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On the outskirts of Budapest, Hungary, in a clearing surrounded by dense trees, stands a tall castle with a silver-grey façade that glows a faint beige sheen in the sunlight and a pointed Gothic top that soars into the sky. At night, from a distance, the castle is shrouded in moonlight, as if covered with a silver halo, which makes people feel like they have broken into Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale world and seen the castle where the prince and princess lived.

In the garden enclosed by an iron fence in front of the castle, there are large roses, the color is as red as blood, with a strange bewitching and weird!

The owner of the castle is the Countess of Li-Koester, and when you hear this name, you may think that it is just an ordinary aristocratic name.

However, her other name is well-known and famous, and that is the Vampire Countess!

Her beauty is said to have been maintained for nearly fifty years, and the secret recipe for beauty is terrifying. She bathed in blood, and only with the blood of a pure maiden.

She believes that only by soaking in the blood of a pure girl can she continue to absorb the essence of it and keep her young forever. She took a shower and was going to kill two young girls!!

In this way, in the long and dark decades, countless young girls were killed, and their bodies were all buried under her private bathroom! It was her idea, and she believed that the spirits of the maidens could drive away old age and sluggishness.

Because she bathed in blood all year round, she always had a strong smell of blood on her body. But she never uses any perfume to cover it up, let it be. The combination of beautiful appearance and the smell of blood produced an indescribable bevelous charm that made countless aristocratic young people fall in love with it.

Suddenly, the Countess of Li-Kerst became so famous in Europe that even the French Emperor was not far away and bowed down under her pomegranate skirt.

Years later, the revolutionary army led the people to break through the castle of the Countess of Lee-Kerst, and the tragedy was announced to the world! At that time, she was 70 years old, still young and beautiful!

It is said that before she was captured, nearly 00 young girls had been brutally killed, and the red roses in her courtyard were watered with the blood of these young girls!

The Countess's lawsuit caused a sensation throughout Europe at the time, and because of her status, she was not sentenced to death, but was ordered to be imprisoned in the castle tower, with a special person responsible for delivering her meals.

One morning, a few years later, a shrill scream pierced the silent sky around the castle from the tower where the countess was imprisoned.

People who heard the screams rushed to the scene, but they were stunned by the scene in front of them!

The Countess was lying in bed, already dead, her skin was dry! Wilt! Only her face was bright and ruddy, as if she was asleep, and on the wall beside her, a line of words was written in bright red blood: One day, I will return from hell!

For hundreds of years, every full moon night, there would be a wave of murmurful weeping in the castle, as if a thousand ghosts were crying in the night, and ten thousand souls could hear it, even the inhabitants of Budapest, 10 miles away, were so frightened that they invited priests and warlocks to exorcise spirits, and even the masters of the Vatican and Jerusalem could not do anything.

In the end, the Pope had no choice but to make the land a forbidden place, forbidden for mortals to enter and leave.

(To this day, on the outskirts of Budapest, the castle still bears the papal seal.) Not far from it, the local government wrote a sign: Tourists are not allowed to enter)

Countess Li-Koester is Countess Bathory, a famous vampire countess in Hungarian history