Chapter 9 Chapter 5 The Castle (Part 2)

Conrad said that ignorance is the human condition, like the ubiquitous air, filling all around people. The ignorance of the mysterious situation in front of you can make people more cautious, and it can also make people fearful and stagnant.I looked at the open door and was stunned for more than ten seconds.Lin Zhiyan shrank her neck and hid behind Li Mengyue at an inhuman speed. How heavy was her psychological shadow? "It's haunted, how could the door open by itself!" Lin Zhiyan was startled. "The collapsed gate in the front yard can be restored by itself, so it's no surprise that the door in the main hall opens by itself."

I complained with a wry smile, and looked inside under the bloody moonlight. At 5:30 in the afternoon, the moonlight had already climbed to the position of three o'clock, and the scarlet dim light swayed on the ground, and a trace of it just shot into the open door. The hall of the castle is magnificent and spacious, with wooden reliefs everywhere. The space in the hall is large enough to accommodate at least a thousand people for a ball, but the floor is covered with dust, and the furniture is mottled and eroded by the years. I don't think this place has been inhabited for at least hundreds of years.

"I think the key is definitely not hidden in the castle, maybe somewhere in the garden." Lin Zhiyan looked at the ground timidly, "The dust on the ground is already very thick, there are no traces of being trampled on, and the gate has not been opened. I'll go back and find a way to climb out of the fence, maybe I can use a knife Power up the helicopter and fly straight to your destination!" "This place is weird. Best to leave." Li Mengyue agreed with the old woman's words unexpectedly. The blood-colored moonlight crawled out of the ground with a liquid-like visual effect, and I even had the illusion of smelling blood. The dust on the ground seemed to be flowing with blood, which was very evil.

"Xiaoye, let's go." Lin Zhiyan pulled me, "Even if a vampire suddenly jumped out of this castle, I wouldn't be surprised at all." "Ok." I nodded, dismissing the idea of ​​finding out. The ancient castle is extremely strange, full of indescribable evil aura, it is unknown who its former owner was, but the fact that it has been abandoned for a long time is definitely in front of us. The three of them carefully walked down the stairs leading to the front garden. Although the outer wall of the castle is indeed very high, and the vines that can be climbed turned into fly ash for some reason, but if they really want to climb out, the guardian girl should be able to do so. do it.There is a rope on the helicopter. When the time comes, let her throw the rope over the wall, and the old woman and I can escape.

I was thinking while stepping on the stairs.Facts have proved that the idea is very plump, and the fact is very skinny!Strange things happened right under our noses—the stairs from the main entrance to the garden were not high at all, only five steps, but when we passed the last step, our vision blurred suddenly, and the scene in our eyes blurred. become confused. The gray and decayed weeds in the garden disappeared in the eyes, replaced by the open front door, reliefs, thick dust and furniture.Lin Zhiyan rubbed her eyes, and said in surprise, "Why did we go back to the gate of the castle hall?"

I looked at the things in front of me silently. There was nothing wrong. The three of us turned our heads back to the garden, but we only walked a few meters. Not only did we not step on the ground of the garden, but we turned 360 degrees. The circle, back to the original point... how did this happen?Is there a problem with these simple five steps? Carefully stepping on the steps on the soles of his feet with his shoes, a solid echo came from his ears.The steps are made of nearby stone, solid, not to mention what mechanism can play tricks in just five steps? "Old woman, you go and have a look again."

I ordered. "don't want!" "Where did your usual courage go? Did it get picked up by a dog!" I angrily turned my head to look at the guardian girl, "Mengyue, you go down." Li Mengyue nodded obediently, and went down the stairs at a very fast speed without saying a word.This time it went smoothly, I watched her white clothes sway in the air, and then gently stood in the garden. "Strange, no problem_." I looked at Lin Zhiyan again, "You should go and see." The old woman looked tangled and struggling. She looked at me and then at Li Mengyue. She felt that the garden was safer, so she walked down cautiously.After walking the five steps for more than a minute, without any accident, she also went down and stood beside Li Mengyue.

"It's really no problem." I kept watching Lin Zhiyan's footsteps without blinking. The steps are fine, and she is fine.Was it just a coincidence? I couldn't figure it out, and slowly climbed down the steps.There are five steps, each fifty centimeters wide, and the total distance is only two meters five. I crossed this distance not long after walking, at most ten seconds, but a strange thing happened again, just as I took the last step, When he was about to get close to the cold and beautiful face of the guardian girl and the tangled face of the old woman, there was another flower in front of his eyes, and he returned to the door of the hall, with his face facing the hall and his back to his two companions.

