The Kassel estate at sunset is beautiful, with the warm golden red sun casting a glazed texture on the gray walls, and the shadows of the trees in the garden reflected on the wood-framed window panes, swaying in the wind.

The manor was quiet, the gates were unguarded, and only the heavy iron gates and towering balustrades guarded the former glory of the secret party.

Zheng Shu and Vice Principal walked to the main gate and looked at this gorgeous manor.

"I think this is supposed to be a museum and a monument now?" The vice-principal scratched the back of his head, recalling the materials he had read.

"That's right, let's go!" Zheng Shu nodded, and took the lead in pushing open the door and walking in.

With the rusty creak of the heavy iron door, the two men walked into the manor, which looked empty.

"Is this kind of place empty? The secret party should at least send someone to guard it, right? Zheng Shu looked at the scene in the manor with some curiosity, even if the secret party just regarded this place as a cemetery, then at least a tomb guard should be arranged.

"Of course people are, but they're not here." The vice principal tidied up his clothes, which was also a sacred place for the secret party, and under the compulsion of the elders, he finally took off his stinky denim suit and put on a suit that looked quite fit.

"Servants and gardeners come to the Kassel estate every day to clean and clean up, but they were already informed before we came, so no one will bother us today, and as for the guards, you've seen them before."

Hearing the vice principal's words, Zheng Shu turned his head with some confusion, and after thinking about it for a while, he finally thought of the biggest possibility: "You mean the toll booth on the road?" ”

Zheng Shu was referring to a toll booth-like place they had encountered at the end of the road, where their car had also been parked, but it was at least ten kilometers away from where they were now.

"It's called the guardhouse, and he doesn't charge us." The vice principal walked towards the back of the manor with Zheng Shu in a familiar way, "In order to protect the relics of the battle at that time, the secret party bought all the surrounding land, otherwise why do you think there is no road extending in, because this land is legally private land." ”

"It's really rich." Zheng Shu, the corners of his mouth twitched, and followed the vice principal to a sea of flowers.

It is a huge garden with a large number of different flowers cultivated in the garden. By skillfully planting a variety of flowers with different flowering periods and origins, we can ensure that the flowers in the whole garden are not grateful, and every second is intoxicated by the charming fragrance of flowers.

And just surrounded by this sea of flowers, a tombstone lies quietly among the wreaths.

- Here is buried the hero of the Secret Party, Hilbert Jean Angers, who faced the Dragon King without fear and shed his last drop of blood for the Secret Party.

Looking at the inscription written in German on the tombstone, the vice principal hesitated, turned his head to look at Zheng Shu next to him, and his voice trembled a little: "Are we really going to come over to dig the grave?" ”

At the end, the vice-principal felt entangled again, after all, the bones of the heroes who died in the summer mourning event of that year were buried in the Kassel manor, and they were not only the heroes of the secret party, but also the heroes of mankind.

Under the propaganda of the secret party for many years, the event of Xia Zhi's mourning has become a landmark event of the old and new eras, and its status is probably similar to the War of Resistance against Japan.

Even if the vice-principal wants to dig such a grave, he will feel entangled and frightened because of the moral condemnation in his heart.

The reason why Zheng Shu chose the vice principal to act with him this time was also because except for the vice principal, no one else in the elder group would agree with his crazy idea.

Even the most deviant half-breed would feel that this is a serious insult.

"Of course, it's already come to this point, can you still expect me to stop?" Zheng Shu shrugged his shoulders and walked to the tombstone, "Also, fortunately, you came with me, I can't read German, and I originally planned to dig all the graves......"

There are many more tombstones like this around, and those who died in the summer mourning and whose bodies can be found are buried under this garden, enjoying eternal rest.

Listening to Zheng Shu's rebellious words, the vice principal twitched the corners of his mouth, and finally gritted his teeth and decided to do it.

"I'm really crazy, the old men of that group of elders will definitely annoy me to death, let's go!" The vice-principal turned around and was about to leave.

"Where?"

"Of course, you have to go to the utility room to find out if there are any tools such as shovels, the burial method here is very traditional, the coffin is buried at least one meter below the ground, you don't want to dig with your bare hands, right?"

Faced with the vice principal's questioning, Zheng Shu answered his question with his own actions.

Reaching out and knocking on the tombstone, Zheng Shu determined all the structures of the catacombs with the help of the perception transmitted back by vibration, and also determined that there were no corpses in this tomb at all.

