days at Hogwarts

Chapter 131 Countess Lee Kester
The hotel manager in a flat suit led the two into the hotel in this campsite.

The interior of the hotel is brightly lit, and the smooth tile decoration reflects the light of the gorgeous chandelier on the ceiling, and the candlelights placed around complement each other, highlighting some hazy beauty.

Loren and Hermione entered the door, and the brilliant lights shone into their eyes, blinding their eyes.

It seemed very strange to have so many candles lit in a modern hotel.The main light in the center of the ceiling is still an electric light, and it shines normally, and it doesn't look like there is a lack of electricity here.

Loren narrowed his eyes slightly to adapt for a while, and asked, "Why are there so many candles?"

"The hotel has prepared a candlelight dance, just tonight, if you are interested, welcome to attend." The hotel manager replied.

Hermione looked around, but didn't see anyone else, and asked suspiciously, "Where are the guests at the ball?"

The hotel manager paused, and then replied: "Some of the guests are in the field, and some are in the room. The dance has not officially started yet, so it is relatively deserted."

The two of Loren were taken to a room on the side of the lobby, where hot food prepared for the dance was placed on the table.

On the plate on the white tablecloth, various cheeses, biscuits, fried chicken nuggets, and cocktail meatballs are placed in the shape of a hill.

There are also empty wine glasses piled up in a hill according to the Fibonacci sequence. It seems that the wine will be poured from the top glass until the banquet starts, and the overflowing wine will enter the next row of wine glasses.

"Wait a mininute."

The manager of the suit hotel smiled very politely, "I'll find you a food box for you to carry. If the guests are hungry, the food here can be taken at will, and all the food is provided by our hotel for free."

After speaking, he bowed slightly and exited the room.

Hermione was a little uneasy, she whispered: "Loren, I feel that this hotel is very strange, this person's way of speaking is not normal, like, like..."

Loren added: "Like a puppet without emotion."

The bright lights, the empty hotel, and the fact that it's so quiet, it's unnaturally quiet.

Loren also felt vaguely uneasy, and turned around with his crystal blue eyes, but he didn't notice any fluctuations in magic power.

From the moment I entered the hotel, that strange feeling lingered in my heart.Although he didn't know the source of this feeling, he didn't want to take any risks, and said to Hermione, "Don't wait, let's go directly."

Just as the two were about to leave, the hotel manager came in with another woman in a lady's suit.

The male hotel manager in a suit always maintained a polite and gracious attitude, and he introduced: "This is the manager in charge here, Countess Lee Kester, there are no boxes for takeaway food in the back kitchen, she is here Apologize to you guys."

"Countess? Sounds like a title from many years ago." Hermione asked, but soon realized that this was impolite and stopped.

The countess of Lee Kester's face was white under such light. She looked a little old, with clear neck lines on her neck and wrinkles around her eyes, but her back was still straight and she looked very energetic.

With a sincere smile on her face: "Sorry, this is our negligence. In order to compensate the loss of customers, I sincerely invite you to participate in the dance party tonight, and all of your consumption in this hotel will be free of charge. We The hotel will take this issue seriously, and I am sorry to bring you a bad experience during your trip."

His voice was hoarse, like he had a cold.

Both of these two people gave Loren a very bad feeling, just like a hotel where no one can be seen but the lights are bright, it is disturbing.

Loren shook his head and refused, "We don't plan to go to the dance, so we'll go back first."

He pulled Hermione to walk out the door.

The female hotel manager stretched out her hand to stop them. She knelt down on one knee, her head was at the same level as Loren Hermione's, her eyes contained the reflections of the two, and she said in a calm and emotionless voice: "The dance has already begun. , aren't you going to take a look?"

Her eyes widened slightly, her pupils contracted into a black spot, and the black on her pupils gradually infiltrated the whites of her eyes until the entire eyeball turned black.

Loren and Hermione stared at these eyes, their eyes gradually became slack, and they repeated mechanically: "The dance has begun, look."

The door of the room opened suddenly, and the hall outside the door was already full of people. They were wearing exquisite dresses and skirts, shaking their bodies to the soothing music under the light.

