The moon was dark and the wind was high, and a crow with bright red eyes crossed the sky, fluttered its wings and landed in the magician's hand.
There was a note tied to the crow's paw. The magician took off the note and let the crow go.
There was a row of words written on the note: "Gloomy Forest, Corpse Cave".
"Why is there a gathering here this time? What is Michelle thinking?" The magician frowned after reading the typed words and handed the note to Angel beside him.
Angel arrived at the magician's stronghold at 8 o'clock in the evening. Because the magician was his guide, if he wanted to go to the extraordinary gathering, he had to get together with the magician first.
But what he didn't expect was that the note at the party location was not delivered until close to early morning.
"Who is Michelle? Is it her real name?" Angel took the note and glanced at the location above. He was completely confused about the location mentioned on it.
"I don't know if it's his real name." The magician explained, "He is the leader of this gathering. Every extraordinary gathering we have has a leader. This time it is his turn."
Angel frowned and asked doubtfully: "With this rotation system, aren't you afraid that someone will set up a trap and ambush at a specific point?"
The magician shook his head: "It is impossible to set a trap. For us, communication is the only way to promote strength."
Angel originally wanted to ask, aren't you afraid of murder and robbery? But considering the wealth of this group of people, there is probably nothing worth robbing. The only thing they can make good use of is probably - live well. Only when you are alive can you communicate.
Only through communication can we grow.
"Let's go. If I hadn't introduced you today, I wouldn't want to go to this place." The magician complained and left first.
"What's wrong with this location?" Angel asked.
The magician shook his head: "It's not a problem, it's just that it's said to be haunted there. I've gone to explore it before, and there's nothing weird about it, but it's too dark and smells bad."
Angel pondered: "The name of the Corpse Cave seems a bit inappropriate?"
"More than inappropriate, it's just a big corpse cave! The Forest of Resentment is in the Byzantine Mountains, and the corpse cave is actually where the forest guards dispose of corpses. Poachers, or people killed by wild beasts, the forest guards will
Throw the corpses of these people into this hole. Over the years, there will be countless corpses." The magician complained with his face.
Angel remembered that the magician mentioned the gatherings they had. Most of them were filled with champagne, fine wine, and delicious food. Occasionally, there were more low-key ones, such as going to a first-class castle, or going to a corpse cave for the first time. No wonder he would
A look of disgust.
Angel also felt that this party seemed a little different. It was a good communication party, so why did you choose the Dead Man's Cave?
The two of them left the city and began to speed up, running towards the mountains and forests.
The more he ran, the more familiar Angel felt... Wasn't this the same road he took when he left the mountains and forests?
When he arrived at the Forest of Resentment, a dark light flashed in Angel's eyes.
This forest happened to be the section of woods that Angel passed through after coming out of the ranger's cabin. When he passed by this place, he had doubts about it.
Because in this forest, the plants are too dense and dense, and the trees are tall and leafy, blocking all sunlight. Even at noon, walking here is as dark as night. But these are not enough to make Angel take it to heart.
The reason why I am so impressed here is because there is a faint sense of resentment here.
At that time, he also speculated whether there were many people buried underground... Now it seems that his guess was not wrong, but it was not underground, but a corpse cave.
"Here we are, here is the corpse cave." The magician pointed to a dark underground cave.
The cave was located in the middle of several lush trees. The opening was about five or six meters wide, and it was so dark that the bottom could not be seen. Angel could smell a strong smell of decay before he even got closer.
"The plants here are so prosperous because of this cave." The magician looked at the cave with disgust. The strong stench made him really not want to step into it.
However, thinking that Angel would definitely provide a kind of knowledge when he joined the extraordinary party, he still pinched his nose and jumped into the hole.
Angel also jumped down. However, after jumping into the cave, he secretly asked Toby to be alert. He thought the magician's complaint when he received the note was a bit hypocritical. When he actually came to the corpse cave
When he saw the environment here and felt the filth around him, he understood why the magician was angry... It was indeed very problematic for the wizards to gather in such an environment.
"Damn it Michelle, I'm going to let him know later that it was a mistake to have a party here!" After the magician landed, he cursed angrily and prepared to light the bonfire.
"Wait, don't light the fire." Angel smelled a strong pungent smell in the air, which smelled like rancidity and gas.
With a thought in his mind, Angel used the light technique.
With the illumination of the light spell, the surrounding situation instantly became clear.
There were corpses all around, some had turned into bones, and some were still rotting. The magician found that next to him was a half-rotten corpse, with maggots crawling on the corpse, and the ground was covered with small black shells that carried carrion.
insect.
The magician kicked the corpse's head away: "In a place like this, who has the appetite to eat at tonight's party! Isn't Michelle just trying to disgust us?"
Angel silently glanced at the magician: You still want to eat?
"Is the meeting place inside?" Under the illumination of the light spell, Angel saw a winding passage in the cave. The end of the passage was dark and gloomy, like a huge mouth waiting to be eaten, emitting
Smells strongly.
