The young man named Arthur led everyone into the house, and then retreated to the kitchen.Barlow took the four of them to visit the manor. The furnishings in the house were very beautiful and full of history, which caused Bernice to exclaim again and again.

A bell rang, and Barlow led the four of them through the corridor to the restaurant.Arthur put the delicacies from the dining car on the table one by one, walked towards the four of them, put one hand behind his back, and put the other in front of Bernice: "Beautiful lady, please allow me to sit for you."

Bernice blushed slightly, and glanced at Brook, seeing that he was fine, she put her hand on it.Arthur took her to a seat and set the tableware and drinks for her. Bernice seldom participated in such complicated dinner parties, so she was a little excited at this time.

After placing Bernice, Arthur walked up to Yue Qingqing, repeating his old tricks, extending his hand to invite her in a very gentlemanly manner.

Upon seeing this, Gu Chao stood in front of Arthur: "We know we should sit down."

Yue Qingqing had been thinking about things related to the other ghosts just now, and ignored Gu Chao's jealousy.

At this moment, she came to her senses and frowned: "Gu Chao, don't play your temper."

Gu Chao looked at Yue Qingqing aggrievedly: "Qingqing, what if he has bad intentions?"

Yue Qingqing was speechless: "I don't need your protection."

Although Yue Qingqing said so, Gu Chao still had the attitude of a flower protector.If it weren't for his extremely handsome appearance, making his slimy posture more pleasing to the eye, otherwise he would simply be unbearable to look at.

Although Arthur was driven away by the ancient court, he did not lose his gentlemanly demeanor and good service attitude, and continued to help others move chairs.

After several anchors sat down with Brooke and Bernice, Arthur bowed to Barlow and walked out.

After a while he came in pushing a dining cart with exquisite cold meals on display.

"Master Barlow, due to the sudden arrival of guests, the dinner needs to be prepared for a while."

"Help everyone with the dishes." Barlow finished ordering Arthur, and said to Brook, "Brooke, I'm really sorry, I need you to wait a little longer."

Brook quickly waved his hand: "Thank you, Mr. Barlow, our sudden appearance has already troubled you very much."

Arthur put the exquisite dishes in front of everyone, but except for NPCs, none of the hosts moved their forks.

Because they still don't know whether the food in this live broadcast can be eaten.

Fortunately, Bernice, who is an NPC, also refused the dinner because she wanted to keep her figure, so they used the same reason.

In reality, Barlow, as the host, would definitely be furious with these ignorant guests, but in the live broadcast, he did not show any surprise.

He moved the knife and fork quickly, and slowly finished the cold meal in front of him.

Because the anchors didn't eat, Arthur quickly brought the dinner and still poured red wine for everyone.

Even though they only entered the live broadcast when they were full, but when they asked about the fragrant steak, the gluttons in their stomachs could not help crawling to their throats.

After finally waiting for Barlow to finish his meal, NPC Bernice asked with a shy smile, "Mr. Barlow, are you and Arthur the only ones in this manor?"

Her question was exactly what Zhu Yi and the others wanted to ask, because the manor didn't count the gardens and fields, and the first floor of the house alone had an area of ​​five or six hundred square meters.This building has three floors. It is not clear whether there is a basement or not. It stands to reason that it is impossible for only two people to live there.

But since they entered here, they haven't seen anyone else, and Nuo Da's manor is as silent as stagnant water.

They looked at Barlow intently, waiting for his answer.

Barlow grinned: "There are still a few servants, but they were given a vacation together two days ago, and now they may have gone out to play together."

Brooke also quickly joined the conversation, chatting with Barlow about what he had seen on the trip.

From their conversation, it is known that Barlow is a lonely old man who lives in the mountains all year round and rarely goes to the outside world.The purchase of daily necessities is basically carried out by the servant or housekeeper Arthur.

After drinking and eating, Barlow wiped his mouth with a napkin and said, "Everyone should be exhausted from the journey today. Arthur took the guests to the guest room. Let's rest early."

