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There was no way to tell his little friend how dangerous Asham was. Ran Wenyu was a little frustrated, but he quickly cheered up: "What are you going to do next?"

Augustus rubbed his chin: "I'm going to walk around the mansion to see if I can get some useful news. After all, our eyes are darkened now, and we don't know anything."

Ran Wenyu nodded: "I almost have the same idea, so let's split up."

Both of them were very mobile, and they went downstairs after putting down their luggage.Ran Wenyu planned to go outside first to investigate the surroundings of the manor, while Augustus, who had better negotiation skills, stayed in the mansion to inquire about the situation with the servants.

Outside the manor is a vast wilderness, looking out at a piece of green, with blue sky and white clouds, the scenery is particularly beautiful - if this is not in the running group module, Ran Wenyu probably really wants to live here for a few more days and enjoy it Pure natural pastoral scenery.

Walking around the mansion along the path, Ran Wenyu unexpectedly did not find a servant, only the well-cared for flowers in the back garden proved that there were indeed servants here.

——Thinking about it now, it seems that since he came to the manor, he has indeed only seen one servant of Robert the butler. Such a rare number of servants is really not in line with the status of a baron.

When wandering around to the stables, Ran Wenyu finally met the sixth living person.

It was a male servant in his thirties, with a honest and honest face, who was picking up fodder with a pitchfork and throwing it into the trough.Ran Wenyu didn't bother him, just waited quietly for him to finish his work.

Soon, the male servant finished his work neatly. When he turned around and saw Ran Wenyu standing not far away, he was startled. After a while, he seemed to remember Ran Wenyu's identity, and saluted him respectfully: "Master, good afternoon."

"Hello." Ran Wenyu put on a friendly smile and waved his hands, "Don't call me young master, I'm also a commoner, and I don't have a noble status."

Servant: "That's not acceptable. You are one of the master's heirs. Regardless of your previous status, you are half the master in the manor."

Seeing that the male servant is so stubborn, Ran Wenyu doesn't intend to tangle with the other party's address.He walked over a few steps, stood by the stable, and said with emotion: "What a good horse."

——Actually, Ran Wenyu couldn't tell a good horse from a bad one. He could only see that the three horses were tall, muscular, and extremely energetic.

The servant smiled and thanked him, feeling a lot more relaxed.

After rambling and flirting with the manservant who called himself Henry, Ran Wenyu moved closer again and lowered his voice: "By the way, Henry, can I ask you something?"

Henry's expression was still respectful, but his expression became visibly vigilant: "What's the matter, young master?"

"That's right..." Ran Wenyu coughed dryly, "I want to ask, what hobbies does the baron usually have?"

Henry frowned slightly, hesitating and not answering.

Ran Wenyu sighed, and pointed to his clothes: "You can tell that I'm just an ordinary poor boy. If I hadn't been selected by the baron by accident, I'm afraid I would be in a terrible situation of starvation. So, I really really need to seize this opportunity and become the heir of the Baron." He looked sad and unconfident, "However, I just met my competitor, a businessman with elegant speech, His demeanor is calm, and he seems to have a lot of money, which is completely different from mine. I think that if I just compete with him, I will be brushed down in all likelihood, so..." He smiled nervously, Staring at the servant pleadingly, "So, I just want to ask the baron about his preferences, and see if he can match his liking."

Ran Wenyu's words obviously convinced Henry, but he still shook his head: "I'm sorry, young master, although I sympathize with your experience, but working in Prost Manor, it is strictly forbidden to talk about any topics about the masters."

Ran Wenyu: "……………………"

Ran Wenyu privately poked KP: "Physical persuasion seems useless, KP, I need to use persuasion skills!"

KP: [OK.Persuasion check: 40/76, failed.Henry the valet remains unmoved by your entreaties. 】

Ran Wenyu: "……………………"

Ran Wenyu took a deep breath and decided to use his trump card.

He looked around, and after making sure that there was no one around, he moved closer, took out his only 10 pounds from his pocket, and stuffed it into Henry's hand: "Look, there is no one around now, God knows You know, you know, I know, you just need to reveal a little about the baron's hobbies, and the 10 pounds are yours! Don't worry, I won't tell this matter, and you won't encounter any trouble .”

Henry held 10 pounds, and his whole body was immediately shaken.He also looked around guiltily, and then winked at Ran Wenyu: "Come here."

Ran Wenyu was shocked, and quickly followed Henry to a more secret place behind the stable.

Henry stuffed 10 pounds into his pocket: "Then, master, let me think about where should I start." He thought for a while before speaking again, "I haven't worked in the manor for a long time, so for the master I don’t know much about him. I heard that he was very adventurous when he was young. He often traveled around the world, including Africa, America, and even Southeast Asia. He was very interested in ancient civilizations and mysterious events. But I don’t know why What, at the age of 30, the master suddenly returned to the manor, and never took half a step since then."