I stepped on the ground with a flustered step, and almost fell into the hall.I couldn't hide my surprise at all, Li Mengyue rushed to my side anxiously, and grabbed my arm tightly, as if if I let go, I would disappear forever. Lin Zhiyan also wrapped her coat tightly tremblingly, and walked up, "Xiao Ye, this castle seems to be targeting you." "You don't need to tell me, I figured it out!" It's true that I don't need to be reminded by others, I can detect it myself.After all, there is nothing wrong with the guardian girl and the old woman going on, but as soon as I want to leave, strange things will happen. Jiandao, there is a secret related to me hidden in this castle?

It’s so nonsense, I am a native Chinese, I was born in an inaccessible mountain bump, I went to the prosperous Spring City with my father when I was a few years old, and I only went to Germany to study for less than four years, I don’t know how deserted I am now I don’t know how many years, the old castle located in the remote part of Norway, how could it be related to me! But it just aimed at me and refused to let me leave. In the next hour or so, Li Mengyue, Lin Zhiyan, and I tried many methods, but as long as I act together with them, they can't leave the steps, and if I stay still, they can go down smoothly. Without exception.I tossed and tossed until Lin Zhiyan and I sat down on the steps weakly, panting heavily.

"I really can't find any other way. It seems that this ancient castle will require you to go in and visit it." Lin Zhiyan gave up, she curled her lips, a little annoyed. "It seems that this is the only way, I can only go in." I moved my eyes to the door of the hall of the ancient castle. In the dark hall, the blood-red moonlight divided it into two distinct parts.The evil breath flowed out along the open door, which was chilling. Regardless of whether it is a blessing or a curse to enter, you can only find a way after entering.I sighed secretly, raised my foot, and stepped into the door with one step. The philosopher said, one step to heaven, one step to hell.After I walked into the hall, I didn't feel anything special, but it was a little strange. The originally dim moonlight was magnified around me. Light particles were dancing in the dim space, and the line of sight was brighter and wider than the outside world. When Li Mengyue saw me go in, she naturally went up the stairs and followed me.Lin Zhiyan, who had castle phobia, kept sighing, timidly, and followed behind Li Mengyue like a wronged daughter-in-law.The three of us wandered around the hall, and soon my face darkened. There are many incredible places in this huge main hall, even I can't explain it clearly.All the decorations in the luxurious hall are covered with dust, and corrosion and rust can be seen everywhere. It is a scene that can only be formed by at least hundreds of years of erosion and no human interference. But this is not the case! "There are traces of people living here." Lin Zhiyan observed the surroundings, "Look at the decoration of the banquet hall, it is obviously more modernly decorated, the old furniture in the castle must not be such cheap goods." I looked up.Yes, there should be no ball in the hall for a long time, and a lot of furniture has been moved. The last owner of the castle may be poor, so he got rid of many valuable gems and artworks in the room. If you sell it and replace it with a counterfeit, most people will not notice it with a blink of an eye, but there will still be a kind of incongruity after looking at it for a long time. The funniest thing is that a corner of the banquet hall was set up as a restaurant.The dining table is very long, but it is made of cheap birch splicing and modern industrial materials. The chairs are even more spoof, and there are labels on the inconspicuous places, with a big IKEA logo on it. "It turned out to be something from IKEA. It doesn't match the setting of the thousand-year-old castle." Lin Zhiyan couldn't help laughing, but when her eyes touched the things on the table, her smile suddenly subsided, "It's strange, why is there still food on the table?" "As I saw just now, things are probably more complicated than we thought." I didn't look very good either, "These foods are ordinary breakfast. I'm afraid the master's family encountered an emergency while eating breakfast. They didn't even have time to clean up, so they left in a hurry." The huge dining table is about fifteen meters long. Four breakfasts are placed on the left side of the owner's seat and on the left and right sides. The food inside has been severely corrupted and weathered, and it is difficult to tell what kind of substance was placed there.But it is not difficult to judge from the seats, the host family consists of four people, the host, the hostess, and two children. There was only a little bit of dark green liquid left in the milk glass, which was very disgusting.I quickly shifted my gaze to see if I could find more useful clues. "The housekeepers and servants here are incompetent, and the master didn't clean the table when he left." Lin Zhiyan muttered, and carelessly pulled away a chair and sat down. "The tables and chairs are all from IKEA. Do you think this kind of family can afford a servant? Labor in Norway is not generally expensive recently." I watched the