There is a large sink in the middle of the kitchen. There is an air outlet similar to a flue in the center of the sink, and next to it is the table where the chef handles the ingredients. The table is connected to the unknown black hole outside. A wrinkled pig that has been washed comes out of the hole.
The cook stood in front of the conveyor, holding a machete in his greasy hand, each of which could accurately cut the pig's head.
The pig's head fell into the black sludge on the ground and disappeared slowly, as if the black sludge was a swamp, which could precipitate everything.
Although the puppet cook's hand didn't stop, his head looked at the other side.
From its aspect, it should be talking to the maid with her head in the main hall.
There are many cabinet furnishings in the kitchen, but they have been covered with oil and some dark red blood stains.
In angel's view, this kitchen is very strange.
First of all, next to the main hall is the kitchen. This design alone is very strange. What's more strange is that it's just separated by a curtain, as if you saw two very different scenes.
Although the main hall is somewhat gaudy, it can at least be called gorgeous and magnificent in the eyes of people who are not knowledgeable. But the next kitchen is dirtier and more terrible than the smelly ditch full of oil.
What does the count of black tea think when houses of such different styles are next to each other?
Absurd, contradictory and full of strangeness, is this the idea of the count of black tea, or is this the norm of the teapot country?
When Angell observed and Tucao kitchen, rabbit tea and tea gathered to make complaints about Angell's ear. "We are lucky, tea servants are sleeping, the cooks are distracting two times, and we can sneak into the storeroom secretly."
Angel was stunned: "tea servant?"
He only saw the cook, not the tea servant..
Rabbit tea whispered, "in the air."
Angel's head was almost out of the shadow this time, and then he saw two teapots on plates floating faintly in the air. They are suspended above the water tank. Once up and down, they look like breathing and move regularly.
"This is the shape of the tea servants when they sleep. Now it's the shape of the teapot, but when they wake up, they are puppets whose heads are teapots." When the rabbit finished the tea, he motioned angel to hurry.
Angel also knew that this was not the time to chat. He followed the rabbit tea like a thief, tiptoed and moved quietly under the cabinet.
When they move, they must take the shadow. Once there is a slight change in the outside world, they will immediately stop moving and hide carefully in the dark.
In this way, it took them about three minutes to move smoothly from the bottom of the leftmost cabinet to the door of the outdoor storage hall.
The whole process was basically smooth, except for a small episode in the middle.
One of the pig heads cut by the chef did not fall into the black sludge when it fell to the ground, but fell under the sink.
It happened that the pig's head was aimed at angel and rabbit tea.
The pig head didn't seem to be completely dead, and his eyes were still blinking. Angel even saw his reflection with tea in the dark eyes of the pig head.
At that moment, angel's frightened heart thumped.
Just when Angel thought they had been found, the chef didn't turn back. While chatting with the maid outside, he stretched out his foot and kicked the pig's head into the black mud.
Slowly, the sludge swallowed the pig's head.
Until the pig's head disappeared, angel's mood of mentioning his voice fell slowly.
Looks like we haven't found them yet? But the pig obviously saw him and tea. Will this have any future trouble?
Angel was very nervous, but he couldn't ask about tea now. He had to follow tea with his head down.
Until they entered the outdoor storage hall and confirmed that there was no one here, angel asked his doubts.
"You said that pig head?" Rabbit tea paused and whispered, "don't worry, they are all human and livestock. Even if they are found, there will be nothing..."
Rabbit tea said at this time, his eyes flashed a little bleak.
"Man and beast?" It's OK that rabbit tea doesn't explain. Angel can't understand it when he explains it.
It's clearly a pig. Why is it named after "human and animal"?
Facing angel's doubt, rabbit tea was silent for a moment and said, "because they are all changed by animal making."
Animal building?
With the explanation of rabbit tea, angel gradually understood what animal making is.
This is a kind of extraordinary skill to turn creatures into meat animals. Most of the people who are cast are sinners of the teapot country. The sinners of the teapot country basically belong to human beings. After these human beings become carnivorous animals, they are also called human beings and animals.
"Edible meat animals... You mean they turn the people of teapot country into food?"
Rabbit tea nodded and whispered, "this animal making technique is very popular in the upper class of teapot country. It's called punishment for criminals, but in my opinion, it's just to satisfy their evil appetite. They seem to eat pork... But the taste is actually different from real pork."
Angel had previously felt that this animal making technique was a bit like the pen of the dark gourmet in the wizard world in the north, but he couldn't help shaking his head after listening to rabbit tea.
This is even further than the dark gourmet, who sacrificed the same kind to the devil, while the upper class nobles here ate the same kind.
This is really... An absurd country.
Rabbit tea: "don't say that. Anyway, don't worry about being exposed. The man and animal have been treated just now."
Angel: "the mud on the ground?"
Rabbit tea nodded: "those are carnivorous fungi, toxic."
After a pause, the rabbit tea turned and walked to the front: "the outer Hall of the storeroom is full of sundries, and the slightly expensive ones are all in the inner hall. If the black tea count puts his half mirror in the storeroom, it must be in the inner hall. If he wants to enter the inner hall, he has to climb the wall again, so we have to hurry."
Rabbit tea naturally talked about their next goal, but Angel vaguely felt something was wrong. Looking at the back of rabbit tea, angel remembered the gloom in his eyes when rabbit tea mentioned humans and animals.
Is this why rabbit tea is unwilling to talk more and even takes the initiative to change the topic?
What does rabbit tea think? Angel doesn't know. But at this time, he felt that although the world was absurd, every creature here was very real.
Like, it really existed.
