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In the end, Ran Wenyu not only got the 10 pounds he was reimbursed, but also the 100 pounds start-up capital donated by Augustus, a book of satisfaction.

And the night passed without any incidents.

The next morning, the two investigators went to the dining room for breakfast, and were called to the study by Butler Robert, who told them about their first task.

This task is very simple. To put it bluntly, it is to read a book and then write a review. It is said that this is to test their literacy, observe their ability of induction, summary and expression, and understand the breadth of their vision and the acuity of their thinking.

In short, a small post-reading review contains great wisdom.

"These books are all carefully selected by the master. The two young masters can choose one of them. After completing this task, the second task will be released." Robert was still gentle and polite, and he didn't care what the two heard. To write about the weird face after reading it.

After releasing the task, Robert left the study, leaving only Ran Wenyu and Augustus staring at each other.

"...God knows, I haven't written a review for many years!" Augustus sighed, picked up a book and flipped through it with a wry smile, and then showed a more painful expression, "This kind of philosophy book, I read it. I just want to sleep, let alone write a post-reading review, it would be great if I can understand it!"

——He is a thorough science talent and is extremely sensitive to numbers, but when it comes to these "metaphysical" things, he can only smear his eyes in a cloud of fog.

"Are we really going to write this stuff?" Ran Wenyu also had a headache, "We're not really here to compete for the position of the heir, so just mess around with it? What's more... I don't think Baron Silante really wants to What heir to choose."

"That's right." Augustus threw the book down decisively, "We can't be distracted by these so-called 'tasks' and waste precious time on it. Rather than obediently reading and writing a review, we should consider Why did the baron assign such a mission——I don’t believe a word of the reasons that Robert’s housekeeper said before!” He looked around, “We just talked about going to the study room yesterday, and today Robert sent us directly Bringing the study, I always feel a little uneasy about such a development."

"Maybe... the baron's mission is to keep us in the study?" Ran Wenyu thought about it, and then he picked up the thinnest book vigorously, "Is this guess right? Just try it and you will know." Already!"

After finishing speaking, he opened the door of the study and walked out directly.

Leaving from the study, one must pass through a small living room.When Ran Wenyu came to the living room, he saw Robert Butler standing by the cabinet, wiping the silver tableware inside with a handkerchief.

"Master Ran, what's the matter?" Seeing Ran Wenyu walk out of the study, Robert immediately put down his work and turned around to ask.

"No, it's nothing." Ran Wenyu laughed dryly and raised the book in his hand, "I'm not used to the overly serious atmosphere in the study room, and Mr. Tang is also there, so I can't concentrate on reading, so I want to take this book back to my room to read."

Hearing what Ran Wenyu said, Robert immediately frowned: "Sorry, Master Ran, I'm afraid it won't work." He put the handkerchief aside and walked towards Ran Wenyu, just blocking his way back to the room, "These books are Master’s precious things, it’s not easy to lend them out for the two young masters to study. If you find out that you have brought the book back to your room to read, master will definitely be furious!”

"Yes, is it so serious?" Ran Wenyu pretended to be taken aback, with a blank expression on his face, "I will cherish this book and won't let it be damaged in any way, is that okay?"

"Yes." Robert apologized, "The master cherishes books very much, probably too much, so he always has some eccentricities that most people can't understand when dealing with books. In the master's opinion, to read a book, you have to sit Reading in a serious manner in the study room is the only way to respect the knowledge in books, while reading books while lying down or eating while reading is a blasphemy against knowledge."

Ran Wenyu was stunned by such a "President Zun".

Under Robert's repeated emphasis, of course Ran Wenyu could not continue to insist on taking the book away—if he insisted, Robert would probably sue Baron Slante immediately, and Ran Wenyu would be decisively expelled from the Prost Manor, and then left the model in advance Group, thoroughly dog ​​leash.

"Okay, okay, sorry, I understand, I'll go back to the study now." Ran Wenyu turned around timidly, went back to the study, and as soon as he closed the door, he shrugged his shoulders at Augustus and told the general process Again, "It seems that the purpose of the first mission is indeed to lock us in the study logically."

