Gold is Justice

Ai Luo put away the gold coins and said to everyone: "Let's take a rest today. Starting tomorrow, we will go out to find some townspeople and hire them to go to the Shining Forest to chop wood with us. Cut more, and after the winter, the spring will also Can make more small tree buds grow. After that..."

"Let's go burn Swan Castle again."

——1301年10月9日，伙食费：-1银2铜6铁，杂物委托：1银5铜，洗钱：2金，训练室装潢：-3金，天鹅堡委托：5金，结余：90金2银7铜6铁（赃款支出：-4金，赃款结余：40金7银7铜）——

Chapter 69 Burning the Swan

If Airl was to define it, he would prefer to regard the Adventurer's Guild as a guild for entrusting tasks to solve troubles, rather than a place dedicated to sending adventurers out for adventure.

After all, there always seems to be an infinite number of ways to solve a problem.Sometimes you can use an adventurer to force a breakthrough, but at other times, you can use some means to solve these seemingly difficult problems at first glance.

The next day, Song of the Mermaid hired people in Pelican Town.Because the autumn harvest is over and the market is about to close, it is not difficult to find some strong townspeople who have nothing to do.

Song of the Mermaid took these townspeople to the Shining Forest. In just two days, truckloads of timber were transported from the Shining Forest to Swan Castle, and piled up around the entire Swan Castle.It is also fortunate that Song of the Mermaid is popular in the town on weekdays, and Ai Luo only spent 8 silver coins to complete these tasks.Of course, you still have to invite someone to eat.

In the early morning of the third day, Airl brought the people of Mermaid Song to the outside of Swan Castle again, raised his head, and looked at the fortress standing on the plain.

He felt the direction of the wind and confirmed that it was a breeze, suitable for ignition.Then he looked at the grass around the castle and confirmed that the lawn near the firewood area had been dug up, and there was no place for flames to fly out...

"Everyone, get ready. Although we don't need to enter the castle, we still need to be ready for battle." Following Airl's order, Brad, who was fully armed, had already squeezed the hammer and shield in his hand, concentrating on Stare at the castle in front of you.It seems that as long as anything dares to rush out of it, he will become the first barrier for that thing.Coco was also waving the steel wand now, and the undead soldiers and skeleton dogs immediately stood by her side.Even Cream now pulled out two sharp-toothed daggers, glanced at the shadow ring on his ring finger, silently vigilant.

Seeing that everyone was ready, Airl nodded, lit the torch, and stuffed the torch into the firewood pile.

At first, the fire didn't burn that fast.

After all, Airl didn't buy fuel, so he could only watch the flames devour the wood that had grown for an unknown number of years.

However, after about two or three minutes, the flames began to rise, the smoke billowed, and the huge heat began to make people's faces ache.

Airl saw that the situation was almost ready, and asked Brad to push another cart full of wood, ignited the wood on it, and pushed it heavily into the only entrance and exit of the castle.

The light of the flames soared into the sky, and Arrow even had to take a few steps back.

The more and more vigorous flames began to devour the castle, and soon, the vines on the castle also became the fuse of these flames, guiding these destructive forces to any corner of the building.

The inflammable materials accumulated in the castle for a long time were activated at this moment. Accompanied by those flames that soared into the sky, the Gangshi Fort that thought time would stand still forever finally ushered in its own brilliance once again!

"What are you doing?!"

While Airl was admiring the flames, a voice came from behind involuntarily.

Turning around, it was the Viscount Rich.

Seeing the viscount looking at the burning castle in horror, Airl could tell that his heart must be bleeding.

"I asked what the hell are you doing!!!"

Seeing that the flames engulfed his castle, Viscount Rich was so excited that he immediately wanted to grab the collar of Arrow's chest.Airl quickly dodged to the side and hid behind Brad, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency, we are helping you clean up the castle. Don't you think that after a long time, only a flame can purify the castle?" All the filth in here?"

Viscount Rich was panicked now, he opened his mouth wide and looked at the castle he bought with a lot of gold coins, and saw that it was completely immersed in flames.In anger and panic, the viscount pointed at Airl viciously: "What purification?! I want you to clean up my castle! I don't want you to burn it down!!! That's my castle Ah! It’s the castle I bought for three hundred gold coins!!! How could you just burn it down like this? How could you do this! Quickly, quickly put out the fire! Quickly put out the fire! I order you to hurry up and put out the fire! !"

The viscount frantically ordered, but the two bodyguards behind him watched the fire, how could they step forward to put out the fire?

But just when His Excellency the Viscount was furious and wanted to rush over to catch Airl again...

"squeak--!"

A shrill scream suddenly came from the castle.Immediately afterwards, a rotting poisonous spider that was about as tall as Brad jumped out of the gate in panic, with its head glowing green and flames burning on its back.

