Chapter 471 Mural and Crazy Girl

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The Andre family, also known as the "rich family" in Nangong Sanba's mouth, has taken root in this cold snowfield for more than three hundred years. They are wealthy and have a long history, with incredible industries and ancient roots in Europe. However, few people in the world know about the existence of this family: because for more than three hundred years, this family has always followed strict instructions handed down from ancient times, not to be too When setting foot in the human world, do not try to escape from this snowfield, and do not attract the attention of others - their ancestors and every patriarch firmly believed that only in this way can they maintain the family's property, and of course their own lives.

The mottled outer walls of the castle record the ups and downs the family has gone through, and 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 frame part has never been changed. It is obvious that every 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 got dark, Hao Ren saw some servants in the castle starting to run around preparing dinner, which somewhat made this gloomy and depressing building a little more popular. He was very curious about where the servants in this place were recruited from: in such a desolate and remote place, and also a secluded castle with a gloomy and weird atmosphere, it really didn't seem like he could recruit people casually.

Nangong Sanba had already understood the basic situation here, so he naturally assumed the responsibility of explaining: "Most of the servants in the castle have been serving for generations. The Andre family uses their wealth to support these people and let their descendants receive the education of professional servants from an early age. , In addition, they also recruit people from outside at high prices. But even so, some people will still be lost here every few years: some die in accidents, and some can't stand the atmosphere here and run away. But anyway... there are Money people always have their own solutions."

The place where Hao Ren and the others are staying now is 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. The firewood is crackling in the stove. In addition, all kinds of furniture and appliances are available. However, this luxurious and comfortable room did not make people feel at ease much. From the moment he stepped into the castle, Hao Ren always felt an uncomfortable smell coming from under his feet. He asked several other people and found that it was not illusion.

Vivian has been in contact with angry spirits many times, and she can roughly judge the situation here: "The angry spirits should be underground in the castle, but they have not completely entered the material world. And to be honest... the feeling of this building is... Very strange."

Hao Ren glanced at Vivian: "It's very strange. The outside of this house looks like a prison."

Vivian shook her head, opened the window of the guest room, and looked out at the dark castle atrium. The two wings of this building have two rows of low longhouses extending out, forming a cage-like structure behind the castle. She looked at the increasingly gloomy sky outside and thought thoughtfully: "I'm talking about other aspects... I always feel like I've seen this place before."

"You don't know if you've seen me or not. Anyway, I'm freezing to death." Betsy crossed her arms and jumped around the room, then slammed the window shut. "It's so cold in this place! You all are Are they all monsters?”

Lily was lying in front of the fireplace staring at the fire in a daze. After hearing this, she raised her head and gave Betsy a contemptuous look: "You can't stand the temperature at this level? I feel that this temperature is very comfortable!"

Vivian smacked her lips: "This is really a bonus from the ancestors as soon as we get close to the Arctic Circle. At this time, a sled can probably run eighty miles."

Night is gradually falling, but in this place that is close to the Arctic Circle, the phenomenon of extreme day and night can still affect the day's work and rest here. The sun gradually moved closer to the horizon and stopped sinking. Instead, it stubbornly left a weak ray of sunlight on the earth. The castle did not become brighter under this ray of sunlight. Instead, it looked gloomier because the light was slanted and dim.

Hao Ren had dinner in the guest room and decided to hang out in the corridor outside when he had nothing to do.

Outside the guest room is a straight corridor covered with dark red carpets. There are also many portraits hanging on both sides of the corridor, and the portraits here are no longer full-length portraits, but heads mounted in oval frames. These rigid figure paintings looked very strange under the warm light. As Hao Ren walked down the corridor, he muttered to himself: He couldn't understand the rich people who hung figure paintings in the corridors of their homes. This was Do you think your mental quality is too good or something? Such a long aisle is already spooky, and you still need to hang two rows of zombie-faced ancestors’ stickers. That’s all. Two and a half lamps need to be added next to each sticker. A small light bulb that is bright and dark. Going to the toilet in the middle of the night is so crowded. If any light fails to contact, it will be like peeing all the way...

