Lord Helanza

In the early morning, against the harsh north wind, Surdak left Helanza on horseback with the Karl entire group.

I was worried that I was not in Knight Academy the past few days and Natasha Knight Academy could not eat lunch and dinner. Surdak specially asked the two girls in the next bedroom to help him take care of Natasha. The two girls, Linna and Nedra, agreed very readily.

Funak Manor is located in the southern suburbs of Helanza City. There are almost no mountains on the road from Helanza City to Funak Manor. The most is flat woodland. Along the way, Surdak saw several logging yards. Both sides are full of golden oaks that have been in vintage. The road is not easy to walk. Everyone walks along a trace on the road.

The snow on the road has not yet been completely solidified. Leave the avenue and set foot on the boulevard to Furnaker Manor. There are only some footprints left by hunters on this road. It seems that few people go here after the heavy snow. Later, from time to time, pheasants flew out from the snow, and plunged into the snow pit in the woodland on the hillside.

In addition to Surdak this time, Karl also transferred the first squad of platoon to accompany him. A group of eight people left Helanza City in the morning, and it took about half a day to get to Funak Manor.

Surdak and Karl walked side by side on the road.

Last night, Carl asked the first squad Captain Miluo to call out the information about Viscount Funak in the guard camp. At this time, Miluo followed Carl and carefully checked what he had found last night. The information speaks out. The first squad Captain was Carl’s cronies, so I heard him say: “When many people in the city talk about the Furnack Manor robbery, they all say that Viscount Little Funak is a rare waste, because he is afraid of those bandits. So he gave up Faunak Manor and ran back to Helanza City in a hurry."

Carl rode on horseback, turned his head and said to Surdak, "I remember that for a while, a band of robbers lived there. Inside the Funak Manor."

"Yes!" The first squad Captain Miluo is still fresh in his memory, and said with emotion: "That happened last summer. It happened that a band of robbers looted around the city of Helanza. The nobles and people in Helanza were alarmed. The battallions on the guard camp sent their respective platoons to siege and suppress bandit groups, only to find this bandit group. He actually occupied Furnock Manor and used it as a stronghold to plunder the surrounding villages and towns. After the guard camp eliminated the bandit group in one fell swoop, Furnock Manor returned to the hands of Viscount Little Furnock."

"And after taking over the manor, Viscount Faunark only sent a night watchman to guard the door to prevent the manor from being completely abandoned. Didn't expect the manor to be one after another in the next period of time. ." Miluo added another sentence.

"What happened to one after another?" Carl asked quite unexpectedly. This kind of incident was a public security issue outside the city, but he didn't know the news at all.

The first Small Captain Miluo nodded, said: "Yes, this dead night watchman is not the first victim in this manor. In fact, if you count this person, it should be the fifth , It’s just that the first four Viscount Furnack made some compensation to the family of the night watchman. Even if they died, there was no voice. Moreover, Viscount Furnack always went to the guard camp to file for the record. But this night watchman is not a blessing. Viscount Nak didn't want to make up for it, but just caught up with the recent heavy snowfall. It was a little late when he received the news. The son of the night watchman reported the incident to the guard camp seven days after his father was missing. "

Carl pondered for a moment, and then asked: "It seems that there is something wrong with this manor. Have you ever asked the families of the night watchmen and the cause of the death of those night watchmen?"

Miluo said embarrassedly: "The dossier only records that the cause of death is unknown, because it was only necessary to investigate this last night, and it was too late to visit the families of the victims."

"That would be great!" Carl said to Miluo. Said.

When the entire group was about to arrive at Funak Manor, standing on the slope in the distance, I saw the Funak Manor built on a small hill, which was only a few tens of meters high. , The south is a gentle slope, and the north of the hill is a cliff with a drop of about forty-fifty meters. The Funak Manor is built on the cliff, and under the cliff is an area of ​​about ten acres. Lake, behind the lake is a large forest.

