[Beauty and the Beast] Rose Castle

Pass through the rose fields and enter the castle grounds.For a moment, it was like walking into a dark ice cellar.The heavy snow is like fine salt waves, penetrating into every hole, almost covering the sky and the sun. If you don't use a cloak to block the wind and snow, you can't even see the road ahead.Remember when you left, the weather wasn't so bad here, what happened?

The trees were almost uprooted by the strong wind. I raised my hand, barely blocked the overwhelming snow powder, and squinted to look ahead.The gate of the castle was locked tightly, the stone walls were condensed with sharp ice edges, and the marble steps were made into a flat road by the wind and snow.Fortunately, I didn't go that way, otherwise I wouldn't know how I got stuck in the snow.

Turning to the other side with difficulty, I found the narrow secret door according to my memory.Maybe it's because I haven't found that I've gone in from here, maybe it's because the secret door is too narrow, but it's still open.Stretch one foot in and drill in like before, the strong smell of rust fills the nostrils.I don't know if it's because of too many things I've experienced recently, smelling the rust and touching the uneven walls, my mood is surprisingly calm, and I'm not as scared as I was at first.Soon, they walked to the rusty dungeon.Just as he was about to go up the only staircase, he heard a majestic man's voice: "Where's the beast?"

The voice of a middle-aged man: "I, I don't know where it is... Maybe it's resting. Don't you just want money? Everything here is very valuable, just take two and leave."

"I want money only because you owe me money. As an excellent hunter, do you think I am short of money?" The spurs clanked, and the man seemed unusually strong. It was also quite loud, "The purpose of my coming here is to hunt the most ferocious beast."

"It can single-handedly fight the giant python...it's not something you can deal with."

"The more you say that, the more interested I am. Go ahead and lead the way."

The masculine man's voice was familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was.I held my breath, approached the exit of the stairs lightly, and tried my best to look past the wall.I saw a man as strong as a bull standing in the center of the hall with his hips akimbo.He was wearing a hunter's tight suit, with hard armor covering his shoulders, arms, chest and abdomen. He was carrying a long knife, a quiver, and a longbow in his hand. There were sharp spurs on the heels of his shoes. Stallion spurs are so easy to frighten horses that they are rarely used except on very special occasions, but they are placed on the heels as decorations.

Seeing his face, I finally remembered who he was - the most handsome man in the town, the dream girl in the eyes of girls!

How did he come here?

I looked at the middle-aged man again. He looked familiar, as if I had seen him before.Wait, he was one of those people who invaded the castle a few days ago. At that time, he apologized to Lambert, saying that if it wasn't for the giant python, the harvest was not good, and he had to support his family, he would not have come to the castle to be a robber What the hell is he doing now?

The answer is already obvious: the middle-aged man owed money to the virile man, and took him to the castle, hoping that he would pay the debt with a few valuable things.Unexpectedly, the majestic man was dazzled by the desire to conquer, and he only wanted to hunt the most ferocious beasts, so he began to look for the existence of Lambert everywhere.

Could it be that Lambert knew in advance that these people would come here, so he drove me away?

No, it was probably just an accident that these people broke into the castle.If it's just an outsider invasion, he will drive me away. I can't stay in the castle for so long.

what should I do now?

How can we go around them and go to the animalized Lambert?

Fortunately, they didn't intend to stay in the hall for a long time. They quickly went upstairs, broke open the door one by one, and searched with oil lamps.I took the opportunity to run up to the sky garden behind the castle.

The corridor is long and empty, and the walls are carved with golden reliefs. It used to be like a corridor made of gold, but now it has turned into a dry yellow, like a golden thread that has lost its moisture.Not only did the reliefs on the wall become dimmed, but the long candles were also dimmed as if they were about to burn out... Why is this happening?

Anxiety filled my heart, and through the corridor, I walked from the hanging garden to another tower.The wind was blowing, and the black cloud was entrenched on the top of the castle, as if it would oppress it at any time.It is black and white in front of my eyes.I must remember the correct route at the moment of lightning, otherwise it is easy to go astray.I wanted to walk from the bridge of another tower to the third floor of the front hall, but when I looked up, I saw a black-scaled python thicker than an old tree on the lawn not far away.

For a few seconds, I forgot to breathe and my heart stopped beating.Dark clouds covered the lawn so that it was dyed a deep blue, like a dark and mysterious swamp.This is the best natural hunting place, unless the clouds break and the sun rises, it is almost impossible to find its existence.My feet were already stiff as wood, I took a deep breath, stretched my fingers, and was about to turn around and go back the same way, when a bolt of lightning flashed across, splitting the thick night fog, and the surrounding area was suddenly as bright as day.The moment I turned around, I met the giant python's pupils that were as scarlet as pigeon blood.

Wait, it doesn't seem to be the giant python from before.

As soon as this thought flashed through my mind, it appeared in front of me in the next second, looking down at me from above, with two scarlet lights in its pupils.The body is completely stiff.Compared with its huge body like a tall building, my body is not worth mentioning at all... How did this giant python appear?

At the same time, another bolt of lightning strikes.I don't know if it's my illusion, but its snake head has a strange sense of familiarity, as if I've seen it somewhere.It can't be... A terrible thought rose in my heart, I shook my head quickly, not daring to think about it.

However, all the behavior of this giant python is familiar to me: for example, when I shake my head, its snake head also swings from side to side with me.If it was the giant python from before, it would have eaten me already.But it just looked down at me from top to bottom, and the film wrapped its eyeballs from time to time, as if it was thinking about something, and the expression of the snake head looked a little irritable.

Is it really... cold sweat poured down my back, I swallowed my saliva, and raised a hand carefully and slowly.Its pupils immediately contracted into needles, staring closely at my hand, and let out a terrifying low growl from its throat.The feeling of familiarity is getting stronger and stronger.Not only did this low growl not scare me, but it gave me an indescribable sense of peace... Taking a deep breath, I put my palm on its snake's head.The black scales stood up one after another as if stimulated, it stared at me coldly and anxiously, its low growl was thicker than thunder, and one sound after another made the cloak on my body tremble.

In fact, my scalp was already tense with fear, but because it never hurt me, it was not to the point where my legs became weak and passed out.However, if it continues to growl like this... if it doesn't get fainted by fright, its ears will become deaf.At this moment, it suddenly lowered its head, and swung its long snake tail over, wrapping me up around the waist.The icy snake scales were pieces of ice that were bubbling with chills, and I shivered involuntarily.

The giant python put its head close to my neck, and sometimes let out a horrible low growl from its throat, and sometimes hummed like being wronged. Seeing that I was stiff and motionless, half of its pupils were wrapped up and down by the film of its eye sockets, and it squinted like a human being. Eyes, use the tip of the tail to prop up my wrist, put it on its lower jaw, and rub it back and forth on it, the erected black scales gradually closed.

Acting like a baby like this, I'm 100% sure that it...is Lambert.

So, he drove me away because he became more and more beastly, afraid of hurting me?

But I don't know why, I always feel that things are not so simple.

At this time, a series of messy footsteps came from those people in the hall.They're coming this way.Walking in the front was the man in the tight hunter suit.He carried an oil lamp and explored everywhere.The people behind him followed him step by step, which made him very impatient: "There is a fireplace in the front hall, go and light me a torch. It's so dark here, and I rely on an oil lamp to find the daylight! Go, Don't fucking stare at me here."

When Lambert heard his voice, the snake's head suddenly lifted up, its scarlet pupils looked forward, like a male animal whose territory had been invaded, and the closed black scales stood up again.