All Heavens: Transfer Students at Hogwarts

Chapter 170 The Horror of the Castle

When it comes to Romania, many people will think of the famous Count Dracula. This image comes from "Dracula" published by Irish writer Bram Stoker in 1897, and the prototype is the "Count Dracula" of the Principality of Wallachia. The Impaler" Vlad III.

The place where the Polish writer disappeared was not the castle of Vlad III, but a medieval military fortress that was more remote than that place. Compared to the well-maintained Dracula Castle, there were only ruins left. The road into the mountain is difficult and requires guidance from local villagers.

Andre felt that the village at the foot of the mountain was a bit weird. The villagers seemed more or less naive, as if they were uncivilized. The guides and translators sent by the Romanian government told the elites of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security that the abandoned castle they were going to was rarely visited before the 20th century, and the local villagers refused to allow outsiders to visit.

But now the world is full of travelers looking for secrets, and there are also tourists in the closed mountain villages. The missing Pole was said to have gone to the castle alone. The official search and rescue team did not find any clues in the mountains. Villagers said the man might have been taken away by a vampire.

Andre was dissatisfied and afraid of receiving such a bad job. He couldn't go home at Christmas and had to go to the mountains to look for missing tourists. He felt that this should have been a very simple disappearance case. He just heard the rumors about vampires from the country bumpkins, so he had to send out his demon hunter.

In addition to the special operations team sent by the People's Federation, there are also a few tourists who are planning to spend the winter here.

Andre knew one of the talkative Englishmen. He called himself Elder Walpole. He was a little man wearing glasses. There is also a friend who is inseparable from him, called Xue Ni, a man with extremely pale skin and heavy dark circles under his eyes.

Hearing that they were going into the mountains to find the missing Polish writer, Elder volunteered to lead the way for the members of the Human Federation.

"Andrzej Sapkovsky (the missing man) and I are still friends. We are both writers."

Andre was distraught. The loss of a writer was already a headache. It would be a real headache if something happened to the carefree Mr. Walple. What's more, Andre himself didn't want to enter the castle, so how could he bring others with him?

Elder smiled. He was not surprised by Andre's rejection. He said: "Hey, Andre, you are a demon hunter. You must know a lot of things, right? Can you tell me which opponents you usually deal with?" ?"

Andre casually made up nonsense such as water ghosts, swamp spirits, and daytime ghosts. Many of them are variants of folklore in Central and Eastern Europe.

"Hey, what you said, the missing Pole also said."

"Really? Maybe he is also a demon hunter." Andre was interested. As a lover of fantasy stories, he still had great respect for this type of writer.

Then they had a big chat. This Mr. Walpole was very eloquent, he could tell stories from all over the world, and revealed many details of the magical world from his mouth, which made Andre fascinated.

In the end, André was somehow persuaded, against objections, to take Elder and his companion Senni, who knew the mountain roads well, as guides for the native villagers.

Taking advantage of the time when the snow stopped, the group arrived at the ancient castle in the mountains before dark.

The heavy and towering gate of the castle was tightly closed. Interestingly, the stone walls of the entire fortress were in tatters, but the wooden door actually still looked decent.

The door was locked from the inside, and I don't know how the missing Pole got in, but his belongings were still scattered outside the castle.

The members of the special operations team were all shrewd and capable soldiers. They easily climbed over the wall and entered the castle with hooks, and opened a crack in the door, which was large enough for people to pass through.

At this time, Elder suddenly spoke: "Andre. Listen to me, can you guys stay here from now on?"

"why?"

The sickly Xue Ni said, "Muggles are not allowed to enter here."

Andre was very curious, "Why? And you said Muggles, could this castle be the residence of wizards?"

Elder looked serious, "No, the people living here are not wizards, but a clan of vampires. Every fifty years, they will gather here. The residents of the village at the foot of the mountain are either servants of vampires, or vampires pretending to be vampires."

"Then what will they do if we break in?"

"Of course I treat you as a sumptuous dinner."

Andre was fussed all over by what this new friend said. He was a fake master, and he immediately showed his timidity, "Why didn't you tell such an important thing earlier! The intelligence is wrong, it seems that this mission cannot be solved." Go ahead, I plan to contact the headquarters first and wait for the next instructions."

The commander of the special operations team obviously did not intend to follow Andre's decision.He ordered the soldiers to tie up Elder and Bloody with ropes, and then forcibly led the demon hunter into the castle.

This fortress is the same as Dracula's Fortress, because it is built on a narrow hilltop, so it is small in scale, and it takes less than an hour to go through it completely. There are not many rooms, and dust is everywhere.

They searched it according to the hostage rescue tactics, and found not even a mouse, let alone a vampire.

Andre was disappointed and unhappy with Elder's lies.

The british man in glasses didn't make excuses, but stared at his companion. Xue Ni looked up at the sky. Today is the second day of the lunar calendar. There is no moon, and the sun is about to set. Crow-black clouds are piled up in the middle of the sky, and the edge is dyed by the setting sun. bloody.

In the castle's courtyard is an ancient well, which leads to a cistern. After the sun completely set, a cold light shot out from the mouth of the well, and then large numbers of bats flew out from it.

They hovered above the castle, making unsettling cries like a noisy cloud.

The vampires appeared, falling from the bats and coming to the courtyard.

Andre regretted it very much, and the vampires surrounded these Muggles.The soldiers raised their guns and tried to fight back, but they were all pierced through their lower bodies by the long and narrow ice cones protruding from the snow on the ground. The pain made these battle-tested war machines howl, and they couldn't die for a while.

"Xue Ni!" These vampires seemed to know Elder's friend, "I haven't seen him in fifty years. How are you doing?"

These people greet each other warmly and politely. If it weren't for the screams of a group of poor people who had been pierced, the scene would have been as normal as distant relatives meeting.

Andre escaped because he showed no hostility, but the situation was still not good.

Elder asked, "Guys, do you remember me?"

"You're a student of Elder Slughorn, well, you're quite famous among us."

"Look, you have harvested so much food. Can you let some go? My friends don't want to die here yet."

"What if I say no?"

Elder somehow broke free from the rope, and he had a stick in his hand.Andre's eyes widened, this man is a wizard!

"Listen, the Statute of Secrecy is dead, if you don't want to be mobbed by Muggles. Hey, my friend is a professional witcher, and he knows how to deal with you. Don't make him angry, and now, He was actually very angry."

Andre was extremely panicked, but he still pretended to be fierce, probably like Fatty Cong who pretended to be the eldest brother of the Ax Gang in the Pig Cage Walled City.

"Witcher? It's these bastards who smoked our noses with garlic!" The vampires looked unhappy.

"WTF!" Andre said numbly, "Actually, I'm pretending. Do you believe it?"

Then they were besieged.

"Run, run, run!" Elder was very loyal and asked Xueni to take Andre, and the three of them ran out of the castle.

They panicked on the hillside and were chased by bats to the edge of the cliff. Suddenly, they saw a cozy tavern standing in the snow for some reason, and there were bursts of melodious music coming from it.

"Do you want to go in and hide?" Andre was out of breath.

Elder saw something strange in the tavern, "Come on, let's go in."