Chapter 60

The tip of the knife was pressed against his heart, and Nick looked down at the hand holding the dagger, with its distinctive bone joints.
He calculated in his head the odds of resistance at this time, and then very unfortunately found that he now does it, the only outcome is likely to be killed.
Aaron was also looking at him, he could not see the emotions under his eyes, could only see his jaw tighten out a nice arc, pursed his lips in silence and took a step forward.
The sharp tip of the knife cut through his clothes and pierced the skin of his chest, picking out a drop of blood that hung on the tip of the knife.
"If my death can exchange for your trust, then I am willing to send my heart to the tip of your knife to exchange for a clean slate."
Nike's look was sad and sincere, but his hands were sweating.
He was betting that Aaron would believe him again.
But Aaron's hand was steady, the dagger straight against his heart, allowing him to commit an act of self-harm, but his expression was still indifferent.
That indifferent gaze reminded him of the way Aaron ripped out his father's throat.
It was the same indifference, without a trace of emotion, even abhorrence felt tainted.
In such a familiar place, a place that could be called hell on earth, all the memories were strung together, and only a blood red was left in front of his eyes.
The tragedy of his past life, the longing for recognition, the dashing of his hopes, all the emotions came flooding back, stimulating his mind to swell.
He desperately tried to suppress the trembling of his body, bit through the tip of his tongue, tasted a little fishy sweetness, and finally calmed down temporarily.
Nick covered his eyes with the back of his hand, crooked his feet a little and took a step back.
"Even then, you don't want to believe me?" Nick snapped, pointing to the gallows, "Do I have to stand there and put my neck in a noose before you will believe me a little."
"Would you dare?"
Three heavy words hit him in the heart, he was reluctant to give in and turned towards the gallows, and when he actually stood underneath, he realized that he could not be as calm as he thought.
He felt a little shiver, as if the ghosts hanging on the gallows beckoned to him, urging him to come down, come down with us.
He reached for the rope as if he had lost his soul.
All this is not in Aaron's expectation, he thought the rescue has not come, Nick is like a hooked soul, really want to put his neck to the rope.
He frowned at Nick, hesitant to move, Sophia knew Nick should be a psychotic episode at this time, she hesitated to say something, and silently swallowed back.
Nick from the moment he stepped on the high platform, the condition was vaguely hooked up, has been suppressed by his nervous mood, accumulated until the outbreak.
He looked up and froze at the gallows, there seemed to be a person on it, I do not know where the wind came from, blew the blood from the body over, stained his face.
He raised his hand and wiped it, looking at the blood red all over his hand, his hand couldn't help but tremble.
Light laughter came from above his head, he looked up in confusion and watched the corpses hanging from above laughing at him with malice, the corners of their mouths were torn from their laughter, a broken tongue fell out of their mouths and fell right on top of him.
He stepped back in horror and looked up again, but he could not distinguish the faces of the corpses.
They looked like the ones his father had killed, and hazily resembled his father.
His ears were noisy, not clear for a moment, resounding with words full of malice.
'Look up, look up, look at me, see if my head is still there?
'It hurts, I'm in so much pain, my blood is running dry, give me your blood, okay?'
''I hate it so much, give me back my life!''
He plugged his ears and closed his eyes, feeling the warm sun in the sky cold to the bone, his body was turning cold, becoming like those corpses.
'O Nick, good boy, look up at Father.'
Suddenly, a different voice fell into Nick's ears, and he looked up sharply to see his father's tattered body swaying in the air.
"Father ......," he muttered.
Aaron frowned and walked up behind him, hearing those two words, and tried to tap him on the shoulder with a start.
Nick couldn't hear or see anything but the body in front of him.
"Father ......"
The corpse's loving expression suddenly became malevolent, and the eyes were like hardened poison, piercing Nick's body with one bloody hole after another.
'Nick, you're useless!'
'How could I have such a useless child as you!'
''I will never admit you!''
Nick shouted in panic: "No father, I am useful, I have almost succeeded, just a little bit, you, you wait for me a little bit more, okay, I am almost successful ah."
"Nick," Aaron sensed that he was not in the right state and squeezed his shoulders to drag him backwards.
Nick pushed Aaron away and grabbed the ropes on the gallows, his eyes only seeing the ropes swaying in the wind.
Sophia rolled up and grabbed Aaron, looking stony.
"He's having an attack."
"Shall we continue?" Sophia confirmed to him, "He can't be stimulated in his current state, a crazy person bursting out, you will be hurt."
Aaron looked complicated.
"I didn't think the coup two years ago would bring him such a big impact."
