This NPC really has a problem

The city lord was not seen in other parts of the city lord's mansion. Xu Yan originally guessed that he might be in the study, but there was no one in the study.

It's all here, Xu Yan and Chen Jin didn't intend to leave immediately.They don't have any clue as to what the city lord's real lock is. Generally speaking, there are always important things in the study room, and they plan to try their luck.

Taking advantage of no one around, they rummaged in the study for nearly two hours, and finally found a diary in a locked cabinet.

The lock was not a complicated lock, and it was opened with a wire removed from the desk lamp.Because of the long time, the surface of the diary is dusty. When I opened it, I saw that the handwriting inside was immature, which should have been written by a child.

The desk lamp gave off a dim yellow light, and Chen Jin took it under the table to prevent people outside from discovering the indoor lights.Xu Yan and Chen Jin were also sitting under the table. After poking their heads out to see that there was nothing abnormal, they got together and looked at the diary.

【Monday, x month

My father introduced a girl my age to me today, and he told me that she will study and live with me in the future, and that I will become a castellan when I grow up, and she is the head maid of the castellan's mansion.

The father said that the girl was an orphan adopted by the Holy See, because she was meticulous and conscientious, Bishop Lanna thought she was more suitable to live in the City Lord's Mansion.The head maid is an important position, Bishop Lanna and father both think that she will be an excellent head maid.

The girl told me her name was Windsor. 】

There are not many pages in the diary. It is obvious that the city lord is not a person who likes to write diaries. Xu Yan hastily flipped through it and found that every time the city lord writes a diary, it is related to the head maid.

They grew up together and are each other's best friends.

[x month x day, saturday

Windsor asked me, why do you always keep a straight face?

I told her that a qualified city lord should be serious and should be cultivated from an early age.As the future head maid, you should also be serious, don't laugh all day long, otherwise your subordinates won't be convinced of you.

Windsor snorted and said, "But I saw you giggling while playing with toys yesterday."

She really didn't care what I said!

And... how come I didn't know she was here?Does she walk without sound? 】

"It's actually a little cute." Chen Jin couldn't help but complain.

It's hard to believe that the gloomy castellan was such a person when he was a child.

[x month x day, wednesday

My father said that I want to become a qualified city lord, but he will still give me toys, although I think a qualified city lord should not be so childish when he was young.

...but the toys are really interesting.

On the contrary, Windsor is not interested in toys, except for the Rubik's Cube that my father gave me yesterday.

The Rubik's Cube had been scrambled by my father, who told me I could restore it with Windsor.Windsor tried for a long time and couldn't put together a side, and neither did I. 】

[x month x day, thursday

We managed to spell one side, but couldn't spell the second side.

A day has passed without any progress.

The Rubik's Cube has six sides. 】

[x month x day, sunday

I had a fight with Windsor.

She felt that my thinking direction was wrong, and I would never spell it out if I continued to spell it out like this.

Coincidentally, I think so too. 】

【Monday, x month

Windsor didn't speak to me all day.

I don't want to ignore her either. 】

[x month x day, Tuesday

Windsor came to apologize to me. In fact, I was also at fault. I shouldn't have spoken to her so loudly.

Maybe I should apologize to her first, my father always told me that boys should be responsible.

Anyway, we made up.We started to put together the Rubik's Cube together again, and Windsor suggested that we could ask someone who can play the Rubik's Cube, maybe there are some skills in it. 】

[On x month x day.Wednesday

The person who taught us to turn the Rubik's Cube was a dumb person from the Holy See. Windsor said that I can't call him that, it's very impolite.

This time I didn't argue with him, she was right.

The gentleman from the Holy See is Wenner. I heard that he will be the future bell ringer, and he will take over his duties when the old bell ringer retires.He is an orphan like Windsor, but he has lived in the Holy See for a long time.He is much older than us, and although he can't speak, he can read and write.Wenner wrote a full page, and Windsor and I both learned the skills of turning the Rubik's Cube.

As we turned each side back, after the twilight clock struck, Wenner stared dreamily in the direction of the clock tower.I told Windsor that Twilight Bell had witnessed us, that we would be best friends forever, and that everything I had would give her a part. 】

The diary has not been written down here.

Perhaps for the city lord, the friendship between him and the head maid of Windsor no longer needs to be written.

"Everything about me will be given to her..." Chen Jin murmured the last sentence, and suddenly said softly, "I know what Shisuo is now!"

Xu Yan turned around slightly: "What is it?"

"It's the Rubik's Cube!" Chen Jin said firmly, "It must be the Rubik's Cube! The head maid's real lock is a small cube. I didn't know what it was before, but now it seems that it should be part of the Rubik's Cube!"

Chen Jin said: "The real lock of the bell ringer is a giant bell. Maybe every real lock is an important thing of the virtual lock. For the city lord and the head maid, the Rubik's Cube has witnessed their friendship, as if they are fulfilling their promise. The city lord gave part of the Rubik's Cube to the head maid, making that Rubik's Cube their real lock!"

Chen Jin felt that his speculation was logically impeccable.

Xu Yan said, "Where will the Rubik's Cube be?"

The Rubik's Cube missing a corner is neither immovable like a giant clock, nor can it be hidden in the chest by the head maid like a small cube.

Most likely...

"We need to find the city lord quickly!" Xu Yan got up, "The Rubik's Cube must be kept by him."

……

Lu Ren's house was no longer surrounded by guards.

But when Bai Zhu was about to open the door, he was stopped by Lu Ren.Lu Ren shook his head silently, then pointed upstairs.

Bai Zhu immediately understood what he meant.

— to the youth’s house.

