War Photographer's Notebook
Chapter 916 Krampus Wandering on the City Wall
On the morning of the second day after arriving in Salzburg, under the leadership of Leiya, Wei Ran and others left the hotel where they stayed early, and boarded the road to Bad Hofga with three pets in the air box. Stein's sightseeing train.
During the more than one-hour train journey, Wei Ran and others were listening to Leiya's introduction about this place while admiring the beautiful Alpine scenery outside the train window.
According to this French woman, the small town of Bad Hofgastein is almost located in the very center of the Gastein Valley, and the history of this small town hidden deep in the Alps can be traced back to ancient Rome. .
At that time, it was still a gold and silver mining town. By the middle ages, it had become the trading center of Italy, Austria and Germany.
But what really makes this place rise is not only the gold and silver mines with a long history, but also the hot springs discovered along with the mining of gold and silver mines.As early as the beginning of the 19th century, it became a well-known spa resort.
Especially after World War II, the hot springs containing the radioactive element hydrogen, discovered by accident due to gold mining, attracted many tourists with arthritis and respiratory diseases.
Even the Katenka sisters mentioned in the chat that they followed their mothers to come here for vacation, hot springs, skiing and paragliding more than once when they were in middle school.
After chatting for more than an hour, the train journey ended. When the group of them got off the train and left the train station under the leadership of Leya, the end of their eyes was a quiet town like a paradise.
"Where is that castle?" Sui Sui asked Anfisa impatiently.
"It's on the east side of the mountain in the Gastein Valley, but because of the angle, it's hard to see the castle from here."
Leya raised her finger and pointed in the direction, "It's about seven kilometers away from the town, come with me to the office first, and then we'll drive up."
"There is still an office here?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"certainly"
Leya nodded, "After all, that castle is far away from the town, and there are usually no people there, only people come here every spring and autumn, so we always have to have a foothold in the town."
While talking, Leiya has found a van from the parking lot, "You guys came at the right time, it happens to be the routine maintenance time in spring every year, in fact, I was still working here three days ago, it's Cy Bastian called me back to meet you."
"I hope it doesn't affect your work"
As Wei Ran spoke, he also opened the car door, allowing Sui Sui and sister Katenka, who was holding the little fox, to get into the car first.
"Of course it won't affect"
Leya smiled amiably, waited for Wei Ran to pack everyone's luggage into the trunk, got into the car with Beria, and immediately started the car and left the parking lot.
First, she rushed from the train station to the town three kilometers away. Leya drove the car to the entrance of a beautiful three-story villa with two garages and two parking spaces on the east side of the town. Watching Wei Ran and the others go straight into the room through the yard where various tools were placed, he warmly greeted them and sat down.
"This is my office. Our car is parked here. Occasionally, staff members come here to rest."
While explaining, Leiya took out the key and opened a door on the first floor, "This is my office and lounge, please wait a moment, I will change clothes."
After speaking, the woman closed the door from the inside.When she came out again, she had already taken off the formal suit and leather shoes she was wearing, and put on a set of slightly old assault clothes and a pair of hiking boots with mud remaining.
Taking advantage of the time when the other party walked out of the room, he glanced inside. As far as his eyes could see, the room was full of various drawings and materials, and there was even a huge photo of the castle hanging on the wall.
"You just said that occasionally there are staff members who come here and live here?"
Looking back, Wei Ran pointed to a group photo of more than a dozen people hanging on the wall of the hall on the first floor, "Don't you all live in the castle?"
Hearing this, Leia's face changed, and she said helplessly, "In fact, since the rumors of haunting appeared, no staff member is willing to spend the night in the castle, even though the conditions in the castle are much more comfortable than here. "
"Including you?" Anfeiya couldn't help asking curiously.
"I..." Leya's expression became more and more embarrassing, and she found an excuse in a pale tone, "I have a phobia of living alone."
"Does this disease exist in medicine?" Anfeiya murmured subconsciously.
"Just started." Anfeiya teased with a weird look, and then translated the conversation just now to Sui Sui who couldn't understand German.
