The cave is not long, both of them have seen the drawings and records written by Hannibal, John is in front, Lin An is behind, the two have avoided several hidden and dangerous traps on the road, some are pure mechanical mechanisms, more are magic traps, and Lin An used spells to avoid them one by one according to the codex.

At the same time, Lin An also understood why Hannibal didn't dare to touch this secret vault, because he had no ability to cast spells, he was dead here, and this secret vault was a place that only the Medici who had inherited the mage bloodline could reach.

The two walked more than fifty feet and came to the front of the last level.

It was a life-height half-length frame, hanging on the front of the vault door.

The painting above is a white-bearded old man in a black robe holding a magic staff and holding a crystal ball in his left hand, and a little starlight lingers around his robe, mysterious and unprovoked.

The old man's momentum is more striking than the robe on his body, his thin face can see the handsomeness of his youth, although he quietly closes his eyes, he can still see the domineering and strong character in every fold of the old face, and the whole portrait gives people a kind of intimidation, lifelike.

John and Lin An walked within three feet of the frame, and the frame came to life, and the first archmage in the history of the Medici family was depicted on it. Burke. Santosni. The Medici moved up.

The white-bearded old man's eyes were closed and opened, and Lin An immediately felt a burst of intimidation and fear from the heart. Burke. Santosni. The low and old voice of the Medici sounded in his heart:

"Who are you, and why are you disturbing my sleep?"

The "he" in the portrait didn't wait for the two to answer, looked at them, frowned, and said, "Huh? You don't look like I'm from the Medici, why did you come to my family's vault? ”

John's face changed slightly, his whole body became vigilant, and he glanced at Lin An:

Hannibal wrote down the relics in the account. It was only said that the portrait needed the blood of the Medici family to open the door, and Hannibal specially found a descendant of the Medici family for this purpose, collected five vials of blood from the other party before his death, and kept it in a special crystal bottle, which was handed over to Lin An. However, Hannibal did not mention that the portrait guarding the gates of the vault was intelligent.

This clearly involves the realm of the soul, could it be that after the death of the archmage, the descendants sealed part of his soul into this frame?

In this case, the blood in the bottle will not be able to fool the portrait.

Lin An on the side was silent.

At first, she was also slightly taken aback, and then she wrinkled her eyebrows. He stared blankly at the portrait.

The old mage in the portrait has already roared loudly: "Report your name, or you will die without a body!! ”

In the face of the roaring two, they only felt a sharp rise in fear, and the two of them seemed to have become a boat in the stormy waves.

"Shut up!" Lin An suddenly said coldly. "A lowly man who sold his soul to the devil, is this the truth about the demise of the Medici family?"

The face of the majestic old man in the portrait changed suddenly, and for a moment his face was extremely frightened, and he quickly turned iron-blue, and shouted sharply:

"Foolish maniac! You will pay for slandering the soul of a great mage! Say your name. I Standi. Burke. Santosni. The Medici's men are immortal and nameless! ”

"Stupid! Since I can see your origin at a glance, do I still not understand your deceitful little tricks? Trying to trick me into getting my real name? Amusing! A tiny caterpillar dares to show off your poisonous tufts of hair in front of the poisonous king? ”

Lin An pulled John back, and as soon as he left the ten zhang range of the portrait, John immediately rushed to the fear that rose in his heart and disappeared suddenly, only then did he realize that it was the result of the influence of the other party.

He looked at the portrait again. I can no longer feel the momentum of the portrait, and the portrait with glowing eyes in the frame is just a moving portrait.

Standi. Burke. Santosni. The portrait of the Medici was suddenly changed by Lin An's trick. Se Li said inwardly: "You, who are you?" How do you know these ......?"

Standi. Burke. Santosni. The questioning of the Medici portrait reminded Lin An of the memory of the Dark Daughter in the second life of Samsara, and she did not answer Standi. Burke. Santosni. The question of the Medici portrait is to say:

"You used your real name and blood to trick your offspring into making a pact with the devil!

Pathetic, you thought that at first you were just selling your soul for the glory of life and the prosperity of future generations. But you don't know that things like devils are completely greedy creatures, and you have sold your soul to become its slave. And how can it spare your children and grandchildren? ”

Standi. Burke. Santosni. The portrait of the Medici reveals a deep anguish and despair, which is clearly told by Lin An.

And Johann was shocked, it turned out that before Standi. Burke. Santosni. The portraits of the Medici constantly ask for their names and the blood they ask for to open the door, simply in order to trick them into becoming slaves enslaved by the devil!

And Lin An revealed the meaning, Standi. Burke. Santosni. The Medici devil is an accomplice of the tiger, and the target of deception is actually his family's children!

