Chapter 12: White Violet

At the end of the tunnel were two hidden doors, and I poked them open with my foot, only to see that behind them was a large space, but it was almost crammed with messy things. We walked in and could only get close to the edge of the wall, for what looked like a huge cellar, covered with ash and broken bricks, and rotten wood, we barely had a place to stand.

An An said that it was originally a cellar, but because the buildings on it had collapsed, it had all been abandoned.

I found a foothold in the clutter of garbage, and then took a flashlight to the top of the cellar, only to see that the original dome above had collapsed into a huge hole, but it was covered by a collapsed broken wall, and all the broken bricks and earth that had fallen from it were piled up in the center of the cellar, forming a huge mound, the highest point almost touching the top dome.

And we stood next to this big mound of earth, looking up, and if it was daytime, we would see that the broken dome was full of holes, as if it had been attacked by howitzers. But in the dark of night, it all was hidden. We faced the devastation of the ruins in front of us, but we didn't have time to sigh, because An An said that there was a shortcut to the entrance to the dungeon, and this huge pile of ruins was hidden at the bottom.

As soon as I heard this, Yuan Meng and I couldn't help but secretly call out bad luck, and complained together: Why did all the bad luck catch up with us. But the facts are in front of you, and there is no use in complaining, so you can only find another way.

Of course, the first thing to do now is to find an exit, get out of this broken cellar, and go up first.

An An had lived in the castle before, and knew it best, and she soon found the entrance to the staircase where the servants had gone up and down the cellar, and though it was covered with a section of fallen stakes and a few stone rungs, there was enough space for us to stoop over.

The entrance to the passage looks like a cave, but in fact there is only a spiral staircase at the back, fortunately this is the main core part of the whole building, the materials are solid, although the cellar collapsed badly, but here is only a crack in the wall like a spider web, it still looks solid. It's just that the dust on the stairs is very bad, after all, 400 years of erosion is not a short time.

I'm curious what it was used for.

An An smiled lightly and said, "When Chakhdis Castle was still our Dracula family's property, this place was just an upper and lower passage and a hiding place for storing supplies. There was an old elevator in the cellar that used it to transport supplies, and the haunted corpse cave turned out to be a granary. But here the owner was replaced by Elizabeth. After Bathory, everything changed. It became a passage for her to secretly transport corpses and a base for concealing them. ”

In the end, An An was obviously a little excited

I fully understand this, and even if it changes hands, I definitely don't want to let the scourge become a place for killing, because after all, there are good memories of the past, and it is not surprising that anyone will have a grudge against it.

The spiral staircase is not too long, and after walking about three floors, you will see the exit.

But two-thirds of the doorway was blocked by a broken wall, and only a few dozen centimeters of the remaining openings were left for people to climb out. There were still a few hours before dawn, and it was pitch black behind the opening, but there was already a night wind blowing in, so it wouldn't be wrong, it must be an exit.

The section of the door is visually measured how high it is from the ground, but this height is simply child's play for us, An An is the first, Yuan Meng is the second, and I am the queen of His Highness, and the order is completely in line with international practice.

When An An and Yuan Meng went out, I relaxed my ape arms, easily climbed the wall tiles, and climbed out with my head down.

As soon as I came out, I felt the evening breeze blowing on my face, the fresh air was refreshing, I couldn't help but take a few deep breaths, and suddenly felt comfortable all over. It's a world away from the muddy, dark, mildewy tunnels.

It was only after jumping off the broken wall that I looked around and saw myself in an ancient ruin.

I knew that the castle of Chakhdis had been abandoned for many years, but I did not expect it to be so desolate, and all that was left in ruins, and almost none of the buildings were intact. The medieval castle that I thought was of classical European beauty was completely shattered here, and it looked like the remains of a building that had been destroyed by bombers.

And we're in the middle of this huge wreckage.

At this moment, there is a cloud-covered sky above, and ancient ruins below, and we seem to have passed through the cycle of life and death and returned to the ghost of the old site.

Faced with such a devastated ruin, I was extremely worried about whether An An would still find a way into the dungeon.

When I wanted to raise my doubts, I saw An An's eyes looking straight ahead, and his face was sad and joyful. I secretly guessed that she was overly sad to see her former home destroyed?

Thinking of this, I was about to say a few words of comfort, but my arm was pulled by Yuan Meng, and she pointed to the dark night in front of me to pay attention, and when I looked at it, An An walked forward step by step in a distraction.

We suffered a big loss in the corpse cave, and at this time I was really afraid that she would be taken by the ghost, so I hurriedly followed, but saw An An standing in front of a large broken clay pot.

We followed, and saw An An slowly crouching down, and a thirty-centimeter-tall plant appeared in front of her.

The plant grew in a fragment of a broken clay pot, presumably a whole pot, but now only a handful of soil was left to nourish the plant's flowering and pollination.

At the very top of this plant was a large white flower, the size of a fist, but only four flowers and leaves, although I didn't study flowers, I still recognized the origin of this flower at a glance, "Violet, but why is it white?" I asked Yuan Meng suspiciously.

Listening to my stupid words, Yuan Meng couldn't help but laugh, "Of course there are white violets!" You forgot that on Valentine's Day this year, a guest gave me a bouquet of white violets and asked you to throw it in the trash. ”

Oh yes, I suddenly remembered when she said this, there is such a thing, and I also deliberately checked it on the Internet, and the flower language of white violet is: Let's seize the opportunity of happiness!

