"When we came here just now, this cave was opened. I clearly remember that it was restored to its original state when we left. Obviously someone also discovered this place later."
Garen also frowned. "There is indeed a bit of trouble. It's probably someone from Jinhuan." Suddenly he smelled a faint scent, like sandalwood, but much lighter. "What smells so fragrant?"
"Huh? This smell..." Detective Tali suddenly stopped talking to the bearded man, his face changed slightly, as if he remembered something.
Suddenly his expression changed and he shouted suddenly, "Everyone, get out quickly!! Don't stay here!"
No one else could figure out what was going on, but out of trust in the famous detective, they immediately ran outside the castle.
Garen did the same, but before he had taken a few steps, he suddenly felt a blur in front of his eyes.
whee..
There was a faint chuckle behind him.
His scalp went numb, and he immediately remembered the time when he was pushed downstairs, and the same laughter behind him.
I turned around suddenly and saw that there was nothing behind me.
"Let's go!" A vague voice came from beside him, and Garen felt a force pulling him, and he rushed straight towards the castle gate.
He was suddenly startled, and then looked around at other places. No one else who was around him just now disappeared. He was the only one left in the entire castle. There seemed to be an invisible man running in front of him, pulling his hand.
His hands moved forward as hard as he could.
Bang!
The door was slammed open. Garen was dizzy, suddenly lost his balance, and fell down on the grass. In the cold and moist grass, a breath of fresh air penetrated his nostrils, and his mind suddenly cleared.
The field of vision suddenly blurred, and a large group of people suddenly appeared on the surrounding lawn, including the police chief, experts, and several policemen. As well as Shuiyin Silan, Baiying Black Panther and others in the tower, Cynthia and Grace were lying on the ground.
Around him, he still looked dizzy.
"What a risk!!" Detective Mercury in the Tower stood up and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He looked back at Yinsha Castle with lingering fear. "I always thought that the previous aroma should be naturally produced, but now it seems that it must be
It was an aroma deliberately released by someone. This time there were so many of us that we increased the concentration, so everyone could smell it carefully."
"What on earth is this?" Sheriff Rio stood up from the grass, panting. The others also stood up and looked at Tali Mercury, who had a solemn look on his face.
"I just seemed to see people around me disappear all of a sudden! What happened?"
"Me too! I thought I heard someone laughing behind me just now!!"
"Don't worry! Let's listen to what the detective has to say first!" The police chief pressed his hands, and the surrounding area suddenly became quieter. Everyone's eyes were focused on the detective.
Garen was originally about to ask, but when he heard the other people's situation, he suddenly realized that it was similar to what he had experienced. He was shocked, and his eyes focused on the detective in the tower.
"This is a very strong hallucinogenic aroma." Tali Mercury looked serious, "I once saw a description in a book, but I didn't expect to see such an almost extinct thing in reality."
He took a deep breath, looked at the others around him, and spoke word by word.
"The vine! This aroma is the hallucinatory poisonous gas naturally emitted by the legendary extinct vine after it matures. It can cause various hallucinations of loneliness and fear. The poisonous gas emitted by this vine is generally very light.
Humans can't smell it at all, only some animals with a sensitive sense of smell can distinguish it."
"Te Zhi Vine..." Garen narrowed his eyes, recalling the first time he came to Yinsha Castle, when he was pushed down from the second floor and injured. "It seems that at that time, someone should have used the scent of Tea Zhi Vine to first confuse people.
He held me in, and then when I walked to the window, he pushed me down the window. At that time, Bai Ying and Tali must have been hallucinated by this fragrance, which caused the three of us to enter the room one after another, but we couldn't see each other at all.
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"So, someone is deliberately preventing us from entering that passage?" the police chief asked in a low voice.
Tali Mercury nodded and began to discuss countermeasures with the police chief and mechanical experts.
On Garen's side, Cynthia and Grace were also completely awake. Cynthia was the one who pulled Garen out of the castle earlier.
"If I hadn't gone through resistance training like hallucinogenic poisons first, I might not be able to pull you out this time." She smiled at Garen, "Thank me, if it weren't for me you would definitely be able to pull you out."
Something went wrong."
"Yes, yes, thank you." Garen said speechlessly, but it is indeed true. Cynthia showed a huge effect as soon as she arrived. If it weren't for him, Garen would have already been with the police in the castle who didn't have time to escape.
Just like that, he fainted and fell to the ground.
A group of people stood at the gate and did not dare to go in. They just looked at the two policemen lying inside through the gate. No one wanted to go in hastily and become like those two people.
"Look over there!" A policeman suddenly shouted, pointing to the top of the third floor.
Everyone followed his direction and saw a person in black standing in front of the window of a room on the third floor. She seemed to be a pale woman. She had a weird smile on her face, her eyes were dark green, and her mouth kept coming.
Keep the saliva down.
The moment everyone saw her clearly, the woman immediately disappeared into the shadows behind the window.
"Cover your mouth and nose with a wet hand towel! The water should be able to absorb this hallucinogenic aroma!" Tali Mercury shouted.
Everyone immediately began to take out the water bottles they had brought with them, wet their clothes, and then cover their mouths and noses.
The sergeant was the first to rush in with a pistol, and ran to the two policemen who had fallen to the ground in the castle to check.
