Gold is Justice

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A day can pass quickly or slowly.

When there is nothing on your mind, the happy time seems to be running wildly.But if you have any worries in your heart, it seems that every minute and every second you spend is a feeling of suffering.

Airl thought he could rest assured.

But it turns out that he overestimated his patience.

As the sun gradually sank to the west, the entire Pelican Town was stained by a layer of golden afterglow.

People in the square gradually left to go home, and every household began to prepare dinner, and the streets were filled with the smell of food and reunion.

But Cream hadn't come back yet.

Seeing that the sun was about to disappear, and Pelican Town was about to be occupied by darkness, Airl couldn't help feeling more and more nervous.

Could it be... I really shouldn't let Cream go to that castle alone to investigate?

Should I really let Brad, Buffy, and Ke Ke go with Cream?

Could it be because of his trust in Cream that this thief fell into a very dangerous situation?

Airl clutched his head, and began to recall his instructions to Cream, wanting to see if he had said anything that he shouldn't have said, or hadn't reminded him.

As the sun fell completely behind the Sleeping Mountains, Airl's heart couldn't help being clenched, and a deep regret began to spread in his heart.

The guild has few members, if something really happened to Cream due to his own misjudgment...

If... it really caused that to happen...!

Airl didn't dare to think about it, he even felt that just thinking about this situation would be very scary.This is really funny. Thinking about the fact that during the day, I was still secretly mocking the Lord Viscount who could do anything to stop thinking, so now I can do the same to stop thinking?

Arrow admitted that he was nervous.

This kind of nervousness made him not even make dinner, but just sat in the rest area and waited, his eyes always looking at the guild's gate.

"Huh, I'm back!"

In the twilight of the moonlight, Cream stepped into the guild with an unharmed face.

Also at that moment, Airl lay down on the table as if collapsed, gasped for breath twice, and then got up.

"Ah, President, I investigated something, why don't you read it..."

"No time! I'm going to make dinner!"

Arrow roared, and walked into the kitchen without stopping.This made Cream look very embarrassed, he hugged the blueprint in his arms, looked at Brad who was starting to set the dishes over there, and then looked in the direction of the kitchen: "What's wrong with the president? Did you take the wrong medicine again? "

Brad just smiled, but Buffy said, "President! Worry! One day, don't move! Understand?"

In just a few words, Cream was stunned for a moment, his nose was a little sour, and he laughed.

After dinner and packing up, everyone in the Song of the Mermaid Guild can finally gather around the table and carefully check the content of Cream's investigation today.

Cream opened a map, which briefly drew the distance between Pelican Town, Shining Forest, Sleeping Mountains, and Swan Castle. You can see that Swan Castle is the closest to Pelican Town, standing on a grassland with a slight slope. superior.

"After I went shopping around here, I got quite a lot of information."

Saying that, Cream pointed to the location of Schwann Castle and said——

"This is a stone-built castle. I won't talk about its age. The whole thing is made of stacked stones. It's very strong. I think it can withstand high-level fire magic attacks a few times." Explosion. But the age is too long, and many vines have grown in the castle, which seems to be all over the castle."

After finishing speaking, Cream opened another drawing, on which was a rough outline of Schwanstein Castle.

"The highest point of Swan Castle is a watchtower, which should have been used to supervise the mine. There are almost no windows in the entire Swan Castle. From the design point of view, the owner seems to dislike light. One can imagine the inside The view is definitely not good.”

"Then, when I walked around the castle, I found that the castle had been burned."

"The age of the fire should be very old, but it can still be seen from the few remaining windows. I don't know whether the fire started from the inside of Schwanstein Castle, or spread from the outside to the inside after burning."

Airl looked at Cream's simple drawing, thought for a while, and said, "What's the matter with this fire? You said just now that this is a castle almost entirely made of stone, but I see the sketch you drew , there are scorched marks on the stones in many places. The fire looks like it has engulfed the entire former stone castle in flames. What kind of fire can produce such an effect?"

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Cream tilted his head and thought for a while, then said, "Maybe... being attacked? First use a catapult to throw oil, and then use a flame catapult to hit the castle surface?"

Airl shook his head after all: "Swan Castle's geographical location is inherently determined that it can only be used to supervise the mines, and there is no possibility of war. Moreover, this is the border of the empire, and beyond that is the Everlasting Mountains where not a single blade of grass grows." , who will come here to attack?... Could this be arson inside?"

