Deerlan thanked him and waved goodbye to the two guards, turning his head in the direction he had come. After descending the open hallway, he walked all the way down to the floor where Miss Pith was, but before he could go down the stairs, he saw that the corridor was guarded by guards.

After quietly observing the state of the guards in the dark for a while, Diarrando found that the guards here were obviously much more serious than the ones above. Even if there is no one around, the standing posture is very standard, and there is no slack at all. It seems that the city lord is really more precious and this coquette, and the selected guards are also relatively sophisticated.

Dearlando didn't plan to startle the snake for the time being, so he quietly continued to walk down from the darkness. In fact, the bottom two floors of the castle are connected, but now the connecting walkways are closed, and you have to go to the ground floor to get to the left wing.

The servant on duty on the lower floor was already asleep in his small room at this time, and Dearlando opened the door and slipped out quietly.

The night was beautiful, the moon was already setting in the west, and the sea breeze was gently blowing in the small square at the foot of the castle. The gentian flowers in the flower beds in the square emitted a refreshing fragrance, but when you think about it, this kind of flowers and plants are not at all in the style of Count Grude.

The flower beds looked old with moss and signs of corrosion, and it could be ruled out that they had been newly made to please Miss Pis. Dearlando suspects that this flower bed is the work of the first wife of the Earl of Grude, so who is taking care of these flowers and plants now?

Diarrando pondered as he walked towards the left flank of the castle. The gates were closed, but there was a small gate behind a section of the wall, which was hidden, and it was supposed to be the passage through which the servants could enter and exit, and Diarlando walked over it, and found that when he entered it was a courtyard full of things.

Narrow passages led to several rooms, one of which had three thick chimneys erected, and a huge stone bread oven next to it, apparently the kitchen. Next to the kitchen is a well, which has a sink on three sides for easy access for those who draw water. And at this moment, there is actually an unexpected person from Dearlandor who is here to draw water.

"It's you!" the man who was bending over to fetch water, when he heard the sound of Dearlando's deliberately made footsteps, turned his head to look at it, and then immediately shouted out loudly. He threw the bucket away, grabbed an iron hook from the side, and stabbed it at Dearlando.

"Master Home?" Diarlando originally thought that the one who was fetching water here was the one the guards said about watching the horses. So I deliberately made a voice to talk to me and ask for some news or something. Unexpectedly, the son of the city lord did not sleep at this time, and actually ran to the place where the servants worked to fetch water.

The young city lord didn't know that Weishenme had such a great hatred for Dillando, and the speed of this hook was fast and ruthless, but it was quite his father's demeanor. But what kind of person is Diarlando, such an attack can't even touch the corners of his clothes.

But he couldn't give the young master too much face, so Diarlando had to hide around the well, jumping up and down and going in circles with Holm.

Strange to say, Holm didn't seem to want to make a big deal out of it, except for the shouting at the beginning, and then he was silently chasing down Diarlandor. Although he didn't even get close to Diarrando's side after fighting for a long time, he didn't open his mouth to call for help.

Seeing that something was wrong, Diarlandor began to scream instead. "Spare my life~~Master Holm~~" Sure enough, after shouting twice, Young Master Holm's brows furrowed, cursed in a low voice, and suddenly stopped the pursuit.

"What are you shouting! I know your martial arts skills are better than mine! If you were to fight back, I would have already been lying on the ground, pretending to be something. Although he has just turned 20 and has only entered the stage of youth, Holm Gruder has no bad eyesight. Although he was a little grumpy, he could clearly see that Dearrando was teasing him.

Diarlando hugged his clothes and pretended to be cautious and said, "Master Home, how dare I fight back." And, what are you doing here without sleeping so late?"

"I ...... What can you do that you can handle?" Holm was about to reply, but as soon as he thought it was wrong, he immediately glared at Dearlando and began to ask rhetorically. "You suspicious person, why are you running here so late without sleeping? If you don't recruit you from the truth, I will immediately have someone arrest you. ”

"I said, I said, didn't I just come back from an errand for Lord Kenda, who hated me and wanted me to wash it up and go back. And I haven't eaten for a long time, and I want to come and find something to eat......" Diarlandor put his dirty face in a bright place to verify his claim.

"Hmph......" Holm looked at Diarlandor's sloppy appearance by the lantern hanging in the utility shed next to him, but did not continue to ask anything, but pointed to the kitchen behind him and said, "There is a cabinet on the left side of the door, and there is black bread and sausages in it." The cheese hangs on the right inside the basket. ”

"Young Master Home, you are such a merciful and good man!" said Dearlando, pretending to be happy, and passed by Home, and ran into the kitchen.

"Get out of here when you're done, don't say you've seen me. Holm dropped the sentence and hurried out the small door.

