Chapter 52: Bones (2 in 1)

The high-speed procession made its way through the corridors on the north side of the Palace of Versailles, which ran through the eight halls on the north side of the main hall, echoing with distant explosions and marching footsteps, and Auguste's words quickly made him follow.

With the exception of the Hercules Room, which connects the wing of the north wing, the War Hall at the rear, and the Harvest Hall, which has the entrance in the middle, the rest of the rooms have an interconnected corridor on the north side, and there is no separation between the corridor and the interior of the hall, like an old-fashioned train with the doors removed, a design that lacks privacy is only for Louis XVI's self-consolation.

The emperor wanted to create an atmosphere of openness and transparency as a way to demonstrate his rigor and fairness.

In reality, however, Louis XVI spent most of his time in the central inner chamber, which was the king's bed and place of official business, and these "transparent" places only served as reception rooms and aisles when citizens were allowed to visit.

The people who ran through the corridors had no intention of admiring the frescoes and carvings on the walls, and these precious knowledge had only the next step if they were alive, and the Venus Hall, the Diana Hall, the place where the king dined and entertained, was left behind.

The drunken uncle, or Bono Pennyworth, had a strange premonition in his heart, he didn't have a woman's sixth sense, but as an artist he had an artist's intuition, and the religious paintings in Hercules Hall and the royal chapel became paintings depicting dragons, and the booth in the Harvest Hall, which was supposed to be on display of antiques and curiosities, was filled with alchemy and sleeping corpses.

If this palace really became a dormitory for dragons, then how could the two chambers named "Venus" and "Moon God" be silent?

Louis XVI dined with a silver knife and fork in the Venus Room and billiards in the Diana Room, but what about the Dragon King?

They didn't have time to scrutinize these two chambers now, what they had to do was to erase the possibility of the dragon king returning to the world as soon as possible.

Uncle Bono stopped suddenly.

His instincts are accurate, but sometimes he doesn't want his pessimistic instincts to be validated.

The team stopped in unison.

Passing through the Diana Room is supposed to be the Hall of the God of Mars, this narrow room was originally the seat of the palace guards, but in the history of France, it gradually played another role---- the "dance hall", people would come here after dinner, let the music flow, dance, red walls with portraits of Louis XIV and the Empress, the ceiling and the four walls are placed with priceless paintings, everywhere showing the extravagance of the feudal aristocracy.

After passing through the Hall of the God of War, it should be the Mercury Hall, where there is a king's royal bed that has only been slept on a few times, and its only function is to be admired by passing nobles and visitors.

That's how it should be.

However, the corridor reached its end after passing through the "Moon God", and the originally narrow and long Hall of the God of War was cut off by a wall, leaving Chen Mo with very little space for them, and there were two hidden doors on the wall.

On both sides of the door, there are corpse sculptures that are exactly the same as the previous harvest hall, but it seems that the two guards have not received the edict of the previous king, and without the slightest movement, it seems that they are really just stone statues.

The team had not yet moved, Fingal tried to look through the crack in the door, but he couldn't see anything behind it, it was already dark, only the slightest ray of light came through the window, and this light had passed through the ice filter, and here it was thin and icy blue, and the effect of lighting was negligible.

But behind the crack in the door was even darker, so dark that it seemed to suck all the light from this side, like a black hole that could catch everything.

The door to the main hall was tightly closed, but now the door was hidden, and even the "doorman" did not show the slightest sign of refusal, and words with similar meanings such as trap or Hongmen banquet appeared in the minds of everyone in the team at the same time.

"Does this door exist in the same palace in Paris?" Chen Mo asked Bono, who was the first to stop, a question.

The uncle shook his head heavily, he pointed to the wall in front of him, and then pointed to the surrounding environment: "This is a temporary addition of walls and doors, this should be a very narrow hall, used as a guard room and a dance hall, this temporary addition completely destroys the beauty of the building structure, he must have some purpose in doing this, there is definitely a gift waiting for us behind this." ”

"So what else can we do but go in? If the dragon king really liked the dormitory on the central axis as much as Louis XVI, why did he have to take the passage through the court when we could determine the location? You shouldn't be able to jump less than three or four meters high. Noel Watt pushed his glasses with a silver weapon case full of firepower.

