"And what?"
"When we came here just now, this burrow was opened. I clearly remember that it was restored to its original state when we left. Obviously someone discovered this place later."
Garen also frowned. "It's really troublesome. It's probably from Jinhuan." Suddenly he smelled a faint scent, like sandalwood, but much weaker. "What smells so good?"
"Huh? This smell." Detective Tower suddenly stopped talking with the bearded man, his face changed slightly, as if he remembered something.
Suddenly his complexion changed, and he shouted suddenly. "Everyone, get out!! Don't stay here!"
The others didn't figure out what was going on, but out of trust in the famous detective, they all ran outside the castle.
The same was true for Garen, but he didn't take a few steps when he suddenly felt a blur in front of him.
whee
There was a faint chuckle behind him.
His scalp tingled, and he immediately remembered the experience when he was pushed downstairs, and the same laughter behind him.
Looking back suddenly, there was nothing behind him.
"Go!!" A vague voice came from beside him, and Garen felt a force pulling him, and rushed straight to the gate of the castle.
He was startled suddenly, and then looked around in the blink of an eye, none of the other people who were around just now had disappeared, and he was the only one left in the whole castle. An invisible man seemed to be running in front of him, pulling his hand. He ran forward with all his strength.
boom!
The door was knocked open, and Garen was dizzy, suddenly lost his balance, and fell on the grass. In the cold and damp grass, a gust of fresh air penetrated his nostrils, instantly clearing his mind.
The vision in front of him suddenly blurred, and a large group of people suddenly appeared on the surrounding lawn, including the sheriff, experts, and several police officers. As well as Mercury Silk Lan in Tali, White Eagle and Black Panther, and others, Cynthia and Grace were lying beside him, still in a dizzy state.
"It's dangerous!!" Detective Tari Mercury stood up and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He looked back at Yinsha Castle with lingering fear. "I always thought that the previous aroma should be produced naturally. I didn't expect that it must be intentionally released by someone. This time we have more people and the other party increased the concentration, so everyone smelled it carefully."
"What the hell is this?" Sergeant Rio stood up from the grass panting. The rest of the people also got up one after another, and looked at Tali Shuiyin with a serious face.
"I seemed to see the people around me disappear all of a sudden! What's going on?"
"Me too! I heard someone laughing behind me just now!!"
"Don't worry! Listen to what the detective has to say first!" The sheriff pressed his hands together, and the surrounding area became much quieter. All eyes were on the detective.
Garen was about to ask, but when he heard about the other people's situation, he suddenly realized that it was similar to what he had experienced. He was startled, and then focused his attention on Detective Tower.
"This is a very strong hallucinogenic aroma." Tali Mercury looked very serious, "I once saw a description in a classic, but I didn't expect to see this almost extinct thing in reality."
He took a deep breath, looked at the others around him, and said word by word.
"Tea branch vine! This aroma is the hallucinatory poison naturally emitted by the legendary extinct tea branch vine when it matures. It can make people have various hallucinations of loneliness and fear. The poisonous gas emitted by this vine is generally very faint, Humans can't smell it at all, and only some animals with a keen sense of smell can tell the difference."
"Tea branch vine" Garen narrowed his eyes, recalling that when he first came to Silver Shade Castle, he was pushed down from the second floor and was injured, "It seems that someone used the scent of tea branch vine to charm me first, Then when I walked to the window, he pushed me down the window. At that time, Baiying and Tali should have been hallucinated by this fragrance, so the three of us entered the room one after another, but we couldn't see each other at all."
"So someone is deliberately preventing us from entering that passage?" the sheriff asked in a low voice.
Tali Quicksilver nodded, and began to discuss countermeasures with the sheriff and mechanism experts.
On Gallon's side, Cynthia and Grace were also fully awake. Cynthia was the one who dragged Gallon out of the castle earlier.
"If I hadn't experienced resistance training like hallucinogenic poisons first, I might not be able to pull you out this time." She smiled at Garen, "Thank me, if it wasn't for me, you would definitely there is a problem."
"Yeah, yeah, thanks to you." Garen said speechlessly, but it was true, Cynthia showed a great effect as soon as he came, it wasn't him, probably Garen is now with the policeman who didn't have time to escape from the castle Same, passed out directly to the ground.
A group of people stood at the gate and did not dare to go in. They just looked at the two policemen lying inside through the gate. No one wanted to rush in and become like those two.
"Look over there!!" a policeman suddenly shouted. Point to the highest third-floor roof.
Everyone followed his direction, and there was a man in black standing in front of the window of a room on the third floor, who seemed to be a pale woman with a strange smile on her face, dark green eyes, and the corners of her mouth flicked from time to time. Drooling down.
The moment everyone saw her clearly, the woman immediately disappeared into the shadow behind the window.
"Cover your mouth and nose with a wet towel! Water should be able to absorb this hallucinogenic aroma!" Tari Mercury shouted.
Everyone immediately began to take out the water bottles they carried with them, wet their clothes, and then covered their mouths and noses.
The sheriff was the first to rush in with a pistol, and ran to the two policemen who fell to the ground in the castle to check.
