In the quiet streets of Bad Hofgastein, Wei Ran, who had been shopping with Suisui for most of the afternoon, leaned against the railing of a small bridge and hung up the call from Carlos' lawyer.
"Are we going back?" Before he could put away his phone, Suisui, who was standing nearby and waiting, asked regretfully.
"On the contrary, we will continue to stay here for a few more days."
Wei Ran picked up the paper bags containing various souvenirs placed at his feet again, and let Suisui hug one of his arms again, "Tomorrow morning, I will meet Mr. Sebastian... Well, you might
I have never met him, he is one of the managers of the Elk Foundation, I will meet with him tomorrow morning, and then I may have to deal with some things, so it will take a few more days."
"Can we still live in that castle?" Suisui asked expectantly, "We haven't caught the ghost yet, and I haven't lived in the main building yet."
"sure"
Wei Ran smiled and nodded, but he was laughing secretly in his heart. It would be okay to live in the castle for a few days, but this little girl's wish to catch ghosts may be completely in vain.
"That's good!"
Suisui immediately beamed again and pulled Wei Ran along to continue wandering aimlessly in this sanatorium town.
Towards evening, the two people met up with the Katenka sisters who were free to move around. They took the purchased dinner and various food and drinks, and took a car together back to the castle on the top of the mountain.
While Suisui was preparing to take a bath in the hot spring before dinner, Weiran also went to the storage room and the outpost for a tour.
As expected, both the three pretentious birdmen and the greedy Lily have all been taken away. Even the pigeon nests on the top of the sentry tower have been cleaned.
Satisfied, he turned around and went downstairs. Weiran turned on the main power switch and lit up all the lights in the castle early. Then he raised the suspension bridge and closed the heavy hydraulically controlled city gate. Then he changed into a pair of loose pajamas and left him with
Suisui's luggage was moved from the guest building to a room on the top floor of the main building with the best view outside the window.
No wonder Dominic doesn't live here, no wonder he doesn't want the grandfather and grandson to know the existence of the two castles...
Wei Ran, who had been climbing the stairs all the way, lay on the soft big bed and muttered to himself. In such a big building, just going up and down the stairs would be exhausting.
Not only that, even if they were on the same floor, if he wanted to walk from one end to the other, he wished he could build two bus stops where he could swipe his card to get on the bus.
What's more, this castle is really too quiet. He and Suisui still have three pets and the Katenka sisters accompanying them, so it seems more lively.
But what if it was Dominic or even the grandfather and grandson?
If that lonely and pitiful old guy lives here, it's really not much different from lying in a grave early or being imprisoned in a cage.
Don't talk about him, I'm afraid that the grandfather and grandson will not be able to live here. Instead, after learning that these two castles cost such a large amount of maintenance costs every year, they will use their status as heirs to put pressure on them and try their best to find ways.
Cut off the money wasted on the maintenance of these two castles.
He even had a hunch that if that day comes, Sebastian, the money target in the foundation, will definitely support the wise decision to stop maintaining the two castles... Dominic, this guy, is really sober-minded.
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Wei Ran, who wanted to understand the cause and effect, sighed secretly, and then he got up excitedly, pulled on his slippers, and headed straight to the open-air hot spring pool on the second floor, which was filled with the laughter of girls.
The haunting was no longer weighing on his mind, and Lily had been taken away by people arranged by Carlos' lawyer. Wei Ran felt naturally much more relaxed.
As the saying goes, people are in high spirits when happy events happen. They eat and drink enough to want to go to bed. Although the castle was still not haunted that night, Suisui, who wanted to catch ghosts, felt that the time before going to bed was even more tiring than catching ghosts.
As for the Katenka sisters, these smart twins may have expected such an incident, so they didn't live on the same floor as their bosses at all.
In the blink of an eye, early the next morning, Wei Ran also heard the phone ring.
He woke up with a loud noise, and when he fumbled for his cell phone that had fallen on the carpet and pressed the connect button, the person on the other end of the phone immediately said, "Good morning, Mr. Victor, I hope I didn't disturb your sweet dreams."
Wei Ran tried his best to open his eyes and glanced at the mark on the phone screen. Wei Ran carefully pushed the girl lying on his chest away and said, "Good morning, Mr. Sebastian."
