Chapter 421 Wedding Banquet (21)

Chapter 421 Wedding Banquet (21)

noon the next day.

After meeting up with the others, they basically slept in adjacent rooms for easier movement. There were many rooms in the castle, and from outsiders' perspective, given the identities of the Tig team, Han Zu, and Gloria, basically no one came to disturb them, so everyone had a relatively peaceful night's rest.

However, Han Zu did not sleep. As the only one who could use power inside the castle, he monitored everything within his perception range all night, including the room where the Duke had disappeared before. But something was strange. Even at this time, the Duke still did not return to that room.

"You didn't sleep all night?"

Gloria walked up to Han Zu and handed him a small bag.

"I can absorb energy instead of resting. What is this... tobacco?!!! Where did you get it?!"

This small bag is filled with tobacco. Although some of it has become sticky due to moisture, for Han Zu, who has not seen tobacco for a long time since arriving at the abandoned city of the Tige people, the value of this thing is undoubtedly huge.

Looking at Han Zu who immediately grabbed the paper on the narrator's desk, used the extremely thin blade transformed from element twelve to cut a piece of paper into several layers, immediately used it to roll a cigarette, and then used the candlestick on the wall to light it and greedily tasted the cigarette, Gloria was a little puzzled by his addiction to smoking.

"Theoretically speaking, your current physical condition does not allow you to become addicted to anything, and even if you don't take it for a long time, there won't be any problems, let alone being drunk from smoking. So I don't understand why you are still so interested in these things."

"It's a psychological reason. For example, some engineers always carry a wrench in their tool belts. In fact, according to the current level of technology, most wrenches have no practical use. They just carry them for peace of mind. It's the same with me for tobacco. This thing has no effect on me, but I just like it, just like I don't need to eat or sleep anymore, but as long as I have time, I will still do it. It has nothing to do with it, I just like it."

"Forget it. I don't understand the thoughts of you smokers. I stole this bag of tobacco from a previous butler, but I forgot what he looked like. You should smoke it sparingly."

"No problem, this bag is enough to last for more than ten days."

In addition to Han Zu and Gloria, Wu and Xin from the Tiger team also slept in this room, but unlike them, they took turns to rest for safety reasons. Hearing their conversation, Xin, who had rested well, also walked over. She noticed that Han Zu seemed to have been staying in one place, sitting on a single sofa in the living room, and the mark Xin quietly left was not worn out at all.

"You haven't slept?"

"Huh~~ Well, the Duke hasn't shown up yet. I'll keep an eye on him for a while. If he doesn't come back, I'll go look for him."

"Tuk-tuk-tuk."

There was a knock on the door. Xin went to check and after opening the door, it was Hai outside.

"How are you and Wu? Did you get enough rest?"

"Very good, we take turns to rest, Wu is still asleep now."

"That guy..."

"He had been watching the room where the Duke disappeared all night, and he had not moved. The woman had been resting on the sofa next to him, and she had just woken up."

"Come out for a moment, I have something to say."

Xin looked back at Han Zu and Gloria in the living room. The former was smoking and the latter was doing some stretching exercises. They didn't pay any attention to the direction of the door. So Xin walked out of the room, closed the door, and followed Hai to a balcony in the corridor.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem? Is the material Xinle found not good enough?"

"That's not the case. I want to ask, what do you think about that obelisk?"

"To be honest, I understand your concerns, Hai. In fact, I don't completely believe that the obelisk is a stable energy supply device. However, our current situation is not optimistic. After all, this is our only clue. So this attempt is necessary."

"Sinler and you have similar ideas on this point. Also, you said yesterday that the hunter who called himself γ said that he was not a hunter. What do you think?"

Xin folded his arms across his chest, leaned on the balcony railing, smacked his lips and began to think. If you want to believe it, judging from his strength, if he was not a hunter, it would be impossible to explain his strength. But if you want to disbelieve it, the entire Tig team, including Xin, has never seen a hunter use abilities even similar to his.

"It's hard to say right now. The only thing I can be sure of is that until a conflict of interest arises between us, this guy has absolutely no intention of fighting us."

"But it does not rule out that he is pretending."

"Maybe, but... I don't think so. After all, everything that has happened since we met until now is beyond human control. They are all unknown events. And based on my current understanding of his strength, he now has the overwhelming strength to take down our team alone, but he still has no interest in taking action against us."

"Perhaps he did this because only Sinler could make the signal transmitter?"

"To be honest, I don't think so, because you see, once the signal transmitter is successfully built, then according to the plan, we will be able to contact Xu's gunboats, or other reinforcements. To put it simply, we will be able to obtain air support. That guy can't fly, can't leave the atmosphere, and is not indestructible, so we will crush them in terms of strength. So no matter how you look at it, no matter how you think about it, after the signal transmitter is built, we will be the only ones to gain the relevant benefits. If that guy really wants to do something, then he should stop us from building the signal transmitter instead of helping us."

"Maybe he wants to use the obelisk to destroy the signal transmitter?"

"That is a superfluous act. Judging from our recent contacts, that guy will not do useless things. His current strength is overwhelming for our people. If he really wants to do it, we all live in adjacent rooms. I don't think we can see the daylight outside."

Xin's statement did make sense, and Hai was somewhat shaken because of it. Hai's distrust of Han Zu and Gloria was actually based on the fact that the two were hunters. But if, as Xin believed, these two people were indeed not hunters, then this distrust would begin to waver and then slowly disappear.

"Maybe, but I still can't trust them at the moment. That man doesn't give me the feeling that he's a simple guy."

"No... Why is she still in the castle?"

During the conversation, Xin saw a familiar figure in the direction of the balcony. The sun was shining brightly and the weather was good. Xin clearly recognized a woman passing by the balcony, who seemed to be in a hurry.

