Chapter 277 Bring Her Eyes
Chapter 277 Bring Her Eyes
In the dim boiler room, a young man in a black Mao suit knelt on one knee, holding a dagger in his hand, and kept carving words on the hard floor:
[The people of the Fulim family already know that I came in, and their ascenders are on their way to kill me. ]
[I have to go. You should destroy all these writings as soon as possible. They have the ability to trace back the murders based on the written information. You should take care of yourself.]
Lan Shiwen studied Chinese literature in college. His daily hobby is copying ancient inscriptions and calligraphy, and he has developed an excellent handwriting. Even now, even when he is carving words on a stone slab with a knife or dagger, his writing is still neat and straight, with a graceful stroke. Even the period at the end is round and beautiful, to the point of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
In comparison, the reply Ning Zhe engraved was much more casual, with loose handwriting and lazy strokes, far from being as meticulous as Lan Shiwen's.
【understood. 】
Seeing Ning Zhe's reply, Lan Shiwen breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and left the boiler room.
Life is sometimes so unpredictable. A few hours ago, he was eating hotpot and singing with his girlfriend in a hotpot restaurant in Yundu, when he suddenly died inexplicably on the table. He closed his eyes and opened them again and returned to the last save point. He was completely confused and had no idea what had happened.
He has many enemies, including many upgraders and granters who have the ability to kill people from a distance. Lan Shiwen is already numb to the constant death. After simply pausing for two seconds, he immediately began to investigate the cause of his own death.
After spending a lot of time and triggering several returns, Lan Shiwen ruled out most ways of death such as poisoning, shooting, revenge, and curse, and finally locked his target on Ning Zhe, who had just left Yundu not long ago.
Lan Shiwen used some special means and learned from Xia Yubing that this unlucky guy had been sleeping on the airship. He woke up briefly several times and just sent someone to check Vanessa Castle's information before falling asleep again.
"Ning Zhe has trained this woman to be very loyal. No matter how I ask, she refuses to reveal any information about him. Even if I bring in her family, I can't pry her mouth open. I have no choice but to use the empowering tool." Lan Shiwen clicked his tongue and gently closed the door of the boiler room.
It is the instinct of all ascenders to protect their information, but sometimes keeping information confidential too well can have the opposite effect. For example, now.
If Xia Yubing hadn't been so tight-lipped, Lan Shiwen felt that he would have died less often.
In the darkness outside the boiler room, the rustling sound of cloth rubbing against each other was heard, bringing a suffocating feeling as if something was strangling the throat. Lan Shiwen felt as if his chest was being pressed down by something, and his heartbeat and breathing became extremely difficult.
At the same time, the air around became colder.
"They come so quickly. Are these foreigners dogs?" Lan Shiwen had a gloomy look on his face. He quickly walked out of the boiler room door and disappeared into the darkness.
In the boiler room inside the door, Ning Zhe squatted on the ground and looked at the neat handwriting on the floor.
"lunar……"
He pressed the sword in his hand to the ground and rubbed it hard, and the words engraved on the stone slab disappeared immediately. Ning Zhe did the same thing and erased the remaining few traces of words in the boiler room.
After doing all this, Ning Zhe pushed open the door and left the boiler room.
Although Lan Shiwen has repeatedly reminded Ning Zhe that the underground of Vanessa Castle is very dangerous, Ning Zhe has now been enslaved by the ideological stamp engraved by Jue Yuan. He has no choice but to risk his life to try to uncover the deepest secrets of the castle.
He must solve the puzzle of Vanessa Castle, otherwise he will go crazy, lose all his personality and become a disqualified person.
What ascenders are nothing but a group of dogs enslaved by ghosts.
Ning Zhe walked quickly in the corridor under the clock tower. A feeling of irritability arose spontaneously, and then he quickly realized that he was influenced by Jue Yuan again. The irritability and anger in his heart were being concretized and radicalized, and a new ideological imprint was gradually forming.
"calm down……"
The problem of the previous ideological stamp has not been solved yet. If a new ideological stamp is imposed at this time, the only option is suicide. Relying on Lan Shiwen's death return ability, he can reset himself and the entire world to the state before the ideological stamp was imposed.
In fact, Ning Zhe had thought about using Lan Shiwen's death and return to reset the ideological imprint that had been left on him before, but judging from Lan Shiwen's current reaction, it seemed that he had already tried this.
Ning Zhe didn't think that he would be forced to the point of exhausting his life by a mere Vanessa Castle, so the truth of the matter was obvious - he tried to use Lan Shiwen's death to return to reset the thought stamp made by Jue Yuan, but failed. Lan Shiwen's save point seemed to be after he was stamped with the first thought stamp.
