The sound was too reminiscent of a samurai in heavy armor walking, and in connection with the legend that Montolo had told, the voice was suddenly equated by Martha with the Headless Horseman in her mind.

Dior's expression was also slightly solemn, he found that the construction of this main tower seemed to be able to suppress his mental sensing ability for unknown reasons, and he didn't even notice the slightest abnormality before this voice appeared.

As the soundmaker stepped out of the shadows into starlight, Martha grabbed Dio's arm and screamed.

What appeared in front of her was a knight in full armor, the steely full-covered knight's armor reflected a dull luster in the starlight, and the scars and stains on it told the glory and vicissitudes of the past, as if from an ancient picture scroll to reality. But more importantly, the original location of the head armor was empty, there was nothing, but there seemed to be something watching from there, combined with the legend that Montolo said, it suddenly made Martha's whole body tremble, if it wasn't for Dio in front of her, she would have fled immediately.

But she didn't see the helpless and ridiculous look on Dior's face, her body was very relaxed, and she didn't even have the previous vigilance.

"I didn't expect Montolo to really be able to play, and even this one was figured out. ”

Dio felt a growing tingling sensation coming from his arm, and he couldn't help but scold. Originally, he couldn't see it in the shadows, but now that he came out, with his years of archaeological experience, he could see at a glance that the armor was a fake, that is, it was painted with a layer of similar steel-colored paint on the wood, which was a commonly used prop making technique on the stage, and the sound of heavy steel trampling the ground just now, that is, two large pieces of iron were added to the soles of the shoes.

Needless to say, he already knew what was going on.

"Surprise!"

Sure enough, at this moment, a male voice came from the knight's armor, and then a piece of armor on his chest was pushed away, revealing a person's face, Dio had a slight impression of this, it should be the boy who participated in this camping together.

"False...... Fake?" Martha reacted, stopped screaming, and looked at the other party hesitantly.

"Of course, you don't really think there's a Headless Horseman, hahaha......" the boy smirked.

Martha turned her head to look at Dio, confirming that what she was hearing was not a hallucination, and then she exploded.

"Ahh

She suddenly rushed to the headless horseman and kicked the other man's leg with her foot, causing the boy to flee in all directions.

"Don't be impulsive...... Hey, it really hurts...... Stop fighting, it's just a joke, it's just a joke...... Several groups of people who have already come are on it, you guys go up quickly, I won't accompany you......"

The Fake Headless Horseman took Martha a few times and ran into the shadows without looking back, disappearing, and only then did Martha stop the pursuit, slowly stop, and begin to stagger.

Dio stepped forward and grabbed her, and the ups and downs of her mentality made the girl's hands and feet weak at this time, and she couldn't stand steadily.

"Are you alright?"

"It's fine. Martha's face was flushed, which was caused by anger and vigorous exercise.

"Then you sit down on the stairs and rest, and then we go up. ”

"Hmm. ”

Dio sat with her on the stairs for a few minutes, and after seeing that she was recovering, they walked up the stairs together.

The main tower was not very tall, only about ten meters on four floors, so the two of them quickly went up to the platform, and then they saw the students who had already arrived but were holding back their jokes.

The students, who were probably also frightened by the Fake Headless Horseman, laughed out loud when they saw Dio and Martha come up.

Martha saw a girl she knew well, and immediately went over to make trouble with her. Dio looked around and saw that his sister's trio was sitting and laughing not far away, and that there were four groups of people before Dio and Martha arrived, and it seemed that three groups had not arrived.

Walking to the edge of the platform, here is a circle of women's walls more than half a person high, along the gap above you can see a large range below, but it is difficult for the people below to see the people on the platform, it is estimated that these early arrivals must have discovered him and Martha in advance, just waiting for their jokes.

Shaking his head, Dio found a place to sit down, and when Montolo and the others arrived, he could declare the game over for the children.

......

Bang bang bang.

The False Headless Horseman trotted all the way to a statue at the back of the hall, which was supposed to be a statue of a person, but now there were only two calves left and a firmly welded base underneath, like two tree poles, which was very strange.

Coming to the small space between the statue and the wall behind it, there is a hole in the ground and a set of steps leading down.

Mendie walked down without hesitation, and after about ten meters, he reached the room at the end of the stairs.

It was a small basement, and it might have been used to store some small and valuable items, but of course, the original storage here was long gone, and the empty shelves were left with dust.

"Mike, Mike......"

As soon as he entered the basement, he shouted loudly.

