3392. Chapter 3392 Collapse to the Star Vault (18)
Chapter 3392 Collapse of the Stars (18)
About twenty minutes later, in front of a certain building in the city.
"Is this right here?" Elaine hid in the shadow of the building and looked at the opposite building with a guard at the entrance from a distance.
Logically speaking, it is already night in the Undersea City, and most of the stalkers have gone to bed. Even if it is the elder's home, the guard should be relaxed. But the guard in front of the building is still quite tight.
There were at least six people guarding the entrance, and looking inside from the building's glassless windows, there seemed to be more guards on the first floor.
"It's hard to break in from the front," Edmund whispered.
"Yes, can you use any excuse to fool them and sneak in?" Elaine asked. Now Edmund has transformed into a stalker, and Elaine and Bailey both used illusions to disguise themselves as stalkers.
, the appearance should be able to deceive the guards. But it is not enough to deceive them by appearance alone. The guards can't be so stupid as to allow civilians to enter and leave the elder's mansion at will at this late night, right?
"I don't think that is a good idea, Your Highness." Edmund groaned: "We don't know much about their culture. Even if we can fool the guards with what we say, we will probably reveal it as soon as we open our mouths. That elder
He must have also given an order to the guards, prohibiting all outsiders from entering the mansion. It is almost impossible to fool them with words."
"Well..." Elaine showed a confused expression.
"But the windows of that building are empty." Bailey pointed to the distance: "Just like other buildings, their buildings have no windows. All the windows are square.
Hollow. If we can go around to the dark place on the back of that building, and then climb to the second or even third floor, we can climb in through the window. I bet they only know how to set up a lot of guards on the first floor, but not many on the second and third floors.
Guard. Because no one has ever thought that someone would climb through the window and sneak into a place like that."
"The surface of this building is quite smooth." Edmund reached out and touched the wall of the building where they were hiding.
The building seems to be made of a concrete material, but it actually feels a little different from real concrete. And there are no cracks or gaps in the wall for climbing, and it is quite smooth. Even for climbing experts, it is difficult
How about climbing up to the second and third floors with bare hands on a wall like this?
"How about using telekinesis?" Elaine asked Edmund.
Since Edmund, who transformed into a stalker, can use ice spells to shoot ice arrows, he must also be able to use telekinesis. The process of firing ice arrows relies on telekinesis to generate propulsion.
Elaine knows best how powerful telekinesis is. In his human form, he can even use telekinesis to levitate his body and directly perform telekinesis flight.
He didn't expect Edmund to be able to fly directly using telekinesis. After all, the talent gap between "stalkers" and "humans" was still quite large. But at least, Edmund should be able to use that to assist in climbing.
Arrive?
Edmund actually tried it. He crawled against the wall and climbed a short distance into the wall of the building. He tried it briefly and then stopped: "Indeed, this method works. I think I can at least
Climb to about the third floor. I can climb up, but what will you do, Your Highness? Do you also want to transform into a stalker and carry His Highness Bailey up to the second and third floors?"
"No." Elaine pulled off a piece of fabric from the scarf: "You, after you climb up, use the rope made of this holy cloth to pull us up?"
"Good idea." Blood Lion nodded: "Then let's go around to the shadow of that building, get close to it, and start taking action."
So the three people tiptoed around from the shadow of a building, and then slowly approached from the shadow of the target building.
The elder's mansion seemed to be only fortified on the front, but the stalkers never thought that someone would approach from the back and sneak into the third floor by climbing the wall. These half-murlocs didn't know much about the abilities they could use.
I understand, I probably thought they could only use ice spells.
If the stalkers had known that someone would sneak into their house in this way, they would have set up guards at the windows on the second, third or higher floors, and tried to seal the windows in various ways.
However, their social structure is primitive and single, and there is no concept of crime at all. No stalker has ever tried to climb walls and windows to invade other people's homes.
They have neither doors nor door locks, and naturally there are no locks on the windows. Their buildings all have hollow, glassless, square empty windows that open to the outside in a meaningless manner.
Thousands of years ago, these buildings were probably immersed in sea water. Therefore, the "windows" of the building were actually one of the entrances and exits for Atlanteans to enter the building, and the first floor was not particularly needed.
Those gates and buildings all remain the same today, but the environment and the residents have all changed - they have become decayed, backward and primitive.
Using his hands and feet, Edmund carefully climbed up against the wall and easily climbed into a window on the third floor. So far, the plan has gone smoothly.
Then they were torn into strips of cloth and tied together to form fragments of holy cloth. Edmund lowered them from the edge of the window, just long enough for Elaine to reach them.
"This strip of cloth is so thin, won't it break halfway?" Bailey asked in a low voice.
"Holy, the holy cloth will never be damaged." Elaine replied in a low voice: "You, you climb up first, and I will be behind."
"Hey, okay~" the little fox started to climb.
Although this child has a smart mind, he is very clumsy when it comes to physical actions. Elaine was afraid that Bailey would accidentally fall while climbing, so he let Bailey go first. He watched in fear.
Bailey climbed up slowly and breathed a sigh of relief when he finally reached the third floor. Bailey was pulled in from the window by Edmund, turned around and poked his head out from the window to wave to Elaine, signaling the White Lion.
Young man, climb up quickly.
