Xu Qingran and Jiang Xian had already stepped into the ancient castle, Jiang Xian turned her head to look at Jun Yao, who was standing in place and did not move, and called out to her suspiciously, "Jun Yao? What's wrong? Why haven't you come in yet? ”

Only then did Jun Yao come back to his senses, answer, and walked into the castle. As soon as she entered the castle, the heavy gate moved on its own as if it had come to life, and with a loud thud, the door closed behind the three men.

"What's going on?" Xu Qingran frowned, he didn't understand why the door suddenly moved, when Arthur came in just now, the door didn't close by himself, how could they come in, but closed it by themselves? Could it be that this is a trap to invite you into the urn?

Neither Jun Yao nor Jiang Xian answered Xu Qingran's words, the first was that they really didn't know why the door was closed, and the second was because they had been attracted by the hall of the ancient castle.

It is a circular hall, and together with the castle gate behind it, there are exactly four doors perpendicular to each other. Opposite the castle gate is a red gate carved and inlaid with gold, with a landscape painting hanging on the left and right sides of it. On the left and right are small silver doors, behind which do not seem to be rooms, but corridors. There are also many paintings by famous artists hanging on the walls on the left and right, which are basically landscape paintings, and are related to forests and rivers. In the center of the hall was a round table with a solid white stilt, on which was placed a black vase with a thin neck, and in the vase were three bright blooming red roses.

On each side of the hall is a golden spiraling staircase that leads to a semicircular platform on the second floor, behind which is a thin layer of warm yellow veil, which hides the corridor behind, but the structure can still be faintly seen. The round table is surrounded by a white marble balustrade, and two small single sofas and a low coffee table are placed as if for resting.

Jun Yao looked at the hall in front of him, it was different from the hall decoration of the Wishing House he had seen in the previous mission, but it was not completely different. The layout is exactly the same as the previous wishing house, but the specific decoration is different, there are more sofas and coffee tables on the round table on the second floor, there are many more oil paintings on the walls on the first floor, and the high table and vase in the center of the hall are also not available before.

There was not a single character painting in the hall, and Jun Yao was a little unsure for a while whether this was the castle of Avarice, the Lord of Greed, who he had come to before. After all, most castle halls in Europe look like this, and it's not just Avarice's castle that can be decorated like this.

At this time, there was an ethereal singing voice in the hall, which was Mozart's "Requiem" that is often played in Christian churches, and the three of them were curious about where this sudden singing came from, and looked up directly above their heads, only to find that there was a portrait in the sky. With the louder and louder holy songs, the painting hanging in the air was held up by two bundles of golden light flying out of the complicated crystal lamp, and flew towards the round platform on the second floor, and more golden light flew out of the crystal lamp, as if countless hands were working together to hang the painting on the central axis of the ancient castle.

When the portrait returned to its place, the golden light also dispersed, and the song "Requiem" was played at the end, and then it also disappeared, and the only golden butterfly rested on the railing of the round platform on the second floor.

The three of them stared in amazement at the portrait that suddenly appeared and returned to its place.

Oriental beauty, long black hair is as smooth as the most precious silk, skin is as white and smooth as milk, apricot eyes and eyebrows, exquisite makeup, earrings are mysterious and dignified amethyst, and she wears a ruby necklace around her neck, which is very suitable for her. Dressed in a pure white dress, slender jade hands, and on the left wrist is a jade bracelet of the highest quality.

Avarice

This woman is Avarice

This castle is the castle of Avarice, the Lord of Greed, where the lords of Eternal Sleep eventually reside.

Avarice is the one who hides behind the background of the character, and this is the second time Jun Yao has met her during the mission.

Xu Qingran subconsciously looked at Jun Yao, after all, all the information about this Lord of Greed was provided by Jun Yao, although Yin Weiyu was also a participant in that mission, but it seemed that Yin Weiyu didn't get much information about the Lord of Greed.

Xu Qingran couldn't help but think of the story of the mysterious girl and the master of fraud circulating in the trade union, will Shen Junyao be next?

This thought made him shudder, Xu Qingran shook his head, regained his consciousness, he wanted to say something to break the silence, but heard Jun Yao take the lead in speaking, "That butterfly, maybe we should follow it." ”

Jun Yao stretched out her hand and pointed to the golden butterfly that stopped on the railing of the round platform on the second floor, Jiang Xian agreed with her statement, "That's right, I feel the power of time in this butterfly, it has been standing there without moving, maybe waiting for us." ”

Xu Qingran remembered that when they broke into another bell tower two days ago, they met the masked man inside, when Avarice appeared to buy them time to escape, she used a golden butterfly to lead them in the way, and let them enter the bell tower in another way. That golden butterfly is indeed very similar to the current one, but most of the butterflies conjured by spells in this world are like this, no difference.

