living in the world of reincarnation

Chapter 7 Diary and Chamber of Secrets

"The person who hanged himself?" Mu Lan frowned. Looking at the clothes, it should be the housekeeper or waiter here, who had been dead for a long time.

Ah Feng leaned over to check the corpse, while Mu Lan checked the ledger on the table. These crooked, tadpole-like letters were obviously not English, French, Latin or any Western language she knew, but she could understand it. She had never learned the language.

Mu Lan looked through the ledger, and the contents were all about the purchase of daily necessities in Fort Sill. Reading these words was as natural as reading her mother tongue, and the language of this world existed in her mind like an innate instinct.

Is it the magic of the reincarnation world?

Opening the drawer, she found a dark green book. She flipped through it casually. It was full of journals and daily chores. She would attend Mrs. Sassan’s salon on Wednesday, the membership fee for the Alchemy Society next year, and the purchase of some meat for the castle. etc.
She leaned on the table, looking for a comfortable posture, these records became less and less, until a sentence caught her attention.

"People are starting to go missing at Fort Sill."

It was obviously different from the previous essay-like writing, suppressing her excitement, Mu Lan continued to read.

Eighth Brumaire: After Madam passed away, the Earl became irritable. He went out at night every day, and his attitude towards the servants became worse and worse. Today he just reminded him to attend the old Barry's dinner party, and he called me an idiot. Also kicked me.
22nd Brumaire: Two more servants have gone missing!People in Fort Hill were panicked, the face of the Earl became more and more gloomy, and I was a little afraid of him.
25th of Brumaire: There were rumors in the manor that the missing servants were all killed by the earl. I stopped those bastards with bad mouths... But, I have some doubts in my heart.
28th Brumaire: What is the Earl doing in his room?Oh my god, I heard someone screaming in there, it was horrible!

Thirtyth Brumaire: The Earl asked me to buy more slaves. I don’t know how I got out of the room. My legs were shaking and I couldn’t hold my glasses. Those servants were really killed by the Earl Dead, he mentioned my son, Little John, who went to the butler's school, oh!The Earl is threatening me!
Blood Moon Fifth: The Earl must have sold his soul to the devil!I dare not look directly into his eyes!He cried for a while, laughed for a while, and he said that he was about to succeed, and he was about to succeed!He kept repeating this!
Blood Moon Seventh: Fort Sill is like a man-eating monster. There are fewer and fewer people in the manor. The smell of blood makes me gag. I even saw crows standing on the vaults!

Blood Moon Thirteen: Am I Dying?I already know the count's secret, my God, it's terrible!I don't want to die yet, what about John?He mentioned John again, he gave me a sum of money and said it was enough for our family to buy a piece of land, what should I do?Damn.. I can't run away!

Blood Moon [-]th: The Earl said that he needs seven living people. After the ceremony is completed, his wife, our hostess Mrs. Wen Ruidi will return.
I am helping the devil to commit murder, God!forgive me!I have sinned deeply.
"Mission item: "The Diary of Steward Leon"."

A reminder flashed in her mind, and Mu Lan's face gradually became serious. Is there a murderous Earl in the castle? Since "The Steward Leon's Diary" is prompted as a quest item, the authenticity is very high, and the earl needs seven live people, which happens to correspond to the number of quests, and the extra person is very likely It was the Count himself.

The earl is hidden among these few people!After confirming this clue, Mu Lan was really scared for a while. The murderer was hiding in the team. We communicated with him, discussed issues with him, and even spent the night with him in the castle hall!All our thoughts are exposed, maybe this bloodthirsty monster hiding in the dark is still mocking their ignorance and fearlessness.

"What did you find?" When Ah Feng came out, he saw Mu Lan holding a notebook, with a bad expression on his face.

Mu Lan hesitated or handed the diary to Ah Feng. She actually wanted to hide the information while he was not paying attention, but the mission reminder appeared, and she didn't know whether the other people received the reminder. Fang Fang showed him.

"Butler Leon's diary?" Afeng murmured.

Sure enough, she only received the reminder after touching the mission items. Mu Lan felt a little regretful, but she didn't show it. She asked Xiang Afeng, "What do you think?"

"This ceremony requires seven people." Ah Feng also found the point. He looked at Mu Lan with guard in his eyes, "Theoretically, everyone is suspected."

"Well, there are eight of us, the extra one." Before Mu Lan could finish speaking, she was interrupted by shouts from outside.

"Come on!" A sharp cry came from Zhao Mengqi's voice, and Mu Lan hurriedly returned to the corridor. She looked towards the second floor below, where Zhao Mengqi was holding on to the railing and shouting loudly.

"It's not good! Junhang is gone!"

"Come and help!"

After a while, the two groups of people upstairs gathered on the second floor. Zhao Mengqi looked anxious and said to everyone: "Just now we were searching a study room. It was too dark and I didn't dare to go in. Wait outside, and then, after a while, he didn't move!"

"The person disappeared?" Lu Tianming asked suspiciously.

"Yes! I called him many times, but he didn't answer me. I dare not go in, so I can only call you!"

"Let's go! Take us to that room!" Lu Tianming didn't ask any more questions, and asked Zhao Mengqi to lead the way, and five people came to the library.

The library is very spacious, with seven or eight rows of brown wooden bookshelves, densely packed with all kinds of books. Like the room where the housekeeper hanged himself before, this library also has its curtains drawn, and the light is very dark. Only the faint outlines of several rows of bookshelves could be seen. Zhao Mengqi pointed inside: "This is it! He passed by himself, and I stayed outside. After a while, he disappeared!"