"Don't scream, I'm here!" From behind a shelf, a boy with a big head and black-rimmed glasses walked out with an oil lamp, looked up and down the door, and frowned, "Why is it broken again? This is all borrowed from the dance drama club, and it will be returned when the time comes." ”

"No way, now the girls are too irritable, directly move their hands and feet, this is not bad, and the beautiful girl in front of me almost slashed me with a sword, just a little bit, I really don't know how Montolo let people bring the real sword in, scared me to this day I am still in a cold sweat. ”

Mendie grumbled as he removed some of the armor pieces from his body that had been kicked by Martha and handed them to Mike.

"The bad one is quite serious, and I brought a lot of replacement accessories, but this time I guess I have to pay a lot of money to the dance drama club. Mike looked at the broken piece of wooden armor in his hand and commented.

"Let's pay for it, anyway, this time Montolo caught up with that noble kid, he definitely didn't care about this money. Mendie said indifferently, and at the same time he looked at the basement casually, suddenly remembered something, and asked: "It is said that those nobles will always make some secret passages in their homes, if the entrance of this basement is not always open, we can't find it at all, will there be secret passages here?"

"Secret passages, if that's all. Without looking up, Mike gestured to the back of the shelf he had been on.

"You've found it?" Mendie trotted in surprise in the direction Mike pointed, and sure enough, he saw a hole at the base of the wall and a passage that extended downward.

"It's not like I found it, it's already ajar, and I guess someone has found it before. ”

"What's inside? Have you seen it?" Doordie looked into the hole, but didn't dare to venture into the darkness.

"Inside is a pit, which should have been mined before, and there are still support columns. It is estimated that the ore vein was dried up later, and it was used to transform into a secret passage, so I looked at it at the entrance, and I don't know how many years no one has gone down, and any support structure is rotten, and it will be bad if it collapses. ”

"That's right. Mendie withdrew his curious gaze and continued to urge, "Quickly change it for me, there are still a few groups of people left." ”

"Alright, alright, that's good. Mike walked over to Mendie and took out a few replacement pieces of armor from the large bag on the floor and handed them to Mendie.

Mendie took it, compared it to the missing part of the headless horseman's armor on his body, and then nodded with satisfaction: "Just right." ”

"It's good to be suitable, I'll clean it up here, and then I can leave, it's really uncomfortable to stay in this kind of ghost place for a long time." ”

"Alright, alright, I know, I'll ask Montolodo to give us some money. ”

Mendie waved at Mike behind him as he walked down the hall above, but before he could reach the exit behind the statue, there was a sudden crackling noise behind him, mixed with Mike's screams.

"What's wrong? Mike, Mike, are you alright?"

Mendie quickly turned around and ran back to the basement, where he saw dust rising up like a layer of mist, and glanced at it, but he didn't see Mike.

"Ahem...... Cough...... I'm fine......" Just as Mendie was a little anxious, Mike's voice rang out.

"Where are you?" shouted Mendie.

"Ahem...... I'm ...... below. Mine ...... , just ...... No...... Beware of tripping...... Next, I'll ...... Falling into ...... Here we are......" Mike's voice was chopped, apparently choking on the dust inside.

"And how are you?" said the door, picking up the oil lamp on the shelf and peering in.

"It's nothing, just wipe the skin and make a big hole, nothing else, you just put the oil lamp at the entrance of the cave and light it for me." ”

"Then I'll put it here for you. ”

"Well, okay, that's it, you go, I'll be up on my own in a moment. ”

"Does it really matter? Do you want me to stay here to help you?"

"No, go ahead and get your hands dirty, lest Montolo later say that you didn't get things done. Mike's voice was tough.

"Oh, well, I'll go first. ”

Hearing the footsteps of the door in the distance, Mike stood up against the wall of the pit, raised his right elbow to look at the wound that had been rubbed open, saw a few drops of blood falling, and couldn't help hissing, took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wrapped it around the wound, and said, "I must make Montolo pay an extra share of the medical bill...... and then he relied on the light of the oil lamp above, and felt the wall to walk to the basement above.

And where he couldn't feel it, the smell of blood dripping on the ground was carried by a subtle stream of air from nowhere, into the depths of the cavern, in the invisible darkness.

Suddenly, two red rays lit up in the darkness, flashed by, and when they lit up again, they were already far away.

......

"The last group of people fled back, plus they had a total of three groups of people who fled back, and we have five groups of people here, don't wait, let's just go out, the wind here is uncomfortable. Boromo, who was standing by the women's wall and watching, said lightly.

His suggestion was agreed to by most of the students on the main tower platform, and the long wait had clearly subsided their enthusiasm, and it was uncomfortable to stand on a high place and blow the wind for a long time, and they all wanted to return to the camp early to get a good rest, and Boromo's suggestion was exactly what they wanted.

Once decided, the students sprang into action, descending the stairs in turn, to the hall and heading straight to the entrance of the tower.

Just as he came to the square at the entrance of the tower, Dior's consciousness immediately sounded an alarm......