Wizard of science

Taking a deep breath, Li He suppressed the confusion in his heart and stepped into the room, entering the empty room that should have been the count's bedroom.

When something goes wrong, there must be a monster.

The more abnormal things are, the more information there is to be mined.

He began to check the room inch by inch, trying to find suspicious clues.

When Wei'er and Fei'er saw Li He's appearance, they looked at each other and tried to muster the courage to walk into the room and help.

One second, one minute, ten minutes...

Time passed and the three of them found nothing.

Mayfair was originally checking a corner, but found nothing after checking for a long time. She stomped her feet impatiently, turned around and walked to another corner, preparing to change her target and continue.

But before she took two steps, she was suddenly stopped by Li He.

"stop."

"Ah?!" Fei'er swayed, stopped quickly, and looked at Li He in confusion, "What's wrong?"

"Get back." Li He was checking the ground at the edge of the room. At this time, he stood up and looked directly at Fei'er with a serious expression.

Fei'er didn't know what was going on, but she still obeyed and walked backwards to her original position.

"Stop and walk back." Li He said again.

Fei'er became even more confused, but still followed Li He's instructions and walked again.

"What's going on, Li He?" After reaching the location, Feier asked out of breath.

"Did you hear that?" Li He didn't answer directly, but asked instead.

"What did you hear?" Fei'er was confused and looked to Weier for the answer, "Weier, did you hear it?"

Weier shook her head vigorously, indicating that she didn't hear anything.

At this time, Li He explained aloud: "The footsteps are different. The way you walked just now, there were two steps in the middle, which were obviously louder."

"so?"

"So, where you just walked, there should be a cavity underneath, and there may be something hidden there."

Li He said, walked up to Fei'er, reached out and knocked on the ground a few times to confirm the position, stretched out his fingers into the gaps between the stone slabs on the ground, and slowly used force to lift up several adjacent stone slabs in the next moment.

A half-meter-square tunnel entrance then appeared.

"Is there really something?!" Mayfair was shocked, "So, every time the count goes back to his room to rest, he always goes in here to rest?"

"It's not like that." Li He shook his head, "But if there is a tunnel, there should be a secret room. There may be some answers in the secret room."

After speaking, Li He carefully checked the tunnel and found no danger. Holding a torch and the magic modified rifle "Ambition", he walked down the steps extending downwards in the tunnel.

…

"Click, click..."

Li He and the other three walked down the steps and finally appeared in a huge underground hall.

The entire hall is about a thousand square meters, with a narrow passage in the middle and cells on both sides of the passage.

This is clearly a dungeon.

There are many instruments of torture scattered in the dungeon cells: tilted wooden stakes, cracked gallows, rusty handcuffs and shackles, saws stained with dark black blood, bent soldering irons, rusted iron chairs...

It looks dark and evil.

One can't help but think that many innocent people should have been tortured here a long time ago.

Faintly, I seemed to hear wailing again.

Wei'er looked at it, grabbed Li He's arm hard, followed Li He closely, and didn't let go even a step.

Fei'er also felt psychological pressure. She frowned frequently when looking at the torture instruments in the prison.

"Isn't this the place where the earl would use to keep people who make her angry?" Feier said.

"If this is true, I'm afraid it will make her very, very angry." Li He didn't care very much. As he spoke, he continued to walk deeper into the dungeon and continued to explore.

Finally, he stopped in front of the last cell in the dungeon.

The cell door was open, and there was no torture device inside, but a metal figure with a weird posture.

The figure looks like a woman, about two meters tall. One hand is held empty, and the other hand is drooping. The drooping hand is holding a black book with a metal shell.

At this time, Mayfair adapted to the terrifying atmosphere of the dungeon, walked to the metal statue, and pulled the black book out of curiosity.

But the black book seemed to be integrated with the portrait, motionless, which made Fei'er frown a little.

Li He walked up and glanced at Fei'er, who was wrestling with the black book and the metal statue. He couldn't help but shook his head slightly, and his eyes fell on the other hand of the statue.

Then he saw, in the palm of his empty hand, a silver ring.

He guessed a possibility and said to Mayfair: "Be careful."

"What?" Feier was confused.

Li He stretched out his fingers, pinched the silver ring, twisted it a few times, then turned it counterclockwise and took it off.

