Chapter 8 The Strange Castle

Forsi's gaze and Xio's gaze met in mid-air, and neither of them spoke.

After a while, Fors laughed dryly and said:

"Haha, are you still asleep?"

Xio frowned a little bit and said:

"What happened to you just now?"

"It's nothing, didn't I tell you? Whenever the full moon comes, my condition is not very good. During the blood moon, it will be even worse." Fors replied pretending to be normal.

Xio looked her up and down, pulled the quilt over and said:

"I remember you have medicine for sleeping?"

"I don't need it for now, I've already adjusted it." Seeing that Xio didn't ask, Forsi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "Go to sleep, go to sleep, tomorrow I have to get up early and go into the forest."

Xio didn't say another word, turned over, embraced the quilt, and closed her eyes.

Not long after, her breathing became a little heavier, long and even.

Fors stared blankly at the ceiling, thought wildly for a while, and fell asleep at some point.

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At noon the next day, in the core area of ​​the Delaire Forest, in front of an ancient castle that was mostly collapsed and covered with green vines.

Fors wiped the sweat from her forehead, let out a long sigh of relief and said:

"Finally here..."

Xio glanced at her and said:

"The owner of the hotel told me that it only takes two hours to get here."

They set off just before six o'clock in the morning and spent nearly seven hours on the way.

The corner of Forsi's mouth twitched and said:

"The theoretical state is different from the actual situation. We have no way to go, and we need to explore and develop by ourselves!"

Xio took out the triangular thorn, nodded and said:

"You should have been able to foresee this situation from the very beginning, but in the end you rejected the hotel owner's suggestion to recommend a guide."

"As an 'astrologer', I don't think this kind of trivial matter will cause trouble. Look, haven't we already arrived? Moreover, the time is right now, and the wraith ghosts must be in the weakest state." Squeezed out a smile Forsi held "Leymano's Travel Notebook" in one hand, and pointed forward with the other, "I didn't think so before, but now the more I think about it, the more confused I become."

"What are you wondering about?" Xio also cast his gaze on the abandoned castle that was almost covered in vines.

Forsi casually found a reason:

"You said, who would build a castle in the middle of the forest? And there is no road leading here yet..."

Before the words fell, she really felt that this was a bit strange.

After thinking about it, he said:

"Perhaps there was a road in the first place, but as the castle was abandoned and washed away by time, all traces of the past were submerged."

Forsi brushed the hair around her ear, shook her head and said:

"Then why give up?

"If safety factors were taken into consideration when it was built, the center of the uninhabited forest far away from the town would be even more dangerous. If it is needed for a vacation, with the style of the nobles, no matter how difficult it is to repair and maintain it, they will not give up."

Xio blurted out:

"Because of being haunted?"

Fors thought for a few seconds and said:

"People who can afford to build large castles will not be able to invite Extraordinary people to deal with haunting incidents?

"I doubt that the three major churches and the kingdom government know about this castle, otherwise, they have no reason to let go of the extraordinary materials inside..."

Having said that, she proposed a possibility:

"The castle of the blood clan?"

This extraordinary creature likes to live in rare places, and is often associated with buildings such as spooky castles.

In addition, the information about this ancient castle itself was also provided by the blood clan.

"It's possible." Xio first agreed, and then put forward different opinions, "Are blood races still afraid of ghosts? They must also be able to deal with the ancient spirits here.

"

Makes sense... Don't those blood races like money and don't care about the collection of Extraordinary materials? Foer thought about Mr. "Moon"'s performance, then denied his guess, and said after deliberation:

"Unless there are other troubles that are not easy to solve, let the high-level strong choose to bypass it."

As a result, her actions will be more dangerous than expected.

Hugh let out a "hmm" and said:

"Take advantage of the strong sunlight now, let's do a preliminary exploration immediately."

"Okay." Forsi took "Leymano's Travel Diary" and approached the half-collapsed castle step by step.

The two soon came to the entrance that was blocked by two-thirds of the stones, and found that under the green vines, the stone wall was mottled and severely weathered, and it seemed to have existed for a long time.

Xio didn't rush in, and greeted Forsi, and slowly walked around the castle.

Back at the entrance, she said in doubt:

"The style of this castle is purely defensive, and it seems that the problem of living has not been considered at all. Moreover, I have never heard of many architectural features. It should have existed before the late Quaternary period, or even earlier. "

"What's there to defend here? Orcs? Treants? They were almost extinct after the cataclysm, haha, this can't be a second or third era building, right?" Forsi responded casually.

She observed the terrain, led Xio away from the entrance, came to a wall next to it that was still intact, stretched out her palm, and pressed it.

