Neverland

In this banquet commemorating the wedding anniversary, not only Earl Robert sent invitations to the outside world, Catherine also issued a certain amount of invitations as the hostess.

At this time, Yan Cen held a list of guests for the banquet in his hand.

Yan Cen hadn't seen this thing before, because Earl Robert was withdrawn and arrogant, and he would not go out to entertain guests in person except on the last day.Those guests who come and go are just a group of walking strangers to him, and have nothing to do with his mission.

But now that this list involves Catherine, Yan Cen has a purpose.

There are not many people who are eligible to attend Robert's banquet. After Lin Lin finally figured it out, there are no more than [-] people on the guest list, and some of them have their names blotted out with ink, and they have already confirmed that they will not be able to attend the appointment.

Among the twenty or so people, half were nobles invited by Earl Robert, and most of them held titles and important positions.But Mrs. Catherine invited all kinds of people, musicians, novelists, newspaper reporters, photographers, and a police inspector who didn't know what to say.

If you insist on counting, these people can barely be counted as representatives in various fields of society at this stage.

Yan Cen put down the list in his hand, thinking about Catherine's intention to invite them.

Until now, all the problems that have arisen in this manor cannot be connected into a line, which is full of inexplicable contradictions.

In the list of invitations issued by Catherine, what Yan Cen was able to confirm was that music and novels were her usual hobbies, and that was why she wanted to invite him to her wedding commemorative banquet.

So for Catherine, she has expectations for this banquet.But Catherine chose to die at the hands of Robert before the wedding banquet, which was contrary to her purpose of inviting these interested people.

This banquet will last for seven days, Yan Cen thought, it is only the first day now.

According to Robert's original arrangement, the last day was the official dinner. Yan Cen checked Robert's diary and found that it was the day when Earl Robert and Catherine got married.

——April NO.15.

Yan Cen turned the wheelchair at an angle, turned and looked out the window.

The angle of the study is very good, and several large windows ensure that Robert can have a wide enough view to see most of the scenes in the manor.

The rosebushes they had visited the night before looked very gentle in the daytime, and the large white rosebuds were bathed in the air, and there was no trace of the eerie appearance of the night before.

Looking at it from this angle, there was nothing unusual about the patch of rose bushes. In addition, these flower plants were planted neatly and densely, and they didn't look like they could be hidden.

Yan Cen stared at it for a while, then looked away as if nothing had happened.

Robert has too many secrets, but Catherine does not give up too much.Each of the couple has their own doubts. The living will tell lies, and the dead can't believe them all.

Under normal circumstances, according to Yan Cen's personality, he would follow the principle of "preferring to kill by mistake and never letting go" to investigate all suspicious points on Robert and Catherine, but he was trapped here by Robert's pair of broken legs. so that it is necessary to choose and reject all the clues faced by the opponent.

It's not an easy task, since he doesn't have any definitive clues to choose from.After thinking about it, Yan Cen could only choose to temporarily put aside the matter of the missing girl, and instead focus on the guest list invited by Catherine.

The time limit for clearing missions is usually extremely short, unlike guided missions where there is a way to contact Neverland in the middle. Yan Cen has never suffered from such affliction since he entered the system. The account is on Zhong Lu.

At the same time, Song Yan and Xu Muzhou in the attic had just finished exchanging known information on both sides.

"So Yan Cen's judgment is that Catherine didn't intend to kill Robert?" Song Yan asked again.

"That's right." Xu Muzhou nodded, and added a subjective judgment: "But I think this sentence is very suspicious. If you look at it from actions alone, Catherine is so far away from killing someone."

"I believe in Yan Cen's judgment." Song Yan said: "Since he is so sure, he must be very sure... But if Catherine has no resentment towards Robert, why did she climb into Robert from the outer wall in the middle of the night? in his bedroom."

"That's what I'm thinking about too." Xu Muzhou sighed.

As he spoke, he unbuttoned the collar of his shirt, took off the hydrangea necklace around his neck, and handed it to Song Yan.

"What is this?" Song Yan asked.

"If I have to say it, it's probably something like a task progress bar." Xu Muzhou really didn't expect that one day he would be able to guide others for beginners, and his mood was very complicated.Pointing to the pendant, he continued: "If the mucus on it disappears completely and the hydrangea turns white, it proves that the mission has been completed. How much the hydrangea turns white indicates that we have reached the progress of the mission."

"...Are you sure?" Song Yan held up the pendant suspiciously, and asked, "But it's obviously pitch black now."

