When I came to the gym near Jessica's house, it had just opened, so there weren't many people inside, and the owner of the gym had seen me last time, so he was quite enthusiastic as soon as I walked in this time, and I talked to him for a while.

In fact, the owner of this gym is also a fitness expert, he looks like he is about forty years old, but his actual age is already in his fifties, exercise makes him look younger, muscle lines are maintained quite well, and he seems to be a more natural exerciser, there are not too many traces of drugs or hormones on his body, in fact, the last time I came here, there were a few particularly strong guys who should have taken hormones.

I asked the gym owner for some tips on how to do strength training, and I also wanted to build strength without gaining too much weight.

"You don't have to worry too much about your weight, after all, based on your daily aerobic exercise, it is unlikely that your weight will rise under normal circumstances, you should pay more attention to the nutritional combination of diet, plus enough sleep and rest time, and strength training can not be rushed, your age is still a little young, not yet the most suitable age for strength training."

"What you said makes a lot of sense, so I should not deliberately do particularly intense strength training, but focus on physical training and physical flexibility training."

After deciding on my training priorities, I officially entered the gym, where there are dozens of different types of gym equipment, and when I first came here, I was quite amazed, because I felt that the gym here is much more complete than the equipment in our Lakers team gym, and you can find almost any muscle in the body here.

However, I was a little dizzy in the face of so many machines, so I found a personal fitness trainer and asked him to show me what the fitness equipment generally does.

It took me a full hour for the trainer to familiarize me with the equipment, and then I decided to train on my own, because I was used to arranging and doing the training by myself, and I didn't particularly like to have people standing around and watching me.

After learning about so many different fitness equipment, I decided to make a detailed fitness plan for myself, in fact, the muscles in our body need a period of rest after exercise, generally 48 hours to 72 hours to be able to fully recover, but as a professional basketball player, I have a training volume almost every day, so it is actually impossible for the muscles to fully recover, which leads to a long-term regular season, we will accumulate a lot of exercise fatigue, There is no way to get 100% recovery of the muscles, and there will be some hidden dangers of injury at this time.

The purpose of muscle training in some positions is not necessarily to train it to be strong, but to use these muscles that are not usually used to indirectly release the accumulated exercise fatigue in the body.

So I make a training plan so that the muscles in different areas are done separately so that I can achieve the best results.

For example, this time I will focus on leg muscle training, then next time I will do waist and abdominal or arm muscle training, and next time I may do some back or some hidden small muscle group training, which should bring me some better results.

As time went on, there were more and more people in the gym, and I saw a few guys I saw when I came to this gym last time, and it seems that they really come here a lot, and they are all together, and they showed a lot of enthusiasm after seeing me, and I didn't like to ignore them when I saw them so enthusiastic, so I also asked them for some training tips.

I don't know, I don't know, I know that one of them is a former national bodybuilding champion, he is already forty or fifty years old at this time, but the muscle mass on his body is extremely amazing, less than six feet tall and weighs more than two hundred and fifty pounds, and the body fat content is less than 8%, you can imagine how strong this guy is.

However, in fact, players like us who play in the NBA are generally not able to train their muscles to be too large, which will greatly affect the flexibility of the body, and for basketball, which is very dependent on running and jumping, excessive weight is a very big burden, not everyone can jump one meter high with a weight of more than 300 pounds like Shaq, and run faster than ordinary forward players, he is a monster and cannot be judged by normal standards.

Of course, these bodybuilders are very good at telling me the training methods, I don't dare to fully accept them, for the training I still prefer to use my own set, my training method is based on some fitness knowledge mastered in the previous life, and after talking with the Lakers trainer and Kobe's soul, and then after comprehensive consideration, I should say that my own training method will be more suitable for myself.

However, sometimes training alone can be a little more boring, and when there are several people together, chatting and training at the same time, it will feel that time flies faster, and boring training becomes a little more interesting.

During this time, I also talked to them about the various attractions near Los Angeles and the fun places in other cities in the United States, and there are still some of these guys who know a lot about these things, some of them used to travel and explore dozens of cities in the United States on foot when they were young, and he said that if it wasn't for the lack of cameras at the time, he would definitely have taken hundreds of thousands of photos.

But what surprised me the most was that when we talked about Sir Faustin's estate in Los Angeles, some of them knew a lot about it, and many of the things he said about Sir Faustin's estate matched the information I found with Jessica at the Los Angeles Museum of History, which instantly piqued my interest.

"How do you know all this about Sir Faustin's manor?"

