"Yes!" Miluo, the captain of the first squad, is also a vivid picture. He said with emotion in his tone, "It was something that happened last summer, and the nobles in Hailanza city were all in panic because of looting around the city. Each brigade in the guard camp sent their own support squadrons out of the city to encircle the bandit group, only to find that the bandit group actually occupied Funak Manor and looted the surrounding villages and towns, and it was not until the guard camp wiped out the bandit group in one fell swoop that it returned to the hands of Lord Funak."
"And after Lord Funak took over the manor, he only sent a night watchman to keep the manor from being completely abandoned. I didn’t expect that the manor would still have one accident after another for a while," Miluo added.
"One after another?" Carl was surprised to ask that this kind of thing belongs to the public security problem outside the city, but he just didn’t know any news.
The leader of the first squad, Miluo, nodded and said, "Yes, this dead night watchman is not the first victim in this manor. In fact, this sentence should be the fifth, and the first four Fornaker made some compensation to the night watchman’s family. Even if there is a dead person, no one is Zhang, and Fornaker always goes to the guard camp for filing. However, this night watchman doesn’t want to make compensation. It was a bit late when he received the news. Seven days after the night watchman’s father disappeared, he reported it to the guard camp.
Carl hesitated and asked again and again, "It seems that there is something really wrong with this manor. Have you asked the families of the former night watchman about the cause of death?"
Miluo was a little embarrassed to say, "The cause of death is recorded in the file. I don’t want to visit the families of the victims of the night watchman because I didn’t investigate these last night."
"This is very good!" Carl said to Miluo
When the group was about to arrive at Funak Manor, they saw a small hill built in Funak Manor on the far slope. The hill was only a few tens of meters high, with a gentle slope in the south and a cliff with a drop of about 40 to 50 meters in the north. Funak Manor built a cliff, which covers an area of about 10 acres. There is a large forest behind the lake.
From the south of the manor, there is a winding path leading to this side. From a distance, the depressed external walls and broken doors of Funak Manor are still covered with thick snow. Although they have been repaired, there is no vitality. The window of the observation deck is left with window frames and windowsills. It looks like a messy bird’s nest. A big blackbird with black feathers flies out of the window and the manor flies away in a circle.
Carl told Miluo, "Send two people outside the manor to search carefully-let’s find a sheltered place to eat a hot meal before entering the manor for investigation."
I’m probably worried that Captain Sol and his party didn’t walk fast with Carl and the first team. At this time, a temporary tent was set up next to the forest, a bonfire was built, and a large iron pot was set up to boil the water and break the baked wheat cake into pieces and throw it into the big iron pot until it was soft and rotten. This kind of cheese wheat cake with salt and meat is much better than the marching rations.
After lunch, the group strolled into the dilapidated facade of Funak Manor. Although the iron lock was hung, the iron gate railing broke a big hole, and even a huge bear could get in. Everyone left a first team member outside Mashuan Manor to take care of the horses. Carl and the other five people got into the manor.
After Surdak entered Funak Manor, it was discovered that although the manor was too broken to be inhabited without renovation, the overall design pattern of the manor could still be seen. The whole manor was covered with snow and could fit well into the surrounding mountain scenery. No wonder the manor was abandoned to this point. When Darcy Christie recommended the knight collar to herself, she also recommended the land here to herself.
Obviously, Darcy Christie is not optimistic about the land here, but about the abandoned manor. If this big lake and the large mountain forest on the opposite side can be used as their own knights to buy this dilapidated manor, it is obviously an excellent land purchase plan. However, if you want to take such a large area of land for yourself, can the little knight take it?
There are a few messy footprints in the manor. Miluo walked at the front with a shield in his hand. He was followed by three members of the first team, Surdak and Carl. This made Surdak always rush to the front. He was very uncomfortable. He took out the dwarf chain shield and the red crescent moon from his magic pocket and came to Miluo. He walked side by side.
He was wearing a red salamander leather armor and holding a magic weapon in his hand, which made the members of the first team very jealous.
Supposedly, the night watchman should live in the porter’s room at the gate, but the porter’s door has disappeared and the window glass has been smashed to pieces. The room is filled with snow. There are almost no roots except broken tables and chairs. There are no traces of people living in it. The stable next to it looks very large. The manger alone is tens of meters long. The whole stable is also made of good wooden boards. There are main beams and columns every four meters. Now there are some weeds and horse manure on the ground except the snow.
