Chapter 341: Nightmare
Before Catherine went upstairs, her mother was chatting with Lilith while eating, and the sound of talking and knives and forks clashing with plates was often heard, but now downstairs was quiet, as if the TV had suddenly turned on mute.
She listened carefully, her hearing was not as sensitive as her sister's, if it was Arabella, maybe she could hear anything, but she listened for a long time and still did not hear any human activity, only the thunder outside exploded one after another, the wind blew the branches on the windows, and the rain flowed down the drain pipe in the roof.
She looked out of the window of the hallway, her family's manor house consisted of nearly ten buildings, large and small, the staff had now left after work, and there were only a few staff on duty left, and in the main house, except for their family, there were only cooks and a few maids.
Normally, at night, the security guards would patrol the manor with flashlights, but today the rain was too heavy, and she didn't see the flashlights of the security guards for a while.
Did something really happen?
The first floor was as silent as a grave, and Catherine's heart was about to jump out of her throat, and she was scared, afraid of Lilith, afraid of her mother's accident.
She tiptoed, clinging to the railing, and went down the stairs silently like a cat, her eyes fixed on the railing on the first floor.
Walking to the corner of the stairs on the second and first floors, she dared to sneak a glance at the dining room.
This glance made her blood freeze all over her body.
Lilith had left her seat and hugged Catherine's mother...... No, it wasn't a hug, it was Lilith hugging her mother unilaterally, her teeth biting her mother's neck.
The mother's skin lost its bloody color, her lips turned purple, her eyes were wide open, as if she wanted to cry for help but couldn't scream, she saw Catherine peeping at the staircase, saw Catherine's drooping blonde hair, stretched out her hand to her daughter with all her might, and then waved it, her lips squirmed, as if to say, "Run!"
Lilith turned her back to the staircase and didn't see Catherine, who was preoccupied with the delicacy and had no time for anything else.
Catherine almost screamed, but she covered her mouth just in time.
"Yikes!"
Boom - Boom -
But someone still called out, it was the maid who was serving the food with a plate, and she saw that the guest was biting the hostess's neck, and she was about to bite the hostess to death, and she was so frightened that she let go of her hand, and the soup basin in the tray fell to the ground and shattered, and the hot soup spilled all over the ground, and burned her feet.
Before Catherine could see clearly, her mother collapsed to the ground, and Lilith had pressed the maid against the wall like a tiger pounced, biting the maid on the neck and sucking the blood fiercely.
"What's going on? You broke the plate again?"
The other maids who were busy in the kitchen came out to check on the situation, but they were also attacked by Lilith before they had time to react. The difference in strength between the two sides is too great, and they are as powerless as a white rabbit facing a lion.
"Yikes!"
The maids screamed and panicked, because Lilith did not attack continuously, and every time she restrained a maid, she would always suck the blood for a while.
"Stop!*^%$#@^!"
A fat, stocky middle-aged man bravely stepped forward, a frying pan in his hand and swearing Spanish in his mouth. He is a chef hired by the family, and although he is a little lazy at work, he cooks well and has a good relationship with the maids.
He saw Lilith blatantly murderous and threw the hot butter from the pan at her.
Whew!
Lilith raised her hand, and the hot butter immediately burned her skin reddening and blistering, but in an instant her skin was restored and intact.
“*^%$#@^!”
Chef's eyes widened, but he really didn't believe in it, so he picked up the pan and slammed it into Lilith's head.
Lilith let go of the maid who was being sucked blood, grabbed Chef's wrist with her backhand, hugged Chef like an ape, and opened her mouth to bite her neck - this time she was not only sucking blood, but also biting off a large piece of flesh and swallowing it in large gulps.
Chef's carotid artery was bitten off, blood gushed out like a fountain, and he clutched his neck and fell to the ground.
The screams rang out, but they were completely drowned out by the sound of thunderstorms, and the security guards on the periphery of the manor could not have imagined that a terrible murder was taking place in the main house.
The maids, who were still alive, tried to break out of the door, but were blocked in the kitchen by Lilith.
