Age of Heroes, ten consecutive guarantees

The vampire prince owns a palace.

The configuration of the palace is not particularly luxurious, but it exudes a low-key luxury.

This is not the same concept as light luxury.

The essence of light luxury is to pretend to be fat.

The essence of low-key luxury is that gold is hidden in a box.

Since the bloodline of the royal family is so scarce that it is almost cut off, and with the sudden death of the previous generation of princes, the result is that the management of the royal family's property has been transferred to the hands of the Senate.

Well, after a long period of eighty years, most of the assets have been embezzled in various ways.

The prince is like a vassal king who has just been released from the capital. How many things he has depends on how much is given by his superiors.

This palace is nominally the private property of the royal family. Only the prince is eligible to live in it, and even the Senate cannot embezzle it.

It is usually covered with a barrier, and it has a long history. After generations of royal families, it has been transformed, and it is essentially a fortress that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

In the era of demigods, the giants once broke into the lair of the vampire clan and tried to behead the demigods of the vampire clan. However, the beheading operation required speed and speed. It was as fast as the wind. The giants spent two days and one night in front of the last fortress. After being unable to attack for a long time, the beheading operation failed. In the end, the vampires reacted and launched a wave of siege. As a result, the giants failed to recover and disappeared in the long river of history in less than a hundred years.

"Only the blood of the royal family can open this Opal Palace."

Mussel leads the way.

"It remained closed for eighty years after the death of the previous generation of princes, and was only recently reopened."

She raised her finger and pointed and said: "The Opal Palace has a three-level structure. The first level is the outermost garden area. The prince's inheritance ceremony and the reception of guests are all in the outer area. This is where ordinary nobles can reach." range.”

"The second level is the main building of the Opal Palace. It was built under the personal supervision of the first royal family, Videla. It uses a technology that has been lost. It doesn't look big on the outside, but once it is unfolded, it will form a hundred-story building. The towers above have thousands of internal chamber structures.”

"It can be said that the Opal Palace itself is a huge underground city. The manufacturing technology of underground cities and labyrinths appeared in the city-state era, reached its peak in the demigod era, and then gradually disappeared with the unification."

Bai Yu interrupted: "What is the meaning of the underground city?"

"Self-preservation, one of the main themes of the era of demigods is that defense is greater than offense. Even if you are as strong as a demigod, you will not easily step into the opponent's territory. Usually every time a war starts, both sides will fight each other to pieces, but rarely does one side Can break into the opponent’s dungeon.”

...Why does this sound so much like trench warfare?

Mussel continued: "The overall palace area in the second level is already very complicated. Generally, only people who are invited to enter can enter; while the area in the third level is even more in-depth. It is an area that only the royal family can enter. What is it specifically? I am not sure as well."

She stopped, turned around and said: "We are about to enter the Opal Palace. The scenes inside have been restored through magic. It is a projection body pieced together based on almost everyone's memory images. Remember not to mess with it. bump."

Open the door and step into the Opal Palace.

Suddenly there was a feeling of traveling through time and space, and in the blink of an eye I arrived at the night a month ago.

A large number of guests came to the prince's succession ceremony. The nobles drank wine and raised their glasses to celebrate each other. The handsome men and beautiful women chatted with each other with the reserve of the nobles.

A theater troupe played music not far away. Enthusiastic noble daughters twisted their waists to the music. Ladies and gentlemen were at ease in the crowd.

"Is this all phantom magic?" Jeanne touched someone nearby and passed her fingers through the other person's body without leaving any trace.

"It's memory projection." Mussel said: "The Vampire race is different from other races. Our souls flow in the blood, so the memory and personality are preserved in the blood. We only need to hand over the blood to extract the memory of that night. .”

"The scene you are seeing now is the scene that was restored after the bloodline memories of the 739 guests that night were sorted out... The reliability is over 99.8%. One person's memory may not be reliable, but everyone's Memory is reality.”

The female knight of blood strolled forward.

Bai Yu looked at the crowd, raised his eyebrows and said, "Were you there at that time?"

"Yes." Mussel also saw her back. She was wearing a bare-back skirt, with a knight's sword attached to her back, standing upright.

"How long did this party last?"

"The whole night." Mussel said: "It starts when night falls and lasts until the sun rises the next day."

"When was the prince killed?"

"It was in the latter part of the night."

"No one has entered Opal Palace before?"

"No." Mussel said: "The more than 700 guests present all entered in advance. After the banquet started, the barrier was raised and the door was sealed. No one came in or out anymore."

"It's a secret room."

"The secret room...?" Mussel thought for a while: "It does seem like a closed room."