"If you want to read these books, it will take at least two or three days, and it will probably take one or two days to write a high-quality post-reading review." Augustus estimated, "At least three Days, five days at most, we all have to stay in the study for a long time."

"So, having said that, what's the problem with this study?" Ran Wenyu scratched his little curly hair annoyedly, and sat down on a chair, "We thought yesterday that there must be some important clues in this study, but if it is true Yes, so shouldn’t the baron treat this place as a forbidden place and prevent others from stepping in? Just like the baron got angry at the servants who disturbed his reading, beat them up and even dismissed them. But why is it our turn, half-forced to keep us Staying in the study? This is illogical!"

Both investigators were baffled by this development, but with so few clues, they had little else to do.

"Forget it, since you can't figure it out, then don't think about it." Augustus said, "Let's go according to the plan we made before. I'll check the bookshelf, and you unlock it."

Ran Wenyu gave him an OK gesture back, and then walked towards the desk.

Taking out the wire that he had prepared a long time ago, Ran Wenyu squatted in front of the drawer, and carefully inserted the wire into it.

KP: [Locksmith check: 30/41, failed.You have been trying to fiddle with the wire for a long time, but whether it is bad luck or lack of strength, you have no idea how to open it. 】

Ran Wenyu: "……………………"

Ran Wenyu: "...KP, can I try more than once?"

KP: [As long as there is no major failure or being noticed that you are secretly picking the lock, you can try it every 2 hours. 】

Ran Wenyu breathed a sigh of relief, stood up angrily, and walked towards Augustus who was standing by the bookshelf: "Did you find any clues?"

"No." Augustus shrugged his shoulders. "I used the library skill on these books. The skill was successful, but I didn't get any useful information. Maybe there is no clue here."

Ran Wenyu sighed.

"However, I made another discovery." Augustus motioned Ran Wenyu to look at the wall next to the bookshelf.

There is brown wallpaper on the wall, with a light spiral pattern, which makes people dizzy after a few more glances.When he first saw this kind of wallpaper, Ran Wenyu complained about Baron Silant's weird aesthetic ability - but when he discovered the secret on the wall, he knew that it was all a trick played by the baron, cleverly using human vision Blind spots hide important information.

"This is... a secret door?" Ran Wenyu leaned over, wondering in a soft voice.

The spiral lines of the wallpaper well concealed the boundary between the secret door and the wall, and the keyhole of the secret door happened to be in the center of a certain spiral pattern, blending perfectly with the entire pattern.

"It's so hidden, how did you find it?" Ran Wenyu exclaimed, "Amazing!"

"I just didn't find any clues, and I was a little bit unwilling, so I used the investigative skills again." Augustus was very humble, "This is what KP told me."

"Then you are lucky." Ran Wenyu was a little self-defeating, "Since I entered this module, I have not succeeded in a skill check. It is really a big hole! Every time I run a group, I find that my face is getting darker. !"

As he spoke, he bent down and got close to the newly discovered keyhole of the secret door, and took out his own wire again: "KP, I want to continue to open the lock!"

KP: [...Okay.Locksmith check: 30/23, successful. 】

As KP's voice fell, the door lock made a crisp "click".Ran Wenyu, who was just trying casually and had no hope for himself, widened his eyes in surprise: "Could this be the power of anti-milk?!"

Augustus patted him on the shoulder and gave Ran Wenyu a thumbs up. Afterwards, the two looked at each other. Ran Wenyu ran to lock the door of the study, and Augustus pushed open the hidden door.

Behind the secret door is another bright room, far from the secret room guessed by the two investigators.There are glass display cases one after another in the room, and at first glance, it looks like a small museum.

"...What are these? Baron Silant's collection?" After locking the door, Ran Wenyu also walked in, exclaiming.He leaned closer to a display cabinet and took a closer look, "Look at the style...it seems to be something from Egypt?"

