58. Tears
The silent night soaks into the imperial capital like water.
Looking down at the imperial capital from a high place, the street lights weave a brightly colored light net in the city.
Mo Xiang and I left the Imperial Capital Magic Research Institute and walked out of the Tower of Arrogance.
There are many citizens gathering in front of some pavilions in the street market, and the whole street is filled with the aroma of food.
Walk through several stalls full of exquisite handicrafts and walk along the arc-shaped corridor of the square to the street.
A carriage inlaid with gold ornaments was parked on the street. The hollow gold reliefs highlighted the luxury of the carriage. The Mo family emblem was hung in front of the carriage.
We came to the front of the carriage, and the door of the carriage was pushed open from the inside. A delicate and beautiful face stuck out from the inside. First, it passed by Mo Xiang's face, and then nodded at me.
She is Mo Xiang's personal maid. I have met her several times before. The thing that impressed her the most was that she had two hard armored fist gloves hanging on her belt. I can't figure out why this soft-looking girl chose a cold profession like a fighter.
The magic caravan drove along Yulin Street all the way to Lakeside Avenue, which is not too far from James' Lakeside Manor.
When the carriage drove into the manor gate, it vaguely saw the ancient castle built on a high place in the manor. In the night, the general outline was visible. The castle was brightly lit. The carriage drove forward for a distance along a flat stone road. It did not stop in front of the castle steps, but walked along the stone road around the huge building complex and drove behind the castle.
"For so many years, the display needs to be displayed in the exhibition hall. I had moved from the castle basement to an independent building in the back garden ten years ago." Mo Xiang sat opposite me and explained.
I nodded a little reservedly.
The personal maid next to him seemed to be very curious about me, and kept looking at me all the way.
The magic caravan passed by a garden. There were colorful lights in it. There were cheerful music and laughter from women. From time to time, there were bursts of exclamations. It looked very lively, but it was blocked by a wall of shrubs. Only people could see the garden rushing. Some waiters kept walking into the garden with trays filled with wine glasses.
"Who is holding a dance party?" Mo Xiang narrowed his eyes and looked over there, and asked the maid beside him.
The close-fitting maid was briskly speaking, her flexible fingers kept flipping. I couldn't even see her movements clearly. It turned out that she was actually a mute.
"Is it Jessica? Is that little girl going to attend the adult ceremony this year? Time flies so fast!" Mo Xiang was very familiar with these sign languages, and then said with a slight sigh.
Just next to the shrub wall in the back garden, Mo Xiang pointed to the lively scene inside and asked me: "Do you want to attend a dance later? Maybe you will meet a girl you like."
The organ played cheerful music, and you could see many girls wearing beautiful skirts in the square in the garden. However, when I thought that this was in the Mo family, I said to Mo Xiang: "Forget it, I don't want to meet William."
Mo Xiang smiled at me disrespectfully, and the carriage continued to drive forward. Mo Xiang took his eyes off the window and said to me: "Anotherwise, William has grown a lot this year and has become more calm. In the past, he always claimed to be a dragon blood mage, and his eyes are inevitably a little arrogant. Now he is at least not so arrogant anymore. He has been sent to the Kenda plane to take turns and will stay there for at least a year."
Turning around this back garden, a huge building with dark tones appears in the night.
Mo Xiang pointed to the building in front and said, "Oh, we're here..."
The magic caravan parked under the steps.
The coachman opened the car door diligently, and Mo Xiang and I walked out of the magic caravan one after another.
There is a huge square building in front of me. The surface of the gray stone wall is covered with green vines. There are two bronze statues in front of the steps. On the left, a warrior wearing armor, holding a long sword and a shield. On the right, there is a ranger holding a spear with an archer on his back. A giant stone door five meters high appeared at the end of the stone steps. The handles of the two round arched stone doors are beast-headed copper rings. There are two magic wall lamps on both sides of the stone door, but the light is a bit dim.
There are no guards outside the building.
