Xiao Lan, who had performed the physical wall penetration technique, waited hopefully for the system's prompt.
One second passed...
Two seconds passed...
Three seconds passed...
After waiting for ten seconds, there was no system prompt! There was no hint of the boss' attention to the destruction scene, and no hint of an increase in poverty, as if he just knocked down a wall of air.
No, this shouldn't be!
Wang Teddy drilled through the hole in the wall and saw Xiao Lan in front of the door. He asked, "What's the matter?"
Xiao Lan's voice drifted a little: "Why didn't the system prompt appear when the scene was destroyed."
Wang Teddy thought for a moment: "Does it attract the attention of the boss? Some games will be like this. Players have all kinds of speculations. It may be that some bosses or NPCs are wealthy and don't mind this small amount of money."
"Anyway, this is more beneficial for the player to find clues." After that, Wang Teddy ran to check the door.
Small, small...
Xiao Lan suddenly felt a pain from the depths of his soul, such a gorgeous manor, so many antiques, so many poverty values... but he could only watch and couldn't take any of them.
Mrs. Bella, look at this wall. Doesn't it smell good? Can you give it a little place in your heart
Now, he missed that big brother Zhang Dong who was stubborn, and even the number of light bulbs that fell could be counted on his head.
The world is not worth it.
Perhaps Xiao Lan's loss was too obvious. Luo walked over and patted his shoulder lightly: "Sir."
Xiao Lan exhaled, "I'm fine, let's go."
Pushing away the Wang Teddy who was studying the lock on the door, Xiao Lan was in poor condition. This time it took nearly ten seconds to open the door. Under Wang Taidi's admiring gaze, he opened the door.
Inside the door turned out to be a children's room.
By the candlelight in the corridor, I can barely see the inside of the room.
The room is decorated with a lot of bow knots, pasted with some peeling floral wallpapers, and a beautifully contoured bed is placed in the middle. There is also an exquisite white lace bed curtain on it, which is now a bit decayed. It should have been It is warm and comfortable. There are many dusty toys on the bed, on the sofa and even on the carpet. This should be a room for a little girl.
Xiao Lan walked into the room, and a turbid air that could only be found in a room that had been closed for too long rushed over his face, causing him to frown. Unfortunately, the windows of this room were also sealed and could not be opened for ventilation.
The room was dim, and it was not easy to find clues. Xiao Lan originally wanted Luo to quietly release a black shadow to detect, but the krypton player Wang Teddy directly took out an emergency light-like prop, which suddenly brightened the room a lot.
Wang Teddy pointed to the light: "This is called a'nuclear emergency light'. No matter how long it is left, it can remain illuminated as long as it is not damaged. It is easy to find in the trading area of the player's residence. Most players will prepare a similar item. You should get one if you have a chance."
The pauper Xiao Lan who has nothing to trade: "..."
The only personal property he currently owns is the envelope with Luo and the reverse time record, both of which are still bound.
"Look at this." Luo's voice attracted the attention of the two.
Luo Zheng was standing next to the sofa, holding a piece of paper in his hand and gently waving at them.
Xiao Lan stepped forward and looked at what Luo was holding with the light of the nuclear emergency light. It was a painting. The painter's brushstrokes were very naive, and there was a sense of childishness in the picture.
It seems that this is a child's work. Although it is a child, the painting level has surpassed Luo's neo-futuristic soul art by a lot.
On the left of the picture is a woman with long curly hair and wearing a gorgeous long skirt. On the right is a little girl, wearing a cute tutu and wearing a bow headgear. They hold hands, but the little girl is not painted on her face. Department, it looks a little weird.
"Sister" is written under the woman, "Annie" is written under the little girl, and at the bottom there is a sentence "Sister is the gentlest person in the world, Annie loves sister".
Annie, will you be the owner of this room? Where did she and sister go
Several people continued to search in the room. After a while, Xiao Lan found a medical record in the drawer beside the bed.
In the doctor's wild handwriting, Xiao Lan struggled to distinguish the contents.
The medical record records Anne’s condition. She has an unknown family hereditary disease, which can cause the patient’s bones to deform, appearance changes, abnormal body shape growth, and part of her limbs swelled or collapsed.
This may explain why Annie does not have her own face in her paintings. She is obviously a young girl who loves beauty so much, but her face has been deformed due to genetic disease.
Annie has been ill since she was two years old, and her condition deteriorated quickly, until she was about eight years old, and new medical records were added almost every week, and these records did not reach the age of nine.
And this room looked like a children's room, without the air of a girl.
Xiao Lan closed the medical record: "Annie may have died when she was eight years old."
Wang Taidi was quite sympathetic: "This child has probably spent his entire life in pain."
Then they found a second painting.
There is only the sister in the gorgeous dress in this painting. Perhaps it is to highlight the beauty of her sister. The child who painted the painting still painted flowers around her, and the petals are flying exaggeratedly. It can be seen that she likes her sister very much. .
But this time she didn't draw her sister's face. Not only that, there are more weird things in this painting.
