Chapter 169: Investigation (Four Updates)
PS: This is today's fourth update, and there is still a chapter update owed, and then there is a 60-month pass from last month, a total of two more, and it will be made up as soon as possible. I was shocked to hear the bad news just now, and now there is no system to make up for it, that is, I can't get 600 yuan for full attendance this month, so sad ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lei Ming sorted out in his mind what the Duke of Habsburg had told.
He was sure that there must have been a hallucination in the castle, causing the private soldiers to hallucinate in it, and the main force that killed them was the handmaidens who disappeared one after another for a while.
He suspected that the white raindrops and the like were hallucinations, and then the gate of the castle that those private soldiers saw was actually the city wall, and then the so-called collapsed wall that they finally escaped was the real gate.
Their eyes deceive them.
There is also a logical problem in this story, according to the tendency of the Duke of Habsburg's words, as if his youngest son was actually innocent, then the contradiction arises, if those handmaidens were not killed by his youngest son, then why would his youngest son not react if there were maids in the castle who kept disappearing?
According to the way of thinking of a normal person, the maids who served him around him kept disappearing, and he was already frightened, and he would definitely order a thorough investigation.
However, the youngest son of the Duke of Habsburg did not react at all, he may have known some inside information, or rather, the suspicions of the private soldiers were not wrong, and the maids who disappeared one after another were indeed killed by him.
Lei Ming did not question this, because if he said so before he knew the truth, the Habsburg Duke's face would definitely not look good.
Lei Ming could see that the Duke of Habsburg was very good to his youngest son.
"Duke of Habsburg, where are the surviving private soldiers? ”
Lei Ming politely made this request, he wanted to see the surviving privates not because he suspected them of lying, but because he wanted to see if there was any curse on them.
For he noticed from the Habsburg Duke's account that at first there were more than thirty private soldiers who fled from the castle, but only a dozen of them finally escaped. Even among these dozen or so, two are crazy and a few are dead.
For the battle-hardened privates of the family, what they encountered in the castle was actually not very serious. They shouldn't have been so attritional after they fled.
"That's fine, Werther, get in touch. ”
When the Duke of Habsburg told Lei Ming about this, he no longer shy away from it, and he originally planned to go to the castle himself to check the situation. But after the invasion of his territory by the Minotaurs, and now there is a strange red copper bull head, so the Duke of Habsburg chose to be cautious.
Because there are so many strange creatures on this continent.
Thunder was still staring at the map, and the two castles were separated by a river from each other in the area that the Duke of Habsburg had divided, about half a distance from where they were now, and Thunder expected that it would take him a whole day to get there if he galloped on a stone horse.
Soon after, Werther came back with a very bad face, and he walked up to his father, bowed his head and replied to the Duke of Habsburg: "Father." Chad's private captain was outside waiting to be summoned. ”
Chad was the name of the youngest son of the Duke of Habsburg.
"Let him in. ”
The Duke of Habsburg directly asked the captain of the private army to come in and ask him, and he was ready to march to the castle tomorrow, and if he could not find a problem, he would destroy the castle.
The door of this secret room was opened again, and Lei Ming's eyes fell on the captain of the private army, about forty years old, wearing silver-gray armor, but with short hair, and his face was full of vicissitudes. Lei Ming could see that this private captain was already the kind with a more wooden and resolute personality, he knelt down on one knee and saluted the Duke of Habsburg: "Your Excellency!"
"Get up. ”
Thunder's gaze scanned the eyes, ears, and forehead of the private captain. All right, very normal, he asked, "Spread out the palms of both hands." ”
"Do as the Duke of Bourbon commands. The Duke of Habsburg was afraid that the captain of the private army would ask him for instructions, so as soon as Lei Ming spoke, he coerced the captain of the private army to cooperate with Lei Ming.
The leather case on his hand was taken off, and Lei Ming saw the big calloused hands of the private soldier captain, and those calluses had turned a little yellow on the surface. It was very thick, and when he flipped his palm, Lei Ming also saw a long scar on the back of his hand.
No problem either.
Thunder shook his head slightly at the Duke of Habsburg.
"Alright, go down and get some rest. ”
The Duke of Habsburg didn't care, he didn't worry about the castle, but the weird red bronze bull's head made him even more jealous.
"I think we can go to the castle together tomorrow to find out, and it should be easy to figure out if there is any special creature or if someone is doing it, and I believe the truth will soon come to light. ”
Lei Ming very cooperatively proposed to go to the castle with the Duke of Habsburg tomorrow to investigate the situation, which was exactly what the Duke of Habsburg wanted.
Thunder left the secret room, and immediately a waiting servant led him to rest.
The next day, Lei Ming opened the door early in the morning, but there were already servants waiting at the door.
The Duke of Habsburg was so resolute that he invited Thunder to sit in a wide carriage with six horses drawn in two rows, and in it was a large table with plates of white bread and pastries.
In addition, a force of about 3,000 soldiers from the Habsburgs followed, which showed the determination of the Habsburg dukes.
Thunder is not welcome, breakfast with the Habsburg dukes, the road is still a little bumpy, but it has no effect on Thunder.
Along the way, the Duke of Habsburg was still watching the news of the red copper bull's head.
After the bronze bull's head entered that range, the people never saw it again, unless the bronze bull's head fled away, or flew with wings, otherwise, the Duke of Habsburg could be sure that it must be within this range.
It took a long time to travel, and Thunder sat in the carriage until noon the next day, when the described castle came into view.
The curtain of the carriage was lifted with thunder, and the main building of the castle was quite tall, estimated to be twenty meters high, equivalent to a modern six-story building.
Moreover, the main building of the castle is made of a kind of dark stone, with a sharp tip and a triangular pyramid shape.
As for the rest of the buildings, they were all blocked by a ten-meter-high wall.
This is a very strong fortress, no wonder the youngest son of the Habsburgs will take a fancy to this castle, guarded by three hundred elite private soldiers, relying on this castle, it is enough to withstand ten times the number of enemies, very safe, but, he did not expect that such a thing would happen in this castle. (To be continued.) )