Chapter 501: The Palace
Lu Tao waited until the end of the banquet, and did not see Mickey and his brother, until the big boat docked by the lake and everyone left, Mickey and his brother walked down from the boat Shi Shiran, of course, Shi Shiran only Mickey's brother, Mickey himself had a black face, like the bottom of the pot that had not been washed for a long time.
Mickey saw Lu Tao, turned around and said something to his brother, and Mickey's brother walked away on his own, leaving Mickey to walk over to Lu Tao alone: "How about it? The banquet is fun, right? But we won't go anywhere else in the afternoon, let's go home directly." β
Lu Tao nodded, but he didn't say anything, he was still thinking about what Sauron said before, well, it didn't matter anyway.
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This time, Mickey's housekeeper Finney finally changed Lu Tao to a better house as a guest room for entertaining guests, which was much more comfortable than the previous two-story building, especially with a glass window facing the north, which exposed the sunlight outside, and warmed his body, which was not uncomfortable.
Mickey himself was not in Lu Tao's room, he was called away by others after he returned home, and he heard the tone of the person calling Mickey away, either he was the owner of this mansion, or he was the wife of the owner of this mansion, fortunately, there was a bookshelf in this nice guest room, and the books on it could make Lu Tao read for a long time.
So, Lu Tao lay on the bed in the guest room, basking in the warm sun, and found two books to read, and the food for the evening was also specially delivered, the combination of broth and bread, and the fruit after the meal, but it was much better than the shoddy production provided before, and at night, just when Lu Tao thought that the day was going to pass today, and turned off the light and was ready to sleep, his door was suddenly knocked, and when he opened the door, he saw who else could it be if it was not Mickey?
Mickey is sneaky, like a thief who has entered someone else's house, and the sound of knocking on the door is as delicate as water droplets falling from the eaves on a rainy day, if it weren't for Lu Tao's hearing being good enough, he would not have been able to hear the knock on the door at all.
Mickey saw Lu Tao open the door, so he quickly got into Lu Tao's room, and then carefully closed the door behind him and locked it by the way.
"Mickey, it's so late, do you have something to do?" Lu Tao looked at Mickey who was acting strangely, and couldn't help asking, "Is there anything that can't be said tomorrow during the day?"
"Shhh!!h β
"What did you get out of? Isn't this your house? What the hell is going on? Could it be that you were locked up because of Princess Sophie, that's too exaggerated?" Lu Tao said as he thought of what Sauron had said during the day, and judging from all of Mickey's actions today and his brother's performance, it seemed to be the case.
Sure enough, Mickey nodded after listening to Lu Tao's words: "My mother sent someone to block me in the room, and I finally took the opportunity to run out, anyway, don't talk about this, I want to escape quickly, no, I should say, I have to escape?"
Although Lu Tao doesn't know where what Mickey said must be embodied, he doesn't know what Mickey wants to escape and run to him to do, of course, if Mickey runs away by himself today, leaving Lu Tao alone
People, then tomorrow maybe Lu Tao will be harassed by others, maybe Mickey is here to remind himself?
"The only thing that is lucky today is that Lu Tao you live in this room, if someone else lives in this room, then I have no choice at all, I know you have a lot of strength, come and do me a favor." Mickey looked left and right, then pointed to the location of the bookcase and said to Lu Tao, "Can you help me move the bookcase?"
Lu Tao naturally had no problem, he walked to the bookcase, first pushed it tentatively, and after finding that the weight of the bookcase was not expected, Lu Tao pushed the bookcase open.
"Tap, tap, don't let anyone hear!"
Lu Tao: "......"
When this came out of Mickey's mouth, why did it sound so awkward?
Soon, the bookcase was pushed open by Lu Tao from the position on the side of the wall, Lu Tao was surprised to find that behind this ordinary bookcase, a door appeared, the door was in the form of a side pull, and it opened with a slight pull, Mickey poked his head out and looked behind the door, and then said to Lu Tao: "Let's go, let's go in quickly, sooner or later they will find out the fact that I have escaped, and they will find you sooner or later." β
"So, Mickey, what are you going out for?" Lu Tao was pulled by Mickey and involuntarily entered the passage behind the door.
"I'm here to fulfill a promise, a promise I'm going to fulfill no matter what!" Mickey's tone was full of determination, and even his voice was no longer lowered, as if as long as he entered this passage, the front was unimpeded, and nothing could stop his faith.