"No need to look, they are dead..." the detective said solemnly as he walked in the door, "An overdose of hallucinogens, especially such a high concentration, coupled with a heavy blow to the back of the head causing bleeding."
The rest of the people immediately followed suit and answered the question.
"Catch that woman first!! I'll go first!" Bai Ying said coldly, "Black Panther, protect Mr. and Miss Silan!"
"Leave it to me!" Black Panther patted his chest and watched as White Eagle jumped upstairs and quickly disappeared around the corner.
Cynthia also took out a white pistol and stood in front of Gallon.
The police chief stood up with a gloomy look on his face, "Everyone! Search for me! If you find that crazy woman, shoot her on the spot!"
Obviously, the death of his subordinate made him feel angry.
"Yes!" All the police officers had gathered around and pulled out their pistols, with a trace of anger and nervousness on their faces.
Everyone was on high alert and began to patrol every corner of the entire castle. More than a dozen people were divided into several teams and patrolled everywhere.
Galen led Cynthia and Grace to the second floor cautiously. Before he had taken a few steps, he heard two gunshots from above.
"Ah!!" A scream suddenly came.
"Tom!!" "She ran to the second floor!! Quick! Kill her!!"
"Damn it! This madman is too fast! I can't aim correctly!!" "She ran towards the stairs!'
The three of Galen were just at the corner of the stairs when they saw a black figure jumping down from the stairs, as light as a piece of black cloth and completely weightless.
Cynthia moved the fastest. A white pistol appeared in her right hand, she pointed it at the black shadow and pulled the trigger directly.
Bang bang bang bang!!
Four consecutive shots, only one second of encounter, all four bullets hit the black shadow.
whee...
The black shadow let out a sharp laugh, paused, and rushed towards Cynthia again. It seemed that the shot just now had no effect on her at all, and the speed was even faster than before.
A force suddenly branched out from her black shadow and grabbed Cynthia's neck, like a black tentacle. It was so fast that it was impossible to see what it was.
Cynthia looked calm and held her gun motionless.
Bang!!
This shot just hit the black shadow's head back.
ah!!
The black shadow let out a piercing scream, gave up attacking Cynthia, and fled directly downstairs. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared.
Garen did not move behind. He did not want to expose his skills, and it was in front of so many people, especially Bai Ying.
Although I really wanted to take action, I still held back.
"Are you okay?" He held Cynthia's shoulders. The latter's body shook, and she suddenly woke up from a state of high tension. She lowered her head and gasped for air.
"Okay...so amazing!! That woman's speed! She was able to avoid four shots from me in a row!" A small drop of sweat appeared on the tip of her nose. "But in the end, phew...she was still shot by me."
"It's a nightmare for martial arts masters to get close. No matter how good your marksmanship is, you can't defeat martial arts in close combat. Of course, if you distance yourself, it's the other way around." Garen nodded. "Let's go down and have a look."
Grace stood aside and couldn't say anything at all. Her shooting skills were also good, but she would definitely not be able to react in time when encountering an opponent like this, and would be caught and killed. Originally, she didn't like Cynthia's shooting skills very much.
But the reaction just now suddenly revealed his true strength.
At this time, they were pulled by Garen, and the three of them quickly ran downstairs together.
In the lobby on the first floor downstairs, five or six police officers stood around the woman, all of them staring nervously at the center with their guns raised.
The woman in black robe was lying on the ground, twitching from time to time, and there was a small blood hole on the left side of her head and forehead. The blood hole was very deep, and she had obviously injured her brain.
Garen and his group, the Sheriff and others gathered around, as did Tali Quicksilver and Black Panther. Everyone looked at the woman in the middle.
"She was hit in the head by a gunshot and she is about to die." Cynthia turned the pistol in her hand a few times and said calmly. "My bullets are specially made, and their penetrating power is absolutely powerful! They are used to deal with this kind of martial arts.
Master."
Sure enough, not long after, the woman suddenly twitched again and became completely motionless. The black cloak fell from her head, revealing a head full of white hair.
"How old is this woman?" Garen was slightly surprised.
"She must be at least eighty or ninety years old. I don't know how she has been living in this old castle." The detective took a puff on his pipe and said calmly. "There are very few people with special physiques who are not afraid of being poisoned by the poisonous smoke of the vine.
But if they live in this hallucinogenic poisonous smoke for a long time, they will lose their minds and behave like wild beasts. This guy must be this kind of special race."
"What now?" The sergeant looked at the detective.
"First check the body to see if we can find anything, and then we will enter the passage as planned!" the detective said flatly, taking off his pipe.
"Okay. Listen to you!"
"When the time comes, Bai Ying, you protection expert, we will go down together, and the others will stay up to protect the entrance." Tali Mercury began to make arrangements.
"Sergeant, please bring two people to follow you down. We will leave one person at a certain distance to guard and respond, and tie the ropes we brought for everyone."
"What about me?" Black Panther took a step forward and asked.
"You stay up there to protect Silan and the entrance."
"I want to go down too." Garen took a step forward and said, "Such a large underground passage, there will definitely be a lot of things in it. I can find the most valuable things and bring them up!" This was also his original purpose. Besides, there are detectives.
With experts leading the way, he doesn't have to worry too much about safety.