Those years when I was taken away by the boss

Ghosts haunted and cost a life. Everyone's appetite was not high. Shu Shi ate a few bites casually, thinking about the situation on the fifth floor.

Seeing that everyone stopped moving their chopsticks, Yu Ling said, "Go to the fifth floor?"

Three people answered one after another.

"Ah."

"Right on my mind."

"go!"

Whether visiting the dead or looking for a housekeeper, the fifth floor is a must, and the sooner you get there, the better.

Wherever there are dead, the steward must go.After all, he placed the previous corpses, and the corpses will not run away by themselves, he can only come on their own initiative.

The four of them are action factions, they set off after making up their minds, Li Hao'ai stayed with Shu Shi, talking when they climbed the stairs: "Luo Lan and I found a knife in the hiding room, I don't know who it is, do you want?"

Shu Shi didn't refuse: "Go and have a look if you have time."

They walked in front, Luo Zhan and Yu Ling were behind, the stairs were very long, they turned a corner while chatting, and they were about to reach the fifth floor.

"It's almost here." Li Hao kindly reminded, "Be mentally prepared."

Shu Shi nodded, he knew what he would see next, but he had just finished his breakfast, so seeing those bloody scenes might make his stomach feel uncomfortable.

The four went up to the fifth floor together.No body was seen.

Luo Zhan said, "It's late."

The corpse was cleaned up artificially, and a long bloodstain was dragged on the road, and the bloodstain left on the wall also told them that a tragedy had happened here.

"Look for it directly, don't worry about anything else." Yu Ling opened a door on the left, then turned around and said to Luo Zhan when he remembered something, "You stay here first, I will go in with them."

Luo Zhan understood what he meant, nodded: "Yes."

If the four of them had all entered the same room, the housekeeper could have left the fifth floor while they were searching other rooms. If no one was watching outside, their search would be in vain.

Yu Ling took the lead, followed by Shu Shi and Li Hao, checking the corners and corners, and leaving after making sure there was no secret door. It took 15 minutes to check a room. The three of them divided the work, and the speed was not too slow.

Luo Li stayed at the stairs, watching the three people coming in and out, and also paying attention to the movement in the corridor.Unfortunately, until the three searched all the rooms, he did not see any suspicious figure.

"As expected." Yu Ling turned and walked downstairs, "Fourth floor, continue."

Fourth floor, no.

Third floor, no.

The second layer, also no.

The current situation is not good. If the butler cannot be found on the first floor, there are only two occasions when they can see the butler. One is when he arranges the meals, and the other is when he cleans up the dead bodies.

Shu Shi felt that he might not be able to find them, but Yu Ling did not stop his operation, and still led them to search one by one.

"Should not be here anymore. I have searched for so many rooms." Li Hao said when he found the fourth-to-last room.

Shu Shi opened the cabinet and said, "I have to find another room." He couldn't let go of the slightest possibility.

"The next one." Yu Ling said, which meant that this one was not found either.

Li Hao sighed and followed up resignedly.

After entering this room, Li Hao recognized that this was the room he and Luo Zhan had avoided, and said, "Probably not, Luo Zhan and I have stayed here for a long time."

While he was speaking, Yu Ling picked up the flat knife on the small cabinet and asked, "Where did this come from?"

"I don't know." Li Hao said honestly, "Maybe someone dropped it, I still want to use it."

After hearing this, Yu Ling smiled and said, "It's not impossible."

Shu Shi looked at the knife and remembered that Li Hao had mentioned it.

"Is there... any question?" Li Hao asked.

"The knife is fine." Yu Ling said.

Shu Shi looked at him and felt that there was another sentence.

Li Hao had just wiped off his sweat, when Yu Ling said again: "But the existence of the knife is the problem."

Li Hao: "." Can't you just say it straight?You have to make a sharp turn!

Shu Shi suppressed his smile, and saw Yu Ling pull open the door of the small cabinet, and put his hand in to explore.

