Chapter 14: The Secret Passage in the House
Lin Ye was now completely convinced that the incident of the night before was definitely not a dream, but there were some things that didn't make sense. Lin Ye didn't bother anymore www.biquge.info pen "Fun" Pavilion, and the answer to everything may be in this house. The four of them walked into the front hall, and there were more and more blood stains on the ground, but the sword marks were rare. After looking around the first floor and finding nothing unusual, they took out their weapons and cautiously walked up to the second floor. Both Hela and Francis each took out a dagger, Francis's was made of fine iron, and Hela's dagger was white throughout, and the handle was wrapped in leather, which looked like the bones of some kind of animal.
The stairs creaked, Lin Ye didn't step on it steadily, his body fell forward, and his left hand subconsciously pressed Amy, who immediately screamed and ran to the staircase on the second floor. Lin Ye looked at him angrily, "It's me, don't be so excited." ”
"Big brother, you're scared to death!" Amy patted her chest, trying to calm her beating heart.
Lin Ye raised his eyebrows, and suddenly a trace of fear appeared on his face, "Amy...... Behind you. ”
"Big brother, don't scare me anymore!" Emi didn't believe Lin Ye, but seeing that Hela and Francis's expressions weren't quite right, he hurriedly turned around.
I saw a little boy dressed in white, holding a wooden sword in his hand, looking at Amy with his pale face held high. Amy screamed again, and the sword in her hand slashed at the little boy. The little boy ran up to the third floor, screaming as if he was scared too.
Amy didn't know what to say, "Ghosts can be scared too?"
"Chase!" shouted Francis.
The crowd didn't bother to look around, and chased the little boy directly. But after going up to the third floor, I couldn't see the little boy anymore. There was no way, everyone had to check room by room. The third floor is basically a guest room, and there is only one study room with a few large bookcases. I looked around, but I didn't see the little boy. At this time, Lin Ye suddenly saw the little boy standing at the door of the study and smiling at him, and then ran into the study. Lin Ye beckoned the three of them to run over, and as soon as they entered the study, the door closed automatically. Lin Ye tried to open the door and couldn't open it at all, and splitting with an iron sword had no effect like the night before.
Amy was a little alarmed and said, "This ...... What to do. ”
Lin Ye held his chin with his left hand, calmed down and thought about it, and said, "I think this little boy seems to have deliberately led us here, if he wanted to hurt us, he could have done it a long time ago." ”
"You may be right, he may be trying to tell us something. Francis said.
"But he made those black ghouls last night, right?" argued Amy.
Lin Ye shook his head, "Now that I think about it, I think those black ghouls are preventing us from catching up with the little boy, that is, preventing us from knowing something we shouldn't know. He has now led us here, which means that there is a clue or an answer to our question. ”
So the four of them began to rummage through these cabinets of books, and after looking for a long time, they were all useless books. For example, "Chronicle of the Continent of Yaen", "The Legend of the Nine Holy Spirits", "Key Points of Gold Mine Smelting" and so on. Amy leaned weakly in her chair and put a book on her face, he didn't like to read very much, and now it would kill him to find clues from such a pile of books. Lin Ye and Francis didn't gain much, but Hela was reading a book very seriously.
"Hela, what books are you reading, have you gained anything?" Lin Ye asked curiously.
Hela held up the book to Lin Ye to see, and the green cover read "Night Rain Town Chronicles", which looked like it was handwritten.
"It seems to have been written by the owner of this house, and it is a record of some of the events that have happened in the town since he became the captain of the Nightrain Guard, and you can see that this is the most recent record. Hela said, spreading the book out on the table.
Following Hela's point, Lin Ye and Francis read carefully. The general content of this passage in the book is that Nightrain was originally rich in gold, which caused the town to prosper for a while, and as the gold mines dried up, the town also went from prosperity to decline. Some people are thinking about how to make the town produce a lot of gold again and restore the luxury of the past. Until one day a man who called himself an alchemist came to the town and said that he could help the town make gold, and then the townspeople frantically assisted the man in all aspects of the arrangement. This is the last record in the book, and as for the result, it is not written in the book.
"Hela, what do you think of this alchemist?" asked Francis.
"Alchemists are actually similar to magicians, but alchemy is an act that is never allowed in the wizarding world, and if you guess correctly, the town has nothing to do with it. Hela said solemnly.
"We now know why the town is so weird, but it doesn't help us get out of it. Amy cried and kicked the table with both feet. Directly below the table, a three-foot-square hole suddenly opened with a "click" sound, and a ladder could be clearly seen on one side of the hole. The cave was pitch black, and no light could be seen. This also shows that this secret passage is in the gap between the two houses, not to the second floor.
Lin Ye gestured to Hela, and Hela drew a magic circle on the floor with a bone dagger, and slowly rose up from the magic array with two wooden sticks with both hands. Hela pulled out the stick, carved a magic circle on the top of the stick, and said something in her mouth, and soon the two sticks turned into torches.
"I think that although this magic is practical, it still requires drawing circles and reciting spells when using it, and it is comfortable to use without a sword. Lin Ye said with a torch.
Hela sighed and said, "That's why I don't like magic, it's not because my father forced me not to learn it, I still like archery." ”
"Wait, you're not going down, are you?" said Amy, hurrying.
"If you don't go down, just wait here. When Lin Ye said this, Francis had already climbed down the ladder.
Amy looked at the gradually darkening street outside the window, and her heart was furious, and she hurriedly climbed down.
The dark passage is very narrow, but as soon as you climb to the bottom, the space immediately becomes larger. Through the faint light of the fire, Lin Ye saw the little man standing not far away again, and in this dark environment, even Hela, who had never been afraid of ghosts, was startled.
"Who the hell are you, and why did you lead us here?" asked Francis, staring at the little boy.
The little boy smiled, and without looking back, ran into the darker passage ahead. Francis stopped Lin Ye, who was about to chase, he looked around, lit a few oil lamps hanging on the wall, and finally let everyone see the surrounding environment clearly. They were in a large cavern, surrounded only by the hole that the little boy had run through and that stretched out of nowhere. There is some wood stuck in the wall of the cave at the top of the cave, and according to the book I just read, this should be a mine.
Francis walked in the front, Amy and Hela in the middle, and Lin Ye at the end. They groped their way slowly, and the only sound in the cave was the breathing of a group of people, except for the sound of torches burning, and it was quiet and terrifying. This black hole, which could not see the way forward, was like a black giant beast, opening its equally dark bloody mouth and slowly devouring the group.