Escape from the world [Cthulhu]

Lian Yu never expected that Yan An could go to the third floor if he went out for a walk to get some fresh air.

What's more, he didn't expect that he could fall into a temporary madness on the third floor.

Go upstairs and snatch Yan'an down?

No, after entering the study room this morning and being discovered, the Liszt family began to suspect them.

Moreover, he might not be able to bring Yan An down safely, let alone explain why he appeared on the third floor, and why Yan An went crazy on the third floor.

Thinking so, Lian Yu rang the bell in the room.

After a while, Froya, the maid in charge of their room, appeared at the door: "Guest, what can I do for you?"

Lian Yu pretended to be weak and leaned against the door: "It's like this. My companion said to go out to get some air, but he hasn't come back until now. I'm worried that he might have lost his way. Can you ask your government to help you find it?"

"Of course." Froya bowed to him, "Froya will deal with this matter now, please wait a moment."

Lianyu closed the door, and then packed up all kinds of equipment as quickly as possible—if a fight really broke out, he would have to fight, and at worst, he would take Yan'an to the forest.

He thought that someone would bring Yan An to the door to question him soon, but he didn't expect that no one would knock on the door after waiting for a long time.He was really worried, so he put on a long coat to cover the weapon on his body, and went out.

There was no one in the corridor on the second floor, and the sound of arguing from the first floor could be heard vaguely.

But he was too far away, and he didn't have listening skills, so he couldn't hear what they were saying at all.

He went down the stairs to the banquet hall on the first floor, and he could see Mrs. Caroline sitting on a luxurious chair, the butler was standing behind her, and opposite was the mayor Sirius who looked excited.

"Sir, I'm sorry that we can't take responsibility for this matter." Mrs. Caroline looked impatient, "I don't know why there is a calling bell next to your bed in the Liszt house. Under such circumstances, people will still go missing? What did I hear just now? Another person is missing? Let me tell you, as long as they don’t go where they shouldn’t go, nothing will happen to them.”

"But this is not a reason for you to refuse our request, madam." Lian Yu cut off the conversation, and he said as he walked towards them, "And as far as I know, people are often lost nearby. Sheriff Anthony was there before he disappeared. Investigate these cases. I now have a reasonable suspicion that Sheriff Anthony's disappearance is connected to this case."

Sirius gave him a grateful look, and then echoed: "Yes, we are here to investigate this matter this time."

Mrs. Caroline let out a drawn-out "Oh" in interest, but the butler behind her couldn't take it any longer.

The butler took a step forward, with rare emotion in his voice: "I regret that those cases happened, but so far, there is no evidence to prove that those cases are related to the Liszt house. I think what you are saying now is correct. Liszt's slander."

At this time, a servant stumbled in from the door: "Mrs. Caroline, Mr. Caroline..."

Mrs. Caroline looked at him dissatisfied: "What's wrong with Kyle? Make it clear."

"Mr. Kyle... is dead!"

Mrs. Caroline stood up abruptly: "What did you say?!"

The servant was trembling and could barely stand: "When we were looking for the missing guest... we found Mr. Kyle's body in the garden..."

Mrs. Caroline took half a step back, and almost fell back into the chair again, with a sad and happy expression on her face, and she muttered: "This day is still..."

The butler stretched out his hand to support Mrs. Caroline: "Madam, I ask for your condolences."

Mrs. Caroline quickly returned to normal, the expression on her face disappeared, and she just said so expressionlessly: "Take me to see."

"Yes... yes, ma'am."

Mrs. Caroline and the housekeeper went in a mighty way with the servants.

Sirius asked Lianyu: "Mr. Lian, I heard that your companion is also missing, is it?"

Lian Yu nodded: "Just now, he told me to go for a walk and come back, but... I don't think it's very good, so I asked the servant to help find it."

Sirius closed his eyes and said, "I'm going to see Mr. Caroline, how about you?"

Lian Yu shook his head, with no hesitation on his face: "No, I still want to find my companion first."

Although he could probably guess where Yan'an was, he still needed to save face.

