Volume 1 - Showers Chapter 122: I'm Sorry, My Beloved (3)
"Yes, Mrs. Wolff, we will all survive, let's go!" Gunk grabbed Joshua, who was sitting on the ground, and then straightened up and set off.
"Josh, you just died." Little Lena scoffed.
"Lena, it was just an accident, I just tripped up." Joshua pouted, arguing unnaturally. Agilyl covered her mouth and laughed quietly, while Lena patted her son's head and said nothing.
After a circular staircase, the group arrived at Slava's study. Gonzalez lifted the carpet under his desk, and sure enough, there was a flap door. Gonzalez grabbed the knocker of the flap door and pulled it outward, but the flap door didn't move. "Gongke, come and help, this door is very sealed."
Gunk immediately stepped forward, and the two of them grabbed a knocker and worked together. However, the two of them used the strength to breastfeed, and their faces turned the color of pig liver, and the flap door still did not move.
"Gonzalez! Gunk! Get out of the way and watch me blow it up! Joshua had just lost face, and he wanted to be in the limelight. But before his breeze could start, he was interrupted by his own sister. "Oops! Lena, why are you stabbing me? I'm dealing with this door! Joshua whispered disgruntled anger at Lena.
"Stupid Josh, didn't you notice that you can't see the hinge on this door?" Hearing Little Lena's words, everyone looked puzzled, but Anna and Lena obviously understood.
"Gonzalez, this door is open inward, don't pull it out, push it in." Lena said.
Gonzalez was a little embarrassed, he obviously didn't think of this, so he scratched his nose and said embarrassedly, "Okay, ma'am, uh... I mean, I try ... Ah~~~" I saw Gonzalez try to push the door open with a lot of force, but the flap door did not give him face, Gonzalez used too much force, and he was planted in at once, and there was no shadow in sight.
Lena and Anna hurriedly ran to the door and shouted inside, "Hey, Gonzalez, how are you?" Didn't get hurt, right? β
It was pitch black inside the flap door, and nothing could be seen clearly, but after a while Gonzalez's voice came: "It's all right, Mrs. Donavan, Mrs. Wolf!" I thought, I'm fine, but I just hit my head and was a little dizzy. It's a ramp, and I'm at the bend of the ramp right now, and there's a lot of moss here, and I can see it clearly. You can slide down and I'll pick you up below, but I don't recommend just getting your head down ... β
Hearing this, Lena was a little relieved: "Anna, you take Elena down first, and let Gonzalez catch you." Aiji, you hold your sister and slide down the second one. β
"Okay, Aunt Lena, then I'll go down first." Anna didn't wear a skirt like Agilyl today, but wore a short-sleeved leather armor that was easy to move around, a pair of wolfskin trousers underneath, and a small dagger tied to the edge of the pants - she had long been ready for battle, but she didn't expect to save a lot of inconvenience in skirts here.
"Gonzalez, I'm going down, you're ready!" Ana signals Gonzalez. "Come down, hostess." As Gonzalez responded, Anna slid down.
"Aiji, come on, it's your turn." Lena urged.
"Me, Mom! I'm wearing a skirt! "Agilille doesn't want to.
"It's okay, Aiji, it's just a skirt." Lena apparently misunderstood her daughter's meaning, thinking that she was afraid of breaking her dress.
"Hmph, Agilyl, our time is precious, Aunt Lena, I'll go down with Sanji first." Anastasia had a bad relationship with Agilyl, and she thought that Agilyl was hypocritical, so she grabbed Codore's son and put it on her chest, grabbed the nun's robe with her knees, and slid it down.
"Aiji, you can just clamp the hem of your skirt like Anastasia, quick, everyone is waiting for you!" Hearing her mother say this, Agilyl couldn't care much about it, so she reluctantly grabbed little Lena with one hand, and slid down the skirt with the other. After that, it was Lena and Joshua. Lena was supposed to be the queen of the palace, but Gunk insisted on going last, in order to save time, Lena didn't want to fight with Gunke, she felt that she had to give the boy a chance to behave, she gave it once before, and she didn't hesitate to give it again, but carefully instructed Gunk to re-fasten the flap door before coming down.
Gunk nodded in agreement, and when it was his turn to go down, he first propped his legs against the walls on either side of the ramp, then leaned back to turn the carpet back up, and then closed the flap door so that it was disguised as if no one had come.
The secret passage is not straight, it is a long slow, staggered downhill, and in places with large elevation differences and slopes, corners are often used to create a buffer platform. In the midst of the turmoil, the group finally landed at the bottom of Fort Longtala.
