Chapter 104 Some Discoveries

"I found something," Vivian said, lightly snapping her fingers. Hao Ren then saw a thin wisp of black mist rising from a corner of the room. The black mist quickly contracted and solidified into several small bats, which fluttered around Vivian's shoulders.

Hao Ren had been living with two superpowered women for some time, so he was no longer surprised by such surreal things. He was especially familiar with Lily's tail and Vivian's bats. At that moment, he casually teased a bat that flew in front of him, wondering what the difference was between it and a natural bat, and curiously asked, "What did you find?"

"Hey, don't mess around. These bats are my clones, sharing my senses," Vivian said, swatting Hao Ren's hand away. Then, she looked out the window in a certain direction. "I sent a few bats to the castle, and they did find something abnormal—the scent of the undead. At least several centuries old, and quite a few of them."

Hao Ren immediately felt a chill run down his spine. Although he had made ample preparations, and even prepared himself for the possibility that his new tenant was an undead, he still felt a little cold when he actually heard the news. "Really? Quite a few? Raven 12345 said there was only one... Should we just pick one and take it away?"

"Don't talk about that yet. I found that the aura of the undead there is different from the ghost stories we've heard outside," Vivian said, shaking her head. "The undead aura in the castle is suppressed underground. My bats only noticed it when they drilled into a collapsed tunnel. Although I haven't found the source yet, nor have I found the entrance to the underground, I can be sure that this suppression environment is still intact. In theory... there shouldn't be any vengeful spirits or anything like that on the surface."

Hao Ren thought for a moment and quickly realized what was wrong. "So, there really are ghosts in the castle, but they are all being suppressed now. So, in theory, there shouldn't be any haunting incidents near the castle? Then the haunting reports from the people nearby..."

"It's hard to say what's going on. If it's an overly powerful undead, it can indeed influence ordinary people within a certain range nearby with its spirit alone, even when sealed, making them see illusions or believe false memories. But such powerful undead haven't appeared for many years... Theoretically, they should have been cleaned up by the demon hunters."

Hao Ren spread his hands with a bitter face. "What's this all about? I'm a normal person, yet I have to get involved in this kind of thing."

He was about to say something else when he suddenly saw Vivian's expression change. He immediately asked, "What's wrong?"

"That Nangong seems to be going out," Vivian frowned. "I still have a bat hanging outside his window, and it saw him organizing that box of 'tools'... He's out the door!"

"So late?" Hao Ren was a little surprised. "He's really dedicated. He's going out to 'work' as soon as he gets here. Could this demon hunter really have some skills?"

Hao Ren had previously thought that this Nangong was probably a ghost-hunting swindler. Even if he knew a little demon hunter knowledge, he wouldn't be a real professional (he didn't look like a professional with that high profile), but he didn't expect that this guy would go out to work as soon as he arrived, regardless of the fatigue of the journey. This kind of dedication was not something that ordinary ghost-hunting swindlers could have.

Vivian didn't speak, but immediately ran to the window and looked downstairs, beckoning Hao Ren to come over as well. "Come and see, he's already out. I'm very curious how he plans to get to that castle. The castle is dozens of kilometers away from here, and he's also a foreigner. He definitely doesn't have a car, and it's impossible to find a taxi willing to go to that kind of remote wilderness at this hour—does he really know some demon hunter's secret techniques?"

Hao Ren and Vivian were side by side on the windowsill, watching Nangong come to the entrance of the inn. He was standing there now, seemingly in a daze. He didn't bring his huge suitcase, but carried a smaller black box. He was still wearing a white shirt and black trousers, looking like an ordinary salesman on a short business trip. Just as Vivian said, Nangong was also a foreigner. He had no roots here, so naturally he had no convenient transportation. How did he plan to go to the castle dozens of kilometers away in the middle of the night?

"If he is a real demon hunter, it is very easy to reach a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour, and some demon hunters can even achieve short-term flight or even short-range teleportation," Vivian frowned. "He is making strange gestures in a certain direction. Does he really know secret arts?"

