When you open an ancient diary, you will find an ancient legend.

Looking at these distant and ancient words, stories that have been buried in the dust of history for a long time are slowly unfolding.

What do these memories represent? What kind of things happened in that castle towering on the plain?

What happened in that once glorious castle?

What else could bring him such a terrifying end?

All of this began to slowly unfold before Ai Luo's eyes from the moment he opened the first page of the diary.

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May 16, sunny.

Today is Sabu’s first day at work.

After a week of tidying up, we finally cleaned up this old castle. The servants put everything in and tidied everything up. Although there were still some small corners that had not been tidied up, it was ready for move-in.

Compared to tidying up the castle, Sabu seemed to care more about his work.

I can understand this. His title, his glory and the meaning of his existence are all for this honor.

I will always remember that when he came back that day and told me that he was about to be crowned a baron, his face was filled with sunshine!

Of course I am very happy to be his wife. Baroness seems to be a good title, too?

However, I hope Nali can like this place. She has to be separated from her friends. I hope she can find new playmates as soon as possible.

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June 2nd, cloudy.

Life in the castle is a bit boring. As the wife of a baron, I can't go out casually or visit the town.

Sabu really values ​​his honor too much. He should remember that not long ago he was just a civilian and should not be too alienated from the civilians of Pelican Town.

But even if I told him, it would be useless. He has been running back and forth crazily between the mine and the granite castle in the past few days, as if he wants to take care of everything here.

He didn't even have much time to spend with Nali, which made me very uncomfortable. Nali's mood seemed a little bad, the weather was pretty bad today, and she looked a little depressed.

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July 15th, heavy rain.

Nali has a fever today. I beg Sabu not to leave us mother and daughter and run to the mine again. No matter how much you value honor, you still need to spend some time with your family, right? His title was given by His Majesty, and it will not be because of his work.

If you slack off even a little bit, you will be deprived of it.

But Sabu's answer made me very angry. I even began to think that he preferred to stay in that dark mine than his wife and daughter.

He seems to be hiding something from me, should I investigate?

mistress?

It seems to be a tradition for nobles to have mistresses, and Sabu seems to follow this rule. I also know that each of those nobles has several mistresses, which is even a kind of showing off. Should I also support him and stop him from taking it?

Do I think she is a too narrow-minded woman?

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July 17, sunny.

My dear finally apologized to me and admitted his mistake, and he also promised to spend a day with me and our daughter Nali.

This made me feel very relieved. After all, he remembered that he was a husband and a father.

During the chat, I finally understood why my dear was so nervous. It all stemmed from our previous mine governor.

The governor before this seemed to have disappeared suddenly, but there was nothing strange at all before the disappearance, and he just disappeared out of thin air.

After hearing this, I was a little scared, but my dear told me not to be afraid. This may be because the governor ran away after corruption, or eloped with a mistress.

And he told me that this time His Majesty appointed him to serve as governor here. On the one hand, he was to supervise the iron ore mining situation in the Evermian Mountains, and on the other hand, he was to investigate the disappearance of the governor.

I really hope that the governor really disappears because of corruption or something like his mistress. It sounds really uncomfortable for a person to disappear out of thin air.

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August 30, Rain and Sun Festival.

It is obviously a festival for the sun, but the rain makes this festival seem a bit ironic.

During this period of time, Sabu continued to stay in the mine as if obsessed with it, and I was almost breathless from the boredom.

Now is obviously the time when we need to accompany Nali the most.

Is it because she is getting older? Nali will be ten years old soon. She seems to be more and more active, as if she is very curious about everything in the world.

But sometimes, she would say some very scary things to me.

She said that she often had nightmares, dreaming that something was buried under this land. A huge, indescribably large living thing.

That thing would often come into her sleep to talk to her and chat with her. Because of this, Nali started to say some weird words to me. The words in some words were obviously very complicated, and even I couldn't explain them clearly.

But she could pronounce it accurately.

