black Knight

Under the light of the flashlight, you can clearly see the messy footprints on the thickly dusty floor, and the dried blood stains. Looking inside, there is also a hand that seems to be dragged backwards. Scratching left long, blood-stained scratches on the floor.

Dino raised the flashlight upwards, and the white light swept across the whole room, and some things he hadn't seen before were displayed in front of him with the light.

Alicia raised her hand, took the flashlight in Dino's hand, and walked in.

"Actually, it's just a cover-up - those who walk in through the iron gate are 'guests who can accept hospitality' and see the real house. Those who come in over the wall are 'uninvited guests who are not entertained', and what they see is what the other party wants The false vision you see."

Alicia took a flashlight and looked around the layout of the first floor, kicked away the unidentified utensils on the ground and walked around the first floor casually.From a cursory look at the first floor, it can be roughly divided into three parts.

There is an open space in the middle, except for the footprints and blood stains on the floor, there are only some scattered things scattered around, nothing worth paying attention to.The left and right sides of the house are a bit higher than the middle, and it takes two low steps to go up.

The left side looks like an ordinary living room, with a sofa and a low coffee table, but what should be a TV wall is a fireplace.The layout on the right is a bit strange, it looks like a restaurant, but there is a piano opposite the dining table.

Alicia first walked around to the left, and then lightly touched the dark, dusty fireplace with the jewel on the handle of the dagger without any trace. After seeing the hidden light of the jewel, she understood .

This is indeed a magic workshop. Although it has been abandoned for a long time, some key things still have a weak magic reaction.

"What happened to the fireplace?"

Seeing the blood stains at the door, Dino changed from his previous casualness, and his expression became more serious.Seeing Alicia staying in front of the fireplace for a while, she couldn't help asking.

"This fireplace is something modified by a magician...or it is the product of the combination of magic and alchemy." Alicia didn't look at the fireplace anymore, but turned and walked to the right. The piano and dining table were also covered with thick The dust has a stale smell, but it is very well preserved.It seems that as long as you wipe it, you can use it directly.

"Let's go to the second floor." Alicia shook her hand, held up the flashlight and walked towards the stairs. There is a staircase in the middle of the open space and where the steps on the left and right sides meet. Looking up, the end of the spiral staircase is dark, as if The mouth of the unknown creature grew up, as if it was about to be swallowed.

"Although both sides go up to the second floor, they are not connected—I don't know what the builder thought. There is a small room at the end of both sides, and I don't know what it is for."

Seeing that Alicia was about to go upstairs, Dino stepped over and stood behind her, grunting as if complaining.

"That is to say, the left side is different from the right side?"

Because Dino and the others did not find the construction drawings of this house, Alicia could only ask Dino if she wanted to know something.

"No, it's the same. Whether the room is decorated or not, it's all the same." Dino shook his head, "That's why I don't understand why they don't just connect into one passage but have to be separated."

"...Yeah, why." Alicia replied casually, and walked up the stairs on the left. The wooden steps creaked under the pressure of gravity, making people worry that it would not work. will suddenly break.

One side of the stairs is a wall, the other side is a tall wooden handrail, and the top is a ceiling that seems to touch your head at any time. In this way, the stairs look oppressive and narrow when the three sides are clamped - which is very uncomfortable.I don't know what the owner of this place was thinking, but built such a weird and uncomfortable staircase.

At first glance, there is nothing special about this floor, one side is a large window facing outwards, and the other side is a separate room, but if you look carefully, you will find that the windows on the second floor are not normal, and the upper end reaches all the way to the top. The edge of the ceiling, the length of the window was even higher than Alicia.

Light came in from the window, clearly illuminating this floor—compared with the dim first floor, it seemed like two worlds.

But danger has always existed not only in the dark, but Alicia became nervous.

Light can illuminate people's field of vision, but sometimes, it can also become people's blind spots.But this time, she didn't encounter the sudden attack of the magic trap. After walking around smoothly, Alicia came to the second floor on the right.

As Dino said, the decoration layout on both sides is exactly the same.It's just separated by two very narrow rooms in the middle that look like storage rooms.

From the second floor to the third floor, there is only one entrance on the right side of the second floor.Walking up the spiral staircase, the door at the entrance of the third floor is still locked, but this is not a problem for Alicia, she easily got rid of the lock on the door covered with a magic trap, twisted the door and walked in .

