Chapter 92: The Mask

Butler Bruce Harder leaves shortly after opening the storeroom for Isabel. Now, Isabel is looking for something special and even personalized for the end of the Middle Ages knightly objects that she had conceived in the private treasury of her father and sir.

After picking up the oil lamp at random, she came to the place where the knight's armor was placed. Here, she found not only chain mail invented by the Celts in the 4th century BC, but also steel plate chain mail that appeared in the 8th century AD. During the subsequent search, she found two "knights" in full-body plate armor that looked very bulky and unbearable, "standing" completely upright against the wall like a living knight.

"Standing" on the left is a full-body plate armor "knight" armed with a machete axe. Judging from the manufacturing process of the plate armor and the pattern on the surface of the plate armor, it can be judged that this is a Milanese-style plate armor produced in Milan, Italy.

On the right side stands a pair of full-body plate armor "knights" with a sword and halberd, which is clearly a characteristic Gothic plate armor made in southern Germany. One of the most striking features of German-made full-body plate armor is that the knight's shoe tip is very long, which is used to kill the enemy directly while riding on a horse.

Isabel spun around in place, and when she looked at it, she felt as if she was in some of the medieval knight museums in France or Germany. It's a pity that there is no mobile phone or digital camera on his body to take pictures of these two old, authentic knights' full-body plate armor.

In a trance, she seemed to hear a voice from a distant era in the two empty full-body plates. It was as if there really was a living knight hiding in the darkness behind the plate armor, muttering incantation-like language to himself.

Isabel slowly walked up to the upright Milanese-style plate armor "Knight" and gently opened the plate armor mask on the "Knight's" face. When she didn't notice anything unusual, she poked her head into the inside of her black hole-like face to carefully observe its empty interior space, and said softly, "Hello, is there anyone here?" ”

Of course, no one will respond to her. Isabel unhappily lowered her mask, and as she continued her search, she stumbled upon a large metal edging wooden box at her right foot. Because the little finger of her right foot touched the corner of the box, a piercing pain suddenly hit her whole body.

"Fuck it, what the hell is this?" As Isabel stood on her left foot to support her body, she jumped up and down in small motion, cursing at the box that stood in her way as she lifted her right foot and stroked her little thumb.

As the pain wore off, Isabel crouched down to examine the inside of the crate. When I opened it, it turned out to be a whole box of very old armor parts, which had long lost the glory of the past.

Knights' armor of different styles and ages, such as cuirass, calf armor, shoulder armor, and neck armor, occupy almost the entire interior of the chest. Isabel took a cursory look at it and didn't find anything useful.

Just as she was about to lower the somewhat heavy lid, she suddenly saw a small piece of mysterious object with a strange curved edge peeking out of one side of a gray neck armor.

Isabel reopened the lid and flipped the mysterious object out from under her neck armor. Grabbing the sides of the mysterious object with both hands, he took a closer look at it by the light of the oil lamp and exclaimed in amazement, "Wow, that's cool." ”

It turned out that the mysterious item was a male-shaped humanoid mask made from the materials used to make armor the size of a life-size human face. A pair of hollow eye holes similar to the size of real eyes, a firm nose, towering cheekbones, and slightly grinning lips that seemed to have a spooky smile from hell.

Isabel took the mask and said to herself, "No, this mask looks so weird, could it be the mask of Loki, the 'God of Pranks'?" ”

"Haha, I see. Until Jim Carrey (played by Stanley, the actor in the Hollywood movie "Stranger in Disguise") picks up Loki's mask, Loki's mask has been quietly hiding in this box in the Jazz Treasury. ”

"It wasn't until centuries later that the mask would travel across the ocean from England to the sea near New York and be picked up by that idiot Jim Carrey. Or, they were brought to America by the English colonists. ”

"In short, Jim Carrey used the powerful magic of the mask to finally chase down his goddess Cameron Diaz (the heroine of Tina Carlisle in "The Stranger in Disguise")."

"However, the mask in the movie seems to be made of wood, and it's green."

"I wonder if I will become a mischievous god when I wear this mask?"

Isabel struggled to recall the scenes in the movie, holding the mask in both hands and pretending to be nervous, and slowly pasting the mask on her face. Then, with his hands on his face, he shook his head from side to side, mimicking as much as possible the scene when Jim Carrey was forced to wear a mask in the movie.

Then, she wanted to do the crazy whirlwind spin in the movie. However, it is impossible for her to make an action that only cinematic special effects can make. So Isabel covered her masked face with her hands and spun quickly in place.

"Isabel, what are you doing here?" In the darkness behind him, a burst of Euphemia's voice suddenly appeared.

"Ahh Isabel screamed and quickly stopped, taking off her mask and glaring at Euphemia behind her.

"Ahh Yuphimia, who was standing alone with an oil lamp not far away, was also frightened by the screams of the other party.

Isabel walked up to her, glared at her, and said, "Effie, do you know that you're going to be scared to death by doing this?" ”

Euphemia clutched her left hand to her chest, trying to soothe her pounding heart. After a few seconds, he looked at the other party with a lingering heart and said, "Isabel, I'm sorry, I... I didn't do it intentionally,"

"It doesn't matter. Effie, what's wrong with you? I'm scaring you, am I? ”

"I guess so."

Isabel hurriedly helped Ephimia to sit on the nearest box, put her arm around each other's shoulders and said, "I'm sorry, Effie, are you feeling better now?" ”

At this time, Euphemia's heart no longer beat irregularly and slowly, and slowly regained its calm. He looked at each other with a sideways face, frowned, and said, "God forbid, Isabel, were you dancing just now?" But why would you dance alone in such a cold place? Or are you planning to gain a mystical power through a druid's ritual? ”

Isabel said briskly, "Of course... No. Uh, what does the ritual of the druid mean? ”

"Well, I remember it as if in Celtic mythology, the Celtic warriors gained strength because of the 'Gaith' sent out by the druids. However, 'Gaith' is a magical prohibition, a sacred oath that Celtic warriors cannot violate. ”

"Oh, so if the warriors break this... Gaisce, what will happen? ”

"Will be killed by the ban's mana."