It was still early outside the window. Yu Tangzhi looked at the closet door in the bedroom and had a plan in mind. She was going to explore the secret passage in the castle.
Since the mysterious man could only appear after twelve o'clock at night for two consecutive nights, it means that the safety factor is much greater during the day than at night.
The girl locked the bedroom door, lowered the bed curtain, and then gently opened the closet door to create the illusion of rest.
What came into view was a row of clothes racks and several pieces of clothing. She pulled them aside to reveal the wooden board behind them. After carefully groping around the edge of the board for a while, I found a secret gap. I inserted my fingers and easily opened the board.
"Oh~"
Behind the wardrobe is a long secret passage, with stone steps winding down. It is dark inside with no lights, and a cool breeze carries a stale atmosphere.
Yu Tangzhi lit the kerosene lamp in his hand, closed the closet door again, and entered another dark world.
The secret passage was very quiet, except for the sound of her gentle footsteps.
Yu Tangzhi discovered that the secret passage here was built along the periphery of the castle. It could be said that it was connected in all directions, and almost every room could be reached.
She followed the trend all the way down, and the temperature became lower and lower as she went, as if she was going to hell.
"Why is there no end here..."
Until she heard the faint sound of dripping water, she reached the end. The view here becomes wider, surrounded by underground rivers, with a circular platform in the center, and a stone bridge connecting the feet to the stone platform.
The girl walked slowly up to the center of the stone platform with a lamp on her hands. The dim kerosene lamp could only illuminate a small area under her feet, while the rest of the surrounding area was still dark.
This also led to her walking around for two times before she discovered something unusual under her feet. The stone slab was carved with complex patterns, like a huge and delicate magic circle. There were deep red traces in the ravines, which looked dry and sticky.
Yu Tangzhi placed the kerosene lamp on the ground, squatted down and rubbed it a little with his hand. He got closer and smelled it. He smelled a rusty smell on the tip of his nose. It was indeed blood.
This stone platform is an altar.
At the end of the secret underground passage at Salz Castle, there is an altar.
Yu Tangzhi thought of the old newspaper found in the study and Adams who came back from the dead after the fire, and couldn't help but have speculations in his mind.
Adam was probably seriously injured in the fire, so a medical notice was published in the newspaper. But his injuries were too serious and ordinary medical skills could not cure him at all, so he used some dark secret skills, such as summoning the devil...
The story background of this copy is in the Middle Ages, a period of chaos when the devil and the Holy See were rampant.
Only powerful and weird black magic can bring a person back to life...
Yu Tangzhi couldn't help but shudder when he thought of Adams' half-dead state.
However, any deal with the devil requires sacrifice. The more difficult it is to fulfill the wish, the more precious things must be exchanged. What did Adams sacrifice?
Four words came to Yu Tangzhi's mind:
A life for a life.
A person's blood volume should be enough to fill up the lines on the altar under his feet.
A cold wind came from nowhere, and Yu Tangzhi realized that cold sweat broke out on his back.
"You already know everything."
The young man's clear and calm voice sounded in the empty underground.
The girl in the center of the altar was holding a solitary lamp and looking back. Her waist-length black hair was as curved as silk.
The fear in her eyes made him happy. Her back molars were itchy, but her face had the look of a cold young man.
Compared to his indifference, Yu Tangzhi was quite frightened at the moment. She didn't hear when he came at all. Her little face was pale, and even her wrist holding the kerosene lamp shook.
"What?"
The mysterious man tilted his head and looked at her expressionlessly.
"You've already guessed it all,"
He pointed at himself.
"I am Adams' brother, Venus, the unlucky one who was sacrificed."
Yu Tangzhi's suspicion was confirmed, and she saw clearly the appearance of the mysterious Venus for the first time.
He was extremely delicate, with an indistinguishable androgynous beauty. His long eyelashes were half-covered. He was tall and thin. The collar of his white shirt was slightly open, revealing beautifully shaped bones. His body was originally a boy's bamboo-like body, but it happened to be shrouded in a... There is a layer of lingering death and gloom, like moss growing wantonly in hidden places.
"Then what are you now..."
Is it a human or a ghost?
Yu Tangzhi swallowed the last four words to avoid making the weird atmosphere even more embarrassing.
Venus gradually walked into the center of the altar. Under the dim light of the kerosene lamp, the young man's face was almost transparent, and the dangling light could not blend into his eyes.
"You noticed the strange bulge under the rose, and aren't you curious about what that shape is?"
Instead of answering her question, he provoked another mystery.
Sure enough, Yu Tangzhi's attention was distracted. She felt a chill when she thought of the squirming bulge in the soil. The shape looked like...
"heart."
Venus said calmly.
"It's mine, heart."
As soon as the words fell, the silent underground wind rose from the ground, and the sound of ticking water was a strange countdown.
"I escaped unhurt in the deep woods outside the castle when the fire broke out. Adams was burned and seriously injured."
"But he used black magic to summon the devil, and he was reborn at the cost of my flesh and blood."
"My heart was thrown into the flower bed by the devil as nourishment for the roses and for the spirit of Adams."
Yu Tangzhi's thoughts changed, and the fragmentary clues were connected together. Newspapers, diaries, and strange roses in the cold winter all confirmed Venus's statement.
Now only two questions remain.
"Is the devil Adams summoned Vincent?"
In Venus's eyes, the girl was freed from fear and looked at him calmly.
The mysterious woman from the East shines like a bright pearl in the underground chamber of the Western Middle Ages.
The young man in the secret place evoked a smile, feeling satisfied that he had met his opponent.
Yu Tangzhi didn't need him to answer. The clues now revealed that Vincent was the devil.
In the entire Salz Castle, there is probably only one living person, the half-dead Duke Adams, and the rest of the cooks and gardeners are just puppets.
Now, she was left with one question.
Why did Adams insist on letting Miss Yu travel across the ocean to consummate the marriage?
She thought of Adams' half-dead appearance, and a terrifying thought arose in her heart.
"Adams is going to continue the sacrifice, isn't he?"
She should have expected that Adams, who was so half-dead, would be satisfied with the status quo. He would not stop.
He had let go of the evil in his heart and turned into another devil.
The sacrifice this time was originally Miss Yu, but now it is Yu Tangzhi.
Tomorrow night's wedding will be the day of her death.
The girl's heart became more and more sinking. She was thinking that the way to survive might be right in front of her.
"Do you want revenge?"
