This NPC really has a problem

Butler Lu didn't pay attention to Mrs. Tulum's provocation at all.

In his opinion, the little girl's intentional throwing of the plate was childish and unreasonable, and Mrs. Tulum's behavior was not necessarily better than the little girl's.

The second floor was covered in blood by them last night, and he cleaned it up this morning.

The troublemaker of the family.

Butler Lu thought indifferently.

After sweeping the ground clean, he stood up, his knees a little stiff.It may be because his body is transforming into a living dead. The temperature of his body surface is getting lower and lower. Once his limbs are inactive for a long time, he will have a feeling of being frozen in the ice and snow.

When Steward Lu got up, he caught Bai Zhu's eyes by surprise.

Bai Zhu's eyes fell on Mrs. Tulum. At first glance, it looked very similar to Mrs. Tulum's eyes, also full of smiles, but one eye was full of malice, and the other hid its coldness.

Bai Zhu was keenly aware of Steward Lu's gaze, turned his head and smiled at him, with the corners of his eyes curved, looking harmless and well-behaved.

Steward Lu: "..."

He seems to be on good terms with me?

Butler Lu was at a loss.

……

The corridor was long and silent, and there was a pitch-black darkness inside. There were no windows on both sides of it, and the wind that sneaked in from nowhere carried a biting chill.There was only a creak, and as the wooden door opened, a flickering candle suddenly appeared in the corridor, illuminating the square inch.

Steward Lu walked in the front with a candlestick to guide the guests of the castle. He sideways grabbed Bai Zhu, who was staggering and almost fell, and reminded again: "The steps are very high, so be careful where you step."

The stairs leading to the top floor are tall and narrow with no railings.Bai Zhu's hand holding Mr. Lu's arm felt cold, and he glanced down in fear.However, the only lighting tool was the candle in Steward Lu's hand, and he could only see the bottomless darkness.

There is a big gap between Bai Zhu's image in the game and reality. He just looked at Steward Lu's back and lost his mind. He accidentally forgot that his height of nearly 1.8 meters in reality has shrunk to less than 1.6 meters in the virtual world. , The strides are unknowingly small.If Steward Lu hadn't turned back to him in time, he might have fallen down the stairs if he stumbled on the stairs, and he might even hurt Xu Yan and the others who were walking behind.

...It would be too embarrassing if the group was wiped out for this reason.

The stairs are only convenient for one person to walk together, with Steward Lu leading the way and Chen Jin at the rear.After opening the small door leading to the fourth floor, the players stepped into the corridor one by one.

Chen Jin, who was walking last, asked, "Is there no light here?"

"I'm very sorry. The circuit broke down some time ago. I haven't found anyone to fix it because of the weather." Steward Lu's voice was flat, without much ups and downs, but he couldn't hear the slightest bit of apology. The candlesticks on the walls have not been replaced with new candles. But I have three candles in each room, each burning for about an hour and a half."

The players looked a little serious, and they all kept this information firmly in mind.

Horror games are always linked to limited lighting. Players don't feel that they want to pass the level to avoid night activities. Those three candles are probably the initial props given to them by the game.

Bai Zhu asked, "What should I do after the candles are used up?"

"You can get it from me during the day, I live in the room northeast of the stairs on the first floor." Lu Guanjia said.

Bai Zhu tentatively asked, "Can you take as much as you want?"

Butler Lu thought for a while, and said, "I still have about [-] unused candles, and you probably can't use them all up."

Players: "..."

What about the restrictions given in terms of lighting?

"The space on the fourth floor is small, so there are only four rooms, all of which are used as guest rooms. You just have one room for each of you." Steward Lu took out the keys and handed them out. "The layout of the guest rooms is the same, there is no difference. The patterns on the keys Corresponding to the door lock, you can find your room through the pattern."

Bai Zhu looked down at the silver-gray key in his hand by the candlelight. There were thorns wrapped around it, and the protruding thorns had been artificially smoothed.

Bai Zhu felt inexplicably that it was done by Butler Lu, this NPC was always surprisingly careful.

Although it was said that the guests could find their rooms by the patterns on the keys and locks, Butler Lu still showed them the way one by one.Although there are four rooms facing each other on both sides of the corridor, they are distributed in a staggered manner.Bai Zhu's room was at the far end of the corridor, and other players had already entered his room to explore before he opened the door.

Seeing that Bai Zhu had successfully opened the door, Steward Lu turned around and was about to leave, but he didn't.

He looked down at the hand that held his sleeve.

Then he followed that hand and looked at Bai Zhu's face.

Candlelight was reflected in Bai Zhu's eyes, and the brilliance in his pupils made it hard to say no to him: "Butler Lu, can I chat with you?"

