Chapter 15: The Eye of Fire
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Chapter 15: Fire Eye
was almost buried alive, I, Yuan Meng and An An looked at each other, showing a smile for the rest of their lives.
But we are laughing on the surface, and we are good on the inside.
From the ghost call tossing us in confusion, to being led to the attic and almost buried there alive, it all stems from an invisible black hand overtaking us, what is his intention, it is not his original intention to catch us, and stopping us is the real purpose.
However, the actual purpose of our late night raid on the Chakhdis Castle, which had been abandoned for many years, was that almost no four people in the world knew except the three of us, and that it was impossible for us to obtain the mastermind behind the scenes, which we could not see, to obtain that we had made this trip exclusively for Elizabeth. The blood of the Countess of Bathory came this information.
I think the only possibility is that after I took An An in, the people of the Tangral family have been secretly observing our movements, and it is very likely that this series of strange encounters on the road is due to their plan.
But there is a fatal flaw in this hypothesis, which is that the people of the Tangral family know how to foresee that we will come to Chakhdis Castle in advance, and arrange everything before we arrive, which seems to be an impossible task.
"Unless they know that Qingfeng urgently needs the blood of the vampire queen to unravel the vampire's poison, and they know that the first vampire queen Elizabeth. Countess Bathory is still alive today! Yuan Meng crossed his fingers and analyzed.
If this hypothesis is true, then all doubts will be solved. But the problem is that as far as An An knows, there are many people in this world who know the "Bloody Countess", but there are only a handful of people who know that she is still not dead and is still sealed in the dark sarcophagus. But she really didn't dare to say that the Tangral family just didn't know this medieval secret.
I scratched my head, feeling a little pain in my brain, all our reasoning was based on assumptions, and there was hardly any real evidence to back up our speculations. So everyone's argument seems accurate, but at the same time fatally flawed. None of us can convince anyone. I had no choice but to go through the matter from beginning to end, and finally came to three common opinions.
First, we are really being led by the nose by a black hand behind the scenes.
Second, the man behind the scenes is stopping us for two reasons, he himself has the secrets of unreliable people in Chakhtiz Castle, and secondly, they are simply preventing us from finding Elizabeth. Countess Bathory, for unknown reasons.
Third, the mastermind behind the three of us toying between applause is most likely the Tangral family.
The three of us analyzed for a long time in a triangle formed by a collapsed broken wall before finally reaching a consensus on these three points, so the next thing is how to deal with it.
Our opinion on this is highly unanimous: the same should be the same!
Anyway, we don't know who is behind the scenes, what the real intentions are, and thinking too much will make us mess up, so it's better to put it in the back of our minds, travel lightly, get the blood of the vampire queen as quickly as possible, and leave this weird ruin as soon as possible. At that time, even if you really have a close encounter with the enemy behind the scenes, you will be able to have room for maneuver, and you will not be so passive as you are now.
As soon as our small meeting was over, we immediately took action, and the longer we stayed here, the higher our danger would be. And, each of us felt that the night was really dangerous and long.
I looked at my watch, it was half past three in the middle of the night, and it was the time of the ghosts, and we were wandering through the ruins of a medieval castle, more like ghosts than ghosts.
The sky was so cloudy that there was not even a glimmer of light, and even cats could get lost in this dark night. But the vampire An An's unique eyes can still see the road, Yuan Meng and I are far behind, although our eyesight is hundreds of times stronger than ordinary people, but it is also based on the dim light, and when we encounter the current situation of not seeing the five fingers, it is not far from being blind with our eyes open.
In addition, the ruins and ruins, and the piles of rocks, it is impossible for An An to tell us all the obstacles immediately, so it is not feasible to move forward in the dark. I could only turn on the flashlight at the risk of a leak, and under the leadership of An An, I walked along a wild and grassy path.
An Ann quietly told us that she also knew that there was a secret passage that led directly to the dungeon, and the location was in Elizabeth. In the bedroom of the Countess of Bathory.
Every day, the Countess would take a maid from the secret passages into the dungeon, where she would play all kinds of games she thought were interesting. Of course, her so-called game is to torture the maid with all the methods and instruments of torture imaginable by humans until she dies.
The Countess is like a drug addict who is obsessed with drugs, obsessed with the game of torturing and killing maids. Even when Count Turso led his troops to attack the castle of Chakhtis, her cruel game continued.
As we spoke, we walked through a narrow sandwich wall and came to a secluded courtyard. This courtyard is relatively well preserved, and the nearby buildings are not very damaged, but it looks very clean here. I saw that the whole courtyard was the size of a basketball court, and the entire ground was originally paved with stone strips, but after hundreds of years of abandonment, most of the stone strips have been broken, and knee-deep weeds grow madly from the cracks in the stone strips, which looks unusually barren.
