Xue Hua walked out of the tent, while Kane stayed inside.

Regarding Kane's request to accompany him, Xue Hua naturally agreed.

If you don't agree, you're stupid, right?

However, he has to solve a problem first, and then he can go to Lugoin with confidence.

That's right, the problem is the remains of the Bathory family castle in the base of the mountain.

For some reason, since the discovery of a small room on the fifth floor of the Countess's Tower that seemed to be dedicated to the transmission of energy to that castle, and was equipped with a powerful guard and a self-detonation system.

Xue Hua always felt that there should be some important secrets in that castle.

Otherwise, the cost of that psionic energy transmission system alone would be staggering.

That level of psionic energy transmission system is not a matter of money at all.

Even with the strength of the Bathory family at that time, it would take generations or even dozens of generations to make such a system silently.

Is it true that such a large-scale project is only used to supply the basement of a secret shelter?

This answer, at least Xue Hua didn't believe it.

Moreover, when the Bathory family was infected with demons, why was it that only Alessandro Bathory did not go to hell because he became a demon?

What it left in the basement of the castle was a doppelganger, or was it simply his own figure?

If it is a doppelganger, then how exactly did he hide the existence of a doppelganger from the will of the world?

And if it's a Buddha-figure......

That's even more problematic!

"Zagara, is there any movement in that castle outside the base of the mountain?"

"Juggernaut, the human structure is very quiet and has not changed......" Zagara replied in the mind of the Hive.

According to Xue Hua's order, it asked the Overseer Worm to use its skills to seal off the entire castle wreckage, and has been sending a swarm of insects to monitor it.

However, so far, there has been no movement in the castle.

"Okay, I see, when this is over, let's go over and have a look, it's time to fix this."

"Understood, Juggernaut."

......

After distributing the spoils, Kasha organized a simple celebration party on the spot, and after this simple party, a more solemn and formal celebration would be held in the Rog camp.

And in the middle of this simple party, Xue Hua asked Kasha to leave temporarily.

"Is there something wrong with leaving now?"

"Yes, there's a little bit of work to be done."

"Well, since it's inconvenient to say, I won't ask, anyway, if you need help, feel free to write to me."

"I will."

After a brief conversation, Xue Hua rode the king worm and the swarm of insects out of the area of the Five Stone Pillars, which had become a deep pit, and came to the mountains in the border area of the Stone Wilderness.

Through a secret passage embedded in the mountain wall, Xue Hua smoothly followed Zagala to the worm nest in the belly of the mountain.

As before, nothing has changed, as the swarm has begun to dig into the other peaks.

It is said that the farthest team of worker bees has almost dug above the underground passage.

Not bothering about the larvae crawling all over the ground and the rising and shrinking Zerg buildings, Xue Hua followed directly behind Zagara and walked out of the tunnel mouth dug before, and came to the small closed valley.

Nothing had changed in the valley, except for a few Watchdog worms, which had lowered their flight altitude and floated above the remains of the castle.

From time to time, they spewed out a slimy ooze from underneath their bodies, which covered the exits of the castle's wreckage and then quickly hardened, blocking them.

"Zagara, gather the swarm, let's go in and have a look!"

"Understood, Juggernaut."

Zagala hissed as a swarm of insects emerged from the surrounding ground, mountain walls, and passages, and began to gather in its direction.

Then, Zagala took the lead and ordered the Stinger to destroy the ooze blocking the entrance with an explosive needle, and then led a group of exterminators into the wreckage of the castle.

Xue Hua thought about it, and also sat on a cockroach and followed.

At this time, it had been three days since he blew up the psionic energy transmission device under the countess's tower, and according to the report of the king worm that had just been monitored, the psionic energy under the building was almost exhausted at this time.

Even the original shielding detection function has weakened.

And the target with a high psionic level inside has been crazy and weakened in the past few days, and on the first day alone, the psionic level has dropped from 5.7 to 4.3.

On the second day, it dropped from 4.3 to 3.1.

By the third day, which is now, the Guardian King Worm has completely failed to perceive the opponent's psionic level, and it can be seen that its psionic level has dropped below 2, or even below 1.

With such a faint level of psionic energy, only when there is no covering, the Guardian King Worm can perceive it.

However, no matter how crazy the psionic level dropped, this target did not have the slightest idea of rushing out.

Not even the act of breaking out of the basement of the castle.

......

Zagala opened the way at the front and entered the depths of the castle very smoothly, while Xue Hua sat on the cockroach and looked around at the abandoned castle wreckage.

His first impression was that this was supposed to be a territory owned by a very wealthy, but also very rigid aristocratic family.

The wealth of the Bathory family is evident, as can be seen in the ruins of this collapsed castle.

The most obvious are the solid gold candlesticks that do not decay, and the armchairs that are twisted but still exude a charming brilliance, and are encrusted with huge gems of various colors.

There are also lambswool tapestries that have been destroyed but whose artistic artistry can still be seen from the stitches in the corners.

And the reason why this aristocratic family is stereotyped is because everything here is engraved with the family coat of arms - a long sword and two crossed roses.

If the ubiquitous guys alone couldn't prove their rigidity, then when Xue Hua found a line of extremely strict and dogmatic dining rules engraved on a pure gold dining table, carved in the language of the ancient aristocracy.

The seal of "stereotyped" has been firmly imprinted on the head of the Bathory family by Xue Hua.

"Juggernaut, we've found the entrance to the basement."

As Xue Hua was looking around to see if there was anything that could prove what was going on here, Zagara's voice rang out in the mind of the main nest.

"Okay, I'll do it."

Xue Hua waved his hand, and the cockroaches under him led him towards Zagara's location.

Before leaving, he pulled out a book made of strange soft leather, without a trace of decay, from a drawer of half of the desk, which at first glance looked precious.

"Juggernaut, this is the passage to the basement of this human structure, shall we go down and have a look now?"

Zagara stood at the top of a staircase and waited for Xue Hua, and pointed out the staircase that winded down to Xue Hua.

"Let's send a jumping worm down to take a look, the communication blocking effect here should have disappeared, right?" Xue Hua opened the first page of the tome in his hand with the night vision ability of a king insect, and said to Zagala without raising his head.

Zagala answered, and sent a jumping worm down the stairs.

However, before the information of the jumping insects could be transmitted, Xue Hua, who was sitting on the back of the cockroach reading a book, suddenly gasped, closed the tome in his hand heavily, and almost threw the book out of his hand.

It turned out that just after Xue Hua opened the first page of the book, there was a line of words written on the title page with a strange black and red paint.

"This book is dedicated to all the babies who have contributed their hearts and minds to the production of the book, the scalp, and the blood vessels and meridians, your sacrifice is priceless, I promise - Hannah Ke Bathory"