Mystery: I can change things in books

Chapter 187 Oil Painting
Ikonser swallowed, glanced at Horik beside him, turned back, and lowered his voice:
"……No."

"Wrong answer will be punished directly!"

Before Ikanser could react, a silver lightning flashed out of thin air in the space one meter above his head, falling straight down and hitting the top of his head.

"Your Excellency Ikanser!"

Horik quickly threw the rifle behind his back and ran to help him.

After suffering an electric shock and falling to the ground, Ikanser was stunned for a moment, his old face turned red, he got up in embarrassment, turned the mirror to the back, and said quickly:
"I'm fine, I'm fine."

Horik looked at his straight, brown and curved hair, and couldn't help but sigh at the power and strangeness of the sealed object.

He asked worriedly:

"Your Excellency Ikanser, are you really... okay?"

"It's okay, it's okay," Ikanser waved his hand and stood up straight, "I'm fine."

While they were talking, the Mechanical Heart team members had already entered the building. Some team members carried exoskeleton-like equipment and easily lifted up the collapsed floors.

They didn't miss any corner, and their guns swept through every tiny crevice.

At this moment, Chris and Steve had run out of the hall and hid near the accommodation room.

"Where to run now? We must be surrounded!"

Chris's breath was a little disturbed. Before he attended the party, he expected that there might be accidents on this trip, but he didn't expect that it would be so dangerous.

It didn't matter that the Dawn of Elements was going to attack the Moss Trappist Order, the Machinery Heart also participated in the battle, and even brought in an airship.

Such a massive action must have reinforcements from Backlund Diocese.

Steve gasped for air and answered breathlessly:

"Now, there are two options. One is to rush out directly and break out of the encirclement of the Heart of Machinery.

The second is to hide here and wait until the Machine Heart search is over and they leave, then we can escape from here. "

This was a difficult choice. Chris's white crystal silver chain was lost while running wildly. If he wanted to implement the pendulum method, he could only go to Star Island to conjure another silver chain.

Just as Chris was about to perform dream divination to predict his future and see which choice was the right one, Steve grabbed him and whispered:

"someone is coming."

At the end of the corridor, two members of the Heart of Machinery were walking toward them with rifles in hand.

The sound of footsteps echoed in the long and empty corridor, making the two of them even more nervous.

One of them is Sequence 7 and the other is Sequence 6. Of course they can kill the two unsuspecting Mechanical Heart members, but of course Chris will not do this, and Steve, as a member of "Elemental Dawn", will certainly not do it either. Attack them sneakily.

And if they take action and kill these two members of the Heart of Machinery, they will definitely incur more serious and terrifying retaliation, and the consequences are unpredictable.

"How to do?"

Chris glanced at Steve, stuck his head out, took a look, and instantly retracted, saying anxiously:

"They will definitely search our place... We have to run. If we don't run, it will be too late!"

Steve grabbed Chris who was about to run away, but he calmed down and said:

"Wait a minute, there's no sound outside..."

There is indeed no sound outside, and Chris can no longer hear the gunshots and shouts. It seems that the Moss Penance Order and Elemental Dawn in the manor have lost their fighting ability and no longer fight, and the mechanical heart has completed the attack on Vinia Manor. of the eradication.The sound of footsteps in the corridor disappeared at some point. He collected himself and just poked his head out when inspiration suddenly twitched. A feeling of extreme danger surged into Chris's heart, and he retracted his head instantly.

As he retracted his head, a gunshot sounded from the far end of the corridor.

With a "bang", a large-caliber bullet hit the corner of the wall, and the position where Chris's head was just now shattered into pieces.

The two mechanical hearts had discovered him long ago!
"There's another one here!"

"Suppressing fire! Tommy, flank him!"

"He's the Extraordinary, with incendiary bullets!"

The shouting clearly reached Chris's ears. He glanced at Steve and pointed to the stairs ahead:
"run!"

You can only run inside the building, because there are mechanical hearts outside, and they have completely surrounded the manor.

The two ignored it, turned up the stairs, ran along the corridor, and ran into a room that looked like a study.

This room is directly opposite the hall, and the two locations are separated by the outdoor fountain in the middle.

This "study" is very strange. The two side-by-side bookshelves are empty, and the large desk is even more empty, without any trace of use.

"Where is this?" Chris asked in surprise.

Just now, the battle between Moss Ascetic Society and Elemental Dawn broke out in the hall, and all the firepower of the Mechanical Heart was poured out there. The area where the two of them were located had not yet been searched by the Mechanical Heart.

"I don't know..." Steve shrugged, "It's so empty here, maybe there's a secret door or something."

Chris nodded, this room was indeed too empty.

According to the setting in previous movies and novels, "If there is both a bookshelf and a secret door in a room, the secret door must be behind the bookshelf." Chris walked to the side-by-side bookshelf, inserted his hands into the gap, and forcibly separated them.

"What are you doing? Wait, look here!"

Steve patted Chris on the shoulder, pointed to the wall where the bookshelves were separated, and shouted in a low voice.

On the white-painted wall, a part of the wall did protrude, and there was a small gap around it.

"The secret door," Chris nodded, raising the corners of his mouth slightly, "I just don't know how to open it..."

Before he finished speaking, Steve took two steps past him and punched the wall.

Steve's punch directly punched through the wall. He retracted his fist, pointed at the punched wall, and said helplessly:

"The back is really hollow."

Where he pointed, there was a silver-gray safe with a little dust and even cobwebs on it. It looked like it had been there for a long time, but due to the special material, there was no sign of rust.

Chris also looked at the half-meter-square safe and sighed deeply:

——Although there is indeed a secret door, there is a safe behind the secret door, and there is no "tunnel" that can be drilled.

This also means that if they want to leave Vinia Manor, they will have to fight the Heart of the Machine.

Steve smiled at Chris, his eyes full of helplessness:
"What should we do? There is a safe behind the secret door. Should we surrender to the Heart of Machinery and say that we are just two thieves who came to steal the safe and have nothing to do with the secret organization?"

Chris sighed, and just as he was about to reach out and take the safe out of the wall, the safe opened on its own with a "pop".

There was only one painting inside, a simple oil painting.

(End of this chapter)