Strange Stories about Castle Rules
Not seeing anyone, the two servants were obviously surprised and took a few tentative steps to the side.
Listening to the footsteps approaching, Shi Yan held her breath. Through the gaps between the petals, she could see the tips of a pair of shoes.
Even though they discovered the outsider, they had no intention of continuing the search and just turned around and left.
Shi Yan poked her head out and made sure that they were no longer in the corridor. On the other side, the figure she had seen since going upstairs was still standing in the distance.
His hands seemed to be folded in front of him. He was a man with a short haircut, and he seemed to be guarding the door of a room.
She would not stay on this floor anymore. Shi Yan did not want to alert the enemy. As for downstairs, she would not go there again. She could only look upstairs again.
I just reached the third floor, and the curtain that was struggling slightly at the window on my left was impossible to ignore.
It's like a prey trapped in a spider web, and will soon lose the ability to move.
There was a slight smell of burning. He appeared in the castle at this time and was treated as hostile. He thought it must be one of his unlucky roommates.
Shi Yan immediately took out the dagger from her body, aimed at the twisted curtain rope knot on the human-shaped object, and threw it out quickly after taking aim.
The tip of the dagger easily pierced the cloth, and with a plop, she realized that the person inside was Ding Can.
She herself never thought that she would accidentally save someone while escaping.
Ding Can shrugged. "You're much better than me. Although you realized you couldn't stay in the room for long, you completely forgot the rules after you came out."
Only now did she have the chance to begin to take in the interior structure of the room.
There are no tables or chairs here. It seems that no one usually stays here and it does not involve daily life.
The way the shelves are arranged and the items on them are placed makes it look more like a showroom for valuables.
There is a dark green carpet in the middle of the room, and on top of the carpet is a glass display stand.
In the spacious booth, there is a large 3D map display.
If it was just a regular topographic map used for ordinary marches, it would not have been preserved so carefully. This is actually a military deployment map used by the army.
The mountains, rivers and streams are portrayed extremely clearly and realistically. There are small figures holding swords in several places, and small flags of two colors are inserted according to the different warring camps.
Next to the booth stood a mannequin wearing armor, and many marks left by swords and knives were clearly visible on the surface of the armor.
Ding Can guessed that this must have been left behind as a trophy by the victor of the battle.
Since the owner of the castle was able to preserve these, perhaps his ancestors had some connection with this particular battle.
Around the wall, closest to the door, are a set of palace attire for men and women.
In addition to the luxurious fabric, the surface is also inlaid with many precious diamonds and jewels, and even the bird feathers used as embellishments are very rare.
Further ahead, occupying a large space is a wall full of medals and trophies.
"Look here." Shi Yan walked to the position of the two windows.
In the middle of the wall above her head hung a sheep's head, which was made from a real live sheep after special treatment.
The white sheep's head and the pair of gems that were later embedded as eyes were both extremely lifelike and emitted a bright light.
Two horns did grow in the place where sheep horns should have grown, but they were grafted on later, and they were not sheep horns, but a pair of deer antlers that grew well.
Under the sheep's head, there is an inclined stone slab, and grooves of corresponding sizes are set on the wall and floor for fixation.
On the surface of the stone slab is a carving of a lush tree.
Although the top is only outlined with lines, it can be seen that it is the incarnation of a sheep head with deer horns.
Ding Can looked at the details on the tree and said, "This should be the family tree of the castle owner's family."
Western aristocrats do have a tradition of respecting family totems.
They attach great importance to family glory. While using totems to maintain family cohesion, they also use the tree of life, which represents lush branches and leaves and upward growth, as the basis of the family tree, hoping that the family can develop prosperously.
In each of the places on the tree where the fruit grows, a person's name and date of birth are carved into the oval depression.
Since it is called the Tree of Life, the roots are the foundation, and the person who first creates and builds the foundation will be closest to the roots.
With this as the basis, the huge family began to multiply and thrive. And after him, as the family members increased and generations passed, more were added.
The founder of this family was named An Lengasse.
Ding Can looked carefully and found that the entire Anlengus family did not seem to be as prosperous as she had imagined. Almost every generation only gave birth to one child. Occasionally there were some special ones, but there were only two children.
This is not a good sign for the big family.
She looked toward the name near the treetops: Will Anlengos.
Born in 1207 in the new calendar, then now...
The upright clock is very advanced. The small characters on the dial show the current date, October 18, 1201 in the Gregorian calendar.
Will is a six-year-old boy, so his father, Valen Anlengus, should be the owner of the castle now.
I just don’t know where this family has gone since they are not in the castle now, and why they closed the door after they left.
There are also servants working in the castle, and there are many things that they need to spend time exploring.
Ding Can no longer fully believed what was written in the rules. The rules only mentioned that the owner was away. Perhaps this Will, or Valen's wife Rebecca, was somewhere in this castle.
