Chapter 556: The Greatest Treasure (14)
The armor popped out and then disappeared out of nowhere, leaving both players scratching their heads.
However, they can be sure that this is indeed a hint and clue given by the system, but they can't figure out what the intention of this move is for the time being.
After a fruitless search, they had to return to their room and press the sleep button again.
Because the system is still constantly prompting sleep deprivation.
This time, the system didn't arrange any more plots for them, and maybe there was not enough time. In short, as soon as I opened my eyes and closed them, I heard Charlie knocking on the door and telling the two of them to get up and go to the restaurant for dinner.
"Do you know any horror in this house?"
Thinking that Charlie, who was a servant, might know something about the movable armor, Ann pointed tentatively.
Charlie was stunned:
"What do you mean?"
"Last night...... Well, it should be early in the morning, and we heard movement in the hallway outside the door, and we saw a suit of armor that would move on its own. ”
Hearing this kind of thing that seemed inconceivable to outsiders, Charlie not only did not panic but showed a polite smile:
"If you're referring to the Guardians, then I do."
"Guardians?"
The name sounds like a security guard in a mansion.
And that's exactly what happened.
Charlie tells the two that occasionally, Mr. Edward's movable armor will appear wandering the corridors at night, and that Mr. Edward may have intended to use this method to scare off some of the thieves.
Before Charlie and Mary were hired by Edward, Edward had lived alone, and in the mountains, where there was no village and no shop.
With this explanation, there is nothing incomprehensible about the presence of movable armor patrolling.
But Charlie could not tell where the armor had come from, for he had never seen it, except heard a few words from his employer, Mr. Edward.
Compared with this, what is even more amazing is that Charlie seems to have no doubt that Edward can create an armored robot that can move on his own, which makes Ann Yizhi deeply realize that he thinks of Edward's identity as a 'mechanical master' too simply.
For the outside world, it is not surprising that Edward made an armored robot that can move on its own, which shows how dick his previous works are!
Isn't this guy really an alchemist?
An Yizhi was skeptical.
When Charlie finished explaining, he took his leave and went to wake up the others. An Yizhi and Tu Hongyu also went to the restaurant to prepare for breakfast.
Of course, eating breakfast is not the most important thing, the system does not have the eating function turned on, and it is okay for players to eat or not.
But the NPCs can't, they have to eat, that is, every time the meal is opened, when all the NPCs gather together, Ann Yizhi wants to see if there are one or two less after a night......
Their room was on the first floor, and Charlie called them first, so they were the first guests to come to the restaurant.
Breakfast was not bad, made of crepes sweet and delicious, with coffee and milk tea and other drinks.
Then again, it's obviously British, but everyone eats French food. After all, British food really can't be tasted, and An Yizhi's impression of British food is only the dark cuisine of looking up at the starry sky......
The second to arrive at the dining room was Anasta girl, but her face was pale and seemed to be a little anemic, and when she got to her seat, she asked the maid Mary for a cup of hot black tea.
Could it be that this girl still has the attribute of being sick and weak?
Then everyone rushed to the restaurant one by one, almost arriving on their feet.
An Yi pointed at the person sitting in front of the chair, and felt that the plot had really started as he expected.
One less person.
The old earl was not at the table.
"Madame, is Monsieur Earl still sleeping?"
Lawyer Abel asked.
"No, he's already up when I wake up."
Countess Lydia said:
"Maybe it's a walk around the neighborhood, the rain has stopped outside, it's when the air is at its best, and he likes it."
As she said, the rain outside did stop, but it seemed to be only temporary, and the sky was still covered with thick dark clouds, and I was afraid that it would continue to fall.
Charlie, who was putting pancakes on everyone's plates, was not only stunned when he heard this:
"Mr. Earl is out? But the main entrance was still locked, and he couldn't get out. ”
All the doors of the mansion were locked from the inside because they had no key, and when Charles checked the door, it was still locked, so that the old earl could not go out.
Maybe someone re-locked the door after the old earl went out?
No.
An Yizhi was more inclined to the old earl not to go out at all......
As Charlie asked if anyone had relocked the door, the concert hall next door to the restaurant sounded the sound of a melodious piano, and the player piano made by Mr. Edward played beautiful music again.
A series of rapid rising and falling tones successfully attracted everyone's attention.
At this moment, everyone suddenly saw five robots in formal dresses, but with metal hands and feet rising from under the floor, and they walked to the small stage where the orchestral instruments were placed, and picked up the instruments to play like real musicians.
The scene was truly breathtaking, and An Yizhi could clearly see that the robots were all driven by gears and rollers, but they could make human-like movements.
No one spoke, as if everyone was attracted to what was in front of them.
