Ampton knelt down and checked the cell leader's neck. The man did not die, but suffered a heavy blow to the head and fainted.
Judging from the situation of the blow, he probably wouldn't be able to wake up in a short time.
Ampton turned over his hood and found a fist-sized stone wrapped inside.
He must have put the stone in his hood and waved it around, but Selu used it as a blunt weapon.
"Okay now, where can I find it..."
While he was thinking, the sound of people's panicked footsteps came into the dungeon, and Ampton stood up.
There is no better opportunity than this to leave first.
But he had promised Ram to try to save his sister.
After walking out of the dungeon, Apton found that those running wild in the castle were not only domestic servants and slaves, but also some soldiers who had been outside just now.
Some of them looked horrified, some were at a loss, and some just wanted to figure out what was going on and ran back and forth following the running people.
"what happened?"
"The count was stabbed to death!"
"seriously?!"
"I don't know. The old mistress asked me to go to King Xisuo City to deliver a message. I'll leave now without telling you!"
"No, wait a moment, is it the little Harry who just inherited the title?"
"it's him!"
"Holy crap! Has the murderer been caught?"
"Get the fuck out of here, I have to leave quickly!"
Apton, who was about to leave in the chaos, stopped after hearing these conversations. He looked back at the door with an iron ring that he passed just now. There were several people piled at the door.
He guessed that Selu might not leave.
But he had never seen Selu. When he entered the castle, he thought he might get into trouble with Ram, so he hid Ram in a bush.
The information about Selu's appearance that Upton knew only came from Ram's description, and Ram was a guy who used very few words to describe girls. He only said that his sister had black hair, big eyes, and was very beautiful.
"If I had known that the guards inside were so lax, I would have brought Ram in."
Ampton stood at the door of the iron-ringed wooden door and looked in, and saw the young princess with golden hair.
A sharp sword penetrated his chest and he was nailed to the high-backed chair.
On the big wooden table in front of him, there was a large map and several scrolls of paper, which were in a mess.
In one corner of the map, Ampton keenly saw half a footprint.
He squinted his eyes. Judging from the width of the foot, it was left by a woman.
Ampton couldn't understand.
Did Selu jump on the table and stab Harry Vince to death?
Then why didn't Harry Vince hide?
You know, nobles have been learning swordsmanship and fighting since they were young. That is not what Selu, who went hunting with his father in the mountains since he was a child, can fight.
What's more, Selu is a woman and has a natural disadvantage in strength.
Apton stared at the dead Harry Vince carefully and found that there was very little blood foam flowing from the corners of his mouth. This was unreasonable compared with his combat experience, at least the combat experience in his memory.
You will not die immediately if you are punctured at that location, and it will not damage the heart, but the pneumothorax caused by puncturing the lungs will cause people to suffer more terrible torture before death.
Every breath of the deceased will tear open the wound in the lungs, and the air will flow from the wound into the space between the lung lobes and the chest cavity, mixing with bleeding and causing a large amount of blood foam. Some of these blood foam will be choked into the lungs, and as the lung tubes are coughed, The breath was coughed out of the dead man's mouth.
However, there was too little blood foam on Harry Vince's mouth, which was very abnormal.
There was a shout, and Ampton was squeezed back.
At the other end of the corridor, a middle-aged woman was walking towards this side under the protection of two guards.
Her face was gloomy, but her steps were steady, neither fast nor slow, giving people an aura of calmness in the face of danger.
"The old mistress is here!"
"Okay, just have someone who can make decisions."
The old mistress stopped at the door, her face expressionless and her tone calm, as if it was not her husband who was stabbed to death in the bed early this morning, and it was not her son who died in the house now.
"Come on, let's do whatever we have to do."
After saying that, she stepped into the house, the door slammed shut, and two guards, one on the left and one on the right, dispersed the people.
Ampton followed the crowd, and while people were not paying attention, he dodged and hid at the stairs leading to the tower.
He pondered as he slowly climbed up the spiral staircase.
If I were Selu, where would I go?
Ram said that the old princess Bill Vince has two sons, one is twenty and the other is only nine years old this year. Could it be that the nine-year-old Serulien...
Ampton stopped. He suddenly thought of where Selu might appear.
There are more guards on the second floor of the castle than on the first floor, and their equipment is more complete than the guards on the first floor.
The shiny breastplate, the heavy helmet, and the gloves on the hands are not the kind of chain mail gloves, but the kind of iron mittens.
Apton frowned in the dark. He was not afraid of these guards. He just felt that Selu's plan would not succeed again, right?
Generations of combat experience have given Apton a sense of vigilance. He is keenly aware that someone is approaching, and this person is a master.
He twisted his waist to draw the sword, and the other party stretched out his hand to press the wrist where Upton was drawing the sword.
But this move could not seal Upton's sword. He just changed the angle slightly, and the sword was drawn out in an extremely tricky direction, and he used the hilt to slam the attacker's throat.
"Master, your Phantom Sword Style has reached the level of your father's victory..."
Before he had time to talk to Walter, the sound of the sword when he drew his sword had already attracted the attention of the guard, and the slow and cumbersome footsteps were approaching here.
Returning to the first floor, Walter told Ampton that Schliemann was waiting for him at the Hector Church parish.
"No, we can't leave yet, we have to find Selu."
Ampton had to admit that he was becoming more and more interested in Selu. He wanted to meet this strange woman and wanted to know how she managed to kill her enemies and achieve this level.
As for Walter, his mission is only to find the king and protect the king. If the king doesn't leave, he won't leave either.
Even though the two had no intention of leaving the castle, they were discovered by the guards on the first floor.
Fortunately, both of them were dirty and looked like down-and-out warriors. The guards took them as summoned warriors and rushed them to the courtyard outside the castle.
The courtyard has been decorated, and a dozen large tables and benches have been set up, with various kinds of bread and meat on them. Some soldiers have already sat down and started drinking light beer.
The first batch of soldiers summoned have returned. They are telling the results of their battles in high spirits, showing off their trophies, and claiming what kind of enemies they have eliminated for the princess.
Just when all the dozen or so large tables were filled with people, the old mistress pulled a boy out from the castle's small drawbridge.
Everyone fell silent and stared at the solemn old matron who stopped in front of the main table.
"This is the person you want to be loyal to, the new Lord of Antler County, and the new Earl Vince! This is the inheritance document sent by the king!"
The old mistress said, raising the parchment roll in her hand, but she did not open it, but put it away.
"Now, I want you to swear an oath! Allegiance to you..."
Before he finished speaking, someone stood up. The person pointed in the direction of the old mistress with a horrified look on his face, followed by more people. They all stared with wide eyes, fear spreading on their faces.
The old mistress noticed something was wrong in the atmosphere. She looked at her son aside and saw him standing there shaking, with a string of white foam hanging from the corner of his mouth.
He suddenly twitched, rolled his eyes, and fell backwards.
