Chapter 215: The Impossible Mission (I)
On a snowy night, a low rumble sounded like a giant beast roaring and grinding its teeth, or like a heavy stone door slowly opening, or a cobblestone rolling down the hillside.
However, the terrain was flat, there were no rolling stones, no entrances to ancient tombs, no giant beasts with red eyes, only ghostly buildings, beautiful garden plants or sculptures by day and scary by night, and a strange man with yellow eyes.
Yu Ye was taken aback, his cold hair stood on end, his limbs were stiff, and the voice continued without the slightest change, it was precisely because of this that it was even more terrifying, otherwise after the initial fright, even if a monster really jumped out, it would be nothing.
Taking a deep breath and calming his heartbeat, Yu Ye closed his eyes and released his divine sense, walked over to find the sound, and determined the source of the sound without taking a few steps.
The sound came from the mill, which was not big, there were no wind blades and no water wheels, it was an animal mill, that is, it was the kind that relied on donkeys or mules to pull the mill discs, there were no monsters in the mills, and there were no donkeys and mules, but there were millstones, and the millstones were turning on their own.
The grinding disc is stone, off-white, less than two meters in diameter, and can also be pushed by manpower, I don't know if Lu Lu Yi 16 has pushed the mill here with a crown, after all, it is a role-playing game prop, and the grinding disc looks quite old, but it has not been used much.
The millstone was spinning on its own, slowly, so it wasn't loud, but it was harsh on a night when it was so quiet that you could almost hear the sound of falling snow.
The door of the mill was closed, and it was pitch black inside, and the millstone was turning on its own, and the scene was still a little scary, but as long as it was not a translucent woman in white with a cloak of hair. Even if this grinding disc becomes refined, Yu Ye will not be afraid.
No matter how dark the room is, it can't escape the observation of the divine sense, and no matter how slowly the grinding wheel turns, there will eventually change. After observing for a while, Yu Ye found that the upper and lower parts of the stone mill were slowly separated, and the grinding disc slowly rose up, and the gap between them became larger and larger.
Yu Ye quickly understood the reason for the slow rotation of the grinding disc - it was too heavy, and there was a complete stone pillar attached underneath, or this grinding disc was a huge screw, and the grinding disc with a diameter of nearly two meters was just a screw cap. The stone pillar with threads carved underneath is the screw itself, and the rumbling sound is the friction sound of a huge screw spinning.
The stone pillar-like screws are thick and long, with a diameter of one meter. It was impossible to tell how many meters it was long, and twenty minutes later, when the raised mill disc, that is, the screw cap, was about to reach the top of the mill, a hole in the mill finally appeared.
The hole is huge. Inside sat a man with his knees crossed. Sure enough, he was dressed in a dark brown monk's robe, probably in his sixties, with a thick gray beard on his face and chin, and the wrinkles on his face were deep grooves made of flesh and skin—this man looked like a Shar Pei.
This is a very primitive lifting platform, relying on the rotation of the screw to achieve the purpose of rising and falling, and I don't know whether it is electricity or manpower under the road, no one will be interested in a grinding disc, and there is no way to move it if interested. This secret lift table is so well hidden.
The large screw is still very long underneath, but the inside is hollow. There is a ladder, from which the person below must climb to the large hole that is pierced in the opposite direction, and then turn the screw to go up to the ground, and it is hard to imagine how idle the designers and builders of this lifting platform have been.
This is not a question that Yu Ye wants to care about, what he wants to care about is whether this old monk is the "watchdog" Baptiste, and whether this lifting platform leads to the black prison.
After thinking about it for a while, he decided to figure out the first problem first, such a big screw is nailed into the ground, even if it grows legs, it can't run, just know the location of the road.
The old monk got out of the hole and stood on the ground, took a steel ball from his robe, opened a cover at the bottom of the hole, that is, the passage through which he climbed from the center of the screw to the hole, threw the ball into it, and closed the lid again.
The steel ball was the simplest means of communication, and when it was thrown down, the screws began to rotate clockwise, and slowly turned back, and the old monk turned and opened the door of the mill and walked out, and the cold wind blew, and he shivered, put the wide hood on his head, and went into the snowstorm.
He also had a steel ball on him, and a large set of keys, and walked slowly towards the little Trianon.
Yu Ye disappeared and followed not far away, he moved forward directly with Linyun Steps, without making any sound, the old monk didn't know that someone was following him, opened the door of the Little Trianon Palace and walked in, closed the door casually, and then walked in the two of them, opening the door all the way, closing the door, but how could the door be closed Yu Ye.
There are large and small salons, painting studios, bedrooms, dressing rooms, living rooms, entertainment halls, etc., the old friar is familiar with the way in the dark, even to open the lock without touching the keyhole, after the hand is raised to a certain height, the key can be inserted into the keyhole as soon as it is stretched, and the place has been familiar to an outrageous degree.
