40. The house is full of gargoyles
Walking down the stairs to the door under the moondial, Asa asked a little uncomfortably before opening the door, "Are you sure you don't know what this place is?" ”
"Please, even though I've been sleeping underground for a long time, my memory is still clear. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info I've never been to this part of the castle before. I always assume that the other towers are completely destroyed internally...... Be careful! I really don't know what's going to be in there. My mother kept it a secret and didn't even let me know it. She must be hiding something that she feels dangerous. Serana's expression was serious, and Asa put away her extra expression, and the two of them carefully opened the door, only to see that inside was a room similar to the basement they had walked in, full of cobwebs and signs of a collapsed roof, and it looked like no one had set foot in a long time.
"Fortunately, a bunch of zombies ran out of it without opening the door, and it was still within the acceptable range." Asa pretended to pat his chest on the back, as if he was talking about something.
"Don't talk nonsense, how could my mother keep zombies here!" Serana nudged Asa behind her and scolded with a smile.
"Yes, yes, just kidding, don't be serious, alas, it's really dark here, why don't you light a few magic torches, magic fires and the like before...... Ouch! Asa, who had barely walked two steps in the room, suddenly screamed in pain, covered her face and "kicked, kicked, kicked" and took several steps back, Serana was startled and quickly asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"Well, something just stabbed me in the face," Asa covered her face and inhaled a cool breath, which seemed to be in real pain.
In this dark environment, Serana and the vampires had a much better vision than ordinary people like Asa, and a closer look revealed that there were several strings of thistles hanging from the place where Asa had just advanced! Obviously a small trap.
The spikes of the thistle terrestris are sharp and thin, and if you don't pay attention to lean up and give it a "sting", even if it is not as prickly as if you step on it on the ground, it is definitely not easier than the wasp's tail needle. Asa should be glad that he was only pierced in the cheek, and if he was stabbed in the eye, it would be troublesome.
"Alas, in the future, you should stand behind me in this dark place, come, show me...... Well, it seems that it has been quenched a little bit of poison, but fortunately, it has been a little long, and the effect of poison is not much, it is a little stronger than being bitten by mosquitoes...... Poof, "Although Serana tried her best to downplay the matter, but in the end she couldn't hold back, Asa knew it was bad when she heard her laugh, and sure enough, when she touched her cheek, the bulging bag was the size of a gold coin!."
"you! It's a little better than being bitten by a mosquito? You can find me a mosquito that can bite such a big bag! ”
"Okay, okay, don't ......"
"Boom!!" A sudden explosion interrupted the conversation between the two, and when they looked at the sound, they saw that the stone chips were scattered, and the gargoyle statue that was originally in the corner of the passage in this room actually came to life!
"Your mother didn't raise zombies! But she kept the gargoyle here!? "Asa almost wanted to hit the wall, it's better to raise a few zombies! At least the living corpses are not resistant to fighting, and a burst of fireball can kill one piece.
"I don't know if she raises this thing! My mother had some ideas about magical constructs. Belch...... Not the kind you think. She just thought it was funny. Serana excused herself with some weakness, and by this time the gargoyle had already rushed towards the two of them in a fierce confrontation!
"Get out of the way!" As soon as Serana pushed Asa, she immediately rolled to the side, pulled out the dagger at her waist, and at the same time threw her right hand at the empty gargoyle is an [icicle]!
The gargoyle was in pain, but it was even more ferocious, and with its teeth and claws, it waved its big claws and grabbed at Serana. This can choose the wrong opponent, if this iron claw is stretched out towards Asa at this time, it can make Asa hang the lottery, but it is towards Serana, Serana dodged lightly, and then waved her wrist, and the gargoyle's hard wrist couldn't stop Serana's knife, and it was almost cut off by the roots!
"Get out of the way!" At this time, Asa on the other side also came back to his strength, set up a reinforced crossbow, put on the explosive flame crossbow arrow, and Serana dodged to distance herself from the gargoyle, and the crossbow arrow was already inserted into the gargoyle's shoulder. This gargoyle is indeed more ferocious than the ones I've seen before, it should be a higher-level [Brutal Gargoyle], this arrow in the shoulder still wants to rush forward like no one else, but fortunately, the guy in Asa's hand has also changed shotguns.
"Boom"! The upper half of the brutal gargoyle was blown away! The feet slowly fell.
"That's not a good start, and I'm starting to 'look forward to' your mother's secret exposed." Asa looked at the gargoyle corpse on the ground and shook his head, speechless.
