The stone steps in the basement extended twenty steps downward, and a jogging platform appeared in the corner of the wall, turning 90 degrees to the left and continuing to walk down for more than twenty steps, Surdak stepped on the bluestone slab floor in the basement, the room was filled with a faint musty smell, and a kind of cold that could penetrate into the body made everyone in the group shiver.

With the soft light of the torches, you can see the area within a range of more than ten meters, the whole basement looks very empty, and there are some independent rooms separated by iron fences, each room has a locked iron door, and the iron door is only less than ten square meters of space, there are no living utensils such as beds, tables and chairs, and there is only a layer of weeds like a bird's nest in the corner, and the musty smell probably comes from here, making this basement look more like a prison cell.

The basement was empty, and Surdak explored the depths of the basement along the passage between the iron bars, feeling that the more he went inside, the colder it grew deeper and deeper.

Fearing that the evil spirits would come out of the darkness anytime and anywhere, the group did not separate after entering the basement, everyone gathered together, Surdak walked into a room surrounded by an iron fence, he found that the bluestone slabs in the house were covered with some claw marks, and there were some fine bone fragments near the weeds, Surdak came to the iron fence with a torch and squatted down, and some bite marks could be seen everywhere in the lower part of the iron fence, a beast that could leave tooth marks on this cast iron fence, In addition to the amazing bite force, it must be very crazy.

A member of the first squad stood behind Captain Miluo and couldn't help but mutter, "What the hell is this place, a prison?" ”

Captain Miluo said with a normal expression: "Every noble manor probably has a place similar to where prisoners are held, you shouldn't see it for the first time, right?" ”

Surdak stood up, took a deep breath, and said, "These rooms don't look like places where prisoners are kept, it looks like there were some fierce beasts that were originally inhabited here. ”

The torch of light glowed softly incandescent, and everywhere Surdak went, the darkness quickly receded like a tide.

Walking a little further, the room in front of me became extremely empty, it looked like a hall of several hundred square meters, there was nothing in the hall, and standing next to the wall, you could see that there were some mottled marks on the wall.

The team member couldn't help but speak again, "I didn't expect the basement of Fornak Manor to be so big. It's really cold and gloomy......"

Captain Miluo instructed the other two members of the First Squad behind him, "Light two more torches, and we'll search around." ”

At this time, Karl said: "Concentrate, if you find something abnormal, you will immediately retreat, we are facing the evil spirits hiding in the depths of the manor, think of the Isaac Knight lying on the bed, maybe you will be like that in the next second." ”

“……”

Captain Miluo and several members of the first team all looked at Carl, their eyes full of complaints, and everyone couldn't help but lean closer to each other.

Looking at the originally very flat bluestone slabs under his feet, it seems that a layer has been corroded by something, and it has become uneven, these bluestone slabs can no longer see the original appearance, and the iron boots under the feet of a team member stepped on a bluestone slab, and a layer of stone skin on the surface of the bluestone slab was crushed by the iron boots, revealing an egg-sized hole, and there were notches poured with red copper around the hole.

Surdak didn't pay much attention to it, but when he passed through the hole, what came to mind was the huge summoning circle in the cave of Grenfell Manor, the magic pattern of the circle was carved on the stone slab, and it was poured with magic metal, Surdak stopped, crouched down and carefully observed the remaining traces around the hole.

"It doesn't seem like a storeroom at all!" Surdak scraped a thin layer of magical red copper from the stone slab with a dagger and said to Karl, who was standing beside him.

Then he looked at the direction of the broken magic lines that extended out of the hole, and said to the leader of the first team: "Captain Miluo, let your people stand separately and walk out along these lines to see if you can find this kind of hole." ”

Miluo did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed Surdak's instructions, together with himself, a total of four people, to explore in the direction pointed by Surdak.

Sure enough, about ten meters out, a member of the first team shouted: "Captain, I have a hole of the same size here!" ”

"I've got ...... here, too," the other two members of Team 1 also noticed.

