One hundred and twenty six. Four lords go to the second
Claire walked towards the remaining two bewildered cooks.
"Where is the farmer?"
The cook woke up with a start and seemed to growl fiercely at her stern wife.
snap
Claire waved her hand, and the strong wind dissipated, turning into a breeze blowing Lu Li's sticky hair not far behind him.
The lower limbs of the cook who had removed her torso collapsed backwards, and the brown-yellow fat that tore across the cross-section trembled.
"Where is the farmer?"
Claire turned to the last cook.
"...Gulu..."
The cook was timid and muttered in a language that no one could understand.
This time Claire controlled her strength a little, and the cook's chest was only dented, not broken everywhere.
"We can't understand." Claire shook off the blood on her palms in disgust, listened to the noise outside the kitchen, and said to Lu Li, "No one found us, the assassination was successful."
"Can't you deal with the Viscount directly?"
The black cat eyes reflected Claire, who was wrapping a bandage around her palm, and her body was surging with power.
"Do you still remember the musket theory?" Claire said while wrapping it around her wrist: "The outcome depends on who pulls the trigger first. Our muskets have a shorter range and the leather armor is thinner."
For example, Claire and the head maid. The one who is close to Claire wins, and the head maid who floats in the air wins.
"And we don't know the Viscount's power yet." Claire wrapped her other palm.
Fear comes from the unknown, which is a terror beyond cognition and a power that cannot be understood. There is no other way but to accumulate experience, and accumulating experience usually means "sacrificing with human lives."
That’s why evil spirits are so disgusted. The good news that can be found from the bad situation is that due to the decrease in population, the proportion of new evil spirits is gradually decreasing, and there are evil spirits that are also gradually reducing their weirdness and coveting their bodies.
"Do you want to return to human form?" Claire asked Lu Li.
"Not yet."
The advantages of the black cat form are temporarily irreplaceable.
"Then do you need me to help you clean it?"
Lu Li was silent for a while and then said, "I can wash it myself."
There is indeed a water source in the kitchen. The degree of contamination cannot be determined, but it is enough for taking a bath.
Claire found an iron basin and filled it with clean water. When Lu Li jumped into the basin, the dirty and smelly blood stained the water. She heard something and walked to the narrow window of the kitchen to look out.
The filth that blends into the clean water reduces the stench that shocks the soul. The price is that the clean water quickly turns into putrid sewage that is inedible and filthier than the sewer.
Lu Li's smell could still be smelled from a few meters away. He stepped out of the basin and jumped straight into the tank storing clean water. He held his breath and gradually sank to the dark bottom of the water.
The water tank did not change color, and the visible dirt had faded away, but the smell would not dissipate. After soaking for a while, Lu Li climbed out of the water tank and walked towards Claire wetly.
clang
Claire looked away when she heard the commotion and saw Lu Li approaching with wet marks, and the dinner plate he stepped on behind him trembled and returned to stillness.
"Do you need a towel?"
"Need not."
There aren't many things in the kitchen that can be called clean.
Claire watched Lu Li walk to his feet, bent down and lifted him to the window by the back of his neck.
But Lu Li didn't look out the window, his dark cat eyes stared at Claire calmly.
"What's wrong?" Claire was confused.
"You could use a friendlier gesture."
"Oh, sorry, mothers always hold weird cubs like this when they catch them."
Claire didn't care that the bandage got wet, and instead put her hands through Lu Li's armpits to lift him up. Although the posture was still strange, it was much better than before.
Water drops dripped along his tail, and Lu Li looked towards the darkness outside the window.
Concentrated and loose firefly-like light adorns the surrounding gardens on the other side of the moat.
"The other contestants are here, and they...appeared too quickly than expected." Claire resumed her serious voice and whispered in her ears.
It only took Lu Li and Claire less than an hour from leaving the utility room to dealing with the head chef. And within an hour, the contestants advanced from the edge of the manor to outside the moat...
But it seems normal. Whether it is the lizard maid, the little gardener, or the bat guard, they are just physical and weird beasts. It fits into Claire's musket theory, that is: human muskets have a longer range and their leather armor is thicker.
The only dead tree forests and nurseries that could provide some resistance did not attack humans because they were reminded by Lu Li.
"We have to hurry up."
Claire said, putting down Lu Li and leaving the kitchen.
The backs of several cooks in the distance disappeared at the end of the corridor.
Lu Li and Claire followed them to the porch. The garden was deserted, and howls echoed in the night sky.
At this time, the strange bat statues sitting on the spire on the outer wall of the castle suddenly shook off the lime, spread out their giant shadow-shading wings, and swooped towards the bright spots in the garden.
The bat monsters that joined the battlefield were not expected to be massacred, but were blocked by the players. They fought in small teams with a clear division of labor. To deal with such low-intelligent monsters, you only need to attract attention, and others will take the opportunity to attack.
Wiener Freeze Harbor did nothing wrong.
The divergent thinking brought about by recovering his memory reminded Lu Li of the scene where battleship artillery bombarded the body of the bat monster.
They're just wrong in the extreme, and Midnight City does that better.
Without staying too long at the porch, they walked through the garden and approached the main building of the castle.
Here you can still see the lizard maid passing by in a hurry.
Claire stepped on the floor tiles and turned into an afterimage to grab the unsuspecting lizard maid: "Where is the farmer?"
The lizard maid was about to scream, but suddenly she noticed the black cat following Claire, growling hoarsely and with hatred: "You betrayed the master...!"
"Where is the head maid?" Claire asked again.
"She was put in the dungeon because of you! The master will not forgive you..."
"Thanks."
Claire raised her hand to knock the lizard maid unconscious instead of smashing her to pieces. She lowered her head and said to Lu Li, "I think we have enough time for you to visit her."
"Um."
Claire led the way, and the defenses on the path to the dungeon were deployed by foreign enemies, so they entered the dark and damp dungeon without any obstruction.
"Lu Li." Claire motioned to Lu Li in the passageway where the wall lamp was lit.
"Meow~"
Lu Li meowed.
"Remi...?"
A shout of surprise rang out, and the outline of the sealed head maid appeared behind the cell: "You are here to save me... who are you?"
"Hello, Claire." Claire's words to introduce herself sounded strange.
"Claire...Human...you betrayed me?" The bandage covered his face, but he could feel the pain contained therein.
"...Leimi didn't betray you." After a brief silence, Lu Li said calmly: "But I'm not Lemi."
"No……"
The head maid staggered back into the shadows.
"...I...lord...will...absolutely...give in!"
The roaring roar from the surface spread into the cellar.
Claire and Lu Li looked at each other and waved to the shadows: "Goodbye little maid, we will let you out after we deal with the farmer and the viscount."
The dungeon returned to tranquility as they left...like the calm before the storm.
call
A weak cyclone swept through the corridor outside the cell.
…
They came a little later.
When Lu Li and Claire returned to the surface, they appeared under the city wall. The farmer on the other side of the moat had his head cut off with a big sword.
