Chapter 481: Strict Search
A huge lamp stood at the highest point of the villa, illuminating the entire courtyard as if it were daytime, making all the players invisible.
“What’s going on?!” Many players looked around in horror.
At the railing on the second floor, the man held up a shotgun and sneered, "It turns out that you rubbish are the ones causing this."
The hostess also lifted the camouflage blanket, revealing her hand holding the boning knife underneath.
She laughed grimly, "I realized something was wrong yesterday. As expected, none of you can escape today."
As soon as he finished speaking, a group of servants came out from behind the host and hostess, all of them sharpening their knives and rushing towards the players.
It turned out that after yesterday's roundup, the NPCs in the villa did not give up.
After nightfall, they pretended to be asleep as usual, but in fact they were secretly watching the movements of all the players.
Dead silence. The surroundings were filled with extreme dead silence.
After a moment, someone shouted, "Run!"
The scene suddenly became chaotic!
Xiao Jin grabbed Chu Yuan's broken body and rushed towards the window with the help of the pulley under his feet. Tong Xiaolu's spring leg directly broke the glass, and Song Chao followed closely behind.
The rest of the players showed off their skills and instantly scattered into the villa.
As for Sakurai Chinatsu and her teammates, they all fled to the basement...
"Wow, these guys are so cruel. They actually watched in secret for so long." Chu Yuan said while running, gritting his teeth.
"This way." Xiao Jin looked around and quickly locked onto the place she wanted to hide. Behind her, Tong Xiaolu and the others followed Xiao Jin without saying a word.
five minutes later.
Xiao Jin curled up in the mezzanine of the warehouse locker, with Chu Yuan and others beside him.
When he just came in, Xiao Jin saw Xiao Chengzhi's body on the ground. The other person's face was pale, his ten fingers were like claws, and he stretched his arm towards the door.
It seems that the injury to the spine is not too serious, and he can still move!
Unfortunately, even if he could move, he couldn't hold on to pick up the medicine and inject it into his body. At least that's what the injection that rolled down at Xiao Chengzhi's feet told Xiao Jin.
Chu Yuan and the other two who were standing nearby also saw the corpse.
But the expressions of the three men were extremely normal, as if they didn't care whether Xiao Chengzhi was dead or alive, and they were not even interested in the fact that there was a corpse here.
Soon, several people found the wall cabinet above the warehouse and crawled in, and then someone chased after them.
"Bang, bang, bang!" The sounds of searching and knocking kept ringing in my ears.
"Have it?"
"not found."
"Let's take a look over there..."
Outside the cabinet door, the servants' footsteps could be heard pacing back and forth, and the beam of the flashlight occasionally swept through the gap.
"Strange, I clearly saw him running this way..." the servant muttered and knocked on the cabinet door with the pliers.
The servants did not give up. The toys were too small and would not be easy to detect if hidden in a big villa, but they still searched in the warehouse for a long time.
Then, the servants' eyes fixed on the top of their heads.
Xiao Jin held his breath—if the cotton doll needed to breathe.
"Have you looked up there?"
"It's a bit high. I'll find a ladder."
With a rustling sound, the ladder was moved under the wall cabinet. In the darkness, Xiao Jin and the others pressed their bodies against the cabinet wall.
The light of the flashlight shone in from the door, and the servant opened his eyes wide and looked up into the cabinet.
But I don’t know if it’s because it’s been too long since it was cleaned. As soon as the door opened, a cloud of dust fell on the servant’s face.
"Ouch!"
"What's wrong?" The other servants' pupils suddenly shrank and they tightly grasped the knives and sticks in their hands.
"No... ahem, the dust is too thick, there's nothing there, let's go to the next place!"
Then the sound gradually faded away until even the sound of footsteps could no longer be heard.
But because of the hostess's previous experience, none of the four dared to move, and they stayed like that for a full twenty minutes.
Twenty minutes later.
"Huh..." Tong Xiaolu's spring rabbit hung upside down from the ceiling vent. It looked around and then gently touched Song Chao's shoulder with its metal legs: "It's okay, it's safe."
Chu Yuan's teddy bear also came out from behind, and the cotton leaked even more from the broken leg: "These NPCs are more difficult to deal with than contaminated toys."
Xiao Jin gently pushed open the cabinet door and scanned the warehouse with his plastic eyes. Then he suddenly discovered that Xiao Chengzhi's body on the ground had disappeared for some reason.
Was he taken away by the NPC?
After jumping down from the wall cabinet, they tiptoed to the door and looked outside through the crack.
At this moment, three male servants holding shotguns were standing in the courtyard, their eyes constantly scanning the lawn and bushes, looking for the players' location.
"Okay, it looks like we can't get out for a while, so let's stay here first." After Chu Yuan said that, he found a relatively clean place and lay down.
Xiao Jin did the same thing.
Seeing this, Tong Xiaolu and Song Chao looked at each other and sat down quietly.
After that, they hid from dusk to dawn, and from dawn to dusk. Fortunately, the toys didn't need to eat and didn't feel hungry.
Even so, Xiao Jin and others were almost found several times, but they successfully resolved the situation.
Today is the fifth night, and it is also the day agreed upon by Xiao Jin and Jian Yiqiu.
Chu Yuan and the others all knew about Xiao Jin's side quest, and they also believed that there would be significant changes after rescuing the 'author', so Chu Yuan, Tong Xiaolu and the others planned to go to the third floor of the villa with Xiao Jin.
If you want to go to the third floor, you have to overcome the many obstacles from NPCs.
The NPCs have been taking turns sleeping during this period, and those on duty are responsible for searching for traces of players in the villa.
If you want to get to the third floor of the villa, you'd better have a careful plan.
As for the other players, they have thought about leaving, but the main task is to protect the humans in the villa. Wouldn’t the mission fail if they left?
So there is no choice. Even if it is to protect the humans who are hostile to them, the players still have to stay.
It's night again.
At this moment, most of the humans appeared in the courtyard, and their investigative gazes never stopped for a moment.
"It seems they have learned their lesson." Song Chao appeared from behind the seasoning rack without much hurry. "They are blocking us there on purpose to prevent us from getting the battery. They don't intend to let the players return to human form."
"Of course these people don't want to." Tong Xiaolu pouted: "If we can recover, we won't be chased like rats by others."
Xiao Jin nodded: "Then let's act according to the plan and ignore the battery. When the contaminated toys appear, we will go directly to the third floor."
Yes, although plans cannot keep up with changes, the results are not much different.
Even if Xiao Jin and the others are not discovered by the people in the villa, if Xiao Jin releases the imprisoned "writer" tonight, it will still cause a riot.
Now it’s just early...