Chapter 557

Mu En sneered and stood up holding Celecia's arm.

Celcia had a cold face and wanted to throw away the dirty hands of this bastard scumbag, but with a casual glance, she discovered that the paleness on his face was actually real and had not faded away.

In the end, he didn't let go.

"found it?"

"found it."

Mu En curled her lips and looked deep into the dark corridor, "It's quite hidden."

If he hadn't been able to gain confidence directly from the soul, the two of them might have been searching here for a lifetime and still not be able to find the location.

After finding the location, the two of them didn't stop any longer and walked all the way to the depths of the corridor, following the scenes in Mu En's memory.

Along the way, I encountered two more patrolling vigilantes, and they were quietly dealt with again.

Then come to the end of the corridor.

The road bends sharply here and turns to the right. If you walk along here, you will find that it has gone around in a full circle and will eventually return to the same place.

Because this is a circular corridor, it seems to be a place for supervision to prevent the workers inside from being lazy. There is only one entrance.

"here?"

Celecia looked at the empty surroundings and asked.

"here."

Mu En nodded and replied.

He let go of Celcia's hand and walked towards the wall.

In fact, with the mental strength he had gained from long-term training in the black book, the tingling sensation just now has long been recovered. But since Celcia was kind, he didn't say anything. The touch of the arrogant iceberg girl was indeed Indescribably wonderful.

Mu En slowly squatted down, leaned against the wall, groped for a while, and then raised his eyebrows slightly.

Immediately afterwards, a faint light condensed in his palm, forming a small spotlight, shining on the place he had just groped.

A gap that is invisible to the naked eye appears under the concentrated light.

"Secret door?"

"It seems so. There is also disguise magic. If it were not under strong light, it would not be visible at all."

"I see, it is indeed very hidden. Then if you open the door... a strong attack... it will definitely not work."

Celicia's eyebrows were beautifully raised. If they forced the door open, they would definitely be alerted, but they haven't found anything useful yet.

"Do you know the mechanism or key to open the door?"

"have no idea."

Mu En replied:

"But I have a way."

"There is a way?"

Celcia was slightly surprised:

"I don't know the structure of the door, and I don't even know if there is a key...how do you open the door?"

"Haha, as long as it's a door, I can open it!"

Mu En chuckled confidently.

"Can the door be opened?"

Celcia's cold and pretty face couldn't help but have a hint of weirdness, no matter how hard she heard this sentence, she didn't want to believe it.

But not long after, even she was stunned for a moment.

Because she saw Mu En asking her for a very fine ice needle condensed with ice, inserting it into the gap of the secret door, tapping gently while listening, and after a few random tinkerings, she even soaked it. Not even a cup of coffee is used...

The secret door opened with a creak.

Those skilled techniques, those deft movements, that professional attitude of the old man who was leaning on the door and listening intently to his buttocks... It's hard to imagine how he would be so proficient if he hadn't been immersed in this art for a long time.

If he could open this secret door so easily, I'm afraid even the vault under the Imperial Bank wouldn't be able to stop him.

"How can you, the son of a duke, have such skills?"

Celcia narrowed her beautiful eyes:

"Is this also a skill that makes it easier for you to spy?"

Invisibility, concealment, and lock-picking. The son of a duke, how come all his skills are for doing sneaky things?

It's hard not to think in the wrong direction.

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, really misunderstanding."

Mu En sighed helplessly:

"I don't want to master this kind of skill. I am really forced to do so by my family's vast collection of books."

Celcia:? ? ?

She became more and more confused as to what this had to do with the collection of books. Could it be that the Duke's collection of books was all about unlocking, theft, and livestock breeding?

Mu En did not continue speaking, but turned around and pointed, sending a ray of light into the secret door.

The secret door gradually became brighter, and a staircase leading downward appeared in front of the two people.

Mu En probed his head, observed carefully, and then raised his head:

"Let's go, it doesn't look like there's any trap in there."

"Um."

