Chapter 479 Witch

Bai Huo was right. In the eyes of the demon hunter, this angry spirit sealed in the far north of Siberia was safe and harmless. Although there is a human family suffering terribly under the intrusion of angry spirits, in the eyes of demon hunters, those who summon evil spirits and cause disasters are not worthy of sympathy - in fact, in their eyes, no one is worthy of sympathy. There are many reasons for alien war, but the only one that does not include sympathy for ordinary humans.

Their criterion for judging whether an alien is harmful is whether the alien has the potential to grow and develop, and whether it will threaten the demon hunter organization itself. But other than that, they rarely pay attention to it.

Therefore, they rarely find trouble with angry spirits, at least not actively: most of them appear in inaccessible places, and they are irrational, will not expand their territory, and will not manage their power. They are a kind of creature between creatures and Weird things among natural phenomena do not even need to be regarded as "enemies", so even if the humans entangled by them are usually worse than death, the demon hunters do not care much about this issue.

The Andre family provoked this terrifying spirit creature three hundred years ago. They didn't know what method they used to restrain the angry spirit deep underground in their castle. Then the ancestors of the family began to seek help from the dark world. Help: They looked for people who knew witchcraft, also approached the church, and even turned to some aliens for help. Their activities naturally fell into the eyes of the witcher, but the witcher didn't even bother to show up and ask about it.

The only thing that interests the demon hunter about this angry spirit here is that it has stayed in the material world for such a long time: Generally speaking, an angry spirit does not stay in the real world for a long time. They are "monsters born from nightmares." , a twisted underworld world is their destination, so the angry spirits usually dissipate on their own after making a big fuss, and the angry spirits under Andre Castle have been entrenched for three hundred years. It may be bound to this place by the sealing device under the castle, or it may be that the "witch" ordered this angry spirit to torture the descendants of the Andre family for a long time to punish them for their disobedience, but no matter what, this is special This did not attract much attention from the orthodox demon hunter organization.

Nangong Sanba, a dabbler who wandered by himself, was the first demon hunter to ask about this matter. And the day after Nangong Sanba was attacked by the angry spirit and returned to his hometown instantly, Bai Huo also arrived here. To be honest, if If Nangong Sanba had acted two days later, the two of them would have bumped into each other.

Now it seems that Bai Huo doesn't know that Nangong Sanba had fought against the angry spirit here two days ago, and Hao Ren will naturally not take the initiative to mention it.

"By the way, Igor didn't know you were coming down to help?" Hao Ren saw Bai Huo leading the way and said nothing, so he had to find a topic to break the silence, "How did you get in here?"

"Igor? Oh, you mean the people living in the castle... I'm not here to help them," Bai Huo shrugged, "Although I think they are indeed... worthy of sympathy, my mentor said , Compassion cannot be the code of action for a witcher. I just came to look for my prey, so naturally I didn’t disturb the people in the castle. Oh, it’s just ahead.”

Bai Huo pointed not far ahead, and Hao Ren noticed that everyone had escaped from the area where the wind and snow were the strongest. In front of them was a small mound, with a pure black building standing on the mound. The building was very strange, with rough fractures and cut marks on its four walls, as if the entire house had been "torn out" directly from another, larger building. It was placed abruptly on the mound. Although it had man-made features, combined with the twisted and weird surrounding environment, the whole atmosphere looked particularly weird.

"This is part of the castle," Bai Huo pointed to the rectangular house. "It was originally supposed to be a hall in the underground palace. It was torn off from the castle, twisted and merged into the alien space created by the angry spirit. I suspect that this house is a key part of the sealing system, which is why it can be preserved so completely. The attention of the angry spirit is lingering near this house, but it never dares to get too close to this place: a perfect place to stay.”

Bai Huo stepped forward and pushed open the heavy iron door of the strange house, and the decayed ancient hinges made a creaking sound. The room was dark, and the white fire waved gently, creating floating sparks in the air to illuminate the surrounding environment. Hao Ren saw that it was indeed a relatively spacious hall, and he could vaguely see the gorgeous decoration that it had once served as the center of the underground palace - but this place had become part of an alien space due to the erosion and distortion of the angry spirits. There are messy accumulations and weird black debris everywhere, and only a small area in the middle has been cleared, which is where Bai Huo rested for the past two days.

"Find a place to rest by yourself," Bai Huo walked in front, "Those black substances are soul sandstone, a spell-casting material that is difficult to obtain in the outside world."

The second half of her sentence was addressed to Nangong Sanba.

When Lily saw that there were "good rocks" that she had never seen before, she immediately cheered and ran off to explore.

