Chapter 1890: The Iron Maiden (8)

The mad ghoul was looking for prey, but Arthur was prepared. He chose to go up to the second floor from this staircase, which was originally calculated, because the current angle of sunlight was just enough for a large enough shadow at the bottom of this staircase.

Before being discovered by the other party, Arthur pulled hard, pulling himself, and Joey beside him, into the shadows. Now that he lurks perfectly in the shadows at the bottom of the stairs, it's not so easy to spot.

Sure enough, it couldn't be seen. The mad ghoul's eyes were white and rotten. As one of the most corrupt organs in the five senses, these monsters are already destined to be short-sighted when they turn from [corpses] to [monsters]. They mainly rely on kinetic vision, which means that as long as Arthur and the others hide in the shadows and do not move, it is extremely difficult for the other party to notice.

The mad ghoul didn't see anything strange and turned back to his lunch.

"Whew. Arthur himself didn't have time to breathe, but his poundy Joey Zust breathed a sigh of relief.

Arthur gave the boy a blank look, collected his mood and continued to stride upward. This time he learned to behave, and his limbs pressed against the wooden staircase up and down the two floors at the same time. Because there are many stress points, the pressure on the staircase is dispersed, and it doesn't make much noise.

Upstairs, the Brotherhood group was extremely nervous, as if Arthur was venturing to climb the ladder, and it was they who were going to suffer if something happened.

The whole process is an ordeal, a drain on patience. But Arthur did it all carefully, reaching the second floor without making a sound.

"What are you doing here?" said Arthur, crouching close to the bookshelf, asking the group of people hiding on the shelves in a low voice.

"Are you ......?" Inspector Tygen looked at Arthur with a puzzled expression, of course the people on their side didn't know Arthur, after all, they didn't see the moment when the "Sage-sama" woke up from the stone statue.

"This is the Aslan man. Joey, who was following Arthur, said.

A look of surprise appeared on the faces of the scholars: "Oh! this is ------."

"Shhh------hhh

"Oh, I'm sorry. Inspector Tygen said with an embarrassed look on his face, and began to explain, "We came to the library this time to look for an important book. The book has been found, but something has happened. Well, Lord Sage, you should have seen what happened here. ＂

"The library has been invaded by ghouls. Arthur snorted, "Why was the library invaded by ghouls so easily?" Are there no guards in the library, and what are the Burgundian knights doing?"

"Knights, do you mean the army?" Inspector Thigenie did not understand what Arthur meant, but understood on his own: "Most of the army has been transferred to the front, and the British army and the Burgundian army are fighting the French army on the front. There were a few old and weak soldiers guarding Burgundy, and the most they could do was patrol the library and not care about what was going on in the library. ＂

"Oh?" Arthur was a little skeptical.

"We don't know where these wild ghouls came from, but they came out of nowhere and attacked the people in the library. Luckily, our Brotherhood was alert enough to hide on top of the bookcase. The man-eating monsters didn't know how to climb, and they couldn't attack us, so they scattered on their own to find the corpses to eat. It all happened after midnight last night. ＂

"It seems that the mad ghouls took advantage of the darkness to migrate and entered the library through the back door. Joey then explained to Arthur, "They are also physically similar to vampires, and cannot directly withstand sunlight. ＂

"Somebody is secretly plotting all this. Arthur concluded, "They want to kill Inspector Tygen by the hand of the ghouls." The motivation is most likely the book you got. ＂

"Perhaps. Inspector Tygen shrugged: "So, what are we going to do now?"

"Hmm------" Arthur glanced at his surroundings. It's daylight, and if Joey's claims are true, the sunlight coming in from outside the library could be their greatest weapon, and they could use the sunlight to wipe out the mad ghouls.

However, the structure of the library is inherently shading. Most books need to be kept away from light and should not be exposed to the sun. The library is full of blind spots where the sun can't reach, and if the mad ghouls hide in the corners, the sun won't be able to do anything about them. The six-pointed star-shaped structure in the center of the library, although there is a large skylight at the top that can be opened, is now covered in rags, and someone has to remove the rags from the roof for direct sunlight to shine in.

"Joey, do you know what I'm thinking?" asked Arthur.

"I see, Lord Aslan. The boy was clever enough to guess Arthur's plan from the direction he was looking.

