One Piece: Heart Set Sail

Entering the garden, it was still very quiet, usually as quiet as life.Luo carried the ghost and cried, and observed the surroundings vigilantly. The castle had four floors in total, and there was a window at a certain distance on each floor. But the strange thing was that all the windows were closed, and each room was closed. Curtains, can't see inside.

Luo walked straight towards the gate of the castle in the middle. When he was still about ten meters away, something suddenly fell from a high altitude and fell heavily to the ground.

"Ah! Oh my god!"

"I was scared to death. What kind of thing fell down?!" Xia Qi also gave a false alarm.

Luo glanced over and frowned slightly: "It's a dead man."

"Hey!! Dead person?!"

When he got closer, he saw a young girl in white clothes, her body was pale, and she was dead before she fell.

"She, this is..."

Luo took one look and knew: "Her blood has been drained."

"too horrible!"

"I don't know where Xiaoxue and the others are now. This castle is so big. It seems impossible for us to find it bit by bit." Xia Qi looked around. The area of ​​the castle is definitely not small. From the front What you can see is only part of it, there is another part behind, and even part in the mountains.

Kaiden was also worried: "Shaqi is right, Captain, what should we do?"

"Let's go in first." Luo walked towards the door again, and planned to open the door directly when he got there.

But the door seemed to be locked from the inside, so Luo had no way to open it. At this time, Xavier, who was at the end of the team, screamed: "Captain, be careful! That girl!"

When Luo turned his head, he saw the girl who had just fallen down the stairs getting up in a weird posture and staring at everyone with a strange expression. This feeling made Luo feel very bad.

"Ship, Captain, are you sure she is really dead? But why did she pretend to be dead..." Kaiden stared blankly at this unexplainable scene.

Everyone stood there, no one moved, just watching what the living corpse would do next.After a few minutes, it actually grinned, not to mention how discreet that smile was. Then, it raised its hand and rushed towards Luo.

"Ha." Luo laughed at the other party for not overestimating his own capabilities. Gui Cry took out his sheath and with a horizontal swing, the corpse was chopped into two halves.Looking at the motionless body lying on the ground, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Captain, what is this?"

"Maybe the people here want to warn us." Luo said expressionlessly, "We must find this guy."

Unable to get in through the front door, Luo broke the window next to him: "Enter from here."

Everyone nodded and entered the castle one by one.This room is probably a guest room, with a large retro bed and a few simple furniture.Luo didn't linger too long. He came to the door of the room, leaned against the door and listened to see if there was any movement outside. After making sure, he opened the door.Although it is broad daylight, the castle looks very eerie. There is a corridor outside the room, and there are many rooms next door and opposite. Several doors are opened, and they are all similar guest rooms.

"Damn it, there are so many rooms, how can we find them?" Bebo was now very worried about Xue's safety. It would be great if he could find them right away.

Luo looked to the left. It was about 30 meters to the end. There were rooms like this on both sides, and the right should be the castle hall, so Luo led everyone to walk to the right.The hall was carpeted, and facing the door was the stairs leading upstairs. Luo said nothing and prepared to go upstairs.

"Captain, wait!" Xavier called Luo.

"what happened?"

"There seems to be a door behind the stairs?"

Luo turned back and turned to the back of the stairs. Sure enough, there was a small door. He tried to push it. Well, although it was locked, the lock was old and did not work, so Luo opened it easily.

"Captain, where is the place behind?" Xia Qipeijin and the others also came over.

After Luo opened the door, he found that there should be a courtyard behind it. The sky was very small when viewed from here. It was surrounded by castles with several floors. The entire courtyard was only a little larger than the hall just now.

"Bebo, you are an animal and your senses should be very keen. Have you felt anything?" Xia Qi patted Bebo.

Bebo felt the surroundings carefully: "Captain, I didn't feel anyone nearby, but I still felt uneasy. I don't know if it's because of the environment."

There is a cobblestone path in this courtyard that extends to the building at the back. People are looking for people while walking, but the effect is not obvious.Moreover, it has been a while since everyone came in, and what happened at the gate of the castle just now has not happened again. Maybe it is the calm before the storm now.

"This is the residence of a noble after all. Why are there no servants? Do you grow all the flowers in the garden yourself? The hall was obviously very clean just now, and there was not a trace of dust on the handrails of the stairs." Xavier Speculating: "What is hidden in this place? It's so mysterious."

"In short, there must be something weird about this Earl of Devoncil." Pekin said with certainty.

On Xue's side, the three of them discovered that this room had a window, and finally found a place that could lead to the outside world.Even if it's not the exit, you can still see the environment outside.It took a long time to open the locked window. The bright light from the window shone in, making the three people who had been in darkness for a long time feel their eyes sting.After they got used to it, they realized that they were at a very high place.