"Probably." The magician walked towards the passage first, while Angel lowered his hat, lowered his sense of presence, and followed behind the magician.
"Is this a light spell?" The magician looked at Angel with envy as he walked away: "That's great, you can do many more tricks than me."
Angel smiled and did not answer the question.
The magician originally wanted to blackmail him to see if he could get some information about the light spell, but Angel didn't even reply, so he had no choice but to remain silent.
This cold atmosphere lasted until the end of the passage.
At the end is a large door, which has been opened, and you can see that there are many people sitting outside the round table inside, and only one seat is still empty.
Everyone sitting at the table looked at the magician with a smile.
"Magician, you are so slow to come. You are the only one missing." The brown-haired young man sitting in the main seat greeted.
The magician angrily yelled at the young man: "Michelle! What the hell are you doing? Why did you choose to party here?"
The brown-haired young man Michelle smiled and said: "Every time it is a luxurious banquet, but this time we will do something different. Are you surprised or surprised?"
"What an accident." The magician spat.
"You're a good boy. I haven't seen you for half a year, and you actually know how to light up the magic." Michelle didn't care at all about being scolded. She left her seat and walked out. She grabbed the magician's arm and dragged him toward the door.
"The light spell is..." The magician turned around to introduce Angel, but found that there was no one behind him, and the light spell disappeared.
At this moment, Michelle had already dragged him into the room. When the magician entered the room, he wanted to break away from Michelle's hand and was ready to look back to see where Angel had gone, but before he could go out,
, Michelle stopped him.
A strange smile appeared at the corner of Michelle's mouth: "Now that you're here, don't leave."
This sentence combined with Michelle's expression made the magician feel alert. He looked around at the other people in the room. Everyone was looking at him with a smile, but both men and women had stiff expressions.
Like a puppet.
"You...what's going on? Pooh? Captain? Long Ears? Pluto?" The magician called out one by one, but no one responded until he saw a man wearing a wide-brimmed short hat.
, finally got a response: "Shadow?"
The man took off his hat, smiled and waved to the magician: "Ah, ah, ah, it's been a long time no see."
"Shadow? What's going on?" There was fear in the magician's eyes. He already felt something was wrong and stepped back step by step.
But when he retreated, he was stopped by Michelle. But at this time, Michelle's expression became as dull and dull as the others, with only a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.
"What's going on? A party? Come and take a seat, I will tell you something useful today." Shadow pointed to the only empty seat and said to the magician.
The magician tremblingly refused: "No, I, I have something to go back to."
However, before the magician could turn around, the door behind him closed with a bang. The heavy copper door made a violent sound and stirred up waves of dust on the ground.
The magician ran to the door and tried to open it. But he found that the door was locked and could not be opened without the key.
"What are you going to do? Rob? I don't have anything on me!" The magician remembered that not long ago, Mask asked him, aren't you afraid of being set up a trap and ambushed? He also swore at that time that no one would
Do this, but the retribution will come soon.
By the way, the magician's eyes lit up. Didn't he still have a mask? Where was the mask? Did he discover something was wrong in advance, so he hid it aside?
Thinking of this possibility, the magician shouted loudly: "Fake..." Save me!
But before he could say anything, the magician saw a small black shadow descending from the sky and flitting in front of him. Just when the magician was about to say something, he saw the small black shadow gently reach out and pull out a piece of paper from the magician's body.
The struggling shadow was put into the gray cloth bag...
When the little black shadow saw that the shadow had got it, he let out a weird laugh of "hee hee boo hoo", jumped back on the shadow's shoulder, and then handed the small gray cloth bag to the shadow.
Shadow touched the little shadow's head, as if to praise him.
"What is that?" The magician felt weak for a while, but he did not faint like other people who lost their shadows.
Shadow touched the small bag and said, "This is my trophy."
Trophy? The magician seemed to have thought of something, lowered his head and looked at the ground——
"My shadow... disappeared?! Sure enough, you were the one who stole the shadow in the city!"
Shadow raised his eyebrows: "Ah? When did you find out?"
The magician gasped: "Blonde...you always sit next to Kabatha and Little John..."
Shadow suddenly realized: "So it's because of this... I didn't expect that you are still the smartest person here. So, now we need to give some rewards to smart people."
As he spoke, Shadow suddenly opened his hand, and white lines emerged from his fingers. The white lines carried a surge of magic power and rushed into the gray bag containing the magician's shadow.
A miniature black figure was dragged out of the bag.
If you look carefully, you can see that this palm-sized black figure is similar to the figure of a magician, except that it is completely black and has no distinguishable features.
The shadow restrained the black figure with a white thread and slowly moved on the table.
At the same time, the magician's expression suddenly became dull, and he followed the black shadow on the table, moving slowly... When the shadow moved his left foot, he moved his left foot, and when the shadow raised his right foot, he raised his right foot.