Carrying a lantern, Yin Feng left the lively discussion scene. The guards and knights were still arguing about what caused the noise, and as expected, it developed into personal attacks. There was a strong tendency to meet up to find out.
In fact, she wanted to listen for a while longer, but now it was indeed time to leave. Even though the sun was still high in the flaming clouds in the sky, behind the thick and high walls, the stone stairs and corridors with only long and narrow shooting holes for lighting were already filled with people.
Lights are required to pass.
The road back is not short. It starts from the workshop in the outer castle, climbs and circles, passes through buildings as high and low as a multi-layer cake at a banquet, and finally passes through the inner castle checkpoint and returns to the residence.
Climbing those tall stairs was time-consuming and laborious, and it took her some time to get to the top. Standing on the terrace, she could see the crowds gathered around the workshop below gradually dispersing. The knights and retinues were returning to their respective stations, and the craftsmen's apprentices were packing up and spreading out.
on the countertop and put small tools indoors.
A ball of flame lit up in the fading sky, and several small pieces spread out along the road cast by the high wall, like ashes drifting in a ditch filled with cold water.
It was a night patrol team, some of which would be led by a knight. Meeting a young lady who came home late was probably one of the rare bright spots in their boring and moldy duty, which inevitably led to some meaningless courtesy greetings and return greetings.
Very troublesome.
She quickened her pace, planning to return to the room earlier.
Outside the room-shaped window next to the spiral staircase of the tower, a large piece of something with a strange chirping sound fluttered past. She was suddenly frightened and staggered a step, and her calf hit the blunt edge of the next step.
Sitting down and lifting up her skirt, Yin Feng rubbed the sore spot and looked outside. They were countless birds, which usually lingered around the lower barn, feeding on grain particles scattered during transportation. They were frightened by unknown flocks.
It rises and soars high like a black cloud.
Until their eagerly flapping wings were completely integrated into the dark sky, the continuous and noisy chirping still echoed among the rock walls.
Few people have the opportunity to witness so many birds passing by in close proximity. The surprise makes people temporarily forget everything else, including the pain in their legs.
The flock of birds seemed to be the messengers of the change of day and night, and the light from the window shrank and disappeared unconsciously. When she stood up again, the only thing that illuminated her surroundings was the borrowed lantern.
She continued to climb with some difficulty, crossing stone steps of different heights and passing through interconnected corridors and rooms. The section with the most doors was the residence for ordinary visitors to the castle.
Perhaps because of the Dan season, the servants only lit a few three or four lamps. Food that had lost its temperature was placed in front of a door, and solidified white grease floated on the soup. An unusual busy man was standing at the door, holding a plate.
Eat a new food.
"Professor Brimmer, are you there?" His call received no response. When he saw Yin Feng coming with a lantern, Wilbert handed the tray to the servant as a polite greeting for an encounter, "Good night, Miss Yin Feng,
I hope the view of Westminster didn't disappoint you too much; the armor is always shorter than the skirt."
"I heard that some energetic young men always bother a lady recently. I have reminded them that as a knight, this kind of behavior is too rude." He made a big circle politely, making the conversation
The start-up is not so purposeful, and what I really want to say is actually only a short sentence.
"Do you know where Mr. Brimmer might be?"
"Good night, Mr. Wilbert." After living here for a while, Yin Feng also understood a little about the rules of this behavior. Spending time leisurely seems to be a manifestation of status and etiquette, "He didn't talk to me.
I have mentioned this kind of thing before. Why do you ask that?"
"My master had some health issues that needed consultation, and I thought that a well-known figure in the industry would happen to visit, but unfortunately it didn't happen."
"I heard that he is visiting for an academic gathering. Did you mention to Miss when we met that he would visit other places today?"
"No, Professor Brimmer only said that he would stay here for a day or two, waiting for Mr. Kraft to come back." Yin Feng shook her head. She was not worried that this person went to the room in the inner castle to steal anything. Not to mention the door
Go up to the copper lock that requires a key, and the roving guards in the inner castle and several levels will not be selectively blind.
"Well, it seems we can only ask our own doctors. I'm afraid they won't be of much help." The internal affairs officer took away the cold dinner and left the new one in place, "As for this, let's go and deal with it.
"
The servant came downstairs briskly carrying cold soup, bread and meat, with a smile on his face that didn't seem to be fake. Yin Feng would often wonder where the food that was not eaten in time went, and the unified answer he got was "disposed of it", anyway.
It will be served to the guests for the second time.
Sometimes she found this luxury more viscerally surprising than the castle walls.
He bought some lamp oil from the servant and left the guest room area. Behind him, housekeeper Wilbert muttered to himself, blaming himself for letting some careless person arrange Professor Brimmer to the castle.
