Soul echo

Chapter 217 Infiltrate

As a typical city that has just begun to industrialize, Vienna's nights are quiet and darkness covers the entire city.

Even in the lord's mansion, there are only a few places where there are candles emitting light.

Vienna is a city established in the post-war era, so there is no castle, and there is only one mansion in the city center.

Nevertheless, Vienna still maintained an army fully equipped with muskets.

However, the defense of the lord's mansion was not very strict. Under Zhong Ye's guidance, Lilian easily climbed over the wall, and saw a few soldiers leaning lazily on the wall or pillars.

They were yawning and chatting with each other, not noticing her and Zhong Ye's arrival at all.

Lilian subconsciously slowed down her breathing, but she heard Zhong Ye whispering in her ear: "Adjust your breathing so that you can blend in with your surroundings."

Is this reminding her to use that [breath adjustment] skill?

Lilian was a little distressed. Every time she used [Breath Adjustment] before, she had to use it in a quiet situation. After a long time, she got used to it. She has never tried whether it can be used while exercising... Should be able to?
[Skill used: breath adjustment...failed to use]

[Skill used: breath adjustment...failed to use]

[Skill used: breath adjustment...failed to use]

A series of failure messages appeared in the retina, Lilian couldn't help pursing her lips slightly, but she didn't give up, listening to Zhong Ye's breathing, she used the skill again.

[Skills used: breath adjustment...successfully used]

Lilian subconsciously clicked to use it again, but the prompt she got was [The effect of the skill is continuing].

"Let's go."

Before Lilian could react, Zhong Ye took a step forward.

Lilian followed in a daze, and after a while, she realized what had happened.

In the state of [Breath Adjustment], Lilian felt her mind was clear. Even when she realized what had happened, she was not as startled as usual, and could think and look at what was happening now quite calmly.

so amazing!If you can use this skill in real life...

The security of the lord's mansion was lax, and Zhong Ye could find a few deficiencies in the defense at a glance. If more professional people were to infiltrate, he might be able to find more.

The entire mansion was within his perception range, no matter what happened, it couldn't escape his attention.

Under the leadership of Zhong Ye, Lilian managed to avoid all the eyeliners and entered the mansion from the window on the first floor.

Once here, there are no guards.

Lilian breathed a sigh of relief, watching the cheering barrage, the corners of her mouth slightly pursed.

They were stepping on a soft carpet, and the soles of their boots were still covered with mud. As long as someone passed by, they would be able to find that a 'thief' had sneaked into the mansion.

Rubbing her boots with the carpet near the foot of the wall, Lilian looked around.

This is a room that looks a bit like a reception room, and its furnishings are similar to other reception rooms she has seen.

Zhong Ye walked to the door, shook the handle slightly, and pulled the door open.

"There is no lock."

He turned his head to call Lilian, and left the room first.

Lilian hurriedly followed, and after entering the corridor, her eyes were plunged into darkness, and she couldn't see anything.

"……teacher?"

"exist."

After confirming Zhong Ye's position, Lilian immediately took two steps forward and reached out to explore the front.

The back of his hand touched Zhong Ye's arm, he shrank slightly, and then grabbed that arm with his backhand, Zhong Ye didn't break free, and let her hold it tightly.

Feeling the security of Zhong Ye by her side, Lilian was no longer afraid of the dark, and listened to her own breathing quietly, her heart was at peace.

But, somehow, her heart was beating faster...

After walking for an unknown amount of time in the dark, Lilian heard the sound of the door hinge turning slightly. Following the sound, she looked over and saw a sliver of moonlight gradually widening along the crack of the door.

Today's weather is fine and there is no wind or frost. The moon, which has been hidden by dark clouds for a long time, can finally come out to let the wind out.

Feeling a force coming from her arm, Lilian followed Zhong Ye's footsteps and walked into that room.

"This is... the collection room?"

With the moonlight streaming in from the window, Lilian could clearly see the structure inside the room.

This room is much larger than the previous room, and there are many glass cabinets in the room, some vertical and some horizontal.

The objects that seem to feel the breath of history are placed in the counters, and the glass of the cabinets is wiped clean. Even at night, Lilian can see the collections clearly. Chu.

A piece of intact armor and a broken long sword, these two diametrically opposed things were placed together. In addition, there were ancient currency and the sharp teeth of giant beasts.

Although it can't be said that there are no surprises, as the lord of a small city, the lord of Vienna has achieved the ultimate.

In the most conspicuous place of the room, there is a scepter erected. The head of the scepter is like a hook, and the body of the scepter is covered with circular patterns. When you look closely, you can find that the patterns are actually pieced together by characters.

This is not a museum of the earth, so there are no signs outside the glass case.

Zhong Ye and Lilian walked around here twice without touching anything. After realizing that they couldn't find anything here, they left the collection room.

There are not many rooms in the mansion, some of them are occupied by people, Zhong Ye can hear their breathing and snoring, and some of the rooms are locked, these rooms will not be put into the places that need to be investigated for the time being.

Zhong Ye took Lilian, from the first floor to the second floor, and then to the third floor, investigating all the unlocked and unoccupied rooms along the way, and finally found the lord's study on the third floor.

This made Zhong Ye feel very surprised. The storage room, the utility room, the kitchen and the library were not locked, but it was reasonable to not lock such a confidential place as the study room?

Although he was somewhat puzzled, Zhong Ye was not polite.

Because the curtains were not drawn, the inside of the study was pitch dark, Zhong Ye walked to the window, observed carefully, and confirmed that there were no traps or marks on the curtains, and then opened the curtains.

Swah——

The moonlight shone obliquely, illuminating the entire room.

Lilian followed the trend, her eyes wandered around the room following the moonlight, and then she couldn't help but let out a low voice of surprise.

In this study room, she saw many books whose names had not been translated, which made her a little puzzled, did the production team not make the contents of those books?
Thinking like this, Lilian leaned forward, took one of the books off, and opened it to read.

But the fact is not what she imagined, the book can be read normally, and the words written in it are all regular words, but she can't understand it.

——Could it be that these books were not written in Xilu?

After looking at it for a while, Lilian put the book back in her hand and took out another one. She was surprised to find that the content of this book was written in another language, which was completely different from the previous one.

Putting it down, picking it up, putting it down, picking it up, and repeating this cycle, Lilian saw five or six different words on this one bookshelf alone.

"Does this make sense..." Lilian muttered softly.

"These books all have traces of flipping through." Zhong Ye took out a book from the bookshelf, pressed his fingers against the books on both sides of the vacancy, and slid his eyes into it. He didn't see dust on the wall inside the bookshelf.

"If nothing else, these are books that are read on a regular basis."

Although the Westland language is a common language throughout the Westland, it is only a daily language. There will be another language among mages and scholars to communicate and write their own knowledge inheritance.

It is said that this is the result of the confrontation with the King of Wisdom back then. At that time, knowledge was poison, and the more you learned, the closer you were to the abyss.

Mages and scholars who are aware of this no longer spread the traditions and knowledge as in the past, but hide the knowledge-as they do now.

After Shetil became the [Knowledge Guardian], the decades-long dark period was ended, and these self-created languages ​​were gradually abandoned. The synonymous polyphonic words in Xilu language are products of that era.

Zhong Ye was quite surprised that a lord could understand these books.

The only place they can rummage is the bookshelf. The desk drawers used by the lord for daily office work are locked, and it is not suitable to pry them open violently.

But after reading these books, Zhong Ye also knew where he should go to investigate next.

He restored the bookshelves, closed the curtains, and took Lilian out of the study to the library.

— There should be information he wants to know there!
(End of this chapter)