"Haha, don't you know, my great-grandfather used to be a butler in this manor for nearly twenty years, and he wrote a diary of what he saw and heard during these twenty years, and this diary has been hidden in my family's old mansion, which I found in the attic when I went to renovate the old mansion a few years ago."

"And what is recorded in your great-grandfather's diary, can you tell me?"

"You seem to be very interested in the affairs of this manor, have you been to the site of the manor to see it?"

"Well, not long ago, I don't know who packaged this manor into a haunted house, and then it was opened to the public."

"Well, it's unlikely, as far as I know, the manor has been abandoned and closed for decades, and even if it is open to the public, there are only countless cobwebs and fallen leaves there."

"It does look like no one has been there for a long time, but it has definitely been tidied up, and there are still a lot of furniture and materials in its main building, and it looks like it was inhabited during this period."

"How so?"

The man's expression suddenly became very strange, as if he was seriously thinking about something, but what was he thinking about?

"I'm going to visit there again recently, and if you have time today, you can come with me, along with my girlfriend, and if you can bring out your great-grandfather's diary too, because there are so many incredible things going on in this manor."

"That's a good idea, then I'll go home and get my notes now, you give me your mobile phone number, and we'll be in touch later."

"Okay, if possible, you'd better prepare some other tools, such as flashlights and some self-defense weapons, I encountered some bizarre things when my girlfriend and I went in before, and it is good to be more prepared."

We left each other a cell phone number, and then he left the gym, and the rest of the people around looked surprised after listening to us, and a few of them seemed to have heard the story of the manor, but most of them were rumors and small stories from unknown sources, and some of them were rather bizarre.

I didn't stay at the gym long either, and after a little jogging, I went back to Jessica's house, by which time Jessica was already up and up.

When she saw me, she threw herself into my arms, and I gently patted her on the back to tell her not to panic or get excited, I just went out to exercise.

However, when I saw the dark circles on her face, I realized that she didn't seem to have slept very well last night.

"Did you have a nightmare?"

Jessica nodded weakly, and I ran my hand over her blonde hair that reached her shoulders, and whispered comfort to her.

Jessica told me about her dream, and it turned out that she had just dreamed that her parents had an accident in a rather desolate place, and she said that she saw some big flying bats with sharp teeth that had lifted her parents into the air and thrown them under the cliff, and she cried as she spoke.

After more than ten minutes, Jessica's mood finally calmed down a little, and I told her what had happened to me in the gym, and asked her if she would like to go with me to Sir Faustin's manor again.

At first she didn't have any expression, as if she was thinking about something, and then she nodded slowly, as if she had made some kind of great determination.

We have made a lot of preparations in advance like the last time we went to Sir Faustin's manor, and we are now a little more experienced than the last time, so we believe that this time we should be able to find more clues in Sir Faustin's manor.

At this time, my mobile phone rang, it was the person who just called, his name is Robert, his profession is a construction worker, to be honest, there are not many construction workers with such a strong body like him, but the income of construction workers in the United States is relatively good, and many times there is free time for their own arrangement.

He told me he was ready to go, and I told him we were going to have a round at the gates of Sir Faustin's manor, and he readily agreed.

Jessica and I put our preparations in our backpacks and set off as well.

When Jessica and I arrived at the gate of Sir Fauststein's estate, the time had come to about half past ten in the morning, and after Jessica and I got out of the car, we saw Robert at a glance, he was wearing a black trench coat and a black hat, and he looked quite stylish, like a big brother in a movie.

"You guys can't drive well, it's so slow."

"There is a bit of a traffic jam on the road, the traffic situation in Los Angeles is like this, there is no way, by the way, did you bring your great-grandfather's diary?"

Robert smiled and took out a small notebook from the backpack on his back, this little book looked a little worn, you can not only tell it from the appearance of an old thing, but even if you get a little closer to it, you can directly use your nose to smell the smell of the old age.

I carefully took the diary from Robert's hand, which looked like it might be broken at any moment, and I could see that this diary was probably more than a hundred years old, and there were some special reinforcements on it, and there were some very strange black marks on the pages, which I suspected were blood stains after drying.

Jessica also looked at the journal with a strange look next to me, and I even glanced at each other, and probably guessed each other's thoughts, and Jessica and I should have thought of going together.

Robert only smiled slightly when he saw the look in our eyes.

"The black mark on this diary is indeed bloodstained, it has followed my great-grandfather through a lot of bloody things, just like this manor, full of bloody past."

"The things in this manor have always been a mystery, Jessica and I went to the Los Angeles Museum of History to look for historical records about this manor, but we only saw a small part of it and it was closed, but when we went back the next day, a lot of things in the museum were stolen, and government agencies like the FBI and CIA were involved in the investigation of this matter, do you think this is a bit too much of a coincidence?"

