"By the time you saw the contents of this parchment, I would have been dead. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIt's a shame that I didn't see anyone who broke through the agency...... Oh, if it's you, McCallis, I'm not saying. If it's you, then this bell tower is nearing the end of its life - there's a red button under this table. ”

The content on the parchment is straight to the point.

Under the index of contents, Kelly Hogg bent down and fumbled for a while before discovering the hidden lattice behind the drawer. The buttons are red, and they are likewise covered in dust.

"Press this button and the room will explode. ”

When Kelly's slender index finger was about to be pressed, Lin Qiu read something very important. Here's the thing, at that time her index finger was only 0.1 cm from the button, but after a quarter of a pillar of incense...... Without a quarter of the pillar of incense, Lin Qiu's heart palpitated, if he was too late, he would probably have flown out with Kelly.

Kelly retracted her index finger and took a cautious step back.

This dead old man!

Her face was as usual, but she cursed angrily in her heart.

After that line, there was a long blank space, and after the blank space, it read: "Oh, you can see here, at least it means that you are not McCallis, if it was that anxious woman, it must have been blown away." ”

Okay, are you friends with her!?

"I can't trust the friendship between humans and monsters at any time...... You say no, Jörmungård. Lin Qiu sighed for a long time, and the young orange snake poked out of his cuff and stared innocently at his master with its jewel-like eyes. Although it is still in its infancy, it can neither speak human language nor mimic, but it can at least understand the words of its master.

"Can you really bear to blow people up?" it seemed to convey the message with its eyes.

"Oh, I was wrong just now, it's all this old man's fault, damn old man!" Lin Qiu's tone changed suddenly, and the speed of the change made Kelly dumbfounded. And Lin Qiu unrelentingly condemned the old craftsman morally - "How can you frame a friend?"

Jörmungar shrank back contentedly.

Next was a slightly awkward look between Lin Qiu and Kelly: "In order to avoid misunderstanding, let me say that my family's Jörmungader is still a child, and early education is very important, and it can't be exposed to the sinister nature of the adult world now." In particular, it must not be allowed to touch this damn old man. ”

Kelly nodded appreciatively.

She felt that Lin Qiu's explanation was completely untrue, except for the last sentence. That last sentence sums it up brilliantly - damn old man!

The Old Craftsman and Mercuris were indeed friends, and the Hundred Years' War was not only the darkest time for the people of Herutia, but also for the monsters. Of course, this monster is made of McAlis, she has not participated in any wars, and the darkness is purely because she was driven out of the north by Herlo. In her most turbulent days, she met an interesting human being.

At that time, McCallis divided the people of the imperial capital into three categories in her mind—the aristocratic men who wanted to talk to her when they saw her beautiful appearance, and the female nobles who were jealous of her appearance and wanted to get along quickly. After all, the first two are only a few, and only the great nobles who are absolutely comfortable and think that the family is unshakable will have the leisure to pay attention to a beautiful strange woman, and more are the third type of people - those who walk the streets of the imperial capital every day with enthusiasm, encouraging others to go to the battlefield with them to die.

Therefore, in this environment, it is also an adventure to meet a middle-aged uncle who moves a small bench and sits in the sun and scratches his back with a tool she has never seen. The craftsman was willing to provide her with a long, secluded dwelling, and in return, she guarded it for him after his death.

At that time, it was not yet called Spitane, and the craftsman mysteriously told her that there was a mysterious area somewhere in the imperial capital. Someone had said this to McCallis before - a fat, bloated middle-aged aristocrat, after a few glasses of her, took her to the so-called "mysterious area", where there was a manor house with a bedroom with a luxurious double bed.

So when McCallis first met the craftsman, she was actually already thinking about how to clean up the other party.

However, the craftsman did not disappoint her, he was the premier craftsman in the imperial capital, and his fame had reached the point where suddenly one day King Henry V personally summoned him. Henry V dismissed all his bodyguards, and in a small room deep in the kingdom, he privately said to the craftsmen: "As a king, I must take a long-term view—I must prepare for defeat in advance." ”

He needed an underground kingdom for the people of the Imperial Capital to evacuate and continue to live, and even if the Byronic Empire won the war and let their iron cavalry set foot in the Imperial Capital, the Helutiyas would be able to hide underground and wait for an opportunity to reclaim the territory.

All the stories on the parchment are clicked to the end. Starting from the first encounter between the craftsman and McCallis, interspersed with his and the king's, his entanglement with craftsman A, and his entanglement with craftsman F, if these things were expanded, Lin Qiu felt that the old man could definitely write a craftsman epic.

On the reverse side of the parchment, Lin Qiu understood two points.

The old man had also tried to trust McCallis, but he soon discovered that the real threat would always come from within, compared to the "challengers" who had the strength to overcome many obstacles to find Baoyu—the Reptile Queen was the only one he could think of at the time who could get Baoyu and leave the imperial capital safely, and worse, he knew that the clock tower would not run for long. He believed that high-level monsters would not deceive humans, and that McCallis would keep her promise to him, but he could not guarantee the validity of the promise. If the bell tower stops running, the promise is invalidated.

The second point was more important, and it was the decisive factor that he had to watch out for McCallis.

The reverse side of the parchment reads: "I know you may have come here with the same purpose, but before you make a decision, you must know that, according to my research in my later years, Baoyu is the cornerstone of the existence of the underground kingdom, and the significance of the bell tower is to serve as the fulcrum of Baoyu's power diffusion." This bell tower is the tallest building in the Underground Kingdom, and it is also the most central location, and only in this way can Baoyu be able to play its role for a long time. ”

"Once Baoyu leaves the bell tower, the entire underground kingdom will crumble and cease to exist. ”

At the end of the day, it's not that he doesn't trust McCallis. It's that he can't use the people of the entire underground kingdom as bargaining chips to make a big gamble, and if Baoyu leaves the bell tower, the entire kingdom will become a victim.

"Don't rush to make a decision, you still have plenty of time. If you can break through my mechanism and find those three pieces of parchment, it means that you are a better existence than me. ”

"At least in the end, I want to hand over the power to decide the future of the Underground Kingdom to humans. ”