"Don't worry about it, they're dead," the detective said in a deep voice as he entered the door, "Overdose of hallucinogens, especially this high concentration, coupled with bleeding from a severe blow to the back of the head."
The rest of the people imitated the example and answered the old castle.
"Catch that woman first!! I'll go first!" Bai Ying said coldly, "Black Panther, protect Mr. and Miss Si Lan!"
"Leave it to me!" Panther patted his chest. Watching Bai Ying rush upstairs in a few steps, and quickly disappeared around the corner.
Cynthia also took out a white pistol and stood in front of Garen.
The sheriff stood up with a gloomy expression, "Everyone! Search for me! If you find that crazy woman, shoot her dead on the spot!"
Obviously, the death of his subordinate made him feel angry.
"Yes!" All the policemen gathered together and overworked, all drew their pistols, and there was a hint of anger and tension on their faces.
Everyone was on high alert and began to disperse to inspect every corner of the entire castle. More than a dozen people were divided into several teams and patrolled everywhere.
Gallon led Cynthia and Grace up to the second floor vigilantly. Before they had taken a few steps, they heard two gunshots from above.
"Ah!!" A scream came suddenly.
"Tom!!" "She ran to the second floor!! Quick! Kill her!!"
"Damn! This madman is too fast! I can't aim!!" "She ran to the stairs!'
The three of Garen were at the corner of the stairs when they saw a black figure jumping down from the stairs, as light as a piece of black cloth, completely weightless.
Cynthia moved the fastest, and instantly a white pistol appeared in her right hand, aiming at the shadow and pulling the trigger directly.
Bang bang bang! !
Four shots in a row, just one second of face-to-face, all four bullets hit Sombra.
whee
The black shadow let out a sharp laugh, paused, and rushed towards Cynthia again. It seemed that the shot just now had no effect on her at all, and the speed was even faster than before.
A strand of her black shadow suddenly grabbed Cynthia's neck, like a black tentacle, so fast that it was impossible to see what it was.
Cynthia looked calm and did not move her gun.
boom! !
This shot just hit Sombra's head back.
ah! !
The black shadow let out a piercing scream, gave up attacking Cynthia, and fled directly downstairs. It disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Garen didn't move behind, he didn't want to show his skills, and he was still under the witness of so many people. Especially White Eagle.
Although I really wanted to shoot, I held back.
"It's all right!" He held Cynthia's shoulders. The latter's body shook, and he woke up from a state of high tension, bowing his head and panting heavily.
"That's amazing!! That woman's speed! She was able to dodge me four times in a row!" Sweat dripped from the tip of her nose. "But in the end, ho... I was shot."
"It's a nightmare for martial arts masters to get close. No matter how good your marksmanship is, you can't do close combat with martial arts. Of course, if you pull out from a distance, it's the other way around." Garen nodded. "Go! Let's go down and have a look."
Grace stood aside and couldn't speak at all, and her marksmanship was also good, but she would never even have time to react when encountering an opponent like this, and she would be caught and killed immediately. Originally, she didn't think much of Cynthia's marksmanship, but her reaction just now compared her real strength.
At this moment, being pulled by Garen, the three quickly ran downstairs together.
Downstairs, in the lobby on the first floor, five or six policemen stood around the woman, all holding their guns and staring nervously at the center.
The black-robed woman was lying on the ground, twitching from time to time, and there was a small blood hole on the forehead on the left side of her head. The blood hole was very deep, obviously hurting the brain.
Garen and his party, the sheriff and others surrounded him, as did Tari Quicksilver and Black Panther. Everyone looked at the woman in the middle.
"She was shot in the head, and she is about to die." Cynthia said lightly, turning the pistol several times in her hand. "My bullets are specially made, and the penetrating power is absolutely powerful! It is used to deal with this kind of martial arts master."
Sure enough, not long after, the woman suddenly twitched again, and then completely stopped moving. A black cloak fell from his head, revealing a full head of white hair.
"How old is this woman?" Garen was slightly startled.
"At least eighty or ninety years old, I don't know how she has lived in this castle." The detective said calmly, smoking a pipe. "There are very few people with special physiques who are not afraid of being poisoned by the poisonous smoke of tea vines, but they will lose their sanity and behave like wild animals after living in this hallucinogenic poisonous smoke for a long time. Presumably this guy is this kind special race."
"What now?" The sheriff looked at the detective.
"Check the corpse first to see if there is anything to gain, and then we will enter the passage as planned!" The detective said decisively, taking off his pipe.
"Okay. Listen to you!"
"When the time comes, Bai Ying, you protection expert, we will go down together, and the others will stay on top to protect the entrance." Tari Quicksilver began to arrange.
"Sheriff, take two people and follow them down. We will leave one person at a certain distance to guard and respond, and tie the rope we brought."
"What about me?" Black Panther stepped forward and asked.
"You stay on top to protect Si Lan and the entrance."
"I want to go down too." Garen stepped forward and said, "Such a large underground passage, there are definitely a lot of things in it, I can find the most valuable things and bring them up!" This was also his original purpose. Besides, there are detectives and experts opening the way ahead, so he doesn't have to worry too much about safety.
(end of this chapter)