Chapter 259

"Katya, how did you get in here? Did you find anyone else?" Spencer Nabar folded the letter paper and asked.

Bai Zhi blinked and shook her head. "No... I only met sister Cynthia, I didn't see anyone else."

Bai Zhi's articulation and pronunciation were quite different from Spencer's sister Katya herself, feeling a bit stuttering, but Spencer didn't care, assuming she was scared out of her wits after encountering the bizarre incident.

"We will definitely get out alive, I promise you." Spencer patted Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe on the shoulder, his fingertips lightly brushing past his ear.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe glanced at Spencer's wandering hand, didn't care, and asked, "Can you return the knife to me?"

"Of course." Spencer handed the dagger back to Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe.

"Thank you." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe took the dagger and inserted it back into his waist, saying, "I also saw a message from a predecessor in a wardrobe in a room before. The content is not much different from the letter paper you found. They all say that if you want to escape from this castle, you have to find a way to find that secret basement hidden in the deepest part of the castle."

"Yes, that is the key." Spencer nodded in agreement. "Before us, quite a few people were dragged into Vanessa Castle and forced to play this hide-and-seek exploration game. The notes and handwriting scattered in every corner of the castle should have been left by these former players."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe bent down to pick up the corpse-oil lamp and continued, "Then, Nabar, do you think that among the owners of those handwritings, that is, the former players, any of them succeeded in getting out?"

"There must be." Spencer Nabar patted his chest and guaranteed, "We will be the next ones."

"Alright, I believe you." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe gave him a sweet smile and pulled Bai Zhi's hand. "Let's go in."

"Follow behind me." Spencer blocked in front of Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe and lit his own corpse-oil lamp, illuminating the pitch-black hole on the wall.

He adopted a method similar to Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's, using a piece of black cloth to cover most of the lampshade, revealing only a small beam of light for pathfinding. The three walked into the wall one after another and entered the interior of the clock tower.

As Spencer completely let down the black cloth covering the lampshade, the large hole behind the three vanished, and the wall returned to its original, intact state.

The interior of the clock tower was unexpectedly not dark. Although it couldn't be considered very bright, there was at least basic visibility, so one wouldn't be unable to see their own fingers without lighting a lamp.

Because the clock tower was already lit inside.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe leaned against the wall and looked around. Above the main hall on the first floor, the center of the arched ceiling was covered with colorful glass fragments, forming a vivid landscape painting. Judging by the content, it seemed to be the savanna in front of Vanessa Castle, but because the light was dim, it couldn't be seen very clearly.

Around each stone pillar on both sides of the hall stood metal candlesticks about one person tall, with dim yellow lamp flames flickering on them, and long candle tears sliding down the lamp poles.

However, the candlestick closest to the three had already been extinguished, and the place where they were now was the darkest part of the entire hall.

"Shh... don't make a sound." Spencer bowed his waist and hid behind a stone pillar, whispering a reminder, "It's safe here for now, don't go to places with light, don't be discovered by them."

This candlestick was extinguished by him when he came in earlier.

Bai Zhi tugged on Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's sleeve. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked in the direction she indicated and was shocked to see several transparent, hazy human shadows walking in groups of three or five across the red carpet in the center of the hall, leaving the range of the light halo of a candlestick and then disappearing, only to appear like ghosts next to another candlestick, slowly drifting past. The candlesticks here had the same effect as the corpse-oil lamp, or rather, the 'candles' on these candlesticks were originally refined from the same corpse oil as in the lamp.

"This place seems to be a gathering place for those things?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe lowered his posture, hiding in the darkness and secretly observing those transparent phantom shadows that appeared and disappeared in the hall.

Bai Zhi crouched beside Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, brought her lips close to his ear, and whispered, "Let's hide further away, they are going to 'light the lamps'."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe lifted his eyebrows and looked; sure enough, several human phantom shadows on the red carpet were approaching the stone pillar where Spencer was hiding. Some of them seemed to have noticed the abnormal extinguishing of that candlestick.

"Let's go." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe waved at Spencer and mouthed, "They are coming!"

Spencer grinned and mouthed back, "No problem."

He had long noticed that those 'things' in the clock tower would light the candlesticks themselves. Even if they manually extinguished the candlesticks, they could only get a moment of rest; the extinguished candle flames would soon be relit by them.

So, before he came in again, he had already thought of a countermeasure to solve this problem once and for all, creating an opportunity to safely go to the basement, and at the same time, fiercely demonstrating his charm in front of Cynthia.

Spencer slowly stood up, and while the transparent human shadow hadn't drifted to the side of the candlestick, he decisively reached out and took away the candle embedded on the candlestick.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe cursed 'damn it' under his breath, pulled Bai Zhi, turned around, and left, quickly moving away from the spot along the relatively dim wall base.

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Spencer was holding three candle stubs, about to turn around and say that famous line 'You are safe now' to Cynthia, but when he turned his head, his sister and Cynthia were both gone.

"Cynthia?" Spencer's heartbeat quickened, and he whispered, "Where did you go? Come back here quickly!"

In his anxiety, he didn't notice that on the red carpet, in the middle of the hall, those transparent phantom shadows that had been drifting around in a daze stopped in their tracks at the same moment. The whole world seemed to freeze at this moment, and a dangerous atmosphere permeated the air.

"Cynthia! Where are you going?!" Spencer discovered the two people sneaking away along the wall not far away and was suddenly anxious. "Don't go there! The lamps there haven't been extinguished yet!"

Before the words were finished, the expression on Spencer Nabar's face suddenly froze.

Because he saw that under a stone pillar not far in front of Cynthia and Katya, on a shining brass candlestick, a stub of yellow-colored white candle slowly floated up from the base, and a withered, thin arm emerged in the candlelight.

One after another, translucent, colorless human shadows slowly emerged around the light halo, candle stubs began to leave the candlesticks, and more 'things' appeared under the light. They crowded around a yellowing candle flame, and the white candle stubs flowing with tears seemed to float in the air, slowly drifting towards Spencer's direction.

"Lord..." Spencer's hands trembled, and his heart turned cold.

(End of chapter)