He set off on the same day and traveled through the night. At noon the next day, a slightly tired Gray arrived at Sidney City.
As they entered the city of Sidney, they could hear the discussions of merchants and pedestrians everywhere. The content of the discussions was all related to the Sidney Family.
The contents of a few of their conversations attracted Gray's attention, and he couldn't help but stop.
"That sound was like thunder …"
A middle-aged man said.
"I thought it was raining, so I hurriedly got up to pack my clothes. Guess what I saw?"
"What did you see?"
Someone asked curiously.
"The sky was blue."
"Blue?"
"Right, the sky near Sidney Castle is actually blue. It's as if Sidney Castle is glowing."
The middle-aged man said with a serious face.
"That blue light flashed by, and then I heard a ferocious beast's roar. It was so loud that I almost went deaf, but it sounded like it was in pain."
"In pain?"
"Yes, it sounded like it was in pain, like an animal being whipped. It was obviously in pain."
…
After listening for a while, Gray did not hear any more useful information, so he rode toward Sidney Castle.
"Blue light, could it be the ability of a wind-type blood beast?"
He frowned slightly.
Generally speaking, those that showed blue light were mostly wind-type abilities. Of course, this was not absolute. Some abilities that were similar to wind-type abilities also showed blue light.
After riding for half an hour, a field appeared in front of Gray.
In the field, the most conspicuous thing was a mountain peak. There were cliffs on three sides of the mountain peak, and only one of the sides was slightly flat. The ground was paved with stone slabs that led to the top of the mountain.
At the top of the mountain, there was a large complex of buildings. That was Sidney Castle.
It was supposed to be a very majestic building complex, but at this time, there were obvious signs of severe collapse. The collapsed buildings could be seen from afar.
Riding up the mountain, he saw a building that was almost collapsed.
The walls had collapsed, the minaret was broken, and the houses were broken … It was hard to imagine that this was a magnificent building more than a month ago.
Jumping off the horse and walking into the ruins, Gray saw dried blood stains.
It stained the ground and splattered on the wall. It was a ghastly sight.
Some of the low-lying areas even formed a bay of blood.
One could only imagine what kind of tragic battle had taken place here.
From time to time, blood-stained rags could be seen cut off from the clothes, but there were no corpses.
Gray continued to walk forward and passed by a house that he had once lived in. At this time, the house had completely collapsed and the roof had fallen down.
He passed by another garden where he had chatted over tea with Zaloyan and Polly over a month ago.
At that time, Saroyan had solemnly warned him to be careful of the Wallen family, saying that the Wallen family was acting strangely. But he never thought that the Fergus family would not be attacked, but the Sidney family would be attacked and exterminated.
"At that time, it was said that the Wallen family was acting strangely … and then the Sidney family was wiped out. Could it really be the Wallen family who did it?
But the Wallen family should not have this kind of power. "
Recalling Zaloyan's solemn warning, Gray could not help but suspect that all this was the work of the Wallen family. But with the Wallen family's power, they should not have been able to do this to this extent.
Not to mention the strongest power of the Wallen family, the rune puppet with the strength of a Desolate Blood warrior would not have been able to be transported away quietly.
Even if it had been transported to Sidney Castle, it would at most be on par with the Sidney family's Copperback Dragon. It should not have had the ability to destroy the Sidney family.
"Could there be other forces involved?
Did the Wallen family join forces with other forces? "
If all this was really done by the Wallen family, then there must be other forces involved. Otherwise, with the strength of the Wallen family, it was absolutely impossible to destroy the Sidney family.
"That's right, the Sidney family still has a Barbarian Blood warrior overseeing the Stormwind Hills. I wonder how he is …"
Gray felt that this elder of the Sidney family was likely to have met with misfortune. After all, even a branch of the Sidney family had not been spared, let alone a Barbarian Blood warrior like him.
As he continued forward, a burnt smell wafted into Gray's nose. Already having a vague guess, Gray walked forward and immediately saw that the back garden of the Sidney family was charred black.
Amidst the charred marks, there were corpses piled up into a small mountain.
One of the corpses was extremely large, each bone extremely thick. That was the corpse of a Copperback Dragon.