Disappeared in place?Mu Lan randomly picked up a book with the outline of alchemy written on the cover, and took several other books, namely "Runes and Witchcraft Marks", "Elementary Spells", "Encyclopedia of Elemental Systems", this library and her It was different from what she imagined, and it turned out that most of them were related to occultism, witchcraft, and alchemy. She remembered that "The Alchemy Society" and membership fees were mentioned in "The Diary of Steward Leon". Was the Earl a member of the Alchemy Society?

Yesterday's night of horror, which was hunted down by a skeleton monster, obviously proved that this is a mysterious world with supernatural power or magic. It is not surprising that the earl is an alchemist or wizard. The Earl of the Wizard sits at home, why should he mix among the few of us?The wizards in Mu Lan's impression are the kind of people in western fantasy novels who can reach thousands of troops with a cane. If he has powerful witchcraft, this earl can easily kill everyone on the first day.

Her thoughts diverged a little, and Mu Lan turned her thoughts back to reality. At this moment, Lu Tianming and Ah Feng were walking towards the depths of the library with kerosene lamps in their hands. The flames of the kerosene lamps illuminated the space over there, and several of them were whispering.

"It's true that the person disappeared?" Xu Min was the one who spoke, and she followed Lu Tianming closely, wishing she could post it all up. This woman has trusted Lu Tianming very much from the beginning. I don't know what she would do if she knew that everyone was suspicious. reacted.

After a few people confirmed that the study room was not in danger, they searched inside and out. Although the library room is large, it is not a situation where a large living person stands and everyone is at a loss.

"Could you have gone out?" Lu Tianming asked Zhao Mengqi.

Zhao Mengqi hurriedly shook her head: "Before I went to find you, I called him outside for a long time, and I went to you when I didn't reply!"

"This is weird, can it disappear out of thin air?"

Several people were helpless, and Mu Lan's attention was still on the books. She was holding the "Compendium of Alchemy" that she got at the beginning. Although the text in it was understandable, it was full of too many words and symbols that she didn't know. , scrutinizing the content inside is like a student majoring in business administration who reads professional books related to programming. This book is like an induction and introduction to alchemy. For example, the first article explains what alchemy is. She can't help feeling Strange, would an alchemist read such an introductory book?

"It smells like blood!" Ah Feng said suddenly.

The five people all looked at him, Ah Feng didn't explain much, he bent down and groped the ground, bending his waist like a hound and sniffing around.

This situation is really strange, several people looked at his movements strangely, and saw that he was serious and didn't disturb him.

Ah Feng stopped at the corner of the last row of bookshelves. He bent down and wiped the ground with his finger, sniffed it with the tip of his nose, and said, "It's blood!"

Mu Lan followed, looked down, and there was indeed a drop of blood.

Ah Feng continued to sniff in one direction, and after a while, he pointed to the ground: "There are also here!"

Mu Lan noticed that these blood droplets roughly pointed a direction towards the wall, she walked over and knocked on the wall, the sound was muffled, different from normal walls, there must be room behind the wall.

"This wall is empty!" Mu Lan called everyone over.

A Feng knocked along the wall and listened. He stopped at a round gilt mirror frame and then opened the mirror. Mu Lan saw a copper disk embedded in the wall. In the center of the disk was a half-exposure. A spherical button-like object.

Is it a secret room?Mu Lan asked for everyone's consent and pressed it down, followed by the sound of mechanical rotation, a secret door on the wall opened, and the inside was dark, only a passage leading to the depths could be seen, and the cold air seeped out. Everyone shuddered.

Mu Lan hesitated for a moment and did not dare to take the lead. Lu Tianming threw a book inside and found that there was no mechanism or anything like that, but no one dared to go in first. Upon seeing this, A Feng went straight into it with a kerosene lamp.

The secret room is not big, only about fifty or sixty square meters. There are a few wooden boxes stacked on the ground, and there are two large metal crucibles on the table in the middle, and there are all kinds of bottles and jars and dried plants. The bottle was filled with black or white powder. Mu Lan picked up a glass container, and the liquid inside contained fine white powder. These things reminded her of her high school chemistry class. The chemistry teacher always made some interesting things for them. little experiment.

This is like the earl's alchemy laboratory. It should be the place where the owner of the castle studies alchemy. Much of modern chemistry was born out of medieval alchemy. Many elements and chemical phenomena were discovered in the hands of gold-obsessed alchemists. Not surprising anymore.

Ah Feng stretched out the kerosene lamp to the ground, and there was a puddle of blood on the floor. The blood was not dry yet, and following the direction of the blood, Ah Feng walked to a large wooden box and stopped.

Lu Tianming and Ah Feng worked together to open the wooden box, the kerosene lamp approached, and then saw a terrifying scene, Zhao Mengqi and Xu Min screamed, Lu Tianming also backed away in fright, Mu Lan saw the thing clearly, and held on I stood firm, but my hands still trembled uncontrollably. The flames were faint, and the shadows of several people were distorted, adding a bit of eerieness to the small secret room.

It could barely be seen that there was a person in the box. The whole school uniform turned red due to the blood soaking. An Junhang seemed to be forced into the box. His limbs were awkward like a doll randomly stuffed into the box. Hollow, as if hollowed out, his eyes and mouth were gaping, and he died with a look of shock.

(End of this chapter)