White Fire was right, in the eyes of the witchers, this angry spirit sealed in the far north of Siberia was safe and harmless.Despite the fact that there is a human family suffering from the infestation of angry spirits, in the eyes of the witchers, those who summon evil spirits and cause evil are not worthy of sympathy - in fact, no one deserves sympathy in their eyes, and they have many reasons for the war against the aliens, but not for ordinary humans.Their criteria for judging whether an anomaly is harmful is whether the anomaly has the potential to grow and develop, and whether it threatens the Witcher's organization itself, but other than that, they are rarely distracted.As a result, they rarely seek trouble with the Wraiths, at least not on their own initiative: they are mostly found in inaccessible places, and they are irrational, they do not expand their territory, they do not manage their power, they are a strange thing between living things and natural phenomena, and they do not even need to be regarded as "enemies", so even if the humans they are entangled with are usually worse than dead, the witchers do not care much about this problem.Three hundred years ago, the André family provoked this terrible spirit creature and managed to keep the wrath in the depths of their castle, and then the ancestors of the family began to ask for help from the dark world: they sought out people who knew witchcraft, they also sought the church, and even some aliens turned to them, and their activities naturally fell into the eyes of the witchers, but the witchers didn't even bother to show up to ask about it.The only thing the witcher is interested in is that it has been in the physical world for so long: normally a wraith does not stay in the real world for a long time, they are "monsters born from nightmares", and some twisted world of Hades is their home, so the wraith usually dissipates on its own after a big fuss, and the wraiths have been entrenched in the underground of Andrew's Castle for three hundred years.It may have been held in this place by a seal under the castle, or it may have been ordered by the "witch" to torture the descendants of the Andre family for a long time to punish them for their disobedience, but in any case, this peculiarity did not attract much attention from the orthodox witcher organization.Nangong Sanba, a half-hanger who wandered by himself, was the first demon hunter to inquire about this matter, and the day after Nangong Sanba was returned to his hometown by the angry spirit, Bai Huo also arrived here on his own feet, to be honest, if Nangong Sanba acted two days later, these two people would have bumped into each other.Now it seems that Bai Huo didn't know that Nangong Sanba had already fought with the Angry Spirit here two days ago, and Hao Ren naturally wouldn't take the initiative to mention it."
By the way, Igor doesn't know that you came down to help?"
Hao Ren didn't speak when he saw Bai Huo leading the way in front, so he had to find a topic to break the silence by himself, "How did you get here?"
”"Igor?
Oh, you mean the people who live in the castle......
I'm not here to help them," Shirohuo shrugged, "though I think they're really ......
Sympathy is worthwhile, but my mentor has said that compassion is not a rule of action for witchers, I am just here to find my prey, and naturally I have not alarmed the people in the castle.Oh, and that's it. ”Bai Huo pointed not far ahead, and Hao Ren noticed that everyone had left the area where the wind and snow were most intense, and in front of them was a small mound, on which stood a pure black building.The building was very strange, with rough fractures and cuts on its four walls, as if the whole house had been "torn out" of another larger building.It is abruptly placed on a mound, and despite its man-made features, the whole atmosphere looks very eerie when combined with the twisted and strange environment around it."
This is part of the castle," Bai Huo pointed to the rectangular room, "it was supposed to be a hall in the dungeon.It was torn from the castle and twisted and fused into the alien space created by the wraith.I suspect that this room is a key part of the sealing system, which is why it is so intact, and the Wraith's attention lingers near this room, but it never dares to get too close to this place: the perfect place to stay. ”White Fire stepped forward and pushed open the heavy iron door of the strange house, and the rotten ancient hinges creaked.The room was pitch black, and the white fire waved lightly, creating floating sparks in the air to illuminate the surroundings.Hao Ren saw that it was indeed a relatively spacious hall, and he could faintly see that it had once been a gorgeous decoration as the center of the underground palace - but this place had become a part of the alien space under the erosion and distortion of the angry spirits, and the hall was full of messy piles and strange black fragments, and only a small area in the middle had been cleared out, which was where Bai Huo had rested for the past two days."
Find your own place to rest," Bai Huo walked ahead, "Those black substances are soul sandstone, spell casting materials that are difficult to obtain in the outside world. ”The second half of her sentence was said to Nangong Sanba.When Lily saw that there were "good stones" in this place that she had never seen before, she immediately cheered and ran off on the expedition.Hao Ren grinned and sat down directly, looking up at Bai Huo curiously: "Anyway, how much do you know about this castle and the angry spirits here?"
