Chapter 485 (1/2)
The longer Hao Ren knew the vampire maiden, the more he found the girl to be a miracle of the cosmic’s malice. The things that were happening in front of him further convinced him that.
While Vivian was extremely poor herself, the bat who dropped off her body had transcended and become rich. Her landlord, who was working for God already had a billion followers; even the menial whom she had given a broken piece of stone had garnered tons of gold and given birth to the Andrea Family. This girl was like a propitious ornament, if used properly, she could bring health and prosperity to others at the expense of herself.
Of course, this auspicious “ornament” seldom brought a positive effect. Most of the time, she was better at bringing bad luck to the people around her. Those close to her who had low bad-luck resistance would either lose money, choke while drinking, suffer toothaches after a sneeze and stuff like that. Even the Romans and Egyptians back then had something to say about this matter. Hao Ren felt that the people of Troy could have thrown a pan at this auspicious bat, who worked like a double agent back then.
Perhaps the Andrea Family had less resistance: they gained amazing wealth from the gifts left behind by Vivian, but they were tortured by a terrible evil spirit for a full 300 years. These 300 years of torment may have cost more than the value of a few tons of gold.
Lily patted Vivian on the shoulders, not letting any chance of teasing the bat slip away. “Your clone is doing better than you are. Now, even your teammates have surpassed you. I think the greatest value of your existence is to serve as a foil to others.”
“Is this a dimensional storage device?” Hao Ren move forward and picked up the triangular gadget. He quickly swiped his fingers over the several ridges and the opening in space closed. It seemed like it still worked perfectly after so long.
The MDT flew over and studied the device. “Dimensional storage function would be more accurate. This module is only one of three parts. The rest are in standby mode and the whole thing will only work when this is in resonance with the other devices. It’s like a wireless device.”
“Another stone…” Hao Ren looked up at Vivian. “Where’s the other stone now?”
Vivian shrugged. “I don’t know. I just found out that my first minion became the ancestor of the Andrea Family, but the second minion, I don’t know whether he’s still alive or not. The other ‘stone’ looks different from the one in your hand. It may not have brought wealth to its owner. The second minion was probably not as lucky as Andrea, and he may have died in the snow of Siberia.”
“Did you know that?” Hao Ren turned and looked at Igor, briefly telling him about the two humans who followed Vivian in Siberia. “There were two people following the witch. Aside from your ancestor, there was another guy who also received a ‘stone’.”
Hao Ren did not have high hopes, until Igor actually nodded his head. “…There’s a mysterious man living in St. Petersburg. He should be the descendant of this person you’ve mentioned.”
Hao Ren was somewhat surprised. “Mysterious man?”
“For 300 years, the Andrea Family has always had intermittent contact with another hermit family.” Igor rubbed the button on his chest, which seemed to be a habitual gesture when he was thinking or nervous. “It’s unclear what the circumstances of the other family are. We don’t know whether they are poor or wealthy. This intermittent contact has been a ritual passed down from our ancestors. We normally exchange news about our current conditions, like whether the family members are healthy, whether some ‘dark forces’ have signs of getting out of control… Aside from that we don’t reveal much. The letters we receive usually sound vague, and sometimes we ourselves weren’t very sure about the contents of the letters—this was to avoid triggering the curse of the evil spirit. At any one time, the other party will only send a representative to exchange letters with the Andrea Family. All we know about the hermit family is limited to that one person—a very mysterious person that is.”
“Isn’t that troublesome?” Nangong Wuyue could not wrap her head around it. “Why not make direct contact? Since both are descendants of the witch’s minions, is it necessary to be so mysterious?”
“They’re also plagued by another curse, perhaps their behavior is related to the contents of their curse,” Igor said. “This was the habit of our ancestors. Although our respective ancestors worked together 300 years ago, since the terrible curse took effect, our ancestors chose to livein isolation from each other. Their descendants didn’t know why but still followed the tradition diligently. When there’s an evil spirit hanging around, you have to always be careful.”
Then Igor took a pile of letters out from another small room nearby. “These are the letters.”
As the evil spirit in the castle had been expelled, Igor was no longer afraid of angering the evil forces.