Seeing that the female architect who kept saying that the castle was not haunted was too scared to live in the castle, Wei Ran also realized that there might be something really wrong with that castle.
To be on the safe side, he used the excuse that he needed to go to the bathroom to wash his face to sober up, took the opportunity to take out two PSS micro-sound pistols and two spare magazines from the food box, and gave them to Sister Katenka when he found a chance.
Naturally, this gun was prepared in advance before leaving Kazan, so that the Katenka sisters could protect themselves and at the same time better protect Suisui.
However, for the Katenka sisters who got the weapons, they were actually more curious about how Wei Ran gave them these two weapons after landing in Hawaii than wondering whether the Soviet weapons could kill the ghosts in Austria. The weapons were brought from Hawaii to Austria so smoothly.
After all, they clearly remembered that this weapon was returned to Wei Ran before they decided to leave for Honolulu Airport in Hawaii.
Amid the doubts of the two sisters, Leiya, who was obviously relaxed after changing her clothes, fixed the explosive rolls on her head with a headband, and then drove them out of the town, along a winding mountain road that continued to rise. Headed towards the top of the mountain.
Passing through a small pasture, and passing a particularly beautiful small waterfall on the side of the road, the van also drove into a forest with beech and fir trees.
After driving slowly along the gravel road for nearly 20 minutes in this mixed forest shrouded in clouds and mist, when the car reached the top of this hill that seemed to be bald, there was no sign in front of it. A large flat field full of roses.
It's early spring, and although the only thing you can see in this sea of flowers is the thorny flower stems and the workers busy pruning the branches, it's not hard to imagine what it will be like when the sea of flowers is in full bloom.
Of course, compared to the field of horticultural roses planted in various patterns and the ornamental trees in the flower field that are being built by several workers, what is more attractive here is the white castle in the center of the roses. , and the southeast corner of the castle, the windmill also surrounded by rose fields.
Compared with Wei Ran's more "familiar" elk castle, he also has to admit that this magnificent building in front of him can really be called a "castle" because - it has a city wall and a defense line integrated with the city wall tower.
Seeing that Wei Ran and the others had cast their eyes on the building outside the window, Leiya simply stepped on the brakes, beckoned everyone to get off the car, and walked towards the castle.
"This castle was first named White Rose Castle by Mr. Timov. Of course, that was when the castle still existed on the blueprint."
"Who is Mr. Timov?" Suho asked after listening to the translation.
"Mr. Dominique's brother-in-law"
Wei Ran gave a simple and clear explanation in Chinese, and then asked in German, "So this castle was actually built according to Mr. Timov's last wish?"
"According to my father, Mr. Timov planned to give this castle to his wife, Mrs. Sophie, and their daughter. But before he bought the land, his daughter and wife passed away one after another. , and later even Mr. Timov left this world.”
After a short pause, Leia finally concluded, "So strictly speaking, this castle was built by Mr. Dominic to commemorate the Timov family."
Waiting patiently for Wei Ran to "translate", Leya continued to explain as she walked, "The predecessor of this castle was the nobles who mined gold here in the 19th century.
A hunting station built. "
"What is the hunting station?" Wei Ran asked Sui Sui the question she wanted to ask before she could speak.
"To put it simply, it was built for the nobles to camp safely when hunting in the wild. It is a defensive building with only a city wall."
Leya sighed regretfully, "Unfortunately, since the Germans occupied this place during World War II, the hunting station has been completely blown up by the Germans.
But thanks to their barbaric behavior at the time, otherwise, it would be very troublesome legally to build a castle here. "
Speaking of which, everyone wanted to see the highest point of the castle wall, and already had to lean their necks up.Although I don't know what the inside of the castle looks like, but just looking at the thick wall from the outside, I'm afraid there are 30 meters up.
"This castle is really beautiful." Suho who raised her neck could not help but admire.
"Why do I seem to have seen a similar castle somewhere?"
Anfeya murmured subconsciously, and Anfisa next to her also nodded, "I really seem to have seen it somewhere."
