Chapter 159 Conspiracies Underground

Hao Ren had no idea what kind of chaotic frenzy that group of paranormal enthusiasts was in, but thinking about the strange equipment those guys carried, he could roughly guess. Vivian gave a straightforward evaluation: "Those guys? They're basically a bunch of charlatans holding a meeting. Only Nangong and that monk have some real stuff."

Lily sniffed left and right on the ground for more than ten seconds before raising her head: "Someone's been here."

"So many people have been attracted to the castle lately. It's normal for anyone to have come," Hao Ren said, not paying much attention. He walked cautiously towards the small church. "This sound is creepy. Are you sure there's no problem, Vivian?"

"No problem. The aura of the undead is still suppressed underground," Vivian said, releasing some of her power. Her eyes became slightly misty with a red glow in the night. "Listen, the wind seems to have weakened."

Hao Ren swallowed. The wind and strange howls from the direction of the small church were indeed gradually weakening, but this had already successfully created an unsettling atmosphere. He couldn't feel any so-called aura of the undead—in his eyes, this place was already haunted.

The wooden door of the small church had completely rotted, but a pile of collapsed stone slabs blocked the entrance to the stone house. Hao Ren cautiously approached and found a gap in the pile of rubble blocking the door. He looked inside through the gap. The stone house was pitch black, and the intermittent wind and the chaotic sounds of people shouting and horses neighing were indeed coming from inside. Because there were many cracks around the stone house, the strange noises coming from it were almost unimpeded, no wonder they could spread throughout the castle.

Hao Ren wet his finger and carefully inserted it into the gap in the pile of stones, nodding professionally: "Yeah, no wind."

"Of course, there's no wind. With such a commotion, if there were wind, you'd have a face full of sand when you went to look," Vivian pushed Hao Ren aside and beckoned to Lily. "Big dog, come and move this pile of stuff away."

Hao Ren immediately felt uneasy: "Hey, wait a minute, isn't this disrespectful to the dead?"

"What dead? I've fought real zombies before. The Pharaoh's Guard is nothing. Big dog, go!"

"Say 'big dog' again and see what happens! Do you believe I can bite you four times in a second!" Lily couldn't bear this increasingly rude vampire, jumped up, and protested loudly, but after protesting, she honestly started working: she was the strongest here, and she was the only one who could move this pile of stones.

As Lily began to throw the first large stone slab aside, the strange noises coming from the small church suddenly stopped.

"It's quiet!" Hao Ren shouted. "Hey, I think I heard something rustling inside. Did you hear it?"

Vivian tilted her head, listening to the movement in the small church, and waved to Lily, signaling her to continue moving the stones.

"Hey—ho!" Lily bent down and picked up a large stone that looked to weigh at least half a ton. She could throw this thing several meters without panting, lifting her hands as easily as if she were moving a model made of foam. Hao Ren kept a distance of more than two meters from this incredibly strong werewolf, fearing that the idiot would accidentally hit him while throwing stones, and watched in amazement: "How great it would be if I had such strength."

"Just well-developed muscles," Vivian said, watching Lily move those boulders, her eyelids twitching a little, but still stubbornly said, "Real strength comes from wisdom. Is great strength as useful as my blood magic? One curse from me and she'll be…"

Lily turned around, holding a large stone slab that was a meter wide: "Hehe, keep talking."

Hao Ren was standing side by side with Vivian, and when he saw this, he quickly jumped more than a meter away: "Hey, don't joke like that! There's still a mortal here, okay? If your hand slips, I'll be flattened—if you two want to fight, find a place with no people later."

Lily clicked her tongue, turned her head, and continued to move the stones. The pile of rubble blocking the door of the small church was quickly cleared away by the werewolf girl. As the last large stone slab was kicked away by her, the dark entrance of the small church was wide open in front of the three.

"Landlord, my shoes are broken." Lily raised her leg and pointed at her foot. Hao Ren saw a huge opening in the front of her white sneakers, and five white and jade-like toes were twisting in the crack: everyone remembers that the last stone slab was kicked away by this girl, other books definitely don't write this detail…

"Um, I'll buy you new ones when we get back. Consider it a work loss." Hao Ren wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, thinking how everything always turned out so messy when it came to him, and then he stepped towards the dark small church, wanting to see what was going on inside.

To be honest, Hao Ren was still a little uneasy. If it were an ordinary person, no matter how brave, they wouldn't dare to enter a closed stone room that had been making "ghostly noises" a few minutes ago, but now that he had Vivian, a vampire who could sense the undead, to guarantee safety, and Lily, a golden fighter, to protect him, he forcibly mustered up his courage—to say nothing else, he still had a bit of manly temper, and if he shrank back at this time, he was worried that he would be looked down upon by the two superwomen beside him.

Although the gate was blocked by collapsed stones, the small church was cracked and collapsed everywhere, basically in a state of being drafty on all sides. When Hao Ren walked in, he didn't smell any decaying smell, only the dust raised by Lily's work just now hit his face. Vivian frowned, and a cool breeze swirled around her, blowing away the dust around the three of them. Her gestures showed the elegance of the blood race, causing Lily to look at her sideways: "Affected—still paying attention to hygiene at this time?"

The church was empty, and the original tables and chairs had long since disappeared. Only a few scattered stone fragments could be seen on the pitted ground. This small church was also a typical European classical castle style. The windows were narrow and high, and now those windows had become long, empty holes. The dim moonlight shone through the window holes, making everything around look even more eerie.

"The moon is out again…" Lily looked up in a daze at the brightest window hole. "Landlord, I want to howl a couple of times…"

Hao Ren: "…"

What strange habits does this idiot have!

With his newly acquired "superpower," Hao Ren could see everything in the small church, but everything in this stone house was clear at a glance. He didn't find anything special at all. There were no floating will-o'-the-wisps, no swaying ancient knights, and no dark leather magic books lying on the ground emitting a faint light that he knew wouldn't be good. The strange noises inside had ended before he came in, and now this small church looked like an ordinary abandoned hut.

However, Lily sniffed on the ground: "Landlord, there's the scent of living people here too."

Vivian walked straight to one corner of the small church and waved her hand in the air, and a cloud of blood-red mist pounced on a small stone slab in the corner. Only a "sizzling" sound of intense corrosion was heard, and the hard stone was corroded into ash by the blood-red mist in the blink of an eye, revealing a small hole under the stone slab: "The person who was playing tricks ran away from here."

"People? You're saying the haunting here was man-made? You knew it all along?" Hao Ren looked at Vivian in surprise. "Why didn't you say so just now?"

"I felt that there was a living person hiding here, and I wanted to see what he was doing here, but I didn't expect him to just be playing tricks," Vivian shrugged. "Lily started moving stones and he slipped away—too bad that big dog claims to have sharp senses, but you didn't notice a human sneaking away under your nose."

Lily stubbornly said: "I was concentrating on moving stones just now! I didn't notice!"

Hao Ren ignored the daily bickering between these two inhuman girls and came to the dark hole in the ground: "We don't have to go down, do we?"

"You can wait above if you want," Vivian said, looking at the hole, her expression indifferent. "Although I feel that he's just an ordinary person, after all, the situation below is unknown, and there may be danger."

Vivian's words aroused Hao Ren's temper: he was a man who was going to become the King of Babysitters, and he might have to take care of many strange tenants in the future, so how could he be frightened by an ordinary person who was setting up ghosts and making a big news story in the castle!

On the spot, he rolled up his sleeves and jumped into the pit: "Don't stop me, I'll go first… damn it!"