After passing through a parallel cavern several hundred meters long, Gonzalez saw the exit of the secret passage. "Ladies, I see the light at the exit!" Gonzalez said excitedly.
"Don't be careless, Gonzalez. You're getting too excited! Anna reprimanded.
"Oh, I'm sorry, hostess, I'm just so happy that we escaped safely!" Gonzalez said apologetically.
"Not yet, on the contrary, the next part of the journey is the most dangerous, we may be attacked by the enemy, especially those black angels here, who knows where they will come from! Gonzalez, Gunk, cheer up, we need twice as much caution! Lena had already taken out her wand and scepter and clenched them in her handsβshe feared that the enemy forces assembled at the foot of the hill would encircle Longtalon and might send a small army to patrol to find other paths into Talon Castle, so they would have to fight their way out.
The crowd clinged to the side of the cave and slowly walked towards the light. At the entrance of the cave, Gonzalez cleaned up the drooping plants and reported to the cave, "Guys, we're in the woods below the Longtalon Fort! I know the road, and if we continue to walk on, we will reach the town of flowers, and if we turn left halfway, we will go straight to the gate of the Longtalon fort checkpoint, alas, but unfortunately the death of Chief Duke, he promised that I would come back alive. β
"There are always sacrifices to war, Gonzalez. Garrison Officer Duke died with honor, he died protecting the people, fighting evil, and even more so defending his father's honor. Elena was comforted.
"Well, I know that, Irene, thank you for your comfort, I'm just a little sad." Gonzalez secretly wiped a handful of tears.
"Gonzalez, I watched Chief Duke die, he died like a hero, but we will avenge him." Gunk stepped forward and patted Gonzalez on the shoulder, but tears welled up in his eyes.
"We'll have to avoid the Longtalon checkpoint, and we'll go straight to Flowerstown. Do you see that magic circle? There is a dragon coiled there, not far from the Longtalon outpost, there must be an enemy base camp there, and we will take the road in front of the Longclaw Fort outpost to throw ourselves into the net. Anna said.
"That's why we have to cross the forest path, which I don't believe the people of Tangnis will know, and only the skilful coachmen dare to take it... Who's sneaking around there! Come out to me and give me my honorable name! As Lena spoke, she suddenly pointed her scepter at a large rafflesia, and a black-green beam of light shot out from the circular tip of the scepter, heading straight for the figure.
"Huh!! Don't kill Barrett, Barrett! It's Barrett! I'm Barrett Barbardoro, ladies and gentlemen, and let poor Barrett go. Don't you remember me, Mrs. Wolfe? Barrett sat down on the ground with his head in his hands, and the black-green hugger magic grazed Barrett's head and hit the trunk of a tree behind him, and in a short time the tree died, and the plants around it seemed to absorb its life essence, and grew visibly with the naked eye, and the rafflesia not only grew huge and wrapped Barrett in the leaves, but also grew red fruits.
"Oh, who's going to get Barrett out! Damn flowers, Barrett is trapped! Barrett's voice came from the Rafflesia leaves.
Anna said to Gunker, "Gunker, get that unlucky guy out." Then he said to the people, "His name is Barrett Barbardoro, and he once drove a carriage for me, and some time ago he was in the griffon collar, and he also made meritorious contributions, and he is one of his own." β
Anastasia said to Elena, "Well, I'd like to have an impression of this little imp, by the way, isn't this the little coachman you teased a long time ago?" Right, Erin? β
Erin nodded and said playfully, "Hmm... Maybe~~~"
After Gunk rescued Barrett from the Rafflesia leaf, Anna asked, "Barrett, why are you here?" β
"That's right, ladies and ladies, young masters, Master McLagan told me to wait here, and if anyone comes out of the secret passage, bring them to the camp." Barrett explained.
"Camp? What camp? Camp in Caudore? Lena asked, confused.
"Yes, honorable lady, Lord McLagan has organized a secret camp behind the butts of the Tangnis cubs, ready to poke them in the ass. In the camp there are... Well... Barrett doesn't know how to count, but there are a lot of them. Barrett struggled to explain it in his rude and pitiful terms.
"Hey! You unreasonable fellow, there are so many ladies here, you should be careful when you speak! Elena raised her eyebrows, stuck out her fingers, pointed to Barrett's nose and scolded - it's a shame that Barrett is not as tall as Elena.
"Ahh You are! Oh no, Miss Longtalon, Barrett hasn't done anything! Barrett immediately covered his head with his hands and ducked to the side.
"Uh... Looks like you've got a chance to explain it to me, Erin, you're bullying again. Lena said, rolling her eyes.