In a position far away from the city, stands an ancient castle. From a distance, its body is made of gray-black bricks, and it is surrounded by green woods.
The gray-black walls are covered with dark green vines, and some of them climbed up to the windows mischievously, wrapping around the rusty window frames forcefully.
To the north there is a circular tower, the tall tower has a sharp top, and some small black arched windows can be vaguely seen.
Looking from a distance, it gives people a gloomy feeling, but when the car drives into the front yard and sees flower beds in full bloom and lush green bushes, the ancient castle looks more lovely and lively.
A row of servants dressed in maid outfits stood neatly at the gate of the castle, looking respectfully in the direction of the car. Standing at the front were three tall foreign men and women, and behind them were two small figures.
As soon as we got out of the car, the middle-aged man who looked somewhat similar to Chris walked up and introduced himself politely: "I am David Henry from the David family, and this is my wife Jenny, Mrs. Daughter Erin, younger daughter and younger sons Laura and Abel."
"Chris, you should know each other."
I didn't expect Chris to have so many siblings, and his parents still look so young.
Mrs. David has deep facial features, even though she is a certain age, but her figure is still like a model, with an attractive body line and shape. Long, soft, curly blond hair fell back from her head, and she wore light makeup on her face.
Erin is the eldest daughter in the family, a year older than Chris.
This enthusiastic couple welcomed us very much. I looked up at the castle and couldn't help sighing in my heart.
Chris is indeed a rich second generation. Looking at his family background, it's no wonder that he can quickly solve various financial matters.
There was a big golden retriever in their house, which was circling around Chris constantly, with its long pink tongue sticking out, constantly rubbing its body against his suit pants.
An Ning greeted them warmly. When I met strangers, and they were foreigners, I couldn't help being a little nervous.
I'm afraid that my poor English will attract a joke.
"Rong Hua, don't be nervous, my parents can speak Chinese, so don't worry about the language barrier."
Chris' consolation succeeded in comforting me. After Henry heard my name, he immediately greeted me and said enthusiastically, "You are Ronghua. Chris and I have mentioned you, including An Ning."
Seeing their overly familiar attitude towards me, I tugged on Chris's sleeve and whispered, "Did you tell me everything about me?"
He had no choice but to shrug his shoulders helplessly, and said: "I don't want to, but Irene always chases after me and asks, so I have to confess everything."
I originally wanted to investigate some things in a low-key manner, just as an ordinary person, but now it seems that it is impossible.
This is also good, so as not to cause some jokes or contradictions, I will not be polite, and directly state the purpose of coming here.
"Let's talk about it first, Erin, take your younger siblings to play in the backyard."
Jenny said softly, and led us in. As I was leaving, I heard the conversation between Laura and Irene.
"Irene, who are they, why did someone come to our house again?"
"Laura, I tell you that you don't know either. Let's go and brush Tom. He hasn't had lunch yet."
Abel grabbed his little sister and led Tom towards the backyard.
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"Miss Rong, you mean something serious happened in the underworld?" Henry asked seriously, frowning.
"That's right." I told everything about the escape of the evil spirits at the bottom, including Saya's death. As soon as I said this, my heart sank.
"I'm really sorry to hear this news." Jenny looked at me regretfully, holding her husband's arm, and said sympathetically, "You must have suffered a lot."
The real suffering is not on me, but on Saya, King Yin, and Xiaobai.
"The judge has found out that the power that makes the evil spirit escape should be related to what happened here. It's just that it's not convenient for him to leave the underworld to come here to investigate carefully, so I recommended myself."
Henry's face was very ugly, he shook his head, clasped his hands together, and rubbed them constantly, his eyes looked here and there, as if he was thinking about something.
"The war here has just come to an end, and Pluto is still sending more people to search for treasures, trying to return the treasures before the next two-world fluctuation."
I thought of what Hei Wuchang said: "Have you found the approximate location of the treasure?"
Jenny couldn't help but interjected: "We did find it, but the scope is still too large." She paused, organized her words, and stopped abruptly as if she had something to hide.
"We are located in a continent, but for us, to find what we want in a continent is undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack."
She had a good use of the idiom, a word that successfully expressed their overarching problem at the moment.
How difficult it is to find treasures that suppress the underworld in the vast sea of people.
