"Kelly! Wake up! Kelly!! Wake up!!"
Suddenly, a rush of screams came from beside my ears.
Garen opened his eyes suddenly, and a burst of dazzling light made him squint his eyes, while Tari Mercury beside him was patting his face in doubt.
"What's wrong? What are you doing here, Tali?" Garen sat up, only to realize that the scene just now was just a dream.
"Why did you come to sleep in the basement?" Tali Shuiyin looked at Gallon strangely, "Did you come here alone to study last night, and if you were sleepy, whoever was here directly? Didn't I tell you not to act alone, Want to wait for me?"
It was only then that Garen realized that he was lying in the basement, surrounded by narrow gray-black walls, empty of nothing, and the ground and walls were covered with cold gray-black stone bricks.
This basement is not all underground, half of the skylights are on the upper part of the wall, shining bright sunlight. It doesn't look like a basement but more like a dungeon.
"What's going on? I remember that I slept in my own bedroom?" He lowered his head and felt a bit of pain in his head.
Suddenly he felt a chill in his heart, and there was no sound around him.
In just a blink of an eye, the mercury in the tower in front of him disappeared.
Surrounded by empty basement rooms.
"Tari?"
"Tari?!"
Garen got up from the ground and shouted a few times.
No one answered.
Suddenly his head hurt, and a memory suddenly came to his mind, which he remembered vaguely. It seemed like three days ago that Tari woke him up from the basement.
"Three days ago?" He covered his head, his eyes blurred. "What's going on? If it was three days ago, then what the hell did I do during these three days?! How come I don't have any memory at all? He was still standing in front of me just now!"
He felt a sharp pain in his temple. My mind is a little confused.
"No! This castle can't stay any longer!!"
He hurriedly opened the door, rushed out of the basement, and ran towards the castle gate along the empty and straight corridor.
The sound of footsteps echoed in the castle.
Boom! !
The castle gate was smashed open. Garen rolled out of the door, rolled down the stone steps, rolled a few more times on the lawn, and finally lay on his back on the grass.
Hoo. Hoo. Hoo.
He was gasping for breath, and a violent drowsiness surged up for no reason, and Garen fell into a deep sleep without any resistance.
After an unknown amount of time, he slowly opened his eyes again. He was still lying on the bed in the bedroom in the castle.
"Kelly, are you awake?" Tali's quicksilver voice came from outside the door.
"Back again?!! Was it all a dream just now?" Garen was startled and sat up. "This place. This place is so weird!!" Goosebumps swelled all over his body. The warm sunlight shone on him from the window, but he didn't feel any warmth at all. But recalling the scene just now, the scene now feels much clearer.
"Is it a dream?" He took a deep breath.
After getting up, he quickly put on his clothes, opened the door, and saw Tali Shuiyin standing at the door, looking at him in surprise.
"What's wrong with you? You have dark circles under your eyes, and you look like you haven't slept well."
"It's nothing, I had a nightmare." Garen forced a smile.
"Nightmare?" Tali Shuiyin laughed, "A nightmare scares you like this? What's the matter? Come and have morning tea and tell us."
"Okay." Garen rubbed the space between his brows, feeling a little ridiculous. "It's just that this nightmare is not generally real."
"You go there first. I'll lock the doors and windows in the hall on the first floor below." Tali Shuiyin patted Garen on the shoulder, "It seems that I shouldn't give you that document."
"It's okay, I'm not someone who is easily scared." Garen laughed dumbfounded, and walked out of the room to go downstairs.
He didn't see Tali Shuiyin's slightly sinking expression standing behind him.
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Lobby
Going down the stairs in the middle, Gallon saw Miss Si Lan sitting in the corner, slowly drinking a cup of hot black tea. She also changed into a black-brown tight-fitting safari suit, and her light-blond long hair was tied in a bunch behind her back. It brings out the fair and delicate complexion more and more.
"Mr. Kelly is up too? Why doesn't he look very energetic? Didn't he take a rest?"
"I had a nightmare, it feels too real." Garen rubbed his brows, walked to the table next to Si Lan and sat down.
"Let's drink tea. The black tea I just brewed is the tea I brought from Gelfade." Si Lan made a gesture of invitation.
"Thank you."
Garen picked up a cup of slightly hot black tea, put it to his nose and sniffed it, and suddenly a fresh, mint-like sound came to his face, mixed with light cream and sweet fragrance.
I took a sip, feeling like I was drinking mint water.
"What kind of tea is this? It smells weird."
"I added other spices, which can refresh the mind and wake up the brain in the morning. One of my uncles is a professor of medicine at Sirius University. This is the method he taught me." Silan smiled.
"Not bad." Garen nodded, "I feel that my mind is much clearer."
Tali Shuiyin also walked to the table and sat down, picked up the mahogany cup he had prepared, and took a deep sip of the tea in it.
"In a while, I arranged it like this. I will go hunting first, prepare food for noon and afternoon, and then go to get water and wash the tableware. The afternoon is dedicated to inspecting the castle and the surrounding environment."
"You are much more experienced than me. It all depends on your arrangement. I have no objection." Garen shrugged.
"By the way, Mr. Kelly."
"Just call me Kelly."
"Well, Kelly, you just said that you had a very realistic nightmare. What kind of dream can make you like this? It seems that you are lack of energy and listless." Tali Quicksilver wondered.
Garen took a sip of the hot tea lightly, the coolness of the mint mixed with the heat of the hot water, and it slid down his throat into his stomach at the heart, feeling warm all over his body and still sober.
"I dreamed" he paused, "I dreamed that someone kept opening the door of my room in the middle of the night, again and again. Every time it was when I was about to fall asleep."
