CH 79

Chapter 79: Castle Cry (VI)

The phantom had disappeared, but Qi Leren was still thinking.

What was this phantom? It looked like it happened in this castle. At that time, the lady seemed to be in normal spirits. She and her husband loved each other very much. She also kept a dog named Redmond, which was the hound that attacked him just now and had almost killed him.

What about the devil sacrifice hidden under the easel? Why was there such an object with a mass of golden hair in it… Was this lady involved with the devil?

More clues were needed… Qi Leren took a deep breath and went to the door and opened it.

Outside the door was the corridor, that is, the corridor that they tried to enter at first but were scared off by a fire. Would it be better to walk deeper into the corridor or go back to the main hall? Qi Leren didn’t have a flashlight, the castle in this world didn’t have electricity, and there was a thunderstorm outside. Lightning lit up from time to time, followed by the thundering sound.

Qi Leren couldn’t help but miss the inner world full of moonlight. Compared with this old and dilapidated outer world, the inner world appeared to be kind.

He had put the flashlight on the piano cover, and now he couldn’t get it back for a while. Qi Leren rummaged through his inventory for a while and found the mobile phone he brought in from the real world. He was speechless in finding that it still had 5% battery after it was turned on, which could be regarded as solving his urgent need.

Qi Leren hesitated in which way to go. The hall and another corridor had been explored. There were no important clues. The ghost Nina should not be found in this world, but it was possible to meet the metal armor again and then have to deal with being chased. After all, this thing would not be burned in the fire. He wasn’t interested in dying. For now, his top priority was to find Dr. Lu. If he couldn’t find anyone, at least he could find something to light the way.

Lighting… There may be candles and the like in the kitchen - if they didn’t burn out in the fire - the kitchen must be on the first floor. At present, only this area on the first floor had not been explored. After a pause, Qi Leren turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone and headed for the depths of the corridor.

“Ah, ah, ah, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, don’t come here-!” A terrible cry came, accompanied by the sound of the door being knocked down. Dr. Lu ran all the way from the end of the corridor to Qi Leren, shouting as he ran, “Hurry up, there’s skeletons! They’re moving, they’re moving!”

Of course, he appeared exactly when Dr. Lu needed protection. Qi Leren didn’t know what to say.

Seeing that Dr. Lu was running towards him, there were two gray skeletons behind him. They were dressed as servants, unarmed, and slow to move. They were incomparable with the monsters that Qi Leren encountered in the last mission. He was relieved and pulled out an iron rod from his inventory. It was obviously unwise to deal with a thin skeleton with a dagger: “Get behind me!”

Dr. Lu listened to his good advice and stayed away, with a genial smile that he continued to run.

The skeletons were getting closer and closer. Qi Leren, who had primary fighting abilities equipped, stepped forward in two steps, knocking over two skeletons with the rod, stepping on the head of one of them, and then lifting the iron rod to break the skull of the other skeleton, and the deep and remote blue soul flame burning in the skull went out instantly. The other skeleton that he’d stepped on stretched out its bone claws and hugged his thigh. Qi Leren looked cold, kicked its bone claws, poked a stick into its eye socket, and threw the skeleton against the wall.

Fragile bones were shattered apart on the wall, the flame of soul went out, two skeletons became a big beach of white broken bones, and the servants’ clothes on their bodies also fell off, and rags were generally scattered on the ground.

“Hey…” Dr. Lu applauded desperately in the back and said with amazement, “I haven’t seen you in only a few days and you’ve already become this good at fighting. These sultry and sharp moves of yours are worthy of a goddess in my heart. The small universe is burning up.”

Qi Leren gave him a blank look and expressed contempt for his behavior of opening a pot that shouldn’t be stirred. Of course, he still had to put on a proper act: “These slow skeletons are nothing to be afraid of. After all, this is D-level difficulty.”

Finally, Qi Leren also asked, “What happened to you? You just disappeared in a blink of an eye. I’ve been looking for you for half an hour.”

“Ah, don’t mention it. While I was falling, I suddenly remembered that I had skills and didn’t need to be a bastard. I quickly opened my lucky skills. Sure enough, I didn’t fall all the way, so I wandered around here for a while. When I went back to look for you, I couldn’t find you. Later, the bell rang and returned to the castle after the fire. I looked for you everywhere. As a result, even though I didn’t find any people, I found a key.” Dr. Lu shook the brass key in his hand. “I took advantage of my current skills in order to not die. As a result, when the door opened, I saw two skeletons, which scared me to think that my skills had failed. As soon as I went out, I saw the skeletons coming towards me. It seems that my lucky value is still average.”

Qi Leren, who had been chased by a burned hound and almost broken his bones from falling through the building, didn’t want to talk.

“What’s wrong with your arm? So many bruises? Your clothes are also dirty,” Dr. Lu asked, noticing Qi Leren’s strangeness.

Qi Leren glanced at his arm. When he’d fallen from the second floor just now, he scraped his arm, and his foot was scratched from trying to pull it out after being stuck in the floorboard. These kinds of minor injuries didn’t affect his ability to fight, so he was too lazy and ignored it.

“Do you want my help to treat it?” Dr. Lu asked with concern.

