Chapter 27: Embrace
The kitchen area is very large, the cooktop for making food, the cabinet for storing the seasoning, the hooks on the wall for hanging kitchen utensils, everything that the kitchen should have is here.
He rubbed his hands and asked the man beside him, "Did those servants bring the food out from here?"
Lu Qi nodded, the compartment where the food raw materials were stored was also empty.
Lu Qi: "I haven't used it here for a long time."
Where does the food they serve come from? Shen Qingcheng was puzzled.
The two searched around the kitchen and found nothing, so they could only leave the kitchen with an empty stomach.
Today is still a cloudy day, the sky is dark, and the cold wind is blowing in the face, which makes people cold from the bones.
Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi were walking on the cobblestone road paved with bluestone. After a while, Shen Qingcheng suddenly turned his head, his eyes locked on a building deep in the ancient castle.
This building is shorter than all other buildings, with only two floors, the outside is almost completely covered by a black thing, and the few surviving window openings are also dark.
He felt the feeling of being watched, as if a poisonous snake was hiding in the dark and spitting at him coldly.
Shen Qingcheng was stunned as soon as this thought appeared. Being spied on, this is the feeling of her husband written in the diary of the hostess of the castle.
Could I be crazy too? But I don't write horror novels.
Lu Qi: "The fourth NPC lives there."
Shen Qingcheng raised his head and asked in surprise, "How do you know?"
"Guess," Lu Qi replied, he grabbed the person who wanted to go deep into the castle, "Aren't you hungry?"
Shen Qingcheng thought about it for a while, the stomach is indeed more important than curiosity, and he is not so curious.
He retracted his foot and asked, "Where can I find something to eat?"
Lu Qi released his hand and let Shen Qingcheng walk in front, tightening the collar of his coat to completely cover his nose and mouth, revealing only a pair of deep eyes.
He looked at the hem of the swaying clothes of the person in front of him, and said, "Forest."
Shen Qingcheng thought it was unlikely, he couldn't even get out of the school gate in the last dungeon.
He hesitated for a while and didn't say anything. He followed Lu Qi's side, but he didn't expect that he actually left the castle in the end!
Shen Qingcheng: "The forest is also included in the scope of this dungeon?"
He couldn't walk fast in the snow, and unknowingly fell behind Lu Qi, "What do you think of this mission?"
Not waiting for the other party to answer, he analyzed himself: "The four NPCs, except the one in the depths of the castle, I have never seen, the other three are very strange, most of them are not normal people, there is no one in the kitchen The traces of use are evidence.”
"When did they come to this castle? Does what happened to the hostess' family of four have anything to do with them?"
He rubbed his bare chin and pondered, but he didn't see the way, and he fell.
The snow was thick and Shen Qingcheng was wearing thick clothes, so it didn't hurt, "It's fine."
【Hugs! Rounding up is all together! 】
[Incarnation of screaming chicken, I announce that beauty and 7 gods are officially announced today! 】
【What happened? I just found the organization, it's dry]
[Sisters upstairs, the old fans of the 7 gods here have decided to station the beauty channel from now on]
[The same as 7 fans, I know too much, after watching the last issue of Beautiful Encounters and then watching the original video of 7 Gods, it is boring [Cigarette Lighting]]
[Hahaha, passers-by, let’s just merge the two fans upstairs into one family, Shen Meiren has met 7 gods in two dungeons, it’s quite fate]
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[? I remember the last dungeon 7 gods clearly rejected the beauty's friend request, several times, the beauty's popularity is miserable]
[Yes, but they team up]
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【I announce that 7 Fans and Beauty Fans are half-sisters from now on! 】
A sound of wind swept past his ear, and a long black knife rubbed Shen Qingcheng's ear and plunged into the snow under his feet.
These Shen Qingcheng can't see, the hand behind his head is too hard, his whole face is buried in the thick clothes, and he can hardly breathe.
He beat the man's waist, and Lu Qi let go of him.
Shen Qingcheng took a deep breath and sniffed, "Hey, Lu Qi, does your body smell good?" Then he approached Lu Qi to smell it.
Lu Qi stretched out his hand to cover his mouth, even his nose, and his brows were even more tightly wrinkled than he had just noticed.
It was such a cold day, but there was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead under his hat.
He gritted his teeth: "Shut up."
Shen Qingcheng looked at the man's excessive reaction, blinked, "Hmm." Shut up and shut up, I can bend and stretch in order to hold my thighs for leisure and retirement!
After the hands on his face left, he rubbed his nose, and the hands in his heart were also fragrant, cold rosin.
It smells good.
Thinking about these things, Shen Qingcheng looked back at the place where he fell just now.
A black long knife was particularly obvious in the white snow, and what was more obvious was the blood gushing from the position where the long knife penetrated into the snow.
Lu Qi stretched out his hand and pulled out the knife. The snow-white blade was clean and not stained with a drop of blood. He used the blade to remove the snow covering the blood and water, and there was a person underneath.
To be precise, a corpse.
There are no other wounds on his body except the knife at the center of Lu Qizheng. His eyes are closed tightly on his pale face, and the corners of his mouth are slightly raised, as if he is having a sweet dream.
Shen Qingcheng: "A little familiar."
"Wei Tian, one of the two people who went to the third floor to collect clues." Lu Qi retracted his long knife.
When Lu Qi said this, Shen Qingcheng remembered.
