In the early morning, facing the biting north wind, Suldak left the city of Hiranza on horseback with Karl and his entourage.
Worried that Natasha would not be able to have lunch and dinner at the Knight Academy during his absence for the past few days, Surdak specifically asked the two girls in the next dormitory last night to help him take care of Natasha, Lina and Nedra.
The girl agreed very readily.
Funak Manor is located on the southern outskirts of Hiranza City. There are almost no mountains on the road from Hiranza City to Funak Manor. The most is gentle forest land. Along the way, Surdak saw several logging camps.
There were some old golden oak trees on both sides, and the road was not easy to walk. Everyone walked forward along a tread mark on the road.
The snow on the road has not been completely compacted yet. I left the road and stepped on the tree-lined road to Fonak Manor. There were only some footprints left by hunters on this road. It seemed that few people came here after the heavy snow. From time to time, there were one after another.
The pheasants flew out of the snow and plunged into the snow pits in the forest on the hillside.
This time, in addition to Suldak, Karl also mobilized the first squadron of the rescue squadron to accompany him. The eight-person team left Hiranza City in the morning, and it only took half a day to reach Funak Manor.
Suldak and Karl walked side by side on the road.
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Last night, Karl asked Miluo, the captain of the first team, to retrieve the information about the little Viscount Fornac from the guard camp. At this time, Miluo followed Karl and carefully told the information he found last night. The first team
The captain is a close confidant of Karl, and I heard him say: "When many people in the city talked about the robbery of the Fornac Manor, they said that the little Viscount Fornac was a rare coward. He gave up his life because he was afraid of those bandits.
Nack Manor, ran back to Helensa City in despair."
Karl was riding on horseback and turned to Suldak and said: "I remember that there was a time when a group of robbers lived in Fonak Manor."
"Yes!" Miluo, the captain of the first team, also looked like he still remembered it, and said with emotion: "That happened last summer, when a bandit group robbed everywhere around the city of Halanza.
, which caused panic among the nobles in the city of Helensa. Each brigade in the guard camp sent their respective support squadrons out of the city to encircle and suppress the bandit group. Only then did they discover that this bandit group actually occupied Fonak Manor and used it as a basis.
The stronghold plundered the surrounding villages and towns, and only after the guard battalion eliminated the bandit group in one fell swoop did the Fornac Manor return to the hands of the little Viscount Fornac."
"After Viscount Fornac took over the manor, he only sent one night watchman to guard the door to prevent the manor from being completely abandoned. Unexpectedly, the manor would continue to have troubles one after another in the following period." Miluo added.
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"Are things happening one after another?" Karl asked in surprise. This kind of thing was a security issue outside the city, but he didn't know any news about it.
Miluo, the first team leader, nodded and said: "Yes, this dead night watchman is not the first victim in this manor. In fact, if you include this person, he should be the fifth. It's just that the previous one
The four Viscounts of Fornac all made some compensation to the families of the night watchmen. Even if they died, no one would make any announcements. Moreover, Viscount Fornac would go to the guard camp to file a record every time. However, this night watchman was not Viscount of Fornac.
He didn’t want to compensate, but he just caught up with the recent heavy snowfall and it was already a little late when he received the news. The night watchman’s son reported the matter to the guard camp seven days after his father disappeared.”
Karl pondered for a moment and then asked: "It seems that there is really something wrong with this manor. Have you asked the families of the previous night watchmen about the cause of death of those night watchmen?"
Miluo said a little embarrassedly: "The file only records that the cause of death is unknown, because we only had to investigate this last night, and there was no time to visit the families of the victimized night watchmen."
“This is very good!” Karl said to Miluo.
When the group was about to arrive at Fornak Manor, they stood on the slope in the distance and saw that Fornak Manor was built on a small hill. This hill was only a few dozen meters high, with a gentle road to the south.
It is a gentle slope, and on the north side of the hill is a cliff with a height of about forty to fifty meters. The Fornak Manor is built on the cliff. Under the cliff is a lake covering an area of about ten acres. Behind the lake is a large
forest.