"It's normal for you to think that you have seen it somewhere"
Leya smiled and explained, "The design of this castle is largely borrowed from the Pierrefont Castle in France. Well, maybe it should be said that plagiarism is more accurate."
"Plagiarism?" Wei Ran looked at the calm woman in front of him in astonishment.
"It's indeed plagiarism. When Mr. Dominique found my father, he only made one request."
Leya cleared her throat, and said in a tone of voice, "Louis, help me build a castle with thick walls and beautiful towers that don't block the view, um, just like the castle of Pierrefont."
"And then?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"Then my upright father, Mr. Louis, helped him build this magnificent building with a side length of [-] meters almost exactly according to the appearance of Pierrefont Castle."
Leia smiled and explained, "Of course, it's not exactly the same. There are also some architectural parts that Pierrefont doesn't have. Anyway, come with me, and I'll show you around."
Hearing this, everyone followed Leiya through the open city gate between the two towers, and walked into the castle covered with bluestone strips.
In addition to the surrounding buildings that are integrated with the city wall, there is an old tree in the center of the courtyard inside the castle that looks very old. At this time, several workers are busy pruning. There is a well that also looks very old.
"It's an olive tree"
Leya explained from a long distance, "It and the well are also the few remaining elements of the hunting station I just mentioned. According to the experts we invited, it has been at least 400 years old." age of the tree.
Of course, that well is relatively young, judging from the pottery found at the bottom of the well, it may only be at most 200 years old, but I have to admit that the water quality of this well is very good. "
After speaking, Leia led everyone into the row of buildings built next to the city wall.
"It's so beautiful here..." Sui Sui, who was standing in the corridor, couldn't help but exclaimed similarly again.
"It's really beautiful..." Wei Ran sighed secretly. Compared with the elk castle like a rough house, this place can't be described as luxurious even if it is.
But compared to the simple and luxurious decoration, what really moved him was the things stored here.
Wherever he looked, he saw a lot of familiar things and unfamiliar things. Among these things, there were not only a Willys Jeep and an American muscle car, but also an extremely familiar World War II car in the middle of the hall. German dining car.There is even a very American collectible in it—a Coca-Cola vending machine.
And not far from the dining car, on an exhibition table with a glass cover, there are lunch boxes with different names written on them neatly.
This familiar scene even made Wei Ran subconsciously think that in the next second, two young blond girls would fill out a spoonful of thick carrot mixed
Putting oatmeal porridge on those lunch boxes, and then being delivered to the long table outside by a line of sensible children.
But in addition, in this warm room, there are such things as the BC1000 radio station of the US military in World War II, as well as several American oil stoves with traces of heavy use and radiators made of gas mask cans.
"These are the relics of Mr. Timov and Mrs. Sophie"
Leya lowered her voice, "Although I haven't seen them, I remember very clearly that after the castle was built, these things were transported by Mr. Dominique by plane."
While speaking, everyone followed into the second room.
In this room, there are two huge shelves against the wall, on which are placed tubes of paints of various colors, as well as rolls of canvases and packs of unpacked picture frames.
In the center of the floor where the sunlight from the window shines, there is an easel and a small table with a palette.
On the slightly cracked canvas, boys and girls with smiling faces can still be discerned, as well as a piece of ruins covered by weeds.
And in the lower right corner of the canvas, there seems to be an American soldier who is working hard to turn the switch wheel of the water gate.
Continue to visit the third room. The walls of this room are covered with Sophie's oil paintings and a very familiar photo of Zhang Weiran.Even those painted in those oil paintings are friends who are destined to never see again.
Continuing along the spacious and warm corridor, stepping on the thick carpet into the fourth room. In addition to a piano that looks very old, there is also a picture on the surrounding walls. photos.
However, in these photos, there are basically only Sophie and Timov, and a little girl who looks somewhat similar to Timov and Sophie.
Through these photos, Wei Ran can also see that Sophie and Timov lived a life that could be called affluent after the war.And the gold digging machines that appear from time to time in the background of the photos, as well as the scenery of various cities in the United States in the 60s, also hinted at their thriving careers.