"There's really no new way to hide." Zheng Shu complained casually.

Reaching out and grabbing the tombstone, Zheng Shu easily pulled up the tombstone weighing hundreds of kilograms under the stunned gaze of the vice principal, which looked as easy as pulling a branch from the sand.

Throwing the huge tombstone aside, Zheng Shu gently raised his feet and stomped on the edge of the entire tomb, the heavy soil in the center of the tomb seemed to have been dug by an invisible excavator, and a rectangular clod of soil more than two meters long, more than one meter wide, and more than one meter thick rose up out of thin air.

Zheng Shu grabbed the edge of the clod and lifted it away, and the originally loose clod looked like it had been glued together in his hands.

And what appeared in front of the two of them was a hard metal plate that emitted a warm glow in the glow of the setting sun.

"Alright, let's go down and have a look." Zheng Shu stood up and patted the soil on his hands.

The vice principal next to him looked like his jaw had been dislocated, his whole mouth was huge, and he was stunned to look at the clod of dirt that was lifted by Zheng Shu in the distance.

As an alchemist, the vice principal was so shocked by Zheng Shu's unscientific and occult excavation method that his head was about to crash, and it was only after Zheng Shu called him a few times in a row that he finally came back to his senses and looked at the metal plate under the ground in a daze.

Fortunately, his professionalism as an alchemist played a role, and after reacting to it, he immediately jumped into the pit and examined it carefully.

The so-called metal plate is actually a square cellar door, and the surrounding door frames are firmly embedded in the reinforced concrete walls next to it, and it is unknown who built it.

"I kind of believe what you say now." The corners of the vice principal's eyes twitched a few times, and he sighed, "The alchemy protection on this is very familiar, and it is very likely that I set it up myself, but I have no relevant memory." ”

"So you didn't believe me before?" Zheng Shu's eyes turned golden, and he carefully glanced at the metal cellar door twice, "The substrate of the alchemy circle should be buried in the mezzanine of the cellar door, if it is forcibly opened, it is very likely to damage the contents inside." ”

"No, it won't." The Vice Principal narrowed his eyes and stretched out his hand to keep sliding over the metal door, "What you see is a layer of traps, if someone tries to destroy the contents with this method, they will find that this alchemy circle is actually exploding outward. ”

Glancing at the vice principal, who had already taken out all kinds of bits and pieces of strange materials from his pocket, Zheng Shu squinted his eyes again and took a closer look, and finally found the trap that the vice principal said.

I have to admit that although I have been able to create the end of alchemy: the Nibelungen, in many ways I still can't compare to the vice-principal's attainments in alchemy.

As the Vice Principal fiddled, a trace of invisible spiritual fluctuations flashed on the cellar door, and then this fluctuation shattered under the control of the Vice Principal. Reaching out to brush the dust off the cellar door, and fumbling with the metal plate for a while, the vice-principal found the handle of the door:

"Let's go, let's see what's hidden down here." The vice-principal took a deep breath and pulled the cellar door vigorously and imposingly, but there was no movement.

“……”

The situation looked a little awkward, and the vice-principal pulled the iron door again, this time finally causing the door to shake a little, but it soon stopped due to lack of strength, and finally the iron door only revealed a gap.

Zheng Shu grinned, stepped forward to take the doorknob from the vice principal's hand, and pulled the cellar door open with a forceful pull.

The moment the door of the cellar was opened, a gust of wind blew past the two of them and poured into the cellar, and then a dull smell of rot seeped out of the cellar, making people can't help but cover their noses.

The vice-principal took out the windproof match he had brought with him and struck one and threw it in, and the match fell into the cellar and continued to burn slowly until the whole match was completely burned out.

"It looks like the oxygen level in there shouldn't be a problem." The vice principal turned his head to look at Zheng Shu, "But you can see that no one has been in for a long time, are you sure that Ange put his 'black box' in it?" ”

"Don't worry, with Ange's words, he could have put things in before the smell inside was gone, and run out." Zheng Shu turned on the flashlight and took the initiative to go to the cellar.

The air in the cellar was cold and viscous, and in the light of the flashlight, the fine dust flew through the pillars of light like small insects.

Zheng Shu frowned and endured the smell of decay in it as he walked to the bottom of the stairs at the door, the stairs were narrow enough to accommodate only one person, and the ground below was hidden in darkness, as if the staircase made of wood had no end.

