Global recovery: A century of being stuck in the game

Not long after the maid left, everyone else came to have breakfast.

It was not the maid who notified everyone, but the meal schedule for three meals a day that she posted outside the kitchen door last night that came into play.

After distributing food to everyone, she looked around.

Sadly, a few people were missing.

Apart from the unlucky guy who had died, the housekeeper and the surviving maid in the dormitory were not there, there were two others, a man and a woman.

If you are not active in eating, you must be a fool, or there must be another reason.

So these few people need special attention.

As a chef, she can cook for herself, so she would not miss such an opportunity.

After they had eaten and drunk their fill, the maid came back and everyone else left.

The maid seemed to be in a good mood. Tao Yao gave her the cleaning job and told her to hand over the purchase order if anyone came to purchase goods. Then she left with some food.

The housekeeper hasn't come to eat yet, so she's going to send him off.

However, she didn't want to go to the backyard, so she planned to find the maid who had been in the same room with the deceased in the morning.

She knew the way to that room.

A few minutes later, she stood at the door and knocked.

"Dong dong dong..."

There was no movement inside.

Taoyao knocked a few more times, but there was still no response.

In fact, under normal circumstances, if something like this happened, no one would still live in this room.

So she wasn't surprised to get no response and went straight to the next door.

This time there was no need to knock, someone opened the door.

"Are you here to look for Xu Zhen? She was frightened earlier, so she must have fallen asleep."

Tao Yao's eyes moved slightly: "Ah, I saw that she didn't go to have breakfast, so I thought of bringing her some."

Even if someone dies, they don’t have to move and can sleep in the house.

With this kind of personality, he doesn't look like the kind of person who would cry if scared, right?

Unless, she was pretending from the beginning.

"Yes, she didn't eat, and she's too scared to even leave her room. If you knock on the door now, she won't dare to open it even if she wakes up. How about shouting inside?"

Tao Yao shook her head: "It's okay, let her rest. I just happened to be going to deliver food to the housekeeper and the others. It's the same if I come back later."

The servant nodded and couldn't help sighing: "How did this happen? You should go find the housekeeper and ask him if he has found out who did it. This will also make us all feel at ease. This is not the first time. If it continues like this, who will dare to live here..."

This incident obviously made the servants nearby panic, fearing that the beheading knife would fall on their heads next time.

And it’s not the first time?

Tao Yao did not refuse: "Okay, I will ask."

As he spoke, he pushed the food cart towards the maid: "I didn't expect this to happen. I just got here and haven't even received my salary yet. I don't know what kind of person is so cruel!"

Her voice was filled with fear, and her expression was somewhat out of control: "You live so close to them, didn't you notice anything last night?"

The previous fear and anger are all false, only the final inquiry is real.

The maid had heard many people ask this question this morning. She was also scared, but she was helpless.

Because she really didn't hear anything.

"No, there was no movement. Xu Zhen lived with her and didn't hear anything. What did we hear?"

Tao Yao lowered her head in frustration: "Ah... It seems that we can only wait for the results of the investigation. I hope the murderer can be found soon, otherwise I will resign."

Having said that, he didn't stay any longer and left in a daze, pushing the cart.

No sound was heard.

The sound last night was very clear. The maid should have been able to hear it since she lived so close, but she didn't notice anything.

Is it true that I was sleeping so soundly that I couldn't hear it, or is it that I could hear it but couldn't speak it?

Come to think of it, this was the only unusual thing last night, and she felt that the dead maid had something to do with this sound.

Everything here must be useful, just like the newspaper she got last night.

After leaving the maid, she pushed the food cart and walked aimlessly in the villa yard.

She was looking for someone, the other two people who didn't come to dinner.

One of the two people was wearing the same servant uniform, and the other was wearing a security uniform.

The person wearing maid's clothes is a woman, so she must be in the front yard.

If anyone asked her what she was doing, she had a good excuse: she was taking food to the housekeeper, but she didn't know where the housekeeper was.