There is a winding path leading here from the south of the manor. Looking from a distance, the depressed exterior wall and broken gate of Fornak Manor are still covered with thick snow. Although they have been repaired, they are lifeless.
Only the window frame remained of the window under the observation deck. It looked like a messy bird's nest on the window sill. A large ibis with black feathers flew out of the window and flew around the manor for a while.
Fly away far away.
Karl told Miluo: "Send two people to search carefully outside the manor. Let's first find a sheltered place to eat a hot bite to fill our stomachs, and then enter the manor to investigate."
Probably because he was worried that Captain Saul and his team would not be able to follow in time, Karl led the first team not walking very fast. At this time, a temporary tent was set up next to the forest, a bonfire was lit, and a large iron pot was set up to boil water.
Break the toasted wheat cake into pieces and throw it into a large iron pot until it is cooked until soft and then eat it warm. This kind of wheat cake with salt and meat and cheese is much more delicious than the marching rations.
After lunch, the group walked slowly into the Fornak Manor. Although there was an iron lock on the broken gate, the railings on the big iron gate had such big holes that even a huge bear could get through.
After entering, everyone tied the horses outside the manor, leaving one member of the first team to take care of the horses. Karl led the other five people into the manor.
After Suldak entered the Fornak Manor, he discovered that although the manor was too dilapidated to be inhabitable without renovation, the general outline of the design pattern of the entire manor could still be seen. Under the heavy snow cover, the entire
The manor fits well into the surrounding mountain scenery. No wonder the manor has been abandoned to this point. When Darcy Christie recommended the Knights Territory to herself, she also recommended the land here to herself.
Obviously Darcy Christie is not optimistic about the land here, but is optimistic about this abandoned manor. If the large lake here and the large forest opposite can become her own knight territory, it will obviously be a good idea to invest in buying this dilapidated manor.
It's an excellent plan to purchase land, but if you want to own such a large piece of land, the small knight's collar may not be able to accommodate it.
There were only a few messy footprints in the manor. Miluo walked at the front with a shield in his hand. Behind him were three members of the first team. Surdak and Karl followed behind. This made it difficult for him to go on missions all the time.
Surdak, who was rushing at the front, was very uncomfortable with it. He took out the dwarf chain shield and the blood-red crescent moon from his magic waist bag, came to Miluo and walked side by side with him.
He wore a red salamander leather armor and held a magic weapon in his hand, which made the members of the first team jealous.
It is said that the night watchman should live in the concierge at the gate, but the gate of this concierge has disappeared without a trace, the glass of the window has been smashed to pieces, the house is filled with snow, and there are only broken tables and chairs inside.
Outside, there is almost nothing, no sign of habitation at all. However, the stable next to it looks very big. The horse trough alone is dozens of meters long. The entire stable is also made of good wooden boards, with every other space inside.
There are main beams and columns at four meters. Now, in addition to the snow inside, there are also some weeds and horse manure on the ground not covered by snow.
Passing through the arched entrance courtyard of the manor, the shrubbery wall in the courtyard has grown wildly and out of shape without being trimmed by the gardener. Go around the dry fountain in the courtyard and walk up the steps of the main house. There are also some shallow spots on the steps.
I don't know if the footprints were left by the night watchman or by the night watchman's son who came here to look for his father.
The main house is a four-story building, which looks particularly lonely and tall when it is built on the top of a rock wall. The walls are made of blue rocks quarried on the spot. When it was first built, the craftsmen who dug these stones were highly skilled and the stones were very special.
It is neat and tidy, and there are regular flowing water patterns on the walls. It has to be said that the foundations of the buildings in this manor are extremely solid, and the materials used for all the buildings in the entire manor are made of very hard bluestone strips.
The square stones, each with a wedge in the middle, are put together and then poured with Sanhe soil mortar, making the whole building almost integrated into one.
Walking into the living room of the main building, all the furniture inside has been preserved. However, it was once a stronghold of the bandit group. Although the decoration on the walls of the room was not damaged much, the carpet in the hall was full of filthy dried blood, and some
The furniture was pushed against the walls, and the empty hall was filled with long tables and stools. It looked like a place where robbers gathered to divide their loot.