He frowned. "It's weird. I've never been here, I've never been to this castle, I didn't expect to have such a nightmare when I came here."
"I remember that the information I gave you recorded the death information of the three owners who used to be here. It is said that they kept having nightmares some time before their death. It may be that after you saw the information, you felt a little worried , will have such a strange dream." Tali Shuiyin analyzed.
"Is there any specific record of their nightmares?" Garon wondered.
"Not really, but I also had a dream yesterday, but it wasn't a nightmare." Tali Shuiyin held his cane and looked up at the skylight, with a trace of nostalgia and bewilderment on his face.
"You remember that incident again?" A trace of worry flashed in Si Lan's eyes. "It's been so long, haven't you let it go?"
"If only it were that simple." Tali Shuiyin smiled, but there was a bit of bitterness in the smile.
Garen sat on the side, glanced at the expressions of the two of them, but did not speak.
After slowly drinking their morning tea and eating some pastries brought by Si Lan, the three of them got up and picked up their shotguns and knives.
Tali Quicksilver held a shotgun, and changed into dark green clothes that were specially designed for hunting, similar to military uniforms, and wore a cylindrical hat.
Garen was carrying a half-meter-long scimitar, but his clothes were still the same as yesterday's, so he didn't look like he was hunting. It's not as simple as Miss Si Lan's attire. In the end, he carried a burlap bag and simply started the logistics work.
The three simply packed up the tableware and walked out of the castle gate one after another.
He slammed the door shut and locked it. Tali Quicksilver took the lead and walked towards the right side of the castle.
"There's a big hole in the fence over there, so you can go straight through the woods." He started loading the shotgun as he walked, clicking up and down from time to time.
"There aren't many animals around here, but fortunately we don't have many people, as long as we catch a little something, we can eat a few meals."
Garen nodded and didn't speak. He just raised his pocket, which meant that he was just doing logistics to help get things, and the rest is up to you.
Tali Shuiyin smiled, patted the shotgun confidently, and stopped talking.
The three of them came to the right side of the castle, and there was a big hole in the black iron fence that was two people wide and one person high. The metal railing of the fence seemed to be smashed by something, bent inward and broke.
Tali Shuiyin was the first to get out of the big hole cautiously, and stood on the other side waving at the two of them.
Silan was the second to go through the hole, her movements were neat. Garen followed quickly, but a corner of his clothes was almost caught by the broken metal railing.
Outside the fence is a deep and dark green forest. There are densely packed small trees four to five meters high, thick and thin, plus dense ground shrubs and grasses. Before entering, you can feel a coolness gushing out from the depths of the forest.
The sun that had just risen did not shine into the woods at all, and even the warmth of the light was blocked outside. There were bursts of crisp bird calls coming from the depths, and occasionally there was the rustling of the grass, as if something was rushing through the grass.
"This is the movement of the mountain mouse, which is very big and fat." Tali Quicksilver whispered, bent down, and walked as lightly as possible. , "I didn't expect to meet something good just after I came out."
Si Lan smiled, and began to move slowly behind him.
Although Garen had never hunted before, he also knew that there must be no loud noises at this time, so he stood on tiptoe and followed behind.
boom!
There was a sudden gunshot in front of him, and he looked up, just in time to see Tali Shuiyin put down the gun, white smoke was rising from the barrel of the gun, and a strong smell of gunpowder filled the air.
"Hey, I hit it!" Tali Shuiyin rubbed his nose, strode forward, walked to a bush more than ten meters away, pushed the grass away vigorously, rummaged inside, and directly raised a Football-sized black and gray mountain rat.
"It's so big!" Garen exclaimed in amazement, following up to look at the mountain mouse, it looked exactly like the enlarged version of the mouse, except that the head was shot to pieces, and the fur on the back was spattered with some fine particles. blood spots.
"Your marksmanship in the tower is really good. You can see the fast-running mountain mouse clearly from such a distance through the grass." Gallon gave the mountain mouse a thumbs-up at Quicksilver in the tower, and Garen patted the mountain mouse's fur. "It seems that this one is enough for the three of us today."
"It's not enough. If you want to remove the viscera and fur, there won't be much meat left, so you have to beat some more." Tali Shuiyin shook his head and laughed.
Garen had never handled game by himself, so he didn't understand anything, but he felt that everything was quite new. The gloomy mood caused by the nightmare last night suddenly relaxed a lot.
The three of them continued wandering in the woods, with Garen following at the end, and the mountain mouse was in his pocket. It was a bit heavy, weighing about twenty pounds, or nearly twenty catties.
Following Miss Silan, Gallon checked his physical attributes by the way. The attributes have not changed much, but the power has increased a little bit. From the original 2.08 to the current 2.09, it is obviously the effect of Dacheng's Baiyun secret method.
"Many people know the growth rate of the third-level Baiyun secret technique, but this is the fourth-level secret technique that no one has ever hit. I guess no one knows what level it can reach. Now the martial arts are on the right track, it's just the absorption of potential It has begun to stagnate again. If we can figure out the source of the potential of the doomed antiques, we can follow a clear direction to find them, instead of scurrying around like headless chickens like now."
While checking his physical condition, Garen followed closely behind the two people in front. During this period of time, in the process of practicing against his senior brothers and sisters, he has gradually acquired the temperament of a martial artist. This is a change that slowly arises from the depths of the heart, and it is a change that occurs naturally due to changes in one's own strength.
After turning around for a while, none of the three could meet the rest of the prey, Tali Shuiyin turned back and said loudly.
"There's a cellar in the castle ahead. Do you want to take a look? It's already nearby. We can go there to rest. It's probably because the gunshots just now scared the animals around. Anyway, there's nothing to hunt around now."
(end of this chapter)