"It's strange, there is no fire inside, and no one can be seen moving." Clemmy climbed down from the tree, squatted on the road and observed carefully for a while, repeating what he had done not long ago. "There is indeed something on the ground.
There is no sign of leaving, so those bandits should still be there."
"Let's do this. Clemmy and I will go in and check the situation first. The three of you will hide here for now and we will make a decision when we come back." Geer thought about it and decided to conduct an investigation first. After all, there was no accurate information.
Making hasty decisions is not a good choice.
It is now evening, the setting sun hangs far in the west, and the ruins of the castle are still a strange blood red. Everyone is located in the woodland beside the three-way intersection.
"Be careful." Lucalin did not object to Geer's decision. In fact, unless the carriage was abandoned and a few people were savages in the forest for who knows how long and relied on hiking through the forest, Geer's decision
is the best choice.
"It's okay. You hide better. We'll be back in a moment."
When the blood moon replaced the sun as the sole ruler of the sky, Ger and Clemmy immediately set off quietly under the cover of night and arrived at the entrance of the castle in a few minutes.
There is a piece of burnt black carbide lying at the entrance of Blossom Castle. Years of wind and rain have turned this unknown thing into a fragile object. It seems that as long as it comes into contact with a slight external force, it will break.
Disappeared immediately.
This is a city that has been embraced by withering and death. There are no residents, no life, only devastated broken walls.
Looking around, most of the ground of the castle is very flat, and everywhere is the color of ashes after fire. After so many years, the original dark color is firmly engraved on this land and will never be erased.
Most of the original castle buildings have become a dark garbage dump. Only a few buildings have a little bit left that can be used for people to rest. These places are also the targets of Geer's investigation.
"Warning! Warning! There is an unknown energy position in this area. One of the effects is to speed up the loss of physical strength of living beings. The effect is estimated to reduce the physical strength by 1% in three hours. Whether there are other effects is temporarily unknown..."
As soon as he set foot on the land where the castle belonged, the cold mechanical sound immediately sounded in Geer's mind.
"Sure enough, there is a problem. No wonder Ida said there was something weird. If he was sick at the time, he might have hallucinations under the influence of this strange position." Geer narrowed his eyes slightly, but did not pause. Although this negative effect
It was strange, but for Geer, he had seen areas with special effects like this before, both naturally occurring and man-made, and the current negative state was not enough to make him retreat.
Of course, Geer had no intention of telling Clemmy about this discovery.
The two of them were very careful with their steps. In such an open place, since there were no big obstacles, if they accidentally made a slightly louder footstep, it would spread far and might be noticed by the bandits inside.
The clouds in the sky thickened unknowingly and hung low in the air, as if they could be reached with a single jump. They covered most of Hongyue's face. Although it made the two people's actions more concealed, there was also a certain
A strange depression weighed on the two of them.
From the front to the side of the castle, using the shadows of various wreckage, Geer and Clemmy advanced cautiously.
"There are a total of five buildings that can still be inhabited..." Crouching behind a broken wall that was only as high as an adult's belly, Clemmy pointed out to Geer in a low voice which buildings might be where the bandits were.
"The two of us split up, one on each side, and meet at the middle one. If we detect the information in advance, we can exit directly." Geer stretched out half of his body and looked around, and found that the pointed out buildings were widely distributed.
If we all acted together, it would be too slow to check, so we simply split up.
"Okay, sir."
Geer and Clemmy spread out and moved directly towards the side they chose.
The first building is a small room with only half of it left. Half of the wall has been lost. The night wind can flow into the room from here and go out through the hole that was supposed to be the door. However, it can still be managed with the remaining parts.
The wall provided shelter for two or three people. If there was a better location, no one would be willing to stay here, and Geer did not find any sign that anyone had stayed here.
The second building was larger than the previous one. Although nearly half of the ceiling had collapsed, it was still a good temporary residence. However, when Danger carefully touched the side, he found that there was no one there either.
Now only the middle building remains.
This building should be the remnant of the former central tower of the castle. About half of the original one-story building is left. It is the best resting place in the castle. It is also where the Bryan brothers lived when they stayed here, and now they are also the bandits.
Where they are most likely to exist.