"This is the problem." Xu Muzhou took the pendant, looked at it for a moment, then held it in his palm, and said, "I don't know what the mission of Brother Yan was like before, but as far as I have experienced In the two missions, as long as you touch the mission target, the progress bar will change more or less."

"But you have already fought against Catherine yesterday, and the progress bar is still motionless." Song Yan said: "...Did you ever suspect that it was broken?"

Xu Muzhou: "..."

He really didn't.

Xu Muzhou was taken aback by her question, blinked his eyes blankly, and asked, "...how can this be bad?"

Song Yan: "..."

Song Yan just said casually, she didn't expect Xu Muzhou to be so honest at this time, a very shrewd child.

"Should...no." Song Yan with difficulty turned her head back and said, "When you usually do tasks, where do you usually start?"

"From the life of the task object, find out the experience points where they may become obsessed." Xu Muzhou said: "Or start with the task object itself."

"Ask Catherine?" Song Yan was taken aback: "Your cleaning tasks are so big?"

"It's 'us' to clean up the task." Xu Muzhou said with a smile.

"...What a good child." Song Yan was heartbroken: "I have learned Yan Cen's ruthless virtue."

"Love and dedication are the virtues of our social animals." Xu Muzhou said: "The current situation is like this. Catherine's visit yesterday seems to be in vain. Her life is also like a blank sheet of paper. Only this A larger place can be used for investigation."

"Not necessarily." Song Yan waved her hand: "Didn't Yan Cen say that Catherine has no intention of killing Robert?"

"That only shows that Robert's diary did not lie, and Catherine did voluntarily die." Xu Muzhou said, "Is there anything else?"

"Think about it carefully, life and death are so important. People will regret it when they commit suicide, let alone giving someone a fake hand." Song Yan said, "Xu Muzhou, you may not know...the reason for the undead to stay in the world again paid a lot."

"For example?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"For example, the earth-bound spirit." Song Yan said: "The earth-bound spirit is trapped by the obsession with death, so it can never leave the place, and can only move in the cage set by itself."

"The stronger the undead, the more constraints it will face." Song Yan said: "Don't you have an old saying that people and ghosts have different paths? Whether it is a human or an undead, you must obey this law. If you want to violate The balance of this world naturally comes at a price. There is a layer of transparent veil between the living and the dead. They seem to be close at hand, but they have been separated forever. Catherine stays here, but she is no longer the mistress of the castle. , she can only watch everything she is familiar with go from right to wrong, how do you think she will feel?"

Xu Muzhou subconsciously thought of Sun Qian, that poor woman was wandering around the school day after day, facing the truth of her own death every day, if she still kept her mind, it should indeed be a kind of torture.

"If it were me, I would definitely become more and more paranoid." Xu Muzhou said truthfully: "Because as long as you keep your mind, you may regret death."

"It must be." Song Yan said: "People who commit suicide are rarely captured by Neverland. This is because they have already 'put down' the moment they leave."

"Catherine obviously didn't." Xu Muzhou suddenly reacted: "You mean, although she voluntarily died, her 'voluntary' is conditional, right?"

"Very smart." Song Yan smiled: "So this condition, with a high probability, is the focus of this cleaning mission."

"This condition should be promised to Robert." Xu Muzhou suddenly became enlightened, and his thoughts became clear: "It's just that Robert didn't fulfill it for her. Maybe he made a mistake, or maybe this condition was not in Robert's thinking within range."

"So..." Xu Muzhou bit the corner of his lips, and sorted out his thoughts on his own: "She will come to 'remind' Robert."

"Not only that." Song Yan said.

"Huh?" Xu Muzhou looked at her suspiciously.

"According to the clues we have obtained before, at least we can know that Catherine has no resentment towards Robert." Song Yan said: "Even if Robert didn't fulfill her wish...otherwise she would have hated her long ago." Death breeds resentment and resentment."

"You're right." Xu Muzhou nodded: "Maybe Robert is satisfied with part of it? The rest is not satisfied yet?"

"No." Song Yan shook her head: "You don't know women well enough."

Song Yan pulled her drooping hair behind her ears, and casually took out a dead rose from the vase by the window.

"She loves Count Robert deeply." Song Yan said.

As soon as Song Yan finished speaking, the hydrangea in Xu Muzhou's hand, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly exuded a familiar heat. Xu Muzhou spread out his palm, and found that the black slime on it shook for a moment, and a narrow edge silently faded away.