However, when the little girl who was growing up in the photo no longer appeared, the smiles on Sophie and Timov's faces became less and less.The background behind them gradually became nothing but uniform farms and easels covered with various paints.
Sighing secretly, Wei Ran and the others, led by Leiya, went around the castle again, and finally climbed up to the second floor of the main building of the castle along a beautiful stone staircase.
With a soft squeak, Leiya pushed open a door and led everyone into a room with a glass dome and glass curtain wall.In this large room, there is a large enough swimming pool, and outside the window, you can also see the snow-capped mountains in the distance.And at the foot of the glass window, there is the city wall, the cliff that goes up and down outside the city wall, and the river and a small waterfall flowing under the cliff.
"The heating of this castle depends entirely on the geothermal hot springs 1400 meters underground. Even in bad weather in summer, the water temperature of the hot springs here can exceed 45 degrees Celsius."
Leya had already turned on a silver switch while she was speaking. Immediately, the water outlets in the shape of animal heads around the swimming pool began to splash out clean water. After a while, the water flow began to steam with light water vapor. .
Without closing it at all, Leia led them through a sliding door on the glass curtain wall. It wasn't until this time that everyone noticed that there was an open-air hot spring pool with a better view outside.
"Want to take a hot spring?"
While Leia was talking, she had turned on a switch again, and suddenly, the water outlets around the hot spring pool also began to flow out hot springs with steam.
"It will take a while to fill this place, but don't worry, when it is full, the excess spring water will flow into the river below."
After finishing speaking, Leiya waved and led them upstairs while saying, "If you really plan to stay here tonight, I suggest you stay in the upstairs room."
"Because the scenery there is good enough?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"certainly"
Leya replied as a matter of course, "Not only is the view good, starting from the third floor, every room can see the top of the city wall outside. In other words, from any room starting from the third floor, it is possible to see the top of the city wall." Ghosts living in the castle."
"What does that ghost look like?" Suho asked curiously.
"Krampus"
Leya casually opened a room on the third floor, opened the thick red curtains and thin white gauze curtains, pointed to the city wall outside the window and said, "Have you heard of the legend of Krampus?"
During the more than one-hour train journey, Wei Ran and others were listening to Leiya's introduction about this place while admiring the beautiful Alpine scenery outside the train window.
According to this French woman, the small town of Bad Hofgastein is almost located in the very center of the Gastein Valley, and the history of this small town hidden deep in the Alps can be traced back to ancient Rome. .
At that time, it was still a gold and silver mining town. By the middle ages, it had become the trading center of Italy, Austria and Germany.
But what really makes this place rise is not only the gold and silver mines with a long history, but also the hot springs discovered along with the mining of gold and silver mines.As early as the beginning of the 19th century, it became a well-known spa resort.
Especially after World War II, the hot springs containing the radioactive element hydrogen, discovered by accident due to gold mining, attracted many tourists with arthritis and respiratory diseases.
Even the Katenka sisters mentioned in the chat that they followed their mothers to come here for vacation, hot springs, skiing and paragliding more than once when they were in middle school.
After chatting for more than an hour, the train journey ended. When the group of them got off the train and left the train station under the leadership of Leya, the end of their eyes was a quiet town like a paradise.
"Where is that castle?" Sui Sui asked Anfisa impatiently.
"It's on the east side of the mountain in the Gastein Valley, but because of the angle, it's hard to see the castle from here."
Leya raised her finger and pointed in the direction, "It's about seven kilometers away from the town, come with me to the office first, and then we'll drive up."
"There is still an office here?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"certainly"
Leya nodded, "After all, that castle is far away from the town, and there are usually no people there, only people come here every spring and autumn, so we always have to have a foothold in the town."
While talking, Leiya has found a van from the parking lot, "You guys came at the right time, it happens to be the routine maintenance time in spring every year, in fact, I was still working here three days ago, it's Cy Bastian called me back to meet you."
"I hope it doesn't affect your work"
As Wei Ran spoke, he also opened the car door, allowing Sui Sui and sister Katenka, who was holding the little fox, to get into the car first.
