Chapter Eighty-Four: Silvermoon Castle
The investigative report on this folklore was not written by one person, but by seven people, three of whom were investigators from the Kingdom of England, the French Empire, and the United States.
The remaining four were unsigned, leaving only four markers, and Leo recognized three of them as the marks of the Orthodox Church, the Black Market, and the Night's Watch, and the remaining mark was supposed to be a personal mark.
It is not difficult to see the importance of this investigation report from these signatures, but the review link at the end of the investigation report has put a negative stamp on this report.
The reason is that there is no sign of civilization in the Shangxianyue Lake area, and there is no corresponding content in the legends of the surrounding tribes, so the audit team determined that this folklore was only made up by the locals.
However, Leo doesn't see it that way, as he discovers that this is the only one of the surveys related to mysterious forces, the disappearance of the group, and the area of 9 Golden Oak Street.
In addition, it is also mentioned in the investigation report that the magnificent city will be seen when the moonlight is reflected on the surface of the lake, which means that the moonlight was very strong at that time, and it is likely to be a full moon, and the incident at 9 Golden Oak Street was also at the time of the full moon.
If it were just a little coincidence, it would be fine, but now that there are so many coincidences, then the coincidences are no longer just coincidences, and they are likely to be facts.
Obviously, the people of the investigation team also found out about this and took it very seriously, and asked seven people to sign the document, but unfortunately it was eventually erased by the bureaucracy of sitting in the office to review it, otherwise there might be no Leo now.
Just as Leo was recording the data, someone was suddenly outside the villa, shaking the bell, and Vaschi walked out, and after a while, he saw her come to the living room with a beautiful invitation, and put the invitation on the table.
"I know that I won't go, but every time I send it, that little guy never gives up!" The old man just glanced at the invitation, then shook his head, and then as if he thought of something, he handed the invitation in his hand to Leo, and said, "You can help me go! ”
Leo was slightly stunned, took the invitation, opened it and looked at it, it turned out to be an invitation to a high-level banquet, but when his eyes fell on the name of the initiator of the invitation, he frowned, looked up at the old man, and said, "You did it on purpose, right?"
"Don't you think it's funny?" the old man smiled and said, "That little guy Rupert is a die-hard supporter of Duke Devon, if you have any plans against Duke Devon in Miria City, the first thing you have to face is Rupert, and it will be good for you to observe your opponent up close." ”
Leo shook his head, threw the invitation on the table, which was coveted by all the magnates in the city, and said indifferently: "He is not my opponent, and I have no intention of whether the Duke of Derwin's complaint is successful or not. ”
Although Leo was not my opponent, it sounded like he was telling that the two were not enemies, but the old man could hear another hidden meaning.
The old man didn't accuse Leo of being too arrogant, he just smiled and asked, "Do you think you're out of the whirlpool right now?"
"Isn't it?" asked Leo rhetorically.
"You and your comrades-in-arms may be insignificant in the eyes of some people, and they only play an insignificant role in the whole incident," the old man picked up the cup on the table, poured a glass of cold water, inserted his fingers into the water and turned it slightly, and said: " You may have done little more than make a little ripple in the calm waters, but the forces you have attracted have tried to create waves that have been fueled by them, and the waves have become a whirlpool, involving all participants and non-participants, and your position is in the middle of the whirlpool, do you still think that what is happening now has nothing to do with you?"
"I can get out of it. Leo said coldly.
The old man smiled: "You can't, you know it yourself." As he spoke, he wiped his watery fingers, picked up the invitation and handed it to Leo, and said, "In fact, this matter has exceeded your estimates, and even exceeded everyone's estimates, everyone was forcibly sent onto a high-speed train, and whoever gets off the train halfway will die, and no one can be an exception." ”
Leo took the invitation and asked, "Where are you?"
"Haven't I been thrown into the car by you and Anne?" said the old man with a witty laugh.
If you want to pick 10 of the most notable buildings in Miria City, Silvermoon Castle is definitely on the list, and it is located in the Silvermoon Valley in the Upper Quarter Moon Lake District, on the outskirts of Miria City.
Silvermoon Valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, one side faces the water, because of the angle of the surrounding mountains and water surface, when the moon can be seen in the sky, the moonlight around Silvermoon Valley will be concentrated here, making it look like it is shrouded in moonlight.
The first person to build a villa here was a member of the Savile royal family, but the villa he built was so ostentatious and extravagant that it was completely out of harmony with the quiet, elegant surroundings that it became one of the ugliest buildings in the city.
After that, the land was in the hands of several people, and no one developed it until Rupert arrived, spent a lot of money to buy the land, and built the current Silver Moon Castle for ten times the purchase price of the land.
It is said to be a castle, but in fact it is more like a royal manor, with a total of six palaces of different functions, five courtyards equipped with large squares, seven gardens with different characteristics, more than 3,000 rooms, 130,000 works of art and antiques from different countries, and as many as 4,000 servants who take care of this manor.
One of the most special places in the entire manor is the Moonlight Tower located in the center of the manor, whenever the moonlight is concentrated in the Silvermoon Valley, the gem at the top of the Moonlight Tower will absorb the surrounding moonlight and release a stronger silver-blue light, turning into a second moon, which is also the origin of the name of Silvermoon Castle.
After the completion of the Silvermoon Castle, Rupert held a banquet in the castle as usual, and there were many people present who could compare with their wealth, and these people were moved to see such a beautiful castle manor, and kept making bids to Rupert, hoping to buy it, and finally the offer price even exceeded fifty times the construction price, but in the end Rupert refused.
For the magnates of Miria City, they don't care much about who gets Silvermoon Castle, what they care about is whether they can receive invitations when Silvermoon Castle holds a banquet.
