Section 30

This is...even if Ashu Rufat is stupid, he can see it. This is not a window connecting somewhere (like some magic he has heard of), but records the past.

"Who is this?" he murmured to himself. The Bloody Duke kept this record, which itself shows that this prisoner is very important... But who is he?

"It's Bernando," a voice sounded. "He has the secret of magic locking. In order to prevent data errors, he recorded the entire process to prevent information loss."

"Magic lock?" Ashu Rufate asked subconsciously.

"Yes, the long-distance positioning technology through Magic Wind... seems very primitive, but in fact it is very clever and has a very high technical content, and can be listed as a new invention. However, the relevant core has been cracked, and it is no longer a problem that bothers you."

Ash Rufate came to his senses. He turned around and turned around. The sword of Wither appeared in his hand. Behind him was not a person, but a metal ball floating in the air. It took a second to Ash Rufate to confirm that the metal ball that was just talking (or making a voice).

It took him a few seconds to realize that this thing was the "Carrie" that Lalia mentioned to him before, the legendary incarnation of the Dark Castle and the magical creature created by the Blood Duke.

Speaking of which, Ashu Rufate had not noticed when this thing came behind him. As mentioned earlier, there was no entrance or exit in this room, and there were walls that seemed to be unobstructed (although I don’t know if it was rock or metal), and this metal ball, as big as a human head, shouldn’t have crawled in from outside like Ashu Rufate?

Lalia reminded that when she sees Carrie, she has to run quickly. Because it is not actually a metal ball, or this metal ball is just an incarnation of it. Attacking this metal ball is meaningless. In this castle, it has great ability, at least it can instantly transmit alarms to every corner.

But unfortunately, I can't run at all now. The route that Ashu Rufate came in just now, that is, the route that little guy led the way. Even Ashu Rufate had to be careful to pass through. If Ashu Rufate really returned the same way, the guards in the castle had plenty of time to wait there - maybe they could drink a hot drink to refresh themselves first.

Of course, Ashu Rufate can also try to fly magically - but it is also meaningless. Ashu Rufate doesn't believe that this castle does not have the means to deal with magic. This does not even require much brains to do it - as everyone knows, just a magic-breaking scroll (it is impossible for vampires with hundreds of black magic as subordinates to be missing this thing), and all magic is destroyed.

Although Ashu Rufate knew that his vitality was stronger than ordinary people, he had never tried any results that would be if he jumped from a height of hundreds of cubits. Well, in fact, he didn't want to do such an experiment at all.

He confronted the suspended metal ball for several seconds, and then he realized one thing: Carrie didn't give an alarm.

In fact, the metal ball was floating in place, looking very quiet and well-behaved, without any sign of hostility. Of course, it was just a metal ball after all, and even if it was hostile, Ashu Rufate could not tell it.

Ash Rufate suddenly realized something - since the vampire's vassal will admit it, the vampire's guard will admit it, and the vampire's wife will admit it, and there is no reason why this magic creature named "Carrie" will not admit it.

Wait! The next moment, he told himself that he was not so lucky. It would have been fine if it was last night, but today the vampire has returned and (should be) known about what happened last night. He must have given a special order. In this case, Carrie would not admit his mistake!

Or maybe...is already secretly issuing an alarm? It's just that Ashu Rufate didn't notice it?

Ashrufate didn't know what to do for a moment, but the things he was worried about did not happen. Not to mention anything else, Xiao Budian kept watching this scene curiously.

"That..." It took a long enough time that Ashu Rufate felt that he had to break this awkward silence. "Carry, right? I think... you should know who I am." At this point, he also sacrificed his life, not wanting to continue playing the game of cat-catching rats with the Blood Duke.

"Yes, you are the Duke of Blood Asurufat." Metal Ball replied,

"I am not the Blood Duke of Ashu Rufate... No, I am Ashu Rufate, not the Blood Duke... Because although my name is Ashu Rufate, I am not the Blood Duke of Ashu Rufate... Well, the Blood Duke and I are just the same name!"

