Werther looked at the basement in shock, picked up a stone and threw it down. After a few seconds, he heard the sound of the stone falling to the ground.
He walked around to the front of the house, frowned, and asked the man angrily: "There are only two steps in the basement, and the stairs below are empty. Do you want to throw us to death?"
Unexpectedly, the man had a panicked expression on his face, waved his hands desperately, and said nervously: "When I was brought here by them, I did enter this house through a basement. That basement has a complete staircase.
I don't want to hurt you at all. If I hurt you, who can save me? You must believe me."
Werther thought to himself, could it be that after they brought this man into the house, they destroyed the stairs in the basement? But this is not reasonable. Since they hid some things in the house and let this man look at it, it means that they
It will definitely come back, and the stairs will definitely be used when the time comes, and there is no reason to destroy the stairs.
In this case, it can only mean that we are looking for the wrong basement? Could it be that the basement we just saw was just a trap to deceive others, and the basement that really leads to the house is somewhere else?
Thinking of this, Werther asked the man again: "Do you still remember where the basement you passed is?"
The man's mouth grinned, and his dry lips cracked into a fine line, and blood oozed out: "I remember it very clearly, right next to a dry well."
"Is it very close to the dry well?"
"Yes, it's very close."
After hearing what he said, Witte thought that the basement he and Wile had just discovered was some distance away from the dry well, not very close to the dry well. This meant that they had just found the wrong location.
"I'm sorry, sir, I wrongly blamed you just now." Werther said, "You look very thirsty, why don't I bring you some water first?"
"You don't have to apologize to me. I was just waiting to be rescued by you." The man's face showed a strange smile again, but his eyes were indeed grateful. "Please hurry up and bring me water and water."
Food, I'm dying of thirst."
Werther thought to himself that the people who locked him here didn't leave him any water or food at all. So those people would come back soon.
He used the remaining money to buy some water and bread and handed them to the man.
"You are such a good person." The man looked at him gratefully, and then started to devour the food.
"After you finish eating, can you tell me how you entered the room yesterday, such as how long the stairs are, whether there is a door after going down the stairs, what kind of passage you passed through, and how you finally arrived.
This hut. Now that I know this, I will be more confident that I can find you smoothly."
At this time, the man seemed to have eaten enough. He looked at Werther and said: "Ah, benefactor, I can't help you with this, because when they brought me here that day, I only saw the basement entrance, and then
His eyes were covered and he was brought all the way here."
"So that's it, then I'll go take a look now." Werther returned to the back of the house.
Wile, who was sitting on the withered grass waiting, stood up and asked, "How are you, Your Highness?"
"We just got the wrong location. What we saw just now should be a trap. I suspect they did it deliberately to prevent anyone from coming in."
"I see, then where is the real basement?"
"Beside the dry well."
"Huh? This
Is there any dry well there?"
Werther looked around and found a place where high piles of withered grass were piled up. He walked over and removed the withered grass and found that there was really a dry well underneath.
"Great, the basement is nearby, let's start looking."
The real basement was not easy to find. They removed all the dead grass and couldn't find anything that looked like the entrance to the basement.
"Your Highness, isn't that person lying to you again?" Wile was panting from exhaustion, "We have been searching for a long time, but there is no trace."
Werther thought for a while and then said: "Wyle, we can dig up the soil on the ground, maybe it is covered by the soil."
Wile smiled excitedly and said: "Yes, why didn't I think of this? Your Highness should have thought carefully."
With that said, Wile squatted down and planned to dig out the soil.
"Wait a minute, I think it might be a lot easier if I use magic to remove a layer of nearby soil while there's no one around."
"That's great, Your Highness, so I don't get my hands dirty, and I don't like bugs in the soil."
Witte concentrated his attention and used teleportation magic to quickly remove part of the soil near the dry well, revealing the iron door.
"Great, I found it!" Wiler gripped Werther's collar excitedly, almost making Werther breathless.
"Ahem." Werther tightened his neck, his face turned red from suppressing it, and pushed him, "You idiot, let me go!"
"Ah, Your Highness, I'm sorry!" Wile let go of his hand nervously, "I just admired you too much, that's why I acted like that."
He quickly helped Werther adjust the collar and cloak, while Werther gasped and his face gradually returned to normal.
"Okay, let's go down and take a look." He said to Wile.
"Yes, Your Highness."
