Vanessa thought to himself:
My mother has returned to normal and has not eaten for several days. She asked the cook to stew the chicken soon to replenish her body. It is also time for her to eat some food and then go out to stretch her muscles.
Yuanyuan must be very happy to know the news. As soon as he woke up, the three of us went for a walk in the courtyard.
Then Vanessa happily took out the key from his pocket and inserted the key into the steel lock on the chain. With a twist of his palm, there was a crisp 'click' sound and the steel lock was unscrewed.
But before he could pull out the key, Vanessa was stiff all over and his pretty face was pale. He slowly raised his head and said, "Mother..., mother, you just said you smelled the blood after the cook killed the chicken, but we are on the fifth floor and the kitchen is on the first floor."
"Huh huh huh huh!" I saw an exaggerated smile on the apple of Lady Amara's face. He shook his body and easily broke free of the steel locks on his body, and casually threw them aside with his arms.
"My dear daughter, I do smell it. I haven't eaten in days, and that fresh and delicious chicken blood is waiting for me to suck!"
"Ah!" Vanessa's mind went blank and he shouted uncontrollably.
Only then did she realize that the evil spirit had never been eliminated, it was just deceiving herself into opening the chain.
Fortunately, her 'mother' didn't seem to want to hurt her, at least not yet.
The lady's torso turned softly backwards, with her back downwards, her limbs lying on the ground, and the joints in her body creaked.
He twisted his neck from side to side, causing his messy hair to hang on the bed.
Then she quickly climbed up the wall using her hands and feet, and quickly climbed to the ceiling.
The two maids outside the door heard the shout and opened the door.
They felt their eyes go dark, and a disheveled figure quickly passed by the door frame.
The figure was very fast, like a spider, shuttled between the ceiling and beams of the corridor, and disappeared at the stairs in the blink of an eye.
A maid immediately ran into the house and saw the panicked girl. She quickly said, "Miss Vanessa, that was..."
"That's my mother. The evil spirit has not been eliminated. She is going to the kitchen now. Please notify others to help!" Vanessa said urgently.
"But most of the city's soldiers are currently patrolling the city. There are only two soldiers stationed at the gate of the castle fortress."
"Call them over quickly!"
"Yes."
Seeing that the maid had run out of the house, Vanessa stood up, tried to take a few deep breaths to calm his still beating heart, and raised his fist to cheer himself up secretly:
Vanessa, you can do it, you can do it!
Kebi said that he and a demon hunter friend could deal with a large group of Drowner. Without him at that time, the demon hunter named Dick might not have survived.
Sometimes the courage of mortals is very important. The most important thing right now is to stay calm in the face of danger!
Isn't it more than enough for you to deal with an evil spirit who only dares to bully women?
After taking a few more deep breaths, Vanessa emboldened himself and ran out of the house, leaning on the railing of the corridor and looking towards the hall downstairs:
But I saw two soldiers stationed at the gate of the fortress already lying on the ground, their weapons casually dropped aside, and there were no wounds on their bodies. They must have been knocked unconscious and not dead.
These soldiers apparently heard the shouts of the maids and entered the hall before being attacked by the evil spirit.
Of course, the two maids were also lying next to the stairs directly below them with their eyes closed.
The doors on the rest of the floors were closed tightly. It was probably the attendants and maids who realized something was wrong and hid in their rooms to protect themselves.
At this time, a round figure stepped back towards the door in the corner of the living room with a frightened face. He seemed to be on guard for something.
Vanessa was overjoyed and was about to say hello to Yuanyuan, but when he saw Yuanyuan sticking to the door, he turned around, his short legs almost turned upside down, and ran out of the door in an instant.
Why did he run away?
Vanessa was confused and couldn't help but look directly below. He saw a woman in a nightgown squatting in front of a maid, her shoulders still shaking, as if she was eating something.
Was my maid eaten?
Vanessa was startled, suppressing the fear in his heart, and leaned his head forward again. The necklace around his neck inadvertently hit the railing and made a small sound.