My daughter started to act strange. Sometimes she would huddle silently in the corner of the room, squatting facing the wall for a whole day, and sometimes she would run around screaming constantly.

, even the servants sometimes couldn't stop her.

I should have a good talk with Sabu.

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October 10th, heavy fog.

The weather was really bad today. When I opened the window, the only thing I could see was a vast expanse of white.

Pelican Town and the Eversleeping Mountains in the distance, which were originally easily visible, are now all hidden in this thick fog.

I felt like I was trapped in a glass cover, and a strong sense of loneliness made me feel uncomfortable all over.

I never thought that being able to see that town would be such a reassuring thing for me.

I was a little scared, even though I knew it was unlikely, but I was really afraid that if I stretched out my hand, something would come out of the thick fog and bite my arm off in one bite.

Nali became more and more disobedient. Even though the weather was so bad, she insisted on saying that it was a sunny day and she must run out.

I didn't catch her, so she ran out of the city and into the thick fog.

I couldn't see her, so I shouted anxiously, but the servants ran out immediately.

I am really grateful to my servants for being able to catch the child in such a thick fog. If I were asked to look for him, I would probably be lost in this thick fog.

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"What are you looking at? You look so excited."

Ai Luo, who was reading, suddenly twitched and turned around, only to see Napa lying on his shoulder, looking at the diary in front of him.

Ai Luo exhaled and said, "Can you not show up so suddenly and call me? I was almost scared to death by you."

Napa chuckled: "Why are you scared to death when you read a diary? You have kept this diary on the shelf since you brought it back from Swan Castle. Why do you want to read it now?"

Arrow thought for a while and simply put a bookmark in the diary and said, "You have more experience than me. I want to ask you, do you know about the monster hidden under the Swan Castle?"

Napa slowly floated to the table, lay down in the sun, and said: "Monster? What monster?"

Ailuo explained in detail the process of Gu Liduo's death. After Napa listened, she kept licking her two little paws, then wiped her face and said: "It's a bit like a sea monster, because the sea monster has tentacles. But Hai

Monsters shouldn't appear in such a small place? And from what you said, they are quite small... I've never heard of such a monster."

Ai Luo sighed and continued: "This is really strange. The underground pit doesn't look very humid, but the torch goes out when you throw it in. But it doesn't when there are many grains in it.

He showed a lot of difficulty in breathing... Of course, he didn't spend much time breathing in there at all."

Napa licked her balls again and wiped her face. Suddenly she seemed to remember something and said, "Although I don't know what that thing in the underground passage is, but the reason why Gu Liduo went to the underground passage is

, I may have guessed a little bit."

Ai Luo: "Oh? Why?"

Napa snorted: "Because of ghosts."

"Ghost???" Ai Luo seemed a little surprised. After hesitating for a few seconds, he pointed in the direction of Coco's room, "Are the ghosts that the necromancer can control?"

Napa snorted again: "What you think is too good. The level of necromancy of that little girl is far behind! The ghost in the room may be more different than I know."

"Ghosts are good at spiritual attacks and can influence people's brains, causing various hallucinations and auditory hallucinations to appear naturally in their minds. To form a ghost, generally speaking, powerful necromancy magic and certain substances are required.

People who died due to resentment. This kind of thing is actually rare, because the power and investment required to create a ghost are completely incomparable with the benefits."

"Although ghosts are good at spiritual attacks, their weaknesses are also obvious. Like many necromancy beings, they are generally afraid of the power of the light plane."

Having said this, Napa glanced at Airl, then waggled her tail lazily and said——

"But even so, our guild currently does not have members with affinity for light magic, so you should stop thinking about ghosts."

Hearing what Napa said, Ai Luo curled his lips and continued to read the diary in his hand.

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November 20, rain.

Today is another rainy day, which makes me feel very bored.

How many days is it already? Why has it been raining for more than half a month and not sunny even a day?

The servants also looked very abnormal. In such a rainy climate, they would go to that small town to buy things without an umbrella.

Sabu started to ignore me again, and I didn't even see him for several days.

