Chapter 70 In the Castle
"Guys, we're going to do the final cleanup now, are we all ready?"
Arrow asked, and Coco, Brad, and Parfay all nodded with serious faces.
"Huh? Cream? ”
Don't look around, the thief is now crouching next to the carcass of a rotting spider, not knowing what he's doing. Seeing this, Eero walked over and looked at it.
The creature reached out and slightly measured the thickness of the Rotting Spider's head, then pulled out his fanged dagger and carefully stabbed it into the junction of the Rotting Spider's head and chest, pulling it down slightly.
Seeing this, Arrow immediately understood what he wanted to do, and immediately beckoned the members to come over and help lift the chest of the rotten spider so that Cream could cut off the head more easily.
Cream smiled at everyone, nodded, and operated more carefully. Soon, the head of the Rotten Spider was cut off, and Cream immediately grasped the fanged dagger in both hands and began to cut more carefully along the Rotten Spider's mouthparts.
"What? Thing? ”
Parfay asked curiously, and Brad immediately made a booing motion.
It didn't take long for the sharp dagger to cut through the rotting spider's mouthparts, and Cream took out a piece of cloth and hugged his hand to prevent injury, and carefully reached into it to take something out.
Click-
With a soft sound, a sac-like object at the end of the mouthparts was accidentally cut by the fanged dagger, and the liquid inside flowed to the ground.
Cream frowned and shook her head with some regret. But Arrow didn't mind, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's the first time, there will always be a process of getting used to." Come on, let's move on to the next one. ”
Leaving the head of the rotten spider, everyone turned to the next one. With his first experience, Cream sliced through the mouthparts of the rotting spider faster, and with a slight pick from the back of his fanged dagger, a small pouch was picked out of it.
Cream: "Hmm...... It's so small, it shouldn't be so small. ”
Although the sac in the strip of cloth is complete, it looks very shrunken, and even deflated.
Arrow thought for a moment and said, "Yesterday's fire obviously exhausted the strength of this rotting spider, and it is also possible that it spat out venom in an orderly manner and ran out of venom when it felt that its life was in danger. It's okay, let's move on to the next end. ”
Everyone nodded, three times five divided by two, and the third and fourth rotten spiders were all cut. But either the bag is too small, or the force is not accurate when taking it, and it has never been taken out smoothly. Until the end, Cream took a deep breath to take a break, adjust his spirits, and go under the knife.
The last time, his movements were sharp and his expression was focused. The hard work paid off, and when the still full venom sac was finally completely taken out of the mouthparts of the rotting spider, everyone involuntarily let out a cheer!
"Whew...... Finally took it out. President, do you think this is useful? If you don't have any use, I think I can use it to apply to my fanged dagger. In this way, even if I encounter a guy like Wolf the next time, if my sword gives him a slight wound, I can send him to the grave. ”
Cream held the venom capsule and handed it to Arrow, looking very excited.
But Arrow thought about it and said, "What about this...... Cream, poison, then there must be an antidote. Even if adding poison to your short sword can really improve your combat effectiveness, if Parfay accidentally touches your short sword and gets poisoned, it will be troublesome. ”
Parfay pricked up her ears when she heard her name, but the sentence seemed a little complicated, and she didn't understand it for a while, so her face was full of curiosity.
Do not understand? If you don't understand, it's right. At this time, there must be a "fool" to take on the role of this casually reaching out and touching the poisoned dagger. Arrow didn't want Brad or Coco to look "Why are you talking about me?" Look at yourself with an expression.
After listening to Arrow's explanation, Cream's brows furrowed, obviously a little reluctant. But after a moment, he nodded, wrapped the glands in a thick strip of cloth and handed them to Arrow. Iero kept it in his waist bag and stored it with four other bottles of therapeutic aerosols.
"Now, let's go."
With Arrow's order, everyone stepped forward and finally began to step into this castle that had been sealed in the dust for hundreds of years.
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As soon as you step through the door, you immediately feel the smell of burning.
Even though the flames have been extinguished, the temperature in the castle still gives a scorching heat.
Brad lit a torch to illuminate the passage and cautiously moved forward in formation. Eero is also brace himself and is ready to deal with danger from all directions.
But fire proved to be very effective.
In the light of the fire, the ground was littered with the charred corpses of the rotting spiders. Large and small, some as big as Coco, others as big as Brad's palm.
The vines that had grown slowly over the centuries and gradually occupied the entire castle had now been burned to the ground, and the sunlight was beginning to shine in from the outside. Watching the sparkling light penetrate the world covered in black and ash, Arrow suddenly had a feeling of light breaking through the darkness.