Through the entrance of the manor, the low wall of shrubs in the arched courtyard has grown wildly without gardener’s pruning, bypassing the dry fountain in the courtyard and walking along the steps of the main house. There are also some shallow footprints. I don’t know whether the night watchman left it or the night watchman came here to find his father.
The main house is a four-story building, and the top of the rock wall is particularly lonely. The walls are all piled up with blue rocks on the spot. When it was first built, these stones were chiseled, and the craftsmen were skilled. The stones were very regular, and there were regular flowing moiré on the walls. I have to say that the building foundation in this manor was extremely compacted, and all the building materials in the manor were very hard bluestone. Square stones were chiseled out, and each stone had wedges to be re-injected with concrete mortar to make the whole building almost integrated.
Walking into the living room of the main building, all the furniture is reserved. Although the decoration of the four walls of the house was once a stronghold of robbers, there was not much damage, but the carpet in the hall was full of filth and dried blood. Some furniture was pushed to the side of the wall, and the hall was filled with long tables and stools, which seemed to be the place where robbers gathered to divide the spoils.
On the front of the hall, there is a temporary high platform with a group of soft sofas, which should be where the leaders of the bandit group sit.
There was a side door next to the main hall, and the sundries at the door were cleared out. Surdak took the lead in walking towards the side door and pushed the wooden door. It proved to be a fairly intact wooden door. There was a wooden bed in the bedroom, and there was a brazier with a blackened support. An iron pot was hung on the wall opposite the wooden bed, and the wood was sawn into pieces. Although it was a mess, the room had many living materials, including half a bag of baked wheat cakes and two frozen pheasants. It seems that this should be the night watchman’s residence.
I think this night watchman is really lazy. There should be a luxurious kitchen in this building, but he just has a brazier and an iron pot in his hut. Obviously, he doesn’t want to go to the kitchen. He turned around Carl’s room and asked the first team leader Miluo, "Did Sir Isaac find the night watchman?"
"I don’t think I found a basement in this building at that time, and then I hit the door leading to the basement and encountered an evil spirit!" Miluo immediately replied
"Let’s look for the entrance to the basement first and check it out there!" Carl said that he knew that this place had just been visited by Capt. Sauron the day before yesterday, but Capt. Sauron didn’t find any evil spirits here. He touched his arms and thought about how to send out the signal when he met the evil spirits.
However, because Captain Sauron was hiding outside the manor, Carl was quite confident in his heart, and he was bent on ending this matter as soon as possible, and it was best to return to Hailanza on the same day. No one wanted to spend the night in this abandoned house.
According to the architectural custom here in Hailansa, the entrance to the room is often connected to the kitchen. The first team members are all wearing metal armor with light shields and knight swords in their hands. The only disadvantage of this armor is that there will always be very harsh metal friction when walking.
"To tell you the truth, I always think that Funak Manor is the most scenic manor outside Hailanza, but I didn’t expect it to be deserted like this. If I solve the evil spirits here this time, I’d like to attend an auction. If the auction price can bear it, I will buy it here! It’s really nice to renovate here. "Carl walked along the corridor on one side of the living room to the kitchen behind him.
Next to the first floor hall is a spacious dining room, where the dining table is made of thick indigo wood, and there are some exquisite embossed desktops, and even some tableware covered with dust. The wall frame is also filled with kitchen utensils, but there is no damage here, and some tableware is left.
Inside the kitchen, there is a meat case on one side and a long oak square table on the other side. There is also a frozen pig leg hanging on the kitchen hook, and there are traces of knives and axes. It seems that it should be the goods of the night watchman.
The object leads to the object corridor opposite the kitchen. There are a lot of sundries here, but most of them have been cleared out. The door of the dark room is open in this corridor. According to Isaac, a member of the fifth squadron, when he woke up, the investigation team found the entrance of the ground room in the manor and cleaned up the sundries piled up in the ground room, and was attacked by evil spirits before entering the ground room.
When everyone came here, their mood became tense. Everyone had a shield in his hand and almost surrounded the entrance to the basement.