Although she lacks experience in fighting people, she is quite proficient in various matters before the battle.

The illusory light and shadow in front of them changed, and Forsi and Xio entered the abandoned castle.

The first thing that caught their eyes was: the collapsed staircase, the superstructure wreckage layer upon layer, the pure sunlight shining in from the heights, and the ground with only bricks, stones and rotten wood, no beasts, bird droppings, and various green weeds. .

The whistling wind blows past, even at noon, it still has a chilly meaning that seeps into the bone marrow.

Forsi activated her spirit vision, and slowly looked around, but couldn't see any spirit creatures.

However, she noticed that on the right side surrounded by broken walls and ruins, there was a relatively intact stone staircase.

There are many mottled traces on this staircase, and it stretches all the way down, no one knows where it leads.

"Go and have a look?" Forsi glanced at Xio, and put forward her own suggestion.

In her mind, the rest of the castle can be seen clearly at a glance, or there are layers of collapsed objects. It will take a long time if you plan to investigate carefully. .

Xio glanced left and right, nodded slightly and said:

"The cold wind is gathering underground... I suspect that all the ghosts here are hiding in the place where the stairs lead."

"En." Fors cautiously walked towards the mottled stone stairs, and walked down step by step along the steps scattered with a lot of gravel.

This staircase is quite narrow, and it can only be passed by one person, and it is the kind that circles and circles to go deep, and Forsi is a little trembling when walking.

Da, da, da, as the sound of the two people's footsteps echoed deeper and deeper, the light in the stairs became darker and darker.

Xio lit the lantern in his hand, and Fors opened "Leymano's Travel Notebook", and skillfully wiped one of the pages with his fingers.

A group of clear and warm rays of light leaped out of thin air, illuminating the mottled stairs ahead. Fors and Xio tensed their nerves and walked down one floor after another.

Along the way, a cold wind blew from time to time, causing them to overreact several times, almost attacking non-existent enemies.

Da, da, da, in the cramped and deserted environment, Fors finally finished walking the steps and stepped on the flat and solid ground.

She wanted to say, "Staying in such a place for a long time will really make people crazy", but due to the quiet and silent atmosphere around her, she couldn't really make a sound. She was afraid of breaking this state and causing extremely bad changes.

With the help of the light cluster floating obliquely above, Fors cast her eyes forward, trying to see clearly what the end of the stairs looked like.

This is a hall, nearly 10 meters high, covered with black floor tiles dripping with water, and there are signs of cracks and damage everywhere.

A few tens of meters away, on the other side of the hall that the light group could hardly reach, stood a bronze door that opened opposite.

The gate went up to the top, the stones on the left and right walls fell off, and the statue was broken, revealing the dark brown soil covered below.

The surface of the gate is painted with densely packed symbols and strange patterns, giving people an intuitive sense of mystery and heaviness, as if something is being sealed and blocked.

Forsi finally couldn't help but speak, she suppressed her voice and said:

"Have you ever seen a gate like this?"

Xio next to her shook her head and said:

"No."

Forsi immediately "hissed":

"You say, what's behind this door? Where does it lead?

"This, this is the purpose of building this castle in the first place? To prevent the creatures behind the door from coming out?"

Xio looked around, but couldn't find any murals that could provide information. He only found that the closer he was to the bronze gate, the more water droplets oozed from the ground, and the more silver and black long swords were discarded carelessly.

"During the Fourth and Fifth Epochs, murals were common in all castle buildings. Before the Great Cataclysm, it can be seen from several elven ruins that extraordinary creatures also like to use murals to praise the gods and record their daily life... …" Xio said slowly, combining his experiences and knowledge as a bounty hunter.

Fors slightly nodded and said:

"Indeed it is.

"This old castle is even more peculiar than I imagined."

At this moment, she was quite disturbed in her heart, and she wanted to leave this place directly and ask Mister "World" for help.

At the Tarot Club, after listening to the little "sun" tell so many horror stories about the ruins, when she was in a similar environment, she couldn't help but think too much and scare herself.

"Get closer, maybe we can find more clues." Xio boldly stepped forward, approaching the heavy door that seemed to seal a certain place.

Fors grasped "Leymano's Travel Diary" tightly and hurriedly chased after it.

As she walked, a bright red suddenly appeared in her eyes.

What seeped out of the gaps in those black floor tiles was no longer water drops, but glaring blood!

"This..." Fors suddenly opened the copper-green notebook, and glanced at Xio beside her from the corner of her eyes.

In her sight, Xio's face was pale at some point, his eye circles were black and green, his lips were blood red, his body was dim, and his expression was extremely distorted.