"Damn it! What a strong firepower! How many people have they come here!" Cynthia's cheek was scratched by the debris, and blood slowly oozes out. "Hide better and don't come out!!"
She jumped out suddenly, rolled over, and three consecutive bullets hit the ground behind her, splashing a large amount of dust. Cynthia got up and shot.
boom. There was an exclamation outside the door, and a black figure was hit and arrived in response. The gunfire also slowed down and stopped.
Sheriff Rio let out a roar, stretched out his hand and fired several shots blindly.
Three muffled groans came from outside the door again, and it was obvious that someone had been hit again.
Garen hid behind the sculpture, listening to the gunshots gradually fade away. Cynthia and Sergeant Rio fought back while covering and cooperating with each other, gradually suppressing the gunfire outside.
I don't know how long it took, ten minutes, or fifteen minutes. The gunfire finally stopped.
"It's over?" He quietly poked his head out to look.
The hall was a mess. Sergeant Rio and his subordinates were all wounded. There were originally more than ten policemen, but now only two are still alive, and the rest are unknown. The sheriff himself had been shot in the shoulder, his coat had been dragged, and his white shirt was half-stained red, and he was half-sitting on the ground by the door, panting heavily.
Seeing Garen looking over, the sheriff turned his face in shame.
The panther was tending to the gunshot wound on his left arm, biting a white bandage in his mouth and bandaging himself. Cynthia and the remaining two subordinates gathered together and arranged the equipment without saying a word.
"Is Latin still alive?" Cynthia asked lightly.
"I don't know! Maybe." A subordinate held a knife and gently dug out the bullet from his thigh, his forehead was covered with cold sweat and veins. There was no answer in his mouth.
"It's a heavy loss this time, but those boys should find a way to hide themselves." Cynthia quickly rammed the pistol with bullets, and then took out a black shotgun from one side of the backpack, and it will disperse with a click. The bullet slid into the barrel.
"It's up to us now."
Garen withdrew his gaze, bowed his body and moved quietly towards the study. Grace wanted to follow, but he held her down and stayed where she was.
"I can go alone, you stay where you are!"
"Um."
Facing the bullets that are troublesome to others, he is not afraid. Even if the tenth golden ring blocked him from shooting yesterday, it did not cause much damage. He mainly felt troubled by the ninth golden ring. He was sure that the real reason why the opponent had an absolute advantage, but hadn't directly rushed in until now, might be because he was afraid of him.
Quietly walking towards the study room by the corner, passed the corridor, and entered the somewhat dark study room. Only then did Garen straighten up and stand up.
There are a few new footprints faintly at the underground entrance of the study, apparently someone has already followed in.
bang bang!
Another gun battle broke out in the outer hall.
Garen pressed lightly on the bullet hole in his lower abdomen, and it still hurt a little. When his injury has not completely healed, he can at most display 80% of his strength now. Facing the stronger Ninth Golden Ring, he didn't want to confront him head-on.
"Right now, doom and antiques are only secondary. We must find a way to get out of here! I never thought that the Golden Ring would actually have the guts to confront the police brigade head-on." He regretted coming to Silver Shade Castle for an adventure. He is different from Tari Mercury and others, he only came here for bad luck antiques, not to find out the facts of the case.
"I have to find a way to get out of here safely"
boom! !
Suddenly there was a muffled sound outside, and the violent explosion shook the entire castle.
"Go to hell! Damn you bastard!" Cynthia's fierce voice came from the hall. The explosives apparently planted by her men went off.
Garen felt a little more relaxed. With the deterrence of explosives, people outside should not dare to approach easily for the time being. After all, they don't know how many explosives are buried around the castle.
"Wait a little longer, wait until the detectives come out and then leave together. Maybe there will be unexpected gains." Anyway, you can't leave now, it's better to guard the entrance, wait for the detectives in the tower to come out, maybe you may get the antique of doom, and then you can leave safely. not too late.
Garen was confident that if he wanted to retreat, neither guns nor Golden Ring experts would be able to stop him!
Walking to the entrance, Garen was about to sit down and rest when he suddenly felt a bit chilly near the entrance.
"Could it be?" He immediately straightened his expression. "Is it windy?"
He reached out and felt carefully at the entrance.
On the palm of your hand, you can vaguely feel a slight breeze gushing from the entrance.
"Sure enough, there is wind! There must be other exits from this entrance!"
Garen's expression was shocked, and joy suddenly appeared on his face. He was about to stand up and head back down the hall to inform the others.
Turning around, I saw a black figure blocking the door of the study, watching him quietly.
The black figure is wearing a black cloak, and on his left ear is a huge gold ring with the number 9 engraved on it. Judging from the body shape, this is a strong and well-proportioned man, covered with a black mask, only revealing a pair of clear blue eyes, like the sapphire eyes of a beautiful woman.
"Is this the underground entrance?" the man asked in a low voice, his voice was very low, and his accent was a standard Federal language. "As expected of Detective Terry, we haven't found it after searching for so long, but he found it as soon as he came. It's really great."
Garen turned around and listened carefully to the sounds from the other side of the hall, where gun battles were still going on, obviously this man sneaked in by himself.
Before he could speak, the man continued to speak.
