[Comprehensive Young Mi] The guy who doesn't pay the rent

New York, Upper Manhattan, an abandoned subway station.

Albert appeared on the platform with Lucia in his arms. He walked slowly to a pillar with a broken poster. A strange black rune was drawn on one wall of the pillar. When Albert approached , a dark luster faintly flowed through the black rune lines.He spread out one hand and pressed it on the rune. In an instant, the subway station disappeared, and what appeared in front of him was a chaotic space, where there was a majestic castle made of stacked gray-white stones, standing alone In a wasteland.

Albert looked up at the old castle for a long time, then looked down at Lucia who was sleeping in his arms, with an unpredictable smile on his lips, and walked towards the old castle.

The gate of the castle opened slowly, and as Albert walked, candles were lit one by one, illuminating the wide and gorgeous hall. Reflecting the brilliant brilliance of the stars.

Albert went straight up the stairs and led Lucia into a bedroom on the second floor.

In that bedroom there was a four-poster bed carved in ebony, hung with dark blue silk curtains with dark curly-leaf patterns, and the edges of the curtains were woven with silver silk threads into tassels.

When Albert placed Lucia on the bed, the thin and dense tassels trembled slightly, giving off a faint luster.

Albert sat on the edge of the bed and looked down at Lucia. After a while, he put his hand on her tender neck.

At Rowena's residence just now, he was irritated by Lucia and held her neck.At this moment, there was a circle of red and swollen marks on the neck.

The corner of Albert's mouth twitched, his eyes darkened, and his eyes slowly turned to Lucia's face. He stared at Lucia's face for a long time, with a thoughtful expression in his eyes. However, the expression on his face was as calm as water. After a while, the emotions in his eyes faded away, as if he was just looking at a person, that's all.

Albert looked at Lucia just like that, and suddenly leaned over to kiss his lips, with a satisfied chuckle on his lips, stroked her cheek with his fingers, and whispered: "My pain may end because of you, I Love."

Lucia, who didn't know anything about her, breathed lightly, and slept quietly on the bed, like a delicate doll.

Albert stroked the hair on her cheek, and after looking at her softly for a long time, he got up and took off the shoes on her feet, stepped back slowly, bent down and put the shoes on the carpet under the bed.

When he straightened up and stood by the bed, staring at Lucia again, the corners of his mouth suddenly raised, showing a happy expression, and he turned and left the bedroom unhurriedly.

Albert walked up to the railing on the second floor, stopped, turned his head and looked down at the empty hall, laughed, and muttered to himself: "This is such a beautiful day..." He turned around, and his figure disappeared into the castle in an instant middle.

The hall was silent, except for an upright Big Ben swinging its long pendulum from side to side regularly, making a rigid ticking sound.

Tick, tick, tick...

In the second floor bedroom.

Lucia opened her eyes suddenly, and where her eyes fell, she was lost for a moment.She turned to look, surprised.

This is impossible!

Lucia sat up suddenly from the soft bed, and looked around blankly. Here... was her bedroom, which had been destroyed in a fire hundreds of years ago.

This is absolutely impossible! !

Lucia lifted the quilt and jumped out of the bed. The sole of her feet was a wool carpet. The familiar bumpy feeling told her silently that everything here was real.

However, how could this happen?

Lucia walked towards the door with bare feet. She stretched out her hand to hold the copper handle on the door, took a deep breath, opened the door and looked out. It was not the modern building she thought was outside the door, but the one in her memory. corridor.She ran along the corridor towards the stairs without hesitation, and the wooden floor creaked slightly as she ran.

When Lucia stopped in front of the stairs leading to the hall, looking at everything in front of her, her eyes were slightly hot, and she covered her mouth with her hand.

This is her home from hundreds of years ago, the old castle of the Harrison family. Everything in sight is the same as it was hundreds of years ago, as if time is still in the most prosperous Harrison family. At that moment, stay before she made a mistake.

But, soon, Lucia calmed down, and the blood oozing from the wound on her hand made her wake up quickly from the surprise of returning to her old home, and quickly reminded her of what happened before she fell asleep .She looked around with gloomy eyes. Obviously, this is an illusory world built by Albert with magic. Although it is so real that she thought it was the real Harrison Castle at first, but her home, It had been destroyed by the fire, and together with her family, it was completely burned by the fire set by Albert!

Tick, tick, tick...

Lucia heard the sound of Big Ben and walked down the stairs. She turned her head to look at the clock. The round dial showed that the time was one minute away from twelve o'clock, but , she stood there staring at the pendulum, counting the 1 seconds several times in her heart, but the pointer never moved.She didn't know why Albert set it up like this. After thinking for a while, she gave up thinking about it, turned around and walked through the hall to the closed door.

Unexpectedly, the gate of the ancient castle was not locked, and Lucia easily opened the gate. Then, she looked at the endless wasteland where no grass grew, and immediately understood why the gate was not locked by Albert .

