Chapter 261 Shocking Change!
Gervis quickly returned to the banquet hall. When he arrived at the hall, Gervis looked around but did not see Alice. This made Gervis frown and he had a bad feeling in his heart.
Gervis quickly returned to the door of the hall and asked the butler on duty: "Have you seen Alice? Where did she go?"
Seeing that Gervis' tone was somewhat anxious, the servant did not dare to neglect him and quickly replied respectfully: "Lord Gervis, the Earl walked out of the banquet hall just before you left! It seems that Housekeeper Lina had something to do with the Earl. As for where he went, I don't know!"
"oh!"
The butler's answer made Gervis relax a little. Since Alice was leaving with Lina, there shouldn't be any problem. If Alice was leaving with someone else, Gervis would be more worried.
However, although he was relaxed, Gervis still took the conversation he had just heard very seriously. He had to inform Alice as soon as possible, so Gervis came to the corridor again and ran towards the third floor.
Lina must have something important to discuss with Alice. Gervis guessed that they should have gone to the study on the third floor. Usually Alice handled the government affairs of Jones Territory on the third floor.
As soon as he reached the third floor, Gervis ran into Lina. Lina was not alone, but was followed by two guards and four servants.
"Lina, what's wrong? Where's Alice?"
Seeing the two guards behind Lina, Gervis frowned slightly. You know, under normal circumstances, guards are not allowed to enter the inner castle, let alone the third floor, which is where Alice's bedroom and study are located.
"Lord Gervis, why are you here?"
Seeing Gervis's eager pace, Lina asked first before answering Gervis.
"Lord Gervis, Commander-in-Chief Roll just reported that a servant was knocked unconscious in the corner of the vestibule, so I brought people up to check. Lady Alice is already checking in the vestibule with Commander-in-Chief Roll."
"Someone was knocked unconscious?"
Gervis was startled and immediately thought of what had just happened to him. He was sure that someone must want to cause trouble in Rose Castle tonight.
"Lina! I have something to do with Alice, you go ahead and do your thing!"
Gervis did not mention to Lina what he heard in the corridor. Now Gervis felt that there was a huge conspiracy shrouding Rose Castle. Except for Alice, Gervis would not trust anyone in Rose Castle for the time being.
"Yes, Lord Gervis!"
Although Lina felt that Gervis was a little strange tonight, she didn't think much about it. She responded and then watched Gervis run downstairs.
Instead of going directly to the vestibule to find Alice, Gervis returned to his guest room, picked up his weapon, and then put on chain mail under his dress.
As for the leather armor, Gervis didn't wear it because there were too many guests in the castle tonight, and he didn't know whether the conspiracy he guessed was accurate or not, so he didn't want to react too radically to avoid causing panic.
After leaving the guest room, Gervis quickly went to the first floor and asked a few questions to the guard on duty in the lobby. After learning that Alice and Rawl went in the direction of the stables on the side of the castle, Gervis hurried over.
As the Earl's castle, Rose Castle was very large. Gervis turned left and right along the road and finally arrived near the stable, but when he arrived here, the lights were a little dim.
Because there are horses parked here, the light source needs to be reduced at night so that the horses can rest better.
Gervis looked around as he walked. There were fewer guards here. There were only a few guards on duty at the door of the stable and the door of the courtyard where Gervis kept the unicorn. There were almost no people in other places.
“No wonder someone was knocked unconscious here.”
Looking at the pitch-black surroundings, Gervis felt a little chilly. Fortunately, there was a torch on the wall every few dozen meters for lighting, so that Gervis did not have to advance in the dark.
After walking for a few dozen meters, Gervis finally found a few torches flickering behind a group of small wooden houses in front of him. Under the light of the torches, he could see three or five guards in armor.
Gervis immediately quickened his pace and walked towards that place. Just when Gervis was more than 20 meters away from the guards and could see the scene ahead by just turning around a small wooden house, he suddenly stopped.
"What? It's not raining tonight?"
At this moment, Gervis felt as if he had stepped into a small puddle, but he was not very sure because the feeling under his feet was a bit sticky.
If it were water, I wouldn't feel this way.
After walking in the dark for a few minutes, Gervis was able to see things a little more clearly with the moonlight.
Gervis lowered his head curiously and saw that there was indeed liquid on the ground because he could see the reflection of the moon on it.
However, the reflection was very weak, and Gervis' heart skipped a beat. It was obvious that the liquid was not water, but it was in such a large pool, which was very strange.
"Blood?"
Gervis was a little surprised, and didn't care whether it was dirty or not. He squatted down carefully, stretched out his fingers, dipped some liquid and rubbed it on his hands.
"It's really blood!"
After several battles of varying sizes, Gervis was no longer a novice in this area. Just by rubbing the liquid on his fingers, he was able to identify that the slightly sticky liquid was blood.
Gervis looked in the direction where the blood was flowing. There was a flower bed with a tree planted in the middle, and flowers and plants more than 50 centimeters high were around the tree.
Gervis took a few steps carefully and pulled away the flowers and plants, only to see that there were seven or eight dead bodies in the flower bed of only four or five square meters, with blood flowing from their bodies.
These seven or eight people are completely dead, and all of them are wearing the armor of the Order of the Rose!
"Damn it! It looks like there really is a big conspiracy going on tonight!"
Gervis's eyebrows twitched wildly! Seeing the armor on the seven or eight dead bodies, Gervis knew that something big was going to happen in Rose Castle tonight.
These are members of the Order of the Rose. Although we don't know whether they are title knights or trainee knights, being able to become a member of the Order of the Rose, even if they are trainee knights, means they are the elite among the elite in Jones's territory.
"Not only is there a big conspiracy, but there must be a traitor!"
Thinking of this, Gervis didn't dare to rush forward as openly as he had just done.
Instead, he carefully retreated to the corner of the wooden house, then Gervis stuck half of his head out to look in the direction of the torch.
There was a pool in front of them, which was used to provide drinking water for the horses in the stable. There were a lot of grass around the pool, and Alice and Roll were next to the pool. In addition to the two of them, there were more than a dozen soldiers of the Order of the Rose Knights surrounding the pool. These soldiers and Roll were fully armed with complete armor and swords.
When he saw the situation over there clearly, even Gervis became a little frightened.
Alice was held hostage!
Thanks to "Lao Hei Ya" for the reward!!!
(End of this chapter)
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