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The Andre family, also known as the "local tyrant family" in Nangong Sanbakou, has taken root in this icy snow field for more than three hundred years. They are rich and have a long history, with incredible industries and ancient roots in Europe, but few people in the world know the existence of this family: because for more than three hundred years, this family has always followed the strict precepts handed down from ancient times, not to be too Set foot in the world, don't try to escape this snowy field, don't attract the attention of others - their ancestors and every patriarch firmly believe that only in this way can they maintain the family property, and of course their own lives.
The mottled exterior walls of the castle record the ups and downs of the family. The elegant and luxurious decoration inside the castle shows their wealth and history. The castle has undergone many renovations and modernizations over the centuries. But the most important part of the framework has not been changed. It is obvious that each generation of this family knows what secrets are hidden under their castle: they dare not disturb the beast in this cage too much.
When it was getting late, Hao Ren saw some servants in the castle running around preparing dinner, which somehow made the gloomy and depressing building a bit more popular. He was very curious about where the servants in this place were summoned from: such a desolate and remote place, and it was a hidden castle with a eerie and eerie atmosphere, it was really unlikely that they could be recruited casually.
Nangong Sanba has already understood the basic situation here, so he naturally assumes the role of explanation: "Most of the servants in the castle serve for generations. The Andre family uses their wealth to support these people, and let their descendants receive education in professional servants from an early age. , and they recruit people from the outside at a high price. But even so, every few years the place still loses some people: some die in accidents, some can't stand the atmosphere here and run away. But anyway... rich People always have their own solutions."
Hao Ren and the others are staying in the "VIP area" on the third floor of the castle. There are gorgeous guest rooms covered with thick velvet carpets. The rooms are decorated in a palace-like style, and the firewood in the fireplace is crackling. In addition, all kinds of furniture and electrical appliances are available. However, this luxurious and comfortable room does not make people feel at ease, since the moment they stepped into the castle. Hao Ren always felt an uncomfortable aura coming from his feet, so he asked several other people. Turns out it's not an illusion.
Vivienne has been in contact with the spirit of anger many times, and she can roughly judge the situation here: "The spirit of anger should be under the castle, but it has not fully entered the material world. And to be honest... this building feels very Strange."
Hao Ren glanced at Vivian: "It's weird, this house looks like a prison from the outside."
Vivienne shook her head, opened the window of the guest room, and looked out at the dark castle atrium. Two rows of low longhouses spread out from the wings of the building, forming a cage-like structure behind the castle. She looked at the gradually gloomy sky outside and thought: "I'm talking about other aspects... I always feel as if I've seen this place somewhere."
"I don't know if you've seen me or not. I'm freezing to death anyway," Betsy bounced around the room with her arms folded, and then slammed the windows shut. "It's so cold in here! Are they all monsters?"
At this moment, Lily was lying in front of the fireplace staring at the flames in a daze. Hearing this, she raised her head and gave Becky a disdainful look: "You can't stand the temperature? I feel that the temperature is very comfortable!"
Vivienne smacked her lips: "It's true that you will be blessed by your ancestors as soon as you get close to the Arctic Circle. At this time, it is estimated that a sled can run eighty miles."
Night is gradually falling, but in this place that is already close to the Arctic Circle, the phenomenon of polar day and polar night can still affect the daily work and rest here. The sun gradually moved to a position close to the horizon and stopped sinking. Instead, it stubbornly held a ray of weak sunlight on the earth. The castle did not brighten up under this ray of sunlight. On the contrary, it looks more gloomy because of the oblique light.
After having dinner in the guest room, Hao Ren decided to hang out in the corridor outside after doing nothing.
Outside the guest room is a straight corridor covered with a dark red carpet, and there are also many portraits hanging on both sides of the corridor. Moreover, the portraits here are no longer full-body portraits, but the head portraits of people framed in oval frames. These rigid figure paintings look very eerie under the shade of warm lighting. Hao Ren murmured to himself as he walked along this corridor: He really couldn't understand those local tyrants who hung portraits on the corridors of their homes. Did they think they had too good a mental quality or something? Yes, there are two rows of zombie-faced ancestor photo stickers, that’s all there is to hanging photo stickers, and two half-bright light bulbs are added next to each photo sticker, so it’s too late to go to the toilet in the middle of the night People, if you catch up with a poor connection of a lamp, it's a rhythm of walking all the way...
