The ghouls have three cleft lips with serrated teeth. From time to time, one and a half corpses are thrown from the top of their heads, and then they will be looted.
There are also some ghouls who will play in the smelly sea water after eating and drinking enough. What's more, they simply mate there, and their voices are terrible.
Yunhao couldn't help vomiting several times. Now her feet are a little soft. Serena also put some mint and moss in her mask to dispel the smell.
It can be said that in addition to these ghouls and milky maggots, no other creature can withstand this harsh environment.
The passage in front is almost covered with garbage and filth. If people want to pass, they have to flow through the sewage.
Fortunately, serana was with him today. She directly turned into a group of blood bats and flew over from the sky holding Yunhao. After hearing the sound, the ghouls scattered in a crowd.
After they left there, Yunhao still felt a lingering stench in the air.
"Oh! I must find some water to take a bath later. I can't stand it! "
Yunhao finally got up from the ground, and his legs and stomach became soft.
"Hahaha, you look so funny just now, but it's not like this when I was a child. In the past, there were two boats parked here, our family sat on the boat, and then the sea water would come in automatically. Then I would follow the current to the sea, and then I would go fishing and play around the castle."
It can be seen that she still has some yearning for her former life, but now, everything has passed, the vicissitudes of time, things are different.
Fortunately, the passage behind is much faster than before. Besides a lot of cobwebs and dust, there are also some wild vampires living in it. They are all weak people abandoned by the castle. They can only survive here and occasionally go back to the outside to search for prey.
These weak vampires turn into ashes one by one in the light of dawn.
They managed to get out of the passage, and a fresh air came to their faces. What they saw was a huge courtyard with luxuriant flowers and trees. However, because it was abandoned for a long time, the plants and trees here were relatively vigorous, which led to poor lighting and desolation in the daytime.
But she walked around the yard, very excited.
"This is my mother's garden. She designed and trimmed everything here. I didn't expect that we could see it today!"
Serana pointed to a deformed green tree like a mountain and said, "there used to be a little fox there, and there was an elephant there, but now they are all grown up. By the way, there is a fountain ahead. Let's go and have a look!"
It seems that no one has set foot here for a long time. The surrounding walls are covered with moss and climbing tiger vines. A broken fountain is among several statues. Serana walks there, fingers gently caressing the statues, and her face is full of tenderness and longing.
"This was originally the statue of my mother and I. My father asked craftsmen to build it according to our way, but many years have passed, and there is nothing here anymore."
The upper part of the statue has been destroyed, and the surrounding pavilions and stone buildings have been obscured by wind and rain.
There is also a pond in the courtyard. The water inside has already turned black. Mosquito larvae are swimming in it, and the fallen leaves are occupying the whole pond.
"There used to be a passageway leading to the front yard, but now it has collapsed. My father should have destroyed it in a rage when he knew that my mother was missing, and then he never came in again."
At the location of the passage she pointed to, a tall building had collapsed, and there were several deep traces on it, like something tearing the whole building apart.
Serena walks around the courtyard, and everywhere she goes, she stops and whispers about its history.
The expression on her face was more and more sad and heavy.
"My childhood left me like this. Just like my mother, she left me behind and sealed me in that dark place."
With that, she began to choke. Her face was deeply sad. Although she had no tears, she could not hide her pain.
"When your mother disappeared, did she say anything, or did she leave you any keepsake? I'm sure she won't easily leave you behind."
"No, she is a cruel mother. She has always been!"
This sounds more like complaining, and the tone is full of a daughter's nostalgia and attachment to her mother.
In the middle of the courtyard is a huge sundial. According to serana, it was built by her father for her mother. Her mother was fascinated by astrology for a period of time, so he found a craftsman and made it out of bronze.
On the ground around the sundial, there is a bright silver chart of the moon, which records all the changes of the moon's phase from one day to the middle of the month. But three different patterns are missing, two crescent moons and a full moon.Yun Hao moved his hand on the top, but found that these phases were fixed on the top, very firm, but the bracket on the top was a little loose in the missing places.
He pressed it, only to find that the brackets were movable.
"Do you know the phases of the moon, Serena? I find that the brackets here are movable."
When she heard about it, she tried it out. Sure enough, the supports in the three defective positions were movable and fixed.
Yunhao looked at the second floor for a while. Then he found a gap on the floor around the sundial. The gap had already been filled with soil and dust, but they were very wide and could hold the next whole finger, and the depth was a bit incredible.
"I suspect there is something wrong with this sundial. Look at these cracks. They are very deep, and they seem to be empty at the bottom."
Not only that, but these gaps also extend to the base of the sundial. From the shape of their intersection, they look like a door on the ground.
"The key should be the three missing phases of the moon. Let's look here to see if there are any suitable objects for placement."
He suspected that the missing phases should be the key to opening the passage under the sundial. According to serana, she often stayed here for a day before her mother took her away.
And since their family became vampires, the relationship between her father and mother began to deteriorate. They hardly met each other, and then they had a big fight.