"Ikaku, are there mountains outside? We are indeed on the island." Xue looked at the mountains outside: "It's already so bright, it's already morning after all."

"Well, Captain, they must have discovered that we are missing. Don't worry, they will definitely look for us."

"I'm confused." Xue looked under the window: "It's so high. Are we on a cylindrical building? I guess it's like a tower. Where is this place?"

"You mean like a tower?" Camilla became serious: "Let me see the environment outside!"

"Oh, okay." Xue gave up her seat, and Camilla lay by the window, silent for a while: "We are indeed still on the island, because we can see the highest mountain from our village."

"Then do you know where this is?"

Camilla frowned: "When I was a child, I heard my mother tell me something about this island. More than ten years ago, there was an old castle in the mountains, which was the residence of the noble Earl Devonsil. Earl Er never came back after he went to sea. The strange thing is that not long after that, several young maids in the castle died every now and then, causing the servants in the castle to disperse. "

"You mean, we are in that castle now?" Xue couldn't believe it.

"Because I really can't think of any other place like this. Although the rumors have not been confirmed, my intuition tells me that this is the castle of Earl Devonsil." Camilla said: " If so, I feel terrible, it’s so weird here, and I’m afraid I won’t be able to get out alive, because then no one will take care of my sister, who is my only relative in this world.”

Xue comforted her: "Don't worry, we will always find a way to leave this castle. We must not die here."

"Xiaoxue, look! There is a passage across the room." Ikaku pointed to the other side of the room: "You can vaguely see the sun!"

"Go and see!"

After coming out of here, I discovered that this was a stone bridge in the air, leading to an isolated building on the other side, like a bell tower.

"It is indeed an ancient castle. What Camilla said is absolutely right, but haven't you local residents ever been to such a big castle?" Xue looked at Camilla.

The latter shook his head: "There are rules in the village that we cannot enter the mountains, so we have never been to the depths of the island since we were young."

"That's it." Xue looked at the room she had just walked out of, and then looked down at the stone bridge. She quickly conceived a map in her mind, picked up a stone and drew it on the ground: "We are going directly from below. The high tower we came up from, that is to say, the passage below that connects the high tower horizontally is the one we just walked through. There is a protrusion in the middle, which should be our original location."

While listening, Ikaku and Camilla looked down, and sure enough: "Look, there is also a tower at the other end of the horizontal connection of the passage!"

"Really, it's symmetrical."

Xue began to think again: "Where do you think the building opposite to the bell tower that is connected vertically with this stone bridge is? We should only go that way now."

"Let's go, we'll find out when we go."

After walking forward for a while, I suddenly stopped, hesitating a little.

"What's wrong, Xiaoxue?" Xia Lu noticed something was wrong with her.

"Ikaku, you... look in front of you, there's someone standing there." Although it was broad daylight, the person opposite looked weird, and a sense of fear surged into her heart, and she stopped at this moment.

"It seems there is someone."

The three of them slowly approached, but the other party still didn't move, still standing in the same place.

"Forget it, let's just go there. It doesn't matter whether he is a human or a ghost. If he wants to harm us, just kill him!" Ikaku felt that it would be better to rush over and strike first if he took his time.

Snow took a deep breath: "Okay, I'm ready! Just do what Ikaku said!"

The three men rushed over aggressively and soon reached the man's side.

"You...who are you? If you don't tell the truth, we won't be polite!" Xue said, staring at the person in front of her.

"Hehehe, the three girls are so brave."

"Stop talking nonsense, who are you?!" Ikaku asked him: "What the hell are you doing mysteriously?!"

The man raised his head, revealing a wrinkled face. It turned out to be an old woman.

Xue patted her little beating heart: "Hey, this grandma will scare people to death if she scares you."

The old man smiled: "You are lucky if you meet me."

"What do you mean?" Ikaku asked: "Grandma, can you please explain it clearly?!"

"Come with me and we'll talk as we go."

Although they didn't know what kind of medicine the old lady was selling in her gourd, the three of them had no other choice and followed her.

The situation on Xiaochan's side was beyond description. After they were pulled up by the chains, what they saw made them gasp.The two girls who were dragged away at the beginning were now hung upside down in the center of the room. There were deep wounds on their necks, as if their throats had been slit with a sharp weapon. Blood dripped down, In a big wooden barrel.

"They are dead! What should I do?! Will we die too?!"

"It's so scary! Help! Who can save us..."

The hairs all over Xiaochan's body stood up: "How could this happen..."

The girl next to her held Xiaochan's arm tightly: "Sister Xiaochan, can't we get out? Will we die here like the two of them?"

"I...I don't know..." Xiaochan's body was also trembling slightly. What she saw today was really difficult for her to digest.

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