Phew! At that time, I spat on my phone, a miscellaneous foreigner, you still want to seize the opportunity of happiness, let you succeed, what am I going to catch! Annoyed, he took advantage of Yuan Meng's inattention to throw the flowers into the trash. But then I didn't know how she knew about it, and she laughed at me, and I felt embarrassed afterwards, so I tried to forget it. So it wasn't until Yuan Meng mentioned it that I remembered this trouble.

But how did An An become depressed when she saw this flower? Could it be that she has her own secrets about violet? But I can't ask about it, so I can only listen to her say it herself.

I saw An Anxin pick off this white violet with his hand, touch it under his nose and sniff it lightly, before muttering, "My mother liked white violets the most when she was alive, and my father planted them everywhere in the entire Chakhdis Castle in order to please my mother, and when the flower season came, it was really beautiful!" But when Elizabeth. Bathory dominates the place, everything has changed, she prefers the mandala, so eradicate all the violets here! ”

Saying that, An An Lianhua stood up and continued to walk forward, there was originally a wall in front of her, but now only half of it has collapsed, but there is still a broken door, Yuan Meng and I followed her around the broken door, and were immediately stunned by the scene in front of us!

As far as the eye could see, there were large patches of white flowers blooming in the wind, and the flowers in full bloom were all white violets, and there were thousands of them. The air is filled with the unique fragrance of violets.

An An stood by the flowers, excited and about to cry, she said sadly to the sky, "Mom, are you back?" ”

Seeing this scene, I couldn't help but be stunned, since the white violet was extinct in Chakhtiz Castle hundreds of years ago, where did these bright flowers come from?

No wonder An An was so distracted, it seems that she found out about the strangeness here in the first place.

I felt a chill in my back at the sight of this beautiful flower, because I knew that it would be difficult to form such a large flower garden in its natural state, especially in the ruins of a castle that had been abandoned for hundreds of years. Since it is impossible, then there is only one explanation: someone deliberately planted this violet here, but who planted it, why did he go to this ruin to plant it, and what intention did the person who planted the violet and white rolan want to convey, all these questions are very confusing.

I don't know, there's no clue at all here!

Although An An mentally hoped that this was a miracle for her deceased mother to return to her homeland, she was intellectually as confused as us, and she couldn't guess who planted this violet and what her intentions were.

The ancients said that if something is abnormal, it is a demon, especially in the ruins of this century-old castle, you need to be more careful, but since you can't find the reason, then don't bother with these questions that can't find answers, and be more vigilant in the later adventures.

As soon as I expressed my theory, An An and Yuan Meng felt that this was reasonable, so they prepared to walk away.

But at this moment, in the silence, a burst of cacophony music suddenly came to mind, which startled all of us! They all lowered their heads to find the source, and Yuan Meng suddenly realized that the sudden harsh music actually came from her own backpack.

It's a ringtone!

We all came to our senses at this time, just now we were all concentrating on the origin of this white violet, and for a while we were so engrossed that we couldn't even hear the ringtone of our mobile phones.

I was about to laugh at Yuan Meng for not even hearing the ringtone of her mobile phone, but I heard her say suspiciously, "Why did the ringtone of my mobile phone change?" Did you change Xiao Soul for me? ”

"I've never touched your phone!" I say. And I don't have the habit of casually touching my couple's phone at all.

"That's weird!" Yuan Meng said, taking out a mobile phone that was still vibrating from the bottom of the backpack, she couldn't help but say strangely, "This is not my mobile phone!" ”

"Not your phone?" I went up to see that it wasn't, her phone I knew, it was a white apple, and I bought it for her. But this is a black phone, although it is also Apple, but it is definitely not Yuan Meng's, I can't help but feel weird when I see this, "What's going on?" I've only heard of people stealing mobile phones, but I've never seen anyone stealing them. ”

An An seemed to remember something, and hurriedly said, "Don't worry about that for now, let's see who called!" ”

Yuan Meng glanced at the phone screen, but there was no number on it, just a string of 000000000000, so he said, "No, the number is not displayed on the phone, it may be hidden!" ”

I hurriedly said, "Answer and see who it is!" ”

Yuan Meng slid on the screen and then put it to her ear, but she didn't speak first, she wanted to hear the other party's voice first, but maybe the other party had the same idea, there was a hollow silence in the earpiece, and there was no sound!

After a stalemate for a minute, Yuan Meng couldn't hold back and asked softly, "Who are you!" But what I didn't expect was that as soon as he said this, the other party cut off the call at that time!

"He's hanging!" Yuan Meng put down his phone and said uneasily.

The atmosphere at the scene became solemn!

The other party has an attempt, otherwise he wouldn't hang up as soon as he heard Yuan Meng's voice, but what did he want to do? My mind was racing, and I suddenly woke up, "Someone wants to make sure that this phone is not in your hand!" ”

"The Tangral family!" An An and I said in unison.

An An rushed forward in one step, snatched the mobile phone in Yuan Meng's hand, threw it to the ground, and with a "snap", the mobile phone suddenly fell apart!

I wanted to do the same thing, but seeing An An doing it first, I nodded to her in approval.

Smartphones have satellite positioning systems, and through positioning, it is easy for others to find the person holding the phone, so the phone must be broken, but I don't know if it is timely or not, whether our whereabouts have been exposed.

But this is unknown after all, and since the phone has been damaged, we are still relieved.

But we were obviously relieved too soon, and suddenly the music that was exactly the same as the one before started started again, and it scared us all.

"An An, in your backpack!" This time, I was the first to spot the source of the sound, pointing at An An's backpack and yelling.