One room, one room search.
The higher you go, the stronger the presence of sunlight becomes.
In the end, Brad even extinguished the torch in his hand altogether, and with these brilliant and warm rays alone, he could lead the team forward.
Spider carcasses, plant ashes. On top of that, there are all the miscellaneous items that were already placed in the castle.
The murals on the walls were so mottled that it was impossible to see what they depicted, and the vases beside the hallway were now cracked and blackened by the flames.
Pushing open a crumbling door, you can see a room of fully steamed spider eggs. Brad stabbed the eggs with a hammer, and the eggs solidified into a clump like hard-boiled eggs, and he didn't even want to find the slightest breath of life in them.
"Hmmm......"
Coco saw that Arrow was staring at these spider eggs, and couldn't help but be a little nervous: "Brother President! You...... You don't want to bring these spider eggs back and make dinner, right? I declare it beforehand! No matter how delicious the elder brother cooks, I will never eat it! ”
Arrow looked away and looked at the necromancer with a very helpless look: "Coco, do you think...... You're proposing to eat Warcraft more and more often? ”
Coco blushed, immediately pulled up her cloak to cover her face, and stopped talking.
Arrow stopped quipping about Coco and continued, "I wanted to find out if the bodies of those two warriors were there. But I guess it's a bit difficult, these rotting spiders will corrode flesh and blood, and even bones seem to be able to corrode away. Coupled with this fire, all the clothes should have burned out...... However, everyone should pay attention to it a little bit, and try to find it if you can find it. ”
With Arrow's instructions, Brad nodded immediately. He stepped forward, using his shield as a shovel, and began to shovel away the rapidly coalescing spider eggs in large chunks.
There is nothing in this room, so move on to the next room.
In this way, the people cleaned up and searched as they crawled towards the top of the castle. There were no dangers along the way, which made Arrow really feel like he was cleaning up the garbage.
But it's better than anything, it's safe.
And so, the crowd came all the way to the top of the castle. The first thing that catches your eye is the passage that leads to the observation deck. The confined space was indeed only allowed to pass through a few smaller Rotting Spiders.
Arrow climbed up, and I have to say that the scenery from the lookout is really very good. The whole of Pelican Town can be seen, and the sparkling forest to the east also gives people a pleasant green. And you can clearly see the entrance to the mine on the mountain range in the distance. Great value for money as a place to oversee.
After admiring the view, Arrow descended from the lookout, and after all his members went up to admire it, and after admiring it, he continued to another place at the top of the castle.
There, there's a door.
A large gate carved out of two stones, which should have been delicately carved or gilded with wood grain, has disappeared from the flames and the erosion of time, leaving only two stone doors that look very ugly and dirty.
Cream stepped forward and knocked on the stone door slightly, pricked up his ears and listened to it for a while, and said, "It's not very thick, but this kind of stone gate is a bit unbelievable, everyone be careful, there are some monsters behind." ”
Arrow nodded, and the crowd, who had just relaxed a little, remained vigilant again.
Brad took a deep breath, raised his shield to cover his throat and the lower half of his face, and pressed his hammer against the stone door on the right half, and gently and forcefully pushed it......
With a creak, the stone door opened.
Immediately afterwards, a ray of light rushed into everyone's eyes.
It was a very delicately decorated room, and although it looked a little dilapidated under the erosion of time, it was still possible to vaguely see the wealth and authority of its owner when Pelican Town was in its prime.
The room of about 100 square meters is spacious and bright, and the huge floor-to-ceiling windows allow the sunlight to fill the room, making it a "room of light".
Myths and legends are beautifully painted in oil paint on the slightly corroded screens, and large certificates of commendation on the walls highlight the glorious past of the owner.
The ornate and spacious sofa and coffee table, as well as the exquisite tea set on the coffee table, which can almost be called an antique, show the owner's taste. The sword and shield decoration hanging on the other wall brings a bit of majesty.
However, the most difficult thing for Arrow to let go of is not that this room seems so intact under the raging fire. Rather, it was on that big bed with a Roman gauze cover.
"Brother President, do you want to come and take a look?"
Coco walked over to the big bed, frowned, and gestured to Arrow.
In the innermost part of the room, behind the luxurious screen. The gauze of the Roman's gauze bed has long been corroded by time into threads.
But when Arrow walked around the screen and looked at what was lying on the bed with his own eyes......
Involuntarily, the president could no longer pretend to be calm and smile.
Two people...... More precisely, two bodies lying on the bed.
It was none other than the two warriors who had come to the Mermaid Song Guild that day to hear the news.