Unlike the second floor, which was cut off in the middle, the corridor on the third floor was straight to the end, and there were only three rooms.Master bedroom, study and quirky room that looks like a laboratory or collection.

"Dino." After walking through the three rooms, Alicia suddenly called out.

"Eh?"

"Go down and go outside, and I'll stand by the window later—you tell me, which floor I'm on."

"Huh?" There are only three floors in total.It depends?

Dino walked downstairs in a daze, but before taking two steps, he accidentally stepped on the ground and fell down.

Hearing the banging sound from the stairs, Alicia couldn't help sighing—how on earth did he survive until now?

She suddenly felt a little sympathetic to the members of the Gabrielone family. With such a nonsensical boss, his life would really be shortened.

After hearing Dino say that he had come out, Alicia walked to the window and changed positions several times. After hearing Dino's answer, she felt confident.

Her guess was right—but if she was right, then something was amiss.

The white-haired girl walked down the stairs, walked out of the gate and met Dino who was standing outside.

"Go back, I probably know what's going on."

"So fast?"

Dino quickly followed Alicia, who was already walking back, and said in surprise—he thought he would have to investigate for ten days and a half months... After all, this house is really evil.

"I've seen similar houses. Although the situation is different, the method used is similar." However, magicians who can use this method are probably not good birds out of ten.

"Then how to solve it?"

"In two days, I'll prepare something—you'd better be prepared too. This piece of land will probably not be usable for the next ten or twenty years, but this result is still better than not solving it all the time."

The girl turned her head and looked at the house covered by layers of shade. Her narrowed red eyes made it impossible to see any emotion.

Tsk——If there are heroic spirits at this time, it will be much easier.

But despite what she said, Alicia has never had the habit of entrusting her life safety to others. After returning, she unceremoniously made a list and asked Dino to send someone to purchase—this is their trouble, It is natural for them to produce materials.

Thinking of the children whose eyes were burning with curiosity when she came back that day, she repeatedly told him to keep an eye on those children and not let them pass by.

Children who are ignorant and curious are often the hand that opens Pandora's box.

After all the materials she asked for were delivered, Alicia officially started her retreat life. It was only possible to see her once a day when the maids had three meals. At other times, she locked herself in the room for her preparations. Work'.

However, her retreat life was not so stable - because of her unique white hair and red eyes, rumors began to spread among the children that she was a witch. Although the family told them not to disturb her, they still had curiosity. Exuberant children sneak to her door when adults are not paying attention, trying to open the door to see what she is doing through the crack of the door, and some people even try to climb the window, wanting to jump into the balcony to peek inside.

Although these small actions did not bring any actual loss to Alicia, they made her furious.Thanks to them, she spent two days in retreat far longer than expected.

——That's why she hates this kind of curious brat the most!

It can also be seen from this that although Dino is the "big patriarch" of this family, he is a soft persimmon with no majesty at all.

...but the bears... no, it's better for the children to run to her than to the magic workshop. 'Saving people' is a tiresome task.

After a few days of retreat, the only thing that made Alicia more gratified was that there was no news of a child missing because she ran to that house.

Alicia found a box to hold her props——back in the world a hundred years ago, what she was most uncomfortable with was the materials. Compared with the thin and easy-to-carry products in the past, the things she made now were rough. In Alicia's day, her mentors at the Academy would have thrown her out.

However, although the appearance is a bit rough, the effect is good anyway, and it can be used as it is.

Carrying a red suitcase, Alicia, accompanied by Dino and Romario, came to the deserted mansion standing alone in the forest again when the sun was strongest at noon.

Even under such strong sunlight, this western-style building exudes a damp coldness.Although it won't do any harm to people, it still feels a little uncomfortable to stay here-although people always like to stay in air-conditioned places in midsummer, but longing for the warmth of the sun is the instinct of most people full-time servants.

"...Now, let me monitor your true face."

The girl pulled out a smile, walked through the open iron gate carrying the box with her head held high, and walked towards the also open, dark gate.

The author has something to say: _(:3∠)_I found out that after a chapter with 3000+ words, I want to update two chapters every day, it’s like a dream... It’s not scientific!I have no sense of security without saving manuscripts!Keng Zai told me two days ago that she wrote 1w5 in one day, I begged for a way, I really want to have this speed qaq... Of course, letting me enter the small black room is probably the rhythm that will kill me==|||

After the continuous rain, the sun is shining again=l=Did the big snake that crossed the catastrophe finally succeed or die?_(:3∠)_You can struggle for two more days so that I can save some air-conditioning money【Hey】 If you leave the air conditioner in summer, the dead star will have blood on his face =a=

Rolling routine nnnnnnn I hope you understand, okay, let’s continue with Smecta’s travel notes [Well, I’m almost finished writing it... I’ve written tens of thousands of words in 5 days without knowing it...]