Mo Xiang took me up the stone steps and introduced to me: "This is the demon species showroom you want to visit. There are almost thousands of demon specimens of all sizes. There are more specimens of lower demons and more detailed information. If you want to dissect them on the spot, there should be demon creatures such as double-headed hell hunting dogs and sheep-headed monsters. The higher demons basically have some specimens. After the connection channel on the Wala Valley was sealed, the dungeons on the family were basically idle."
There are some sculptures of figures on the stone pillars on both sides of the steps, which look lifelike.
A group of waiters came from the castle. When we walked up the steps, the waiters also rushed to the front of the building.
The leader was a middle-aged housekeeper. After seeing Mo Xiang, he saluted respectfully, then looked at me politely and nodded slightly to me.
Mo Xiang said to the middle-aged butler: "Butler Aberta, please turn on all the lights in the exhibition hall. My friend and I want to go inside and take a look."
"Okay, I'll serve you right now. What other instructions do you have?" said the housekeeper in Green Empire in a standard imperial capital accent. This is my most annoying accent. William, Ivan, Diego and the magicians from the Imperial Capital Gang of the Magic Academy all speak in this tone...
Mo Xiang patted his stomach and said to the middle-aged housekeeper: "Then prepare some wine and some food for us, and whatever you want."
The middle-aged butler couldn't help but look at me, and then said, "Tonight, the kitchen has prepared roasted salamander shoulder and neck meat meatballs. I asked the kitchen to prepare a dish of cream mushroom soup for you. What do you think?"
I am worthy of being a wealthy noble family. My dinner is made of some Warcraft ingredients, and it sounds good. I heard that eating Warcraft meat regularly can subtly improve my physical condition. However, in my opinion, white bread, mashed potato beef soup and golden cider can also improve physical condition. The ingredients on those Warcraft are nothing special except for being more precious.
"Yes, just eat this, it's better to have some desserts." Mo Xiang glanced at the maid behind him and added.
At this time, a waiter had already walked to the front and slowly pushed open the heavy stone door.
The middle-aged butler asked Mo Xiang again: "So where are you going to have a meal? Here in the showroom? Or should you arrange a restaurant for you in the castle?"
The stone gate opened inside with the push of two servants, and made a series of sounds of gear choking. It was pitch black inside. The two servants took two torches from the wall at the door, held them in their hands and walked into the building first, and lit up the magic wall lamp inside along the way.
"Just in the restaurant!" Mo Xiang ordered the butler before entering the door.
"Affect your instructions." said the middle-aged butler respectfully.
Mo Xiang waved his hand at the butler and signaled him to prepare: "Okay, that's all, maybe we'll stay in it later."
Then Marquis Mo Xiang led me into the demon creature exhibition hall.
Returning to the imperial capital from Haiyuan City, I always remembered the words that the devil on the nameless island said to me: 'Where is your horn?'
The meaning of his words was as if there should be a demon's horn on my head, so I searched for information in the library of the Royal Academy of Magic, read some books introducing demons, and compared them with myself according to the demons introduced in the book. I felt that I was not very much like a demon, at least I had an essential difference in body structure.
But...if I was not a demon, the demon seemed to have no reason to give me such a potion plantation located on the ‘Knot of Time’.
These days, I accompanied Ying Li to the Potion Plantation almost every day and found that the axe belly was actually chopped out with a sharp axe. The axe marks left on the stone walls were clearly visible, and a very obscure lighting mouth was also dug up on the top of the mountain so that the herb garden in the mountain could get some sunshine and sunshine. The preciousness of time was self-evident. Moreover, many herbs in the Potion Plantation had entered the maturity stage, which was the best time to collect.
At this time, the demon gave me the herbal plantation...it made me unable to stop thinking about it.
I couldn't find the answer in the library, so I went to ask Scholar Sean. Unfortunately, Scholar Sean said that he knew elemental creatures very well, but he didn't know much about the demons in hell. Later, Scholar Sean told: The Mo family, which fought against the demons on the Kenda plane, has the most comprehensive demon race exhibition hall in the Imperial Capital Manor.
This is the original reason why I made an appointment with Mo Xiang. I didn’t expect to enter this exhibition hall so soon.
