Huang Yi could hear their prayers, as if they were coming from another world, hazy and slightly echoing.⊥
After reciting the prayer, the leading maid suddenly stretched out her white wrist, took out a knife, and said to the other maids: "Hurry up and pour our saint's blood into the Holy Grail. Lord Bloodhoof is already urging you."
Got it!"
After saying that, she waved the knife and slashed her wrist.
Immediately, blood flowed from that wrist, and all of it dripped into a golden cup.
The other maids also took out their knives and began to cut their wrists and bleed.
It didn't take long for the golden cup to be filled with blood, and some of it overflowed.
The leading maid immediately picked up the cup and hurried out of the room.
At this time, Huang Yi's invisibility time had just ended and he was completely exposed in front of them.
But they seemed to be unable to see Huang Yi at all and simply omitted him. The leading maid even passed through Huang Yi's body.
As expected, these maids are just afterimages, without entities.
From this point of view, the "ticking" sound Huang Yi heard in the bell tower before should also be the echo of this historical remnant. It was once the sound of the bell tower rotating, but it traveled through a long history and echoed in the current time and space.
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Judging from what the maid just said, the other party wanted to dedicate the blood in the Holy Grail to Blood Hooves. Huang Yi simply stopped exploring aimlessly, and followed the image of the maid closely.
OK.
The maid skillfully moved forward in the castle, passing through small gardens, corridors, cemeteries, and countless dense roads and corners, gradually leading Huang Yi deep into the central area of the Blood Castle.
After walking for a long time, the maid arrived at the top of the mountain. There was only one building in front of her, which was a main hall. It stood at the top of the mountain with an air of arrogance and independence.
The maid walked directly into the main hall, and Huang Yi quickly followed.
As soon as he entered the main hall, Huang Yi was slightly startled.
The interior of the hall is gorgeously decorated, with carved windows on the walls, chandeliers on the ceiling, closets, furniture, and even oil paintings in frames, all of which are intact and have not been eroded by time like other buildings I have seen before.
The maid hurriedly took the cup of blood and walked up the spiral staircase in the hall until she reached the top floor and came to a place similar to a study.
There are bookshelves in this house, filled with all kinds of books and documents. There is an astronomical telescope near the window, with the lens pointed at the sky outside the window. Next to it is a wooden desk with several books on it.
At the end of the study was a closed door. The maid came directly to the door with the cup of blood. She seemed a little nervous, took a deep breath, and then stepped in, her figure penetrated directly.
He walked through the door and disappeared from Huang Yi's sight.
Now, Huang Yi's way was finally blocked. If he wanted to go in and see what was going on, he had to open the door.
Huang Yi came to the door and looked at it carefully.
The door was closed so tightly that you couldn't even see the crack in the door. The silver handle was as luxurious as a work of art, which made people want to turn the handle and open the mysterious door to see what was inside.
At this time, Huang Yi tentatively stretched out his hand and touched the door handle, then took a deep breath and turned his wrist.
However, the door handle did not move at all. Huang Yi added some strength again, but still could not turn it.
It seems that this door cannot be opened. Those who were lucky enough to come here to explore in history most likely ended up here and were unable to enter that door to find out.
Huang Yi had no choice but to wander around the study room.
He came to the closet, where there were some silver teapots and teacups, which were exquisite and small. At first glance, they were the kind of high-end items only owned by top nobles. He reached out and opened the lid of a teapot, and several cockroaches and spiders crawled out of it.
Although this hall still maintains its original splendor and has not decayed with the passage of time, these cockroaches and spiders still expose the desolation of the hall, like a gorgeous tomb.
Finally, Huang Yi came to the desk. There was an armchair next to it, and he sat down directly.
In the center of the desk, there was an open cowhide notebook turned upside down. It seemed that someone had once read through this notebook, but something happened and left halfway through. So he had to turn the notebook upside down and keep the original page number so that he could continue next time.
Flip through.
Huang Yi simply picked up the cowhide notebook and looked at it. The current page number of the notebook was page 38. The notebook was handwritten, with the texture of a quill pen, and the writing was neat.