"It's a bit like it." Augustus also took a look and nodded, "But I don't know much about these aspects, so I can't be sure."

The two walked around the small museum and were amazed by Baron Slanter's collection.Even with their shallow historical and cultural knowledge, they can see that these collections come from different countries and different civilizations.Egypt, Greece, India, Huaguo... There are even many ancient civilizations that they can't name at all. These collections are either exquisite or plain, but have different styles, so that Ran Wenyu and Augustus can personally experience the weight of history Dazzling with civilization.

It’s not that Ran Wenyu has never visited a history museum, and he has also seen a lot of exhibitions of cultural relics and treasures on TV, but for Ran Wenyu who knows nothing about history and has no interest in it, he just watched these things after seeing them. When you come over, most of them are similar, and if you look at them a lot, you won't feel any amazement.

But the small museum of Baron Slanter is different.There are only dozens of collections here, which come from an unknown number of ancient civilizations, each of which is a classic that best represents the style of that civilization. Only when they are all stacked together can a layman like Ran Wenyu feel that he came from The charm of different civilizations.

"These things seem to be the 'souvenirs' that Baron Slanter got from running around and traveling around when he was young." Ran Wenyu looked at it, admiring him again and again, almost forgetting his purpose of entering the secret room.It wasn't until he walked to the innermost side of the room and saw an empty display cabinet that he was stunned for a moment, "Empty? Was it taken away?"

"I'm afraid so." Augustus nodded.He inspected the collection on the left and right sides of the empty display case, and asked, "Ran, do you know which civilization these two objects come from?"

——Baron Slanter's small museum is also arranged in units of countries and regions. From the exhibits near the empty display cabinets, they can roughly determine which civilization the taken away collection belongs to.

"It's a bit like the Americas?" Ran Wenyu replied uncertainly.

Augustus thought for a moment, then suddenly turned around and trotted back to the study room, picked up a few pages of paper and two pens, ran back again, and handed one of the pens to Ran Wenyu: "Let's put the left and right sides of the empty display cabinet respectively. Draw the exhibits, and then go to the bookshelf to check."

Ran Wenyu grabbed the pen and paper with a dazed look on his face: "No, brother, are you serious?! I draw at the kindergarten level!"

"Me too." Augustus gave him a deep look back, "Just try your best, mainly for the appearance and the more iconic pattern decoration. I'm also very bad at drawing, so the main thing for drawing this is to leave us a comparison. I was deeply impressed, and it took me a while to check the information, but I forgot the characteristics of the collection.”

Ran Wenyu felt that what Augustus said made sense, so he could only bite the bullet and scratch his head at the collection assigned to him.

Hesitating about how to write, he coughed lightly after a long while, "KP, I have 5 points of basic art skill, how about I invest in it?"

Augustus couldn't help but look sideways when he heard his words.

KP chuckled: [Yes, you can vote. 】

Ran Wenyu was so angry at his dantian, he turned his head and said to himself: "With such a low probability, I will definitely not succeed!"

Then he turned the dial.

KP: [Art check: 5/73, failed.Congratulations, the prophecy is correct. 】

Ran Wenyu: "……………………"

——I don’t want to accept such congratulations, thank you!

Although the test failed, Ran Wenyu's right hand still moved uncontrollably, and quickly drew an abstract painting on the snow-white paper that could not be seen at all.

Ran Wenyu silently twisted the piece of paper into a ball of paper, resigned himself to his fate—although the painting was not as good as it was, but at least he knew what he drew...probably.

Ran Wenyu and Augustus drew seriously, and finally finished the painting before lunch, and then closed the secret room, pretending nothing happened.

After lunch, taking advantage of the vivid memory in their minds, they didn't dare to waste a minute, plunged into the study again, moved out stacks of books to find civilizations that matched the characteristics of the collection - after all, the secret room was already Closed, they probably don't have the second luck to successfully open it again.

After an afternoon of rummaging, plus Augustus successfully passed a library skill, which saved them an hour of time, the two finally successfully confirmed the source of the collection before dinner—the Mayan civilization .