Chapter 404: Ghost Castle
As the holder of the Alchemy Throne, even if he has been disconnected from the world for nearly two thousand years, the alchemy of the Lord of Bronze and Fire is unmatched. If this broken Nibelungen was still floating between the cracks of the world, he might have to spend a little more time like he did last time in Yanjing. It's just that this has fallen into the lost realm of the mortal world, and even if the people of the Gattuso family have maintained and modified it for thousands of years, it is only to the extent that he can control it at the touch of his fingers.
However, he could ignore this worthless alchemy matrix, and he could ignore the half-bloods of the Gattuso family who maintained and repaired here, but he couldn't ignore the existence below.
The king of the sky and the wind, the king of the sea and the water, his younger brothers and sisters who are still hidden in the shadows of the world, one of them, is hidden underneath. Thousands of years have passed him, and he doesn't know how they are doing, whether they have evolved into a complete body, or if they have devoured each other and become unknown beings.
He glanced back, and in the darkness that loomed in the distance, after losing the reason to oppose each other, Conrad and Natsumi's bickering looked like ordinary brothers and sisters.
And according to the information sent back by Chu Zihang, who encountered Caesar, hidden under this is the king of the sea and water, and this entire lost city is her mausoleum...... However, is an existence like a dragon king, even a dead dragon king, really something that humans can control?
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"Are you sure your family hasn't been scammed?" Fingal frowned and asked, "Being banished to a barren land where there is nothing, and then there happens to be a dead dragon king underground, and the legacy she left behind, this is not something that can be described by pie in the sky, right?" ”
Caesar bowed his head and was silent and no longer spoke. What Frost said to him, as Fingal had said, did not seem to stand up to scrutiny on closer inspection. But they were convinced that it was a great opportunity from God. What happened thousands of years ago is too far away for anyone to know. But no matter what, it can't change the bad situation at the moment.
Susie turned her head and glanced at Caesar with a strange expression, saying, "It seems that the battle above is coming to an end, and those Gattuso bodyguards have retreated to the castle. Our men have encircled the castle, and the exploration party has broken in. ”
"It can't be!" Caesar looked up and said in disbelief.
As the young master of the Gattuso family, even if he was hiding a lot of things, he knew very well how defensive the castle he grew up was. Although the academy moved seriously this time, dispatching many senior commissioners who are usually nowhere to be seen, those bodyguards whose bloodlines are hovering back on the verge of losing control are not used as decorations.
In the face of such an attack by the Academy, it was not surprising that Caesar would be defeated, but even if the Academy still had additional personnel to replace the injured commissioners earlier, it would be impossible for them to flee back to the castle in such a short period of time. Besides, there are also the high-ranking members of the family in the castle, and they will not allow this to happen.
Fingal said faintly, "...... It's a trap no matter how you look at it. ”
Susie nodded: "So the people above just sent a team to investigate. ”
The people above are not stupid, unlike the situation that has been found out on the side of the Pantheon bunker, no one will rush into such an anomaly as the castle stupidly, but these have nothing to do with them who are still underground.
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On the ground, the team leader who had been ordered to enter the ancient castle of Gattuso to investigate, frowned. In order to prevent their pursuit, the power supply of the entire castle was disconnected, and the entire castle was completely dark. The bodyguards who didn't know whether they had fled or had deliberately lured them in had no sign of them, and they couldn't even hear their voices, as if they had been swallowed up by the darkness.
There was no sound in the entire fortress except the sound of their breathing and footsteps, and even the sound of the large army waiting outside had disappeared with it. Some of them were weasels, but according to him, they could not perceive any sound in his realm, and it was as if they had fallen into an invisible trench and entered a silent world.
In addition to their own lighting, there was also some illumination from the windows of the hallway, where the occasional flash of lightning in the thick clouds provided some illumination. An eerie silent thunder illuminated the silent castle, and something seemed to flash in the illuminated darkness, but someone looked at it but there was nothing.
A strange aura hung over the heads of all the members of the exploration team, and if it weren't for the fact that they were veteran commissioners with extraordinary experience, they would have retreated in such a situation that was not right in any way.
The commissioners who remained outside the castle looked up, and the dark plain was illuminated by lightning, along with the dark clouds in the sky. The clouds were so low that the fighter plane, which had been hovering in the sky, flew close to the clouds, making people worry about whether they would be hit by the lightning that came out of the dark clouds.
The academy's counterattack against the Gattuso family is naturally not only against the Gattuso family, but also on the Italian authorities, who are not at loggerheads with the Gattuso family. On the more hidden battlefield, the remaining school directors and the hidden elders used their influence to remove the Italian authorities, who represented the ordinary people, from this struggle for the forces of the dark world, and minimize the influence of the Gattuso family on the world.
This is also the reason why this fighter is still hanging around here until now, and no one has found it. However, in the end, he was not struck by a lightning strike, but something fell on the heads of the commissioners on the ground.
The rain fell, and the torrential rain came, and it extinguished the hearts of many people who were excited to repel the guards of the Gattuso family. Someone raised his head and looked up at the sky, and every time something big happened, such a downpour would not be absent every time. The raindrops that fell completely obscured the already small sight, and even the ancient castle in front of me was a little difficult to see.
The leader in the crowd subconsciously took out the walkie-talkie to contact the people in the castle, but found that at some point, there was only a busy sound on the walkie-talkie.
Inside the Kasbah. The disconnection of communications did not cause the reconnaissance team to panic, and if panic had helped, they would have been in disarray. The team leader put away the communication equipment and subconsciously glanced to the side. Like the out-of-control bodyguards, the blonde young man in sunglasses was wandering around the castle with nothing to do. From time to time, he picked up a candlestick that looked very expensive and admired it, looking so relaxed, as if he was visiting.