As the movement unfolds, the piano sound fades away, leaving only the orchestral instruments playing the impassioned notes.
Anyi recognized that they were playing the ride of the Valkyries, the rings of the Nibelungen in a majestic symphony, and through the notes, it seemed as if the majestic and beautiful Valkyries were riding Pegasus galloping across the sky.
Soon, however, the situation took a turn for the worse, with lightning and thunder accompanied by the clash of weapons and the smirking of laughter, casting an eerie atmosphere over the music.
At the same time, the mechanical swan in the center of the concert hall also comes into action, swimming slowly on the wavy glass water, sometimes spreading its wings to comb its feathers.
According to the law, the following should be the picture of the swan bowing its head to feed.
This time, though, it wasn't a fish in its mouth......
The crowd saw its metal beak bite something from underneath and lift it.
The Countess let out a piercing scream, for what the mechanical swan had picked up turned out to be a man!
Old Earl Acheson.
But he didn't struggle, he didn't even react, and the mechanical swan continued to follow the established rules, trying to swallow the old earl.
But the mechanical neck could not hold the weight of a man, and it creaked and cracked, but the mechanical swan's mouth was still moving, and it bit the old earl's shoulder.
The plasma was squeezed out like syrup, and large smounds of flesh and red matter sprayed onto the glass wall like fragments of a balloon that had been burst, and the corpse of the old count appeared in front of everyone to the symphony of the Valkyrie's ride and the screams of Countess Lydia and the maid Mary......
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The impact of this kind of thing happening in front of you on ordinary people can be imagined.
The countess fainted directly, although she didn't know if it was true or not, anyway, the ladies of this period 'fainted' at every turn.
The faces of the others were not good-looking, and their expressions were very solemn. Anasta didn't scream or faint, but she looked even paler.
And for An Yizhi, the old earl's death was expected, and he also felt a sense of relief.
The plot, in the end, still unfolds according to the routine of 'murder'.
"Please stay calm, don't panic, and don't approach the scene casually to prevent damage to the evidence."
At this time, it was time for Tu Hongyu's police identity to appear, he took out his police badge and shouted to everyone.
In fact, everyone knows that he is a policeman, and he doesn't need to take out his police badge, but he likes the identity of a police officer very much......
Tu Hongyu comforted everyone, and An Yizhi walked towards the position of the mechanical swan.
He stood outside the glass wall and observed, the old Earl Acheson was completely silent, and the barb in the mouth of the mechanical swan pierced his heart. But the mechanical mouth still opened and closed slightly, squeezing more blood out.
Turning to look at the robots used to play, they had no feeling of corpses in front of them, and when the last note of Valkyrie's ride fell, they put down their instruments, and then a gap cracked in the floor again, and the mechanical figures were taken away, and finally the floor closed without a trace of it.
This kind of explains how the movable armor disappeared.
"Mr. Ann......"
Lawyer Abel came up to him and asked:
"Mr. Earl, he ......"
"He's dead, 100% sure of death"
Able was stunned for a moment, and then he hurriedly said to Charlie on the side:
"Where's the phone? Go to the police! ”
"There's a phone in the hallway outside......"
With that, he hurried out of the hallway to make a phone call.
Call the police? Isn't that?
According to the routine, it is impossible to get through the phone, and the scene that can get through this copy can be completed.
As expected, Charlie reported that the phone line was broken, possibly due to stormy weather.
This news made everyone even more flustered, and it didn't matter what Tu Hongyu said.
"Everyone, please stay calm, you can't help doing this!"
It's easy to say that it's not good to discuss at all, An Yizhi was annoyed, so he directly took out a pistol and shot at the ceiling.
- Bang!
This calmed everyone down, An Yi looked at everyone's faces and said:
"First of all, I would like to announce two facts, that Mr. Count is dead, and secondly, that the murderer is among us."
His words caused a commotion, and An Yizhi had to fire another shot.
"There is only one entrance to this house, and that is the main entrance, Charlie, can you be sure that the gate can only be locked from the inside?"
Charlie swallowed his saliva, maybe he was nervous, or he was afraid that Ann would shoot him with a gun:
"Yes sir, I'm sure."
"There is only one entrance, and it can only be locked from the inside, and there is no trace of the doors and windows being opened, so it can't be an outsider, no one has any objection to this, right?"
This time it's not like the last time in the Deep Mountains Pavilion, a thorn came out and said that, of course, it's more likely that they were worried that An Yizhi's gun would go off.
"I'll find a way to go in and examine the body, and then I'll ask you some questions so that we can find the murderer, and I hope you will cooperate."
Regardless of who the murderer really is, and whether or not Count Acheson's death has something to do with Edward's treasure, at least the plot starts to move, which represents a turnaround.