Because of this, every time Silver Moon Castle held a banquet, the price of invitations to Silver Moon Castle climbed steadily, and even reached an astonishing height of 50,000 gold flanges at the highest time, but this price height was broken today.
This time, after the news of Rupert's banquet in Silvermoon Castle came out, the price of an ordinary invitation remained unchanged at three thousand gold flanges, but the price of a high-grade invitation reached forty thousand gold flanges, and the special invitation that could enter any part of the castle directly soared to a huge amount of one hundred thousand gold flanges.
It's a pity that this kind of special invitation is priceless, because the people who can get this kind of invitation are all big people who are either rich or expensive, and they don't need to give up this glorious status symbol in their hands for the small amount of 100,000 gold francs.
Although there were many people in Miria City who could not get invitations when the banquet was held, they were willing to wait around the square outside the Valley of the Silver Moon, hoping for good luck and someone willing to take them in.
Because there are so many things like this, these people also have experience and know which people are worth going up to greet and make requests, and which people are just like them waiting for opportunities, and it is not worth wasting time.
It was the first time Emily had done such a thing, and even when she reached the square outside the Valley of the Silvermoon, she did not dare to approach the carriages waiting for the inspection invitations to be allowed to enter the valley, let alone make requests to the people inside the carriages.
The reason why she would do this kind of thing with such a personality is entirely because she hopes that her parents can move out of the chaotic Fish City, even if they live in the most ordinary residential areas such as Maple Street and Saab District, they are a hundred times stronger than the Fish City.
In addition, she also hopes that her husband, who has a quiet and honest personality, can get a chance to be promoted, and move out of the archive room where there is no hope, even if it is not a hot position.
However, Emily, who was born as a freedman, has no connections to help her husband and her parents, and the only thing she can take advantage of is her decent looks. She felt that if she could enter the banquet at Silvermoon Castle, she would have a chance to become the mistress of some powerful person, and perhaps she would be able to change the lives of her, her husband, and her parents.
For this reason, when she knew that Silvermoon Castle was holding a banquet, she spent all her private money, rented a decent lace lotus leaf dress, and put on some makeup, before her colleague who had the same mind as her came to the outside of Silvermoon Valley in a carriage.
It was only after arriving at the place that she realized that her expectations were a little high, because in the crowd waiting for the opportunity, people in more luxurious clothes than her abounded, and people with more beautiful looks than her could be seen everywhere, and she was a completely inconspicuous existence standing in the crowd.
When the high-end carriages drove up to the plaza of Silvermoon Valley, waiting to enter, Emily had no chance to get close to them, and she could see that even if she could get close in her situation, it would probably be useless.
At this time, Emily suddenly noticed that among the many high-end carriages in the square, an old carriage that looked no different from the ordinary carriage soliciting customers on the street was parked, and the coachman sitting in the carriage was also dressed in old clothes and hats, and the whole person was huddled in a ball and looked a little obscene.
Then she heard several experienced people talking about the old carriage, which they thought was a servant's carriage, and that when they reached the entrance to the valley, they would be stopped and there was no need to go there and ask about it.
Although she listened to the analysis of these people, the optimistic Emily still had some expectations, after all, she had not been near any carriage that night, and she did not want to waste all the elaborate makeup she had spent all her private money on.
So, after a moment's hesitation, Emily took a few deep breaths, mustered up the courage to walk towards the carriage, and then stood at the carriage door and looked inside.
In the carriage sat a young man in a tuxedo and a top hat, dressed in nothing conspicuous, and it was very strange that this man was not wearing white gloves on his hands, but a pair of fingerless gloves that dock unloaders often wear.
By the light of the carriage, Emily could see the young man's not very handsome but majestic face, with a beard that no one else would have, and her eyes could not help but show a look of disappointment, and she thought that those people might have guessed correctly, and that the carriage was probably occupied by the high-ranking servants of the castle.
"Is there anything wrong with you?" asked the man inside the carriage when he saw a woman standing outside the window and looking out of the window for a long time.
"I, I'm ......" Emily was a little confused by the sudden questioning, and the handkerchief in her hand was even more messed up by her.
"Take a deep breath," feeling that the little woman in front of her seemed to faint at any time due to nervousness, and the people in the carriage immediately guided rhythmically, saying: "Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale ......"
With a few guided deep breaths, Emily's nervousness was also relieved, and while her mood stabilized, she hurriedly said, "I want to go to the banquet in Silvermoon Castle, can you please take me in?"
After saying that, Emily immediately regretted it, because she felt that her tone of voice was too blunt, not tactful at all, and the speed of her speech was too fast, which seemed very vulgar.
Just as Emily was picking out a myriad of faults with her request, the people in the carriage were silent for a moment and said, "Come up!"
"Huh?" Emily was completely stunned when she heard the other party's words, she felt if she was thinking too much about auditory hallucinations.
The man in the carriage asked again, "Aren't you going to come up?"
"Ahh
After getting into the carriage, Emily sat for a while, and suddenly realized that she had not introduced herself, so she hurriedly stretched out her hand to the person sitting opposite as if she was at her own place of work, and said, "Hello, my name is Emily." ”
The person sitting opposite looked at the outstretched hand, smiled, reached over as well, shook it, and said, "Hello, my name is Leo Dodd." ”
That's right, the person sitting in this old carriage is none other than Leo, who had recently been forced into an invitation by the old man and had come to Silvermoon Castle for a banquet.
Originally, according to the old man's meaning, since Leo represented him naturally not to wear shabby, he prepared a set of very high-end clothes, and even prepared a very eye-catching steam carriage for Leo. But Leo refused, he casually picked out a tuxedo, vest, shirt suit, wearing an ordinary top hat, and left the villa with the invitation, casually stopped a carriage, and came to the Upper Quarter Moon Lake area.