"This... According to my scan, the similarity between you and the Blood Duke Ash Rufate's body cells is more than 99.99%... The similarity has exceeded the system's default indicators; your appearance and the Blood Duke Ash Rufate's similarity is also more than 99.99%... In addition, your eye patterns, fingerprints, voice patterns, soul fluctuations and other related indicators are all above 99.99%... According to the above standards, I think you are indeed the Blood Duke Ash Rufate, my master."

What does this mean? Ashu Rufate doesn't quite understand the nouns. He can only understand it as: Although this "Carrie" looks like an intelligent creature, it actually does not have real and independent wisdom. It cannot even tell whether Ashu Rufate is true or false-even if there is a real blood-colored duke in the castle at this moment. In other words, this "Carrie" is like an animal trap. Its instinct is its instinct. As for whom the unlucky guy is, it doesn't care at all - even the owner of the animal trap.

"Okay," said Ashu Rufate. "Can you take me to the third floor?" he asked tentatively.

"Of course, master." Carrie floated forward, "Please follow me." Then, just before Ash Rufate's eyes, the originally thick and seamless wall suddenly opened - as if it was not a metal or stone wall, but a false phantom.

Ash Rufate couldn't help but reach out and touched it, confirming that it was not an illusion. The wall in front of him was indeed stone, very thick (at least so thick that it made people not want to try to dig).

After they walked out of the wall from the suddenly opened passage, the wall closed silently behind them. Ashu Rufate reached out and touched it again to confirm that it was indeed a wall of rocky texture (the touch feel) rather than a visual trick like a curtain.

He now began to understand why there was no entrance or exit in the room just now - because this is the vampire's secret room, and only vampires can enter and exit these rooms at any time. It is really an unpredictable low-probability event to find such a road that is not a road.

After confirming everything, he began to look at the room he had just entered.

This is the same as the room just now, and it belongs to the kind of "room without doors". There is no door around, and there is only the false light from where it comes from to provide lighting. When Ashrufate saw that the ceiling, floor and walls were no longer the stone thing, but... it was full of metal texture. However, if you touch it with your hands, you will find that it is not metal, but rather like wood. Well, in fact, this feeling cannot be described, and it is hard to say what it looks like. In short, it is neither the cold metal nor the roughness of stone. It feels as smooth as glass, and the touch is as soft as wood, but it looks as luster as metal.

This is a large room with a row of shelves next to it, and there are various instruments on which Eshu Rufate had never seen before and could not infer its purpose...

On the edge of the shelf is a row of cylindrical strange sinks made of glass and metal, with about dozens of them. There are luminous lines at the top of the sink, and the ends of the lines are connected to the ceiling. On the edge of the sink is a huge machine with the same metal texture as the surroundings, and there are many small dots on the shell with green or red light.

Ashu Rufate couldn't help but stop, and Carrie didn't urge. Instead, it retreated a little, "Master, this is a universal healing device, multi-accessories version."

"What is this...for?"

"This is useless at the moment," Carrie replied. "It was placed here as a backup."

For some reason, seeing these things that he didn't know, Ash Rufate subconsciously remembered what he saw when he was alone in the chaos and tragic field.

Of course, objectively speaking, everything he saw in the Dark Castle was very different from what he saw in the realm of terror, but it made people feel a...unexplained sense of familiarity. It seemed that the two were from the same source.

Ash Rufate quickly remembered the records about vampires... In the book "On Vampires" published by the church, there was a saying that is the origin of vampires, that is, the vampire queen Qinxin, a creature from another world. She was pulled to this world by the power of human suffering and hatred.

The evil god of chaos who is not in this material world, the vampire queen from another world... Is there any connection between the two?

But immediately, Ashu Rufate drove away this idea. It was not the time for An Anxin to conduct scientific exploration. It was the biggest challenge in his life. This time he had to face a terrifying creature with far more power than humans, the strongest man in the vampire clan, and the Blood Duke with great power and overwhelming power. To be honest, if it were not forbidden, Ashu Rufate himself would never come here to try to challenge him.