However, for Zheng Shu, this level of darkness could not block his vision at all, he walked on the stairs with ease, and the vice principal could only follow him and move forward cautiously step by step.

Unexpectedly, the seemingly endless staircase on the top only walked a few steps to the bottom, Zheng Shu took a flashlight to shine around the surrounding walls, looking a little curious: "I never knew that the secret party used to follow the Germans. ”

"In the past, Germany was a reserve for secret talents, after all, it is easy to produce good talents in this land full of war and chaos, and the complex political situation can also make it easier for half-breeds to hide." The vice-principal looked at the huge black eagle and anti-swastika illuminated by the light, "After all, the so-called Kassel itself is a model of the German dragon slaying family. ”

"As far as I know, the Council of Elders of the Secret Party was monopolized by the Germans, and the three people who served as elders were all famous dragon slayers in Germany, but later because of the dragon invasion that Xia Zhi mourned, all the glory disappeared cleanly.

In addition, the crazy Third Reich later carried out cruel experiments after finding traces of half-breeds in order to be able to seek a chance of victory, and it is said that the cruelty of the experiment shocked everyone who saw the half-blood, so that the secret party that was originally reluctant to involve politics began to stand in front of the stage, and with the process of World War II, the political center of the secret party also continued to move south, and finally came to the United States. ”

The vice-chancellor talked about the relevant history, and there was no scruffy cowboy appearance in the past, and as a generation of Flammel, his academic achievements still cannot be questioned.

The underground space was still not very large, and the two of them groped a little and found an iron door underground.

This time, there was no alchemy array protection on the iron door, and Zheng Shu casually broke the iron bolt with the thickness of his arm.

"You...... Is it really still human? ”

The vice principal fell silent as he looked at the metal latch broken by Zheng Shu, the thing was as thick as his arm, even if it was corroded by rust, part of the surface could not be destroyed casually, even if it was used with a large cutting machine, it would take a long time to cut, and the vice principal even doubted whether he could move it.

"Don't be stupid, I'm not human." Zheng Shu didn't care about the vice principal's question, and casually opened the three-finger-thick protective iron door.

Hearing that something was not quite right when the iron door sliding, the vice-principal quietly stepped forward and moved for a moment, falling silent again...... This thing is actually solid.

After opening the door, Zheng Shu and the vice principal were surprised to find that the space behind the door was unexpectedly spacious.

They thought that the back of the door would look like a vault at most, but they didn't expect it to look like an empty hall.

The air smelled of dust and mist, but it was mild compared to the smell of decay in the previous space, and it could even be called clean.

There are also some long tables and chairs in the hall, which look like a cafeteria.

There were several more doors on either side of the hall, and Zheng Shu walked along the edge of the hall, holding the dusty doorknob, and pushing the door open.

The glow of the flashlight shone in, revealing several bunk beds inside, which looked like a dorm-like place.

Zheng Shu and the vice principal glanced at each other, and suddenly realized that things here seemed to be more complicated than they had imagined.

"What do you think could be the case? Someone would build a secret space underneath this manor? Zheng Shu continued to walk to the next door.

"The sign we saw just now actually tells us the answer." The Vice-Chancellor turned his flashlight to the ceiling, where there was the same sign, "The Kassel Manor was built a long time ago, and the Secret Party did not build an underground space when it was built. So the answer is already very obvious, the only person who can build such a large underground space in a short period of time and use it is the Third Reich, which ruled Germany at that time. ”

Zheng Shu opened another room, and a puff of dust came to his face, and as the light of the flashlight shined inside, Zheng Shu and the vice principal could see the reflection of many ancient glass bottles and experimental instruments.

Obviously, this is a laboratory.

As soon as Zheng Shu stepped inside, he was drawn to a layer of black dust covering the inside of the house, which looked like coal crumbs.

On the experimental table, there is also a piece of charcoal in the shape of a dying rabbit, which looks like the work of a famous artist, and the rabbit's hair and body shape are very delicate.

"Tut-tut, did the group of researchers in the Third Reich be so leisurely, and they could still have the leisure time to practice this level of engraving technology." The moment the vice principal saw this charcoal rabbit, he judged its value by virtue of his professional habits, "Although its value has decreased a lot because of the charcoal carving, it is precisely because of the charcoal carving that it has saved a lot of points in terms of skills, and it can be sold as a good work of art." ”

"It's not a work of art, it's a corpse to be exact." Zheng Shu took a closer look at the charcoal rabbit on the experimental table and came to a conclusion.

