Chapter 85: The Secret of the Castle
"Fluttershy, come and have a look." Qi Lin beckoned behind him.
Song Xiaodie, who was on guard in the back, immediately leaned over, Qi Lin brushed away the weeds with one hand, exposing the dried corpse on the ground, and when Song Xiaodie saw the wound on the neck of the dried corpse, a noun couldn't help blurting out: "Vampire!" ”
"You've seen it?" Qi Lin was a little excited, could it be that there really was such a strange force in this game? No, if there is something in the game world, then there should be one in reality...... It's just that the general public has always thought that this is just a legend!
"Hmm." Song Xiaodie nodded.
"Where have you seen it?"
"In novels and movies."
“……”
If Qi Lin's heart was still a little hot in the last second, this second would be equivalent to pouring a large bucket of ice water from his head to his feet.
"Don't you have Eastern European roots? The birthplace of vampire legends is in Eastern Europe, don't you have some legends with high reliability points and the like? "Qi Lin doesn't give up.
"But I grew up in Huaxia! If you ask me about the content of Journey to the West, I probably know more......," Song Xiaodie, with long pale blonde hair, said in a standard Chinese.
“……”
The legend of vampires was spread in the Balkans and Slavic folk tales in Eastern Europe in the early days, and the vampires at that time were more similar to zombies in China.
Coupled with the almost inexplicable plague at that time, and some strange phenomena that now seem to be completely explained by science, it led to the "birth" of vampires.
Later, vampires were "beautified" from zombies to nobles in the dark world, thanks to a large number of writers who broke through the sky, and at this time, the image of vampires began to slowly fix, and the stories and works related to them gradually branched out and flourished.
Pale complexion, sharp fangs, aristocratic habits, blood-sucking, feud with werewolves, first embrace, etc., many of the characteristics of vampires are actually from human creations, and as for the ancestor of vampires "Cain" and the like, in fact, the Bible has not mentioned it at all, this statement originated from a video game at the end of the 20th century......
In other words, such a thing as a "vampire" is actually a product of human imagination, and so far, there is no ironclad evidence to confirm the real existence of vampires.
However, legends have a certain basis, and artistic creations generally have their prototypes, and what makes Qi Lin even more convinced of the authenticity of the vampire is the dried corpse in front of him.
Compared to the diameter of the tooth holes on the neck of the dried corpse, the creature is not too large, and the fact that there are no other wounds on the corpse indicates that either the murderer has an ability that can stun or hypnotize the "prey", or the strength is too strong for the prey to resist at all.
Coupled with the high-level mutant creatures in the castle that were obediently kept in captivity, Qi Lin was more inclined to the latter.
If D-class mutant creatures can be tamed, then the "master" of this castle should at least have the strength of C-level or above, which is converted to the player's level, that is, an evolutionary above level 4.
Could it be that this castle is actually a vampire castle?
Qi Lin suddenly felt that the Li Family Castle, which was already particularly weird, seemed to be covered with a thick layer of suspicion.
The corpse is the dead in the old era, but in the old era, the Li Family Castle was an open public attraction - a vampire lived in the castle as an attraction...... Qi Lin felt that this subject matter alone could be used by the author to write another novel.
"Shall we ...... Do you want to go back? Song Xiaodie looked at the wound on the dried corpse, and her little hand subconsciously clenched the compound bow in her hand.
Qi Lin slowly shook his head: "Don't worry, let's see, anyway, this game can be resurrected, if I don't even have the courage to explore the unknown, I might as well go to Thunder City to set up a stall to sell two-headed cow barbecue." ”
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Avoiding a variety of powerful mutated creatures along the way, it took the two men almost an hour to approach the northernmost tower of the castle before crashing into the first living creature after entering the castle.
It's not entirely right to say that it is a living thing, it is a high-level zombie that is very different from humans, and more than a dozen arms have grown out of its thin upper body, and the end of each arm is a highly alienated claw, and on the side of the neck of this corpse, there is also a highly decomposed wound, because of the existence of this wound, only half of its neck can not support the weight of the head, and the whole extremely ugly and terrifying head is dragged crookedly on the chest, like a drooping tumor.
The cervical vertebrae, which was supposed to be upright, was twisted into an arch-like curved shape.
Seeing such a disgusting monster, not to mention that Song Xiaodie's face suddenly turned pale, even Qi Lin felt a burst of unspeakable nausea - the strength of this zombie is not strong, and it is only at the level of the F-level midstream if it survives, but this terrifying shape can definitely rank in the top three among the monsters Qi Lin has encountered.
It's just this wound...... Did you not die after being sucked in blood, and then you were radiated and resurrected?
The battle ended quickly, and the sharp bone blade simply cut off the curved cervical vertebrae after cutting off all the more than ten arms of the zombie, making the crumbling head completely separate from the zombie's body.
Kicking the corpse of the zombie aside, Qi Lin walked lightly to the door of the tower - he had already calmed down the movement of the fight just now, but if the other party was really a vampire with fourth-level evolutionary strength, it was estimated that he might have been discovered the moment he entered the castle.
There is a mechanical lock on the door of the tower, which was installed by the manager of the attraction in the old era, and the key is estimated to be only in the hands of the manager in charge of the attraction, but Qi Lin doesn't have much effort to find the key now, and the bone blade is chopped down, and the alloy door lock is cut from the middle.
Pushing open the wooden door, Qi Lin immediately closed his mouth and held his breath, and at the same time covered the mouth and nose of Song Xiaodie, who had not yet reacted behind him, with one hand.
The dust cleared, and the tower was filled with fresh air outside, and Qi Lin cautiously stepped into the tower with Glock in one hand and a bone blade in the other.
"If I knew that my opponent might be a vampire, I should have customized some silver bullet ...... in Thunder City."
Although silver is not suitable as a bullet due to its low hardness, due to some wealthy people who have a special penchant for precious metals, there are also a few silver bullets sold in the trading houses of Thunder City.
The first floor of the tower was empty, except for rows of decaying wooden cabinets on the ground near the walls, and a rectangular table in the middle of the tower.
Leading to the second floor of the tower was a staircase that snaked upwards against the interior wall, and down - Qi Lin stepped on the rough limestone floor with his foot, and the feeling of feedback from the soles of his feet and the dull voice told Qi Lin the fact that the underground of the tower was solid.