From the south of the manor, there is a winding road leading to this side. From a distance, the depressed exterior walls and broken gates of Funak Manor are still covered with thick snow. Repaired, but not a trace of anger, the window below the observation deck is only the window frame. The window sill looks like there is a messy bird nest. A big ibis with black feathers flew out from the window and over the manor. After flying in a circle, he flew far away.

Carl instructed Miluo: "Send two people to search the outside of the manor carefully. Let's find a shelter from the wind and eat a hot bite to fill our stomachs before entering the manor to investigate."

Probably because he was worried that Sol’s Great Captain entire group could not keep up in time, Carl did not walk fast with the first squad. At this time, he set up a temporary tent next to the woods, set up a bonfire and set up a big iron pot to boil the water. Break the toasted wheat cakes and throw them into a large iron pan until they are soft and rotten, and eat them warmly. This kind of wheat cakes with salt and meat and cheese is much better than marching rations.

After lunch, the entire group walked slowly into Furnack Manor. Although the broken gate was hung with an iron lock, the railing on the big iron gate had a big hole broken. Large bears can get in. Everyone tied the horses outside the manor, leaving a first squad member to take care of the horses. Karl led the other five people into the manor.

After Surdak entered Furnack Manor, he discovered that although the manor was so dilapidated that it could not be inhabited without refurbishment, the design pattern of the entire manor could still see the rough outline. Under the coverage, the entire manor fits well into the mountain scenery all around. No wonder this manor has been abandoned to this point. When Darcy Christie recommended Knight to herself, she also recommended the land here to herself. .

Obviously, Darcy Christie is not optimistic about the land here, but optimistic about this abandoned manor. If the large lake and the large mountain forest on the opposite side can become his own Knight leader, he will buy This dilapidated manor is obviously an excellent land purchase plan, but if you want to occupy such a large piece of land for yourself, it is estimated that the small Knight collar can not accommodate it.

There are only a few messy footprints in the manor. Miluo walks in front with a shield in his hand. He is followed by the three first squad players behind him. Surdak and Karl follow behind. This makes it until now. Surdak, who was always at the forefront of the mission, was very uncomfortable. He took out the dwarf chain shield and the blood-red crescent from the magic pocket, and came to Miluo and walked side by side with him.

He was wearing a red salamander leather armor and holding a magic weapon in his hand, which made the members of the first squad very enthusiastic.

It is said that the night watchman should live in the gatehouse at the gate, but the gate of this gatehouse has disappeared without a trace, the glass of the windows has been smashed to pieces, the house is filled with snow, look Except for the broken tables and chairs, there was almost nothing inside, and there were no signs of occupants at all. The stable next to it looks very big. The horse trough alone is several tens of meters long. Snow, there are some weeds and horse dung on the ground that is not covered by snow.

Passing through the arched courtyard at the entrance of the manor, the shrubs and low walls in the courtyard have not been trimmed by gardeners, they have grown wildly and become dysfunctional, bypassing the dry fountain in the courtyard, and walking up the steps of the main house. , There are also some shallow footprints on the steps. I don't know if it was the night watchman or the son of the night watchman who came here to look for father.

The main house is a 4-Layer building, built on the top of the rock wall, it looks particularly lonely. The surrounding wall is made of azure rock collected on site. These stones were excavated when it was built. The craftsmanship is superb, the stones are very regular, and there are regular flowing moiré on the walls. It has to be said that the foundations of the buildings in this manor are extremely compacted, and all the materials used for the entire manor are used The square stones excavated by the very hard bluestone strips have a wedge in the middle of each stone. They must be combined with each other and then filled with mortar made of sandstone to make the whole building almost fuse together.

Go into the living room of the main building, all the furniture inside is preserved, but it was once a stronghold of the bandit group. Although the decoration of the four walls of the room has not been damaged much, the carpet in the hall is full of After the filthy and dried blood stains, some furniture was pushed to the side of the wall, and the empty hall was filled with long tables and stools, which seemed to be the place where the robbers gathered and divided the stolen goods.

A set of soft leather sofas were placed on a temporary high platform erected in the front of the hall, which seemed to be the place where the leaders of the band of bandits sat.

