Chapter 124: A Strange Disappearance
There are two buildings in the manor, of which the middle of the manor is also the highest and largest house where the earl's family lives, the house has three floors, the third floor is the guest room, responsible for the earl's guests, the second floor is the place where the earl's family and the old housekeeper live, the first floor is the living room, the space is very large, there are three rooms in the corner on the right, there is a group of maids who are usually responsible for taking care of the earl's family's food and daily life, as for the back of the earl's house there is a smaller house, a total of two floors, the first floor lives the earl's guards, and the second floor is inhabited by ordinary male servants and some long-term laborers.
But, no matter where they are, the two houses have one thing in common, and that is that all the rooms have a varying number of mirrors!
Getting back to the point, this is worthy of being the earl's residence, the service is very good, and the maids are still sent over during dinner as at noon, so when the reincarnations finished dinner, Earl Houghton passed a word to Zheng Xuan through the maid.
On the first day of the paranormal mission, Olivia Manor, at 21.11 at night, because the Earl had canceled the night cleaning, the maids all fell asleep at this time.
When the sky is just dark, the inside of the manor and the living room on the first floor have lit candles, so after dinner, when it is completely dark, the living room on the first floor is very bright, but some people will definitely think that the candles are more than they are so bright, but unfortunately, although the living room is large, it only lights a candle in different directions, that is, a total of 5 candles, 5 candles can illuminate the living room with a large space very brightly? Yes, because the credit is for the mirrors around the walls, which reflect the light and double the light, which explains why there are so many mirrors in the estate.
On the left side of the living room, beside the fireplace that was burning coals, there were four people staying there at this time, Earl Horton was sitting on the maple chair on the right side of the fireplace, and the old butler Alpha was standing behind him, of course, sitting opposite him was the princess of the Qing Kingdom who was invited by him, and behind him stood He Fei, who played the princess's servant.
Under the reflection of the firelight, Earl Houghton's face was a little ugly, but he still continued, "Your Royal Highness, you just asked me why there are so many mirrors in the manor, it is because of my father, when my father was still alive, he accidentally discovered that the mirror can magnify the flame of a candle several times, so more than ten years ago, this manor was full of mirrors under my father's order, not to mention, since it was full of mirrors, At night, just a few candles are needed to illuminate the entire room as bright as daytime. ”
After talking about the mirror's past, the earl said again, "By the way, this time I invited the princess and her party here, in fact, I want to ask you to help me solve a problem. ”
"What's the trouble, Earl, but it doesn't matter."
Hearing Zheng Xuan's answer, Earl Houghton nodded, and then continued, "Here's the thing, for some reason recently, there have been frequent disappearances of people in my manor for no reason. ”
Hearing that the earl began to talk about the main point, both Zheng Xuan and He Fei immediately listened with their ears pricked up.
"It all started last week, when my family went to sleep in the bedroom on the second floor at night, my wife and I lived in one with my son and daughter, so after our family rested, as is customary, a maid named Morsa began to clean and wipe the mirror on the first floor as usual, but just as I was sleeping in a daze, suddenly a woman's scream came to my ears, and I was startled. So I hurriedly took the candle and ran to the first floor with the housekeeper Alpha who lived next door to check, but what puzzled us was... When we went down, there was no one on the first floor, and the maid named Morsa was gone, except for a puddle of water and an overturned barrel and a rag on the ground. ”
Speaking of this, Zheng Xuan and He Fei noticed that Earl Houghton's face began to turn a little pale, he first glanced at Zheng Xuan, and then continued, "That incident made me incomprehensible and felt a little incredible, because since then Morscha has completely disappeared from this manor, neither my other servants nor my guards have ever seen her again, but if it was just the disappearance of a maid, it would not make me panic so much, because the day after Morsa's disappearance, Another maid who replaced Morsa and cleaned the living room at night also disappeared once, also after letting out a scream. ”
Speaking of this, Earl Houghton paused and turned his head to look at the old butler Alpha behind him, and then the Earl turned his head again and said, "The disappearance of two people in a row caused a lot of discussion in the whole manor, and many maids began to be afraid, so in order not to prevent this kind of thing from happening, I canceled the work of cleaning the living room at night, but I never expected... Even if I cancel that job, there are still people who disappear mysteriously at night, sometimes the maid who lives on the first floor, sometimes the guard or the manservant who lives in the back building, they all let out a scream before they disappear, and even my favorite horse disappeared after a scream three days ago! ”
"There are about 50 people living in this manor, including more than ten guards and more than ten long-term workers, and the rest are maids and some servants, in just one week, nine people disappeared from my manor, and all of them were alive and dead, which made the rest of the remaining people begin to feel infinite panic, so rumors of haunting in the manor have spread, and even some servants have fled my manor out of fear, in order to stabilize people's hearts, I told my butler, Alpha, to go to the church in the city and invite a bishop to come to my manor for an exorcism, but to my great horror, the day after the bishop performed the exorcism, people were still missing from the manor! ”
"So the people in the manor are completely panicked, more and more servants are fleeing, and even some of my guards have joined the ranks of fleeing, but taking a step back, if they can really escape from here and save their lives, I will be happy for them, after all, I am a benevolent earl..."
