The administrator's residence was originally a castle of the Dariege nobles. Defense was everything, and all the windows were located at the top. They were narrow and small, and the lighting was very poor even during the day. Later, when it was renovated, in order to make it suitable for living, the owner specially installed a lot of new glass windows on the ground floor.
Lumian looked inside through a piece of patterned glass and saw that the hall used for banquets was empty and very deserted.
"There are indeed very few servants..." Leah sighed softly.
Because it was daytime, many windows were open, allowing fresh air mixed with the scent of flowers to flow in, creating extremely good conditions for Lumian and others to sneak in.
Taking advantage of the fact that there were few servants on the first floor, the four of them climbed into the hall one after another, but they were not in a hurry to go deeper. Instead, they found a secluded place nearby to hide.
Leah turned her head and said to Valentine who was standing behind a decorative pillar:
"I'll explore the way first and get ready."
"Yeah." Valentine nodded grimly.
Lumian was squatting behind a stone table with porcelain vases on it. Hearing this, he poked his head out and reminded him:
“There’s no need to explore the first floor.
"We often entertain guests here, so there's nothing unusual."
Ever since Administrator Beost and Lady Puaris moved in, his sister Aurore would visit the castle from time to time or borrow a pony. On those few occasions, he took the opportunity to follow them and got a lot of cakes, bread and drinks.
When the administrator and Mrs. Pualis were out, he would occasionally come to see the butler Louis Lund and visit the first floor with the latter's "accompaniment".
"I'll go straight to the stairs." Leah said she understood.
She didn't try to walk in a straight line through the empty ballroom, but instead followed the wall and circled toward the staircase.
Miraculously, the four little silver bells made no sound again.
As she passed one of the rooms, she suddenly heard footsteps coming very close to the door.
Lumian was in a perfect position and could even see a male servant in a red shirt and white trousers appear at the door and was about to collide with Leah, with no obstructions around him!
Leah calmly turned around, held onto the wall, and climbed up to the oil painting hanging two meters high.
She then stood on tiptoe, stepped on the frame, and managed to stand firmly with her back against the wall without dropping the painting.
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Lumian wanted to applaud because it reminded him of the circus acrobatics he saw in Darriege last year.
The male servant left the room, looked around instinctively, and walked towards the kitchen.
He had just taken a few steps forward when Leah immediately slid silently to the ground, sticking to the oil painting.
Then the lady rolled twice and hid behind a pillar.
She waited until the male servant disappeared into the banquet hall before she walked along the wall again.
Finally, she reached the stairs and confirmed that everything was fine.
Seeing this, Lumian dodged the stone platform and ran over in a straight line.
He was very fast and rushed to Leah's side in just two or three seconds.
However, he was not the fastest, and Ryan completed the "journey" in just one breath.
Valentine is not slow, and his physical fitness is obviously stronger than that of ordinary people.
Without saying much, Leah took the lead, and the four of them kept their distance, walked up the stairs one after the other, and came to the second floor of the house.
There are rooms with closed doors on both sides of the corridor here, with only a window at the bottom letting in sunlight, making the overall environment appear unusually dim.
Lai En glanced around and said:
"We split up and searched different rooms. This would save time and make it easier to hide, but they couldn't be more than one room apart from each other, in case something unexpected happened and we wouldn't be able to rescue them in time."
Leah and the others nodded to show that they understood.
Lumian immediately went to the nearby room, put his ear to the door to listen for any movement inside, then turned the handle and slipped in lightly.
This is a maid's room.
He searched for a while but found no clues, so he had to move on to the next room.
In this way, the four of them explored most of the second floor, avoiding the servants from time to time.
Towards the end of this round of search, Lumian arrived at the door of the room that left him with psychological trauma.
Louis Lund's bedroom!
And according to the course of "history", the housekeeper should have given birth yesterday.
“His stomach was torn open, and even if it was stitched, he wouldn’t be able to recover in a short period of time. He must be recuperating in bed now…” Lumian muttered silently, considering whether to push the door open and “talk” to Louis Lund.
As a person who personally witnessed the strange incident, this male butler must know a lot.
But this would go against the search principle they had set beforehand, which was to only observe and explore, and not to trigger any anomalies. After all, Lumian could not guarantee that Louis Londe would not tell Mrs. Puaris about his sneaking into the castle.
He has already given birth to a child for her, what else can he keep secret
As for silencing someone, it was equivalent to directly telling Mrs. Pualis that "something happened."
"What a pity! If only I knew something about hypnosis..." Lumian sighed silently as he habitually put his ear to the door to listen to the noise inside.
There was no movement inside.
With the Hunter's concentrated hearing, it is impossible not to hear the breathing sound even through the door panel and at a distance of two or three meters.