"Then let's go our separate ways. Arthur said.

Downstairs, out of the side hall near the central junction, the vampire hunter Johnny Zust was still moving at a very slow pace, trying not to make a sound. Arthur, on the other hand, had already slid down the handrail of the staircase, almost silently to the hexagonal connecting area in the center of the entire library.

Little Zust hadn't understood what Arthur was trying to do, and Arthur had already taken a large number of small throwing knives from his shoulder straps.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! He raised his hand in a series of throws. Throwing knives flew out from all directions, shooting at the side halls of the library!

"Are you crazy?" ------ look of surprise hung on little Zust's face at the time, as if the expression was enough to express what he wanted to say.

However, Arthur is not crazy, his ideas are witty. He put his ideas into action, and it turned out to be like this.

The continuous sound of glass shattering was stirred up by the throwing of small knives. The side halls of the library have windows, and they are all distributed at the end of the side halls. They were just covered by curtains, and the whole library was so dark because the books couldn't be exposed to the sun. But the original designer of the library still left windows everywhere in the library!

The shattered windows began to leak, and the outside wind blew in, lifting the curtains and letting in more sunlight at the same time!

The sun was shining on the side halls, on the group of wild ghouls who were gnawing at corpses. For these undead creatures, the sunlight was like strong acid! Even if even a little bit of sunlight fell on their rotting skin, the surface of their bodies immediately began to boil! The monsters, who had been burned by the sunlight in pain, also stopped, and they all stood up and looked at Arthur in the center of the hall.

At this time, there is no point in sneaking in a low-key manner. Little Zust strode over to join Arthur, and formed a defensive formation with Arthur back to back: "Lord Aslan, is this your strategy? ＂

"Huhuhu, you'll see. Arthur sneered, "Just hold on for two minutes, don't die." ＂

"Two minutes is not a problem. "As a trained vampire hunter, Zust also has a dedicated self-confidence, and even though there are a lot of them, even if there are a lot of them.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!!" Hundreds of ferocious ghouls began to pour in from all directions, surrounding the two of them in the middle of the library. It was true that some of those mad ghouls were burned by the sunlight and injured, but the sunlight projected from the small windows in the side hall was not fierce after all, and it was far from enough to turn the mad ghouls into ashes. Some of them were unscathed, and some of them were burned, but the mad and angry ghouls were staring at Arthur and Little Zuster in the center of the hall, eager to tear the two humans to pieces and eat them at once!

They rushed over! Running so fast that one can't help but wonder if these guys are really made of human corpses?!

A mad ghoul tried to pounce on Arthur to bite wildly, but Arthur slid away from the momentum of his pounce, and was already pressed by the blade in the direction of his pounce. Arthur barely used the slightest strength to swing his sword, but the force of the opponent's attack was too great, and the blade sank into the head of the mad ghoul, cutting the monster's head in half!

And here, the first one of the ghouls fell to the ground, and the other three ghouls had already slammed into Little Zust with their teeth and claws! Johnny wielded the silver whip of hunting vampires, and when the whip hit the undead monsters, it had a special effect, and its enchanted [sacred] silver cut the monsters' bodies in half like butter! Only half of their bodies were left, but the mad ghouls who fell to the ground continued to crawl towards Arthur and Johnny, but they could never climb and were buried in the flames of the holy water bottle thrown by Little Zust!

More feral ghouls poured in, and there were still a hundred and twenty or so left. They were so dense that they moved like a wall of human beings (corpse walls) and pressed down so fast! Their momentum was so fierce that even Johnny's silver whip couldn't easily catch them all! Five other wild ghouls frantically rushed in front of Arthur, grabbing and grabbing him, intending to catch or at least scratch Arthur!

However, at this moment, Arthur shouted, "This is now!"

"Okay!" replied a young man on the roof. While Arthur and the others were in charge of attracting the attention of the monsters, Joey had already quickly run to the top floor of the library, grabbing the thick hemp rope used to control the curtains on the top floor of the library with one hand!

He jerked with all his might, pulling open the top layer of rag curtains!

It was just noon, and the sun was shining. Outside the curtain of the glass ceiling, unreservedly, mercilessly, fierce rays of sunlight poured down from directly above, falling on the heads of the army of wild ghouls!