Chapter 23 Cabin

The street was full of heat, and he was sweating just by standing still. What's more, Li Ou was still in a hurry. Before he was halfway there, he felt his head swollen. He gasped in the shade of the tree before moving on. As he was on his way, he was alert to every stranger who passed by. He doesn't want to lose his life like Jeriti and the unknown guest.

The long ramp extends in front of him, and the sunlight is as white as twisted and scattered on the road, making it hazy and distorted, like the test road of the mountain of knives and fire, straight to heaven. However, the paradise at the end is always full of dark fog, and even the blue sky above has become gray and haze.

"You're late." At the end of the ramp, the knight frowned and said.

"I don't dare to ride a horse like you."

"I patrol today, and I rarely have the opportunity to run in the city." As the knight spoke, he tied the horse under a tree. The branches and leaves are sparse and gray-brown, and there is no grass around it. The carriage hiss uneasily, poking the horse's hoof, shaking its head hard, and trying to escape. Don't scream." The knight soothed his horse, but to no avail.

"Look, even the horse is afraid of this." Animal intuition is hundreds of times stronger than ours. He smiled on his mouth, but his heart was uncertain. After he glanced at the short and fat wall, it was like the eye of a storm brewing a hurricane. Even the hot sun can't penetrate the dark and thick clouds. It's all protesting against your decision to put it at risk. He is energetic.

The knight grabbed a handful of grass from his pigskin pocket and put it on the ground. "Then will you also arrange the meeting place here?"

"We have to check, don't we? Maybe some clues are left here.

"The sophistry of the alchemist is comparable to that of the businessman." He said a saying, settled down the horse, and walked to the gatekeeper's hut with Leo. He kicked open the dilapidated door, and a foul smell of corruption came to his nose. What does this taste like? It smells several times worse than the toilet in the barracks. He clenched the sword in one hand and covered his nose in the other.

"This is much better than when I first came here." Li Ou held his breath and said angrily. He looked around, and what had happened before was vivid. He and Lu Yuewu first set foot here only two months ago, but at this time, they suddenly felt that a long century had passed.

The sunlight seems to be isolated. The hut is dark and damp, the moss is covered with wooden boards, and the ground is covered with dirty water. Snails and snails settle down here, flies lay eggs in it, and worms nibble on their hard shells.

They move forward cautiously, and the long sword opens the way in front of them, lest they hit a deadly trap. As an alchemist, Leo understands the methods of his peers, and some things are far more terrible than curses. As he walked, he sprinkled some fine silver dust, which fell into the wet ground and disappeared from the dark water. The trap was invisible. Li Ou squatted down to check, "They have already failed." He said in a low voice, "Someone triggered them before us."

"I'm willing to believe that my opponent is not Sister Shadow, but I really can't think of anyone but them?"

"Mouse or poisonous snake."

"Ha! Then they must have wiped their necks and waited for us to come.

But the mouse runs faster than his sword. They passed an aisle that had to bend over - overhead was a mixture of boards, soil and straw, dripping water; a dark room with debris; and a relatively spacious room with a long table and a wooden bed with a chain.

They didn't find anything useful, and all the places where they could hide were damaged. The wardrobe collapsed, and the long table broke a leg. There were only a few meat strips of skeletons left on the body. The maggots squirmed on it, and the mice turned a blind eye to their visit. This place has been looted. I don't know whether Jerry Ti took them away when he escaped, or the latecomer took him by hand.

"I already knew that we would return to no use." The knight smiled bitterly, shook his legs hard, threw the maggots that climbed up the boots to the ground, and then stepped on them fiercely. They are not stupid enough to leave clues.

"No wait--" It's too early to say failure.

Li Ou looked around and calculated the distance.

The hut is much larger than it looks. The floor inside is on a downward trend. The more you go in, the deeper the water under your feet, and the room begins to smell the body. He felt that Mike Jeriti had mostly dug through the tunnel and went straight to the corpse site separated by a wall.

"Of course they won't leave us clues," he said with a light smile, "but they will forget what they haven't found."

"Don't play dumb puzzles with me."

Li Ou pushed away someone's body with his scabbard, and the empty head rolled down to the ground, and several pink mice screamed and emerged from their eyes into the shadows. An alchemy array is depicted on the table stained with blood.

"This is..." The knight was puzzled.

"The activation array that can make the dead sing." Leo said, "He is studying taboos."

"This should be reported to the Creators Guild." The knight sighed, "It's not what we're looking for."

"I know." Li Ou kicked over the lame table, "Do you know? In contrast to the activation array, there is another magic array, which is called 'near-death', which can bring the living and the dead together. When they are combined, they can cover up a lot of things.

He swept away the mud on the ground. As expected, an embalmed pine board happened to draw a dying array.

"You can go to the private detective."

"This is the secret of the alchemist." Li Ou shrugged his shoulders, "Do you think any alchemist will join the abstinent and self-damaged shadow nun?"

"I forgot that you are not afraid of gods and talk about faith." The knight pointed to the board, "What should I do next? We stared at each other like this, and it could open it?

"I have a more direct way to kick it away." Li Ou held the knight's shoulder with one hand and stepped down fiercely. The board was broken, revealing a dark hole. Look, it's that simple. There is no magic flowing on it for a long time.

They climbed down the iron ring on the wall and found dirty water deep into their ankles. The knight groped and took out the fire and lit the oil lamp. The things in the basement are quite neat. Books are neatly arranged on shelves; there are stacks of recording papers in the closet, and alchemy tables are placed on the wall. The reagents on them have not yet been prepared, and there is no longer any alcohol in the alcohol lamp.

