Fors's eyes met with Xio's in mid-air, and no one spoke.

After a while, Fors laughed dryly and said:

"Haha, you're not asleep?"

Xio frowned a little and said:

"What happened to you just now?"

"Nothing. Didn't I tell you? Whenever a full moon comes, my condition is not very good. It will be even worse during a blood moon." Fors answered in a normal manner.

Xio looked her up and down, pulled the quilt over her and said:

"I remember you brought some sleeping potion?"

"Not for now. I've adjusted myself." Seeing that Xio didn't ask any more questions, Fors secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Go to sleep. Go to sleep. You have to get up early tomorrow to go into the forest."

Xio said nothing more, turned over, hugged the quilt and closed his eyes.

Before long, her breathing became a little heavier, long and even.

Fors stared at the ceiling, thinking about random things for a while, and fell asleep without knowing when.

…………

At noon the next day, in the core area of ​​the Delaire Forest, in front of a mostly collapsed castle covered with green vines.

Fors wiped the sweat from his forehead, took a long breath and said:

"Finally, we're here..."

Xio glanced at her and said:

"The hotel owner told me that it only takes two hours to get here."

They set out before six in the morning and spent nearly seven hours on the journey.

Fors twitched his lips and said:

"The theoretical state is different from the actual situation. We ran out of ways to go. We had to explore and open up new paths on our own!"

Xiu took out the three-edged thorn, nodded and said:

"You should have foreseen this situation from the beginning, but you still rejected the hotel owner's suggestion of a guide."

"As an 'astrologer', I don't think such a small matter will cause any trouble. Look, haven't we arrived yet? Moreover, the time is just right, and the vengeful ghosts must be at their weakest." Fors forced a smile, holding the "Lemanno's Travel Notes" in one hand and pointing forward with the other. "I didn't think so before, but now I am more and more confused."

"What are you confused about?" Xio also cast his gaze towards the abandoned castle that was almost covered by vines.

Fors casually found an excuse:

"Tell me, who would build a castle in the middle of a forest? And there is no road leading directly to here..."

Before she could finish her words, she truly felt that this was indeed a bit strange.

Xiu thought for a moment and said:

"Perhaps there was a road originally, but after the castle was abandoned, all traces of it were submerged over a long period of time."

Fors gathered the hair by her ears and shook her head.

“Then why give up?

"If safety factors were taken into consideration when it was built, it would be more dangerous to be in the middle of an uninhabited forest far away from the town. If it is needed for vacation, given the style of the nobles, they would not give up even if it is difficult to repair and maintain it."

Hugh blurted out:

"Because it's haunted?"

Fors thought for a few seconds and said:

"People who can afford to build a large castle, how could they not hire Beyonders to deal with haunted incidents?

"I suspect that the three major churches and the royal government are unaware of this castle. Otherwise, there is no reason for them to let go of the extraordinary materials inside..."

At this point, she proposed a possibility:

"The castle of the vampires?"

This extraordinary creature likes to live in places where there are few people, and is often associated with buildings such as gloomy castles.

In addition, the information about this castle was also provided by the vampires.

"It's possible." Xio agreed at first, then raised a different opinion, "Will the vampires be afraid of ghosts? They must be able to deal with the ancient vengeful spirits here."

That makes sense... Don't those vampires like money and don't care about collecting extraordinary materials? For thought about Mr. Moon's performance, denied his guess, and said carefully:

"Unless there are other problems that are difficult to solve here, so that high-level experts choose to bypass them."

This would make her actions more dangerous than expected.

Xio hummed and said:

"Let's do some preliminary exploration right away while the sun is still shining brightly."

"Okay." Fors took "Lemano's Travel Notes" and approached the half-collapsed castle step by step.

The two soon came to the entrance that was two-thirds blocked by stones. They found that under the green vines, the stone walls were mottled and severely weathered, as if they had existed for a very long time.

Xio didn't rush in. He greeted Fors and walked slowly around the castle.

Returning to the entrance, she asked doubtfully:

"The style of this castle is purely defensive. It seems that they never considered the issue of living. Moreover, many of its architectural features are new to me. It should have existed before the late Quaternary period, or even earlier."

"What is there to defend here? Orcs? Treemen? They were almost extinct after the Cataclysm. Haha, this can't be a building from the Second or Third Age, right?" Fors responded casually.

She observed the terrain, took Xio away from the entrance, came to a relatively intact wall nearby, stretched out her hand, and pressed it.

——Although she lacks experience in fighting others, she is quite skilled in various matters before the battle.

