Chapter 281: Vanishing Prison

"Chang ghost..."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked up at the oil lamp hanging overhead. The flame in the glass lamp shade flickered, and the dazzling firelight made him squint his eyes slightly.

"If these things in the castle are really Chang ghosts, then what happened before can be explained." He said softly.

"What happened?" Bai Zhi asked.

"Spencer's death." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said: "Before in the lobby on the first floor, Spencer disturbed the Chang ghosts wandering in the lobby. I saw him being grabbed by hands and feet, hugged by the waist, and a pair of pale ghostly hands fiercely strangled his neck. I almost thought Spencer must have been strangled to death by those ghosts, but actually not."

"There were no bruises on Spencer's neck, and there were no external wounds other than the missing finger on his left hand."

And this is because...

"Because Chang ghosts cannot kill."

Bai Zhi followed his words: "In folk legends all over Kyushu, Chang ghosts have always played the image of deceiving and defrauding, tricking passersby into the deep mountains and old forests where tigers live, rather than the kind of fierce ghosts that will violently hurt or kill people themselves."

"Hmm..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe recalled the experience of being strangled by Spencer. Spencer's hands were cold and powerful, strangling his throat, bringing a feeling of suffocation.

The human brain is a high-energy-consuming organ, occupying one of the most developed arteries in the body, the carotid artery, for priority oxygen supply.

At the same time, the brain is also an extremely fragile organ, so fragile that even if you squat in the toilet for a long time, the blood pressure drops briefly when you stand up, it will cause insufficient brain oxygen supply, which will make people see stars, and in severe cases, you may even fall and faint on the spot.

In unrestricted fighting, there is a jiu-jitsu technique called naked choke, which uses the wrist to buckle the opponent's throat, compressing the carotid artery and cutting off brain blood supply. This process takes no more than 10 seconds to make the opponent's brain oxygen-deficient and faint, and a few more seconds can cause shock and death.

A woman's physical fitness is even weaker than that of a fighting athlete, plus Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's left arm was injured and his abdomen was bleeding at the time, and he was very weak. In this state, being strangled by an adult male, he couldn't hold on for 10 seconds at all, and he would have to faint in no more than 5 seconds.

"But I didn't die at that time, and even struggled to successfully shout that I was Cynthia, confusing Spencer's consciousness." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe opened his eyes, and the bright flame danced in his pupils.

Did Spencer really not kill him because he was deceived?

No, it's that he couldn't kill him at all...

"Chang ghosts cannot kill people. The only ones who can kill are the 'Tiger Demons' who enslave Chang ghosts."

Lowering his head, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's train of thought became clear: "When I died in the room as a tourist, and when I died in the lobby as Cynthia, these two deaths, the ones who really killed me were not Chang ghosts, but the 'Tiger Demon' hidden among the Chang ghosts."

That is the rule of 'acting as a tiger's accomplice.' Everyone killed by the Tiger Demon will turn into a Chang ghost enslaved by it.

Remember what Lan Shiwen said before, Vanishing Castle is a prison built by the Freim family, and a 'Disqualified One' is imprisoned in the basement of the castle.

Disqualified Ones are Ascended Ones who have fallen into ghosts, and now, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe has basically determined the identity of that 'Disqualified One.'

"There was once an Ascended One in Vanishing Castle. That was a character similar to a 'Necromancer.' The ghost he mastered gave him the ability to enslave the dead. Just like people eaten by a Tiger Demon will turn into Chang ghosts, everyone killed by this 'Necromancer' will also turn into 'Chang ghosts' driven by him."

This Necromancer had some connection with the Freim family, or was simply a member of this family.

"Ascended Ones are short-lived. This Necromancer didn't find a ghost that could compensate for his flaws until the end of his life, and finally died disqualified, imprisoned by the Freim family in the deepest part of the basement of Vanishing Castle."

"The 'Taiyin' that slows down the flow of time, the 'Xi Zhao' that replicates two Vanishing Castles, are all means used by the Freim family to imprison this Disqualified One. They built this supernatural strange prison, imprisoning a disqualified evil ghost."

The means used by the Freim family to imprison the evil ghost, however, also became interference items that interfered with Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's judgment and prevented him from deducing the truth to a certain extent. "But later, for some reason, the fierce ghost broke out of the cage, Vanishing Castle fell in a strange event, and everyone killed by the ghost turned into Chang ghosts, wandering in the inner world where the flood receded, and were imprisoned here together with that disqualified evil ghost."

Bai Zhi thought for a moment and said softly: "Because of the flood, right?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe nodded: "Because of the flood."

According to the information he asked Joshua to check, Vanishing Castle was originally located on a cliff halfway up the mountain, and the dead Disqualified One was imprisoned in a secret room in the basement of the castle.

During the Europa Unification War, the northern part of the Apennine Peninsula ushered in an unprecedented heavy rain. The huge rainfall, which was against the sky, caused the cliff behind Vanishing Castle to landslide. The sliding mountain body wrapped the foundation of the entire castle and slid down from the cliff, finally stopping at the foot of the mountain.

That is the current location of Vanishing Castle.

The information also mentioned that the head of the Freim family at the time exhausted his family's wealth and spent a lot of money to hire craftsmen to re-consolidate the foundation for Vanishing Castle and carry out a thorough reconstruction and repair.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, who read this at the time, was still a bit strange. The Freim family at that time had already declined due to the war. Why did their head of the family exhaust his wealth to repair the castle?

This question now has an answer: to re-imprison the fierce ghost that broke free from the cage.

"Before the landslide, the original location of Vanishing Castle was halfway up the mountain."

At a glance, look at '

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe closed his eyes, recalling the large areas of exposed brownish-yellow scars on the mountain body that had just experienced a landslide he saw on the top of the tower before.

"According to the height comparison before and after, the underground secret room that imprisoned the Disqualified One at that time, if corresponding to the current Vanishing Castle, should be in..."

The spire of the clock tower.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe opened his eyes, and the puzzle in his heart had been solved.

That secret basement mentioned many times by players never existed. It was destroyed by the mudslide caused by the landslide and flood in the last century. There is only thick soil under the foundation of the newly repaired Vanishing Castle. The place closest to that former secret basement is the spire of the clock tower.

"Did you think of something?" Bai Zhi sat on the head of the bed, her legs neatly together, looking at him curiously.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe pulled out the cross sword from his waist, held the hilt, and handed it to Bai Zhi, saying: "Kill me."

"Eh?" Bai Zhi was stunned, not daring to take the sword he handed over for a while: "Why?"

"I have basically figured out the rules of this ghost, and I can try to crack it right now, but the restrictions in the dream are too great, and there are many means I can't use."

For example, granted items like 'Tongue of the Blow-out Ghost' and 'Music Box with 8 Requiem Songs' cannot be brought into the dream.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said, forcibly stuffing the hilt into her hand: "Kill me, let me wake up, and then I will come to Vanishing Castle in reality and kill the ghost thing in this castle."

Bai Zhi nodded and took the hilt: "Then I'll wait for you here, be careful."

After hesitating for a moment, Bai Zhi gripped the hilt tightly and stabbed the unsharpened blunt sword into Aurore's heart.

He died again.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 282 =====