Huang Yi looked directly at the content written on it——
"...Lord Bloodhoof has not left his room for three months, but whenever it is quiet at night, there will always be strange sounds coming from the room. Sometimes it is Lord Bloodhoof's exaggerated and crazy smile, sometimes it is a
There was a strange hissing sound, and there was even the sound of talking to strangers. But the door was always closed, and no one had gone in in the past three months. Who on earth was Master Bloodhoof talking to?
?Every time I pass by his room, I can only look at the closed door and imagine what is going on inside..."
After reading this diary, Huang Yi was completely attracted by the contents. It seemed to be written by a servant such as a housekeeper of Xuetou, and recorded some of Xuetou's daily life at that time.
Huang Yi turned to the next page and continued to look at the diary at the back——
"Today, Lord Bloodhoof's door was finally opened! After a few months, I finally saw Lord Bloodhoof again. But Lord Bloodhoof seemed a little different. His face was pale, and his eyes were dull.
I don’t know what he has experienced in the room in the past few months. However, the most significant change in Lord Bloodhoof is his clothes. In the past, he liked to wear crisp breeches and a pair of riding boots, and he could go anywhere at any time.
He was riding a horse outside the castle, but this time after he came out, he had been wearing a red floor-length robe, like a woman's skirt, completely covering his lower body. After Lord Bloodhoof went out, he immediately made a weird question
He asked the saints in the church to put their blood on the Holy Grail and offer it to him..."
After reading this diary, Huang Yi suddenly remembered the maid he had just met. The maid happened to cut her wrists and bleed in the church, poured it into the golden cup, and sent it into the closed door.
.corresponds to the description in this diary.
Huang Yi continued to lean on the chair, turned another page, and looked at the next diary entry.
"During this period, a lot of strange things happened in the castle. Ever since Lord Bloodhoof came out of seclusion in the room, the whole castle seemed to have become gloomy. There was a group of dark clouds hovering in the sky, and the sky was clearly clear below the mountain.
But it was dark in the castle. Lord Bloodhoof's temper became even more violent. If our servants made the slightest mistake, he would kill us. Lord Bloodhoof no longer took us to the plains under the mountain as before.
Riding a horse. Now, he hides in his room every day and rarely goes out. Every morning and evening, he has to ask the saint to offer a cup of blood. More and more subordinates are executed by him, and there are no longer enough manpower in the castle.
If you use it, everyone will be in panic, not knowing when they will be executed."
"Last night, the chief saint of the church, Kesali, sent the blood a little late and was executed by Lord Bloodhoof. Today, I temporarily replaced him with sending the blood into Lord Bloodhoof's room. This is what I have done in the past few months.
It was the first time I entered Lord Bloodhoof's room. In the past, Lord Bloodhoof would open the curtains to let in the sunlight outside the window, but now, the curtains in the room are tightly closed, not letting in any light, and it is as dark as night.
Lord Bloodhoof was sitting on a chair in the middle, wrapped in a tight robe. I couldn't see his face clearly in the darkness. I could only vaguely see an outline, which almost blended into the darkness. I couldn't understand why.
With some palpitations, I gingerly held the cup of blood and placed it in front of him. Lord Bloodhoof seemed to be deep in thought and ignored me. I bowed my body and slowly backed away. As soon as I walked out of the door, I realized that there was already someone behind me.
I was wet with sweat, as if I had just experienced a life and death. I suddenly wanted to leave this castle. Yesterday Alucid told me that he wanted to return to his hometown, maybe I should consider his proposal..."
In this way, Huang Yi was in a study room of the deserted Blood Castle, flipping through the pages of the diary handed down from the ancient times. His thoughts seemed to fly to the ancient times, and he experienced what happened here that year.
Those things.
This diary entry tells some things about Xue Hoof back then. Blood Hoof spent some time in seclusion behind the closed door, during which many strange things happened. When he ended the seclusion, he already looked like
He is a completely different person. His daily behavior and living habits are completely different from before, and there is a faint smell of darkness.
It was at that time that the Scarlet Castle began to take a turn. There is a clear description in this diary. Some servants even escaped quietly at that time, and the castle became deserted day by day.
After reading a dozen diary entries, Huang Yi looked at the time and decided to log off for breakfast.
At this time, he had already seen page 56 of the diary. He turned the diary upside down on the desk as it had been before, but the spread page number had changed from page 38 to page 56.
Then he went offline and disappeared into the Blood Castle.