I! Vampire ancestors

Northern Europe, England.

A cliff near the ocean, green grass, a gravel road winds from the town to the castle high above the cliff.

On the gravel road, there is a tour group leading to the ancient castle with a local guide.

“Everyone followed the team and walked about five hundred meters to the famous Thorn Castle.”

“The castle of thorns is the most famous and best-preserved medieval castle in the area, and it is rumored to be the property of Vlad III.”

A guide with curly flaxen hair, turquoise eyes, and sportswear introduced a group of young people attentively.

This tour is visited by tourists from all over the world.

There is the United States on the other side of the ocean, there is the ** that is now so strong that it cannot be ignored, and there are the rising three countries of Afghanistan.

With years of experience, the tour guide can roughly distinguish where they come from based on hair color, pupil color, appearance, and accent.

One of them, a boy with black hair, fair and yellowish skin, handsome appearance, and obvious oriental line beauty, attracted his attention.

The tour guide remembered his name as Su Xiaoye.

In the tour group, he is the only tourist from **.

Su Xiaoye put his hands in the pockets of his cyan and white jeans, looking absent-minded.

Seeing this, the tour guide waved the flag in his hand and continued to explain: “The name of Vlad III is probably not familiar to everyone, but Count Dracula, presumably many people should have heard of it, right?” ”

Peter from the United States laughed: “Vampire Count Dracula, we have all heard of it. ”

A girl who was a little timid and had a lot of freckles on her cheeks asked cautiously: “Tour guide, is there really a vampire in the castle?” ”

The tour guide shook his head and said, “There should be no vampires, but I heard from the older generation in the town that many people died in the castle when their grandfathers were older.” ”

“Later, some police officers went to investigate several times, but they didn’t see anything to look at.”

The tour guide didn’t seem to want to mention more about this, so he changed the topic and said: “Look at the rocky walls on the outside of the castle, overgrown with thorns and moss, so it is also called the thorn castle…”

Su Xiaoye looked at the thorny castle standing on the cliff height, his eyes wandered, and his palm tightly held the dragon-shaped jade pendant hanging around his neck.

“Dad, is the last place where you disappeared is this castle of thorns?”

A complicated look flashed under Su Xiaoye’s calm eyes.

He is different from other tour group tourists.

People are here to play.

Su Xiaoye came to look for the traces of his missing father.

According to Su Xiaoye’s investigation and various clues left by his father, Su Xiaoye’s father once came to the thorny castle in the westernmost part of England.

“Soon, soon, when you get to the Thorn Castle, you know, bastard daddy, why did you come here.”

Su Xiaoye was looking forward to it, and he was getting closer and closer to the Thorn Castle.

The castle of thorns is also quite majestic.

The castle as a whole is a typical architectural style of the medieval period, each brick stone, green to black, through the passage of time, the monuments are mottled.

From the vertical steep ancient castle wall, crawling with thorns, the castle adds a little greenery.

“Guys, this is the Castle of Thorns.”

The guide leads the way in front.

Many of the tour group stopped and took photos with this thorny castle with their mobile phones.

Su Xiaoye was not like the others, he put his hands in his trouser pockets.

A gaze that did not fit his age appeared under his eyes, sharp as an eagle, sweeping all corners of the castle.

Su Xiaoye was looking for clues left by his father.

“Rustle…”

The sea breeze blew through, blowing thorns all over the wall, as if it had moved a few times.

“Ugh!”

Suddenly, the freckled-faced girl screamed.

“There’s a figure upstairs!”

“Where? Where are the figures! ”

The tour guide and the tour group all looked over.

Above the castle, it was empty, not even a ghost.

Peter reproached: “Britney the coward, don’t make a fuss. ”

Britney, a freckled girl, looked aggrieved and said, “I really saw it… Just now, there were obviously people standing on the roof of the castle, watching us. ”

Su Xiaoye looked over, and there were a few more eyes in his heart.

However, for the rest of the tour group, Su Xiaoye did not communicate with them much.

In the eyes of Peter and Britney, Su Xiaoye is a stuffy gourd, with an eccentric personality and few words.

The tour guide came to Britney, handed over a bottle of water, and comforted: “It may be other tourists, don’t be nervous.” ”

Britney took the water, so she nodded and drank the water.

“Okay, everyone follow me.”

“Now let’s go around the castle.”

Some scattered teams gathered again in front of the tour guide, and then followed the guide to the halls, corridors, restaurants and other places of the castle.

While walking, the tour guide also introduced how many rooms there are in the castle of thorns and how many people can live there.

When Vlad III was alive, how many servants did the castle of thorns have, how many cattle, sheep and animals were killed in a day, and so on.

Su Xiaoye, Peter and others also followed behind the tour guide to appreciate the luxury of medieval European aristocrats.

Along the way, people visited the hustle and bustle and kept taking pictures.

After seeing the general construction of the Thorn Castle, Su Xiaoye noticed something strange.

“There are so many thorns growing outside the castle, but it seems that there is not a single thorn seen inside…”

Su Xiaoye landed at the back of the tour group and looked down to think.

“Okay, next is the visit to the last part of the Thorn Castle – the dungeon!”

The guide walked to the end of the corridor, opened a rusty iron door, looked back and smiled.

“It is rumored that Vlad III suffered from bloodthirsty disease, so his father once built a deep dungeon here in order to imprison Vlad III when he was sick.”

Perhaps to create an ancient feel, the guide brought a kerosene lamp.

He lit the kerosene lamp hanging in his backpack behind him and shone a light on the world of the black hole behind the iron gate.

The dim yellow light, dispelling part of the darkness, found that behind the iron gate, was a revolving stone staircase leading to the ground.

Peter squeezed forward and poked his head out: “It’s quite dark.” ”

Britney said a little scared: “It’s too dark, and it’s dark and damp, let’s not go down, right?” ”

Peter pulled Britney down and said with a smile: “It’s coming, what are you afraid of, there are vampires below?” ”

The guide held a kerosene lamp and also walked down the revolving stone steps.

The men and women of the tour group, two or three supported together, went down together.

Su Xiaoye’s face did not change color, took out his mobile phone, turned on the flashlight function, walked at the back of the team, and illuminated the stone steps.

Soon, Su Xiaoye found that his mobile phone showed no signal.

No one seemed to notice that there were many handprints on the rusty iron door….

After Su Xiaoye’s group completely walked into the spiral staircase leading to the dungeon, the iron door closed.