Chapter 996: The Past of the Castle
"Does the Poseidon Church have the right to take away the information of Castle Black?" Leo asked when he heard the words of the castle steward, and suddenly had a question in his heart.
"Normally, no. The castle steward calmly explained, "However, the main altar of the Poseidon Church and the Black Castle were built at the same time, and the builders are also the same person, and the construction materials of the two buildings are also mixed together. In the past, when Castle Black was renovated, it also asked the Poseidon Church for the information at that time, so this time the Poseidon Church just got back the borrowed materials back then. ”
Although there were good reasons, Leo always felt a little weird, and asked, "Did you copy that document again?"
"Nope. The castle steward replied truthfully, "Because the material is so old, and the language used is Kubuk, and it is handwritten, it is difficult to copy it accurately unless you are an expert in Kubukka." In addition, the content of that material is the basic part of the building of the Black Castle and the main altar, and after several renovations, the main building of the Black Castle has changed somewhat, and the reference value of that material is not large, so there is no copy of it. ”
Leo was silent for a moment and said, "You can go down, I want to be here alone to see the information." ”
The castle steward saluted Leo and said, "I will arrange for someone to wait at the door, and if you need anything, you can tell him to do it." ”
With that, he walked out.
When the castle steward walked to the door, Leo suddenly asked, "Are you a believer in the Poseidon Church?"
The castle butler stopped, looked back at Leo, and nodded, "Yes, sir." I am a believer in the Poseidon Church, not only me, but almost everyone in the castle is a believer in the Poseidon Church, and it may be difficult for you to find a non-Poseidon believer in Randall. ”
Leo didn't say anything more, and the castle butler waited for a while, and seeing that Leo didn't ask any more questions, he walked out of the library and closed the door.
In fact, Leo already knew that most of the people in the Black Castle were believers of the Poseidon Church before he asked just now, and the castle steward was also a devout disciple of the Poseidon Church, and Sylvia had already investigated this matter when she got the Black Castle, and even everyone had conducted a loyalty test, and this kind of test was conducted regularly to ensure that the people in the castle were loyal.
His inquiry just now was just to find out whether the castle steward was hiding something because of the Poseidon Church in the matter of the earliest original building materials of Castle Black, and through the physiological details such as the other party's heartbeat, Leo could be sure that the castle steward must be hiding something, but in the butler's consciousness, these things should not deviate from his loyalty to Sylvia, the owner of Castle Black.
Although he found a suspicious point, Leo did not intend to force the castle steward to ask what he was hiding, because in his opinion, the castle steward did not know what the things he was hiding were for, and everything had to start with the information taken away by the Poseidon Church.
With a plan in mind, Leo turned his attention to the materials left by the castle stewards who had been preserved in the library, although in the eyes of the Poseidon Church, these materials were of little use, but in Leo's eyes, they might be more useful to him.
Although there are a lot of materials in the library, with Leo's speed of flipping through them, he has already gone through all the materials before dinner arrives, and recorded them in the brain database, and will organize and analyze them in more detail in the evening.
"Did you catch anything?" returned to Sylvia's study, at this time Sylvia had finished processing the accumulated documents, and was playing with little Tolan and Erin, and when she saw Leo coming in from outside, she motioned for the rest of the room to step back before asking.
Leo briefly recounted his discovery of the castle steward.
Sylvia was silent for a moment, and said with great certainty: "The butler should have no problem, he is loyal, but the things you mentioned are indeed suspicious, how are you going to investigate?"
Leo thought for a while and said, "In two days, I'll go to the city to take a walk to learn about the situation of the Poseidon Church here, and see if there is a chance to enter the Poseidon Church to get that information to have a look." ”
Sylvia thought for a moment, nodded in agreement with Leo's decision, then sighed again, and said: "If only I hadn't resigned as the adjudicator of the Orthodox Church, then I would be able to take a look at some information from the Orthodox Church, such an important building as the main altar of a church holy place, there must be a backup stub of construction materials in the Orthodox Church." ”
Leo shook his head and said, "There's no need! Since you know that there is something wrong with this castle, you just need to investigate the castle carefully and there will always be a discovery." ”
After that, the two did not discuss the matter again, but played with their children and dined together like an ordinary parent and couple.
After dark, Sylvia took care of the two little ones and slept in the master bedroom, while Leo went to another room just a door away, where he lay on the bed as if he were sleeping, in fact, he was quickly analyzing and sorting out the information recorded during the day in his head.
Although the stewards of Castle Black are traditionally responsible for keeping track of everything that happens in the castle, they don't keep track of everything, after all, if they do record everything, then their family can't always be in the castle as stewards.
Most of the things recorded in the diary of the castle steward are just some of the daily events and important events that happened in the castle, such as the birth of a French emperor in the castle, and the siege of a large bandit force in the castle.
Although the castle stewards try to avoid touching the privacy of the castle owner when writing in their diaries, their habit of recording things around them still makes them unconsciously mention them in some short words when they consciously avoid them.
After analysis, Leo easily found a large number of private contents related to the castle owner at the time in these diaries, and most of these contents were related to the affairs of the castle owner.
However, these romances are not worthless, because some of them are related to some legends in the castle, and even the origin of some legends, and these seemingly absurd legends often hide some useful information.
Through repeated analysis and selection, Leo finally filtered out most of the contents of these diaries, leaving only a small part of the seemingly scattered and unrelated content.