After walking around a rock screen, my eyes suddenly became clear. A showroom worth thousands of square meters appeared in front of me. Two servants holding torches quickly lit up the magic wall lamps around the wall. The general outline of the entire stone chamber appeared in front of me. Stone platforms, round or square, were filled with specimens of magic creatures of all sizes, and those specimens were preserved quite intact.
Mo Xiang took me into the showroom from the left passage. There was a circular pool with a diameter of ten meters in front of me. It was planted with Ye Meilu. It seemed that I felt someone approaching. Ye Meilu in the pool opened its big mouth full of sharp teeth, and bright flowers bloomed on its mouth. There was also a dead tree without leaves in the middle of the pool, but the dead branches were full of strange fruits like mummy heads.
Mo Xiang stood by the pool, took a spear from his servant, and picked up the flower on the head of Ye Meiluo by the pool. The Ye Meiluo immediately opened her mouth and bit the spear in one mouthful. Her sharp teeth bit the spear made of steel, and some sparks burst out.
Mo Xiang introduced to me: "This is the lowest invasive species of the demon race. The night pineapple that can grow wildly in any environment. They can absorb nutrients from the soil and set up traps to catch prey. However, this thing is very fragile and will only cause harm to ordinary residents. The tree in the middle is the most common corpse tree in the Hell Demon World. This tree uses corpses as nutrients. It can produce a fruit on the branches by absorbing a corpse. Although it is motionless now, it is actually bound to the spot by magic circles. This corpse tree can actually run freely on the ground. The weapon it has is entangled with vines, but they are just cleaners on the battlefield and have no combat power."
I have never seen a corpse tree, but I know these Ye Meiluo.
Mo Xiang led me forward. A row of glass containers as thick as buckets were placed beside the wall, which was only about one meter high. They were placed on a wooden shelf. The container was filled with light green anticorrosion liquid. Each glass container was soaked with a reddish brown meat ball. The limbs could be distinguished, but there was no head, but there was only a big mouth on the abdomen.
On the other side was a row of wooden boxes, with round stone platforms above the boxes. The Hellhounds covered with gray volcanic rocks were made into specimens and stood on the platform. It seemed like there were two rubies in their eye sockets.
Mo Xiang pointed to the meat ball in the container and said to me: "This is a caveman. There are a large number of such cave creatures in the connection passage of the Wala Valley. They usually use moss as food. Once they eat Ye Meiluo, they will go crazy. This thing has strong fertility... Hellhound..."
Mo Xiang knew the characteristics of these low-level demon creatures. When talking about how to hunt the hell hunting dog, Mo Xiang seemed very experienced. He said to me: "These hell hunting dogs have only one stubborn mind and can only snatch when fighting. As long as they can master a little bit of the fighting rhythm, ordinary people can defeat it. The moment it pounces on, just aim the spear in its hand at its mouth and stab it, and with this moment of impulse, the spear tip of the spear can easily penetrate it from its anus...."
Actually, I really want to tell him, I am a water magician! There is no need to fight in close combat, just nail it to the ground with an ice gun from a distance.
Ordinary hellhound...
Walking further forward, a sheep-headed monster was placed on a sarcophagus. Its head was completely the head of a goat, but its torso was in human form. Its arms looked very strong, but its legs were sheep's hooves. The chest of the sheep-headed monster was cut open, and the internal organs inside the chest were hollowed out. Seeing the curved sheep horns above its head, I couldn't help but stretch out my hand to touch it.
Seeing that I was particularly curious about Sheep Horn, Mo Xiang asked me enthusiastically: "The Sheep Head Monster... By the way, there are still several Sheep Head Monsters locked in the dungeon. Do you want to dissect one and see the structure inside their bodies?"
Dissecting a sheep-headed monster? I thought about it for a moment, then shook my head firmly, pointed to the sheep-headed monster's mummy and said, "Just look at these specimens on the stage. Are these the most common low-level demons?"
Mo Xiang explained to me: "Yes, the two-headed Hell Hound over there is a variant of the Hell Hound. Although it only has one more head, its strength has increased by a lot and it has been divided into the ranks of medium-sized demons, Ge Ge, Succubus..."
Chapter completed!