Chapter 260

Drip—

The corpse oil melted by the candle flame fell like tears.

The flickering candle flame drifted across the red carpet, the complex and chaotic human shadows intertwined, and the spacious and empty first-floor hall rang with murmuring whispers. It was empty, yet crowded.

"This way, there's a door this way."

A candle flame flew along the wall, illuminating an old wooden door appearing and disappearing on the wall. Bai Zhi tugged on Ning Zhe's sleeve, signaling him to hurry up and light the corpse-oil lamp, but Ning Zhe shook his head. "Wait a moment."

"But..." Bai Zhi opened her mouth, wanting to say something but stopping.

In the hall covered with red carpet, demons were dancing wildly. Dozens of candle flames were drifting and swinging in mid-air, searching for the traces of living people. Several spirit fires were drifting towards the corner of the wall where the two of them were currently hiding.

If found, they would die.

Watching the flickering candle flames drifting closer and closer, Bai Zhi was so anxious that her little face turned pale. She looked at Ning Zhe beside her, only to see him sitting there, acting cute and weak. He reached into the root of his thigh with his left hand and pinched hard, and bean-sized tears immediately welled up. Ning Zhe pouted his little mouth, his teary eyes hazy, putting on a weak and pitiful appearance, calling out to Spencer under the pillar not far away: "Save us, Spencer..."

Ning Zhe's voice was delicate and soft, with a heart-wrenching, weak tremor. The white girl's slender figure was as thin as a piece of tattered paper dancing in the wind, surrounded by several spirit fires. A few scattered strands of hair stuck to the corners of her lips. The weak girl, terrified to the extreme, sat helplessly on the ground, biting her lower lip, desperately calling out to the blonde young man not far away: "Didn't you say you would protect us, Spencer... save me..."

Bai Zhi was stunned in place, blankly watching Ning Zhe's weak and helpless slender back, seeing his other hand hidden behind his back, secretly making a 'V' sign at her.

Spencer in the distance looked here anxiously, wanting to come to Ning Zhe's side, open his arms, and protect his sister and the girl he liked. However, death is death, and bizarre is bizarre; the rules never care about emotions.

A spirit fire drifted above Spencer, enveloping his body in soft candlelight. An illusory, transparent shadow emerged in the gaps of the light and shadow. Ning Zhe saw an invisible hand reach out from 'over there', grabbing Spencer's ankle, and another hand emerged from the darkness behind the pillar, pinching clear finger-shaped bruises on the blonde young man's neck.

More pale hands reached out from all directions, tearing at Spencer's body. Looking at Cynthia crying by the wall not far away and Katya, who seemed to have been scared silly and couldn't speak, he instinctively wanted to scream, but as soon as he opened his mouth, a cold, white hand reached out from his mouth.

Spencer died.

The spirit fire drifting towards Ning Zhe paused in the air for a moment, then continued to drift towards him. Ning Zhe crawled up, and instead of turning around and running away, he took the initiative to meet the drifting candle flame, turned his head, and said to Bai Zhi, "Take my lamp, hurry and go."

"Ning Zhe... you..."

"Just go, don't ask so much." Ning Zhe raised the corners of his mouth and gave Bai Zhi a confident smile. "Go, I will come to find you again, although I might change my face. Believe me, go."

Bai Zhi nodded, bent down to pick up Ning Zhe's lamp, and turned to leave.

There were no candle flames chasing behind them, because they had already been attracted by Ning Zhe, who had taken the initiative to walk into the candlelight. Watching the petite girl sneaking away along the wall, Ning Zhe reached out a hand and lightly made a 'V' sign. The next moment, two pale hands pinched Ning Zhe's throat.

He died.

"Phew..."

Ning Zhe woke up from the soft large bed, and the soft light from the ceiling lamp quietly spilled down, providing a gentle, sleep-inducing glow.

His lower body felt a bit heavy. Looking down, it was Xia Yubing using his thigh as a pillow, lying lazily on the bed watching the animation playing on the large screen.

"Awake?" Sensing the movement in the quilt, Xia Yubing turned her head, lay on Ning Zhe's stomach, and looked up at him. "You can really sleep." "How long did I sleep?" Ning Zhe asked, rubbing his brow.

"Almost 4 hours." Xia Yubing took out her phone from her arms and glanced at it. "Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?"

"Pour me a glass of water."

"Okay."

Xia Yubing got up to pour half a glass of boiled water for Ning Zhe, added a few ice cubes to adjust it to a suitable temperature, and after trying a sip herself, she handed it to Ning Zhe.

Van Dyke didn't have the habit of drinking warm boiled water; his airship only supplied boiled water for making tea and ice water for mixing drinks. If one wanted warm water, they had to adjust it themselves.

Xia Yubing didn't wear lipstick, so there were no ambiguous lipstick marks on the glass. Ning Zhe drank half a glass of warm water to moisten his dry throat and briefly reviewed the course of events that happened in the first-floor hall of the clock tower in his mind.

Spencer Nabar, this person had a cheerful personality and simple thinking, without any devious schemes or calculations—this is not praising him for being kind-hearted. The reason he was simple-minded was that this guy had started using weed in junior high school, and later in high school, he started using powder. At a young age, his brain nerves had been destroyed by drugs; this was simple-minded in the physical sense.

Teenagers like Spencer who were ruined by drugs were not uncommon in Europe; it had already become a widespread social phenomenon. In fact, Cynthia, who was 'possessed' by Ning Zhe, also had a drug addiction, but she was currently still at the weed stage.

Precisely because his brain wasn't very good, the single-threaded Spencer would make such a reckless move as directly taking the candle from the candlestick in the hall.

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But precisely because this person was simple-minded and reckless, Ning Zhe was able to achieve his goal so easily.

"With this guy around, Bai Zhi should be safe for the time being." Ning Zhe finished the water, handed the empty glass to Xia Yubing, and lifted the thin quilt on his body.

According to his experience of entering 'Vanessa' Castle for the first time and the headless corpse he saw in the execution ground, after living people were killed by 'them', they would become one of 'them', wandering around the castle in a daze, killing anyone they saw.

Similarly, after Spencer died, he would also be transformed into that kind of semi-transparent, illusory spirit body, becoming one of them wandering in the castle.

Knowing this, Ning Zhe utilized Cynthia's delicate and thin girl image, Spencer's secret love for her, plus his innate protective desire as an older brother for Katya, the younger sister, successfully stimulating the emotions of this reckless young man, and planting an incomparably clear thought steel seal for him.

The content of the steel seal was: 【I must protect Cynthia and Katya】

Being able to successfully mobilize emotions and plant this steel seal under such critical circumstances, to some extent, one still had to thank Spencer for the weed he flew in his youth.

"Now that Cynthia is dead, Spencer, who has become a spirit body, should follow behind Bai Zhi, protecting her in a paranoid and extreme way." Ning Zhe slowly breathed a sigh of relief, got out of bed, and put on his slippers.

Bai Zhi's courage was actually very small; otherwise, she wouldn't have been shrinking in the corner every time she had a nightmare, trembling and waiting for the nightmare to end and for her to wake up.

However, such a timid girl was willing to suppress her fear and stand up to accompany him in order to help him. Whether it was for personal reasons or objective interests, Ning Zhe would ensure the safety of this girl as much as possible.

"Okay... while Bai Zhi is temporarily safe with Spencer's protection, I have to go do some other things." Ning Zhe walked out of bed in his slippers and walked out of the room door.

(End of chapter)