Chapter 114
The hostess's palms began to sweat: [Haha, really no need, I don't want to go online recently. Please help me cancel the service]
[All right]
The woman at the door stopped knocking and left after a moment.
The host and hostess then breathed a sigh of relief.
The castle was full of weirdness, and they couldn't figure out what was going on. Was someone playing a prank on them? Or was there something going on that they didn't understand?
The servants quickly prepared dinner.
The host family sat at the dining table, and the hostess's face became more and more unsightly as she ate.
It was so similar, so similar...it couldn't even be said to be just similar. The taste of this meal was exactly the same as the dinner that Mr. and Mrs. Vincent had invited them to share.
Although the hostess did not know her distant relatives very well, she still knew the basics such as their cooking tastes.
She bit her fork and glanced at them secretly. They were standing by and watching her eat with smiles on their faces.
This kind of look really makes people feel very uncomfortable.
The hostess asked, "Um...when did your tastes change so much?"
“Is it because we didn’t cook it well?”
The hostess immediately shook her head: "That's not the case."
Then she noticed that one of them was missing.
Come to think of it, it seems like I haven’t seen a middle-aged woman for a while.
The hostess' heart sank, fearing that someone had been murdered again, and she immediately asked other servants about the whereabouts of the middle-aged woman.
Those people laughed and said, "She said she didn't want to do it anymore and has already resigned."
What? Are you kidding?
He didn't even say hello to the employer's family and suddenly disappeared without a word. Was he kidding?
And today is only the first day, everything was going well before, why did you suddenly quit?
"So where is she now?"
One of them took out a letter and handed it to the hostess: "She has left."
The hostess opened the envelope and took a look. It was a serious resignation letter: "Call her back quickly."
Those people were very obedient and sent messages in front of her, asking the middle-aged woman where she had gone, whether she was safe, and other information.
The other side responded instantly: [I have left, everything is as stated in the letter, I am very safe now.]
This whole thing has a weird and strange feeling.
But today, everything was so bizarre and absurd. And anyway, it was getting dark, and it was time to rest after dinner.
Lu Jiamu and others took advantage of the panic of the people in the castle and secretly sneaked back into the castle.
The area outside the castle is very cold at night, and once you walk into the wasteland, it is difficult to get out. Staying outside is no less dangerous than staying inside the castle.
Perhaps if they stay near the new owner of the manor, the monsters will be afraid to be discovered by this family.
When the lights in the castle were turned off, the newly arrived servants had disappeared. The five of them hid next to the new owners of the manor, hoping to spend the night like this, at least until the second half of the night.
Johnny seemed a little unhappy and asked in a low voice: "They had already left the underground before. Maybe that was an opportunity. Why didn't we seize it?"
Lu Jiamu still said the same thing: "Because we haven't found an effective way to fight these monsters."
After Coleman was covered with a layer of mucus by the mud monster, he had no chance to take a shower and could only endure the nausea. His whole face was wrinkled and the air pressure around him seemed very low. He seemed to be in a very bad mood.
At this time, the layer of mucus on her body was almost completely dried up, gradually becoming more and more like a layer of transparent plastic wrap.
These membranes were very tough after drying, and had severely restricted Coleman's mobility.
Coleman felt as if he was a worm trapped in a cocoon.
Fortunately, the slime was about to dry, and she could peel off the film bit by bit.
Lu Jiamu pointed at her and said, "You saw it too. With our abilities, we can't defeat those monsters."
But they never came here to kill monsters.
Johnny tried to refute him: "Are we going to stay here forever? If it's dangerous here, wouldn't it be more dangerous the longer we stay? Only if we get the ruby quickly can we leave here. Why choose to defeat them?"
"And weren't those monsters in the hospital before more dangerous than the ones here?"
Lu Jiamu replied perfunctorily: "We'll take action tomorrow."
His lobbying apparently failed.
