Chapter 3: The Dinner Begins
I don't know how long it has been, Xie Liang, who was suspended by the black fog ring, has long been listless, and his limbs have also been paralyzed because of hanging for a long time, like an electric current passing through or an ant biting.
"Squeak!"
At this moment, the towering gate of the castle sounded, and the soft silver moonlight pulled a slender ray of light through the crack in the door, and at the end of the slender light near the gate, a wide fat shadow occupied the moonlight.
And Xie Liang, who was listless just now, also subconsciously raised his head to look at the door, this was the first time he had seen a creature coming from outside the ancient castle.
"It's a ball......" Xie Liang looked at the creature coming in from the gate in surprise.
It was a very round meat ball, wearing an extremely wide bathrobe, two calves almost sunk into the flesh, and the head was too, you couldn't see where his neck was, two black eyes the size of mung beans were attached to the meat, and the overall look was a little cute.
"Humans? This species is really rare here. The meat ball came to Xie Liang with two little short legs, and the pupils in the eyes of the two mung beans narrowed and dilated, "What did you do wrong?"
"Are you the Chief Justice of Tuzhi?" Xie Liang looked up and down at the meat ball in front of him, if this was the Chief Justice of Tuzhi, it was really a big deviation from what he thought in his mind.
"No, I'm not the profiteer! Speaking of the Chief Justice of Tuzhi, the fleshy ball face was pulled down, and the fat on his forehead was squeezed three layers, and he emphasized loudly to Xie Liang, "I am Terry III Levid, a nobleman, do you know what a nobleman is?"
Levid snorted twice, as soon as he talked about Tuzhi, he got angry, and at the last dinner, Tuzhi tricked him into buying a compass from Tuzhi, saying that what had been opened with the law of fate, and it turned out to be a fake at all.
"Oh, so I'm at the dinner party. Hearing that the meat ball was not Tuzhi, Xie Liang was not interested in him at all.
"What kind of attitude, this is, I'm a nobleman!" Levid was now more and more dissatisfied with this Gusnott castle, and even humans did not respect him.
Levid took his eyes off Xie Liang, then he glanced at Mr. Twilight, and the two eyeballs kept moving on Mr. Twilight and Xie Liang, and finally he showed a look of "I understand": "Human, you must have violated a rule in the ancient castle law......, right? Oh no, it's a place where there is no place to die, and there is not even a grave grass. ”
"The last one?"
"Yes, it didn't take long for an iron-headed baby to challenge the rules of the ancient castle law book three thousand years ago, and then that miserable situation, tsk, was used by Mr. Twilight as the oil for the soul lamp, and died of no slag. Levid felt cold just thinking about it, and he still remembered the miserable wails to this day.
"Oil?" Xie Liang was stunned for a moment, and the punishment for violating the rules once again refreshed his cognition, "Then which rule is that iron-headed baby challenging?"
"Kill the creature that got the invitation. Levide answered Xie Liang's question casually, he pulled the chair next to him, and his two small hands gestured the distance from the center to here.
"Who is more serious than breaking this rule and destroying the invitation?" Xie Liang felt that he should not be as miserable as that iron-headed baby, after all, he was just rubbing the invitation.
"What!" Levid turned, as if he had heard something terrible, and the two mung beans glared at the boss, "Wouldn't you be hanging here to ruin the invitation?"
"How...... What's wrong?" Being stared at like this, Xie Liang was inexplicably flustered, and even his words were a little stammering.
"You're done, human! Destroying an invitation is worse than killing the person who accepts it. Levid became serious, and his two small eyes looked at Xie Liang seriously: "Killing the person who accepted the invitation is just a challenge to the prestige of the ancient castle, but if you destroy the invitation, you will not take the owner of the ancient castle in your eyes! These are two rules that cannot be compared at all!"
"No, Levid, you're mistaken!" Xie Liang swallowed his saliva: "Isn't the ancient castle without an owner now?"
"Wait a minute!" Levid stretched out his right hand to block the middle between him and Xie Liang, and then the two little short legs quickly upside down, and then he immediately ran to the farthest position from Xie Liang and sat down, "Human, you have to figure it out, the invitation was made by the first owner of the castle, and it is the most special thing in the castle, there are only ten invitations in total, and one is less! So you are dead, I don't know you." ”
With that, Levid buried his head on the long table, looking as if he was asleep.
However, soon Levid raised his head again, and he emphasized to Xie Liang again: "Also, human race, I am Trey III Leweid! I am a nobleman, your attitude had better be set for me, you know, not everyone is as good at talking as me!"
After emphasizing, Levide thought about the conversation he had with Xie Liang just now, and found that he really didn't have any substantive relationship with Xie Liang, Levide was relieved, well, it's okay!
Then, Xie Liang saw Levid lying on the table again......
