"Antitina, come and open it." Brando looked at the box and said.
Antitina was taken aback, and then reacted. She looked at her lord carefully, feeling a little moved, and then nodded gently.
She put her hand on the cold iron box, suppressed the excitement in her heart, chanted the incantation in a low voice, spitting out byte by byte from between her soft lips, deep and clear, the lock of the box It seemed to be held up by an invisible hand, and then slid away quietly, and finally fell to the ground with a choke. She took a breath and slowly opened the box. Underneath was a layer of waterproof tarp. The bottom of the tarp was divided into three tightly tied packages. The outer skin of the package was also made of tarp, and on the package was a layer of tarpaulin. The letter, the sealing wax on the letter also printed the emblem that they had seen before.
Antitina opened the envelope only after getting a signal, and read the letter carefully. The content of the letter is similar to that in the will-if someone else finds the estate, I hope the discoverer can divide the estate into three. , He can inherit the richest part of it, and the two meagre parts and some miscellaneous things are left for Antitina and Saidi, so that they can at least live by themselves, but also to commemorate. There are also some words left in the letter for Antitina. I hope she can be happy and forgive him for her irresponsible father. After reading the last sentence, she held the letter paper with both hands and did not say a word. With his head down, his thick eyelashes trembled slightly like feathers.
Brando and Freya looked at each other behind her. The eyes of the future Valkyrie were full of sympathy, almost wanting to share the sadness in the heart of the assistant lady. Thinking of her life experience, her heart was also full of sympathy. soft.
After a while, Antitina put down the letter paper. She looked as if nothing had happened, but her face was terribly pale: "Lord Lord, let's open these packages."
Brando couldn't bear to talk to her like this, but he just nodded, he suddenly felt that he had come right this time, he thought that the lady of staff had forgotten the haze of the past, but he didn't expect the grief to be in her heart. Buried so deep. Antitina first silently opened the largest package. The gold and silver light immediately illuminated the faces of the three present. Inside were neatly arranged gold bars and silver ingots, as well as some jewellery and the stacked house deeds. She quickly estimated the title deed and came to the conclusion that there was at least one hundred thousand Tor’s property, which was considered a large sum of money for a small noble family—but his father prepared the money for those who discovered the inheritance. Yes, Antitina put it aside in silence, and opened the second package.
The second package contains the same things, but the amount is only about half of the previous package—this is for her mother, and there is a letter in it, signed by Saidi, that is, her mother. Antitina didn't open the envelope, but looked at the letter for a while before putting it down gently. Then she picked up the third package—the smallest package, about the size of a dressing box, and this package was reserved for her.
When she held this package, she felt almost suffocated, but still held her breath and opened it carefully. She separated the layers of oiled paper, and inside was a delicate walnut box. Opening the box again, there was a ring and a thin necklace on the flannelette inside. The moment she saw the necklace, tears finally rolled down her cheeks.
Brando and Freya looked at the necklace, but they were silent. The crystal pendant of the necklace was a beautiful record crystal. When the box was opened, the crystal gave off light, which happened to reflect a man. A woman stood side by side, the man with black hair, and a faint outline of Antitina on his face, he smiled softly at Antitina:
"Anna, if you open this box with your own hands one day, I believe that I will no longer be alive by this time. My beloved daughter, my irresponsible father dare not extravagantly ask for your forgiveness, but you must believe that you My father’s whole life has been the pursuit of the most just and just things in this world. Because I know that the person who pays and takes responsibility for this world can never be the sinner in his population—Anna, I hope that one day, you can Use your clear eyes to see all the truth in this world, instead of being blinded by falsehood, because you are so intelligent and the pride of my life—"
"This ring is a token of my engagement with your mother. After obtaining your mother's consent, I will keep it and stay here. I hope that one day I can keep it for you as a testimony and witness your happiness. The other half."
"Anna," the gentle woman who is almost like Antitina started, and she smiled slightly: "May one day, you can find your own happiness."
"Liar..." Antitina whimpered suddenly, as if the feelings that had always been suppressed finally broke out at this moment, like a flood that bursts a bank, rushing out, the sobbing like a wounded beast finally turned into a howling bitter cry, Brando never I have seen my quiet and calm lady of staff show such a side, helpless like a child, her weak shoulders trembling, and she seems to be unable to make any more noises except for crying.