But Johnny had been with them day and night for several days, and had almost figured out the relationship and abilities between these four people. He knew very well that these four people were in the same group, and he was the only outsider and a burden.
The abnormal abilities of Coleman and Lu Jiamu, who seem to be the strongest among them now, are completely opposite and complementary.
If Coleman is good at resisting any damage from the outside world, good at team enhancement and protecting others, then Lu Jiamu, who has a high dodge ability and can ignore external damage, is good at hitting the vital points with precision and is good at stealing in broad daylight.
Although the monsters in the manor did look scary, the scepter looked like an important object and was protected by layers of protection.
But as long as the two of them work together, they can succeed even if there are risks.
The reason for not taking any action may not be because of inability, but simply because one does not want to.
Johnny thought again of the several times Lu Jiamu had driven the car on the wrong road.
Maybe their goals and situations were different from the beginning. They still had a way out, but he didn't.
Take action tomorrow…Why tomorrow?
These thoughts turned quickly in Johnny's mind, but the thoughts were so strong, so strong that Yu Leng could almost hear every word.
Just as Yu Leng was about to make a move, a text prompt suddenly appeared, interfering again: [Yu Leng noticed Johnny's idea and wanted to sneak attack Johnny]
Almost at the same time as the text prompts began to appear, Johnny shouted loudly without hesitation: "Ha!"
He shouted loudly and ran out without looking back.
The second half of the text prompt also appeared: [Number of identifications: 11
Yu Leng fell flat on the ground, and the sneak attack failed.]
After the prompt ended, Yu Leng, who was standing there peacefully, suddenly fell down.
Yu Leng just subconsciously felt that he should subdue Johnny first, but he had not yet refined his thoughts, let alone put them into action.
The fall left him completely stunned.
But he still realized: Johnny was indeed the chosen one, or maybe the rule book had noticed their negligence, anyway, the rule book was deliberately protecting Johnny!
Johnny's loud shouting woke up the new owner and his family of the manor next door.
Since moving into this castle, everything has become very strange, and the family's nerves have been on edge.
Hearing the strange voice calling, the hostess was startled and exclaimed: "Someone broke into the house!"
The man jumped up from the bed, grabbed the gun directly from the table, and rushed out with a gun in hand while loudly calling out the people he hired.
The hostess also grasped the clothes hanger tightly with both hands as a weapon, walked out and went to check the rooms of her two children.
The castle was disturbed at night and all the lights were turned on again.
Perhaps if they stayed here tonight, hiding near the manor owner's family, they could survive another night.
But Johnny obviously didn't think so. He was deliberately disrupting the possible peace and forcing them to solve the problem.
I'm afraid no one will be able to sleep that night.
The four people had no time to curse as they watched the entire castle become brightly lit again. Their presence was about to be discovered by the family, so the four people had no choice but to run out of the castle first.
Johnny had no idea where he had run to, but night was the time when monsters could move freely, and there were figures walking back and forth outside the castle.
The man of the house chased out with his servants, holding a pistol in hand.
In front, the manor owner and his family have become aware of their existence, and behind them, there is a clan of monsters who are full of hostility towards them. The space in the entire manor that can accommodate them is getting smaller and smaller.
Before, Lu Jiamu had seen a scepter in the hands of monsters, which seemed to have a ruby on it. Although he didn't know if it was the ruby that the text prompt asked them to steal, he could get it if he thought of a way.
However, they only have one day left to stay in this world. If they get the right ruby, they will leave this manor and be forced to embark on the next adventure and adapt to the new environment.
As to whether the next adventure will be dangerous, no one knows.
The four of them ran into the wasteland.
The "scarecrows" wandering in the sea of flowers saw them, turned around and gathered around, saying things like "Don't go, let's have a good talk" and "Don't be afraid, we have no ill intentions", while stumbling into the wasteland.
As they tried to leave the manor empty-handed, the text prompt about "The wasteland is so big that you will get lost if you walk in" appeared again.