"Who?"

"The Duke's daughter is also one of the main figures in the obelisk incident. But according to her, she should have escaped by now. Why is she still here?"

"Has the king's army arrived?"

"That's not the case. Given the scale of the castle we're in, if we want to flatten it, we'll need a huge army. Even if we use a large teleportation array, it'll take some time. And a teleportation array of that size will emit very obvious energy fluctuations. But there aren't any giant energy reactions around here. That woman must have other purposes."

"What are you talking about? You guys don't have breakfast...Oh, it should be lunch now."

Han Zu was still wearing the same robe he wore last night, but he didn't wear it properly, leaving his upper body exposed to the air. He walked over comfortably with a half-smoked cigarette in his mouth.

"How is the Duke?"

"He hasn't come back yet. He must have gone out somewhere else. There's no point in continuing to monitor him. What are you looking at?"

"To the right of your sight, in the middle of the line of maids."

Following the direction Xin mentioned, Han Zu turned his head and looked over. His eyesight was much better than the other two, and he saw the woman's face clearly.

"Why is she still here?"

A person who was originally prepared to escape completely appeared again in the place where she wanted to escape. There are only two reasons. Either there is something she has not done yet, or she forgot to take something. Based on Han Zu's analysis and understanding of the current situation, the former is unlikely. It is estimated that she forgot something.

"Should we follow this woman? Perhaps she'll be heading to the location of the obelisk?"

"I think it's unlikely. She already knows that I'm looking for the location of the obelisk, so I won't risk going back. Don't worry about her. She's not important now... Hmm?"

Just as Han Zu was about to look away, he noticed out of the corner of his eye that something was wrong with a few servants. Not only did they keep their right hands at their waists as if ready to draw weapons, but they were also approaching the woman from all sides, looking like they were going to surround her.

The woman looked quite alert and soon discovered the unusual servants. She immediately left the team of maids and quickened her pace into a narrow alley. There were not many people on the ground, but they could be seen from the balcony where Han Zu and others were.

Of course, Xin and Hai couldn't see because of the obstruction of the building, but Han Zu, whose energy was no longer blocked by the castle material, could see clearly. He could see that the abnormal servants blocked both sides of the narrow alley and ambushed and prepared to take action, but he did not tell Xin and Hai about this.

"That woman is no longer important. The Duke's location is unknown now. It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. It is better to take a good rest during this period of time and think of a solution when the wedding banquet officially starts in the evening. The activities in the castle are all centered around this wedding, and the Duke will definitely be there."

Han Zu leaned on the cigarette platform and continued to taste the half-smoked cigarette in his mouth. Hai seemed to have something to say to Xin and soon left.

After looking around and making sure that there was no one around, Han Zu jumped out from the balcony and landed on the top of a building above the narrow alley. He lay on it and carefully observed the situation below.

The woman discovered those servants who looked strange. Although she did not recognize their looks, she could tell from the tattoos on their wrists that these people were the Duke's private soldiers. No one could command them without the Duke's orders. She immediately thought that it must be the private soldiers who had been guarding the altar secret room before who passed the news of Tarun and others to the Duke. The remaining private soldiers had been following Tarun and others, and then pieced together the truth of the matter.

If this is true, the current situation is not good. It will be even more difficult to assassinate the Duke. He who has received the information should be near the obelisk at this moment, and is probably preparing to move the obelisk or take some other action.

In this case, the Duke must have known that the news of the obelisk had been spread. In this situation, if the obelisk could not be moved, the Duke would probably flee directly. But no matter which possibility it was, the woman could not let it happen. But if she wanted to stop the Duke, she had to survive this ambush first. In a head-on confrontation, the woman might not be able to beat those private soldiers who lived on the tip of a knife. But now she had no choice but to bite the bullet.

Sure enough, when she reached the middle of the narrow alley, the private soldiers disguised as servants came out from their hiding places, took out their weapons, and quickly tightened the encirclement from both sides. The private soldiers in the front soon fought with the woman. The narrowness of the alley has both advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that the woman cannot evacuate the battle, and the advantage is that these private soldiers cannot rush forward all at once, and can only attack in batches one after another.

The rapiers and daggers carried by women were more suitable for this narrow straight terrain. In addition, the opponent was unable to take advantage of their numbers, so the women actually had the upper hand.

"Hey~~~"

But soon, this relatively safe situation was broken by the sound of breaking air from a distance. The woman immediately realized that someone was firing a crossbow in her direction. In a flash, the two private soldiers who were originally besieging the woman suddenly changed their strategy, rushed forward, grabbed the woman's legs and the right hand holding the rapier, and controlled her. The crossbow arrows in the distance quickly enlarged in front of her eyes. Because they were firmly controlled and the alley was narrow, she couldn't dodge at all. When the crossbow arrows came close enough, the woman could recognize that this was not a simple crossbow arrow. There was some special alchemical poison in the groove at the tail. This poison was very toxic, but the effect was slow. The woman immediately understood that the Duke wanted to disguise her death as an assassination and then distance himself from him.

"Ding!" However, just when the crossbow arrow was about to hit him, it lost power and fell to the ground. This was very strange. After all, the range of this special hand crossbow was not short, so such a situation would not occur.

"Click!"

Not only that, the two private soldiers who controlled themselves had a strange and violent twist in their necks, and they turned a circle and died on the spot. Looking up, the two guys who were originally shooting crossbows in the distance were stuck to the ground as if they were crushed by huge rocks.

Although the anxious situation was resolved, the woman did not feel at ease at all, because she sensed a familiar force, strong, but very strange, so much so that it made people feel physically uncomfortable, but she looked up and around, but saw no one.

The pockets on the woman's clothes moved twice, but she didn't notice it. After standing there for a while, she quickly left the alley and blended into the crowd.