"I'm already outside the castle. Are you interested in having breakfast together?" Sebastian sent an invitation over the phone.
"Of course, but please wait for me a moment." After Wei Ran finished speaking, he hung up the phone and gently got out of bed and stood up.
"What's wrong?" the sleepy Suisui asked in confusion.
"I'm going to work, keep sleeping." Wei Ran covered the other person with a quilt, picked up his clothes and left the room.
By the time he was fully dressed, brushed his teeth and washed his face, and then opened the castle gate and drawbridge, Sebastian, dressed in a crisp suit, had been waiting for a long time.
"It seems I'm early?" Sebastian's tone was particularly gentle, and the serious look on his face when he was at the Elk Foundation headquarters was gone.
Wei Ran grabbed Beria and said apologetically, "I slept too late last night."
"Didn't you sleep well?"
Sebastian was well prepared and took out a medium-mature steak from the paper bag he was carrying and threw it to Beria. Unfortunately, the dog just looked at him contemptuously and let out a string of brushed meat.
He was drooling, but he didn't eat the steak at all, and he didn't even go up to smell it.
"It's rare to have the opportunity to live in such a beautiful castle, so I'm inevitably a little excited." Wei Ran explained with a smile, then reached out and patted the dog's head, "Let's go eat."
Before he finished speaking, Beria immediately picked up the steak, raised his neck, chewed it twice and then swallowed it.
"Mr. Dominic asked me to tell you that if you like this castle, you are welcome to come here as a guest at any time in the future, even if you come here to stay permanently, it doesn't matter."
As he spoke, Sebastian had already walked towards the locked church not far away.
"Do you need us to avoid it temporarily?" Wei Ran grabbed the dog who was not satisfied with his food and stood there and asked.
"Need not"
Sebastian waved his hand, "Come here, the purpose of my coming here is to take you to the church and the basement according to Mr. Dominic's instructions."... Hearing this, Wei Ran raised his eyebrows and said nothing.
Traces turned on the recording function of the phone, then sent Beria away, followed Sebastian towards the direction of the church, and asked at the same time, "I heard from Ms. Leya that other people are not allowed in the church and the basement.
Entered."
"Indeed it is"
While Sebastian was speaking, he had already used the key to open the two wooden doors of the church that were carved with various religious patterns.
With a soft creaking sound, Wei Ran, who was standing slightly behind, also saw the beautiful double-layered dome inside the church, as well as the lights that automatically turned on when the door was opened and the dust-covered church.
crystal chandelier.
Of course, in addition to this, he also saw the cameras on the shelves in the center of the church hall, facing the doors, windows, roofs and even the ground.
In addition to these cameras that were obviously still working, he also saw a bronze icon that was almost identical to the one in Elk Castle Church.
Around the church, there are other bronze statues against the wall. These statues are of boys and girls in various shapes, some wearing the uniforms of the youth corps, and some wearing the uniforms of the labor corps.
Some of them were holding a pocket watch-style compass in their hands, some were holding two cans of Spam luncheon meat, and some were holding a flowerpot shaped like a steel helmet in their arms, or holding a handful of food.
A long-handled spoon for oatmeal, or holding your hair with one hand and holding a cigarette to your mouth with the other.
What's more, two people either hold hands and keep running, or hug each other, burying their faces in each other's shoulders, or sit side by side, raising their hands and pointing in the distance.
scenery.
But without exception, these metal faces that always maintain youth and vitality are all fixed with
A bright smile, and a happiness that is completely contrary to the Nachi uniform on her body.
Waiting patiently for Wei Ran to finish looking at each bronze sculpture that was only about shoulder height at most, Sebastian then said while disassembling the cameras, "You can enter the underground wine cellar through the door on the left side of the statue. How many meters
Mr. Nick said, you can go down and have a look."
Since the other party had already said this, Wei Ran would not be pretentious. He even asked proactively while walking towards the icon, "Where's the room on the right?"
"Go and see for yourself," Sebastian, who was busy disassembling the camera, responded nonchalantly.
Upon hearing this, Wei Ran immediately walked to the room on the right and opened the solid wood door. Unexpectedly, this room was almost identical to the room behind the icon in Elk Castle Church, except that there were no windows and no fireplace.