"alert!"

Seeing that the rotting poisonous spider finally escaped, Arrow ignored the viscount and immediately issued an order.The members of the guild immediately formed a battle formation to guard against the poisonous spider in front of them.

However, it was obvious that the flames had consumed a lot of power of the rotting poisonous spider. It didn't want to rush towards Airl and the others at all, but kept running around, as if trying to extinguish the flames on its back.But the faster it ran, the more intense the flames burned, which also made it more panicked.

Finally, in a panic, the rotting poisonous spider rushed towards Brad in a daze.Brad sank down immediately, and the spiked shield in his hand collided with the head of the poisonous poisonous spider.

The power of this collision is no small matter. The power of a monster of this size in a panic is definitely no less than that of Merlin's Fire Spirit Impact!

But Brad, who had been blown away by the Fire Spirit impact before, stopped after shaking his body.Such a result really pleased Arrow.

"Go!"

Amidst Cream's shouts, the undead soldiers quickly circled around the poisonous spider, and cut off one of its legs with a sword.The other side of the skeleton dog is also biting the foot of the other side so that it cannot move freely.It was also at the moment when it was out of control, Cream leaped high from behind Brad, pierced two sharp-toothed daggers into the poisonous spider's head accurately, and twisted it forcefully.

Under the flames, the rotting poisonous spider stopped.

The guild members of Song of the Mermaid didn't have time to cheer, because the next rotting poisonous spider screamed and ran out from the fire...

Waiting for work at leisure, the Arrows stood in front of the flame castle, silently watching those rotting poisonous spiders rush out, and then stepped forward to kill them.

Such actions are not only safe, but also convenient.Otherwise, Airl would never have believed that his guild could deal with so many rotting poisonous spiders in one go. This is simply a miracle!Even the Viscount Rich finally shut up after seeing so many rotting poisonous spiders running out of his castle.

The flames burned for a whole day, and even at night there was no sign of easing up.The soaring flames lit up the night, and the townspeople in Pelican Town knew that Airl was going to burn the castle, otherwise they would definitely think that some terrible summoning ceremony was being held here.Airl glanced at the rotting poisonous spiders lying on the ground, and counted five of them.And the body types are of a large type.It seems that these rotting poisonous spiders should belong to the stronger type, and the weaker ones may not even have the qualifications to escape and be killed.

But just when Ai Luo was grateful for this and was about to greet the guild members back and come back tomorrow morning, suddenly!Something moved at the top of the castle, and then jumped out from the observation deck!

That's a carrion spider!

The monster fell heavily on the ground outside, but because Song of the Mermaid was blocking the main entrance of the castle, the rotting poisonous spider was far away from everyone.It struggled to get up, shaking its body slightly, the burned skin was smoking.But even so, the rotting poisonous spider took advantage of the darkness and ran towards the east quickly.

"Brother President! Another one!"

Airl looked up, and saw two more rotting poisonous spiders jumped down from the lookout platform, and finally struggled to get up and followed the footsteps of the rotting poisonous spider in front to go east quickly.

Brad was a little nervous, and asked, "President, are we going to hunt down?"

Ai Luo thought for a while, and finally shook his head: "It's getting dark now, and it's not good for us to chase and kill rashly. What's more, the size of these rotting poisonous spiders is obviously not as big as the ones here. It seems that there are only some smaller ones. , the weaker rotting poisonous spiders can climb up the watchtower. Since they are not strong, they should not pose any threat to the town. They are fleeing in the opposite direction of Pelican Town, since they will not disturb the townspeople , then we don’t need to spend our energy to chase it.”

Now that Arrow has given the answer, Brad doesn't need to say anything more.

The fire had been burning for a day and a night, and Airl told his guild members to go back to sleep and have a good rest.It was not until the next day that the flames of this castle were completely extinguished.

After dawn, everyone returned to the front of the Swan Castle.

Under the clear sky, the burnt Swan Castle looked extraordinarily... scorched black.

Originally, Airl felt that although the castle was old, it was covered with vines from top to bottom, and it also had a different charm.It's like the romantic feeling of an ancient castle where a beautiful princess is imprisoned in a musical, just waiting for a brave man to come to save her.

But now...well, well, the black swan can also have a different charm.

"My...Swan Castle..."

With a plop, Viscount Rich knelt down in front of his castle.

He was dumbfounded, the corners of his mouth twitched, and his hands and feet were a little uncontrollable.

Airl knew that it was best not to provoke the viscount at this time, but it was better to finish what he should do.

Chapter 70 Inside the Castle

"Everyone, we are now preparing for the final cleanup, are you all ready?"

