"Surprise? What surprise...hiss" Mu Chen turned around and saw a brightly polished ax coming towards his front.
The man quickly turned sideways, raised his leg and kicked the ax handle, forcing the axeholder to let go of the axe.
That was the manservant who had just tried to attack Hong. He was breathing heavily and his hands were shaking constantly. Behind him were three or four manservants holding axes or sickles.
Those people looked old, but their strength was not weak at all. They stared at Mu Chen eagerly and kept approaching him.
"Drink." The male servants suddenly acted. They raised their axes and struck Mu Chen's neck together, their cloudy eyes full of malice.
Mu Chen rolled on the spot and escaped the siege of several people. The originally smooth lawn had now become messy. He was more than enough to deal with one footman, but now the five footmen present were desperately trying to hack him to death.
"Bang." Mu Chen found the opportunity and kicked the ax out of a footman's hand again. The ax was thrown in a perfect arc in the sky and then hit the lawn at Yunchuan's feet.
Tsk, Yunchuan was a little unhappy. "The ax almost hit me, please be careful. I don't want to be chopped up by the ax again."
"No, why didn't they attack you!" Mu Chen had an old man stepping on his feet and holding other old men in his hands. Even though the old guy was lifting his feet off the ground and rolling his eyes, he still stubbornly stretched out his hand to scratch the ugly man's face with his sharp and dirty nails.
"Please, I'm not the one causing hatred. Now you know the consequences of being a virgin, don't you? Pay attention to your face, don't get hurt." Yun Chuan leaned against the tree beside him happily, watching the three servants fighting Mu Chen.
He pulled the fruit off the tree and played with it in his hands while pointing at Mu Chen, "Press your head down and use your elbows hard. Are you tickling him?"
"..." Mu Chen had no time to pay attention to him. In just a moment, two more male servants joined the team to attack him.
Five sharp weapons surrounded Mu Chen. The male servants opened their eyes wide and smiled disdainfully with their dry flesh. They raised their gleaming sharp weapons high and smashed them at the man.
After all, Yunchuan really didn't want to save him. Mu Chen subconsciously closed his eyes and tried desperately to mobilize the energy in his body. Yunchuan had said before that he could use the shadow's power in the dungeon.
The blood was rushing through his body, his heart was beating rapidly, and black mist came out of every pore of his body.
A strand of broken hair fell to the ground together with the manservant's arm, and the iron ax was corroded by the black mist, leaving only thin iron filings.
Mu Chen waved his hand, and several streaks of mist condensed into black blades instantly penetrated the manservant. Countless flesh and blood smashed to the ground, but the black mist seemed not to be satisfied. They spread on the ground, withering all the vegetation where it hit.
Tsk, that’s too much. Yun Chuan mobilized his energy, and the golden threads fell on Mu Chen densely, releasing the extremely destructive black mist around him and forcing it back into his body.
"That's enough." He teleported behind the man and supported his body that fell backward due to loss of strength. "You are indeed excellent, but you still need to practice more."
"If you weren't excellent, you would be damned." Mu Chen wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and sat on the ground. He looked at the ground of minced meat and withered vegetation, and sighed, "His power is indeed very powerful."
Yun Chuan smiled softly, "The power of destruction and devouring is naturally powerful. Servants will not hold back when they are wronged. They always pursue revenge on the spot. Do you know why I brought you to the garden?"
"...They were able to realize that the male servants would only attack me and Hong." Mu Chen paused, but still said the answer he least wanted to say.
"Everyone could see that the manservant was going to attack her just now, but you were the only one who went to save him. So when you become the next target, no one will save you, and neither will she. This is the most indifferent human being. That side." Yun Chuan gave a somewhat evil smile.
"You are right. But if someone is in danger, I will still save him. Yunchuan, I am a soldier, and the duty of a soldier is to protect the people." Mu Chen picked up a piece of charred grass on the ground. "The power of shadow is very strong." Powerful, and you won’t let me really die.”
"Okay, okay." Yunchuan snapped his fingers, and the swaying roses in the garden obediently stretched out their branches. They used their hooked black thorns to catch the minced meat on the ground, and dragged them into themselves piece by piece. Under the roots, this will be a rare meal.
"They really listened to you. Yesterday we were almost chased by those animals and plants for half the night." Mu Chen rolled up his sleeves and showed Yun Chuan his bruised wrists from being strangled.
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The other surviving players were all in the lounge, so when Mu Chen and Yunchuan appeared, they caught everyone's attention.
