Following the direction of Feiqi's finger, everyone looked at the arrow tower of the Gujian Fort facing the Waterfall Bridge. At the highest point of the arrow tower, a human-shaped black shadow with bat wings was squatting on it, looking down at the inside of the castle.
"Is it a stone statue? How can it face inside?"
Using hideous stone statues to show threats and block the enemy is a common choice for many nobles when building castles. To achieve this goal, the stone statues are of course facing outward, which is why Feiqi finds strange after seeing them.
"I have never seen that stone statue - if it was a stone statue." Tron had already begun to take out the heavy crossbow from his mount saddle bag and conduct the final inspection before the battle. When he raised his head to check again, the black shadow on the top of the tower disappeared.
Tron rubbed his eyes, "Did you notice how it disappeared?"
"No, it disappeared in an instant. I couldn't see it flying or jumping. How are you?" Feiqi turned to ask Qiao Duo beside him, and he shook his head. "No matter what that is, it's so fast!"
"Be careful, everyone." Tron stopped the convoy: "Be prepared for combat, acting is not our top priority!"
Feiqi nodded. Tron was right. The black shadows at the head of Gujian Castle were extremely likely to be some kind of monster. Armed with all the weapons is a better choice. Whether it is a monster hunter or a friendly force of Gujian Castle, Tron and Feiqi have no reason not to face monsters. However, this one is not suitable for Qiao Duo.
"Are you going?" Feiqi noticed that all the four people in the carriage smiled, so he nodded: "I understand, then you should be careful and be safe. That thing looks dangerous."
"The most dangerous thing is actually people - I mean, we will take good care of ourselves." Qiao Duo stretched out his hand, and Shani handed a scimitar to his hands. "The weapon of Elf Island: the enemy of Dragon Scale, has miraculous effects when dealing with hard objects."
The scimitar seemed very light in Qiao Duo's hand, and it was full of wind when it danced. Compared to the sharp blade, Feiqi paid more attention to the runes that were looming on the blade. Out of his sensitivity to spell runes, he noticed that those runes used a divine system, and only those who are devout to the goddess can exert their power.
Anne pulled away the soft blanket from the car, lifted the floor, and took out a huge bow from below. It was close to two meters in height, making it a large bow that could only be used for standing. The bow had many complex and exquisite auxiliary structures, which allowed ordinary heights to pull it over while keeping aiming.
Benny finally didn't have a bare-handed fist this time, but what does it mean to hang all the eight long swords on the weapon stand on her body? Is this a certain throwing genre? In Fitch's perception, only Scina Ice Blade's weapon carries larger than her. In the end, Shanny didn't get any weapons, just took a small wooden shield, then shrank her head and hid it carefully behind.
You only protect your head, and your body is exposed!
"What's your crossbow called?" Qiao Duo played with a machete for a while and began to pay attention to others. "What kind of record has it been?"
While rolling the strings, Feiqi replied: "I have used this crossbow several times during training and has not been in actual combat yet, so the current record is just a target, and it has no name yet. Why, you name your weapons?"
"Yes! With the name, weapons will have life goals, and they can exert greater power. The elves will name their weapons, which is the secret of their very excellent weapons. My dragon scale enemy seriously injured a green dragon in the lake. Unfortunately, the dragon slipped so fast that it could not be killed. If it succeeds, it is called the Dragon Slaying Scimitar, or the Dragon Enemy."
"Ha, these names are quite majestic. But if I were me, I would have a different style of name." Feiqi pointed to the heavy crossbow in his hand: "I will call it Dog Tail Grass."
"Why?"
"Dieting under the sword of the Dragon Enemy may be a kind of glory, but being shot to death by the Dog Tail Grass can be called a legend. You can imagine that there is a passage left on the tombstone of the mortal enemy: There is a great warrior buried here, who fought bravely all his life and was shot to death by the Dog Tail Grass."
"Hahahahaha!" Qiao Duo laughed so hard that he rolled around in the carriage, and it took him a while to recover. This time, his eyes when he looked at the scimitar in his hand changed: "In the future, you will not be called the enemy of Dragon Scale, but change it to the nail clipper! Hahaha, you have definitely had nails!"
Tron rolled his eyes and moved his gun sword and heavy crossbow in the direction away from Fitch. The Flag Spear and the Flying Eagle Sharp Eye Crossbow cannot be contaminated with strange names. To become a knight, how can you use weapons such as nail clippers or dogtail grass?
However, there are fans of this naming method. The goblin friend raised his dagger high, "Chief, please give me a name!"
"You still have to choose the name yourself. Think about how you use your weapons and then use them."
"Oh, I thought of it, it's called the broken chrysanthemum hiss!"
When everyone heard this name, they felt their hip muscles tightened and they skipped the topic of weapon naming very tacitly.
Gujian Fort was getting bigger and bigger in everyone's sight. You could see its doors open and the suspension bridge was lowered, and the road was unobstructed. No one patrolled the city wall, and a white-backed gray wolf-headed flag was hanging on the tower, shaking gently in the breeze.
"So quiet. I didn't hear any sound. Where is the man? Where is the horse?" Tron had already got off the horse, led it forward, and walked onto the heavy suspension bridge. The thick wooden boards creaked under their feet, becoming the only sound made by the castle itself.