Ran Wenyu raised his eyebrows in surprise: "I don't know the reason?"

"Yes, anyway, I heard people speculate, but no one can come to any reasonable conclusion." Henry nodded.

"That's really strange..." Ran Wenyu was a little annoyed, "That is to say, the baron's hobbies are different now from when he was young, right? Then what does he like more now?"

Henry replied uncertainly: "Should I like to read books? I am in charge of the work outside the manor and rarely enter the mansion, so I don't know very well. But I heard that the master often shut himself in the study before he fell ill. If someone disturbs his reading because of certain things, the master will be furious, and even several servants were beaten severely because of this, and then they were fired." Speaking of this , Henry showed an expression of lingering fear, and sighed with emotion in a low voice, "I once saw the master when he got angry... My God, it was as terrifying as a demon crawling out of the abyss!"

It seems that recalling the scene at that time brought extremely serious psychological pressure to Henry, and he was very eager to end this dangerous conversation.

Ran Wenyu asked a few more questions, and finally thanked Henry after he found that he could not provide any useful clues. He walked out of the stable first, and Henry said that he would "work" in the stable for a while because of fear. .

After leaving the stable, Ran Wenyu didn't see any servants anymore. He walked back to the mansion while thinking about the news Henry had just told him. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Augustus talking and laughing happily with a young and beautiful maid.

——For some reason, Ran Wenyu suddenly remembered the last module, Wang Zhenyao, who was swallowed up by the pitch-black tentacles.

Seeing Ran Wenyu come back, Augustus just nodded to him politely, then turned his head away and ignored him.

This is what Ran Wenyu and Augustus had previously discussed.After all, in the eyes of the NPCs, they are now in a competitive relationship, or they are meeting for the first time, so it is not appropriate to get too close due to emotion and reason.If it aroused the suspicion of Baron Slanter, it might hinder their investigation.

After brushing past Augustus, Ran Wenyu walked around the mansion again.Except for the cook who was busy in the kitchen and threw him out with a few words, Ran Wenyu didn't meet anyone else.

Then, he came to the door of the study.

According to the information Henry provided, there might be something unusual in this study.Ran Wenyu thought about it for a while, and remembered that Baron Silent once said that they could move around the mansion at will except his bedroom, so the study should not be a taboo place.

Thinking of this, Ran Wenyu pushed open the door of the study.

This is a very typical English-style study room, with a serious and steady dark brown overall.The room has bright floor-to-ceiling windows, heavy curtains, exquisite desk lamps, and the most important thing is a large desk and a towering bookshelf. The bookshelves are filled with dense books, which is quite shocking. The only thing that makes Ran Wenyu feel a little uncomfortable is that The spiral brown wallpaper makes people dizzy.

Ran Wenyu looked around and felt that there seemed to be nothing worth noting about the furnishings in this study, then he walked to the bookshelf and opened a few books casually.

Although there are many books on the bookshelf, each of them has traces of being flipped through, even read more than once, and there are some simple annotations. It is completely conceivable how eager the owner of the book is for the knowledge in it.

After closing the book, Ran Wenyu took a brief look at the types of books, and found that most of them were related to humanities and history, and also involved some religion and philosophy. Obviously, Baron Silent was only interested in these aspects.

Because Ran Wenyu's character has a low level of education this time, he doesn't have any library skills. He gave up looking for clues from the bookshelf, and walked to the desk instead, trying to open the desk drawer.

The drawer was locked, which made Ran Wenyu's eyes light up.As a poor boy in the lower society, "Unilworth Ran" has been in contact with all three religions and nine streams. Although he is not as good as the professional thief in the first module, he still has some simple lockpicking skills.

However, someone still needs to be on the lookout for things like unlocking, so Ran Wenyu didn't act rashly.He searched the study for a long time before going to the restaurant for dinner at the call of the housekeeper.

Baron Slant would not go downstairs to eat because of his poor health, and the servants and housekeepers would not eat with the master, so there were only Ran Wenyu, August and Arthur at the large dining table.

Both Augustus and Athem had good dining habits, full of luxury, and they used their knives and forks so deftly that they didn't even make any noise when they touched the dinner plate.

However, Ran Wenyu is not so elegant.He played the role of a poor boy from the slums in his true colors, vividly showing the difference between nobles and commoners, and a meal was clinking and extraordinarily lively-after all, he is a pure Chinese otaku. I have been abroad, and I have never even been to a serious western restaurant. I still imitated the actions of the other two, and then I barely learned how to use a knife and fork.

This meal, Ran Wenyu was exhausted physically and mentally, and he didn't even bother to observe and fear Asham.Barely filling his stomach, he left the table disheartened, only feeling that he was simply out of place in this module—just like a poor boy is out of place in the aristocratic class.