Shi Yan looked out the window. There were no modern buildings, only mountains and forests in the distance. This place looked more like an ancient castle built in the mountains, far away from the world.
Because she had seen the curtains eating people just now, she didn't dare to get too close to the window.
"I originally thought that I could just hide from people here, but now it seems that we can't even take the items in the room lightly. I don't know what happened to Xiao Gao and the others."
Later, there was no more noise coming from outside, so no one must have noticed.
Ding Can smelled a faint burnt smell coming into his nose. The spark from the curtain in the corridor had finally caught fire. It was estimated that the entire curtain was now on fire.
She coughed twice under her breath and heard hurried footsteps at the door and someone whispering "Fire!"
This place is closest to the fire source and has a water supply. Who knows, they might come in soon.
In order to avoid being discovered, the two took off their leather shoes and hid in the closet.
The cabinet is a bit short, but it is still more than enough for two girls to fit in.
The flashlight was still left here. Ding Can turned it on again, wanting Shi Yan to see how it was different from the one she had seen.
"It's exactly the same, the paper material and the handwriting. Wait, the place where I signed my name is a few squares."
Shi Yan pointed to the little squirrel in the lower right corner of the kraft paper.
"Cube?"
"Hmm...it should be shaped like a cube, like a few boxes placed irregularly together."
Ding Can's intuition told him that this must be an important clue, but the information he had so far was too little, so he needed to continue exploring.
At this time, the door was pushed open, and then she heard the sound of the faucet turning on. She looked out through the gap in the cabinet door and saw that someone was carrying a basin of water to put out the fire.
"Let's go check out other rooms." I haven't tried the shuttle function on this cabinet yet.
"Okay, let me press it." Shi Yan touched the raised button and pressed it without hesitation.
The entire cabinet suddenly went dark, and after a few seconds, the two of them stayed where they were cautiously, their bodies not noticing any movement.
"Why doesn't it work? Where's the flashlight?" Ding Can reached over to where the flashlight was originally placed, but found nothing.
The light suddenly dimmed and they couldn't see the surrounding scene because their vision had not yet recovered.
Shi Yan raised her hand and touched it, realizing that the distance between herself and the counter was obviously larger than before.
"It seems we've moved places."
She raised her arms, and even the space above them was very empty. It was not a height that required her to bend down to sit in the cabinet.
Ding Can was also pulled up, and as they stood up in the cabinet, she hit her head with something, and the sound of wooden materials colliding was heard.
Ding Can touched it and said, "It's a hanger. Are we in the closet?"
Going forward, I felt some thick fabric, which seemed to be a dress, which confirmed my guess.
I didn't expect that the space conversion would happen so inadvertently. This is good, and there is no need to worry about any additional risks.
Shi Yan put her ear to the cabinet door and listened for a while. After making sure that there was no sound outside, she slowly pushed the door open.
The inside of the cabinet door has been waxed, and it feels like it is regularly maintained. Even when pushing it open, there is no squeaking sound that is often caused by aging.
There seems to be a spring inside, and it is unusually smooth despite having a slight resistance.
They also used this opportunity to see the scene outside clearly. This room was much larger than the previous one.
In particular, it is very tall, and is a large space built by connecting two floors.
Ding Can looked up and the first thing he noticed was a huge mural covering the entire ceiling.
At first she thought it was a sculpture that created the three-dimensional effect, but after looking at it carefully, she realized that it was actually just a picture with a strong perspective and light and shadow effect.
The painter must be very good at the artistic technique of three-dimensional perspective. The painting shows clouds and dawn, naked angels with pure white wings, the earthly emperor standing on the throne with a scepter in hand, humans praying with their hands folded in compassion, low-level workers gathered together, and evil monsters with strange shapes.
Various different classes are all intertwined and mixed in the same scene without any sense of incongruity. Even the carved beams and painted pillars on the side are portrayed in great detail.
While possessing the beauty of classical art, it is also mysterious in every detail.
When Ding Can saw the murals, he subconsciously thought that this should be a place for prayer. After really paying attention to the interior decoration, he realized that it was not what he thought.
Two crystal ceiling lamps are hung around the mural, on the left and right sides of the room.
The length of the light show alone is three or four meters, hanging down like a wind chime, with long strips of crystal strung across the metal wires. Under the illumination of the lights inside, it emits a dazzling glow.
There is a light bulb placed at regular intervals inside the lampshade.
From a distance, they look like several shining light balls.
The wooden floor is laid in a V-shape throughout the entire room. It has strong shock-absorbing properties and can effectively reduce the impact force generated when people run and jump on it, thus protecting the joints.
In the corner of the room, on a wooden table, stood a large old-fashioned gramophone.
There are several short sofas and tea tables for people to rest next to it. In other places, there are also many luminous objects scattered around to add to the atmosphere.
This is actually a private dance hall.
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