"It's strange that there's no fire in there, and there's no movement in sight. Clemi climbed down from the tree, crouched down on the road, and watched for a moment, repeating what he had done not long ago. "There really is no sign of leaving the ground, and the bandits should still be there. ”

"Well, Clemi and I will go in and check on the situation, and the three of you will hide here for now, and we'll make a decision when we get back. Gehr thought about it, it was better to investigate first, after all, without accurate information, a hasty decision was not a good choice.

It was already evening, and the setting sun was far away in the west, and the ruins of the castle were still an eerie blood-red. The crowd was located in the woodland at the edge of the three-way intersection.

"Be careful. Lucarin had no objection to Gehr's decision, and in fact Gehr's decision was the best choice for him now unless he abandoned the carriage and left a few people in the forest as wild men who did not know how long it would take to cross the forest on foot.

"It's okay, you guys hide better, we'll be back in a while. ”

When the Blood Moon replaced the Sun as the sole ruler of the sky, Gehr and Clemi immediately took advantage of the cover of night. Quietly departed, and it took a few minutes to reach the entrance of the castle.

At the entrance to Blossomham Castle lies a charred black carbide, which has been turned into a fragile and fragile object that seems to disappear at the slightest touch of external force.

It's a city embraced by withering and death, with no inhabitants, no life, just devastated walls.

As far as the eye can see, the ground of the castle is mostly flat, and there are ashes from the fire everywhere, and after so many years, the original dark color is firmly engraved on this land and will never be erased. Most of the castle's buildings were blackened garbage dumps, with only a few buildings left for rest and a half of the building, which was the target of Geer's scouting.

"Warning, warning, there is an unknown energy position in this area, one of the effects, to accelerate the rate of physical loss of the living body, the effect is estimated to be a 1% reduction in physical strength in three hours, whether there is any other effect is unknown for the time being......"

As soon as he stepped onto the land where the castle belonged, the cold mechanical sound immediately sounded in Gehr's head.

"Sure enough, there was a problem, no wonder Date said it was weird. If he had been ill at the time, there was a real possibility that he would have hallucinated under the influence of this strange position. Geer's eyes narrowed slightly, but there was no pause at his feet. Although this negative effect is weird, for Gehr, this kind of region with special effects has been seen before, both naturally and artificially, and now this negative state will not make him retreat.

Of course, this discovery Gell didn't plan to tell Clemi next to him.

The two of them were very careful in their steps. In such an open place, since there are no major obstacles, if you accidentally make a slightly louder footsteps, it will spread far away, and the bandits inside may be noticed.

The clouds in the sky unconsciously thickened and hung low in the air, as if they could be reached with a jump, covering most of Hongyue's face, although it made the actions of the two more hidden, but there was also a strange depression that pressed on the hearts of the two.

From the front of the castle to the sides, in the shadow of the various wreckage, Gehr and Clemi proceeded cautiously.

"There are five buildings that can still be inhabited......" crouching behind a broken wall only the height of an adult's belly, Clemi whispered to Gehr which buildings might be the location of the bandits.

"The two of us split up, one on one side, to the middle one to meet, if we find out the information in advance, then just exit the city. Gehr stretched out half of his body and looked around, and saw that the pointed buildings were widely distributed, and if the two of them were acting together, it would be too slow to look at them, so he simply went his separate ways.

"Very good, sir. ”

Gehr and Clemi dispersed and reached straight to the side of their choice.

The first building was a small room with only half of the walls left, half of the walls had been lost, and the night breeze could pour into the room at will and pass through the hole that was supposed to be the door, but it could barely use the remaining walls to provide shelter for two or three people, and if there was a better location, no one would want to stay here, and Gehr really didn't find any signs of anyone staying here.

The second building was larger than the previous one, and although the ceiling had collapsed by nearly half, it was still a good temporary place to stay, but when Geer cautiously touched the side, he found that there was no one either.

Now only the building in the middle remains.

This building is supposed to be a remnant of the old castle center tower, probably half of the original one-story building, which is the best resting place in this castle, and it is also the place where the Brian brothers lived when they stayed here, and it is now the most likely place for the bandits.