"Where is this place?" Ashu Rufate asked.

"Warehouse." Carrie replied.

"What about the place just now?" Ashu Rufate asked. "It's... the first room I came in?"

"You came in from the utility room where cleaning tools are placed on the bottom floor," Carrie said. "That place is a utility room where cleaning tools are placed on the utility room, and it has no other purpose."

Only then did Ashu Rufate realize that... in fact, he was far from as secret as he expected. The reason why he could go in and out was not because of his skill, but because of luck - Carrie, as the will of the castle, could not understand the difference between him and the real Blood Duke (Eshu Rufate suspected that this was the consequence of him as the Blood Duke's substitute back then), so the situation that he felt like he was entering a nobody last night.

Now he knew why the thieves, assassins, spies and the like that had sneaked in before would never appear again. Although he didn't know what kind of traps the vampire set up, it was undoubtedly very dangerous.

"This...I mean the room I just said..." Asu Rufate explained awkwardly.

"The utility room," Carrie replied. "Put some backup information, which is damaged overall, but can be used as a replacement part."

"Those glasses..." Ashu Rufate thought for a moment, "those that can display images..."

"Those are just monitors," Carrie replied. "The real image data is backed up in an advanced data array. The monitor is just a default association. Although those monitors can still function normally, they are missing corners for various reasons, so they are placed there in the utility room."

Ashu Rufate didn't understand what Carrie said at all, but he could understand that the things in the room just now were all the things that "although it has been damaged but still have some value for use."

"What is this?" Ashurufate pointed to a mechanical device near the window (the warehouse also has a ventilation window, but I don't know how high it is from the ground). The reason he was interested in this thing was because it was the only thing that looked like a weapon - not a single-person weapon, but a war machine. Because it unconsciously reminds of a crossbow. And more importantly, this thing is making a slight buzzing sound, indicating that it is working.

"That is a spacecraft signal transmitter, used to transmit interstellar signals..."

Everything happened very suddenly. The moment before the speech was finished, the whole room began to shine - first, the "spaceship signal transducer" suddenly emitted a dazzling light, as if it was about to explode. Then everything, the ceiling, the ground and the walls were flashing. Now Ashrufate finally recognized that the "not knowing where it came from" light actually came from the castle itself - everything, including the dark and inconspicuous floor, was shining. At the moment when the black stone floor shone, it looked like some kind of silver-white metal.

The feeling of everything around me was flashing, as if the whole world was trembling.

Xiao Budian screamed, hugged his head and shrank into a ball of hair, and hid it in the corner. Although Asu Ruffat was also surprised, he was not afraid. As for Carrie, he kept his original movements and floated quietly in the air.

"What is this?" It took a few seconds later, Ashu Rufate confirmed that this was not a sudden attack on him.

"High-frequency signal." Carrie replied. "It's a very powerful high-frequency signal." It paused. "This is the reaction of the signal receiver receiving a high-energy high-frequency signal. Because the signal energy is too strong, this phenomenon has occurred. By the way, this signal has been received many times and is a signal that can be decomposed... In the past six months, the signal has been stably enhanced. It is estimated that it is a contact signal dedicated to interstellar communication, with a high-code index of high-strength decoding... As the only owner of this castle, you have the right to process it... Do you want to decode this signal?"

Decoding? What does this word mean? Ashu Rufate asked casually. "What are the consequences of this...'decoding' or something?"

"The decoding time is expected to be three hours. Within three hours, most of my computing power will be used to decode. Your castle will lose most of its functionality." Carrie replied. "Especially as the owner, the private rights you have will not be used flexibly."

"You mean... Once you start decoding, you can't do anything else?" Ashu Rufate asked.

"The general function will continue." Carrie replied. "It will not affect daily operations. However, if an invasion, combat or high-energy attack occurs, there may be a problem of slow response and may be dangerous."