"Mr. Manek......" the captain called out to the young man who was wandering, "I think it would be better for us to retreat for a while, and it might be to our detriment to go any further." ”
Being able to serve as a squad leader composed of a group of senior commissioners, his own blood rank and ability are naturally recognized by the academy. But in this way, he had no way to drive the young man in front of him with a commanding tone, because this young man who had never heard of before and was suddenly stuffed in was marked with an S-class on his electronic file.
Although he had long known that in addition to the two S-ranks in the academy's headquarters, there were also S-class commissioners sent to various parts of the world, he was still a little flattered that such a person was assigned to his team. After all, these S-class who even had their names erased in the file, and now they are still incognito when they rebelled in the secret party, continuing to carry out the top-secret mission that also did not leave a record on the file.
"A little further on, a temporary retreat without a gain." Menek put down the candlestick in his hand, raised his head and looked at the dark castle and whispered underestimation, "...... I should have let the tiger in. ”
They didn't explore the castle as meticulously as the one next door, and after knowing that it was nothing more than something to hide from the eyes, they took some general notes and threw themselves into the ground of the Pantheon. Again, these maps had just been teleported to the various commissioners, but that didn't seem to be useful for the current situation.
With his current perception ability far beyond that of a half-blood, there was no way to find those hidden bodyguards. These bodyguards, who look very powerful, but seem to be somewhat vulnerable, seem to be bait, but they have a reason to follow. Any one of these guys on the verge of losing control escaping into the city is undoubtedly a disaster for the ordinary people who live there.
Originally, he planned to come in alone, and the tiger cooperated outside. But there were a lot of people who escaped, and it would obviously be a waste of time to find out one by one, so I ordered a group of excellent commissioners to follow. But now it seems that it is better for him to come in alone.
Suddenly stepping on something, Menek looked down and saw some dark thick liquid flowing from the corner of a tablecloth-covered table. Menek, who was no stranger to this, sighed as if he understood something, lifted the tablecloth there, and looked at the bodyguards with black blood and extremely distorted facial features due to pain.
It's no wonder that there hasn't been any movement along the way, and how can a dead person make a sound.
A ray of thunder swept through the window at the right time, allowing all those who were looking for them to see what they looked like. Even though they were accustomed to seeing the mutilated corpses of dangerous hybrids that had been eaten on a rampage, and the corpses that had been crumpled to death by the resurgence of dragons, the corpses in front of them still made them shudder.
All the bodyguards were violently stuffed under the small table like cans, everyone huddled together, their bodies tangled with each other like tangled clothes in a washing machine, and it was impossible to know whose feet were whose feet and whose hands were those twisted limbs.
Someone approached the table next to them and pulled up the tablecloth on it, and it turned out that the same twisted corpse was underneath, and these intertwined corpses were intertwined with each other, in addition to the bodyguards they had just seen, there were also high-ranking family members in gorgeous formal suits, as if they were in high positions, and there were maids in black and white dresses, like they were about to clean......
They were now in the main hall of the castle, and the decoration of the room showed that it was used for banquets. On a normal day, soft music is playing, and well-dressed men and women dance on the dance floor between the tables. Waiters and maids stand on both sides, always providing excellent service to the distinguished masters.
And now, whether men and women, young and old, whether noble or low, the people who remained in this castle all remained here forever in the same posture, huddled under a few small tables, and never separated from each other again.
Menek pulled out a white handkerchief and covered his nose, his eyes furrowed under his sunglasses. There was no sign of struggle in the hall, and they followed the fleeing bodyguards into the place, and they didn't hear any fighting. And in this short period of time, all the people who stayed behind in the castle of the Gattuso family died here in such a strange way.
Of all known spirits, there seems to be no spirit that can kill so many people in such a brutal way in a short period of time. This is like an ancient bloody sacrifice to kill people, and it seems to be more like a ...... than he kills Suicide.
There's no time for Menek to think about it, because the magic here is starting to go berserk.
"Everyone, retreat immediately!" He turned around and shouted at the people who were taking pictures to collect evidence, and before they could react, he quickly ran to a wall and kicked the wall in front of him that modern thermal weapons could defend against.
A huge crack came and the wind and rain poured in, and it was only then that someone realized that it was raining outside. There was no time to be surprised, and the commissioners who were still in the hall jumped out of the crack one by one at Menek's urging. Their location is not too high, about the level of three floors of an ordinary building, and some ordinary people who have been specially trained can land safely, let alone nothing.
The rainstorm blocked the view and all sounds, and Menek quickly circled to lead the way. His shouting was not just directed at them, but also at the tigers on standby outside the castle.
A huge field poked out of the castle behind them, spreading rapidly in all directions. At this time, even without Menek's reminder, the people of the exploration team understood the seriousness of the situation. They ran harder, fast enough to put any world champion in track and field to shame, but even so, they still couldn't outpace the expansion of the field.
Someone simply stopped, quickly took out the mobile phone he had just taken a picture of, and wanted to send the photo he had just taken. Also stopping was Menek, who in turn ran to the rear.
"Stop! Stand behind me! He gave the order again, and everyone subconsciously did so.
As soon as he took off his sunglasses and threw them away, his hair being blown messy in the wind and rain, he stretched out his hands towards the castle behind him, which was beginning to crumble. Later, behind him, there was a lake of people, and the black lion flag fluttered in the wind and rain, and then, like the doomsday, the realm swallowed them.