In the dark, two men wearing smiling masks stared at a small wooden box in unison, close together, speechless for a while, like a pantomime suddenly pressed the pause button, how funny this scene looked.

Yu Xing also didn't expect that he had no hope of finding the lighting tool, but suddenly found an unexpected object in the last cabinet.

He held the small wooden box in his hand, looked at it for a moment by the near-absent light, and scratched his fingers across it.

There was no pattern on the small wooden box at all, it was bare, and if it wasn't for the wrong place, it would be difficult for people to notice at all.

There was a lock hanging on the box, which was locked, and Yu Xing found that there was no matching key in the drawer of the small wooden box.

Zeng Lai's head got closer and closer, and he almost stuck to the box, and he asked, "What is this?" ”

Weighing the weight with his hand, there was a slight collision sound in the box, Yu Xing shook his head: "I don't know, why don't you smash it open?" ”

Zeng Lai: "Good guy, smash him!" ”

Yu Xing pinched the two walls of the small box with his fingers, feeling that the hardness of the box was average, and he could crush it with a grip that exceeded the strength of ordinary people.

However, just as he really tried his best, there was a ghostly light on the box, and a deduction prompt sounded.

[The box seems to have been left with a special mark, which cannot be opened without a key and cannot be destroyed.] 】

[Darkly, you have a feeling that the key seems to be at the end of this hallway.] 】

"It's a prop box." Yu Xing was a little convinced when he saw the deduction prompt, and even gave the hint of the key, indicating that the deduction system wanted them to open it.

Unfortunately, they didn't find the lighting and couldn't immediately go down the hallway to get the key.

He told Zeng Lai the hint, and Zeng Lai nodded: "Well, then we at least have a goal now, so let's take the box back to the room and hide it, although we are not sure that it must be a prop, at least it will be a powerful thing, and it can't be snatched away by the depravity line." ”

"That's what I thought too." Yu Xing smiled slightly, the unexpected gain made him feel good.

Tick.

Suddenly, a drop of water fell at Yu Xing's feet and shattered into countless pieces.

His hearing was already sensitive, but after his promotion, it was strengthened by the system, and even such a small sound could not escape his ears.

Zeng Lai naturally heard it, and he asked softly: "How can there be dripping water here?" ”

When the words fell, another drop of water wiped Yu Xing's mask and fell on his clothes, Yu Xing's eyes suddenly became interested, and he looked up.

Before, they were looking at the corridors and the walls, but they forgot to look overhead.

In the dim and dim environment, the ceiling is really a place that is easy to ignore, and at this moment, as soon as Yu Xing raised his head, another drop of water dripped straight into the eye hole of his mask, and he seemed to feel something, and took a step back to avoid it.

At the same time, he could barely see the scene on the ceiling.

The ceiling, which seems to have been soaked by time, is covered with thick marks, and in the center, a blood-colored circle with a diameter of more than one meter is actually painted!

The appearance of the blood array was strange, the lines were clear and complete, and just one glance reminded Yu Xing of some kind of demonic culture in Europe, it was like a summoning array, and it seemed like it was going to sacrifice something, and the evil aura that came to his face made him squint.

The blood array should have dried up, but it became wet in just half a minute when Yu Xing stood directly below, and the blood-colored lines in it seemed to be wriggling, slowly coming back to life.

What was dripping down just now was not water, but blood!

[You found the "Abyss Blood Array", because the array is not activated, the ghost notification will not be updated]

[Hint, the Abyss Blood Array is waking up, please stay away as soon as possible]

"My day, let's go." Zeng Lai pulled Yu Xing, "According to my experience, this should be a sensor-type ghost array, and it won't be triggered if no one is nearby, and we will stand within its sensing range!" Or, maybe it's guarding the box, and we take the box and it wakes up, and it's ...... soon."

"Oh." Yu Xing didn't need him to pull, and when he heard Zeng Lai say this, he immediately ran towards the stairs, and after a swish, there was no shadow, running faster than a rabbit.

Zeng Lai: "......" good guy!

He closed his mouth and chased after Yu Xing, and the two quickly returned to the third floor fork.

After they left, the blood, which had already shown signs of melting, dried up again, and the blood swirled for a while, and finally fell silent.

……

"You're pretty fast, and you've strengthened your physique with points...... ......"

Zeng Lai finally caught up with Yu Xing, and wanted to sigh, but saw Yu Xing with his hands on his knees, panting.

This is too tired, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a person who has strengthened the system, and if the panting sound is a little louder, Zeng Lai will suspect that this person will soon be out of breath and faint.

