Volume 9: Vampires and Dungeons Chapter 5: Strange Family (Part 1)
In the Black Tower, a fortress city where every inch of land is valuable, theoretically there wouldn't be any special buildings. However, what appeared before Li Lin was a gloomy and cold building complex. Countless black spires spread around, like countless desperate hands reaching upwards. The strong sense of upwardness and the dark red painted windows made the entire architectural style full of cold and gloomy colors.
If the main purpose of this building is to make the people living inside feel miserable, Li Lin can be sure that their request has been met. After staying here for only a short period of time, Li Lin frowned, thinking that these buildings gave people a particularly gloomy and uncomfortable feeling. I don't know how painful it feels to live in them.
The beautification here also seemed to have some malicious intent. Most of them were gray-black, dark green sharp plants, or ferns and ferns that made people feel uncomfortable. These definitely could not be called healthy lives, wildly spreading and climbing around, leaving a series of disgusting dark green marks on the gray-black brick walls outside the building complex. The stone road hidden behind the fence and the gate was also paved with dark green bricks, with blood-like streaks on it. It felt like something was wrong.
“Disgusting place.”
Holding Li Lin's hand, Sally jumped off the carriage and immediately showed an expression of disgust when she looked at the building in front of her.
As a compassionate demon, she also has her own aesthetic tendencies. And it is obvious that the huge building complex in front of her does not conform to Sally's aesthetic concept. It is completely contrary to it.
In the eyes of Sharis, who pursues exquisiteness and dexterity, this building, which seems to be a combination of hierarchy and malice, is the greatest blasphemy to her aesthetics. The feeling is almost the same as that of a normal person walking into a cesspool.
"Sir, can I make this place look better? It looks really disgusting..."
"Be patient for a while. After all, you have accepted the mission."
Li Lin ruffled Sally's hair, smiled at the little girl, then turned his head and glanced at the fat young man who was laughing dryly.
"But to be honest, no matter from what aesthetic point of view, your family's living environment is really disgusting. I'm really not surprised that your family has so many accidents. Living in such an environment is not much different from living under a curse. Sometimes, relying solely on the influence of the environment and furnishings can accomplish things that are almost as good as magic. I'm afraid a large part of your family's problems are related to this ancestral house."
"Emotionally, I want to reconcile with your opinion, but it's not true. The deaths of our family members are all very strange and bizarre. Rather than being accidental deaths, it's more like being hunted and dying in a panic... At least that's what my friend said. Of course, it was also my friend who sent me here. Thank you very much."
And I'm not the only one who's going to inherit this estate. My two cousins are also there, but it looks like they're not coming.
The fat young man smiled at Li Lin and Sally in a friendly way, then took out some money and handed it to the coachman. The coachman looked at the gloomy mansion with fear, whipped his horse, and disappeared from the street quickly without saying a word.
"Hmph... Another one... All the same."
Of course, Li Lin, who had good hearing, clearly heard the cold snort from the coachman when he left.
The disdainful voice made the fat man's face turn purple instantly.
"……friend?"
Looking at the back of the speeding carriage, Li Lin looked at the embarrassed fat young man and repeated the sentence.
"Uh, well, it's like this, maybe we're not that familiar with each other. But I think we should be friends, maybe he doesn't think so. I thought we were already friends after so many years of knowing each other."
"You mean that the driver used to work with you outside? But why does he seem to be avoiding you now?"
"Maybe he looks down on his old friends? Or has he realized something? But it doesn't matter."
We should go in and talk now. I remember there should be some servants inside cleaning the rooms and the living room. I hope they can recognize me.
As if wanting to end this embarrassing topic as quickly as possible, the obese young man forcibly changed the subject, took out the key from his pocket, and walked to the edge of the big iron gate that looked depressing.
But before he could insert the key and go in, the big iron door slid silently to both sides. Two sturdy middle-aged men, one tall and one short, walked out expressionlessly, looking at the fat young man with a dark look of disdain. The fat man also instantly became a little timid and flattering.
"Cousins, you are already in there?"
"Yes, we are curious about how long you will talk with the master you brought with you."
Glancing at the fat young man with a sneer, the two burly middle-aged men turned to look at Li Lin and the yawning Sallys, without showing any unusual expression, and bowed respectfully.
"We received news from the letter that the university's archaeology teaching assistant has arrived, and we have been waiting for you here for a long time. I wonder which of you is Li Lin, the archaeology teaching assistant?"
"I am."
Li Lin nodded and walked out.
Seeing Li Lin in a white robe, who looked more like a tourist than an archaeologist, the two middle-aged men did not show any contempt, but kept a serious face.
After all, there are all kinds of magic and strange creatures in this world, so there is nothing wrong with an archaeologist bringing a yawning cute little girl in a white robe to do archaeology. Who knows what a person's magic power looks like? They are not writers with rich delusions.
"Thank you, Assistant Professor Li Lin, for taking the time out of your busy schedule to come and worry about our personal affairs. I really hope you can solve the mystery of the inheritance."
"A puzzle on the inheritance? What is that? Who would have the time to set up a puzzle on a family inheritance?"
“We don’t know, but we are sure there is something wrong with our heritage.”
"We?"
"The three of us are all convinced that there is something wrong with our heritage. The artworks sealed in the basement give me the creeps. If possible, I hope Mr. Li Lin and several other archaeologists can classify and organize those artworks as quickly as possible, and then we can auction them off as quickly as possible. Leaving those non-human products in this world is absolutely a blasphemy to natural life."
Although they seemed to be disdainful of the fat young man, the only three people left in the family reached a subtle consensus at this moment.
