Hao Ren watched as Igor fell backward and was helped up by the butler. He could not help but turn his head and look at Vivian. "Why didn't you tell me earlier that you had a mark? If I had known, I wouldn't have taken out the painting. Now, I have to return it to him."
"I just remembered," Vivian pouted. "And what are you going to do with this painting? If you want to see it, I have a real person here. "
Hao Ren glanced at the painting regretfully. "Tsk... This thing looks valuable. It's a pity that Lily poked a hole in it."
At this time, Igor had recovered. He stared blankly at Hao Ren and the others. Finally, his eyes fell on Vivian. "The witch?"
Vivian nodded. Seeing that Igor was about to pass out again, she quickly added, "Hey, don't be afraid. I'm not here to get even with you. Relax, relax, take a deep breath — your ancestor was much calmer than you. "
Vivian was lying through her teeth. When the ancestor of the Andrea Family saw her, he knelt down with a thud...
Igor clenched the buttons on his chest. His knuckles turned pale because he used too much force. He seemed to be relying on this to confirm the reality in front of him and to avoid passing out again. He stood trembling, his face full of anxiety. "So you're here today because..."
"To help you get rid of this evil spirit," Vivian waved her hand. "In fact, I never thought that you were the descendants of that kid."
Igor looked nervous. "Not because our ancestor broke the promise of that year and..."
Vivian did not wait for him to finish. She waved her hand, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "That's enough, that's enough. You guys have spent three hundred years spreading rumors about what happened back then. It doesn't match the situation back then at all. The curse of the evil spirit has nothing to do with your ancestor, and I will not punish you in any way. In fact, I even feel a little sorry for you … Alright, we can talk about these things in the future. Right now, the most important thing is that stone. I hope that you descendants did not throw away your ancestor's belongings. If you did, I might really get angry. "
Igor hurriedly waved his hand. "Of course, of course... Oh, I mean, of course I didn't lose it. It's kept in the highest room of the castle. I'll take you there now."
Igor led the group to the castle. Before entering the gate, Hao Ren looked up at the 300-year-old building. On the gray and black outer wall of the castle, he saw that large patches of ice and snow were gradually breaking and dissipating in the air as if they had just woken up from a nightmare. The entire castle seemed to be wrapped in a layer of crystal dust and gradually sublimated. Under this wonderful and strange spectacle, the oppressive atmosphere that shrouded Andrea Castle was gradually fading away. The vengeful spirit had left, and the strange magnetic field and spatial phenomenon it had produced had also retreated to the depths of the earth. The slanted sunlight shone on the mottled arc of the castle, bringing warmth and brilliance for the first time.
The servants in the castle had received the news that the evil spirit had been defeated. They came out of their rooms one by one in shock. Feeling the cold receding, the strange atmosphere that had always lingered in the castle also gradually faded. These people who had served the Andrea Family for many years were immersed in joy.
There were servants walking back and forth in the corridor of the castle, asking each other for news. A thin figure suddenly ran down the stairs next to them and walked through the crowd. It was Anna. The poor girl finally got rid of the nightmarish voice that whispered in her mind. She seemed to be in high spirits. As soon as she saw Igor, she could not wait to greet him. "Dad, that voice, that voice! That voice disappeared! "
"I know, I know," Igor was also excited, but he still tried to maintain his composure in front of Vivian. He put his hand on Anna's shoulder and said, "It's over, it's all over, good girl. The evil spirit will not appear again."
Anna stared at Hao Ren and the others with her eyes wide open. Her face was still pale, which made her look a little scary. "Did you really kill the evil spirit? But how is that possible... "
As soon as Hao Ren saw Anna, he could not help but think of the inexplicable things she mentioned about "Tannagost", "high-energy polymerization", "sublimation", and so on. He suddenly realized that the strange knowledge in Anna's mind might be the key to unraveling the secret of the vengeful spirit. "Anna, do you still remember the vengeful spirit... that is, what the evil spirit told you? Something like Tannagost. "
Anna could not help but shiver when she heard the word, but after the whisper in her mind faded, she was no longer affected by fear. The strange knowledge was now just some incomprehensible memory fragments to her. "Probably... I still remember some..."
Vivian looked at Anna and said, "Try to recall it. I hope you can tell us everything that the evil spirit told you. Of course, it doesn't have to be now. You can go back and rest first. Recover your energy. "
Anna looked at Vivian doubtfully, and then looked at her father curiously. Igor quickly put on a straight face and said, "Listen to her, child. She is the master of the Andrea family."
Anna was surprised, but she did not ask much. Igor asked her to go back to her room and rest.
"Go and check on Akim's condition. Let Dr. Freeman confirm it," Igor shouted from behind Anna. "He may need a while to recover. Don't be in a hurry to untie the chains!"
"She doesn't look so scary now," Lily muttered. "When I saw her before, she looked weird from head to toe."
Igor led Hao Ren and the others to the top floor of the castle. There were no servants walking around on this floor, only four guards in black guarding the two entrances. These four guards were obviously the most elite bodyguards of the Andrea family. Even when the castle was shrouded in supernatural phenomena, they did not leave their posts. Igor greeted the guards and then pointed to a metal door that looked unusually heavy. "It's behind this door."
After entering a complex set of passwords and verifying the iris and fingerprint, the door of the treasury slowly opened, revealing a small brightly lit room inside.
There were only a few display shelves in the room, on which were the most precious collections of the Andrea family: two ancient swords, some unknown documents, and a grayish-black, inconspicuous triangular "stone".
"Oh, it's this thing." Vivian saw the small stone in the middle of the room at a glance. Igor lowered the bulletproof glass shield around the stone with an alarm device. Vivian waved to the stone, and the stone flew over.
"Oh, only you would think of this as a stone 300 years ago," Hao Ren took the "stone" and looked at it over and over again. "This is obviously something man-made."
It was a device the size of a cigarette box, with a texture between stone and metal. There were a few raised ridges on one side, and some small pits could be seen on the other side. Hao Ren had never seen such a thing, but its neat polishing marks were undoubtedly a result of brilliant processing technology.
This was the "stone" that Vivian had given to Ancestor Andrea 300 years ago.
"Yes, it's man-made at first glance, but no one knows what it is. It can only be called a stone." Vivian curled her lips and turned to look at Igor. "You said this has brought great wealth to the Andrea family? How did you do it? "
"It's gold," Igor took the small device and stroked its ridges in a certain order. "I can also demonstrate the process of it opening a space exit, but the things inside have been taken away by my ancestors. The original wealth of the Andrea family came from this..."
As soon as Igor's voice trailed off, the front of the small device in his hand suddenly projected a purple light. The light streaked across the air and opened a space crack about a meter long. Igor put the small device on the table next to him. He walked over and put his hand into the crack in space. With an awestruck expression on his face, he said, "This is an incomprehensible supernatural phenomenon... I can put my hand into it and take or store something from it. It used to be filled with gold — the property of the witch. "
Vivian was stunned as she looked at the "gadget" that she had casually given to the human follower. She looked like she was about to die. "... I almost made a fortune back then..."
Hao Ren patted her on the shoulder. "Don't think too much about it. If this thing was really in your hands, it would probably be thrown away in less than three days."
Vivian was about to cry. "Why didn't I study it more back then?"
Lily pointed out. "It's because of you that you didn't study it more. Even if you did study it more, you wouldn't be able to find the opening password. You will never make a fortune in this life. This is the will of the universe."
Vivian was speechless.
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