Holding the pistol, Bai Ying slowly stood up and leaned against the wall. He made a look at the other two.
The two immediately understood, stood up and took out the pistols at their waists, and opened the safety.
Click!
Another bolt of lightning flashed across, illuminating the room brightly.
White Eagle leaned his ears against the wall, as if listening to something.
"Someone's out there," he whispered. "More than one person!"
His ears left the wall, and a large piece of white ash immediately fell from the wall, making a loud noise.
"Who!!" Bai Ying growled and rolled suddenly. There were two bullet holes on the edge of the wall where he was originally standing. It turned out that someone was shooting from the next wall.
Bai Ying got up and rushed to the door, opened it abruptly and rushed out.
Garen and Tali Shuiyin stayed in the room vigilantly, neither moving.
With a pistol in his hand, Garen leaned against the window and stared at the gate vigilantly. Suddenly he felt his back collar being pulled.
Looking back, the window was opened at some point, and there was no one outside the window. The pouring raindrops kept falling, and it was almost impossible to see the scenery a few meters away.
"What's wrong Kelly?"
"It seems like someone is pulling on my collar." Gallon said doubtfully, "But maybe I was too nervous and the collar got caught."
Terry leaned over and looked out the window. "This is the second floor. It's very high from the ground. It should be hung. Be careful. Don't stand by the window. It's dangerous even if you can't see anything clearly in this weather."
"Understood." Garen nodded.
boom! !
Suddenly there was a gunshot from next door.
"Go!" Tali rushed out the door first, followed by Garen.
The two quickly went to the next room, which was the room where Garen was pushed down earlier. The room was empty.
"White Eagle!" Tali yelled loudly.
No one responded. Only the door creaked behind me.
He turned his head and found that Kelly, who was following behind, was gone.
"Kelly!?" He yelled loudly, slowly clenched the pistol in his hand, and his expression became tense.
"White Eagle! Kelly! Are you there?"
The half-open door was suddenly blown by the wind, and slowly opened completely.
Squeak!
The sound was extremely harsh in the quiet corridor with only the sound of rain. It was pitch black outside the door, and nothing could be seen.
Tari felt that his hand holding the gun was trembling, and suddenly he realized that something was wrong.
His eyes quickly scanned the room.
The whole room was surprisingly tidy, the cobwebs on the big bed were gone, replaced by a clean white bed, the floor was also made of polygonal red bricks, without any dust.
The big box at the end of the bed has also become very tidy, without any dust accumulation.
"There's something weird here." The inside of the tower darkened, and slowly opened the safety of the pistol.
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boom! !
Garen followed behind and saw Tari rushing into the next room with a gun. The door was automatically blown back by the wind, and he also pushed open the door and rushed in.
"Huh?"
A strange thing happened, and the tower detective who was one step ahead of him couldn't see anyone at all.
"Tari!?" Garen slowly opened the safety of the pistol and walked into the room.
The room is full of dust, the floor of the window has been wet a lot, and a person is standing in front of the window with his back to him.
Garen took a closer look and saw that the man's clothes vaguely resembled a white eagle.
"Tari?" he asked in a low voice.
blah blah..
Suddenly there were footsteps behind him.
Garen turned his head, just in time to see Bai Ying running into the room.
"Where's in the tower?" Bai Ying asked out of breath, "There was someone next door just now. I missed it and lost it."
"Isn't Tali by the window?" Gallon turned his head and pointed to the window, only to find that there was no one in the window. The person who turned his back on him just now disappeared.
"What's going on? Just now I saw a person standing at the window with his back to me!" He said in a deep voice.
"Did I read it wrong?" Bai Ying walked over with a frown, and squatted down on the window floor to check. "There are no footprints here. It was impossible to stand here just now."
"Impossible!" Garen said firmly, "I clearly saw someone standing at the window, right! Where's the tower?"
"Isn't he with you?" Bai Ying was taken aback.
"I rushed into this room with him just now, and then he disappeared in no time! I was blocked by the door for a moment, and within two seconds, I couldn't see him when I came in!" Gallon said solemnly.
Click!
A flash of lightning flashed, making the faces of the two of them pale and bright.
"I'm in trouble." Bai Ying's face became serious, and he took out a match and lit a small torch that he carried with him. The bright yellow light slowly ignited, and immediately illuminated a small area of the room.
Garen suddenly thought of something, his face changed, and he rushed to the window and looked down. There was nothing on the black lawn below, so he let out a long breath.
"Tari is obviously only one step ahead of me!!"
"Are you sure?" Bai Ying's face was calm, and his eyes on Garen became slightly sharper. "In such a short period of time, it is impossible for him to come in and leave no one."
"I'm sure!" Garen replied affirmatively.
Bai Ying stared at him closely, and slowly clenched the pistol in his hand. Suddenly, he seemed to remember something, and slowly backed away facing Garen, retreated to the door of the room and squatted down, using his free hand on the ground Touched lightly. Suddenly, his body slowly relaxed.
"You're right that there are indeed footprints of three people here! But the footprints of one of them disappeared as soon as they entered the room!"
