As it grew darker, the remaining people regrouped in the hall.
Of course, there aren't actually many people left.
Lian Qingyi and Justina came down from upstairs and did not go out.
Bay leaves, lavender and jasmine placed a simple dinner in the living room.
Mayuri Daida held her gun and huddled on the sofa in the hall with a pale face. The pendulum on the wall made a ticking sound, which seemed extremely scary in the quiet main hall at this moment.
"Those who went out...didn't anyone come back?" Justina asked.
Bayleaf shook her head.
"They're all dead!" Mayuri Daida suddenly said viciously, "I told you not to leave alone when you have nothing to do, and yet you still run around. You deserve to die!"
"Alas... nature plays tricks on people." Lian Qingyi picked up a piece of bread, chewed some of it tastelessly, and said with a wry smile, "If the murderer is among us, there is no need to hide it. Now no matter what, the evil people have the upper hand. …”
Mayuri Daida was silent and began to stuff food into her mouth.
Justina kept her gun in her hand and didn't show much panic on her expression, as if all this was just a trivial matter. She took a sip of a glass of hot milk and looked at the servants quietly.
After a while, Mayuri Daida suddenly dropped the food in his hand and looked at the three servants.
"What happened to your group, Mint, Musk and Ambergris?"
"Clan leader, this..." As soon as Lavender spoke, Mayuri waved her hands irritably, "This is already the case, there is nothing else to hide. Do you think you can't tell it? Or is there some other secret? This There are only six of you servants on Wajima, I know it’s strange.”
"Well, let me tell you." Jasmine took a step forward nervously, "We should really tell the clan leader what happened this time."
Mayuri's expression softened a little.
"Actually... we are all people who have been sponsored by Mr. Rennix." Jasmine began to tell.
Although Rennix has participated in many charitable foundations and the like, he has never believed in such organizations run by others, and donations are just routine actions. He prefers to select some promising young people through his own vision. If the other party encounters financial difficulties, he will pay to train them. There is even a dedicated team to help him do this.
This was done so secretly that even the family members did not know that these people were helped by Rennix. And they don't need to serve the Howard Consortium or pay off the funding after completing their studies. The only thing they need to do is to come to Bamu Island to provide servant services for one year when Rennix needs it.
For most recent graduates, this is even an excellent opportunity. Even from the most realistic point of view, the experience of serving the founder of the Howard Corporation is a bright spot on the resume. Even if the position of "servant" is written, it will not be treated as an ordinary servant.
Of course, Rennix will notify them in advance to give these people time to prepare. Three months before Jasmine came to the island, she received an email from Rennix's team. It happened that her job at the time was not very satisfactory, so she resigned, sorted out her things, and came directly to Bumoku Island.
The servants arrive at different times, and the person responsible for the basic training of the servants is Escher. Since most jobs do not have high technical content and only require proficiency and patience, Jasmine learned quickly. After learning for about a month, she got her own exclusive servant costume, which was a servant with Jasmine flowers painted on it. People serve. At this time, there are still four servants on the island, namely Mint, Iris, Rosemary and Obaze.
The other four people arrived a little late, but not by much. It took almost a month. As July approached, the training of the servants was all over. After the training was over and all the servants had become familiar with various affairs on the island, Rennix gave them ten days of leave to go home and settle down in order to prepare for the arrival of family members and guests on the island in September. welcome ceremony. During this period of getting along, the nine servants have already become friends. After all, the people Rennix specially selects to support always have some shining merits and are very harmonious to get along with.
However, after these ten days of vacation, three people did not come back.
Jasmine felt unbelievable at the time, but later, after Rennix used his contacts to find out the information, he learned that the three people had died of murder.
"From the outside, we have no way to deal with the murderer. If they dare to kill, it means they have someone to rely on. The only way to try them is to invite them to this island."
This is what Rennix said at the time.
Mayuri felt something was wrong.
The murderer was invited to the island? Were the deaths of the servants external factors? So who was that mint she saw on the island? Is there anyone else on this island? Or was it an illusion created by someone?
"Is this what father said?"
"No, Mr. Rennix said that he could only determine the scope of one suspect, so we have to make a real judgment. In addition, he did not know what the other party's motive was for killing the three servants. He thought it was There’s some weird reason for it.”
"So, have you identified the murderer?" Mayuri asked.
"Not yet, the killing on the island is faster than we thought..."
Well, she definitely has something to hide. Mayuri judged that maybe the story was indeed like this, but this should only be part of the story.
At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door of the main hall.
The hall fell into silence for a moment, with only the sound of the howling wind outside.
"It's Mr. Yu and Mr. Zhai who are back." Lavender smiled, "I'll open the door."
"Wait a minute." Mayuri stood up and gripped the pistol, "Come back at this time? I think there is a problem, let me ask first."
"Oh..." Lavender stopped.
"Who!" Mayuri shouted sharply towards the door.
No one answered.
This instead made Mayuri sneer.
"Pretend to be a ghost! Leave him alone! People before could come directly to the hall, who would knock on the door of the main hall?"
"But this should be... could it be the murderer?" Lian Qingyi also turned on the gun's safety, "He finally came to kill us! Him, or them?"
"Don't panic! Get your weapons, everyone, it's definitely a bad visitor!" Mayuri Daida began to move slowly, using the sofa as a cover, and the rest of the people also began to find suitable hiding places.
At this time, the knock on the door rang again, this time on the hall door.
"Come in," Justina whispered.
Bayleaf and Lavender pointed their rifles at the door, both of them looking wary. Mayuri Daida checked her pistol, reached into her pocket, and prepared her abilities.
