"The soldiers responded so quickly, completely beyond my expectation." Matthias took a sip of wine and continued to play with the hourglass in his hand.
Reggie turned his face to the side, took a sip of wine and said, "How long do you plan to show off?"
"I didn't mean to show off."
"If you want to be sarcastic, just say so."
"This is the fifty-cent hourglass made by the White Tower people." Mathias turned the hourglass over and placed it on the table. "Last night, this hourglass was on the table in the tower. When the airship landed, this hourglass
Sand is leaking."
"What a magical power. The hourglass made by the White Tower people can actually leak sand!" Reggie sneered, "Don't you have anything else to show off?"
"When the airship took off, the hourglass was still leaking sand," Matthias seemed to be very interested in the hourglass. "Later, someone said that you and I had escaped, and the hourglass was still leaking sand. Waiting for a captain to say you
I didn’t escape, the hourglass is still leaking sand, this is just a fifty-cent hourglass, why is there so much sand?”
Reggie understood what Mathias said.
The hourglass is a timing tool. The fifty-minute hourglass will drain out all the sand in twenty-eight and a half minutes, regardless of the amount of sand.
As soon as the airship appeared, the hourglass began to leak sand. Then, rumors spread in the castle that Reggie and Matthias had escaped, and then news spread that they had not escaped.
These actions are all reasonable, but all of this cannot be completed within twenty-eight minutes.
The reaction speed of the White Tower soldiers was too fast, almost unreasonable.
"You have a group of wizards who are good at divination. Ask them what the reason is."
The wizard Mattias refers to is the arithmetic officer of Shattering Snow City. Reggie sent the details of last night back to Shattering Snow City. According to the normal speed, the arithmetic officer will give the information within one to two days.
They need to give them the answer, but today's situation is special and Reggie can only give them half a day.
Batchelor moved a chair and sat in front of the academic officers. He took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Today is a day to witness miracles. Broken Snow City has never lacked heroes who create miracles.
The first person to find the answer will get sixty gold coins, and I also want to tell you good news. Viscount Sheila will come tomorrow with ten girls, all girls you have never seen before."
A stout woman stood up and said: "Sir, what you just said is an insult to scholars and academics. We don't need any girls!"
It is difficult to find beautiful women among the elites of science and engineering, no matter in any era. Looking at this sturdy girl with a light velvet beard on her face, Batchelor smiled and said: "Viscount Sheila also has
Two handsome young men have arrived, and it is said that even the knights of Gusta were put to shame by them."
"This, this is simply..." The girl sat back in her seat with shame and anger, picked up a stack of wood pulp paper and said, "I am only fighting for the lord, not for some young man. Please don't say such frivolous words.
!”
That afternoon, Reggie received a response from the arithmetic officer.
There is a mole among the soldiers in the White Tower, and the probability is close to 75%. The girl who got the answer first was the girl. She expressed her willingness to pay everything for the lord, and said she didn’t need gold coins, but both boys had to pay
Give it to her.
For Matthias, the probability of 75% means that the matter is confirmed.
"I went to ask the commander. I asked him why he knew I didn't escape. Guess what he answered?"
Reggie said: "He firmly believes that the head of state will never abandon his soldiers."
"You are wrong. He knew I would not believe these compliments. He said that in those circumstances, he had no choice but to inspire the soldiers to continue fighting."
Reggie nodded and said, "What he said makes sense."
"Yes, it does make sense." Matthias took a sip of ale and put the glass aside. "He and several other soldiers will stay with me in the secret room of the tower tonight. I think
You are invited to conduct another experiment."
Reggie smiled and said: "My arithmetic officer thinks so too. If the experiment is successful, we can leave Baizhu Town without spending a single soldier."
That night, five airships came to the sky above the castle. After landing, they waited for a long time and did not take off.
The soldiers were not surprised by this. They thought Emperor Suixue's airship was coming to deliver weapons and food again.
But soon news came that Suixue Emperor and the White Tower Yuan Capital were missing, and even Suixue Kingdom's soldiers were also missing.
Five airships took off one after another, forming a formation with four outside and one inside, and slowly flew away from the castle.
The soldiers began to lose their composure. Some officers imitated the behavior of the commander yesterday and tried to comfort everyone, but it had no effect. Matthias did not appear, and panic quickly destroyed the soldiers' fighting spirit.
The sand demon launched an attack, but only a few soldiers were still resisting. The castle soon reached the edge of collapse. The sand demon used his body to fill a bridge in the moat, and there was a violent banging sound from the castle gate.
"This experiment is a bit risky," Reggie said, wiping his sweat. "Be careful not to backfire."
"None of us want to die, but living is not easy. Yesterday I listened to you, and today you listen to me. Before the hourglass runs out, we hope to get the answer we want."
Matthias put the fifty-cent hourglass on the table, and the soldiers on the roof began to pour mercury on the city gate. In the absence of black oil, this was their last resort.
Half an hour later, the sand in the hourglass ran out, and Matthias still did not intend to show up. Reggie asked the artillery to prepare, but Matthias did not give the order to fire.
This time, everyone believed that Mathias had escaped, and Reggie had also escaped. He took away all the soldiers from the Shattered Snow Kingdom, as well as all the artillery and black oil.
The city gate was about to be breached, and Reggie was still pretending to be calm, but someone couldn't sit still.
Yang Qiu sniffed and said, "It smells of witchcraft. Someone is using witchcraft. It's tremor witchcraft. The sand demons outside the city can feel the vibrations."
"Is it him?" Matthias looked at the commander beside him, who shook his head desperately.
"I'm not sure, I don't know who it is, he is in this room, and his witchcraft has just begun..."
Before he finished speaking, Matthias waved his hand, and gunshots rang out one after another. The commander and several soldiers were all shot in the head by Matthias's guards.
"Does it still smell good now?"
Yang Qiu was stunned for a long time and shook his head.
Ten minutes later, Reggie stood up and said: "We have the answer. Fifteen miles outside the city, there are four rock demon giants, more than 300 feet tall, and all five airships have been shot down."
"It's a pity that these five airships," Matthias sighed, "threw black oil bombs and continued to fight the enemy in a stalemate. I guess the evil spirit won't last long."