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In the dimly lit underground passage, she avoided the crossbow arrows coming from a distance like an unpredictable prophet, and that was all there was to it, but she even used her dagger to slash one of the crossbow arrows away?

Can humans still do such a thing?

When they were in a daze, Merti wasn't stunned.

She raised her hand and pointed the crossbow she had prepared at one of them, barely having the slightest time to aim, and pulled the trigger without hesitation. At the same time, the dagger in her other hand was also thrown by her like lightning at this moment.

Before the three Imperial soldiers could recover their senses, two afterimages streaked through the passage and hit their target at the same time.

Plop, plop.

"Ah——!h

The sound of his companions screaming and falling to the ground finally woke up the remaining Imperial soldier.

He looked left and right, and saw that his two companions had fallen to the ground, convulsing instinctively, blood gushing from their necks, gradually spreading into a large pool of striking scarlet on the ground.

The piercing smell of blood made the surviving Imperial soldier's face turn blue and white, and he quickly looked at Merti again, only to find that the girl had begun to reload the crossbow with arrows.

"Damn it!"

The Imperial soldier's decisiveness was still qualified, and when he saw this, he gritted his teeth fiercely, and immediately turned around and ran towards the passage behind him with all his might, and as he ran, he also drew arrows and loaded them on the crossbow.

He had already realized that one-on-one, he was probably not that girl's opponent, and it was the wisest choice to run away now. Loading the crossbow with arrows is just to have a little resistance.

"Be careful! there is an enemy ......"

As he ran, he opened his mouth and shouted, not too loud, at least not enough to reach the ground, but in this quiet underground passage, it was enough to reach far away.

He wanted to warn his companions deeper down in the underground stronghold.

But Melti wouldn't let him scream, she reloaded her crossbow with arrows one step ahead of the Imperial soldier, and then without hesitation, she raised her hand and pulled the trigger.

As the crossbow bolts flew out, the Imperial soldier's body staggered as he ran, and the crossbow that had just been loaded with arrows in his hand but had not had time to draw the bowstring fell weakly.

Because the back of his neck has been pierced through his spine by the crossbow arrow from behind.

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Occasionally, when she encountered a tricky situation, such as the Imperial soldiers in the small courtyard before, Melti was always able to solve it smoothly.

Later, Buck and Doron were also called in to help Melti, although because Melty didn't expect much from these people's abilities, it was impossible to assign too critical tasks to these people, but just providing her with some simple assistance also made Melti's actions much smoother.

As the person who can be chosen by Lampel, the leader of the White Rose Knights, the abilities of the two White Rose Knights are actually quite qualified, at least they are unlikely to make some low-level mistakes at critical moments, they will not cause trouble for Melty in the process of action, and they can also complete the tasks assigned by Melti well.

The reason why Melti's expectations for them are not very high is mainly because her own abilities are too strong compared to these normal people, and the gap between them is too big, resulting in many things that Melti can do on her own, and often only she can do it, and if she entrusts it to others, it may be bad.

With Melti as the main body, the four of them worked together, and it took almost twenty minutes to finally solve these hidden Imperial people near the outskirts of the stronghold. The reason why it takes so much time is that, on the one hand, there are quite a few people on the other side, more than forty people, and on the other hand, every time Merti and them make an assassination, they need to try to ensure the concealment of their whereabouts.

After all, they didn't want to attract the attention of the garrison under the command of the Grand Duke of the Frontier in the city.

After eliminating the enemies on the periphery, Merti and the others turned their attention to that stronghold.

It was an ordinary-looking ordinary civilian house, covering an area of about 40 square meters, made of mud bricks, wooden planks and tiles.

From the outside, it is not eye-catching at all, and it even looks very dilapidated because it has not been inhabited for many years, and the walls and masonry have begun to climb with a lot of moss and vines. And at this moment, there is no one inside this ordinary dilapidated low house.

However, according to the information provided by Prince Henry, Merti and the others knew that directly below this dilapidated low house was actually hiding the stronghold buried by the previous king of the kingdom, and it was not on the surface.

Under one of the floors in this low house, there is another mystery.

"Let's go, pay attention to the footsteps, or you will be heard by the people below. ”

Melti beckoned to the three Lotus and said in a soft voice, and then walked directly into the low house.

But upon walking in, looking at the dusty and weedy inside, Melti frowned. Although she had expected it, this environment was still a little uncomfortable for her who was a little clean.

The three Rotes who followed in behind saw Melti stop, and after looking at the environment inside, they understood what was going on.

After getting along with Melti for a while, they more or less knew that this girl seemed to have some habits of being clean.

Therefore, at this moment, Lotus and the other three uncles also consciously crossed Merti, and did not dislike the dust that covered the house everywhere and the weeds that grew between the cracks of the floor masonry, and searched the whole house.

Soon, they made a discovery.

I saw Lotus squatting on the ground, gently groping on the ground with his palm, and soon felt a metallic grip, he turned his head and nodded silently at Melti, signaling that he had found the entrance.

Melty walked over and after a few seconds of observation, she saw through the truth of the entrance - it was a stone slab one meter wide and two meters long, and if you lifted it up from the grip, it should be possible to push it open without incident, revealing the entrance to the basement.

