The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

447: Inside the Room

Feng Wu staggered a few steps but didn’t fall down.
She got a better look at the room after regaining her balance.

It was clear the room was used for nefarious deeds.
Several people, presumable women based on the length of their hair and the clothes they wore, were tied to wooden stakes.
They were dried, bloodless husks, nearly completely mummified.

It was easy to imagine they must have suffered and before dying.
Their eyes exuded panic and despair and their mouths were open wide.

Feng Wu could tell they were all maids from the count’s house based on their clothes.
She thought about the news from the old lady, about how there were a lot of girls missing.
They were girls from inconsequential backgrounds who no one gave much thought to.
Coupled with the countess’s deliberate cover up, few would know the truth.
Most people would just assume the girls had returned home after getting a small reward from the countess for their services.

Anyone clever enough to piece the puzzle together would be too smart to say anything about it.
The difference in their identities would make them too fearful of the consequences.

Aside from the corpses, there was a chair draped in leather.
Feng Wu looked at the dead girls and their spirits that hovered nearby.
She walked toward them.

Their faces were full of desperation.

“Go! The countess is not a good person! She will kill you!”

“Get out of here! Run away!”

“Leave as fast as you can!”

Feng Wu could hear their voices clearly as they tried to persuade her to run away.
They knew it was useless, that only a necromancer could see or hear them, but they still tried anyway.

They were just small, weak spirits.
They weren’t aggressive or powerful so they couldn’t reveal the countess’s true face.

Feng Wu was about to speak when the door opened.
The sound didn’t come from behind her, but from in front of her.

There was a secret door inside the stone wall.
Feng Wu could see a staircase behind it as a beautiful woman stepped through the door and into the room.
It looked like the staircase led directly to the fifth floor.

“Mrs.
Alante.” Feng Wu instantly recognized the woman was the countess.

Tonight, the countess departed from her usual dignified dress.
Instead she contrasted her pale skin with an all red dress and bold, sultry makeup.
There was a big difference between her normal dignified look and the look she had now.

Alante slowly walked in and sat down on the chair.

“So beautiful and such excellent complexion.
But most importantly, the amount of life energy you have is tremendous.
Absolutely fascinating!” Alante licked her lips as she looked at Feng Wu.
She looked at Feng Wu like Feng Wu was something delicious to enjoy.

“You want to drink my blood?” Feng Wu didn’t scream in fear or ask for mercy.

It was such an unexpected reaction that Alante quickly realized something was amiss.

“Very clever.
It seems you have realized my intention.” Alante giggled.

“Why did you drink their blood?” Feng Wu could see how thick the blood qi was around the countess.
Ordinary people would not have been able to feel it, even magicians were unlikely to sense anything wrong.
It was only because Feng Wu’s eyes were unique that she detected anything at all.

Feng Wu suspected the countess wasn’t human based on their first encounter.
It was just like the old lady said, the countess wasn’t human.

It wasn’t possible for a human, even a murderous one, to have such a bloody aura.
Feng Wu didn’t know much about the spirit body, but she knew someone who did.
Should she call Lydia[notes] over to take a look? Come to think of it, she hadn’t seen Lydia in a while.

If it weren’t for Mrs.
Alante, Feng Wu would have forgotten all about the contract she had with Lydia.

“It seems I let a little mouse in this time.
Did that old lady send you to investigate me? The old thing still hasn’t given up? After checking so many times, I would have thought she’d give up.
Didn’t think she’d get smarter and send someone as bait to lure me out.”

The only person the countess could think of who would do something like this was the old lady.
Damn her.
If it weren’t for the fact the old lady was Nigusu’s mother, she would have killed her ages ago.

The countess secretly hated the old lady.
The happier she and Nigusu were in their own little world, the more she was disliked by her mother-in-law.
The old lady even found someone to investigate her, but fortunately she noticed and was able to keep her secret.

The old lady refused to give up and kept sending more people.
She could send as many people as she wanted, but Alante wasn’t going to let anyone who discovered her secret leave alive, so this maid had to die.

“That old thing, so what if she finds out? I’m the only one Nigusu loves now.
Does she think Nigusu still even cares about her?” Alante sneered dismissively as she thought about her mother-in-law.

Feng Wu didn’t have any interest in the grudge between the countess and the old lady.
“Are you not human?” Feng Wu tilted her head as she thought about it.
She couldn’t figure what the countess was.

“Of course I’m human.” Alante snorted coldly.

She was human, but not completely human.
She didn’t hesitate to become a demon in exchange for beauty and strength.

“All right, little girl, no more nonsense talk.
Since you found out something you shouldn’t have, I’m going to have to kill you now!” With a loud shout, Alante’s fingers sprouted sharp, deadly, black fingernails.

“Die and go to hell!” Alante snapped her hands out inhumanly fast.

Feng Wu blocked with her sword, but Alante’s nails were so strong, they left dents on the blade.