Chapter 703 (2/2)

A flurry of crossbow bolts caain Over a hundred bolts for in there, even a sparroould have to give up on living

With that test done, Xia Lei came to the entrance of the pathway on the left This was the correct pathhich da Vinci had indicated on the map However, he still didn’t step into it He took the helmet off the head of the Crusader and threw it into the passageway The heled when it hit the floor, but there was silence in the left passageway No crossbow bolts caered

Xia Lei’s left eye twitched, activating his X-ray ability He raised his light stick and walked in He observed the situation before hi his X-ray vision He had not discovered any traps in the stone walls and the floor under hieas indeed a safe one

The left passageway caeway entrances appeared

A pile of Crusader corpses lay in the eeways

These Crusaders had not been killed by crossbow bolts They had been felled in battle Swords stuck out of some of the corpses, and so rolled to one side Soruesoaze went to a shi+eld; a coat of arms He sahat looked like a cross pattern made of arrows, andIn that instant, some related infornia of the Knights Hospitaller The hts Hospitaller

The Knights Hospitaller had been a very iether with the Teutonic Order and the Knights Tehts Hospitaller were the top three orders of knights of their period In the prihts Hospitaller, they established the Crusader States Jerusalehts Hospitaller remained on the island of Malta, and became the last Crusader force of their time They still existed today, but they had been renahts of Malta

These corpses ht da Vinci had placed those corpses there on purpose earlier to lure people into taking the wrong path, but it now looks like that was not it These Crusaders had forced their way in, and battled in here…’

Xia Lei’s thoughts came to a halt at the word ‘battle’ and a new question popped in his head

Only the corpses of the Crusaders were in here, and there were no corpses of their enemy This was the problehts Hospitallers kill themselves? If they had indeed killed theaze over the bodies and it soon stopped on one of the bodies He walked over, and reached out to take a leather bag fro had been treated with oil, and was not dae of ti looked very clean, even a little tough The insignia of the Knights Hospitaller was on the leather bag too

Xia Lei opened up the leather bag and took out its contents

There were so, and a silver cross as well as an unopened letter The letter was still sealed ax, and the stahts Hospitaller was on it

Xia Lei opened the letter and read its contents: Leader, ere ambushed in Bobbio We are severely injured but we defeated the enemy We have found the maze in the north of Bobbio I have to admit that this Leonardo fellow is the smartest eway I should send this letter before going in, but er is dead I have decided to enter the maze first in order to avoid accidental or incidental battle I shall send this to you e cohts Hospitaller, and victory shall go to us for the Kingdoned: Silver Baron of God, Your Loyal Knight, Valleta

Xia Lei’s eyes stayed on four Italian words after he read the latter Metal of the Gods

The words were not the sa that this “ht’s letter was the ancient alloy

The Knights Hospitaller had come to this place for the ancient alloy!

Xia Lei’s heart thuht Could the last alloy piece be at the botto that da Vinci left behind was the last alloy piece?

If that really was so, then the risk he was taking on this trip was entirely worth it!

‘Hold on…’ Xia Lei suddenly thought of the compass, and his excitement halved ‘That compass could point to where the ancient alloy pieces were hidden without fail, and was evenThe last compass needle had pointed up to the sky when it was put on the compass, and never pointed in the direction of Italy How can this maze hold the last alloy piece? Could the inforhts Hospitaller received be false? Or could it be some other reason?’

Whoosh…

A chill wind suddenly blew