"If you open this notebook left by my great-grandfather, you will understand that this manor is full of all kinds of evils, it is a place of filth and filth, and if you think about why Sir Faustin has not been willing to open this manor for so long, there must be a reason why you have to do it, I believe you also know the true identity of Sir Faustin."

Jessica and I looked at each other, both looking puzzled, and Robert's smile was gone.

"Don't you know Sir Fastein's true identity?"

"What is Sir Faustin's true identity? But as far as we know, the identity of this Sir Faustin is definitely not simple, first of all, he is a person who will not grow old at all, in many records and photos of different places and eras, this Sir Faustin has appeared like this, so I suspect that he is not an ordinary human at all, but a future human with the ability to travel through time and space. ”

"Hahaha, a future human with the ability to transcend time and space? You've watched too many science fiction movies. I'm telling you, this guy is actually a vampire with immortality, and the proof is in my great-grandfather's diary. ”

"What?" Jessica and I looked at each other again, completely unable to believe what was coming out of this guy's mouth.

"Are you sure you're still in your right mind? Do you believe in such a thing as a vampire? ”

At this time, I showed a very shocked expression, but Robert did not say anything, but helped me open the diary of my great-grandfather in my hand, when it was opened, there was a strong irritating breath rushing towards me, it was a strong bloody smell, they did not know how many years ago they were contaminated with this diary, but it is still so strong until now.

My attention was attracted by some of the records in the diary, after reading a few pages, I found that these diaries were quite hurried when writing, as if writing with the hand while holding the diary, giving people the feeling that it was quite messy, many letters were not written in full strokes, and simplified writing was used where simplified writing could be carried out, and some of the content had to be understood in combination with the context before and after, which showed that the author was in a rather hurried situation when writing this diary. You may not even be able to crouch down to write, and you have to write this diary while walking.

Because of this, many of the records in this diary seem quite strange, that is, the so-called preface does not match the afterword, if you don't use a little imagination, it is likely that there is no way to understand the meaning of it.

Jessica and I read more than a dozen pages of diaries with which I recorded several horrible stories, which I will not describe here, but all of them were about the terrible things he had experienced in Sir Faustin's manor, and several of them were about throwing corpses, and they were corpses whose blood had been completely drained, and in his description, the shriveled corpses became his nightmares, and filled his sleep with these horrible corpses for a long time.

"So do you think that the bloodless corpses described in your great-grandfather's diary are proof that Sir Faustin was a vampire?"

"Of course, there is more evidence, but this evidence is sufficient enough, my great-grandfather had to dispose of some corpses of the manor every once in a while, and you say that does not mean that the manor is inhabited by vampires? And you said that you found a lot of evidence that Sir Faustin appeared in different places and times, and didn't it just prove that he was able to live as immortal as a vampire? ”

I couldn't seem to find a good reason to refute Robert's words for a moment, but I always felt that something was not right, and my intuition told me that Sir Faustin could never be a vampire, but what to explain the terrible things that his great-grandfather had recorded in this diary?

"I found out that some parts of your great-grandfather's notebook were written in some strange script, neither English nor Latin, what kind of script?"

I took Robert's great-grandfather's notes to him and asked him to take a closer look, and in fact only the first half or so of them were written in English, and the last half was written in a script that I had never seen before, and Jessica couldn't help but shake her head after reading them, which looked very old, because they were kind of like some kind of hieroglyphic script that had been transformed.

"To be honest, I don't know what these words are, I once took this notebook to some experts in the field of text forensics, but none of them could tell what kind of text it was, not even what era it was, and then I didn't try to translate it, maybe my great-grandfather copied it from somewhere."

"You remind me that there are many secret underground tunnels and hidden rooms in this manor of Sir Faustin, but the strangest thing is that I don't think Jessica and I have been here a few times before, but we don't think we have fully discovered the secrets of this place the few times I've been to it before."

I told them about the results of the previous discussions with Kobe Bryant's soul about the first three times I and Jessica went to this manor, and when I said that the three times I and Jessica had come to this manor in different planes, Robert and Jessica both had a look of extreme shock on their faces.

"Do you think there is a possibility that there is some kind of space-time passage in this manor, and those who enter it are likely to step into other planes without realizing it?"

When I said this, Robert's expression became extremely strange, as if he had heard something very strange, and perhaps I had the same look I had when I heard him say that Sir Faustin might be a vampire.

"Forget it, there's no point in discussing these issues now, because there is no actual conclusion at all, we still have to enter this manor to see the results, I wonder if you plan to enter through the front door or through the back door this time?"