The illusory light and shadows before their eyes changed, and Fors and Xiu entered the abandoned castle.

The first thing that caught their eyes was: the collapsed stairs, the overlapping ruins of the superstructure, the pure rays of sunlight shining in from above, and the ground with only bricks, stones, and rotten wood, without any animal or bird feces or various green weeds.

The howling wind blew by, and even at noon, it brought a chill that penetrated into the bone marrow.

Fors activated his spiritual vision and looked around slowly, but failed to see any spiritual creatures.

However, she noticed that on the right side of the ruins, there was a relatively intact stone staircase.

The stairs are covered with mottled marks and extend downwards, with no one knowing where they lead to.

"Let's go take a look?" Fors glanced at Xio and offered his suggestion.

In her opinion, other places in the castle were either clearly visible at a glance, or the collapsed objects were stacked up. If she prepared to explore them carefully, it would take a long time. Therefore, it would be better to roughly figure out the overall structure first so that she would have some idea in her mind.

Xio glanced around and nodded slightly.

"The cold wind is gathering underground... I suspect all the evil spirits here are hiding where the stairs lead to."

"Yes." Fors walked cautiously towards the mottled stone staircase and walked down step by step along the steps scattered with a lot of rubble.

The stairs were quite narrow, only enough for one person to pass through, and they spiraled deeper and deeper, making Fors feel a little nervous as he walked along them.

Tap, tap, tap. As the sound of their footsteps echoed farther and farther, the light in the stairs grew dimmer.

Xio lit the lantern in his hand, and Fors opened "Lemano's Travel Notes", his fingers skillfully brushing across one of the pages.

A bright and warm light appeared out of nowhere, illuminating the mottled stairs ahead. Fors and Xio tensed their nerves and walked down one step at a time.

Along the way, there was a cold wind blowing from time to time, causing them to overreact several times and almost attack non-existent enemies.

Tap, tap, tap. In the cramped and deserted environment, Fors finally walked up the stairs and stepped onto the flat and solid ground.

She wanted to say something like "staying in a place like this for too long will really drive people crazy", but due to the silence around her, she couldn't really make a sound. She was afraid of breaking this state and causing extremely bad changes.

With the help of the light floating diagonally above, Fors looked forward, trying to see clearly what the end of the stairs looked like.

This is a hall, nearly 10 meters high, paved with black tiles that are oozing with water and have signs of cracks and damage everywhere.

Dozens of meters away, on the other side of the hall where the light ball could barely reach, stood a pair of bronze doors.

From the top of the gate to the left and right walls, stones have fallen off and statues are broken, revealing the dark brown soil underneath.

The surface of the gate is engraved with densely packed symbolic symbols and strange patterns, giving people an intuitive sense of mystery and heaviness, as if it is sealing or blocking something.

Fors finally couldn't help but speak. She lowered her voice and said:

"Have you ever seen a gate like this?"

Xio, who was beside her, shook his head and said:

"No."

Fors hissed immediately:

"What do you think is behind this door? Where does it lead to?

"Is this the purpose of building this castle? To prevent the creatures behind the door from coming out?"

Xio looked around but didn't find any murals that could provide any information. He only discovered that the closer he got to the bronze gate, the more water droplets seeped out of the ground, and the more silver-black swords were discarded.

"In the Fourth and Fifth Epochs, murals were common in all castle buildings. Before the Cataclysm, we can see from several elven ruins that extraordinary creatures also liked to use murals to praise the gods and record their daily lives..." Xio spoke slowly, combining his own experience and knowledge as a bounty hunter.

Fors nodded slightly and said:

“That’s true.

"This castle is more peculiar than I imagined."

At this moment, she was quite nervous and wanted to quit here directly and ask Mr. "World" for help.

——After listening to the little "Sun" tell so many horror stories about ruins at the Tarot meeting, she couldn't help but think too much and scare herself whenever she was in a similar environment.

"If we get closer, we might find more clues." Xio took a bold step forward and approached the heavy door that seemed to seal off a certain place.

Fors tightly grasped "Lemano's Travel Notes" and hurriedly chased after him.

As she walked, a bright red color suddenly appeared in her eyes.

What oozed out from the gaps between the black floor tiles was no longer water droplets, but glaring blood!

“This…” Fors suddenly opened the notebook with a copper-green cover and glanced at Xio beside her.

In her sight, Xio had turned pale, his eye circles were dark green, his lips were blood red, his surroundings were dark, and his expression was extremely distorted.

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