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"It's going to collapse, it's going to collapse, it's going to collapse..."
The mumbling with a strange rhythm gradually faded away. Hao Ren watched the mentally unstable girl gradually disappear at the end of the corridor. He felt that there were secrets hidden everywhere in the castle.
A gust of cold wind blew from nowhere. Hao Ren subconsciously tightened his clothes, but he suddenly realized that he was in the deepest corridor of the castle, and there were no doors or windows in all directions.
He turned his head, looking for the possible source of the cold wind, and saw the portrait of a woman hanging on the wall facing the corridor. The strange portrait, labeled as the 'witch', stood there quietly. The black veil covered her face, but Hao Ren felt that there seemed to be a gaze penetrating from under the black veil. It seemed that the gaze was curiously looking at the strangers who had suddenly broken into the castle.
There were a few faint sounds coming from afar. It sounded like the unfortunate crazy teenager was smashing things in the house again. Two sharp barks came from the castle garden, but soon turned into low, frightened whimpers. The huge darkness buried deep under the castle was slowly creeping. It might have realized that strangers had broken into its cage, but it should also have sensed the powerful strength of these people. So now it was dormant, as if waiting for something.
Hao Ren scratched his chin, but he just felt that it was very interesting. Then he strolled back to his room.
Lily was sitting in front of the fireplace, dozing off. Nangong Sanba was next to her, checking his combat tools. The others were nowhere to be seen. Maybe they had gone back to their rooms to rest. The sound of Hao Ren opening the door woke Lily up. She ran over happily and said, "Landlord, you're back?"
"Still not sleeping?" Hao Ren patted Lily's head and walked towards Nangong Sanba. "I met someone outside just now …"
He described the crazy girl to Nangong Sanba, and Nangong Sanba nodded. "That's Anna, Igor's daughter. The voice you heard is Akim, Anna's younger brother. Both of them are the youngest generation of the Andrea family. If the 'evil spirit' cannot be eradicated, I'm afraid that both of them will be the last generation."
Hao Ren sat down on the nearest high-back chair. He took Lil Pea out of his arms and let the little one play by herself on a nearby table. At the same time, he poured himself a glass of water. "Are they insane?"
"Yes, it's the Andrea Family's' hereditary disease. '" Nangong Sanba frowned. "Every generation of them is exceptionally healthy when they're born, but they'll get sick after the age of six. Madness, schizophrenia, delusion, constantly changing between extreme genius and extreme stupidity. They'll inexplicably gain knowledge, many of which can't be learned from books. At the same time, they'll inexplicably produce memories that don't seem to belong to this world, which makes the mental condition of the patients even worse. This kind of madness would last until the age of eighteen. On their eighteenth birthday, the evil spirit seemed to leave their body, leaving only a 'genius' whose brain was full of strange knowledge — this was the reason why every patriarch of the Andrea family was quite talented. But in fact, many people don't even make it to the age of 18. Serious madness will kill them. Some unlucky heirs even completely lose their souls in madness. Their bodies are stuffed with something else... I suspect that the vengeful spirit is constantly occupying the bodies of the Andrea Family members. It may be looking for a way to escape from this place. What happened to my family back then was probably the vengeful spirit successfully escaping from this castle. "
As he said, Nangong Sanba clenched his fist. "I hope we can completely end this monster this time."
Hao Ren had been exposed to the magic and technology of the Otherworld, and had witnessed incredible space and cosmic phenomena. But these mysterious events on Earth still excited him, because he knew that the source of these supernatural phenomena on Earth also came from The Plane of Dreams. The impact of these supernatural phenomena on ordinary people on Earth was naturally one of the symptoms of the Plane of Dreams invading the real world.
Nangong Sanba had been busy in this castle for a long time, so he was very familiar with the situation of the Andrea Family. He mentioned the two poor people who were haunted by the evil spirit, and his tone was a little sad. "They were actually very good young people. Akim was polite and liked music when he was sane, and Anna was a girl who liked to draw. Anna's condition was more stable than Akim's, so she was out and about a lot. I spoke to her a few times, and she could vividly remember what it was like when she lost control of her mind. She mentioned that her body was stuffed with a lot of ancient knowledge, and all the evil that had been hidden in the castle for three hundred years. The vengeful spirit had been watching everything that happened in the castle and then stuffed it into the poor girl's memory. Anna seemed to be very disgusted with her family. She was always cursing the ancestors hanging on the wall. Akim rarely came out, but occasionally he would go for a walk in the atrium, but he couldn't leave the castle gate. "
Hao Ren's eyes lit up. "Anna knows about the past 300 years of the Andrea Family? What about the origin of the vengeful spirit? "
"Maybe she knows, but no one could ask her." Nangong Sanba waved his hand. "She was delirious, and the vengeful spirit seemed to be deliberately hiding this part of the information. Anna would become more and more crazy when she recalled the knowledge. I tried asking her several times, but I failed."