"Of course it won't affect"
Leya smiled amiably, waited for Wei Ran to pack everyone's luggage into the trunk, got into the car with Beria, and immediately started the car and left the parking lot.
First, she rushed from the train station to the town three kilometers away. Leya drove the car to the entrance of a beautiful three-story villa with two garages and two parking spaces on the east side of the town. Watching Wei Ran and the others go straight into the room through the yard where various tools were placed, he warmly greeted them and sat down.
"This is my office. Our car is parked here. Occasionally, staff members come here to rest."
While explaining, Leiya took out the key and opened a door on the first floor, "This is my office and lounge, please wait a moment, I will change clothes."
After speaking, the woman closed the door from the inside.When she came out again, she had already taken off the formal suit and leather shoes she was wearing, and put on a set of slightly old assault clothes and a pair of hiking boots with mud remaining.
Taking advantage of the time when the other party walked out of the room, he glanced inside. As far as his eyes could see, the room was full of various drawings and materials, and there was even a huge photo of the castle hanging on the wall.
"You just said that occasionally there are staff members who come here and live here?"
Looking back, Wei Ran pointed to a group photo of more than a dozen people hanging on the wall of the hall on the first floor, "Don't you all live in the castle?"
Hearing this, Leia's face changed, and she said helplessly, "In fact, since the rumors of haunting appeared, no staff member is willing to spend the night in the castle, even though the conditions in the castle are much more comfortable than here. "
"Including you?" Anfeiya couldn't help asking curiously.
"I..." Leya's expression became more and more embarrassing, and she found an excuse in a pale tone, "I have a phobia of living alone."
"Does this disease exist in medicine?" Anfeiya murmured subconsciously.
"Just started." Anfeiya teased with a weird look, and then translated the conversation just now to Sui Sui who couldn't understand German.
Seeing that the female architect who kept saying that the castle was not haunted was too scared to live in the castle, Wei Ran also realized that there might be something really wrong with that castle.
To be on the safe side, he used the excuse that he needed to go to the bathroom to wash his face to sober up, took the opportunity to take out two PSS micro-sound pistols and two spare magazines from the food box, and gave them to Sister Katenka when he found a chance.
Naturally, this gun was prepared in advance before leaving Kazan, so that the Katenka sisters could protect themselves and at the same time better protect Suisui.
However, for the Katenka sisters who got the weapons, they were actually more curious about how Wei Ran gave them these two weapons after landing in Hawaii than wondering whether the Soviet weapons could kill the ghosts in Austria. The weapons were brought from Hawaii to Austria so smoothly.
After all, they clearly remembered that this weapon was returned to Wei Ran before they decided to leave for Honolulu Airport in Hawaii.
Amid the doubts of the two sisters, Leiya, who was obviously relaxed after changing her clothes, fixed the explosive rolls on her head with a headband, and then drove them out of the town, along a winding mountain road that continued to rise. Headed towards the top of the mountain.
Passing through a small pasture, and passing a particularly beautiful small waterfall on the side of the road, the van also drove into a forest with beech and fir trees.
After driving slowly along the gravel road for nearly 20 minutes in this mixed forest shrouded in clouds and mist, when the car reached the top of this hill that seemed to be bald, there was no sign in front of it. A large flat field full of roses.
It's early spring, and although the only thing you can see in this sea of flowers is the thorny flower stems and the workers busy pruning the branches, it's not hard to imagine what it will be like when the sea of flowers is in full bloom.
Of course, compared to the field of horticultural roses planted in various patterns and the ornamental trees in the flower field that are being built by several workers, what is more attractive here is the white castle in the center of the roses. , and the southeast corner of the castle, the windmill also surrounded by rose fields.
Compared with Wei Ran's more "familiar" elk castle, he also has to admit that this magnificent building in front of him can really be called a "castle" because - it has a city wall and a defense line integrated with the city wall tower.
Seeing that Wei Ran and the others had cast their eyes on the building outside the window, Leiya simply stepped on the brakes, beckoned everyone to get off the car, and walked towards the castle.