There are many stacked human figures under my sister's feet. From the perspective of her clothes, she should be female, even somewhat similar to the clothes of the maids in the manor. Surrounding her sister is a group of men kneeling on one knee, wearing gorgeous dresses, with extremely enthusiastic expressions on their faces.
This sister, who looked like a queen bee, was surrounded and sought after by drones.
Turning over the paper, the child behind it wrote with immature brushwork, "Anne still likes sister".
This "still" always makes people feel an ominous feeling. If it weren't for something bad enough to make a change in one's attitude, the word would not be used to indicate that one would still be the same as before.
What happened to my sister, does it have anything to do with her losing her face in the painting? Is she also ill
Wang Teddy drew a breath: "Hiss-, why does this picture look so weird? This sister looks so strange."
Xiao Lan: "I have a guess, but there is still a little evidence."
At this moment, Luo brought a plush toy, and he turned the metal card on the toy's neck over and handed it to Xiao Lan. Xiao Lan took a closer look.
It says "To my dearest sister", and the signature is-Bella.
At this point, the clues related to Annie are complete.
Xiao Lan showed the metal plate on the toy to Wang Teddy: "Annie's sister is Mrs. Bella, and Mrs. Bella's family has a terrible genetic disease that will torture the sick person beyond recognition."
"Annie became ill at a very young age. She liked her gentle and beautiful sister very much, and Bella didn’t get ill until she was an adult. Maybe when the whole family thought she had escaped, her fate still didn’t let her go. ."
"However, this still doesn't explain what Mrs. Bella looks like now."
"We should be missing other clues."
No matter how terrible the genetic disease is, it won't change the species, right? And Mrs. Bella's body looks very strong, not as if she has suffered from illness for many years.
There is also the character of Mrs. Bella. Annie said Bella is the most gentle person in the world, but now she can't feel it at all. There should be something in it that turned the Bella described by Annie into the current Mrs. Bella.
After no more information was found here, a few people walked out.
At the door, Wang Teddy once again took advantage of the Kryptonium player and took out the props to restore the wall. There was no dust left on the ground, which made Xiao Lan very envious.
Why is the difference between people still so big for the same pauper
After that, several people decided to go back to the room and sleep again.
When they passed by the kitchen, they could still hear Mrs. Bella's singing. She was persevering in the kitchen studying the dark dishes as if she didn't need to sleep.
This persistence and conscientiousness matched her cooking level, which seemed extremely bitter.
Go back to the room.
Xiao Lan pointedly noticed that his door had been opened. A fiber that had been trapped in the crack of the door when he closed the door before is now missing.
He opened the door carefully, followed by Luo who found that his expression was wrong and chose to follow him.
Everything in the room seemed to be business as usual, everything stayed peacefully in its original place. Xiao Lan inspected the room and found nothing wrong. When he looked up, he saw two inverted handprints appearing above the tall window. It looked like someone was peeping inside the house from above.
The handprint is too small, like the size of a woman.
This is the fourth floor, and the room is very tall and wide. The distance from the windows on the upper floor to this floor is more than the height of a person. I want to leave a handprint upside down, unless that person is lying outside like a gecko. On the wall.
Is it a human being to be able to do this
The two looked outside, and there were no clues other than the handprints.
When closing the window, Xiao Lan accidentally knocked down an unknown decorative object placed by the window, and the object knocked to the ground, leaving a gap in its exquisite appearance.
Likewise, the absence of the destruction scene or any hints related to the poverty value shows that Mrs. Bella is indifferent to these properties.
"Sir." Luo's voice diverted Xiao Lan's attention.
"What's the matter?" Xiao Lan asked.
"Please allow me to watch for you tonight. It turns out that the room is not safe anymore." Luo looked serious.
Xiao Lan thought about the traces that appeared on the door inexplicably, then thought about the door that was opened, and finally glanced at the handprints on her window. Indeed, from the current situation, two people are relatively safe.
Luo continued to put forward the reason: "This is all for safe customs clearance. You promised me that you will lead me to pass the customs together, and you don't have to worry that this level of vigilance will make me feel tired."
Xiao Lan finally nodded and agreed.
But when he was lying on the bed, something was wrong again.
Luo just stood in the dark and stared at him motionlessly. The tall figure looked like a ghost in the faint moonlight, and the golden eyes that had removed the camouflage shimmered like a wild cat in the cemetery looking at the grave, which made people feel pressure. Double...
There will be ghosts if you can sleep!
Xiao Lan reluctantly patted the position beside her: "Luo, you should lie down. The bed here is wide enough anyway."
Luo sounded with a smile: "Sir, I don't need sleep."
Xiao Lan: "Take it to comfort the conscience of my black-hearted boss."
"Ok."
Then Xiao Lan felt her side sink slightly, and a warm body approached him. Luo's sleeping position is very peaceful. In order to keep quiet, Luo can't feel a trace of breathing or pulse on his body, so it can only be regarded as a standby state.
Quiet like a corpse.
This... is still very stressful. Luo may not fully understand the division of quietness between humans.
Forget it, just make do.
Xiao Lan stayed in such a weird state and fell into a deep sleep. Without noticing, the people next to him in the dark showed a satisfied smile.
