Chapter 76
As she spoke, she prepared another portion of meat, put it in a bowl and handed it to Lu Jiamu: "Thank you for your hard work."
Lu Jiamu carried the basin and went out with Kouman again.
This time, it was Kouman who rushed into the doghouse first, and Lu Jiamu followed closely behind him, dodging the three-headed dog as he ran inside. He rushed all the way to the dog food bowl and poured all the meat in his hand into it.
Then he bent down and carefully picked up the pieces of rat meat scattered on the ground, put them into the basin, and then ran back.
After both of them rushed out of the dog house, they stood outside and observed the situation inside from a distance.
The three-headed dog stood at the door with bared teeth and growled for a while, then shrank back angrily to look at its dog food bowl.
This time, it didn't kick the bowl over with its paw, but started eating the meat inside obediently.
"It seems that it can indeed distinguish between rat meat and pork."
Lu Jiamu nodded and looked into the basin in his hand: "Let's get rid of these first."
The two were very cautious, fearing that they would be seen by the housekeeper and the host and hostess, so they did not bring the rat meat back to the villa, but took a detour and dumped the meat into the manor's pond. Immediately, shadows gathered in the pond, and the water surface boiled. They quickly ate up all the meat that was poured into the water.
After finishing the pot of rat meat, the two returned to the villa. The cook had already prepared breakfast, and the employer's family had also woken up and were waiting for the food to be served.
While waiting, the hostess mentioned that Barty was going to school and that he would leave after breakfast. Barty moved around in his seat a little restlessly, and his appetite was not so good.
After hearing this, Lu Jiamu asked, "Excuse me, can I go with Batti?"
The hostess nodded and said, "As a tutor, of course you can go with us. This is exactly why we hired you."
It would be best to allow them to go with him. Otherwise, if Batty's enrollment is not good, it would be terrible if they are blamed directly.
As breakfast was coming to an end, the housekeeper went to the garage to drive the car.
Although Batty's enrollment was a big deal, only one of them could go with him, otherwise the work in the manor would not be completed.
This task naturally fell to Lu Jiamu, who had made the most progress in studies.
After Batti finished her meal, Lu Jiamu took her hand, walked out of the manor amid the stiff smiles of the host and hostess, and got into the car driven by the housekeeper.
After the car arrived at the school, the butler got out of the driver's seat and opened the door for the two people in the back very gentlemanly.
The sky outside was still dark. Not far away at the school gate, many blurry and thin figures were wandering back and forth meaninglessly.
The housekeeper said, "Young Master, please work hard on your first day of school and don't let the Master and Madam down."
It was Batty's first time leaving the manor. He was very scared and stood by the car, not daring to leave.
After a quick observation, Lu Jiamu found a place similar to the one where students registered.
He turned back to Barty with a reassuring smile and held out his hand to her.
Batti immediately seemed to have found his backbone. He raised his little hand and held him, letting Lu Jiamu lead him to school.
The butler stood beside the car, "watching" them quietly.
When Batty approached, the little figures who were wandering around meaninglessly suddenly began to flock to the school's reporting point like puppets being pulled by strings.
When the admissions teacher saw them coming, he gave a strange smile and handed over a form.
Lu Jiamu took it and took a look. He saw a bunch of messy lines on the form and couldn't tell what was written on it.
No wonder the teacher smiles so strangely.
Lu Jiamu looked at Batty and said, "Please fill in your personal information."
Batty whispered timidly: "Lu, I...I can't read yet."
"I see. Then I'll help you fill it out."
Lu Jiamu asked the admissions teacher for a pen. Although he had no idea what was written on the form, he still leaned over the table and scribbled on it.
He knew very well that "it doesn't matter if I write randomly, since you can't read anyway", so he scribbled while muttering in a serious tone: "Name, Batty... gender... age... home address..."
After scribbling, he returned the form along with the pen to the admissions teacher.
The admissions teacher looked me up and down and stood up. "Very good, Barty, right? Follow me."
Obviously, since this world was formed according to Batty's consciousness and impression, then according to the rules, as long as he acted realistically enough, the admissions teacher would be able to understand it.
As we walked into the campus, the admissions teacher said, "I will take you to the classroom first and do some entrance tests to see if your intelligence is developed enough to attend school."
Batty said nervously, "Okay..."
The teacher led them into classroom 101 on the first floor, arranged for Batty to sit down, and then jumped onto the podium.
"Let's start with simple addition and subtraction."
As he spoke, he rummaged around under the podium and pulled out a humanoid creature.
The creature was screaming silently, but as it was pulled out, Lu Jiamu in the audience gradually saw that there were many strange creatures behind it.
The admissions teacher pulled them out, crumpled them into a ball, threw them on the podium, and then reached down to get another bunch.
The creatures kept waving their limbs, like a large mass of seaweed swaying back and forth against the current.
After throwing both messy creatures onto the podium, the admissions teacher asked, "What is this plus this?"
Batty didn't seem to realize that there was anything wrong with this scene. He just took advantage of the time when the admissions teacher went to get other things and nervously pulled Lu Jiamu's sleeve secretly: "Lu, this is different from what you taught me. I don't know how to do it."
...Human Centipede plus?
This is not quite what Lu Jiamu thought.
But since Batty didn't think there was anything wrong, Lu Jiamu had to pretend that he didn't notice anything unusual: "I'll go to the front and do the math."
Batty nodded: "Okay."