Elaine also climbed up quietly. Now he maintains the transformation of a white lion. These big cats have fleshy pads on their hands and feet, which are most suitable for silent movements. The fragments of the holy cloth also look like a part of his own body.
It was so easy to maneuver that he climbed to the third floor without much effort.
Edmund reached out and pulled Elaine in. At the same time, the White Lion boy also started to recover the ropes made from the fragments of the holy cloth. After he recovered them, he made these ropes disappear. When he wished so, the ropes instantly turned into ashes and disappeared without a trace.
No trace. He didn't want the fragments of the holy cloth to be left in this room and be discovered.
"Don't you need this on the return trip?" Edmund asked.
"I'll make new ones when I return." Elaine replied. He also looked around and found that the room was empty and there was no trace of anyone living in it.
Is the elder's mansion so empty?
This is a five-story building, and like most buildings in the underwater city, there are far more empty houses than people living there.
It is estimated that the elders live on the roof of the building, while the guards are concentrated on the first and second floors. The rooms on the middle floor are almost uninhabited and are only used to store sundries. This room is not even placed with sundries, it is just a pure
Empty room.
"The elder is poorer than imagined?" Bailey whispered with a hint of irony: "I thought the elder's home would be filled with treasures."
"Their society is too primitive and has almost no material desires." Edmund responded.
Moreover, in this underwater city, gold and silver treasures seem to have no meaning. Stalkers still use the simple currency like shells when trading.
They have no supplies and no material desires. What fun do these primitive half-fish people have in living?
Elaine looked out from the door of the room and saw no other guards patrolling the corridor.
"The elder's living area must be on the top floor of this building." Edmund said: "This way he can keep a distance from the guards on the first and second floors and live without interference. If he still has a family, he must
I will choose this way."
"Yes, it makes sense." Elaine couldn't refute: "And they didn't expect that they would be attacked even if they lived on the fifth floor."
There is almost no crime in the society of stalkers, and they did not expect that someone could climb the walls and windows, bypass the guards on the first and second floors, and get to the third or even fifth floor.
...It’s so stupid. Or maybe it’s too naive?
"But, but there may be more than just the elder living in this building, and maybe his family members." Elaine walked out of the room slowly on tiptoes: "Master, please be quiet when you move, try your best not to disturb the five people."
There may be people on the first floor or even the fourth floor."
Edmund and Bailey nodded and followed Elaine. At this point, there was no need to use illusions to hide from others. But the little fox still smiled evilly and grabbed Elaine's lion tail.
Marching, he probably felt that this kind of stealth operation had the atmosphere of great adventure.
Elaine shook her head and let Bailey do whatever he wanted, as long as he didn't make too much noise. The three of them first visited the rooms on the third floor and confirmed that no one was really on the third floor before heading to the fourth floor.
move.
Elaine also picked up a spear-like weapon in one of the rooms. This thing was made of unknown metal and was similar to the weapons held by other stalker guards. It seemed to be an "indestructible thing" - no one knew it.
It can be regarded as primitive or advanced. Although he has not been able to recover their equipment, he at least has weapons in hand now, and he finally feels a little more at ease.
"You, don't you carry weapons, Edmund?" Elaine asked.
"No, instead of clumsily wielding a weapon I'm not used to, I might as well use ice spells to adapt to the situation." The Blood Lion replied (still maintaining the Stalker transformation at this time).
Elaine shrugged, and did not force Edmund to obey his command. He took the spear and continued walking to the upper floors. No one seemed to be living on the fourth floor, and Elaine only found many strange things in these rooms.
metal fragments. Then there is a room similar to a treasure room, where there are several bags of shells - which should be the elder's savings, and some clean cloth that have not been used. If Elaine understands correctly, this elder is hiding
The hunter society should be considered quite wealthy, and what is in this treasure room is most of the elder's belongings.
The elder actually left his belongings here without locking the door and taking no other precautions. This is outrageous. Any one of the guards on the first and second floors could come up at night and steal these properties?
Has the primitive society of stalkers really reached a state where they don’t pick up things on the road and never close their homes at night? Isn’t this a “paradise” in a sense?
Although it seems beautiful, these crazy primitive people living in "paradise" have no material desires or pursuits, and they don't even have faith, which makes them even more terrifying.
If possible, Elaine really doesn't want to deal with this group of primitive people. But the stalkers are so bold that they directly attack Elaine's camp on the surface. Elaine has a hunch that they will inevitably have to deal with this group of half-murlocs next.
There must be a large-scale conflict. There are so many stalkers in this group, how can we fight them...?
After searching the rooms on the fourth floor and unable to find their equipment, Elaine started to get a little anxious. The next step was to search the fifth floor. He just hoped that their equipment was really hidden somewhere in the elders' living area on the fifth floor. It was obvious on the fifth floor.
There were people living there, so Elaine had to move more carefully. As soon as he climbed up to the floor, he visited the rooms on both sides, and after confirming that there was no one inside, he led everyone to hide in.
"Uh...uh!" Then he also heard a miserable cry from a distance, and the voice sounded a bit familiar.
"Tell me, what's the use of this?" Another voice came from the same room, and it was very deep, giving people a sinister feeling.
"I, I don't know!" The voice that screamed just now spoke again.
Elaine also recognized the owner of that voice at this time - it was Xury.