CH 82

Chapter 82: Castle Cry (IX)

On the way to the study on the second floor, all three people were very silent. They walked in the corridor that was bright in this world. They didn’t have the decadent and lavish appearance of this world, but they didn’t have a sense of speechlessness. Nan Lu couldn’t help but ask, “Are we really going to kill her?”

“Remember, she’s already dead. It can’t be called killing her. At most, we’re just sending her to where she should go,” Dr. Lu corrected Nan Lu’s words.

Nan Lu stared ahead and whispered: “Poor woman…”

Dr. Lu didn’t understand Nan Lu’s logic: “How is she pitiful?”

“She lost her child and went crazy. Her husband might have betrayed her. Isn’t she pitiful?” Nan Lu asked.

“The first two are easy to say, but where did you find that her husband betrayed her?” Dr. Lu asked blankly.

Nan Lu bit her lip. “Intuition. Maybe her husband was having an affair with that Nina. Otherwise, why, out of so many servants, is she the only one to have become a ghost? She must be different from the others.”

Dr. Lu gave up, secretly fell in line with Qi Leren, and mouthed to him, She is hopeless.

Although Nan Lu’s words were all based on subjective speculation, they couldn’t be said to be unreasonable. It was also a possibility. Qi Leren thought, “Let’s leave the rest aside, we have to get rid of this crazy lady before we leave here. Just trust her for now and let’s go to the study to find the key to the basement.”

Nan Lu didn’t say anything. After all, in such a dangerous place, the desire to go home was overwhelming.

Before, Dr. Lu found the keys to the second floor in the piano room of the outer world. When the three returned to the second floor, they began to try one by one, opening the locked rooms on the second floor one by one, and finally found the study when they reached the third one.

Turning on the light of the study, and the dark room immediately lit up. There were bookshelves of more than ten square meters on both sides of the study. There was a big desk on the side, which was old in style, but very textured. There were many paintings hanging on the wall, and potted plants and sculptures full of artistic sense in the corner. The three people appreciated the layout here, immediately rummaging through the boxes to find the key.

“There’s a letter here!” Dr. Lu found a letter from the drawer of the desk that had been sealed with wax but had not yet been sent, and immediately opened it to see it.

The original text of the letter should have been German, but the system automatically translated it:

To Dr. Flajser:

(omitted) I heard that you just came back from the epidemic area, and I hope everything is alright with you … (omitted) … Sarah’s condition is still not getting better, it’s getting worse and worse. She’s begun to imagine frequently, and she is suspicious of everything … (omitted) … When I woke up in the middle of the night, I found that she had escaped and made a doll in the baby room, and she seemed to firmly believe that her child was not dead. When I stopped her, she frantically asked me if I still loved her. The loss of her child was a great blow to her. I comforted her many times, but she still resented it. I don’t need her to have a legitimate heir. You know, I’ve been trying to avoid getting her pregnant, but she still became pregnant, which is not a good thing for her. I’m tired of this kind of life, for God’s sake … (omitted) … I hope you will take the time to come. 

Waiting for your word, Johann Sebastian Wolff.

“This letter… seems to be addressed to a doctor by the male owner of this castle. The doctor may also be a German by name.” After reading the letter, Dr. Lu touched his chin. “I feel that there is a lot of information here…”

Epidemic area… Baby room… Doll… Child… Doctor… Many words leapt through Qi Leren’s mind, which made him think a lot. It seemed that this letter should be from the man who asked the doctor to come to see the crazy lady. This doctor shouldn’t be unfamiliar with them. Listening to Mr. Wolff’s tone, he had great respect for this doctor.

“Let’s go to the nursery later, there should be something there.” According to his own game experience, Qi Leren judged that there should be a key item there.

“Well… I think there will be an iron box in the nursery,” Dr. Lu said.

“But maybe it’s the key item to deal with the crazy lady,” Qi Leren said.

“No, no, no, you’re overthinking it. If you continue to explore, you’ll dig too deep. Don’t forget…” Dr. Lu quickly wrote a D on the table with his finger.

It was, after all, D-level difficulty.

