The traveling poet stared at the girl in front of him with his amber eyes, and said seriously: "If you really want to leave this place, maybe I can help you."
Xu Shuo looked at him curiously: "What can you do to help me get out of here? Alex, you are just an ordinary person."
"I am still an ordinary person who has traveled to many places, and this castle will not be my last stop." The travel poet raised the corner of his mouth and smiled: "Qilis, you might as well trust me a little, believe it.
I really have a way to take you away."
"Okay, I believe you, so what do you want?" Xu Shuo turned to face him, with a smile on his face as well, and his light voice seemed to contain some kind of guidance and bewitchment.
"Hmm...how do you get up to that tower?"
The traveling poet paused and said.
Xu Shuo followed his gaze and looked at the tall tower in the center of the castle, and said with a smile: "Let's do this kind of thing tomorrow. Night is not the right time to walk around Prague Castle at will, especially to infringe on my sister's most important territory."
Hearing this, the traveling poet nodded calmly. He seemed to just mention it casually and didn't worry too much about the tower.
At least, he had understood the girl's feelings from these words.
The traveling poet turned to ask: "Then another thing, what was it that you didn't finish talking about during the day? Can you tell me now?"
Xu Shuo turned to look at him, and their eyes met.
"Alex, I can't say anything, if you don't want us all to be discovered by my sister."
"Can you take me there?" The traveling poet looked at her.
"……All right."
The girl seemed to hesitate for a moment in embarrassment, but she still nodded, lifted up her skirt, stepped forward, and turned around from the arch of the outer wall into the corridor inside the castle.
…
The dark night and moonlight were left behind by the two of them. The internal passages of the castle were closed, and only the oil lamps hung on the wall pillars could provide vision.
The route of the castle is complicated, but the girl shuttles through the corridors very purposefully.
The dark red skirt was stained even more deeply by the night. As she passed by the bunches of roses, she almost blended into the blood-colored flowers that grew in the night. Only the pearls on the skirt were reflected by the oil lamp and became crystal clear.
light.
The traveling poet followed closely behind. He stared at the girl's back and gently pressed his fingers between his eyebrows.
Qilisi... Qilisi...
After knowing the girl's name, for some reason, he always had the urge to call her out.
When the other party called out his false pronoun, he felt an inexplicable throbbing in his heart. Since he had been talking and calculating before, he didn't have time to capture this feeling.
But now, in this silent castle, only the dull sound of footsteps one after another can be heard.
Listening to the rhythm of the velvet platform shoes falling on the floor, the traveling poet's mind slowly sank in and began to review what had just happened.
Therefore, he was keenly aware that his previous state was somewhat strange.
So, is the girl in front of her really someone who can be exploited in this game?
"Alex..."
Suddenly, the voice of calling came again from the front.
The traveling poet subconsciously looked up and saw that the girl walking in front had stopped at some point and stood at the corner at the end of the corridor with a sweet smile, gesturing towards him.
Already arrived?
The traveling poet walked over, stood next to the girl and looked around the corner.
There is no passage ahead. Embedded in the corner door is a dark staircase. Only a few steps near the door can be seen, and the rest are immersed in deep darkness.
This staircase does not go up, but goes down.
Seeing this, the traveling poet turned his head and looked at the arched flower windows in the corridor. Through the complex carvings, he could faintly see the scenery outside, as well as the castle tower that was almost at eye level.
He remembered that they had been walking up just now.
As a result, the slope of the stairs in this door is almost vertical downwards. Based on the height of the entire castle, the length of this stairs can be estimated.
So what the girl wanted to say before was not "upstairs" but "downstairs"?
Hmm...it's really strange.
The traveling poet felt incredible and thought for a long time.
Seeing the girl in front of him staring at him intently, he thought for a while and said: "The architect who designed this castle is really a genius. He should have thought more about the thick-soled shoes on the ladies' feet."
So why not just put the stairs going down on the first floor?
After reaching the top floor, I had to go down the stairs again to the bottom floor. I was really full and had nothing to do.
"Puch..."
The girl smiled because of his comment.
Xu Shuo raised the corners of his mouth slightly, showed him around, then turned around and walked back, saying, "Just remember this place. Usually no one comes here, except for my sister."
The traveling poet stared at the door, patted the wall quietly, and stuck a small thing on it.
Then he turned around and followed the girl's return and asked, "Is it dangerous inside?"
"If you hadn't met sister... there shouldn't be any danger. It's not convenient for me to tell you exactly what it is, but it is a very important place to sister." Xu Shuo said hesitantly.
"More important than that tower?"
"Although I have never been to the tower, it shouldn't be important there. After all, it's just my sister's residence. I don't think any lady would like others to break into her room."
"emmm..."
The traveling poet looks like he wants to venture out.
The tower and the door with the stairs are almost parallel to each other and not far apart. However, there is no connecting passage between the two, not even the flying buttresses connecting the outer walls. They appear to be independent of each other.
of two places.
However, they are equally mysterious, secretive, and not far apart.
So there must be a connection!
…
After the two returned to the city wall along the original path, the traveling poet stood in the distance and looked at the two locations, and then discovered that the place where the door was located seemed to be a palace building.
It's just that when they passed through the corridor just now, they didn't see the palace gate that they could enter, and there wasn't even an external window sill.
Except for the dark side door with stairs hidden in the corner, it is a completely enclosed palace.
The traveling poet frowned, temporarily unable to figure out the purpose of that place.
But thinking deeply about what the girl didn't finish during the day - does it mean that you can leave Prague Castle through the door leading downstairs?
Why does it feel so unreliable?
Xu Shuo looked at him, tilted his head and said, "Alex, can you tell me what you are thinking about?"
"Um……"
The name that the girl called out softly came into his mind again, and the traveling poet's mind trembled slightly.
After he reacted, he stared at the girl in front of him and suddenly asked: "Qilisi, you seem to have said before, where have you heard my name?"
Xu Shuo blinked: "Maybe."
"Do you still have the impression where you heard it?" the traveling poet asked.
"Um...sister's place?"
Xu Shuo said it with a serious and innocent face, and then managed to see the slight change in the traveling poet's eyes, which confirmed that this guy is really a fool who doesn't know anything.
So your appearance of calmness is actually just because of facial paralysis, right?