There was a set of soft leather sofas on a temporary high platform set up in front of the hall, which seemed to be where the leaders of the bandit group were sitting.
There is a side door next to the main hall. The debris at the door was cleared away. Suldak took the lead to walk towards the side door and opened the wooden door. It turned out to be a relatively intact bedroom with a wooden bed inside.
, there is a brazier next to the wooden bed, with a black-burnt stand on it, and an iron pot is hung on the stand. The wall opposite the wooden bed is piled with firewood cut into sections. Although the room looks messy
, but it has a lot of daily necessities, including half a bag of toasted wheat cakes and two dried and skinned pheasants that were frozen hard. It seems that this should be the residence of the night watchman.
I think this night watchman is really lazy. There should be a very luxurious kitchen in this building, but he just set up a brazier and an iron pot in his hut. Apparently he didn't want to go to the kitchen. Karl was there.
After walking around the room, he asked Miluo, the captain of the first team: "Did Knight Isaac mention that they had found the whereabouts of the Night Watchman?"
"They probably didn't find it. At that time, they found a basement in this building. After cleaning up the debris, they opened the door to the basement and encountered an evil spirit!" Miluo immediately replied.
"Let's find the entrance to the basement first and check there!" Karl said. He knew that this place had just been visited by Captain Sauron the day before yesterday. However, Captain Sauron did not find any evil spirits here. He touched it.
Touching the magic signal flare in his arms, he thought about how to send out the signal as soon as possible when he encountered an evil spirit.
However, because Captain Sauron was hiding outside the manor, Karl felt quite confident, so he just wanted to end this matter as soon as possible. It was best to return to Helensa City on the same day. No one wanted to end up in this abandoned place.
Spend the night in a deserted house.
According to the building customs here in Helensa City, the entrance to the basement is often connected to the kitchen storage room. The other members of the first team are wearing metal armor, carrying light shields and knight swords in their hands. The only thing about this kind of armor is that it is not very
The good thing is that when walking, there is always a very harsh metal friction sound.
"To be honest, I have always thought that Fornak Manor is the most scenic manor outside Helensa City, but I didn't expect it to be so abandoned now. If the evil spirits here are solved this time, I would like to participate in an auction.
If the auction price is affordable, I will buy this place! Renovate it, it will be really nice." Karl walked along the corridor on the side of the living room to the kitchen at the back.
Next to the lobby on the first floor is a spacious restaurant. The dining table inside is made of thick indigo wood. There are some exquisite reliefs on the table legs, and there are even some dusty ones on the table. Tableware and kitchen utensils were also placed on the shelves on the wall. However, there was no damage here, and there were even some tableware left.
In the kitchen, there is a meat table on one side and a stove on the other side. There is also a long square oak table in the middle. There is also a frozen pig leg hanging on a hook in the kitchen, and there are traces of knife and ax cuts on it. It looks like it should be the inventory of the night watchman.
The storage room is just opposite the kitchen. In the passage leading to the storage room, there is a lot of debris piled here, but most of the debris has been cleared out. A dark basement door is in this passage. The door was open. According to what Isaac, a member of the Fifth Squadron, said after he woke up, the investigation team found the entrance to the basement in the manor and cleaned up the debris piled at the entrance to the basement. Before entering the basement, they suffered The evil spirit attacks.
Everyone became nervous when they came here. Everyone was holding a shield in their hands, and they almost surrounded the basement entrance.
As the squadron leader, Karl was about to take the lead into the basement, but was held down by Surdak on the shoulder. Surdak shook the heavy dwarf chain shield in his hand and said to Karl: "Let me do it..."
Karl knew that this was not a good time to show off his strength, so he asked Suldak to take the lead.
The entrance to the basement was filled with a musty smell. Miluo lit a torch and was about to hand it to Surdak, but he didn't expect that Surdak himself was actually carrying an exquisite bronze torch with him. The whole torch seemed heavy. , did not see how he lit it, but saw a white light group shining on the top of the torch, which was much brighter than the torch in Miluo's hand.
Everyone just regarded this torch as a magical lighting device for daily life, and no one paid much attention to it.
Suldak held the torch and walked into the narrow passage in the basement with his head lowered...