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If Hao Ren had not seen it with his own eyes, no one would have thought that there was such an ancient castle in the most desolate and remote place in Siberia. It was even close to the Arctic Circle, but a family that was unfortunately haunted by evil spirits still built their sanctuary here with great manpower and material resources.
The shadow of a tall building appeared on the horizon. It was a strange black stone castle of an indescribable style. It had a thick circular outer wall and three tall towers. At the same time, it had a bowl-shaped roof that did not match the overall style of the castle. The castle was surrounded by white snow, but the huge black building seemed to be isolated from the surroundings. It was not known whether the owner of the castle was good at taking care of it, or some kind of supernatural force had sealed off the surroundings of the castle.
The closer he got to the castle, the more uncomfortable he felt. The magnificent building had a rather unpleasant atmosphere. Its thick outer walls and weird roof were like a prison. In this world of ice and snow, an inexplicable monster was imprisoned. It was a gloomy cage isolated from the world. Just looking at it was enough to make people feel a great sense of discomfort.
The people who built this castle were either mentally ill, or they were forced by the evil spirits. Otherwise, it was hard to imagine who would be willing to live in such a creepy place.
After driving closer, Hao Ren found that there was something else around the castle. The outermost layer was a circle of ancient thick iron fences, and the inner layer was a circle of low stone walls. These two circles of obstacles made people feel that the castle was not a place for people to live, but a prison for something. Obviously, the car could not go in directly. Hao Ren slowed down and circled around the iron fences before he found a rusty door. He honked a few times and waited for a long time before he saw an old servant in a brown coat coming out of a small house next to the inner wall.
The old servant looked rather old, frail, and badly balding, except for a fringe of white hair around his head that shivered in the cold Siberian wind. His body was hunched under a heavy coat as he took small steps to the gate. He opened the gate a crack with trembling hands and cautiously looked at the strange car outside. His nasal voice was thick as he asked, "Who is it?"
Nangong Sanba poked his head out of the window. "It's me!"
The old servant's face changed when he saw Nangong Sanba. He looked terrified. He could not believe that the demon hunter before him was still alive. "You're not dead?"
Nangong Sanba chuckled. "I'm an expert. Experts don't die easily – I've brought a few helpers with me. In accordance with the contract with Igor, I will always fulfill the contract until the evil spirit is expelled, and now I have come to fulfill it. "
The old servant's lips trembled a few times as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he said nothing. He opened the gate, and only when the car drove past him did he realize what was wrong: the only means of transportation in this vast snowfield were sleds and special snowmobiles. How did this car drive all the way here?
The old servant looked in the direction of the North Star in horror and found that there was not even a rut outside the gate.
Hao Ren did not know this. He rolled down the window and shouted, "Old man! Where do you want to park the car? "
Now that he was in front of an ordinary person, he could not just throw his precious horse into the Dimensional Pocket like before.
The old servant calmed down from the shock. He had worked in this strange old house for decades, and he was a little numb to all kinds of supernatural phenomena. So, he just sighed, turned around and pointed to an open space for Hao Ren. "Anywhere."
Then he saw another 'supernatural phenomenon': six people came out of the small North Star, and Nangong Sanba was carrying a box at least half the height of a person (his combat tool)!
The old servant was stunned and slowly muttered, "Maybe it's really an expert this time."
They had already gotten out of the car. Hao Ren took out the MDT and pressed it twice. The MDT held back for a few seconds before reluctantly beeping twice. Then, it muttered in Hao Ren's mind, "Can you stop doing whatever you want? It's tiring for me to bring in new scenes all the time! "
Hao Ren did not say anything, but just gently pressed his chest. There was a hidden pocket there, and Lil Pea was curled up in it. He pressed it twice to remind the little one not to run out. But Lil Pea would not be bored inside. When it was inconvenient for her to show up, the little mermaid could observe the outside through a small monitor. The button near Hao Ren's collar was the camera …
The clothes were made directly in the shipboard factory of the Petrachelys, and they were so magically modified that they might not even be clothes anymore.
The courtyard in front of the castle had been abandoned for many years, or it should be said that there was no garden here from the beginning. It was hard to find many plants in such a cold place. Near the low stone wall, there were a few circles of stone bricks that looked like flower beds. There were only some dry and cold thorns in the open space inside the stone bricks. It was more like a leveled graveyard than a garden. Hao Ren and the others followed the old servant to the main entrance of the castle. They did not see anyone along the way. It even gave them the illusion that the old man was the only person in the entire castle.
"There's no one else here?" Becky was a little scared by the strange atmosphere here. She had to find a topic to break the silence.
"Yes, in the house, but not many," the old servant's voice was low as if coming from the grave. "Master Igor went out this morning and will probably be back tomorrow. Before that, you can rest in the room."
As he spoke, he had already led them to the front door. After pressing the bell on the door, the heavy and quaint door opened a crack. A middle-aged man in butler costume with an expressionless face appeared in front of Hao Ren.
The old servant introduced the identity of the group of guests. Nangong Sanba stepped forward and shook hands with the zombie-faced butler. "I've brought help."
The middle-aged butler finally had a somewhat stiff smile on his face. "The explosion from the basement scared many people. Fortunately, you're still alive."
They walked into the depths of the castle under the middle-aged butler's guidance. Nangong Sanba casually asked about what happened after he "evacuated" (in fact, he was beaten back to the city). "Did the evil spirit come out again after that? What did Igor do? "
"The evil spirit has not moved after the explosion that night, and the underground door has been re-sealed. We don't know what's going on down there, but the thing should have been suppressed again. Master Igor thought that you had failed, so he went to visit a hermit friend of his in the early hours of this morning, hoping to find some soothing incense and herbs — but it seems that it's useless now. "
Nangong Sanba did not know whether to laugh or cry, but it was also a fact that the mortality rate was high in his line of work. He could only laugh dryly. "Forget it, let's take a break and wait for Igor to come back before we discuss the next step of the exorcism. The helpers I brought are stronger than me. If it weren't for our friendship, no one would have been able to invite them — the evil spirit in the castle has come to an end. "
He began to brag in advance so that Hao Ren and the others could smoothly gain the trust of the castle owner. However, Hao Ren did not care about this. He was busy observing the portraits hanging on both sides of the corridor.
The inside of the castle was not as gloomy and depressing as it looked from the outside. Although the ancient stone building inevitably felt a little cramped, at least the corridor was warm and bright. Under the warm light, large portraits of people could be seen hanging on both sides of the corridor. They were dressed in luxurious clothes from different eras, standing or sitting. They were lifelike, and each painting seemed to have been made in a different era.
"These are the ancestors of the Andrea family," Nangong Sanba whispered next to Hao Ren. "The Igor we're going to meet is the current 'patriarch' of this family."
Hao Ren nodded slightly and continued to look at the portraits of men and women. Every time his eyes swept over the portraits, the rigid expressions of the ancestors in the portraits seemed to come to life a little more. Their eyes were staring at outsiders in the corridor. Their eyes were cold, stiff, and lifeless, but it was as if they were watching everyone who looked at them.
Hao Ren found that all the eyes in the portraits were the same: men, women, old, and young all had the same pair of dark brown eyes.
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