"Someone who hanged himself?" Mu Lan frowned, looking at the clothes, it should be the housekeeper or waiter here, who has been dead for a long time.

Ah Feng leaned over to examine the corpse, while Mu Lan looked at the ledger on the table, the tadpole-like letters were clearly not English, French, Latin, or any Western script she knew, but she could read it, she had never learned this language.

Mu Lan flipped through the account book, the contents were all about the purchase of life supplies in Fort Hill, reading these words was as natural as reading her native language, and the language of this world existed in her brain like an instinct that she was born with.

Is it the magic of the reincarnation world again?

When she opened the drawer, she found a dark green notebook, which she flipped through at random, full of running accounts and daily chores, such as the salon of the Sassanid Lady on Wednesdays, the membership fee of the Alchemy Society for the following year, the purchase of some meat from the castle, and so on......

She leaned back on the table, looking for a comfortable position and looking at the records that were getting fewer and fewer backwards until a sentence caught her attention.

"Hillsburg is starting to have people go missing."

It was obviously different from the previous essay-like writing, and Mu Lan continued to read it after holding back her excitement.

Foggy 8th: After the death of the Lady, the Earl becomes irritable... He went out day and night, and his attitude towards the servants became worse and worse, and today he was only reminded of old Barry's dinner, and he called me a fool and kicked me.....

Foggy Moon 22: Two more servants are missing! The people in Hillburg were panicked, and the count's face was getting more and more gloomy, and I was a little afraid of him......

Foggy 25th: Rumors circulate in the manor that the missing servants have been killed by the Earl... I stopped those broken-mouthed bastards... However, I have some doubts in my heart...

Foggy Moon 28: What is the Earl doing in his room? Oh my God, I heard someone screaming there, it was horrible!

Foggy 30th: The Earl told me to buy more slaves, and I don't know how I got out of the room... My legs were shaking, my lenses were shaking, were those servants really killed by Lord Earl, he mentioned my son, little John who went to the housekeeper's school, oh! The Earl is threatening me!

Five of the Blood Moon: The Earl must have sold his soul to the devil! I don't dare look at him directly! He would cry and laugh, and he would say that he was about to succeed, and he was almost successful! He keeps repeating it!

7th of Blood Moon: Silburg is like a man-eating monster, there are fewer and fewer people in the manor, the smell of blood makes me sick, and I even see crows standing on the vault!

Blood Moon 13: Am I going to die? I already know the Count's secret, God, it's terrible! I don't want to die yet, what about John? He mentioned John again, and he gave me a sum of money that would be enough for our family to buy a piece of land, what should I do? Damn it.. I can't run away at all!

15th of the Blood Moon: The Earl says he needs seven living men, and when the ritual is complete, his wife, our mistress Lady Winriti, will return......

I'm helping the devil do it, God! Forgive me! I'm guilty......

"Mission Item: "The Diary of Lyon the Butler."

A hint flashed in his mind, and Mu Lan's face gradually became solemn, is there a murderous count in the castle? Since "The Diary of the Butler Leon" is reminded that it is a mission item, the authenticity is very high, and the Count needs seven fresh people, which happens to correspond to the number of people on the mission, and the extra person is very likely to be the Count himself.

The Count is hidden among these people! After determining this clue, Mu Lan was really scared for a while, this murderer was hiding in the team, we communicated with him, discussed problems with him, and even spent the night with him in the castle hall! All our thoughts are exposed, and perhaps this bloodthirsty monster hiding in the shadows is still laughing at their ignorance and fearlessness.

"What did you find?" When Ah Feng came out, he saw Mu Lan holding a notebook, and his face was very bad.

Mu Lan hesitated and handed the diary to Ah Feng, she actually wanted to hide the information while he was not paying attention, but the task prompt appeared, she didn't know if the other people had received the prompt, so in order not to increase her suspicion, she had to show him generously.

"Butler Leon's diary?" Ah Feng muttered.

Sure enough, she would receive a prompt when she touched the task item, Mu Lan regretted it a little, but she didn't show it, she asked Xiang Afeng, "What do you think?" ”

"This ritual requires seven people...... Ah Feng also found the point, he looked at Mu Lan, and there was guard in his eyes, "Then theoretically, everyone is suspicious." ”

"Well, there are eight of us, the extra ......" Mu Lan was interrupted by shouts outside before she could finish speaking.

"Come on!" A sharp shout was Zhao Mengqi's voice, Mu Lan hurriedly returned to the corridor, she looked at the position on the second floor below, Zhao Mengqi grabbed the railing and shouted loudly.

"Oh no! Junhang: He's gone! ”

"Come and help!"

After a while, the two groups of people upstairs gathered on the second floor, Zhao Mengqi looked anxious, and said to everyone: "Just now we were searching for a study, it was too dark inside for me to dare to go inside, so he asked me to wait outside, and then, after a while, he didn't move!" ”

"Missing?" Lu Tianming wondered.

"Yes! I called him a lot, but he didn't reply to me, I didn't dare to go in, so I could only call you! ”

"Let's go! Take us to that room! Lu Tianming didn't ask much, let Zhao Mengqi lead the way, and the five of them came to the library.