After Leo's analysis, it was found that the contents that he had retained were not related to each other on the surface, and were all independent fragments, but in fact, these fragments completely revolved around two seemingly unworthy events, which were the subsequent development and extension of the two events, and if the two things were combined, some secrets about the castle could be discovered.
Among the two incidents, one is the Big Fish Festival death row prisoner incident, which is considered a big incident in Landall, but because this incident involved the French royal family who controlled the castle at the time, this incident is not very popular in the outside world.
However, this incident was recorded by the castle steward at the time, and was not restricted, and it was one of the few events in the steward's notes that was fully documented.
As its name suggests, this happened in a big fish festival in Landall, the big fish festival is one of the most important festivals for the residents of the harbor fishing village in the south of the Vilun continent, which is equivalent to the harvest season in other towns, after the last round of fishing boats return to the port every year, the next day is the big fish festival, the fleet that has harvested in the festival will take out the best catch in their hands and present it to the god of the sea, and then the whole city will fall into a four-day carnival, after which the boat will be closed and the marine fishing will be completely stopped this year.
It is also a very important festival for the Poseidon Church, which not only sends its own clergy and sacrifices, but also lobbied the city government to release some prisoners who have committed minor crimes, as a sign of Poseidon's tolerance.
However, in the big fish festival recorded by the castle steward, there was a big accident, a death row prisoner who was guilty of a felony and would be executed in half a month bought off the staff of the city government responsible for releasing the criminals and added his name to the release list, so that the death row prisoner who committed the most heinous crime was released on the day of the big fish festival.
Originally, after the death row prisoner was released, it would have been better to escape directly, so that it would not be recorded by the housekeeper, but he didn't know what else to think in his head, so after escaping, he gathered his subordinates, took advantage of the people of the Black Castle to participate in the Big Fish Festival, and took the opportunity of lax defense, through an unknown secret passage, infiltrated the main castle, killed the soldiers guarding the main castle, and kidnapped a royal prince who was on vacation in the main castle.
At that time, the guards of the outer castle and the inner castle all found that they had been attacked, and immediately blocked all the entrances and exits, and while sending people to negotiate, they went to the city government and the Poseidon Church to find people, and soon the surprise of the city government and the paladins of the Poseidon Church rushed over.
After deliberating, they plan to infiltrate the main castle through two other secret passages to save the prince and then deal with the outlaws.
It's just that what people never expected was that when they sneaked into the main castle, they found that the main castle was empty, not only the outlaws had disappeared, but even the kidnapped princes, the hijacked castle stewards, servants, etc. had all disappeared.
At that time, there was speculation that the outlaws led by the death row prisoner should also know a secret passage to leave the castle, so when they saw that the outside was besieged and could not break through, they pressed the hostages and left through the secret passage.
But this speculation was refuted at the time, because there were too many people who disappeared, not counting those outlaws, there were more than 300 servants working in the main castle at that time, and the ordinary secret passage could only accommodate one person at most, and there was not so much time for everyone to leave the secret passage at that time.
Even if the Black Castle was built with a very spacious secret passage, enough for hundreds of people to enter and leave at the same time, there was no need for those outlaws to take away the castle's stewards, servants and other people who did not have any kidnapping value, just take the imperial prince directly.
Therefore, the speculation of leaving the secret passage was quickly dismissed, and it was later proved wrong, as the outlaws, the kidnapped imperial princes, and the servants of the castle were all gone, not even the corpses.
This incident also became a sensational mystery at the time, and the whereabouts of the outlaws and the prince became a mystery, and no one cared about the castle servants who also disappeared.
Later, the successor steward of the castle also recorded the incident in detail in his diary.
However, the matter did not end there, and the servants working in the main castle all said that they had seen people in the main castle at night, and some recognized these people as the servants who had disappeared before, and some even saw the outlaws and others who had kidnapped the prince.
It's just that after they saw these disappeared people, they wanted to come forward and catch these people, but these people who were obviously not far ahead disappeared in their eyes, and for a while, the ghost of Castle Black became one of Randall's urban legends.
What's even more interesting is that many people have seen those who disappeared in the castle, but among those who disappeared, only the death row prisoner who caused the accident and the kidnapped prince have not been seen, so some people say that the death row prisoner and the prince are actually still alive.
According to the records of the castle steward, the ghosts of Castle Black only lasted for more than thirty years before they stopped, and no one saw any ghosts in the castle again.
Judging from these written records, this incident has nothing to do with supernatural power from beginning to end, except that the ghost of the black castle seems to have something to do with supernatural power, but Leo thinks that this matter may have something to do with the secret hidden in Wanghai Cliff, because this incident reminds him of another similar record he has seen, an accident that happened in the Earth Federation.
Leo was once assigned to assist a recovery team to recover a lost spaceship in a strange galaxy, and on the way he found information related to the spaceship and formulated a recovery plan, and the ship's information mentioned that the ship's disappearance was due to the mysterious disappearance of the crew.
This mysterious disappearance is not that all the crew members disappeared one day, but that the crew disappeared one second, and the liaison officer of the spaceship was still reporting to the people at the headquarters one second, and the loudspeaker was silent the next second, and at the same time, the intelligent mastermind of the headquarters and the control system of the spacecraft contacted and retrieved data and found that the entire spacecraft disappeared at the same time in less than a second.
This situation is similar to what happened to Castle Black at that time, one minute they were still discussing with the outlaws, and the next second when the rescue team led by the paladin rushed into the main castle, everyone disappeared.
And this matter is not over, and the ghost incident that happened in Castle Black after that also happened in that spaceship.