Crow's Paradise

Yao Yan stood at the door holding an umbrella and watched Sheriff Stebol enter the house.

After the firelight shone for a few minutes, Sheriff Stabler walked out of the hut. After taking a look at the castle, he asked:

"Miss Karina, I'll take you back first."

Yao Yan also noticed his expression.

His expression looked a little serious.

Yao Yan had no intention of going home, so of course it was impossible to follow his words.

"Did something happen? Mr. Sheriff?" Mimicking Karina's matching tone, Yao Yan did not refuse directly and avoided the topic.

Stabler looked at the castle:

"There were signs of a fight inside."

After hearing this sentence, Yao Yan immediately followed:

"Mr. Macbiak got into a fight with that Foster?"

To this sentence, Stabler did not answer, but his eyes focused on the footprints left on the muddy ground again.

"should be."

As he spoke, Sheriff Stabler's eyes changed color due to the firelight. After taking a look at the abandoned castle, he walked into the house. After a while, he left with another lit lantern. He came out and then gave his lantern over:

"Miss Karina, go back by yourself. I'm going to check out the situation. I'm worried about what that bastard Foster will do to McBiak."

Yao Yan took the lantern and saw the other party closing the door and walking directly towards the wooden bridge.

Raising his eyebrows, Yao Yan followed directly.

Although he couldn't hear clearly due to the sound of rain, the footsteps from behind were too close, and the firelight spread from behind to his feet, which made Strobel couldn't help but turn his head and glance:

"Miss Karina, why don't you go home?"

When he was talking, he did not stop and even speeded up a bit. He was obviously very concerned about McBiaak and that Foster.

"Mr. McBiaak hasn't told me what my weekly salary is yet."

Yaoyan responded with Karina's joke.

"Even if you find McBiaak with me, he won't have much money to give you a high weekly salary."

Strobol also seemed to relax a little because of these words, but that was all.

Without saying anything else, he quickened his pace again after confirming that his steps were heading towards the abandoned castle by the light of the lantern.

Soon, the two arrived in front of the castle.

The castle is located in front of a slope, and there are all kinds of weeds on the slope and around the castle.

In the light rain, these soaked weeds were almost connected together.

On the slope, there is a small forest.

But the most important thing is of course the castle itself.

Under the sloping hills, a gray and dilapidated castle appeared dimly in outline under the light of a lantern.

Compared with observing from a distance during the day, the castle at this moment has a sense of eeriness.

The vines covering the walls of the castle that were wet by rain also gave it a gloomy atmosphere in the hazy rainy night, giving it a lifeless feeling.

"This is Winter Castle."

Standing in front of the castle, Sheriff Stabler broke the silence in the rainy night with a voice.

"Are you sure they came to this castle? Mr. Sheriff."

In Karina's tone, Yao Yan lowered his voice.

When he said this, he looked at the ground.

Because of Karina's voice, Strobol's attention was drawn to the ground following her movements.

There were no footprints or footprints on the ground.

This discovery stunned Strobol.

He couldn't help but turn his head and look back.

It was obvious that he had been following the footprints.

However, at this moment, he heard Miss Karina's voice again:

"Come in and have a look, Mr. Sheriff."

When he looked back, Miss Karina was gone.

Glancing around, he finally saw the flickering firelight deep inside the open castle door.

As he walked quickly, he also heard footsteps.

After relaxing slightly, Strobol also walked into the castle.

Compared with the scenery outside the castle full of climbing vines, the scenery inside seems much weirder.

The walls and floors of the castle were all black, as if they had been burned by fire.

But when Yao Yan reached out to touch it, he found that it was not coal ash and charcoal.

This black color, in terms of texture and nature, is not the residue left by burnt things.

At this moment, a voice sounded:

"Miss Karina!"

Yao Yan turned his head and glanced at the castle gate.

Following the footsteps, Sheriff Strobol followed. In the light of the lantern, he said seriously:

"Miss Karina, don't act alone. That bastard Foster may be here. Please stay with me."

The middle-aged man's face was serious.

Yao Yan immediately said perfunctorily: "I'm very sorry, Mr. Sheriff, I'm just curious about what the castle looks like."

The middle-aged man nodded and did not doubt her words. Thirty years ago, when he first came to this town, he came to this castle on the first day:

"Be safe, Miss Karina. If you find anything wrong, tell me immediately."

"Okay, Mr. Sheriff."

In Yao Yan's perfunctory words imitating Karina's tone, Strobol looked around the castle with a serious face by the light of the lantern.

During the conversation, the two walked around the hall on the first floor of the castle, one after the other.

There was nothing in the entire hall, no decoration, no furniture, no lights.

No, if you look carefully at the wall, you can still see traces of something like a lamp holder or a torch holder.

However, looking at the damage to the wall around the mark, it was obvious that it had been violently demolished.

Unable to find anything on the first floor, the two of them went directly to the second floor along the wide steps directly opposite the door.

The second floor was also very quiet, with only the sound of raindrops outside and the footsteps of the two people.

On the ground, there are huge rectangular floor tiles, and the partition walls pulled up along the floor tiles divide the second floor into several parts.

Along the corridor on the left, the two people moved again.

Stabler wanted to find McBiaak and Foster, and Yao Yan wanted to find out if there was anything else besides these.

The silence of the rainy night came once again, and the two of them were still searching each room one after another.

but

Just after Strobol turned into the front room, Yao Yan made a move.

Obviously there was only a small distance between him and him, but he just turned into the room first and completely disappeared from sight.

Are there two seconds before and after?

Yao Yan believed that there should be no such thing.

However, there was nothing in the room he and she faced.

No figure, no fire, no footsteps.

And at this moment, suddenly, a soft sound came from within the room.

Yao Yan immediately turned his eyes and looked at the place where the sound came from in the room.

However, at this time, a problem occurred.

When Yao Yan turned his eyes and looked left and right.

You were clearly standing in the corridor and in front of the room. When did you enter the room?

and

Turn your body and look behind you.

There are no doors and no corridors.