Chapter 172: It's Really a Monument
When he first arrived in the Γ land Islands, although Cheng Shi didn't expect everyone here to be friendly to them, if someone threw a hostile gaze at them, even a bit like the gaze of an animal seeing its prey, especially when this gaze was directed at Barbara, it would still make him extra vigilant, so when the black car drove away, he looked at the direction the car left and was stunned for a long time.
Barbara had just been arguing with Cheng Shi, saying that no one here could understand Chinese, but as soon as the voice fell, a Chinese stopped and asked for directions, which couldn't help but make her embarrassed.
"Landlord, can the monkey family's ancestral house be inhabited now?" Yang Yang suddenly asked a very realistic question, she was not worried that there were really ghosts in that ancient castle.
Cheng Shi glanced at Yang Yang unexpectedly, before leaving, he really hadn't seriously considered the issue of accommodation: "Their house shouldn't have been inhabited for many years, don't you miss the cabin very much?" We'll find a homestay here in a while. β
Yang Yang nodded in satisfaction.
When the group walked to the human gathering area they had just seen, it was already dark, and they soon found a house with a homestay hanging at the door, and the group walked into the house on the first floor, which looked like the front desk of this homestay, and a local old lady received them.
The old lady may have seen that Cheng Shi and his party were very kind-looking, or it may be because she saw that several of them were dressed very thinly, so she felt pity, so she didn't ask them all to show their passports, but only looked at Cheng Shi's passport and checked in for them.
It's a two-story wooden house, and it's one of the larger B&Bs in the area, with just four rooms, one shared by Yangyang and North, and one each for the rest.
Everyone rested in their rooms and then went downstairs to find a place to eat.
After a simple dinner, Cheng Shi saw that the sky had completely darkened, so he planned to drive to investigate the situation of the castle first, since he was here to hunt ghosts, he had to choose the time when the ghosts were most likely to appear.
Yang Yang was overjoyed to live in the cabin, and at the moment she was telling North the story of her and Barbara's time in the forest, and the little mermaid listened attentively, and from time to time she let out "Wow...... Wow......" exclamation. And Oldman relied on the strength of his body, although he didn't have to deliberately reverse jet lag, Cheng Shi could still see that the giant was tired. So he finally decided to go to the castle with Barbara first, and before leaving, he specially arranged for Oldman to pay attention to his safety and let him take care of the two underage girls.
After the information bridge randomly found an open place to complete the transformation, Cheng Shi and Barbara got into the car, and the car immediately drove in the direction of the ancient castle.
Five minutes later, the car stopped in a clearing by the sea: "Master, we have arrived at our destination. β
"Xiaoqiao, are you sure you've arrived?" Cheng Shi couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw that there was a wasteland in front of him and no house at all.
"How can there be nothing here?" Barbara sat in the passenger seat, her head sticking out and looking out.
"According to the coordinates provided by Vina, this is the place, it is recommended that the master go down and have a look, there may be other discoveries." InfoBridge explained.
After the two got out of the car, they saw that it was a clearing that sloped down at a certain angle, and it was a cliff that stretched forward to the sea, and it was empty except for some low plants, but if there was really a house here, it would be absolutely comfortable in the spring. Facing the sea, the spring flowers are blooming, as if it was written for here.
"Cheng Shi, what do you see there?" After about a hundred meters of walking, Barbara saw a depression that appeared to be a building-like structure underneath.
Cheng Shi hurriedly ran over when he heard the sound: ", has the castle really become a monument?" β
"With your crow's mouth, of course whatever you say becomes anything." Barbara thought that on the way here, Cheng Shi had jokingly told her that their ancestral house, which had not been lived in for many years, might have become a monument, but she didn't expect it to really come true, and she couldn't help but want to blame Cheng Shi for a few words.
Cheng Shi's face was full of embarrassment, and after scanning the surroundings, he turned his head to look at the divine car behind him: "Xiaoqiao, you transform over and scan it to see what is in this ruin?" β
The god car immediately transformed into a car model, and suspended above the ruins, and reported after a while: "Master, there was indeed a large castle before this inspection, but I don't know why, this castle sank into the ground, and its main structure has been broken into three sections, and now the ruins you see are only the top part of the castle, almost the attic of the roof of the castle, and the middle section is about sixty meters deep underground, almost level with the sea level here. The structure of the castle at the bottom was already more than 100 meters underground, that is, more than 40 meters below sea level, and the ship detected that there was no water inside the house, and there was a very empty hall in the middle. β
Cheng Shi squatted down and looked at the ruins of the ancient castle in front of him and thought about it, and felt that it was still necessary to go down and have a look: "Xiaoqiao, there should be a car in that hall, right?" β
"Master, it's no problem to park ten cars side by side."
