"But if you can't even open the safe, how can outsiders like us..." An An whispered.
"It is because we are too familiar with the Duke that we easily fall into blind spots. I once heard an old saying in the East, 'The authorities are confused, but the onlookers are clear.' So maybe as a guest, you may be able to break this deadlock. And... once the wrong password is entered in this box, More than ten times and it will be permanently locked. We have tried this. Eight times...we...have no courage anymore." Reese made a pleading gesture. "Of course, I won't let you guess without reason. These are the keys to the master bedroom and the key to the warehouse. The Duke will be out tomorrow for something. After the meal, he will leave the manor and not return until dinner every day.”
"We will do our best." Liu Ruoyu took the key first.
"Then...I'll excuse you." Reese bowed.
"By the way, His Excellency the Duke is afraid that you will be bored, so he specially invited all the gentlemen and ladies nearby to have lunch together. He also asked all the guests to put on the clothes we prepared for you. The lunch will be held in the garden."
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"We will attend on time." Glasses nodded.
After the instructions, Reese sent the players back to the lounge.
……
Reese pushed open the door to the deepest room on the fifth floor of the manor. "Master, I have handed over the box and keys to them." He nodded respectfully.
"Yes." The Duke was half-leaning on the luxurious armchair, with a smile in his sea-blue eyes.
"Well done." He took a sip of the clear liquid in the teacup and looked through the window at the valet who was setting up the tables and chairs in the garden. "Reese, I think it's time for us to replace a batch of servants."
"Okay, sir." Reese agreed happily, "I will select a group of qualified male servants in four days. But..."
"What's wrong?" The Duke tilted his head slightly.
"Will is dead. We found some body parts among the roots of the rose. The guest killed 4-5 male servants." Reese opened a pair of handkerchiefs, revealing a few charred grass.
"I understand, have the lawns been replaced?"
"It's been taken care of."
"Yeah."
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"The password has six digits." The glasses carefully moved the delicate box back and forth. "This box obviously shows signs of damage, but Reese may not be telling the whole truth."
"This box does not necessarily contain a diamond bird, it may also be something else." Liu Ruoyu shook a bunch of keys in his hand. "Don't forget, he gave us the keys. The warehouse and bedroom contain more than just password information. In the morning The Duke said he likes good-looking nightingales, but our nightingales all look the same.”
"If you don't pass the assessment, you will be eliminated. We have to figure out how to look decent before dinner." Ning Ning whispered. Players all know that elimination means death.
After some discussion, the players agreed to deal with lunch first.
The Duke invited nearby gentlemen and young ladies, which meant that outsiders would come to the manor, and death conditions would be triggered if they were not careful.
The clothes prepared this time were unified in style, and it no longer seemed like guests from all over the world gathered together at the dinner party yesterday.
Yunchuan finally touched the men's clothing that he had not seen for a long time.
Two nightingales were chirping and jumping around him, both wanting to join him in the banquet.
"No." The young man changed into a white dress and touched the nightingale that belonged to the mountain. In the morning, he casually phantomed the body of a nightingale next to the severed limb of the mountain to hide the fact that the little bird was not dead.
But it’s still early, so why not…
"Holy shit." Mu Chen couldn't help but made an uncivilized sound. He took two steps back and stretched out his hand to pull a white silk shirt in front of him.
"Why are you so excited? It's not like you haven't seen it before." Yun Chuan crossed his arms and was dissatisfied.
"..." Mu Chen looked at the face hanging upside down on the pink wall and swallowed his rants hard. "It's not a question of whether you've seen it or not, but the way you appear... is quite unique."
Yunchuan, who chose to go through the wall, pulled himself out of the wall little by little.
"Thank you for the compliment." He leaned back on the sofa, "What did you find?"
"I feel like he's..."
"№." Yun Chuan stretched out a few golden threads and touched his lips, "It's not a copy. What's there to discover in this B-level book?"
"No, I don't feel anything at all." Mu Chen quickly changed his clothes, "Whether it's other players, Reese or the Duke, including the servants, I don't feel anything."
"Well... maybe the time has not come yet. Those dark creatures will only attach themselves to things with emotions. In the last copy, An Xu's abnormal emotions affected me and I discovered the dark creatures leaning on him. ”
"You haven't told me why An Xu was bent over by them. If we know the source, we should be able to relax a little bit." Mu Chen still remembered that the black mist said that humans can betray their companions for a small profit.
"I don't know." Yun Chuan answered very calmly.
"Don't know?" This result was beyond Mu Chen's expectation.
"I'm just a boss, a worker in the stars." Yun Chuan rolled his eyes at him, "If I were so powerful, would I still need you?"
"Isn't the Lord God your father?"
"My father wished that Shadow would die." Yunchuan clicked his tongue. "He had to let me come down to play the dungeon because he sensed Shadow's soul fragments and wanted to get rid of me, but he didn't expect that Shadow would be possessed by the creatures in the dark area. I even bumped into the player.”