On the morning of the last day in Smecta, I went to the Korean royal palace Gyeongbokgung... So let's talk about this Gyeongbokgung Palace today.

Speaking of Gyeongbokgung Palace, I have to mention the Cheonggyecheon that I visited before [it is the flowing water that looks like a music fountain pipe passing by on a rainy day] After all, I came back and checked the panoramic pictures of Cheonggyecheon... That is actually the music of Seoul Fountain Bar [Hello] According to the tour guide, this used to be a stream that originated on the mountain and flowed around the palace [meaning probably similar to the Jinshui River in my imperial capital? ] But when I saw it, I only felt cheated like 'I bought a watch last year'==|||Is such a modern waterway a death sentence?

...Uh, let's go far, let's talk about Smecta's palace, Gyeongbokgung Palace.

Speaking of Gyeongbokgung Palace, first of all, I want to explain that this is Smecta's palace, not Gyeongbokgung Palace in the Imperial Palace.Then we have to mention the issue of Smecta's former supreme leader, King Goryeo.

Smecta does not have an emperor, and probably everyone knows the reason [the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty smiled and looked at it without saying a word].So there is no such thing as a royal palace, only the royal palace——Pies, the name of Gyeongbokgung Palace is also taken from the Book of Songs of my dynasty [Of course, some Smectas will say that this is their Smecta’s Book of Songs ╮(╯ _╰)╭】

Baidu Encyclopedia tells us that this Gyeongbokgung Palace consists of 330 buildings, with a total of 5792 rooms... It sounds very western, doesn't it?But first of all, you need to know that as long as Smecta is a piece of land surrounded by four pillars, it can be called a room...

Then one more thing to say is that Baidu Encyclopedia gives information on the original Gyeongbokgung Palace in history.That's right, it is the original Gyeongbokgung Palace...the current Gyeongbokgung Palace is rebuilt—perhaps probably the main halls of Qinzheng Hall and Jiaotai Hall and the circle around Qinzheng Hall were originally "rooms" but were replaced The promenade that the Japanese dismantled into only colonnades can be said to be left over from history...you know, Smecta is now a historical relic without a real sense...well, an 'ancient civilization'. [It is said that the last South Gate of Smecta, which is also the No. 600 national treasure, was set on fire by a person with mental problems in Smecta's own country. Pierce, this No. [-] national treasure has a history of '[-] years']

Let’s stop here for some background questions about Gyeongbokgung Palace, and then let’s talk about Wo’s journey.

We entered from the former Xuanwu Gate [I'm not afraid that Second Brother Li will make you look ugly] and later because we collided with the Shenwu Gate, which is famous and taboo by Master Kang.Shenwumen is located on the north side of Gyeongbokgung Palace. On the front, this is Smecta’s presidential palace, Qingwatai [It was also the Japanese Governor’s Mansion of North Korea during the Japanese colonial period]. In fact, the location of Qingwatai used to be part of Gyeongbokgung Palace, but the neon people It was too wicked and destroyed back then, so that after the victory of World War II, none of the Smectans could find the original construction drawings of the palace and rebuild it—in the end, it could only be changed into the Blue House Presidential Palace. [Speaking of which, Wo once saw a bathing center called Qingwadae in our place. Does anyone feel as subtle as I do? 】

So in the end, the north side of the Smecta Palace is only the Shenwu Gate—by the way, when I saw the building of the Shenwu Gate, I had the illusion of coming to a film and television base in the Celestial Dynasty_(:3∠)_If you are interested, you can Go check it =a= Of course, you need to check Smecta Shenwumen, otherwise Baidu Encyclopedia will tell you about the Shenwumen of the Celestial Dynasty =l=

After entering the Shenwu Gate, you will have the illusion of traveling to a big family in the south of the Yangtze River = l = white walls and gray tiles... and the dirt road covered with fine sand that rustles when you step on it. The latest chapter of Chao's Water Margin .