"Destroying the corpses to destroy the evidence?"
Along the way, the houses that had obviously been deliberately destroyed, as well as the burnt corpses, all showed that the culprit was destroying the traces of battle. Obviously, they did not want anyone to trace their identity through the traces of battle.
After leaving the charred black garden, Gray walked around the ruins of Sidney Castle, trying to find some traces of battle. Unfortunately, the culprit had destroyed it so thoroughly that he could not find any traces of battle.
After a fruitless search, Gray left the castle ruins and came to Sidney City. He spent money to hire a few dozen people and had them bury the corpses of the Sidney family.
It was already impossible to distinguish who was who, so Gray could only bury the corpses together.
"Young Master, I found a basement."
A civilian who had been hired to bury the corpses came over and reported to Gray.
"Basement?
Take me there. "
Following the civilian, Gray saw a dark hole in the ruins.
This place should have been buried before, but it was dug up by the civilian. Gray could guess the other party's intention for doing this. It was nothing more than finding valuable things and making money from the dead.
After removing all the gravel covering the top of the cave, a slanted staircase appeared. Taking out a simple rune lamp from his ring, Gray walked down.
After descending for about a few dozen meters, a passage appeared in front of Gray.
Walking down the passage, he soon saw many shining silver blades on the ground. There were also burn marks, which should be the result of the rune mechanism being activated.
Continuing forward, he suddenly saw several rooms made of stone. In the room, there were cabinets and boxes.
But at this time, all of them were opened, and there was nothing left inside.
In front of him was a stone wall, and there was no road.
"This should be the Sidney family's treasure vault."
It was clear that this was the Sidney family's treasure vault, but it had already been visited by the people who destroyed the Sidney family, and everything had already been moved away.
"The Sidney family should also have an escape route …"
This basement made Gray think of an escape route. Maybe someone had escaped through the escape route.
After leaving the basement, Gray hurriedly called the civilians and had them continue to search the castle. After a few hours, another basement was found.
Walking down the stairs, a huge space appeared before his eyes. In the space, there was food, water, blankets, and even a bed. This should be the basement where the Sidney family hid from danger.
After the space, there was a deep passage. Gray walked along the passage.
"There are footprints!"
Suddenly, Gray discovered that there were many footprints on the ground of this passage.
"Did someone successfully escape, or did the people who destroyed the Sidney family leave these behind?"
After pondering for a moment, Gray quickly walked along the passage.
After walking for more than a hundred meters, a huge black metal door blocked the way.
"The escape route's mechanism has been lowered?"
Looking at the black metal door, Gray's face flashed with a hint of surprise.
The escape route's mechanism had been lowered, which meant that this passage had been used before.
Who would use this passage?
The answer was self-evident.
"Could it be that the Marquis and the others have already escaped, but are hiding to avoid being discovered by the enemy?"
Holding the rune lamp, Gray carefully sized up the black metal wall.
He saw that there were scratches on the black metal wall.
"Someone from the Sidney family must have escaped through this place."
Seeing these marks, Gray was even more certain that someone from the Sidney family had successfully escaped.
These marks must have been left by the people who wanted to destroy the Sidney family. They wanted to break through this metal wall, but the metal wall's hardness was beyond imagination, and these people did not succeed in the end.
After leaving the ruins of Sidney Castle and re-entering Sidney City, Gray quietly left Sidney City after receiving the Ferocious Wolf's blood from the branch of the Rex Chamber of Commerce.
In the process, Gray met other noble families who came to investigate. Gray only greeted them calmly and did not say anything else.
He did not spread the news that someone from the Sidney family might still be alive.
He did not know if those people had already left Sidney City. If they knew that he already knew that someone from the Sidney family was still alive, and that he wanted to save the Sidney family, the Fergus family might be in trouble.
He had to save them, but he had to do it secretly. He could not let them know that the Fergus family was saving them.
He still had some confidence in this. On the way to Sidney City, he had already set up several teleportation points in secret places.
As long as he met up with the people who escaped from the Sidney family, he could use these teleportation points to secretly bring the survivors of the Sidney family to the Fergus family and hide them.