"Start decoding." Ashu Rufat answered immediately. Although Carrie seems unable to judge the true or false Blood Duke, if there is a war in the future, it is undoubtedly more likely that it will obey the orders of the Blood Duke.

The little guy was rolled up in a ball (a ball in the true sense, even his tail was rolled in), lying on the ground trembling. Ashu Rufat could vaguely hear the poor little guy muttering. "No bad thing happened... nothing bad thing happened..." That way, he must have been frightened by the abnormality just now.

Also, he began to understand a little about why the little mother would send her out to find the Blood Duke.

In front of Ashu Rufate, the originally thick wall had once again divided an entrance and exit for people to pass. Then again, it was just right for Xiao Budian to do this. Because after a while, she might see something she would never want to see. Ashu Rufate forced herself to ignore the beast and quickly drilled out from the entrance and exit.

Walking out of the room, Ashu Rufate stepped onto the thick carpet.

That's right, this is the third floor of the castle, which is where the Blood Duke and his wife and concubine live. Ashu Rufat had been here last night, so he recognized it at a glance.

The place where he appeared was a wall in the study - or theoretically a wall. But Carrie could open an entrance and exit on any wall at will (and could automatically switch it), so the wall seemed meaningless.

The thick carpet has a light and comfortable feeling. But Ashu Rufate is already energetic in his heart.

Because he had no idea what arrangement the vampire would make was waiting for him.

Perhaps, the vampire is like an arrogant and self-esteem man, waiting for his arrival alone, wanting to have a face-to-face, one-on-one battle. Perhaps, the Blood Duke has prepared a hundred traps and intends to peel and remove Ash Rufate from his bones. Perhaps, just maybe, the Blood Duke has no plan to kill Ash Rufate at all. A wife and concubine means far less to him than an Ash Rufate who can be a substitute.

Because humans cannot infer a "non-human" thinking and action pattern, let alone a disguised master like the Blood Duke.

But undoubtedly, Ashu Rufate was sure that the Duke of Blood was waiting for him.

He held the Withering Sword and walked forward. Carrie had disappeared at some point - but Ashu Rufate thought it was not a vampire's trick. To be honest, there was no need for vampire to play any tricks.

Unexpectedly, the entire third layer was quiet, to some extent, no different from last night. Of course, the aphrodisiac effect of last night was gone.

There is no one in the reception room...the study room...the bedroom is in front. Ashu Rufat doesn't think vampires will wait in the dressing room, locker room, etc. It can only be the bedroom.

He raised his sword and made a position that could attack and defend at any time, and then slowly, little by little, moved to the edge of the bedroom door. The energy shield armor was his ace, and he didn't want to be exposed too early.

All that is left is the last step. If he takes this step, he will have to face an unavoidable fate.

Then he suddenly found that there was a mirror embedded in the wall on the side of him.

...

In some mysterious hall, a group of figures sat around a round table. Now, there is no longer the joy of victory, and the atmosphere is so heavy that it can almost crush an elephant.

"Everyone..." someone said in a bitter voice. "The current progress of spacecraft construction is 34%, and some technologies have not yet been developed... but we have no time."

"The original plan was too ambitious." The second human interface. "We shouldn't try to build a... qualified spacecraft. We just need to build a 'barely dodgy' spacecraft. As long as we can leave this planet, the Void Storm will become our natural shield. They will never notice it."

"The risk is too great." Someone else said in contemplation. "We cannot ignore many details, otherwise there will be problems and floating in the universe. That is really a matter of not wanting to die."

"But at least we can take a gamble instead of sitting here and waiting for death!" The previous person immediately retorted.

"Logiras has begun to cross the Void Storm, and he only needs one positioning now!" Someone tried hard to remain optimistic. "But, no matter what, he still lacked one positioning, isn't it? As we estimate, it turned off all navigation systems and relied on the original manual and semi-automatic manipulation to avoid most of the Void Storm's impact. Without effective positioning, it would be like a mouse drilling into a maze and would not find the right path."
To be continued...