doitstory Chapter 827: Just This Once
Chapter 827: Just This Once
Chapter 827: Chapter 827: Just This Once"What are these people doing?" A few Black Epaulettes who were hiding in the air and responsible for surveillance looked at each other in confusion, with one of them saying, "Could it be that they are hiding something special?"
"Are you blind? Didn’t you see that the Butler is holding a spider!" Another one, angrily said, "Who would hold a funeral for a spider? They must be mocking us!"
Realizing that they had exposed themselves, they reported the incident to their superiors and then left the vicinity of the castle.
After this group left, another was sure to follow. Xu Huo asked Mr. Dong if he could sense the conditions around Rose Castle.
The castle grounds were quite extensive, and there were no other residences nearby, which, coupled with the plentiful greenery, made it an ideal place for an ambush and surveillance. However, the Black Epaulettes preferred the air, which suggested a certain understanding of the castle.
"The area within the boundaries approved and stamped by the Zone 011 Government is my responsibility," Mr. Dong answered.
There were not a few castles in the Ancient City District. Since it wasn’t completely isolated on the outskirts away from the city, the private territory of the castle wasn’t too extensive. Xu Huo had seen Mr. Dong control the castle and thought he was a prop of the same type as the Girl in the painting, but now it seemed there were differences.
Mr. Dong’s true form should be related to the spider, and he also possessed certain intelligence. However, compared to the Girl in the painting who maintained a human form, Xu Huo felt he was more like Yan Jiayu’s Stone Lion.
"Then I’ll trouble you to clear out the players spying near the castle."
Mr. Dong bowed slightly, performing a gentlemanly gesture, "That is my duty."
After nightfall, all the main lights in the castle were extinguished, leaving only a few small lamps lit, barely enough to make out the general shape of the buildings against the night sky.
Perhaps it was an illusion caused by the lighting, but although the shape of the castle hadn’t changed, each of the windows seemed to have shrunk. Large curtains fluttered outside the windows, occasionally casting strange shadows that seemed both real and fake as they moved.
The rose bushes planted in front of and behind the castle also seemed to grow on their own in the darkness of the night, silently climbing upwards, forming oddly shaped walls that concealed the deep architecture. Overgrown branches and stems occasionally reached out of the garden, like hands trying to grasp something.
Black Epaulettes approached the mansion from different directions; their main target was the detached residence and the castle’s third floor.
However, with the height of the front floral wall seemingly suggesting the essence of the Garden Maze behind the castle, the Black Epaulettes couldn’t just casually walk through the front entrance. As they ventured into the dense garden, they found that both the front and rear exits of the garden had been blocked by branches and had no choice but to climb over from above.
Black Epaulettes were equipped with special protective gear that facilitated concealment, but as they moved over these branches, they inevitably scraped the skin that was exposed.
"These things aim for the unprotected spots," complained a player with a bleeding lip. "If you ask me, it would be simpler to just set it on fire. The Law Enforcement Team could come in under the guise of putting out a fire, and