Chapter 33: The Secret Passage

Diarlando looked at the new gauntlet with satisfaction, this thing is very low-key and ordinary, and it is not inconspicuous to wear on the hand, so he decided not to take it off for the time being. As for the other three items, it was not obvious for a moment that they were of any use, but Deirlandor put the glass and pendant back, the dagger was placed close to his body, and the sword was hung with a sword belt.

Packing everything up, Dearlando dragged his chair to a dimly lit spot to try his hand at the Dragonland. But at this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door outside.

Diarlandor ran to open the door in confusion, not knowing who would be here at this time. As soon as the door opened, Holm Grued, whose face was still a little pale, was standing outside in a huff. Dillado looked around, and he was the only one, so he pulled the door open and let the man in.

Holm bit his mouth and walked in, and when Dearlando closed the door, he immediately shouted in a low voice: "Who the hell are you! I saw the real Martin Knight! You guys are running here one by one, what a conspiracy!"

"Doom...... I'm really a nice guy, and I'm really friends with Kenda and Martin, and I'm really here to help you. "Diarlando knew that he would be exposed, but he didn't expect Holm to come directly to the door and question it. Is he too naΓ―ve, or is he too confident in himself?

Holm raised his head, stared straight at Diarrando and said, "I went back yesterday and thought about it for a long time, although we are not well-informed here, but I can be sure that there has never been a weapon that can be transformed at will before." And...... Although the Kenda Knight is not obvious, when he escaped yesterday, he always watched your intentions and acted. ”

Diarlando chuckled slightly, "So?"

"So...... Your status must be higher than his!And the whole country is so young, so high-status, and so skilled in martial arts...... There are only two ......"

Holm began to ramble at this point, for the two men were of great honor, one was the king's eldest son, and the other was the king's brother's only son. The most important point is that both men are rumored to have died on the day of Augustus' collapse two years ago, and the official record is that both are dead.

"Then who do you think I am?" Diarlando still looked at Holm with a smile, thinking that this kid was clumsy, but he didn't expect that he was still a little brainy.

"I ......" Holm found that although the expression of the person in front of him had not changed, the pressure emanating from his body had suddenly increased, and he no longer dared to raise his eyes to look directly at his face. After a pause, Holm suddenly took a step back, got down on one knee, and bowed his head to plead with Deirlando to atone for his sins.

"Your Highness, please forgive me for my previous unreasonableness. I know you must be here for a reason, and I hope Your Highness can save my father. He is going to marry that enchantress tomorrow in the presence of the goddess Mona, please stop him from making a big mistake!"

"It's not easy...... In case your father really likes that young lady and wants to get married, I have no position to stand in the way. And now that Miss Pith is still an important clue, and I can't surprise the snake. Unless ......"

"Unless what?" Holm jerked his head up.

"Unless we can get hold of her today, figure out what she's here for, better find out who she's in contact with behind her back, and find a way to crack her demagoguery. ”

"How are we going to get the hang of her? she will be back to her ship this afternoon, and will not be welcomed back until the wedding to-morrow, when my father will be the new mistress of the castle. ”

"That's right......" Diarlandor muttered for a moment. The biggest problem at the moment was that I didn't know what Miss Pith had to do with the thing under the castle, or what they were going to do next.

The simplest and most brutal method is to directly arrest the woman and extract a confession, but in the usual style of the Brans, it is estimated that it will only be exchanged for a corpse.

Or pull Fair over and let him use his dementorship against this woman, but it seems that this mysterious woman is slightly more capable than Fayle in this regard, and if she can't kill her with one hit, the result will be the same as the first method.

If there was a way to keep an eye on the woman and scrutinize her belongings, some clues might be found. But this difficulty is not low, and there is no suitable person to do it.

Diarlando looked at Holm, who was kneeling there expectantly, pulled him up and asked, "Did your father have any personal servants for her?" ”

Holm's face flushed, and he hesitated for a moment before saying, "That woman and the servants all brought it themselves, and the people arranged by my father only did some cleaning and cleaning. But I knew there was a secret passage that led to her living room, which my father sometimes used ......"

Seeing that Dearlando's eyes were a little clear, Holm hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Father just went to see, nothing else was done!"

