After his conscious body rushed out of the room, Richard controlled the rapid rise. In a short while, he climbed to a height of several hundred meters. From here, he could take in the entire city of St. Louis and see the gorgeous starry sky above his head, giving people an uncontrollable feeling. Feeling of insignificance.
However, Richard was not in the mood to feel all this. He looked around, looked in the right direction, and followed his memory towards the manor he had visited outside St. Louis.
"Swish, swish, swish—"
The conscious body moved quickly under control and reached the sky above the manor outside the city in a moment.
Using the unique vision of the conscious body, Richard was able to see the situation of the manor in more detail.
The area of the manor is indeed very large. It was previously estimated to be four or five times the size of the Blue Lake Manor. However, adding in the sunken terrain that was inadvertently ignored, it may be six times the size of the Blue Lake Manor.
Among them, about one-third is lake water, another one-third is dense woods, and the remaining one-third is overgrown wild land.
Three stone buildings that were obviously in disrepair stood in the wilderness, swaying slightly in the night wind. The outer walls were covered with dense cracks, and stone chips peeled off from time to time, looking as pitiful as abandoned orphans.
But what is somewhat surprising is that there are lights on in this stone building at this time.
Richard controlled his consciousness and moved to the lighted window, where he saw a hunched old man sitting on a chair, looking at the rough wall and mumbling something unknown.
Is this Allen Pombo
Richard's guess? Then deny.
The opponent's body did not have any mana fluctuations, and he was wearing servant's clothes. He was definitely not Alan Pangbo.
Aaron Pombo should be somewhere else on the property—somewhere more private.
Where is it
As soon as Richard thought, his conscious body sank downwards, directly sinking into the soil and started searching.
He seriously suspected that there was a hidden secret passage under the three stone buildings, leading to Alan Pangbo's hiding place.
"found it!"
A few minutes later, Richard made a sound in his heart and entered a dug tunnel - the entrance of this tunnel was the basement of the stone building where the old servant had been.
As for where it leads, you have to explore to find out.
Without hesitation, Richard moved his consciousness and walked quickly along the corridor.
This journey was a full thousand meters, and Richard estimated that he had reached dozens of meters underground before he finally saw the end point.
At the end is a black metal door, four meters high and more than five meters wide. It is carved with complicated magic patterns on the surface. It looks like it is not a mortal thing at first glance. Richard guessed that if he wanted to forcefully destroy the metal door and enter it, ordinary third-ring spells would not work.
This also shows that what is inside is very important.
However, he doesn't need to destroy the door to get in now, he just needs to...
Richard moved his conscious body to approach the door, and integrated his hands into the door little by little. Then with a slight pull, his whole body passed through the metal door and entered the door as if passing through a layer of sticky glue.
Looking back at the metal door, Richard had already figured out the thickness of the metal door - more than thirty centimeters - and the weight of this thickness alone meant that ordinary people could not open it.
But he only glanced at it, then withdrew his gaze and focused more on the inside of the door.
You can see that inside the door is a medium-sized hall of several hundred square meters, with wooden shelves standing inside, and numerous books and scrolls placed on the wooden shelves.
In the deepest part of the hall, about one-third of the area was vacant, and there were a lot of furniture and furnishings, including wooden beds, wooden tables, and wooden chairs.
At this time, an old man with white hair and beard was sitting in front of the wooden table, holding a quill and writing something on a piece of papyrus. Occasionally, he would stop and look at the books open next to him, with a thoughtful expression on his face.
At the corner of the table, there were a lot of dishes piled messily, with leftover food among them - Richard could recognize them as the ones Anne had asked the chef to make for the second time at the restaurant in the city.
His suspicion was confirmed.
Annie was indeed delivering food to people, so she came to this manor.
Not surprisingly, the old man with white beard and hair is Alan Pangbo.
It seems that the opponent has not broken through to the fourth level wizard. If the breakthrough is successful, there will be no need to eat food. Judging from the current behavior of the other party, it is very likely that after the breakthrough failed, he knew that there was no chance of another breakthrough, so he placed his hope on the younger members of the Pangbo family. What he keeps writing should be some experiences to help the young Pangbo family members better improve their strength.
After a few glances, Richard withdrew his gaze and did not try to get close to Alan Pangbo. After all, a third-level wizard still had to pay attention, and he might be able to discover the existence of his consciousness.
His main purpose here is to find the "Book of the Void". If he can't find it, he will have to think of other ways.
Thinking about it, Richard moved his consciousness to the nearest bookshelf and browsed the contents of the books. When I came across those piles of books, I dived in and browsed with my face close to my face.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes...
In the blink of an eye, more than half an hour passed.
Richard noticed that Alan Pangbo, who was sitting behind the desk, had changed to a new piece of papyrus to write on, but he found nothing—no "Book of the Void" was found, and no books suspected of being "The Book of the Void" were found.
Looking at the more than half of the remaining bookshelves, Richard adjusted his mood, no longer anxious, and prepared to continue working hard.
At this moment, he heard a movement from the black metal door at the entrance to the hall.
somebody is coming
Richard moved his consciousness slightly curiously, passed through the soil, bypassed the door and reached the corridor outside the door. Then he saw the old servant in the stone building whom he had seen before, pressing one hand on the metal door.
The entire metal door was touched by the old servant, and the surface flashed with a dark blue luster, as if water from the entire ocean was gushing out. Then the metal door shook violently, and a needle like a mosquito's mouth pierced the old servant's hand, drawing out an extremely tiny drop of blood.
The blood melted into the metal door, as if it had passed some verification. The dark blue luster on the surface quickly converged, and then opened with a "squeak".
The old servant was not surprised. He stooped and walked in the door carrying a basket.
Richard followed him, not afraid that the other party would notice.
Arriving at the door, Alan Pangbo had already raised his head after hearing the sound. Richard ducked into the corner to be a spectator, while the old servant walked towards Alan Pangbo's position.
"Ta, Ta, Ta..."
The old servant walked to Alan Pangbo's table with staggering steps. Without saying anything, he silently picked up Alan Pangbo's leftover plates and put them all into the basket he had brought. Ready to take away for cleaning.
Alan Pangbo began to write on the papyrus again. After writing for a while, he casually asked the old servant: "Fitch, is Annie's child gone?"
"Snapped!"
With a soft sound, the old servant named Fitch put the last plate into the basket and replied: "Let's go, master."
After a pause, Fitch added: "I've been gone for a while, Master. Before I left, Miss Anne also said some words to me and advised me to return to the family residence to retire."
"Is that so?" Aaron Pangbo narrowed his eyes, raised his head and asked, "What do you think?"