Also, although this vault is newly created, the place where this portrait was originally placed must also be the treasure house of the Medici family, and when the descendants of the Medici family come to open the treasure house in front of the treasure house, where will they be prepared against the revered ancestors of the Lizu family?

As soon as the name and blood were offered, those Medici descendants immediately and Standi. Burke. Santosni. The Medici, too, became slaves to the devil.

But is the devil's pact really that terrible?

John believed in Standy. Burke. Santosni. Even if the Medici were annihilated by their souls, they would never want their offspring to become slaves of the devil, but apparently Standi. Burke. Santosni. After the death of the Medici, the soul was vested in the devil, and it was no longer up to him to call the shots. Burke. Santosni. The pain and despair of the Medici, who apparently still retains his sense of self.

But even if you have consciousness, you can still only deceive the souls of your children and grandchildren under the control of the contract, so that the souls with independent consciousness can suffer from guilt and pain, and all kinds of negative emotions are the devil's favorite things.

"It turns out that the Medici is a family controlled by the devil, no wonder it will be destroyed so quickly.

I'll just say that a magic family that has lasted for nearly a thousand years has a scale that is no less than the hidden inheritance, even if it can't resist it. Gathering wings and hiding won't fall so quickly, but with the devil behind it, it's not surprising that anything happens. ”

Lin An muttered to himself.

The devil is the camp of chaos, usually the source of trouble, and it is completely conceivable what the slaves who have been contracted by the devil will do.

There are only three magical families like the Medici in Merlin, and although the Medici family is not the largest, it has been the closest to the royal family.

The Merlin royal family and the strong people of the year must have noticed something. Therefore, the Medici family was caught off guard and wiped out in one fell swoop, leaving only a handful of people who escaped by chance.

But presumably, the powerful and powerful who destroyed the Medici family back then must not have a clear idea of the root of the matter, and the devil is completely nothing. The people of the Medici family are slaves of the devil to deceive the contract rather than a cooperative witch, and they are still mages, so even the spell to detect the magic power cannot detect the devil's contract on the Medici people.

Therefore, after Merlin's strong man destroyed the Medici family, he actually left the culprit under the Medici family, just as no one expected. The wise patriarch of the Medici family, Standi. Burke. Santosni. The Medici, who turned out to be a slave of the devil who sold his soul for power, sadly brought the family he founded into a state of destruction.

If there is anyone in this world who understands the devil's methods, Lin An is the second, then only the fellow in the Tower of Babel can be called the first.

Lin An contacted the rumors about the Medici family that he learned from Hannibal, and figured out the process of the Medici family from rise to decline. I can't help but be afraid of Standi. Burke. Santosni. The Medici sighed:

"Few of the families that have signed a contract with the devil, even if they are witches, have a good end. How much more are you a slave who has sold your soul? ”

When Standi. Burke. Santosni. When the Medici sold their souls for power by luck, they were already doomed to the Medici family.

Standi. Burke. Santosni. The Medici's soul, bound in a frame, wept bitterly.

His descendants hastily built the vault, moved his frame here, and then no one came in for more than a decade, this time with two young men who couldn't feel the blood connection. Standi. Burke. Santosni. The Medici's soul knew that his family was doomed.

The old man's cry of remorse and pain echoed through the hole. Lin quietly looked at the portrait for a moment, and then suddenly spoke up, telling John to leave the portrait and retreat to the position of the hole.

John was a little uneasy, but he still left at Lin An's insistence, and then he heard a low voice coming from the cave, which was Lin An's familiar timbre, but he was saying something in a language that John had never heard before, with a strange and difficult pronunciation, but it seemed to imply a strange power, and soon after, a wave came out, and John never heard any sound again.

……

The gate of the vault, in front of the portrait.

["Standi. Burke. Santosni. Medici, you have nothing left but this enslaved soul. It was the devil who made the contract with you that caused this qiē, do you want to take revenge on it and make it regret it? ”】

The crying stopped, and Standi. Burke. Santosni. The Medici raised his head, his scarlet eyes seemed to contain extremely evil flames, constantly beating in the hollow pupils, and the same strange devilish language sounded from his mouth, but the consciousness that occupied the soul had changed to another:

["Despicable human beings, what abominable fellow of the same kind brought you here in an attempt to divide and seduce my slaves? ”】

["Poor unknown devil, with your present pathetic strength, if I had been driven by your kind to discover your hiding place, would you think you would still have the ability to question me? ”】