Deirrando entered the kitchen without being polite, opened the door of the cupboard, swept away a whole piece of black bread and a few sausages, and then took two more pieces of cheese, cut them briefly, sandwiched them together, and ate them. As you ate, you stuck to the outside wall and listened to Home's footsteps.

He noticed that Holm had not gone far, but had come to a stop on the left wing of the castle, waiting for something. It seems that the young city lord still has something to do, and plans to continue to do it after Dierlando is gone.

Thinking of this possibility, Diarrando immediately put all the food in his mouth, then fetched a bucket of water, poured it on himself, flushed it perfunctorily, then changed his clothes, made a refreshed appearance, and swaggered out. Before leaving, I didn't forget to catch an apple and nibble on it.

Happily humming out-of-tune ballads along the way, Diarrando returned to the building on the right wing. However, as soon as he entered, he quickly ran up to the second floor, and then condescendingly observed through an open window what kind of little secret Master Holm had in mind.

Sitting on the windowsill, Dearlando nibbled on an apple and teased Rysses while monitoring the plaza below. A handyman with a lamp made a circle around the square, and returned to the smaller platform below the square, where there was a stable, presumably the Sado who watched the horses mentioned by the guards earlier.

After a few more moments of the patrolman's departure, Home's young figure finally reappeared in the square. The moon had completely sunk in the west, and if it weren't for Dearrando's extraordinary eyesight, he would not have been able to see him clearly.

I saw that the young city lord walked into the courtyard of the kitchen again, and after a while, he fetched two buckets of water and began to water the flowers. He watered all the flower beds three times, and after watering, he pruned them with scissors, and arranged the cut flower branches and tied them into bouquets.

Holm finished packing up the bouquet and did not return to the main building, but walked down the small square, turned to the left, and suddenly walked out of sight. When Diarlando saw it, he immediately jumped out of the window, intending to quietly follow.

There are two smaller platforms under the square, with stables on the right and some weapons and miscellaneous items stacked on the left. At the end of the platform on the left, there is a narrow path that extends up the hillside that merges with the castle. The road zigzagged along the mountain wall, but no one was seen walking on it at the moment.

"Lost?" said Dearrando, who hid in the shadows and waited for a while, but didn't see Holm reappear. After thinking about it for a while, he still felt uneasy, so he decided to go back to Kenda immediately and track it with the help of the wolf's keen sense of smell.

When Kenda heard what Dearrando said, she also felt very strange, and the two of them quietly slipped out again, and soon arrived at the place where Diarrando chased Home. For the sake of tracking, Kenda directly turned into the form of a wolf, and the wolf sniffed on the ground and began to lead the way.

When I walked up the mountain road, I realized that some of the turning points had forks in the road, some were caves, and the caves were also installed with rudimentary fence gates. The smell of Holm disappeared in one of these caves, the locks on the fence hung falsely, and it was dark inside, and there was no sign of anyone in sight.

Dearlando and the wolf looked at each other for a moment, but gently opened the door and walked into the cave. The cave was so small that Dearlando had to bend slightly to avoid hitting his head, and the wolf had to lie on its stomach.

A section of the cave into the cave is a large circular barn with some miscellaneous items piled up in it for an unknown time. The wolf sniffed around inside and found the smell of Holm disappearing behind a pile of planks leaning against the wall.

Dearlando gently removed the plank and found a metal flap that was only half a man tall. He put his ear to it and listened, but there was no voice, so he quietly opened the trapdoor.

Behind the trapdoor was a long, dark vertical passageway, with an ancient metal handle embedded in the rock and a thick rope tied to it. The air flowed out of the darkness, with a hint of gentian flowers and other smells of damp heat.

(It smells of that bug!) （...... Although very faint)

"I'll go down and see!" said Deirlando, who immediately stooped down and slipped down the rope. Kenda was too late to stop it, and the wolf's form couldn't penetrate this narrow door at all, and when he changed into a human form, he could already hear the sound of ping-pong fighting in front of him.

Kenda quickly slid to the bottom of the rope and found that the landing place was a very narrow platform, with a narrow path on the left hand side that could only accommodate one foot. Behind him is a deep stream, and it is so dark that you can only see that this is a slit in the mountain. He quickly moved along the narrow road, walked a dozen feet, and noticed a bright light in front of him.

The light shone through a narrow gap in the mountain wall, and through the gap could be seen a spectacular silvery-white strange metal tree poking into the cavity of the huge mountain.

At this moment, Diarrando was on a fork in the tree, and Holm was pushed to the ground. The clanging sound came from the belt waving in Dearlandor's hand, which he was using to whip away the silver-white monsters flying around Holm.

It seems that Dearlando is not subduing Holm, but protecting Holm.