Brook stood up and saluted Barlow.

Barlow laughed twice in a dry voice, and slowly left from the other side with a cane in his hand.

Arthur followed his instructions and brought the two NPCs and four anchors to the left corridor on the second floor. He arranged four guest rooms for the anchors, but when it was Brooke and Bernice's turn, he hesitated for a moment and only pushed opened one.

"Then everyone, please rest."

After he finished speaking, he was about to turn around and leave when Bernice suddenly stopped him shyly: "Arthur, please prepare another room for me."

After Bernice finished speaking, she looked at Brook with watery eyes. Brook smiled softly and said, "That's right, please prepare another room for Bernice."

Arthur nodded, and took Bernice to the next room.

Brook was about to go back to his room when he saw this, when Lan Chip walked over suddenly.

"Brooke, let's live together today." Since the target needs to be protected, close protection is definitely the safest.

Brook looked at him with a horrified look: "No, no, I'm fine living alone."

After saying that, he closed the door with a bang.

Because Gu Chao couldn't get used to Zhu Yi, and even blue chips, he said sarcastically when he saw this, "He's not interested in homosexuals, so save yourself."

Hearing this, Lan Chip raised his eyebrows and reached out to take down a silver sword hanging in the corridor as a decoration.

Seeing this, Gu Chao immediately took down the shield hanging beside him, and said sharply on his chest, "What are you doing! Are you getting angry from embarrassment!?"

"Gu Chao, shut up!" Yue Qing became angry, "If you can't spit ivory out of your dog's mouth, don't join me in the live broadcast next time."

Gu Chao immediately faltered, even putting down his shield: "I'm sorry Qing Qing, I won't dare again."

Blue Chip sneered: "Hehe, is this just dog licking?"

Gu Chao blushed, but it was a pity that he dared not speak out.

Yue Qingqing had no intention of defending him at all, and said to Zhu Yi: "Our customs clearance task is to protect Brooke, what about yours?

Zhu Yi nodded and said, "Same."

Gu Chao was still depressed because of the phrase "lick the dog", but suddenly heard Yue Qingqing reveal their customs clearance task, and called her name anxiously.

"Who knows if they are the same as us? How did you reveal the truth to others?"

After Gu Chao finished speaking, his face suddenly turned pale. Yue Qingqing would never do such a thing before, why was Zhu Yi an exception?

Could it be that... the gossip on the forum is true?

Gu Chao instantly felt a thunderbolt from the blue sky, and there was a feeling that life was unloved.

It wasn't just him who was shocked, the audience in the live broadcast room were also shocked.

Among them, the audience in the live broadcast room of Yue Qingqing and Zhu Yi was even worse.

The audience in Yue Qingqing's live broadcast room all thought that his girlfriend had been robbed, and regarded Zhu Yi as a public enemy.Some radicals even visited Zhu Yi's live broadcast room, swiping the screen to ask Zhu Yi to explain.

——Zhu Yi crazily seduced the goddess of the platform!

——Zhu Yi has a family and flirts with women!

——Zhu Yi is not a good person like his family, they both want to attack the goddess!

——Sure enough, it was a nest of snakes and rats.

The audience in Zhu Yi's live broadcast room were originally surprised by Yue Qingqing's openness and sincerity to Zhu Yi, but after Yue Qingqing's radical fans came to swipe the screen, they were not to be outdone.

——Thank you to the fans of the goddess, let us hit Zhulu Central Plains.

——Thank you Goddess fans, you're still better than us.

——I'm a little disappointed that Lushen didn't come this time, thank you Goddess fan, I'm sick of it.

——How many times have I said that I love Qi Yi! ! ! !Disassemble and reverse roll! ! !

During the live broadcast, Yue Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that they both had the same customs clearance tasks.She didn't want to confront Zhu Yi with swords when she told Zhu Yi the big secret yesterday.

"Since our tasks are the same, we can split up to collect clues."