"This castle was first named White Rose Castle by Mr. Timov. Of course, that was when the castle still existed on the blueprint."
"Who is Mr. Timov?" Suho asked after listening to the translation.
"Mr. Dominique's brother-in-law"
Wei Ran gave a simple and clear explanation in Chinese, and then asked in German, "So this castle was actually built according to Mr. Timov's last wish?"
"According to my father, Mr. Timov planned to give this castle to his wife, Mrs. Sophie, and their daughter. But before he bought the land, his daughter and wife passed away one after another. , and later even Mr. Timov left this world.”
After a short pause, Leia finally concluded, "So strictly speaking, this castle was built by Mr. Dominic to commemorate the Timov family."
Waiting patiently for Wei Ran to "translate", Leya continued to explain as she walked, "The predecessor of this castle was the nobles who mined gold here in the 19th century.
A hunting station built. "
"What is the hunting station?" Wei Ran asked Sui Sui the question she wanted to ask before she could speak.
"To put it simply, it was built for the nobles to camp safely when hunting in the wild. It is a defensive building with only a city wall."
Leya sighed regretfully, "Unfortunately, since the Germans occupied this place during World War II, the hunting station has been completely blown up by the Germans.
But thanks to their barbaric behavior at the time, otherwise, it would be very troublesome legally to build a castle here. "
Speaking of which, everyone wanted to see the highest point of the castle wall, and already had to lean their necks up.Although I don't know what the inside of the castle looks like, but just looking at the thick wall from the outside, I'm afraid there are 30 meters up.
"This castle is really beautiful." Suho who raised her neck could not help but admire.
"Why do I seem to have seen a similar castle somewhere?"
Anfeya murmured subconsciously, and Anfisa next to her also nodded, "I really seem to have seen it somewhere."
"It's normal for you to think that you have seen it somewhere"
Leya smiled and explained, "The design of this castle is largely borrowed from the Pierrefont Castle in France. Well, maybe it should be said that plagiarism is more accurate."
"Plagiarism?" Wei Ran looked at the calm woman in front of him in astonishment.
"It's indeed plagiarism. When Mr. Dominique found my father, he only made one request."
Leya cleared her throat, and said in a tone of voice, "Louis, help me build a castle with thick walls and beautiful towers that don't block the view, um, just like the castle of Pierrefont."
"And then?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"Then my upright father, Mr. Louis, helped him build this magnificent building with a side length of [-] meters almost exactly according to the appearance of Pierrefont Castle."
Leia smiled and explained, "Of course, it's not exactly the same. There are also some architectural parts that Pierrefont doesn't have. Anyway, come with me, and I'll show you around."
Hearing this, everyone followed Leiya through the open city gate between the two towers, and walked into the castle covered with bluestone strips.
In addition to the surrounding buildings that are integrated with the city wall, there is an old tree in the center of the courtyard inside the castle that looks very old. At this time, several workers are busy pruning. There is a well that also looks very old.
"It's an olive tree"
Leya explained from a long distance, "It and the well are also the few remaining elements of the hunting station I just mentioned. According to the experts we invited, it has been at least 400 years old." age of the tree.
Of course, that well is relatively young, judging from the pottery found at the bottom of the well, it may only be at most 200 years old, but I have to admit that the water quality of this well is very good. "
After speaking, Leia led everyone into the row of buildings built next to the city wall.
"It's so beautiful here..." Sui Sui, who was standing in the corridor, couldn't help but exclaimed similarly again.
"It's really beautiful..." Wei Ran sighed secretly. Compared with the elk castle like a rough house, this place can't be described as luxurious even if it is.
But compared to the simple and luxurious decoration, what really moved him was the things stored here.
Wherever he looked, he saw a lot of familiar things and unfamiliar things. Among these things, there were not only a Willys Jeep and an American muscle car, but also an extremely familiar World War II car in the middle of the hall. German dining car.There is even a very American collectible in it—a Coca-Cola vending machine.