At the same time as answering, Lin An also made a conclusion in his heart, it seems that this is not an ancient devil who has been sleeping for a long time, but a man who has somehow been killed by Standi. Burke. Santosni. The newborn awakened by the Medici had never dealt with the same kind, no wonder it was so miserable.

and Standy. Burke. Santosni. The unnamed devil of the Medici Pact is furious:

["Woman, you will pay for your disrespectful words! ”】

["Lust is terrible! ”】

Lin An pursed his lips lightly, ["Don't think that I don't have witch blood and magic power, and I can't hurt you without the power in the devil's words, so I'm so arrogant. Even if it can't kill you, if it kills the soul of this contract that you live in. Or if you throw this portrait into the space gap and drift forever, what will you do? ”】

Depositing zài Standi. Burke. Santosni. The face of the devil in the Medici soul changed, and he sneered:

["Don't threaten the great Lord Spani, Lord Spani has captured countless of your kind, and giving up a worm that is no longer of use is just a punishment for his detriment! ”】

["If that's the case, you won't be threatened by me, and you will show up immediately!"] I wasn't entirely sure, but as soon as you appeared, I knew that this soul wasn't the only slave soul you had left. And the most important one, right?

If it is a devil with a rich soul, how can he keep the soul of a powerful archmage who has not been able to bring new bait for more than ten years, and not eat this delicacy? ”】

Lin An scoffed. The topic changed, ["Si Panni? I haven't heard of an ancient lineage of syllables like this, so it seems like you're just a newborn little thing, or a female lineage? ”】

Of course, Si Pani is not the devil's real name, just a code name. The name of the devil is the source of strength, how can it be said casually.

However, their code names are often related to their real names, and Lin An, who drove his own devils to smash and devour a lot of devils when he was the Dark Girl, of course, also knows a lot about this.

When the self-proclaimed Devil Si Panni heard that Lin An had kept the name and genealogy of the devil secret among witches, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he finally realized that this was a character he couldn't afford to provoke and broke into the door. Although it can't sense a trace of magic power on the other party's body at all......

Could it be that the contractor of an ancient companion has come to the door with hidden bloodlines and magical powers?

It was thinking crankily in its heart, and Lin An was there. Don't talk nonsense with it.

From the reaction of the other party, it was confirmed that Standi was in this portrait. Burke. Santosni. After the Medici was a contract slave that the devil would not give up, Lin An removed the portrait and planned to use a sealing spell to seal the portrait to prevent Standi. Burke. Santosni. The soul of the Medici escapes.

As long as Standi. Burke. Santosni. The Medici could not escape the importance that the devil, who called himself Spani, attached to this soul. Presumably, he will not give up and run away on his own.

Tear open a scroll and point the spell at the frame, which fades as if it had been drained of water. Turned gray and white, shouting and scolding Standy. Burke. Santosni. The Medici were also fixed in the frame, and the eyes of the flame were finally extinguished, and they closed their eyes silently.

After doing this, Lin An was thrown into the space by the sealed picture frame.

Devils are good at playing with people's hearts, and it is difficult to accept them face to face when they meet for the first time, especially when they have no witch blood and magic power to suppress each other.

Lin An has already figured out the general details of it, so in order to prevent it from figuring out itself, it is better to put it away and dry it first, and then it will be good to negotiate-

I have to say that it was a surprise to meet such a distressed and tragic newborn devil in the Secret Vault, and it seemed much better than the contract devil in her memory of the Dark Daughter.

……

After completing this qiē, Lin An called John in.

Johnn didn't hear the voice of Lin An and the devil later, but it was obvious that Lin An knew the language of dialogue with the other party, and he vaguely guessed in his heart that Standi, whose demeanor changed drastically. Burke. Santosni. The Medici's soul is possessed by the devil, and Lin An, who can talk to the devil, becomes more mysterious, much to John's surprise and worry.

Lin An finally called him back, and John saw that the picture frame on the door disappeared, and he frowned at Lin An while breathing a sigh of relief, and saw that she was no different from him before leaving, and he was still not at ease:

"Miss, are you alright?"

The devil has always been the representative of extreme evil, and in the legends and myths of the mainland, it has always been the embodiment of evil and chaos, and ordinary people usually think that the devil is just the embodiment of people's evil chaos, and even John, who knows more about mages, never thought that he would really foresee a living devil.

"Do you think I'm looking like something's wrong? Fear comes from the unknown, and in fact, if you know how to restrain them, the devil is not terrible. ”

Lin An smiled and added in his heart: What is terrible is the heart of people.

"It's good that you're okay! That devil has been destroyed by you? John let go of his worries and didn't ask Lin An about the conversation with the devil, because he knew that Lin An obviously didn't want to reveal this.

