Chapter 769: First Exploration of the Brilliant Castle

Frank finished his speech and signaled the banquet to begin. All the guests took their seats and enjoyed a sumptuous dinner.

The palace servants took Lin Zaishan and other noble attendants and guards to the side hall for a buffet. There is a mix of personnel, and the guards are relatively loose.

Lin Zaishan ate a few bites at random, pretended to go to the bathroom, and while everyone was not paying attention, he quickly came to the staircase, and rushed up to the second floor in a few arrows.

He had learned from Trinity about the internal structure of the splendid castle beforehand, and knew that the castle was divided into five floors: the lowest floor was the basement, which included warehouses and prison cells, which were mainly used to store supplies and imprison important prisoners; On the first floor of the surface are the hall, the side hall and the servant's quarters; The second floor of the surface is an office and a conference room, which is used to handle official business and hold military and political meetings; The third floor on the surface is Frank's bedroom, study, and gym; The highest floor is the collection room.

Lin Zaishan's destination is the collection room on the highest level, where all kinds of rare treasures looted by Frank, including extraterrestrial meteorite fragments, are most likely stored. Of course, getting there is no easy feat; Even if they arrived, it would be impossible to carry away about 200 kilograms of meteorites with their bare hands. The main purpose of his adventure was to find out the route and security.

He was blocked on the second floor of the surface: the staircase to the third floor was blocked by an iron door, behind which stood four heavily armed guards; Two other teams of guards patrolled back and forth in the corridors on the second floor; There are also several fixed sentry posts at each end of the corridor that are facing each other. It is almost impossible to go up to the third floor of the surface without noticing.

Lin Zaishan had no choice but to return to the first floor and look for opportunities back and forth. He noticed that the door of the kitchen was open, and from time to time people came in and out, but there were guards standing guard at the door; The bathrooms were unguarded, and there were windows that opened onto the back of the castle.

He pretended to be in the bathroom for a long time, and when there was no one, he immediately looked out of the window, and when he was sure that no one was noticed, he quickly climbed through the window and up the wall at the back of the castle.

It is very difficult to climb high in a metal armor, but fortunately, Lin Zaishan is extremely talented in climbing. He climbed to the top without danger, and was about to look in under a window, when he suddenly heard footsteps coming from inside, and a man's voice said:

"Everyone else is eating and drinking down there, and they want us to stand guard here. I don't understand, who can suddenly jump to the castle without a special ability? With that, a head poked out of the window, looked left and right and down for a few seconds, and then shrank back.

Lin Zaishan, who had already rushed to the top of the window, breathed a sigh of relief silently, he poked his head into the window to check the situation inside, and saw that this was another bathroom, and there were two guards in it who had just finished urinating and were chatting.

He waited patiently for a moment, and after the two guards had left, he quietly slipped into the window like a civet, jumped into the bathroom, came to the door and looked around, and when he saw no one, he entered the corridor and touched an iron door in the middle. This door looks thick and heavy, and it is difficult to push it with the strength of one person.

Deciding that behind this door was Frank's storeroom, and that he couldn't open it without a key, so he continued down the hallway and touched another door. The door was hidden, and behind it were two guards, one lazily sitting in a chair and drowsy, the other pacing restlessly around the room.

"No, I'll have to ask old Mawson for a drink." The pacing man strode towards the door.

Lin Zaishan repeated his old tricks, climbed to the top of the door, and evaded the guards. As soon as he landed, he saw a team of guards appear from the staircase and patrol towards the other end of the corridor, due to the poor vision at night, they did not find Lin Zaishan at the first time, but in this way, as long as ten seconds later, they will turn back and move closer to this side. That's when he's going to be exposed.

Lin Zaishan took decisive action and entered the room where the guards were resting. The only remaining guard in the room was snoring beautifully.

It was a large ensuite with a door at the end of the room, which was locked.

As soon as Lin Zaishan entered the door, he noticed a key on the table, and immediately used this key to unlock the door.

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By this time, the guards in the hallway had already patrolled here, and they were about to push the door to enter.

Lin Zaishan made a quick decision, hid in the room, threw the key back on the table, and then closed the door.

The guard immediately woke up his sleeping companion, "Wake up! It's only 7 p.m., and you're sleeping like a dead pig! Where did Gibson go? ”

The guard, who had just woken up from a big dream, replied sleepily, "He either went to the bathroom or went downstairs to get a drink." ”

"Just know how to drink, beware of Duke Brilliant cutting off your heads!" The new guards checked the room and soon found that the lock had been unlocked.

The guards screamed, drew their weapons, and cautiously pushed the door open.

The inner room is a space that is both like a study and a studio, an otaku bedroom, and is littered with scrolls, books, inexplicable equipment and instruments.

"Is that old guy still there?" The captain of the guard shouted, "If we let him escape, we'll all have to lose our heads!" ”

One of the guards pointed sharply to the tablecloth of a table, and there appeared to be someone underneath.

The guards immediately formed an outflanking formation, and then used the tip of their swords to pick open the tablecloth, anticipating a vicious assassin to emerge from inside.

The tablecloth was lifted to reveal the face of an old man with a gray beard.

One of the guards immediately bent down and grabbed the old man by the collar, lifted him to a nearby chair, and then stretched out his finger to probe the old man's snort, making sure he was still alive.

The guards breathed a sigh of relief at the same time and put away their weapons. The captain of the guard flicked the old man's nose with his fingers, waking him up.