Werther carefully opened the iron door and saw that the lights were brightly lit inside, and the stairs that were not long could be seen clearly. He turned to Wile and told Wiler: "This should be the real basement. Follow me. If there is any danger,
Just call me."
They walked down and found that the passage in the basement was brand new. The walls and stairs were made of clean stone bricks. Many small gold lamps were hung neatly on the walls, glowing with golden light, making the passage look luxurious.
Feel.
"This passage is really luxurious. Your Highness, look at these steps. They are made of very expensive stone bricks. Even our castle cannot afford such things." There was envy in Wiler's eyes, "When you become
For a very wealthy lord like Duke Willy, can the steps in front of our castle be replaced with this kind of stone?"
"Huh?" Werther looked back at him, "What did you say?"
Wile suddenly broke into a cold sweat and hurriedly waved his hands and said, "I made a mistake just now. It's not the castle waiting for us, but your castle."
"What on earth are you talking about?" Werther curled his lips in confusion, "What about my castle?"
"Your Highness, aren't you angry because I said something arrogant?"
"Of course not. I just didn't hear what you were saying clearly, so I asked you." Werther turned his head and looked forward again, "Since what you said is not something very important, then it's okay."
They continued to move forward. Werther looked at these expensive stone bricks and lamps and thought, even the passages are so luxurious. If it was really made by Earl Macdonald, then it can be seen that he is also very rich.
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They get off
When I arrived at the stairs, I found that I was directly in front of a wall, with no other exits around.
"Strange, Your Highness, why is there no road ahead?" Wile put his hands on Werther's shoulders, holding his clothes tightly with his fingers, trembling.
"Don't worry, there should be an invisible door here, I'll look for it."
Werther looked carefully at the wall and saw a brick made of gold with a line of words engraved next to it: Knock here ten times and the door will open.
Wile also saw this line, so he happily patted Werther on the back: "Your Highness, let's hit the gold bricks quickly."
"We can't do this rashly. This might be a trap they set for us." Witte frowned and started searching on the wall again.
After searching for a long time, I found a stone brick with some mud on it, as if it had been touched by hands covered with mud. Maybe this is the place to open the door! However, Werther fumbled for a long time, but could not open the door.
wall.
"Strange, isn't it this brick?" Werther said to himself.
By this time, Wile had knocked the gold brick ten times, and the entire wall slowly moved upward, and a staircase made of stone bricks appeared inside.
"Huh?" Werther looked at the wall in surprise.
Wile scratched his head and said with a smile: "Hey, Your Highness, I just secretly knocked the gold bricks ten times, but I didn't expect that the wall actually opened."
"It turns out... this method is real, not a trap. And that mud-stained stone brick may have been accidentally touched by someone's mud-stained hand."
"Your Highness, stop talking nonsense, let's go in quickly."
Wile said, and was about to go up the stairs, when Werther caught a glimpse of many small holes in the lower row of stone bricks at the bottom of the wall, which reminded him of poisonous needles.
"Go in later, Wile!" Werther quickly stretched out his hand and pulled Wile to his side.
At this moment, countless tiny poisonous needles shot out from above, all of them went straight down and inserted into the ground.
Wiler hugged Werther, swallowed, looked at the poisonous needle in front of him with lingering fear, and whispered: "Your Highness, can we still go in?"
Werther looked up again at the stone bricks where the poisonous needles were shot out, and found that the needle holes had disappeared: "It should be fine, let's go in and go upstairs."
"Got it." Wile nodded, but it could be seen that he was still very scared. He pulled Werther's cloak tightly, trembling all over.
This staircase was also brightly lit, with lamps also made of gold. The staircase was not very long, and they climbed up quickly.
At this time, an obvious door appeared. After Werther calmed down, he carefully pushed the door open.
The room was very dark, and the only light came from the hole in the wall not far away.
"Ah, here it is!" After Werther's eyes adapted to the darkness here, he saw the man standing next to the hole.
The man turned around, looked at Werther and the others, and smiled bitterly: "Great, you finally came to save me."
It was him, the person waiting for him to rescue, and the window-like hole. It seemed like they had found the right place.
"Sir, are there any traps here?" Werther asked cautiously, "How should we get past them?"
"Don't move for now. I'll tell you slowly. There are many traps here. It's precisely because of this that I don't dare to leave at will." The man said.