Chapter 3274

In the utility hall, after two frog croaks, Morei disappears without a trace. This is also the reason why she dares to enter the Nightmare·Castle Ward; she can survive.

Da! Da! Da!

Lamp Sister walks with a strange gait, patrolling without a sense of direction. Accompanied by the creaking sound of metal friction, her searchlight head looks around. The places she looks at are illuminated by the murky orange light column. Wherever the Murky Light shines, it becomes old and pitted.

Lamp Sister does not leave the utility hall. Zui Yasi, who has turned into a big-headed monster corpse, can only continue to play dead on the dissection table.

Compared to Morei and Zui Yasi, Shen Yin is even more unlucky. Just now, as soon as he rushed from the utility hall into the patient room, he was illuminated by Lamp Sister from behind. His Sanity slipped at a terrifying speed—dizziness, tinnitus, double images appeared before his eyes, and his body became completely weak.

Just when Shen Yin thought he was about to beast-ify, Lamp Sister stabbed a sharp cone into his spine, which made his body completely numb, but his Sanity stopped slipping.

What is truly fatal is that Shen Yin was hooked on his lower back by Lamp Sister using a hook, becoming Lamp Sister's accessory. This is very panic-inducing; heaven knows what Lamp Sister is going to do to Shen Yin.

Behind the password metal door, it is pitch black. Su Xiao heard Lamp Sister crashing into the door and scratching the door leaf just now. Now that everything has subsided, he can only vaguely hear the "da-da" sound coming from outside the door—it is the sound of Lamp Sister stepping on the ground with high heels.

Su Xiao saw just now that there are two doors and two passages in the utility hall. The two doors are opposite each other: the patient room door he passed through when he came in, and the password door he opened himself.

As for the corridor passages on the left and right sides of the utility hall, he glanced at them when he rushed over just now; the passages on both sides each connect to a room.

The room on the left is like a laboratory or a drug storage room. Presumably, the castle's doctors were researching how to deal with beast-ification here.

In the room connected to the right passage, a faint light shines out. There is a particularly thick glass column, and the faint light comes from inside the glass column. Su Xiao could not see clearly what exactly was soaking inside the glass column because he was in too much of a hurry.

With Lamp Sister guarding, it is impossible to explore the rooms on the left and right sides of the utility hall. Lamp Sister is not a monster that mutated by chance; someone deliberately modified her to guard the secrets of this place. As for which faction did this.

In the Painting World, there are four known factions: the Sun Church, the Dynasty, the Trace King Hall, and the castle on the Young Lady's side.

From various signs, when mental beast-ification first appeared in this world, the one countering this beast disaster was the Dynasty. The Dynasty did not hold on for long before it collapsed.

The Nightmare King was once a minister of the Dynasty and a leader-level figure in countering beast-ification. He was not a mediocre person back then. What kind of change made the former Dynasty minister become what he is now? He only dares to hide in the stitched-together nightmare world, using his advantages to play death games with others. As a result, he can neither afford to play nor afford to lose, and after being defeated, he begs bitterly for mercy.

Many obscure clues indicate that the Nightmare King was not such a person before. It was only after his beliefs and faith completely collapsed that he became like this.

Or rather, it was the disintegration of the Dynasty back then that made the Nightmare King become like this. In its later stages, the Dynasty fell into extreme paranoia. That momentum was clearly: no matter what the cost, they had to cure the beast-ification disease, even if the patient had to bear the Ocean's Resentment, which is as terrifying as beast-ification.

After the first big-headed monster appeared, the Dynasty had actually fallen, but mental beast-ification was still there. The second one to stand up was the Sun Church.

It is precisely because of this that Su Xiao picked up the 【Church Knight Bucket Helmet】 on the roof of the castle. Besides this, the Sun Church and the castle ward have many connections; for example, the style of the white robes of the church pharmacists was modeled after the doctors' robes of the castle.

Su Xiao obtained the ward key from Bishop Cooper. This is very normal; the other side took over the castle ward in the later stages, and it is a normal situation that they took the key here away.

Thinking about it this way, it was the Sun believers and the castle doctors who joined forces to modify Lamp Sister, letting Lamp Sister guard the secrets in the depths of this nightmare.

Thinking about it this way, even if there is no way to control Lamp Sister, Lamp Sister should have some kind of weakness.

Otherwise, if one day the Sun believers used the ward key to enter this nightmare and were killed by Lamp Sister, that would be too brain-dead. Lamp Sister is a monster they modified.

Regarding the fact that Lamp Sister was modified, Su Xiao is 100% sure. He can create alchemical creatures, and after a preliminary observation, he confirmed this point.

Since it was the Sun Church and the castle doctors who modified Lamp Sister, then use a simple elimination method: the castle doctors are basically all dead, and the ward key is in the hands of the bishop of the Sun Church. With this elimination, it is highly probable that the Sun Church can control or restrain Lamp Sister.

The castle ward has been sealed for too long. When he obtained the ward key from Bishop Cooper, the other party only said that this key is very important—it is hope, more important than his life.

As for what specific hope it is, Bishop Cooper does not know either. This key has been passed through several hands of different bishops.