"Anna mentioned a 'witch'." Hao Ren remembered the portrait he saw at the end of the corridor. "There was a painting hanging in the corridor outside. It was a young woman with her face covered. Her name was also 'witch'... Who is she?"
"She even told you this?" Nangong Sanba was a little surprised. "Hey — it seems that Anna's not in good condition today. I also noticed that there was such a witch in the history of the Andrea Family, but I never found out her origin. She appeared at the beginning of the Andrea Family's rise, but the genealogical records were vague about this' witch '. They only knew that she was a very special and feared figure in the family. There is a library in the castle, and the oldest manuscript mentioned the witch in a rather reverent tone, and mentioned that 'everything' of the Andrea Family was given by the witch. I suspect that this' everything 'refers not only to wealth, but also to the' curse of being haunted by evil spirits'. "
Hao Ren frowned and began to bite his nails. He knew that the 'witch' actually existed in the history of the earth. In that ignorant and dark age, the church and the public were obsessed with burning witches and punishing witches to divert people's fear of the Black Death and other natural and man-made disasters. These crazy activities were driven by the demon hunters, the blind people, but also the shadow of witchcraft. Those who learned taboo knowledge from the otherworldlings, or gained special abilities after coming into contact with certain leaks in the Plane of Dreams were called witches and witches. But were there any traces of witches in the extreme north of Siberia around 1700?
"Let's talk about the vengeful spirit." Hao Ren scratched his head. He felt that no matter how powerful the witch was, she should be dead. The biggest problem under the castle was obviously the vengeful spirit. "How powerful is that thing?"
Hao Ren sounded quite relaxed when he said this. After all, he had just returned from the battlefield in the otherworld. He thought that a mysterious thing should not be much of a threat.
But as soon as his voice trailed off, he heard Vivian's voice coming from outside. "Don't underestimate the vengeful spirit."
Along with this sentence, there was a flapping sound. The window of the room opened without any wind, and a swarm of bats with ice shards flew in from outside. The swarm of bats fell to the ground, twitching as they tried to condense into the figure of Vivian. A few of them were so frozen that they could not condense, so they continued to lie on the ground. After Vivian appeared rather awkwardly, she smiled at Hao Ren embarrassedly and said, "I went out to check the structure of the castle."
"What did you find?" Hao Ren asked. "And what's so special about the vengeful spirit?"
"The construction of the castle was obviously guided by an expert. Although it's all ordinary materials, the special layout has formed a seal that can suppress spiritual creatures. There's a spatial distortion under the castle, so it should be locking up something very powerful," Vivian said as she picked up a few frozen bats from the ground and threw them into the fireplace to roast. She patted Lily on the shoulder and said, "Doggie, help me look around. Mr. Landlord, you've never encountered vengeful spirits, so you'll look down on them. But don't think that they're just ordinary evil spirits. In fact, they're not undead creatures at all. Strictly speaking, they're a kind of... high-strength energy body, and they have their own will. There are strong and weak vengeful spirits, but without exception, they're difficult to deal with. Their mysterious nature is something that even the demon hunters can't figure out. Since ancient times, there's no record of a vengeful spirit being killed. Because they don't know the boundary between life and death, people usually think that vengeful spirits are exiled to their homeland after being defeated, not killed. Besides, they're not afraid of physical attacks. They're amorphous, unrestrained, have no signs of injury, and have no physical weakness... "
As Vivian said, she suddenly shook her head and said, "Their combat power isn't about their strength, but their mystery and the unknown. Perhaps your weapon can be a hundred times more powerful than them, but the limitation of your thinking is the biggest obstacle when you're dealing with them. "
As Hao Ren listened to Vivian's description, he could not help but fall into deep thought. Lily, who was next to him, was flipping Vivian's little bats with a pair of tongs while drooling. "Hiss... Batty, batty, when can you eat this?"
Vivian stepped forward and grabbed her little bat out of the fire and slapped it on her body. "Eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat! I just want to thaw a little — this damn place is too cold! " (The novel "Supernatural Creature Sightings" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform. At the same time, there's a 100% chance of a lucky draw for everyone! Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign on the top right, "add friends", search for the public account "qdread" and follow it. Hurry up!)
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