"Alchemy omen... What kind of operation mechanism is it?" Angel whispered, his eyes flashing doubts and confusion, and finally sighed a long sigh and stopped thinking.
……
Rabbit tea is right. There is no half mirror in the outer Hall of the storage room. There are sundries piled up here. There are replacement teapots, dirty blankets, and various non edible living materials, but they are basically dirty and old.
"Some of the things put in the outer hall will be cleaned and some will be taken out and destroyed. The really good things and brand-new things will be put in the inner hall." Rabbit tea: "here it is."
Rabbit tea pointed to an iron door in the depths.
The door is now locked. But directly above the door, there are air vents, which are just big enough for them to drill in.
There is no way to climb the door directly, but the wall next to it can climb up.
It took them a few minutes to climb up the right height of the wall crack, and then move towards the gate little by little.
When he was about to reach the gate, rabbit tea jumped onto the lock of the gate, and angel followed. If it had been before, it would have been a little hard for angel to jump like this, but it would have been much easier with the saddle as the "wing".
Climb all the way from the door latch and soon arrive.
Through the air hole, angel can see the environment inside the storage room.
It is indeed filled with good things as rabbit tea said, but it is mostly living materials and teapots with unique shapes.
At first glance, I didn't see a half mirror.
However, there are cabinets in many places, and angel can't see the specific situation.
"At present, there seems to be no half mirror you want. Do you want to go in and have a look?" Rabbit tea turned and asked.
Angel nodded: "go in and have a look."
Just in case, angel is ready to enter the inner hall for further confirmation.
About ten minutes later, the door of the storeroom was opened. This is the patrol maid. She came back from the outside. She entered the storeroom and began to tidy up the supplies here.
When the patrol maid didn't notice, angel and rabbit tea crept out of a teapot and pot, and then walked out quickly through the crack of the open inner hall door.
The whole process was breathtaking.
They returned to the outer room of the storeroom. The only regret was that angel didn't find the bust mirror in the ten minute search.
It means that the count of black tea didn't put his half mirror in the storeroom after he came back.
Although angel has some regrets, he has tried and made at least one mistake. There are only two places left, the study or the treasure house.
The guard of the treasure house is too strict, and it's underground. Even if you want to run, it's a little difficult. If you are really in the treasure house, you need a more detailed sneaking plan.
Therefore, angel's next choice is the study.
The study is upstairs, and the stairs are on the left side of the main hall, which means that they have to cross the kitchen and main hall again before they can reach the stairs upstairs.
Although he had had one experience, angel still didn't relax when he returned to the kitchen again.
The situation in the kitchen changed slightly. The tea servant was still sleeping, but the cook didn't talk anymore. Instead, he continued to chop the pig's head while preparing some highly toxic sauce.
Overall, however, it's easy to leave.
This time, angel and rabbit tea only took two minutes to return to the main hall.
The main hall changed a lot. Both maids retracted their snake neck heads. The maid who had been chatting with the cook went to the door and cleaned up the dust on the ground to prevent the count from getting angry when he came back; Another maid who ate cockroaches did not look for cockroaches at this time, but wiped the porcelain bottles one by one.
The main hall has changed a lot, but the overall difficulty is much less than before.
Because the maid at the door turned her back on them and the maid who ate cockroaches didn't pay attention to the ground, they had much more room to hide and didn't have to walk in the air.
They chose the same method as in the kitchen, by walking into the shadow of the furniture and the blind spot of the vision of the two maids.
In this way, they walked smoothly back to the left side of the main hall.
Through the thick curtains, they came to the corridor to the atrium pond. However, instead of walking in the direction of the pond, they walked in the direction of the stairs.
Because the puppet maid was not good at climbing the stairs, and other servants would not go upstairs at this time, they boldly chose to take the stairs.
However, even without the interference of servants, it is not easy to take the stairs.
Mainly because they are too small.
There are two steps from the first floor to the second floor. Each step has twelve floors, a total of twenty-four floors. Angel had difficulty climbing every stair. Fortunately, the stairs were covered with blankets. Although they were tired, at least they wouldn't slip.
When climbing to the last floor of the second ladder, rabbit tea suddenly signaled angel to stop.
In fact, without the reminder of rabbit tea, angel has stopped climbing because he has heard the creak from the corridor on the second floor.
There is no doubt that the patrol maid on the second floor has come.
The patrol maid will not go downstairs, but will patrol back and forth on the second floor from time to time.
Angel and bunny tea waited with bated breath. As long as the patrol maid made a tour and stayed away from here, they could climb the second floor.
The staircase of the main building was originally built at the end. After the patrol maid came over, she looked down at random. She didn't see a figure, so she began to walk back.
Confirm that the footstep of the maid starts to move away, angel and rabbit tea immediately climb up the second floor.
Then he kept climbing towards the third floor of the stairs.
In this way, while avoiding the patrol maid and climbing the stairs, they finally came to the fourth floor where the study was located.
……
Count black tea's study is not far from the staircase on the fourth floor.
According to rabbit tea, they can go directly to the study as long as they avoid the patrol maid. Don't worry about not getting in, because there is a special entrance hole for tea servants on the door of the study.
Tea servants can quietly float into the study through import and export and place snacks, food and tea.
They can go to the study through the import and export of tea servants.
Along the way, rabbit tea also showed off its record of sneaking into the count's study. It stole a hat from the count of black tea's study and hid in the rabbit hole at this time.
But somehow, the more confident the performance of rabbit tea, the more angel felt a bad hunch.
Soon, the hunch came true.
When they quietly poked out their heads to see the situation in the study, angel and rabbit tea were stunned.
A fully armed puppet guard, like a stake, stood motionless at the door of the study.