To put it simply, it's a dead end.
Fortunately, although the death return triggered by Ning Zhe did not reset the thought stamp, it successfully attracted Lan Shiwen here and brought him a crucial piece of information.
——There are no ghosts in Vanessa Castle.
"The abnormal flow of time in the castle is because the Flimmisret family has stored a large amount of 'Yin' here. It is the empowering tool of the ghost called 'Taiyin'."
"The castle itself is also an enchanted prop. Influenced by the evil spirit 'Xi Zhao', it became the new and old Vanessa Castles in the inner and outer worlds. The two castles will synchronize their states with each other, just like Xia Yubing's two notebooks." Yes, the two notebooks, like the two Vanessa Castles, are special props enchanted by the evil spirit 'Xi Zhao'.
"The abnormal flow of time is due to Taiyin, and the parallel world is due to Xizhao. But no matter Taiyin or Xizhao, the real bodies of the two source ghosts are not here, so..."
So what exactly did the hint Baizhi got before mean?
【Cannot be found by 'it'】
So who is it? Is it the "Unqualified" imprisoned in the underground prison?
"As long as we solve this problem, we can leave Vanessa Castle."
Ning Zhe walked quickly through the flooded corridor and entered the underground warehouse where coal was stored. Carts of coal blocks were neatly stacked against the wall.
The oil lamps were lit to illuminate the old Vanessa Castle. Two of the four walls of the warehouse had collapsed. Broken wheelbarrows and the bodies of workers were floating in the turbid water. Several shovels were leaning against the coal mountain, and there was wet and sticky mud underfoot.
When the lights were turned off, the dilapidated underground warehouse returned to its intact state, with only the mud on Ning Zhe's soles being carried to the present, leaving muddy footprints on the floor.
Ning Zhe hung the oil lamp around his waist, rolled up his sleeves and moved aside the carts of coal piled against the wall. He counted the bricks one by one according to his memory and found the secret door leading to the next level in the deepest part of the coal pile.
To be precise, it is not the secret door, but the location where the secret door was originally located.
After a major renovation by the government, the new Vanessa Castle was originally open to the public as a public place of worship. All the secret passages in the castle were demolished or sealed, and the secret door under the bell tower leading to deeper underground was also abandoned.
Ning Zhe found the original location of the secret door according to the orientation marked on the design. What came into view was not the deep entrance leading to the underground, but a solid concrete wall with tiles imitating the texture of stone bricks on the outside.
The cover on the lampshade was lifted, and the light of the corpse oil lamp was released again. The porcelain tile in front of him changed quietly, and a heavy, old, and decayed cast iron door appeared in front of Ning Zhe.
The door lock above had long been rusted beyond recognition, but between the rust spots there were fresh friction marks, as if it had been pried open again after it had rusted, saving Ning Zhe the trouble of prying it open himself.
Looking at the door in front of me, a strong sense of crisis arose spontaneously, as if there was a voice in my ear, giving me a faint warning.
【Do not open this door.】
【Do not open this door.】
【Don't go near it.】
Don’t let it find you…
The intense fear and feeling of suffocation weighed heavily on Ning Zhe's chest, and alarm bells were ringing silently in his mind.
"call……"
Taking a deep breath, Ning Zhe reached out to the door lock, untied the heavy iron chain wrapped around it, and pushed the door open. A steep staircase leading straight down appeared in front of him. Ning Zhe slowly walked down the stairs holding the corpse oil lamp, entered the deepest secret passage of Vanessa Castle, and went all the way down.
The candlelight flickered in the darkness, and the stone steps under his feet felt solid. Ning Zhe walked down a few more steps.
Suddenly, he stepped on empty air and was followed by a strong feeling of falling. The darkness around Ning Zhe dissipated in an instant, and gray-white light filled all directions.
He felt a sudden chill around him, the temperature below freezing almost freezing him, the deep and narrow secret passage disappeared without a trace, replaced by a gray sky. Ning Zhe lowered his head while falling and saw a gray spire.
That is the roof of the bell tower.
Peng——
Auror's body fell heavily on the spire at the top of the bell tower and rolled down like a broken toy. Her left hand and ribs were broken. Ning Zhe used his remaining right hand to tightly grasp the bulge of the dome of the spire and hung his broken body high on the top of the spire where the cold wind was howling.
Below the tower, Vanessa Castle shrouded in twilight is in full view.
(End of this chapter)