He came back to his senses immediately, looked at the man in gray robe who was painting the doll in the dark, and asked curiously:
"Are you the wax master serving Count Puyver?"
The count had a hobby of making wax figures for his friends.
The man with a bright red beard on his face retracted his gaze and continued to color the half-finished doll in front of him.
Lumian, who had returned to the corridor, glanced sideways at Albus Medici, and asked about the strange man in the messy room before he spoke:
"What should I call you?"
Lumian was extremely sure that there was something wrong with the "wax figure artist" in front of him, but he was not sure whether the problem was big or small - they had just observed that there was no light spilling out of the room, which meant that the other party was painting the doll in pure darkness.
Colorful!
The man with black eyes and a bright red beard raised his head again and said in a disembodied voice:
"My father went crazy and went deep into the underground palace and never came back..."
"So, are you crazy too?" Albus Medici interrupted the man's ravings.
The man was stunned for two seconds and said:
I heard the call from deep in the underground palace...
Having said this, his eyes swept over the faces of Lumian, Albus and Eloise, and the corners of his mouth surrounded by beards were slightly raised, as if showing a less obvious smile.
His iron-black eyes became increasingly hollow, and his voice became a little more urgent:
"You guys, go to the depths of the underground palace quickly, go to the depths of the underground palace quickly..."
"Why not me?" the poet Elitte muttered quietly.
Lumian's thoughts raced, looking for what he had in common with Albus and Eloise.
As the poet Elitte said, the "you" in the words of the strange man in front of me did not include him. Considering the current environment, there must be some problems.
I am a "Hunter", Albus is a "Hunter", could it be that Eloise is also a "Hunter"? While Lumian was thinking about the reason, Albus Medici didn't mind at all the hidden meaning in the "Wax Master"'s words.
With a hint of horror, he asked the question with a smile:
"You need us to go deep into the underground palace to bring your grandfather, father and brother back, or help you send a blessing?
He is a bit aggressive... Logically speaking, he is at least an "arsonist", and he is the kind who consumes almost all the magic medicine. There is no need to be provocative all the time. Every word is provocative... Could it be that he wants to mislead others?
Is he just a "provocateur"? Lumian looked at Albus's chiseled profile and muttered something in his mind.
The man who was painting the doll ignored Albus and continued his work.
"Excuse me." Lumian didn't give Albus a chance to develop further. He stretched out his right palm, grasped the handle, and gently closed the vermilion wooden door.
Then, he gave up searching the room with the Iron Soldier, fearing to trigger unnecessary mutations.
In the dark environment, Lumian held a carbide lamp and walked down the mottled stone steps.
As the clatter of footsteps echoed, Eloise Einhorn suddenly said:
"That person just now looked like a lion..."
Lumian recalled the appearance of the "wax figure artist" and found that because of his bright red hair and long and thick beard, he really looked like a humanoid lion.
Albus Medici gently shook the carbide lamp in his hand, glanced at Eloise and said:
"This is your grandfather's castle. You have lived here for almost six years. Don't act like visitors like us, who know nothing and are unclear about everything."
"I really don't know who that person was just now." Eloise shook her head, "I rarely go into the underground palace, and the furthest I go is to the room full of wax figures.
In other words, in the few times you explored, you chose the same route as me, and you also chose the "Door of Madness" among the three gates of "Hope", "Madness" and "Death"...
Why didn't you go deeper at that time? What were you worried about? Lumian deduced some information from Eloise Einhorn's brief answer.
Albus sneered:
"Then have you ever heard of the legend that members of the Sauron family went crazy, went deep into the underground palace, and never came back?
"For example, my grandfather went crazy and went deep into the underground palace..."
This member of the "Iron Cross" began to imitate the ravings of the man just now. Both his voice and tone were very lifelike and vivid.
Very good, I asked the question I wanted to ask... Lumian thinks that although Albus Medici is annoying, he still has the value of existence.
He seems to have no scruples and is sharp enough to always ask questions that others find difficult to ask for various reasons.
With such a team member, Lumian can better hide in the "darkness" and not reveal his true thoughts and attitudes.
The mottled stone steps seemed to have no end. Eloise walked down carefully and sighed:
"I have always known similar legends."
"The owner of Red Swan Castle and the members of the Sauron family who live here, both men and women, may gradually become violent, manic, and eventually go crazy. After self-mutilation, they may go deep into the underground palace and never come back. Such things are sometimes rare.