banquet hall bit by bit, complaining. Li Mengyue stood quietly behind me, she seemed a little uneasy, but when asked why she was absent-minded, her answer was still simple and clear, "I don't know." In the end, my eyes stopped on the tabletop of the dining table.The surface of this cheap dining table is covered with dust, which is thick and has already covered up the original color, but there is a slight bulge on the side of the main seat, and there seems to be something thin hidden under the dust. I walked over and patted the dust, and there was a burst of dust, yellowed paper and a foul smell.I covered my nose with my left hand, and picked up the large stack of paper with my right hand. As soon as my hand touched the paper, I immediately grabbed a handful of dust.These papers have deteriorated so badly that they can't bear any force at all. How long does it have to be placed in a sealed environment to achieve such an effect? Not daring to hold it with my hands anymore, I gently blew off the dust on it with my mouth, and finally some writing was slightly exposed.It turned out to be a stack of newspapers. I didn't have time to read the content. I first found the place where the date of the newspaper was, and got rid of the dust. The printed words quickly appeared, and I only glanced at it, and I was stunned in place.This!What is going on!how is this possible! Seeing my horrified face, Lin Zhiyan couldn't help standing up curiously, and walked to my side.She followed my line of sight, and immediately froze in a daze, as if contagious. I saw the upper right corner of the rotten, dirty and yellowed newspaper, and the date clearly recorded the publication time: August 27, 2012, what happened in this castle on that day?Why did the master leave in such a hurry?In just a few days, a vibrant and inhabited place has weathered and transformed into a Taoist appearance. What force caused it?Master of the castle, where did you go? The mystery seems to be deeper and more incomprehensible. Just as he was on the road, a piercing scream pierced the tranquility of the castle.The cry seemed not to belong to human beings, it was shrill and painful, and it even brought a feeling of despair to the ears. The three of us were startled at the same time and looked at each other warily. The voice came from the stairs directly opposite the banquet hall. The layout of the castle is quite satisfactory, and the stairs leading to the upper floor are also extremely wide, enough to accommodate ten people walking side by side.We had just run a half way, and when we finished the middle of the stairs, the screaming had completely stopped. Lin Zhiyan looked around and shuddered, "What is screaming? Is it the owner of the house?" "Not human." I shrank my neck, feeling that the surrounding area was getting colder and colder. "If it's not someone screaming, what else could it be!" The old woman raised her eyebrows, "Could it be, a ghost?" "Damn you big-headed ghost! I said that you are also a highly educated person. You are not bad in appearance, but a little useless. I didn't expect that there would be superstitious thoughts about ghosts and gods." I glared fiercely at her who was bewitching everyone.No matter what time it is, it is still adding to everyone's uneasiness. Lin Zhiyan stuck out her tongue, and turned to the expressionless Li Mengyue to complain, "Elder Sister, your family is too mean." As expected, the guardian girl didn't bother to pay attention to her at all. After listening carefully, she pointed to the right side of the stairs, "The voice is coming from over there." "Go and have a look." Starting from the middle section, the stairs diverged towards the left and right, leading to the corridors on both sides of the space in the middle of the building. I stepped on the stairs on the right without hesitation. "Come on, it's scary." Lin Zhiyan felt uncomfortably cold all over her body. The moonlight that shot in from the gray glass stretched the shadows of the three people very long, like aliens, and the shadows projected on the opposite wall had a dangerous and terrifying atmosphere no matter how they looked. "If you don't want to go, just wait for me in the garden!" I followed Li Mengyue's guidance step by step. "be careful." The old woman hesitated for a few seconds, still hesitated, took out her mobile phone, turned on the flashlight function and followed us. The phone's two LED lights glow dimly, and the aperture looks weak in the dark.I looked at my watch, it was 6:01 in the afternoon, but the outside world and the inside of the house felt like one o'clock in the morning.The surrounding darkness was like a transparent monster that sucked light, bit by bit absorbing the light in Lin Zhiyan's hand. After walking cautiously for two minutes, Li Mengyue in front suddenly stopped.I accidentally bumped into her back, and before I could feel the softness of the girl, the light of the flashlight in Lin Zhiyan's hand, who was following closely behind me, shone on an object, and in just a split second, she yelled in fright, and she was extremely embarrassed. The buttocks fell to the ground. In the old castle, this woman completely changed her image and turned into a weak young lady. My eyes turned, and I saw a person lying horizontally surrounded by the flashlight's aperture. No, that