Natural black penetrates into infinite flow

When Xia Ming came to the greenhouse late, several gardeners were sitting around playing cards with cigarettes in their mouths, their legs crossed.

The cards clattered on the table made of rotten wood.

The dim kerosene lamp, a few fluttering moths are flying around, and the shadows are cast on the wall, just like ghosts.The smoke rings wafted away and mixed with the fragrance of flowers to form a pungent smell.

"Are you here?"

The gardener saw the butler push the door open, hurriedly put out the thick smoke on the card, and pushed the window open.

Black rubber leather boots creaked on the soft and wet ground.

[The gardener is the most inconspicuous existence in the mansion, and he will only be remembered when he is planting roses. 】

A middle-aged gardener seemed to be the leader, nodding and bowing, "Today's work is done, brothers and sisters can relax, I hope you..."

Before he finished speaking, a few greasy bills that looked like banknotes were handed over.

Xia Mingchi didn't pick it up, but said with a smile: "I misunderstood, I came here to convey Madam's meaning. The flowers downstairs have been picked again, I hope you can quickly add new flowers."

As soon as the words fell, the young gardeners started cursing.

"What little bastard again, if you catch him, you'll have to chop off his hand!"

"Damn it, is it over yet!"

The middle-aged gardener turned his head and glared at the chattering guy behind him, then put on a smiling face again: "I'll go at noon tomorrow."

"Can't you do it now?" Xia Mingchi asked, "It's not too late, is it? Why, do you think the mansion is dangerous?"

"You don't know, when we planted roses last night, we encountered monsters."

"Yeah, I thought it was a hallucination at first, but later I found out that more than one person saw it..."

When the young gardener spoke, expressions of horror appeared on their faces, and they gestured with their hands.

"The head is so big, it looks like a big bucket, the neck is very thin, the hair is thin, the teeth are sharp and the mouth is sharp..."

"It just stared at me viciously, if it didn't run fast..."

Big head?Listening to the description is like seeing a monster in the place where Anne was held underground.

Xia Mingchi said: "Madam means to go now. If you are afraid, then I will take care of you this time. Anyway, there are not many flowers to plant."

After hearing this, the middle-aged gardener hurriedly grabbed the housekeeper.

"You still don't go to the side building at this time, I'm worried that something will happen."

The butler smiled slightly, his handsome appearance was also kind, which was irresistible.

"It's okay, I'm the housekeeper of the mansion, no one dares to harm me."

Unless the other person is not human.

Taking the shovel and flowers, Xia Mingchi walked towards the annex.The moonlight is like mercury, sprinkled wantonly on the roses, covering the delicate pink with a layer of veil.

Because of the existence of the moon, the light in the mansion is brighter than expected.At first glance, the current environment does not look like a horror game, but has the illusion of being in a fairy tale.

But Xia Mingchi knew that besides him, there were other creatures at this moment.

TA hides in the dark and walks lightly, but Xia Mingchi can feel TA's existence.Loosely leaving, following behind him cautiously, is to spy, is to be curious.

Xia Mingchi pretended not to know, squatted down calmly, used a shovel to dig out the roots of the severed flower branches, and planted new roses in them.

The hands are constantly moving, and the ears and eyes are also paying attention to the surrounding environment.

The guy was surprisingly calm, and didn't intend to come out at all.

You have to find a way to stimulate TA.

Xia Mingchi walked to the place where the roses grew too densely. Even if the roses were picked here, the Duchess could not see the traces of being picked.

One, two... The butler picked the flowers off.

TA is in a hurry and seems to be scratching his head.

Xia Mingchi remained silent and threw the flower in his hand into the soil.

"What are you doing?!" An exasperated voice sounded, and TA finally jumped out from the rose bushes.

The strange appearance is no different from what the gardeners described.

He is as tall as a child of a few years old, his head is too large compared to his body, his hair is thinning and is about to fall out, and the few remaining strands of hair are glowing with wine red luster.

The skin is wrinkled like that of an elderly person in his decades, and his complexion is sickly white.The teeth in the mouth are almost lost, only a few scattered ones.

The eyelids are everted, but the eyes are fierce.Although the voice is hoarse, it sounds like a female.

[A monster appeared in the rosebush, you need to talk to her to get more information. 】

This time the system did not prompt the identity of the new NPC, but asked the players to explore by themselves.

"How can you throw flowers into the ground?! I'll tell the Duchess, you're getting impatient!"

She stomped her feet angrily, holding something tightly in her hands.

Xia Mingchi felt familiar, and after looking carefully, he realized that it was a doll that the Duchess asked Annie to buy.Her clothes were dirty, but the doll in her hand was very clean, she should cherish the doll very much.

"Madam asked me to do this, and I'm her confidant." Xia Mingchi said, "Who are you?"

The little girl picked up the flowers thrown into the soil by the steward and wrapped them around the corner of her skirt.Hearing Xia Mingchi ask about his identity, he hesitated: "I..."

"Are you from our mansion?"

"Of course!"

"As a housekeeper, why have I never seen you?"