Lu Jiamu walked to the podium, but the admissions teacher didn't seem to notice him and didn't try to stop him.
As he approached, two strange lumps of flesh stared at him with their messy eyes, showing great aggressiveness, trying to grab him with their claws and teeth, and pull him into them.
Lu Jiamu's figure suddenly became ethereal, and his arms grabbed nothing.
Lu Jiamu held up his glasses, pinched his chin and leaned closer to take a closer look.
After being kneaded by the admissions teacher, these creatures have been upgraded into sticky monsters, chaotically deformed together. Some have only one eye, while others have three. The number of arms and legs grows at will.
With these, it is impossible to count how many monsters there are.
However, when the teacher pulled the monsters out just now, Lu Jiamu clearly saw that each monster had only one spine.
He immediately felt along the spine to count them, and slowly figured out that there were eight monsters in the first group and ten in the second group.
Lu Jiamu came back and said to Batty: "18."
Batty got the answer and breathed a sigh of relief: "18!"
"Correct answer." The recruiter nodded, "It seems that your basic math skills are pretty good."
After testing the arithmetic problems, the admissions teacher stuffed the two monsters back under the podium and then turned around to write letters on the blackboard.
Lu Jiamu watched from below and taught Batti to read the letters.
The admissions teacher didn't seem to notice that someone was passing the answers to Batti. When he saw that Batti recognized all the letters, he was very satisfied and announced that she was qualified for admission and could attend classes here.
On other seats in the classroom, the blurry shadows seen outside the school appeared. They were probably Batty's classmates.
The recruiting teacher stopped asking questions and turned to scribble on the blackboard, probably starting to teach.
Fearing that another accident might happen here, Lu Jiamu stayed with Batti and did not leave at noon.
They waited until school was over in the afternoon before leaving the campus and waiting for the housekeeper to drive them back.
After returning to the manor, Lu Jiamu learned from other people that the number of rats in the cold storage had increased again when they were preparing lunch at noon today.
Luckily the dogs in the manor don't eat lunch, and Batty was not there at noon today, so they were able to get away with it.
As for dinner, they had to prepare it in advance and quickly.
The only remaining personal servant went upstairs and changed clothes for Batty's dolls. Then the group arrived at the door of the cold storage.
The chef girl took a deep breath, took out the key and unlocked the door, and several people immediately rushed into the cold storage to chop the pork.
Wang Biao was holding a kitchen knife and patrolling at a distance from them. After a while, he heard the sound of fighting coming from his direction.
Another rat appeared.
Just as the sound of fighting showed signs of subsiding, the sound of running was heard again.
The cook girl was about to cry while chopping the meat: "Rats... there are more rats..."
It doesn't matter how fast they prepare the ingredients if they don't make sure they catch every mouse.
To prevent Kou Man, the most powerful among them, from being affected, Lu Jiamu immediately said, "He can't handle it alone. You guys continue first, I'll go help him."
The other few people said "OK", and Lu Jiamu took the kitchen knife and left the meat, and started to inspect the cold storage along the other side.
He soon saw a "person" with his back to him, eating something with a shaking mouth, and rushed over immediately.
After the rat was killed, a new rat soon appeared nearby.
This cold storage is like a whack-a-mole machine, with mice appearing continuously.
Lu Jiamu and Wang Biao met each other soon, and after a brief exchange, they ran in different directions.
After they killed several more rats, they shouted, "That's it!"
Several people hurriedly loaded the food onto the cart and ran out like crazy, as if they were robbing money. Lu Jiamu and Wang Biao also gave up catching mice and followed.
When they got outside, the cook girl saw that because no one was catching mice, the monster appeared inside again when she was about to lock the door, and was gnawing on meat with its back to them.
She paused as she was about to lock the door: "If...if we leave them in there, will they eat all the meat in the cold storage?"
Lu Jiamu pointed at the door lock and signaled her to lock the door quickly: "No, they will disappear as soon as we leave."
The chef girl also thought that if there was someone inside, mice would be born, but if one wanted to catch the mice that had already been born, someone had to be inside.
There was no point in hesitating any longer, so she quickly locked the door, then put her ear to the door anxiously, trying to discern if there was any unusual movement inside.
But she couldn't hear anything through the thick door, and she had no courage to open the door.
Several people returned to the villa and set up dinner for the employer's family as before, serving the dishes in order. After the employer's family finished eating, they fed the dog, and then changed Batty's favorite dolls' clothes into home clothes before nightfall, and returned to their own room.
With one person missing today, the number of rats in the cold storage increased, making them even more exhausted.
Before the clock struck nine, there was a knock on the door again.
Lu Jiamu took out his pocket watch and took a look. It was only half past eight.
Is this the night shift maid coming early?
But outside the door, a childish voice whispered, "Lu, it's me."
Batty.
Lu Jiamu immediately jumped off the bed and looked out through the peephole.
When he saw that he could directly see the door of the room opposite, he put a big smile on his face and reached out to open the door: "Barty? Why are you here?"
"Mom is asleep." Batty was holding his doll, standing outside the door nervously, "Lu, I'm scared. I sneaked down to find you."
Lu Jiamu immediately made way for her to come in: "What are you afraid of?"
He took the opportunity to take a closer look at the doll in Batty's arms.
It was an extremely ugly porcelain doll, completely different in style from the exquisite and lifelike articulated dolls in the doll room. No one knew what she was doing with such an ugly doll in her arms.
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