Chapter 36: The Prince's Secret
What's going on?
I suddenly had a bad feeling. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The study is spotless, and the decoration of all the utensils is placed just right, but I just think it's weird. Not only that, but there seemed to be an uncomfortable aura in this room, somewhat familiar and very intense.
I walked towards the desk and noticed that the smell seemed to become stronger, faintly the closer I got to the back shelves, the more obvious it became, as if the strange smell was coming from there.
I fumbled around the bookshelves, and when I touched them, I realized that they were dark room mechanisms. I carefully twisted a silver candlestick on the left, and the bookshelf slowly turned open, revealing a narrow passageway, and for a moment the smell hit my nerves, making people feel extremely hot and uncomfortable.
There was a faint light in the depths of the passage. It's not uncommon for the Prince's Mansion to have some secret passages, so I don't think it's new. After a moment's pause, I quickly closed the door of the secret passage and walked into the secret passage.
The road was so dark and narrow that only one person could pass through it, and I groped my way forward, but I didn't know if it was because of the sweltering heat and lack of ventilation in the tunnel, so I started to sweat.
It's the first time I've done such an assassination. I didn't expect to be nervous. I laughed to myself at my indifference, and reconfirmed that the sword in my hand was in my hand.
Suddenly a small room appeared in front of me, and then the road became two. I sensed that the breath was coming from the left, so I followed my instincts to the left, then I encountered a fork in the road, and then I walked again...... After making five or six choices, a stone gate finally appeared in front of me. The road is still narrow, and the stone gate is engraved with a strange and strange magic array, which I have never seen before, and it should not be a human magic system.
I tried to push the door open, but found that the stone door was heavy and not moving. I was surprised, and then tried to activate the strange circle on the door. I slowly poured my mana into the grooves of the magic circle until it was filled, and then the door slowly opened.
A wave of heat hit, accompanied by a fishy smell. I tried to calm myself so that I didn't faint from the nausea, and I understood the reason why Archimedes said that only I could do it.
Ordinary magicians can only draw their strength through the magic array of the existing magic system, and they will become helpless in the face of the unfamiliar magic array on the stone gate and cannot open it. And I'm different, it's the mana that naturally gushes out, and there is no need to guide, so the power doesn't come from the magic circle, but can actively stimulate the effect of the magic array.
From time to time, there were bursts of heat waves in the stone gate, and I could smell bursts of fishy smell along with the heat waves, which gave me a bad premonition. What is it in a prince's chamber that makes such a foul smell?
I poked my head into the stone door and found that there seemed to be a lot of space inside. There was a faint noise in my ears, and I couldn't make out what it was because the source was so far away.
I cautiously walked behind the stone door, the strange smell and the stench getting heavier and heavier, and the sound in my ears became clearer and clearer, and I seemed to be able to vaguely hear what it was.
Finally, I came to a hidden door. The façade looks a little old, with a slight dark red patch on it. Through the crack in the door, I could see that there was light seeping out inside, and the faint yellow light and shadow were constantly beating, a little hideous and terrifying.
I gently pushed the door open and entered sideways, only to be stunned by the scene in front of me.
I was greeted by the pungent smell of blood, which stimulated my nerves all the time. In front of me was a dark secret room, dimly lit. There were twenty or thirty corpses hanging down from the roof. Some have no heads, others have only flesh and bones, and no outer skin. The ground was full of mutilated limbs, which was shocking.
Although I had seen a similar scene in the secret passages of the palace at the beginning, I still couldn't digest the scene in front of me well, it was extremely cruel. The cacophony in my ears became clear, the choked and whining of human beings. I couldn't bear to look at any more of this scene, so I turned my head and continued to walk towards the inner room.
When I got to the inner room, I was once again shocked by what I saw.
The situation in the inner room is not much better than the outside, or it can be said to be worse.
It was a cell lined up in a long corridor, and the floor was covered with blood. The cells on either side were filled with flesh and blood, most of them haggard, most of them invisible. Some had their eyes gouged out, some had their tongues cut out, and many more had lost their hands and feet, and could only crawl on the ground, wailing incessantly.
What the hell is Aubrey trying to do!
I feel extremely uncomfortable in my heart. The gore in my eyes seemed to shake my will, and the resentment against Aubrey in my heart intensified unconsciously. Even prisoners can't treat them like this!
"Please! Kill me...... Kill me! "A prisoner with his fingers still able to move reached out from his cage and grabbed my ankle, his eyes bloodshot and his eyes full of despair.
My mind seemed to clear up again. I looked at his figureless body, and my fingers began to tremble. I took a deep breath, then pulled out the knife from behind me, closed my eyes, and stabbed him in the head.
"Thank you......" he spat out the last two words, his expression frozen in the last moment of his smile.
The emotions in my heart became more and more obvious, and I tried to remind myself to hold back, then turned sideways to the shadows and quickly walked inside. The mood suddenly changed from the initial entanglement and hesitation to firmness. If nothing else, for Aubrey's inhumane behavior, he deserves to die! I don't know what these people have done, but I do know that if Aubrey were king, there would be one more tyrant in the world!
Finally, I turned to a room at the end, and I hid in the shadows, silently observing my surroundings. The strange aura grew stronger. From here, the room became clean and gorgeous again, and the surroundings were neat and tidy, which should be the place where Aubrey was. I vaguely heard someone talking in the side room, so I cautiously moved to the side of the door to check on the situation.
This stone room is not complicated, but it is not small, and there are stone screens and curtains on all sides, so that people can't see the inside clearly. A figure faintly peeked out of the gauze tent, and Aubrey's voice was clearly heard.
"You have to help me, you must help me this time! Kill both of them for me! Didn't I give you enough! Aubrey's voice came from the inner room.
I was stunned: Is there a second person here?
"You lied to me! So you've been lying to me all along! Isn't it enough that I have brought so many people as sacrifices for you? I'll give you as much as you want, and as long as I'm king, I'll give you as much as you want......" Aubrey's voice trembled from behind the gauze tent, and he could see that he was very excited. Then I saw him step by step back, closer and closer to me, and finally leaned against the veil.
It's now!;