Volume I, Chapter 21: Hide and Seek
The woman's cloak shook slightly, and a filament flew out of the cloak, like a nimble poisonous snake, going back and forth in the keyhole, and the door of the small building opened silently.
Then the figure of the black cloak flashed into the small building, and the door slowly closed without making a sound.
The first floor of the gold coin and dream was pitch black, but the dark environment did not pose the slightest obstacle to the woman, and she took a light step, twisting left and right, flashing around two hidden magic traps, and followed the stairs all the way to the second floor.
In front of a large door at the top of the second floor, the woman stopped, she looked at the doorknob as usual, sneered, and spilled a handful of silver sand.
The moment Silver Sand touched the doorknob, there were dots of electric fire, apparently there was an extremely hidden magic trap arranged on the doorknob, if she rashly held the doorknob, it would activate a second-level magic "paralyzing lightning" contained in it.
However, beneath the silver sand, the magic trap quickly extinguished as soon as it emerged. The woman gently twisted the doorknob, pushed open the wooden door, and gently touched the floor with her toes, like a fallen leaf, fluttering towards the third floor.
At the top of the staircase on the third floor, the woman could already make out the faint light, but before stepping up the last staircase, she stopped again.
The woman stared at the staircase for a moment with a frown, and then suddenly stretched out a tender white finger and tapped quickly on the stairs.
A flame burst out of the stairs, but as soon as the flame started, it was poured down by a handful of silver sand and extinguished instantly. However, at the moment when the flames were extinguished, two white mist suddenly shot out from the gap in the staircase and hit the woman's cheeks.
The woman was startled, and immediately flipped backwards, rolled gracefully in the air, and landed firmly on the stairs behind her, avoiding the two white mist without making a sound.
"Added a powerful smoke to the magic trap?hmph, what a sinister guy......"
The woman sniffed the faint aroma that permeated the air and muttered to herself hatefully. After saying that, she was about to swagger towards the third floor.
But just as she lifted her foot, it was stuck in the air.
In the darkness, she keenly noticed that there was a thin hair tied to a small bell next to her, just where she was about to land.
This hair is thin and black, not to mention that it is pitch black now, and it is easy to ignore it even in the middle of the day, and if she accidentally steps on this hair, the crisp ringing will alarm Mick in the room.
The woman exhaled a long breath and gently crossed the rudimentary trap with the strength of her hind legs.
The laboratory on the third floor is an enclosed space, with only a few high-open ventilation windows except for a large door. The woman leaned against the wall, tearing open a magic scroll, and the magic light danced a few times, and the thick wall gradually became transparent.
Through the transparent walls, the entire magic laboratory was completely revealed to the woman. In the lab, Mick didn't know anything, he was facing the door, buried his head in the test bench.
After making sure that Mick was in the lab, the woman waved her hand, and the wall slowly returned to its original shape, and the filament in the cloak flew out again, gently unscrewing the keyhole of the door.
In the lab, Mick seemed to be stumped by something, he lowered his head and looked at the materials on the test bench motionlessly, completely unaware that a black figure had slowly walked in.
Looking at Mick, who was completely unnoticed, the woman sneered, stretched out a cold short sword from the black cloak, and walked towards Mick step by step.
Five-meter ......
Three-meter ......
Two meters ......
Mick was already within range of the woman, and she slammed her toes, leaving several afterimages in place, shooting at Mick like lightning.
In an instant, Senhan's short sword stabbed straight through Mick's vest until it was out of handle.
"What?"
At the moment when the short sword pierced Mick's body, the woman suddenly realized that the feeling coming from the long sword was wrong, the powerless feeling was not like piercing the body of a living person at all, but more like inserting a ball of straw.
With a flick of her wrist, gray fighting energy gushed out along the long sword, and Mick instantly split apart, and clumps of cotton flew all over the sky. It turned out that the motionless Mick turned out to be a big pillow in clothes!
"Damn, fooled!"
The woman frowned, and scolded.
Fourth floor, in Carl's room.
The figurine on the bedside table suddenly burst into flames, and Carl, who was asleep, woke up and sat up on his head.
"Oh no, someone broke in. Woo......"
As soon as he said something to himself, someone covered his mouth from behind.
Carl was startled, and subconsciously touched the dagger next to the bed, just when his hand was just holding the dagger, he heard a familiar voice behind him: "Don't make noise, it's me!"
"Mick?"
"It's me, don't make a sound. ”
Carl nodded, and the hand covering his mouth slowly released.
"What's going on, someone's triggered a magic alarm!"
Mick pulled Carl off the bed and hid in a corner next to the cabinet: "Be quiet, she's a great guy, she's very professional, she easily dodged the traps on the first and second floors, if she hadn't been too light and triggered the smoke trap, maybe I would have died for no apparent reason." ”
Carl was stunned for a moment and asked wistfully, "So what should we do now?"