Lan Chip got in between the two of them, and he was a little worried that when Lu Qi came back, he would hang him up and beat him up if he found out that he had "cheated" on Zhu Yi during the live broadcast and didn't do anything.

"Alright, Gu Chao and I will go to the first floor, so you can search the second floor." Yue Qing nodded.

Gu Chao didn't want to listen to the blue-chip arrangement, but Yue Qingqing was willing to act with him, so he was completely silent.

At this moment, a person walked up the stairs, it was Arthur who had left not long ago.

He was wearing a black tuxedo, his pale skin turned blue under the reflection of the stone wall, like a vampire living in an old castle.

"Guests, the lights in the corridor will be turned off soon, please go back to your room and rest."

After he finished speaking, the task prompts for the four of them popped up at the same time.

[Compulsory task - go back to your room to rest.

(The power supply will be cut off in the public area of ​​the manor late at night, please return to your room in time, do not walk around outside, and be careful of encountering things that should not be encountered.)]

[Mission level - mediocre level.

(So ​​simple that even pigs can pass it.)】

[Mission reward - a careful heart. 】

[The task will officially start in 30 seconds, please return to your position as soon as possible.

Please note that the time from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] am in this live broadcast will be shortened to two hours. 】

"It seems that the system doesn't want us to explore now." Yue Qing sighed, "Let's go into the room."

After she finished speaking, she walked to the door of her own room, opened the door and went in.

Gu Chao looked longingly at the place where she disappeared, and then pushed open the door of his room.

"If you don't carry out this mandatory task, you will encounter something you shouldn't encounter. Is it possible that you will directly hit the big boss?" Lan Chip asked quickly.

"It's possible." Zhu Yi paused, "Maybe it's the Michelle Nine Springs class."

"..." Lan Chip frowned, "You succeeded in dispelling my idea of ​​taking risks."

Zhu Yi smiled, made a magician's curtain call gesture to him, and closed the door before the countdown ended.

He looked around his room.This room is not too big, there is only one bedroom connected to a bathroom, other than that there are wardrobes and bedside tables, not even a desk.

He opened the curtains in the house, and it was dark outside the window in the night, and he couldn't see anything.

At this moment, all the lights in the room went dark, and I couldn't see my fingers.Zhu Yi's hand was still on the curtain, ready to turn his eyes into a state where he could see things in the dark.

Sudden!A woman's face appeared outside the window, and it was pasted on the window, face to face with Zhu Yi.She was the only thing Zhu Yi could see, but she disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The overhead lights flickered a few more times before turning bright again.

There was nothing outside the window, Zhu Yi stood quietly for a moment, and then closed the curtains again.

It's a good thing his eyes haven't changed just now, otherwise the thing that frightened him outside would be out of control now.

He walked to the window and sat down on the bed.

The face I saw just now was just a small shock. Judging from the fact that the night time was shortened by four times this time, the night time of this live broadcast is not that important.

But that mandatory mission has clearly told them that they will encounter things they shouldn't encounter when they act at night.

It must be a danger, but it may also be an opportunity.

More likely a side quest.

Zhu Yi is now extremely eager to upgrade, so he opened the door almost without thinking.

It was really pitch black outside the door, the light in the room only illuminated a small corridor at the door, and further away, there was an impenetrable darkness.

Zhu Yi closed the door softly and started to walk towards the stairs.

Arthur said that the servants lived on the other side of the second floor, and the third floor was the master's room and study.

Zhu Yi was very curious about Barlow, and planned to go to the third floor first.

He had just walked out of the room a few steps before the mission notification popped up, warning him that the mandatory mission had failed.

Zhu Yi didn't care, and continued to walk up the stairs. Just at the top of the stairs, he suddenly heard a faint singing sound from the first floor.

It was a woman with a gentle voice singing a nursery rhyme.

"There was a crooked man,

Walking on a twisted road a mile long,

With twisted sixpence in hand,

Step on twisted steps.

