Lan Shuying took advantage of the break to tell her travel companions that she had some personal urgent matters to deal with and would take a little time.

Huya is a good talker, and besides, they were asking her for help.

Tao Shan also nodded in response, and asked her if she wanted to help.

Lan Shuying said: "I'll go and determine the situation first, and if I can't cope with it myself, I'll come back to you." ”

"Okay!"

She hung the No. 6 teleportation array on Xiao Ao's body, and after triggering it, it passed to the ancient castle, and the golden crow was already waiting for her beside her.

"How's it going?" She asked the Golden Crow.

"Locked up, just wait for you to come back and see!"

The golden crow led the way in front, and flapping its wings indoors was clearly restrained.

After getting used to the secret passage of the ancient castle, Lan Shuying resolutely would not use the internal teleportation array to touch the character, and they walked down from the secret passage and soon arrived at the floor of the study.

The promenade is empty, the indoor lights hit the stained glass windows, and the fantastic and wonderful colors instantly pull people into the fairy tale world.

But when they step into the room, the fairy tale is shattered and replaced by a fantasy adventure, or a suspenseful quest:

It was rare for Niro to transform into such a huge black monster, holding the slender waist of a maid with her front paws, and her face was hideous, as if she was disgusted with this young girl.

And the maid is petite, which is in stark contrast to Niro. When they looked at each other, her teeth were still chattering, and she looked very pitiful.

Lan Shuying remembered the maid's face.

It's not because she's so recognizable.

It's because most of the servants in the castle have been transfigured, and they are actually all kinds of animals in nature. This girl is one of the few real human beings. Get rid of the housekeeper who attempted poisoning, and now she's the only one.

"Show me what she stole." Lan Shuying said lightly.

On the way, Jin Wu had already briefly told her what had happened.

The maid is in charge of cleaning the study, but what is she secretly burning during the cleaning? The smell attracted Niro, who happened to be nearby, but when Niro snatched the thing she had burned, it was just a piece of freshly lit white paper!

Deliberately hiding in the study to burn a blank piece of paper?

Naturally, Niro thought it was strange.

It searched the maid and found ......

Hearing his master's command, Nilo flicked his slender tail and rolled a paper tube in front of Lan Shuying.

Lan Shuying opened the paper tube, and a piece of scorched paste came into view.

Apparently burned paper.

The difference is that this one has been written before, and although it has been burned into large and small fragments, you can still vaguely see a little different texture from the white paper, which is the traces of the ink being burned.

The maid must have been tempted to take it away intact, so she brought a long scroll, carefully put together the fragments of paper, and sealed the surface with a transparent film to barely make up the perfect shape.

Lan Shuying opened the ghost pupil and found the familiar strokes from the subtleties, as expected, this was the plan she had written in the study before.

She always thought it would be easier to clear her mind by writing out clues.

However, she used her own symbolic notation method - no one but herself could see the meaning of the contents, and even if they were seen, they were just burned out of habit.

Now the question is, why did the maid steal it, and who instructed her to do it?

Lan Shuying actually already had an object of suspicion in her heart.

She looked at the maid, and before she could ask, the maid cried out as if frightened, and cried out as if irritated:

"I know it's wrong, please don't kill me...... I say, I say both! Someone on the black market wants to buy your news, and anything related to you, as long as you take the evidence, you can exchange it for gold coins! ”

Lan Shuying touched her chin and asked a question that seemed unrelated to the maid's confession: "Do I look terrible?" ”

The maid was stunned and nodded hesitantly.

"Oh...... I thought I was a half-undead, but I was still handsome and personable, but I didn't expect it, just looking at you like this, it scared you to say everything......"

The answer was so pleasant, but she didn't want to believe it.

The maid stared at her with wide eyes, as if looking at a devil, and mustered up the courage to say, "I...... I'm afraid of you, I'm afraid you'll kill me like you killed her! ”

"She? Who are you talking about? Lan Shuying wondered.

"Butler!"

Lan Shuying thought about it, so it turned out that she was carrying a pot for the god of day.

Although she didn't like the housekeeper either...... Well, but if she remembers correctly, it was the little princess she disposed of that day, and it was the sun god who shot at the housekeeper, not her.

