The heavy door was only opened with a tiny gap, but in the darkness that almost overwhelmed people, the dim light from the tiny gap was enough for us to see the scene inside the door.

The door was opened by a man in a nightgown, with half-gray hair and a slight wrinkle on his face, indicating that this should be a middle-aged man. He held a candlestick in his hand, and the candle on the candlestick burned, and the tiny light of the fire flickered, as if it was about to be extinguished by the rain that drifted through the door. The candlelight illuminated only half of the middle-aged man's face, and the rest and everything behind him were still hidden in the darkness, adding a bit of fear.

I looked at the man carefully and secretly, and under the light of the candle as the only light source, some subtleties on his face that would not normally be noticed were also revealed, and what impressed me the most was his eyes, which were a pair of somewhat cloudy eyes, and with the not very old face, I felt a little strange, after all, such eyes should be found by the elderly.

The middle-aged man was silent for a long time and didn't speak, just opened his cloudy eyes, looking at us behind the dim candlelight, that look seemed to have no meaning or purpose, he glanced at us, if I didn't feel wrong, that gaze skipped directly when it swept over the man, but paid special attention to Fang Ruoxi, Chen Si and me. When that inexplicable gaze swept over me, I instinctively gave birth to a feeling of panic in my heart, I don't know why, I don't know why, but it made me panic in my heart.

However, that gaze finally fixed on the wolf's body, and the middle-aged man finally asked, "Is there anything wrong with you?"

Hearing the middle-aged man speak, I subconsciously frowned slightly, and always felt that the voice seemed to be particularly hoarse and old when I first spoke, but when I listened carefully, I found that it was the middle-aged man's voice, and there was nothing strange about it.

Is it my delusion, I always feel a little uneasy

"We are travelers who want to cross the thorny wall in front of us, but we didn't expect to encounter such weather, if we can, can we take shelter from the rain?"

It was Wolf Fang who answered him, and I looked at him with some surprise when I heard Wolf Fang's words, not because he was also strange or anything, but because I didn't expect him to speak in this style. After all, this way of speaking doesn't seem like his way of speaking, but it doesn't seem strange to me to come out of his mouth at this time.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that it was because at the beginning in the no-man's city, there were no earthlings, so Wolf Fang, as the strongest of all people, in the case of just contact, he would completely use a force to ask others to surrender to get along with people, maybe it can be said that it was his nature, but later everything also proved that it was only one side of his character. At least it has been proven that he is also very good at dealing with people when needed.

This sudden discovery also inspired me, and I wondered if there was something I had been ignoring all along, such as that human beings have many facets, and that good and evil and good and bad may not be easy to distinguish.

I used to think that Fang Ruoxi was a good person, but now I am not sure. I also thought Chen Si was a bad person, but now that I think about it, apart from her personality, she doesn't seem to have done anything to really hurt anyone.

It's really complicated

Led by a middle-aged man, we walked into the castle, and although we still felt a little hairy in our hearts, it was better than the pouring rain outside. The door to the castle closed automatically as soon as we entered, and the sound was small but dull, like a hammer knocking on my heart, dull, not painful but very depressing.

I looked around and saw a large, empty hall inside the door, with a staircase on either side leading into the darkness above. It's not as opulent as the castle we've been in before, and there's nothing extraordinary, except for the candles hanging on the walls on either side that act as sconces, not much, and not lit, just enough for me to see the walls at the edges and see how big the space is.

There was a mural in the space between the wall lamps, which looked like portraits or something, but the candlelight was so dim that even if I tried to squint, I couldn't see the people painted on it, so I had to give up.

The middle-aged man had already led us up the stairs, and the sound of the heels of his shoes colliding with the stairs sounded, and I realized that the castle was strangely quiet. When I listened closely, I realized that it seemed that it was only our footsteps. What's going on? Isn't there anyone else living here besides the middle-aged man?

As I thought, I looked up to the second floor, where the stairs lead, only to see into the darkness of thick ink. The darkness was deep and viscous, and it seemed that as long as it was contaminated, it would envelop the whole body, plunging the whole person into such boundless darkness.