"Thank you... thank you." Hong took off the blanket on her body. She walked to Mu Chen with her head lowered and thanked her softly.
"Did you just go to the garden?" Liu Ruoyu suddenly said. She looked at the two of them up and down. "It seems that the garden is not so dangerous during the day."
"He told me that he was chased by a plant for most of the night last night. I just happened to go take a look today, but everything was normal. And the room just now was a little bloody...I'm sorry." Yunchuan glanced at a Hong with his head hanging down. , just tell lies when you open your mouth.
"Speaking of which, I'm still curious about how you faced those things last night without getting hurt. We were chatting just now. The animals and plants that attacked us last night can be consistent with that dinner. You ate more than one kind Food...according to speculation, those things will also come to you." The woman smoothed her curly hair and tilted her head to look at Yun Chuan. "It's just good luck. I brought some self-defense tools." Yun Chuan didn't want to say more to him.
"Okay." Liu Ruoyu nodded.
"Don't you think everyone in this manor is strange?" An An said cautiously.
"Those male servants are all very old, none of them seem to be under seventy years old. It is impossible for a normal manor to hire old people as male servants." Glasses continued her words, "Only the Duke and the maid are young here, but These maids don’t look like living people.”
Mu Chen was just about to speak out what he had just concluded about the guests and distinguished guests, but found that his throat seemed to be blocked and he couldn't make a sound.
'I want you to be quiet and say nothing. ’ Yunchuan’s voice sounded in his heart.
But this restriction did not last long, because the old man with a white beard knocked on the door before the players started a new round of discussion.
"Dear guests, the room has been cleaned. I'm sorry to cause unnecessary trouble to you." Reese bowed respectfully to the players. "I have one more thing to ask you. The Duke's headache is getting worse due to insomnia. So I venture to hope that the nightingales can learn a song that the old nightingale once sang to relieve the Duke’s headache.”
"It is our honor to be able to solve the Duke's problems." Glasses was the first to respond.
This move undoubtedly improved Reese's favorability towards him. He smiled at his glasses with satisfaction, "But please don't let the Duke know. This is a small private request of mine."
"Please come with me."
Reese took the players to a gate covered with chains on the first floor of the manor.
He put on his gloves, took out a huge key, inserted it into the rusty lock, and twisted it several times before hearing a snapping sound.
Several players looked at each other. It looked like no one had been to this place for at least three or four years. It didn't look like a place where you could learn songs.
"Sorry, no one has been to this place for many years." Reese patted the iron filings that fell on his white gloves. He pushed open the door with force, and a rotten smell swept away a large amount of dust.
This looks like a utility room, with countless discarded furniture piled here and there.
Reese coughed and tried to turn on the lights in the room, but after groping for a long time on the wall, he found that the switches had long been worn out.
"Forget it." He walked in the dark, and after a crackling sound, the little old man ran out with a mysterious look on his face with a dusty beard.
"Here, this is it." Reese took out a rectangular wooden box studded with gems.
The wooden box had obviously been violently beaten, and there were many broken dents on it, and many of the gems in the grooves were missing.
"This contains the diamond bird that the foreign businessman gave to the Duke. Later, the Duke locked it in the box." He handed the box to the glasses. The box didn't look big but seemed to be very heavy. The glasses were picking up The moment he passed the box, he squatted down.
"Don't look at it because it's small, but it's a safe." Reese sighed. "Actually, I brought you here to ask you one thing, and that is to open this box."
"After the diamond bird broke, the Duke realized his mistake, so he was extremely disgusted with the imitation bird. He set a password to lock it and threw it away in the warehouse. But without the singing, the Duke would sing every night He couldn't sleep, and the longing for the nightingale made his headache more and more serious. How could we, the servants, bear to see the owner in pain, so we quietly opened the box and asked the craftsman to repair it, hoping to make it work for the Duke again. And sing.”
"But the Duke was furious. He would rather endure the pain than see this diamond bird again." The little old man rubbed the smooth lock. "Then he changed the box and set the password himself. We have tried countless passwords but nothing happened." can open it ”
"Fortunately, the nightingale came back later, and the Duke recovered. But now... we all know that it has completely left us, so..."
"You want us to open this box. But because the Duke hates this imitation bird, you want our nightingale to learn this song and sing it to the Duke to relieve his headache." Liu Ruoyu has already guessed the answer. .
"Yes, that's right. We really have no choice... Master, he can't go on like this." Reese lowered his head, looking a little lonely.
(End of chapter)