"Impossible!" Sylvia quickly dismissed Leo's speculation and explained: "If there really is an abyssal rift here that forms the Abyss Realm, then all the people who live here will definitely be infected by the abyss and become monsters, but since the construction of the Black Castle, there has been no mutation or anything like that in the Black Castle." And if there really is an abyssal rift here, won't the Poseidon Church next to it find out?"

After hearing this, Leo still felt that it should be related to the Abyss Rift, but he couldn't refute Sylvia's words.

Sylvia added, "However, you are also worth paying attention to, this place is very strange at the Lookout Sea Cliff, we need to check it carefully, I don't want Tolan and Irene to live in a place where danger is always in place." ”

"Leave it to me to check. Leo nodded and said, "You've been living here for too long, and even if something is wrong, you've already preconceived that it's normal, and I've been able to spot problems more objectively than you when I first arrived." ”

As the convoy slowly drove into Castle Black, the servants in the castle had already been waiting here, and the officials of Port Landall had also come here early to wait with Sylvia's prior notice.

Although everyone present had known that Sylvia had an heir from various sources, they still showed a little surprise when they saw Sylvia holding a man and a woman in her arms.

Subsequently, Sylvia briefly introduced Leo, indicating his identity as the male owner of Castle Black, and everyone's eyes couldn't help but look at Leo at this time, and some people even looked at Leo with some dirty eyes, they obviously saw Leo as the kind of little white face who ate soft rice.

However, Leo didn't pay any attention to the eyes of everyone around him, and after he got out of the carriage, he carefully looked at the surrounding castle buildings with his eyes.

In the past, Leo had been accustomed to using the spiritual network to survey the situation, constructing three-dimensional images based on feedback information, and surveying the geographical situation in a more comprehensive and intuitive way, but now the power of psionic energy is limited, and the spiritual network cannot be used normally, so that he can only observe the surrounding situation through his eyes, which is not only inefficient, but also prone to errors and omissions.

This forced him to concentrate on checking the castle situation and ignoring the communication with the people around him, coupled with his own cold personality, which made Sylvia's introduction, everyone present subconsciously thought that Leo was a rude guy with no manners and an arrogant personality.

The attitude of the people around her was naturally seen by Sylvia, and she did not explain this misunderstanding to Leo, let alone prevent the servants in the castle from spreading this misunderstanding, and under his intentional indulgence, Leo, who had not spoken ten words after entering the castle, became the most unpopular person in the castle.

When she was in Kabu City, Sylvia had already sent someone to tell the housekeeper in the castle to prepare a separate baby room in the castle, but later because someone wanted to assassinate little Tolan, Sylvia had to change her mind and place the baby room in her bedroom.

On the contrary, Leo's bedroom, as the male hostess, was arranged in another separate bedroom, which also made rumors begin to rumor in the castle that Leo was just a tool man used by Sylvia to make an heir, and now that the heir has it, Leo's role as a tool man has disappeared, and the reason why Leo is now given the identity of a male master is just to see the charity made in the face of the future earl's heir.

So, before Leo could go to his bedroom and change his clothes, his identity had changed from the castle man to the castle superfluous.

Although the people in the castle talked very quietly, and they all spoke behind Leo and Sylvia's backs, with Leo and Sylvia's hearing, the content of these conversations naturally could not escape their ears.

Leo came to Sylvia's study after changing into a casual aristocratic dress in the bedroom, and at this time, Sylvia, who had also changed into a casual outfit, was at the desk processing the documents accumulated during this time, and the two little ones, Tolan and Eileen, were playing in the playground built for them not far away, with many servants waiting next to them.

Seeing Leo walk in from the outside, Sylvia immediately understood what Leo was trying to say, so she ordered the city officials and servants in the room to wait outside the room, and after the outsiders left and closed the special door, Sylvia, who had always kept a serious face, finally couldn't help but laugh, obviously the servants guessed that she found very funny and funny.

"Are you angry, my Tool Man?" Sylvia asked Leo with a smile.

Hearing Sylvia say this, Leo knew that this was the result of Sylvia's deliberate actions, so he smiled a little helplessly and said, "It's hard for me to get any useful news from your servant by doing this?"

"What useful information can those people have, and if you really become the lord of the castle, do you think they will tell the truth in front of you?" Sylvia explained, "Actually, you are in the right situation now, they will not care about you, or even ignore you, so that you can walk around the castle without being noticed, and it will be easier for you to investigate the situation in the castle." After that, she asked, "How are you going to investigate?"

Leo thought for a moment and said, "I'll take a walk around the castle first, get a general idea of the castle, and then see if the castle's library has stored the materials from the castle construction in the past." With that, he paused again, and continued, "Arrange for me another boat, and I want to take a look at the sea below the cliff." ”

"The sea below the cliff is dangerous, it is full of irregular turbulence that can be swept up if you are not careful, and coupled with the constant waves all year round, all ships that try to get close to the cliff end up sinking to the bottom of the sea. Sylvia shook her head slightly and said, "No boat will want to come near here, unless you row it yourself." ”

Leo was silent for a moment, and said, "Since there is no ship willing to come close here, then I can simply go down from the cliff, and you can prepare a bundle of rope for me, and I will need it when the time comes." ”

After saying that, Leo turned around and walked out of the room, in order to cooperate with Sylvia's acting, he walked out with an extremely obvious look of indignation on his face, and shook the door hard, it didn't take long for Leo and Sylvia to fall out, and it wasn't long before rumors spread throughout the castle that there was no longer a male host.