Ke Ke on the side was stunned for a moment: "Arson? Did someone burn this castle? Who?"

Airl shook his head: "I don't know, but the fire must have been very big back then. And the arsonist must have carefully planned the kind that would engulf the entire castle in flames."

Brad: "President, even if it is true, it was hundreds of years ago, right?"

Airl: "Well... that's right. Anyway, it's an arson case hundreds of years ago. It's not even an old case. Cream, go ahead."

Cream nodded, then pointed to several points of the castle and said, "Generally speaking, there are three ways to enter the castle, here, here and here. But for some reason, the two entrances and exits on this side are blocked by huge stones , and it was sealed for a long time, probably at the same time as the arson case? I still think this should be a war. Someone deliberately sealed the entrance and exit of the castle with stones and set it on fire, just to prevent the people inside from escaping. .”

Airl didn't answer, just continued listening while thinking.

"Then, it's about those two fighters."

Speaking of this, Cream's tone was a little more solemn, and just from this tone, Airl could tell that it didn't seem to be good news——

"I found a few footprints on the mud in front of the only entrance and exit. The weather in the past two days was very dry, there was no wind, and there was no rain, so the footprints were well preserved. But these footprints seem a bit deep , it seems that they stepped on it at night when there is more dew. Therefore, I guess they entered the castle at night."

"And then... I didn't see any footprints coming out of it. Of course, I also hope that the two soldiers came out during the day and left without leaving any footprints by stepping on the grassy ground. Hmm... ...that's all I can hope for."

It seems that it is really more ominous than ominous... From an emotional point of view, Airl really hopes that these two soldiers can leave safely.At least I don't have to be the last to see the two of them.From a rational point of view, the fact that they were able to leave safely meant that the entrustment was just a misunderstanding, and he had just sent Cream out for a day, and it was just a few extra steps, everything was safe.

However, judging from the current situation, this situation is really not very good.

"In addition, I also discovered something about the monsters that inhabit it."

Accompanied by Cream's last words, Airl finally raised his head and exhaled helplessly.

Saying that, Cream took out a drawing and opened it again.His drawing skills are worse than Airl's, but at least he expresses clearly.

It was a spider form, but it was a green bug monster.Airl had seen this kind of thing in the Natural History Book, because of its terrifying appearance and ferocious personality, Airl remembered it deeply.

"I tried to go into the castle to check it out, but it was less than ten meters away, and the sunlight outside couldn't reach the inside at all. It was like a dark night inside. But I soon noticed Something was running towards me, I quickly turned around and ran, and rushed out of the castle at the first time. When I turned my head to look, I found this green-skinned spider that was almost bigger than me was facing me At that time, I was planning to use the shadow ring to escape, but I didn’t expect this spider to retreat after touching the sunlight, it seems that it really doesn’t like light.”

"That's a carrion spider."

After Cream finished all his investigative information, Airl finally came to his own conclusion.

He looked at the blueprint, then at the topographical map of the castle, sighed regretfully, and said——

"I have seen this kind of monster in the Natural History Book, but the records of it are not very detailed. I can only say that it is a monster with a huge body, and the venom secreted in the body can kill the monster in a very short period of time. A monster that completely corrodes a cow into a puddle of thick water."

Airl pinched his chin, thought for a while and continued: "There are not many records about other aspects. It is not even written in the illustrated book that this kind of spider likes dark and narrow passages, let alone fears sunlight. But it is not necessarily true, maybe Is this another kind of spider monster? Well, it can only be deduced in this state now."

Cream exhaled, straightened up, and looked at Airl with a serious face: "President, are we really going to investigate this ancient castle? Do you think we have the ability to deal with this spider? No, Based on my experience, since there are spiders at the gate, there may be more spiders inside the castle. Do you think our guild is strong enough to challenge this task of five gold coins?"

Cream is not scaremongering.

Arrow glanced at Coco, Brad, and Buffy beside him.Finally, look at Cream.

Generally speaking, the strength of my own guild is quite weak. If those spiders are really rotten poisonous spiders in the literature, is my guild going in to get money?Or go to die?This is not certain.

He frowned and thought, trying to search the depths of his memory to see if there was any place in the illustrated book that introduced the weakness of this spider in detail...

Unfortunately, not really.