The passage is not long, after advancing five or six meters, it began to go down, and then kept moving forward, probably less than five minutes, and then reached the end of the passage, pushing away the wooden planks above, the stars in the sky, and the insects that were hiding in the grass and chirping, let Lu Tao know that he had now reached the outside, and when he turned around, there was only a layer of wall towering there, which looked very much like the wall outside Mickey's house.
Mickey crawled out of the passage, and then turned around and carefully restored the things on the ground, Lu Tao found that this was a bush, and even the exit was covered with a layer of lawn, if you didn't look carefully, no one could find that there was an opening here.
Perhaps seeing Lu Tao's puzzled expression, Mickey explained slightly: "This is the original emergency exit of our house, if there is any accident, you can escape from here, there are many such exits, but I only know the one in your original room." Don't worry, in the capital of Issos, almost every aristocratic family is indispensable for this kind of thing, and this is the last thing used to keep secrets. β
Saving your life? Or in layman's terms, just to escape, right? Lu Tao shook his head, it seems that the nobles in this world are not easy, what danger is encountered, they still have to run when they should run, speaking of which Lu Tao has found that it seems that in Issos, the capital of the Republic of Carr, these nobles have very little power to protect them, let's just say that it is in Mickey's house, Lu Tao has been in the past two days, except for those servants who are wearing the same clothes, there is no one with force at all, it stands to reason that there should be someone standing guard in front of the door, but not only is no one standing guard, the only people who can greet them are just some servants, I am afraid it is enough to explain the problemγ
There were many stars in the sky, and the moon was very large, and the ground was clear, but there were no people on the streets, and it was already late at night, and most of the people were asleep.
Only the dotted lights lit up in the distance, and if you don't look closely, you will mix them with the stars in the sky, and you can't tell the difference at all.
Lu Tao and Mickey walked on the side of the road, hiding their bodies in the shadows under those walls, according to Mickey, Issos, the capital of the Republic of Karl, where the royal family is located, does not allow anyone to walk around the street at night, which is the so-called blackhouse, if you are caught, it is fine, if you are caught, your efforts will be lost.
Fortunately, although Mickey has been away from home for more than half a year, his understanding of the royal capital Issos has not been forgotten with the passage of time.
Going in one direction along the brook, they soon came to the outside of a wall, which cut the brook off, but left a gap in the bottom with an iron bar, from which the brook communicated.
The thickness of the iron railing is about the thickness of an adult's forearm, in fact, with Lu Tao's strength, I am afraid that there is no possibility of bending these railings, Mickey saw that Lu Tao's eyes were always wandering on the iron railing, and couldn't help whispering: "We can't get in over there, we have to go in from this side." β
Saying that, Mickey walked to the railing about ten steps to the left, picked up a section of dense grass, and revealed a gap behind it, about the same size as the previous iron railing, the gap was locked, but Mickey took out a key from his pocket in a hurry, inserted it into the lock and twisted it gently, the lock was opened, Mickey carefully opened the entrance blocked by the iron railing, pointed to the inside and said to Lu Tao: "Let's go, this is the entrance we want to enter." β
Lu Tao was a little curious: "What does this entrance do? Why do you have the key to it? Also, what is the place behind this wall?"
Mickey carefully put away the key and replied: "Lu Tao, don't you want to come to the palace to have a look? Behind this is the palace of Issos, as for this gap, like the fence over there, it was originally for the stream to pass through this wall, but later, as you can see, the stream turned into another road, so it was left vacant, and as for this key, it was naturally given to me by Sophie. β
Lu Tao suddenly realized, of course, he had guessed how much the answer was to what the hell was here, in fact, this situation should only happen after Lu Tao told Princess Sophie to tell Mickey what Princess Sophie asked him to convey, but unfortunately Mickey was more conscious than anyone imagined, and the promise that he didn't know what the content was was firmly remembered by him, and he didn't need to be reminded by others at all, so he immediately remembered it.
Mickey didn't say anything more, but bent down and got into the hole, Lu Tao shook his head, naturally he could only follow behind him, to be honest, he was also a little curious about what Issos's palace looked like, although it was night, it was still good to be able to come in and have a look.
After entering the wall, Mickey turned around and locked the lock, there was a large lake behind the community, reflecting a little wave in the night, like another swaying sky, Mickey seemed to be walking in his own house, took Lu Tao to a forest, relying on the shadows between the trees, and walked in.
What is surprising is that even in the palace, Lu Tao did not see much patrol power, as if this palace was not defended at all, of course, this may also be because the area where Mickey and Lu Tao are located is not an important area in the palace.