Robert's face calmed a little, he took his great-grandfather's notes from my hand, and then carefully put them into the bag he was carrying, in which there was a metal box, and the notebook was placed in the metal box, so as to protect the notes to the greatest extent.

"Jessica and I discussed it before we came, and this time we'll go straight through the main entrance, and then go to the same building we visited when we first came here, and we'll explore the manor as carefully as possible today."

"Well, I also brought a small video camera, it can record for a few hours with the battery backup, you didn't bring recording tools when you came here before, to be honest, it's easy to overlook a lot of details just by looking at it, and with the video, it will be very interesting to go back and take a closer look at our expedition in the future."

I was taken aback, I didn't expect Robert to look like a rough person, but thinking about the problem so carefully, it seems that it is really a person who cannot be seen, and the sea water is not worth fighting.

But I can't figure out why he really believes that Sir Faustin is a vampire if he is not the kind of person without brains.

Hey, there are some things that you really can't think about in detail, and when you think about it, you will come up with a lot of strange questions.

A group of three of us came to the main gate of Sir Faustin's manor, this time I deliberately looked at the people guarding the door, but what made me strange was that there was no one at the gate of this manor today, and there would be someone guarding the door each time I came three times before, although the people guarding it were different each time, but there was never such a thing as now, the gate of the manor was directly wide open, and there was no one guarding the door.

The three of us glanced at each other, with a look of doubt in our eyes, and then we crossed the gate and continued to march towards the inside of the manor, to be honest, I had not paid close attention to the gate of this manor before, this time I took a serious look with the idea that every detail could not be missed, only to find that the gate of this manor seemed to be a little strange.

"Wait, isn't it a little strange for you to see this gate?"

Robert and Jessica stopped, and threw a puzzled look at me, and they looked up at the gate of the manor, and then they were silent for a long time, not seeming that there was anything wrong with the gate of the manor.

"Tell me what's wrong?"

Robert looked at me with a puzzled look on his face.

"Regardless of the information obtained, this manor should have been built in the middle of the nineteenth century, but do you think the gate of this manor looks like it was built in the mid-nineteenth century?"

Hearing me say this, Robert and Jessica's faces suddenly appeared with a look of sudden enlightenment, but after a moment, there was a hint of confusion.

"This gate seems to be the architectural style of the Mediterranean generation of ancient Europe, that is, a mixture of ancient Athenian and Roman styles, but what does this mean?" Jessica saw the stylistic provenance of this gate.

"The difference between the style of ancient Athens and ancient Rome and the style of the estate itself is not ordinary, but the point I want to say is not that."

"And what exactly are you trying to explain?"

"I remember that the gate wasn't like this when Jessica and I first and second came to this manor, and the third time we came to this manor, the gate was different, and today there is a third kind of gate, what do you think that means?"

"Do you want to say that the few times you have come to this manor in different time and space, or that you have not entered the same manor at all, or even that the manor we are in now is not Sir Faustin's manor in the strict sense, but another manor that I don't know what it is."

Robert danced as he spoke, and his emotions were now a little more excited.

"It's very likely that this is the case, although I can't figure out what the logic looks like right now, but this is indeed a direction to think about, as for whether it is or not, we will have to wait until we continue to enter this manor to see."

The three of us then walked through the gates of the manor and walked along the mossy path towards the manor, and within a few steps of entering the manor, Jessica and I already understood the fact that this was indeed not the road we saw when we first entered the manor, and that the path was not overgrown with weeds and moss as it is now, as if no one had lived in at least a few decades.

"Was that how you were when you first came here?"

Robert gestured to the trail ahead.

I shook my head slightly.

"The first time we came, it was definitely not what it is now, and although there were some weeds on the side of the trail, there were hardly any bryophytes, and the weeds looked quite neat, as if they had been regularly pruned to a certain extent."

Jessica nodded her head in agreement.

"It seems that the situation is really a little weird."

The three of us continued along the trail until we came to the house where Jessica and I had first come to this place, and we stood in front of the house and found that the whole house was already covered with all kinds of vines and plants, and if it weren't for the shape of the whole building that was easy to distinguish, I would not have been able to connect it to the building that Jessica and I had seen in the first place.

"It's really weird, it definitely wasn't like this when we came." Jessica gently stroked the vines on the wall with her hand, as if she wanted to verify everything in front of her.

The door of this house was closed tightly, but when we came, it was opened directly, as if it were two Sir Faustin estates at different times.

"It's really incredible, it seems that there is really some kind of time and space turbulence in this Sir Faustin's manor, every time we enter this manor, we will go to this manor at different points in time, and we don't know what time period we are in this manor, maybe we should go inside and have a look, maybe we can find something that can determine the time."