Surdak's operation obviously involved the realm of magic, and Carl, Miluo and the others were confused about it, and Carl couldn't help but ask curiously, "Dark, what is the situation?" ”

Recently, I have been looking up the knowledge of knight aura and magic martial arts dual cultivation in the library, and I also have some understanding of some superficial magic knowledge, if it is other magic arrays, Surdak may not know, but this magic pattern circle is still fresh in his memory, when he was in the cave behind Grenfell Manor, Surdak saw a shadow dread demon crawling out of the magic array, and later in Cyrus. Hickok's magic notes showed several similar patterns, and it was clear that these black mages were also constantly trying to make some improvements to the magic circle.

There is actually a similar magic array in this basement, and most of the traces of the magic array were deliberately destroyed with corrosive liquid, Surdak faintly guessed some, a cool breath rose from the tail vertebrae to the top of his head, Surdak looked at Karl beside him, and said to him: "If I guess correctly, this is not a storage room, there should have been a magic array engraved here, but it was destroyed for some reason, and the place where we just now was inlaid with magic crystals, It's a very common six-pointed star pattern. ”

Karl touched his chin, frowned and thought about it very seriously, and said with some hesitation: "I don't remember that the Fornak family has ever produced a magician noble......"

A cold wind blew from the basement, and the torches in the hands of the first team members were extinguished, leaving only the torch of holy light in Surdak's hand to illuminate the surroundings.

A cloud of flame suddenly erupted in a faint blue light above everyone's heads, and an evil spirit wrapped in black dead air flew out of the blue soul fire, its body was full of violent aura, and a jet-black claw stretched out and attacked Surdak, as if trying to break his arm holding the Holy Light Torch, but the evil spirit obviously underestimated the light emanating from the Holy Light Torch.

When it pounced on Surdak, the body in the darkness was completely exposed to the holy light, and the dead qi that wrapped the body quickly dissolved under the light of the holy light, and the dark arm of the evil spirit was also constantly evaporating the breath of resentment, and the dark bone claws stretched out to Surdak were constantly fading under the light of the holy light, and turned into the true color of white bones little by little.

The evil spirit seemed to feel the pain, and let out a sharp and piercing howl in front of Surdak, although Surdak was drowsy from the impact of the sound wave, but because he was carrying a lucid hanger, a soft light emanated from the lucid pendant on his chest, resisting the spiritual impact of the evil spirit, and the same light appeared on Karl's chest beside him.

Obviously, Carl was also wearing a sober pendant, but Carl was made his nostrils bleed by the spiritual impact of the evil spirit, he covered his forehead and showed a painful look, and the other members of the first team and Captain Miluo did not receive much influence because they stood far away, and the members of the first team quickly rushed towards the place where the evil spirit appeared.

Captain Miluo, on the other hand, quickly ran outside the basement as agreed, and since the evil spirit had been discovered, he had to run outside as soon as possible to release the prepared magic flares.

At this time, this evil spirit didn't seem to have much other means of attack, and seeing that Surdak was not affected by the 'soul howl', he suddenly opened his mouth and blew a thick breath of death towards Surdak, but the evil spirit was an evil spirit and quickly retreated into the darkness.

Surdak saw the evil spirit retreating quickly, where would it be so easy to let it go, this operation mission is to find out the evil spirit hidden in the manor, and hold on until Captain Thor arrives, but the evil spirit just rushed out and fled back into the darkness, which was something that everyone didn't expect.

Surdak was also worried that after the evil spirit escaped, he would find a secret place to hide, so that even if all the members of the support squadron were sent out collectively, they might not be able to find the evil spirit from this manor, so he hurriedly followed the evil spirit closely behind and strode after it.

The evil spirit retreated quickly, but a dark blue soul fire burned fiercely above its head, leaving it unrecognizable in the darkness. However, it immediately noticed this, and with a single mouth, it sucked the soul fire above its head into its belly, and the evil spirits completely disappeared into the darkness.

Unfamiliar with the layout of the basement, Surdak stopped with the torch of light, and Surdak and the three members of the first team followed from behind, panting, and then they had time to relight the torches, and looked around, and found that everyone had already left the underground hall through the stone door and came to another basement.

