Neverland

It was not until two hours later that Yan Cen realized that Xu Muzhou had disappeared.

He didn't see Xu Muzhou in the restaurant during dinner time. At first he thought that the other party was not hungry because he had eaten dinner earlier, so he didn't come downstairs again.However, when Yan Cen returned to the master bedroom, he found that there was no sign of anyone staying here.

The sheets were very snug, and the quilt was spread on the bed smoothly, without any wrinkles. It didn't look like someone had been back.

Yan Cen frowned, wondering for a while whether Xu Muzhou was looking for clues in other places in the manor.

But his intuition made him restless, Yan Cen waited in the master bedroom for half an hour before ringing the bell to call the housekeeper, instructing him to look for Xu Muzhou in the manor.

He had a bad expression on his face, and the butler didn't dare to neglect him. He ordered the servants and grooms in the manor to turn up and down in Robert's garden and the castle, and even knocked on the guest's room in the name of delivering tea. nothing.

The manor covers a considerable area, and by the time the servants had gone through the carpet of the manor, the clock had quietly passed eight o'clock.

Yan Cen was holding a pocket watch in his hand, the minute hand walked half a circle lightly, passed by the second hand, and moved forward by an extremely tiny point.

"Master." The butler knelt at the door and said tremblingly, "We didn't find—"

"I know." Yan Cen interrupted him expressionlessly: "Get out."

The housekeeper glanced at him in surprise, and found that Yan Cen was still sitting in the wheelchair, his upper body leaned forward slightly, and the center of gravity of his upper body fell on his right elbow that supported the armrest.

Yan Cen was holding a delicate golden pocket watch in his hand, the watch chain was hanging down from between his fingers, and was dangling slightly in the air.

His voice was not harsh, and even calmer than his usual rage.But the butler only took one look at Yan Cen, and subconsciously broke out in a cold sweat. The thin shirt inside was soaked in sweat, and the coolness stuck to his back.

The fine gold watch chain was shining brightly in the moonlight, Yan Cen didn't look at the door again, he gently closed the buckle of the pocket watch, his right hand hidden in the darkness was tightly holding the top of the cane, the knuckles turned white.

This kind of anger is not Robert's, but Yan Cen's own.

So the butler couldn't figure out whether he was in a hurry, or whether he was really not interested in Xu Muzhou's disappearance, so he could only follow his wishes and left the room nervously.

Yan Cen put the pocket watch on his knee, and reached out to touch his knee.Injured kneecaps can show obvious cracks and depressions.When the broken bone rubs against the nerve, it can cause obvious tingling pain, but Yan Cen suddenly didn't notice it, and slowly squeezed a protruding bone on the side of the knee tightly with his hands.

Suddenly, an extremely complicated emotion surged in his heart - he hadn't been restricted by this emotion for many years, and when he learned of Xu Muzhou's disappearance, his first reaction was mostly anger.

Yan Cen didn't quite understand whether his anger came from the fact that things were out of control, from the disappearance of Xu Muzhou, or from both.

It's just that this kind of anger lasted only for a moment, before being swallowed up by a more turbulent fear.

Because Yan Cen found that in those few seconds, he seemed to suddenly lose his ability to think.His whole body seemed to be torn apart by two forces. His reason clearly told him that his brain was still running at high speed, thinking about any possible disappearance of Xu Muzhou, but he couldn't receive any news.

It wasn't until this moment that Yan Cen suddenly realized that he was angry at his own conceit.

Whether Robert is disabled or not, whether he can walk or not, Yan Cen thinks it doesn't matter to him.But it is precisely because of this self-confidence that he took for granted that he obviously did not take Xu Muzhou into the category of "fault tolerance" when performing tasks in such a way. In the end, this kind of sudden surprise appeared. condition.

This complex and long-lost emotion injected him with new vitality. Yan Cen closed his eyes and remained silent for a moment, but in the end reason still prevailed. Let's talk about it after finding Xu Muzhou.

As for the moths that appeared in this mission incident, he was going to put the account on Yong Wu Township.

What Yan Cen didn't notice was that the minute hand of the pocket watch on his lap had crossed more than half of it in silence, the second hand was ticking tick-tock, and the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand had infinitely approached a right angle. .

The wooden window behind Yan Cen suddenly smelled a misty fragrance of roses, and the thin gauze curtains moved automatically without wind.Yan Cen held the wooden wheel forward with one hand, and scooped it back with the other, blocking a slender white wrist.

—The hour is up, and here comes Catherine.

"Charles." Catherine smiled faintly behind him, "Did you miss me today?"

The nightingale outside the window twittered in the moonlight and sang a melodious song devoutly to the moonlight.