She remembered that the housekeeper's death was very unsightly.

From the perspective of Daylight, he probably just stretched out his hand and clicked, but the corpse was like being crushed by a 10,000-pound boulder, and then thrown into the water and was bitten by fish and shrimp, which was really miserable.

"Looks like you collected her corpse." Lan Shuying nodded in understanding, and then asked, "Do you two have a good relationship?" ”

She didn't seem angry at all that her things had been stolen, and with this outstanding look, she looked like a curious young man who could easily dispel the vigilance of others.

Although the maid was still afraid of her, after a little guidance, her emotions calmed down a little and she spoke much more fluently.

"We are fellow villagers, she introduced me to work here, she has always taken good care of me, and Miss Ossi has been very good to me......

The maid said of these two people, recalling the voices of the two, and her eyes couldn't help but show a little sadness and indignation, "Why did you humiliate Miss Ossie like that?!" ”

Lan Shuying was a little inexplicable: "How did I humiliate her?" ”

The maid's chest rose and fell violently, as if anger was rising in her heart, and she finally broke through her reason.

"In our homeland, the dead must be treated kindly! We'll give them a proper burial, and we won't let the necromancers and undead come close! But you, you've turned Miss Ossie into an ugly corpse! She used to love beauty so much! ”

Lan Shuying frowned: "When I found her, she was what she is now. ”

She was telling the truth.

After all, Ossie has lived for hundreds of years, and if it weren't for so many unlucky ghosts who sacrificed her flesh and blood, she would have died like she is now, even if she lived, and it had nothing to do with anyone.

The maid apparently didn't listen to this.

In her view, the desecration of the body is a capital offense.

There was something she didn't dare to say, Lan Shuying thought of it for her: a semi-undead like Brian who can drive the undead, his existence itself should be damned.

The reason why the housekeeper chose to poison was probably also influenced by this education, plus Ossie was originally her friend, but because she was selfish for a while, Ossie was shot by the little princess - if she can't accept her own fault, then punish those she thinks are wrong, there are many such people.

Lan Shuying knew that she couldn't convince a person who didn't agree with her three views, so she walked behind the desk and wrote a few lines and asked Jin Wu to take them and give them to Tao Shan.

Tao Shan is an important figure in the shadow school, and her network and intelligence network are very reliable, and she wants to know what is going on with someone buying her news in the black market.

Jin Crow had another chance to go out for a ride, so he picked up the letter and left.

Lan Shuying held up the blank piece of paper that the maid had burned.

"What is this, clever but mistaken by cleverness? If you want to steal the draft I wrote, you can just take it, and you want to forge it yourself, pretending that you cleared it out while cleaning...... Hehe. ”

The maid bowed her head and said nothing.

"You usually work in the castle, how do you know about the black market?"

The maid replied quickly: "The house on the ground is also a component of the ancient castle, and it needs to be cleaned and maintained regularly, and someone needs to replace the energy of the No. 6 teleportation array, all of which were arranged for me by the housekeeper." ”

"When I'm done, if I have more time, I go into the city to walk around, and once I accidentally went to the black market and saw a video of you...... So as soon as you came in that day, I recognized it at a glance......"

Lan Shuying muttered, "What kind of image is it? ”

The maid looked at her deeply, as if she had some scruples, and said hesitantly, "You, you are leading people to dig the ground......"

Lan Shuying: ???

No, when did she switch to farming, how did she not know herself?

After a few seconds, she reacted, what kind of ground to dig, this statement is too tactful...... Combined with Brian's ability, he is obviously leading people to dig graves!

She touched her nose: "Hmm...... Do you know who released it? ”

The maid shook her head, "I don't know, and I won't pay attention to who wants the information, just make sure you have the money to take it." ”

"You are real, and you dare to say it."

The maid sighed and asked her decadently, "Then can you let me go?" I'm not like Osi, I'm still young, and I'm going to save up a few years and go back to marry my fiancé. ”

"Don't worry about this yet." Lan Shuying chuckled lowly twice, her smooth side face was so pale under the lamp that it was almost transparent, like a ghost, making the maid's heart skip two beats.

"Anyway, we have more time today, why don't we talk about something else......"

