, still with her head down, her hands hanging down as if they had no bones. After a few seconds, she stood up, but with her back to Howard and Cecil:
"Brother...I need to...I need to go get ready."
Cecil looked at his sister's back, his eyes struggling and sad, but until the end he couldn't say anything to make Christina stay here, he just said:
"Christina, you can hate me."
"I don't hate you, brother." Christina said, "I've always wanted to be useful to you and mother. I know I was useless before, but now I'm finally useful... Thank you."
Christina put the ring into her pocket and rubbed her feet on the ground bit by bit, but she would not delay like this. As she took more steps, the distance between her steps became larger. After taking more than ten steps, she raised her head again and disappeared among the crowd attending the party.
Cecil watched Christina leave and poured himself another glass of wine.
Howard: "It seems that you are short of people."
"Yes." Cecil nodded. "Although I have many loyal men under my command, they are all middle and lower-level members of the family. In this banquet hall, except for you and Christina, the others are all betting on both sides. Miss Margaret has no inheritance rights, and the Parasos family is loyal to Mother, not me... So I can't support Miss Margaret. Originally, Osarino might have become my ally, but now the possibility is very slim."
"If there were any other choice, I would never let my sister do this," Cecil said. "But since I've chosen to use it, I have to maximize its effectiveness and chop off the opponent's head in one move. This is how my sister should appear."
Howard: "But if you say Alex is an agent of the alien... have you ever thought about the role of Ms. Lia Weide, your mother, in this incident?"
"I still don't understand my mother's position," Cecil said. "Whatever the original intention of the Helvetic family in cooperating with the aliens was, it's no longer ten thousand years ago. I will do everything in my power to find out the truth and liberate this glorious family from the aliens' control."
So Howard also drank the wine in his glass arrogantly - although the drink he chose was the same baby-grade sparkling wine that Margarine had chosen for Osarino - and then stood up:
"I'm going to find Christina."
A few minutes later, under the guidance of Om Messiah, Howard came to a dressing room.
He knocked on the door first, but of course there was no response, so he could only say:
"Christina, it's me."
It took a long time before a response came from the other side of the door:
"Mr. Howard, please let me do this job."
"I'm not trying to persuade you, but I think the chances of success are higher if you and I work together," Howard said. "If you agree with me, then open the door."
A moment later, the door opened and Christina was seen behind the door wearing only a single piece of clothing, with water dripping from her hair.
Howard: "Can I come in?"
Christina nodded, then she returned to the sink, dried her hair, and began to put on makeup.
If she really wanted to carry out an assassination, she would have to change her appearance to make it less likely for the target to be suspicious.
Howard sat down on the sofa, poured himself a glass of water, and asked, "What are your plans?"
"The last time I saw Uncle Alex was two years ago, also at a party. He saw me alone and came over to talk to me," Christina said, gazing at herself in the mirror while fixing her hair. "He taught me how to make a drink. Whisk heavy cream into sparkling wine, add half a teaspoon of sugar, and stir until emulsified. Then add a little hard liquor and a few drops of lemon juice. Finally, add a pickled olive and, if you like, an egg yolk. Drink it before the emulsion separates. The resulting drink has a pungent taste but a very mellow aftertaste, perfect for someone like me who's not old enough for hard liquor but still wants to try something new."
Christina seemed to be analyzing the warm past with this relative with Howard, but soon she said:
"I can make another glass of this wine today and put poison in it. Uncle Alex will probably drink it."
Howard: "I think you should not think about things so simply."
"Then what do you think we should do?" Howard saw Christina's eyes widen in the mirror.
"Assuming he's wary, he won't drink what you offer him, or won't drink it easily." Howard said, "We can set up a simple game."
Christina: "Please continue."
"We'll prepare two glasses of wine, one for you and one for Alex. Then you give one to Alex and keep the other for yourself. If he gets defensive, you swap the two glasses of wine."
"But how can we guarantee that Uncle Alex will drink the poisoned cup?"
Howard: "It's simple. Both glasses are poisoned."