Vol 2 Chapter 498: pretender

The old man watched Pandora drink all the hot water, and he was stunned. Fortunately, Richard chatted in time to bring the old man's sight over and said: "This old gentleman, let me talk about the castle, just now. When I saw the two of me coming out, the reaction was a bit abnormal. What happened?"
"Well, what about this." The old man settled, and then hesitated, "How can this be good..."
"Say whatever you want," Richard said.
"Okay..." The old man took a deep breath and said slowly.
After a while, Richard learned a lot of things.
The old man in front of him is the head of the current Arubak village. According to the old man, the castle existed before the village, and no one knew when it was built.
It's strange to say that although the castle has always existed, it has never seen people come in and out, it seems to have been vacant, but at night, we can occasionally see some of the castle's windows showing light, like haunting.
Some courageous youths in the village once bravely ventured into the castle to explore what was going on...but...
"Goodong—" The old man swallowed, his face showing a horrified expression, and slowly said the result, "but... as long as he entered the castle, no one could come out alive."
"There is such a thing?"
"Yes." The old man tried to calm down his emotions, picked up his cup of oatmeal tea, took a sip, and said very seriously, "That's why I was just so scared when I saw you and this little girl coming out of the castle , Thought you were... goo... ghosts."
"Ghost?" Li Cha smiled. "We are not ghosts. Ghosts cannot always be active during the day, old sir?"
"That's true." The old man nodded, agreeing, "No matter how bold the ghosts are, they won't come out until night. Then who are you and why should you enter that castle?"
"This matter is a bit more complicated to say, but in brief, someone told me an address. I followed the address to find the place. Then I saw the castle and went in. After reading it, I found that the castle was empty. , Had to come out, hoping to find some other clues, and then saw you."
"If you really want to find any clues or people, I would recommend you to take a look at a few big cities nearby." The old man said, giving advice in good faith.
"A big city nearby?"
"Yes." The old man nodded. "For example, Aga City in the north, Dur City in the south, or Morton City in the east. There are more people there and there are a variety of characters that may help you find what you want. The person you are looking for."
Richard listened and blinked, thinking and nodding: "It makes sense, thank you very much."
"You're welcome," the old man said, "but please allow me not to send you away. After all, my old bone can't stand tossing. Just because of the fear of running, the whole person feels about to fall apart. Now the whole body is hurting. It’s awesome. Coolness keeps drilling into the bones. You have to drink more hot tea to warm your body.

Talking, the old man shook his hands slightly and picked up the wooden cup, sipping and sipping.
Richard stood up smilingly and said to the old man: "Yes, old gentleman, you have a good rest. I won't disturb you, so I will leave. By the way, please accept this silver coin. It is my gratitude. "Speaking, Richard put a silver coin on the table."
Old man: "Uh..."
At the next moment, Richard nodded at the old man and said nothing more. He took Pandora and turned and walked out of the thatched hut to the distance.
In the thatched house, the old man saw Richard leave, slowly stood up, glanced at the silver coins on the table and reached for it, and then walked to the door.
Seeing the direction of Richard's departure, the old man's eyes flickered, and he didn't know what he was thinking, and the silver coins kept turning in his hands.
For a moment, the old man suddenly remembered an inadvertent thing, his face slightly changed, and with a "pop", the silver coin in his hand was instantly crushed.
"It's broken!" the old man said, "Say the wrong thing! But...the kid might not notice it."
"Well, there should be no awareness." The old man said in a deep voice, slowly backing, closing the door of the house, and sitting at the wooden table, his expression fluctuating, "There should be a high probability of no awareness, it should..."
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the other side.
Richard and Pandora walked out of the village, and Richard was thinking about whether to settle down in a nearby city as the old man said. In this way, you can search for Hei Ling, the cat slave girl, while studying things and exploring the secrets of the Black Spirit King.
Thinking this way, Li Cha blinked and suddenly said: "No!"
"Huh?" Pandora, who followed her, tilted her head, looked at Richard suspiciously, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"That old man is wrong," Richard said. "I remember I didn't tell him. I was looking for someone. I just said I was looking for some clues. In this case, how did he know that the purpose of my clue search was Looking for someone? And tell me, where can I find the people I want to find in Aga, Dur, Morton?"
Pandora's eyes widened and hesitated: "Are you... asking me?"
Richard didn't respond, turned his head to look aside, and said to himself: "There is obviously only one explanation. The old man should have known my purpose for a long time. He pretended to be like that. Maybe he was the one in the castle. , Knowing where the people in the old castle went, deliberately guiding me to the wrong place."
After saying this, Richard's eyes must be fixed, pulling Pandora back to the way.
"go!"
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After a few minutes.
Richard reappeared in front of the familiar thatched house~EbookFREE.me~ squeaky" and pushed open the door.
In the thatched house, the old man was sitting behind the table, drinking tea. Hearing the door opening, he slowly lowered the tea cup and looked up. After seeing Richard, there was no change in his expression, but he asked slowly, "What are you doing here?"
"I want to make sure of one thing." Richard stared into the old man's eyes. "That is, old gentleman, how do you know that I am looking for someone without telling you'I am looking for someone'?" "
The old man said silently, half-soundingly: "Are you trying to determine this? Or, have you already determined?"
"So, do you admit that you are lying to me?"
"Boy, since you can see it, then the smartest way is not to debunk it all." The old man said, Rick's body gradually straightened, and a dark and cold breath emanated from the body, "Everything that exists is It’s reasonable that doing things so rashly as you will only make things worse."
"How bad?"
"It's as bad as it is now!" the old man shouted, waving a lot of black gas. ()