"Kelly, I heard that you are an expert in identifying doomed antiques. That's fine. Come down with me and have a look. If you can really prove your talent, I don't have to kill you."
Garen's eyes froze for a moment, and it wasn't long before he told the detectives in the Tower that the people from Golden Ring knew about it.
The man seemed to think that he didn't believe it, and reached out to press the left wall.
Click!
Suddenly, a tiny crack appeared on the wall, like glass that was about to shatter.
"If you don't agree, this is what will happen to you."
Garen glanced at the wall. He could do that kind of cracking. The walls of the castle here have been in disrepair for a long time, and the stone bricks are extremely fragile. What surprised him was that the Ninth Golden Ring didn't treat him as a martial arts expert at all, but thought he was just an ordinary expert with a stronger body.
It's okay to use that hand on the wall to scare ordinary people, but it has no deterrent effect on experts. What's more, he is a martial artist known for his strength.
"Don't tell me he doesn't know that I injured the tenth golden ring?" Garen had this guess in his mind. Mouth but answered. "A master of the Golden Ring? As long as you guarantee my safety, I'm fine." He originally wanted to go down and have a look.
"You're courageous." Seeing that he was not afraid, the man's eyes flashed with admiration, he nodded, walked to the entrance first, and walked down the stairs step by step. "Come with me. Don't play tricks. Even if you practice a little martial arts, I can kill you in seconds."
Garen nodded.
"Don't worry. I know the situation very well." He followed the man down the stairs to the underground entrance.
blah blah.
The two of them walked down the stone ladder and entered the entire underground space in a short while.
The space is cylindrical, with circles of black stone ladders against the wall, and a circle of white metal handrails on the edge of the ladders. Garen looked down through the armrest.
Below is a circle of stairs that extend infinitely into the darkness, like the threads on the inner wall of a cylinder, with a small black hole in the center, and you can't see the bottom at all.
Looking up, the entrance to come in is just a small hole.
The entire spiral staircase rotates clockwise, round by round. The strange thing is that these stairs and handrails, as well as the surrounding walls, are very delicately decorated, with fine arabesques carved on the walls, and there are also on the handrails. The rest at the foot of the stone ladder is extremely flat and thick, as if it was built by building blocks of stones together.
The two stood in front of each other, with the man in the black cloak walking in front, and the back of the cloak was raised back from time to time, emitting a hint of elegant fragrance faintly.
Garen followed behind, and after smelling the scent, he felt refreshed.
"Here, if you don't pay attention to the scent of tea branches and vines, no matter how many people come in, they will only die." The man walked in front and whispered, "Don't leave me too far, or I won't be able to take care of you."
"Okay." Garen nodded.
The two walked down in circles, and the surroundings remained unchanged. If Garen hadn't occasionally looked up to see the smaller and smaller entrance, he might have thought he hadn't walked very far at all, just kept turning around.
I don't know how long I walked, maybe more than half an hour.
Garen looked up again, the entrance was completely invisible, and it was pitch black above. The only light source around is a small torch held in the hand of the Ninth Golden Ring in front.
The orange fire light illuminates the range up and down.
The temperature in the stairwell was also getting lower and lower, and Garen saw that his exhaled breath was a white mist.
"How long do we have to go? It's already very cold here, no wonder you are wearing such thick clothes." Anyway, there are detectives and others exploring the way ahead, so it is difficult to encounter danger. Now there is the Ninth Golden Ring walking ahead, he is It doesn't matter at all. Think of it as coming in to explore and explore. After all, I don’t know the level of this person. In his current state, it’s better to hide if he can’t face a confrontation.
"This staircase will never end." The cloaked man replied in a low voice, "This is an endless staircase from the ancient Yinduo. Legend has it that it is a stone staircase leading to the world of the dead."
"Do you believe it's impossible to finish?" Garen asked back.
The man stopped talking.
The two continued to move forward in silence. The walls were black, and the stone steps on the ground were also black. Only the handrails were white. Under the firelight, there was an ominous paleness.
The stairwell was extremely quiet. The detectives who came in ahead didn't know what was going on, and there was no movement at all.
Walking down in silence, I don't know how long it took until the monotonous stairs in front of me finally appeared in a different place.
Next to the left side of the wall appears a stone table with a square fish tank on it.
The fish tank is sealed, half filled with water, and there are still fish in it.
The cloaked man put down the torch and leaned over to have a look.
The water in the fish tank was already black and green, like very viscous dung water, and the three or four dead goldfish in it were no longer golden red, but black and green, floating on the water for an unknown amount of time.
"I didn't expect there to be goldfish here," Garen said suspiciously, "It's in such a deep place."
"There are many places you can't imagine." Ninth Golden Ring said calmly. Hold up the torch and move on.
Garen passed by the fish tank, couldn't help but look more, and followed closely.
"Since it is a fish tank, it is used to raise goldfish. Why should it be sealed?"
"This is a simple ritual in ancient times. Seal the life and let him slowly die in it until it completely rots and merges with the other raw materials inside without distinction. Even the soul is fused together. Wait until this time Open the seal again, eat everything inside, eat the flesh and soul of the creatures inside. It is said that this is a ritual method that can make you live forever." The man explained lightly.
"It's disgusting." Garen was speechless.
(end of this chapter)