Sophia also looked at Nick, who was almost crazy, and sighed: "The longer you suppress it the more vicious the outbreak, even if you really kill you, he will never be able to heal."
At this time Nick was still talking to the person in the hallucination.
He held the corpse's bloody, cold right hand and looked at him supplicatingly, "Give me one more chance, okay?"
'Sure.'
The corpse laughed in a twisted way.
'I'll admit you if you come with me.'
'It's so cold in hell, come keep me company.'
"Come stay with me."
'Come stay with me and I'll acknowledge you, come on.'
The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers.
Nick struggled violently and resisted.
He was close to getting his father's approval, why, why did he have to stop him again, why did he have to break his hopes again and again!
His eyes were bloodshot, his right hand was clenched into a claw, and he looked at Aaron with abhorrence.
This kind of gaze made Sophia look frightened.
The masked man saw this scene when he arrived after evading the layers of defense, but in his eyes, the fact became that Aaron grabbed the rope and put it around Nick's neck, while Nick was struggling.
He barely had time to react, his only thought was to save someone.
Sophia senses the danger first and blocks it for Aaron as the masked man lunges.
When the masked man's attack was blocked, he didn't tangle with her and transformed into a giant wolf, pouncing on Aaron.
Just as Aaron had expected, he saw the giant wolf pounce and did not rush to dodge, but pulled Nick in front of him to help him block the attack.
The giant wolf's attack was really hesitant, and when the claws were about to pierce Nick's body, he panicked and retracted, but because he couldn't stop his body from retracting, he crashed into the gallows.
Nick awoke from his hallucination just as Aaron yanked him over to block.
He paled and waved a glare at the masked man, who froze and didn't read it, retracting his attack as soon as he saw him.
The rest of the rebels followed, and Sophia immediately transformed into a giant wolf to meet the enemy.
Nick knew that what he wanted to hide couldn't be hidden anymore.
He broke free from Aaron's hands and leaned against the giant wolf the masked man had transformed into to catch his breath, mockingly saying, "If I had known you knew everything, I wouldn't have wasted so much effort acting."
Countless soldiers poured in around them, surrounding the torture chamber, and Sophia broke away from the battle to stand behind Aaron.
"Give it up, you won't escape."
"Too bad." Nick laughed dementedly, "If those idiots hadn't been so anxious to get you killed and exposed. I would have killed you a long time ago."
The masked man transformed into human form and held him up, looking determined.
"I will cover your escape!" He whispered in Nick's ear, "The north defense is weak, I'll hold them off for a while, you must leave safely."
Nick patted his shoulder and calmed down.
"No need, there's no escape, they've already set up, just waiting for you to jump in yourself."
The masked man was guilty.
"It's all because I'm useless, and I've caused you."
"I don't blame you."
Nick straightened up and looked at the cold-faced Aaron. mockingly smiled.
"What do you want to do with me, kill me here in sacrifice to your parents?"
"There's no need for that." Aaron's voice was low, "My parents don't need to be sacrificed in your blood, the people who deserve to pay for their lives are already down there with them."
Nick's chest began to heave again.
"Did you risk coming here just to kill me for revenge?" Aaron asked.
"Yeah, for revenge."
Nick picked up the corners of his lips, he seemed to have given up on running away and faced him openly.
"I'm not just going to take revenge, I'm going to take this throne that my father loves and show him that I'm the son he should really recognize and rely on."
"I will send this throne, the whole wolf clan down with him, so that he knows that even if he dies, this wolf clan is all his, and then ask him if he likes this gift, now he should be willing to acknowledge me."
He lay on the shoulder of the masked man and laughed, laughing sadly.
"You see, after all I've done, it's just for an acknowledgement." Nick's eyes became hazy and his head began to throb with pain, he clutched the masked man's wrist hard and only knew how to murmur uncontrollably.
"I just want him to acknowledge me, why is it so hard?"
"Master!" The masked man held Nick, who was shaking and planted, in a panic, rummaging through his clothes, "Medicine, where is the medicine, it should be in ah ......"
All the soldiers surrounded them, watching them warily, and the other rebels were subdued and carried straight to their hands, knocked unconscious.
There was no anger in Sophia's eyes, only deep pity.
The masked man turned the medicine over and watched him swallow it, and was pulled away unceremoniously by the soldiers. He tried to struggle, but gave up again when he saw Nick, who was caught.
"Take them down and keep an eye on them."
They were taken down and locked up, and Aaron looked at the knocked down gallows, a little out of breath.
Sophia hugged him from behind, letting her warm chest press against his back, silently soothing him.