Outside the castle is the cold night wind of tens of degrees below zero in Siberia, but the inside of the castle is still warm and pleasant. Hao Ren was wandering in the corridor in his unlined clothes. Suddenly stopped.
He has been counting the portraits of the ancestors of the Andrei family that he passed by, from the youngest generation (that is, the father's generation of Andrei's current patriarch Igor) all the way up. Looking at the faces from the Bolshevik period, the Alexander period, and the Catherine period cast cold gazes on me in the oval photo frames, I have come to the end of this corridor before I know it.
On the wall facing the corridor hangs a strange portrait:
Unlike the oval photo frames on both sides of the corridor, this portrait is a full-length portrait of a woman in a black dress standing against a background of dark red roses. However, the woman's face was shrouded in a black veil.
The portraits of Andrei’s ancestors on both sides of the corridor are marked with their names and eras in a uniform format, but there is only a simple word under this weird female full-body portrait: ведьма (witch)
This strange thing immediately aroused Hao Ren's interest. He began to study the portraits on both sides and the introductory text below the portraits, and finally confirmed that the white-bearded old man hanging on his left was the first ancestor of Andre in history. Ancestors, and the woman hanging on the wall in front of her with her face covered should not be a member of the Andre family.
She is not from this family, and she doesn't even have a name. She is simply labeled as a "witch", but she is hung in the starting position higher than all Andre's ancestors.
Hao Ren just wanted to go back and greet Vivian and the others to check the situation here, but suddenly heard a noise coming from somewhere.
The voice seemed to be coming from a room on a higher floor of the castle. Although it was quite weak under the barrier of layers of thick walls, it could still be heard clearly. It sounded like someone was wailing loudly, mixed with the crisp sound of broken cups, plates and dishes, and the loud sound of furniture being overturned, and in the middle of these voices were many people shouting, dissuading, and screaming noise. The commotion lasted for several minutes before subsiding. Finally, Hao Ren vaguely heard the sound of closing the heavy iron door, and all the noise was blocked.
Hao Ren suddenly sensed the aura of a stranger beside him, and immediately turned his head vigilantly, only to be startled: a white figure appeared behind him at some point, standing there like a wandering spirit. Go!
After he took a closer look, he realized that it was not a wandering spirit, but a skinny young girl in a white dress. The other party seemed to be seriously ill, her face was pale and her steps were sluggish, even standing there she couldn't help swaying to and fro. She shrugged her shoulders and looked at Hao Ren for a while, then suddenly brushed off her long hair hanging in front of her face, showing a weird smile : "Did you hear the voice upstairs?"
Hao Ren patted his chest, thinking that even if he had experienced a war in a different world, it would still be unreasonable for him to encounter this situation: these two horrors are not in the same style at all, and experience seems to be inexhaustible. Then he looked curiously at the strange girl in front of him: "Uh... you are?"
He didn't recognize the person in front of him, but judging from the person's clothes, he shouldn't be a servant in the castle.
The young girl didn't seem to hear Hao Ren's words, but just listened to the movement upstairs, with a weird smile on her face: "That's my brother... hehe... the last male in Andre's family, if he can't make it through This year, this prison should collapse!"
Then she suddenly looked up at Hao Ren: "Are you here to catch ghosts?"
"Uh...well." Hao Ren made the other party's white eyes stare a little nervously. He realized that the girl in front of him might have a problem with her sanity. At this time, he just wanted to make a few perfunctory sentences and leave quickly.
"Hey—he's here to cheat my family's money again..." The young girl giggled, "Okay, okay, they are all cursed things, you can cheat them away... The witch will not spare us, nor will you... It's all good to cheat!"
Hao Ren's ears perked up: "Who is the witch?"
But at this moment, the girl in front of her seemed to be insane. She stopped answering Hao Ren's question, but muttered and drifted away. Only intermittent voices could be heard coming from her mouth: "... money is cheated, and it will be cheated... money that can't be spent, people who can't die... the prison is going to collapse, it's going to collapse, it's going to collapse..." (The novel "Experience Records of Abnormal Creatures" will There are more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there is also a 100% lucky draw gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign on the top right to "add friends", search the official account "qdread" and pay attention, speed Hurry up!) (to be continued~^~)