But after all, her action was still a little late. If those guys wanted to do something, they would have done it before breakfast, so it was difficult to see anything useful now.

Soon, she saw the maid she was looking for.

She was holding a huge pair of scissors in her hand and concentrating on trimming the flowers and trees in the flower bed, and did not notice Taoyao's arrival at all.

"Click, click"

Tao Yao hid behind the house and took out a bowl of chicken blood and placed it less than ten meters away from the maid.

Yesterday she received another bag full of blood, but she didn't know what the blood was in it and didn't want to waste it, so she took advantage of her position to prepare a bowl of chicken blood.

However, using chicken blood alone may not necessarily reveal anything, but as long as the other party has a slightly unusual reaction, she can continue investigating through this line.

Time passed minute by minute, and Taoyao could smell a faint smell of blood, but the maid cut one side and went to the other, without noticing anything.

Frowning slightly, she went over and put the chicken blood into her backpack.

Things can only be put away if they are touched.

After doing this, she noted down where the maid worked and pushed the food cart away.

Things are in trouble.

For the time being, it would be difficult for her to find any useful clues in the villa unless she could find the body of the deceased.

But it's not that easy.

Back in the kitchen, the maid was waiting. When she saw Tao Yao, she immediately came to greet her: "You are finally back! The housekeeper just sent someone to inform us that the master and the mistress will be back tonight, and the distinguished guest will arrive tomorrow!"

This is a big deal, no wonder the maid looks so nervous.

Especially now that she is helping Tao Yao, if anything goes wrong on her side, she will also be implicated.

Of course, she hoped that Taoyao could cook a very sumptuous meal to satisfy the gentleman, the lady and the guests!

Tao Yao nodded gently: "Yes, I understand."

Nothing happened at noon and it passed peacefully.

That afternoon, when she was about to go out to the kitchen to cook, someone passed by, jogging and talking about something.

"Hurry up! I heard that the master will be back soon. If you run too slowly, you will miss him!"

"Oh, just wait for me!"

"I heard that the gentleman will not leave again in a short time after returning this time."

"Wow! That's great!"

The ladies all liked this gentleman very much.

Taoyao didn't join in the fun, mainly because there was not enough time.

She planned her time very well, leaving about ten minutes after cooking, so even if she went there she wouldn't be able to see anything.

However, today, Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu came back, and the servants, including the housekeeper, did not come to eat at the meal times she had specified.

Only four servants came, but they did not come to eat. Instead, they used dining carts to take a small portion of each dish in the kitchen away.

After they left, Tao Yao followed them.

From a distance, you can see that there are two circles of security guards surrounding the building, and the servants are standing in a line on both sides of the road leading to the house at the door, standing very straight.

Four maids pushed a dining cart past, went in and disappeared completely.

It is obvious from the scene that no unauthorized persons are allowed to approach.

As a chef, she really shouldn't be here.

Unable to get in, she could only wait not far away.

After a long time, the butler came out with his back slightly bent.

He stood up straight after coming out, but judging by his expression, he was probably scolded.

There was only one reason why he was scolded, and that was what happened in the morning.

Plus the information she had received from the maid before.

This was not the first time, but the housekeeper never found the murderer. The same thing happened again on the day Mr. Xu came back.

Therefore, it is understandable that Mr. Xu loses his temper.

The butler did not stay outside and went straight away with a few security guards.

Tao Yao narrowed her eyes slightly and followed.

The butler looked unhappy, and the atmosphere along the way was a bit depressing.

After a while, the butler suddenly stopped and said to the man beside him: "You go first, I'll go to the back to take a look."

The distinguished guest is coming tomorrow, so it wouldn't be surprising for him to go and have a look.

The four of them nodded and asked no questions.

After all, no one wants to offend him.

The butler turned and left, but Tao Yao did not follow him. Instead, she continued to follow the four men.

Because one of the four people was the one who didn't come to eat this morning.

