caged robin

"Boom-"

It's midnight, everything is silent, the ancient clock of Silver Bow City rang, and the sound of the bell crushed the long night, the crows suddenly rose, and the lingering sound was like a spirit coming out of the body, and ghosts floated to life.

The gatekeeper shuddered.

He glanced quickly around the lookout, but it was empty.Leaning down again, the Makuli Long Street outside the city gate was deserted, except for an empty cart selling pears leaning lonely in front of a shop.

"Damn it, why don't you come to change shifts?"

He stomps, the gatekeeper's missed shift is a sacrilege to the king.

But the midnight clock has stopped, and still no one comes...

He swallowed, thinking of the recent rumors in Silverbow City: the unburied corpse suddenly sat up and strangled the coffin builder beside him; Son's eyes...

"Hiss." The spear scraped slightly on the stone floor.

He shook his head, clenched his spear tightly, took a deep breath, hummed a ditty while trembling, and his eyes fell on the empty pear cart.

Red... He rubbed his eyes vigorously, staring at a large piece of red cloth that appeared on the cart at some point.

"crunch--crunch--"

The red cloth was wriggling, and the wooden cart made a screeching sound in the dead of night.

"crunch-"

The gatekeeper's scalp was numb, but his body and eyes were frozen.

A gust of wind blew up the red cloth, slowly exposing a foot, and slowly moving up, half of the pale leg, he felt weak all over, forced his eyes to move away, but was frozen in a raised place.

"whee……"

Obviously impossible, but he seemed to clearly see the red cloth trembling with the laughter, that was... the head.

"Hee hee..." The laughter became louder and softer, the red cloth kept shaking, slowly revealing his forehead and all-white pupils... The laughter became louder, his breathing became stagnant, At that moment, the laughter stopped abruptly.

The head rolled off.

A hoarse cry stuck in his throat.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The dull sound of feet stepping on dry stone slabs sounded behind the gatekeeper. His back was completely soaked, and he turned around tremblingly. With the last bit of strength and reason, he clenched the spear in his hand, but he had no strength left. lift it up.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, his throat was so dry and sore, the person had already ascended the last flight of stairs, and he could even feel the faint urge to urinate.Suddenly a black head appeared on the slate, followed by delicate eyebrows, and then...

"Bless the kings!" He felt a trembling relief in an instant, threw away the spear, and rushed towards the people who came to change shifts.

"God! You're finally here, who knows what I saw!" He hugged the replacement tightly, but he didn't move at all. Just when he let go of his embrace in doubt, the other hand tightly grabbed his throat , he struggled weakly with both hands, and dimly saw that the other party's eyes were completely white.

"No..." His throat could only make an intermittent hoarse sound.

The opponent's hand was pinching tighter and tighter, his legs kept thrashing, his breathing gradually weakened, and vaguely, he saw the alarm bell just behind the opponent.

He put all his strength into his legs, and kicked the opponent away with both legs. The latter staggered backward unexpectedly, and his body hit the alarm bell.

"Boom-thump-thump-"

Compared with the sound of the midnight bell, the alarm bell is sharper and faster, and the bells are connected, and the whole city is filled with sharp bells.

"damn it!"

Wen Si slammed his fist on the stone wall of the prison, the dust rustled, and his thoughts were in a mess.

As the captain of the sword-clothed knight, he has to ensure the safety of the whole city. He has seen all kinds of bloody and absurd scenes, but the recent incidents of fraudulent corpses and evil spirits have really made him helpless.

"Tonight is the tenth incident..." He silently counted the reports. He has been up all night and has been busy investigating this matter for the past few days, but found almost nothing. Today, he actually climbed on the head of his subordinates, and he was so honest Two gatekeepers!

"team leader!"

The honorary knight came in a hurry, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw the knight with a shaggy beard and a livid face.

"What's up?!"

"Someone hit a ghost again!"

"Damn it!" He slammed his fist against the stone wall again.

"Captain, things have become so serious, His Majesty still closes his eyes and doesn't listen?"

"My lords, if Your Majesty listens to half a word, we don't have to be so sneaky."

The knight frowned, "Captain, do you know 'Ghost Leopard'?"

Winston paused, "It's natural. It is said that it is a huge black panther that can suffocate ghosts. I don't know if it really exists, but it has indeed whetted the appetite of a group of bards and hunters."

"We gotta catch this 'Black Panther'!"

"Hey, kid," Wens patted the big knight on the shoulder, "Instead of looking for this illusory 'ghost leopard', it's better to ask someone who really exists for help."

"Who?"

"'Robin'."

"'Mockingbird'? Captain, you are crazy!" The knight stared.

"Yes, the Moonlight Circus will perform tomorrow night. 'The Prophecy of the Mockingbird' is their specialty show, and 'Mocking Bird' will definitely not be absent."

"But for such an important matter, asking someone from the circus to help, wouldn't it be—"

"My lords, don't forget that if it wasn't for 'Mockingbird' last time, we couldn't catch that damn fugitive at all."

The knight looked as if he had eaten moldy bread, "Since 'Mockingbird' is so powerful, why did he stay in the circus? Everyone tried their best to capture the appearance behind the mask of 'Mockingbird', but so far no People know."

"Sir Rich Monferrato, please lower your noble head." Wins glanced at him and said coldly.

Sir Rich was still not reconciled, "We don't even know whether 'Mockingbird' is a boy or a girl, whether it is a barbarian from Tongzhoushan, whether it is a fugitive from another city, whether it is related to the recent haunting... these are not clear. Captain, We cannot act rashly."

Wen Si pushed open the cell door, "The important thing is not who 'robin' is, as long as it is beneficial to us."

He clenched his sword tightly and strode away.

The author says:

I swear to the kings, this is not a horror novel. My friend said that it scared her at the beginning, which is beyond my expectation (laughing and crying), and the sword-clothed knight commander Wens is not Xiaogong, although he has a lot of roles Hey hey hey.