Chapter 184: Finding the Key
"My brother, his name is Lemon, and he is also twelve years old," Reiner crouched down to meet Andy's eye level, his face full of pride, "He once saved a girl who was chased and bitten by a mad dog, he was also bitten by that dog before, so he was afraid of the dog to death, but when he heard the girl's cry, he jumped up and hugged the dog with all his might, no matter how much it struggled and bit him, he didn't let go, and finally, when I rushed to him, his hand was still in the shape of a dog." Later, I asked him why he was so brave and if he liked the little girl, and he said no, he was giving mercy to the dog, not to let it hurt anyone else, not to cause its soul to be annihilated forever. Reiner stared into Andy's eyes, "Carter is no different from being alive and dead now, and you're just giving him mercy." ”
Andy was a little shaken, "Your brother, is he really not afraid of anything?" ”
"He's not afraid, he's aware of his responsibility, and he has to."
"But I still don't dare."
"Think of your parents, and your marmaid friend," Reina had no choice but to resort to one last resort, "at whose hands did they all die?" ”
"Terrence!" Andy finally became angry.
"Almost." Reiner nodded, "Only Princess Vanessa can help you avenge it, if Carter doesn't die, the princess will not be qualified to rule the country of Midsummer, and your parents' feud will hang shamefully in the highest sky like Greedy Wolf and can never be erased from the moon!" ”
Andy wiped away a handful of tears, took Reina's dagger, and turned to run the way he came.
Looking at the boy's back, Reina felt as uncomfortable as swallowing a fly. What am I doing? Instigating a child to kill someone!
My God!
May my soul go to hell forever, and may my beloved be in peace forever!
Vanessa had rummaged through all the drawers and bookshelves, even in the parchment scrolls and under the papyrus albums, and there were only a few places where the jailer could put the key to the forbidden magic stone, and the key would never leave this small room unless there was a special explanation from Terrence at the time.
This is the fourth time Vanessa has found herself in a month to enter the jailer's room, and appearing here too often must have attracted Terrence's attention, Brant is now imprisoned in some unknown corner of the palace, but Vanessa still chooses to find the key first instead of the prince, because he knows that opening the Forbidden Stone is the way for them to escape, and it is useless to only find the fool.
But where is the key hidden? Vanessa felt that she was about to lose her patience, every brick in this small room had been knocked by herself, and all the solutions to the hidden grid that she had learned from Da Zhou had been used, but she couldn't find the compartment where the jailer put the special key.
Time is running out, Vanessa looks at half of the sun has been bitten by the mountains, the smoke is rising in the sleeping dragon city, and in a quarter of an hour, the jailer who has changed shifts will come to work, this is the last chance, if you can't catch it, God knows how long you will have to wait.
Be calm, Vanessa said to herself. Stop and think about whether you've missed any important clues.
Thinking of this, the princess turned around and sat in the chair behind the stone table, and thought seriously: the forbidden magic aura is triggered by the forbidden magic stone, and the forbidden magic stone is triggered by magic, so what is the key triggered by? Throughout the ages, the Burning Flame Kingdom has also released many prisoners, and many of them must not be able to afford to pay for the jailers, so how did they find their keys? There must be a secret that has been passed down from generation to generation among the jailers, and if they can think of it, then why can't I. Returning to the problem of pairing the key, since it can be far away from its own lock heart, and it can be found by someone on its own initiative, it means that it is not bound to the Forbidden Magic Stone, but to something on the prisoner's body!
Vanessa was pleasantly surprised by her discovery, and he followed the thread: yes, the people who invented the Forbidden Stone may not have bothered much about unlocking the locks at all, they just had to specify the matching conditions in a surprising place. Vanessa was so excited that she stood up and rubbed her hands together. So, is it blood, hair, or lines on the neck? Or skin color, fingerprints, and the distance between the pupils of both eyes?
The princess is frustrated to find that the problem has reached a dead end here, because the above list may have to be tested by the prisoners to find the corresponding key. However, there is also the good news that all possibilities are denied. Because if one of the above methods is used to match the keys, the prisoner will know how to find his key, so what secret is there? Therefore, the jailer's key matching of the prisoner must be carried out without the prisoner's knowledge, and there is no need for blood, hair, fingerprints, and even less to measure the interpupillary distance of the prisoner before leaving the prison. Ha, I'm back to the original point.
What exactly?
At this moment, a pleasant smell of fried cod came from the open window, it was the dinner being prepared for the royal family in the castle kitchen, and when he closed his eyes, Vanessa could smell venison pie stuffed with carrots, bacon and mushrooms, and the other chefs were busy with the main course of the table tonight, a wood-roasted suckling pig, with turnips, peas and various fruits stuffed in his mouth, and he could even tell the difference between the smell of honey cake and oatmeal biscuits.
Pregnant! That's it!
Vanessa snapped open her eyes - smell! The key is paired with the Forbidden Stone by the scent of the prisoner!
He closed the window in ecstasy, sniffed around the small room like a dog, and at last found a paper bag in the corner under the tabletop that was a mixture of parchment scrolls, unused forbidden stones, and keys to whom he didn't know, and his nose rested on a piece of parchment, where there was a faint smell of sunlight on an archer.
The princess reached for the parchment, and her fingers miraculously entered the inside of the parchment, where there seemed to be a small space just enough to hold a strangely shaped key!
That's it! The familiar smell was like a ray of sunshine mixed with the fragrance of morning dew, and it evoked Vanessa's yearning and longing for Reina, as if the owner of the key was standing in front of her. Soon, I promise!
Next, Brandt's is even easier, although Vanessa has no meaning for Brant after becoming a man, but it cannot be denied that the silver-haired prince has a convincing aura like the sea, and the taste is extremely similar, even in the smell of charcoal-grilled eels in the palace kitchen.
Vanessa hid the two keys in the soles of her shoes, turned and flashed out the door, and just after turning the corner of the stairs at the end of the corridor, the jailer on shift opened the stone door to the guard's room.
Vanessa leaned against the stone wall and gasped, just right. Brant, I'm here, and this time it's my turn to save you, big man.
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