Lian Yu pretended to look around the restaurant, and then asked the servants on the first floor if they had seen his companion, but they all got a negative reply, and then went to the third floor.

Unexpectedly, there was no one on the third floor—maybe because of Mr. Caroline's death, the servants all went to the garden?

He hesitated at the stairs on the third floor, and finally started to search from the left, and did not take the opportunity to go to the room on the right.

He first knocked on the door of the Lister couple's room—unexpectedly, someone was there.

Mrs. Liszt opened the door from the inside, and there was no obvious expression on her face: "Is there something wrong?"

Lianyu, who knocked on the door, was a little surprised, but he reacted quickly and said to Mrs. Liszt: "Hi, madam, I'm sorry to disturb you. Did you see the friend who lives with me?"

"No," Mrs. Lister said softly, "what? Is there something wrong?"

"It's like this. My friend is lost. I asked the servants in the house to help find it, but... before I found my friend, I found Mr. Caroline's body first." Lian Yu's face Appropriately showing a trace of apology, "I feel that under such circumstances, I am really embarrassed to continue to disturb them, so I came to find it myself."

"Oh, that's it." Mrs. Liszt nodded, and then said, "You can look for other rooms on the third floor, maybe you can find your friend. Sorry I can't accompany you, I need to see my sister. "

"Then I won't bother you, ma'am." Lian Yu stepped aside, "I hope you and Mrs. Caroline can take care of themselves."

Mrs. Liszt came out of the room, closed the door, and bowed slightly to Lianyu: "Thank you for your blessing, and I hope you will find your companion as soon as possible."

Lian Yu also bowed slightly in return.

Mrs. Lister went down from the third floor gracefully.

Lian Yu turned around and opened the door of the study room with haste.

Yan An was in the study room, squatting beside a bookcase, with his head down, holding a book in his arms.

"Yan An?"

Yan An didn't respond.

Lian Yu walked over quickly, knelt down and looked at him: "What's wrong with you?"

Only then did he see Yan An's eyes were tightly closed, with half-dried tears all over his face.

Everyone has something to fear.

This is not shameful, because fear is an instinct of human beings.

Only when you realize what danger is there will you feel the emotion of fear in order to live.

What are you afraid of?

Yan An fell into endless hallucinations.

In the beginning, it was the content of that book, and all kinds of terrible things recorded in the book were staged one by one before his eyes.

Later, it gradually became the interpretation of his life.

What he remembered and what he didn't remember happened one by one.

But someone seems to be missing.

Panic seized his heart.

He closed his eyes and pulled himself together.

Lianyu, where are you?

-

On the other side of the racecourse, not long after He Ying and the others saw the identification information, they saw someone galloping over on a horse and said something, and then the carriage that brought them was driven out again.

The horse trainer said to them, "Guests, something seems to have happened at the house. Are you going back to the house now?"

Of course He Ying and the others chose to go back. The ladies didn't seem to have had enough fun, but someone said something in the ear of the doctor Jenny, and she said goodbye to her friends and chose to go back to the house.

The carriage returned to Liszt's house, and as soon as the door was opened, Jenny, who had been silent all the way, jumped out of the carriage and trotted all the way in.

He Ying realized that something might have happened to Caroline and his wife.

But this was not their primary concern. Without hesitation, the investigators went straight to the second floor and went straight to Yan'an's room.

Fortunately, Yan'an had already returned, and he was currently staying on the bed. He squatted against the head of the bed, hugged his knees with his hands, and rolled himself into a ball.

After Lian Yu opened the door for them, she returned to Yan An.

"What happened to Boss Yan?" An Xian asked.

"I don't know." Lian Yu blamed himself, "He said to go out for a walk, but I didn't go with him. When I found out that something was wrong, he had already entered a state of madness."

He Ying was very calm: "Where did you find him?"

"The study on the third floor."

"He should have found an important clue, otherwise he wouldn't be able to make the Will test." He Ying flipped through the test records, "When you found him, did he have any books or notebooks with him?"

"There is a book in his arms." Lian Yu nodded, "But I didn't read it."