The cool wind at night condenses into crystal clear dew, which slides slowly from the leaves of roses, falls into the mud along the veins of the leaf tips, and baptizes the soul in the fragrance.

Xu Muzhou woke up in the midst of whispering, the back of his neck was extremely sore, and the black and green entanglement in front of his eyes formed a distorted old snowflake TV screen. He obviously felt that he had opened his eyes, but he still couldn't see the situation in front of him clearly. .

Large swathes of dark halo moved with his visual focus, covering all his visual range.Xu Muzhou was dazzled by these large areas of color, and snorted uncomfortably. He swiped his arm to his side and touched the dry grass.

Followed by several deliberately suppressed exclamation.

——Listen to the voice, it is a group of very young girls.

Xu Muzhou said in his heart that he would not be so small, so he did whatever he wanted, and directly obtained the frightening script of going deep behind the enemy lines.

He maintained his waking posture and collapsed on the ground, waiting for the color blocks in front of him to gradually dissipate.At the same time, he struggled to mobilize his sluggish thinking, thinking about the last scene in his memory.

At the moment Xu Muzhou was knocked out, he didn't see the opponent's face.His assailant was skilled and quick, knocking him unconscious in a matter of seconds.It can be seen that he is a person with extremely rich practical experience.

The other party was indeed very careful, and had been patiently hiding in the darkness, only waiting for Xu Muzhou to pass by before subduing him with one blow, without even giving Xu Muzhou a chance to turn around.

But Xu Muzhou didn't get nothing.

He closed his eyes, and forced the memory in his mind back to the moment when he came out of the teahouse.The corridors of the castle are densely packed with lampstands, and the corridors are narrow, making it difficult to hide people.And Xu Muzhou was attacked when he walked out of the corridor, and the other party should be hiding in the hall.

Xu Muzhou carefully tried to recall the memory of the scene at that time, because most of the servants on the first floor of the castle served in the banquet hall, so what Xu Muzhou wanted to find was the maid who was waiting for orders on the second and third floors.He walked out of the corridor at that time, and his body subconsciously leaned a little to the left, preparing to step on the stairs to go upstairs.

At this moment, the person who attacked him suddenly shot.

Xu Muzhou frowned slightly, trying to freeze his memory at this frame.He remembered that the man had come from the left and hit him on the right side of the nape of his neck—as evidenced by his now aching wound.

In addition, when Xu Muzhou was attacked, his left hand touched something.The thing was hard and cold, and he slightly shook his hands. Xu Muzhou closed his eyes and recalled the feeling of the moment, and confirmed that the thing was narrow and long.

Xu Muzhou was walking naturally at that time, with his left hand hanging down by his side, judging from his height - it was probably a weapon that he was wearing with him.

It was Robert's bodyguard, Xu Muzhou had a guess in his heart.This guess is almost inseparable, but I don't know why Robert's loyal hound is only staring at him.

Xu Muzhou lay on the ground for a while, and the mottled color patches in front of him gradually faded away. He opened his eyes tentatively, only to find that he was lying on the haystack, with a high ceiling in sight.

The house was built very poorly, and the exposed bricks still fell dust from time to time.

Xu Muzhou sat up with his head covered, his gaze just shifted from the spider in the corner of the ceiling to the center of the room, he turned his head away like an electric shock, and closed his eyes tightly.

In the same room, at the opposite corner only three or five steps away from him, several naked girls were huddling together, watching him warily.

It was only at this moment that Xu Muzhou finally realized what the voice he heard in his half-awake state was.

"I—" Xu Muzhou opened his mouth, trying in vain to appease them: "I won't look at you, don't be nervous."

Xu Muzhou did not expect that Chief Guard Kelin was connected with the case of the girl's disappearance.What made Xu Muzhou even more confused was that the chief guard didn't know what was wrong with him, and he locked him up with a group of naked little girls.

The only thing Xu Muzhou was thankful for was that, thanks to his aristocratic status, Kelin did not strip him of his clothes.

Xu Muzhou moved away with his eyes closed, then took off his coat, tore a circle of fabric along the hem of his shirt, and covered his eyes.

"I don't look at you." Xu Muzhou said, "Don't be afraid."

The girls looked at each other, and after a while, a girl who looked a little older knelt up, tentatively approached Xu Muzhou, and took his hand.

"Are you also arrested here?" the girl asked.

"Also?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"Since you are here, you are facing the same fate as us." The girl sighed: "Don't you know?"

"Know what?" Xu Muzhou asked, "You were all brought here because of the Earl?"

"Yes...it's just that the earl's offerings have always been girls, so why are you caught here?" the girl asked sadly, "Did you also get unlucky love?"