The courtyard is half collapsed on three sides of the high wall, and our front was originally a three-story villa, but it has been abandoned for a long time, and the second and third floors are broken and weathered into rubble and piled on top of the first floor, so now the villa looks like a dark castle. It was the Countess's residence, and the entrance to the dungeon was one level deeper.
An An pointed to the entrance to the villa that was pitch-black like a monster cave, and Yuan Meng and I felt a chill on our bodies for no reason, and finally approached the target, but we became troubled instead.
An An held up the flashlight, and we walked through the overgrown courtyard, and the rustling of the grass made it easy to feel that someone was following him.
Since danger always appears in front, out of a little selfishness, I let Yuan Meng walk in the back, and An An and I take the lead in the front, after all, the two of us are the strongest among the three. In the event of an emergency, even if he is defeated, he can resist for a while, and Yuan Meng can retreat as quickly as possible.
I think very well, but I ignore that people always have the problem of "being afraid of the back", Yuan Meng is naturally not surprised, and I don't know what happened to her today, she is extremely "afraid of the back", and always feels that something is following us.
It may be because there were too many accidents along the way, which made her mentally highly nervous, anyway, before she walked ten meters, Yuan Meng was tortured by the rustling sound behind her and couldn't hold back anymore, and looked back.
A pair of eyes that burned like fire floated three meters behind her!
"Wow!" She screamed in horror, and rushed forward without thinking about it, An An and I were right in front of her, and her strange scream almost scared the soul away, and it wasn't enough, the first bang, she rushed up from behind and knocked it down, and the three of us rolled together in an extremely embarrassed way.
Fortunately, the three of us are agile, and although we are embarrassed to fall, we are very agile when we jump.
"What's wrong," I said, making a posture to defend myself against the enemy, and hurriedly looked around.
The flashlight that fell on the ground was like a white light across the grass on the ground, Yuan Meng hurriedly picked it up, shone it to the place where the fire eye was found, and said, "There is a monster following us!" It had a pair of eyes that were burning with flames, and I could see them clearly. ”
There was nothing there, but I believe that Yuan Meng could not be mistaken, seeing that she was frightened, that thing must be very terrifying, and it should have been hiding cunningly at this time.
An An thoughtfully, cautiously walked over step by step, Yuan Meng and I outflanked from both sides, but there was really nothing when we walked over, but of course the monster was not idiotic enough to wait in place for us to find it, it must be hidden somewhere nearby.
We're about to enter the dungeon, and we can't leave a legacy behind us, so we've been around the center of where it appeared, and we're doing a carpet search. Soon, An An made a discovery three steps away
"Come on, there's a well here!" She greeted us.
Yuan Meng and I hurriedly ran over, and An An pointed ahead. Sure enough, there was a wellhead hidden knee-deep in the grass. Because the wellhead is narrow, it is blocked by tall grass, and the night is as dark as ink, so you will definitely not be able to find it if you don't walk to it.
Fortunately, it was not on the path we were walking, otherwise we would have been in danger of falling into the well. Perhaps, the fire-eyed monster that Yuan Meng saw just now was hiding in the well, after all, it was only three steps away from the place where it was found.
Yuan Meng took a flashlight to shine a light into the well, the well is very deep, and the bottom cannot be seen, but it may also be that there is silt in the well that does not reflect. The wall of the well is made of square bricks, smooth as a mirror, there are no gaps to climb, and the diameter is very small, just enough for a person to go up and down.
But we couldn't go down, first of all, it was too deep, we didn't have a long enough rope, and even if there were, we didn't dare to go down, it was too dangerous, and the ghost knew that something terrible was waiting for us down there.
But if the fire-eyed monster is hiding underneath, what are we going to do with it?
I touched my chin and rolled my eyes, and saw that there was a clearing in the grass not far from the well, and I walked over to take a look, and sure enough, it was a bluestone slab lying there. There's a way!
"You are ......" Yuan Meng and An An saw me coming back with a huge bluestone slab, and immediately understood my intentions.
I put this heavy bluestone slab on the wellhead, not to mention, the size is moderate, just right! Maybe this was the manhole cover to prevent people from falling into the well!
This bluestone slab is more than two hundred catties, and I got a few stone bars from the foundation of the nearby broken wall and pressed them, and the combined weight reached five or six hundred catties, this weight, even if the monster is born with divine power, don't think about coming up from below.
"That's it!" I patted the dust off my hands and laughed.
Yuan Meng smiled, "You still have a lot of ghost ideas!" ”
An An listened attentively, there was no movement in the well, and he couldn't help but be a little worried, "I hope it's really inside." ”
I said, "An'an, do you remember that there are other wells in this courtyard?" ”
"Nope!" An An shook her head, "At least not when my family left. ”
"Okay," I said.
To be on the safe side, we searched the entire courtyard and sure enough, there was no place to hide. It seemed that we could rest assured for a while, cheer up, and walked to the dark first floor entrance of the courtyard villa.