Bai Yao looked out the window. The forest was occupied by densely packed undead souls. The ground and trees were all filled with dead souls.
They all walked around in the forest as if they were demented, as if they had been stripped of their self-awareness, wandering aimlessly.
"These dead souls seem to be attracted by something here."
"It must be the Duke!" Nicholas said with a proud face: "The Duke is so powerful, they must be here to ask the Duke to do something!"
Bai Yao: "..."
The car passed through countless undead and drove into the forest.
There is a huge ancient castle at the end of the forest. Judging from the appearance of the castle, it must be thousands of years old.
The castle, covered with moss and vines, looks like a no-man's land, giving off an eerie and strange atmosphere.
"Ancestor, please wait for me here, I'll go take a look." Nicholas said.
Bai Yao followed him, got out of the car neatly, and went to observe the wandering souls.
The dead souls shuttled around her unconsciously.
There are strange shapes, bloody horrors, and all kinds of death-like things.
Bai Yao picked up a dead soul casually.
The dead soul let her hold him with a blank look on his face.
"What's your name?" she asked.
The dead soul stared at her blankly, without saying a word, with a hint of strangeness in his dark eyes.
Bai Yao tried to wake him up, but it was useless.
I caught a few idiots in a row who were like this, and they didn't know anything about them.
She gave up questioning the dead souls and took a walk around, trying to find out if there was a formation in the forest that attracted so many dead souls.
Unfortunately, nothing unusual has been found yet.
"Old Ancestor~" Nicholas came back and spread his hands helplessly, "There is no response. The Duke may still be sleeping. How about we go?"
"Let's go?" Bai Yao sneered slightly and strode towards the entrance of the castle.
Bang!
She kicked him away.
The iron gate made a loud sound, which was extremely harsh in the deep forest.
Nicholas was so frightened that he hurriedly pulled her away, "You will disturb the Duke if you do this. If he gets angry, you will be dead!"
Bai Yao kicked him away again.
The door made another loud noise.
But still didn't kick it away.
She raised her eyebrows, "Is there any door in the world that I can't kick open?"
Bai Yao took a closer look and found that the door had been tampered with and couldn't be kicked open with just strength.
She put her two fingers together and shot out a burst of spiritual power, directly breaking the power left by the opponent.
Nicholas exclaimed in surprise: "It's the door-locking spell in black magic!"
"No wonder no one responded to my call just now. The door-locking spell will block all sounds and cannot reach those inside."
Bang!
Bai Yao kicked him away again.
This time the door finally opened.
"Ancestor, please don't be so rude, okay? This is the Duke's home." Nicholas was sweating, she was too violent.
Bai Yao walked into this eerie old castle with an expressionless face.
It doesn't matter if Nicholas goes in, or if he doesn't.
Finally, after thinking about it, if I can pay my respects to the Duke in my lifetime, I will have no regrets even if I die.
He followed up bravely.
Outside the castle there were all the dead, but inside the castle there was total silence.
You can hear a pin drop.
The sound of their footsteps echoed in the empty and dark castle.
clatter!
clatter!
clatter!
One voice after another.
Nicholas felt his scalp numb when he heard it, and couldn't help but grab Bai Yao's clothes with a scared look on his face.
Bai Yao rolled his eyes, "Can you be a little successful?"
"Ahem. I wonder where the Duke sleeps?"
"It's easy to handle. Just set it on fire and it won't come out."
"Ancestor, you can't do that!"
"I'm just kidding."
"Ah hahaha, so funny..."
What a cold joke.
Nicholas dug into his pocket and handed her a piece of garlic, "How about trying this?"
"I have lived for nine thousand years. Do you think you will be as afraid of this thing as other vampires?"
Nicholas silently pocketed the garlic.
Bai Yao walked up the steps and headed towards the second floor.
"It's so cold. Are you cold?" Nicholas got closer and closer to her.
"Why are you, a vampire, afraid of the cold?"
"I'm afraid, of course I'm afraid!" Nicholas said plausibly, "The night I ambush near your home was so cold that my nose ran... The Duke's home is colder than the lake at Yunding."
Bai Yao turned back and looked at him thoughtfully.
"You are not afraid of the cross, you are not afraid of the sun, and garlic cannot do anything to you. What you are afraid of is the cold."
"You don't look like a vampire, you look like a human."
Nicholas muttered: "I am a vampire with pure blood, how can I look like a human being, ancestor, you are humiliating me."
"Not necessarily." Bai Yao smiled meaningfully and continued to go upstairs.
The two searched upstairs and downstairs in the castle, but were surprised to find no trace of Dracula.
Not to mention the trace, she didn't even see the coffin.
"Your Excellency, the Duke, wouldn't he have woken up early and gone on a trip?"
Bai Yao frowned, "Is there any other way to find him?"
"I don't know." He shook his head, "The Duke has always been mysterious..."
Bai Yao's eyes were dark, and it seemed that he could only think of other ways.
The two of them had just come out of the castle and saw car lights flashing in the forest.
"Someone is coming! Could it be that the Duke has returned from his trip?"
Nicholas ran forward excitedly.
Bai Yao grabbed him, pushed him into the grass, and quickly cast a small spell on his body to hide the two of them and the car in the darkness.
The person driving the car was none other than the escaped Marquis Hermann.
He drove to the door and got out of the car, cursing.
"Nicholas, you stinky woman, just wait for me! I will make you pay a heavy price!"
After that, he took off the necklace hanging around his neck and hid it in his clothes.
Skillfully stroked the door.
The door opens as soon as you push it.
Marquis Hermann, who was immersed in anger, did not realize that the locking spell had been opened long ago. He thought it was the necklace that opened the door and strode into the castle.
"The ring hanging on his necklace is the Dragon's Ring!"
Nicholas said with a shocked look.
"What Dragon Ring?"
"The Dragon Ring is the Duke's personal belonging. It is not only a symbol of status, but also a symbol of power!"
"With the Dragon Ring, you can command the vampire clan."
"No wonder the Hermann family has grown from a little-known little family to the big family it is now. It turns out Dracula is behind it!"
Nicholas's face changed quickly.
One second you were still the high and mighty Duke.
But whoever asks you to help the bad guy will turn you into Dracula in the next second.
"Dracula actually gave something as important as the Dragon Ring to the Hermann family. I was so angry!"
"You wait here, I'll go in and take a look."
Bai Yao didn't wait for his response, and moved quietly to follow Marquis Hermann.
This castle is very big. She has searched all the places she just looked for, and also tried using her spiritual power, but found nothing unusual.
Just now, Marquis Hermann used the Dragon Ring to unlock the door-locking spell, which made her have a sudden idea.
Maybe it's not that Dracula is not in the castle, but that the Dragon Ring needs to be unlocked in order to find him.