At this time, he felt a little helpless. He thought that the school library had a complete set of books, but now it seems that there are not only a few things missing.

"Then let me summarize first."

It's not good to keep stalemate like this, Airl coughed a little, and said——

"To explore this castle, we have now encountered a rotting poisonous spider entrenched in it. Insect-like monsters generally live in groups, so it is conceivable that there must be a large number of rotting poisonous spiders in this castle. Therefore, before us Here are four questions that arise."

"First, the poisonous poisonous spider's venom. As long as you are bitten by this kind of spider, if you don't inject a special antidote immediately, you may have to wait for death. And the special antidote... It's a pity, we don't have it now The venom sample of the rotting poisonous spider cannot be made. And our magicians have not been able to learn this knowledge."

As Airl said, he glanced at Napa lying on the other side. The cat was still lying comfortably on the cushion, with its belly exposed, purring.

"Secondly, there is the problem of lighting. Through Cream's early exploration, we at least know that these spiders hate light very much. But this does not mean that they have any fear of sunlight. It should be said that they prefer to stay in dark places. More correct. If we really want to explore this castle, we must prepare sufficient light sources, but if we have sufficient light sources and these spiders temporarily retreat and do not face us, then we will not be able to destroy them. Therefore, I am afraid we must Fight them in the dark."

"Third, the spider web. The silk of the rotting poisonous spider is very sticky. It is not clear about the internal structure of the castle. If we rush in rashly, we are likely to fall into the spider silk trap. Then we will Unable to move, this situation is simply waiting to die.”

"Then, it's the last item. I'm afraid our level of strength is not enough to kill poisonous spiders all the way. With one or two, we may still be able to find a way. But if we are facing a whole castle of poisonous spiders , if you really break in directly, then we will die."

Airl's analysis was straightforward, but the more he listened, the more gloomy the expressions on the faces of his own guild members became.

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you do not say?It is natural for anyone to have a timid look on his face when facing an opponent who cannot challenge him.The reason why the previous missions were able to be completed is really because the goddess of luck really favored the song of the mermaid, not because the strength of these guys has reached this level.

"Then... what should we do? We won't do this task?"

Ke Ke seemed a little helpless, her eyes were full of giving up.

Airl nodded, completely agreeing with Ke Ke's judgment: "Of course, if we really want to enter the castle and kill all the way up, clearing all the rotting poisonous spiders and the spider web traps inside, this requirement is really too high. Don't forget, we are adventurers, not dead soldiers. The situation where a small team enters from the bottom and defeats enemies that are several times larger than itself without any damage, and finally can successfully complete the task only stays in the According to the legend, the reality is that all of us adventurers must see our own state clearly, and we must not rush forward, understand?"

Coco nodded and sighed.

Brad also shrugged his shoulders now, and came forward to tidy up the drawings on the table.

But the moment he stretched out his hand, Cream suddenly patted these blueprints, turned his head away, and looked at his president with a sneering expression——

"President Airl, although I haven't known you for a long time. But... I'm sure that you are just someone who only knows how to squeeze your employees, and then you are full of money, and you can do all kinds of crooked ideas for money. The president of the profiteering merchant with a wicked idea. Want you to give up these five gold coins? Hehe, this is not like your style."

Arrow smiled.

He laughed because there was finally someone in his guild who had a little bit of brains, so that at least he wouldn't be so tired.But in other words, this kind of guild members who are too brainy and always have their own thoughts also need to be strictly managed by themselves.

"Hehe, that's right. In a face-to-face confrontation, we are certainly not the opponents of these rotting poisonous spiders. The four points I mentioned just now are all the difficulties we may encounter after entering the castle. Then..."

"We don't enter the castle, can't we?"

Airl's proposal stunned all the members, including Cream.

Brad rubbed the back of his head: "Don't enter the castle? How can we solve the problem of monsters in the castle if we don't enter the castle?"

With a ding, a gold coin flicked into the air with Airl's finger.

He stretched out his hand, firmly held the shining gold coin in the palm of his hand, and showed it to all his guild members——

"Use money."

"The adventurous strength of an adventurer is generally the strength of the guild's logistics support. As long as you can spend enough money, there is no task in this world that cannot be completed. Haha, of course, you must also pay attention to the cost. "

This was even more incomprehensible to everyone. Buffy flew over, stared at the glittering gold coin for a long time, and said with a confused face, "Gold coin? What? Smash it?"