He gets up before the sun rises every day, and he doesn't even come back until I go to bed.

Sometimes I even wonder if he has never come back at all?

But every morning when I wake up, I see that the quilt next to me looks like someone has been slept on, so he comes back at least once a day, right?

Sometimes, I would hear his voice talking to me in a daze.

Am I dreaming?

In my dream, his voice was so gentle and sweet. It was like when we were newly married and we had a great time every night.

But I couldn't see him, and I was really about to collapse.

Tonight, no matter what, I will insist on waiting for him to come back without sleeping. I am eager to see Sabu, and I must see my husband!

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December 1st, a sunny day!

My mother is mean to me, I don’t know what’s wrong, my mother is getting more and more mean!

My mother never spanked me before, but today she spanked me!

They were so mysterious all day long and wouldn't let me enter their room. Moreover, my mother seemed to be waiting for someone every day. When she got up in the morning, she would stand on the balcony dressed beautifully and look at the Changmian Mountains. direction.

Today, something even stranger happened.

My mother's face was always dark, but today she smiled happily and even made me some delicious food with her own hands!

But after noon, my mother shut herself in the room alone, seeming to be talking to someone.

What did you say? It was too vague and I couldn't hear clearly. But my mother must be talking to a stranger.

I don't know why my mother doesn't allow me to go out to play. It's such a nice weather. It would be a pity if I still can't go outside... I don't know what the man talking to my mother looks like. Can I beg him to help me and my mother? What about interceding?

Dad hasn't come back for three days, Dad... wu wu wu...

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Seeing this, Ai Luo put down his diary and turned to look at Napa next to him: "What do you think?"

Napa floated over and scanned these words one by one, wagging her tail slightly: "It feels... a little strange. It begins to influence people's thoughts through subtle influence, and even creates illusions? More importantly... this mother and daughter both I'm saying that the other party has a problem, but my husband stays in the mine all day long. Hmm... I really can't think of any kind of magical beast that can do this kind of thing. Besides, this kind of thing is really unnecessary. ."

Ai Luo propped his chin up, with a pleading expression on his face: "It's not necessary? Warcraft creates illusions to affect humans. How can this be called unnecessary?"

Napa shook her head and said: "Of course there is no problem with hallucinations, but the magic beasts create hallucinations for other living beings just for the purpose of hunting, fighting, and fighting for territory. Look at the date, it has been more than half a year, such a long time There is no benefit in constantly creating illusions, so why spend so much energy doing these things."

Ai Luo glanced at the diary again, frowned and said: "Is it a hallucination...? To be honest, I feel that it affects the mind more than a hallucination. I should feel this way..."

Having said this, Ai Luo shook his head violently and continued reading.

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December 31, Holy Night Festival, rain.

The weather is really annoying, even after the Dusho Festival, there is still no intention of stopping.

Such bad weather puts Sabu in a bad mood. Although, I am very happy that he has started to come back more often recently.

Today, he told me that the iron ore mining work has reached a deadlock. The mines in the Changmian Mountains have not produced any minerals for a month.

The situation seemed very bad. Although Sabu kept ordering the miners to continue digging down, the iron ore never appeared again.

I comforted Sabu and hoped that he could calm down.

Even though I don't understand anything, in my recent chats with the servants, they occasionally started to mention that the landslides in the mines were getting more and more serious, that many people had gone missing, and that every time I went into the mines, it seemed dangerous.

But Sabu had no intention of giving up at all. His face was full of confidence, and he kept telling me that he firmly believed that there was something underneath the mine, and it was something very precious!

I asked him where he got this confidence, and he smiled at me and said he had very reliable information.

I just hope he can be safe, and I can accept anything else.

In addition, I am also worried about the townspeople. They seem to be crazy, their behavior looks very weird, and some of the townspeople's faces have begun to change. I don't know why there are people in Pelican Town.

There are so many people who look like bugs, which makes me feel a little sick.

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On January 4th, it snowed.

Dad didn't go to the mine anymore, I was really happy.