Qi Leren nodded: “Keep looking for the key.”

Sitting on the sofa and listening to Dr. Lu, Nan Lu, who had been silent since the letter was read, suddenly whispered: “Love is always like this, so warm and joyful when it comes, but after the passion fades, it becomes so desperate and painful.”

Huh? Excuse me? Dr. Lu looked at Nan Lu in surprise, and she sighed faintly in the shadows: “He was tired of his wife, even though she was so beautiful and gentle, they were so in love, but when she went crazy, he quickly got tired. That’s why she became so helpless and crazy, to ask him if he still loves her… Poor woman, she had been abandoned, but she was still dreaming that her ruthless husband still loved her.”

Nan Lu, who was sitting on the sofa, stroked the book on her knee, opened it and handed it to them: “Look, I just found it on the bookshelf.”

Qi Leren took the book she handed him withl doubt, and there were only a few pages with words.

-A certain year, month, day, cloudy. Today is Adeline’s death day. Sarah and I came back from the cemetery to visit her and met Dr. Flajser. This is the third year since Adeline’s death. When I woke up in the middle of the night, I heard Sarah calling Adeline’s name. Poor Sarah, my wife, after Adeline’s accident, she was even sadder than me. After all, they grew up together and acted like sisters. I’m going to China with Sarah in a month, hoping that an unfamiliar country will make her forget this sad place and make me forget everything.

-A certain year, month, day, sunny. I arrived in China with Sarah, and the castle has been built. Although I prefer to live in the city, Sarah insists on an independent castle. She used to live in a castle when she was a child, and there are people serving her everywhere. She likes this and is willing to spend money on it. Anyway, it is only pennies to her. I ordered someone to secretly build a garden on the top floor of the castle. Sarah said a long time ago that she liked painting in the garden. After I took her to see the garden, she was as happy as a child. She took Redmond around the garden and happily said that she would plant roses here. I think I should hire an extra gardener to take care of the garden.

-A certain year, month, day, cloudy. Sarah is pregnant. She told me the news with great excitement. I was surprised. The method provided by Dr. Flajser should effectively prevent her from getting pregnant. Is it because of the dose problem? I should call Dr. Flajser to see him, but last time he mentioned that he was leaving Germany, I’m afraid he won’t come back for several months. To be honest, I don’t expect the arrival of the child. On the contrary, I am worried about her family’s genetic disease. Although Sarah has no signs of illness at present, her mother and grandmother became crazy after giving birth to a child… But I can’t tell her my worries. She is really looking forward to having a child. May God bless us.

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-A certain day, thunderstorm. She’s still crazy.

The last line in the diary was very large and untidy. Although it was short, it had a creepy feeling. It was like the sword hanging overhead had finally fallen down, the inevitable tragedy finally happened, and the inescapable fate had finally come.

Dr. Lu suddenly asked in disbelief: “Nan Lu, can you understand it?”

Qi Leren was shocked. Yes, these diary entries were all written in German. They both relied on the system’s translation, but what about Nan Lu?

Nan Lu looked at them inexplicably: “Please, we’ve learned German for four years. Although my German isn’t as good as yours, I can read day-to-day letters, can’t I?”

Well, the setting of this copy was quite perfect. It turned out that the four of them were German language college students.

“What do you think of this diary?” Nan Lu asked softly.

“There are a lot of things to dig into, but we don’t have to worry about this now. Let’s get this Mrs. Sarah out of here first.” Dr. Lu stood, continuing to rummage for the key.

Qi Leren put away the diary. Although these items from the copy world would disappear when he left the copy, he still took the diary with him, since he possibly could use it later. He felt that the story of the crazy lady was not so simple, but as Dr. Lu said, for now they shouldn’t dig deeper to avoid raising the difficulty of the task.

Nan Lu stood up from the sofa and looked at the portrait hanging on the wall behind the sofa. In the portrait, the handsome male host was holding a book and concentrating on reading. She whispered, “He loved her, she loved him. However, love is like a sand sculpture on the beach, which slowly collapses and is destroyed in waves of the tides. After the destruction of time, love is colder than death.