Chapter 66: Third Floor (Seeking monthly votes)

The Administrator's residence was originally a castle of the Daliege nobles, everything was focused on defense, and the windows were all opened in very high places, narrow and small, so even in the daytime, the lighting was very poor. Later, during renovations, to make it suitable for living, the owner specially added many glass windows on the ground floor.

Through a glass decorated with patterns, Lu Mian looked inside, only to see the banquet hall used for hosting guests was empty and very desolate.

"Servants are indeed few..." Lyra sighed softly.

Because it was daytime, many windows were open, letting fresh air mixed with floral fragrance flow inside, which created extremely favorable conditions for Lu Mian and the others to sneak in.

Taking advantage of the fact that there were few servants on the first floor, the four of them entered the banquet hall one after another, but didn't rush to go deeper, finding hiding spots nearby.

Lyra tilted her head and said to Valentine, who was hiding behind a decorative pillar:

"I'll scout the path first, get ready."

"Hmm." Valentine nodded coldly.

Lu Mian was squatting behind a stone platform where a porcelain vase was placed. Hearing this, he stuck out his head and reminded:

"No need to explore the first floor."

"Guests are often entertained here, there's nothing abnormal."

Ever since the Viceroy, Mr. Bauste, and Lady Pualis moved in, his sister Aurora would occasionally visit the castle to be a guest or borrow a pony. A few times, he took the opportunity to tag along, cadging quite a few cakes, breads, and drinks.

And when the Administrator and Madame Pualis went out, he would occasionally come to find the butler, Louis Louis Longde, and under the other party's "escort," visited the first floor.

"I'll go directly to the stairs." Lyra indicated she understood.

She didn't try to walk in a straight line, crossing the empty banquet hall, but stuck to the wall and went around to where the stairs were.

Those four small silver bells magically didn't make a sound.

Passing by one of the rooms, she suddenly heard footsteps coming from a place very close to the door.

Lu Mian, who was in a good position, could even see a male servant wearing a red top and white trousers appear at the doorway, about to bump into Lyra, and there was no cover around!

Lyra didn't panic, turned her body, supported the wall with her hand, and climbed onto an oil painting hanging two meters high.

She then stood on tiptoe, stepped on the frame, and actually stood steadily against the wall like that without knocking the oil painting down.

Lu Mian wanted to applaud, because this reminded him of the circus acrobatics performance he saw in Daliege last year.

That male servant left the room, instinctively looked left and right, and walked toward the kitchen direction.

He had only walked a few steps when Lyra immediately slid to the ground silently, sticking to the oil painting.

Then, this lady did two rolls and hid behind a pillar.

After that male servant disappeared into the banquet hall, she stuck to the wall and walked again.

Finally, she arrived at the stairs and confirmed there was no problem.

Seeing this, Lu Mian flashed out from behind the stone platform and ran over in a straight line.

He was very fast, rushing to Lyra's side in only two or three seconds.

However, he wasn't the fastest; Ryan completed this "journey" in only one breath.

Valentine wasn't slow either; his physical fitness was clearly stronger than an ordinary person's.

Without saying much, Lyra took the lead, the four of them kept their distance, entered the stairs one after another, and arrived at the second floor of the house.

The rooms on both sides of the corridor here were all closed, with only one window at the bottom of each side letting in sunlight, and the overall environment appeared unusually dim.

Ryan looked left and right and said:

"We'll search different rooms separately; this can save time and is also convenient for hiding, but we can't be separated by more than one room, lest a change occurs and we don't have time to rescue."

Lyra and the others all nodded to indicate they knew.

Lu Mian immediately approached a nearby room, first sticking his ear to the door to listen if there was any movement inside, and then turned the handle and flashed in nimbly.

This was a maid's room.

He searched for a while, didn't find any clues, and could only head to the next room.

Just like this, the four of them occasionally avoided servants and explored most of the second floor.

Near the end of this round of searching, Lu Mian arrived at the door of the room that left him with psychological trauma.

Louis Louis Longde's bedroom!

And according to the "historical" process, this butler should have finished giving birth yesterday.

"His stomach was torn open, even if he had stitches, he couldn't have recovered in such a short time, he must be lying in bed resting now..." Lu Mian muttered silently, considering whether to push the door and enter to "chat" with Louis Louis Longde.

As a personal experiencer of the weird event, this butler must know quite a few situations.

But doing so violated the search principle they had set beforehand of only observing and exploring without touching anomalies. After all, Lu Mian couldn't guarantee Louis Louis Longde wouldn't tell Madame Pualis about him sneaking into the castle.

He even gave birth to a child for the other party, what else could be kept secret?

As for silencing him, it was equivalent to directly telling Madame Pualis "something happened."

"It's a pity, if I knew some hypnosis..." Lu Mian sighed silently while habitually sticking his ear to the door to listen to the movement inside.

There was no movement inside.

And with a "Hunter's" hearing after concentrating, even if separated by a door panel and two or three meters, it was impossible not to hear breathing.