Yu Ling withdrew his hand, and the brows that were a little bit together before finally relaxed, with a sense of relief: "I found the mechanism."

The organs in the cabinet are on the inside, and the light is dim, so they can't be seen clearly.

Li Hao didn't bother to check the cabinet while hiding from ghosts, and he didn't know that there would be secret doors in the space.

The tasks he was exposed to did not have these twists and turns.

"Damn it." But this time he really saw it. When he looked at Shu Shi, his eyes doubled. "Our previous intermediate level is not the same difficulty as this one. Could it be because of Zhong Ruji?"

Before Shu Shi had time to answer, Yu Ling said in a cold voice, "Which space have you ever seen, the difficulty is determined by the person? According to this statement, aren't all the tasks that the first three districts go together are advanced?"

That is to prevent people from living.

What he said was cool, even the way he looked at people.Li Hao originally only mentioned it casually, so he smoothed things over: "Just kidding, it's really not fun."

Yu Ling snorted and didn't answer.

Feeling the deep malice from the boss, Li Hao silently looked at Shu Shi, asking for help.

Shu Shi watched the ground silently, unable to help.

"This seal carving knife is a clue left behind. An old knife found in an unoccupied and spotless room. Do you treat it as a common prop?"

The above is Yu Ling's soul question.

An invisible arrow hit Li Hao who was ridiculed.

But he felt that he could save it again, after all, Luo Zhan watched it for so long and didn't realize it.

If you want to come to Luo, come to Luo.

After waiting for a long time, the three of them still haven't come out, either because of an accident or something happened, so Luo Zhan chose to come in to have a look.

"One good and one bad, let's talk about it first." Yu Ling pointed to the open cabinet door without talking nonsense, "The secret door, the NPC is probably inside."

Luo Zhan's face was filled with joy, and he searched five floors, and finally let them find it.But there is also bad news.

Yu Ling didn't keep it up at all: "But it might be a vicious NPC."

A vicious NPC is a murderous NPC, and a benign one is the opposite, and the words alone are enough to judge.

If Shu Shi had the memory of his original body, he would know that NPCs with sharp weapons would most likely cause harm to the tasker.

"Vicious..." Luo Zhan read these two words, saw the knife in a blink of an eye, and couldn't help asking: "Is this knife his?"

Yu Ling nodded: "As the housekeeper of the castle, he is in charge of the affairs of the castle. There are no servants here, so he does all the chores himself."

"Except for guiding us on the first day, he deliberately avoided us every day when arranging meals and cleaning up the corpses. Today you squatted him in the hall, and the cloudy sky and ghosts came."

"It is rare for an NPC to avoid people. He is the third case I have encountered. In the first two cases, the NPC avoided people in order to protect the ghosts and did not want people to find a way to deal with them. Most of these NPCs are vicious. It has great attack power."

Yu Ling's remarks are based on experience and are of great value to those who have not experienced the same task.

"That is to say, he might attack us?" Shu Shi asked.

His first impression of the housekeeper was not bad, and it was hard to imagine that the kind old man would do anything to them.

"It's just speculation, not the final conclusion." Yu Ling answered him this way, "But it can be guaranteed that he will not take the initiative to attack during the day."

Active attack?Quickly capture key words.

Li Hao glanced at the sky and asked for everyone's opinions: "Why don't you go in and have a look before it's dark?"

Discussion is discussion, action is action, everything they do is to find the NPC, the secret door is in the house, and you have to step in when you are there.

When Yu Ling glanced at Shu, he pressed the mechanism on the cabinet wall.

There was no sound, and no secret door was seen.

Shu Shi: "?"

Li Hao and Luo Zhan were also looking for the location of the secret door, but they couldn't find it either.

With three teammates of different levels alone, Yu Ling wanted to complain, but could only hold back.

When the three of them had doubts, Shu Shi watched Yu Ling walk up to him and opened the door of the closet next to him.

