Alice still took a trick. After all, this is a lunch that pleases children, so there is no need to pay attention to the specifications of adult lunch. Convenient, fast and cheap, these are the things that need to be considered.
The answer is immediately obvious, the perfect combination of fast food, fried chicken and French fries.
Zach was sent to prepare the ingredients and drove out in the car. Louise, Danny, and Old Hank were sent to the kitchen to prepare. Laura had some free time before going back to pick up the children, and was also assigned some light work of washing vegetables.
As for Alice herself, after all, this was a lunch that had to be proven to be the 'best', and the only place where she could show off was the dipping sauce.
"Very few people in Grande eat these. I remember seeing the recipe before. Well, I'll go over it again." Alice said this, leaving the people in the kitchen for a while, went up to the second floor, and went directly to the entertainment room.
Out of habit, Alice pulled the door handle, but the door was not pushed open.
"Huh?" Alice pulled a few more times. The entertainment room was newly decorated, and she thought she opened the door wrong.
The door still didn't open. Alice stood at the door and reacted for a while before realizing that the door was locked. She felt embarrassed in the deserted corridor and pressed her finger on the lock button.
Please don't wonder why this room in the Grande Interior has a lock outside the room. Please refer to the entertainment room of an average family. If it is locked in the room, do you want to allow your children to hide in the entertainment room and play all day without coming out
Naturally, the room that was originally the master bedroom didn't have this problem, but wasn't this a room that no longer had a necessary master bedroom and was converted into a recreation room according to Zach's request
Alice turned the door lock, and a slight click sounded between the wall and the door.
"Who?!" A male voice suddenly sounded.
The voice behind the door frightened Alice to shrink her hand, took a few steps back, and looked at the closed door in horror, "Who. Who!"
There was no sound from behind the door.
After the initial fright, Alice calmed down a little and looked nervously at the empty rooms on both sides of the corridor. Grande's people were all down there, but the door to the guest room that was usually closed was open, and she remembered. "Yes, is it Brian?"
No response is taken as default.
Alice patted her chest, put her hand on the lock button again, turned ninety degrees, pulled the handle again, and pushed the door open.
A face, Brian's, was stuck in front of Alice.
"Ah!" Alice was startled again, "B-Brian. You, you scared me..."
Ryan stared at Alice, frowning and pursed his lips, with no intention of correcting her.
"Well..." Alice nervously pressed against the door frame and bypassed 'Brian' who was blocking the door. He was much taller than Alice, who was still a girl, and he was also a stranger to Alice, so Alice was inevitably a little confused. Nervous, "You. Why are you here? Did Zach lock you up here..."
Alice paused, as if realizing that she shouldn't be interfering with Zach's actions. A little nervous, he closed the door again, "Well, Brian, then, you can stay here for a while. I, I will leave in a moment..."
Alice had her own noise canceling function, and her voice became smaller and smaller. She lowered her head, ran to the TV cabinet in small steps, and quickly opened the cabinet. Obviously looking for something.
But when I saw the tampered box of "Cook's Kitchen Collector's Edition Volume 1", I was obviously startled.
At the same time, Ryan, who was staring at the door that was closed again, fell into silence inexplicably, as if he was hesitating, should he open the door now and run, or should he open the door and run now? !
"Is Zach down there?"
"Who touched my videotape?"
After a brief silence, two questions were asked from both of them at the same time, and they looked at each other with their eyes wide open.
"Well… "
It’s not hard to imagine. The first person to respond was naturally the shy and cowardly Sister Grande!
Alice looked at 'Brian', "He, he's not here. He went out to buy..."
Enough, Ryan opened the door and rushed out.
Alice was stunned for a moment, then stood up in front of the TV cabinet, closed her eyes, and raised her hand to click in the air!
Something has changed in the space.
It should be noted that Grande's sister, the succubus Alice, is just shy and cowardly. She can see death and is gifted with witchcraft. What does it take for her to be truly cowardly? !
Wherever Ryan went out, he rushed back again. With a determined look on his face, he threw away his arms and legs and ran quickly, directly hitting the sofa in the entertainment room.
After a chaotic noise, Ryan stared, got up from the sofa, and looked around in horror. The truth was that he rushed down the stairs. Why was he back in the entertainment room
Ryan stood up from the sofa, jumped over, threw off his arms and legs again, and ran out. The sound of footsteps on the wooden floor "dong-dong-dong" moved away, and then came closer with a strange "dong-dong-dong"!