"Hmm." Lin An was vague.

She couldn't explain why she knew so much about the devil's weakness, and she didn't want the devil to fall into her hands to be known. I could only let John misunderstand and change the subject:

"It seems that the Medici family has not been back here, it has been more than ten years, it seems that those people who fled are either dead or have no ability to return here."

John nodded, with some emotion.

"The once-illustrious Medici family actually perished because of this devil, and I think the people who destroyed the Medici family back then didn't know the inside story, otherwise they wouldn't have left this portrait here."

Knowing that it was the devil who was doing it, he had to find it even if he dug three feet into the ground - John listened to Lin An's answer, and thought that the devil was the same as a ghost. It can be eliminated with the corresponding restraint method!

The two spoke a few more words and began to look for nearby mechanisms, Lin An thought for a while. Opening the crystal bottle containing the blood of the Medici clansmen, and dripping the fresh blood stored inside onto the door, the heavy magic door flashed with light, silently contracted on both sides, and opened from it.

John was a little surprised. Lin An explained:

"The devil only needs a drop of blood from the person concerned to deceive the contract, and when the Medici family sets up this gate, they must also set up a magic to test the blood on the door."

John knew that he had been blinded by the devil before, and now he understood that it was actually the devil who deceived the souls of the Medici people in this way.

The door opened, and a dry chill came in.

Lin An and John were stunned by the scattered scene behind the door at the same time.

Behind the door is a cloister. The road to which they entered was in a "T" shape, and there were four doors on the cloister wall, three of which were open. A lot of material was spilled on the ground in pieces, spreading all the way to the end of the cloister.

At the end of the left end of the cloister, there was a yellow nanmu wooden box that was dumped on the ground, and the box also contained half a box of things, and the materials on the ground were poured out when the wooden box was transferred.

The wooden crate is tall, and there is a dug tunnel directly above the location. Looking at the size, only people of Lin An's size can enter and exit, and there is a soft ladder hanging down at the entrance of the cave. It hung just above the wooden box, and the yellow nanmu box seemed to be used for footsteps.

Lin An could almost imagine the person who came in from the tunnel when he wanted to leave, pushing the Huang Nan wooden box to the position of the soft ladder and pouring things all the way to lose weight, that person must have been in a hurry, and he didn't even have time to put away the soft ladder and cover the hole that had been dug.

John came to the location of the wooden box, and the soft ladder had been hanging in the ventilated tunnel for an unknown amount of time, and it had long since rotted.

John didn't use the soft ladder to jump on the spot and step on the cave wall, using his strength to climb the tunnel entrance where the soft ladder hung down, poking his head into the tunnel entrance, and after a while before retracting, Lin An below only faintly heard a few chirping rats, and it seemed that there was no danger.

After looking at it for a while, John turned around and said to Lin An below, the bones made a gurgling sound, his body seemed to shrink by a third, and he twisted around and drilled out of the tunnel mouth, and the sound of clattering footsteps went away, and it didn't take long for him to come back and drill down from the tunnel mouth in the same way again.

"It seems to be another secret passage, the distance is not short, leading to the main building of the atrium, I walked to the exit, the location of that room should be the male side of the main building, but I didn't open it." John's to Lin Andao.

"It seems that the Medici people are not without second-hand arrangements, in order to avoid the most important secret vault not being opened, they also dug another secret passage, this secret passage can only be known by the patriarch."

This secret passage was built later, and Hannibal's father was not involved, so of course Hannibal did not know the existence of this secret passage, otherwise he would not have been guarding the secret for decades without touching the secret vault.

Lin An sighed: "It seems that our harvest this time will not be as big as estimated." ”

The Medici family built the vault forty years ago, and it was destroyed more than ten years ago, so since there is this passage in the middle of more than twenty years, of course the treasures in the vault will be used, even if they are not used, most of them should be taken away when the clan is transferred.

(To be continued)

ps：

Thank you for the great reward of Fenghua Sakura and White Seeds! o(n_n)o~

So a certain one just threw himself into the net~ Mmmm, the next chapter of the windfall and the harvest of the trap people's sharp weapons.

Characters in this chapter:

Standi. Burke. Santosni. Medici - The handsome old man with the white beard, the archmage, and the soul slave of Spani.

Master Si Panni - the devil behind the Medici family, because the ancestors of the Medici clan sold their soul contracts in exchange for power and wiped out the clan, and a new devil is waiting to be trained~

ps: For the sake of a certain p who has been so diligent recently, roll around and ask for recommendation votes and pink! Categorical Dividends Chrysanthemum Crisis !! /(tot)/~~