"No one? Louis Louis Longde just gave birth to a child, where would he go?" Lu Mian tried turning the handle, pushed the door open a crack, and peeked inside.

The room was cleaned up quite cleanly, and there were no bloodstains from his memory, of course, there was no Louis Louis Longde either.

Lu Mian frowned slightly, exerted force on his hand, pushed the door halfway open, and walked in.

He could tell that this bedroom had traces of a human having slept there; whether it was the made bed, the cigarette butts on the bedside, the black coat hanging on the chair, or the barely visible footprints on the ground, all indicated Louis Louis Longde had been active there not long ago.

Besides these, Lu Mian also saw some bloodstains and oil stains that hadn't been wiped clean at the edge of the bed.

"He did give birth to a child yesterday..." Lu Mian nodded while talking to himself in his heart.

At this time, he heard faint talking coming from outside the window.

He hurriedly walked to the glass window, turned his body, and looked outside.

At the stables, the black-haired blue-eyed Louis Louis Longde was wearing a white shirt inside, a black formal suit, dark trousers, and leather shoes outside, talking to the coachman Sevel, who had taken the brother and sister to the Other Shore World in the last loop, while walking.

His complexion was quite rosy, and his walking posture was steady and powerful, making Lu Mian stare blankly.

This is someone who gave birth to a child only yesterday?

And it was a C-section!

Lu Mian endured the horror in his heart and listened carefully to what Louis Louis Longde and Sevel were saying.

Who knew, these two guys were just exchanging experiences on weeding and planting flowers.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Lu Mian not coming out for a long time, Ryan, wearing a dark round top hat, also pushed the door and entered this room, with Lyra and Valentine following closely behind.

Lu Mian hurriedly pressed his voice and told the three outsiders about Louis Louis Longde's performance.

Ryan listened earnestly and thought for a moment:

"Do you know the 'Mother Earth Goddess'?"

The Daliege region and the Feynapot Kingdom had a border, shepherds often transferred to that side, plus his sister's basic education, Lu Mian was not unfamiliar with this at all:

"I know, the deity worshipped in Feynapot."

Ryan nodded:

"That deity is in charge of fertility, and correspondingly, there are domains like healing and life, which are also reflected in the Beyonder abilities of the corresponding path."

"I'm not saying the matter here is related to the 'Mother Earth Goddess', but telling you that fertility, healing, and life are often linked. Since Louis Louis Longde can give birth to a child, it's understandable that he recovered in just one day."

"Is that so..." Lu Mian thought it was normal too.

Men can give birth to children, what's so strange about being full of energy one day after a C-section?

"Any gains?" He asked Ryan and the others.

Ryan shook his head:

"They are all very normal servant rooms."

"Looks like we have to go to the third floor." Lu Mian felt inexplicably heavy.

The third floor had Madame Pualis and Administrator Beost's bedroom, study, sunroom, living room, etc., etc.

And this meant huge risks.

"Good." Ryan didn't hesitate.

Soon, the four of them sneaked into the third floor.

Many doors here were open, and the corridor was much brighter.

Lu Mian went straight to the point and stepped into Madame Pualis and Administrator Beost's bedroom.

Here there was a bed covered with a light-colored velvet quilt, a small bookshelf with bedtime reading, a very spacious walk-in closet filled with various clothes, a safe for precious collections, a set of soft and comfortable beige sofas, a table with five photo frames and document books, and a fluffy white carpet covering the whole room...

Lu Mian and the others looked around and chose that table at the same time.

The books there were common popular novels, including Fors Wall's masterpiece "The Great Adventurer 5: Lieutenant General of Disease," as well as Aurora's latest work "The Substitute Detective," while the documents were mainly various affairs issued by the Daliege region, and the five photo frames, four belonged to Madame Pualis, and one belonged to a man Lu Mian didn't know.

"No Administrator?" He whispered somewhat surprised.

Those four photos of Madame Pualis only had herself, wearing different grand costumes, posing in different postures, and the only male photo actually wasn't Administrator Beost's.

You know, he is the master of this house, this is too strange, right?

Lyra nodded thoughtfully:

"The Administrator's status in this family might be about the same as the butler's."

"Whose house have you seen put up a butler's photo?"

"Then who is this man?" Lu Mian looked at the photo frame on the very edge.

Inside the photo frame was a color photo, the man looked twenty-seven or twenty-eight, wearing a red shirt, matching a black velvet jacket and dark trousers with tassels on the legs, stepping on a pair of short boots with shoelaces, dressed very fashionably.

His features were somewhat like Madame Pualis's, his eyebrows were slightly sparse, his brown eyes were bright and smiling, his brown hair was styled in a somewhat exaggerated three-seven split, and the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, like the kind of person who often enters and exits high society and carries a bit of a rogue temperament.

Overall, this man's features weren't outstanding, but he made people feel very pleasing to the eye.

"Madame Pualis's brother or younger brother?" Lu Mian guessed based on his appearance.

PS: Seeking monthly votes~

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