The secret door was embedded in the wall inside the closet, and Shu Shi was outside. He looked at the door with complicated eyes-would it make him look stupid?

"Didn't you notice that this cabinet looks different?" Yu Ling asked him alone.

Yep, haven't found it yet.

Shu Shi pursed his lips and shook his head innocently.

He thought about it carefully, and finally found the difference: the cabinets in other rooms have drawers, but this one doesn't.

"It's best to be sensitive and pay attention next time." Yu Ling said before stepping in.

Shu Shi thought for two or three seconds, and waited for Li Hao and Luo Zhan to gather before entering the secret door.

At this time, Yu Ling should have walked a certain distance, and Li Hao and Luo Zhan were walking together again. This secret passage left him an absolute space.

It took only a few seconds for Shu Shi to think this way before he bumped into an unknown object with a "bang", and his foot stepped on something before he could withdraw in time.

"..."

Shu Shi hurriedly backed away and even said a few words of apology.

"...Be careful." Yu Ling didn't care, and then asked, "Where are the two people behind, didn't they follow?"

"Follow up!"

Li Hao's voice was far away, followed by footsteps that became heavier due to trotting, and the four of them successfully reunited in a short while.

"Huh? Are you there yet?" Li Hao put Shu Shi's shoulder on his shoulder.

Shu Shi blinked and didn't answer.

He didn't know, he was kind of night blind, he couldn't see.

A slit revealed light, and Yu Ling answered his question with actions.

The golden light covered the entire room, and the glare was dazzling. As soon as Shu Shi entered, he closed his eyes, and his eye sockets were dry and painful.

In the silence, there was no sound.

Shu Shi opened one eye and saw the environment clearly after adapting to the light, and understood why no one spoke for a while.

So let's divide it into categories, his left-hand side and right-hand side are two extremes.

On the left are all wooden products and uncarved wood. On the long table not far away are various seal carving knives, including the flat knives they have seen.Like a carpenter's workplace.

On the right side are all familiar faces, the faces of dead people.

Four corpses were placed on the four chairs, the two dead on the first day, the dead on the second day, and the No.4 dead who hadn't had time to see.

It's all here.

Their heads were drooping, as if they were asleep, but the bloody holes in their chests gave a strong sense of presence.

One of the four deceased was a woman, the one who had an accident today, and her death was much more miserable than the previous three.

Her body was covered in blood, her arms were twisted unnaturally, and her unshielded calf was dripping with blood.

In addition to being grabbed out of the heart, she has been abused... No wonder there is so much blood on the fifth floor.

Shu Shi couldn't help but look away.

"So they were all put here," Li Hao's usual smile was gone, and his voice was no longer brisk, "Strictly speaking, it's still safe in the ground."

He and Luo Zhan had thought about collecting the corpses for these people, but there was always someone ahead of him.

"Now is not the time to pay attention to this." Yu Ling's tone was the same as usual.

Luo Zhan pursed his lips lightly, and returned to the topic: "Where's the housekeeper?"

Li Hao answered: "I should not be here, I'm going out."

This space is neither big nor small, and it is unobstructed to look around. It is impossible for the housekeeper to play hide-and-seek with them.

Shu Shi went to the left without saying a word.

Wooden products, seal carving knives, some of which resemble the wall decorations in their rooms.

He picked up a finely crafted but unfinished work in progress.

With a smiling mouth, big eyes and a round head, it's a cute doll figure - if not wings.

"It seems to be cherished." Yu Ling stood beside him and saw the wooden ghost.

Although the wood carving is only a semi-finished product, it is carved lifelike.

"Can I ask you to put it down?" A polite and hoarse voice came from behind the two.

Yu Ling's expression paused, Shu Shi was taken aback, Li Hao and Luo Yan were also stunned, and all four of them turned their heads——

The butler stood behind them, still wearing the gentleman's black tuxedo, and still had the same pleasant smile.

The only difference is that he is holding a seal carving knife.