The light was on in the young man's house, and he looked in through the crack of the door, and saw the young man sitting on the bed eating a piece of bread, with a frowning face and sighing from time to time.

After thinking about it, the only bad thing he encountered was Lu Ren.

Lu Renliang was a little uneasy, but he still had more serious things to do.

Lu Ren knocked on the door.

When he first heard the knock on the door, the young man was still a little dazed, it was getting late, who would come to him?

The innocent young people in the City of Reflections didn't even consider the possibility that there might be bad guys outside the door.

He yelled at the door, please wait a moment, then got out of bed and walked over to open the door.

As soon as the door opened—

Before the young man had time to be surprised by the face outside the door, Lu Ren knocked him unconscious quickly and accurately.

……

Xu Yan and Chen Jin sneaked into a room deep in the small building.

Although the veil that divides the room into two halves prevents them from seeing what the people inside are doing, it also prevents the people in the room from easily spotting them.

After finding their own bunkers, Xu Yan and Chen Jin watched the city lord's every move.

The tall shadow of the city lord was reflected on the veil.

He was sitting on the ground beside a stone platform, surrounded by candles, and with the red mineral powder accidentally sprinkled on the ground, it was like an evil sacrifice scene.

The "sacrifice" on the stone platform is dead.

The head maid lay there quietly with a serene face.If she hadn't seen the hole in her chest that she had dug out by herself, she would have just fallen asleep normally.

The broken heart and the block fragments were put together, being slowly healed by a force.

Under the body of the head maid is a complicated magic circle, and those unknown mineral powders are the raw materials of the magic circle.

The red streaks gradually fade over time.The city lord put on his gloves and promptly filled in the areas where the color was fading and was about to disappear.

After finishing the last stroke, he sat back.The city owner was stunned for a while, then took out a Rubik's Cube with a corner missing from his pocket, and stared at it in a daze.

……

Chen Jin pulled out a dagger, waved it twice and pointed at the city lord.

Xu Yan pointed at himself and shook his head.

Simply put, he didn't dare to do it.

He dared to pass through the monsters that didn't look like people in the dungeon, but the city lord was weird and weird, and he still looked no different from a normal living person.

This game is very realistic, and the assassination plan was well planned before, but when it came time to do it, Xu Yan found that he was scared.

Chen Jin spread his hands, expressing that he didn't dare either.

Xu Yan mouthed to him: Just wait a little longer.

Chen Jin nodded, and took the dagger back, but with a slam of his elbow, it hit the shelf behind him.

Chen Jin: "..."

Chen Jin hurriedly stretched his hands back and grabbed the legs of the shelf.

The shelf stabilized, and the lampstand on the shelf wobbled twice, then fell to his head with a snap.

"Who!"

The roar of the city lord came from the room, and the veil was pulled away with a force that almost tore it apart.

The city lord saw Xu Yan at a glance, and he frowned, not forgetting the face that appeared in the city lord's mansion not long ago.

"It's you……"

The city lord strode towards him, and the shadow cast by his tall body almost enveloped Xu Yan.The wind blowing the veil opened further, and the candles flickered—Xu Yan saw the head maid on the stone platform at a glance!

He suddenly pounced on it!

The city lord was thrown to the ground by Xu Yan without realizing it!Xu Yan held down the city lord with all his strength, and shouted at Chen Jin: "Chen Jin!"

Chen Jin pulled out the dagger twice but did not kill it.

He gripped tightly the lampstand that fell into his arms after hitting his head, tremblingly said: "I, I, I... I dare not!"

Xu Yan's eyes darkened.

"Show off some of your bad youth's aura!"

Chen Jin died unjustly: "Obviously I only look alike!"

While speaking, the situation turned to the city lord, and Xu Yan, who was holding him down, was pinched to the ground by his neck.

Xu Yan struggled desperately but couldn't break free from that cast iron hand.

Seeing Xu Yan's face turn red abnormally, Chen Jin suddenly had a flash of inspiration, took out the two keys from the item bar, gritted his teeth and broke them forcefully!

Xu Yan felt the strength on his neck suddenly lighten, and the face of the city lord turned pale in an instant, but he didn't seem to feel any changes in himself, and his eyes were fixed on the head maid.

"Do not……"

Under the despairing eyes of the city lord, the ruddy face of the head maid turned pale in an instant, and there was only a light click, and the half-repaired small cube broke apart again.

The head of the person who was pressing him was suddenly knocked aside, and a loud noise made Xu Yan suspect that the skull was definitely cracked.

He looked at Chen Jin in shock.

Chen Jin, who just knocked down the city lord with a candlestick, said, "...I didn't do it, it was the system's fault."

The game official probably didn't plan to let them do it out of consideration for the players' mental health. The most critical step is to let the system manipulate the players' bodies to do it for them.

Chen Jin didn't know what happened at all, and saw the city lord lying on the ground, already out of breath.

Xu Yan pushed the city lord aside, ran over and smashed the Rubik's Cube with one foot, and pulled Chen Jin to run outside the house.

"Let's go now!"

The complete death of the city lord and head maid really brought about huge chaos, and there were more people who fell than those who stood.However, there are still people who handle these key positions at the gate of the City Lord's Mansion.When Xu Yanyao saw the figure, he turned around and ran in another direction.

——They chose to jump into the lake again.

Once a novice and second acquaintance, Xu Yan even became interested in swimming and planned to learn other swimming styles after going out.

When they emerged from the water, they still saw the familiar shore.

But the people on the shore were not familiar people.

Xu Yan was stunned for a moment: "Lu Ren?"

Chen Jin bumped Xu Yan's arm: "No, it's not Lu Ren!"

The priest standing on the shore of the lake lowered his eyes and looked at them indifferently.