Chapter 181 Scholars who are not like scholars
The narrow passage could barely allow one person to pass through. Fang Yi had no chance to run to Galbo to explore the path, so he had to follow the old man step by step. The circular passage was generally upward. Seeing Galboe walking in front disappear, Fang Yi knew that the passage had reached its end.
Sure enough, Fang Yi rushed to a small space that was only ten feet in square meter. Under the light of the torch, the ground was full of mess, full of broken pieces of wood and rags, and a diagonally above was a passage that continued to move upwards. The old man Galbo was squatting aside to observe the traces on the ground.
"This is... a treasure room?" Fang Yi looked at Galbo and asked suspiciously, looking at Galbo.
"Yes, this is a small treasure house in Lisch Castle." Galbo replied without raising his head when he looked for the debris on the ground.
Fang Yi took the investigation and the prompts he got were nutritious words such as "The wall in front of him seems to have a long history", "The stones around him have been soaked in groundwater for a long time, and there are no traces of biological activities".
Looking at Galbo, who had been looking down and studying something, Fang Yi couldn't help asking, "It seems that someone has been visited here. By the way, how did you know that there is a secret passage here?"
"In addition to broadening one's horizons, one can occasionally learn some little-known secrets from it. The Lixun family has been a wealthy businessman for several generations. How could no one pay attention to them?" Galbo touched the wall beside him and said with concern, raising his hand was another detection door.
Fang Yi immediately saw a waterfall and sweated, "You... your spells are all prepared for detection secrets, right?"
"Of course not. Didn't you use a mage's hand before?" Galbo said naturally, still working with all his attention, completely ignoring his hands were covered with dark and unknown objects. "There is a high-level mage next to Li Xu, who stares at me every day. How can I have so much time to prepare advanced spells~"
"But then again," said Galbo turned his head and looked at Fang Yi, with a hint of weirdness in his eyes, "It seems that the explosion you triggered had blown the mage away. That's the senior aide of the Lord of Xingmu City~"
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Fang Yi looked down at the experience. Excluding the part obtained from normal battles, there was indeed a part of the experience value. Unfortunately, the magic circle was set up in advance by someone else, and it was probably much worse than the experience of normal killing. It was a pity.
At this time, Galbo's search also made progress. After a while of knocking, he pulled out a loose stone brick from the corner. Then he reached in without hesitation. He took out a long box and stuffed it directly into his arms.
"Let's go! The exit is ahead." Galbo waved to Fang Yi and was about to walk up first. However, this time Fang Yi was prepared, and grabbed the energetic old man and stretched out his finger to shake him.
"Follow me, the city guards in Xingmu City may have arrived." Fang Yi pulled Galbo behind him, and held the torch and first got into the passage above, but he didn't see Galbo behind him looking at Fang Yi's back, and shook his head with a smile.
The higher the passage, the greater the slope. Fortunately, the depth of the dungeon is limited, and it will reach the end in a short while.
One of the passages is like a large box surrounded by stone slabs. Fang Yi gently tapped the stone wall and soon found that the stone wall on one side seemed hollow.
"There must be an exit here. Do you want to find out if there is any mechanism?" Galbo, who was walking "underside", poked Fang Yi's foot and reminded him.
Fang Yi observed around and found no holes or places that could be pulled, so he tentatively pushed the hollow stone slab and immediately felt a cool breeze blowing through his ears, leaving!
However, the cautious Fang Yi did not push the stone slab away immediately. Instead, he listened to the movement outside. After confirming that there was no one, he used both hands to move the stone slab away a gap and climbed to the ground. When he looked up, he was stunned.
It turned out that this exit was right in front of Lixu Castle, and above the exit was a statue of Lixu with a big belly. Fang Yi glanced at Lixu, who looked arrogant on the stone platform, and thought to himself that this was really a cold world. Fatty brother, please leave~
After Galbo emerged from the hole under the stone platform, Fang Yi let go of his hand, watched the stone door slowly close and return to its original state. From the outside, there was no abnormality. I am afraid no one would have thought of a secret exit in public.
At this time, the lights were brightly lit around the castle, and soldiers from Xingmu City made the unrecognizable castle for the sake of being in trouble. However, the area of this manor was too large, and the subordinates of the lord of Xingmu City were unable to surround the entire manor, so they could only scatter around and search everywhere.
Alas, I was surrounded. Fang Yi sighed secretly, how could he escort the old man out now?
"Why are you still standing there? Let's go?"
Fang Yi felt that Galbo was around him poking himself, and his tone of speaking was extremely relaxed. He turned his head angrily, "Why are there so many people around..."