"Barbara, since you're here, why don't we go down and have a look?" Cheng Shi walked up to Barbara and said with a smile.
Monkey Girl nodded, although he was a little embarrassed to see the ruins of this castle that he had no impression of, but he still wanted to go down and have a look, she wanted to know how Vina lived here back then, and maybe she could find some of the items she used.
"Xiaoqiao, try to calculate accurately when passing blindly, this house is old, and it is below sea level, don't collapse it." Cheng Shi sat in the driver's seat of the car to remind the information bridge.
"No, the vertical space of that hall is large enough, and the probability of this mistakenly being passed into the structure of the building is very small."
"Okay, let's go in and have a look." Cheng Shi said and glanced at Barbara, who was sitting next to him.
With a whoosh, the car hovered in the lobby of the ruins of the castle, located more than 40 meters below sea level.
While descending in height, the information bridge reported the ecological environment in the castle hall: "The air environment is normal, and the microbial environment is normal...... No other anomalous energy activity is currently available. β
After a while, the car stopped on the floor of the hall and the two got out of the car.
That's only about half of the castle's structure, and it's so grand enough to stagger.
I saw the high dome of the castle, I could not see any traces of fracture and collapse, and the complex decorations of the hall were also intact, some even looked very new, although there was some dust on the ground, but it was not as thick as imagined, and under the illumination of a circle of warm lights around it, the whole hall was extraordinarily warm and bright.
Being in this place, people feel that although it is not as magnificent as the palace of the King of God, looking at the luxurious decorations around it, it is at least the residence of a prince and nobleman.
"Daughter-in-law,
Your mother's life was quite extravagant before, was it? One person actually lived in such a big house. Cheng Shi looked up at the dome of the hall and sighed.
Barbara snorted, "How do you know she's living alone?" β
Cheng Shi smiled: "It's true, you are the eldest daughter, maybe one day you will have a lot of younger brothers and sisters." β
Barbara patted Cheng Shi on the back: "Just think about it, don't you think it's strange that there is electricity here?" β
Cheng Shi suddenly tightened his chrysanthemum, and he carefully looked at the decoration style around the hall, although he didn't know much about the history of Europe, he could also see that these decorations were also products before the first industrial revolution.
"Damn, has anyone been here in the back?" Cheng Shi was surprised.
Barbara shook her head speechlessly, "Do you think the hall would be so clean if no one lived in it all the time?" We don't know when it sank into the ground, perhaps after the invention of the electric light. β
"That's not right, now that the castle has sunk into the ground, how can there be electricity?" Cheng Shi questioned again.
Barbara frowned: "Could it be that someone has come here after this house has sunk?" I think it's clearly been cleaned. β
Cheng Shi thought that there was indeed such a possibility, so he nodded and began to ponder the entrance to find outsiders to enter.
The two of them walked towards a corridor that was clearly leading to another place, the lighting in the corridor was dim compared to the hall, but still warm, and the walls on either side were decorated with paintings of mythological figures and historical figures from different periods, dressed in different costumes and styles.
When the two of them came to the end of the hallway, the last one was a portrait of Vina, or Barbara, anyway, the two of them looked exactly the same.
"Your mom is narcissistic enough, and she still has a picture of herself?" Cheng Shi looked at the portrait in front of him and quipped.
"What's that, who doesn't have a few photos of herself, she just hung one, I think it's strange that there are portraits of women here." Barbara said in a normal tone, looking at Vina's picture.
Cheng Shi was stunned for a moment: "What? Are all portraits of women? Aren't there two men in the middle? β
Barbara cut off: "I can't tell the difference between men and women. β
Cheng Shi really went back and looked at it carefully when he heard the sound, and found that the two portraits that were a little faded were really women.
"How? Do you see it clearly? Barbara glanced at Cheng Shi.
Cheng Shi nodded: "Then you just said that the portraits of these women are very strange, why didn't I see anything strange?" β
"Don't you think these people look alike? It's like a person's eyes. Barbara explained casually.
Cheng Shi shook his head, indicating that he didn't see it.
"Anyway, I look like this, women's intuition makes me think that their eyes are very similar." There was a smug look in Barbara's tone.
The two of them walked through the corridor to another hall of the castle, which was not only much lower than the ornate hall when they came, but also had a much more quaint decoration, but it also showed no signs of damage, and was still clean, tidy, and complete.
"I haven't even looked for you yet, but I didn't expect you to come by yourself." A woman's voice suddenly came to mind in the hall.