Dearlando put his hand on his shoulder, shook his finger and grinned, "No need to explain, I understand! Lead the way, I'll take advantage of the lunch break to check her territory, and you have to find a way to get everyone out of her house." ”

Holm was bewildered by his hippie smiley attitude, and pointed to Dearlandor's arm on his shoulder and said, "Are you really His Royal Highness the Grand Prince?"

"When did I say I am?" asked Dillando with a smile, looking at the young city lord's face with satisfaction.

"You...... I ...... "Holm, you, you, and I for a long time, and suddenly sighed deeply: "I used to hear rumors that the eldest prince has a strange personality, has no royal system, and likes to mess with people in the market, and I thought it was an exaggeration. Didn't expect ......"

Dillando was not angry, but patted Holm on the shoulder comfortingly and said, "You have said this tactfully...... Haha, don't worry, it doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is to solve this matter quickly. ”

The two of them discussed it, it was now close to the time of lunch, Martin had just arrived today, the city lord would definitely set up a banquet to entertain, and the time for this meal would not be too short. Miss had four attendants, two men and two women, and two male servants did not need to be considered, while in the case of maids, Miss Pith usually carried one with her, so there would only be one person in the room at most.

"I'll make an excuse," said Holm, "and send for my father to inform my father that there is something to be given to Miss Pith, and to take the maid out of the house, and then find a way to trap it, so that you may have a long enough time to examine it." ”

"Don't use honorifics when you talk to me, do you want me to expose it? Kenda, I'm going to teach him a lesson when I turn back, and I actually let you see the flaws, he's really useless. Dearlando corrected Home's salutation, and then agreed with Home's jihua.

"Where's the secret passage?" Diarlando walked to the door, listened to no one outside, and planned to open the door and go out.

Holm hesitated, and Zuihou confessed: "You don't need to go out, there are also here, we can start from here." ”

"Ahem......" Dearlando looked at Holm with a complicated expression, "Are there secret passages everywhere in the whole of Eusel City?"

"No, no, I just used to play hide and seek with Uncle Luda when I was a kid, and I stumbled upon it, and then I went around looking for secret passages to explore, some of which my father didn't even know. Holm shook his hands sharply and quickly explained.

"Uncle Luda, is that the Knight of Onsay?" said Deirlando, who heard the title again, and remembered that he had heard it last night.

"Yes...... My father had just lost his mother at that time, and he was angry and sad when he saw me, and Uncle Luda was almost always taking care of me, playing with me, and teaching me martial arts. Holm said as he walked over to the bed, pulling it back from the wall with all his might, leaving a gap for one person to pass through. Then he groped around the corner, and in a moment a hole appeared in the stone wall that was half a man high.

Holm lowered his head and got into it first, and Dearlando took the opportunity to get some of Reses's rations, and then shrunk down and followed Holm inside.

This passage is extremely narrow and low, and it is a little difficult for the tall Diarrando to walk, which makes one wonder who such a secret passage is for. The passage went straight for a few feet, feeling like it was leaning in the direction of the castle's surface, and then suddenly it began to descend a long staircase.

Both of them could only grope sideways in the dark, and only occasionally there was a little light from the cracks in the wall, and it could be seen that the two sides of this passage were cut smoothly and neatly, and it looked like it had been carefully repaired.

After descending this staircase, a large space appeared in front of them, and both of them could finally stand up straight. Diarrando's eyes could see clearly in the darkness, and he saw that it looked like a small hall, and that the roofs on all sides were decorated with the carvings of a small hammer.

Dwarves...... Diarlando reached out and touched the simple and powerful carved markings, and thought of the legend of the fort that the servant had spoken of before.

"Elulead City is said to have been built with the help of the dwarves?" Dearlandor asked in the ear of Holm, who was groping around a wall for a mechanism.

"Ah, you know that?" Holm tapped a few times on a seemingly ordinary stone, and an intact rock sank in, opening the way to another passage.

"It is said that there was a secret silver mine here in the past, and there was a battle between the dwarven tribes, and later our ancestors helped one of them fight against the other and eradicate the monsters of the other clan. After the victory, the dwarves thanked our ancestors for their help and built this majestic and strange city on the ground. ”

Holm waited for Dierlandor to follow, and then touched the rock inside, and the door closed silently again. Then he took a breath and continued: "But after the dwarves who lived underground mined for a while, they found that all that was left of the mine was ordinary lead ore, so they left to look for new veins. ”