There is still a long way to go. Yin Feng clung to a low fence that she heard people had fallen to and passed slowly. In fact, it was not dangerous at all for her height, but the wind blowing from high altitude and from under the cliff
The night wind seemed to lift the body up and throw it into the bottomless starry sky.
The dangerous feeling and some natural impulse made her look down with both fear and curiosity.
The night patrol team holding high torches seems like jumping light spots here, an inverted and sparse star map, confusing the sense of up and down direction. And the body feels lighter and lighter, and it is about to break away at any time. Only the two feet are in contact, and there is no lack of contact.
Fixed ground.
Everything seemed cold and insignificant from this perspective. Those splendid armors, busy chores, complicated etiquette, and people with their own thoughts, and of course herself, were all tiny points of light, no different from each other or from before.
It's no different from the ones I've seen.
An indescribable feeling is stuck in the throat, like half-raw wheat grains that are so hard to swallow and spit out.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! She thought of a lot, visitors, knights, professors, internal affairs officers, but she seemed not to think of anything, all of them melted into a lump, a lump of condensation and mixture,
I understand but I don’t understand at all.
Boring and confused, she only looked at the star array composed of firelight on the ground, feeling that those insurmountable and incomprehensible things were the end of drifting in the wind. She was meaninglessly performing complex and boring actions, and might be blown away by a gust of wind from unknown sources at any time.
In the life that blows away, I pursue all kinds of things.
Just like this, one of them went out without warning and no one noticed.
The scene he stared at was reflected in his empty mind. Without thinking, Yin Feng didn't even think about what it might mean, and was immersed in his sudden burst of emotions or feelings.
Then, another bright spot flickered and disappeared from her eyes. This bright spot was on the ground at an unknown height below where she was. A moment ago, it was moving silently at the edge of her field of vision. She didn’t know where it was, maybe she was on patrol.
At rest stops, they went indoors to enjoy the fire and hot soup, or simply passed through a corridor.
The howling night wind blocked out any sounds that might come from below. She asked herself if this was normal, but she had never noticed the night view of the stone fortress before.
Instinctively, he felt something was wrong and wanted to ask for help. However, few people passed this stretch of road at night. The only person who might be traveling with him, Internal Affairs Officer Wilbert, was probably still in the accommodation area waiting for Brimer to return to his room.
Yin Feng subconsciously looked at the building with most of the rooms vacant. It was obscured by a tower on the way. Considering that he hadn't gone too far yet, it would only be a short time to retreat now.
Is it necessary? After all, no one stipulates that the firelight must be visible from above during the night patrol.
During the hesitation, a larger - that is, a closer light spot - shrank rapidly and disappeared without a trace.
A cold night wind that was different from the previous one was close to her ears. She was not sure whether it was an illusion caused by her imagination. It whispered the shrill sound coming from the plank road in mid-air. After a short fall of despair, it ended and was annihilated. The echo was heard by high altitude.
The strong wind tore it into pieces and distributed it, and what arrived here was one of them.
【what is that?】
The fallen torch illuminated an insignificant piece of the high wall and cliff. For just a moment, Yin Feng believed that his eyes saw something moving. It was not clear, but it was indeed close to vertical, with few natural feet.
There are more than one on the bare rock barrier.
His blank mind was filled with flashing images. At first glance, those things looked like a combination of raised mold spots on bubbled orange peels and toadstools. They were easily distinguishable from the background due to their peculiar color.
As can be seen here, the actual size of the "little mildew spot" is probably...at least the size of an adult.
And as the light spot disappeared, the only thing nearby that could indicate the development of the situation was also lost. The night patrol team, five or seven people, the final value was to tell her very limited information.
【Something is coming】
The rest are unknown. Yin Feng doesn't know what they are, how many there are, and where they are, but one thing is clear.
There was no way she could stay here any longer. This was an unobstructed road. Without thinking, she picked up the light and ran towards the nearest building, the tall tower between her and the visitor's residence.
If you still have time, you can try to meet up with Internal Affairs Officer Wilbert. It will probably be safer in a crowded place. And if you notice something is wrong along the way, the multi-layered space in the tower will provide enough room for you to hide and maneuver temporarily.
While running, she inexplicably remembered that night in the southern hills, when an unknown thing knocked on the door, and she could only rely on others and hide and escape.
Yin Feng felt that those unspeakable barriers in her heart became clear at this moment. She really wanted something that might not exist, something that could cause a complete change, to make herself "powerful", as straightforward and effective as a hammer hammering down a page.
, even more effective, able to smash both tangible and intangible things, and it made her tired of being powerless to do anything.
Instead of being like this now, panicking on the way to escape.