Chapter 271 The Power of the Bear

Chapter 271 The Power of the Bear

Chapter 271 The Power of the Bear
The dim candlelight flickered faintly, and illusory human figures were looming. Two mutilated corpses with only the upper torso carried brass candlesticks and slowly crawled between the layers of bookshelves, wandered through the rotten and damp library, and left from the door, as if the red-haired man who had just died behind the door had never existed.

The ghost is gone.

As the lights faded, the door of the library closed again, but Geza, who had died behind the door, was gone, without even a body left.

This is one of the rules of Vanessa Castle: people killed by ghosts will be assimilated into something similar to the ghost.

"Please hold me up and help me up." Ning Zhe said with his head tilted.

Bai Zhi nodded and squatted down. Ning Zhe held the corpse oil lamp in one hand and climbed the window sill with the other. He put his booted foot on the blonde girl's shoulder. Bai Zhi supported the wall with both hands and slowly stood up.

Using the leverage to climb up the window, Ning Zhe lifted a corner of the cover of the corpse oil lamp in his hand. Under the light, the colorful windows looked damp and rotten. The rusty hinges were kicked open, and the entire window frame fell to the ground. The shattered glass pierced into the carpet, and cold air poured into the room from the wide-open window.

Ning Zhe climbed into the library and opened the window from the inside, which became intact again as the lights went out.

Looking back, the door of the library was still closed. It was safe here for the time being. Ning Zhe took down the lavender curtains with platinum lace, rolled them up a few times and used them as a rope, and pulled up Bai Zhi, who was squatting on the eaves outside and shivering with cold.

"Thank you." Ning Zhe held Bai Zhi's wrist and pulled her up to the window sill: "Without your help, I think it would have taken a lot more effort to climb up."

"No, you're welcome... I'm glad I helped you." Bai Zhi shook her head, covered her mouth and nose with her hands, sneezed with a "whoosh", and the tip of her nose turned red.

Kaqiuya has a slim figure to begin with, and because she loves beauty, she wears thin clothes. She has been exposed to the cold wind for so long that she has caught a cold.

Ning Zhe folded the curtain in half and put it on her like a cloak: "Wrap yourself tightly and be careful not to catch a cold. It will be even colder later."

As he spoke, he walked across the bookshelf to the desk against the wall. On the wall hung a straight cross sword with a feather-like pattern wrapped around it and a metal shield engraved with a golden iris emblem. That was the family emblem of the Frimmisret family.

Ning Zhe stepped on the desk and took down the sword and shield hanging on the wall. The blade was unopened and there was no leather strap on the back of the shield for easy arm grip. It was obvious that this was a work of art rather than a practical item, but it was better than nothing.

The corpse oil lamp was placed on the ground and a corner of the covering was lifted. Under the light, the wooden floor looked old and the paint applied on the walls during later repairs also faded. A slightly open gap appeared at the junction of the wall and the floor.

Ning Zhe grasped the hilt of the sword and inserted the beautiful blade with intricate patterns like a work of art. He placed the shield under the blade as a fulcrum of the lever. He stepped hard on the hilt, and the friction sound of the gears suddenly came from inside the wall. The heavy wall was pried slightly upwards, and the narrow gap suddenly widened.

Click…click…

Seeing that the sword blade was about to break due to being unable to bear the weight of the wall, Bai Zhi hurriedly took two thick books from the side of the desk and quickly stuffed them into the gap to hold up the wall that had begun to fall again.

"Almost..." Bai Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, a little happy: "Fortunately I made it in time."

"Thank you." Ning Zhe smiled and didn't say much.

If you want to quickly get closer to someone, a better way than offering help is to ask the other person to help you, showing a low-level attitude of "I need you". The request for help should not be too difficult, and giving sincere thanks at the right time to provide emotional value can quietly eliminate some barriers.

Few people hate the feeling of being needed by others, and Bai Zhi is no exception. Some people will even take the initiative to help others without them asking for help just for the feeling of being needed.

Just like Bai Zhi just now. "I'm trying to raise this wall a little higher now, can you move the chair over there?" Ning Zhe asked.

"Okay." Bai Zhi nodded simply.

Ning Zhe squatted down, grasped the lower edge of the wall with both hands, and tried his best to lift it up. Aurore's physical fitness was good among women, but still not as good as that of an ordinary adult man. Just a few seconds after lifting the wall, Ning Zhe's arms began to tremble under the heavy load.

Fortunately, Baizhi stuffed a chair in at the right time to prop up the wall and prevented it from falling further. A square hole about 70 cm high appeared in front of them, cold and deep.

The two men lowered their bodies and looked into the cave entrance. There was a straight upward stone staircase hidden inside the wall. The corridor was so narrow that only one person could pass through smoothly. At the end of the stone staircase was a tightly closed wooden door.

That is the entrance to the city lord's bedroom.

"It's hidden quite deeply."

It seems that Grand Duke Vanessa is really afraid of death. Ning Zhe picked up the craft sword on the ground, holding the corpse oil lamp, bent over and crawled into the cave entrance and entered the corridor.

If outsiders have not seen the blueprint, it would be difficult for them to find this secret passage.

Bai Zhi, wrapped in a curtain, followed Ning Zhe into the secret passage. She then kicked down the chair that was blocking the mechanism, and the heavy wall fell down with a loud bang, returning to its original state.

Safe.

Holding a lantern in one hand and a sword in the other, they climbed up the stairs one after the other and came to the door. As they rose higher, the chill around them became more intense, causing Bai Zhi to wrap herself tightly around the curtains, and her breath turned into white frost.

I opened the door with the help of the light of the corpse oil lamp and walked into the bedroom. A rich fragrance hit me in the face. There was an incense burner lit by the fireplace, and the firewood in the stove was burning, making crackling sounds.

Ning Zhe walked to the fireplace and took a look. There was only a thin layer of ash at the bottom of the fireplace, which meant that the fire in the fireplace had just been lit.

It’s just that the “soon” upstairs means who knows how long it has been for those downstairs.

Bai Zhi squatted down next to Ning Zhe, stretched her frozen hands to the fireplace to warm them, and asked in confusion, "It seems that there were people in this place not long ago."

Ning Zhe walked silently to the coffee table and touched the steaming tea set on the table. It was hot.

"The tea is still hot, but I don't know where the person who made it has gone." Ning Zhe said, walking to the head of the bed and taking down a bearskin coat hanging on the antler rack. The thick fur felt heavy to the touch: "Come here, put this on, it should be warmer."

"What about you?" Bai Zhi untied the curtains on her body and let Ning Zhe drape the thick bear skin over her slender body.

This is a complete skin of an adult brown bear, without even a single arrow wound or bullet hole. Even the bear's head is intact, like a big furry hat on a girl's head, with two bear ears drooping on its head, like an enlarged version of a brown folded-ear cat.

(End of this chapter)