Chapter 1041: The Diary of Ancient Times
Chapter 1041 Diary of the Ancient Times
Huang Yi could hear their prayers, as if they were coming from another world, dimly, with a slight echo.
After the prayer was finished, the leading maid suddenly stretched out her white wrist, took out a knife, and said to the other maids, "Quickly pour the blood of our saint into the Holy Grail, Lord Bloodhoof is already urging Already!"
After finishing speaking, she waved the knife and slashed hard at her wrist.
Immediately, blood flowed profusely from that wrist, all dripping into a golden cup.
The rest of the maids also took out their knives and began to cut their wrists and bleed.
Not long after, the golden cup was filled with blood, and some overflowed.
The leading maid immediately picked up the cup and hurriedly walked out of the room.
At this time, Huang Yi's invisibility time just ended, and he was completely exposed in front of them.
But they didn't seem to see Huang Yi at all, so they omitted him directly, and the leading maid even passed through Huang Yi's body.
These maids are indeed afterimages, without entities.
From this point of view, the "tick" sound that Huang Yi heard in the bell tower before should also be the echo of this kind of historical remnant. It used to be the sound of the clock tower turning, but it just traveled through a long history and echoed in the present time and space.
Judging from what the maid said just now, the other party wanted to donate the blood in the Holy Grail to Bloodhoof. Huang Yi simply stopped exploring aimlessly, but followed the image of the maid.
The maid skillfully moved forward in the castle, passing through small gardens, corridors, cemeteries, and countless densely packed roads and corners, leading Huang Yi to gradually penetrate into the center of Scarlet Castle.
After walking for a long time, the maid came to the peak of the mountain. There was only one building in front of her.
The maid walked directly into the hall, and Huang Yi quickly followed.
As soon as he entered the hall, Huang Yi was slightly taken aback.
The interior of the hall is gorgeously decorated. The carved windows on the walls, the chandeliers on the ceiling, the closets, the furniture, and even the oil paintings in the picture frames are all completely preserved, and they are not eroded by the years like other buildings I saw before.
The maid hurriedly took the cup of blood, walked up the spiral staircase in the main hall, walked to the top floor, and came to a place similar to a study.
There are bookshelves in this room filled with various books and documents. There is also an astronomical telescope near the window, and the lens is aimed at the sky outside the window. Next to it is a wooden desk with a few books on it.
At the end of the study was a closed door, and the maid came directly to that door with the cup of blood. She seemed a little nervous, took a deep breath, and then stepped in. The figure directly passed 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 happened, he had to open that door.
Huang Yi came to the door and looked it over cautiously.
That door was tightly shut, with no cracks visible, and the silver handle was as luxurious as a work of art, making people inexplicably want to turn the handle, open the mysterious door, and see what's inside.
At this moment, Huang Yi stretched out his hand tentatively, touched the doorknob, then took a deep breath and turned his wrist.
However, the doorknob didn't move at all. Huang Yi added some strength again, but he still couldn't turn it.
It seems that this door cannot be opened. Those who were lucky enough to explore here in history probably stopped here in the end, unable to enter that door to find out.
Huang Yi had no choice but to wander around in this study.
He came to the closet. There were some silver teapots and cups on it. They were exquisite and small. At first glance, they looked like the kind of high-end items only available to top nobles. He reached out and opened the lid of a teapot, and a few cockroaches and spiders crawled out of it.
Although this main hall still maintains the magnificence of that year, it has not decayed with the passage of time. But these cockroaches and spiders still exposed the barrenness of the hall, like a gorgeous tomb.
Finally, Huang Yi came to the desk, and there was an armchair beside it, and he sat down directly.
In the center of the desk, there is an open cowhide notebook upside down. It seems that someone has flipped through this notebook before, but left after seeing half of it, so he had to turn the notebook upside down and keep the original page number, so that he can continue next time flip through.