"You mouth, sometimes I really want to use this thistle terrestris to give you the upper and lower lips to string me!" With a "malevolent" expression towards Asa, Serana sheathed her knife and led the way forward.
"Hey, I'll just complain about it......" Asa smiled helplessly, and only ran with a reinforced crossbow and ran to follow.
After walking down the passage, it didn't take long to come to a staircase, which seemed to be one of the towers that Serana had said was deserted. The two of them walked up the stairs continuously, and there were ghouls and gargoyles from time to time along the way, the ghouls were fine, and the gargoyle statues made the two of them a little woody. There are several gargoyle statues on almost every floor, but not every one of them will turn from a statue to a vicious gargoyle. In the end, Asa was annoyed, regardless of whether he would turn into a gargoylee in the end, and when he saw a statue, he shot an explosive flame crossbow arrow, and Asa also wanted to use the [Burst Fireball] to save some ammunition, but unfortunately the effect of this magic was much worse than the bursting flame crossbow arrow that exploded after hitting the enemy's body, and sometimes even the gargoyle who was still in a deep sleep would wake up to join in the fun. There was no way, Asa had no choice but to use the Explosive Flame Crossbow Arrow, although it was a bit wasteful, but it also saved a lot of worry.
"There's air in there, and the stairs must be in there!" It's another corridor, and there are quite a few rooms in this corridor where you don't see the stairs, and I'm afraid the stairs are hidden somewhere in these rooms. Asa was wondering what to do when Serana whispered as she pointed to the door of a room.
Sure enough, Serana's judgment was correct, and the staircase was in this room. Along the way, Asa also had a basic understanding of the towers, and Serana said that she thought the towers were abandoned, but it was not wrong to say that many of the rooms had been buried by the collapsed stones. Her mother must have decided that she could hide in it based on this judgment.
Continuing up the stairs, the structure found that the next passage was blocked by an iron fence. The two of them looked around and found that the switch was actually behind a gargoyle statue, looking at this posture, could it be a structure that would wake up when the switch was pulled?
"Alas...... Your mother must have raised too many gargoyles......" "......" This time Serana chose to shake her head helplessly to Asa's complaints, Asa didn't give this kind of trap a chance to take advantage of this time, and first blew up the gargoyle statue with an arrow, and then dropped the switch.
Although the passage opened, Asa sighed and said, "It's almost there, right?" I'm afraid I'll get claustrophobia if I stay any longer. ”
"Don't rush, judging from the height we are walking, we should be on the top floor." Serana was actually a little tired, and she had to maintain a high state of mental tension in such a dark place, but it was more surprising that Asa was not tired and paralyzed now.
Walking down the aisle, the two of them came to a rather frightening room: a complete human skeleton was placed on a long table, with a troll skull and four human skulls on the side of the long table, and a wooden box at the other end of the table with some human skeletons, including spine and thigh bones. Asa swallowed and muttered quietly, "Your mother won't still be here experimenting with modified humans, right?" ”
"......" Serana's face was also not good-looking, and judging from the details of the journey, her mother's mental state did not seem to be much better than her father's. After a long time, she said, "Keep walking...... We'll know when we see her. ”
Asa didn't say anything more this time, silently following Serana. But as if God was going to block the hearts of the two, the two of them seemed to have finally arrived in the main hall of this tower, not to mention the shadow of Serana's mother, there were only three or four gargoyles in it!
"Ahh Dealing with the gargoyles, Asa sat on a bench and said with a dumbfounded expression.
"No way, this room looks like it stopped halfway through the renovation, my mom can't live here." Serana's mother seemed to be a serious person who wouldn't live in such a half-room.
"But you see, there are still a lot of expensive clothes here." At this time, Asa made a new discovery, which was the vampire royal armor placed on a shelf in the corner of the house, this high-level clothing equipment, apparently the clothing that Serana's parents were qualified to wear.
"This ......" Asa said also makes sense, could it be that the two of them spent so much time just a bamboo basket to draw water? An irritated Serana stamped her foot, but Asa noticed something strange at her feet: there seemed to be a little less dust there......
At this glance, Asa saw that the door was coming, and said in surprise: "Look! There is air circulation under the fireplace, and there must be a passage behind this! Sure enough, only in front of the fireplace, where Serana stood, there was less dust, and everywhere else there was a thick layer of dust. It's probably because there's a little bit of air movement here, so it's a little bit cleaner.