Chapter 34: The Mirror
First of all, let's talk about why I posted a post at noon...... Because I confusedly regarded today as the 31st.,I originally typed a lot of thanks.,And then I found out that it was early.,I'll delete it while no one sees it.,Haha,I'll send a thank you letter at noon tomorrow.,Xiexie everyone's support for most of the year.,Here's today's update***
"I see...... "I see" Dearlando listened to this version of the story and fell into thought, which of the two sides is true about the mineral deposits of Ebony City?
The current secret passage was obviously much wider than the one just now, at least the people inside could stand up straight and walk, and Holm led the way quietly in front, and after walking for a while, he put his eyes on the wall and looked at it, as if to confirm the position.
Kenda's guest room is on the sixth floor, and Miss Pis's is on the third floor, and although I have gone down a long stairs just now, it stands to reason that I have not yet reached the third floor.
Dearrando was wondering Weishenme Holm was drilling around here, only to find that suddenly Holm was missing in front of him. He hurried two steps forward, only to find a trapdoor on the ground in front of him, from which Holm had just tumbled.
Home's head suddenly opened the trapdoor and popped out again, beckoning to call him, but he didn't know what to shout for a while, Zuihou could only say, "Hey, here!"
Home's head retracted after shouting, and Dearrando walked briskly, and when he stood on the trapdoor, the trapdoor tilted silently, and Dearlandor slid gently down a slope. Below was a small platform, and the inside of the two-person station suddenly seemed crowded. By this time, however, Holm had pushed open a trapdoor in the wall and stepped into a more spacious passage.
"That's what my dad used occasionally. Holm didn't elaborate on the location of the passage, and didn't seem to want Deirlando to fully understand the structure of the passage.
However, Diarlando silently estimated in his heart that he should have reached the third floor of the castle. The passages are even more spacious, and there are even torches on the walls at intervals.
There were more peepholes in the wall, and after looking at a few, Holm quietly pointed and signaled to the place.
Diarrando leaned in, and saw a rather narrow line of sight, as if he was looking condescendingly from some small hole, and could only see a corner of the room. It was a woman's dressing table, in the same style as it had been seen on Miss Pees's boat the night before.
Two light-haired maids were dressing Miss sitting at the dresser, one carefully adjusting the feather ornaments, the other gently spraying the flower dew with a watering can. Dearlandor had seen the perfumed maid who had been with Miss Pith at noon the previous day.
"There's a secret door here, you can go in from here when they're all out......," Holm gently pulled Diarlandor and took him a few steps aside. A half-man-high trapdoor appeared there, and when opened, Miss Pis's boudoir was not visible, but a large plank of wood lay across the ground.
"Open it here, and it's the closet in the room below. Holm carefully gestured to the position of the handle on the plank. But at this moment, there were people below, and he didn't dare to open it casually, for fear of alarming the people in the house.
"It's good to hide!" Diarlando squatted down and touched the top of the cabinet, which was very thick. Hide the secret door here, who would have thought of it.
"Don't you think it's strange that there are so many secret passages here?" asked Holm in a sudden whisper, and Dearrando looked at him with some surprise. "I mean, there are so many secret passages in other places? I haven't been to any other castle, you must have seen other ......."
Dearlando smiled softly and patted Holm on the shoulder. "You're right, there are ridiculously many secret passages in your city. I've seen many castles, and while most of them have secret passages, none of them are as complicated as yours. ”
"Is that ...... Questions?" Holm asked worriedly, since he had seen the terrible thing under the castle last night, the secret passage that he had not taken to heart had become a big stone pressing on his heart.
"There must be a problem, but it's an old problem, let's take it one step at a time. "Diarlando knew that this secret passage must have something to do with the dwarves, but there were too many mysteries at the moment, and I could only throw them away for the time being. Maybe if the biggest mystery is solved, all the other small problems will be solved.
Diarrando looked at Holm, who looked worried, and waved his hand in front of him, bringing him back to his senses in a daze: "If I want to go out, how can I go? If I still come up from here, I won't be able to get back to my original room." ”
Holm immediately stood up, and led Diarlando a little further ahead, passing a few steps of Xiangxia, and then finding a secret door in the wall and getting out. It was an old utility room, and when he pushed open the door to the utility room, Dearlando found it to be a dead end at the corner of the stairs on the second and third floors.