Early the next morning, the players led by the maid to another restaurant.
They thought they would be poisoned by Mrs. Bella’s loving cooking today, but they didn’t expect breakfast to look exceptionally normal. Next to the toasted soft and fragrant bread are properly fried sausages and eggs, paired with cheese and salad, it looks very attractive.
The players hesitated for a while. Except for Qi Ning, who seemed to be able to live by drinking the wind, he played with a knife and showed no interest in the fragrant food on the table.
People can't help wondering if he was so thin and hungry.
At this time, the player who had a white mark on the door last night suddenly slapped the table angrily and stood up: "How can these things be eaten! I want to eat the food made by Mrs. Bella!"
The players looked at him one after another.
He looked excited and waved his hands frantically: "What are these things? The dishes made by Mrs. Bella are delicious in the world, right?"
The other two players who had eaten Mrs. Bella's dishes at the dinner yesterday also echoed excitedly:
"Yes, yes! These things can't be eaten at all!"
"Hurry up and remove them!"
"I feel sick when I smell it!"
"The butler, we want Mrs. Bella's food!"
It seems that the hapless guy had been recruited unconsciously last night. The three of them now seem to have completely lost their normal judgment, and only Mrs. Bella is in their hearts.
Wang Teddy said softly: "Is it really addictive to eat Mrs. Bella's dishes? This game not only insults my aesthetics, but also my taste."
After speaking, he remembered Xiao Lan's cooking skills last night. He shuddered and decided not to talk about this topic.
Xiao Lan was left alone and confused.
At this time, the butler was attracted by the commotion here and appeared in the restaurant. She still held her chin open and said blankly: "How can Mrs. Bella prepare three meals for you like a cook? Can you enjoy the craftsmanship of the lady again? It depends on your performance."
The three people became excited:
"For Mrs. Bella, I can do anything!"
"Me too!"
"Please tell me! I am willing to do anything!"
The butler curled up his mouth with satisfaction and greeted the three of them to leave, and the restaurant suddenly became quiet.
Xiao Lan stretched out her hand and took a piece of bread. What the housekeeper said just now and the performance of the three players showed that these foods were not prepared by Mrs. Bella, but she can eat it with peace of mind.
He also took the opportunity to grab a few more and put them in his storage space. As a result, the system prompts "This item is not an item and cannot be stored". It seems that the player is not allowed to avoid risks in this way.
Xiao Lan could only regretfully ate a few more.
After eating breakfast, Xiao Lan and Luo continued to look for clues in the manor.
The fifth floor of the manor belongs to Mrs. Bella, and every staircase is guarded by a maid and it is not easy to enter. And now it's not enough to get close to Mrs. Bella to find clues, Xiao Lan temporarily let go of this level.
The two came to the library of the manor.
Although it is a library, this area is much larger than many bookstores in reality. There are many bookcases up to the top of the room standing upright. There are many candlesticks on them to provide lighting. Tall ladders are set aside. There are sofas and tables not far from each bookcase for people to sit down and read at any time.
Xiao Lan tried to find some records about Mrs. Bella's family here. Even if this kind of library open to guests does not store confidential information, the basic information and the great achievements of her family will always be left to show off.
However, under Luo's careful search for the shadows, there was nothing.
There is a vacant area on a bookshelf. The trace shows that a lot of books have been put away, but they were all removed later. This family seems to be nonexistent, and the information is strictly covered.
Could it be that Mrs. Bella did it? She didn't want to be known about her family information. Even the people in the manor called her only by first name. No one had ever mentioned Bella's last name.
Suddenly Xiao Lan found a small gap on the edge of the old bookshelf. He gently moved there and found that it was a small vertical drawer with a circular board on the side, which was a small key when opened. hole.
It looks like a place where treasures are hidden, and the traces seem to have been so long that the treasurers have forgotten it. Xiao Lan first confirmed whether there was a mechanism nearby, and then opened the drawer carefully.
Inside the drawer is a golden dagger with exquisite carvings, which looks very advanced.
[Name: Demeter's Blade (advanced item, unbound)]
[Ability: It seems that you are very rich, our local tyrants are unique in even cutting a fruit]
【Explanation: Toys of rich and honorable people】
What use is this ability! !
But what are the toys of wealthy people? Xiao Lan grabbed the dagger in her hand suspiciously.
"The poverty value is reduced by 30W, Xiao Lan is corroded by capital! It is the shame of the poor!"
Xiao Lan: "..."
He put the dagger back in place.
"The poverty value is increased by 30W, and Xiao Lan will be saved if he is lost."
Damn it! Can't I even use valuable props! ! What the hell is this setting! !
If you can't use valuable items in the future...
Xiao Lan imagined for a moment. Later, when he played against other players, the opponent drew out the handed down famous sword/extremely famous sword/God-level staff, and he took out the broomstick
This damn looks very imposing! ! !
The author has something to say:
Xiao Lan: It is impossible to become rich. It is impossible to become rich in this lifetime.
ps: Modified the description of Demeter Blade so that it does not look like a useful prop 233