"Is it so serious...... To be honest, Xie Liang himself didn't have the confidence, and his voice was very weak when he said this.
In terms of rank, the owner of the castle is the person at the top of Xie Liang's known food chain now, followed by Justice Tuzhi, Mr. Dusk, Bo Gelie, and finally the ten guests who came to the castle to attend the dinner, but among them, Rushuv is the only creature that Xie Liang does not know the level.
Therefore, in addition to Xie Liang himself and Levit, it means that there will be eight unknown creatures who will come to the dinner later.
Still have to rest assured, judging from Levid's reaction, the rules he broke are indeed a bit tricky, and in Lewede's mouth, Tuzhi seems to be a shrewd liar. Xie Liang thought to himself.
"Berglie's words are a half-truth. Combined with Levid's words, Xie Liang's vigilance against this place has increased again, the truest lie is that it is mixed with truth, and none of the creatures in this place can believe it.
"Still. Xie Liang was lying on the black mist circle, he turned his head and glanced at Levide, who was pretending to be asleep: "I can still see some pure good people, but they are a little timid." ”
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In the following time, in addition to Levid, who was asleep at the long table, three more creatures came to the castle of Gusnot.
The first one to come was a shirtless young man with a shark-like tattoo on the left side of his face, and when he first came in, he glanced at Xie Liang curiously, and then he sat quietly next to Mr. Dusk.
And in behind the young man came a tall creature in a black robe, Xie Liang visually saw that this creature was at least two meters in shape, with a hood on its head, and it was difficult to see the face, only a delicate chin leaked out of the hood.
The last woman to come in was a woman, dressed in a shabby coarse cloth garment, holding in her right hand a blue apron covered with oil, who looked like a housewife from a poor family, very ordinary, at least the most inconspicuous of the few who came.
However, Xie Liang glanced at this woman a few more times, not because of the woman's appearance and dress.
On the contrary, the woman's appearance is very ordinary, and what really attracts Xie Liang's attention is her gender and the crown on her head that is as bright as the starry sky.
The contrast between the precious and ornate crown on her head and the shabby, outdated clothing makes the woman's identity even more mysterious, the thief who stole the crown, or an important member of the declining royal family?
Xie Liang's gaze followed the woman until she sat down beside Levid, and finally muttered in a voice that only he could hear: "This is the first woman I have ever seen in Gusnott Castle. ”
At this time, there are many more people in the castle now than when Xie Liang came, the young man is still sitting quietly next to Mr. Dusk, what is the tall man wearing the hood doing Xie Liang can't see, he happens to be sitting in the position with his back to Xie Liang, and the woman wearing the crown seems to be aware of Xie Liang's gaze, and then, she looks at Xie Liang and shows a warm smile.
The woman smiled and felt very comfortable, and at that moment Xie Liang felt as if she had returned to the time when her grandmother touched her head when she was a child, and her body and mind couldn't help relaxing.
The castle was quiet, even though there were five people who had come to the dinner, but none of them had any communication, everyone was doing their own thing, but they would sometimes glance at the door from time to time, and it felt like they were waiting for someone.
About two hours later, a dull old-fashioned bell rang out in the castle.
All the creatures that had been sitting in their seats stood up in unison as if they had received some order from the bell, and even Bogret, who had disappeared for a while, stepped out of the dark aisle again, and Mr. Twilight, who was leaning back in his chair, opened his scarlet eyes.
"Squeak!"
The door carved with a purple violet pattern was opened with the sound of a bell, and almost instantly, all eyes were focused on the man dressed like a priest.
"Pay back! Trick liar!" Lewede's voice suddenly sounded, and under the gaze of the whole audience, Lewede rushed towards the man at the door with two small short legs: "The compass sold to me last time is simply fake, Tuzhi, how can you even deceive the nobles!"
That man is the Justice of the Figure?
Xie Liang looked at the man with an embarrassed smile in front of him, who was being pulled by the collar by Levid at this time to return the money.
"Let go, let go! Tuzhi grabbed Lewede's hand and tried to make him let go of his collar, because the eyes around him made him understand that Lewede's movements had to be interrupted, especially when the scarlet streamer that appeared in Mr. Twilight's black fog became thinner and thinner, "I didn't lie to you, I never sold fakes, and you didn't know how to use the compass I sold you last time, how can you say that I lied to you!"
"Really?" Levid let go of Tuzhi, he still didn't believe Tuzhi's words, although he really didn't know how to use that compass, and he only bought it when he heard that the law of fate had been opened.
"How could I lie to the nobles, Levid, you must know that I am a good man. Tuzhi straightened the cross pendant on his chest and walked towards the long table with a serious look, "Also, Levid, twelve o'clock has arrived, and the dinner has begun, and although you are half of the people of Gusnott Castle, you can't disturb the dinner party." ”