"It's a bit like the plot of an ancient romance." Mu Chen gave a pertinent evaluation. "Don't look at the mess. In short, be careful at the banquet. The answers to the assessment are hidden in this banquet." Yunchuan stood up and walked along the wall back to his room.
……
Although they knew in advance that the banquet at noon would be particularly grand, the players could not help but be shocked by the sight before them when they arrived at the garden.
Sculptures dozens of meters high rise from the ground, and roses as big as a bowl wrap around to form a flower wall.
A long table covered with an exquisite tablecloth was placed in the center of the garden, and twenty chairs inlaid with gems glowed dazzlingly under the refraction of the sun.
But...
"Would normal people put a bear sculpture in the garden?" Yan Yan whispered to the fat man, biting his ear.
In front of them, a nearly ten-meter-tall black bear sculpture occupied a large piece of lawn.
"Why not?" came a familiar voice. Not far away, the Duke held a cane and nodded to the players.
"Xisir, they are right, you always have to make these exaggerated sculptures." A voice like a silver bell came, and a girl with black hair and green eyes next to him smiled and covered her lips with a lace fan.
The carriages of guests have been arriving one after another. The nobles stepped out of the carriages and greeted everyone they met elegantly. Every move seemed to be carefully planned.
There were nine guests in total, each wearing a gorgeous dress of different styles.
Mu Chen looked at the exquisite and dummy-like guests and suddenly had a bad thought. The costumes of these guests cover the styles of different eras and regions, such as Gothic, French, Roman, etc. There are exactly nine people, which can correspond to the style of the players' rooms.
Mu Chen looked at the carriages parked outside the garden. There were ten carriages in total. The exterior of the carriage that crashed at the end showed a strong Japanese atmosphere, and the mountain peak that died this morning was assigned to a Japanese-style room. .
There was no one in the car because the mountain was dead.
If according to his conjecture, assuming those nightingales are the invited guests, then... who is the real bird being admired?
Mu Chen bit his lip lightly. When he wanted to tell his guess on the Internet afternoon, he was stopped by Yun Chuan. This was not because he thought wrong, but because he couldn't say it.
In the dungeon, players are not all cooperative. This assessment is likely to eliminate the bottom player. What matters is not how good you are, but that you can pass the assessment as long as you are better than other players.
The guests at this banquet are the subjects for the players to study. They draw the range in the morning, study at noon, and assess in the evening. These are the basic steps of the exam.
The dishes at the banquet were extremely rich, but based on what happened last night, the players did not dare to eat or drink. No one was sure whether they would become the second mountain.
The outside guests were enjoying the food slowly. Their movements were uniform and they repeated the actions of taking food, cutting and inserting food into the mouth over and over again. They were like puppets being manipulated. It looked a bit weird for the eight handsome men and beauties to sit together. .
The Duke sat at the head, still wearing a formulaic smile, and slowly cut the beef in his hands.
After this banquet, no one even spoke. The servants stood on both sides with their heads lowered. The players tried every means to make themselves eat less, and the guests repeated the actions in their hands in a teaching manner.
"This is simply a disaster." After the banquet, the fat man fell down on the large sofa in the lounge.
"I just watched how they ate." An An didn't eat all day and night, and now she was huddled on the sofa with hunger.
"We will all starve to death if this continues."
"Yeah, yeah."
The players complained to each other, but they all made a tacit understanding and did not mention the evening assessment.
"Look, everyone else can think of everything you can think of. They all came up from the DF-level dungeons one by one." Yun Chuan hung upside down from the ceiling and lazily stuffed the cookies into his mouth.
"There are three sets of clothes in the wardrobe now." Mu Chen ignored him. "Although those foreign guests are all dressed gorgeously, it is obvious that everyone has different clothes. I think we should wear clothes that match the style of our room at night."< br>
"Come here." Yun Chuan waved, and he asked Mu Chen to roll up his sleeves to reveal the scars that were not completely healed. "After you pass this instance, B-level and lower props will be available to you. You do not have an advantage in terms of prop holdings now."
"Then you are..." Mu Chen watched as the golden thread appeared out of thin air and covered his wrist, and the bruises quickly disappeared.
"Give you some protection so that others won't do harm to you, a level-up player." Yunchuan winked at him. "In order to restrain each other, Liu Ruoyu and Yan Yan will definitely hold on to the box and the key. I will also participate in tonight's night exploration of the castle."
……
The peaceful time always passes so quickly, and it’s dinner time in the blink of an eye.
The moment he walked into the banquet court, Mu Chen could clearly feel that most of the players had straightened their posture. The assessment started the moment the players entered the door.
Walking, eating, and clothing are all answers that players need to submit.
The nine players each have their own thoughts, but they all work towards the same goal.
‘I will never be the last student. ’
(End of chapter)
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