Chapter 210 Footsteps Behind
"They're all fine."
Hearing this, the housekeeper breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh... I'm really sorry to bother you all. I really hope the monsters will disappear soon."
The butler sighed tiredly.
Charles smiled slightly: "It will be solved."
What happened last night and early this morning made everyone nervous.
Lin Jiu has always been concerned about where the basement is. He is sure that there is an entrance to the basement in the utility room.
It is also very likely that all the magic that is supposed to be in the castle is in the basement.
If nothing unexpected happens, the basement is very large and there is no grass or tree around the castle because of the heavy pollution in the underground space.
But where is the entrance...?
As Lin Jiu was thinking, he couldn't help but walk towards the storage room.
Ivan/Charles:?
The two looked at each other, puzzled.
Didn’t we just come from over there and go to the second floor?
Lin Jiu stopped after taking a few steps.
He turned around and looked at the two people standing not far away looking at him, and was confused for a moment.
"....Why don't you go to the second floor first?" Lin Jiu spoke after a long silence.
It seemed like he was making a suggestion, but Ivan and Charles knew that Lin Jiu just wanted to go and see it for himself.
"Okay, but you must be careful." Charles was actually a little hesitant, but still followed Lin Jiu's wishes.
Seeing that both of them were fine, Lin Jiu turned around and walked straight to the utility room.
Charles and Ivan went upstairs.
Arriving at the utility room, Lin Jiu rolled up his sleeves and began moving boxes.
However, Lin Jiu searched every corner of the utility room and every place where the basement entrance might appear, but he still found nothing.
So, Lin Jiu's target shifted from the ground to the wall.
But he had no intention of continuing the search.
Lin Jiu didn't want to insist on finding the entrance to the basement at this time.
So he left the utility room and successfully met up with Ivan and Charles on the second floor, who had deliberately slowed down their patrol speed.
......
at the same time.
The other side.
The person in charge of holding the lantern and walking in the middle is Eugene.
Hicks and Christie were quite quiet along the way.
Visibility was too low and no one knew what was around, so a tense atmosphere quickly spread.
The three of them walked quietly for about ten minutes, listening to each other's breathing and footsteps.
Soon, they encountered the same situation that Lin Jiu and the other two encountered yesterday.
But compared to yesterday, today's commotion is bigger.
The three of them knew about it beforehand, but when the rustling sound came, they still unconsciously tensed their bodies, stopped and looked around.
The faint light does not bring much sense of security at this moment.
The three of them subconsciously wanted to speed up and get down the mountain. They just looked at each other and set off again tacitly.
They didn't hear any rustling sounds on the road afterwards.
The surroundings were extremely quiet. Even though they couldn't see the scenery, the three people's minds automatically appeared with a lifeless forest.
"etc!"
Just then, Eugene suddenly stopped with a frown.
Christie and Hicks stopped, took one step further than Eugene, and turned their heads slightly to look at him in confusion.
There was a hint of nervousness on his face.
"What's wrong?" Hicks asked in a low voice.
He and Christie both gripped their daggers tightly.
Although Lin Jiu and his friends did not encounter anything on the first day, it does not mean that they will be able to reach the town at the foot of the mountain without any danger on the second day.
Moreover, this kind of environment is really prone to attacks.
After all, night is when demons and strange activities are most frequent and active.
Eugene didn't say anything. He just took a step forward with a serious expression, then slowly turned around and extended the lamp in his hand forward.
There was nothing on the mountain road behind me, at least nothing within the range of the light.
Eugene's actions made Christy and Hicks realize why he had just stopped.
"Is there someone behind us?" Christy frowned.
Although he is a little weaker than the other two in strength, the difference is not too big. Eugene can sense it, and he should also be able to sense it.
Hicks was also a little confused, and his confusion was similar to Christy's.
"Didn't you hear?"
Eugene explained that he had just heard footsteps and they were not far away from them.
It's about five or six meters.
Hearing this, both Christie and Hicks frowned.
They didn't feel anything.
But during this time they were always alert to their surroundings.
"Am I the only one who heard it?" Eugene frowned. Always cautious, he thought he might have been "chosen," so he turned and suggested they switch places.
So Christie stood in the middle and he was the one holding the lamp.
Eugene held a silver dagger in one hand and a pistol in the other.
Although they cannot actively "enchant" the weapons they bring from reality like Lin Jiu does, after so many games, the guns and weapons in the hands of veteran players are more or less contaminated.
It can be said that I have finally regained a sense of security in the real world in this strange world.
Eugene immediately pulled the safety pin, and along the way, his eyes kept looking around.
After an unknown amount of time, Christie suddenly stopped.
He said solemnly, "I heard it too."
But because Christie stopped, the footsteps disappeared.
To confirm, Christie took two more steps.
Sure enough, footsteps were heard behind me again.
The sound was not that obvious, but it was still easy to detect in front of Christie.
Christie turned to look at Eugene, but unexpectedly, the latter had a strange look on his face.
"I didn't hear that," said Eugene.
As soon as these words were spoken, the air fell into silence for two or three seconds.
An answer was right in front of them, without even requiring much confirmation.
Christie looked at the lamp in his hand with a complicated expression.
Obviously, only the person holding this lamp can hear the footsteps behind him.
At the moment, it seems that there is no substantial damage, just like the sounds that appeared on both sides of the trail before.
Hicks then said, "Maybe it's just an auditory hallucination, directed only at the lantern holder."
This statement was agreed by Christie and Eugene, but neither of them confirmed it.
Perhaps at this stage it is indeed as Hicks said.
"Lin Jiu and the others have never encountered this." Eugene frowned slightly: "Maybe they will attack us starting tomorrow or the day after tomorrow..."
The pitch-black environment around here is really a headache.
It seems a bit hard to guard against.
"Maybe. It's also possible that we will complete the mission before then."
Judging from the frequency of ghost activities in the castle from last night to this morning, what Christie said is very likely.
After all, they have Lin Jiu, a man with extremely high fighting power.
One could even imagine Lin Jiu performing physical exorcism online.
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