The library is very wide, the brown log bookshelves are placed in seven or eight rows, on which all kinds of books are densely listed, and the room where the housekeeper hanged himself before, this library has also closed the curtains, the light is very dim, and the farthest rows of bookshelves can only faintly see the outline, Zhao Mengqi pointed inside: "This is it!" He passed by himself, I stayed outside, and in a moment he was gone! ”

Disappeared in place? Mu Lan took a book at random, with an outline of alchemy written on the cover, and took a few other books, namely "Runes and Witchcraft Imprints", "Primary Spells", and "Elemental System Encyclopedia", this library is different from what she imagined, it turned out to be mostly occult and witchcraft, alchemy, etc., she remembered that "Alchemy Society" and membership fees were mentioned in "The Diary of Steward Leon", is the Count a member of the Alchemy Society?

Yesterday's night of horror chased by skeleton monsters obviously proved that this is a mysterious world with supernatural powers or magic, and it is not surprising that the count is an alchemist or wizard, so then the question also arises, why should a wizard count with mysterious powers sit on the home field, why should he mix among several of us? The wizards in Mu Lan's impression are the kind of people in Western magic novels who can wave their canes and reach thousands of troops, and if they have powerful witchcraft, this count can easily kill everyone on the first day.

The train of thought was a little divergent, Mu Lan turned her thoughts back to reality, at this time Lu Tianming and Ah Feng were both holding kerosene lamps and walking towards the depths of the library, the light of the kerosene lamp illuminated the space over there, and several people whispered.

"Is it true that the person is gone?" It was Xu Min who spoke, she followed Lu Tianming closely, and she couldn't wait to put the whole person on it, this woman trusted Lu Tianming very much from the beginning, I don't know what her reaction would be when she knew that everyone was suspicious.

After several people confirmed that there was no danger in the study, they searched inside and out, although this library was large, it was not a situation where everyone was at a loss to stand a big living person.

"Could it have been out already?" Lu Tianming asked Zhao Mengqi.

Zhao Mengqi hurriedly shook his head: "Before I went to look for you, I called him outside for a long time, and I didn't reply before I went to look for you!" ”

"That's weird, can you still disappear out of thin air?"

Several people were helpless, Mu Lan's attention was still on the book, she held the "Alchemy Compendium" that she got at the beginning, although the text in it could be understood, but it was full of too many words and symbols that she didn't know, scrutinizing the content was like a business administration student reading programming-related professional books, this book is like an induction and introduction to alchemy, for example, the first article is to explain what alchemy is, she can't help but feel strange, will an alchemist read this kind of beginner book?

"It smells of blood!" Ah Feng said suddenly.

The five people all looked at him, Ah Feng didn't explain much, he leaned down and groped the ground, hunched over like a hound.

This situation was really unusual, and several people looked at his movements strangely, and they didn't bother when they saw that he was serious.

Ah Feng stopped at the corner of the last row of bookshelves, he bent down and wiped his fingers on the ground, sniffed at the tip of his nose, and said, "It's blood!" ”

Mu Lan followed, looked down, and sure enough, there was a drop of blood.

Ah Feng continued to sniff in one direction, and for a moment, he pointed to the ground: "There are also here!" ”

Mu Lan noticed that these blood droplets roughly pointed out a direction towards the wall, she walked over and knocked on the wall, the sound was very muffled, unlike the sound of a normal wall, there must be space behind the wall.

"This wall is empty!" Mu Lan beckoned everyone over.

Ah Feng listened along the wall, stopped at a round gilt frame, and then opened the mirror, and Mu Lan saw a copper disc embedded in the wall, and in the center of the disc was a half-exposed spherical button-like object.

Is it a secret room? Mu Lan pressed it after asking for everyone's consent, and then there was a clattering sound of mechanical rotation, and a secret door on the wall opened, and it was pitch black inside, and only a passage could be seen leading to the depths, and the cold air seeped out, and everyone shivered.

Mu Lan hesitated for a moment, didn't dare to take the lead, Lu Tianming threw a book inside, and found that there was no mechanism or anything like that, but no one dared to go in first, Ah Feng saw this and carried a kerosene lamp directly into it.

The secret room is not big, only fifty or sixty square meters, there are several wooden boxes stacked on the ground, there are two large metal crucibles on the table in the middle, and there are all kinds of bottles and cans and dried plants, these bottles contain black or white powder, Mu Lan picked up a glass container, and there were fine white powders precipitated in the liquid inside, these things reminded her of high school chemistry class, and the chemistry teacher always gave them some interesting little experiments.

This is like the Count's alchemy laboratory, which should be the place where the owner of the castle studied alchemy, and many modern chemistry is born from medieval alchemy, and many elements and chemical phenomena have been found in the hands of gold-obsessed alchemists, so it is not surprising that these furnishings are located.

Ah Feng took the kerosene lamp and stretched it to the ground, there was a pool of blood on the floor, the blood had not dried up, and Ah Feng walked to a large wooden box and stood in front of the direction of the blood.

Lu Tianming and Ah Feng opened the wooden box together, the kerosene lamp approached, and then they saw a terrifying scene, Zhao Mengqi and Xu Min screamed, Lu Tianming was also so frightened that he retreated, after Mu Lan saw the thing clearly, he forced himself to stand firm, but his hand still couldn't stop shaking, the fire was full of shadows, and the shadows of several people were distorted, adding a bit of weirdness to the small secret room.

It was barely a person in the box, the entire school uniform turned red under the blood soaking, An Junhang seemed to be forcibly stuffed into the box, his limbs were awkward like a ragdoll stuffed into a box at random, his chest was hollow, as if it had been hollowed out, his eyes and mouth were wide open, and he had a shocked look before he died.