"No one? Louise Lund just gave birth to a baby, where would she go?" Lumian tried to turn the handle, pushed the door open a crack, and secretly looked inside.
The room was relatively clean, without the bloodstains he remembered, and of course, there was no Louis Lund either.
Lumian frowned slightly, exerted force with his hands, pushed the door half open, and walked in.
He could see that this bedroom had signs of human sleep, whether it was the spread-out quilt, the cigarette butts at the bedside, the black coat hanging on the chair, or the barely visible footprints on the ground, all of which indicated that Louis Lund had been here not long ago.
In addition to these, Lumian also saw some blood and oil stains on the edge of the bed that had not been wiped off.
"The baby was indeed born yesterday..." Lumian nodded and muttered to himself.
At this moment, he heard faint voices coming from outside the window.
He hurried to the glass window, turned sideways and looked outside.
In the stables, Louis Londe, a man with black hair and blue eyes, was wearing a white shirt, a black suit, dark trousers and leather shoes. He was walking and talking to Sewell, the coachman who had taken the siblings to the other side of the world in the last cycle.
His face was quite rosy, and his walking posture was steady and powerful, which made Lumian stunned.
Is this the person who just gave birth to a child yesterday
And it was a caesarean section!
Lumian suppressed his inner shock and listened carefully to what Louis Londe and Sever were saying.
Who knew, these two guys were just exchanging experiences on weeding and planting flowers.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that Lumian was taking a long time to come out, Ryan, wearing a dark round hat, also pushed the door and entered the room, followed by Leah and Valentine.
Lumian lowered his voice and told the three strangers about Louis Lund's performance.
Lai En listened carefully, thought for a moment and said:
"Do you know 'Mother Earth'?"
The Dariege region borders the Feynaport Kingdom, and shepherds often move there. Coupled with his sister's basic education, Lumian is not unfamiliar with this:
"I know. It's the god that Feynaporte believes in."
Lai En nodded and said:
“That deity is in charge of fertility, and correspondingly, there are areas such as healing and life. This is also reflected in the abilities of the Beyonders of the corresponding paths.
"I'm not saying that what happened here is related to the 'Mother Earth', but I'm telling you that fertility, healing, and life are often linked together. Since Louis Lund was able to give birth to a child, it's understandable that he only needed one day to recover."
“Is that so…” Lumian thought about it and felt it was normal.
Men can give birth to children. What's so strange about them being full of energy and vitality one day after a caesarean section
"Did you gain anything?" he asked En and others.
Ryan shook his head:
"They are all normal servants' rooms."
"Looks like we have to go to the third floor." Lumian felt inexplicably heavy.
On the third floor are the bedrooms of Mrs. Pualis and administrator Beioster, the study, the sun room, the living room, and so on.
And this means huge risks.
"Okay." Ryan didn't hesitate.
Soon, the four of them sneaked into the third floor.
The doors of many rooms here are open, making the corridor much brighter.
Lumian went straight to the point and stepped into the bedroom of Mrs. Puaris and Administrator Beiost.
There is a bed with a light velvet quilt, a small bookshelf with bedtime reading materials, a very spacious cloakroom full of various clothes, a safe for precious collections, a set of soft and comfortable beige sofas, a table with five photo frames and documents and books, and a fluffy white carpet covering the entire house...
Lumian and the others looked around and chose that table at the same time.
The books there were common popular novels, including Fors Wall's masterpiece "The Great Adventurer 5: Admiral of Disease" and Aurore's latest work "The Stand-in Detective". The documents were mainly various affairs issued by the Darriege region, and of the five photos in the frame, four were of Mrs. Pualis and one belonged to a man Lumian did not know.
"No administrator?" he whispered in surprise.
All four photos of Mrs. Pualis only showed herself, wearing different costumes and posing in different postures, and the only photo of a man was not of Administrator Beost.
You know, he is the man of this family. Isn't this too strange
Liya nodded thoughtfully:
“The position of the administrator in this family is probably similar to that of the butler.
"Have you ever seen a picture of a housekeeper in anyone's house?"
"Who is this man?" Lumian looked at the photo frame at the edge.
There was a color photo in the frame. The man looked to be about 27 or 28 years old. He was wearing a red shirt, a black velvet jacket, dark trousers with tassels on the legs, and a pair of short boots with laces. He was dressed very fashionably.
His facial features were somewhat similar to Mrs. Pualis's, with slightly sparse eyebrows, bright and smiling brown eyes, brown hair cut into a rather exaggerated 3:7 split, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, like the kind of person who often moved in and out of upper society and had a bit of a ruffian temperament.
All in all, this man's facial features are not outstanding, but they are very pleasing to the eye.
"Mrs. Pualis's brother?" Lumian guessed based on his appearance.
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