Winter, winter, winter, winter.
There were four knocks on the door, a pause of about five seconds, four more knocks on the door, and the cycle lasted four times.
Then, everyone heard a slight noise from the door of the hall, and the wind squeezed in through the cracks in the door, making a distorted whistle. Visitors stood outside, illuminated by the lights in the hall.
but……
"What is this..." Lian Qingyi exclaimed softly.
Standing at the door was a man wearing heavy armor and holding a huge bow. He was not tall, but because his whole body was covered in armor like a medieval knight, he looked extremely oppressive. Everyone even felt that the guns in their hands could not break through the armor.
Lavender was the first to fire. He pulled the trigger continuously. The bullets scratched out several bright sparks on the armor, but failed to leave many traces at all. After the opponent was attacked, he immediately raised the bow in his hand and missed an arrow.
"Hide quickly——"
Before Bayleaf finished shouting, the arrow shot out like lightning, directly penetrated the table where Lavender was hiding, and sank into his chest.
What kind of power is this?
Everyone felt their scalps numb, and the firearms in their hands could not give them the slightest sense of security. However, at this moment, Mayuri Daida suddenly stood up and threw a card out. The card swirled down in the air and got stuck between the gap between the armor's neck and the helmet.
"go to hell!"
Following Mayuri's shout, the card quickly deformed and instantly transformed into a thin and sharp scalpel, which penetrated the neck of the armor. With this piercing, the opponent's movement to draw the bow suddenly stopped.
Time seemed to pause for a few seconds at this moment, and everyone did not dare to breathe a word. Until several seconds passed, the armor made no other movements.
"Ha, haha..." Mayuri Daida laughed out loud, "Go and check to see which guy is pretending to be a ghost."
Lian Qingyi and Laurel Ye nodded and stepped forward. Lian Qingyi grabbed the helmet and glanced at it, but he didn't find any blood where the scalpel pierced it.
"This...this..."
He used force to take off his helmet, but he stumbled and almost fell to the ground. Everyone's eyes widened and they looked under the helmet. Even if the scalpel lost its support and fell to the ground, no one even looked at it.
Because there is nothing underneath the helmet.
Lightning flashed across the window, and the headless armor raised its bow and stood there. The remaining people in the hall looked at the armor with pale faces, unable to speak any words.
"It's a ghost..." Jasmine took a step back in horror, then turned around in panic and rushed towards the back door.
"Hey! Stop running around!" Mayuri Daida shouted and hurriedly chased after him.
Among the people present, Justina was obviously a little confused by what was happening in front of her. As a friend of Rennix, she naturally understood that Rennix knew some supernatural things, and she was also involved in this aspect. . She could accept the punishment caused by Mayuri, but this ghost armor attack was beyond her acceptance.
The former is a human being and the latter is a ghost.
"We...this isn't some kind of machine, right?"
Justina abandoned her occult knowledge and began to think about what it should be in ordinary terms. That's when she heard a gunshot.
Behind the armor, Baye Ye held up his pistol. Lian Qingyi fell to the ground with a bloody hole between his eyebrows, his face full of doubts until his death.
"Bayleaf! You-"
Justina suddenly jumped up and raised the gun in her hand. But at this moment, she discovered that Bayleaf's body was perfectly blocked by the armor and could not hit the opponent at all. And after being frightened just now, her feet were still a little weak.
"I'm sorry, Ms. Justina, I think there's a mole in our midst."
Justina saw a hand quickly lift the helmet held by Lian Qingyi. She could not shoot so fast.
"I don't believe it! You want to kill someone! Yes, you are the murderer, servants, the story just now, the servants came for revenge! You want to kill us all! Including Rennix, Rennix too. From the beginning , the purpose of your coming to the island is to rob the Howard family’s property and eliminate all the heirs!”
"That's not the case, ma'am, could you please calm down?"
Justina saw the other party place the helmet on top of the armor again.
"The only thing you said is almost right, that is, I am indeed interested in Mr. Rennix's legacy. However, I will not kill Mr. Rennix. This is a fundamental issue of position."
Just as Justina was about to retort, she saw the armor moving again.
How can it be? There was indeed nothing there just now!
"You...you are a ghost...you have long..."
"Magic often has many flaws, but the magician's skills are good enough to hide them. I didn't spend too much time hiding them, because only the debunking method is the flavor of such a story. But unfortunately, the elimination method If so, honest and honest people are..."
The arrow penetrated Justina's chest, killing her.
Bayleaf put her arm around the armor's shoulder and slightly poked her head out to confirm Justina's death.
"…the tourist who stayed here."
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On October 15th, after the storm that enveloped Bame Island subsided, a transport ship that regularly delivered supplies to the island discovered something shocking on the island.
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Rennix Howard, the world-famous founder of the Howard Corporation, died on the island, and his children, guests and servants on the island who were invited to the island all died on the island. Except for the housekeeper Escher and one guest Kagabo, the others were confirmed dead through on-site autopsy and DNA comparison.
Due to factors such as the long death time, numerous eucalyptus discovery sites, and artificial removal of corpses, it is difficult to restore the truth of all the events that occurred on Batoku Island. No written records of what happened at that time were found on the island. things. Currently, the Howard Consortium is temporarily inherited by Lanewood Howard's daughter, 17-year-old Lista Howard. Whether such a young child can control this huge consortium will reorganize the property belonging to the seven Rennix children. Woolen cloth?
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The sea breeze roared, and a glass bottle was hit by the waves on the shore.
[When you read this letter, I should be dead.
My name is Bayleaf, of course, that's a code name. I'm a servant on Batoku Island.
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