I want my dad to play with me, but my mom keeps locking me in the castle. I feel like I'm going crazy!

But every time I get close to my father, my mother will drive me away fiercely.

Why? My father is also my father. Why does my mother want to see the enemy not allowing me to get close to my father?

Mom, if you see my diary, tell me what I did wrong and why you don’t allow me to play with my dad?

Today, my father called in many servants and said that he wanted to dig out the basement and use it as a place to store food.

Forget it if you don’t play with me, even the servant dad who accompanied me to have a snowball fight outside was transferred away.

I am very lonely, I want to play, I want to build snowmen, have snowball fights, and roll around in the snow with everyone. I don’t want to live here anymore, my parents hate it!

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February 1st, heavy fog.

The rain stopped, but the fog started again.

Today, Sabu killed two more townspeople. Because they were lazy, they had to pay the price with their lives.

At the same time, blood can also comfort us, and our souls can protect us from evil.

Sabu told me that there was an evil atmosphere hanging over Pelican Town. When he said this, I seemed to be able to see it too.

These townspeople began to feel a lot of dissatisfaction with my husband. I hated the way they looked at our family.

They are evil, but we are light. Since ancient times, light is destined to defeat evil! Their souls may not understand how noble our cause will be until they reach the other side.

I just hope that Nali will stop yelling, she is disturbing my dear husband at work. There are ten more people to be killed tomorrow, and their livers and hearts will be the best sacrifices. Even the servants

Tired of killing, it looks like I have to do it myself.

Sabu said that there is some hope in iron ore mining, but he did not go to the mine. Instead, he dug harder under our castle. Could it be that there are a lot of iron ore veins hidden under our feet?

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February 18th, a sunny day.

Today I sneaked into the basement dug by my father, but my father immediately kicked me out.

Dad looks so nervous. What is hidden in this basement?

I asked him, but my father still refused to tell me. Humph! Stingy.

My mother never seemed to read the diary I wrote, because she never thought of coming to stay with me.

I clearly saw my father talking to someone in the basement, and he was speaking very religiously. My father even knelt down.

Is His Majesty the Emperor here? I haven't seen His Majesty the Emperor yet. I must go in and have a look next time.

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March 27, sunny.

Finally, it’s sunny!

I have lived here for almost a year, and I have almost forgotten what it feels like on a sunny day.

Sabu said that the iron ore in the Evermian Mountains has completely stopped production, and it is estimated that the empire will call him back soon and announce that it will stop the development of the Evermian Mountains.

I'm happy about this because I can finally get away from the bugs and go back to the big city with my husband. He won't have such busy days anymore and we can lie on the warm beach, bask in the sun, and

Enjoy a perfect vacation.

It's just that Sabu still seems unwilling to give up, but he always has a smile on his face.

Did he know something? Or did he discover something?

Forget it, don't worry about all this, after all, we can leave this ghost place soon.

I'm getting tired of dealing with those mobs. I can't kill them all. They're just like bugs. They're annoying.

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April 22, thunderstorm.

This will be the last diary entry I record here, right? Because tomorrow afternoon, our carriage will set off.

I finally felt relieved that many things could be solved and I would no longer be trapped in this dirty and cramped place.

The way Sabu looks at me is really getting more and more beautiful. Has he fallen in love with me again? After so many years of marriage, it really makes me embarrassed for him to look at me like this again.

But those mobs came again, and Sabu asked my daughter and I to hide in the room for a while while he went out to deal with it. I closed the door, and he locked the door outside to protect the safety of our mother and daughter.

Sabu said that he would take us to a better place. I hope what he said is true.

In fact, even if it's fake, as long as you don't have to stay here, any place will be millions of times better than here.

I'm just a little curious, why did Sabu instruct his servants to put so much firewood in every corner of the castle? It doesn't seem to make any sense.

Forget it, he will come to pick up our mother and daughter later. I will endure it on the last night.

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April 23rd, the weather was very nice.
Chapter completed!