Brando was also choked and speechless. Some emotions in this world can always touch people's hearts and hit the softest place in people's hearts. Family affection is undoubtedly the kind of emotion that is always constant-no matter how it is expressed in his eyes. She was so strong and indifferent, as if she could no longer remember everything in the past, but in front of her parents, Antitina still cried like a child—not biting her lip and tears in her eyes, but He completely lost his voice, cried bitterly, and made a hissing sound like a beast.
Freya also turned her head and wiped the corners of her eyes with her hand.
I don't know how long it took.
The lady of the staff finally sorted out her feelings. She blushed and tried not to see Freya and Brando, as if she was afraid of telling them to see a joke. "Lord Lord, I have checked it carefully. It seems that there are no relics of Lord Darus in it." As soon as she spoke, her face turned redder, because her voice was so hoarse that it was almost as if she was talking in a different person.
Brando looked at her with some concern and asked, "Is it all right, Antitina."
Antitina shook her head and let out a sigh of relief. She was confused, and she couldn't say for a moment whether she was really all right. But in any case, after getting what his father left her, the hatred in my heart for the father who left without saying goodbye seemed not so strong anymore. She thought silently, perhaps when her mother was holding her hand on the sickbed, she already knew where her father had gone. They had always known it, because the father had never deceived his mother. They just got together to deceive. She's nothing. She smiled, and then shook her head slightly. Although the tears were still hanging on her cheeks, the lady of the staff smiled very cutely.
Brando finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Freya, and this kind-hearted Butcher girl was also relieved.
There was no relic of Darus in the box, which was the exact opposite of what was written in the letter, which was both expected and unexpected by Brando. He thought for a while before replied: "Antina, your father cannot guarantee that the person who unearths his inheritance will be you, nor that the person who excavates it will keep the promise to distribute the inheritance to your mother and daughter, so he It is unlikely that such an important thing will be placed directly in the legacy."
Antitina nodded.
"But he clearly wrote in the letter..." Freya asked in a puzzled way: "That's a private letter. He doesn't need to lie, isn't it?" She immediately reacted by herself and said suddenly: "I understand. , He doesn’t need to put Lord Darus’s relics in his inheritance, but he can really leave clues in the inheritance—"
Brando gave her a surprised look: "...how did you suddenly become smarter."
Freya glared at him with gritted teeth.
"If my father left me a message in the inheritance, I think it can only be in my package." Antitina thought for a moment and replied.
"But isn't it possible in your mother's package?" Freya asked again.
Antitina shook her head: "My mother's parcels are basically all things, and my father will definitely estimate the greed of the heart, but only the inheritance left to me is almost all debris, not attracting attention. And before I also checked my mother’s package and the letter, and there was nothing noteworthy in it."
"Antitina, you guessed it early, your brain is really good." Freya was a little envious. She was never the smartest one when she was in the Cavalier Academy. She could even be said to be a little stupid, but for the real A talented person, she has only envy, not a bit of jealousy. The princess told her that her father was the most talented knight lord of Eruin's last era, which made her very distressed, why she was so clumsy herself.
The lady of the staff smiled slightly.
"Have you checked?" Brando asked again.
Antitina nodded: "I checked the necklace and ring, and the inside and outside of the box, and found no clues." She thought for a while, and then replied, "I don't think my father would put such an important Keep the information in a conspicuous place, and only by disassembling them, I’m afraid we can know where the clues are."
"But that is the last relic your father left to you—"
"It's okay, Lord Lord," Antitina replied softly, "This is also my father's wish. He will not blame us for it. Moreover, if we miss someone, it should be in our hearts, not entangled in them. Foreign objects."
She opened the box, but Brando held her hand. "I'll do it." He said, "Show me the necklace."
Antitina stunned slightly, raised her head to look at the lord of her own, then nodded, and put the necklace on his hand. Brando took the necklace and checked it carefully, then he squeezed the pendant of the necklace and turned it slightly. In a moment, the sinker became loose. He lowered the sinker in a certain direction, then carefully raised it to the light in the room, and then pulled out a strip of paper from it.
There was no lag in his movements, as if he had thought about all this beforehand and had long guessed that the note was hidden in the necklace, completely watching Freya and Antitina next to him.
"Lord... Lord?" Antitina opened her mouth slightly, almost thinking that her lord was really an all-knowing and omnipotent god.