The previous corpse guards had proved that the windows were not very hard, and the procession entering the main hall from the side hall could have climbed to the square in front of the king's bedchambers, and had broken the windows and climbed straight into them.

Fingal's eyes lit up, and he was about to agree, but he found that Chen Mo's palm was slowly pressed down.

The audience was silent, and Noel Watt looked at the commander of their team, obviously Chen Mo's previous series of actions had established a certain authority.

"No, we're afraid we can't get out."

"I need a reason, now that the matter is related to the Dragon King, we all know the horror of recovering the complete Dragon King! I need a reason. Noel Watt unconsciously repeated it twice.

Chen Mo walked lightly to the wall, rubbing his fingers lightly on it, and then he took out a silver blade from his arms, which was one of the knives he had used to tamper with the Soul Draining Holy Grail earlier.

He touched the wall lightly with the knife, and the blade scraped slowly against it until there was some white powder on the knife, and his thumb and forefinger gently pinched some of the powder, and then slowly released it, allowing the tiny particles to flow between his fingers.

"Monsieur Bono, I would like to ask you a question, what do you think is the biggest difference between this and that palace in Paris?"

The uncle was stunned, looked at the white powder that gradually fell to the ground, and asked, "You mean the materials of the building?" ”

"That's right." When the powder was gone, he shook his hand: "On the ice field in the far north, how did this palace similar to the Palace of Versailles be built?" Not to mention the manpower and technology of construction, those things may be done by the Dragon King alone, but what about the materials? Where does such a large amount of material come from, where does such a large amount of material come from? ”

"What is the color of the Versailles Palace in Paris?" Chen Mo asked again.

"Warm tones." Bono replied firmly, that he did know the palace very well, "mainly red, yellow, and warmer ivory." ”

"And what about here?"

The uncle lowered his head and recalled, but did not answer for a while.

"Because it's so dark, we tend not to be too impressed by the color palette in the dark, that's the first point." Chen Mo said lightly: "The second point is that this is under the ice in the extreme north, and the cold will affect our judgment of hue. ”

"Most of the walls here are pale in color, and the colors of the walls that should have been made of mahogany have changed."

"But you're too familiar with the pattern here, so in the darkness you subconsciously bring in the original color."

Noel Watt asked, "What about the conclusion?" He understood that the previous words were to increase the accuracy of Chen Mo's judgment, in fact, without these foreshadowing, the next conclusion would indeed be difficult to believe, but what they are scarce now is time, and he is eager to know the conclusion as a reason.

"Remember that chalice?"

"Its material is a keel, and the keel that is completely inactive and spiritually deactivated is an extremely precious material in alchemy."

"This palace is also made of dragon bones, the gate we first saw, the walls of the palace, the carved pillars, almost everything is made of pale bones, it is the remains of a dead dragon, the residual power of the dragon king after his death will be condensed into a dragon bone cross, but there is no such thing as power in the bones of this dragon, so they stayed, and became the bones of the simple dragon corpse, and those powers may have been taken away long ago."

Chen Mo caressed the patterns that could be seen everywhere on the pale walls of the palace, and said slowly: "But someone, or a dragon, has re-injected his spirit. ”

Fingal, the only person present who knew about alchemy out of Eva, narrowed his pupils: "You mean the sacrifice?" ”

"Doesn't the Dragon King have the best living spirit materials?"

"The following is all my speculation, maybe right, maybe wrong, the conclusion needs to be confirmed by ourselves."

Chen Mo took a deep breath and made a final conclusion: "This was not a palace relic ten days ago, but a dragon king's skeleton as big as a palace. ”

"The discoverer saw the bones of the iceberg, not the ruins."

"He is the first victim of the dragon king's words, and the extremely weak dragon king used him to obtain the first sacrifices, obtain the nutrients for recovery and the living spirit to build the dormitory."

"The half-bloods were infused into the bones and received the king's decree, and they faithfully built the greatest palace they ever had."

Almost everyone in the team felt a cool air rush from behind.

"We know that Laurent is a French dragon-blood family, and almost all of the hybrids involved in the development of this relic are from France."