"Old fellow, what are you hiding under the table? Want to pretend to be a ghost and scare us? ”

The old man replied slowly, "The device that Frank asked me to develop was too difficult, and I hid under my desk for inspiration." If you interrupt me rudely like this, beware of delaying the development progress! ”

"You'd better be honest!" The captain of the guard reprimanded, not daring to stay here for long. This room hides a lot of secrets about the Duke of Splendour, and the old man always seems extremely strange. Legend has it in Splendid Castle that he is a wizard with great powers, and that those who approach him will be in bad luck.

Soon, the guards were gone, leaving only the one who had been outside. The latter had nothing to do, so he lay down in his chair and continued to sleep.

The old man sat leisurely on the chair, picked up the wine bottle and took a big sip, as if he were his pet cat, and said, "Come out, little girl." ”

Lin Zaishan, who hid behind the bookshelf, restrained his shock, swaggered into his figure, and asked, "Since you know that I, an uninvited guest, are hiding here, why don't you report it on the spot?" Aren't you afraid that I'll kill you now? ”

"You don't look at who I am, Lin Zaishan!" The old man actually called out his name.

Lin Zaishan strode up to the old man, and then the candlelight carefully examined the old man's face, and when he saw it clearly, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Vals? ”

"Yes, that's me! Young people nowadays don't have a good memory. "That white-bearded old man is Vals, the city lord of Happy City, who has traded with Lin Zaishan many times in the United States.

"How did you end up in this weird space?"

"You still don't know why, do you?" Valls stared at Lin Zaishan's eyes, "If I'm not mistaken, you came in long after the formation of the weird space?" ”

"Tell me everything you know about space, and I'll give you information of the same value."

"Very good, pay-as-you-go, I like it." Valls cleared his throat and spoke of the ins and outs of the strange space. The basic content of what he said was the same as what Trinity and the others said: the strange space was originally a superweapon created by the Australian Star Soul Shepherd in order to deal with Lin Zaishan, but at the last moment, there was a serious mistake, and the super weapon did not create, but instead created this strange space, sucking everyone in the nearby area.

"I know all of this."

"There's something else you don't know." Valls asked, "Do you know why the Australian Star Soul Shepherd, the brain-dead street among the seventh-level powerhouses, was able to make such a super product as the weird space?" ”

"Isn't it because they're asking for help from the higher planes?"

"I can tell you responsibly, even in the higher planes, the technology to create a subspace of this magnitude is strictly forbidden to be publicly disseminated and sold."

"They got it on the black market?"

"Black market, hehe." Valls sneered.

"Void Arena?" Lin Zaishan suddenly woke up, "Trinity sold it to them?" ”

"It's not her who supplies directly, she's just a middleman."

"If Trinity is involved in it, then why is she being sucked into this weird space?"

"There is a cause before there is an effect."

"The result of the damnation?"

"As I guessed, who could forcibly pull a subspace system administrator here to suffer except for the power of damnation?"

"Aren't you in the United States? Why is it sucked here too? ”

"Trinity happened to be trading with her in the Void Arena when she was sucked in, and I probably have a part in this punishment of heaven, Trinity consulted me before taking on the commission of the Australian Star Soul Shepherd."

"I'll go! You dogs and men colluded with the Star Soul Shepherd to trap me? ”

"Don't get excited, we're not targeting you directly. Besides, anyway, you are strong when you are strong, and you are a Xiaoqiang who can't be killed, what is there to be afraid of? ”

Lin Zaishan has always put the overall situation first, and knowing that it would be useless to settle these old accounts with Vals at this time, he continued to ask for useful clues, "In other words, except for the people who are already in the field, all intelligent beings who are sanctioned by the power of this damnation will be sucked into this strange space?" ”

"Clever. Therefore, I suspect that in addition to the Australian Star Soul Herdsman, Trinity, and you and me, there must be high-level Star Soul Priests suffering here. ”

"Who else? In the outer world—and I'm talking about the Earth we're from—there are only a limited number of high-level Star Soul Masters. ”

"It doesn't have to come from Earth, the power of damnation can transcend planes and time and space."

"You mean that there are people in the higher planes who have been involved?"

"Have you thought about it? Who was so kind as to provide the Australian Star Soul Pastor with the materials and technology to destroy your superweapon? ”

Lin Zaishan pondered for a moment and replied: "In the high-dimensional space, those who still have a heart for our earth, as far as I know, are mainly the Moba pirates!" ”

"Maybe it's them."

"It seems that among the inhabitants of the strange space, there is a high probability that there are hidden fire stealers, Sueba Feiyu, or other powerhouses related to the Sueba pirates. Do you have a clue about the suspect? ”

"Don't you see that I'm imprisoned in this hellish place every day? Zarin, if you're willing to help me escape—not just from this castle, but from this strange space—I'm willing to help you survive this. ”

"Deal!" Lin Zaishan and Vals had a secret conversation for a while, and agreed on many details of the joint action.

Vals opened the window and hung down a rope, and Lin Zaishan climbed back to the ground from the window.

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As soon as he returned to the side hall, Trinity's butler ran over in a hurry, "Lin, the master is looking for you in a hurry!" ”

Lin Zaishan followed the housekeeper to the banquet hall. At this time, the meal time was over, and the nobles were gathering in twos and threes to chat.

A group of male aristocrats, including Duke Frank, surrounded Trinity in the middle like a moon, trying to please her.

"Beautiful Lady Trinity, where did you call that brave and combative escort gone? He couldn't have drunk too much wine and collapsed in the bathroom or among the flowers, right? ”

The housekeeper stepped forward and politely reported, "Ms. Trinity, Lin has found it." ”

Trinity turned around, glanced at Lin Zaishan, and said to the men: "This is my personal guard, I don't know which gentleman is willing to teach him a few tricks?" ”

"I do!" The Count of Orlando was the first to raise his hand, and as his gaze locked, the murderous cold current on his body generally enveloped Lin Zaishan.