"This is a classic witnessing secret room." Bai Yu said lightly: "According to your statement, the entire first outer area of ​​Opal Palace is full of guests and full of sights, and the number of more than 700 guests The memory formed all-round coverage throughout the night, confirming that no one had entered or exited - so, this is the secret room... Jeanne, record it."

"OK, dear."

Jeanne took out the morning light stationery and jotted down a line - the first level of the Opal Palace is the secret room of more than 700 witnesses.

Bai Yu put his hand on his forehead.

Your identity has been exposed, so you don’t need to continue performing, right?

When he was about to speak, he saw the corners of Mussel's mouth raised on the side, and his eyes were quietly looking at this side, as if he was pleased.

...No, what are you happy about?

"Hmm!" The pure love warrior came back to his senses: "In fact, there is no need to investigate the outer layer. What is really important is the inside of Opal Hall."

At the main entrance of the Opal Hall, there are six sculptures of different shapes on the left and right, and there are also gargoyles staying on the top floor of the palace. Each of them looks very majestic.

"This is a standard feature of ancient dungeons. The gargoyle gatekeeper will automatically activate to deliver a fatal blow if an alien hostile life form is detected." Mussel said.

Bai Yu looked at the gargoyle: "Then why is there no response now and the power is unplugged?"

"The trigger objects of the ancient gargoyles do not include humans and vampires. Only some powerful and threatening creatures will activate it." Mussel said lightly: "Because humans are relatively weak, and they were usually the vampire's recipe in the past."

Bai Yu sighed: "Then the feeling of being ridden on top of your head by human beings now, isn't there a kind of beauty that is contrary to Tiangang?"

"You know how to chat." Mussel raised her hand and put it against the door. As a burst of magic light washed away, she took out a blood-red crystal stone. After the light scanned it, the door slowly opened.

"This item is the access voucher?" Bai Yu raised his eyebrows: "In that case, as long as you use this thing, you can open the main entrance of Opal Palace."

"This is the blood soul crystal of the royal family. I have said it before. Without the blood of the royal family, you cannot enter and leave the Opal Palace." Mussel shook his head and said: "The blood soul crystal is something that is left behind after death. All All the royal blood soul crystals are under the custody of the Senate, and this one was applied for to investigate the case. "

"So there was no blood soul crystal before?"

"No, even the elders have to go through the Elder Council to obtain it. Individuals cannot obtain it at all." Mussel said: "These questions are irrelevant. Even if the other party holds the blood soul crystal, it is impossible to open the door without being noticed. , there are more than 700 guests outside, so many pairs of eyes cannot be avoided. "

Bai Yu just said to Jeanne: "Record it."

Jeanne jotted down two items.

——The blood soul crystal after the death of the royal family can open the door to Opal Palace.

——The gatekeeper gargoyle will not trigger when facing humans and vampires.

After officially entering the Opal Hall, Bai Yu finally felt how the word "goudahu" was written.

"How does it feel?"

“There’s a beauty that makes you want to steal an ashtray.”

"It is true that ashtrays in the Platinum Palace are often stolen in the middle of winter." Mussel said: "But it's best not to do anything here. The wealth here belongs to the royal family. It is a crime to take anything out, and you You can’t take it out at all.”

"Why?"

"There is an anti-theft mechanism." Mussel said lightly: "Although I haven't tried it, I have heard that...the property that enters the Opal Palace is regarded as its property. Unless it is the prince, no one can Take it away and you will be cursed if you take it privately.”

While chatting, we entered the hall.

There were three people sitting in the hall.

The three beauties looked young, their eyes raised one after another and fell on the person coming.

Bai Yu looked at the red-haired girl closest to her, looked around her, and after turning around in a full circle, said: "Strange, why does this look so lifelike?"

"Sir..." The red-haired aristocratic girl took two steps back, pressed her chest and said, "Don't you think your behavior is offending me?"

Bai Yu: "..."

Jeanne said helplessly: "That's not a projection no matter how you look at it, it's a real person, my dear."

"I forgot to mention it." Mussel added appropriately: "The five people who participated in the blind date tonight are all staying in the Opal Hall. They are also the target of suspicion. In order to ensure that their family is not implicated, they can only stay. Cooperate with our investigation."

Bai Yu turned around: "So they stayed here for a full month?"

"Well, is there anything wrong?" Mussel asked, "It's nothing to live here for just one month. Many people don't have this opportunity."

...So what is your vampire's concept of time?

They are almost used to this race's outrageous view of time.

Mussel was about to introduce the three people in front of him, but was interrupted by Jeanne.

"It's better to call everyone over."

The Blood Knight thought for a while and agreed: "Go and call the other two people... where are they?"

"We are restricted by the oath, and the only areas where we can move are the hall and the bedroom." The black-haired girl answered.

The third girl responded the fastest: "I'll call someone."

Half a minute later, a scream came from upstairs.