Chapter 11: The Last Night

When night falls, the flames of the candlesticks and kerosene lamps have burned out, and the castle is once again dark; The moonlight was hazy, and the crow on the spire snorted lowly, and for a moment, a piercing and shrill cry swept by, startling the crow.

Mu Lan ran covered in blood, looking back from time to time, as if she was being chased by someone, she hid in a room and closed the door heavily.

The man with the bloody dagger followed the direction of the sound, he came to the room where the girl was hiding, kicked the door open, and then, from inside, the girl's desperate screams were heard, and after a while the sound stopped, and the man walked out, his eyes fierce.

The man walked away, another shadow hidden in the darkness moved, he sneered, and then out of the darkness, he came to the outside of the room, looked left and right, and when he saw that no one had noticed, he entered the room.

Lighting the lamp, he saw that the room was empty, and he wondered for a moment that something was wrong, and then turned around, only to see the girl standing in the doorway, smiling at himself.

The earl found out that he had been tricked, he rushed towards Mu Lan, and Mu Lan was not afraid at all, the glass jar in her hand was thrown towards this person, with a bang, the glass jar smashed on him and shattered, the liquid inside was drenched, and then spontaneously combusted in an instant, the fire burned all over the body, the earl screamed and tried to extinguish the flames, and Mu Lan also took the opportunity to escape and resist the door.

Ah Feng, who pretended to walk away, came back and pressed the door against Mu Lan together, Ah Feng asked Mu Lan: "Is this okay?" ”

"White phosphorus will spontaneously ignite when exposed to oxygen, and phosphorus pentoxide produced by combustion is highly toxic." Mu Lan said: "Our Lord Count will not be burned to death, but will also be poisoned inside. ”

The white phosphorus was discovered by Mu Lan when she was investigating the Earl's alchemy laboratory, and the white powder at the bottom of the glass bottle filled with liquid caught her attention at that time, and today she sneaked in again, and it was a great risk to take this thing out.

In fact, the world where Mu Lan is located, white phosphorus, was discovered during the prevalence of alchemy in the West, and alchemists were eager to convert ordinary metals into gold, and white phosphorus was a by-product of alchemy.

The earl's voice weakened, and Mu Lan was still waiting, waiting for no movement inside at all,

But unexpectedly, a moment later, the wooden door that Mu Lan and Ah Feng were holding against was impacted by a huge force, and the two of them were almost knocked open with a bang.

"Aren't you dead yet?" Mu Lan was surprised.

Then the force continued to hit the wooden door, cracks appeared on the wooden door, and seeing that it was about to be knocked open, Mu Lan and Ah Feng glanced at each other, and the two of them withdrew at the same time.

Without resistance, the wooden door was directly knocked open, and a cloud of black mist rushed out.

The Earl was severely burned by the flames caused by white phosphorus, he covered his mouth and nose, lying on the ground and convulsing constantly, his charred skin did not have a piece of good meat, and around him was a seven-pointed star pattern drawn with blood, dense blood-red symbols were written all over the floor, strange and mysterious, there was a heart at the top of the five seven-pointed stars, this black mist appeared out of thin air and was cold and rancid, and the red eyes stared at the two of them, making people shudder.

"Skeleton Man again?" Ah Feng exclaimed.

"Not quite like that! This seems to be conscious. Seeing this, Mu Lan and Ah Feng ran, and a woman's face could be faintly seen in the black mist, and this face was a little familiar.

Its overall shape is different from the skeletons seen before, Mu Lan remembered that in the "Diary of the Butler Leon", it was said that the Earl had been killing the servants in Fort Hill for experiments, and those may be failures, and the skeletons wandering outside are its products, and the real success is related to the ritual that the Earl needs to kill seven people to complete this time.

"You can't finish the ritual for me! You're all going to die! They all have to die! Kill them for me! The Earl roared fiercely, the unrecognizable face with its eyeballs exposed, and the burns were deep to the bone, and he pointed in the direction of the two of them, and the black mist activated as if he could understand it.

The undead creatures wrapped in the black mist attacked the two of them at an extremely fast speed, seeing the disgusting rancid smell approaching, Mu Lan was in a hurry and had no way at all, just when a pair of pale hands in the black mist grabbed Mu Lan, Mu Lan was in a hurry, and directly turned over the railing of the corridor, and jumped in his heart.

This second floor is about five or six meters high, if you don't master the posture well, you will fall to death, Mu Lan protects her head, her body sags, and she tries to shorten the distance from the ground, but when she falls to the ground, it is still very painful, the soles of her feet are numb, and her body does not stand firmly, so she rolls directly on the ground several times, and her head is full of gold stars.

There was no time to think about her physical condition, Mu Lan looked up, and the undead creatures suddenly opened a long distance with herself, and instead of chasing after herself, she attacked Ah Feng, who was relatively close.

Ah Feng faced a pair of hands that rushed in, but he still wanted to force it with his own skills, he supported the ground with his hands while running, and suddenly changed direction, but this time the opponent was not Wang Qiang or an ordinary skeleton, and the pale hands that exuded the breath of death still touched Ah Feng's back.

In an instant, Ah Feng's clothes were burned by the black mist, and a large piece of skin on his back rotted and fell off, he gritted his teeth and held back the pain, this undead creature just rubbed his back was so terrifying, if he really caught it, he would definitely die, so Ah Feng also learned Mu Lan to jump down from the second floor.

Ah Feng was not as embarrassed as Mu Lan when he jumped down, and when he landed, he rolled and stood firmly, he hurriedly looked at Mu Lan with a gray face on his face, "What now?" ”

"Let me think about it, let me think about it......" Mu Lan noticed that the jade bracelet on her wrist was glowing again, and she didn't have time to think about what was going on with this thing, she only felt that her brain was running fast, and she still remained calm and calm while her adrenaline was rushing.