Outside the castle, there is a cold Siberian night wind of tens of degrees below zero, but inside the castle it is still warm and pleasant. Hao Ren was wandering in the corridor in single clothes and suddenly stopped.

He has been counting the portraits of the ancestors of the Andrei family passing by, from the youngest generation (that is, the fathers of Andrei's current patriarch Igor) all the way up, looking at the portraits from the Bolshevik period, the Alexander period, the Ye The faces of Katerina in the oval photo frames cast cold glances at him, and before he knew it, he had reached the end of the corridor.

On the wall facing the corridor hangs a strange portrait:

Unlike the oval picture frames on both sides of the corridor, this portrait is a full-length portrait of a woman wearing a black dress, standing against a background of dark red roses. However, this 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 unified format, but this weird female full-length portrait has only a simple word underneath: ведьма (witch)

This strange thing immediately aroused Hao Ren's interest. He began to study the portraits on both sides and the introduction text under the portraits, and finally confirmed that the old man with a white beard hanging on his left was the first recorded ancestor of Andre. Ancestor, and the woman hanging on the wall in front of her with her face covered must not be a member of the Andre family.

She was not from this family, and she didn't even have a name. She was simply labeled as a "witch", but she was placed at a higher starting position than all Andre's ancestors.

Hao Ren was just about to go back and invite Vivian and others to come and see what was going on here, but suddenly he heard a noise coming from somewhere.

The sound seemed to come from a room higher up in the castle. Although it was quite weak due to the thick walls, it could still be heard clearly. It sounded like someone wailing, mixed with the crisp sound of smashed cups and dishes, and the loud sound of furniture overturning. Among these sounds, there were many people shouting, discouraging, and screaming. noise. The commotion lasted for several minutes before it calmed down. Finally, Hao Ren vaguely heard the sound of the heavy iron door closing, and all noise was cut off.

Hao Ren suddenly felt the presence of a stranger next to him, and immediately turned his head alertly. He was suddenly startled: a white figure appeared behind him out of nowhere, standing there like a wandering spirit. On!

When he took a closer look, he realized that this was not a wandering spirit, but a skinny young girl wearing a white dress. The other person seemed to be seriously ill. Her face was pale and her steps were sluggish. She could not help but sway around even when she was standing there. She looked at Hao Ren for a while with her shoulders hunched, and then suddenly lifted her long hair hanging in front of her face, revealing a weird smile. : "Did you hear the noise upstairs?"

Hao Ren patted his chest and said that even if he had experienced a war in another world, he would still be in this situation: these two horrors are not the same style of painting at all, and it seems that experience cannot be accumulated. Then he looked at the strange girl in front of him curiously: "Um...who are you?"

He didn't recognize the person in front of him, but based on his clothing, he judged that he was not a servant in the castle.

The young girl didn't seem to hear Hao Ren's words. She just listened to what was going on upstairs with a weird smile on her face: "That's my brother...hehe...the last male in Andre's family. If he can't If we survive this year, this prison will collapse!"

Then she suddenly raised her head and stared at Hao Ren: "Are you here to catch ghosts?"

"Uh... I guess." Hao Ren made the other party's white eyes stare a little. He realized that the girl in front of him might have a mental problem. At this time, he just wanted to say a few perfunctory words and leave quickly.

"Hee - they are here to defraud my family of money again..." The young girl giggled, "Okay, okay, they are all cursed things, you can just cheat them away... The witch can't spare us, but she can If I can’t help you… I’ll just trick them all away!”

Hao Ren's ears pricked up: "Who is the witch?"

But at this time, the madness of the girl in front of her seemed to have broken out. She no longer answered Hao Ren's questions, but muttering away, only intermittent voices could be heard coming from her mouth: "...Money is cheated, and it is also going to be cheated away...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..." (Novel "Abnormal Creatures" "Information" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lucky draw gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign on the upper right "Add Friend", and search the official account "qdread" And pay attention, hurry up!)