The record crystal has a physical property. Their crystalline structure is hollow. Brando first thought of this when he inspected the necklace. He tried to remove the pendant, but he did not expect to succeed in one fell swoop. Sure enough, he found the key. It was also a coincidence. He exchanged the necklace to Antitina, and couldn't help but tell her the reason with a wry smile, and then Antitina came across, but she still looked at her lord in admiration. She was doing magical construction research. Yes, I am most familiar with all kinds of crystals, but recording crystals is a side effect, because this is a man-made magic crystal, and very few people really understand its physical properties—and only the lord, who is nearly unheard of knowledge, can do this. Lift weights lightly.
The three of them opened the paper, only to find some weird symbols were drawn on the paper, it was like a child's graffiti. Brando and Antitina did not understand what it was for the first time. On the contrary, It was Freya who gave a soft "Ah" and blurted out: "Ah, this is a military secret."
"Military secrets?" Brando was taken aback for a while. He knew that there are often secret messages that need to be transmitted in the military. Every country has a set of secret symbols modified from ancient runes. He is very familiar with Eruin's military secrets. He can interpret it from the "Anson Secret Text" 30 years ago or the new "New Secret Text" after the Frost Change, but these are obviously not any of them. He looked at Freya next to him with a questioning look. , The future Valkyrie nodded to him affirmatively:
"This is the military secret text of the Cruz people, and it's the old cipher text half a century ago. I happened to have studied at the Wangli Non-commissioned Officer Academy."
When she said this, Antitina also reacted. "Yes," the lady of the staff replied as if remembering something: "When I was a child, my father taught me some secrets, but he didn't tell me what it was."
Brando didn't expect Freya to have learned the secrets of the Cruz people. He immediately asked, "Can you interpret it?"
Freya read it carefully before nodding: "It's not a big problem, Brando, this seems to be a map..."
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"what are these?"
There were three things in front of Freya, a light gray crystal, some auburn stone flakes, and a papyrus map with only a few lines outlined—all three things were taken out of the same iron box. , This box was taken out from under the floor of an old house in Hood District after she deciphered the ciphertext-and of course, she didn't know anything.
Brando figured out a way to get Diane to spend some money to smuggle Antitina's father's inheritance from the cemetery. He cast elemental guardian spells on the box so that those people could not open the box; There is a lot of'work' going in and out in the cemetery. Most of the wizards who sneak in and practice dark magic will not transport the corpses out one by one, so there is nothing strange about using boxes. Brando originally had Worrying would lead to suspicion, but he still underestimated how common these things were in the eyes of tomb raiders.
After the grave guard received a sum of money from Di'an, he patted his chest and assured him that not to mention such a box, even if he had to lift a few coffins out of the cemetery, there was absolutely no problem. Then he didn’t know where to find some quick-handed people. In Brando’s eyes, those guys acted with some traces of the Brotherhood of Thieves. In short, with the help of these people, the box was smuggled smoothly. There was no twists and turns in the process. The people who carried the boxes didn’t know how many such tasks they had done for many years. The box filled with gold and silver in their hands was like carrying a stone. Have a look.
Brando couldn't help but rejoice. Fortunately, he was witty enough to bless a wind wing technique on the box. Otherwise, with the experience of these people, I am afraid that the weight will be problematic as soon as they get started.
It was almost evening after they transported everything back to the manor and went to the Hood area to retrieve the last relics of Antitina's father—or rather, the relics of Sword Saint Darus. Brando opened the box in his study, took out the contents of the box one by one, and then the above scene appeared.
But compared to Freya's confusion, Brando and Antitina looked a little different.
"Lord Lord, these stone tablets..." The lady of the staff remembered keenly: "I seemed to have seen it when I was a child. The first time my father bought it from a merchant, it seemed like a treasure. After that, he has been everywhere. Acquire these pieces of stone. I remember that for a long time, he had been playing with these pieces of stone."
"Did he tell you anything?" Brando asked without looking back, staring at the gray crystal.
Antitina recalled it, but shook her head: "I was too young at the time. I vaguely remembered my father saying it several times. It seemed to be the key to something like these stone pieces, but then these stone pieces It gradually disappeared from my field of vision. I thought my father had lost interest in them, but I didn't expect him to save them."
"Antitina, you never thought that these things are actually related to my grandfather." Brando replied.
"I'm afraid it is. According to the letter, this box contains the relics of Lord Darus, as well as the fragments of the'picture' that my father calls-are these stone pieces?" An Titina asked with some doubts.
But Brando did not answer.
He stared at the gray gem.
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