He scratched his hair, the corners of his eyes twitching: "When I didn't say it." ”

This physique is weaker than ordinary people, but fortunately, is there a disease in reality?

Without offense, he was referring to a physical illness, such as heart disease or cancer.

Both of these can be healed with points, but many Interpreters have just been promoted to the Differentiation Level, and they exchange the points for props to comfort their young minds who have stumbled and died before being promoted.

Maybe it's the same luck, so I didn't have time to heal the disease? Terminal illness and incurable disease require a lot of points, so it's delayed...... Zeng Lai thought.

Yu Xing didn't know that Zeng Lai had guessed nine bends and eighteen turns in his heart, he just wanted to run the range of the blood formation, so as not to be injured and expose his ability.

His current speed is okay, and his explosive power is enough, but his physical strength can't keep up at all, and he has to rest for a while after running for a while, otherwise he will be dizzy and depressed. When this deduction is over, his wishlist conditions will be gathered, and it will be much easier to act after that.

After gasping for a moment in Zeng Lai's undisguised concern for the disabled, Yu Xing straightened up and walked along the corridor with Zeng Lai to the fork in the main corridor.

There was a clasp on the small wooden box, which he carried easily, and the contents made a dull sound.

The two of them stayed on the fifth floor for more than ten minutes, at which time Huai and Huangbai came out of the bathroom after probing, while the remaining four deductioners were nowhere to be found.

Zeng Lai glanced back at Huai and Desolate Bai who came out of the fork on the other side, and whispered to Yu Xing: "Go back to the room first and hide the box." ”

"Hiding in my room?" A hint of amusement flashed in the corner of Yu Xing's eyes, he thought that such an important thing, Zeng Lai would say that it was not safe to put him here, so he kept it on his behalf.

After all, the box that the two of them found together did not belong to him entirely, and Zeng Lai had a good reason if he wanted to take it.

"Just let you go, I'm afraid that if you let me go, I'll give me Huo Huo again, Ren Yi's kid scolds me every day because I'm not calm enough." Zeng Lai pursed his lips a little depressedly, and then realized that Yu Xing couldn't see the expression under the mask, couldn't feel his complaints, and restrained himself boringly.

The two of them muttered, and their steps were very fast, and Huai in the back only vaguely saw that they were holding something in their hands, and their vision was blocked by the curved wall.

"Huai~ They seem to have found something good." Whiteness jumped to Huai's side with his hands behind his back, "Do you want to negotiate?" I heard that the gambler's reputation is not bad, and his character is quite good, so he should be able to be trusted, right? We can talk to them about exchanging information! ”

Huai felt a little headache for this overly lively girl: "I have considered what you said, needless to say that it is so loud, it will be ...... when it is heard by someone who cares"

"I was wrong~" Huai didn't finish educating Huang Bai and obediently admitted his mistake, so that Huai's second half of the words were directly stuck.

It was the first time he had seen the white, and it was certain that this woman definitely had two brushes, and she was not harmless to humans and animals on the surface.

But so far she has not done anything out of the ordinary, and there is no objection to his command, and from the perspective of "teammates", she is undoubtedly qualified.

Thinking of this, Huai didn't say much, but said: "...... Okay, let's see if we can get in touch with them at dinner. From what I know about the gambler, he and Xing should have gone to the fifth floor, and they came down so quickly, it is likely that there is an obstacle on the fifth floor, and they can't find much far, so now let's go to the second floor to have a look. ”

……

Dinner was served at half past six, and fortunately they came and went, and it was at least five o'clock when they walked to the observation deck, and the bright lights in the open-air kitchen on the second floor obscured the light of the observation deck a lot.

After the two of them realized that neither Huai and Huangbai nor the things in the blood array on the fifth floor had kept up, their steps slowed down a lot, and at this time, they still had the leisure to step on the crystal observation deck and look down.

From this vantage point, they can see the kitchen in its entirety.

The style of the kitchen is the familiar steampunk style of Yu Xing, the main color is red and white, refrigerator, stove, soup pot, basin for ingredients, knife holder, spice rack, in short, everything that can be seen in the kitchen, there is no shortage here.

Sure enough, Alice still likes this style, very kindly.

Two fat humans in white chef's suits were stirring in a pot of soup with giant spoons, the gears on the pot were spinning rapidly, the soup was steaming, and a smell wafted straight into the noses of Yu Xing and Zeng Lai.