Probably the worst part of the fire, the ground around the central building was a mixture of white ash mixed with black, like an unblended paint, which seemed to be distorted into a picture of countless intricate lines under the faint moonlight.

Walking on such ground, Gehr walked in the direction of the central building, breathing as lightly as possible, listening carefully to the movements in the target building.

The place seemed to be the only one left, silent, and there was a faint trace of dead silence and depression in the air.

Soon, Gehr cautiously touched the door of the building.

Said to be the door, it was just an irregular hole, and I don't know who found a wooden board to half-cover it, looking at the decay and blackening of the wooden board, at least it was a few years ago.

Suddenly, the wind that had penetrated into the building from nowhere had come from rushed out of the hole, and with the oncoming wind, a faint smell of blood also penetrated Gehr's nostrils.

"That's not right. ”

Geer's heart sank slightly, and he didn't go directly into the building to check, but carefully circled around the building, but found no trace of Clemi.

After thinking about it for a while, Gell decided to go in and see what was going on.

Leaning sideways, Gell carefully did not touch the door panel that stood in the way, and slipped through the gap in the side without making any sound.

Entering the building, there was a passage several meters long, somewhat dark, unlit, but in the room on the left at the end of the passage there was a soft firelight, illuminating the small section of the passage in front of the room, and Gehr saw some scattered red blood stains on the floor in that place, which were an extension of the lit room, and turned into it until it was out of sight.

The closer you get to the room, the stronger the smell of blood.

As we get closer and closer, the sound of dripping water in the shadows becomes clearer and clearer, which makes people's hearts can't help but hair.

Moving slowly and cautiously, after avoiding all obstacles, Gehr approached the doorway of the room, only one step away from stepping into the bright lighting of the room.

At this point, Gehr then obliquely saw a hand on the floor of the room, and the back of the arm was not visible due to the angle. The hand almost reached out of the doorway of the room, which was why Gehr hadn't been able to see it at the entrance before.

Gehr took a careful step, and finally got a clear picture of the owner of the hand—it was a male corpse that had fallen to the ground, dressed in coarse linen, and a one-handed knife fell to the side of the body, and thin blood streamed out from under him, which was the source of the blood stains at the door.

After listening to the movement in the room for a while, and seeing that there was no sound, Gell poked his head out of the door to look into the room.

The room was complete and empty, large enough to be the size of the hall of the Tower of Winterfall, with a few torches still burning in the walls, which was where the light source in the room came from, illuminating the mottled walls, and there were a few simple bonfire marks in between, apparently left by travelers who had stayed here.

The environment was clearly the best compared to the buildings Gehr had inspected, but at this point, the corpses and blood had turned the room into a slaughterhouse, with no signs of any living people.

There were about twenty corpses scattered across the room, and the blood flowing from each corpse flowed along the various intricate lines on the floor of the room, and there was a strange beauty in addition to horror.

The fatal wound on the corpse in the doorway was in the back of the neck, and a sharp cut pierced it, and Gehr gently picked it up, causing him to roll over.

This is a burly man, a little taller than Gehr, and he is dressed like the Black Flag bandits he met before. The corpse's face was pale, and the wounds before and after the piercing could be seen from his Adam's apple, and his face looked strange, as if it were a mixture of frenzy and horror, and finally formed an abstract painting on his already stiff facial muscles.

Gell glanced around, and soon found the murderer, a bandit dressed in the same way as the corpse at the door, his three-cone pointed sword in his hand matching the wound in the throat of the corpse at the doorway, and the murderer's head was split in half by a crack the width of a thumb, and the weapon that caused the wound, a rusty hatchet, was holding the hand of another corpse not far from him.

After a cursory examination, Gell found that the men had been killed by someone else in the hall, even though the killer was now nothing more than a corpse.

Could it be an internal fire?

But it's too abnormal to happen to be all dead, right?

Although everything in this room that could be called a hall indicates that it was a fire within the bandits, Gehr still found it very strange.

"Let's get out of here. ”

Gell turned and walked briskly outside. Things were going on to be too unexpected, and he had to discuss and analyze the situation with the others before making his next move.

But when Gehr pushed the plank away and walked out of the hole, his face immediately became extremely gloomy.

In front of him was a fog that could not be seen at a glance.