He bought the cat that was twisted all the time,

The cat caught a twisted mouse,

They lived together in a twisted little house,

Only twisted blood can open the twisted door. "[1]

Bernice asked Barlow that there were only two people in the manor, so where did this woman come from?And why don't you go to bed at night and go to the first floor to sing?

Faint moonlight shines through the glass, and the window brackets on the first floor cast a reflection on the floor.

At this moment, a shadow was cast on the rectangle illuminated by the moonlight. The head of that shadow turned slowly, as if looking upstairs.

Instead of moving, Zhu Yi took a step down.

The audience in the live broadcast room were already frightened by the sudden nursery rhymes, but they were even more frightened when they saw the shadow.

However, Zhu Yi still wants to go down, as if his life is too much to spend.

——NMD pigs can pass the mandatory missions, he insists on playing tricks!

——Er Tie, are you trying to prove to us that you are inferior to pigs?

——Can you learn from Xiao Lan and sleep like a pig in bed.

—Maybe it was because I slept like a pig that I was able to pass.

——Quick-acting heart-rescuing pills!I want to wholesale a whole box of them on Double Eleven.

——Has he lost money again?

——My salary for this month has already been spent on this man, so I will definitely do it next time.

Amid the barrage warning from the audience, Zhu Yi walked to the first floor.When passing the corner of the stairs, the shadow suddenly disappeared.

Zhu Yi looked left and right in the hall, not to mention people, he couldn't even see a corner of his clothes.

He walked on until he reached the dining room where they had eaten before.When he passed the tall vase standing at the door, he suddenly saw the reflection of the vase.

There is his shadow, and a woman standing not far behind him.She has blond curly hair, wears a waist-tight retro dress, stands with her hands down and looks ahead quietly.

Ordinary people might be taken aback by this scene, but Zhu Yigeon saw a speck of dust and didn't react at all.

He turned around flatly, but the woman in his reflection did not appear.

But when he turned around again, the shadow appeared again.

Zhu Yi ignored her and walked towards the gate.He stretched out his hand and pushed the door, but the heavy ancient door didn't move.

"The latch inside has been unlocked, why is it locked?" He said to himself.

When they followed Barlow to the manor, they saw that besides the house, the manor also had fields, a greenhouse, and an independent tool room, etc.Therefore, it can be ruled out that the scope of this live broadcast is limited to the house.

"Could it be that someone locked the gate from the outside? If so, the customs clearance task seems to make more sense."

He turned around, and suddenly saw a woman appearing in the dining room just now, exactly the one he saw in the reflection of the vase.

But the woman didn't notice him, spinning to the music playing from nowhere.Her steps were light, her skirt danced with her movements, and she turned a few times out of Zhu Yi's sight.

The music stopped abruptly, and the entire hall was as quiet as if nothing had happened just now.

Zhu Yi walked into the dining room, and the phonograph that played discs didn't have any records at all.

And the woman disappeared.

Zhu Yi walked in the direction that Barlow left after eating, and entered a deep corridor.

Arthur didn't tell them what was on the other side of the dining room.

There seemed to be some paintings hanging in this corridor, and there was a door every third painting. Zhu Yi tried to open these doors with a lockpicking tool, but all failed.

Finally, he found a door leading to the outside at the end, which also couldn't be opened with the prop lockpicking tool.

Zhu Yi could only go back, going to the third floor to have a look.

Until now, he didn't know what the punishment for not completing the mandatory task would be.He saw nothing but the image of the blonde woman singing and dancing.

He returned to the stairs and was walking towards the third floor when he suddenly found the blond woman appearing at the railing on the third floor.

She has sad eyes, holding an old soft leather book in her hand, and seems to be reading the words on it.

Suddenly her eyes fell on Zhu Yi's face, as if seeing him for the first time.

The blond woman screamed silently, as if seeing the most terrifying thing in the world, she turned and ran away, and her figure finally disappeared into the dark corridor.