Robert and Jessica both nodded in agreement with me, now that we're here, no matter how weird the situation is, we'll have to keep our heads on until we've fully discovered the secrets of the manor.

The first thing we have to solve is to get into this gate, it's a thick wooden door, I can't be sure of the specific type of wood used for this gate, but what we can be sure of is that it's a very hard, very corrosion-resistant tree, even if we take out a short-handled knife and try to pry open the door, we haven't found the slightest chance.

"No, this door is so strong, if we didn't have a special lock-picking tool or a door-picking tool, we probably wouldn't be able to enter it today."

There was a look of disappointment on Robert's face, as if he had lost confidence by being blocked from this door.

I gently patted him on the shoulder, and gave him a little encouragement, telling him not to give up too soon, if there is no way to get in at the main entrance, then we will look for the side door or the window or something, and we will always find a passage to get in.

Robert listened to my words and quickly returned to his previous good condition, and the three of us kept watching along the perimeter of the building.

Because the surrounding weeds and shrubs are a bit too lush, we have no way to get down directly in many places, so we can only take out the knife and open the way while walking, only to see Robert I don't know where to take out a long-handled saber that can be folded, this saber is extremely sharp, just a light everything can cut a passage for us to get out.

But despite the sharpness of the saber, the speed at which we could move was still limited because of the dense bushes in some places, but if we did not take these paths, we would have to take a long detour, and we walked along the edge of the building, looking for a window that would allow us to enter the room.

However, we walked a long way and found that the entire floor did not have a single window, which was a bit surprising to me, if the first floor had no windows at all, how would the people living in it breathe?

My mind kept thinking back to the first time Jessica and I entered this building, and I really didn't have the slightest information about the windows on the first floor, as if the first floor was a very large hall and there were no windows around, which was really scary.

After walking for a while, all three of us stood still, after all, we were a little frustrated that we didn't find the window, I really didn't expect that our trip would be so bad today, that we couldn't even enter this building.

"What to do, it looks like we can't get into this building today, this gate looks really sturdy, I feel like it's really hard to open without explosives."

Robert put the knife directly on the ground, and then looked a little angry, after all, he weighed a bit after practicing fitness, so he still felt tired easily.

"Let's go back to the main gate and think about it in the long run, I'm sure we'll be able to find a way to get into this house."

The three of us had a slightly easier way back, after all, we had just forced a path between the bushes and weeds, and when we got back to the main entrance, I caught a glimpse of a place in the distance, as if something was not quite right.

"Look, there's something shining in the trees over there?"

I don't know if my eyes are really a little sharp, Jessica and Robert didn't notice it, but I saw a flash of light in the canopy of the big tree dozens of meters away.

They looked in the direction of my gaze, and seemed to notice that unusual flash, which looked a bit like the reflection of some kind of metallic substance, and the weather was quite good today, at least in winter, it was not easy to see the sun, and it was with the help of the reflection of the sunlight that I could see this ray of light reflected from the canopy.

We walked to the bottom of the tree in three steps and two steps, but when we really came to the tree, we sent down the thing that seemed to be invisible before, after all, many times this reflection is limited by the angle, just now I was lucky, I happened to see it in the position where I could see the reflection, and now I came to the bottom of the tree, but I can't see the reflection.

However, all three of us saw the reflection, so I was certainly not alone, and we had to find a way to get it off the canopy.

"What to do, are you going to climb up? But I feel that with my size, this tree may not be able to support me. ”

Robert shook his muscles, I felt that it was really difficult for him to climb up to the canopy with his weight, but I was not very good at climbing trees, so I couldn't let Jessica climb the tree to get it, it would be too dangerous.

While I was hesitating, Jessica didn't know when she had taken off her coat.

"Jessica, what do you want to do?"

When I found out, Jessica had already climbed on top of the tree trunk, I didn't expect Jessica to have such a vigorous body, it looks like she has been professionally trained since she was a child, which can't help but remind me of the heroine of an action-adventure game that I particularly liked in my previous life, her name is Laura, yes, Jessica looks really like the heroine Laura in "Tomb Raider" at this time.

She is also an explorer, maybe Jessica's blood also flows like Laura's, I saw her nimble climbing on the trunk, her weight is indeed relatively light compared to the two of us men, so she didn't cause the trunk to shake much when she climbed on the trunk.

"Catch."

Hearing Jessica's voice, I subconsciously reached out to take it, and when I took a closer look at the things in my hand, I realized that it was a string of dozens of keychains, and surprisingly, the shape of these keys did not look like modern key styles.