After coming down the mountain, I was pampered by two emperors!

Long Jiaojiao and the other two came to a wooden house. The yard door was locked tightly and it looked like it had been in disrepair and no one had lived in it for a long time.

"Long'er, is there no one here?" Shu Rong peered inside through the crack in the door.

"Shu Rong, you see, this house is at least several decades old, if not hundreds of years old. It's obvious that no living person has lived here for a long time. But that doesn't mean there are no ghosts living here. So I guess the answers we are looking for must be inside." Long Jiaojiao reached out and touched the lock. With a "click", the door lock opened.

"Let's go in." Long Jiaojiao walked in front, with Shu Rong and Mei Xichen following closely behind her.

The three of them looked around the yard but found nothing.

"Shurong, you are not allowed to go anywhere in the yard. Your strong yang energy will scare them away. Xichen and I will go in."

Long Jiaojiao asked Shu Rong to stay in the courtyard, and she and Mei Xichen walked into the house after practicing breath-holding techniques.

The room was pitch black, the windows were closed, and there were spider webs everywhere. Mei Xichen used his sword to pull down the webs, and the surrounding dust also fell with the webs.

"Cough cough" After Long Jiaojiao coughed a few times, she took out the silk handkerchief she carried with her and covered her mouth and nose.

At this time, Mei Xichen also blocked his nose with his sleeves.

"Long'er, are you sure those ghosts will be here?" Mei Xichen asked in a low voice.

"I think so." Long Jiaojiao nodded and walked towards the inner room.

Just as Long Jiaojiao and Mei Xichen walked into the innermost room, a figure suddenly jumped out from behind them and ran past them. Long Jiaojiao turned around suddenly and saw only a shadow that looked like a child.

Long Jiaojiao reacted very quickly and chased after the shadow.

"Stop, don't run." Long Jiaojiao shouted loudly.

The child was jumping up and down and running very fast. Seeing this, Long Jiaojiao pointed to the right, and Mei Xichen immediately understood what she meant.

The two of them, one in front and one behind, surrounded the child in the middle.

"Don't run, little boy. We won't hurt you." Seeing that the child did not run away, Long Jiaojiao tried to communicate with him and tried to make him let down his guard.

"Little boy, can you tell me where your family is? Why are you here alone?" Long Jiaojiao slowly approached the child, squatted down and asked very gently.

"My family was eaten by a big snake." The child answered in a childish tone.

"So do you live here?" Long Jiaojiao continued to ask.

"Yes, I have been living here since I came to Castlevania."

"Last night, I saw you were so scared by the sacrificial scene that you started crying. Later, someone hugged you. Aren't they your relatives?" Seeing that the child had no defense against her, Long Jiaojiao grabbed his hand.

"That's Uncle Zhong. He's been taking care of me while I'm here."

"Then can you tell me where Uncle Zhong lives? My sister has something important to discuss with him."

After hesitating for a moment, the little boy took Long Jiaojiao to the wooden house next door without hesitation.

This wooden house and the house where the little boy lived were in the same courtyard, just one in front and one behind.

You can walk directly through the little boy's cabin.

"Right here." The little boy pointed.

"Uncle Zhong." The little boy called softly into the house.

After a while, the figure of a middle-aged man floated towards Long Jiaojiao and Mei Xichen.

"Are you alive?" Uncle Zhong first looked at Long Jiaojiao and Mei Xichen, then asked curiously.

"Yes, we just used a spell to temporarily stop your breathing because we were afraid you would hide from us."

"You shouldn't have come here. Run for your lives before it gets dark." Uncle Zhong waved his hand and signaled them to leave quickly.

"Uncle, if I'm not mistaken, are you all afraid of Chi Heng?" Mei Xichen deliberately mentioned Chi Heng to see how he would react.

"Young man, not everyone can call you Chi Heng. He is the king here." Uncle Zhong said to Mei Xichen cautiously, fearing that others would hear him.

"Uncle, can you tell us that you are about to be reincarnated and why you came to this place? We also saw several ghosts being devoured by Chi Heng last night."

Mei Xichen told Uncle Zhong everything he saw last night. He wanted to learn more from Uncle Zhong.

"This..." Uncle Zhong fell into panic. He knew the truth of the matter, but it seemed that he had his own unspeakable difficulties.

Mei Xichen knew that there were some things he might not dare to say, so he stepped forward to comfort him.

"Uncle Zhong, don't be afraid. We are sent by the King of Hell to rescue you, but we need to know the whole situation so that we can better rescue you. I hope you can tell us the truth and don't hide anything."

"You also saw how terrified those four ghosts were last night and how miserable their deaths were. If nothing unexpected happens, I'm afraid there will be a next time until all of you ghosts are completely devoured by him." Mei Xichen touched the little boy's head and spoke to him with great pity.

"Little friend, do you want to follow your uncle back and then raise your head back to the human world?"

"Uncle, I don't want to stay here." The little boy's childish voice moved Uncle Zhong a little.

He looked down at the little boy and pulled him in front of him.

"You two, if possible, please take him away. I can't get out. We still have a few people here. As for the situation you want to know, I'm afraid that after I tell you, our family will..."

"Uncle Zhong, you don't have to be afraid of Chi Heng. We will deal with him, but the prerequisite is that you have to tell us everything you know. Even if you don't consider yourself, you should consider your family, right?"

Long Jiaojiao tried to untie Uncle Zhong's knot and let him stop having any worries and not have any fluke mentality.

After Long Jiaojiao and Mei Xichen's earnest persuasion and consolation, Uncle Zhong was finally willing to tell him the whole story.

"Three years ago, our family of five was doing business in Kyoto. Perhaps because our business was growing, a thief got jealous and killed all five of us one night. After that, we went to the underworld."

"It was okay at the beginning. Because we usually accumulated virtue and did good deeds, our family did not suffer any abuse. Instead, we just waited for the opportunity to reincarnate and be reborn as human beings."

"Suddenly one day, the underworld was raided. It was Chi Heng and his four men who came. After their persuasion, we agreed to follow him here. Those people you saw in the square were all deceived by him." Uncle Zhong sighed here, regretting the wrong decision he had made.

"Then what did he say to you that made you listen to him so much?" Mei Xichen asked curiously.

"Chi Heng said that we have no chance of reincarnation as humans. He also said that if we follow him, we can achieve enlightenment and go straight to heaven to become gods, which is ten thousand times better than living in the human world."

"At that time, many of us believed what he said and followed him to Demon City."