Chapter 78 Anonymous Text Message (3) It’s so coincidental that it seems to be planned by someone…

"It was heroin. Probably an accidental overdose."

Fei Yu finished a preliminary examination of the deceased's condition and reached a simple conclusion. He twisted the white powder he found inside the man's collar with his fingertips, his expression remaining expressionless. He tilted his head and asked the butler, "Does he come into contact with these things often?"

The butler shook his head, saying he knew nothing. Feiyu wasn't surprised by this answer. He stood up and asked, "In that case, should we cancel the dinner?"

"No, the master specifically instructed me to treat you well before we began. Everything will proceed as usual." The butler's reaction was almost eerily calm. "So everyone, please return. We will handle the follow-up matters."

"But, but someone's dead here?!" the man behind Feiyu asked anxiously, his eyes filled with panic. "How can we continue like this?! I want to go back!"

Before this, he had not taken the text message whose source could not be traced seriously, but the sudden accident made him finally realize that the text message was not a joke, and things started to go wrong.

The butler simply repeated, "We'll take care of this. Please return to the dining room."

Although he was facing questions from more than one visitor, he just confronted them calmly without any intention of backing down. In the end, it was the visitor who turned around and left first in such a stalemate.

Shen Que glanced at Fei Yu who was still standing there, and persuaded Shi Yu to return to the dining room as well.

When they were alone in the huge kitchen, Feiyu finally asked what she wanted to know: "He can't be the villa's 'trash', right?"

The butler still said he didn't know.

"He's not dead, and he specifically instructed you to do this. I'm not particularly interested in the reason behind it." Fei Yu smiled slightly. "This accident is full of loopholes. They'll soon discover something's wrong. Do you need my help covering for you?"

"...I don't understand what you are saying, guest. The dinner is not over yet. You should go back like them." The butler advised in a serious tone.

Faced with the NPC who refused to give a direct answer, Fei Yu didn't say anything else. He also left the kitchen, walked straight past the empty dining room, and followed the source of the voice to the main entrance on the first floor.

"The door is locked?" Feiyu walked over to Chen Que, who was watching the show leisurely with his arms folded. This plot development was reasonable. "What about the windows? Are they locked too?"

Shen Que replied: "Well, I tried, but I can't open it."

There were no tools to pick the lock in the villa, so a group of people gathered in front of the door, anxiously circling around and trying to break it down, fearing that they would be regarded as criminal suspects if they were a second late. They cared more about their own future than the lives of others.

Fei Yu took out a thin wire from somewhere, walked past a few NPCs who were at a loss, stuffed the wire into the disassembled handle, and then twisted it a few times, and successfully opened the door with ease.

Shen Que, who was watching in the back row, opened his eyes and mouth wide just like the people in the front, until the cold evening breeze blew in and he came to his senses. They all ran towards the coast, and only a few people remained at the door of the villa.

"Didn't you give the panel to Xiaoyu? How did you open the lock without the props?" Shen Que was a little surprised when he walked to Feiyu's side. He really didn't expect this to happen. "And the gate of the villa has restrictions."

Fei Yu put away the ordinary thin wire. He decided to keep the mystery: "Secret, guess it."

This thing was given to him by the system. It should be Novi's creation. Not to mention the door, it is basically no problem to pry open most things.

Seeing that he was about to turn around and go back to the villa, Shen Que couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?"

"I just passed by the dining room and saw a lot of new desserts and fruits. It would be a waste not to eat them." Feiyu remembered the rule that only desserts could be eaten. She didn't know if they were poisoned or for some other reason. "You haven't eaten anything yet, aren't you hungry?"

It doesn't matter if Fei Yu doesn't eat much, but Chen Que and Shi Yu are still normal human beings after all. They need food to replenish their physical strength. They didn't eat a single bite at the table just now. If the accident hadn't happened early enough, it would probably arouse suspicion.

Shen Que, who didn't like sweets, had a sad face. He would probably get tired of it after just a few bites. Although the rules only restricted the food requirements for the dinner, there might not be other food in the villa, so it was hard to say whether he could eat it.

"Go in." Fei Yu glanced at the angry people not far away. There was no signal on their cell phones and they could not contact the outside world. The boats docked on the shore had already left. This small island was very remote and usually no one passed by. They could only stay in the villa for the night.

It just happened to happen in a villa where a murder had just occurred. The coincidence was so great that it seemed like a farce planned by a human being.

Fei Yu patted Chen Que's shoulder and asked him to accept the current situation. She nodded politely in Shi Yu's direction and then walked back to the dining room.

Shen Que didn't know what to say, so he could only rub the dejected young man's head and explain in a low voice: "It will be fine after this is over. You know he was a relatively famous player before, and there were too many strange stories trying to exploit his weaknesses."

Shi Yu could understand the reason for Bai Bei's change of attitude. He certainly understood his brother, and he didn't want to drag him down, so he just said okay.