“Forget it, your treatment cooling time is too long, save it for a more serious injury.” After thinking about it, Qi Leren felt that he could easily become much more injured with his own luck. Let’s just bear it, so as not to regret the skill cooling.

By now he was more and more aware that skills were not reliable, and people who relied too much on skills would be particularly vulnerable and timid in the face of cooling, not to mention those tasks that sealed skills.

“There’s another thing I want to show you,” Qi Leren said, taking out the iron box with the mass of blond hair that had been wrapped in cloth from his inventory and handing it to Dr. Lu. “I found this after we got separated from Nina…”

Qi Leren stated the following events one by one, and explained that he found the loose wooden board after falling into the studio, and then found the iron box under that board. Dr. Lu looked at him with compassion and forced comfort: “Hmm… Anyway, you still found a clue, so this pain wasn’t for nothing.”

Qi Leren lost his temper at this blase treatment and said nothing.

“As for this thing… I agree with you. I’m afraid this lady isn’t simply crazy. Do you remember what Nina said? She said that the lady’s mother and grandmother went crazy after giving birth to a child. The lady’s vision told us that she was pregnant, but didn’t say whether the child was born or not. I think it wasn’t.” Dr. Lu made a bold guess. “Look at those portraits on the first floor. There are many self-portraits of the lady, or her husband, and even many of her dog, but there are none of her children, and there are no toys or other things children like. It doesn’t look like a family with children. Therefore, it’s very likely that the lady either miscarried or died soon after the child was born, which could also have caused her madness.”

After a moment’s thought, Qi Leren’s mind flashed: “The sacrifice to the devil must be to get something. Do you think she was trying to bring this child back to life?”

“It’s possible. However, as a medical worker, I am skeptical.” Dr. Lu said primly.

There were no more clues after that. Qi Leren simply handed this devil sacrifice to Dr. Lu for safekeeping. He remembered being told by the Trails Office that it was best to avoid devil energy, otherwise the growth rate of the seed of slaughter in him would accelerate. “You should take care of it since you’re more lucky.”

Dr. Lu smiled smugly and put the box in his inventory.

“Let’s go and have a look at the second and third floors of the outer world,” Qi Leren said.

The two men walked in the direction of the hall one after another. With Dr. Lu’s flashlight, Qi Leren didn’t waste the little power left in his mobile phone. Dr. Lu also laughed at him and said, “If you’re so protective of your mobile phone, find someone to buy a charger from when you go back to the Village of Dusk. I heard that there are a large number of talents in the Village of Dusk, and someone in a tech house tried to build a computer. The operation isn’t even fast enough to play snake on it. It’s a pity, if only the ordinary items in the copy world could be brought back, then I would definitely try to install a few computers back in the Village of Dusk and turn back into an otaku.”

Qi Leren thought of his poor laptop, but it didn’t seem to follow him into the Nightmare World, because he didn’t see it when he woke up in the hospital of Novice Village. It was a pity since the laptop contained secrets of this world.

The two people’s footsteps echoed in the corridor, the front hall dark without any power supply.

There was a whimper in the dark, and Dr. Lu stopped at once, pulling Qi Leren’s arm, and nervously asked, “Did you hear that sound?”

Qi Leren gave an ear to listen. Outside the corridor ahead, a sobbing cry filled with sadness faintly reached his ears.

“I hear it, it’s crying,” Qi Leren was nervous, and his heart couldn’t help pounding.

“It’s not a ghost, is it?” Dr. Lu said with a gasp, more suspicious.

“Give me the flashlight, I’ll go and have a look,” Qi Leren said.

Dr. Lu was reluctant to give up his flashlight, but he would rather face the darkness than face the strange cry, so he handed over the flashlight and waved to Qi Leren: “Take care, I’ll wait for you here.”

Qi Leren backtracked two steps and dragged Dr. Lu: “No, I’m taking you with me!”

“Stop, I don’t want to go!” Dr. Lu protested.

“Just do it, don’t be embarrassed!” Qi Leren offered the words once used to describe “goddess”.

Dr. Lu clung to a sculpture by the wall and shouted: “It’s scary, don’t do it!”

While the two men argued, the sad crying stopped without them noticing. When Qi Leren noticed that something was wrong, he let go of Dr. Lu and looked warily into the darkness.

Dr. Lu fell to the ground with a plot, clutching his ass, and cried, “Why did you suddenly let go?!”

"Shh- The crying is gone,” Qi Leren lowered his voice and said.

Dr. Lu was suddenly frightened and stood up shaking at once.

Footsteps came from the darkness and approached steadily. Qi Leren adjusted the direction of the flashlight and shone straight to the place where the footsteps came from. The person were stabbed by light, covering their eyes with one hand, and asked in tears: “Is it Qi Leren and Lu Cangshu? I, I heard your voices…”

“Nan Lu?” Qi Leren asked doubtfully, “Didn’t you go with Xiao Hong? What about him?”

Nan Lu’s hand in front of her eyes was slowly lowered, showing her eyes flushed with tears and hatred on her face.

“He’s gone,” Nan Lu said bitterly. “He left with Luo Xueyi, that bitch.”