Bypassing the camera pointed at the door, he walked up the stone steps and opened thick metal doors one after another that were being watched by cameras.
When he saw the sun again, he found that he had arrived at an arrow tower connected to the city wall. Not far from it, on the top of the church, was a bronze statue of a little girl wearing a dress and spreading her arms.
Returning to the prison hall along the same route, Sebastian had already put the dismantled camera into a dusty plastic box... Seeing that the other party did not need his help, Wei Ran simply went in again.
Enter the room on the left side of the church, go around and around the spiral staircase, and finally arrive at the underground wine cellar of the castle.
The iron gate in front opened with a "clatter". After some groping, Wei Ran found the power switch on the wall next to the door.
"Bata"
As the switch was flipped, the wine cellar, which was almost as large as the courtyard inside the castle, was completely illuminated by lights that came on one after another.
As far as the eye can see, apart from the exceptionally beautiful load-bearing columns and the cast iron lamp holders installed on them, the only special building in this empty basement is just a large one and a small one in the corner.
It's just a cylindrical pillar made of stone bricks that goes straight to the ceiling.
The small pillar is about four meters in diameter, and the larger one is probably nearly ten meters in diameter.
In addition to a circle of retro desk lamps on this small pillar, there is also a circle of solid wood tables that look particularly heavy. On these tables, items such as vises, saws, wrenches, and even bullet reloaders are neatly placed.
Various tools such as equipment.
On the large pillar not far away, in addition to a wooden ladder that can be pushed and moved, there are also pairs of antler-shaped gun racks installed on it. These gun racks neatly hold various styles.
The traditional American lever rifles, revolvers, and even some more retro foreloaders are given to Ganzhi Hotpot Check Preloaders for Marrying Friends and even Match Rope!
After walking around this oversized pillar, Wei Ran discovered that in addition to various American civilian weapons, there were also bayonets, trench knives, fighting knives and sabers from various countries during World War II.
Here I saw an anti-Japanese sword that I don’t know where I got it from!
After recalling the situation in the castle yard, Wei Ran immediately realized that directly above the oversized pillar was the old olive tree, and the center of the thinner pillar was probably the well in the yard.
"If you can't do anything with this money, what's the use of building such a flashy castle..."
Wei Ran walked around the empty underground wine cellar and muttered to himself as he walked back to the church along the stairs.
Before he could find the answer, Sebastian, who was busy dismantling the surveillance equipment, said casually, "Lily will be extradited back to the United States and then sent to the worst prison in the United States to spend every second of her life."
bell.
The three pretentious guys headed by Lem will be extradited back to Germany and will also be sent to prison to spend the rest of their lives, especially the man named Butch, who will become the darling of all the gays in the prison."
"This is…"
"The guarantee made by Carlos' lawyer yesterday," Sebastian took the initiative to explain before Wei Ran finished speaking.
"Is this a warning for me too?" Wei Ran asked casually while helping the other party remove the camera.
"of course not"
Sebastian spread his hands in a friendly manner, "I just want to put your mind at ease. You don't have to worry about Lily having the opportunity to retaliate against you in the future."
"She? Take revenge on me?"
Wei Ran smiled, threw the camera in his hand into the box, and said as sincerely as possible, "Thank you, after listening to what you said, I feel very safe. However, you won't be with me just for this matter."
We met, right?"
"Of course not, this is just a small talk while cleaning."
Sebastian pointed to the statues placed against the wall in the distance, "Mr. Dominic hopes that you will be responsible for transporting these statues to Elk Castle."
"Transported to Elk Castle?" Wei Ran was stunned.
"Mr. Dominic said that these statues should have been placed in the church of Elk Castle."
Sebastian wiped the dust on his hands haphazardly on his crisp suit, "Now that Leia is on vacation, this matter can only be left to you. He hopes that you can complete it before he leaves this world.
This job. Of course, I will help you arrange manpower and transportation."
"I understand. Don't worry about that old guy who is afraid of being alone. I will personally supervise the delivery of these statues to Elk Castle."
After saying that, Wei Ran gently wiped the accumulated dust on the face of Qi Qi's statue with his sleeves, and walked out of this church that was filled with so many dusty memories.
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