The sudden appearance of the servants disrupted Hezhen and Gao Shulin's plans. They had to temporarily arrange six people to come out and inspect the rooms on the third, fourth, and fifth floors in groups of two.
This person's team was the first to leave the team.
Shen Qingcheng: "Isn't he supposed to be in the old castle, how could he die here." Died on their way.
There must be something wrong with the castle.
The two didn't delay any longer. Lu Qi dug out a hibernating snake under Shen Qingcheng's rainbow fart and roasted it and shared it with the two of them. After that, he also found some berries for Shen Qingcheng to serve. Fruit after meal.
When they went back, they didn't go the same way they came, so they didn't know that just after they left, there was a sound of "click" under Wei Tian's body, and then the body sank into the snow , disappeared without a trace.
The castle hall, 14 players gathered at the long table.
He Shi and Gao Shulin arranged for one person from each side to form a team to inspect the first floor, the dead Wei Tian and what are the people here.
What does it mean to see everyone here, "Wei Tian is gone."
The players rioted.
He stretched out his hands and pressed down, "Luo Ming, you and Wei Tian have a group, tell me about the situation at that time."
The player named Luo Ming is a short and thin man, he heard the words and replied: "Because of the limited time, Wei Tian and I decided to act separately after arriving on the third floor, one person to search a room, who Whoever finishes the search first will wait in the corridor first, meet and then separate and continue to search for the next room."
"Our method was very smooth at first. After searching the fifth room, I went to the corridor and found that Wei Tian hadn't come out yet, so I waited for him in the corridor, but he never showed up."
Gao Shulin's eyes were sharp, "Do you know which room he entered and didn't go in to look for him?"
"I waited for a long time and Wei Tian didn't come out. I guessed that something happened to him, so I waited for the people on the fourth and fifth floors to search the room and went in with them," Luo Ming said, " I can't risk my life to get in by myself."
He ignored Gao Shulin's ugly face, took out a piece of paper and put it on the table.
What does it mean: "This is what they found in the room where Wei Tian disappeared. Let's take a look."
Shen Qingcheng curiously probed forward, it was a very ordinary piece of white paper, the paper was full of colored crayons, black and red accounted for the main part, but mixed into a ball The color makes it difficult to tell what is in the painting.
The drawing paper was circulated by the players one by one, and when it was passed to Lu Qi, Shen Qingcheng moved his chair and went over to watch it with Lu Qi.
It is true that I can't distinguish the content, but the brush strokes are immature, and at a glance, I know that it is from the hands of children.
Shen Qingcheng: "Did a child draw it? A boy or a girl?"
Lu Qi handed the drawing paper to the next person and looked at Luo Ming and others who entered the room, "How did you find this painting?"
Luo Ming: "That room is the bedroom of the two children, and this drawing paper is placed in the boy's crib."
Lu Qi: "Are there any traces left by Wei Tian?"
Luo Ming shook his head, "There is no trace of struggle in it."
He doesn't have much friendship with Wei Tian, and this team formation is also temporary, so he can wait for others to arrive before going in to find Wei Tian.
But as a player, the other party disappeared inexplicably, maybe already dead, and he would inevitably feel the sadness of the death of the rabbit and the fox.
The drawing paper was passed around and returned to He Zhen's hand, and he naturally folded the drawing paper and put it away.
Gao Shulin didn't say anything for the sake of the dead Wei Tian, but Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi didn't care at all.
Lu Qi: "Have you seen Wei Tian's room?"
Gao Shulin was puzzled and said, "The room where Wei Tian disappeared is not his own."
"Hey, Lu Qi means to go to Wei Tian's room to see if the mask is still there." Shen Qingcheng explained, then he couldn't wait to pull Lu Qi upstairs.
Lu Qi nodded slightly to Gao Shulin and got up following Shen Qingcheng's strength.
Xiao Liu next to Gao Shulin asked in a low voice, "Sister Gao, shall we go too?"
Gao Shulin twitched the corners of her mouth, "Go." Of course she will. I just didn't expect Lu Qi to follow Shen Meiren so much.
The players went upstairs one after another. What does it mean when they passed by her and smiled inexplicably, "Have you seen Lu Qi?"
Gao Shulin said softly, "to each other."
Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi were the first to reach the second floor, but they didn't know which room it was, and they had to wait for other players to come up before entering.
Wei Tian's room layout is similar to Shen Qingcheng's room. It is a guest room with only some simple furnishings.
The mask is still there.
Wei Tian's mask is white with red feather marks on the bottom. At this moment, this mask is lying quietly on the dark sheet.
How?
Shen Qingcheng was surprised, could it be that Wei Tian's death really has nothing to do with the current four NPCs? What's the point of this mask?
It can't really be for the dance.
He walked back to Lu Qi subconsciously, only to realize that the person who proposed to see the mask was not paying attention to the mask at all, but was standing in front of an oil painting.
The painting depicts a forest winter scene. Compared with the warm and energetic doe and fox before, this painting depicts a large black bear lying in the snow.
The **** bear's chest was cut open, the limbs were cut off, and blood flowed from the wound to dye the snow red. Its wet eyes stared out of the painting eagerly, as if begging for help.
Don't look at the limbs, the hole in the chest is very similar to the Wei Tian they saw.
But Wei Tian's knife was stabbed by Lu Qi after his death.