CH 90

Chapter 90: Castle Cry (XVII)

With the deepening of the plot, the fire in the old castle didn’t look like an ordinary fire accident anymore. Since the involvement of the devil worship, the situation had become more and more complicated.

Dr. Lu also suspected Johann, the male owner of the castle, and guessed whether he sacrificed his wife to the Devil. However, Su He put forward an objection: “It should not be wrong that the person making the sacrifice was Mrs. Sarah. She has the best motive and the source of the sacrifice is also her. The current offerings include her hair, teeth, and eyeballs. The remaining three may also be integral parts of her body, or they may be related to her. I suggest finding these things before the final battle, as they’re related to the completion of the task.”

“That she sacrificed to the Devil was for the sake of what? To pray for yourself to get pregnant, or to pray for your child to come back from the dead?” Dr. Lu asked again.

Qi Leren shook his head: “I don’t think so.”

Judging from the phantoms he has seen so far, the crazy lady loved her child, but she loved her husband more. The trigger of the miscarriage made her inherited mental illness break out, and her mental problems aggravated her love and madness. As Nina said, she suspected that her husband was unfaithful to her. And the source of this suspicion… I’m afraid was that woman named Adeline.

According to Johann’s diary, Mrs. Sarah and Adeline should have been friends or relatives who grew up together since childhood, they were not blood-related sisters, but Adeline had died before they came to China.

Judging from the situation with Nan Lu, who seems to be possessed by the crazy lady, she seemed to be jealous of Adeline and thought that she was being haunted…

“There are six sacrifices. Why that number?” Dr. Lu asked Su He.

“Well… Probably because in the Nightmare World, 6 is the number representing the Devils.” Su He said quietly, “Numbers are very interesting in the Nightmare World. Many numbers have special meanings. For example, 4 stands for luck and 7 stands for ‘I love you’. If you want to express your confession to an NPC, you can send her seven red roses, and 77 will also do.”

“It’s a few roses less expensive than on earth,” Dr. Lu spat and followed Su He up the stairs.

“Still not leaving?” The two people who had stepped up the stairs to look for the nursery on the third floor found that Qi Leren was still in a daze.

Qi Leren made a noise in answer, recovered from his meditative state, and continued to go up.

Maybe there would be more clues for him later.

The lay-out of the third floor was similar to that of the second floor, and the number of rooms was not far behind. Qi Leren singled Dr. Lu out for the first time: “It’s time to play your role. Feel which room is the baby room.”

Dr. Lu angrily said, “Do you think I am a B-ultrasound probe?! How do I know which one before opening the door!”

“You’re not a small expert in finding things,” Qi Leren inclined his gaze.

Dr. Lu snorted and took the keys to try the door. Qi Leren and Su He studied the blood on the ground. Two blood stains spread from the stairs to the corridor on the third floor, and dragged all the way to the depths of the corridor. This terrible blood was naturally from the torn-in-half Xiao Hong, and it looked terrible.

“Are we going to follow it?” Qi Leren asked Su He.

Su He shook his head slowly. “Don’t worry. I think that direction should be the last boss battle.”

“Eh?” Qi Leren made a voice of doubt. “It can’t happen there.”

Su He smiled and pointed over his head: “To be precise, it’s above.”

“Above,” Qi Leren looked up and looked at the ceiling, suddenly saying, “You mean the garden on the roof?”

“Well, there should be a staircase at the end of the corridor leading to the garden at the top of the castle. The blood can be said to show us the way, and maybe we will meet the dog, so let’s collect some clues, lest the completion be too low,” Su He said steadily.

Qi Leren nodded hard. The biggest advantage of having Su He was that he could stop thinking. His IQ could only be said to be average. It was really painful to rack one’s brains for the task. Now he had a plug-in with him, which made him feel a lot easier. He just needed to go up and work hard when it was needed… Although it was really “high-level”.

Unfortunately, when Dr. Lu opened the door, a skeleton dressed as a maid was found in one of the rooms, and he was so scared that he was crying and screaming. Qi Leren had no choice but to come forward to escort him. As the mascot to raise his lucky value, Dr. Lu could never afford to lose.

Dr. Lu squatted in the corner sadly and waited for Qi Leren to deal with the skeleton. Su He looked at him condescendingly, suddenly sighed and said seriously, “Although luck is important sometimes, luck alone is not enough.”

Dr. Lu mumbled something twice and whispered, “I know, but I just can’t get past that hurdle… No matter what difficult things I encounter, from small to large, I’ll always solve them inexplicably and go smoothly… I…”

Su He squatted down with him and patted him on the shoulder kindly: “I understand that it’s not easy to change who you’ve been for the past twenty years. The choice is whether you change quickly or die quickly.”

Dr. Lu glanced at him begrudgingly and felt that he was covered with dead flags.

“Okay!” Three or two hits solved the skeleton. Qi Leren shouted ahead. They stood up. Dr. Lu continued to open the doors. This time, he finally found the right room.

The dusty door was opened, and the window facing the door was also sealed with wooden bars. The window was already broken a long time ago. The rain and water outside the window were blown into the room with the wind. Lightning lit up this small room from time to time, and dolls of all sizes were everywhere in every corner. They were burnt to pieces, had soaked in the moisture, and had mildewed and blackened, ghostly in the pale light.

Qi Leren felt uncomfortable as soon as he stepped into the room. The demon power here was much stronger than that in the piano room. He looked around the room and finally stopped before walking to the baby cradle.

It’s not that he felt anything, but that the doll held by the crazy lady in the basement was impressed upon him, and the one in the cradle was exactly the same as the one in her arms.

“You see…” Qi Leren was inviting the two people to see, and suddenly there was a deafening slam of the door behind him - slamming on something hard.

Qi Leren looked back, and Su He stood by the door, and the walking stick in his hand had just gotten stuck in the door, preventing the door from closing.

Su He smiled helplessly: “No matter what kind of task, the law is always the same… Be careful, these dolls are going to be resurrected.”

His voice had just fallen when the atmosphere in the nursery suddenly changed. The giggling of children came from every corner. A few palm-sized dolls jumped on the ground like mice, and flashed by in the thunder and lightning outside the window, hiding in the doll pile.

Qi Leren’s hand holding the dagger tightened. He stuck to the wall and looked at the high and low dolls in the room.

They were laughing and moving. These toys made by people were endowed with evil life by the Devil’s power, and could come at them at any time!

“Ah–” the doll in the cradle let out a shrill scream, rolled over and rolled down the cradle, and jumped into the doll pile to hide.

Just like a call to arms, the dolls who had been moving only slightly giggled in unison and rushed at them!