Garen was also a little nervous at this time, walked over a few steps, and then squatted down to check. There were indeed three pairs of footprints on the ground, one of which disappeared after entering the room, and the other two were still clearly visible in the room due to the heavy humidity. visible.
Boom!
Suddenly a gust of wind blew out from the window of the room, and the door was slammed shut, almost hitting Garen's nose.
"The wind is too strong." Bai Ying stood up, "I'm sorry I blamed you." He apologized, stretched out his hand and pushed the door, but didn't open it.
"It's okay, the door was automatically locked, right? Take the key to open it." Garen reminded, with a solemn expression on his face, always alert to all movements around him. "Tari must be found quickly, he may be dangerous now!"
"I'll do it!" Bai Ying nodded, with a gloomy expression on his face. He took out a bunch of keys, looked at the labels on them, and picked out one to insert into the keyhole of the door.
clatter clatter
The key turned in the lock a few times, but the door didn't move, Bai Ying pushed it again, but it couldn't be opened at all.
"Huh?" Bai Ying was taken aback for a moment, "Something's wrong!"
"Break away!" Garen also saw that something was wrong.
Bai Ying nodded, took a step back, and kicked his foot suddenly.
boom!
The door didn't move at all, but a lot of white ash fell around it.
"This room is weird!" Garen stepped back to make room.
"Go back and get your things. I'll break open the door first. We'll leave here when we find Tower!" White Eagle also felt something was wrong, and said loudly.
"good!"
Garen quickly rushed back to the room where the three of them had stayed before, packed up all kinds of sundries such as food and luggage, and tied them tightly. Just about to lift it up and go out.
boom!
Suddenly there was a gunshot in the corridor, followed by the sound of cracking and cracking the wooden boards of the door.
He rushed out with his bag in hand, the corridor was empty, and there was no movement at all.
The door to the next room was still locked and intact.
"Then where did the sound I heard earlier come from?" He tightened his scalp. Just now he clearly heard gunshots and the sound of the door shattering, but now even the white eagle is gone.
"Could it be... because of the medal?" He vaguely guessed the reason.
Looking at the locked door in front of him, Gallon knew in his heart that if no measures were taken, Tali might die inside.
"Although I have already returned your favor," he took out his pistol and pointed it at the door lock.
bang bang bang!
Three shots were fired. The keyhole was completely smashed.
Garen slammed hard, and immediately opened the door.
There was no one in the room, the big bed in the whole room was removed, and the floor under the bed actually showed a slanted exit, leading to the stairs on the first floor.
Garen took a deep breath, walked to this secret exit and looked down. Looking down from this angle, on the ground of the first floor directly opposite, Tali Shuiyin was lying motionless on the ground.
"Tower!" Garen didn't care about anything, jumped down from the exit, grabbed a few stair railings as a buffer, and landed firmly beside Tower.
"Tari!! How's it going?" He helped the detective up, sniffed, and was still breathing.
The detective slowly opened his eyes, and said a word in a daze.
"Below me. Below me."
It was only then that Garen noticed that the bronze cross was still pressed on the place where the detective was lying on his stomach. There is actually a clear white scratch on the edge of the medal, which seems to be scratched by the detective just now.
At this time, Tali was a little more awake, and sat up independently, panting heavily.
".It's so dangerous! You couldn't see anyone in the blink of an eye just now! I discovered a big secret in the room alone!"
"Forget about that, the white eagle is gone!" Gallon said in a deep voice, "I heard him break into the door just now, but I saw that the door was still fine!"
"White Eagle is gone?" Tari looked calm, "Don't worry too much, White Eagle is stronger than both of us, we are fine and he should be fine."
"What should we do now? Us?" Garen helped the detective stand up, neither of them went to pick up the medal.
"Antiques of misfortune are indeed antiques of misfortune. I have seen it this time." Tali Mercury looked at the medal on the ground with a complicated expression, "Now we just need to stand where we are and wait."
He drew his gun and aimed it skyward.
bang bang bang! !
He fired three shots.
The gunshots were extremely harsh, directly suppressing the sound of the rain outside for a while.
Soon, a white figure rushed down from the stairs on the second floor and landed in front of the two of them.
"Are you okay!?"
Bai Ying asked loudly after standing still.
"It's okay!" Tali nodded, "I saw the people from the Golden Ring just now! Sure enough, they are playing tricks!"
"Me too! I saw a figure jumping out of the window, so I chased it out." Bai Ying said in a deep voice, "But unfortunately I didn't catch up. Come with me."
Bai Ying led the two of them out of the gate on the first floor, and walked to the left side of the entrance of the old castle, a small pavilion sheltered from the rain.
In the pavilion lay the corpse of a man in black, with a large amount of red blood dripping from his chest, which was immediately diluted by the heavy rain when it flowed onto the lawn.
White Eagle grabbed the man's left ear and tore off a golden earring from it.
"Golden Ring 114."
He threw the ring to the tower.
"The hundred-digit members of the Golden Ring, they really are playing tricks!" He walked to the corpse and began to examine it carefully, then asked Bai Ying for some specific details, and began to analyze slowly according to reasoning.
(end of this chapter)