Steward Lu looked behind him, and the other guests had already closed the door.He looked at Bai Zhu again.When he first saw Bai Zhu in the evening, Bai Zhu was wearing a men's overcoat, which was tightly wrapped so that it was difficult to identify the gender, but after entering the relatively warm room, he took off the overcoat and put it on his hands, revealing the furry hair underneath. white dress.

How decent it is for a lonely man and a widow to live in the same room.

Steward Lu refused without hesitation: "I..."

Before he finished speaking, he was dragged into the room by Bai Zhusheng.Butler Lu didn't notice for a while, but he let people get away with it.

Butler Lu: "???"

Didn't you just discuss with me?

The door slammed shut behind him.

Butler Lu was a little helpless. He walked to the table, lowered his head and brought the candle in his hand to the candlestick in the room. When the wicks touched each other, he lit another candle.He blew out the half-burned candle in his hand, sat down on the chair, and asked, "What do you want to talk to me about?"

Bai Zhu sat down opposite him and looked at him without blinking: "Mr. Lu, do you remember me?"

Mr. Lu's title sounded inexplicably familiar. Steward Lu felt that someone had called him that before, but in the castle, he was called Steward Lu by both the Tulun family and the guests.

Butler Lu replied truthfully: "I seem to have seen you, but I can't remember."

Bai Zhu was a little disappointed, but he had already expected it.

If Housekeeper Lu might have pretended that he didn't remember them at the beginning, he couldn't have pretended for so long without showing any flaws.

Butler Lu looked at them as if he was looking at a familiar stranger.

Bai Zhu didn't understand what was going on, why Mr. Lu appeared here with a different appearance.

The last time before he logged out of the game, he looked back and saw the fire, thinking that was the end of the first dungeon.But now it seems that Steward Lu did not die in that fire, but survived, and came to work as a housekeeper in the old castle in the forest not far from the foot of the mountain.

He is also a butler who has a lot of conflicts with the host family.

Bai Zhu asked, "May I know how long you have been here?"

Lu Guanjia said: "I have been here since I was a child."

Bai Zhu was stunned.

This is completely different from the answer he imagined.

If Steward Lu and Mr. Lu are the same person, then he must not have been here longer than the time when the hut was burned down.

But Steward Lu gave such an answer.

Are they not the same person?

Do not……

Bai Zhu immediately rejected this idea.Steward Lu and Mr. Lu must be the same person.

Steward Lu watched in bewilderment as Bai Zhuba suddenly stood up, pacing back and forth in the room with a dignified appearance, murmuring something he couldn't understand.

Bai Yi couldn't think of a reasonable answer for a while.

In fact, the most likely answer is that the development team of "Key" used the same image for different NPCs in the game in order to save effort.After all, it is only the first internal test now, focusing on testing the gameplay, and it is completely understandable that the character modeling is temporarily crude.

But that would not explain the connection between Steward Lu and Mr. Lu.

Could it be...they are using the same AI?

Bai Zhu stopped and asked Steward Lu: "When you opened the door and saw me before, why did you call me by my name?"

"I remembered it subconsciously," Lu Butler looked serious, "I probably really met you before."

Of course you have seen me.Bai Zhu thought, how could we have passed the last dungeon if you hadn't released the water?

As a result, the NPC who released the water waited for the player to kill him as soon as the player left. Playing a horror game and encountering such a plot of NPC sacrificing himself for the player is really a ghost.

"Steward Lu," Bai Zhu asked unwillingly, "Are you sure you've been here since you were a child?"

Is your memory really okay?

Lu Guanjia said: "The ancestors of the Lu family are all butlers of the Tulun family."

"You...do you know the nearby snow mountains?" Bai Zhu desperately recalled the names of the snow mountains in the first copy.

Butler Lu didn't understand: "Snow Mountain?"

There are so many snow mountains nearby.

It seems that the name of Xueshan appeared in the first dungeon, but Bai Zhu thought it was not an important detail and ignored it at the time, and now he can't remember it.

It's really not an important detail, but who would have thought that players would have to work hard to recall the name of a flashing snow mountain in an attempt to evoke the memory of an NPC?

Bai Zhu looked around, his eyes finally fell on the window, walked a few steps to open the window, pointed to a snow mountain in the distance and said: "That's the one."

Steward Lu stood behind him, only seeing a vague outline.

He still couldn't think of anything.

Bai Zhu was a little frustrated, lowered his head in frustration, and his eyes just fell on the garden.

There is a figure in the garden.

The light was too dim, and Bai Zhu took a long time to confirm that there was indeed a person in the garden.He couldn't see the face, he could only tell that it was probably a man, he didn't know what he was doing, and his movements were inexplicably distorted.

Bai Zhu pulled back the butler Xia Lu: "There is a man in the garden."

He was not sure: "...Is he digging the soil?"