But Melti didn't let Lotus move rashly, but first took out a small porcelain vase from his waist bag and shook it gently.

If you get closer and listen closely, you can more or less hear the sound of liquid jolting and tumbling from the shaking porcelain bottle, and at the same time, there is a strange slight bubble sound looming in the porcelain bottle.

After shaking the vase for a while, Melti stopped, took out another small porcelain vase, uncorked it with one hand, sniffed it to the tip of her nose for a while, and then handed it to Lotus.

Lotus took the vase, sniffed it for a while, and then handed it to Doron and Buck.

After everyone had carefully inhaled some of the gas emanating from the small porcelain bottle, the porcelain bottle returned to Merti's hand, where she carefully corked it and put it back in her waist bag.

Then, Melti nodded at Lotus, her free hand lifting up.

Lotus put both hands on the grip of the slate, took a deep breath, and with a sudden force, lifted the slab up, revealing the stone staircase below that faintly shone with a glimmer of candlelight.

Squeak ——!

When the slab was lifted, there was a distinct sound that echoed clearly in the stone staircase passage.

Melty listened intently, and sure enough, she heard a dense sound of footsteps coming from below.

"Four people. ”

She said softly, and without hesitation, she threw the small shaky porcelain vase that she had been holding in her right hand into the depths of the stone staircase below.

I could only hear a crisp sound, and the sound of broken porcelain came from below.

"Be careful, something has been dropped!"

"That's not right! It's ...... There's an enemy attack!"

"Damn, what's going on with the sentry outside?!Why is there no response!"

There were several hurried voices from below, and Melty could hear their footsteps suddenly becoming very hurried, but after a few seconds, the footsteps began to slow down again.

"What's going on...... I...... I was a little dizzy......"

"Me too, feeling a little dizzy...... Oops! Is this poison gas!?"

"Damn it, hurry! stop breathing!!Retreat!!"

"Damn......! It's too late......"

Plop! Plop......

One after another, the sound of a human being falling on the hard stone floor could be heard below.

Melti silently counted the time, and after estimating that it was almost there, she nodded to the three of Lotus: "It's okay, let's go down." ”

After a pause, Melti looked at Duoren and Buck: "You two just stay at the entrance, don't let anyone else get close here, if something unexpected happens, just shout down, I'll hear you." ”

"Good. Both Doron and Buck responded solemnly.

The environment in the basement is destined to not hide too many enemies below, and with Merti's strong strength, there is basically no danger. Therefore, Duolun and Buck did not insist on going together.

"Uncle, let's go. ”

Melti smiled with satisfaction, greeted Lotus, and then bent down into the passage first, followed by Lotus.

After walking down the stone steps down the slope to a depth of about five meters, it suddenly became clear that the narrow passage, which had barely allowed two people to walk side by side, suddenly became a wide road with four people walking side by side, and oil lamps hung on the stone walls on both sides, providing a certain amount of light for this underground passage.

Melti stared at the flame on the oil lamp, sensing the slightest tremor in the flame.

This means that the air in the underground passage is flowing! It is this point that shows that this underground base has ventilation measures.

After a slight turn of her gaze, Merti saw that some fragments of the small porcelain vase she had dropped and broken earlier were quietly scattered on the ground at the bottom of the steps, and some of the fragments could still be seen with a strange color of liquid, which was emitting tiny bubbles at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This is the result of the deliberate shaking of the porcelain bottle before Melti threw it just now, and the liquid medicine she prepared into the porcelain bottle has the characteristics of volatilization into gas, and after violent shaking, the process of volatilization into gas will be accelerated sharply, and it can be thrown directly to spread the poisonous gas volatilized by the liquid medicine in an area at the fastest speed.

Her gaze swept over the four Imperial soldiers who were lying on the ground feebly, and Melty's gaze was cold.

"Uncle, you hurry up and deal with them. I'll go deeper first. ”

After giving an order to Lotus behind him, Melti took out a small porcelain vase again, shook it vigorously a few times, and hung it on her waist, then held the crossbow with reloaded arrows in one hand and the dagger in the other, and walked quickly past the four people and ran towards the depths of the passage.

"Okay, be careful yourself. Lotus solemnly admonished, looked at Melti who was running away, shook his head, walked over to the four enemies who had fallen to the ground, drew his daggers and stabbed them through their hearts one by one, and struck each of them on the necks with the hard grip of the dagger to make sure that they could not die again, and then got up and quickly rushed into the depths of the passage.

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Further ahead, Melti hurried along the passage, suddenly stared, and waved the dagger in her right hand without hesitation.

Bite!!

With a crunch of iron and gold, a burst of orange-red sparks erupted from the dimly lit passage, and a crossbow flew upside down from Melti's face.

As soon as she dodged the arrow, Merti jerked sideways without stopping, sending another crossbow arrow flying almost against her shoulder.

Then Melti swung her dagger again, and once again in a spark blast, knocking down an oncoming arrow.

"Hey, hey, am I still dreaming!"

"Unexpectedly...... Could there be such a thing?!"

More than twenty meters away from Melti, three imperial soldiers armed with crossbows were almost stupid when they watched this scene.