Once a year, sometimes two or three times a year.”
"Except for those family members who are most eager to restore the glory of their ancestors, the rest of Sauron have stayed away from this castle and do not want to become crazy."
"This has a certain effect, ensuring the reproduction and inheritance of the Sauron family, but that madness seems to be a curse, a curse rooted in the blood. Sauron who lives in other places will suddenly return here from time to time, and repeat it.
The experiences of our ancestors.
Is this the apparent truth about the decline of the Sauron family? If the core members of the family go crazy one after another, enter the depths of the underground palace, and never return, then the family will indeed decline bit by bit...Why does Eloise want to tell us in detail?
These things that were circulated within the Sauron family... She felt that we couldn't get out alive, so she wanted to satisfy her desire to share. Lumian recalled the nightmares he had about the king cake game in his mind.
The Red Swan Castle in the nightmare is full of lunatics, lunatics who gouge out their own eyes and harm themselves in different ways.
Now it seems that those may be different Saurons who went crazy over the past two hundred years.
Of course, these are definitely not all members of the Sauron family. In Lumian's nightmare, the novelist Anoli and other participants in the king cake game all went crazy and harmed themselves or others, and they obviously did not have the Sauron family.
Bloodline.
Albus Medici smiled and asked about Eloise in a tone that lacked a beating:
"Is your grandfather also so crazy that he entered the depths of the underground palace?"
"No." Eloise was in a calm state and was not provoked. "He died of long-term headaches. Not every owner of Red Swan Castle will eventually go crazy."
"What do those who didn't go crazy have in common?" Albus asked.
Eloise's face was reflected by the light of the carbide lamp coming from the side, and she answered in a normal voice:
"This is our family secret."
What she meant was, "I won't tell you."
Lumian, who was walking at the front, felt a little angry.
If Ellos had said at the beginning, "Don't ask about the Sauron family's affairs," he would not have had any emotional reaction. But after Ellos told a bunch of useful information and aroused everyone's curiosity,
He actually cut it off at the most critical part and didn't tell everyone the answer, which made everyone feel angry and other emotions, as if they were provoked.
Albus was silent for a few seconds, then smiled and said:
"What about your mother?"
"She died of a normal illness." Eloise didn't hide it.
Albus laughed and continued to ask:
What about you, you also have the blood of the Sauron family, will you suddenly go crazy?"
Eloise turned her head and glanced at the rude guy, showing an unexplainable smile:
"In the long run, we'll all go crazy."
Who do you mean by "we"? Lumian's forehead twitched, and he felt that the "we" that Elos meant was not just the members of the Sauron family.
After a brief silence, the poet Elitte said sincerely:
"The fear of a family, the curse that lasts for many generations, and the ancestors who keep walking into the dark underground are really excellent writing themes and very inspiring. If Anoli knew about it, a classic novel would definitely be born.
Even I have the urge to write long poems.
While talking, the four of them finally finished walking up the long stone steps.
What appeared in front of them was a wide hall, with gray stone pillars erected in the hall, which together supported the dark top above.
As the light of four carbide lamps shone in, Lumian and others saw several piles of white bones, which were located behind certain stone pillars, partially exposed.
"There are quite a few people who have died." Albus Medici sighed with a smile and walked towards one of the piles of bones.
At this moment, Lumian heard the sound of Zhe Xi Suo Suo.
He raised his head suddenly and pointed the front end of the carbide lamp upward.
In the yellowish light, a huge black shadow quickly crawled across the dim and mottled ceiling, disappearing into the shadows on the other side.
The black shadow is a spider-like creature.
Compared with others of its kind, it only has one pair of eyes, but each eye is filled with densely packed tiny single eyes, which turn in different directions and shine with cold light.
This giant spider has countless thick and long bristles on its body, clustered around a shriveled, black, withered heart the size of a fist on its back.
Lumian suddenly trembled, and a term came into his mind: hunting black spiders!
This is one of the main ingredients of the "Conspirator" potion.
In the past month or so, although Lumian has not collected any information related to hunting the black spider and the human lion, he has roughly figured out the situation of these two extraordinary creatures, what they look like, and what abilities they have.
Recently, he has been considering whether to "teleport" to other places to look for traces of hunting black spiders and human lions.
But compared with the hunting black spider in the information, the giant black spider that crawled over just now is even more peculiar. Many details are different. It even has an embedded dry heart that looks like a human!