"Look at Gaullism, we know very well the love of France for their homeland, their people, their culture, the greatest palace in their hearts speaks for itself, isn't it?"

"And the Dragon King also relied on the spirit provided by the living spirit to leave an alchemy circuit in the entire palace, a circuit similar to that of the Holy Grail and expanded."

Chen Mo pointed to the outside of a window:

"We're inside the palace now, and these alchemy circuits can't work on ourselves, but once we get to the square below."

Chen Mo paused.

"Those living spirits who were once half-bloods will tear our spirits into delicious food, and the dragon king's resurrection will come faster."

Patsy Gattuso raised his accustomed bowed head, stared at Chen Mo with those beautiful heterochromatic pupils, and asked, "I had the means to block that Holy Grail from sucking on the spirit. ”

No one questioned Chen Mo's conjecture, judging from the alchemy circuit, the material of the palace, and even the layout that was completely similar to the Palace of Versailles, this was an extremely reasonable explanation. And Patsy's question, though offensive, was what those in the room wanted to ask.

Chen Mo didn't mind at all, and said with a smile: "Forgot? This is still a gift from you, the alchemy of the next generation of living spirits is not something that everyone has, and I only have this one, it blocks the Holy Grail, but it can only provide shelter for the holder alone. ”

"If I go to the Dragon King's dormitory alone, I'm afraid it's no different from looking for death, my bloodline rating is C, and a slightly stronger Deadpool can kill me."

Parcy nodded calmly, not annoyed by the small thorn in Chen Mo's words.

Everyone was silent.

Fingal's face turned cold, his expression was as hard as marble, and this feeling of being calculated was very bad, and it brought back some bad memories for him: "That dragon king has calculated everything, and we are still moving forward according to his plan. ”

"If I destroy most of the palace directly, will the situation be better?" Bono asked Chen Mo, his face solemn.

Noel Watt asked himself in a low voice, "Mass destruction of the spirit of speech?" ”

But Chen Mo, who had read the information of everyone present, obviously knew the effect of Uncle Bono's words.

"The material here is completely different from the palace in Paris, and the existence of living spirits and alchemy patterns will bring a lot of correction to the strength of the building, how much correction time do you need?"

Bono: "If I have the detailed data to correct, it will take me about half an hour. ”

"It also took me half an hour to get the corrected data, and since the loop is not only in the places where we are currently passing, the data cannot be very accurate." Inaccurate data will only consume a lot of time.

Sacrifice an hour or more to try to overturn the chessboard set up by the Dragon King, or pick up the chess pieces and go down step by step?

Choosing this kind of thing is not like Alpha Dog's Go, where there is the best and most winning option every time.

But the same fall has no regrets.

Chen Mo took out a few golden-patterned coins, which belonged exclusively to the Ark, and the face value of the golden-patterned was one million dollars.

Everyone got one.

Apparently Fengou had learned a few things after looking at the data he had collected on board, such as the city called "The Ark", and how much these ordinary-looking coins were worth.

"Hey, Senior Brother, is this our money to buy your life? Although my life is not more expensive than paper, but there is also Gattuso's young master, the executive department and Laurent's master, isn't it too shabby to give only such a little. ”

Chen Mo rolled his eyes at Fingal angrily and said, "I can't decide directly this time, so I will adopt the democratic voting system." ”

"Literally," he pointed to the side where the sun carved "ARK," "representing the entry of the door and the walk down." ”

"Flower Noodles," he said, pointing to the other side of Yin carved with dragon patterns, "We'll sit here for an hour, beware of the corpses coming up from behind, and then overturning this palace." ”

He crouched down and pressed the coin against a layer of unstained keel ground.

The others came over one by one, squatted down in the same way, and moved the coins under Chen Mo's hands.

Waiting for everyone to make a choice, Chen Mo slowly moved his hand.

Eleven "ARK".

Simply flipping the board would have turned out to be very different, but no one here likes to sit still and wait for fate to fall from the sky.

They are monsters in this world, and monsters don't like to sit still.

Then let's move on, even if it's the dragon king's trap, there is a mountain in front, we will climb the mountain, in front of the sea, we will cross the sea, in front of the dragon king's dormitory, we will find out the dragon king inside, and cut him in two.