After that, Leo walked up and down the castle, and the servants in the castle did not stop him, nor did anyone go up to greet him, as if he were a transparent person, and let him walk around.

Although the Black Castle is very large, several times larger than ordinary castles, the architectural structure of the castle is still not out of the category of the castle of the French knights.

When the royal family of England came here to build the Black Castle, it was also the time when the French knights were most popular, at that time there were more than 100,000 official knights in the entire French Empire, and there were about more than 5,000 knight castles of all sizes.

Because not every knight has enough financial and material resources to build a knight's fort, the vast majority of knights will choose to occupy a small hill, and then fence a piece of land with a wooden fence to build a few houses, which is called the knight's fort of so-and-so knights.

This kind of village-style knight's castle occupies the vast majority of the more than 3,000 knight castles, so some people say that the professional knight castle is a desecration of the knight class, and this kind of knight castle is not even as good as the cottage of those bandits.

Therefore, for the overall honor of the knight class, the French Empire promulgated a set of standards for the construction of knights' castles, which stipulated the basic requirements of knights' castles from the administrative level, and then successively promulgated the architectural specifications of various buildings in knights' castles, etc., and finally formed an architectural form called knight's castle style.

At present, this black castle is a standard template integrating the style of the knight's castle, the outer castle, the inner castle, the knight's training ground, the octagonal arrow tower, the large granary, the main castle with both offense and defense, etc., are all built in accordance with the building standards of the knight's castle, so the road inside the main castle of the black knight's castle is as intricate as a maze.

The reason why the interior of the main castle is built so complicated is mainly to be able to get the outer castle in front and after the inner castle is captured, the owner of the castle can still resist in the main castle, and even turn the tide of the battle, so the main castle is not only complicated by roads, but also has many secret doors and secret passages.

Under the circumstances at that time, these secret doors and secret passages may be able to help the castle owner defend against foreign enemies and even escape from the castle, but at this time, these secret doors and secret passages have become loopholes that threaten the safety of the castle owner.

After Sylvia inherited the Black Castle, she led people to block all the secret doors, but Sylvia had to admit that even so, she couldn't be completely sure that the secret doors and secret passages in the castle had all been blocked, and she wasn't even sure if there was a dark room in the castle.

You know, when the English royal family came here to build the Black Castle, it was already after the conflict with the French royal family, it sounded like a relocation, and it was a flight to say ugly, and when they built the Black Castle, they just wanted to see how the French royal family was going to deal with them, and they were ready to flee to the sea at any time, so the castle was built as much as possible according to the wartime castle, and in such a castle, it was used to hide from the war. A darkroom that waits for the right time is essential, and such a darkroom will be built very secretively, because if it is too obvious, it will be easy to be discovered, and it will lose its main role as a darkroom.

After Leo walked around the main castle, he only found a secret passage that had not been discovered by Sylvia and the dark room connected to it.

"Discovered a secret passage so quickly?" Sylvia said in surprise after listening to Leo's test results.

Leo said with a serious expression: "I'm afraid there is more than one, if only my spiritual network could be used, I will soon be able to find out all the secret paths." ”

"It's okay, I've lived here for a few years now and nothing happened. Sylvia said lightly.

"But you're not the only one living now. Leo reminded.

Hearing this, Sylvia's expression became a little serious.

Leo patted Sylvia on the shoulder and said, "You can find someone to block the secret passage that you found first, and I'll go to the library of the castle to see if there are any other secret passages and dark rooms that have not been found." ”

The library of the Black Castle is not very large, after all, when the English royal family built the Black Castle, they did not consider living here for a long time, so the library built is not very large, and later after the French royal family took over the castle, after two renovations, the area of the library is also much larger, but it is still much smaller than the library of the normal Knight's Castle.

It is precisely because the library is so small that there are not many books here, and most of the new books are placed in the public library converted from a guard tower in the outer castle, and most of the books here are some materials related to the Black Castle in the past, and most of these materials are diaries written by the castle steward.

I don't know when it started, in addition to the daily affairs, the stewards of those noble castles or manors in the French Empire will be appointed by the owner of the castle as a recorder to record the daily affairs of the castle or noble family, and the noble family will compile their own family history based on these diaries, so usually the steward of each castle is hereditary, and the family has been responsible for the management of a castle or manor for generations, and Castle Black is no exception.

The history of the steward who is now in charge of Castle Black can be traced back to when the royal family of England first built Castle Black, but his family was not a steward at that time, just an ordinary attendant. Later, after the English royal family fled from the French Empire, their family was stayed, and then they were absorbed by the French royal family, and later because of their understanding of the Black Castle, their family was appointed by the French royal family as the castle steward, until today.

Because this family has always served as the steward in the castle, even if the information about the Black Castle has suffered some fires and other disasters in the past, causing some damage, the damaged part can still be quickly completed by the housekeeper at that time.

When Leo asked to check the information of the black castle and handed over Sylvia's execution order to the butler, the castle steward took Leo to the library, and then asked Leo to wait for a while, and then led several servants to put all the black castle diaries written by his ancestors in front of Leo according to the chronological order of the materials, for Leo to read.

Leo didn't immediately pick up the diaries and read them carefully, but quickly glanced at the date on the cover, and then asked the castle steward, "What about the earliest information when the royal family of England built the castle?"

The castle steward replied truthfully, "Those materials were taken by the Poseidon Church a few years ago, and they have not been returned. ”