Chapter 139: Sleepless Night
Rosen knew the voice outside the door, one of the three captains of the guards in the mansion, named Drew.
Of the three captains, Drew has the best temper and is the best to speak. After discovering that it was him, Lawson breathed a sigh of relief, and he asked in a 'daze', "Captain Drew, what's wrong?" ”
"Find someone! Don't ask anything else, just open the door! Drew was serious.
"It's coming, it's coming."
Rosen got up and opened the wooden door, a cool breeze blew in from outside the door, he immediately snorted, couldn't help but shrink his body, and looked at the guard captain Drew carefully: "Captain, it's a big night, what's the matter?" ”
Drew saw that Lawson was thinly dressed and shivering from the cold, so he waved his hand: "Don't worry about it, go back to bed and sleep on your own, be careful not to catch a cold." ”
As he spoke, he waved his hand to the two guards following behind him: "Give me a careful search!" ”
The two guards answered, walked into the hut and began to search.
It is said that it is a search, but in fact it is more like a perfunctory. The reason is simple, the cabin is very small, there is no furniture in it, just a simple wardrobe, a small bed, you can see it all at a glance.
The two of them walked around the wooden house casually, opened the wardrobe and looked at it, glanced at the bottom of the bed again, and finally looked at the beams of the room, and then returned to the door and reported: "Captain, no one." ”
Captain Drew didn't doubt it at all, he didn't believe that this wooden house could hide people, and it was just routine to come to check the wooden house, and looking at the dazed appearance of this guy Lawson, he obviously didn't know what was going on.
He gestured to the guards: "Go, search the next place!" ”
The two guards left the cabin, and Drew nodded to Rosen, "Okay, it's okay, you go back to sleep." Remember, don't ask, just act like nothing happened, you know? ”
"Uh-huh~" Lawson nodded repeatedly.
Captain Drew turned and walked away, and when he walked five or six meters, Lawson closed the wooden door.
"Whew~~ It's exciting."
Although he knew in his heart that the probability of being discovered was extremely small, but when it came to the end, Rosen was still very nervous, in case of any accident and Lilith was discovered by the other party, then he could only choose to fight to the death in order to protect himself.
Although he may not necessarily lose, and may have a greater chance of winning, the Blue Moon Mansion will definitely be turned upside down by him, and it is estimated that none of these ordinary guards will die, and Count Derek will definitely not survive. Tomorrow morning, this will have to be the most exciting news in Nilogaard.
As for him, he will definitely not be able to stay in Nilogaard City, and he will have to run away with Anne overnight, and he may not have the opportunity to return to this city in the future.
Now this result is the most ideal.
He went back to the bed, wrapped himself in the quilt and lay down, and when the guards outside the window were gone, he calmed down and listened carefully to the movement in the dark compartment under the bed.
'The sound of breathing is more uniform than before, and the sound of heartbeat is much stronger than before, and it seems that the antidote I have put a lot of effort into working has worked, not bad, Miss Linde, it seems that you are very lucky. ’
Lawson felt a little relieved and began to lie on the bed and close his eyes.
It was destined to be a sleepless night.
Rosen hadn't fallen asleep, he had been listening, paying attention to the movements in the Blue Moon Mansion and the dark compartment under the bed.
The dozens of guards in the mansion did not sleep, and they searched everywhere for Lilith's whereabouts.
At the beginning, they searched every corner of the Blue Moon Mansion, and after finding nothing, they carefully began to search the streets around the Mansion, and after finding nothing in the streets, they returned to the Blue Moon Mansion to search again, and so on.
It was tossing until three o'clock in the morning.
In the mansion, neither Count Derek nor Grimm the Wizard were asleep.
They had been sitting in the lobby on the first floor of the mansion waiting for news, and whenever the guards came from outside to report on the progress, their eyes showed a glint of hope. But after the guards finished reporting, the two were disappointed.
In the dark corner of the mansion hall, there was also a person, no, a monster to be precise, who was also watching the progress of the guards' search.
This monster is naturally a chameleon.
In the shadows behind the pillars of the hall where he was, he waited patiently, and as soon as the guards found the magician hiding, he would immediately rush over and kill the magician, and then bring her body back and place it on the bed in Count Derek's bedroom.
'Hehe, when the time comes, Count Derek will be very surprised. ’
In a dwelling in Nilogaard, the naturalist Linnaeus waited in his room for news, but waited for most of the night for his accomplices to return.
'I don't know what's going on with that chameleon?' ’
"Damn chameleon, just kill a nobleman, you have to do so many tricks, don't want me to cooperate with you next time!" ’
In the midst of the anticipation and disappointment of many, the clock turned to half past four in the morning, and the city of Nilogaard began to 'wake up', and the first wave of early morning busyness appeared in the streets, and the patrol guards began to increase.
In this case, the guards of the Blue Moon Mansion had to stop searching the streets near the Mansion.
Mansion Hall.
Count Derek and Grimm the Magician had not slept all night, and both had blue and bloodshot eyes.
"How could I not find it? Are you mistaken?" Count Derek was about to go crazy, he was very panicked now, he was afraid that the servants in the mansion would suddenly come in and tell him that the great magician of Nilogaard had come to visit, which meant that the matter was exposed, and he was finished.
Magician Green was also a little dazed, but he was much calmer than Count Derrick: "Lord Earl, don't panic yet. I can't be wrong in my judgment. No one has been found now, there is only one possibility! ”
"What is possible?" Count Derek asked busily.