It may have been the place where the fire was most serious in the past. The ground around the central building looked like white ashes mixed with black, like paint that had not been mixed evenly. Under the light of the moonlight, it seemed to be distorted into a picture.
There are pictures composed of countless complex lines.
Walking on such a ground, Geer walked towards the central building, breathing as lightly as possible, and listened carefully to the movements in the target building.
It was as if he was the only one left in this place, it was silent, and there was a hint of deathly silence and depression in the air.
Soon, Geer carefully touched the door of the building.
It's said to be a door, but it's just an irregular hole. I don't know who found a wooden board behind it to partially cover it. Looking at the decayed and blackened appearance of the wooden board, it must have been at least several years ago.
Suddenly, the wind that had entered the building from nowhere rushed out from the hole. With the oncoming wind, a faint smell of blood also penetrated into Geer's nasal cavity.
"Something is wrong."
Geer's heart sank slightly. He did not enter the building directly to check, but carefully circled around the building, but found no trace of Clemmy.
After thinking for a while, Geer decided to go in and see what was going on.
Turning sideways, Geer was careful not to touch the door panel blocking his way, and got in through the gap on the side without making any sound.
Entering the building, there is a passage several meters long. It is a bit dark and has no lighting. However, a soft firelight comes from the room on the left at the end of the passage, illuminating the short section of the passage in front of the room. Geer
From that location, I saw some sparse red blood stains scattered on the floor. The blood stains extended into the bright room and turned around until they were no longer visible.
The closer you get to the room, the stronger the smell of blood becomes.
As we get closer step by step, the sound of dripping water in the shadow becomes clearer, making people's hearts tingle.
Moving cautiously and slowly, after avoiding all obstacles, Geer approached the door of the room, only one step away from entering the bright lighting range of the room.
At this time, Geer then saw a hand on the floor of the room from an oblique angle. The part behind the arm could not be seen due to the angle. The hand could almost reach out of the door of the room. This was something Geer had not been able to see at the entrance before.
reason for arriving.
Geer carefully took a step sideways and finally saw clearly the general appearance of the owner of the hand - it was a male corpse thrown to the ground, dressed in coarse linen clothes, with a one-handed knife falling on the side of the body, thin
The blood flow spread from under his body, which was the source of the bloodstains at the door.
After listening to the movement in the room for a while and finding that there was no sound, Geer stuck his head out of the door and looked into the room.
The room was complete and spacious, comparable in size to the lobby of Winterset Castle Tower. There were a few burning torches stuck on the walls. This was also the source of light in the room, illuminating the mottled walls.
, there are also a few simple campfire traces in the middle, obviously left by travelers who stayed here.
Compared with the several buildings that Gale inspected before, the environment here is obviously the best, but at this time, the corpses and blood turned this room into a slaughterhouse, without any sign of living people.
There were about twenty corpses arranged in various places in the room. The blood flowing from each corpse was gurgling along the various complicated patterns on the floor of the room. In addition to the horror, there was also a kind of eerie beauty.
The fatal wound on the corpse at the door was on the back of the neck, and a sharp mouth penetrated it. Geer gently picked it up with one foot and asked him to turn over.
This was a burly man, taller than Gale, and he was dressed similarly to the Black Flag Bandits he met before. The corpse was pale, and the wounds that penetrated the front and back could be seen from his Adam's apple, and his face looked very expressionless.
It was weird, as if fanaticism and panic were mixed together, and finally formed an abstract painting on his already stiff facial muscles.
Geer glanced around and quickly found the murderer - a bandit dressed in the same clothes as the corpse at the door. The three-cone pointed sword in his hand coincided with the wound on the throat of the corpse at the door, and the murderer's head was cut with a thumb-width crack.
Split in half, the weapon that caused the wound—a rusty hatchet—was held in the hands of another corpse not far from him.
After a general inspection, Geer found that these people were killed by other people in the hall, although the murderer was now nothing more than a corpse.
Could it be an internal conflagration?
But it just so happens that they all died, isn’t it too abnormal?
Although everything in this room, which could be called the hall, showed that this was a fight among the bandits, Geer still found it very strange.
"Leave first and then talk."
Geer turned around and walked quickly outside. Things here were a bit too unexpected. He had to discuss with others and analyze the situation before making the next step.
But when Geer pushed aside the wooden board and walked out of the hole, his expression immediately became extremely gloomy.