According to Bishop Cooper, when the bishop of the generation before last passed the key, that bishop holding the key was famously tight-lipped and arrogant, not believing that he would die in an accident.

The result was that the bishop was very capable and did not die in an accident. When he was dying and on his last breath, he wanted to say the function of the key, but his mouth was too tight, and he said it a bit too late, and he died with a "ga."

The bishop who received the key was stunned. What is the use of this key? Hope? What hope? What do you mean by saying this halfway and then dying with a "ga"? What kind of nonsense are you talking to me about, huh?

Of course, the bishop would not say words like "what nonsense are you talking to me about," but that was the mood of that bishop at the time. From the initial holder of this key to Bishop Cooper's hands, the message left behind is as follows:

This is the key to open the castle ward, there is hope there → hope... ga~ → this is hope.

By the time it reached Bishop Cooper, only "hope" remained. It is no wonder that Bishop Cooper used this key to make a deal in order to survive.

The castle ward and the Sun Church have inextricable links. The most likely people to come here are the Sun believers. Time is the best means to smooth out clues and intelligence. The safest method is to make Lamp Sister fear something that only Sun believers have, which others do not have and cannot seize.

Sun Bucket Helmet? No, the bucket helmet is a dead object; it is representative enough, but it is difficult to guarantee exclusivity. Then... Sun Power?

The Blazing Sun Monarch Su Xiao encountered before seemingly mastered Sun Power, but in fact, it was not so. The other party's Sun Power was not pure enough; it was twisted from Light Flame Power. The Blazing Sun Monarch developed his bloodline talent crookedly—he did not master Light Flame, but insisted on mastering Sun Power.

There is nothing safer than Sun Power. After encountering Lamp Sister, in order to survive, Sun believers will definitely resist. More than 50% of Sun believers specialize in Sun Miracles, and more than 97% of believers can use some Sun Miracles. Modifying Lamp Sister to fear Sun Power is the best protection the modifiers have for their own people.

The person who modified Lamp Sister did not hold entirely selfish intentions. If others want to know the secrets in the secret room, they can; face Lamp Sister. Passing Lamp Sister's barrier means one is qualified. It can only be said that this form and style is very Sun Church.

In the pitch-black secret room, when the "da-da" sound no longer came from outside the door, Su Xiao took out a lighting device and flipped the switch. The light illuminated this small secret room.

This place is about 20 square meters. Bookshelves are filled against the wall, and a desk is placed in the corner. The ink bottle on it has dried up, and a quill is still stuck inside. Other things are also placed on the table, arranged very neatly.

Su Xiao looks at the opposite side of the secret room. There is a door between the bookshelves there. The texture of this door is the same as the silver-gray metal door in the shelter hall, but this door has neither a keyhole nor a combination lock.

After observing this silver-gray metal single-opening door for a while, Su Xiao determines that this door is opened from the other side. In this secret room, this door does not lead anywhere.

Ignoring this point, Su Xiao comes to the desk and sits on the chair. The most conspicuous thing on the table is a glass test tube.

The glass material of this test tube is slightly mottled, and inside is bright red, vibrant blood. Even though the mouth of the test tube is covered with waterproof cloth and tied tightly with ox tendon rope to prevent air from penetrating, given the years the castle ward has existed, the freshness of this blood is too exaggerated, as if it were blood that had just left the body.

Picking up the test tube, Su Xiao receives a hint from Reincarnation Paradise.

【You have obtained Rosa Niye's Blood (Painter's Blood)】

【Rosa Niye's Blood (Painter's Blood)】

Origin: Painting World·Unique.

Quality: World-class

Category: Special Item/Awakening Object/Ritual Object.

Usage 1: Give it to the Young Lady of the castle.

Usage 2: Give it to the Trace King in Room No. 5 of the Shelter Hall on the second floor.

Usage 3: Give it to the Trace King Hall.

Usage 4: Give it to the Sun Church (Warning: Due to the hunter's personal reasons, this behavior will bring huge risks).

Introduction: The fresh blood left by the Painter·Rosa Niye before her death, collected by a castle doctor. As a painter, Rosa Niye could have continued to exist, but a new painter was born. The painting created by Rosa Niye had been dyed black by madness. A painter can only create one painting in a lifetime. Her world had shattered, she was a useless person, and there can only be one painter at a time.

Rosa Niye originally wanted to use her own blood to awaken the newly born painter. Unfortunately, the source blood she released was taken away by a castle doctor and injected into a powerful beast-ified person, causing that beast-ified person to transform to the seventh stage and become the strongest beast-ified person in history.

The new painter was not awakened. Rosa Niye could only choose to leave all the source blood and end her own life to avoid the newly born painter dying prematurely due to the uniqueness of the painter. Whether the source blood she left behind can be used to awaken the newly born painter is not something Rosa Niye can control. Painters are noble existences, but they are not powerful existences, nor are they omnipotent.

This is the world painted by Rosa Niye. With her death, this world does not allow her name to appear again. She is dead, and the name should be at rest. If someone writes her name, wipe it away with blood.

Sale price: World-class treasure chest × 1.