There was a sound inside the portrait, as if a specific mechanism was triggered, and the black book held tightly in the other hand fell.

The black book was quite heavy. Fei'er exclaimed and caught it. Wei'er saw it and rushed up to help.

Li He was not in a hurry to check the black book, his eyes fell on the silver ring he took off.

As you can see, the silver ring is very simple. It can even be said that the workmanship is poor. The outer ring is uneven, as if it was made by a novice jeweler.

However, on the inner ring of the silver ring, there is a line of small words written in Ammas language, which is extremely fine and contrasts sharply with the rough workmanship: Duncans of the University of Renza, I would like to dedicate this ring to you.

This seems to be a token, a token from someone at Renza University... Li He had some guesses in his mind.

The University of Lenza is one of the most famous universities in Lenza. When you go to Lenza, you will have the opportunity to understand the function of the token.

Li He was thinking about putting away the ring. At this time, Fei'er and Wei'er came over holding the black book that fell from the portrait's hand, and said repeatedly: "Li He, Li He, please read this book quickly."

Li He reached for the heavy black book, opened it and flipped through it quickly, understanding why Fei'er and Wei'er asked him to check it.

Because this is a very strange wordless book.

There are hundreds of pages without any text or pictures.

"A blank book? Or does it require a special trigger method to make the words on the paper appear?" Li He thought in his mind, accepted the book, and prepared to study it later, and then looked at the metal statue.

He carefully scanned the metal statue several times, nodded slightly and said to himself: "This statue should be able to be opened."

"Can it be opened? Does this figure look hollow?" Weier asked.

"Theoretically. Even if it's not completely hollow, there should still be room for a person inside."

"Why leave a space to accommodate people?" Mayfair asked, "It can't be during hide-and-seek, right?"

"Hide and seek? Hide and seek can hide in, but it will be difficult to come out..." Li He groped for the palm of the right hand of the figure as he spoke.

The previous figure was holding a black book with his right hand, the palm of his hand being obscured. Now the black book fell, and the palm of his hand was exposed.

Li He fumbled around for a while and felt an inconspicuous bump. He said "Found it" and then pressed it.

Inside the portrait, there was another sound, and then with a "click", the entire portrait was opened from the side like a lid, revealing the internal structure.

Wei'er and Fei'er took a look, their eyes couldn't help but widen, and they immediately understood why Li He said, "You can go in with hide and seek, but it's difficult to come out."

You can see that inside the two-meter-high figure, there is a human-shaped hollow about 1.6 meters high, which seems to be just enough to accommodate a person hiding inside.

But the inner wall of the cavity is not smooth, but is inlaid with densely packed slender iron needles.

It is completely conceivable that once a person is put in and the figure is closed, the iron needles inside will penetrate deeply into various parts of the body, causing blood to gush out crazily, and it will not take long for the blood to be drained.

"It is indeed...Tie Girl." Li He looked at it and said in his heart.

Iron Girl, also known as Iron Lady, or Iron Lady, is an extremely famous instrument of torture. When he first saw the portrait, he had made a guess, but now it was completely accurate.

However, he was not shocked by the internal structure of the torture instrument. He briefly glanced at the iron needles on the inner wall, and his eyes fell on a rusty metal box placed inside the torture instrument.

This was obviously something that was deliberately hidden.

In comparison, the silver ring and the black book in the house are just a cover-up. The metal box placed in the iron girl is the most important thing.

I just don’t know if the countess did this on purpose or if it was something else.

No matter which one, he was a little curious and a little looking forward to it.

I want to see what's inside the box.

Reaching out, took out the metal box and opened the lid.

Looking inside the box, Li He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

Then there was another metal box inside - a smaller box.

Box nesting doll?

Fine……

Li He pursed his lips, opened it again patiently.

As expected, another box.

Open.

again.

Open.

one more.

…

After opening the seventh palm-sized metal box, the contents inside finally changed.

It's a gray stone box.

On the stone box, there were two lines of words written in Wuluk language.

First row: Pampas box.

Line 2: Open this box and you will gain everything and lose everything.

This was the first time Li He saw something written in Wuluk language - the language used by legendary wizards - outside of language books.

His eyes stayed on the text for two seconds, and the next moment he stretched out his hand to open it.

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