Ryan rushed back to the rec room again!
This time, he was somewhat prepared and stopped just before he was about to hit the sofa! His round eyes met Alice who raised her hand!
"What did you do!!"
"Who touched my videotape!" Grande's sister frowned, and the deep Indian outline made her expression full of tension! Who can imagine that this is the nervous girl who just spoke intermittently? !
"Let me out!" For a human trapped in the 'Maze Curse' witchcraft, Ryan remained shockingly calm. calm? Wrong, he was not calm at all, "Stop! Let me out!" What he maintained was logic, adjectives related to rationality, go to hell!
Alice stared closely at 'Brian' who was approaching her. Oh, now, Alice could already tell that this was not Brian, but Ryan.
Alice's hand moved downwards, dark red light flashed between her fingers, and the spell pulled out in the air continued to fly out as the approaching Ryan tried to catch Alice, making a circle around Ryan's feet!
oh! Do you need to be surprised that Alice is so proficient in using witchcraft? Zach seems to have always played the role of a close brother and has never stopped Alice from reading Sibella's witchcraft notes. Moreover, Zach had been away from Grande for five days, and Alice was like a star-struck little girl who bought "Cook's Kitchen Collector's Edition Volume 1" that only she could read. Is it surprising that he did something more meaningful? .
"Ouch!" A short cry of pain. Ryan, whose fingertips were burned the moment they touched the edge of the circle at his feet, retracted his injured hand and stared at Alice, "What are you going to do!"
Everyone has seen this trap before. Ryan, who had no talent for witchcraft, let Alice go and was tortured miserably when he cast it on the phantom.
"I. I'm asking a question!" A slightly unsteady and firm tone. Alice took a few steps back unconsciously, and between her frowning brows, a look that was different from the questioning was growing, as if she had no intention of hurting the person in front of her.
Ryan stared at Alice. After thinking for a short time, he said another thing without directly answering the question. His tone was forced to fight back when Alice was slightly unsteady, "Who is hidden in your videotape?! "
'who? '
Don't get too caught up in the confusing conversation between these two just yet. Colorful light spots flickered vaguely in the room, as if if they moved slightly, the light spots would be transported and transferred to another space.
"Alice? What happened?" It was the voice of Danny the Phantom, but his voice was like his light spot, rising and falling, as if jumping back and forth in different places.
The two people stared at each other and remained silent.
"Alice?" Danny's voice continued, urgent. The number of flashing lights is increasing, "Are you in any danger? Remove your maze spell. I can help!"
The expression on Alice's face became tense, she looked at Ryan, pursed her lips, and finally moved her fingers in the space. It was as if something had been restored.
"Alice!" The phantom's light spots stabilized at the same time, no longer flickering, penetrating from the four walls, shrinking and gathering into a translucent figure, and a halo like glass began to surround Alice's body in an instant twist. Huanren, who still didn't know what happened, immediately protected Alice. "What's wrong?! I feel movement up there!"
"Dan, Danny." Alice's voice returned to her usual shivering tone, "It's not dangerous, it's Ryan." Alice glanced at Ryan and quickly lowered her head, but the trap spell surrounding Ryan's feet did not stop her. Taking it back means, "He, he wants to run away."
Ryan's expression showed a moment of disgust, but I have to say that such an adult and introverted expression is suitable for this face, and it is much more comfortable than Brian's childish expression...
A faint gray floated out from the two humans like smoke, mixing into Danny's translucent body in the space filled with colored light spots. This was sex, something that the phantom people relied on to survive.
The translucent body gradually solidified, and Huanren's face became clearer with a frown. He knew what he was absorbing, but he didn't seem ready to say anything more.
"Did Zack lock him here?" Danny the Phantom stood next to Alice.
"Yes, right." Alice nodded nervously, "When I came in, the door was locked."
"Well." Danny glanced at Ryan, as if he didn't want to say anything more to him, "I'll keep watch outside, Alice. Come out as soon as you're done."
"Okay, okay." Alice nodded quickly.
Just like that, Danny didn't seem to want to confirm anything at all, so he quickly walked out of the room and closed the door behind his back.