Walking to the study in the corner of the first floor, the old monk touched a certain book in the shelf, and immediately a bookshelf opened, just like those suspense movies and detective novels, Yu Ye had walked here, and he had also entered the secret passage, and he knew that the secret passage was the marble courtyard leading to the main entrance of the Palace of Versailles.
Following the winding and dark passageway, from the corner between the marble courtyard and the walls of the Palace of Versailles, the old friar entered the Palace of Versailles directly.
Yu Ye was a little tired after following, because the road was all he had walked, but it didn't take long for him to collapse a little, because the old monk went straight to the second floor of the Palace of Versailles, walked into the king's suite, lay down on the golden and red woven bed, and began to sleep.
He used it as his living room, and in the whole Versailles complex, the old friar seemed to be able to sleep in any bed, but it was the king's bed that was the most comfortable.
There was a curtain on the king's big bed, blocking the view, and Yu Ye sat directly in the corner of the bedroom, continuing to absorb the golden pill.
The night was uneventful, and the next morning, at six o'clock in the morning, before dawn, the old monk got up, made the king's bed, and returned the way he came, and came to the mill.
Braving the wind and snow to walk such a long way, just to go to the king's bed to sleep? Yu Ye couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it, and returned here anyway, so he simply went down and took a look.
The old monk went to the corner of the mill, took out the remaining ball, and threw it through a round hole in the corner, and in a short time the big screw came up again, much faster than when the man was sitting.
On the other hand, the information about the "watchdog" Baptiste was also sent, this is the Korean star from Scherer? Information obtained from Senal.
While waiting for the big screw to rise, Yu Ye took a look at the information.
There is very little information, there is a photo, but unfortunately not even the face is photographed, there is only a person wearing a monk's robe, because the robe is too big, even men and women can't see it, but from the height of it, it is about the same as the old monk in front of him.
There are also several nicknames of Baptiste, namely the watchdog, the ghost of Versailles, and the Trian herdsman, as well as information such as the date of birth, as well as a page of a fragmented file that has been blacked out in many places.
As can be seen from the archives, the "watchdogs" are not actually looking at the doors of the Black Prison, nor the doors of Versailles or Trianon, but the doors of the Louvre.
Baptiste is a monk, the ruler of the dark side of the Louvre, and the Black Prison is only one part of it, he is responsible for the detention of the thieves who want to steal the art, and also the recovery of the stolen art - the Louvre has not been stolen once or twice, but almost every time the stolen art can be recovered, and the thieves are either dead or all gone.
That was the end of the information, and Mr. Louis had collected more or less of the information, and he should have found more of it, but as the investigation progressed, he encountered a lot of resistance, and after his daughter once mentioned that a stranger had gone to the school to talk to her, Mr. Louis terminated the investigation altogether.
The huge screw went up, and the hole in the hole was too small for the old monk to squeeze one more person in, but fortunately the old monk took the initiative to solve the problem - he pulled the lid and climbed down the stairs when the big screw began to spin down.
Yu Ye immediately moved to the screw, wiped the soles of his shoes, and climbed down, he couldn't use Linyunbu here, he climbed very carefully, for fear of making a movement.
When there were people, the big screw rotated relatively slowly, and it was almost impossible to feel it, and climbed down for about ten meters, there was an same pair of perforated holes, and the old monk sat in the hole again, and Yu Ye stood on the ladder, less than two meters away from the old monk.
It was originally pitch black, and then a dazzling light appeared, and it didn't take long for the big screw to stop, the old monk went out first, and Yu Ye then went down to the hole and followed.
It was a very bright room, with two staff members and a one-year console, probably where the big screws were manipulated, and the old monk and the two nodded, opened the door and walked outside.
Outside is a passageway, long and bright, you can't see the head on both sides, a little damp, but there is no musty smell, the ventilation is excellent, the old monk walked to the left, Yu Ye took out the communicator and looked at it, on the left is the location of the Grand Canal of Versailles, and on the right, if nothing else, it should lead to the Louvre.
The aisle was about two meters high and one meter wide, Yu Ye continued to follow the old monk, and after walking for about seven or eight hundred meters, he saw a red metal door at the end of the aisle, and there was a small door in the aisle in front of the door.
Yu Ye didn't stop, and moved directly behind the red metal door, confirming that this was the Black Prison.
The black prison is completely different from what Yu Ye imagined, it is not gloomy at all, it is not dim at all, the floor is bright, the walls are bright, the ceiling is bright, and it is not ordinarily bright.
There are not many guards with guns, but everyone is wearing sunglasses, if they don't wear them, it is estimated that they will be blind in a day, Yu Ye just moved in once, and the piercing alarm sounded.
…… (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you for the reward from the dream seeker, I haven't seen the reward for a long time, thank you for your encouragement!