Compared with the rat holes in the city wall that you can reach after getting lost, it is easier to find where the rat people are. You just need to drill into the rat holes in the external kitchen and follow the memory to the bottom of the well.
Claire left the tower before Lu Li. Soon after her figure melted into the darkness, Margaret arrived in the name of tidying up the tower. After tidying up and cleaning the room, she left near noon with the bucket that Lu Li had hidden.
Just like how he sneaked in early in the morning, Lu Li hid behind the statue in the sunken wall and slipped under the car when the cook pushed the dining cart by.
squeak
The dining car pushed into the kitchen, and the cook arranged the ingredients as she went. Returning to a familiar position, she dozed off as if nothing had happened in the morning, and slept soundly, with the key clearly placed on her belly.
Lu Li could definitely steal the key again and sneak into the kitchen and do a better job, but there was no need to do so.
Following the dull rhythm of snoring, Lu Li got out from under the dining car, slipped into the rat hole, and crawled along the wall in the direction he remembered.
A faint light appeared in front of him, Lu Li approached the bottom of the well, dormant in the darkness of the tunnel, Lu Li swept across the group of rats lying at the bottom of the well.
Sixteen of them, except Miller, they're all here.
To prevent rats and humans from running away due to intrusion, Lu Li stayed in the tunnel and quietly waited for the light source to change.
There was still about an hour left before the oil lamps in the castle were to be replaced. Lu Li once again encountered food debris floating down from the hole. After hesitation, he stepped out of the hiding tunnel while the rats were eating, and approached the rats that were no longer hiding.
Their souls are still the same as yesterday, and their animated rag doll bodies lie in front of the debris and eat them.
No feces was found nearby. Do they excrete elsewhere, or do they not need to excrete?
Lu Li approached a slightly larger piece of food crumbs. The cat's claws picked up the crumbs. The rat man who was lying next to him raised his head and stood upright. After the crumbs were raised out of reach, he moved to other crumbs and continued. Meal.
Holding the crumbs in front of you, the fiber torn from the bread seems to be no different from ordinary food.
The tail temporarily put down the fluorescent stone and the merchant's eyes, rolled up the food crumbs and hid them in the hair on the back, brushed away the rat man who came to the fluorescent stone to smell, and rolled up the fluorescent stone again.
Ten minutes later, the mice had eaten all the crumbs, and at the same time they had become accustomed to Lu Li's presence and did not run away. However, they would still avoid Lu Li when he approached, and they would not communicate, including the wise man.
Among the rat people, only Miller is special.
The wait was longer than expected. It was almost an hour in my heart, but the light source never changed. Even after waiting for nearly half an hour, the light source outside the hole still did not change.
Although it is a bit strange, it can also be regarded as good news: the lamp will always be short of lamp oil. The longer the slideshow is, the easier it will be to find the difference. At that time, using the merchant's eyeball, you may be able to directly confirm the source of the hole.
That was why the merchant's eye was waiting for the oil lamp to be replaced outside the hole. Lu Li summoned the merchant, but due to environmental restrictions, the merchant would not show up, so he learned the specific time of replacement.
After nearly two hours of waiting, the light source above finally changed, but it was not a change of lamp oil.
Another crumb of food spilled.
Lu Li looked at the sleeping rats and people waking up from the food and eating again.
Food appears too often.
It seems that only the kitchen can do this at such a frequency.
Looking at the hole where the light shines, maybe it is the kitchen above. Is it a cook or a chef who is doing this?
The former is more likely because the chef has been proven not to be a soul.
Recalling the complicated passage leading to the bottom of the well, he should have entered with a ruler and compass.
It was now about 2 or 3 pm. Lu Li stopped waiting and entered the tunnel past the lazily dozing Rat Man.
Temporarily hiding the businessman's eyes under some gravel, Lu Li returned to the kitchen along the same route.
The cook was still taking a nap, but she had already changed one. Lu Li got under the cart and left the kitchen with the cook pushing the cart dozens of minutes later. He took back the lizard maid who was behind the statue and was passed by at a fixed frequency.
Pick up.
Lu Li did not go back to the tower, but met Margaret in the corridor not far from the kitchen.
She brought the ruler and compass that Lu Li needed, and took away the food crumbs hidden in the hair.
After learning that all the oil lamps and candles in the castle had been replaced two hours ago, Lu Li asked, "Where have they not been replaced yet?"
Margaret answered several locations, including the kitchen.
In line with Lu Li's imagination, a cook with a soul and even a memory carefully fed these former companions underground.
"What's going on over there in Claire?" Lu Li asked Margaret, who was wiping the glass-inlaid window.
Margaret replies that the gardener has found a good excuse to invite Claire and the Undead to the Necropolis: new stitching ideas for the Lizard Maid and the Lower Defiler.
The bat guards have already searched their territory before, and their trust in them has returned to the past.
There were no other questions. After wiping the windows, Margaret took the bucket and linen and left. Lu Li stayed in the shadows, waiting for the cook pushing the cart to appear at the end of the corridor. When he passed the statue, he got in completely.
Lu Li slipped into the rat hole in front of the sleeping cook. Lu Li grabbed the ruler and compass and measured from the entrance of the rat hole to the inside bit by bit.
But at about two-fifths of the position, the compass pointer lost its function and rotated chaotically.
The magnetic field changes and this won't work.
Throwing away the ruler and useless compass, Lu Li returned to the bottom of the well and dug out the eyeballs buried along the way.
The rat people were a little flustered by Lu Li's arrival again, but only a few of them stood up, turned around, and continued to take a nap.
Lu Li looked at the hole above his head, there was still one way to confirm the location.
Climb to the hole before new food crumbs are spilled.
The rock wall is not completely smooth, and there are some pits and protrusions that he can barely climb.
Lu Li raised the cat's paw, and the cat's paw that was hidden behind the flesh pad popped out.
It's not sharp, but it's enough to grip the rock wall.
Without being watched by the rat men, Lu Li stepped on, holding on to the tiny foothold, and climbed up.
If the rock wall were curtains or cloth, the sharp cat claws would allow Lu Li to easily climb to the top. However, for the rock wall, the cat's claws were not as useful as expected. They were better than the soles of feet, but worse than the palms of hands.
Lu Li slipped and fell several times while climbing, leaving traces on the rock wall. Fortunately, even if he fell, he would not be very high, but he had to be careful not to crush those who would gather around every time gravel was spilled, and then returned to laziness after finding that it was not food.
Rat people.
Finally, Lu Li was extremely close to the hole where the light was shining. He stood on the rock wall and stared at the light, waiting for his eyes to get used to the light and get a glimpse of the world outside the hole.
At this time, the light outside the hole swayed, and the black cat boy reflected a long and narrow dark golden boy hole staring at the bottom of the well.