Chapter 19 Inside the Manor
Under the moonlight, the Yanfeng Manor in front of me was probably the simplest marquis mansion Arthur had ever seen.
The tall manor gate can barely be used as a storefront. After that, the courtyard gate is not built with continuous buildings and courtyards like other mansions, but empty and nothing. The manor walls on both sides of the courtyard gate are only more than one person tall, and a first-level warrior can easily jump over. Although the courtyard wall is short, it is continuous for several miles, almost surrounding half of the front of Yanfeng Mountain.
This is a manor built against a mountain, covering an area of dozens of square kilometers. From a height, there are only a few artificial buildings in such a large manor. Other large areas still maintain a natural topography and landform. No one prunes or caresses in the courtyard, maintaining a natural growth state.
Such a large manor, the guards are pitifully weak. Except for a team of guards standing guard in front of the mansion and a team of guards patrolling along the courtyard wall, no other guards were seen.
If someone really thinks that this Marquis' Mansion is almost unprepared, it would be a big mistake. A great magician does not need to rely on these guardian forces on the surface, and the magic circle is more reliable than humans.
"I now suspect that the thief who stole the city lord's seal might not be related to Marquis Serenda?" Joan whispered beside Arthur.
"Why? The smell of muskrats looking for can point directly into the manor." Arthur said, taking out an exquisite small tube from his arms, and a pink mouse less than the size of a child's fist was locked inside.
This is an extremely rare little beast. Its ability to distinguish various scents is more than a thousand times that of the human race. The human race has not been able to tame it yet, but he tried his best to capture it and use this feature to track and investigate. It was the people of the Tingwei Bureau who tracked all the way to Yanfeng Manor.
"It's almost unprepared here. If I were a thief, I would run to the manor and go out again and then go out in another place, so that I would completely turn my eyes to the Marquis."
Arthur looked at Joan meaningfully, "It's a pity not to be a thief with your head."
"Did I say it wrong?"
"You may be right, but since we've already arrived, we have to go in and see what's inside?"
Spence interrupted the two of them, "Don't argue with you two, act quickly, are you going in from the side or behind?"
Huey also spoke with a rare opportunity, "We'll help you create some chaos to attract the guards' attention."
At this moment, a fire suddenly broke out outside the courtyard wall on the left side of the Marquis' Mansion, and many guards immediately ran towards the fire point.
Arthur smiled, "Huey, it seems that someone has come to you with you. But such a clumsy method can only be done by the mercenaries, so let them explore the way first."
Arthur and his men lay there without moving. Before long, three figures appeared in everyone's sight. The people were moving very quickly, and their figures flashed and jumped into the low courtyard wall.
Arthur stood up gently and followed quickly. He jumped several times under the courtyard wall where the few people had jumped into before.
Arthur pressed against the courtyard wall without moving. The ice fairy Gru stepped on his shoulder and flipped in first. There was no movement for a long time before Arthur followed suit.
Gru hid behind a rock more than ten meters away. He tiptoed forward when he saw Arthur coming in, and the three people who had come in before were gone.
Arthur found a shadow and curled his body into a ball and began to observe the surrounding environment. The surroundings were overgrown with weeds, and the nearest building with lights was three hundred meters away, which looked like a guardian residence.
Arthur was lying in place and had not moved for a long time. He had to be patient in diving. Gru was even a lurking master. He also lies in a small pit and did not move, but had already released several ice clones around.
A fire suddenly rose to the sky at the northeast corner of the manor, and there were still screams of screams.
This is someone who has fallen into the flame magic trap. There is indeed a hidden crisis in this manor. Seeing that the flames exploded were not the three people who jumped in before, it seems that the three mercenary groups thought of going together and arranged their actions tonight."
Arthur became more careful and kept following the route where Gru's ice clone confirmed that there was no problem. It took almost half an hour to touch the nearest of the first building.
As Arthur had guessed before, this was the residence of the Marquis' guards. Gru walked around the entire building without finding any valuable clues.
Arthur continued to dive deep into the manor, and more than a hundred meters ahead were continuous flowers. Even though the ice clone smoothly passed through the flowers, Arthur stopped alertly, and a neat flower bush suddenly appeared in the manor where no one was mowing the plants, which seemed a little strange in itself.
Arthur began to observe the flowers carefully, and soon he discovered the problem. He saw three corpses among the flowers, and it was the three people who jumped into the yard before him. The soft flower branches wrapped the corpse, and the thorns on the branches pierced deeply into the corpse. In a short time, the corpse had already appeared obviously shriveled.
These flowers are actually sucking the energy of the body!
Arthur couldn't help but feel scared that these three people were at least as powerful as warriors of the War Eighth, and they died quietly in this flower bush. If he had stepped in rashly just now, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Arthur knew that there were many carnivorous plants on the mainland only attacking flesh and blood, so even if there were ice clones to explore the way, it could not be guaranteed to be 100% safe.
Fortunately, he was wearing a flying ring, and Arthur picked up Gru and flew over the flowers.
After landing, there was a sparse forest ahead. Arthur walked in carefully...
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At the deepest part of the manor, at the foot of Yanfeng Mountain, a seven-story magic tower stands alone. There is no grass or tree within a radius of hundreds of square meters around the magic tower.
An old magician with a steeple hat and a long beard looked at the manor at night from the window on the seventh floor of the magic tower.
The old magician seemed to be muttering to himself: "I just wanted to find a quiet place to study the mystery of magic, but there were always some annoying things that came to him on his own initiative."
A voice suddenly came from behind the old magician, "Dear Great Magician, I'm sorry to bother you. If it weren't for the business roads in the Orlando Mountains, the head office wouldn't ask me to ask for help. You are the business's biggest reliance in Isaac."
If Arthur had been here, he would have been shocked. The person who was speaking was Collored, a senior manager of Yunxiao Business.
"Don't mind, I'm not referring to you. It's strange that there are many little thieves who have visited the manor recently. I don't know why there are suddenly more people?"
Collored still felt a little embarrassed, and always felt that the Marquis of Serenda had some advice, so he had to follow it and said, "I'll go down and clean up these intruders first."
"You don't have to worry. If someone really can get here, my magic that has been here for more than 20 years will be in vain? Let's continue talking about you."
"You know, the situation in the Necropolis Heights is too complicated, and the business roads over there have always been too high. Since the Great Rift Valley cut off the business roads on the front line of the Cedar Forest, these business roads in the Orlando Mountains have been extremely important to us."
"What do you want me to do when the head office wants me to do?"
"The head office hopes that the great magician can take action and reopen the business roads in the Orlando Mountains."
The great magician of Serenda pondered: "As you said before, the trade route was cut off because there was a problem with the orcs. A new orc force completely cut off the golden lion's channel through the Orlando Mountains. Do they want me to cross-border attack on the orcs?"
Collored immediately smiled and said, "The message from above said that with your prestige and means in Isaac, you don't need to take action personally to provoke a small-scale dispute between the two tribes and resolve the matter there."
Chapter completed!