The characters selected by KP for the investigators are really in line with the needs of the module and the characteristics of the players.

After dinner, Ran Wenyu didn't run around anymore, but obediently stayed in his room.Sure enough, about half an hour later, there was a light knock on his door, and then Augustus quickly dodged in like a thief.

Since there are no such convenient communication tools as mobile phones in this era, the exchange of information between investigators can only be done through such face-to-face conversations.Ran Wenyu and Augustus had discussed that unless there was a very urgent situation, they would secretly go to each other's room to meet each other every night and exchange their gains of the day.

——It looks like an underground party meeting, or a private meeting of lovers.

Seeing Augustus coming in, Ran Wenyu, who felt ashamed, couldn't help complaining: "Your knives and forks are really hard to use! And how do you manage to cut meat without letting the blades scratch the plate?!"

"...Practice makes perfect." Augustus shrugged his shoulders, answered hesitantly, and then retorted, "Actually, I think the knife and fork are fine, at least even if you haven't used it before, you can still put food into your mouth smoothly. But the chopsticks of your Huaguo are really...you can’t use them smoothly without a few years of skill—I heard that you can still use them to hold small round beans and soft tofu? How did you do that?"

Ran Wenyu thought about it for a while, and felt that what Augustus said was very reasonable, and he immediately regained his mental balance.

After chatting for a few words, the topic between Ran Wenyu and Augustus finally got on the right track.

Ran Wenyu first told the news he had learned from the servant Henry, and then looked at Augustus.Augustus pondered for a moment: "I also tried to talk to the maid in the mansion, and got some clues from her. I first asked about the composition of the mansion. In this mansion, except for the housekeeper Robert, There are only three servants: Lisa, the maid, who is mainly responsible for cleaning; Henry, the man, who is responsible for maintaining the garden, raising horses and other rough and heavy work; and Emily, the cook, who is responsible for cooking, cleaning the kitchen and the dining room.”

"So few people?" Ran Wenyu raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, I am also very strange, but when I asked the specific reason, Lisa did not dare to say, probably because she was afraid that Robert the butler would hear." Augustus nodded, "But from Henry the servant, we can guess Most of the servants were driven away by Baron Silent."

"Henry said that if Baron Slanter was disturbed while reading in the study, he would get angry and even beat his servants." Ran Wenyu frowned, "Is this because his character is so irritable and irritable, or is it because he wants to hide his anger?" What? I went to the study today and found that the Baron read mostly books on humanities, history, religion and philosophy. It stands to reason that those who like to delve into this area of ​​knowledge should be more patient and calm people. Therefore, I suspect Silant was subtly telling the servants that the study is a forbidden place by means of getting angry, beating him, and dismissing him. If you want to work safely, you should not touch it."

Augustus agreed with Ran Wenyu's guess: "It seems that our main search target tomorrow is this study."

"Yes." Ran Wenyu shrugged his shoulders, "Your character has a high level of education, go and see if you can find any clues in those books, and help me out by the way, while I will pry the desk drawer, which says There may be some important clues."

The two unanimously agreed on tomorrow's action goal, and then brought the topic back: "In addition to asking about the servants in the mansion, I also asked why Baron Slant lived in the room at the end of the corridor, and I got I found a more important clue." Augustus said in a faintly excited tone, "Lisa told me that at the beginning, Baron Slant didn't live in the room at the end of the corridor, his original bedroom was always facing the first floor and the The stairs between the second floor. However, after Baron Slanter fell ill and asked Dr. Atham to treat him, his room was moved to the end of the corridor on the second floor. It is said that this was Dr. Atham's suggestion , It is said that living here is more conducive to the recovery of the baron—and what is surprising is that after moving the room, the baron’s physical condition has indeed improved significantly." After finishing speaking, he looked at Ran Wenyu, "You paid so much attention to me before. This doctor named Asham is indeed right!"

Ran Wenyu nodded thoughtfully.

This afternoon, apart from this information, there is nothing else to gain, but even so, Ran Wenyu and Augustus felt that they had pushed the investigation forward a lot, and locked Baron Slanter and Doctor Atham. Suspects - although the conspiracy between the two of them has not yet surfaced.

After the discussion was almost over, Augustus got up to leave, but when he reached the door, he was suddenly stopped by Ran Wenyu.

"...By the way, you are a big businessman, so you should be quite rich, right?" Ran Wenyu blinked and asked embarrassedly.

Augustus nodded inexplicably: "Yes, what's wrong?"

Ran Wenyu stretched out his white and tender paws towards Augustus, and smiled shyly: "I spent all my belongings worth £10 this afternoon just to find out the news... So, local tyrant, will you be reimbursed?"

Augustus: "……………………"