Mick said solemnly: "She broke in with all her intentions, she will definitely not be willing to leave like this, I have just informed Alexander with a magic teleportation, but it will take some time for his people to arrive." You hide it first, and I'll see if there's a chance to lure her away. ”
"No!" Karl worried, "It's too dangerous, you can hide with me, or run away together." ”
Mick shook his head: "The house is so big, we will soon be found when we hide together, and it is even more impossible to escape, as long as we are discovered, we have no hope of escaping at all." ”
"That ......"
"Listen to me, it's not that easy to kill me......" Mick sneered.
Karl wanted to say something, but Mick had already pulled out his wand and rushed into the shadows.
In the eye of insight, darkness is no obstacle at all, and this is Mick's only advantage. But since the other party was able to avoid most of his traps, it means that the darkness may not have much impact on that guy.
Mick calculated, casting a fade spell on himself, crouching in front of a row of low cabinets, and slowly moving forward. So far, he doesn't know who his opponent is, what his profession is, and what his purpose is here.
The only thing that can be determined is that what he will face this time is not a stupid thief, it is very likely that it is a professional killer sent by some enemy.
It was the first time Mick had faced such a scene, and cold sweat slowly oozed from his forehead as he held his Blackwood wand.
Mick hid in a corner of the office on the fourth floor, quietly opened the realm, and observed everything on the fourth floor with the eye of insight.
In his sight, the fourth floor became a translucent space, and all the walls, doors, and furnishings became a shadow, and as soon as someone entered the fourth floor, he would be the first to find it.
Even so, he was still very uneasy, because when he built up his gold and dreams, he guessed that he would have to face all kinds of situations.
So, at Alexander's suggestion, he personally devised a series of warning measures and magic traps, although these methods were still relatively immature and quite rudimentary, but it was impossible for ordinary people to touch them quietly.
The thought that he was almost going to die in vain made him feel scared for a while.
As he was thinking, Mick suddenly heard a small sound, and he immediately stared at the entrance of the stairs. But the place was quiet, and there was not half a figure at all.
Just when Mick's nerves were highly tense, a faint figure, like a gust of wind, suddenly blew through the window into the next room, which was Mick's bedroom.
Her figure was erratic and swift, and in the blink of an eye, she circled around Mick's room, and then ghostly approached Mick's office.
In just a few seconds, Mick had already seen the other party's vindictive energy lingering, at least five or six levels, although it was much worse than Doppler, but it was definitely more than enough to clean him up.
I saw her flick her cloak and open the door of the office in an instant, and the two locks on the door did not play any role at all. Mick's heart tightened, and he subconsciously clung to the bookcase behind him.
Mick's office is separated by a long bookcase, with desks on the outside and a miniature library on the inside.
In the darkness, the black cloak was on the ground, obviously very adaptable to the darkness, but it was still a little far from Mick's Eye of Insight, and Mick's hiding place had not yet been found for a while.
Mick cautiously moved towards the window while she checked her desk, intending to climb up the window to her bedroom before she could break in.
But the other party's sense of hearing seemed to be very keen, and he had just taken two steps forward when the black cloak immediately noticed it, and she stopped all movements in an instant, and turned her head to look at the mouth inside.
Mick was startled and didn't dare to move. But he understood that this was waiting for death, as soon as she broke in, she would find herself, and at that time, she would not be able to escape.
The black cloak sneered, and pressed closer to the room, walking slowly but firmly, as if she had identified Mick's hiding place.
"What should I do? Damn, we have to figure out a solution!" Mick shuddered and sweated down his forehead.
However, in the face of absolute strength, all small tricks are useless. Mick only now realizes that all his layouts are so pale, and it only takes a small killer to break all his calculations and kill him.
The black cloak walked to the door of the inner room, and the cold short sword was revealed again, like a hideous death scythe.
At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps in the stairwell, and the confident smile of the black cloak instantly froze on his face, and he looked back at the door of the room alertly.
"Good chance!"
Mick let out a whisper in his heart, and the dark wood wand instantly lit up with a magical light, and a fireball whistled out and smashed towards the black cloak that was caught off guard.
The black cloak reacted extremely quickly, she sneered, split the fireball in half with a backhand sword, and then the figure slammed into Mick.
Mick had already expected that a fireball would not solve the problem, and he had no more choice but to greet the black cloak with a first-level paralyzing lightning, fireball technique, and cryomy.
Black Cloak didn't expect Mick to cast his magic so quickly, and he was a little scrambling for a while. But the difference in their strength is too big, and Mick's magic can only cause a little trouble to the other party, and it can't stop at all, let alone harm.
In just a second or two, the black cloak dodged all his magic and struck at him.
And Mick, let alone dodge, didn't even have time to blink.
"Ahhh......h
Seeing that the short sword was about to pierce Mick's heart, a huge figure suddenly pounced from the oblique thorn, hugged the black shadow, and shouted, "Mick, run!"
"Carl?!" Mick exclaimed.