After only half of his words, Fang Yi subconsciously closed his mouth, because the old man Galbo next to him had already stood up and held his distinctive glasses with his hands. His figure under the night color instantly turned into a transparent appearance.
Fang Yi's eyes widened: Damn... Isn't this a stealth skill?
"You still work part-time... have you learned the skills of a thief?" Fang Yi looked at the translucent figure who was so close to him and asked uncertainly.
Galbo's incomprehensible figure moved, and Fang Yi could vaguely tell the other person and pointed at his monocle glasses, "Young man, don't you know there are magic items like this? Go away quickly~"
Fang Yi looked at Galboha with a stunned look and tiptoed to the south on the lawn between the two roads. Although the old man's stealth skill level was obviously not very high, he was probably at level one. On this moonlit night, even if there is no blessing of silent movement, it would be impossible to pass through the scattered guards safely.
People become sensuals when they are old - Fang Yihu is around Galbo, and this sentence comes to his mind again. Hey? Why do you need to use it?
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The slums in Xingmu City have long been in chaos, with relatives and friends everywhere. The emotional release after separation makes the slums full of tears of joy and pain.
Fang Yi went to the Adventurer Hall to take out Xiao Xiaou, who had been waiting for a long time, and there was no need to mention the reunion of his uncle and nephew. At this time, Xingmu Market was brightly lit, and there were city guards wearing helmets and armor everywhere, holding torches to hunt down the culprits of destroying Lixu Manor in the streets and alleys.
Fang Yi originally suggested that a few people find a hotel to avoid it, but Gelbo flatly rejected the proposal: the tavern and hotel must have a suspicion from the city lord's mansion, and I'm afraid that they will be caught in the jar. Although at Gelbo's suggestion, several people came to the slums of Xingmu City.
Galbo took Fang Yi and Xia Ou and turned left and right in the intricate alley, and soon arrived at the back door of an ordinary cottage, knocking on the wooden door a few times.
"Who!" After a while, a male voice came from the room, but the deliberately lowered voice was filled with impatience and strong alert.
"Joel, it's me. Galbo." Galbo replied against the crack in the door.
Soon, a sound of pulling the door bolt came from the house. As the wooden door was quickly pulled open, a big man holding a hatchet walked out of the house.
"Gelbo! It's really you! Thank you gods!!" The big man known as Joel grabbed Gelbo's arm, looked at Fang Yi and Xia Ou behind Gelbo, lowered his voice and said, "Come in!"
Fang Yi, who was standing at the end, looked around again, and after confirming that no one was following him, he followed the two people in front and stepped into the room.
Joel turned around and inserted the wooden door, and immediately gave the old man Galbo a tight hug: "God bless you, it's fine! I heard you were missing for no reason before, and Xingmu Market is also very chaotic recently, so I thought something had happened to you!"
Gailbo laughed and introduced Xia Ou and Fang Yi to Joel. Then he sat at the simple wooden table and talked about Joel about his recent experience.
Fang Yi, who was sitting on the side, looked around and looked at the environment in the house. Only a candle was lit, which made the house look a little dim. However, it could still be seen that the house was filled with things that ordinary houses often had. However, Fang Yi found that there were a few blacksmith hammers and a few iron hoes hanging on the roof in the corner. I think this Joel should be a blacksmith who made farm tools.
"So that's the case. Lish is dead?" Joel heard Galbo briefly tell the story of the incident, sighed for a bit of excitement after sighing about this bizarre experience, "Are you sure?"
"No surprise, I'm really dead," Gaelbo nodded. "Now your captured neighbors should all be back."
"That's great. I said why it's noisy outside," Joel stood up excitedly, "Then you sit for a while, I'll go to the street in front to see. Lish is dead! Haha, I should celebrate with everyone tomorrow, hahahaha~"
Joel whispered a few more words to Galbo, brought some bowls of water to several people, and then turned around and hurriedly left the room. Seeing Joel's happy expression, Fang Yixin said why people heard that Li Xu died was like the New Year, which was so sad~
"Okay, we are safe here for the time being. Young man, let's talk about you now," Gelbo patted Xia Ou's shoulder beside him, let Xia Ou, who was full of excitement, sit down quietly, turned his head and said, "How did Xia Ou find you?"
Originally, Fang Yi's nervous mood had not been completely relieved after coming out of the dark castle, because the city guards in Xingmu City might come back to the slums to arrest people at any time. However, seeing Galbo's calm expression on his face, Fang Yi felt at ease: This old man was so calm all the way, I think he should have something to rely on.
Chapter completed!