Chapter 996 The History of the Castle

"Does the Church of the Sea God have the right to take away the materials of Castle Black?" Leo asked, having doubts in his heart when he heard the words of the castle steward.

"Under normal circumstances, it is not allowed." The castle steward explained calmly: "However, the main chapel of the Sea God Church and Castle Black were built at the same time, and the builders were also the same person, and the construction materials of the two buildings were also mixed together. Before the renovation of Castle Black, I also asked the Sea God Church for the materials at that time, so this time the Sea God Church just got back the materials that were borrowed back then."

Although there are good reasons, Leo always felt a little weird, and asked again: "Did you re-copy that document?"

"No." The castle steward replied truthfully: "Because that document is too old, and the language used is Kubu Kewen, and it is still handwritten. Unless you are an expert who studies Kubu Kewen, it is difficult to accurately copy One copy. In addition, the content of that document is the basic part of the building of Castle Black and the main hall. After several renovations of Castle Black, the main building has changed a little. share."

Leo was silent for a while, and said: "You can go down, I want to read the information here alone."

The castle steward saluted Leo and said, "I will arrange someone to wait at the door. If your lord needs anything, you can tell him to do it."

After speaking, he walked out.

When the castle steward walked to the door, Leo suddenly asked, "Are you a believer in the Sea God Church?"

The castle steward stopped, looked back at Leo, nodded and said: "Yes, my lord. I am a believer of the Sea God Church, not only me, almost everyone in the castle is a believer of the Sea God Church. Doyle, if you want to find a non-Sea God church believer, I'm afraid it will be very difficult."

Leo didn't say anything more. The castle steward waited for a while. Seeing that Leo didn't ask any more questions, he walked out of the library and closed the door.

In fact, before Leo asked just now, he already knew that most of the people in Castle Black were believers of the Sea God Church, and the castle steward was also a devout follower of the Sea God Church. It has been investigated clearly, and even everyone has undergone loyalty tests, and such tests will be conducted regularly to ensure that everyone in the castle is loyal.

His question just now was just to find out whether the castle steward had concealed something because of the Church of Sea God regarding the earliest original architectural materials of Castle Black, and through the physiological details such as the heartbeat of the other party, Leo can be sure that the castle steward must It was hiding some things, but in the butler's consciousness, these things should not deviate from his loyalty to Sylvia, the master of Castle Black.

Although he found a doubtful point, Leo didn't plan to ask the castle steward what he was hiding, because in his opinion, the castle steward probably didn't know the use of the things he concealed, and everything still had to be learned from the sea god. Start with those materials that the church took away.

After Leo had a plan in mind, he turned his attention to the materials left by the castle stewards of the past generations preserved in the library. Although these materials are useless in the eyes of the Sea God Church, in Leo's eyes, These materials may have a greater effect on him.

Although there are a lot of materials in the library, with Leo's browsing speed, he has already read all the materials before dinner arrives, and recorded them in the brain database. analyze.

"Have you gained anything?" Back in Sylvia's study, Sylvia had finished processing the accumulated official documents and was playing with little Tolan and Irene. When she saw Leo coming in from the outside, she signaled The other people in the room withdrew before asking.

Leo briefly talked about his discovery of the castle steward.

Sylvia was silent for a moment, and said with certainty: "The steward should be fine, he is loyal, but the things you mentioned are indeed doubtful, how are you going to investigate?"

Leo thought for a while and said, "In a couple of days, I'll go to the city for a walk to learn about the situation of the Sea God Church here, and see if there is a chance to enter the Sea God Church to get the information."

Sylvia thought for a while, and nodded in agreement with Leo's decision, then sighed again, and said, "It would be great if I hadn't resigned as the adjudicator of the Orthodox Church, then I could call some information from the Orthodox Church Let’s take a look, for such an important building as the main chapel of a church holy place, there must be a backup stub of construction materials in the Orthodox Church.”

Leo shook his head and said, "There's no need! Now that you know there's something wrong with the castle, you just need to investigate the castle carefully and you'll find something."

Afterwards, the two didn't discuss this matter any more, but played with their children and ate together like an ordinary parent and husband and wife.

After nightfall, Sylvia took care of the two little ones and slept in the master bedroom, while Leo went to another room separated by a door. He lay on the bed as if he was sleeping, but he was actually thinking quickly. Analyze and sort out the data recorded during the day.

Although the stewards of Castle Black take on the traditional responsibility of recording all kinds of things that happened in the castle, they do not record everything. After all, if they really record everything, then their family cannot always I acted as a butler in the castle.

Most of the things recorded in the castle steward's diary are just some daily things and some important events that happened in the castle. For example, a French emperor was born in the castle, and the castle was once besieged by a large band of thieves. etc.

Although the castle stewards try to avoid touching the privacy of the castle owner as much as possible when writing diaries, their habit of recording things around them still makes them subconsciously mention them in short words when they consciously avoid some things those things.

After analysis, Leo easily found a lot of private content related to the castle owner at that time in these diaries, and most of these contents were related to the castle owner's romantic affairs.

However, these romantic affairs are not worthless, because some of these romantic affairs are related to some legends in the castle, and even the origin of some legends, and these seemingly absurd legends often hide some useful information .

After analyzing and screening again and again, Leo finally screened out most of the contents of these diaries, leaving only a few seemingly scattered and unconnected contents.