Celecia nodded imperceptibly, but her cold eyes still stayed on Mu En's back.

……never mind.

There will be plenty of opportunities to ask about these things later, so let’s focus on business first.

After the two men temporarily reset the secret door, they went down the stairs that didn't know how deep they were.

The lights were bright and the footsteps were silent. Although there were no traps or warnings on the stairs as Mu En had discovered, the two people's vigilance was raised to the highest level.

"What is this fog?"

Mu En gathered her energy and cautiously looked at the layer of gray mist under the circular stairs.

The stairs behind the secret door are already abnormally long, and this layer of gray fog appearing in a place like this looks even more abnormal.

"The gray mist looks a bit familiar..."

Celecia put her hand on her chin and thought for a while. Then she turned her palm over and a small mechanical bird appeared in her palm.

The mechanical bird's gears rotated, its wings fluttered, and after flying around the layer of fog, it clicked in the fog again, and finally returned to Celcia's hands.

Celcia looked at the mechanical bird carefully, nodded and said:

"There are no poisons or other dangers."

"That's good."

Mu En breathed a sigh of relief and continued moving forward.

But this time, after taking only a few steps, his pace stopped again.

"What's wrong?"

Celcia asked in a bad tone, almost hitting his back.

"There is no way."

Mu En pointed forward.

"No way?"

Celecia looked sideways, and sure enough, in the direction of Mu En's finger, the staircase had been broken for some reason, leaving no way for them to go down.

"Why is there no way?"

"Wrong way?"

"No, it seems to me that we are in exactly the right place."

Celcia's cold eyes once again scanned the dim space where the stairs were, not missing any clues.

But there is actually nothing else here. In the empty space, there is only this downward staircase and those...

"Grey mist?"

Celecia murmured again, with an unspeakable glimmer in her eyes.

She seemed to understand something in an instant.

"Jump down."

"What?"

Mu En Wei Zheng looked at the bottomless darkness, thinking that he had heard wrong.

"Jump."

But there was no doubt in Celcia's tone.

Mu En looked back and saw that Celcia's expression was as cold as ever, with no emotional fluctuations visible.

Mu En was just stunned for a moment, and then nodded with a smile.

"If you ask me to jump, I will jump."

After saying that, he really jumped directly downwards without any hesitation.

Looking at the place where Mu En disappeared, Celcia couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth slightly.

"Fool."

The indifferent voice drifted into the breeze, and Celcia held her umbrella lightly and jumped up.

…

There was chaos all around.

Perception is blurred.

It was just as if there were countless grand bells ringing in his ears vaguely.

At this moment, Mu En felt like she was stuffed into a drum washing machine, and her body and soul were thrown away, giving the illusion of separation.

Or maybe a big hand from hell was pulling him down, down.

I don't know how long it took, but Mu En finally felt the physical touch. He rolled awkwardly on the ground a few times, took a few deep breaths, and spent a lot of effort to regain some consciousness from his extremely dizzy consciousness.

He looked around. He seemed to be in a dark building. He couldn't see the surrounding layout for the time being. He could only vaguely see some gloomy silhouettes. But when he looked up, he could clearly see the surging sea of ​​clouds above his head. A huge black mist.

Wow.

There was movement behind her. Celecia landed leisurely with an umbrella in a posture that was hundreds of times more elegant than Mu En. Looking at her appearance, it seemed as if... she had experience with this kind of thing.

"Where is this?"

Mu En asked:

"You seem to know each other."

"here……"

Celcia also raised her head and looked at the billowing gray fog above her head. She was silent for a moment, and her tone had an indescribable meaning:

"This is the Shadow of Belland."

"Shadow of Belland?"

Mu En frowned. This was the first time he heard the words.

"It's normal that you haven't heard of it, because it's not something that Belland originally has."

"That is……"

"This... is the false place and shadow city built by Silent Moon in order to devour Belland with its own authority. It is the place of shadow that reflects the light of Belland, that is... …Shadow of Belland.”

"The Silent Moon..."