There is a side door next to the main hall. The debris at the door was cleared out. Surdak first walked over to the side door and pushed open the wooden door. It turned out that there was a fairly intact bedroom inside. A wooden bed, there is a brazier next to the wooden bed, there is a black-burned bracket on it, an iron pot is hung on the shelf, the wall opposite the wooden bed is stacked with sawn pieces of firewood, in the room Although it looks messy, it has a lot of daily necessities, including half a bag of toasted wheat cakes and two hard-frozen air-dried grilled pheasants. It seems that this place should be the residence of the night watchman.

This night watchman is really lazy to come. Obviously there should be a very luxurious kitchen in this building, but he just set up a brazier and an iron pot in his cabin. Obviously he didn’t want to come. Going to the kitchen, Carl walked around in the room and asked the first squad Captain Miluo: "Have Isaac Knight mentioned that they have found the whereabouts of the night watchman?"

"It should have not been found. At that time, they found a basement in this building. After clearing the debris, they opened the door leading to the basement and encountered Evil Spirit!" Miluo immediately replied.

"Let’s find the entrance to the basement first, and check it out there!" Carl said. He knew it was just visited by Sauron Great Captain the day before, but Sauron Great Captain was not here. Seeing Evil Spirit, he touched the magic flare in his arms, thinking about how to immediately send out the signal when he met Evil Spirit.

However, because Sauron Great Captain was hiding outside the manor, Carl was quite confident in his heart, so he wanted to end this matter as soon as possible, and he had better return to Helanza city that day. I don't want to spend the night in this abandoned house.

According to the architectural custom of Helanza City, the entrance of the basement is often connected to the kitchen storage room. The other members of the first squad are wearing metal armor, carrying a light shield and a Knight long sword. The only thing that is not so good about this kind of armor is that when you walk, there will always be very harsh metal rubbing sounds.

"To be honest, I always think that Funak Manor is the most scenic manor outside of Helanza. It’s just that I didn’t expect it to be abandoned like this now. If the Evil Spirit here is solved this time, I I want to participate in an auction. If the auction price is affordable, I’ll buy it here! Renovate it, it’s really nice.” Carl walked along the corridor on the side of the living room to the kitchen at the back.

Next to the lobby on the first floor is a spacious dining room. The dining table inside is made of thick indigo wood. There are some exquisite reliefs on the legs of the table, and there are even Some utensils were covered with dust, and the shelves on the wall were also full of kitchen utensils, but there was no damage here, and some utensils were even left.

In the kitchen, there is a meat table on one side, and a stove on the other side. There is a long oak square table in the middle. There is also a frozen pork leg hanging on the hook of the kitchen. The traces of the knife and the axe seemed to be the inventory of the night watchman.

The storage room is opposite the kitchen. In the aisle leading to the storage room, there is a lot of debris, but most of the debris has been cleaned out, a dark basement. The door is in this aisle, and the door is open. According to the fifth platoon team member Isaac's narration after waking up, the investigation squad found the entrance to the basement in the manor and cleared the debris piled up at the entrance of the basement. , Was attacked by Evil Spirit just before entering the basement.

When everyone walked here, the mood became tense. Everyone was holding a shield in his hand, almost surrounding the entrance to the basement.

Carl, as the long platoon, was about to enter the basement first, but was held by Surdak's shoulders. Surdak shook the heavy dwarf chain shield in his hand and said to Carl: "Let me come..."

Karl knew that this was not a good time to be brave, so he let Surdak be at the forefront.

The entrance to the basement was filled with a musty smell. Miluo lit a torch and was about to hand it to Surdak, but he did not expect that Surdak would carry a delicate bronze torch with him. The whole torch appeared Densely, without seeing how he ignited it, he saw a white light group on the top of the torch, which was much brighter than the torch in Miluo's hand.

Everyone only regards this torch as a kind of magic lighting fixture for life, and no one cares too much.

Surdak held the torch and bowed his head into the narrow passage of the basement...