Soul echo

Chapter 170 Closed Loop

The screams disturbed the entire castle without any accidents, and Zhong Ye could hear noises coming from all directions of the castle.

In this way, his purpose will be achieved.

Zhong Ye didn't draw out his weapon, and led Lilian, who didn't know what happened, to the stairs.

The screaming servant slowly lowered his voice, staring blankly at the tall figure passing by him without even looking at him.

——【What does Zhong Ye want to do?Pressing the current lord directly? 】

——[But didn't he say that part of the evidence is still missing? 】

——【Is it impossible to act without evidence?What's more, isn't Zhong Ye's current actions just for new evidence? 】

It was also no surprise that the barrage broke out again.

Lilian glanced at the barrage, and then turned her gaze to Zhong Ye's back.

She doesn't know what Zhong Ye wants to do now, but she can feel that he is very relaxed. Does this mean that he has guessed the whole picture of these things?
At this moment, Zhong Ye suddenly said: "Lilian, get ready to fight, I may need your help later."

Lilian's spirit was lifted, and she immediately put all her guesses and thoughts behind her.

"Yes!"

She immediately took out the hand crossbow from her backpack, untied the rope buckle of her waist bag, and then lightly pressed her right hand on the hilt of her sword, looking out from Zhong Ye's side to observe the movement around her.

Speaking of which, it seemed that this was the first time she had truly fought side by side with Zhong Ye!
Her lips pursed slightly, and Lilian's eyes lit up with fighting spirit.

The lord's army often lived in the castle. Of course, with the development of the times, the design of the castle changed, and professional soldiers gradually became independent and had a barracks outside the city.

However, Fort Chillon has been passed down for hundreds of years. The design of this castle has not changed with the progress of the times. Soldiers still live in the castle. They can only leave the castle to reunite with their families when they are on vacation. Otherwise, their daily task is to train , guarding and maintaining weapons.

Now that Zhong Ye and the others broke into the castle directly, they would definitely be stopped by soldiers.

——It's just that no one knows, this is exactly what Zhong Ye wants!
A series of footsteps came from ahead, Zhong Ye didn't remind Lilian, but continued to walk forward.

They were about to go up the stairs, but a few strong men ran out from the corner of the corridor in front of them. Lilian grasped the hand crossbow tightly in an instant, and just as she lifted it up, Zhong Ye held it down with her backhand.

Doubtfully raised his head to look at Zhong Ye's profile, only to see him walking towards several strong men.

At this time, Lilian also noticed that those men were not holding weapons at all, and what they were holding in their hands were just some wooden sticks, brooms and the like.

Seeing the enemy approaching, the men looked at each other with some hesitation, confirmed the other's thoughts, gritted their teeth, turned to face Zhong Ye, roared, and rushed forward.

The pace is loose, the head is timid, there is no blood and courage to speak of, and the attack can only be launched with a lot of energy...

Zhong Ye sighed softly, and his right leg, which was supposed to continue to move forward, suddenly changed from slow to fast, and the air was pumped with a bang, and hit the two people running in front with lightning speed. Immediately stagnated, and then suddenly flew backwards, directly knocking over the person behind him.

When they were knocked down, Zhong Ye stopped paying attention to them, and instead took Lilian up the stairs to the upper floor.

More and more people started to move, and numerous and chaotic footsteps trampled on the floor, sending out waves of echoes. These sounds were captured by Zhong Ye, allowing him to analyze the location of the owner of the footsteps and the direction they were going one by one. .

"—There are enemies!"

Suddenly there was a loud roar from behind, which startled Lilian slightly, and hurriedly turned her head to look behind her, only to remember that those people had already been defeated by Zhong Ye.

Zhong Ye was able to control the strength of his shots, and those people thought it would be impossible for them to chase after him.

When they turned back, they had already reached the second floor.

Seeing a dagger stabbing swiftly from the side, Lilian's eyes widened, and saw Zhong Ye's left hand go from stillness to movement in an instant, hitting the wrist holding the dagger.

