Seeing Lu Tiao's vomit, Drizzt couldn't connect his two sentences for a while.
"Those two people have no heartbeat."
Lu Tan took out a piece of paper from his pocket, wiped the corners of his mouth, and then explained.
"They are just like those monsters that look like fish. They have no heartbeat or breathing. They are just walking zombies."
"What about the servants?"
Drizzt thought that the three people were dressed almost the same and asked again.
"The servant has a heartbeat. Although the frequency is very strange, he is alive."
Lu Tan replied.
If the servant had no heartbeat, he would have known it when he saw the man last night, instead of telling Drizzt only now.
"The ingredients of those meals are normal, but the taste is terrible. It looks like it was made by someone who doesn't know how to cook. The chef in this family may not be a normal person either."
He added another sentence.
"So you asked them to provide dinner just to confirm this?"
Drizzt suddenly felt that in addition to being a little neurotic and having a slightly weird way of thinking, the man in front of him was quite bold and careful.
"No, I'm really hungry."
Lu Tan replied immediately.
He returned to the house, took out the compressed dry food from his bag, drank the mineral water he brought with him, and wolfed it down.
"People are like iron, and food is like steel. How can you cope with tomorrow's wedding if you don't have enough food?"
"...As long as you are happy."
Drizzt sat on the chair, carefully checked his revolver, and stuffed it back into its holster.
"Let's summarize the current situation."
"This town was invaded by monsters many years ago. Later, the monsters were sealed and there was peace for a period of time. However, the seal was loosened and the monsters came out to cause harm to the world again. Until the Hai family arrived, the monsters were nowhere to be found."
"The Black Queen Mother may be some kind of existence higher than human beings. She is sealed in the black tower in the Hai family yard, and her power can penetrate out and instigate others to release her."
"So, the Black Queen Mother may be the monster that ravaged the sea before, but is now sealed by the Hai family?"
"We don't need to pay too much attention to the Black Queen Mother's affairs. Our goal is the wedding, but now there seems to be a problem with the Hai family. The head of the family is already dead, but the servants are still alive."
As he thought, he stroked his pipe.
Suddenly, Drizzt discovered that Lu Tiao was missing.
The whole room was silent, even his own breathing could be heard clearly.
"Lu Tiao?"
Drizzt became alert and called out.
No one responded.
He got up and walked into the house.
There were no lights in the room, it was dark, and the moonlight filtered through the shadows of the trees, making it look quite gloomy.
Drizzt saw a mirror. The mirror was placed in a strange position, facing the screen, as if it wanted to reflect everyone who entered the room.
He saw his own reflection in the slightly blurry bronze mirror.
Very strange feeling.
Drizzt felt that he looked a little different in the mirror, so he tiptoed closer, trying to see more clearly.
Only then did Drizzt realize that his face in the mirror was pale, with only his lips being extremely red, just like the dead Master Hai!
The moment he noticed it, blood was flowing from Drizzt's eyes, nose, mouth, and ears in the mirror.
Drizzt hurriedly backed away and saw another person standing behind him in the mirror.
The woman in the red wedding dress!
This time, the woman was not covered with a red cloth, but raised her hijab.
It can be seen that on the delicate, pale, bloodless face of Guazi, there is a pair of deep red eyes with no whites visible, and blood and tears are shed in those eyes, concealed by the red lips.
"Don't go..."
A soft whisper rang in his ears. Drizzt quickly turned around, but the revolver in his hand missed.
There is no one behind him.
Cold sweat oozed from Drizzt's forehead. Unknowingly, the surrounding space became claustrophobic and dark, and even the moonlight seemed to be swallowed up.
Those vague and ambiguous tree shadows are like people with twisted postures, ready to go in the corner.
"Save me..."
Along with this soft murmur, Drizzt felt a chill on the back of his neck. Some kind of moist, cold breath with a metallic smell hit his neck, causing goosebumps to appear all over Drizzt's body.
He turned around and was about to shoot, but his finger couldn't pull the trigger.
The trigger seemed to be frozen and motionless.
Drizzt lowered his head and saw that a hand was grasping his right hand holding the gun, and his fingers were blocked behind the trigger, preventing it from moving.
"Wake up."
Lu Tan's voice came to his ears, and Drizzt was startled.
Only then did he realize that the muzzle of his gun was pointing at him, and Lu Trip reached out to block the trigger, preventing Drizzt from killing himself.
"What did you see?"
Lu Tan gently took the pistol away from Drizzt's hand, put it on the table, and asked patiently.
"I saw the woman in red. That woman was in the house just now..."
Drizzt's voice was weak.
"No, you just sat here without making any move until you picked up the pistol and shot yourself in the head."
Lu Tan still held half-eaten compressed dry food in his hand.
"You must be starving. Eat some solid food to calm down your shock."
Lu Tan handed the half-eaten dry food to Drizzt.
Drizzt took the dry food in a daze, seeming to be still immersed in what he had just seen. It wasn't until he took a few bites that something was wrong, and then he hurriedly looked at Lu Tian.
"This is what you've eaten!"
"It's okay, I don't mind."
Lu Tan patted his chest.
"This house has a big problem. I suspect that woman is the Black Queen Mother. She will subtly affect the consciousness of the people around her and make them crazy."
Drizzt said with some fear.
"The people of the Hai family have been living together with the Black Queen Mother for so long, so they may no longer be normal people..."
Drizzt suspected that when he and Lu Kun witnessed the wedding, just seeing the bride and groom might be enough to cause him to lose control of his mind.
"These people have either turned into the zombie-like monsters in the fog last night, or turned into monsters with fish heads and human bodies. I'm afraid that servant is also in disguise. He controls the master and wife of the Hai family to receive us."
For the people of the Hai family, it is enough to hold a good wedding. As for Lu Jian and Drizzt, they are probably just unstable factors that need to be dealt with properly, nothing more.
"We stay here tonight. Even if the Hai family doesn't intend to harm us, the Black Queen Mother's will will affect us."
Drizzt felt that the current situation was very dangerous.
"She said it's okay."
But Lu Tan suddenly spoke.
"What did you say?"
Drizzt only felt weird because Lu Tan's eyes were not looking at him, but at the empty chair next to him.
"She said she would not harm us."
Lu Tiao repeated it.
"Who are you talking to..."
The hairs on Drizzt's back stood up. He did not dare to move rashly and only turned his body slightly.
"bride."
Lu Tan pointed to the empty chair.
At this moment, sitting on the chair, in Lu Jian's field of vision, was a woman wearing a red wedding dress.
The woman's face was pale, her lips were red, her eyes were full of blood without any white in her eyes, and two lines of blood and tears were pouring down her cheeks.
She just sat there, as if she had been there hundreds of years ago.