And then something even more terrible happened, just three days ago... I was very relieved that the guards and servants who had fled the manor out of fear had reappeared in the manor that night, and at first I thought that they had been loyal and I could not bear to abandon me as a master, but after asking, I learned that they were all encountering a strange and heavy fog not long after they escaped from the manor, but when they came out of the fog, they were horrified to find that they had reappeared in the manor! ”
Over the next two days, many people tried to escape, but in the end, they all failed, and they all ended up returning to the manor, and what was even more desperate... Strange disappearances happen every day... My servants and I were desperate, I prayed for God's forgiveness, let the devil punish me if I did anything wrong, please don't bother my innocent wife and children and poor servants, but unfortunately my prayers were to no avail, people still disappeared every day in the manor, sometimes one person a day, sometimes two people a day... As of today, more than 20 people have disappeared from my manor in nearly two weeks, although everyone is still loyal to me and did not hurt me and my family out of desperation, but I know that it is because they can't escape, but this is not the point, the more important reason is that they expect that the invitation telegram I sent can smoothly invite the princess who is traveling in England, and then solve our predicament, so now your Royal Highness the princess is the last hope of our entire Olivia estate, If you can't save us, then my family and all the guards and servants will be gone.
After saying all this, Earl Houghton's expression was a little decadent as if he had aged ten years in an instant, and his face became more and more pale, but the next moment, He Fei, who was standing behind Zheng Xuan, suddenly glared, and at the same time pointed at Earl Houghton and said angrily, "Your Excellency, Earl!" I didn't expect you to be such a selfish person, you knew that the whole manor could not get in and out, but you still did it, did you know that you would also put our princess in danger by doing this! ”
He Fei's words are purely superfluous, because the goal of the mission is to arrange for their group of reincarnators to live here, but after all, what should be performed is still to perform, and judging from Zheng Xuan's current identity, he, who plays a servant, can only pretend to be angry and say this sentence on this occasion.
Hearing the words of the very angry servant behind the princess, Earl Horton didn't look angry at all, because he knew that he was at a loss, and he did let the princess of Qingguo and her servants get involved, so then Earl Horton first stood up from his seat and bowed to Zheng Xuan, as if he was sorry for the invitation, and then he begged in a solemn tone, "I hope Her Royal Highness the princess can save me, my family, and those poor servants." ”
After Earl Houghton's words were finished, Zheng Xuan, who had been silent for a long time, frowned, and then opened his mouth and asked, "Although you keep asking me to save you, I feel very strange, although I am a princess, I am not a clergyman, even if it is not my turn, right?" ”
Unexpectedly, as soon as Zheng Xuan's words fell, Earl Houghton immediately retorted: "Since that pretending bishop to perform the so-called exorcism ritual and it was invalid, I don't believe in that group of gods in the church anymore, so Your Royal Highness Princess, don't lie to me, although I am an earl who does not hold real power, I am a noble and noble nobleman after all, Queen Elizabeth's husband, Prince Solbay, is my elder brother, and my nephew also works in the intelligence department of the Royal Navy, As early as 10 days ago, when I learned that a princess of the Qing Kingdom from the East was going to travel to Europe by ship, the Intelligence Service had collected information about you, and it happened that strange things happened at my manor around that time, so I asked my nephew, who worked in the Naval Intelligence Service, for some relatively detailed information about Her Royal Highness by telegram. ”
"I won't talk about the other information, I will only talk about the main point, that is, Princess Aixin Jueluo Zheng Xuan was 15 years old and went to Xiangxi with your father Jing Wangye for disaster relief, but on the way the princess was unwell and suddenly fell ill, but was rescued by a passing Taoist, your father thought that you had a relationship with the Taoist, so he let you worship the Taoist priest who saved you... That is, the disciple of Mao Daochang, the nineteenth generation head of the Heavenly Dao Sect, and followed Mao Daochang to practice for two years, and after two years, you returned to your father's side, princess. ”
After saying this string of messages, Earl Houghton's expression began to gradually improve, and then continued: "Although I am a Christian, I have a lot of admiration for the mysterious Oriental Taoism, and I have long admired the famous Mao Daoist in the East, since Her Royal Highness the Princess is his disciple, then he must also be a capable person, so when I learned that Her Royal Highness the Princess and her entourage came to England, I will send an invitation telegram to the princess in despair, hoping that you can come and save the remaining more than 20 lives of our manor." ”
After Earl Houghton's words were finished, Zheng Xuan and He Fei on the opposite side had already fallen into a stunned stupor...
I never expected it! The mission not only arranged the identity of a princess for Zheng Xuan, but also arranged along with her past life experience! At this moment, in addition to shocking the vast supernatural power of the cursed space, He Fei caused a little creepy speculation!!
(Could it be that ...) This manor is not a limited dungeon space, and the humans here are not NPCs created by the cursed space, but the world in which this manor is located is a real world? And the human beings inside are also real, if you can get out of the manor, will you find that the outside still has the same country, sea, and nation as in the real world... Or maybe there is really a China on the other side of the ocean! As for Zheng Xuan, the princess is indeed a person, but she was impersonated by Zheng Xuan for a period of time during the mission, and if this world is indeed real, then perhaps the only thing that this world is different from the real world may be that the time point of this world is different from the real world. )
Thinking of this, He Fei was horrified to find that he didn't expect that he had just obtained so much information through what Earl Holden said, but after careful consideration, he understood that it was because he had carefully analyzed and reasoned about this matter in his private room before, and with the previous foreshadowing, he would get so much information at this moment.
But after all, it is the mission period now, so this kind of speculation will be talked about later, so after getting through the shock just now, He Fei and Zheng Xuan came back to their senses.
After coming back to her senses, Zheng Xuan Zheng Xuan frowned, she didn't expect the mission to arrange such a dramatic background for her, so when Earl Houghton finished saying the previous words, Zheng Xuan could only nod stubbornly, admitting that what the Count said was true.
After seeing the princess of Qingguo on the other side admit what he said, Earl Houghton said with some excitement in the next moment: "So I beg Her Royal Highness the princess to save us!" ”
However... Just as Earl Houghton had finished saying that, suddenly! An extremely terrifying scream suddenly came from a room on the right side of the hall, and then it instantly filled the entire living room!!
"Ahh!!h
To be continued....