Everyone in West Germany stood stunned for several seconds before looking at the only outsider - Brando.
At this time, Brando also looked like he had woken up from the dazzle just now. He glanced at the West German people. He originally wanted to reprimand each other and ask them to apologize for slandering him, but when he saw West Germany's murderous eyes, he rationally Discarded this idea.
He twitched his lips and said, "Well, it seems like there's nothing going on here. Since you don't trust me, then... I'll leave first. Well, I'll leave first and see you again when I have a chance."
He waved his left hand, then covered the wound on his right shoulder and walked out of the forest.
Syd looked at Brando's back and said nothing until he disappeared. Then his body shook, and he knelt on one knee like a landslide, his whole body shaking violently. The blood-red light on the armor faded away, and blood continued to seep out from under the skin. This was the price of repeatedly activating the magic pattern with life force—more painful than the backlash of a spell.
In pain, Sid looked at the place where Richard once was, and then at the place where the eldest lady Anne was. He felt weak in his heart, and then felt confused again.
He had no idea where Richard had taken Annie, let alone how to rescue him.
His emotions were very complicated. In the end, he clenched his fists and the blue veins popped out on his forehead. He vented like the roar of a wounded beast: "Ah, damn spy wizard, I will definitely find where you are. I will definitely find you and bring the eldest lady to the rescue." I will rescue you and then kill you, kill you! Definitely!"
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In fact, Richard didn't go anywhere. He just came to Manor No. 6 with his eldest daughter Anne, which is where West Germany was supposed to come.
Because of this, Richard wanted the other party to cooperate, but the other party refused, so he had to take the first step.
Manor No. 6.
In the night, the huge Manor No. 6 was as quiet as a cemetery.
When Richard took Annie into the door of the manor, all he heard was the howling of the wind, like a ghost crying, and the "swishing" swaying sound of branches in the distant woods.
A few hundred meters ahead, three dilapidated stone buildings stood like tombstones. In the one on the left, there was a faint light coming from the second-story window. It should be that an oil lamp was lit in the room. But the light was extremely unstable, going on and off, resembling the last breath of a dying person, and just like the current dire situation of the Pangbo family.
Richard stared at Shilou for a few seconds, then looked back at Anne beside him.
At this time, Annie's cheeks were tense, her brows were frowning, and her lips were pursed. Although she was staying quietly by her side, her face was full of expressions of unwillingness to cooperate. If Richard hadn't fully demonstrated his strength on the road, he would have pounced on him and bit him. Even so, the look in his eyes seemed to be saying fiercely: Although I can't beat you, but... I'm not afraid of you!
Richard shook his head slightly and said to Anne: "Okay, Manor No. 6 is here, take me to find the big shot who lives in seclusion here."
"Big shot? What big shot?" Anne said with a puzzled expression, "This is just an abandoned manor of my family, there is no one there."
Richard exhaled lightly, looked at Anne and said, "Miss Anne, it's time now. There's no point in pretending to be stupid anymore."
"There really aren't many people in this manor," Anne insisted.
"There is no one, are you sure? Whether there is anyone is not my guess, but what you said yourself." Richard said softly, "Didn't you say before that you would bring West Germany and the others to Manor No. 6 to look for support? "
"This..." Annie hesitated.
"Okay, take me there." Richard said.
Annie twisted her body uneasily a few times, and finally seemed to have made some decision. She looked at Richard and said seriously: "You know, I told Sid before that I was lying to him when I told him to come here to find someone. This place is really There’s no one there, I don’t know anything about this place.”
Am I really that easy to deceive because of my appearance... Richard looked at Annie and was speechless for a while, but he guessed what Annie was thinking.
The other party was just worried that he might pose a threat to Allen Pangbo and ruin the Pangbo family's hope of a final comeback, so they didn't want to take him there.
Oh well.
Sighing secretly in his heart, Richard looked at Annie and said, "Since you don't want to take me there, then I'll take you there."
"Huh?" Annie was stunned.
Richard stepped up and walked towards the stone building: "Follow me."
"Well… "
Two minutes later.
Richard led Annie to the illuminated stone building, opened the door and walked in without hesitation, heading towards the basement.
Anne watched Richard walk into the basement in a familiar way, as if he was more familiar with him than she was, with an expression as if he had seen a ghost, but he hesitated to speak.
She really wanted to ask Richard how he knew the passage here. This was a high-level secret of the Pangbo family, and only a few people knew about it except her. But she was not sure whether Richard was really sure there was a passage here, or whether he was deliberately deceiving her. She tried hard to resist the urge to ask questions and remained silent.
At this time, Richard turned to look at Annie and asked, "We are all here, and you still insist that you don't know anything?"
Annie shook her head, showing a blank face: "I really don't know anything."
"Okay." Richard sighed, stepped forward, and with a "squeak" sound, lifted a wooden board on the ground, revealing the entrance to the passage.
"Still don't know now?" Richard asked Annie again.
The expression on Annie's face was almost unbearable, but she finally bit the bullet and responded: "Well, I still don't know."
"You are not as smart as I thought, Miss Anne." Richard said, "In my opinion, under normal circumstances, you should admit it now."
Annie: "..." What can she do? I have already pretended to be stupid, so I can only keep pretending.
"Ta, Ta, Ta..."
Footsteps sounded, and the old servant upstairs heard the movement downstairs, staggered down and walked into the basement.
Entering the basement, when the old servant saw Richard and Annie, he couldn't help but be startled, opened his mouth and tried to ask a question.
Richard pointed to the old servant first and asked Anne: "His name is Fitch, right? He is the servant of the big shot here, and he has been taking care of him. You previously persuaded him to return to the family residence for retirement, why? , you still don’t know anything?”
Anne looked at Richard with wide eyes, her mouth couldn't help but open with a shocked and surprised expression, and asked Richard "how could he know so much?" But then thinking about her answers to the previous questions, she helplessly pretended to have amnesia and said, "Well, I still don't know."
The old man next to him opened his mouth and closed it. He noticed that something was not quite right.
Richard said: "Well, since you don't know anything, I won't ask you any more questions, but just follow me and explore a little bit. Is that okay?"
"without… "
"Okay, let's go." Richard took Annie and walked towards the passage. After walking a few steps down, he turned around and said to the old servant named Fei Qi: "If you are interested, you can have one too."
The old servant's cloudy eyes rolled, he didn't say anything, he just nodded and followed.
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