Heroes' Prison-Chapter 1100 - 1042: The Eerie Study
Chapter 1042: The Eerie Study
After breakfast, Huang Yi engaged in some light exercise to stretch his muscles before re-entering the Virtual World.
Huang Yi reappeared in the study of the Blood Castle.
At this moment, two or three hours had passed since he last logged off. It should have been midday, yet peering out from the window at the entire castle, the densely packed buildings were still shrouded in ominous dark clouds, inexplicably oppressive.
Huang Yi continued sitting in the chair beside the desk, picked up the diary that was face down, and prepared to continue reading its contents.
"Hmm?" Suddenly, he noticed a shocking detail!
The diary’s page number had changed to page 62!
Huang Yi clearly remembered that before logging off, he had turned to page 56, and in just two or three hours, the opened page had suddenly changed!
This indicated that during his offline period, someone had perused this diary!
Huang Yi felt as if he were plunged into an icehouse, a chill ran down his spine, and he quickly turned to survey his surroundings. However, the study remained empty of people.
He turned again to look outside the window. The entire castle lay right beneath his eyes, with one building after another standing silently, eerily.
Previously he thought this desolate castle hosted only him, but it now seemed that there were others in this castle who had just visited the study and leafed through the diary.
Almost instantly, Huang Yi placed the diary face down on the desk as it was before. Then in a flash, he switched to his Treasure-Sniffing Cat form, using the Void Skill to completely vanish into the air.
He must hide himself, lurking to see who else was in the castle.
For stealth, the Void skill was far superior to Absolute Invisibility. Although Absolute Invisibility was agile, it could be countered by an Absolute Revelation Skill and still subject one to harm, making it suitable only for combat. The Void skill, though rigid and immobile, allowed for complete entry into the Void Dimension, disappearing from the physical world, immune to any damage, fitting for long-term concealment.
Huang Yi lay in wait, motionless in his Void State, with patience akin to that of a hunter.
Such waiting had become second nature to him; before being imprisoned, he could lie in ambush for an organization task for days without moving, having long cultivated sufficient patience.
Finally, after more than three hours, Huang Yi keenly heard a "rustling" noise coming from below the stairs, growing clearer.
It sounded like something was moving, but not human footsteps—rather, it was like some kind of reptilian creature.
Soon, a silhouette appeared at the staircase entrance.
It was an elder, of gracious demeanor, with the upper body like a human but with a massive snake tail for the lower body, creeping forward. The scales on its tail were red, neatly aligned and spotless.
"Hmm? It’s actually that Redscale Naga!" At the sight of this figure, Huang Yi suddenly recalled the group of Nagas he’d seen with the Eye of Time in the Crimson Swamp before.
Back then, this was the elder with red snake scales leading that group of Nagas, with an aura unfathomably deep—at least of someone with a Five Steps to Heaven level of prowess.
One of Huang Yi’s objectives this trip was to track these Nagas, and entering the Blood Castle to explore was merely incidental. Unexpectedly, fortune favored him, and he ran into that group of Nagas here.
However, this also perplexed Huang Yi. These Nagas had been tracking the Demon Clan before, but now they had shifted to the Blood Castle. What on earth were they planning?
At this point, Elder Hong Lin had fully ascended the staircase. He went directly to the tightly closed door at the end of the study, grasped the door handle, a contemplative look crossing his face.
Huang Yi stared intently at that door; he had tried to turn the handle before but couldn’t open it. The Redscale Naga seemed poised to enter through it; he wondered if the elder would succeed.
Hong Lin held the handle for several seconds at the door, an expression of hesitation on his face. After a while, he bit his lip, ultimately shook his head, released the handle, and didn’t turn it.
The elder then turned around and unexpectedly headed straight toward Huang Yi, his Five Steps to Heaven-level aura rushing towards Huang Yi like a torrential flood!
Huang Yi was slightly startled, thinking the elder had discovered him, but being in the wondrous Void State, he shouldn’t be detected by Elder Hong Lin.
Hong Lin advanced step by step toward Huang Yi, nearly colliding with him. But his real target was the desk. He came to the desk and sat down in the chair.
At that point, they were inches apart, and Huang Yi could even hear the "hiss" of his breath, see every red scale on his tail, and the lines and marks on the scales.