The reason is that this does not exist in the real world.

Lucia stood at the gate of the castle, raised her eyes slightly, looked at the rolling black fog all around, laughed at herself, and said to herself: Lucia Harrison, look, if you don't act brave, you fool, follow Rowena Run away together, and now you won't be trapped by Albert in this empty space created by him.

New York, Manhattan, Rowena's residence.

Sol came out of the building with a gloomy face, closely followed by Jackman and Valkyrie, and the two looked at each other behind him, and Valkyrie said in a low voice: "Where else will your sister go?" place?"

Jackman shook his head with a bitter face, and said in a low voice: "She doesn't have many friends in New York. Except for Rowena and Mary, the other witches are also ordinary friends. Most of them only meet at witches' gatherings. It is absolutely impossible for her to go to those witches for such a matter of life and death."

Upon hearing this, Valkyrie shrugged, looked at Sol who was walking ahead and exuding a strong low pressure, and said, "You'd better think again." As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Sol suddenly stop and turned his head towards It seems to him.

Jackman didn't wait for him to speak, and said hurriedly: "You saw the situation at Rowena's house just now. She is not at home, and there is no trace inside to prove that Lucia went to find Rowena. Besides, you also saw it, I Called Rowena, but she didn't answer the phone, did she?"

Thor stared at Jackman firmly, and said with deep eyes, "Aren't you good at magic?"

Jackman was taken aback for a moment, then showed a look of embarrassment, scratched his head, and said, "I am a wizard, of course I can spell, but my spell..."

Thor interrupted him and asked, "What spell do you have to find Lucia?"

Jackman looked even more embarrassed. He looked back at Saul in embarrassment, and said weakly, "I, let's tell the truth! The little spells I know are all taught by Lucia."

"Get to the point!" Sol looked directly at him.

Jackman said with a grim expression: "If you are looking for someone, there are so many spells. I only know one tracking spell, but that... the premise is that you have to cast a spell on the person you want to track in advance. As for the other The spell to find someone... I, I don't know how to use it."

Saul looked at Jackman speechlessly.

"Lucia and I don't need to find someone. Besides, even if there is, everyone has a mobile phone, which is very convenient!" After Jackman explained vigorously, he suddenly showed a sad expression, and said, "Speaking of which, I really You should... learn spells from Lucia."

Valkyrie patted him on the back and said, "It's useless to talk about it now, let's think about where else Lucia might go."

"No!" Sol turned his head, looked at Valkyrie, and said, "I don't think it's right!"

"What?" Valkyrie asked.

Saul looked at the magnificently decorated lobby on the ground floor of the building, pondered for a while and said: "When we came here just now, the girl at the front desk obviously thought that Rowena was at home, but after we went up, Rowena was not at home, and her door It's not locked."

Jackman was taken aback, recalling what happened when they came to find Rowena just now, nodded and said, "It's actually quite strange that the door is not locked. Although Rowena is a witch, I don't think she could have left the door open on purpose or forgot to close it."

Valkilia looked at Sol and Jackman, twitched the corners of her mouth, and said, "Speaking of which, you probably haven't noticed that there is a very, very faint smell of alcohol in that living room."

Jackman looked at her, as if thinking of something, his face turned pale immediately, and said, "I, I need to go up and take a look!" After speaking, he turned back and ran towards the elevator hall of the building.

Valkyrie raised her eyebrows, looked at Sol and asked, "Did you go downstairs on purpose to ask your question?"

Sol shook his head, eyes full of thought, and said softly: "Maybe I should contact Tony and the others."

"What?" Valkyrie was about to chase after Jackman, but when she heard Sol's words, she paused and turned to look at him.

Sol didn't answer, and stood at the door of the building, frowning and thinking.

Valkyria glanced at him, turned around and left, catching up with Jackman who was just waiting for the elevator. After the two entered the elevator, Valkyria was silent for a while, looking up at the floor numbers on the display screen, Said: "Actually, I didn't say anything just now."

Jackman turned his head and asked, "What?"

Valkyrie showed an uncertain expression, and said, "I smelled a strange smell of wine. In the living room just now, besides that, I also smelled a smell of blood."

Jackman grabbed her arm, his face became paler, he stared at her, and asked in a low voice, "Why didn't you tell me when you were there just now?"

Valkyrie looked at Jackman, showed a sorry expression, and said, "Didn't you say that witchcraft will use... a lot of strange things, including some animal blood?"

Jackman immediately understood what she meant, nodded dejectedly, and said, "That's right. So, you think the smell of blood might be Rowena's previous spells with blood, right?"

Valkyrie nodded.

A gentle female voice in the elevator politely reminded me to reach the 11th floor, and then, the elevator door slid open silently.

Jackman reached out to hold her hand, and said with a gloomy face, "Is it because of Rowena's spells? The smell of blood you mentioned, we will find out now!"

The two walked out of the elevator side by side.