The little girl dismissed it, and was old-fashioned, "Hmph, you've only been in my house for three years, what do you know?"

"So, have you been here for many years? If you are not the owner of the mansion, why do you say 'my home'?"

Xia Mingchi asked, but she remained silent.

"You picked all the flowers, so I'm not afraid that Madam will catch you and punish you."

The little girl was very proud after hearing this, "Madam won't punish me, she planted it just for me."

"So...you are Madam's daughter." Regarding the identity of the little girl, Xia Mingchi had already made a lot of guesses.If it's not the wife's child, just deny it directly, and not saying anything means acquiescing.

The Duchess is obviously more partial to her, even if Miss Fisher is allergic, she still wants to grow roses.

Just as Xia Mingchi finished speaking, the little girl suddenly became furious, jumped up from the ground like a spring, and tried to grab his neck, her eyes were fierce like a ghost.

The butler had already predicted the NPC's behavior, and reached out to grab her by the collar, so that she couldn't touch him at all.

"What a temper."

The identity is confirmed, but there is no way to know the age for the time being.

"How old are you, can I tell you your name?"

The little girl didn't make a sound, watching Xia Mingchi shook her head, then swallowed a few mouthfuls of spit, and licked the few remaining yellow teeth with her red tongue.

"hungry……"

Her neck was very thin, and her head was dangling on it, as if it might fall off at any moment.A black mist gradually rose from her body, wrapping around Xia Mingchi's arms like a ribbon.

Xia Mingchi remembered that when delivering desserts to Miss Fisher, Jin said that Miss Fisher loved muffins, but Miss Fisher's reaction was very broken, and she didn't seem to like it at all.

Perhaps the child the Duchess was talking about was this girl.

"There are muffins in the kitchen, and the children next door are crying. Would you like some?" Xia Mingchi put her back on the ground.

Hearing the word "muffin", the girl's eyes were extremely excited, she collected the black mist on her body, and jumped around among the rose bushes.

"Great! Muffins are my favorite!"

She followed Xia Mingchi and came to the main building of the mansion, but she was timid and did not dare to approach.

"Bring it out to me!" The little girl stared at Xia Mingchi fiercely, the whites of her eyes were bloodshot.

Xia Mingchi brought out the dessert, and the girl jumped up from the ground, snatched it, and stuffed it into her mouth with her hands, as if she hadn't eaten for many years.

But the girl's hands are small, and every time she grasped it hard, the muffins shattered into crumbs and slipped through the gaps between her fingers.

"Eat slowly, it's all yours." The housekeeper brought her a bottle of hot milk.

"The taste is still the same as before..." The little girl wiped her mouth and greedily ate the crumbs on her hands.

[The monster's hostility towards you has decreased, and some of the questions you ask will be answered. 】

Xia Mingchi planned to start from other aspects, so that the opponent could relax his vigilance.So the housekeeper unscrewed the cap of the milk bottle for her, "Have you not had a full meal for a long time?"

"Yeah!" The little girl nodded desperately, "Jin only let me eat one meal, and didn't give me muffins! She clearly knows that I like it the most!"

"She is afraid that I will grow up, that I will grow taller..."

"Isn't it good to grow taller?"

The little girl shook her head, "Mother...the Duchess can't tell, she hopes I will always be this old."

Xia Mingchi understood that her current appearance should be caused by long-term malnutrition.

"why?"

The little girl was silent.

[Due to the limited progress of the game, this question is not answered. 】

Xia Mingchi thought for a while, and then asked, "Is it you who was in the basement that day?"

"Ah."

"How are Anne and Robert now?"

"The two of them are gone. Didn't the Duchess say to let them go?"

When the little girl spoke, her gaze was wandering, and her upright expression was no longer there. The drooping skin on her cheeks suddenly twitched, and her hands kept picking at the buttons on the doll's skirt.

The above tiny movements all reminded Xia Mingchi that she was lying.

"If you don't tell the truth, I'll tell the Duchess. She doesn't like children who lie."

"I'm telling the truth! Don't tell her!" The little girl hurriedly wiped her skirt twice before grabbing Xia Mingchi's skirt with her oily hands.

"I ate the two that were locked in the basement," she said.

"Eat...?" Xia Mingchi repeated in doubt.

The little girl patted her stomach innocently, "They are here."

"The Duchess meant to punish, but I hit too hard and killed them both. Anne was an orphan, without father or mother, so no one would ask. But not Robert, who has a cousin in the city." He is a small leader of the police station, and he will investigate when he knows that my brother is missing."

"Although our Fisher mansion is not afraid of his investigation, it is not good for its reputation after all. Madam values ​​the family's reputation the most. I made the mouse look like Robert. Although Robert the mouse can't speak, everything else is exactly the same as the original... "

So Robert the milkman that day was a mouse, and that makes sense.

"Why do you want to eat them?"

"Because I'm hungry..." The little girl said pitifully, "I haven't eaten a day's full meal in ten years, thank you."

Saying that, she disappeared under the moonlight.