Catherine was stunned by the shocking array of events, and fear prevented her from fainting on the spot, but fear also made her slow to move, after all, she was only a little girl of only seven years old, and she did not know whether she should go downstairs to check on her mother's injuries or run away.
"What's wrong with you, my dear?"
The father, who had returned from the tool room with a hammer, saw in the blink of an eye that the dining room had been turned upside down, his wife's neck was bleeding and lying on the floor, and the kitchen was screaming.
He jumped to his wife's side, picked her up and shook it, trying to wake her up.
She wasn't dead, he could feel her breathing, the only wound on her body was her neck, the injury didn't seem to be very serious, and it didn't bleed much, but it just couldn't wake up.
Ambulance!
You have to call an ambulance!
He touched the phone and didn't have it with him, and when he looked up and saw the phone on the dining table, he just wanted to put his wife down and get the phone, but suddenly noticed that his wife seemed to move.
"Honey, honey, are you alright?" he patted his wife's cheek gently.
"Ho-"
There was a heavy gasp in his wife's throat, and her breathing was no longer so weak.
"Hold on! I'll take you to the hospital right away!"
He couldn't care about anything else, only his own relatives were the most important at this time, he struggled to pick his wife up horizontally, and was about to call his two daughters downstairs, when he looked up just in time to meet Catherine's eyes.
He opened his mouth and was about to speak, asking Catherine to take her sister downstairs, but Catherine saw a scene she would never forget, and the mother in his arms suddenly opened her eyes, which had turned gray, and opened her mouth to bite him.
"Ahh
"What are you doing!" he struggled to push her aside, clutching the wound on his shoulder.
"Ho-ho-"
His mother's mouth was covered with blood, her breathing was quick and heavy, and her gray eyes were fixed on him, not immediately rushing over, but as if trying to make out who he was.
"Are you crazy?" cried out the father in horror, shaking his head at Catherine, who was peeping into the stairwell, to tell Catherine to run away with her sister.
A figure swooped down on her father, a maid of the family, and she opened her mouth to bite her father's neck as if she were crazy.
Father pressed one hand desperately against her jaw, and with the other he fumbled for the hammer he had brought, picked it up and smashed it on her temple.
The maid snorted and fell to the ground.
"I'm sorry, I ......"
Before his father could finish his words, the maid, who was obviously bleeding from her head, stood up again, her cracked skull exposed under her scalp, and pounced on him again.
He struggled with all his might, but another maid jumped on his back and bit his neck from behind, and he was thrown to the ground.
At this time, the mother, who had been standing still, was stimulated by the smell of flesh, but there was something that made her resist.
More maids came out of the kitchen, like a flock of predatory lionesses, and pounced on their father.
The father's resistance became weaker and weaker, and the hand holding the hammer slowly loosened, and he collapsed in a pool of blood, unable to move again.
Catherine didn't see this, she only saw her father being pounced, and at last she could move her feet, and ran quietly upstairs, and she put her little fist in her mouth and let the tears flow, or she would have cried bitterly.
Her father is dying, her mother and the maids are turned into monsters, and the only thing she can do is run for her life with her sister.
"Arabella!
She entered the room on the third floor and opened the closet door.
My sister was still clutching the cross and praying incessantly, and when she heard her sister's voice, she threw herself into Catherine's arms and cried and asked, "Catherine, where are mom and dad, and why are there so many people screaming downstairs?"
Catherine wiped her tears, "Mommy and Daddy...... Went to the police...... Let's run away too, that Lilith is a big bad guy, she's going to kill everyone......"
Arabella was a little relieved to hear that her parents were okay and asked, "Where are we going?"
yes, where to run?
Catherine is also a master of the six gods, and if she wants to escape from the gate on the first floor, she must pass through the kitchen door, and the kitchen has become a hell on earth, and she must not get close.
"Let's go and hide in the cellar until the police come. She said.
The main house occupies the largest area, with three floors above ground and two basement floors used as a wine cellar, where the wine is only made and rests quietly in the cellar for several years before it is sold.
"Arabella, whatever you hear, you must not make a sound, do you understand?" she admonished.
"Okay. "Arabella pear blossom nodded with rain.