Lights and figures filled the minds of the two of them, and their thinking became slow, as if they had been drinking, and they only remembered to watch the dance.

Loren kept walking forward, he vaguely realized that he had forgotten something, and there was always a voice in his heart repeating something, but it was difficult to hear clearly.

The lobby of the hotel became the castle hall, and the soft glow of giant chandeliers hanging from the dome illuminated the entire ball scene.Ornate tapestries with brightly colored designs hang on the walls.

The white walls of the hotel turned into gray castle walls, and the candlesticks hanging obliquely on the walls were flickering lightly.

On the dance floor in the center, a gorgeously dressed musician played soft music, and the melody echoed throughout the room.The ladies' gowns are smooth and graceful, with delicate silk embellished with lace and pearl ornaments, loose cuffs, overall loose tailoring, rich details, ornate decoration, and colorful streamers fluttering with the music.

Loren and Hermione slipped through bell-hems, floor-length dresses, and puffy skirts, but no one at the ball noticed them.For Loren and Hermione, the dance party is just a textured image, and the people in the image cannot perceive the audience.

Loren was in a daze between half-dream and half-awake, and only remembered to look at the ball, to see the ball, but his subconscious mind pointed in the opposite direction.

A strong panic was in his heart, as if something terrible was about to come, but he couldn't think of anything.The two walked mechanically to the corner of the room, taking in the entire dance scene.

Bang bang bang!
The rapid and strong sound of slapping on the door interrupted the musician's performance, and the whole ballroom fell into an eerie silence.

Bang bang bang!
The knock on the door rang again, and the sound echoed in the ballroom and above the people.

The throng made way from the gate to the center of the dance floor, where stood Countess Lee Kester and a housekeeper.

Neither could they see the two in the corner.

At this time, Countess Lee Kester had a young face, delicate and fair skin, and fleshy cheeks. The girl walked to the door neatly, and the housekeeper stretched out her hand to open the door.

A man wearing a gorgeous coat appeared outside the door. He was tall and slender, elegant and confident, with a delicate and well-defined face, eyebrows like black feathers, and deep eyes.

He was raising his hand to knock on the door again.

The girl showed a gentle smile: "Gentleman, may I ask you to knock on my door and interrupt my 18th birthday party, what's the matter?"

The man first showed a look of astonishment, and then laughed: "Beautiful lady, happy birthday, I knocked on the door to bring you the scenery of the 18-year-old world, if possible, you can give me a glass of water for a hunting passer by the way. "

There was laughter from the crowd at the ball.

Countess Lee Kester also covered her mouth and smiled, pausing for a moment to invite the man to her birthday ball.

The man is handsome and elegant, and the woman is beautiful and moving. The two danced one after another under the envious eyes of everyone. The skirt fluttered and circled with the dance, and the pearl ornaments on it shone.

Loren and Hermione sat in the corner holding hands, no one could see them, no one could touch them, they witnessed the dance, but they were not in this time and space.

After the ball, the girl persuaded the man to stay in the castle.

During the day they go out on horseback to hunt, chase the wind and sunshine, and play in the fields.At night they dance by candlelight.

After four days like this, the two fell in love thoroughly and couldn't extricate themselves.But the man can't stay no matter what he says, he must leave, the woman cried all night, but still can't keep her.

In the morning after five days, the man and woman said goodbye at the door.

Loren and Hermione were still sitting in the corner, watching this scene mechanically.

The man looked at the red and swollen eyes of the girl from crying, and his heart ached unbearably. He reached out and stroked the girl's cheeks, which were no longer as plump as when they first met: "Maybe one day I will come to you, I hope you will still be beautiful at that time."

Tears fell from the corners of the girl's eyes. After the two kissed affectionately, the man left without looking back.

The gates are closed and the castle is once again plunged into darkness.

The man left, and the girl suffered from missing her.The housekeeper who grew up with her couldn't bear to see the girl suffer, so she took her out for an unknown how long, but apparently there was still no result, and they couldn't find any news of the man.

Countess Lee Custer gradually sank in her thoughts, and her young body was gradually thinned and aged in depression, and her complexion gradually turned pale.

The housekeeper sought medical advice everywhere, but to no avail.