"Let him hold it." Chu Lishu said, "Since he is already crazy, he must have finished reading the book. We can ask him after he wakes up, otherwise it will be easy to go crazy again."

While they were talking, there was a knock on the door.

Chu Lishu went to open the door, and Brown was standing outside the door.

When Brown saw Chu Lishu, he rolled his eyes with a smile: "Ah, you are indeed here."

"How do you know we're here?"

"Actually, I saw a carriage coming back. I thought you probably came back, so I came over and knocked on the door one by one." Brown said, squeezing in the door, "Close the door, I have something to say."

Chu Lishu and He Ying looked at each other, and He Ying nodded.

So Chu Lishu closed the door and even locked it.

"I don't think you all know that Kyle Caroline is dead just now." Brown threw a bombshell as soon as he opened his mouth. Judging by the weight of the folded body... some limbs are missing."

After a brief silence, An Xian was the first to speak: "To be honest, I feel a little nauseous."

"Do you know the cause of death?" Lian Yu asked.

"I don't know, I just took a look at it from a distance, and didn't come into close contact with it. Kyle's body was taken away and covered with a white cloth." Brown shrugged, "And you should have noticed that this house is eating People. After you went to the racecourse, I knocked on other people's doors, except for the woman in black who didn't open the door for me, everyone opened the door."

"The fat businessman Ao is missing," Brown said. "The steward's answer is that he may have left on his own, but I'd prefer he's dead, like Sheriff Anthony."

He Ying looked at him: "What do you want to do now?"

"I hope you can help me." Brown said, taking out a letter from his pocket, "Actually, I am a vampire hunter—you should have guessed it, and the reason why I am here is because I received a letter from Sheriff Anthony. commission."

He Ying opened the letter. As Brown said, it was a power of attorney issued by Sergeant Anthony.

Sergeant Anthony had no choice but to think about the worst when the investigation of these missing cases had not progressed for a long time. He consulted a lot of vampire-related information, and finally determined that there was probably a vampire hidden around the Lister house.

But because the vampire's ability is far beyond that of ordinary people, he is not sure to contend with it as a human being, so he has to turn to Brown, a friend he met by accident, and ask him to go to Lister's house to investigate the truth.

"We originally wanted to take this birthday party as an opportunity to thoroughly investigate the Liszt mansion, but the situation in the Liszt mansion is worse than we imagined." Although Brown was talking about a serious topic, he still had a smile on his face. "In the past two days, I have talked to the maid, the gardener, the coachman, and the housekeeper several times, and found that their tone is extremely strict, and they refuse to disclose any useful information at all. I think it is likely that the Liszt family has some regulations, and the one who is severely punished kind."

He Ying continued his words: "What's worse is that the sheriff has disappeared. The mayor may not know the entrusted relationship between you and the sheriff. You have no backup."

"It's not considered isolated and helpless." Brown shrugged, "It's just that I now find that the enemy may be more cruel than we speculated before, so... there are always not too many teammates. I hope you will at least help yourself for your own safety. I give it a hand."

"Do you have anyone you suspect?"

"The characteristics of a vampire are obvious. They don't see sunlight, don't eat garlic, are afraid of people with pious beliefs, and love blood..." Brown said, looking at An Xian, "This lady should have noticed it."

An Xian nodded: "Is that the lady in black? I saw yesterday that she liked the medium-rare beef yesterday."

"Yes, I was suspicious of her yesterday, but because I was afraid of killing innocent people by mistake and letting the real vampire escape, I decided to observe again today." Brown sighed, "I didn't expect to lose two people this morning, and I can't drag it on any longer. .”

"Then what are you going to do now?"

"Of course it is to eliminate the evil. For this reason, I asked the nun for help, and decided to do it this afternoon when the sun was at its hottest." Brown glanced at the investigators in the room, "Are you willing to help me?"

The author has something to say: I finished writing it early today, so I posted the two chapters together...

Adjust the update time, I try to update at twelve o'clock every day, so that if there is still writing in the afternoon, I can add updates in the afternoon

↑The above is what I originally wanted to say

↓The following are the words of coquettish

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