The elder’s overwhelmingly powerful aura pressed down on Huang Yi. That aura was so majestic, within arm’s reach, like sitting next to a volcano.
This level of strength was far from what Huang Yi could contend with now. If he were to cancel his Void State and reveal himself, he would almost instantly be crushed by Elder Hong Lin.
The Redscale Elder sat down and directly reached out to take the diary that was upside down.
Suddenly, his hand stopped in mid-air, staring blankly at the diary with a puzzled expression.
He seemed to have noticed something wrong with the diary’s placement, but he wasn’t very certain.
Cautiously, the Redscale Elder turned his head, glancing around the study, exactly the same reaction as Huang Yi had when he discovered the page number had changed.
Redscale’s sharp eyes seemed to emit a divine light, full of penetrating power, able to see through everything in the world. Any invisible enemy could not escape his sorcery gaze.
Those eyes scanned the entire study, finally turning to Huang Yi’s location!
At that moment, the two stared straight at each other, almost head to head, gazing as if their eyes were less than ten centimeters apart.
Huang Yi could even see every blood thread in the Redscale Elder’s eyes and his deep rhombus-shaped pupils.
Fortunately, there was no reflection of Huang Yi in those eyes.
The Redscale Elder directly overlooked Huang Yi’s position, unable to detect him in Void State.
After scanning the study, the Redscale Elder shook his head slightly, showing a relieved expression, as if feeling he had overthought it. He no longer hesitated and picked up the diary to read.
The study was silent, with only the occasional sound of the Redscale Elder flipping through the diary. Huang Yi remained motionless, lurking beside him, continuously observing Redscale.
It seemed Redscale had been in the Blood Castle for some time. Judging from his series of actions just now, he had already explored here previously and even tried to open that door, obviously having discovered something.
Huang Yi decisively activated the Eye of Time on Redscale, looking into his past!
In the Void State, although unable to perform attack or move actions, abilities like the Eye of Time were still usable and not restricted.
The next moment, everything the Redscale Elder had previously experienced began to reveal itself before Huang Yi——
Before entering this study, the Redscale Elder was in the basement of one of the buildings of the Blood Castle. That basement seemed to be a massive laboratory filled with various peculiar and intricate instruments, complex in structure, connected by tubes. Additionally, all around were cabinets filled with bottles and jars, containing various colors of liquids and powders.
This environment looked somewhat like an alchemy and potion making laboratory.
In this laboratory, it wasn’t just the Redscale Elder alone. There were several other Nagas present as well, all gathered around a precise instrument, observing.
The instrument resembled a scale, with one end holding a slender transparent bottle, shimmering brilliantly like a work of art. However, the bottle contained just a single drop of colorless liquid.
At the other end of the instrument, there was also a transparent glass bottle, resembling a chemical apparatus of some sort.
At this moment, the drop of liquid in the front bottle was faintly emitting wisps of vapor, transitioning to the glass vessel at the other end. Subsequently, the glass vessel slowly began to condense similar liquid strands, but judging by the condensation speed, it would take a long time to form a single drop.
The Redscale Elder and the other Nagas watched the operating instrument, exchanging a few remarks. However, the language they spoke was not the common language of The Second World, rendering it unintelligible to Huang Yi. It was probably the language of the Nagas.
Judging from their pleased expressions, they seemed very anticipative of the results from the instrument’s operations; the Redscale Elder even showed a smile.
Huang Yi continued to adjust the time, looking into events from a longer time ago. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
After some adjustments, Huang Yi finally saw the scene of the Redscale Elder’s previous visit to the study.
It was the afternoon of the day before yesterday. After entering the study, the Redscale Elder went directly to the door at the far end, reached out to turn the doorknob, opened the door, and walked in!
Huang Yi was instantly astounded; this elder could indeed open that door!
The ultimate secret within the Blood Castle had already been grasped by this elder!
However, subsequently, Huang Yi’s Eye of Time could not reveal what happened after the Redscale Elder entered through the door!
The Eye of Time malfunctioned!
This wasn’t the first time this had happened. Previously, in the Third-Tier Trial Secret Realm, Huang Yi had looked into Bloodhoof’s past and had found he could only see events up to three years ago, but nothing prior to that!
Now, the Eye of Time was once again facing this issue, indicating that there was indeed a significant secret behind that door, one that could block even an ability like the Eye of Time!