Catherine poked her head out and looked into the hallway to make sure there was no one in it, then pulled Arabella out of the room and walked lightly to the stairs.
When she went down to the second floor, she suddenly saw a hand on the handrail of the stairs on the first floor, it was Lilith's hand, and Lilith was going upstairs.
She quickly pulled her sister away from the stairs, hid behind a large vase on the second floor, covered her sister's mouth, and held her sister in her arms.
The thunder covered them, and when Lilith's figure continued to walk to the third floor, she pulled her sister down the stairs to the first floor.
To get to the basement, you need to pass through the restaurant.
She glanced into the dining room and saw two or three maids lying on top of her father's corpse, creaking and gnawing with a creepy bite.
She put one of Arabella's hands to her mouth, gestured to her lips and said, "Don't make a sound."
Arabella was blind, and when she learned to speak, she always touched her sister's and her parents' mouths to learn pronunciation, and she knew what her sister was saying when she touched it.
Catherine took her sister by the way, and crept, step by step, down the wall and across the dining-room, trying not to look at her father's corpse lying in a pool of blood and the beastly maids.
Arabella listened to her sister very much, and when she heard the strange gnawing and chewing sounds, she just closed her mouth and said nothing.
Suddenly, Catherine stopped.
A figure wandered around the corner and met them head-on.
It's their mother.
She didn't gnaw at her father's corpse with the maids, but seemed to be looking for something in a daze.
She also had blood from her mouth, but no flesh.
She stared at the sisters intently, and if she pounced or made some noise, the sisters would have nowhere to run.
Catherine's heart was cold, and she held her sister's little hand tightly and looked at her mother...... Or rather, the former mother.
After a few seconds, the mother walked to the kitchen as if she didn't see them.
Catherine's heart stopped beating as her mother walked past them, and she never felt that time had been so long, until her mother's figure disappeared from her eyes, and Catherine looked back in disbelief to see her mother's headband pinched between her fingers.
She gagged her mouth with her fist again, her teeth leaving deep marks on her fist, and tears welled up in her eyes.
After a few seconds, she led her sister on, finally through the restaurant.
However, near the entrance to the basement there was a maid with broken glass bottles, and crimson wine flowed all over the floor, exuding a rich aroma of wine.
The maid had been sent to fetch a bottle of cellar wine, and she had gnawing marks on her neck, probably because her mother had just bitten her.
Catherine hesitated, and in trepidation, pulled her sister over.
It only takes a few seconds, just bypass this maid......
"Ho-"
However, the maid let out a heavy gasp in her throat, and her hands and feet moved like convulsions.
Catherine knew that this maid would soon rise to her feet, like the others, and turn into a bloodthirsty beast.
She was unarmed, and her only way to survive was to go into the basement, but there was nothing around that could be used as a weapon, and the broken wine bottle was probably useless, because she had seen with her own eyes that the maid whose head had been smashed by her father with a hammer would still bite.
No, maybe there was something to be used as a weapon—she saw a cross hanging from the wall, and it was of silver, and the rod was slender and glittered by lightning.
She removed the silver cross, temporarily let go of her sister's hand, held it in both hands, clenched her teeth and closed her eyes, and stabbed the maid in the chest with all her might.
At the same time, the maid opened her gray-white eyes.
Burst!
The silver cross pierced the fat on the maid's chest, passed between the ribs, and pierced the heart, and there was a foreign body in the heart, which could not be recovered.
Catherine didn't dare to look more, so she took her sister and hid in the cellar and locked the door.
Soon after, the house caught fire, and she didn't know who lit the fire, she thought it might be her mother or the cook who was cooking didn't have time to turn off the fire.
The fire engulfed the main house, but fortunately the wine had a low alcohol content and was not flammable, and the bottles on the first floor of the underground cellar burst due to the high temperature, which prevented the fire and the high temperature from spreading to the second basement floor.
The next day, the fire brigade that arrived extinguished the fire, cleaned up the ashes, and rescued the sisters from the second basement floor.
Until the moment she was rescued, Catherine still held her sister tightly in her arms.