55: Fright Night

Ding, ding.

From the depths of the corridor, two distinct knocks echoed.

Silas's eyelids twitched instantly.

"Is someone there?"

His Body was pressed tightly against the wall,

His skin seemed to change color, perfectly blending with the surrounding environment.

This was his Bloodline ability,

It could greatly reduce his presence, making it very suitable for infiltration and assassination.

It was precisely because of this special ability that he was captured by the Claus Family and forcibly subjected to the Trout Whisper Bloodline contract,

From then on, he became a tool for the Claus Family.

Silas suppressed his Qi and waited quietly for a moment.

The corridor was silent, with no further sounds or a single figure.

"It seems it was just an accident."

Silas breathed a sigh of relief, his Body slowly emerging from the wall.

He slowly walked into the deep corridor,

His footsteps were silent, Li Ke a feline walking on a soft carpet.

He slowly passed the vase,

Just as his shoulder was level with the vase,

His peripheral vision suddenly caught something,

He abruptly turned his head to look at the vase.

Everything was normal,

The vase was just an ordinary vase, standing quietly there.

Silas's brow furrowed slightly.

"Was it a hallucination? Why do I feel Li Ke someone is watching me?"

The corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

"This cursed place, why is it so eerie everywhere?"

Silas suppressed the discomfort in his heart,

Continuing to sneak deeper into the castle,

After walking through the long corridor, he gradually approached Li Ke's study.

The study's doors and windows were tightly shut at this time, and it was dark inside.

The Charles Family's iris emblem was carved on the oak door panel.

The closer Silas got to the study,

The stronger that inexplicable, hair-raising discomfort in his heart became.

What he didn't know was,

Just as he approached the study area,

The Spirit Boy and Spirit Girl, Li Ke two boneless white geckos, were clinging tightly to the wall behind the door, one on the left and one on the right,

Their stiff smiles appeared particularly eerie in the pure darkness.

And in the shadows within the study,

An exceptionally tall figure, gleaming with a bronze hue, flickered in and out of view, exuding a suffocating sense of oppression.

If Li Ke hadn't given a strict order before going into seclusion,

For them to guard the study and not go anywhere.

They would have rushed out long ago and torn this intruder to shreds.

Silas quietly walked to the study door,

He stopped at the entrance of the study.

One of his hands was on the doorknob, but he didn't exert any force for a long time,

A mysterious Bloodline instinct,

Told him that this room could not be entered...

"Actually, evidence Li Ke this would be more suitable in the bedroom..."

Silas hesitated for a moment,

Ultimately decided to follow his inner instinct.

"I should find an inconspicuous wardrobe to put it in, or simply throw it under the bed; that way, it would be harder to discover."

Silas quietly turned around,

Ready to leave the study and head to the bedrooms on the third floor of the castle.

However.

As soon as he turned around,

He saw an antique vase, taller than a person, standing quietly behind him.

Silas's pupils suddenly constricted,

He broke out in goosebumps all over.

"Was there a vase here just now?"

He thought carefully,

But just now, his nerves were taut, and he hadn't paid attention to such minor details at all,

"Perhaps... there was. It's just a vase."

He silently swallowed his saliva,

Then carefully bypassed the strange vase,

And walked towards the staircase leading to the third floor of the castle.

Tap.

Tap.

Tap.

Silas stepped on the ancient wooden staircase,

Making extremely faint, almost imperceptible footsteps.

As he walked, he felt something was off.

He suddenly realized,

"No, why am I making footsteps?"

With his stealth skills, unless done intentionally, it was absolutely impossible for him to make any audible sound!

Silas's Body instantly stiffened in place.

He slowly, bit by bit, as if using all his strength, turned his head.

Behind him, at some unknown point, a pale-faced, indistinct human figure had appeared.

That figure was leaning back to back with him, pressed tightly together, every movement perfectly synchronized with his,

At this moment, it was also slowly turning its head with him, revealing a face without features...

"What the hell is that?!"

Silas's hair stood on end, and he twisted around with a fierce, unparalleled elbow strike!

However, the pale figure behind him still moved in perfect synchronization with him, turning with his Body.

No matter how Silas exerted force or changed his moves, he could never attack the opponent in the slightest.

Silas completely panicked,

No longer caring about hiding his tracks, he suddenly burst out with all his strength and dashed wildly up the stairs!

The pale figure behind him still moved in perfect synchronization with him,

Sticking tightly behind him, flying madly upstairs in a bizarre backward posture.

Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap!

Rapid, chaotic footsteps echoed in the empty stairwell.

Silas quickly rounded a bend in the staircase.

He looked up,

And his steps stopped instantly,

At the end of the staircase,

An antique vase, taller than a person, was quietly placed.

A human head with blurred features was slowly, bit by bit, emerging from the mouth of that vase...

"No way..."

Silas's heart instantly turned cold.

The vase on the stairs crashed down, rolling rapidly down the stairs.

Along the way, a strange, intermittent, off-key song faintly echoed...

......

Bang!

A window on the second floor of the castle, its glass suddenly shattered!

Silas's figure, in disarray, leaped out of the broken window.

His face was as pale as paper, and he fell heavily onto the ground,

Ignoring the pain throughout his Body, he crashed into the desolate woodland behind the castle.

"What the hell was that! Something's wrong! Something's terribly wrong!"

Silas's figure once again merged with a dense shadow, reducing his presence to the lowest.

Li Ke a startled bird, he rushed quickly towards the outskirts of the estate.

"This place is wrong! Absolutely wrong!"

Silas frantically screamed in his heart, while blindly running through a translucent human figure floating in mid-air, passing right through it.

He paused slightly, subconsciously stopping and looking around blankly.

Then,

His pupils suddenly constricted!

Above this withered forest,

Countless, densely packed, incomplete Souls were actually hovering!

These Souls appeared translucent grayish-white, swaying and drifting silently in the night wind, emitting a strong Death Qi and resentment.

A bone-chilling cold aura, Li Ke an invisible tentacle, slowly wrapped around his Body.

Silas's Body stiffened, and he slowly turned his head.

A Soul aggregate, composed of nine different female faces, emitting a terrifyingly venomous aura, was silently floating behind him.

Those nine faces were some old, some young, some charming, some ferocious.

Eighteen dark, hollow eyes, all at once, stared at him with extreme malice.

The next instant.

A dense, blurred, resentful stream of curses, Li Ke a tide, surged into his mind.

That bizarre Soul aggregate transformed into a gray-black stream of light,

And violently drilled into his Body!