Hao Ren casually found an open space and sat down, looking up at Bai Huo curiously: "By the way, how much do you know about this castle and the angry spirits here? Let's exchange information."

Bai Huo did sneak into the underground palace without the Andre family's knowledge, but she also collected a lot of information about the castle before coming here. Through the witcher's intelligence network and what she had access to Those ancient classics from third parties, what she knew about the Andre family was no less than what Nangong Sanba saw in the castle library. And this strange witcher lady doesn’t seem to mind telling what she knows: “I did find out something… When talking about the origin of the angry spirit, we must mention the rise of the Andre family. Three hundred years ago, the ancestor of this family worked with another person in the service of a witch: this was a common thing in those days. But later they betrayed the witch out of greed and conspired to steal the witch's Two treasures. One of the treasures and the traitor who took it cannot be verified. We can only confirm that the treasure stolen by the ancestors of the Andre family is 'wealth'..."

At first, Hao Ren thought he was going to listen to the legend he heard from Nangong Sanba and Igor again, but as soon as Bai Huo opened his mouth, it was completely different from what he knew. He couldn't help it anymore: "Wait a minute, wait a minute ! You said that Ancestor Andre stole the treasure from the witch? Didn’t he inherit it?"

"At least that's what I know," Bai Huo nodded seriously, "And to be honest, it is unlikely that a witch would give two mortal servants any gifts. As far as witches in history are concerned, they would not take away the souls of their servants in the end. He already has a kind heart, so the most likely possibility is that the ancestor of the Andre family stole the witch's things with another human servant. And the angry spirit is undoubtedly a punishment."

"It is unlikely that humans can summon angry spirits. Such things cannot be summoned," Nangong Wuyue nodded in agreement, "So Igor's statement is obviously untenable. It is probably the descendants of the Andre family. They tampered with the facts of the year in order to put some money on the face of their ancestors. I think the angry spirits are probably related to the treasures they stole from the witch, and they just set themselves on fire."

Hao Ren touched his chin and was lost in thought. Then he suddenly saw Vivian looking around blankly. He asked curiously: "What are you thinking about?"

"I always feel..." Vivian looked at the dilapidated hall around her and frowned, "I always feel like I forgot something..."

Before she finished speaking, Lily, who ran to the side to "explore", suddenly shouted: "Hey! Look, I found something!"

Hao Ren quickly ran over to see what was going on. Lily pointed at the wall of the hall: "Look, there are portraits hanging here too!"

It turns out that there are some oval photo frames hanging on the wall. In the photo frames are the images of Andre's ancestors that everyone had seen on the upper floor of the castle. And perhaps due to the special nature of the Raging Spirit Space, the images in these photo frames still look very clear. However, there are only a few photo frames that can be found here: the underground palace was sealed two hundred years ago. Since the last member of the Andre family who could barely resist the angry spirit died of madness, no one has brought new ones to the world. The family portraits were sent to this hall, so that until this hall was swallowed up and assimilated by the twisted space, it still retained the scene when the last member of the Andre family left two hundred years ago.

Two hundred years ago...

Something suddenly came to Hao Ren's mind, and he immediately turned to look at the end of the hall: According to the structure he saw in other parts of the castle, there should be another most special portrait hanging there!

But there was nothing there. There was only an empty stone wall where the portrait of the witch should have been hung.

Lily also guessed Hao Ren's thoughts at this time. She hurried over to check the wall carefully, and suddenly found that there were faint traces of uneven color on the wall: obviously something had been hung here.

Betsy is indeed a mercenary who often digs into various ruins. At this time, her understanding and intuition are surprisingly strong. She directly guessed what she was looking for without Hao Ren opening his mouth, so she immediately ran to the wall and found the things piled on the ground. The soul sandstone was churning, and soon she saw something with only a corner exposed under the black gravel.

"Found it! It's here!"

Betsy shouted happily as she carefully pulled the thing out from under the black gravel. It was indeed a huge portrait, mounted in a sturdy wooden frame, and even covered with a layer of expensive quartz to protect the painting.

Hao Ren recalled what Igor had said: In his grandfather's generation, a family member stumbled and fell from the castle because he had a vision of a witch, so all the witch portraits in the castle were added The veil was removed, and from that day on, no one knew the witch's appearance.

But there is still an original version of the witch's portrait preserved in the castle: deep underground, in a different space that has been sealed by angry spirits for two hundred years.

Lily and Betsy carefully brushed away the dust and gravel from the portrait, and a beautiful girl appeared in the portrait.

Vivian.

"Oh, I remember!" the vampire girl's voice came from behind, "I lived here back then!"