All the people who entered the wasteland lost their way and began to wander around in the grass. The voices calling "Mr. or Ms." also began to get closer and farther, becoming erratic.
The man of the manor chased to the edge of the flower sea, vaguely saw several figures running into the wasteland, and stopped chasing.
He didn't know how many people there were on the other side, nor whether they were some vicious criminals waiting for him inside. It would be very dangerous to rashly enter the grassland.
The man planned to go back to the castle first, lock the door, and then take people to check carefully tomorrow morning and go out for help.
But the servants didn't seem to want to go back. They just stood outside the flowers and looked at the wasteland from afar.
The male owner was confused: "What's wrong? What are you looking at?"
All the servants had a half-smile on their faces and looked at the wasteland without saying a word.
The four people in the wasteland stopped wandering around after triggering the lost effect. They stood where they were and listened to the monsters' shouts coming from the front, back, left and right.
The night was very cold. Coleman unfolded the two sheets he had foresightedly brought from the castle, wrapped the four of them together, and huddled together for warmth.
They didn't know where Johnny had gone. If he ran into the wasteland alone, he might not survive the night and would freeze to death. If he stayed in the castle, he might have been caught by the monsters.
Just as the four people thought of this, a text prompt appeared: [Johnny wants to light a fire here
Number of identifications: 90
Flames shot up into the sky!
Although it rained during the day, the weeds that had been exposed to the sun all afternoon were perfect fuel, and Johnny was lucky, so the flames shot out to a height of one meter! ]
After the prompt, a tongue of fire suddenly rose up not far away. The effect did not seem like grass was burning, but more like natural gas was burning.
It turned out that Johnny had also run into the wasteland. But what was he doing? Was he just trying to keep warm, or was he doing it for some other purpose? He couldn't be trying to burn them to death, could he?
The four people were speechless when they looked at the fire.
The fire began to spread gradually to the side.
The man standing outside the sea of flowers was startled by the sudden burst of flames, and he didn't understand why a piece of wasteland suddenly burned like this. He immediately shouted, "What are you all standing there for?! Put out the fire!"
The servants slowly went to the tool room to get out the water pipe for watering the flowers, connected it to the water source and then came back, but they did not turn on the water. They just stood there and let the fire spread.
The man shouted anxiously: "Spray water! Spray water!"
Once the few people in the wasteland entered the wasteland, they could no longer get out by themselves, and the fire might burn them.
In addition, since this area has received the chaos bonus from the rule book, walking in it means constantly jumping in chaotic faults.
It is okay now that the area of the fire is small, but as the fire grows, they may suddenly jump into the flames as long as they walk, and the risk factor is increasing significantly.
There were already shrill screams in the wasteland that pierced the night sky. Some monster had the misfortune to step into the flames. Then the intermittent calls gradually became smaller.
It seems that even if these monsters use substitutes, they are afraid of fire. They have begun to abandon the bodies that have entered the wasteland.
Four people were running on the grass when they suddenly bumped into someone head-on.
Coleman thought it was a monster and was about to attack when he saw clearly that it was Johnny. They ran into each other again, and Johnny retreated again and again when he saw it was them.
Although the surroundings had become completely warm after the wasteland was set on fire, he was still lost here.
Coleman asked sternly, "What are you doing?"
Johnny changed his previous obedient appearance, staring at them while retreating and sneering: "I know you are not from here at all. Maybe you are from a place beyond the scope of the rule book. You came here to delay time from the beginning. You would die if you didn't run in the hospital, so you were very active, but now that the castle is relatively safe, you started to delay time."
Johnny looked so nervous that he was a little nervous. "You guys must have other ways to leave here, today or tomorrow? This method definitely doesn't include me, so I'd rather believe that the Vincent family has a spirit of contract. Or do you guys try to find a way to get the ruby now?"
He then shouted, "They're here!"
The spirit of contract he mentioned must be referring specifically to the monster's previous lies to sow discord between them and to let one person go.
