Chapter 15: The Harvest
The garrisons guarding the castle are called garrisons, and they spend most of their time stationed in the huge gatehouse that controls the entrance. The fortified walls of the gatehouse housed the fortified gates and mechanisms, and the gatehouse was also the seat of the castle's prison, and the sturdy gatehouse was used to keep prisoners as effective as it was to defend against enemy attacks.
Stepping on the gray stone steps, Dejuran led Vernet into the prison of the gatehouse.
The door of a cell was open, and Dejuran pushed open the iron gate and stepped inside.
With Wei Nei in the back, she closed the cell door and smiled, "De Yulan, you are locked up." ”
De Yulan only glanced at the little girl, and continued to look at the torture instruments placed in the cell. Talking to herself, Weine felt a little bored, she shook the iron gate, walked up to De Yulan, and asked, "De Youlan, what is that?" ”
"Torture Instruments." Dejuran replied, introducing them one by one, "Cross." Coffin cage. This is a torture table, during the execution, the prisoner is tied to the torture instrument, and then the ratchet on this side is turned to tighten the rope, increasing the tension applied to the prisoner's limbs, which can dislocate the joint, and finally break the joint. ”
Wei Nei thought about that picture, couldn't help but shudder, and said, "It's terrifying. ”
"You haven't seen anything more terrifying," said Deyulan. ”
Walking out of the cell, they walked down the aisle, and Vernet suddenly shouted, "Skeletons, Dejuran, there are skeletons there." ”
As soon as he saw the inhuman-shaped skeleton, De Youlan's heartbeat involuntarily accelerated a little, but there was not much movement. He knew the twists and turns, before the castle was breached by the enemy, the commander ordered the soldiers to execute all the prisoners and prisoners, and the corpses were turned into the white skeletons that they are now without any one of them.
"Skeleton ......" was startled at first, but now that he had eased up, Vernet walked over and grabbed the iron bar with his fingers, his face closer, as if he wanted to see more clearly, "Will it stand up suddenly?" She listened to the bard's stories, and the skeleton soldiers who came back from the dead appeared in the stories.
De Youlan looked up and saw the sunlight shining in through the unreachable windows on the wall, and the dust flying in the pillars of light, and he said, "No. Unless manipulated by a necromancer, undead creatures typically only appear in dark, damp tombs or eternally dark dungeons. There are no conditions here, the sun restrains them. ”
Coming out of the prison, Vene said, "There is no secret way. ”
"If not, go to the next place."
De Youlan did not take the little girl straight to the destination, Guy was too obvious, and there might be a new harvest from going around, they came to the kitchen again, where the big stove, the barbecue grill, the cooking pot, and the pan were all covered with dust, and if you looked closely, there were a little plum blossom footprints on it, and I don't know what little animal had just arrived, and there was a basket under the stove, and there was a pile of firewood, and the wooden barrel in the corner was for laundry.
They then walked into the adjacent warehouse, which was empty except for the wooden shelves that had fallen on the ground and the broken rattan baskets.
Walk up the spiral ladder to the watchtower, stand on the top of the watchtower and try your best to look into the distance, there is a dark green valley and forest sea in the distance. De Yulan had hoped that there would be something to be found in the armory, even if it was a crude weapon, but there was nothing. They finally came to the study, and De Yulan smiled a little, this is it.
Although he knew where the mechanism was, De Yulan did not say it explicitly, he walked around: "Look for it, there is no mechanism." ”
De Yulan touched the thick dust of the desk, wiped the glass of the cabinet, there was not a single book on the shelf, it seemed that it had been emptied by the adventurers who had come here before, including the paintings on the wall, and when he looked up, the chandelier on the ceiling was gone, symbolically looking for his hands on his chest and leaning against the windowsill, watching Wei Nei scurry around.
"Organ, organ." The little girl muttered to herself.
"What are you doing under the table?" Dejuran asked.
"Find a mechanism." Vernet came out from under the table, grabbed her hair, and patted her ass.
"Did you find it?"
"Nope." Vernet asked, "What does the mechanism look like?" ”
"It could be a handle, it could be a groove that just put something down, a statue's eye or a claw, a loose ......brick," De Youlan said.
