science wizard

Chapter 15 The Pampas Box

Taking a deep breath, Li Hyuk suppressed the incomprehensible emotions in his heart, stepped into the room, and walked into the empty room that should have been the earl's bedroom.

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

The more abnormal things are, the more information there is to dig up.

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

Seeing Li He's appearance, Wei'er and Fei'er looked at each other, tried their best to muster up the courage to walk into the room, and followed to help.

One second, one minute, ten minutes...

As time passed, 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 continue with a different target.

But she didn't take two steps, and was suddenly stopped by Li He.

"stop."

"Ah?!" Fei'er shook her body, stopped quickly, and looked at Li He doubtfully, "What's wrong?"

"Back back." Li He was originally checking the ground at the edge of the room, but now he stood up and looked straight at Fei'er with a serious expression.

Fei'er went in without knowing it, but she was still obedient, backed up, and walked back to her original position.

"Stop, and go back." Li He said again.

Fei'er was even more puzzled, but followed Li He's instructions and walked again.

"What's going on, Li He?" After walking to the position, Fei'er breathed out and asked.

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

"What did you hear?" Fei'er was confused, looking at Wei'er for an answer, "Wei'er, did you hear that?"

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

At this time Li Hyuk explained: "The sound of the footsteps is different. There were two footsteps in the middle of the path you walked just now, which was obviously louder."

"so?"

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

As Li He said, he stepped up to Fei'er, stretched out his hand and tapped the ground a few times, determined the position, stretched out his fingers into the cracks in the stone slabs on the ground, and slowly exerted force to lift up several adjacent stone slabs.

A half-meter-square tunnel entrance then appeared.

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

"Not like." 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 checked the tunnel carefully and found no danger. Holding a torch and the magic-modified rifle "Ambition", he walked down the stairs extending down the tunnel.

……

"Click, click..."

The three of Li He went 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 impressively a dungeon.

In the cell of the dungeon, there are many instruments of torture scattered: inclined wooden stakes, cracked gallows, rusty handcuffs, shackles, saws stained with dark black blood, bent irons, rusted iron chairs...

It looked gloomy and evil.

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

Vaguely, it seemed to hear wailing again.

Wei'er saw it, grabbed Li He's arm tightly, and followed Li He closely, without letting go of a step.

Fei'er also felt psychological pressure, looking at the torture tools in the prison, frowning frequently.

"Isn't the earl using this place to lock up people who make her angry?" Mayfair said.

"If this is the case, it would probably make her very, very angry." Li He didn't care too much, and continued to walk into the depths of the dungeon while talking, constantly exploring.

Finally, he stopped before the last cell of the dungeon.

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

The face of the portrait is that of a woman, about two meters tall, with one hand clasped in the air, the other drooping, and a black book with a metal case tightly grasped in the drooping hand.

Now that Fei'er had adapted to the terrifying atmosphere of the dungeon, she walked in front of the metal statue, and curiously grabbed the black book.

But the black book seemed to be integrated with the portrait, and it didn't move at all, which made Fei'er frown a little.

Li He walked up, glanced at Fei'er who was wrestling with the metal portrait while holding the black book, couldn't help shaking his head lightly, his eyes fell on the other hand of the portrait.

See, there is a silver ring in the palm of the empty hand.

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

"What?" Mayfair was puzzled.

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

Inside the portrait, there was a sound, as if a specific mechanism had been triggered, and the black book tightly held by the other hand fell.

The black book was quite heavy, Fei'er caught it with a cry of surprise, and Wei'er hurried up to help when she saw it.

Li He didn't rush to check the black book, his eyes fell on the silver ring that he took off.

It can be seen that the silver ring is very simple, and it can even be said that the workmanship is poor, and the outer ring is uneven, as if it was made by a jeweler who just started.

However, on the inner circle of the silver ring, there is a line of small characters written in Amathi language, which is extremely fine, in stark contrast to the rough workmanship: Duncans, University of Lunza, dedicates this ring.

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

The University of Lunza is one of the most famous universities in Lunza. When I go to Lunza, I will have the opportunity to understand the role of tokens.

Li He thought about putting away the ring, at this moment, Fei'er and Wei'er walked over together holding the black book that had fallen from the portrait's hand, and said repeatedly: "Li He, Li He, quickly read this book."

Li He reached out for the rather heavy black book, opened it and quickly flipped through it, and understood 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 do you need a special trigger method to make the words on the paper appear?" Li He thought in his heart, put the book away, and prepared to study it in the future, and then looked at the metal statue.

He glanced at the metal portrait several times, nodded slightly and said to himself, "This portrait should be able to be opened."

"Can it be opened? Does this person seem hollow?" Wei Er asked.

"Theoretically yes. Even if it's not completely hollow, there should still be a space for people inside."

"What's the purpose of leaving a space to accommodate people?" Mayfair asked, "It can't be a time of hide-and-seek, can you hide in it?"

"Hide-and-seek? You can hide in hide-and-seek, but it's difficult to get out..." Li He groped for the right palm of the portrait while speaking.

Previously, the portrait was holding a black book with the right hand, and the palm was blocked.Now that the black book fell, the palm was exposed.

Li He fumbled for a while, and found a very inconspicuous protrusion, said "I found it" in his mouth, and then pressed it down.

Inside the portrait, there was another sound, and then there was a "click", and the whole portrait opened from the side as if the cover was opened, revealing the internal structure.

Wei'er and Fei'er glanced at it, and couldn't help but widen their eyes, and immediately understood why Li He said "you can go in hide and seek, but it's difficult to get out".

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

But the inner wall of the hollow is not smooth, but densely inlaid with long and thin iron needles.

It is entirely conceivable that once the person is put in and the portrait is closed, the iron needles inside will pierce deeply into every part of the body, causing the blood to gush out wildly, and it won't take long for the blood to drain.

"It really is... Miss Tie." Li He looked at it and said in his heart.

Iron Maiden, also known as Tie Chu Nv, or Iron Lady, is a very famous instrument of torture. When he first saw the portrait, he had guessed it, but now it is completely accurate.

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

This is obviously something that has been deliberately hidden.

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

I just don't know if the Countess did it on purpose, or if it was something else.

Either way, he was a little curious and also a little looking forward to it.

Want to see what's in the box.

Reach out, take out the metal box, and open the lid.

Looking into the box, Li He couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

See, there is another metal box inside—a box that is one size smaller.

Box dolls?

Fine……

Li He pursed his lips, patiently, and opened it again.

Not surprisingly, another box.

turn on.

again.

turn on.

one more.

……

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

It's a gray stone box.

On the stone box, two lines of words were written in Uruk.

Row [-]: Pampas Box.

Line [-]: Open this box, you will gain everything, and you will lose everything.

This is the first time that Li He has seen something written in Uruk, the language used by legendary wizards, outside of the language book.

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

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