But being able to understand is one thing, but being able to remain calm is another. Returning to the dining room, Shi Yu looked at the fruit salad on the table that Fei Yu had mostly finished, and his voice almost changed: "Don't you say you can't eat anything other than dessert??!"

Before Feiyu could react, Chen Que had already covered Shi Yu's mouth and took him to sit down. He was so scared that he repeatedly warned: "NPCs don't know these rules, don't tell anyone or you'll be exposed."

Shi Yu was still staring at the bowl of fruit salad with eager eyes, as if he wanted to take the whole plate away on the spot. Shen Que poked the small cake with a lethal amount of cream with a spoon and looked at the other dishes, as if he was thinking about whether to try them.

"It's not poisonous, but I don't recommend you eat it." Fei Yu ruthlessly shattered Shen Que's thoughts, "If you eat it, it might be assimilated into 'garbage' and cleaned up by the housekeeper at night."

Feiyu's fingers tapped a few times on the table, and the originally delicious and tempting food quickly began to rot and stink, and was replaced by bloody red organs. Only the dessert mentioned in the rules and the plate of fruit salad that he had touched remained unchanged.

Feiyu dug a piece of cake and gave a rare malicious smile, "Do you still have an appetite?"

Shen Que: “…”

Shen Que: “No, you are so thoughtful.”

Because Fei Yu directly restored the "food" to its original state, the other visitors who were already in a bad mood found it even more difficult to swallow. In desperation, they simply went directly to the room arranged by the housekeeper.

In fact, the statement about the food was just Fei Yu's guess. The thing was indeed not poisonous, but it appeared in the rules after all. Coupled with the "garbage" that he still had no idea about, he intuitively felt that the two might be related, so he planned to eat some to try.

And his guess was not wrong.

At midnight, Fei Yu vaguely felt the changes in his body. He lowered his eyes to look at his wrist. The originally faint green veins had been covered by an unknown black object, which was constantly spreading around and covering the surface of the skin.

It was like infected skin starting to fester, but Fei Yu just looked away nonchalantly. After a few seconds, his arm returned to normal. Then he heard a collision sound coming from far away, coming from the other end of the corridor through the thin door panel.

Finally the sound stopped in front of his room.

There was no light in the room, and the bright moonlight shone into the room through the wide-open curtains, so that he could clearly see that the door was dissolving and corroded beyond recognition.

A pitch-black substance in the shape of hyphae covered the entire door and gradually climbed up the ceiling and walls of the room. A sticky liquid dripped from the top of the head, like water droplets from the top of a cave. Even the ground beneath the feet was covered with such black hyphae.

Fei Yu lifted up his boots, the dark fluid still firmly attached to the soles and connected to the floor. When he walked into the empty corridor, the loud noise of something heavy falling suddenly sounded upstairs.

He tilted his head as if sensing something, and looked towards the window in the room. The next moment, the glass suddenly shattered. The monster's thick, pointed legs pierced through the fragile glass, crossed the window sill, stepped on the debris on the ground, and made noises one after another around him, and suddenly pushed open all the doors.

Fei Yu dodged the sharp tip by leaning to the side. He grabbed another sharp object that was attacking him. The mimicking substances that looked like mycelium began to stir and wrapped around his body in an attempt to form a cocoon cage to trap him to death.

The short knife hidden in his long sleeves slid into his palm, and when he pressed down, he forcibly cut off the rebellious mycelium. He turned his wrist and inserted the knife into the monster's leg and torso. When the monster withdrew in pain, he took advantage of this gap to climb over the window and jump onto the grass outside.

Fei Yu looked up at the monster lurking on the top floor of the villa. It was about the same size as the building, with its lower body in the shape of a spider. Those attacking him in the corridor were the monster's long, pointed legs.

A completely alienated shell supported half of a human body, both were equally bloated, especially the pale and swollen skin covered with black mycelium. His face was frozen in the expression of fear at the moment of death.

Fei Yu recognized him. He was the person who went to the kitchen to check the situation before the dinner started, and he was also the person who ate the most at the table tonight.

There was indeed something wrong with the food at the dinner, which was probably the direct cause of the alienation. This person consumed too much food and became the first alienated visitor.

The monster embedded its legs and torso firmly into the windows of different rooms, as if it wanted to uproot the entire villa. Fei Yu unbuttoned his formal coat, revealing his belt and the pistol hanging on it.

Although Fei Yu didn't understand why a private detective would carry dangerous items such as knives and guns.

He raised the muzzle of his gun and fired several shots at the bent joints of the monster's pointed body and long legs, successfully attracting its attention. The monster let out an angry scream, climbed down from the top floor and quickly approached the direction of Fei Yu.

The monster's crawling caused the mycelium to spread faster, and its huge body blocked the distant sky. Fei Yu turned the muzzle of the gun and finally focused it on the heart of the human body.

Even though the pistol would have little effect against such a huge monster, Fei Yu never moved the gun away, and her focused gaze was fixed on the monster that was very close.

He pulled the trigger.