The dagger flew into the air, and Zhong Ye's left hand that was clenched tightly was released immediately, grabbed the wrist, and pulled the owner of the wrist over.

Before the soldier who attacked Zhong Ye felt the pain in his wrist, his body suddenly fell forward, staring blankly at the squinting eyeball, and immediately suffered a heavy blow to his abdomen.

"puff!"

The soldier's eyes protruded, and the saliva spewed out along with the air in his lungs. He lost all strength and fell to the ground.

Flying daggers, grabbing, knee bumping, all happened in just a second. The horror emotion just rose from Lilian's heart, and before it had time to spread, it was suppressed.

He raised his hand to catch the falling dagger, and threw it back. The dagger swept across the corridor and inserted into the muzzle of the musket standing at the other end of the corridor. Just as the soldier holding the musket pulled the trigger, the gun barrel in his hand exploded .

"what!"

The soldier let out a scream and crouched down clutching his injured arm.

However, Zhong Ye's flying sword only injured one soldier. Besides him, there were three other soldiers standing at the end of the corridor with their guns ready to shoot.

Seeing them, Zhong Ye couldn't help shaking his head.

With chaotic positioning and insufficient preparation, it was impossible to stop him.

boom! boom! boom!
The three muskets fired one after another, and the soldiers raised their sights from the sights and looked into the distance profusely, but saw a straight knife lying in front of the man, who was not injured at all.

"Lilian, help me watch my back."

After saying these words, Zhong Ye stepped forward.

Stepping on the floor, he slowly increased his speed and ran towards the three soldiers.

The girl took the opportunity to jump out of the stairs, and raised her crossbow to aim at the empty corridor behind Zhong Ye.

Seeing the strong man running towards them, the three soldiers felt a little weak in their hands and feet, and their trembling arms kept trying to reload the ammunition, but because of nervousness, the reloading speed was even slower.

Before he had time to load the bullets into the barrel, Zhong Ye came up to them, knocked them down one by one, then looked at the soldier squatting on the ground with his hands injured, and said, "Tell me, where is your master?" place."

"No, I don't know..." The fearful soldier hurriedly shook his head, his voice trembling, "I don't know, I really don't know!"

"I don't know..." Zhong Ye chuckled, turned and left.

Seeing him leave, the soldier sat down on the ground, his eyes dropped, looked at the ground, and gasped for breath.

"Let's go upstairs."

After walking behind Lilian, he patted her on the shoulder, and Zhong Ye walked towards the stairs.

Disappointed, the girl looked away from the empty corridor, followed the teacher's footsteps, and climbed the stairs.

Because the building is on the island of the lake, the area of ​​Chillon Castle is not large, and it was built hundreds of years ago. At that time, the construction technology was not as developed as it is today, so the castle was only built with three floors.

Zhong Ye heard that many people gathered outside a room on the third floor, so he knew that was where the lord was.

What he had just said was for the others to hear, to make them think he was coming for the lord.

"Lilian, what do you think of the fact that the old lord has an 'illegitimate child'?"

When walking up to the third floor, Zhong Ye suddenly spoke, which stunned the vigilant Lilian.

Why bring this up at a time like this?
After hesitating for a while, Lilian asked back: "Teacher, do you want to ask me, do you think this 'illegitimate child' really exists?"

Zhong Ye shook his head and smiled, "No, I mean, every time the old lord goes to see his 'illegitimate son', he has to bring a large group of guards with him."

"Isn't this why he went to meet his illegitimate son to cover up by hunting?" Lilian's eyes showed confusion.

"You think about it in another direction?"

The staircase on the third floor was right in front of him, Zhong Ye drew out the straight knife while speaking.

"Changing direction..." Lilian murmured suspiciously, and saw a barrage flying past her eyes.

——[Holding? 】

——Not 'guard', but 'hostage'?
(End of this chapter)