Hao Ren's mind was immediately filled with a lot of jargon, such as shrinking the ground into inches, riding the wind, wolf spirit protection, and ancestral soul. Anyway, in his mind, Nangong was about to rise from the ground on auspicious clouds next—he wouldn't be surprised even if a magic circle suddenly appeared around the small inn at this time. But the next moment, he saw a car coming out from behind the small inn. Angus, the fat boss of the inn, drove the car out. Nangong nodded to Angus and got into the car. Then, an Indian dressed as a monk and a European man dressed like Batman walked out of the inn and got into the car one after another. Hao Ren clearly saw them all taking out their wallets to chip in before getting into the car…

Vivian opened her mouth awkwardly. "Uh, carpooling... It seems that the inn owner has also started a new business recently."

Hao Ren: "...I was also thinking too much just now."

It seemed that the haunted castle nearby had really attracted a lot of strange guys, even attracting a lot of foreigners. He didn't know how these paranormal enthusiasts from all over the world had such great mobility. They usually might not do anything, but they were staring at where there was haunting on Earth.

After Angus left with the three ghost-exorcising professionals from different countries, Vivian nudged Hao Ren's arm. "Let's follow them. We'll act tonight."

Hao Ren was puzzled. "Didn't you say to stay as far away from the demon hunters as possible, and it's best not to meet Nangong?"

"I've changed my mind now. What if a few of these ghost-exorcising professionals really have some skills and find the new tenant earlier than us? And there will definitely be more and more people in the future. We can't wait for this craze to die down on its own. Who knows how many days that will take? The longer the night, the more dreams there are."

Hao Ren thought it made sense, but he looked at the door of the room with some worry. "I've slept enough, and it doesn't matter if I don't sleep today, but we still have a sleeping beauty—Lily won't wake up until midnight. Are we taking her with us?"

Vivian looked at her watch. "It's okay, she's about to wake up. We can barely wake her up at this time. That guy has a magical ability. She can follow us everywhere while sleeping. When she runs to the castle, she'll wake up just in time. How perfect is that?"

Hao Ren had no more questions. He followed Vivian to Lily's room. Sure enough, the werewolf girl was uncomfortably arching back and forth on the bed. It seemed that she was doing the last few turnovers before waking up. She was still wearing her usual clothes, not even changing her clothes when she slept—Vivian had sent her up. The vampire girl was certainly not so kind as to help her change her clothes, and now Hao Ren was spared the trouble.

Although he really expected to encounter a werewolf girl in revealing pajamas like in the mainstream plot, that was impossible.

"Look, the table leg," Vivian pointed to the table beside the bed. Hao Ren twitched the corner of his eye and saw that the wooden table leg had been gnawed into something like a candied haws, and the floor nearby was covered with a thick layer of sawdust. Lily's mouth could still see wood chips...

There was no doubt that Lily had dreamed of eating big bones at home before.

"Hey, big dog, get up and work!" Vivian stepped forward and rudely pushed Lily off the bed. The latter fell to the ground with a thud, and finally opened her eyes in a daze. The first thing she saw Hao Ren was: "Oh, landlord, is it time for breakfast?"

"Eat your head!" Vivian pulled Lily up. "Get ready to go, to the castle. You're still not awake now, so just follow us. I'll tell you the details when you wake up over there."

Lily agreed confusedly, closed her eyes, stood up, and re-entered the olfactory tracking mode. Before completely falling asleep, she said one more sentence: "Landlord, I just dreamed that you made stewed ribs for me. The ribs were so delicious~~"

Hao Ren: "..."

A moment later, the three had left the small inn without anyone noticing. With Vivian's black mist as cover, ordinary people would not be able to detect the movements of the three of them. Because the small inn was on the edge of town, they soon left the town after leaving the inn. Looking at the endless wilderness in front of them, Hao Ren suddenly realized a problem: "They left by carpool... What about us?"

A pair of huge bat wings suddenly unfolded behind Vivian, with a bright smile on her face: "I'll fly with you, and let the big dog run below!"