Let's exchange information. ”Bai Huo did sneak into the dungeon without the knowledge of the Andre family, but she also collected a lot of information about this castle before coming here, and through the information network of the witcher and the ancient texts from third parties that she could access, she knew no less about the Andre family than Nangong Sanba saw in the castle library.And the strange witch didn't seem to mind telling what she knew: "I did find something......
If we want to talk about the origin of the wraith, we must mention the rise of the Andrei family.Three hundred years ago, the ancestor of the family worked with another man in the service of a witch: a common occurrence in those days.But then they betrayed the witch out of greed and conspired to steal two of the witch's treasures.One of the treasures and the betrayer who took the treasure could no longer be verified, and could only be determined that the treasure stolen by the ancestor of the Andre family was 'wealth'......"
Hao Ren thought at first that he was going to hear the legend he heard from Nangong Sanba and Igor again, but as soon as Bai Huo opened his mouth, it was very different from what he knew, and he suddenly couldn't help it: "Wait, wait, wait!"
You say that the ancestor of Andrei stole a treasure from a witch?
Not inherited?
”"At least that's what I know," Bai Huo nodded seriously, "and to be honest, it's unlikely that a witch will give any gift to two mortal servants, as far as witches in history are concerned, they are already considered kind-hearted if they don't take their servants' souls in the end, so the biggest possibility is that the ancestor of the Andre family teamed up with another human servant to steal the witch's things."
And the wrath is undoubtedly a punishment. ”"It's unlikely that humans can summon angry spirits, this kind of thing can't be summoned," Nangong May also nodded in agreement, "So Igor's statement is obviously untenable, probably because the descendants of the Andrei family tampered with the facts of the year in order to put gold on their ancestors' faces."
I think the Wraith probably had something to do with the treasure they stole from the witch, and they set themselves on fire. ”Hao Ren touched his chin and fell into thought, and then suddenly saw Vivian looking around in a daze, he asked curiously, "What do you want?"
”"I always feel ......"
Vivien looked at the dilapidated hall around her, her brows tightened, "I always feel like I forgot to ......"
Before she could finish speaking, Lily, who ran to the side to "explore", suddenly shouted: "Eh!
Look, look, I've found something!
”Hao Ren hurriedly ran over to see the situation, and Lily pointed to the wall of the hall: "Look, there are portraits hanging here!"
”It turned out that there were some oval picture frames hanging on the wall, and the picture frames were also the images of Andrei's ancestors that everyone had seen on the upper floors of the castle, and perhaps because of the particularity of the angry spirit space, the portraits in these frames were still very clear.However, there are only a few frames that can be found here: the dungeon was closed two hundred years ago, and since the last member of the Andrei family who could barely confront the wraith died of madness, no one has sent a new family portrait to this hall, so much so that until this hall is swallowed up and assimilated by the warped space, it still retains the scene of the last André family member leaving two hundred years ago.Two hundred years ago......
Hao Ren's mind suddenly thought of something, and he immediately turned his head to look at the end of the hall: according to the structure he had seen elsewhere in the castle, there should be another of the most special portraits hanging there!
But there was nothing there, and the place where the portrait of the witch was supposed to be hung was only an empty stone wall.Lily also guessed Hao Ren's thoughts at this time, and she hurriedly ran over to carefully inspect the wall, and suddenly found that there were still traces of light and uneven color on the wall: it was obvious that something had been hung here.Betsy is worthy of being a mercenary who often drills into various ruins, and her understanding and intuition are amazingly strong at this time, and she directly guessed what to find without Hao Ren opening her mouth, so she immediately ran to the base of the wall, and tossed through the soul sandstone that was piled up on the ground, and soon she saw something with only one horn exposed under the black rubble."
Found it!
Here it is!
”Becky shouted happily as she carefully removed the object from the black gravel frame, and even covered it with an expensive layer of quartz to protect the painting.Hao Ren recalled what Igor had said: In his grandfather's grandfather's generation, when a family member dreamed of a vision of a witch and fell from the castle, all the portraits of witches in the castle were veiled, and from that day on, no one knew the witch's face.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 the wraith for two hundred years.Together, Lily and Betsy carefully brush off the dust and rubble from the portrait, and a good-looking girl appears in the portrait.Vivien."
Oh, I remember!"
The vampire girl's voice came from behind, "I lived here back then!"
”(To be continued.) )