The door opened with a creak, and Richard stepped into Frank's Tavern.
The rich smell of blood gathered around as if it were a solid substance, and at a glance, there were corpses everywhere.
The walls were covered with bloodstains, like children's graffiti, but in this bad environment, they looked more like demonic murals in a cult, and the atmosphere was gloomy and strange. Corpses were piled up in random directions, and everyone had various expressions on their faces, some were frightened, some were angry, some were confused, some were contemptuous, and of course more panicked. The atmosphere was tragic and chaotic.
Richard's eyes became a little solemn as he walked around the tavern, scanning the massacre-like scene, thinking about what had happened here. For a moment, his eyes flashed and he noticed something.
Richard walked quickly over to Bucky, who was lying on the ground covered in blood, and found that he was still breathing weakly.
With a flip of his hand, Richard quickly took out the red "life potion" from the space iron ring and poured it into Bucky's mouth.
"Life potion" is not a holy medicine for "life and death, flesh and bones". It can only treat people's injuries to a certain extent. Richard is not sure how effective it can be at this time, but he can only treat it as a dead horse. Live horse doctor.
Pour the "potion of life" into Bucky's mouth. After waiting for a while, Bucky coughed lightly, his body shook, and he slowly opened his eyes. The gaze from his eyes was a little straightened, and it took him a long time to return to normal.
Bucky turned his head to look at Richard with difficulty, and said word by word: "Some... people have been here... we..."
"Who has been here? Who touched you?" Richard looked at Bucky and asked seriously. The "life potion" obviously played a certain role, but Richard saw that Bucky's injury was too serious. The potion could only extend the opponent's life for a short while. He had to take advantage of this world to find out enough information. , so as to make a judgment on the current situation.
Bucky answered: "Yes... there are two people, one... one male and one female. The male is very... very ordinary, the female is a little strange, and she makes a male voice... "
Richard's eyes flashed after hearing this, and two members of the mysterious organization, Solomon and Mu Keni, flashed in front of his eyes. Is it the other party
"What are they doing here? Why are they attacking you?" Richard asked.
"It's... it's books." Bucky spat out, "They asked for books when they came. It was you... the books you entrusted us to find..."
"Is that so..." Richard raised his eyebrows. This was pretty much what he expected. After all, it was because of the books that the other party attacked the young man who came out of the auction house, and it was also because of the books that he attacked Angel's teacher Eva. Now... Take action against the Brothers of Steel.
"But..." Bucky said again, with a bit of contempt and pride on his face, "But... they didn't succeed."
"Huh?" Richard frowned slightly.
"Steel... Iron will not deform, the Brotherhood of Steel will not be defeated, and the members of the Brotherhood of Steel will not surrender - never... will ever surrender. So, even if they kill us all, they will not. Ask us where the books are, and they are still... still in our hands."
"This!" Richard looked at Bucky, he was really surprised. He didn't expect this.
Bucky turned his body with difficulty, stretched one arm behind his back, and kept extending it downwards, as if inserting it into a certain part of the body, groping for a while, and took out something from inside.
Taking the thing in front of him, Richard took a look and found that it was... an iron rod more than twenty centimeters long.
this…
"Uh, no... it's not this, I took... the wrong one..." Bucky said, throwing away the iron rod and reaching behind his back again, inserting it into a certain part of his body, groping for a while, and took out the second thing from inside.
Taking the thing in front of him, Richard saw... a fist-sized bead of unknown purpose.
"It's... it's not this..." Bucky said angrily, shaking his arms, he reached behind his back for the third time, inserted it into a certain part of his body, fumbled for a while, and took out a third thing from inside.
When he got it in front of him, Richard saw that it was a book. It should be the book that he entrusted the Brotherhood of Steel to find according to the agreement.
When Richard saw the book, he didn't pick it up quickly. Because I felt a little weird at this moment, I was more curious about where these things were hidden behind Bucky's back, so that they were not found out by Solmen and Mu Keni, a mysterious organization.
not…
But if it is true, then the iron rods and beads from before are all in it
this…
Bucky seemed to realize what Richard was thinking, and said: "Don't... think too much, these things are actually placed in my muscle pockets."
As he spoke, Bucky turned around with difficulty and showed his back to Richard.
Richard saw that there was a long and narrow cut on Bucky's back, like a zipper in a pocket. It was through this cut that Bucky used the flesh of his body to make a pocket that could store items.
This is some kind of transformational structure spell. Bucky is also a wizard apprentice, so he can naturally learn it.
Richard has a little understanding of this kind of magic. Although it can store things and is extremely safe and will not be lost or stolen, once something is put into it, the flesh and blood of the body will have to withstand the effects of the object. The friction was excruciating. Only those with extremely strong perseverance or those who enjoy being abused can endure it.
In other words, in order to obtain a certain usefulness, this kind of spell costs a lot, and almost no one uses it, but it does not rule out special circumstances, such as Bucky who has to use it in order to preserve key items of the Brotherhood of Steel. . After all, not everyone can have spatial storage props.
Thinking about this, Richard reached out and took the book from Bucky's hand. He glanced at it briefly and put it into the space iron ring to make sure. When I looked at Bucky again, I found that Bucky had turned sideways and was lying on the ground motionless, with his eyes still open.
"call-"
Richard took a deep breath, touched Bucky's face with his hand, closed Bucky's eyelids, stood up, turned around, and walked towards the door.
Walking to the street outside the door, Richard found that at some point, the place became as quiet as a cemetery, without any sound.
The lights from several nearby shops on the street shone on his face, and Richard's eyes flickered. He tilted his head slightly and looked at his arms, and saw that the hairs on his skin stood up automatically under some kind of stimulation. Richard could feel that the surrounding atmosphere was suffocating and depressing, and a powerful danger was slowly approaching.
He has fallen into a trap.