It was here that Holm said goodbye to Dearlando with trepidation, and began to arrange for the maid's things to be transferred. Dearrando carefully closed the door of the utility room, and returned the way he had come, to Miss Pith's room.
Miss had finished her elaborate dress, looked left and right at the floor-to-ceiling mirror by the dresser, and nodded her head in satisfaction.
Diarrando listened as the woman left the room with the maid, and after a while, there was a knock at the door outside, and the only remaining maid was called out. Diarrando immediately opened the roof of the wardrobe and jumped down gently.
The wardrobe was so large that Diarrando immediately fell into a fragrant light fabric, pushing through several layers of clothing before he came out of the depths of the closet. There was silence outside, and Dearrando gently pushed open the closet and cautiously walked into the mysterious woman's boudoir.
The layout here is very different from the guest room in Kenda, it is an ensuite, in addition to this bedroom, there is a reception room and a servant's small room outside, and a small bathroom is tucked away in the corner of the bedroom, covered by an ornate tent.
The walls around it are not full of portraits in the cabins, but there are mirrors everywhere, and if you stand in them, you can see more than a dozen of yourself when you turn your head. A parrot stand was placed by Miss Pith's window, and a pair of white-haired parrots were climbing and playing on it, and Diarrando called out "Hello" in unison.
Diarrando immediately jumped over and ordered the stupid pair to shut their mouths with their will. The eyes of the parrots, one green and one yellow, were under pressure at the moment, and they were anxiously fluttering on the shelves, but they did not dare to speak.
Knowing that time was limited, Diarrando got the parrot and immediately focused his eyes on the dresser, after all, there was a mysterious box hidden there when he was on the ship. However, when he opened all the drawers and examined them carefully, he was disappointed to find that the dresser was full of some women's supplies, and he couldn't even find a secret door.
Zuihou had no choice, and Dierlandor could only undo the bracer on one side and inspect the entire house with the dragon's senses. A brighter pulse of magic appeared in the maid's room outside, and Diarrando pushed the maid's room open in confusion, only to meet the pair of blue-green eyes in the darkness.
Startled, Dearlando realized it was a mirror. I don't know that weishenme hung on the opposite side of the door, and when I pushed the door, I could see it, and I thought there was someone standing there. As soon as he put down his hanging heart, something swept under his feet out of the corner of his eye, and Diarlando instinctively pounced on it and grabbed it.
"Meow~~!!" A sharp cry sounded, and a soft hairball unceremoniously gave a few serial attacks to the big hand that grabbed him.
"Wow, oh~~Shhh It was a huge white cat, with the same eye color as Deirlando's green left eye and blue right eye, frightened at the moment, staring at the intruder with dilated pupils.
"Hell, there are so many animals here!" Diarlando soothed the frightened animal with the dragon's magic, and when it finally calmed down, he loosely clamped the relaxed cat in his hand and began to carefully examine the small room.
Two single beds, a simple wardrobe, two stools, not even a window, except for the strange mirror that hung at eye level. I was about to go up to check when suddenly there was a sound of footsteps in the corridor outside, and the maid who was supposed to be taken away actually returned.
Deirlando didn't have time to return to the master bedroom, so he had to open the door to the maid's room first, praying in his heart that the little maid would not suddenly want to go back to the room.
It's a pity that the sky doesn't follow people's wishes, and after the door of the guest room was closed, the footsteps of the maid actually came directly to this side. Diarlando looked left and right, the room was pitifully small, and there was no way to hide people under the bed, and seeing that the footsteps had reached the door, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind and thought of a solution.
The door creaked open, and a young woman in her twenties appeared in the doorway, her gray and blue eyes scanning the small room suspiciously, and seemed relieved to see her owner's pet slowly come out from under the bed.
The maid stooped down and picked up the white cat, but instead of leaving, she walked straight to the mirror that hung on the wall opposite the door, and then ran her little fingernail lightly across the pad of the cat's front paws. The sharp nails immediately cut through the pad, and the white cat struggled for a moment, letting out a soft mournful roar.
The maid grabbed the cat's paws gushing out of the blood and pressed directly on the oval mirror. Blood flowed down the mirror, but before it could be sucked in, it was sucked in.
As the blood disappeared, the ordinary mirror began to emit a strange light, and the smooth mirror surface tumbled like mercury, and after a while, a fat man wearing an unusually gorgeous and dazzling appearance appeared in the center of the mirror.