It is only afternoon now, beside the turquoise sapphire lake, the ancient castle that has been silent for a long time has been brightly lit, and the guards on the shore are leading luxurious and exquisite carriages in order, and the family emblems on the carriages are innumerable, and it is not unusual for the family crests with exotic characteristics to be in them. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Young people are in groups of three or five, playing on their own, and the castle seems to have returned to its original golden appearance.

At this moment, a black-haired young man in a gray robe returned from a distance on a white horse, and his dark blue eyes looked at this strange thing suspiciously.

One of the guards saw him and ran quickly.

"Lord Underwood! You're back. The guards led the horses to the parking area.

Phil turned over and dismounted, and asked the guard, "What day is it?" Why is it so lively? ”

"You forgot? It's Miss Venus's birthday, so everyone is here to celebrate! ”

I see, Phil then remembered, although someone had been talking to him all the time, but his mind had not been there, so he didn't think about it for a while.

Phil made his way through the crowd back to the room, and although there were people pointing at him along the way, he didn't pay much attention.

I was tidying up alone in my room, and it was a long time before I heard someone knock on the door.

"Lord Underwood, Miss Venus' birthday party has begun, would you like to attend?" A guard shouted from outside.

Phil originally wanted to refuse, but considering that he was living in Atwood's castle, he finally decided to participate.

"Wait, you haven't seen me as a servant again?" Phil suddenly opened the door and called for the guards.

"Who are your servants?"

"Yes...... Forget it, you go get busy. Phil waved his hand.

Closing the door and returning to his room, Phil changed into his gray robe, put on the proper banquet dress in his closet, and finally put on his glasses on the table, and pulled out a branch with a young shoot from the package and put it in his sleeve.

When Phil arrived at the hall prepared for the banquet, there were already many people dancing to the music, and the rest were eating exquisite snacks, drinking mellow wines, and talking about the customs and stories of various places.

"Hey, I've seen you," said a girl with most of her breasts baring her breasts, pretending to be mature, "I saw you riding out of the mountains and forests on the other side of the lake, wearing a terrible garment. ”

"I didn't see you." Phil pointed out intentionally.

"It doesn't matter, I thought your taste would be so bad, but it's good that you got new clothes." The girl licked her lips and accented the word "new clothes", and Phil felt that the other party might have borrowed a fable called "The Emperor's New Clothes" from the Winter Kingdom, but unfortunately, it was used very badly.

"Anyway, give me a drink," the girl snatched the cup from Phil's hand and drank it all in one gulp, "and then how about inviting me to dance again?" ”

Phil shook his head and brought another glass of wine from the waiter who was passing by: "Rest assured, beautiful young lady, there will always be prey that you will hunt." ”

The girl finally gave up and turned away, leaving Phil's shoes with an intimate footprint, and Phil did not dodge.

Phil came to the corner of the hall, looked at the scene of singing and dancing in front of him, and felt the slight heat emitted by the branch in his left hand.

After a long hesitation, Phil turned and left the hall.

Unexpectedly, when I passed through the garden, I met the hero of the banquet.

"Mr. Phil!"

"Venus, why don't you get to the hall, that's where you're supposed to be."

"I don't like it, it's uncomfortable."

Venus sat on the swing that Freeton and the guards had prepared for her out of the new Black Arrow wood, and did not swing, but swayed gently.

"Mr. Phil, you say, why do I always feel unhappy after so many birthdays?"

"When you're not happy, go for a walk in Sapphire Lake, didn't you say that when you were younger, you liked to go there the most?"

"Did I say that?" Venus suddenly wondered, "I hate water the most, because I drowned in the creek when I was a child. ”

"Well, maybe I'm mistaken." Phil pushed his glasses and said.

"Mr. Phil, don't stay that long again." Venus said suddenly.

"What?"

"I mean the Dark Forest," Venus looked up at Phil, "that place, it's scary. ”

"One more time, Venus, you don't have to worry."

"Why another time?" Venus complained, "The last three times, each time I've spent two nights in the Dark Forest, I'm worried about you. ”

"What two nights?"

Phil asked, confused.

"Venus! Oh, and Mr. Underwood. ”

Atwood suddenly appeared and summoned Venus back, after all, the guests were waiting.

After Venus left, Atwood and Phil spoke cordially.

"Congratulations Mr. Underwood, there is only one last time left, and I hope Mr. Underwood is doing well." Atwood said.

Phil was a little puzzled in his heart: "Mr. Atwood, do I stay for two nights every time I go to the Dark Forest?"

"How so?" "Mr. Phil's mission is just to stay overnight. ”

"But ......"

"Who said that?"

"Venus just ......"

Atwood suddenly smiled and said, "Mr. Phil, Venus must have missed you too much." It was late at night, and Mr. Phil rested early. ”

After parting ways with Atwood, Phil returned to his room.

The doubts in his heart have not been solved, and Atwood's answer just now seems to be a little anxious, is there something in this that he has not seen through?

In the middle of the night, everyone seemed to have left the castle, and the castle fell silent again.

Phil got up and was careful not to alarm the servant when he left the room.

Halfway through, I suddenly heard a faint scream from Atwood's laboratory. Arriving at Venus's room, Phil knocked on the door, but there was no sound inside. Because it was a woman's room, Phil couldn't break in directly, so he decided to take a look at the direction of the laboratory where the sound was coming.

Although each individual's laboratory has its own privacy, this voice rings almost every night, and I don't know what kind of experiment Atwood is doing so infiltration.

He gradually walked to the back of the castle, which was in a state of disrepair and looked a little dilapidated, but it was not without people, there was a staircase down that was often walked, and below it seemed to be the basement of the castle.

"Mr. Underwood, what are you doing here?"

A voice sounded behind Phil, a voice that was both familiar and unfamiliar to him, and the scene also had the illusion of time reappearing.

Phil turned around, and Venus, dressed in a white nightdress, appeared quietly behind him, just as when Phil first heard the screams of the laboratory and went out of the room to take a look, Venus's appearance completely escaped his detection.

"Venus ......"

"Mr. Underwood, if it's all right, please rest early." Venus's voice was like that of a first meeting, but it was more indifferent than that, and she turned and left.

"Venus, why did you say I spent two nights in the Dark Forest?" Phil called out to her.

Venus didn't look back: "You heard me wrong, Mr. Underwood, you've only been there for one night. ”