However, after Dorothy heard Kenk say that he would set fire to the villa if he couldn't find the thing, she gave up the idea. Although Barrett's secret room was well protected and would not be burned by fire, the entrance to the secret room might be destroyed by the fire, making it difficult for Dorothy to enter the secret room.
Dorothy had seen that there were many flammable materials in the villa, and there was even an underground wine cellar with a large number of wine barrels. With this pile of wine as fuel, the whole villa would be ignited in a short time. Under this fire, Dorothy's corpse would be difficult to move, the mechanism at the entrance of the secret room might be damaged by the high temperature, and the whole house might collapse. When the villa was burned to ruins, Dorothy would find it difficult to enter the secret room under the ruins.
On the other hand, it is unrealistic for Dorothy to engage in a head-on battle with the group of killers in the villa. Not to mention that the other side has a large number of people and their leader Kenk does not look like an ordinary small character.
Judging from the tone of Kenke's previous speech, it seemed that in this operation, the person who was in charge of summoning the spirits and the person who was in charge of the assassination were of the same level as Bajian. They were all responsible for a being named Spider Fang Priest at the same time, so the possibility that he was a Cretaceous-level vampire was quite high.
Without the help of any teammates, it is quite difficult for Dorothy to deal with a Cretaceous vampire relying solely on the corpse doll, so for Dorothy, a head-on conflict with the opponent is not a good option.
Dorothy's main goal now was to find a way to sneak in while the Eight Pointed Men were still searching the secret room. Fortunately, with a lot of corpses scattered around the villa, this goal was not difficult to achieve.
Without thinking more, Dorothy immediately began her own actions. She controlled the many corpses scattered in the villa and used their senses to get a general understanding of the situation in the villa.
Then, Dorothy found the body of a masked Eight-Tip assassin lying outside the back door of the villa. Although the raid of the Eight-Tip assassins was unsuccessful, the strength of the villa guards was not completely useless. After all, this was a duke's villa. After paying the price of the annihilation of the entire army, the villa guards still put up some effective resistance and killed one or two of the Eight-Tip assassins.
The body Dorothy found was one of them. He was shot in the chest and died outside the back door of the villa. Due to time constraints, Kenk immediately ordered his men to search the entire villa after clearing out the guards in the villa. He did not go to collect the body. After this minion died here, no one took care of him for the time being.
Dorothy raised the dead Eight-pointed Minion and let him stand up slowly without anyone noticing. Then, after tidying up her clothes, she turned around and went back into the villa.
The killers who participated in the raid were all wearing black clothes and masks, so they couldn't see each other's faces clearly. Although the minions controlled by Dorothy had large bloodstains on their bodies, as the Eight Points were the originators of the "Shadow" Society who were accustomed to close combat, the other killers also had a lot of bloodstains on their bodies. They used their blades to cut the enemies in close combat, and each of them smelled of blood, and there was nothing wrong with having large bloodstains on their bodies.
In this way, Dorothy led the dead Eight-Pointed Henchmen to sneak into the villa. Dorothy's henchmen, like other killers, began to rummage through the villa, while searching, they moved forward along the corridor on the west side of the living room on the first floor of the villa.
After reaching the destination, Dorothy let the zombie stay in the corridor and search for things, showing that she was going to focus on searching this area. When other killers saw that someone was searching in this corridor, they would not go over and waste manpower. After all, the whole villa was not small, and it was unnecessary for multiple people to squeeze into one place to search.
Therefore, when other killers see Dorothy's corpse moving in this corridor, they will choose to go to other places to continue their search mission.
After designating this corridor as her search area, Dorothy had the zombie use the search as a cover to start some cover-up. She turned over the cabinets in the corridor and opened the doors of the rooms beside the corridor to cover the scene at the end of the corridor.
After making all these preparations, Dorothy controlled the body of a male servant who died in a room beside the west corridor, and had him walk to the wall clock at the end of the corridor under the cover of the door and the corpse dolls. She reached out to open the dial of the wall clock and began to move the hands on it. She moved the hour hand to 12 o'clock and the minute hand to 3 o'clock, but did not move the last second hand immediately.
Next, Dorothy recalled the body of a guard who died in the corridor by the window on the third floor. His death was not too tragic. He stood up tremblingly, reloaded his pistol with a full magazine, and fired continuously out of the window when no one was watching. After the magazine was empty, he threw the gun out and fell to the ground.
There was a loud bang of gunfire on the third floor of the villa, which immediately attracted the attention of all the killers in the villa, and many of them rushed there directly.
At the moment the gunshots rang out, the butler puppet Dorothy had arranged in the west corridor of the reception room moved the last second hand to 6 o'clock, and then a rumbling sound of mechanisms rang out around him.
The sound of the mechanism was not small. If it were normal times, it might be heard by the killer who was close by. However, at this moment, the continuous gunfire covered up the sound of the mechanism, making it impossible to hear it.
Just as the other killers in the villa were attracted by the gunshots and rushed over, the thick floor in front of the butler's corpse began to open, revealing a downward staircase. After Dorothy controlled the butler's corpse and walked down the stairs without hesitation, the floor began to automatically close up, and the hands on the clock on the wall immediately returned to the correct time.
Under the cover of gunfire, Dorothy opened the entrance to the secret room of Barrett's villa according to the information provided by him. The corpse-like servant walked down the stairs, carrying a gas lamp brought from the villa above.
Under the light of the gas lamp, the male servant corpse quickly walked up the stairs and came to a relatively spacious underground space. With the light of the gas lamp in her hand, Dorothy turned on the gas lamps around her one by one, letting the light illuminate the darkness underground, and making its face appear before Dorothy's eyes.
What Dorothy saw was a basement studio. On one side of the fairly spacious basement were rows of tall bookshelves filled with densely packed books. On the other side were long tables, on which, in addition to piles of books and papers, there were also many strange gadgets and ritual objects of unknown significance.
On the other side of the basement, there was a telescope-like instrument with a long lens and countless mechanical structures. Dorothy recognized this kind of thing. It was a secret observation instrument that could observe secrets, defend against poisons, and detect the layers of enchanted lenses. Dorothy had seen something similar in the church's history department, but this one was even larger than the one in the history department.
However, the most eye-catching thing in the entire basement is not this huge secret observation instrument, but an ancient statue with a mottled surface and many cracks placed in a corner of the basement.
This statue is not a statue of the Mirror Moon Goddess, but a statue of a male warrior. The warrior is wearing armor and a cloak at the back. He holds a sword in both hands in front of him. His bearded face is full of determination, and there is no helmet above his loose hair.
On the base of the statue, there is an engraving in the Formal Empire language, and below this engraving is a signboard with the following words written in Hierophant.
"Arthur Despenser, one of the Four Knights of Moon Shadow, Knight of Wind."
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