"It's quite wrong." Feiqi held the crossbow in his right hand, and the "legal armed" seal in his left hand had quietly started to operate. He reached out and patted Tron's shoulder, secretly strengthening the protective ability of the inlaid armor. "Put the horse on the periphery as a barrier, and leave the car on the suspension bridge to press it to ensure the smooth flow of the rear."
"No problem. Should I let the three of them stay at the city gate to ensure the gate is unobstructed?" Qiao Duo and others jumped out of the carriage and locked the wheels, which added a lot of weight to the device controlling the suspension bridge, and it would become much more difficult to lift it.
"Let's go to the gate agency first. It's logical that there should be guards there." Feiqi calmly said the plan: "If the winged black shadow monster is an enemy, its size is not suitable for entering the narrow castle. Therefore, it is best to check from the inside out. Tron, pay attention to the changes in sound, and remind in time."
"I know, don't worry." Tronping walked in the first place with a heavy crossbow. He was most familiar with the terrain here, leading everyone to move forward against the wall, and then stopped under a bunch of ivy. He reached out and groped among the branches and leaves, then twisted. He could only hear the sound of clicking in the wall, and then some of the wall bricks were concave. Tron pushed his shoulders, then pushed them horizontally to the side, and opened a secret door.
"Go from here, close." Tron was the first to enter. It was black inside. Feichi snapped his fingers, and a ball of light flew in front to guide him, illuminating the spiral upward stairs. The goblin friend looked at the ball of light with envious eyes, and snapped his fingers, and then he was slapped in the head by midnight.
The last one was Qiao Duo. After he flashed in, he narrowed his eyes and looked at the secret door, and then pressed it a few times to close the door quietly. So, only one of Feich's light balls was left in the stairs to provide lighting, and the rotating stair board cast a large shadow that was constantly moving, which seemed even more gloomy. So Feich released another light ball, fixed at the turn of the stairs, like an oil lamp.
The stairs climbed up about two and a half floors and ended in front of a wooden door. "There is a cabinet for tools behind, and after going out, there is a suspension bridge and the control room of the gate." Tron pressed the wall a few times, then frowned and said, "It's strange, why did it lock it from inside? Only his own people know the mechanism, do you still have to be careful of your own people?"
"What should I do? Change the way in?"
"No, let me see." Qiao Duo came to the front from the end of the team: "Tell me how to drive normally, I'll try it."
"Can you do it?" Tron told the minstrel the hidden mechanism and opening method in the wall tiles. He put his ears on the wall, knocked and tinted, and soon removed the wall tiles directly. He closed one of his eyes, bit his tongue gently, and still maintained the wall tiles, and put his hands into the newly appeared hole. After a while, as the sound of clicking and clicking sounds came from the wall, Qiao Duo pulled his hand back and pressed his voice and said, "It's done!"
Pushing the wooden board into the wall, Tron raised his hand and groped on the door frame. "Don't worry, I'll remove the press, and there won't be an iron gate knife on the top of my head."
Tron turned around and asked, "You did it all? Awesome. Are you really a minstrel?"
"Do you suspect that I think it's hard to sing?" Qiao Duo sucked through his nose and suddenly said, "Do you smell it? I think there is a smell of dead bodies, right behind the door."
"I didn't smell it, please be careful, I'll be the first to go in." Tron put his right arm across his chest and grabbed the dagger, allowing the blade to advance; he held a crossbow in his left hand, put it on his right arm, and then slowly pushed the cabinet with his knees. Fitch extinguished the light ball of light illuminated in the stairwell.
As the gap became bigger and bigger, the smell of the dead body gradually became clearer. The room was pitch black. Although this would not affect Tron and Fitch who had completed the enhancement ceremony, it was still not a favorable environment for the battle. So Fitch gently pulled Tron and made gestures to let him wait.
The magic matrix was running, but this time it did not shine, but was pure black that blended with the surrounding environment. Feiqi had already memorized the positions of all runes, and there would be no mistakes in blind shooting. While casting spells, he raised four fingers at the corner of Tron's eyes and shook them.
Tron nodded, knowing that this is the meaning of "counting to four actions". When Feiqi counted to two, he suddenly released spells into the room, and in an instant, ten light balls rushed in. They released all the luminous energy in one second, and the violent flashes shone the whole room like daytime! In an instant, the image and color of the object disappeared, and any visual creature would subconsciously close their eyes and enter a brief blinding. Only those hiding in the secret passage were spared from this influence.
When the light is counted to three, the light begins to dim. When the four is four, Tron rushed in. Feiqi is the second one. They first look at the left and right corners respectively, because in the strong light, indent the narrow corners, and position them with tactile sense while allowing themselves to rely on their backs. This is an instinctive reaction. The training of monster hunters is to fight more instinctive reactions.
"Safe." "Safe." Tron and Feiqi quickly inspected the room and immediately controlled the door. The door was locked and closed, exactly the same as the secret door.
The man who completed the lockdown was dead, his body fell to the ground, not rotting but abnormally drying - no wonder its smell was not very big. He was still wearing the leather armor of the Gujian Fort guard, and his shackles were thrown aside, pressing against an equally dry and dehydrated parchment.
Chapter completed!