...Most of the roads in Gyeongbokgung Palace are not paved with stone bricks, but sandy soil roads. I really don’t understand =a= At that time, I was thinking that if there were soldiers patrolling at night, wouldn’t it be too noisy.As a result, after visiting the former 'Foreign Guest House' [it is said that the Chinese building was built for the convenience of the Chinese envoys, which is different from the Smecta building], I understood the usefulness of this road, but at the same time, I didn't know what expression to use to face it. . [Foreign guests' guest house is so simple that people want to shed tears of sympathy, so I won't go into details]

It is estimated that some girls may have watched Smecta's "Queen Mingcheng" TV series [Pies, here is a little science, in fact, this woman has only been to the princess before and after her death, as I said before, there is no Where did the emperor get the queen ╮(╯_╰)╭ This is just what Smecta calls it. My children in China must face up to history and know that she is a princess. Don’t be illiterate [Hello], so I probably know that Princess Mingcheng died The "Qingqing Palace" where I lived at that time, this Qianqing Palace is next to the guest house for foreign guests.Princess Mingcheng didn't live here because her own palace was burned down [I don't know the exact reason for the fire], and then she lived here temporarily—and as a result, she died for a while=l=

To be honest, it’s not so much a palace...it’s better to say it’s a courtyard with a bit of architectural features=a=The outer circle of rooms is where the maids sleep, and the middle room sleeps Princess Mingcheng and her accompanying Shang Gong.

It is well known that Princess Mingcheng was killed by Japanese assassins.But she didn't wait for the assassin to arrive and die as in the TV series... According to the tour guide, I probably made up the situation at that time.

The north side of the Smecta Palace was relatively remote, and then the pro-Japanese courtiers worked together to let the Japanese assassin in, and then the guards of the Smecta Palace [maybe there are no guards in the palace? 】For various reasons, the Japanese assassin was not found, and then the Japanese assassin came to the guest house unimpeded, trapped the Russian ambassador who probably lived there, and then proceeded to the Qianqing Palace next door.At this time, no guards found them, and then they surrounded the entire Qianqing Palace, first killed the maids sleeping in the room around the wall, and then went straight to the main house.

The Princess Mingcheng in the main house and the two Shanggongs sleeping with her are already awake [the sandy earth makes a rustling sound when walking], and one of the Shanggongs changed clothes with Princess Mingcheng and sat in the room together waiting for the Japanese assassination The devil has arrived—the Qianqing Palace has only one door, and there is no back door or secret passage, which is really a tragedy.Even Smecta's architectural style makes people hide nothing in the house =l=

Then the Japanese assassin came, and the three of them were killed in a few words.Then in order to confirm which one is Princess Mingcheng, I stripped off the clothes of the three people [Prince Mingcheng gave birth to a child, but Shang Gongmu did not] and burned the body of Princess Mingcheng ╮(╯_╰)╭

Until now, the Smecta people still don’t know that their princess has died, but think that they were just taken away by the Japanese. They didn’t tell them until the Russian ambassador returned home that your princess was killed by the Japanese ╮(╯ _╰)╭【How loose are the guards of Smecta Palace】

Of course, the Qianqing Palace that we are visiting now is also rebuilt ╮(╯_╰)╭The Qianqing Palace where Princess Mingcheng died was also burned [Smecta is really the rhythm of everything being burned]

Right in front of the Qianqing Palace is a very big lake... but it is only compared with the lake of the big family in the south of the Celestial Dynasty.The lake that can be seen at a glance is not a royal lake [Hey] The left side of the paste is the road leading to the front yard [I really can't call it a palace without conscience].

After arriving at the front yard, I found that Smecta really liked the turtle-in-a-urn architecture.Are you really not uncomfortable with just one exit? The entrances of the two yards are in the same small courtyard with wooden buildings but walls on all sides and only entrances and exits.The left and right are the courtyards where people live, and the front and rear doors are the entrances to other places [Dear, is it really not crowded] If there is a fire, a bunch of people will not be trapped in it =a=Then the tour guide said proudly The characteristic of Gyeongbokgung Palace is that women live in the walls with patterns, and men live in the walls without patterns. It is clear at a glance, so it is impossible for the Japanese assassin who appeared in the TV series to say that he went wrong or something. Barabara...

I also think it is very clear at a glance. If you want to kill someone, you can separate the gender by looking at the wall of the yard. This saves the assassins a lot of work [Hello]

...Oops, it seems that I have said a lot more, well, let's continue talking about Gyeongbokgung Palace [Part [-]] tomorrow.

Swipe your claws~~~~~~~~~~ We will leave a message or see you in the update tomorrow =3=~