Zhu Yi touched his face inexplicably.

Although he is not welcomed by the boss, he hasn't done anything yet, so he shouldn't be so scared.

He suddenly realized something, and when he turned around, he saw Barlow in a black nightgown standing behind him.

Barlow's haggard face looked particularly terrifying on such a night, even more like a ghost than the blond woman who had been haunted just now.

"Mr. Zhu Yi, why didn't you stay in the room?" Barlow asked gloomily.

"Come out for a walk if you can't sleep." Zhu Yi replied with a smile.

"The manor has been in disrepair for a long time. If you wander around at night like this, you will encounter unexpected dangers." Barlow said, "I'll take you back to your room."

Zhu Yi did not confront Barlow, but followed him back to the room.

After he closed the door, Barlow stood outside the door for a long time before slowly returning upstairs with a cane.

After waiting for him to leave, Zhu Yi went to open the door again, but found that the door couldn't be opened.

He looked at the clock on the bedside, the hands had reached two o'clock, which means he had been outside for half an hour just now.

Nothing happened, Zhu Yi took a slow bath, let the audience watch the mosaic for half an hour, then lifted the quilt and lay down.

An hour later, the sunlight poured into the room through the thick curtains, and a knock on the door woke Zhu Yi up.

But it wasn't his door that the other knocked on.

In the corridor, Brook had blue stubble on his chin, and looked at Lan Chip who had just opened the door in a panic.

Brooke: "Is Bernice with you?"

Lan Chip's face became strange: "Why is Bernice here with me, am I such a casual person?"

Brooke said worriedly, "But I can't find her anywhere."

After hearing the words, Blue Chip guesses that something may have happened to Bernice.But Brooke's mood would be affected by Bernice, so Blue Chip didn't say anything to death.

He asked, "Did you ask Barlow or Arthur?"

"The problem is Mr. Barrow and Arthur are missing too," Brooke said.

At this moment, Zhu Yi also opened the door and came out.He lazily hiccupped, and the instant noodles flew around in sleep, like a messy bird's nest.

Brook quickly asked him, "Zhu Yi, is Bernice with you?"

Zhu Yi smirked: "You mean Bernice spent the night with me last night?"

Brooke suddenly became furious, as if he was going to rush forward to fight Zhu Yi desperately.

Lan Chip hurriedly stopped between the two, winked at Zhu Yi, and asked in a low voice, "Why are you pissing him off!"

Zhu Yi stroked his hair, making them as docile as possible: "Being dominated by anger is better than being dominated by fear."

Lan Chip understood what Zhu Yi meant. He wanted Brooke to turn his attention to jealousy, so that he could temporarily forget the fear caused by Bernice's disappearance and reduce the possibility of the other party losing control.

At this time, Yue Qingqing and Gu Chao heard the voice and also came out.

Yue Qingqin had washed her face, and her face was still stained with tiny drops of water, which was extremely beautiful in the morning light.

"Don't worry, Brooke, tell me about the situation in detail."

Brooke was soothed by her gentle voice, and calmed down: "Berness came to see me last night. Of course she didn't come into my room! She told me that the garden at Mr. I go for a walk.

But after dawn I went to Bernice's room, and when I knocked on the door, Bernice didn't answer.

So I went straight to the door to check, only to find that Bernice's room was empty.

I searched the house a little longer, and found that Mr. Barlow and Arthur were also missing. "

Zhu Yi was taken aback when he heard that, he had seen Barlow an hour and a half ago, and he disappeared as soon as he said he didn't see him.

He said, "Let's go to Bernice's room."

Brook moved immediately and led them to Bernice's room.There seemed to be nothing wrong with Chad in the room, but when Zhu Yi opened the curtain, Brooke exclaimed.

Behind the curtains were broken glass windows, and pieces of glass were scattered on the ground.

The author has something to say: [1] Adapted from the English nursery rhyme Mother Goose nursery rhyme

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