Arrow asked, and Coco, Brad, and Buffy all nodded seriously.

"Huh? Cream?"

Turning his head away, he saw that the thief was squatting next to the corpse of a rotting poisonous spider, not knowing what he was doing.Seeing this, Ai Luo walked over and probed to check.

This guy stretched out his hand to slightly measure the thickness of the poisonous spider's head, then pulled out the sharp-toothed dagger, carefully pierced the junction between the poisonous spider's head and chest, and pulled it down slightly.

Seeing this, Airl immediately understood what he wanted to do, and immediately called the members over to help lift up the chest of the rotting poisonous spider, so that Cream could cut the head more easily.

Cream smiled at everyone, nodded, and operated more carefully.Soon, the head of the rotting poisonous spider was cut off, and Cream then held the sharp-toothed dagger with both hands, and began to cut more carefully along the rotting poisonous spider's mouthparts.

"What? Things?"

Buffy asked curiously, and Brad immediately shhed.

It didn't take long for the sharp dagger to cut open the mouthparts of the rotting poisonous spider. Cream took out a piece of cloth and wrapped it around his hand to prevent injury. He carefully inserted it in, trying to take out something.

click -

With a soft sound, a sac-like thing at the end of the mouthparts was accidentally cut by the sharp-toothed dagger, and the liquid inside flowed all over the floor.

Cream frowned, and shook his head regretfully.But Airl didn't mind, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's the first time, there will always be a process of getting used to it. Come on, let's move on to the next one."

Leaving the head of the rotting poisonous spider aside, everyone turned to the next one.With the first experience, Cream quickly cut open the mouthparts of the rotting poisonous spider, and with a slight pick with the back of the fangs dagger, a small sac was picked out from inside.

Cream: "Hmm...so small, it shouldn't be this small."

Although the pouch in the cloth strip is intact, it looks very shrunken, and even collapsed directly.

Airl thought for a while, and said: "The fire yesterday obviously exhausted the stamina of this rotting poisonous spider. It may also be that it spit out its venom indiscriminately when it felt that its life was in danger, and it ran out. It's okay, Let's move on to the next one."

Everyone nodded, three cuts, five cuts, two cuts, and the third and fourth poisonous poisonous spiders were all cut.But either the pouch was too small, or the strength was not accurate when taking it out, and it was never taken out smoothly.Until the last end, Cream took a deep breath, let himself rest, adjusted his energy and then moved the knife.

For the last time, his movements were sharp and his expression was very focused.The hard work paid off, and when the relatively full venom gland sac was finally taken out from the mouthparts of the poisonous poisonous spider, everyone couldn't help but let out a cheer!

"Huh... finally took it out. President, do you think this is useful? If you don't use it, I think I can use it to smear on my fangs and dagger. In this way, even if I meet Wo next time For a guy like Ralph, as long as my sword inflicts a slight wound on him, he can send him to the grave."

Cream held the poison gland sac and handed it to Airl, looking very excited.

But Airl thought for a while and said, "Well... Cream, if there is poison, then there must be an antidote. Even if adding poison to your short sword can really improve your combat effectiveness, but in case If Buffy accidentally touches your dagger and gets poisoned, it will be troublesome."

Buffy pricked up her ears when she heard her name, but the sentence seemed a bit complicated, and she didn't understand it for a while, so her face was full of curiosity.

Can't understand?That's right if you don't understand.At this time, there must be a "fool" to play the role of this dagger that casually reached out and touched the poison.Arrow didn't want Brad or Coco to look at him with a "Why me?" look.

After listening to Airl's explanation, Cream frowned, obviously a little reluctant.But he nodded after a while, wrapped the poison gland in a thick cloth and handed it to Airl.Airl stowed it neatly in his fanny pack, along with four other bottles of therapeutic aerosol.

"Now, let's go."

Following Airl's order, everyone stepped forward and finally began to step into the castle that had been dusty for hundreds of years.

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As soon as you step into the door, a burning smell immediately hits your face.

Although the flames have been extinguished, the temperature in the castle still makes people feel a scorching heat.

Brad lit a torch to illuminate the passage, maintaining the formation and advancing cautiously.Arrow, too, braced himself, ready to deal with danger from every direction.

But fire has proven to be very effective indeed.

Under the light of the fire, the charred corpses of those rotting poisonous spiders were all over the ground.Big and small, some are as big as Coco, and some are only as big as Brad's palm.

The vines that had grown slowly with the castle for hundreds of years and gradually occupied the entire castle have now been burned clean, and the places that were originally blocked by them began to see the sunlight from outside.Seeing those dots of light penetrating this black and gray world, Airl suddenly had a feeling of light breaking through the darkness.

One room, one premises search.

The more upward, the stronger the presence of sunlight.