She walked up to the maid, her pupils floating with a ghostly light, as if she could look directly into the bottom of the other person's heart.

"What...... What the? ”

"For example...... What's your name and where are you from? ”

The maid quickly gave her name and hometown.

Lan Shuying asked some more about her family situation, such as how many people are in the family, what do they do? What kind of person is her fiancé, how they met, how long they've been together, where they plan to spend their honeymoon when they get married in the future, etc.

When the maid had finished answering one by one, she asked, "Do you think you are happy?" ”

The maid hesitated slightly, but finally gave an affirmative answer.

She became more and more confused about what the new owner of the castle was thinking.

Will she be able to escape from the other party?

Lan Shuying just didn't rush to tell her this answer.

She even ordered the kitchen to prepare afternoon tea, and pulled a hard-shell book from the bookshelf at random, and flipped through the book while enjoying the fragrant refreshment.

Coincidentally, the one she was holding in her hand turned out to be Osi's diary.

Ossi was a member of the Natural School, specializing in the element of fire. But before she joined the Natural School, she was a fire mage in the Alliance of Free Men in the Eastern Continent.

Magic can't keep her young forever, witchcraft still has hope, and Ossi, who loves beauty as much as her life, directly switches sides. She didn't find a way to do it in the natural school, but she learned about the existence of the castle in the records, so she chased it all the way and opened this false path to eternal life.

Lan Shuying turned another page.

The natural school was originally an academic organization that explored the existence and utilization of natural elements, but with the gradual deepening of exploration, more and more people were absorbed, and gradually began to discourse disputes within the organization.

At first, they divided their factions according to their own affinities, but found that the factions still had disputes, mostly because of the different ideas of witches and witches.

After the disappearance of the Sorcerer King, there was no qualified leader to sit in charge, and the witches and witches often fought in private, and the friction continued to grow.

Later, the natural school simply divided the wizards into two categories according to gender, set up thirteen seats, and in the same year, the first thirteen people who were promoted to the great wizards met to decide the direction of the natural school's development.

Thirteen people means that there will always be a greater number of people on one side, and the voting will be more advantageous, so the competition for seats has been the main theme in these years. Unless the Wizarding King returns, or a super genius who can subdue all the old stubborns, the fight will continue.

At the end of the diary, Ossi writes:

"There's a kid named Edward who has been in the limelight lately, I don't remember Adelaide taking in disciples, maybe he was lucky enough to pick up Adelaide's missing notes...... I don't know which lucky guy will pick up my notes, but if he becomes famous in the future, he must remember that the teacher he never met was the Fire Phoenix of the East Coast. ”

Lan Shuying smiled when she saw this.

Aside from the bad deeds, Ossi is actually a wonderful person.

Note, she really didn't pick it up, she just doesn't know if the diary counts?

After reading the whole book unconsciously, Lan Shuying had a feeling of unfinished, reached out to touch the teacup, and found that the wall of the cup had already cooled.

Niro was half the size of the previous one, of course, he was still a big man, and he could hold the maid firmly in place with only one tail, and he was probably very uncomfortable standing up, and his face was full of exhaustion.

As the sun was about to set, Jin Wu came to her with a reply from Tao Shan.

Lan Shuying opened the letter and read it, realizing that the maid was staring at this side, she raised her eyes and smiled: "What's the matter, you're scared?" ”

“……”

"Are you afraid I'll kill you? Or are you afraid that the lie will be exposed? ”

“…… What lies? The maid refused to admit it, the doubts in her eyes were just right, and the actor wanted to praise it when she saw it.

"Do you know where the suspicion is, it's not that you burned an extra piece of paper because you were smart, and it's not that you want to sell my information to the black market...... It's that you're too satisfied with your personality. ”

"Love your parents? Childhood sweetheart's fiancé? Neighbors with whom you have a good relationship? Take good care of your fellow countrymen? ……”

Lan Shuying sighed.

"Wake up, you're not a native of Fairy Tale Town, where do you have such a strong sense of belonging?"

While speaking, she had already walked up to the maid, pinched the other party's chin and said, "I didn't admit it before, but now, isn't it time to blow myself up?" Come on, blast it for me. ”