It looked like he wasn't burning them for warmth, he just wanted to burn them.
Kou Man was furious at his act of repaying kindness with enmity: "You can't get out of the grass yourself, how long can you survive if the grass is burned?"
But Johnny ran after he shouted, and several people wanted to chase him, but he disappeared in an instant. Because there was a distance between them, one of them was sent away.
The weeds beside him were pushed aside, revealing a shrunken face: "Madam, so you are here?"
It was a monster that was still wandering in the wasteland and had not given up. It was attracted by Johnny's shout.
Apparently, it was Johnny who was sent away randomly, not them.
But when it came over, it was kicked down by Coleman.
The four men were running in the wasteland and soon bumped into Johnny several times. But every time Johnny saw them, he would turn around and run away, quickly disappearing from their sight.
As time passed, the area of fire in the wasteland became larger and larger. With Johnny's teleportation frequency where he would be teleported away if he turned around and took a step, he was extremely lucky not to be sent into the fire.
But the four of them may not be so lucky.
They were afraid that they would be sent directly into the fire area next time. Seeing that they had been randomly sent to a place some distance away from the fire source this time, they did not dare to run around anymore and stopped.
In such a large-scale fire, the best way to avoid being burned by the flames is not to find water, but to remove all combustible materials nearby.
Coleman had already started pulling out the weeds in circles, centered around where they were standing.
Lu Jiamu began to have some doubts in his mind, that is, the reason why they were still lost here was essentially because of the disorder in space, but the text prompts had already found a reason for themselves: "The grass is too tall and you can't find the direction."
But if all the grass was burned, what would they use to trap them? Would they be able to see the castle but not be able to leave?
Lu Jiamu looked at the cleared space and suddenly said loudly with confidence: "Don't worry, even if you are suffocated to death by the smoke, we will not be burned to death by the fire!"
When the servants outside the sea of flowers heard this, they seemed a little moved and swayed left and right.
The man had just seen them holding the hose and refusing to spray water, so he had already grabbed the hose. But compared to the fire burning in the wasteland, the water was too weak to have any effect at all.
When the male owner heard what Lu Jiamu said, he thought the arsonist was trying to provoke him and he couldn't help but get very angry.
They were in the center of a circle of wasteland. If the fire could not be controlled, they would be choked to death by the smoke.
The hostess also came out, and seeing the fire growing more and more fiercely, she began to call for help in a panic, but never received a positive response.
She began to look through the address book, trying to ask for help from anyone who might be able to help them, and after flipping through it a few times, she found the middleman, Mr. John.
Although she felt that this person was quite scary, she had no choice but to ask him for help.
After sending the message, Mr. John did not reply as quickly as before, as if he was standing by the phone. Maybe it was because it was so late and he had already gone to bed.
The hostess was sending messages anxiously, but suddenly she caught a glimpse of a square bright spot in the flower field.
In a dark environment, the bright block is so obvious.
The hostess approached slowly and suspiciously and picked up a mobile phone, not knowing who had left it there.
Her own profile picture and the message she had sent were jumping on the screen. This was Mr. John's phone.
Who was replying to the messages before? Didn't he leave?
The fire in the weeds was still burning, but Coleman had already pulled out all the weeds within a radius of several meters and thrown them away.
By the middle of the night, the entire field had burned so badly that it was hard to tell where the fire was burning and where it wasn't. The man had used too much water, and now there was no water in the pipes. They could only return to the castle in despair and try to get to the highest floor possible.
But Lu Jiamu kept on speaking provocatively, showing that he was still alive, and he became more and more confident as he spoke, and every word tickled the monster's nerves.
The servants waiting outside moved, but they restrained themselves. No one took the initiative to go in and kill him. They were all quietly waiting for the fire to burn him to death.
However, at dawn, the flames finally reached their vicinity, but because the isolation circle was too large, they could not burn into it at all.
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