Chapter 281 Vanessa's Prisoner
Chapter 281 Vanessa's Prisoner
"Ghost..."
Ning Zhe looked up at the oil lamp hanging above his head. The flame flickered inside the glass lampshade, and the dazzling light made him squint slightly.
"If these things in the castle are really ghosts, then what happened before can be explained." He said softly.
"What's the matter?" Bai Zhi asked.
"Spencer's death." Ning Zhe said, "Before, when he was in the lobby on the first floor, Spencer alarmed the ghosts wandering in the lobby. I saw that several ghosts grabbed his hands and feet, hugged his waist, and a pair of white ghost hands strangled his neck fiercely. I almost thought that Spencer must have been strangled to death by those ghosts, but in fact, he was not."
"Spencer didn't have any bruises on his neck, and other than a finger missing from his left hand, he didn't have any external injuries."
And this is because...
"Because the minions cannot kill people."
Bai Zhi continued, "In folk tales across Kyushu, the ghost has always been a deceitful and fraudulent person, using sweet words to trick passers-by into the deep mountains and forests where tigers live. They are not the kind of evil ghosts that would violently injure or kill people themselves."
"Hmm..." Ning Zhe recalled the experience of being strangled by Spencer just now. Spencer's hands were cold and powerful, and he tightly pinched his throat, giving him a feeling of suffocation.
The human brain is an organ with extremely high energy consumption, and it has one of the most developed arteries in the body, the carotid artery, which provides it with priority oxygen supply.
At the same time, the brain is an extremely fragile organ. It is so fragile that even if you squat on the toilet for a long time, the blood pressure will drop briefly when you stand up, which will cause insufficient oxygen supply to the brain, causing stars to appear in the eyes, and in severe cases, you may even fall and faint on the spot.
In no-holds-barred fighting, there is a judo technique called naked choke, which uses the wrist to clasp the opponent's throat, compressing the carotid artery and cutting off blood supply to the brain. This process will not take more than 10 seconds and can cause the opponent's brain to lack oxygen and fall into coma. A few more seconds can cause shock and death.
Women's physical fitness is even weaker than that of fighters. In addition, Ning Zhe's left arm was injured and she was losing blood in her abdomen. She was very weak. In this state, if an adult male strangled her throat, she would not be able to last more than 10 seconds, and would faint in no more than 5 seconds.
"But I didn't die at that time. I even struggled and successfully shouted that I was Cynthia, confusing Spencer's consciousness." Ning Zhe opened his eyes, and bright flames danced in his pupils.
Did Spencer really not kill him because he was deceived by him?
No, it's impossible to kill him...
"The minions cannot kill people. The only one who can kill people is the 'tiger demon' that enslaves the minions."
Ning Zhe lowered his head and his thoughts became clear: "When I died in the room as a tourist, and when I died in the hall as Cynthia, both times, it was not the ghosts that killed me, but the 'tiger demon' hidden among the ghosts."
That is the rule of "serving the tiger as an accomplice". Anyone killed by the tiger demon will become its enslaved accomplice.
Remember what Lan Shiwen said before, Vanessa Castle is a prison built by the Frimmisret family, and a "disqualified person" is imprisoned underground in the castle.
The disqualified person is an upgraded person who has fallen into a ghost, and now, Ning Zhe has basically confirmed the identity of the 'disqualified person'.
"There was once an ascender in Vanessa Castle. He was a character similar to a 'necromancer'. The ghosts he controlled gave him the ability to enslave the dead. Just like people eaten by the tiger demon will become ghosts, all people killed by this 'necromancer' will also become 'ghosts' driven by him."
This necromancer has some connection with the Flimmisret family, or is simply a member of this family.
"Those who have been promoted to higher rank are short-lived. This necromancer was unable to find a ghost that could make up for his flaws until the end of his life. He eventually died of disqualification and was imprisoned by the Flimmisret family deep underground in this Vanessa Castle."
"The 'Yin' that slows down the flow of time and the 'Xi Zhao' that replicates two Vanessa castles are both means used by the Flim family to imprison this disqualified person. They created this supernatural and strange cage to imprison a disqualified evil ghost."
The means used by the Flim family to imprison the evil ghost also became a distraction to Ning Zhe's judgment and prevent him from deducing the truth. "But later, for some unknown reason, the fierce ghost was released, and Vanessa Castle fell in a strange incident. All the people killed by the ghost became ghosts, wandering in the other world after the flood, and were imprisoned here with the disqualified evil ghost."
Bai Zhi thought for a moment and said softly, "Because of the flood?"
Ning Zhe nodded: "Because of the flood."
According to the information he asked Joshua to find, Vanessa Castle was originally located on a cliff halfway up the mountain, and the dead disqualified person was imprisoned in a secret room under the castle.
During the European War of Unification, the northern part of the Apennine Peninsula was hit by an unprecedented rainstorm. The huge rainfall caused the cliff behind Vanessa Castle to collapse. The sliding mountain carried the foundation of the entire castle down the cliff and finally stopped at the foot of the mountain.
That is where Fort Vanessa is now.
The information also mentioned that the then head of the Frimmisret family spent all his fortune and hired craftsmen at a high price to re-solidify the foundation of Vanessa Castle and carried out a thorough reconstruction and renovation.
Ning Zhe was a little surprised when he read this. The Fulim family had declined due to the war at that time. Why would their head of the family spend all his money to repair the castle?
The question now has an answer: to re-imprison the evil ghost that broke free from the cage.
“Before the landslide, Fort Vanessa was originally located halfway up the mountain.”
Ning Zhe closed his eyes and recalled what he had seen on the top of the tower before, the large exposed brown and yellow scars on the mountain that had just experienced a landslide.
"According to the height comparison between the two, the underground secret room where the Disqualified were imprisoned at that time should be located at the current Vanessa Castle..."
The top of the bell tower.
Ning Zhe opened his eyes, and the mystery in his heart was solved.
The underground secret room mentioned many times by the players never existed. It was destroyed by the jade and mudslides caused by floods as early as the last century. There is only thick soil under the foundation of the newly built Vanessa Castle. The closest place to the former underground secret room is the top of the bell tower.
"Have you thought of anything?" Bai Zhi sat at the head of the bed, with her legs neatly together, looking at him curiously.
Ning Zhe drew a cross sword from his waist, held the tip of the sword and handed the hilt to Bai Zhi, saying, "Kill me."
"Hey?" Bai Zhi was stunned, and for a moment she didn't dare to take the sword he handed over: "Why?"
"I have basically figured out the rules of this ghost, and I can try to crack it now, but the restrictions in the dream are too great, and many of my methods cannot be used."
For example, items such as the 'tongue of the ghost blowing out the lantern' and the 'music box with 8 requiems' cannot be brought into dreams.
Ning Zhe said, forcing the hilt of the sword into her hand: "Kill me and let me wake up, then I will come to Vanessa Castle in reality and kill the ghosts in this castle."
Bai Zhi nodded and took the hilt: "Then I'll wait for you here, be careful."
After hesitating for a moment, Bai Zhi gripped the hilt of the sword tightly and stabbed the blunt, unsharpened sword into Auror's heart.
He died again.
(End of this chapter)