After walking out of the Holy Land, Du Yuqi felt panicked because of little Paul, and couldn't get out of his breath. It was very uncomfortable. After an hour, I will be able to leave the Arad Continent and go home, and I immediately feel relaxed all over my body.
At this time, there were also seven or eight large fires burning outside, the flames were blazing and the heat was overwhelming, and a large number of fleeing people gathered around them.
But at this moment, a monk next to him suddenly came up to him, bowed to Du Yuqi and said:
"My lord, this man has been looking for you all the time. It seems that there is something urgent, so I brought him here."
After he finished speaking, he stepped aside, revealing a ragged-looking tramp. This guy was about forty years old, and the fur of the sheepskin jacket he was wearing had been worn off a lot. There were several big holes, his hands and feet were red from the cold, and his face was covered with dirt, showing purple-black frostbitten skin.
Such a person can be said to be the most common in Shatley City. Every day, a group of similar guys are frozen to death on the street, and then thrown directly to the wilderness outside to feed the wolves.
The homeless man bowed to Du Yuqi, then whispered to Du Yuqi:
"My honorable lord, my name is Mott, and I grew up in the city of Chately. Uh, my family lives not far from the Earl's mansion, because every year the mansion attracts some temporary handymen to chop I will be called for firewood, carrying water, repairing houses and so on, so I have been fortunate enough to meet Earl Latnis a few times, and I was very lucky to get a bounty from his old man once."
Du Yuqi narrowed his eyes, and said impatiently:
"I'm in a hurry, let's get to the point!"
Homeless Mott hurriedly said:
"It's like this, my lord. Recently, the Earl's Mansion suffered a... very big accident, and it is now in ruins. It is said that no one survived at all. My family lives not far from there. I am really hungry. I had no choice, so I wanted to find something to eat after dark, or to see if there was anything that could be used as firewood to burn, but I didn't expect to come across it not long after entering, I met... "
Speaking of this, Mott's eyes revealed a look of horror, and he whispered:
"Meet the ghost of Earl Latniss!"
Du Yuqi's heart suddenly thumped, and he took a cup from the side and poured him a glass of water. Mott took a few sips of this cup of hot water, and the fear in his eyes gradually dissipated, and then said:
"I was almost scared to death at the time, but the count's ghost didn't bother me, but asked me to go to the Minsk Church to find a man named Du Bishop, give him a few messages, and tell him I went to a place and said there was a reward for me there, and I found a lot of shillings there... "
Du Yuqi was stunned for a moment, but instead of following the topic, she asked instead:
"Didn't the Bantus set up a blockade of ice and snow outside? As far as I know, even a very powerful army was stopped outside this terrible blockade, and you...?"
Mott immediately said after hearing Du Yuqi's words:
"Sir, what you said is absolutely right, but that is already in the past tense. You should have experienced that terrible earthquake, right? It wasn't just the buildings near the church that were destroyed in the earthquake. The blockade The line was also affected, and there was a large-scale collapse.”
"At the same time, those hateful barbarians also suffered heavy casualties during the attack, and they were also unable to maintain this line of defense, so now they retreated to the Dover station west of the church, and began to transport a large number of looted things outside. , it seems that he has completely given up his evil intentions against the church."
Hearing Mott's words, Du Yuqi was taken aback for a moment, and did not expect such a big event to happen outside, so he took two breads for Mott, then went out to inquire, and found that it was indeed the same as what he said.
Only then did he turn back and ask Mott:
"What does Count Latnis want you to bring to me?"
When Du Yuqi asked this sentence, he seemed to be careless, but in fact he was already very energetic, because he knew very well that all the really clever lies are nine truths and one falsehood, or even all of them are true. But the details will lead you astray into a terrible abyss.
Mott said:
"Sir, the Earl said that he wants to meet you, and he can do it in the family mansion in the past. At the same time, he said that you must be suspicious, so I want me to tell you a word: the first three secret treasures are not bad. Four fifth secret treasure?"
Hearing Mott's words, Du Yuqi's pupils shrank instantly. When he made the deal with Earl Latniss, it can be said that there was absolutely no one else present, so this was a secret between the two of them. Once such crucial things as secret treasures are revealed, the possibility of others impersonating them is very small.
He pondered here for a while, then stood up and planned to find his companions to see what they had to say. After all, no matter whether it was Lin, Changxi or Xi, they could be said to be well-informed and able to make extremely useful suggestions. But after Du Yuqi stood up and walked more than ten meters, he suddenly realized that Mott was still following him, and suddenly his eyes lit up and said:
"Is there anything left of that old Latnis thing?"