It's just that the current situation can't help us to look forward and backward, and procrastinate. Even if a blind man feels an elephant, he has to move forward, one step at a time. If he does not go, there will be no progress in this matter, and he cannot give up even if there is a trace of clues.
"Pluto told us that there should be some clues in places with dense ghosts and heavy yin, so our family has recently started to accept some missions on that continent, hoping to find treasures in this way."
Chris walked over with a somewhat crumpled map in his hand, unfolded it in my hand, and clicked on the location circled with a red marker.
My eyes widened when I saw the name of the continent written on it.
Isn't this where my mother is on a business trip
Thinking of the embarrassment of her and Grandpa An who obviously concealed something from me, and this seemingly coincidental coincidence, I became more certain of my thoughts.
Looking at it now, maybe mom's sudden business trip to country M is not a work matter.
Rather, it has something to do with the fluctuations in the yin and yang realms that happened in country M.
"Xiaohua..." An Ning, who was sitting next to me, pushed my arm and called my name, and then I regained my thoughts and smiled awkwardly at them.
"Sorry, I was just distracted."
"It doesn't matter, you came all the way here, I'm afraid you won't get any useful information for a while, but I promise, we will settle the matter as soon as possible and give you an explanation."
I noticed the restraint of the couple in front of me, and hurriedly said: "Don't worry, and don't force yourself. Finding things is a bit of luck. When the time comes, things will appear naturally. No matter how urgent you are, it's useless." , and it will be messed up."
The Davids sitting across from the sofa looked at each other, hesitated for a while, and said a little embarrassedly: "By the way, there is one more thing."
"kindness?"
"Pluto wants to see you."
It has only been a few hours since I arrived in country M, and Caesar has already noticed me.
It's just why he wants to see me, I don't think there is anything in me that he needs.
"Pluto said, you don't need to rush to see him right away, you just hope to meet him as soon as possible."
I nodded, and after chatting with the couple for a while, Henry took Chris and Yang Yi back to the study, seemingly to discuss the next action plan.
In order to welcome us, Jenny is said to be cooking a gourmet meal herself, and went to the kitchen with a few servants.
"Do you have any taboos?" The beautiful woman stopped and asked me. I smiled and shook my head, and she disappeared from my sight quickly like a fluttering butterfly.
Just when I thought she had really left, a head popped out of the door.
"Miss Rong is easy. If there is any trouble, you can just talk to Anna directly."
Jenny winked at me, and the maid standing by bowed to me.
All of a sudden, An Ning and I were left in the living room, and Anna was standing quietly by the door. Since I came here, I haven't seen Grandpa An, which makes me very puzzled.
An Ning really deserves to be a best friend who slept in the same bed with me and wore a pair of shoes. He immediately saw what I was thinking and said, "Grandpa took some people sent by An's family to go on a mission."
I leaned on the back of the sofa, glanced at her sideways, and said softly: "When he found you, he didn't make things difficult for you, did he?"
A wry smile appeared on An Ning's face, she leaned her head on my shoulder, pouted and said, "What else can I do except be scolded."
Right.
I thought funny in my heart, suddenly, I thought of someone, I looked up a few times, but I didn't see that person.
"Hey, where's your brother, why is he missing?"
"Probably in the backyard." An Ning said calmly, her tone not flustered at all, as if she already knew where he was, "Don't mention him to me, I am not as good as Tom's dog in his heart."
Her tone was a bit sour, and I was a little surprised, but I was more happy for her.
When did the relationship between An Ning and An Xuan get so good, it was really rare for me to catch An Ning being jealous.
After leaning on my shoulder for a while, she seemed to have discovered something, and quickly touched my stomach with her hand, jumping up from the sofa instantly in shock.
"How did you gain so much weight?!"
I feel that there is an extra tic-tac-toe on my forehead. This is the first time people say that I am fat!
"Did you forget I'm pregnant?"
Looking at my dark face, she suddenly held her belly and laughed loudly: "Look at your face, haha I was just kidding you, of course I remember."
"It's just that I didn't expect him to grow so fast, and he looks round." An Ning stretched out her hands and gently stroked my stomach, and the original silence returned to the living room.
It took a long time before she spoke softly, her face was pressed against my stomach, her voice trembling.
"Fortunately, you are with Xiaohua, I..."
"Okay, it's all in the past. I've forgiven you a long time ago." I saw that An Ning was still tormented by leaving me and transferring to another school. I patted her head and said softly.