"Nope." "I've looked for them all." Let's change places. ”
De Yulan asked, "Did you really search for them all?" ”
"Really." The little girl nodded heavily.
De Youlan said: "Bet on your dinner, you must have a place you haven't found." ”
"Don't bet." "That's my dinner...... But I've really looked for it all. ”
"So you're still a novice, a rookie." De Yulan shook his head, "I found out at the beginning, just waiting for you to find out, I didn't expect you to be so useless, disappointed, really disappointed." ”
"Anyone can say big things."
"Dead ducks have hard mouths." Completely with the strength of his waist, De Yulan stood up from his leaning state, he walked to the door and held the door frame, "Look, how far is it from here to the wall over there?" Almost four steps. Then he led the little girl out of the study, "and see how far from this door to the door of the partition wall, that room, and that door?" Counting the steps to the next room, they took thirteen steps, "Finally, see how far you get from here to the wall?" Three steps. ”
"Hmm." Verne responded.
De Yulan asked, "How do you feel now?" ”
"Nope."
"What a little fool...... The two rooms are next to each other...... What is thirteen minus four minus three? De Youlan stretched out his fist, raised his thumb, index finger, middle finger in turn, and finally opened five fingers, "Thirteen minus four minus three equals six, do you think this wall might be that thick?" ”
Weine opened her mouth slightly, fortunately she was not so stupid, and after a while, she suddenly realized and said excitedly: "I know." ”
"Chamber of Secrets." De Yulan pounded the wall, "There is a secret room here. ”
They returned to their study, this time looking for mechanisms on the walls covered in faded applique wallpaper. Vernet was too short to touch, but it was De Yulan who found the mechanism and pushed a brick in, only to hear a "click" sound and a hole in the wall.
Vine yelled, "Door, door, door." ”
De Yulan said, "I'm amazing. ”
"De Youlan is super powerful."
Smiling slightly, De Youlan likes the little girl to be honest about this the most.
The chamber had no windows, only a narrow door that could not let in the sun, and it was a little dark inside. De Yulan took out a lamp from the magic bag, it was a special lantern, it didn't need to be ignited, it contained the ore that would be lit as long as it was shaken, the price of such a convenient lantern was not very expensive, the only problem was that it was not bright enough to last, he was the first to enter the secret room.
The secret room is not large, with bookshelves on both sides and a desk against the wall, which has not yet been visited by adventurers, and the invaders did not notice it when the castle was destroyed, so everything remains as it is.
De Yulan found a box on the desk and quickly put it in his waist bag. He didn't need to open the box to know that there was a pair of ruby earrings inside, which was exactly what he was aiming for, and most of the players' first magic equipment, with the effect of adding one stamina, was originally intended by the castle commander as a gift for his lover. And then the letter opener is also a good thing, the moldy dim sum in the dish must not be eaten, can you still have a bottle of red wine? Holding the lantern around, I wanted to take all the books on the bookshelf above the desk with me.
Stepping out of the study and back into the spacious atrium of the castle, De Yolan held a stack of books in his arms, and Vernet held a stack of books. There are too many books in that secret room, there is no way to carry them all, so I can only carefully select some of them, and the rest are not in a hurry, anyway, only I know that the secret room exists.
"Big harvest, big harvest." Vernet looked satisfied.
"The veteran adventurer is here, it's better to say that the world's number one adventurer is here." De Youlan braged shamelessly, and when a gust of wind blew and the leaves "rattled", his footsteps stopped, "Quiet, too quiet." "This silence means that there is no chirping of insects or birds, and the footsteps of small animals are all heard by Suosuo.
Deyulan doesn't know how to describe it, that's murderous? Anyway, there was a feeling of uneasiness rising up to make people's backs chill, and the corner of his eye saw something, he grabbed Weinet's arm and pulled her to his side, and the book in the little girl's hand fell to the ground with a bang, and at this time, a black shadow swept through and pounced.
De Yulan put down the book, drew his sword, and waited for a long time to finally appear, and standing in front of him was a big bobcat, the size of a mountain lion, standing on top of the flower bed, with its long tongue sticking out and licking its nose, bowing down, blowing its fur, and roaring in a low voice.
The tiger is humble, and there will be a blow; The raccoon shrinks its body, and there will be a take.