Strange Stories about Castle Rules
There is a small lounge on the first floor, where even servants can have their own private rest time.
When there is nothing to do, they will take a short break there, and the rest time for each servant is not fixed, so it is common for people to appear in the corridor. It is the floor that is most easily discovered.
In addition to the ballroom, the second floor also has a room for storing wine and a banquet restaurant that is opened when guests are invited.
Will is the only one in the castle now. The children will not hold parties and there will be no outside guests. The rooms here will not be needed for some time, so it is relatively safe.
The family showroom on the third floor where Ding Can first appeared is open to the public for visits, so there is no need to worry too much.
As for the fourth floor, Will's bedroom is there. In order to serve him, the servants may often go upstairs to ask for his needs. There are also places for entertainment such as the library and the snooker room. People may go there on a whim. It is a high-incidence place for people.
Needless to say, the top floor is also safe.
Overall, except for the first and fourth floors, they can try to check out the other floors.
"I wonder where Sister Yanzi is now."
Gao Wenwen sighed softly. Since coming to the castle, he had met both of them, but had never seen Shi Yan.
If she just moved between rooms and didn't go outside, the chance of meeting them by chance would be very small.
Xia Jialian was still looking through the employee records. "Before you guys, I heard the sound of porcelain breaking on the third floor. It seemed to be quite loud."
He had just arrived at the top floor at that time and had not yet gotten familiar with the environment there. However, the noise downstairs reduced the crisis on his side a lot.
However, the noise soon died down. He was more focused on what was happening here, so he didn't go down to check.
Ding Can said with some certainty: "Then it should be her."
Shi Yan knew some kung fu, so even if he was intercepted, he would definitely be able to escape from danger. He could even find time to save himself as he did before.
Gao Wenwen thought for a moment and said, "If she's on the third floor, isn't that relatively safe? Then I'll go find her up there. It won't be easy to be discovered on the way."
The castle still has many mysteries for them, and they will feel more at ease if the four of them stay together.
Xia Jialian noticed that Ding Can's hand, which was hanging at his waist, was wrapped in a bandage, so she stood up and said, "Then Xiao Gao and I will go downstairs to look for it. You stay here and see if you can find any useful clues."
"Okay." Ding Can smiled at him.
After making this decision, the two men left, and Ding Can looked through the files of the castle workers left by Xia Jialian.
The file also contained photos of the employees. It was not too thick. She flipped through it quickly but did not see Sarah's name among them.
The files are updated in real time. Could it be that she had already left the castle when she revised this book?
Ding Can went back to the shelf and found a book further up.
As soon as I opened it, I found some differences from the previous one. The employee photos looked more like work photos. Everyone was wearing the same uniform. The photos were taken after they entered the castle and started working officially.
But these photos are in normal color, while the latest one I just saw is in black and white.
Perhaps there was something wrong with the camera at that time. Ding Can suppressed his doubts and found the page belonging to Sarah in this book.
Sarah was a young woman who looked to be in her early twenties.
The photo was taken from the front, and her eyes and eyebrows were very gentle, and she seemed to have a good personality.
Her thick, long, dark brown hair was evenly parted on the sides of her neck and tied into two pigtails. The corners of her mouth were slightly raised, making her look very trustworthy.
It would surely be easy for a kid like Will to fall in love with her.
However, the nobles have always had a strict selection mechanism for hiring and purchasing servants, and would unilaterally sign completely unequal treaties.
If you want to leave the castle on your own, it probably won't be too smooth.
Besides, Sarah appeared in the diary more than a year ago. The work in the castle was simple, and there wouldn't be much change in such a short time.
Then the reason why she is not in the castle now may be that she encountered something bad.
Or maybe it was because Sarah was born poor and was forced to be sold to the castle, but because Will liked her, he took the initiative to help her so that she could have the opportunity to leave early?
Ding Can was confused for a moment, then remembered that he couldn't stay in one place for a long time, so he started pacing in the storage room again.
Although there are all kinds of miscellaneous items placed here, they are also classified into different categories.
Apart from the items that can be clearly seen on the shelves, other different types of idle items are placed in different cardboard boxes and marked on the surface of the boxes with markers.
The year and item contents are written on it.
The further out it is, the closer it is to the present time.
"1201 Castle Renovation Plan..." Ding Can saw a folder with this label on the side in a box, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
From here, you can see the internal structure of the castle.
After the folder was opened, it contained dozens of pages of decoration drawings, including modification plans for specific rooms and changes to the overall style of the castle.
One of the pages contains a floor plan that covers the entire structure.
The location and function of each room are clearly marked.
