Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Shao Simiao had basically timed the live broadcast perfectly. It was about five minutes before the tour bus arrived at Haiyin Castle. By this time, the live broadcast room was preheated and the group got off the bus.
Bai Ju and his friends were not the first group of tourists to go up the mountain. After getting off the bus and walking out of the station, they turned a corner and walked about fifty meters to the manor gate of Haiyin Castle. The towering carved fence was spotless, and the large arched iron gate was open inward. Lush rose branches and leaves poked out from between the iron bars, showing a deep dark green under the night and lights.
Several waiters in uniform stood on both sides of the gate. When they saw the tourists coming, they politely came forward to greet them and solemnly asked the tourists to show their prop invitations, then bowed to guide the tourists inside, and handed each person a beautiful rose with a small paper roll tied to it, which unfolded into a map of Haiyin Castle.
“It’s very delicately designed,” Xiao Yao unfolded the map and found a line of gold-plated cursive on the back, “enjoy the night.”
Old Dog Bai had learned some foreign words from the teaching videos, but he couldn’t pronounce them very well, so he translated haltingly, “Enjoy this night?”
“That’s what it means,” Xiao Yao smiled, “but we in the warlock world usually translate it as ‘Have fun tonight’, because in the beginning, the tourists who received the invitation to Haiyin Castle could not guarantee that they could enjoy the next night.”
Bai Ju understood: “It’s an invitation to death.”
Xiao Yao nodded, folded the map and put it in his pocket: “After all, it is a vampire who is inviting the food to visit. However, vampires are indeed a very interesting kind of Western monster. They are extremely fussy about etiquette and attach great importance to elegance. A long time ago, after they moved to Turtle Island, they took a fancy to a few Chinese people and wanted to take advantage of them. They were about to succeed, but because of a few serious invitations, a Chinese sorcerer followed their scent and found Haiyin Castle, and those Chinese people were rescued.”
Bai Ju: “…”
Bai Ju was a little puzzled: “When they did this in the West, weren’t there any warlocks chasing them?”
Xiao Yao shrugged, “Western warlocks are not very good at observing qi, and they usually rely on witchcraft and holy water to identify monsters. It’s just that wizards are not on good terms with the church, and they have difficulty surviving. Holy water is precious and hard to come by, so it won’t be used as a tool for large-scale identification. Vampires were originally born with titles, and in ancient times, the Western aristocratic circle was chaotic, so they often changed their identities and pretended to be aristocrats from all over the place, holding banquets from time to time to cheat for food, and most of them would be careful about what they did, not drinking all the blood, not hunting to death, and so most of them lived well. Only a few with low blood and easily dominated by instinct would cause trouble and be discovered by the church and then tracked and killed.”
Bai Ju didn’t know what expression to make. To be honest, he felt that such a living environment would breed a group of fools.
Seeing Bai Ju’s look, Xiao Yao couldn’t help laughing, so he pinched the stem of the rose in his hand, cast a spell and pinned it to Bai Ju’s chest, and commented with satisfaction: “It looks good.”
Bai Ju lowered his eyes to look at the beautiful rose on his chest, then looked at the smiling Xiao Yao, and couldn’t help it. While the two of them were still in the corner, he quickly lowered his head, pinched Xiao Yao’s chin, and kissed him on the mouth.
Just as Bai Ju stood up, Xiao Yao came to his senses, and his slender fingers quickly clasped Bai Ju’s collar, his fingertips clasped over his collar flower, and pulled him towards him: “Brother Bai, the vampire who secretly kisses the hunter will not have a good end.”
Bai Ju leaned slightly along with Xiao Yao’s strength, heard him say that, chuckled and licked his teeth with unsatisfied feeling: “Will it be worse if we kiss a few more times?”
Xiao Yao stroked his collar flower and moved closer: “I’m afraid so.”
After all, it was a crowded occasion, and the two of them staying in the corner were not too blatant. Bai Ju gently bit Xiao Yao’s lips, bit them, then pulled away, and said: “The vampire was captured by the hunter.”
Xiao Yao felt a little embarrassed, he really didn’t know that Old Dog Bai’s skill points in role-playing were actually bright.
Turning his head and coughing lightly, Xiao Yao could not help laughing: “How come you are so skilled, Brother Bai.”
Bai Ju moved the rose on his chest and took Xiao Yao to the open-air cocktail party behind the fountain. Hearing this, he tilted his head slightly, his eyes deep: “You like it very much.”