After thinking for a while, Mu Lan said, "I need to find a complex terrain to maneuver around it, you go and open the gate of the ancient castle and bring in all the skeletons outside!" ”

"Good!" Without questioning Mu Lan, Ah Feng nodded directly, and he ran towards the gate without forgetting to tell Mu Lan not to be touched by undead creatures.

This black mist drifted down from the second floor, chasing in the direction of Mu Lan's running, and the earl looked condescendingly at the two who ran away, his burnt face exposing two rows of senran teeth, and he smiled strangely.

Mu Lan dodged in countless corridors, doorways, and columns, this was the residence of the servants on the first floor of the ancient castle, and the kitchen of the ancient castle was also here, and the rooms were interconnected and very complicated. She's playing a game of "hide and seek" that fails or dies, but the undead creature still obeys the laws of physics and doesn't pass through the wall, otherwise she would have died no one how many times.

The closest thing Mu Lan got to the undead creature was just now, the moment she flashed into the passage next to her, she felt a chill in her back, but her clothes seemed to be burned off by flames, and the sense of crisis that was close at hand forced her to burst out with an unprecedented survival instinct.

Run! Hurry up! Hurry up!

Mu Lan never looked back, because the cold, full of death and decay feeling was always behind, she prayed that time would pass quickly, as long as it was early in the morning, everything might turn around, and she was also praying that Ah Feng's action would be successful soon.

Ah Feng was also running, the situation on his side was even more dangerous, after all, he didn't have Mu Lan deliberately choose a terrain suitable for evacuation, there was only an open garden outside the ancient castle, Ah Feng kept making noises, and when he saw that he had attracted a large group of skeletons, he ran into the ancient castle.

Although Ah Feng was fast, he could only run in a straight line, and after almost being hit by the skeleton several times, he finally introduced this group of red-eyed monsters into the castle, and he had only one goal, and that was the Count himself.

The earl's charred and festering face couldn't be seen at all, but he should be stunned at the moment, Ah Feng rushed directly in the direction of the earl on the second floor, and just when the earl was chanting words and wanted to cast an illusion, Ah Feng staggered past him and ran farther behind him.

"Come back soon!" The Earl knew his purpose and roared loudly, those skeletons that were lured by Ah Feng only attacked the nearest person, Ah Feng had already run away, so the skeletons were facing the seriously injured Earl.

Mu Lan felt that the sense of danger behind her disappeared, she looked back, and saw that the black mist was quickly moving away from her, it seems that Ah Feng has succeeded, this undead creature is different from the skeletons, although it is summoned through five hearts, it is also a half-finished product, but it should be stronger than those skeletons, it itself is conscious, it is controlled by the earl, if the earl is attacked, it will naturally be called back to protect the master.

The Earl was also running away, but he was seriously injured and naturally couldn't outrun the group of skeletons, and was knocked to the ground by the leader in a few steps, his bone claws tearing his body wildly, and the Count screamed and wailed.

"Winriti! Save me! ”

"Winriti!"

By the time the undead creature arrived, the Count was already dying, his breath was faint, and he was still calling the name between his life.

"Winriti, my wife......"

The undead Wen Ruidi burst out with a shuddering aura, the black mist exploded, and the skeletons around several counts instantly turned into gray powder, and the powerful momentum also caused the skeletons that were very close to each other to be blown away.

The Earl smiled when he saw the undead Wen Ruiti, "I know that you have always cared about ......me the most" His eyes showed a rare gentle color, and he wanted to get up, but he couldn't sit up, so he lay on the ground, and his laughter contained pathos, "It's a pity...... I'm going to succeed this time...... Damn, it's almost like I'll be able to resurrect you completely. ”

The rest of the skeletons were still pouring into the second floor, they had no thoughts, only a thirst for life, the undead Wenreti guarded the Count, the skeletons that attacked it kept shattering, but there were still countless skeletons rushing forward and pounced.

"These lowly servants are so useless even if they die......" The earl's voice was faint and full of mockery: "They all think I'm crazy, haha, I'm really crazy without you by my side, even if more people die...... As long as you can come back......"

As if feeling the Earl's grief, the undead Wenreti howled in pain, the sharp cry was palpitating, and the black mist spread to the entire corridor on the second floor, and it could only be guessed from the impact of various objects that there was still a battle between the undead and the skeletons.

Ah Feng went around to the corridor on the other side and came down the stairs, Mu Lan gasped for breath after strenuous exercise and joined him, and the two of them watched the non-human battle upstairs, hoping that they would lose both, because no matter which side survived, Mu Lan, who was physically exhausted, would not be able to fight it.

The east was faintly lit in the distance, and the long night had finally passed, the black fog had cleared, and the skeletons had disappeared, and the count had called for the last of his words, and he died, judging by his burnt face, he had died with a smile, and the body of the undead had faded, and it looked at the Count until it was gone.

The earl's love touched Mu Lan, she didn't know what kind of emotion could make the earl burst into the madness of resurrecting his deceased wife no matter how many people he killed, without Mu Lan and Ah Feng intervening, he would almost have succeeded.

But here they are natural enemies, sighing, Mu Lan put away a trace of compassion, and then found that her body was fading, lightening, her hands were almost transparent, and Ah Feng next to her was the same, both of them were surprised to see all these changes.

Is it going to end? Leaving the castle?

Although everything that happened here was only three days, the tense nerves at all times made Mu Lan feel extremely long, and her consciousness returned to the state of half-dreaming and half-awake at the beginning, before disappearing completely, Mu Lan smiled, she actually forgot to ask Ah Feng's occupation.