"The water in the body was completely drained in an instant, and then it was baptized with a very large amount of fire element, but because there was no air around, it could not be burned, and finally it could only turn into this form similar to charcoal." Zheng Shu turned his head to look at the vice principal next to him, "Don't you think this step is very familiar?" ”

"Rhine!" The vice principal thought for a moment and gasped suddenly, "The Rhine will extract the moisture of all the substances in the field before releasing it, which is the trace left after the explosion of the release of the Rhine. ”

Zheng Shu nodded, but agreed with the reason for the appearance of this basement.

At the end of the Third Reich, due to the reversal of the offensive at that time, the top of the empire was so anxious that they did everything to turn the situation around, and there were even attempts to use black magic to curse the leaders of the Entente countries in history.

By the way, the Entente countries at that time also had corresponding witch groups, which were used to fight against the wizards of the Third Reich. Note 1

In order to reverse the decline, even such obviously nonsense things were used, and the top brass of the Third Reich at that time could be called a dog jumping over the wall, not to mention the exact existence of a force like the Rhine explosion, of course, they would not let it go.

However, Zheng Shu can also imagine how desperate those scientists will be when they come here, facing the huge pressure from above and the completely unscientific mysterious phenomenon in front of them.

Zheng Shu glanced roughly inside the laboratory, confirmed that all the paper materials had been destroyed or taken away, and left the room, looking at the hall and frowning.

"What's wrong?" The Vice Chancellor walked out of the room, still holding the charcoal rabbit in his hand.

"It looks like we've had a good job, but we haven't been able to find what we're looking for – where the hell did that old fellow in Ange put his 'black box'?"

Next, Zheng Shu and the vice principal quickly searched the remaining rooms, but found that the remaining rooms were all storage rooms, and the smell of the contents after so many years even forced Zheng Shu and the vice principal to retreat.

After searching until the evening, Zheng Shu and the vice principal finally found something strange.

"It's clear that someone has rummaged through the fires here, and a normal fire shouldn't be like this."

Zheng Shu and the vice principal returned to the laboratory again, crouching in front of a brazier to examine it carefully. At the time of the evacuation, the researchers must have used this brazier to burn most of the materials, but the ashes in the brazier had obviously been rummaged through, and even exposed a large part of the basin floor.

At this moment, the phone on the vice principal's body suddenly rang. He stepped aside to answer and his face suddenly became very serious, and Zheng Shu could also hear his conversation with the other side through his extraordinary hearing.

"Found it, the school staff searched through the carpet and found a hidden compartment in the cabinet in the principal's office, which contained a memory card stored in Angers." After hanging up the phone, the vice principal immediately returned to Zheng Shu's side, with a certain peculiar emotion on his face.

"Okay! Let's go back and have a look. Zheng Shu didn't continue to dwell on this, and quickly left the basement with the vice principal.

However, when he filled back the clods of soil that had been lifted at the beginning, Zheng Shu suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"What's wrong?" Finding that Zheng Shu stopped what he was doing, the vice principal was a little curious.

"The number of plant roots in this clod is a little too small." Zheng Shu glanced at the vice principal who was a little unresponsive, and could only sigh and explain to him, "If the number of roots is small, it means that the soil here is backfilled." ”

"But if you look at the plants, the height of the plants here is not much different from the height of the plants on other graves." The vice-principal frowned and glanced at the grave next to him, which also had a low lawn, and it seemed that the gardener they were looking for was not lazy and kept all the tombstones very neatly.

"Yes, it means that the person who backfilled it in had the ability to make the plant grow quickly." This sentence was just passed through Zheng Shu's heart, and he didn't say it.

He originally thought that Ange had discovered this basement, but now it seems that the person who discovered the basement was not Ange, but the other party should also be able to use the words of the Wind King.

No! Wrong!

Zheng Shu, recalling all the scenes he had just seen in the basement, denied his thoughts.

"The dust on the ground left no traces, which shows that the other party's manipulation of time is far beyond Angers, plus the accelerated growth of plants."

Zheng Shu thought quickly in his heart, and unconsciously licked the corners of his mouth: "With Ange's ability to manipulate words and spirits, there is only one existence in this world that can surpass him: the Sky and Wind King - Li Wuyue. ”

Note 1: This is true, and both parties invite wizards to enchant their weapons.

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