"Are these people going to spend the night?"

I was stunned when a voice suddenly sounded in my ears, and I was startled by surprise, and hurriedly looked at the source of the sound, only to find that there was a person standing next to us at some point. It was a middle-aged woman, half of her body was hidden in the darkness, and the other half of her body was only slightly illuminated by the light, and the whole person stood motionless, like a black cat completely integrated with the darkness, if she hadn't opened her mouth to make a sound, I don't think I would have discovered her existence at all.

"Yes, these people are going to spend the night here, go and prepare the guest rooms." The man replied, then turned to us and said, "This is my wife." ”

The woman did not respond to the man's words, but looked at us, and turned around to go upstairs before us.

As the woman walked, a ** smell wafted into my nose, and I subconsciously held my breath slightly and waited for the woman to walk by. This smell has a slight smell, it is the ** smell that comes out when life is approaching, generally this smell will appear on the elderly, I have also smelled it on the old man in the neighbor's house, and it is not unfamiliar, but this woman is only middle-aged, how can she also have this smell?

And the way middle-aged men and women walk is also very weird, I can't say anything strange if I really want to say, just looking at it is very uncomfortable, even if I carefully look down at the position of the ground to confirm that they have two feet, but still feel that they are not walking, but floating. It was a strange feeling, but I didn't dare to take it lightly, and my doubts about the two people and the castle became more and more serious.

I tried to speed up slightly without a trace, so that I could get closer to the middle-aged man who led the way, and as I expected, the man also had that ** smell on his body. And once you pay attention, you will find that I don't know if it's because this is their residence or other reasons, the whole castle exudes a **mildew smell, such as the wooden handrails, such as the walls on both sides.

The staircase was very long, and when I walked up, I realized that this castle was only two floors, which was really much smaller than the previous one, and I really didn't see any other people except for middle-aged men and women. ”

"And our son." The man's words did not carry any emotion, and they added a little horror to this dim environment, "You should call me Your Majesty, I am the king of this country." ”

I was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, I hurriedly said, "Oh, I'm sorry Your Majesty. ”

Is it a small and old castle for the king, with no servants but a family of three, full of strange and imminent death, and maybe a rainy day? What kind of fairy tale would these elements be when combined?

I didn't rely on this information to come up with an answer, but the most important clues were quickly delivered to me. When the man pushed open the old and heavy door, we were greeted by the guest room prepared by his wife.

I have to say, as soon as I saw this specially prepared room, I knew what kind of fairy tale it was - the beds were covered with thick mattresses and bedding, and the height of the stacked was more than two meters, fortunately the height of this room was also relatively high, otherwise in an ordinary room, I am afraid that the bed of such height would not fit - I am already sure that this is the story of Princess Pea.

I quickly counted seven beds, and if nothing else, there was a pea under the mattress in each bed.

"Are you ready?" The man asked the woman standing by the door.

The woman nodded silently, and the two of them looked at each other tacitly. I don't think it's going to be the ridiculously tall beds, but the pea under the cushion.

"Please rest, guests." The man nodded to us, and prepared to leave with the woman, but when he was about to go out, he stopped slightly, turned his head and said, "If it's okay, go to bed early, don't run around when it's dark."

I shuddered slightly, and glanced at the wolf's teeth, was the man's words a warning? “

After the two of them walked out for a while, Wolf Fang opened the door again to confirm that the two had left, and then closed the door again and looked at me, "Do you know what kind of fairy tale this is?" ”

"It's Princess Pea." Without waiting for me to answer, Lin Ya had already replied first, "There should be no other fairy tale like this with such a bed."

I didn't speak, turned and walked to the nearest bed, reached under the mat and groped for it, and sure enough, I found a small pea. I showed the pea in my palm to the others, "It seems certain that it is indeed the story of Princess Pea." ”

This room is completely different from the outside, with a large crystal lamp on the top, which reflects the whole room very brightly. I turned my head to look at the other beds, which were too tall and there was a ladder next to each one for us to climb up, and as expected, there was one such pea under each bed.