"What kind of medicine is this?" The knight asked curiously.

Li Ou took off the flask and put it between his nose and sniffed it gently. "Anshen flowers, qian, poppy, rosin, mercury and lead... I can't distinguish some of the remaining flavors." He poured the remnants from the flask on the table to observe its color. There are several agents that use these raw materials, but according to Jerry's work, it will only be a very famous elixir.

The knight stared at the pile of vomiting remnants on the table and said affirmatively, "I don't think it will be a good thing."

"The song of the dead." Leo said, "It works better than the activation array. The dead can appear in a state of being in doubt with the living within a few minutes of the potion - except that they have no soul.

"Why did he study these?" The knight frowned, "Is he going to let the deceased speak? Then I might as well look forward to sitting down with the resentment and having a cup of wine.

Li Ou patted off the stolen goods in his hand, "Alchemy is inevitable to deal with the dead."

"I never knew that." The knight said angrily, "Don't tell me that bone powder and brain marrow are also mixed in the medicine."

You are really right. Mr. Knight, do you know what the ultimate pursuit of mage and alchemists, or oriental warlocks, wild shamans... These mystical scholars, even kings and mortals, are?

"I don't have time to think about it."

Li Ou looked at him and said word by word, "It's nothing more than stone into gold and immortality."

"If you sleep with the corpse, you can live immortality. What else do you want a woman to do?" The knight sneered disdainfully, "And that guy is now lying in the pile of dead people, and he is also dead."

This is our belief, and our pursuit is different. There was an alchemist who was awarded the title of 'Undead Creator'. He first invented the song of the dead and successfully continued his life for a hundred years.

"Legend is legend." The knight interrupted him, "Don't go around and just say the point."

Yes, the legend is not true. So we have to look at it in front of us. Alchemy is probably a fantasy for him. I speak dry, but I'm just playing the piano to the cow. He had no choice but to realize it. The happy song of the dead only has a special effect on the dying. And Jerry is not old. He must make these for other purposes... This is the answer we are looking for now.

They started with the paper in the closet. The above record is a complex and cumbersome formula, mixed with secret texts that could not be analyzed for the time being. The knight knew nothing about it, so he put them down and went to the other side to look through the books on the shelf.

A thin piece of paper fell from the page, and the knight grabbed it quickly. He unfolded it and then frowned. Hey, come and have a look here." He shouted, "Can you interpret these symbols?

The symbols on it are stacked and the handwriting is turbulent. He can only barely distinguish some of the letters, such as variants of Rouney's characters; and some are collections of disorderly geometric figures, which can't be known at all. The dim yellow light of the oil lamp became fragmented in the wave of water, and some small powder fell overhead. A mouse accidentally fell into the basement and splashed some splashes.

"Maybe I should pin my hope on Miss Bachelor." He heard the knight muttering to himself. After waiting for a long time, the knight gradually became impatient, "Hey, what am I asking you? Is there any result?"

Li Ou was silent with his head buried. He put the note in his pocket without a trace, and put the book mixed with the note into his carry-on package. Then he slowly raised his head, "I've always wanted to know what you got from that resentment?"

The knight was stunned for a moment, "Does it have anything to do with this?"

"Answer my question!" He shouted sharply, "The last time, in the cemetery above us, what did you know from the informant who was murdered by Sister You Shadow?"

"What kind of informant?" The knight was confused, "You mean Holland? But I haven't even been able to confirm the cause of his death.

"He died from a dagger from behind. Or, do you want to try it too?" He suddenly pulled out his sword and put it close to the knight's throat. He finally had enough." I'm not here to be sloppy with you! Answer my question!"

The knight stared into Leo's eyes. Take it away, Leo. Li Ou was unmoved, and he finally became anxious. "Hell, let go of me. I'll answer your question."

"That's the answer. After letting go, I'm afraid you will lie. Li Ou's hand holding the sword is stable. "Everyone knows that only a sword can make people tell the truth. I think the same is true of knights.

"No one dares to threaten a knight with a sword." There was anger in his eyes, "You will be thrown into prison. You won't have that kind of luck this time."

"I don't think I'm the first one to dare to do this." Li Ou lowered his eyes slightly, loosened his index finger slightly, and then held it tightly. Think about it, who last hung the sword over your head? I remember you were taken to a banquet the other day? He also forced you to clean up the mess.

Flame White Rose? Are you kidding me?"

His hand also pressed the hilt of the sword, and Li Ou turned a blind eye to it. Do you think I'm joking? I think you have hidden a lot of things. For example, what you have done does not seem to be as aboveboard as your knight's oath.

"This is slander! I want to fight with you!"

Li Ou exerted strength in his hand, and the tip of the sword pierced the knight's throat, and a drop of black and red blood rolled down the sword body. Answer my question first, and then I will fight with you."

"Dream about it!" The knight pulled out his sword and opened Leo's long sword like lightning.

However, they stabbed a sword at the same time, but not to the other side, but to the left side together. A gray shadow appeared in the shadow, and suddenly the blade that burned pale flames in the dark cut out twice in a row, blocking their tacit joint attack. Then the blade suddenly disappeared, and the gray shadow also disappeared. Li Oufei quickly threw out a handful of developing dust, but found nothing. They were back-to-back vigilance for a long time before they gradually became convinced that the other party had left without a hit.

"Get out immediately." The knight proposed.

So the knight was on alert, and Leo quickly packed up everything in the basement and quickly escaped from the cabin. When they see the sun again, they feel like they have been reborn.

"Sister Shadow." The knight gasped and stared at Leo.

"Who else can there be besides them?" The horse was sniffing and greeting them, "They are staring at us."