The evil spirit didn't know where to hide, as the other torches were rekindled, the whole stone room was also in front of everyone's eyes, this stone room was not too big, there was a row of empty shelves next to the wall, some crumpled magic parchment piled up on the shelves, there was a test table in the middle of the stone room, next to the test bench there was a crucible that looked abandoned, some glass containers, beakers, purification vessels, etc. were placed on the test bench, and behind the test bench were some large glass containers and an iron cage one meter square.

Although Surdak had some psychological preparation in his heart, he still took a slight breath of cold air when he saw this magic test table, he didn't expect his previous guess to be verified so quickly, there is indeed a magic laboratory hidden here, and the general magic laboratory is built on top of a high tower, so that it is more convenient to contact the four elements in the air, and only some dark magic laboratories that cannot see the light will be built in the basement.

At this time, Surdak and Karl not only looked at each other, but they did not expect that the Fornak family also had some close ties with the Dark Arts Retreat.

Surdak had the courage to continue walking, at this time everyone thought the same, that is, they wanted to find out the hidden evil spirit as soon as possible, otherwise when Captain Sauron came, they found that the evil spirit had already slipped away, and it was estimated that the scene would be very embarrassing......

The room was covered with a thick layer of dust, and there were no footprints on the floor, and it looked like no one had been here for a long time.

When Captain Sauron was exploring this manor the day before yesterday, he probably didn't find it.

Not feeling any dead air in the room, Surdak began to look around the laboratory, when he approached the set of glass containers next to the test bench, suddenly a thick ball of dead air came out of a round-bellied long-necked bottle, tumbling in Surdak into a toothy and clawed evil spirit, it seemed to be very afraid of the Holy Light Torch in Surdak's hand, seeing Surdak smash the Holy Light Torch over, he actually dodged to the side, and took the opportunity to pounce on Karl behind.

Because he knew that there were evil spirits hidden in the manor, Carl had been prepared before he came, he pulled out a silver long sword from his waist, and slashed at the evil spirit without retreating, this sword just touched the evil spirit, and the dead spirit on the body of the evil spirit was reduced a lot again, it did not dare to rush forward again, and hurriedly rushed to the door of the laboratory, and was blocked by the members of the first team guarding the door with a silver light shield, so he could only retreat into the laboratory in embarrassment.

The evil spirit could not escape, and could only fly in the laboratory under the pressure of Surdak step by step, but as long as it was exposed to the light of the torch of holy light, the dead qi on its body continued to steam, and the dead qi disappeared a little, and the evil spirit became weaker.

At the beginning, the exploration team of the fifth brigade returned from Fornak Manor, and Isaac Knight was seriously injured, which made Carl and others think that the evil spirits hidden in the manor must be very difficult, and even Captain Sauron came forward to deal with this matter, but Captain Sauron came to Fornak Manor, and the evil spirits hidden in the manor did not dare to run out at all.

Now it seems that this evil spirit is really not a climate, and it doesn't even have some basic combat experience, and everything is based on instinct.

Even if Captain Sauron doesn't come, the supporting squadron is confident that it can handle it.

With the cooperation of Surdak and Karl, the evil spirit was forced into a corner of the laboratory, and only a trace of dead air was left on its body, revealing a small skeleton, and the soul fire in its body was also in danger, and it was about to be extinguished, and a scream came from outside the laboratory.

Surdak and Karl immediately heard the scream, it was sent by Miluo, the leader of the first squad who ran out to release the magic flares, everyone looked at the door of the laboratory, and there was a translucent ghost standing at the door of the laboratory, he seemed to still maintain his former appearance, he was a middle-aged nobleman in gorgeous clothes, he stood quietly outside the laboratory door, Captain Miluo was in front of him, his hands were twisted back, and a dagger pierced his heart, but the wound was not very deep, obviously the other party did not kill him.

Karl saw the ghost's vague face and shouted in surprise, "Count Fornack......"