Mott, the homeless man, immediately said with a smile on his face:
"Yes, yes, sir, how do you know?"
Du Yuqi excitedly said:
"What else did you say?"
Mott grinned and said:
"He said that after I find you, he will give me a good reward!"
Du Yuqi:
"...well, I will, but before that you have to accompany me to meet a few people."
…
After a while, Du Yuqi called all his acquaintances together. Among them, Duize, Mingxi, Changmai, and Xi were the best to look for, because they lived directly in the practice dormitory assigned to Du Yuqi by the Holy Church.
This place is used by the Minsk Church to receive foreign guests, and the conditions are quite good. Although the room is small, even if you sleep on the oak floor in the room, the environment is much better than the refugee tents outside— Lin and Fire were in another room less than fifteen meters away.
Du Yuqi first explained the situation he was facing in detail, then asked Mott to repeat what he had said before, and finally came to ask everyone to distinguish the truth from the false. The first person to express his opinion was Lin, and he said directly :
"I don't know if there is something wrong with this content, but what is certain is that this homeless Mott is not lying, uh, because of my special identity, I have been trained in this area since I was a child, and I can accurately distinguish Whether a person is cheating."
Changchai has always been known for being well-informed, and this time he told Du Yuqi:
"The domain of the soul is very complicated and mysterious. Necromancers' research in this area is recognized as the most in-depth in the world of Arad. However, they can only gain power from torturing the soul, but they cannot manipulate the soul to tell lies, especially Lat. The soul of a great nobleman like the Earl of Nice has a very long heritage and a title conferred by the country in his lifetime, this soul can be said to be stronger, unless it is self-defeating, it is almost impossible to be controlled."
Hearing Chang Mu's words, Du Yuqi's heart became clear. After thinking about it, he took out +11 Kuran's Flame Shadow Sword, pointed at it and said:
"To tell you the truth, although Earl Latnis's reputation is not very good, he is quite generous in his actions. I helped him with his affairs, and he gave me three secret treasures. This weapon is one of them, and there are two other treasures. The secret treasures are six large crystals, plus an Albert scroll, which seals the sword skills of Xi Lan, one of the Four Sword Masters."
"So, what I mean is that let's go meet him together, firstly to minimize the risk on my own side, and secondly, the fourth secret treasure was mentioned in the words he asked someone to bring, which is obviously beneficial , everyone should not make a trip in vain."
Du Yuqi proposed this, and the rest of the people did not have any objections. Du Yuqi gave Mott a magic gold coin and asked him to leave. The group set off again overnight to Earl Latnis' mansion.
This trip was already a familiar road, and the ice and snow blockade had been broken, so the speed of the group was very fast, especially for Du Yuqi, after obtaining the Black Bamboo Bracelet, the improvement in moving speed and jumping ability was really quite obvious Yes, it is worth mentioning that FIRE was unable to make the trip together, because he had repeatedly frostbited his ankle in the battle with the bone prison, and he had to dissolve the accumulated cold in his body before healed the wound. It was really an action inconvenient.
…
About forty minutes later, Du Yuqi and his party came to the residence of Earl Latniss again. Just after they stepped inside, the old Earl Latniss appeared directly. He was in the formal dress form before his death, but his whole body was transparent and bluish, and he had completely turned into a ghost form.
However, as the saying goes, people need clothes, and Buddha needs gold clothes. Although the old Earl Latnis is in a ghost state at this time, wearing a suit with a slim fit and a sense of line, his figure looks much slender and straight, and he pursues taste He also pays special attention to details, whether it is the brooch inlaid with jewels, the bow tie embroidered with gold thread, the cufflinks of gemstones, or the exquisite handkerchief in the breast pocket of the suit, all let the aristocratic style of his body emerge from the inside out.
Because Du Yuqi had already seen the existence of a ghost like Witch Liz before, with such a foreshadowing, the appearance of the old Earl Latnis could not scare him at all. The only concern before was that this was a hoax, but looking at it now It seems almost impossible.
After the old Earl Latnis saw them, he immediately stood still, bowed slightly and took off his hat, and then said loudly:
"My guest is here, Nero, tell the kitchen that the freshly baked honey pastry can be delivered, and pour a pot of hot milk tea by the way..."
Having said that, the old Earl Latnis suddenly got stuck, then shook his head with a wry smile and said:
"I'm really sorry, I still haven't been able to adapt to the cruel fact that I'm dead, but without the shackles of that lingering body, I can do a lot of things, at least I can become a ghost to fully explain the funeral Alright, it’s better than dying inexplicably and not being able to explain anything, I still have to thank you for talking about it.”