"Miss Lind died of poison, in some pickled corner. This corner may be a well, or a gutter, or she simply teleported by mistake and suffocated herself to death in the stone wall of a building. In short, with the poison in her body, she has no chance of surviving now! "Wizard Green is very sure.
"What if she has an antidote?" Count Derek asked.
Green shook his head, "Impossible. I have carefully analysed the toxin, which is a unique toxin similar to snake venom, and its composition is so complex that it takes a thousand trials to find an antidote. She doesn't have this time, no one in the world has this time! ”
Count Derek didn't understand it, but the obscure words that kept coming out of Green's mouth made him feel reassured: "Perhaps, Lilith is really dead, it's a pity~~Hey~~"
Green continued: "There is no need to continue the search at this point. The next thing we have to do is wait, wait for the judgment of the gods. If Lilith doesn't return to the academy today, it means that the gods are on our side. ”
Count Derek nodded, and said to the messenger guards on the side, "Go, let everyone come back, let everyone have a good rest." ”
"Yes, Lord Count." The guards retreated.
Just as the two gave up the search, a new movement appeared in Lawson's cabin.
"Knock~~Knock~~"
There was a slight movement in the dark compartment under Rosen's bed, as if someone was gently tapping the wooden board with his hand.
Rosen was half-awake and half-asleep, and when he heard this movement, he immediately woke up, put his ear on the bed board and listened carefully for a while, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart: "This girl is awake, and the toxins have almost been removed, but her body is very weak, and she is basically in a half-dead quantum state." ”
In the middle of winter, wearing a thin dress and staying in a cold dirt pit for a night, even with Lawson's current undead physique, he can't bear it, let alone an ordinary woman whose body is tossed and almost collapsed by the poison.
So here's the problem.
The guards were still searching the mansion relentlessly, and if he released people from the dark compartment now, as soon as the guards came, it was very likely that they would be discovered. If she doesn't let it out, the other party may freeze to death, or, in her survival instinct, she will try to escape from the dark grid and be discovered.
After some weighing, Rosen decided to get the person out of the shadows, if the girl froze to death, he would have worked all night.
"Forget it, save people to the end, take risks!"
Rosen reluctantly got out of the warm bed, put on his clothes, and then crawled under the bed, and whispered into the gap in the dark compartment, "Miss Linde, don't be nervous, I'll let you out now." But remember, you're not out of danger yet, so don't make a sound! ”
The movement stopped in the dark compartment, and the sorceress must have heard Rosen's words.
Rosen was not in a hurry to release people, he listened to the movement outside the window, and after confirming that the nearest mansion guard was more than 20 meters away from the cabin, he leaned down, gently moved the sundries on the hidden wooden board, and removed the wooden plank.
At this moment, a faint white light appeared again under the bed.
Then, Rosen found that his neck was pinched by a force, and he could barely move, and the weak voice of the sorceress came from his ears: "Who are you?" Where am I? ”
The strength on his neck is very strong, and ordinary people will definitely not be able to break away, but it is not difficult for Rosen, but it will inevitably cause greater movement, he lay motionless under the bed, and replied honestly: "I am Rosen, the gardener of the glass flower room of the Blue Moon Mansion, and you are still in the Blue Moon Mansion." ”
"You're a liar! How could an ordinary gardener have so many alchemical weapons?! ”
"Well, I'm actually an alchemist, and I'm particularly interested in plant cultivation. I heard that there is a naturalist named Linnaeus in the Blue Moon Mansion, who is very good at raising flowers, so he specially came in to steal the teacher. Oh, by the way, a few days ago, I found out that he used a special fertilizer to water the white round head mushroom, I quietly researched it, found that it was poison, and then refined the corresponding antidote. Coincidentally, I saved your life with these antidotes. ”
After saying that, Rosen couldn't help but cheer for himself, his excuse was really seamless.
Lilith seemed to believe it, and she let go of Lawson's neck. Her action took a lot of her already small energy, and she gasped for a while before she spoke, "Why did you save me?" ”
Lawson shrugged his shoulders: "It just happened, do you want me to die and not save me?" ”
As he spoke, he reached out and tested Lilith's forehead with the back of his hand, and found that it was cold, like a block of ice, and he said, "You must be very cold now, right?" ”
Lilith didn't move, she only blinked, agreeing with Rosen's words.
"Then this dark grid is too cold to stay, I'll help you out, right?"
Lilith blinked again, agreeing.
Rosen took the man out of the bed and stuffed it directly into the bed where he had slept before, leaving only one head outside. It's still warm in the bed, and it should help her recover some body temperature.
He ran to the wooden door again, lay down in the crack of the door, and secretly looked out.
After looking at it for a while, he found that there seemed to be a lot fewer guards in the mansion than before. Thinking about it, after a night of searching in the winter, the physical strength will definitely not be able to stay up, and the mansion is such a small place, it is not meaningful to search again, and it must be to rest at this time.
As he observed, he asked, "It's almost dawn outside, and I'll have to go to work in the flower house later." It's definitely dangerous for you to stay alone in the cabin, I've done everything I can, and I know you're a space magician, or you can teleport back to the academy later, okay? ”
No response.
After waiting for a while, Lawson felt strange in his heart, turned his head to look, and found that Lilith's eyes were closed, her face was pale like a corpse, and her breathing was even more vague, almost imperceptible.
She fell into a deep coma, the kind of critical state that would hang up if no one cared about her.
"Oh~ this is such a big problem!"
Lawson is going crazy.