Then, Lady Amara in the hall suddenly raised his head and stared upwards with a sinister gaze. Vanessa could clearly see dark red blood spilling from the corners of her mouth, with some chicken feathers mixed between her lips, and holding half a dead chicken in her hand.
Vanessa felt his heart stopped temporarily when he saw this, and at the same time he was glad that the maid was fine.
I also saw Lady Amara twisting his body, with his back facing the ground, holding the remains of a chicken in one hand, and quickly climbing up the load-bearing pillar of the stairs below him like a gecko.
Vanessa turned around and fled into her mother's room, locking the door again.
Then she got directly into the quilt, buried her whole body, and remained motionless:
"I'm safe now. The door to the bedroom in the fortress is wrapped in fine iron, so even evil spirits can't get in."
"But why do I want to cry? Father..., when will you come back? Kebi..., when can you come see me?"
When the sky was slightly bright, Dick was woken up by a splash of urine.
After taking away some of the heat in the small bar outside the tavern, the cold wind blew through my whole body. I felt much better and felt no sleepiness at all.
Then I decided to have breakfast first and then set off.
Just as he was about to enter the tavern, an urgent voice came from behind. "Are you a witcher? Come with me!"
Looking back, I saw a chubby dwarf jumping off his horse in embarrassment and almost falling.
Dick walked over and said in a deep voice, "I am a demon hunter. What can I do?"
"Anyway, come with me quickly." The dwarf muttered vaguely.
"Fortunately, a patrolling soldier has seen you. It's true that I shouted so many times on the street, and the location of the tavern is not far from the fortress.
"To make a long story short, I am the housekeeper of the Duke Amara family. There is an evil spirit in the fortress, and I need your help now."
Dick also knew that the situation was urgent and immediately took the horse out of the stable and mounted it.
The butler struggled to get on the horse again, but it seemed that one of his feet was sprained when he jumped off. He failed to get on the horse several times and was sweating profusely.
Dick saw this, stretched out a hand, easily lifted the back of his collar, and placed the butler in front of him.
"You show the way!"
"Oh, thank you, Witcher!"
Dick shook the reins directly, and the two of them galloped away into the distance.
In the bedroom on the fifth floor of the fortress, Vanessa soon heard the rhythmic knocking on the door, followed by the familiar yet unfamiliar voice of his mother:
"My dear daughter, open the door quickly. I still have half a chicken left. You haven't had breakfast yet? I've left it all for you."
In the darkness, Vanessa bit her lips tightly to prevent herself from making a sound, and big tears rolled down her cheeks silently.
There was another knock on the door for a moment, but there was no movement after that.
Vanessa let out a sigh of relief:
My mother, no, the evil spirit couldn't open the door, and Yuanyuan must have gone to call someone just now.
As long as I wait a little longer, I'll be completely safe.
Just thinking about it in a daze, she didn't know how long it had been, but she always felt that the surroundings were unusually quiet, as if the 'mother' outside the door had long since disappeared, as if she had never appeared.
"Wow!"
The curtains shook and a gust of wind blew into the room.
"Wind? Why is there wind? By the way, the pastor told me to open the window half way to facilitate ventilation..."
Vanessa trembled all over again, mustered up the courage, grabbed the corner of the quilt with both hands and slowly opened it downwards, his eyes were exposed to the air bit by bit, his heart was frightened and eager, which was a sense of expectation for the unknown before him:
That evil spirit shouldn't be able to climb from outside the wall to the window and then climb in again!
Yes, it's so high here, how could she climb in...
At this time, she turned her head and looked towards the bed, her eyes completely exposed outside the quilt.
There was nothing in sight except the iron door.
Just after he breathed a sigh of relief, Vanessa felt something bad again.
There seemed to be something drooping on my cheek, and the touch was itchy...
Slowly turning his head to look up, wherever he could see, his mother was lying against the wall at the head of the bed with her limbs twisted and turned, her legs facing up, her hair disheveled, and some messy hair roots falling on her cheeks.
He looked at himself with an exaggerated smile, holding half of a chicken that was still bleeding in his left hand.