On a stormy night, the sound of thunder kept ringing outside the window, deafening, and the torrential rain was blowing on the castle. The Countess tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep.

She was so emaciated that only the skeleton was left, and the wrinkled skin clinged to the skeleton, and everyone could see that she was dying.

The housekeeper lit candles in a room on the second floor, and the candlelight cast her figure on the glass windows, slender and sneaky.

She called the youngest maid in the castle, asked her to wipe the candlestick, hid behind the maid, killed and pierced her body with a dagger.

The moment the blood spattered, the crystal blue light in Loren's eyes enveloped the entire eyeball, and all the scenes in front of him quickly shrank, shrunk, and shrank into a single point.

He finally saw clearly that there was a small and exquisite mirror shining with blood-red magic light in front of him.There is an oval mirror on the top, and a handle below, with a ruby ​​inlaid at the tip of the handle.

The dance party, the young girl, and the scene of killing people on a rainy night just now are all mirror images presented by this mirror.

There was no harm to the two of them, so there should be no malice.

But Loren was very unhappy about being brought into the illusion without a sound, so he pointed his wand directly at the mirror, "[Shen Feng Wu Ying]"

The invisible sharp blade slashed across and failed to cut through the mirror, but countless cracks extended from a point in the center of the mirror surface, and the mirror was almost shattered.

Loren was planning to come back several times to break the illusion, but the mirror image enveloped him again, and when he opened his eyes, he sat back in the corner of the castle again.

He squeezed his wand tightly, and murmured: "To deal with this kind of thing, you should burn Nima with fierce fire."

The story in the castle continued. The housekeeper put the maid's blood into a goblet, gave it to the countess to drink, and wiped the countess's body with the blood. The storm covered all traces.

In this way, the Countess Lee Kester recovered from her illness, and she became young, beautiful and radiant again.But she was also obsessed with the taste of blood. Every month after that, the housekeeper would kill a young girl for her, drink her blood, and bathe in it.

The castle became bright again, the lights were brilliant, and the ball was more grand than before. Countess Lee Kester hoped to reproduce the scene of the ball that night and find the handsome gentleman again.

Bang bang bang!
The moment the knock on the castle door sounded again, the sound of the mirror shattering sounded, and all the scenes in front of me shattered into countless lenses and disappeared.

Loren and Hermione reappeared in the forest, their feet on a small dirt ridge covered with fallen leaves.

"It's over?" Loren looked around, and this time it was really an ordinary forest.

Hermione's face was blank: "We were not collecting firewood just now, why did we seem to stop here?"

These words were a bit strange, Loren looked into Hermione's eyes and asked, "Don't you remember what happened just now?"

"What happened just now? What happened?" Hermione asked.

Loren froze in place.

Does Hermione have no memory of just now, or is Hermione just now part of the illusion?

He preferred that he was the only one who had entered the illusion just now, and for Hermione, it was just a moment of absence here.

Seeing that Loren's expression was not right, Hermione thought about it for a while, but couldn't find the reason, and then asked, "Did something happen just now?"

Loren didn't intend to explain the illusion to Hermione, so as not to worry her.

He smiled and said: "Didn't you just say that you have enough firewood, why can't you stop?"

"I clearly said that we need to prepare more, but that's not enough!" Hermione slapped his hand away, thinking that this man was trying to be lazy, and ignored him and continued to pick up firewood.

Loren followed Hermione, only then began to sort out what happened just now in his mind.

From this little ridge, they, or only he, stepped into the illusion.

But the phantom does not directly turn into the castle, but through the reflection of the hotel, the image of the hotel manager in a suit leads him into the room inside, and then enters the castle through the room, and finally he watches the mirror image completely in the corner of the castle.

First of all, this style of mirroring and mirroring is the same as when he interpreted the "Book of Abraham" on the bright night of Mars, and it has a very deep connection with the mirror.

Will there be any connection between the two, will this be a systematic magic, or alchemy.Loren plans to go back and look up information on this mirror illusion.

The second is the content. The mirror image conveys the story of Countess Lee Kester who used blood to maintain her youth. She and her housekeeper must be wizards. This kind of behavior may be the black magic of the pure-blood family, or it may be vampire.

(End of this chapter)