Si Cheng walked in to look through the remaining ingredients in the kitchen, and Xia Lingge followed him and watched him busy.

Potatoes, onions, tomatoes...... The food on the table has frequently appeared on the table in the past few days, and Si Cheng looked around the kitchen again, because it was ancient Europe, so there was no gas, natural gas and the like, only grills, ovens and stewpots, but it was enough.

Xia Lingge watched Si Cheng skillfully peel and wash vegetables, shredding or dicing, although she was tired of eating takeout in the real world and would cook by herself, but it was all simple fast food, dumplings and the like.

It seems like this is the first time someone has cooked for her.

"Senpai."

Si Cheng cut the potato cubes, turned his head to Xia Lingge and said, "Can you help hand over the hanging apron?" ”

Xia Lingge looked sideways and saw the relatively shabby wide apron, she walked over to untie it and raised her hand to reach out to Si Cheng, Si Cheng seemed to want to take it, but her wet fingers just stretched out and paused.

He said to Xia Lingge a little helplessly: "Senior sister, can you please help me tie it." ”

Xia Lingge glanced at the apron in her hand, the straps on both sides were to be tied at the back, she nodded and bypassed Si Cheng to tie the apron for him.

Si Cheng stood quietly, lowering his head slightly, he could see the slender arms slowly wrapping around his waist, he seemed to feel the warm and fragrant breath gently spraying on his spine, and the skin that his fingertips unconsciously crossed seemed to cause a burning fire.

And then......

Xia Lingge tugged on the strap of the apron and fastened the buckle and pulled it to both sides.

"Shhhh

Si Cheng gasped.

"Okay?"

Xia Lingge tightened and tightened.

"It's okay, senior sister......" As soon as the temperature rose up, Yi Yi was strangled by two straps, and Si Cheng dodged Xia Lingge's hand without a trace, and then took the opportunity to loosen up.

The fragrant grilled fish and sausages, as well as the classic messy stew came out of the pot one after another, Xia Lingge smelled the familiar aroma, and his mood was also a lot more relaxed.

The rice is fragrant, with the fragrance of vegetables, and the food is extremely satisfying, but the chopsticks are not easy to find, so you can only break two thin wooden sticks to make do with it.

"I really ate it."

Shen Yu looked at the two people sitting cross-legged on the ground and sighed again and again.

Xia Lingge ignored him, but added a mouthful of eggplant to his mouth, and Si Cheng slowly said to him: "You are late, you have no share." ”

"I'm not him."

Shen Yu sat down by himself regardless of Si Cheng's gloomy eyes, took out something from his pocket and put it in front of Xia Lingge: "When I was bored just now, I went to the ancient castle again, and found something interesting, do you want to take a look?" ”

It was a square white veil, but it was stained with dust and crimson blood.

Xia Lingge swallowed the roasted sausage in his mouth, picked up the white handkerchief and looked at it: "What is this?" ”

"This was found in the basement." Shen Yu said, "I rummaged through the basement when Luo Yan and I were looking for property before, and it was empty at that time, and there was nothing, let alone this kind of bloodstain. ”

Xia Lingge was stunned: "You mean...... Someone has been in the basement and has been injured? ”

"I can't tell."

Shen Yu shrugged.

Xia Lingge pondered and ate the rice and vegetables in the bowl, and waited until the porcelain bowl bottomed out, then she wiped her mouth and said, "Let's go, go and see." ”

Si Cheng had no objection, he just quietly cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks that Xia Lingge put down.

Shen Yu saw that his eyelids twitched and twitched, and his eyes were full of disgust: "You are really virtuous." ”

Si Cheng smiled and didn't speak.

Then, they followed Shen Yu to the basement, the gloomy basement was cold and biting, and the heavy door slowly opened, and a cold wind hit the door.

Xia Lingge, Si Cheng and Shen Yu each held a candle and slowly walked down the stairs, this basement was used to pile up old sundries, it was empty, Shen Yu led them to the blood-stained ground, "No, it's here." ”

Xia Lingge squatted down and stretched out his fingertips to wipe the ground and sniffed it before putting it on the tip of his nose, a faint smell of blood lingered, if it was really the blood that was left behind, but who was it?

She held the candle closer to the ground, only to see that there was a dark red trace about a meter away from them, Xia Lingge slowly looked along the trace, and her eyes fell on the low window on the wall that was only ten centimeters wide.

"Escape from there? It's unlikely......" Si Cheng hesitated.

Xia Lingge said shallowly: "In the game, nothing is impossible. She turned to Shen Yu, "You should have already probed, where does this bloodstain lead?" ”

Shen Yu raised his eyebrows and pointed to the southeast: "The dense forest beyond the ancient castle." ”

……

Densely packed, withered branches were intertwined on top of each other, the gray sky was as dull as a huge stone that had been pressed down, and the black crows spread their wings and circled, and their shrill cries were piercing.

Xia Lingge and the others followed the dripping blood until they came to the depths of the dead wood forest, the silence of the dense forest added a lot of mystery and danger to the unknown, and they stopped when they stepped into a clearing.

"Gone." Si Cheng said.

The cold wind ruffled Xia Lingge's long hair, she stretched out her hand to pull her hair behind her ears, and looked at the dead wood forest with messy branches.

"Or else...... Shall we go back? Si Cheng proposed.

Xia Lingge shook her head: "I haven't found any useful clues in the ancient castle for a long time, this is the only discovery other than the altar, and it's ......" She glanced around, "Since you brought us out, you won't let us go back easily." ”

As soon as her words fell, a fierce tiger roar rang out violently, shaking the crows on the branches.

The yellow-haired, brown-spotted tiger slowly walked towards them with its fangs bared, it was huge, half a head taller than them, and unlike the rest of the tigers, this tiger's fangs were sharp and sharp, revealing the outside.

Xia Lingge, Si Cheng, and Shen Yu's expressions instantly tensed, and they stared at the tiger's movements and did not dare to relax in the slightest.

"Did you foresee this situation before you took us out?" Xia Lingge asked Shen Yu on the left in a loud voice.

Shen Yu sneered, rarely with some vigilance and nervousness: "If you know that I will never come out, I am not really sick." ”

"Senior sister, what now?"

Si Cheng looked at her nervously.

"What else is there to ask about this......

Xia Lingge lifted her skirt and turned around and ran wildly: "Run!" ”

"Whew——!"

The fierce tiger roar sounded again.

Xia Lingge, Si Cheng, and Shen Yu rushed forward regardless of it, but their speed was far faster than that of the tiger, but in thirty seconds, the tiger was about to catch up with them.

Xia Lingge turned her eyes sideways, and happened to see Shen Yu secretly poking and prodding his hand, she didn't need to ask to know what he was going to do, if she didn't have the ability to escape from danger, she only needed to be faster than her companion.

Seeing that the tiger behind him was about to pounce over, Shen Yu grabbed Xia Lingge's arm violently, and was about to throw her off at the tiger.

But Xia Lingge avoided it suddenly, and at the same time, the whole person flew towards Si Cheng.

(End of chapter)