Bai Ju put his fingers into the gap between Xiao Yao’s five fingers: “It’s not a difficult thing… You like to play this with me, so I just learnt to give you the best experience.”
Xiao Yao looked at Bai Ju’s facial lines outlined by the soft light and felt that the curve of the corners of his mouth could not be suppressed.
An old cadre who knew how to have fun was still an old cadre.
Those things in Old Bai’s bones were still deeply rooted, and he had not been deviated by the fast-paced modern life at all. He had learned a lot of things, but he just knew how to do them… His willingness was what was priceless.
“My partner is so nice.” Xiao Yao shook his hand and praised Bai Ju, “I am so lucky.”
Bai Ju smiled and did not deny what Xiao Yao said. He just replied softly, “You are not the only one who is so lucky.”
Xiao Yao pretended not to hear, raised his head and looked around, then pulled Bai Ju to the buffet table.
There were quite a lot of drink tables, each with neatly stacked champagne towers on top. The waiters standing by the tables serve each glass to the tourists in need.
Xiao Yao and Bai Ju walked over, and Bai Ju was obviously more interested in the champagne tower; Xiao Yao, knowing Bai Ju’s taste well, refused the waiter’s offer to bring him the champagne, and asked him for a glass of grape juice instead.
Bai Ju took a glass of transparent purple juice, blinked, and seemed a little embarrassed: “Yaoyao, shouldn’t we drink at this time?”
Xiao Yao took a glass of orange juice and took a sip: “There is no need to drink something you are not used to… We are here to have fun, not to socialize, so of course we should choose something we like to drink.”
Bai Ju thought it made sense and nodded, so he sipped the grape juice and followed Xiao Yao to patrol the courtyard and the periphery of Haiyin Castle. He also saw the exquisite statues in every corner, and the indecent naked little angels were everywhere.
Bai Ju was extremely curious about Western monsters: “Aren’t these things from Western religions? Why would a vampire place them in his own house?”
Xiao Yao didn’t expect Bai Ju to focus on such a biased point, so he had to explain: “These things are not even idols of gods, they just think they look good… and even if there are idols, objects that have not been prayed for by saints cannot hurt vampires; after all, vampires are one of the top monsters, especially the first to third generations. The owner of Haiyin Castle is the fifth generation, not the strongest, but also a level that should not be underestimated.”
After wandering around the periphery for a while, Bai Ju had seen enough, so he went into the lobby. As he walked, he muttered: “Speaking of which, where did Shao Simiao and the others go?”
Xiao Yao thought about the list of activities in Haiyin Castle attached to the invitation, raised his hand and pointed upstairs: “They should be going to play horror games. I remember that the five game rooms upstairs are all open now. If you arrange your time well, it is not a problem to play them all in one night.”
Bai Ju looked up at the magnificent dome, then at the rooms behind the fence on the second floor, feeling a little uncomfortable: “Although this place is beautifully built, it always makes people feel chilly… Is it okay for them to play horror games?”
Xiao Yao was quite relieved and comforted: “That breath is the inheritance mark left by the previous generation of vampires. In our Chinese system, this power is just yin. It’s just a horror game. Qu Lang is there, he will be fine.”
Bai Ju nodded and said nothing more.
The evening party at Haiyin Castle was of course not just about the buffet and the game room. The most important thing was the masquerade ball. After the party began, staff members would play Western monsters, witches, church members, etc. and perform situational dramas on the dance floor. Visitors may be randomly selected as supporting roles such as “hostages”, “key figures”, “lover of a certain character”, etc. The participation rate was very high and there may be gifts to be won.
Not long after Bai Ju and Xiao Yao entered the lobby, a dozen characters in various costumes slowly walked down the spiral staircase in the center of the lobby and stood on the steps to announce the start of the dance.
The lobby, which had been empty long ago, had now become a dance floor. A band came out from behind the surrounding curtains. One of the curtains was even lifted, revealing a grand piano with a spotlight inside.
As the music started, Bai Ju followed Xiao Yao to slowly learn ballroom dance. He couldn’t help but glance at the characters standing on the steps: “Yaoyao, are those staff members?”
Xiao Yao nodded with a smile: “Watch your feet and don’t step on me again.”
Bai Ju still found it incredible. This was completely different from what he had imagined before: “So vampires play vampires, and werewolves play werewolves?”
Xiao Yao smiled and hummed: “The staff members are just playing Western monsters. I didn’t say that the staff members themselves are monsters.”
Bai Ju: “…”
He always felt like he was being tricked.
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