Their destination was an underground cold storage.

Seeing them enter a room and open the basement, Tao Yao showed a smile on her face.

Great, now the breakthrough has come.

Underground cold storage is generally used to store some food that cannot be preserved, but the owner of the villa is so rich that he has everything he wants and can naturally have things delivered to him at any time, so this kind of thing does not exist.

Of course, it is not ruled out that some people like to store things.

But at least now their purpose of coming here is obviously not to get anything to eat.

Several people walked in and found that the basement was not closed.

Tao Yao moved closer and could feel a slight chill coming out of the entrance to the basement.

However, she was not sure how big the basement was, and it would be bad if she went down rashly and was discovered.

It would be even worse if any noise was made in the dark down there.

But I can't see anything up here, it would be nice if there was some light.

Perhaps because her voice had taken effect, a "click" sound was heard from below, and then it became brighter.

Taoyao understood it at a glance.

There were several coffins placed below, with their lids not closed, and one could vaguely see people lying inside.

In other words, all those who had died before were stored here.

Instead of burying the body, they store it like this.

I don’t know whether it was the order from the housekeeper or the owner of the villa?

But what are they doing here now?

Although she was curious, she couldn't stay here for long. If the housekeeper suddenly came and caught her, she wouldn't be able to explain anything.

But she also made up her mind to wait until night to find out what was going on.

night.

It was quiet outside, without any sound.

The lights in the nearby houses had been turned off long ago, and there was not a single ray of light.

Only the light in Taoyao's room was still on. There was a newspaper and a book on the table. These were what she was reading.

There was a record in the newspaper that a vampire appeared somewhere. He was sucking people's blood everywhere and caused many people to become monsters like him.

It's like telling a story in the third person.

But Taoyao didn't think this was telling a story.

The blood bag from last night might have been used to deal with the so-called vampires.

In other words, the death of that man yesterday was most likely caused by a vampire.

And that book is not just a book for reading, but a special prop.

[Magic book, you can activate magic if you have it. 】

A book that requires magic to activate, but she has no magic and can't use it.

In other words, there are still props in this villa that she has not found.

At present, only the underground cold storage and the building where Xu Ya and others live have not been searched.

She didn't expect Mr. Xu and his wife to come back so soon, but she didn't know where Mr. Xu and his wife lived. If she went there to search rashly, she might run into them, so she could only go to the underground cold storage first.

It won’t be too late to investigate the rest tomorrow.

Of course, in addition to this, she also had to pay special attention to the strange cry last night. If it appeared again this morning, she would go over to take a look.

After putting the things away, she took out the Scarlet Flame Sword card and held it in her hand. At the same time, she covered her face with a black cloth, then turned off the lights and lay down.

After waiting for a while, he climbed out the window and left.

She was moving very fast and had already visited the spot during the day, so she rushed along the eaves of the houses. Even where there were no houses, she mostly stayed in the shade, which greatly reduced the possibility of being discovered.

In this way, she soon arrived at the location of the underground cold storage.

Following the men's actions, she opened the underground cold storage and climbed down the ladder.

After entering, you can clearly feel the cold air. After all, this is where corpses are stored, so there must be enough cold air to prevent the corpses from rotting as much as possible.

The coffins are all open, and you can see what's inside by walking over.

She didn't turn on the light because it was too dazzling at night, so she spent twenty spirit coins to buy a temporary flashlight in the mall.

When the weak light was turned on, the person in the coffin appeared before her eyes.

Tao Yao frowned after just one look.

No wonder the butler blocked other people's view, it turned out it was because the corpse was abnormal.

There are five coffins in total, and the people inside are the same, both men and women.

In addition to the same injuries on their bodies, a straw was installed at their hearts, and the other end was connected to a blood bag exactly the same as the one she had received.

So, this is how blood bags are made?

The murderer is not a vampire?

Tao Yao was a little surprised, but soon thought of another possibility.