She noticed that the Warrens' room was at the very edge of the fourth floor, which saved them the energy of running around like headless flies.
The door of the storage room was pushed open at this time. She tightened her fingers holding the floor plan slightly, and only felt relieved after seeing her three companions through the gap between the shelves.
They really found Shi Yan.
"We were lucky. We just arrived at the fourth floor and ran into Sister Yan Zi being chased again."
Gao Wenwen's breathing was not steady, as he had just experienced a tense chase.
Shi Yan grabbed a few strands of hair that had fallen and tucked them behind her ears: "I seem to have an incompatibility with this castle. No matter where I go, I'm always easily discovered."
After she and Ding Can left the dance hall, they went to the treasure house on the third floor.
There are many antique porcelains and oil paintings inherited from famous artists. In order to avoid sunlight, the curtains are closed, leaving only a few lights that can barely provide lighting.
The treasures are covered in glass frames, making it feel like entering a small museum.
After taking a few glances, Shi Yan knew that any item taken out of here would be worth a fortune outside.
However, although the collection was good, it was of no use to her.
She was more concerned about a safe at the innermost part of the room, wondering if the key to the front door might be inside.
It was definitely impossible to try the password randomly, so Shi Yan prepared to use props to force open it and exchanged 100 ml of magma on the system interface.
The scorching hot magma can destroy everything, even the thickest and most secure safe.
A slender, pitch-black bottle appeared in the palm of his hand, with a pointed tip at the mouth that could be squeezed out, similar to the one used in a glue bottle.
It is not clear what material the bottle is made of, but it is completely isolated from the heat of the magma, and it feels soft when you pinch it.
Shi Yan squatted down on one leg, put her eyes close to the lock of the safe, and squeezed the jar.
As soon as the orange-red magma flowed out of the pointed hole, it released very high temperature.
Her fingers already felt burning, but it was tolerable.
When the magma hit the round metal lock, it made a hissing corrosion sound.
Shi Yan circled the lock and waited for a while until the red iron sheet gradually darkened to black before she started.
With a gentle pull, all the parts related to the lock were removed, and the small door of the safe was clearly opened.
There are three layers from top to bottom inside, and two layers are filled with gold bars. Shi Yan raised her eyebrow, whistled in her heart, and then noticed the top layer.
There's a small jar there?
Made of glass, the edge of the tank adopts a retro transparent embossed design and is also processed into a frosted effect.
The flat lid of the jar has a golden handle in the center. It is in the shape of the totem of the Anlengus family, a sheep's head and deer antlers, which makes it easy to open the lid.
There were a few things in the jar, but I couldn't see clearly through the layer of stone. It looked like a jar used to store candies or snacks.
But how could such an ordinary thing be kept in a safe? Maybe it is some priceless pearls or gems.
Now that I'm here, I have to take it out and take a look.
Shi Yan held the jar in her hand. The moment she opened the lid, her hand shook and she almost dropped the thing.
It was the hand stability she had developed from years of medical work that prevented all this from happening. She still held the jar firmly in her palm and looked over with a frown.
What was placed inside was not jewelry at all, but a few human eyeballs, and they were placed at a slightly upward angle. When I opened it, it was as if they were staring at me.
She is familiar with the anatomy of the human body and certainly doesn't think this is a realistic work of art.
Even if the dense blood vessels around the eyeball have already died, it is definitely different from what ordinary people imagine, and there is still some rotten flesh attached to the surface.
There are four eyeballs in total. All of them were specially treated after being freshly dug out, and then a layer of special transparent coating was added on the outside to create an amber-like effect.
However, the eyeball is a part of living tissue after all. Without the nourishment of blood cells, it will still age and decay to varying degrees even if it is preserved.
Just as she saw now, the eyeball must have been preserved for a long time. The white of the eye was blue, and the soft flesh behind the eyeball that was originally attached to the skull had already decayed.
The stench of corpse mixed with a smell resembling formaldehyde reached Shi Yan's nose, and she held her breath unconsciously.
She had seen the details above. These were two sets of eyeballs, from two different people.
Although the pupils have changed color significantly due to oxidation and other reactions, one can still vaguely infer their original color when they were alive.
One pair is blue-green, and the other is brown-red.
The current state is sufficient to prove that the eyeball was not removed some time after the original owner's death.
Instead, it is taken before the person dies, or just after death, when the blood has not yet coagulated.
With such brutal behavior, I don’t know how these two people offended the murderer, and I don’t know whether the murderer is the owner of the castle who used the safe to store eyeballs.
In short, people who collect things like eyeballs are not mentally and psychologically healthy.
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