person has turned into a corpse now!I clearly saw that the part of the body exposed from the clothes was shriveled, and the blood and flesh between the skin and bones seemed to have been sucked clean by something, and it had obviously collapsed. When did this person die?How would it appear here?Is he the master of the castle? Countless doubts flooded into my brain, I squatted down, took out a handkerchief from my body, groped through the corpse through the veil, and finally took out the dead man's wallet from my trouser pocket. "Joey Rogold. Born August 26, 1971." The things in the wallet are very simple, only a few euros, and several financial cards, the most conspicuous and valuable of which is the ID card. I read the information on the ID card, looked at the photo, and confirmed: "He is indeed the master here." "How do you know?" Lin Zhengyan asked in confusion. "Use your brain and eyes more." I turned towards the banquet hall and said, "On the wall on the right side of the hall, there are portraits of the masters of the past. There are sixteen of them in total. The photo of Joey Rogold is at the end." "When did you see it? The inside of the castle is gray and the sight is terrible. Xiao Ye, you really are a cat." The old woman pursed her lips and looked at the corpse on the ground, "If I'm not mistaken, on August 27th, this Joey Rogold family was leisurely sitting at the dining table having breakfast and reading the newspaper. Maybe it’s still the latest gossip about Hara. Then suddenly, suddenly, the four family members left in a hurry, and everything in the castle quickly weathered within seven days, turning into the tragedy before our eyes. And The male owner actually died in the corridor on the second floor, his body is also badly weathered, and there are traces of being eaten on the surface of the body. Is this a sci-fi horror movie?" "I think the situation here may have happened in an instant, and I can't figure out the reason for the time being. But seven days ago, something happened that I don't know if it's related." I rubbed my forehead. "What's up?" Lin Zhiyan wondered. "On August 26, the time package was opened, and the Rogold family and the castle mutated on the morning of the 27th, which is the day after the time package was opened. I have a guess." I paused, "Could it be because the old man got the thing in the time package and was forced to open it, and the time and behavior of opening it happened to be the reason and condition for the mutation of the castle... In other words, this The thousand-year-old castle may be related to that item?" Lin Zhiyan was dumbfounded when she heard that, "Xiao Ye, your imagination is too rich, how is this possible!" "What's impossible? I was ambushed and then led into the castle by a certain force. After entering, the castle seemed to be alive, targeting me specifically and not allowing me to leave. This is not surprising, the strangest thing is , I can’t think of any other reason to deny my guess.” I smiled wryly, "Can you refute it?" The old woman thought for a while, then finally shook her head and said, "No." "Mengyue, where did the cry come from?" I looked up and asked. The silent Li Mengyue raised her fair and tender hand, and pointed to the corpse at the bottom of her feet. "how is this possible!" Lin Zhiyan screamed again, "Eldest Sister, you mean that this weathered, withered, lifeless corpse was screaming just now?" She lowered her head and touched the corpse's throat with her hands, "His vocal cords have shrunk, how could he make a sound!" Just when Lin Zhiyan was puzzled, the moment she withdrew her hand, screams resounded throughout the space again! This time we could see clearly that the mouth of the corpse opened wide suddenly, and an invisible sonic explosion exploded from its mouth, and then rushed towards it at an extremely fast speed. Lin Zhiyan and I were so uncomfortable that we covered our ears hard. Li Mengyue stomped on her feet and crushed her skull, but even so, it couldn't stop the sound from spreading!The sharp voice was getting louder and louder, resounding through every corner of the castle, the voice was full of astonishing chill, creepy. The penetrating power of the sound is terrible, no matter how tightly I cover it with my hands, the eardrums are hurting, and I feel that the ear canal is about to be shaken and bleed. "Who!" Amidst the deafening screams, the guardian girl standing next to me suddenly moved her lips, silently uttered a word, and then kicked towards the air on the right. There was a muffled humming sound, but it was too late, the black figure was so close to me, I could even distinguish the source of the muffled humming from a crisp girl's voice in the boundless noise. The assailant hugged me tightly and fell over the railing. Li Mengyue couldn't stop her, her face became even paler, and her pink lips were bleeding from her own bite. A drop of bright red blood dripped from the corner of her mouth, chasing my figure and falling in the air. Li Mengyue also jumped from the second floor, and she fell to the floor at almost the same speed, kicking up a lot of dust. The blood at the corner of the mouth fell to the ground, splashed and shattered. But when she looked around, she could no longer find the shadow of her master and that hateful assailant...