There was also a chef of the same size, holding a plate of vegetables in his fleshy hands, and walking his meat leg to the chopping board.

"Damn, what the hell is this a chef?"

Zeng Lai was not confused by the fragrance, he looked at these chefs who were covered with fat and couldn't cover them, and lowered his voice to ask questions.

Because the chefs are so different from normal people.

The chefs' tall hats were placed on their heads, which were one size larger than normal humans, and their expressions seemed to be enjoying the cooking, and they were smiling happily, and their eyes were almost gone.

This is the first employee of the castle with expressions that Yu Xing has seen so far, but just by looking at their appearance, they are not as normal as the nun guide and the old housekeeper.

When the heat rises, a range hood is working, with a unique mechanical sound, boom, and the movement is quite loud, and the kitchen seems to be lively.

The smoke subsided slightly, Yu Xing saw the faces of the cooks clearly, the three of them looked exactly the same, and the kitchen and the observation deck were very close, he could deduce that these cooks were probably a little shorter than ordinary men, but the horizontal area was larger, and the meat was piled with meat, definitely more than three hundred catties, and the whole person was in an extremely deformed state.

The chefs didn't look up, they didn't notice the two tourists who were watching the excitement from the crystal, they were just happily cooking. They didn't talk to each other, but they cooperated tacitly and cooked efficiently, Zeng Lai was a little shocked: "They are like fat guests in Spirited Away." ”

Yu Xing was silent for a moment and corrected: "It's more like a chef in a little nightmare." ”

Little Nightmare is a horror game released in reality, and it was also very famous, Yu Xing bought it to play, and the game experience was okay, so the memory is still fresh.

In his opinion, the three chefs in Alice's castle are eight points similar in appearance to the chefs in that game, and they look like monsters.

"Can we eat the food they cook, if we don't eat it, we will become like them." Zeng Lai had a chill, he didn't have the frame of a star deducer at all, and patted Yu Xing's shoulder, "Isn't there always such a routine in horror movies, the more you eat the food, the more hungry you get, the more hungry you eat, and finally you become a livestock or monster who only knows how to eat, tsk, will you eat dinner later?" ”

"If you look at the ingredients they use, you can actually see that they are fresh normal vegetables, and there is meat over there—" Yu Xing pointed to the meat rack on the other side, and could see the cattle, sheep and pigs that had just been slaughtered, and the origin of the meat was open and transparent.

The ingredients are very healthy, at least there is no need to worry about eating certain things that humans can't eat.

He glanced at Zeng Lai: "The seniors should know the answer to the question they asked, right?" ”

"Hey, I wanted to test your level, but you saw through it." Zeng Lai shrugged, "That's right, the food should be edible, because the main theme of this deduction is not greed and gluttony, if you want to talk about the pit, you can't pit the food, otherwise we won't put the kitchen in front of us." ”

After watching the cooking process of the fat chefs for a while, Yu Xing lost interest and pulled Zeng Lai back to the room.

The room Alice had assigned to them had handles inside and out, and they could be locked with a twist button from the inside, but there was no key. That is, anyone can enter someone else's room when there is no one in the room.

It's not safe at all when you think about it.

Zeng Lai first followed Yu Xing into Yu Xing's bedroom, watched Yu Xing put the box on the bottom of the bookshelf in the room, covered it with books, and then looked at the time.

At five forty-eight, time passed slightly faster than they perceived.

"Forty minutes to eat, shall we go to the first floor again?" Yu Xing asked.

There were four stairs in the hall on the first floor, and they had only walked through one, so if they went in advance, they might be able to get a rough idea of where the other three roads lead.

"Okay, take a five-minute break and go." Zeng Lai said, "I'll go back to my room, and I'll call you in five minutes." ”

Yu Xing nodded and replied, "Okay." ”

Zeng Lai walked out and helped close the door, and suddenly, Yu Xing was the only one left in the bedroom.

He took off his mask and let out a long sigh of relief, lamenting once again that the mask was stuffy.

The dagger on his waist moved at this time, and Yiqing, who had watched all the way, appeared in the air and mocked politely: "Frail and sickly, too weak." ”

“…… It will be fine soon. Yu Xing glanced at him, and felt that Yiqing, who had seen several ghosts and the chef of the ancient castle, was in a good mood, so he took the opportunity to ask, "Can you do me a favor?" ”

Yiqing shook the fan in his hand chicly: "What's the matter?" ”

Yu Xing raised the locked wooden box in his hand: "Can you use the smoke to help me quietly put the box in Zeng Lai's room?" ”