"Holy crap! That scared me to death!"
Lu Xiaoyao took the lead and rushed into the security room in one breath. She poured a glass of cold water into the water bottle on the table and drank it down directly, letting out a comfortable sigh!
"That bear...it's terrifying!"
Lu Xiaoyao wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve again. Looking at the people who had run back, she noticed that they all looked unwell, so she poured four glasses of cold water for them.
Everyone took a sip of the cooled boiled water and let out a long sigh.
It seemed as if they were celebrating their survival.
Did we pour water when we left?
After finishing his water, Yuan Fang belatedly asked this seemingly random question.
"What?"
"I remember there was a thermos in the room before I left, and it was full of hot water..."
As he spoke, he glanced at the spot in the small house where Lu Xiaoyao had just poured out the cooled boiled water; it was a kettle he hadn't seen before.
Now that you mention it, I feel like this room is a little different from before?
As soon as Yuan Fang finished speaking, Julian suddenly blurted out the same thing.
This belated hindsight immediately put everyone on edge.
Lu Xiaoyao's hand holding the kettle trembled.
"Could it be... that this water is poisonous?" Lu Xiaoyao was about to cry instantly. It wasn't just her who died from drinking it; the problem was that everyone had a cup!
Why did you wait until you finished drinking the water to say that? QwQ
"I was startled by what happened earlier, and my mind is a little fuzzy..." Bai Xiao smiled awkwardly, walked over to Lu Xiaoyao, patted her shoulder to comfort her, and said, "Everyone was a little unsettled just now, it's not your fault."
"But..." As Lu Xiaoyao sobbed, she seemed to have a sudden realization and said, "Didn't we run into my brother and the others when we came back?"
Everyone: ? ? !!!
"Weren't we running in the direction they were heading?"
...
"The footprints disappeared at the garden gate..."
Hearing Lu Xiaoyao and the others scream, Lu Gui and the others rushed to the scene immediately, only to find no one there.
Because Lu Xiaoyao and her group were patrolling in a direction that passed through a grassy area, the mud they left behind left some footprints where Lu Gui and his group had come after hearing the noise. Following the footprints, the group arrived at the garden behind the large villa. (www.cascoo.net)
They disappeared without a trace when they reached the gate at the other end of the garden.
"how so?"
Lu Gui frowned and looked around. The carefully tended flowerbed was full of clusters of red roses, and there were no signs of anyone breaking or passing by on the flower bed.
It doesn't look like someone crawled inside.
There's no doubt that Lu Xiaoyao can do it; she's done it before.
Thinking this, Lu Gui's thoughts wandered for a moment. When she came back to her senses, she saw Mu Chen sticking out a finger to poke open the garden gate.
"What's wrong?"
"The garden looks newly renovated; the paint on the door isn't even dry yet."
After Mu Chen finished speaking, Lu Gui noticed a small patch of black paint on the other man's fingertip. Then his gaze fell on the door, and after looking at it for a while, he said, "They didn't leave the garden?"
Mu Chen examined the door closely before finally noticing the small, inconspicuous dent he had made by pressing it into the paint.
Still not giving up, he randomly poked somewhere else with his hand, and sure enough: "If they were so scared that they rushed out of the door, they would definitely leave a mark on it."
"But you can see the whole garden at a glance, and even this rose bush doesn't look like it can accommodate five people."
Wang Wenfei stared at the rose bushes for a long time, and then boldly poked at them a few times with her dead security baton, but she still couldn't see anything inside.
If that's really what they say, then where did this group of people go after they came here?
...
"Beep beep beep!"
Suddenly, a knock on the door startled Lu Xiaoyao and her four companions, who were unsure of what to do next!
"Aaaaaah!"
In fact, Lu Xiaoyao's sudden, high-decibel scream startled the others quite a bit!
What are you doing?
Just then, a loud, elderly voice rang out from outside the door. Before Lu Xiaoyao and the others could look at each other and ask what was going on at the door, the door was knocked open by the person who knocked on it.
Everyone: !!!
"You lot, we have guests coming to dinner tonight, and we're counting on you to do the work. What are you doing? Don't think that just because Onsen isn't here, you're hiding here!"
The elderly man was wearing a suit and vest. Although his hair was completely white, he was in excellent spirits.
His sharp gaze swept over Lu Xiaoyao and the others, then he directly called out the names of the other four besides Lu Xiaoyao, saying, "You four come with me. Two of you go to the kitchen to help the cooks prepare the food, the other two go to the main hall to greet the guests, and as for you—"
The old man pointed at Lu Xiaoyao, his tone leaving no room for argument: "You'll be guarding the gate. Tonight's banquet is very important. Don't let anyone in without an invitation, understand?"
"No... sir, who are you? Why are you behaving so arrogantly when ordering people around?"
After being silenced for half a day, Lu Xiaoyao finally had a chance to speak after the other party had clearly arranged everyone's work for her.
"I'm the manager here!" the old man said with great pride, raising his chin and glancing contemptuously at the five "dumb geese" in front of him. "Can't I give orders to you temporary helpers?"
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