Huang Yi simply picked up the leather notebook and looked it over. The page number of this notebook is currently page 38. The notebook is handwritten, with the texture of a quill pen, and the writing is neat.
Huang Yi looked directly at the content written on it——
"...Master Bloodhoof has not been out of the room for three months, but whenever the night is quiet, there will always be weird sounds coming from the room, sometimes it is Lord Bloodhoof's exaggerated to 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 closed all the time, and no one had entered in the past three months. Who was Lord Bloodhoof talking to? ? Every time I pass by his room, I can only look at the closed door and imagine what happened inside..."
After reading this diary, Huang Yi has been completely attracted by the content in it. This seems to be written by a servant like a steward of Bloodhoof, which records some daily situations of Bloodhoof that year.
Huang Yi turned to the next page and continued to look at the diary behind——
"Today, the door of Lord Bloodhoof's room was finally opened! After a few months, I finally saw Lord Bloodhoof again. But Lord Bloodhoof seemed to be 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, Lord Bloodhoof's most notable change is his clothes. In the past, he liked to wear crisp breeches and a pair of riding boots, and he could go to the Riding a horse outside the castle, but after coming out this time, he has 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 Request, he asked the saints in the church to put their blood on the Holy Grail and dedicate it to him..."
After reading this diary, Huang Yi suddenly thought of the maid he just met. The maid happened to cut her wrist in the church and bleed, 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 time, a lot of weird things have happened in the castle. Since Lord Bloodhoof left the room, the whole castle seems to have become gloomy. There has been a cloud of dark clouds hovering in the sky, and the sky below the mountain is obviously clear. But it was dark in the castle. Lord Bloodhoof's temper has also become more irritable. If we servants make a mistake, he will be executed by him. Lord Bloodhoof is no longer like before, leading us to the plain below the mountain Riding a horse. Now, he hides in his room every day and rarely goes out. Every morning and night, the saint has to offer a cup of blood. More and more subordinates are executed by him, and the castle is no longer manned. If it is used, everyone is in panic, and they don’t know when they will be executed.”
"Last night, the chief saint of the church, Caesarie, sent the blood a little late and was executed by Lord Bloodhoof. Today, it was temporarily replaced by me sending the blood into Lord Bloodhoof's room. It has been several months since I This is the first time I entered Lord Bloodhoof's room. In the past, Lord Bloodhoof would open the curtains to let the sunlight from outside the window shine in, but now, the curtains in that room are tightly closed, no light can penetrate, and it is as dark as night Lord Bloodhoof is sitting on a chair right in the middle, wrapped in a tight robe, I can't see his face clearly in the darkness, I can only see a vague outline, which is almost integrated with the darkness. I don't know why With some palpitations, he held the cup of blood tremblingly and placed it in front of him. Lord Bloodhoof seemed to be in deep thought, and ignored me. I was sweating, as if I had just experienced a life-and-death experience. I suddenly wanted to leave this castle, Alucid had told me yesterday that he wanted to go back to his hometown, maybe I should consider his proposal..."
In this way, Huang Yi flipped through the diary handed down from the ancient times page by page in a study room in the empty and barren Scarlet Castle, his thoughts seemed to fly back to the ancient times, and experienced the events that happened here that year. those things.
In this diary, some things about Bloodhoof were told. Bloodhoof retreated behind the closed door for a period of time, during which a lot of strange things happened. After finishing the retreat, he seemed to be a completely changed person. His daily behavior and living habits were completely different from before. If there are two people, there is a faint smell of darkness.
It was at that time that a turning point began to take place in Scarlet Castle. There was a clear description in this diary. At that time, some servants even escaped quietly, and the castle became deserted day by day.
After reading a dozen or so diaries, Huang Yi checked the time and was about to go offline for breakfast.
At this moment, he had already seen page 56 of the diary. He folded it upside down on the desk as it was before, but the number of pages spread out had changed from page 38 to page 56.
Then he went offline and disappeared into Scarlet Castle.
——————————————————————————— (To be continued.)