Chapter 259 Candlelight Dinner
Chapter 259 Candlelight Dinner
"Katya, how did you get in here? Did you find anyone else?" Spencer Nabal asked as he folded the letter.
Bai Zhi blinked and shook her head: “No… I only met Sister Cynthia, and didn’t see anyone else.”
Baizhi's pronunciation and articulation were quite different from those of Spencer's sister, Kaqiuya. She stuttered a bit, but Spencer didn't care. He just thought that his sister was frightened after encountering some strange incident.
"We will definitely get out of this alive, I promise you." Spencer patted Ning Zhe's shoulder and gently stroked his ear with his fingertips.
Ning Zhe glanced at Spencer's dirty hands, didn't care, and asked, "Can you give me the knife back?"
"Of course." Spencer handed the dagger back to Ning Zhe.
"Thank you." Ning Zhe took the dagger and put it back into his waist, saying, "I also saw a message from a previous person in the closet of a room. The content is not much different from the letter you found. They both said that if you want to escape from this castle, you have to find a way to find the secret basement hidden in the deepest part of the castle."
"Yes, that's the key." Spencer nodded in agreement. "Before us, many people were dragged into Vanessa Castle and forced to play this hide-and-seek game. The notes and writings scattered in various corners of the castle should be left by these former players."
Ning Zhe bent down and picked up the corpse oil lamp, and then said: "Nabal, do you think the owners of those words, that is, the former players, have any of them managed to get out?"
"There will definitely be one." Spencer Nabar patted his chest and assured: "We will be the next one."
"Okay, I believe you." Ning Zhe gave him a sweet smile and took Bai Zhi's hand: "Let's go in."
"Follow me." Spencer stood in front of Ning Zhe, lit his corpse oil lamp, and illuminated the dark hole on the wall.
He used a similar method to Ning Zhe, covering most of the lampshade with a black cloth, leaving only a small beam of light exposed for exploring the way. The three of them walked into the wall one after another and entered the interior of the bell tower.
As Spencer completely lowered the black cloth covering the lampshade, the big hole behind the three people disappeared and the wall returned to its original state.
It was unexpectedly not dark inside the bell tower. Although it was still not very bright, the most basic visibility was at least there, so it was not pitch dark without turning on the lights.
Because the lights were on inside the bell tower.
Ning Zhe leaned against the wall and looked around. Above the hall on the first floor, the center of the vaulted ceiling was covered with colorful glass fragments, forming a colorful landscape painting. It seemed to be the savanna in front of Vanessa Castle, but it was not clear because of the dim light.
There were metal candlesticks about one person tall standing around the stone pillars on both sides of the hall. Dim yellow lights were flickering on them, and long candle wax was sliding down the lamp poles.
However, the candlestick closest to the three people had been extinguished, and the place where they were now was the darkest spot in the entire hall.
"Shh... don't make any noise." Spencer bent his waist and hid behind the stone pillar, and whispered: "It's safe here for the time being. Don't go to the light, don't let them find you."
He had extinguished this candle when he came in earlier.
Bai Zhi tugged at Ning Zhe's sleeve, and Ning Zhe looked in the direction she pointed, and suddenly saw several transparent, hazy human-shaped shadows, walking in groups of three or five across the red carpet in the center of the hall, leaving the halo range of a candlestick and then disappearing, and then appearing next to another candlestick like a ghost, slowly floating past. The candlesticks here have the same effect as the corpse oil lamps, or in other words, the "candles" on these candlesticks are made of the same corpse oil as in the lamps.
"This seems to be the gathering place for those things?" Ning Zhe lowered his body, hiding in the darkness and quietly observing the transparent shadows that appeared and disappeared in the hall.
Bai Zhi squatted beside Ning Zhe, put her lips close to his ear, and whispered softly: "Let's stay away, they are coming to 'light the lamp'."
Ning Zhe raised his eyebrows and saw that there were indeed several human-shaped shadows on the red carpet approaching the stone pillar where Spencer was hiding. Some of them seemed to have noticed that the candlestick was abnormally extinguished.
"Hurry up." Ning Zhe waved to Spencer and mouthed, "They're coming!"
Spencer grinned and mouthed back, "No problem."
He had long noticed that the 'things' in the bell tower would light the candlesticks by themselves. Even if they extinguished the candlesticks manually, they could only get a moment's rest, as the extinguished candles would soon be relit by them.
So before he came in again, he had already thought of a plan to solve this problem once and for all, to create an opportunity to go to the basement safely, and at the same time to show off his charm in front of Cynthia.
Spencer stood up slowly, and before the transparent figure floated to the candlestick, he reached out his hand decisively and took away the candle embedded in the candlestick.
Ning Zhe cursed in a low voice, pulled Bai Zhi and turned around and walked away, quickly leaving the place along the relatively dim wall.
This fucking piece of trash is so fucking stupid.
Spencer was holding three candles in his hand and was about to turn around and say the famous line "You are safe" to Cynthia, but when he turned around, he found that his sister and Cynthia were gone.
"Cynthia?" Spencer's heartbeat quickened, and he lowered his voice and shouted, "Where have you been? Come back here!"
In his anxiety, he did not notice that the transparent shadows floating around on the red carpet and in the hall stopped at the same moment. The whole world seemed to freeze at this moment, and a dangerous atmosphere filled the air.
"Cynthia! Where are you going?!" Spencer spotted two people quietly slipping away along the wall not far away, and suddenly became anxious: "Don't go there! The lights over there are still on!"
Before he finished speaking, the expression on Spencer Nabal's face suddenly froze.
Because he saw that under a stone pillar not far in front of Cynthia and Kaqiuya, on a gleaming brass candlestick, a piece of yellowish white candle slowly floated up from the base, and a skinny arm emerged in the candlelight.
Translucent colorless figures slowly emerged around the halo, and candle stumps began to leave the candlesticks. More "things" appeared under the light. They surrounded a yellow candle flame, and stumps of white candles with tears seemed to float in the air, slowly drifting towards Spencer.
"Oh Lord..." Spencer's hands trembled, and his heart sank.
(End of this chapter)