If one pays attention to foreign news, they will discover that foreign media occasionally exposes incidents of vampires harming or even killing people.
As for the authenticity of these incidents, leaving that aside for now, let’s focus on the situation in Atraria. Reports about vampires or even records of vampires are extremely scarce.
This has planted a subconscious belief among the general public that Atraria only has ghosts and zombies, while vampires are mostly found in foreign countries.
However, that’s not entirely true. Atraria does have vampires, but they are different from those in foreign countries.
In foreign countries, the legend goes that the first generation of vampires were descendants of the noble royal families.
Foreign vampires originated from a disease called porphyria, where patients are afraid of sunlight, onions, and silverware, and they need blood transfusions to sustain their lives.
In reality, there are still many vampires existing, with their eyes usually black. The eyes of powerful vampires are deep red, and the eyes of top-tier vampires are purple-gold. Vampires have no shadows.
Over thousands of years of vampire evolution, foreign vampires have acquired some special abilities.
Now let’s talk about the vampires in Atraria. They are actually a type of ghostly creature.
Like foreign vampires, Atrarian vampires also feed on blood. However, they don’t rely on blood for their survival but rather on the life force within the blood to enhance their own ghostly power and cultivate their abilities.
This makes vampires one of the most terrifying types of supernatural creatures.
Leo pondered for a moment and asked, “Professor Orlando, what are your thoughts on that opening?”
“Based on my years of experience, there should be an ancient tomb beneath the Black Crow Mountain,” Professor Orlando replied.
The cultural relics and historical information inside would surely drive archaeologists crazy.
Frederic suddenly spoke up, “I believe that opening should lead directly to an underground passage in the tomb. Dr. Bloomer, why don’t you take us down there?”
Leo nodded, “I was actually thinking of going there myself. Professor Orlando, let’s go.”
They borrowed a car from the police and headed towards the Black Crow Mountain in the west of the village.
Guided by Professor Orlando, Leo drove, and after about twenty minutes, they arrived at the spot where the female corpse had been unearthed.
Next to the opening, there was an already opened coffin. The coffin was in good condition, as if it had been recently buried.
Leo’s attention was quickly drawn to the nine rivets scattered around the coffin.
They actually used the technique of sealing the coffin with nine rivets!
With his divine sense, Leo could tell that the rivets were made of mysterious iron and coated with cinnabar.
Approaching the opening, Leo probed downward with his divine sense and estimated that the bottom was about ten meters below the surface.
Furthermore, the negative energy at the bottom was dense.
Leo withdrew his divine sense and turned to Professor Orlando and the others, saying, “Professor Orlando, the negative energy inside the opening is too strong for you to bear. I’ll go down and take a look myself. You shouldn’t come down.”
Professor Orlando nodded, “Dr. Bloomer, please take care of your safety. We’ll wait for you outside.”
Just as Leo was about to enter the opening, Rita hurriedly spoke up, “Dr. Bloomer, please take some photos once you’re inside.”
Leo nodded and turned around, jumping directly into the opening.
After landing, he found himself in a relatively spacious space with walls on all sides.
Using the flashlight on his phone, he could see that the walls were man-made, crafted with exquisite workmanship. They were smooth and seamless.
On one side of the wall, there was a door-shaped opening, likely leading to the central tomb passage.
Leo always had a strange feeling in his heart. This ancient tomb was quite unique.
If this were just the tomb of an emperor or a general, nothing would make sense.
Whether it was an emperor’s tomb or a general’s tomb, they would never seal the entrance with a coffin. That was an ominous act.
Moreover, the use of the technique of sealing the coffin with nine rivets indicated the presence of some kind of malevolent ghost.
Leo pondered for a moment and stepped into the tomb passage.
The tomb passage was also man-made, but compared to the walls of the small space he had entered earlier, the walls of the tomb passage felt rougher.
The tomb passage was neither narrow nor wide, allowing two adults to walk side by side.
The secret passage was very dark, but it didn’t feel cold.
The flashlight on Leo’s phone couldn’t penetrate the darkness of the tomb passage, only illuminating the area about four or five meters ahead.
As he reached the end of the tomb passage and stepped out, Leo entered an extremely spacious stone chamber.
The stone chamber was empty, with no coffins or burial objects inside.
Leo continued walking forward and soon reached the end of the stone chamber.
At the end, there was a closed stone door with mysterious symbols and figures carved on its sides.
Looking at the top of the door frame, words were engraved in seal script – “The Gate of Repentance.”
“Interesting,” Leo muttered to himself.
Leo reached out his right hand towards the Gate of Repentance.
A miraculous scene unfolded as his hand passed through it, as if the Gate of Repentance in front of him didn’t exist at all.
Leo hesitated for a moment, then stepped inside.
At first, it was pitch black, but gradually, it became brighter.
When Leo could see the surroundings clearly, he realized that he was now in another stone chamber.
This stone chamber wasn’t too large, and there was light inside, allowing him to see the entire room. It was probably a little over two hundred square meters.
Looking up, there was no luminous object on the ceiling of the stone chamber, but the lighting inside the entire chamber was sufficient.
The stone chamber was empty, and when Leo released his divine sense, he couldn’t sense the presence of any aura.
This was obviously abnormal and unreasonable.
Everything in the world has an aura, with varying strengths, and it produces regular or irregular fluctuations.
If there was no aura, could this be an illusory space!?
Just as Leo was contemplating what to do next, the lighting in the stone chamber started to change, turning into a mysterious blue color.
Within this ethereal blue light, a figure appeared.
The figure gradually became clear, and then, Leo was completely stunned.
Leo directly suspected that a huge mirror had appeared in front of him because there was someone who looked exactly like him.
Leo tried moving his right hand, and the person in front of him made the same movement. This made Leo’s heart skip a beat.
If this eerie place could clone him, and he ended up fighting himself, and in the end, he killed himself, just thinking about it sent chills down his spine.