Louise's voice leaked in from outside the closed door, "What's wrong, Danny, is Alice in danger? I'll come up as soon as the witchcraft is lifted."
"No, it's..."
Danny's answer could no longer be heard, and the door was closed, leaving Alice in the room and Ryan still under the control of witchcraft.
"You, don't move, just, you won't be hurt." Alice lowered her head and whispered, then turned around and continued to squat in front of the TV cabinet, took a deep breath, shook her head, and said in "Collector's Edition" ” was rummaging through the video tape she needed, "Did you touch my video tape?" Her tone could not be softer. Look, she was too embarrassed to even look at Ryan, and immersed herself in checking the table of contents on the back of each video tape. Table, target is fried chicken dipping sauce.
"not me."
Ryan was really calm now. Thinking carefully about the scene just now, in his eyes, Danny should have appeared out of thin air, right, but he didn't react at all. It was not calm.
There was no way to run away anyway, so Ryan made the wisest decision and answered the question—
"Zach, Zach moved." It seemed that when the vampire's name was mentioned, there was still strong rejection, but Ryan still said it.
Alice, who was squatting with her back to Ryan, stiffened, "He, did he see it?"
"Watch it, you and I..." After a pause, "We watched it together with Brian. He was eavesdropping on the conversation between you and your friend. What a disgusting guy!"
Coming from a person who rejects vampires, this is nothing. But Alice was obviously very nervous. She quickly turned her head, holding a video tape in her hand, "He, what did he see?!"
"A fat man cooks." Ryan answered truthfully.
"That's Cook! Not a fat one, just a little fat!" Inexplicably, Alice's thinking short-circuited, and her expression became angry, just like any girl who is criticized for her idol.
After anger, comes shame. Alice's face turned red, she stomped her feet a little aggrievedly, put the video tape in her hand into the video recorder, and turned around to glare at Ryan. I don’t know who I learned this habit of talking to people while doing my own thing at the same time. Alas, Grande has been led astray by someone.
"I mean someone else! Someone other than Cook!"
"At the end, there was a woman who, along with your Cook, said some words of thanks to the fans and hoped that everyone would continue to support the new version of Cook's Kitchen." There was no expression on Ryan's face.
"Then, is there nothing else?!" Alice obviously did not get the answer she expected, or was she just making sure that the expected answer would not appear
"No more." Ryan squeezed his burned fingers, "He was bored when he saw this, so he went to find you."
Alice breathed a sigh of relief.
"Brian is still watching." Ryan looked at Alice who was obviously relaxed and pressed the play button, and the slightly chubby Cook appeared on the screen again.
Looking at Cook's face on the screen, this seems to be an earlier show than just the reel Zach randomly picked.
Alice directly pressed fast forward. She didn't have time to review the whole process. She just wanted to find the way to make that sauce, so as not to stay here awkwardly with Ryan behind her.
On the screen, the rapidly changing images stretched into strips came to a standstill.
In the fixed scene, Cook is taking an onion from the basket. However, in the stagnant scene, something like a mop head pokes out of the onion basket, crawls out in a weird way, and sorts out the color scheme. The man in a strange formal suit stood in the middle of the screen. A hand covered in black nail polish brushed his mop-like hair, and a face with a stiff outline occupied the entire screen. Papa Midnight.
"Yo! Alice!"
Alice was startled, her face was filled with nervousness and disgust at the same time. She lowered her head, not wanting to respond to the ancestor of witchcraft on the screen, and pressed fast forward hard.
"Uh..." The face on the screen was stretched into strips. In the accelerated picture, someone seemed to resist for a moment, and his body formed a line. He fished a few claws at the edge of the screen, and finally disappeared.
"This person has appeared." Ryan's calmness disappeared and he frowned. Perhaps the strange scene on the screen just now was still in his mind. He continued, "He whispered to Brian to help me, and then he put Brian to sleep and let me out... "
"Stop!" Alice suddenly turned her head and stared at Ryan firmly, "Don't believe a word this person says!"
Before Ryan could say or even think about anything, Alice suddenly stood up, still determined, staring at Ryan, "Papa wants you to leave Grande at midnight? Then you have to stay!" What logic
Uh, but how do you get Ryan to stay in Grande? Simple, just let Ryan disappear and Brian come out. Zach is not here, so Alice needs to hurry. (..)