But since Jun Yao and Jiang Xian both said so, it doesn't hurt to keep up. After all, now that they have lost their traces of Arthur, they don't know where Arthur has gone, and the structure of this castle seems to be very complicated, and it is not appropriate to find them one by one. So he nodded, and the three of them went up the stairs on the right to the second floor, and the golden butterfly did fly up from the railing, fluttered its wings twice, circled around the three of them, and then flew towards the corridor covered by the tulle.

So Jun Yao followed, stretched out his hand to lift the tulle, the corridor in front of him was mainly dark red, the floor was covered with a dark red carpet printed with golden rose patterns, the walls on both sides were maple leaf red, and the doors were as pure white as the feathers on the angel's wings.

Jun Yao found that Avarice seemed to like red, black and white, her castle was basically full of these three colors, gold should be used to show identity, although gold has also appeared many times, but in some of the more commonly used places, red and white are the majority.

After walking in the corridor for about five or six minutes, before the end, the golden butterfly went all the way forward, as if it was going to take them to a far place, just when Jun Yao thought that she would have to walk for a long time, the butterfly stopped, it circled around Jun Yao twice, and then flew towards the top, the golden powder was sprinkled like snow, and the butterfly disappeared like that.

"Ding-" Something fell on the ground, and it was a carpet that was extremely soft, but the sound could still be heard clearly.

Jun Yao looked down and saw a golden key lying on the ground, so she bent down to pick it up.

Jiang Xian opened her mouth and asked, "Is this the golden butterfly conjured up?" It's just that which door should we use this key to open? There are so many doors here, and this butterfly just stopped at this one, and it didn't give specific hints. ”

Xu Qingran looked at several nearby doors and shook his head, "It's exactly the same, and there is no information for us." What is this......"

Jun Yao looked down at the key in her hand twice, and then saw the carpet printed with roses.

Why does the pattern on this carpet feel a little strange?

Jun Yao let out a "huh", her head tilted around, as if she was adjusting the angle to look at those patterns, Jiang Xian saw her movements, but understood that Jun Yao suspected that there was information on the carpet, so the three of them swayed back and forth like a patient doing shoulder and neck rehabilitation, and from behind, it was a little weird.

“Morse code.” Jiang Xian suddenly spit out two words, which startled Xu Qingran and Jun Yao, and Jun Yao asked incomprehensibly, "You said there is Morse code on it?" ”

Jiang Xian nodded, "Yes, Morse code does exist. If you look at the branches of the rose, if you think of the thorns as the dots in the Morse code and the leaves as the scratches, then you can interpret them. It's a loop here. Jiang Xian gestured back and forth and circled an area.

"Integrated, it's right white jasmine," Jiang Xian said as she reached out to touch the white door, and as she expected, she found a pattern that couldn't be seen at all if you didn't look carefully at it, it was a lily, "These doors should have patterns carved on them, let's find out which door has jasmine on it." ”

So the three of them touched the surrounding doors back and forth, and then Xu Qingran raised his voice and said, "Here." ”

The golden key was inserted into the lockhole, and the door opened with a "click".

Jun Yao tentatively pushed the door open a small crack, it was dark inside, Xu Qingran stepped forward to block in front of her, kicked the door open, and a loud sound echoed in the room, giving people a feeling that this room was very big.

"There are no lights." Jiang Xian reached out and touched the wall next to the door, but she didn't find the switch, Xu Qingran suddenly took out a candle from her bag, and didn't need a lighter to light it, the moment the candle touched the air, it ignited by itself.

[White Phosphorus Candle: Special prop, a candle used for lighting, automatically ignites when in contact with the air, and consumables disappear when they are exhausted]

"Let's go." Xu Qingran walked in with a candle, and by the faint orange-yellow light, they could see the internal structure of this room, which should not be called a room, at most a very wide passage. Empty, straight inward.

The three of them walked along this long passage for more than ten minutes, and a bright light appeared in the distance, probably to the end of the new space, so Xu Qingran put the candle back in his backpack and walked up quickly.

When they actually reached the end of the passage, the three of them looked at the scene in front of them, and were stunned for a moment unable to move, not knowing what to think.

The spiral spirals like a snake hovering the invisible top of the staircase, and the bright light shining down from the very top of the bell tower is like the light of heaven, and the sacred music echoes, all of which seem like a miracle in front of you.

"Hee-hee, I've found you-" The little girl's immature voice sounded, which immediately attracted the attention of Jun Yao and the others.