And not far from the dining car, on an exhibition table with a glass cover, there are lunch boxes with different names written on them neatly.
This familiar scene even made Wei Ran subconsciously think that in the next second, two young blond girls would fill out a spoonful of thick carrot mixed
Putting oatmeal porridge on those lunch boxes, and then being delivered to the long table outside by a line of sensible children.
But in addition, in this warm room, there are such things as the BC1000 radio station of the US military in World War II, as well as several American oil stoves with traces of heavy use and radiators made of gas mask cans.
"These are the relics of Mr. Timov and Mrs. Sophie"
Leya lowered her voice, "Although I haven't seen them, I remember very clearly that after the castle was built, these things were transported by Mr. Dominique by plane."
While speaking, everyone followed into the second room.
In this room, there are two huge shelves against the wall, on which are placed tubes of paints of various colors, as well as rolls of canvases and packs of unpacked picture frames.
In the center of the floor where the sunlight from the window shines, there is an easel and a small table with a palette.
On the slightly cracked canvas, boys and girls with smiling faces can still be discerned, as well as a piece of ruins covered by weeds.
And in the lower right corner of the canvas, there seems to be an American soldier who is working hard to turn the switch wheel of the water gate.
Continue to visit the third room. The walls of this room are covered with Sophie's oil paintings and a very familiar photo of Zhang Weiran.Even those painted in those oil paintings are friends who are destined to never see again.
Continuing along the spacious and warm corridor, stepping on the thick carpet into the fourth room. In addition to a piano that looks very old, there is also a picture on the surrounding walls. photos.
However, in these photos, there are basically only Sophie and Timov, and a little girl who looks somewhat similar to Timov and Sophie.
Through these photos, Wei Ran can also see that Sophie and Timov lived a life that could be called affluent after the war.And the gold digging machines that appear from time to time in the background of the photos, as well as the scenery of various cities in the United States in the 60s, also hinted at their thriving careers.
However, when the little girl who was growing up in the photo no longer appeared, the smiles on Sophie and Timov's faces became less and less.The background behind them gradually became nothing but uniform farms and easels covered with various paints.
Sighing secretly, Wei Ran and the others, led by Leiya, went around the castle again, and finally climbed up to the second floor of the main building of the castle along a beautiful stone staircase.
With a soft squeak, Leiya pushed open a door and led everyone into a room with a glass dome and glass curtain wall.In this large room, there is a large enough swimming pool, and outside the window, you can also see the snow-capped mountains in the distance.And at the foot of the glass window, there is the city wall, the cliff that goes up and down outside the city wall, and the river and a small waterfall flowing under the cliff.
"The heating of this castle depends entirely on the geothermal hot springs 1400 meters underground. Even in bad weather in summer, the water temperature of the hot springs here can exceed 45 degrees Celsius."
Leya had already turned on a silver switch while she was speaking. Immediately, the water outlets in the shape of animal heads around the swimming pool began to splash out clean water. After a while, the water flow began to steam with light water vapor. .
Without closing it at all, Leia led them through a sliding door on the glass curtain wall. It wasn't until this time that everyone noticed that there was an open-air hot spring pool with a better view outside.
"Want to take a hot spring?"
While Leia was talking, she had turned on a switch again, and suddenly, the water outlets around the hot spring pool also began to flow out hot springs with steam.
"It will take a while to fill this place, but don't worry, when it is full, the excess spring water will flow into the river below."
After finishing speaking, Leiya waved and led them upstairs while saying, "If you really plan to stay here tonight, I suggest you stay in the upstairs room."
"Because the scenery there is good enough?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"certainly"
Leya replied as a matter of course, "Not only is the view good, starting from the third floor, every room can see the top of the city wall outside. In other words, from any room starting from the third floor, it is possible to see the top of the city wall." Ghosts living in the castle."
"What does that ghost look like?" Suho asked curiously.
"Krampus"
Leya casually opened a room on the third floor, opened the thick red curtains and thin white gauze curtains, pointed to the city wall outside the window and said, "Have you heard of the legend of Krampus?"
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