"Tick ...... Tick ......"

When the hands of the pocket watch moved to the position of "XII" on the dial, everyone gasped.

They are preparing for unknown dangers that may occur at any time.

"Whatever it is! Let them come! I'm going to have a good time this time! ”

Princess Edgar Midknight let out a cruel remark, her tall and muscular body standing proudly at the forefront, her beloved long-handled axe on her shoulder, and her other hand resting on the holster of her armed belt, her face calm and indifferent.

Baron Victor held a flintlock pistol in one hand and a torch in the other,

Five volunteers from Kirisong Town were also armed with guns or swords, and even Young Master William, who was in a wheelchair, was holding a military carbine loaded with ammunition.

They spent the first five minutes of March 11 in such a prepared manner, and there was still darkness and deathly silence around them, and after another quarter of an hour, nothing happened.

"Perhaps...... It's me thinking too much......" William said, "This date may just be a coincidence......"

At this moment, a loud noise came from the depths of the castle: "Boom! Bang! "It sounded like something heavy hitting the floor.

"Who?"

Baron Victor raised his flintlock pistol, he opened the safety mechanism on the side with one hand, wrenched the hammer to a ready to fire state, and hovered his index finger over the trigger.

It was pitch black at the distance illuminated by the torches, and he didn't find any threatening targets, not knowing what to aim at: "What's that sound about?" What happened? Edgar, can you see that? ”

"I don't know ...... either"

Edgar's large violet eyes shone in the darkness, and she possessed night vision, seeing farther and clearer than normal people, looking around alertly;

"I didn't see anything, but ...... The bats above were clearly agitated, and the rats were all burrowing back into their holes, something must have scared these sensitive creatures. ”

One of the militiamen pointed out the window and shouted, "Look! The crows that have been circling around...... It's all gone! ”

The gendarmerie knight was terrified to the extreme, and in order to be emboldened, he cried out loudly: "Who is doing this in the castle!" Coward! Coward! Stop sneaking around! Get out of here! ”

No one answered him, and the echo echoed for a long time in the empty halls and cloisters, and a stirring of wings came from above,

Hundreds of bats had already woken up from their dormancy, as if they were running away from something terrible, and they rose into the air like a black cloud, crowded out of a few broken windows, and a few hit the wall and fell to their deaths on the cold floor.

When the last bat staggered away and the hall fell silent, Edgar said, "Now, we are the only living creatures left in this hall. ”

"Boom! Click! "There were several loud bangs in a row.

This time Victor heard it clearly: "It's coming from below!" "Him.

The gendarmes and vigilantes looked at each other and said in unison: "It's the basement!" ”

"How do you get there?"

"I know how to walk, I've played here when I was there."

The vigilante raised his arm and pointed his finger at a wooden door in the hall;

"Simple, enter through that door, go down a few flights of stairs to the cloister on the first floor, then turn left into the bathroom, and through the secret passage of the bathroom you will find a stone staircase leading deeper into the castle,

At the end, you can see the entrance to the basement of the castle.

But...... It was a no-go zone for more than 800 years ago by the Templar Church and the local lords, and it was firmly locked. ”

"What now? Do you want me to go back to town and call some locksmiths? The militia asked.

"There's no need." Princess Edgar said. She put away her gun, took her axe, spread her long legs, and strode towards the door to the basement.

"Edgar, slow down! There may be traps! Master William tried to persuade her to stay, but the princess was already far away.

"Hey...... Her Majesty the Princess...... It's too reckless, I can't stop her, I can't let her take the risk alone, we can only keep up. ”

Baron Victor turned his head and looked at Young Master William, who was in a wheelchair:

"You stay here, Master William, and I'll let the two militiamen stay with you."

"Nope! I'm going down too! William Einfoot showed a rare steadfast bravery on weekdays:

"The road ahead is unknown, you may still encounter foreign languages, I can act as a translator, and I have a lot of research on ancient locks, and I can recognize traps, I can do a lot of things, I am not a burden!

Please, Victor, I want to prove myself so badly, please take me down! ”

"Alright then!"

Victor put away his gun and inserted it in his holster,

He grabbed the armrest of the wheelchair with both hands, and picked up Young Master William with the wheelchair with ease, like picking up a cat:

"I'm going to move you down the stairs, we have to keep up with it, and don't let Sister Edgar fall behind."

After a rather long stretch of narrow staircase, they came to a chamber deep underground.

As in the previous corridor, there was a thick pile of dust all over the way, everyone was covered with cobwebs, and there were still no footprints on the ground, and at the end, there was an extremely heavy stone door in front of it, on which hung a large number of locks of different shapes.

"Let me go and see!"

William was pushed forward, and the torches next to him reached out, illuminating the surface of the stone door for him:

"The original carving on this stone door has been destroyed, and it is carved in Old Flemish language, which was carved later, and the inscription on it reads:

In 837 A.D., the site of the Pope's exorcism campaign in Brandia was a tragic event, and in order to prevent further misfortune, it was decided to ban it permanently. ”

Victor stepped forward and pushed the stone door in front of everyone hard, as solid as it looked, not moving.

He tried to tug at the large number of locks hanging from the huge iron ring, most of which had been so rusted that they were useless, and opened with a light tug, the latest lock was obviously a trendy style that had only been seen in recent decades, and it looked like it had been added later.

The gendarme on the side explained: "In order to ensure that no one can set foot in the forbidden area, the church sends people to patrol every few decades, and each time a new lock is added, the most recent of which was about 20 years ago. ”

Edgar looked at the big locks and shook his head, "Find some other tools, I don't want to break the baby axe." ”

William Einfurt took a deep breath, and he knew that the time had come to show what he was capable of.