After Leo's analysis, it was found that the contents he kept had nothing to do with each other on the surface, they were all independent fragmented records, but in fact these fragments completely surrounded two apparently worthless records. The thing to focus on is the subsequent development and extension of the two things, and if the two things are integrated, you can discover some hidden secrets about the castle.

Among the two incidents, one is the death row incident at the Great Fish Festival. This incident is considered a major incident in Randall, but because this incident involved the French royal family who controlled the castle at that time, it is not easy to spread this incident to the outside world. not many.

However, this incident was recorded by the castle steward at the time, and it was not restricted. This is also one of the few complete events recorded in the steward's notes.

Just like its name, this event happened during a big fish festival in Randall, which is one of the most important festivals for the residents of the fishing village in the southern seaport of Velen mainland, which is equivalent to the harvest season in other towns. After the first fishing boat returns to the port, the next day is the Big Fish Festival. The fleet that has harvested something during the festival will present the best catch in their hands to the Sea God. After that, the whole city will fall into a four-day frenzy. After the carnival, the boat will be closed and this year's ocean fishing will be completely stopped.

For the Sea God Church, this was also a very important festival. Not only did they send out their own priests and priests, but they also lobbied the city government to release some prisoners who committed minor crimes to show Sea God's tolerance.

However, during the Big Fish Festival recorded by the castle steward, there was a big accident. A death row inmate who committed a felony and would be executed in half a month bribed the staff of the city government responsible for the release of criminals, and sent himself His name was added to the release list, and as a result, this heinous death row inmate was released on the day of the Big Fish Festival.

Originally, after the death row prisoner was released, it would have been fine to run away directly, so that he would not be recorded by the butler, but he didn't know what else was going on in his mind. After escaping, he gathered his men and took advantage of Castle Black's The people participated in the Big Fish Festival, lax their defenses, sneaked into the main castle through an unknown secret passage, killed the soldiers guarding the main castle, and hijacked a royal prince who was on vacation in the main castle.

At that time, the guards of the outer castle and the inner castle found that they were attacked, and immediately blocked all the entrances and exits. While sending people to negotiate, they went to the city government and the Sea God Church to find people. All the paladins from the Sea God Church rushed over.

After discussion, they planned to sneak into the main castle through the other two secret passages, rescue the prince first, and then deal with those desperadoes.

However, what people never expected was that when they sneaked into the main castle, they found that there was no one in the main castle. Not only the desperadoes disappeared, but even the kidnapped prince and the castle steward who were held hostage... , servants, etc. have all disappeared.

At that time, some people speculated that the desperadoes led by the death row prisoner should know a secret passage to leave the castle, so when they saw that the outside was besieged and unable to break through, they pressed the hostages and left through the secret passage.

But this guess was refuted at the time, because too many people disappeared. If you don’t count those outlaws, there were more than 300 servants working in the main castle at that time, and the general secret passage can only accommodate one person at most. Walking, at that time there was not so much time for everyone to leave from the secret path.

Even if Castle Black built a very spacious secret passage, enough for hundreds of people to enter and leave at the same time, there is absolutely no need for those desperadoes to take away the castle's steward, servants and other people who are not worth kidnapping. Just go to the prince of the empire.

Therefore, the speculation of leaving from the secret passage was quickly denied, and it was proved wrong afterwards, because the outlaws, the kidnapped imperial princes, and the servants of the castle never reappeared, and even the corpses were gone. No.

This incident also became a sensational unsolved case at the time, and the whereabouts of the outlaws and the prince became a mystery. As for the servants of the castle who also disappeared, no one cared.

The succeeding castle steward later recorded this incident in his diary in detail.

But the matter did not end there, and then the servants working in the main castle all said that they saw people moving in the main castle at night, and some people recognized that these people were the missing servants, and some even saw them The outlaws who hijacked the prince and others.

It's just that after they saw these disappeared people, they wanted to go forward and catch them, but these people who were obviously not far ahead just disappeared from their eyes, and for a while, the ghost of Castle Black became Randall One of the urban legends.

What's more interesting is that many people saw those who disappeared in the castle, but among those who disappeared, only the death row prisoner and the kidnapped prince who caused the accident did not appear, so some people said that A death row prisoner and a prince are actually still alive.

According to the records of the castle steward, the ghosts of Castle Black only lasted for more than 30 years before they stopped. After that, no one saw any ghosts in the castle again.

Judging from these written records, from the beginning to the end, except for the ghost of Castle Black who seems to be related to the supernatural power, other things have nothing to do with the supernatural power, but Leo thinks that this matter may have something to do with Wang Haiya It is related to the hidden secret, because this incident reminded him of another similar record he had seen, an accident that happened in the Earth Federation.

Leo was once assigned to assist a certain recovery force to recover a lost spaceship in a strange galaxy. On the way, he found information related to that spaceship and made a recovery plan. In the information of that spaceship The mention of the missing ship is due to the mysterious disappearance of the crew.

This kind of mysterious disappearance is not that all the crew members disappeared on a certain day, but that the crew members disappeared at a certain second. The liaison officer of the spaceship was still conducting a normal mission report with the people at the headquarters in the previous second. There was no sound, and at the same time, the intelligent mastermind of the headquarters contacted the control system of the spacecraft to retrieve data and found that the entire spaceship disappeared simultaneously in less than a second.

This situation is just like what happened in Castle Black at that time. One minute, they were still discussing with the outlaws, and the next second when the rescue team led by the paladins rushed into the main castle, everyone disappeared.

And this incident is not over yet, the ghost incident that happened in Castle Black later also happened in that spaceship.