Like most of the otherworldling shelters, the territory of the Ancattero family was hidden in a strange space crevice and was camouflaged and deflected with mysterious technology. As the most mysterious of all the otherworldling families, the Ancattero territory was even more secretive than the Shadow Shelter. The way to open it was only in the hands of a few ancient families like Wayne. After the incident a month ago, the Ancattero secret realm was completely sealed by the people inside, and the ordinary means of opening it were rendered useless. Wayne Walter had to prepare something special to help open the door, and in order to open the door, they had to go to a special place: it was underground.
Wayne Walter had visited the Ancattero family in this town at the foot of the mountain more than once, and he knew all kinds of secret routes here. Under the leadership of the vampire patriarch, Hao Ren and the rest went into the town's underground sewer.
This seemingly inconspicuous town had a surprising underground waterway. The wide sewer connected the underground part of the town like a labyrinth. Such a small town obviously did not need a drainage system of this scale, so most of the sewer areas were either blocked or half-dried. Hao Ren followed Wayne and Hesperides in the wide tunnel that looked like a subway. He saw that he was surrounded by circular pipes supported by permanent concrete and large steel inner shells. Dim lights were inlaid on both sides of the pipes. In the center of the sewer was an almost dry waterway. On the guardrails on both sides of the waterway, dark green moss had seriously eroded the steel and cement structures. Judging from the surrounding lights, people often maintained the sewer, and the builder of this place must be human. But why would such a small town build a sewer of this scale?
"This used to be a battlefield many years ago, a military location, during World War II," Wayne explained casually after hearing Hao Ren's question. His voice echoed in the wide sewer pipe, sounding very loud. "These underground facilities were originally tunnels and warehouses, so they were built very strong. After the war, the local people did not abandon these things, but strengthened and rebuilt them into sewers."
Lily wrinkled her nose and followed Hao Ren. These sewers had perfect ventilation facilities, and only a few of them were used, so they did not smell too bad. But as a canine, Lily was still a little allergic to the smell here. "I didn't expect to have to go through the sewer. Why did the Ancattero family choose this place as the entrance? How did they get in and out of this town before it was built? "
"Of course there are other entrances and exits, but I chose the safest one this time," Wayne nodded gently. "This entrance to the underground sewer was only settled a few decades ago. The entrances and exits of the Ancattero secret realm correspond to the position of the stars in the sky, so they change every once in a while, and there are always four passages connecting to the outside world at the same time. In this cycle of stars, there happens to be a passage corresponding to a human town. It can't be helped. "
"Oh," Lily said, feeling that it was quite magical. The entrance to the secret realm that constantly changed according to the position of the stars sounded a bit like a fairy tale. A question popped up in Hao Ren's head. "Although it sounds safe, what if when the stars rotate, the door of the house corresponds to a septic tank?"
Wayne, who was walking in front of them, almost fell into the ditch on the side of the road when he heard Hao Ren's words. "Why are your thoughts so dirty?"
Hao Ren scratched his face. "My thoughts are quite normal, right? Has no one ever thought of this before?"
Wayne was speechless. Hesperides said, "Hao Ren, if you meet the Batannian witches in West Africa, don't talk to them about this."
"Ah?"
"The exit of their family's secret realm also changes according to the movement of the stars. It's really connected to a septic tank."
This time, it was everyone's turn to be speechless. Y 'lisabet crossed her arms and sighed like a little adult. "That's why this lost and out-of-control ancient technology is the most unreliable. Back then, people thought it was safe, but now they don't even know how to control the direction.
They're at a loss! "" Ahem, it's not completely uncontrollable, "Wayne explained with a strange look on his face. He was even a little incoherent." Choosing the general connection range, you can fix the position of the door to a relatively stable place, or you can calibrate the astrological compass. Forget it, let's not talk about this, okay? "
"Then, let's talk about the demon hunters." Vivian blinked. "Wayne, you've been investigating this for a long time. What do you think about the disappearance of the demon hunters here a month ago?"
Wayne pondered for a moment. "To be honest, I can't believe a single punctuation mark in a demon hunter's words. But if what the demon hunter named White Flame said is true, it roughly corresponds to the information I have. A large number of demon hunters did appear here a month ago, enough to scare the werewolf warriors of the Hogwarts. So, it should not be the same group of demon hunters who are responsible for the investigation here. And according to the report of the crazy investigator, he did mention that there are demon hunters in the territory of Ancattero. "
Hao Ren nodded and did not say anything else.
This dim and cramped underground sewer was not a good place to discuss things, and the team quickly lost interest in discussing the problem. They followed Wayne in silence. After bypassing several pipe joints, they finally entered a place that seemed to have been abandoned for many years. There was no underground water flow in this section of the tunnel. The only light came from a fork tens of meters away.
Wayne finally stopped in front of a mottled and dirty concrete wall: the entrance was here.
"The spirit detective could never find the Golden Manor in his lifetime," Hao Ren muttered when he saw the entrance. "The entrance is in such a place. It's not even close to the sun."
Wayne smiled and said, "The scene on the other side of the door will surprise you even more."
As he spoke, he took out a delicate object from his suitcase.
It was a weird thing that looked like an old camera, but its structure was obviously different. It had a square body wrapped in black leather. At the front of the box was a hemispherical lens, and at the back of the box was a series of lenses and crystals. This prop reminded them of the unreliable psychic machines created by the mysterious scholars more than a hundred years ago. Those psychic cameras made of glass, crystal, and copper ore tried to capture ghosts. It reminded Hao Ren of the psychic lenses in Pierre's hands. However, the device in Wayne's hand was obviously different from those half-baked knock-offs. This device was inlaid with sparkling runes, and each lens and crystal was not connected by any fixed object. Instead, they floated in their respective positions by magic power. When Wayne pointed the device at the wall in front of him, all the lenses glowed faintly.
The light from the lenses gradually intensified, and the front of the device projected a series of complicated lines on the concrete wall. Like a projection, the light gradually drew a series of complex lines on the concrete wall. The image slowly changed, and Hao Ren finally saw that it was the shape of a door.
And the most amazing thing was that the door was just a simple image at first, but as the device in Wayne's hand continued to squeak, the image slowly changed. Hao Ren did not know what he had missed, but when he realized it, the image on the wall had become a real door.
A door made of metal and inlaid with a lot of golden runes.
Wayne turned off the device, carefully put it in his suitcase, and stepped to open the door. "Let's go, this door will only last for ten minutes. If everything goes well, we can return to this world through the fixed passage set by the Ancattero family. "
Lily let out a long sigh, and then pushed Hao Ren into the door.
A warm and moist air blew on his face, and Hao Ren clearly felt that he had passed through a barrier like a water curtain. He walked out of a door that stood in the air and found himself standing in a strange place.
The boundless fog of chaos shrouded the space, and there was no sun, moon, or stars in this space. Unknown light shone from above the thick fog, so that the world was not dark. Hao Ren's eyes widened, trying to distinguish the surrounding scenery in the thick fog. He saw the scene of the Golden Manor. Although the fog blocked his vision, he still saw a series of magnificent buildings. As Pierre had described, the buildings were almost entirely made of pure gold. Even the thick fog did not diminish their glory.
But when Hao Ren saw these buildings, he was shocked by something else.
"Tannagost?!"
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