Carl’s mid-team leader was about to take the lead into the basement when Suldak held his shoulder and waved the heavy dwarf chain shield in his hand and said to Carl, "Let me …"
Carl knows that this time is not a good time to be brave, so Gensoul Duck will go first.
The entrance to the basement was full of a musty smell. Miluo lit a torch and was just about to hand it to Surdak, but I didn’t expect Surdak to carry a delicate bronze torch with him. The whole torch seemed heavy and I didn’t see how he lit it, but I saw a white light at the top of the torch, which was much brighter than Miluo’s torch.
Everyone thinks that this torch is a kind of life magic lighting device, and no one is too sorry.
Surdak held the torch and bowed his head into the narrow passage of the basement …
Chapter 411 Evil spirits in ruins
The stone steps of the basement extended for 20 steps, and then a slow platform appeared in the corner. Turn left for 9 degrees and continue to walk for 20 steps. Surdak stepped on the floor of the basement. The room was full of a faint musty smell, a kind of coldness that could be drilled into the body, which made everyone in the line shudder.
With the soft light of the torch, you can see the whole area of more than ten meters clearly. It looks very spacious. Some independent rooms are separated by iron fences. Each room has a locked iron gate. There is only a layer of weeds like a bird’s nest in the corner of the iron gate, which is less than ten square meters in size. It is probably from here that this room looks more like a prison room.
Inside the basement, like Surdak, exploring the depths of the basement along the iron fence channel, I feel that the deeper I go inside, the deeper the bone marrow is, the colder it is.
Fearing that evil spirits would jump out of the darkness at any time and place, a group of people didn’t explore when they entered the basement. Everyone gathered a piece of Surdak and walked into an iron fence to surround the room. He found that the slate in the room was covered with some claw marks and there were some tiny bone fragments near the weeds. Surdak held a torch and squatted next to the iron fence to have his hair cut. Some bite marks can be seen everywhere on the half of the iron fence. This beast with teeth marks on the cast iron fence must be very crazy besides its amazing bite force.
Captain Miluo, a member of the first squad, couldn’t help muttering behind him, "What the hell is this prison?"
Captain Miluo looked as usual and said, "It’s probably the first time you’ve seen a place like holding prisoners in every noble manor, isn’t it?"
Surdak got up and took a deep breath and said, "These rooms don’t look like places to detain prisoners. It seems that some fierce beasts were kept here."
The torch of the holy light emits a soft incandescent light, and the darkness everywhere in Surdak quickly recedes like the tide.
Further inside, the front room becomes extremely spacious. It looks like a hall of several hundred square meters. There is nothing in the hall, and only by the wall can you see some mottled marks on the wall.
Once again, the team member couldn’t help but say, "I didn’t expect that the basement of Funak Manor would be so big. It’s really cold here and it’s gloomy …"
Captain Miluo ordered two other members of the first team behind him, "Light two more torches and we will search around for one."
At this time, Carl said, "If you find something abnormal, you should retreat immediately. We are facing the evil spirits hiding in the depths of the manor. Think of knight Isaac lying in bed. Maybe it will be like that for a second."
“……”
Captain Miluo and several members of the first team all looked at Carl and complained that everyone could not help getting closer to each other.
Looking at the blue flag with very flat feet, it seems that a layer has been eroded away by something and become uneven. These blue flags have not been seen as they are. A team member stepped on a blue flag with his iron boots. A layer of stone skin on the surface of the blue flag was crushed by iron boots to reveal holes the size of eggs, and there were nicks cast by red copper around the holes.
Surdak didn’t mean much at first, but when he passed through the hole, what came to mind was the huge summoning circle in the cave of Grenfill Manor. The magic pattern of the circle was carved from the slate and cast by magical metal. Surdak stopped and squatted down to carefully observe the residual traces around the hole.
"It seems that the root here is not a hiding room!" Surdak dagger scraped a thin layer of magic red copper from the slate and said to Carl at his side
Then he looked at several fractures extending out of the hole. Moline pointed out the direction and said to the first team leader, "Captain Miluo asked you to go out along these lines to see if you could find such holes."
Miluo also dare not neglect hurriedly according to Surdak’s command, together with himself, a total of four people explored in the direction pointed out by Surdak.