Chapter 2961 The real omen

There is a large sink in the middle of the kitchen. There is a flue-like air outlet in the center of the sink, and next to it is a table where the chef handles ingredients. This table is connected to the unknown black hole outside, and wrinkled pigs that have been washed come out of the hole.

The chef stood in front of the transmission port, holding a machete in his oily hands. Each cut could accurately chop the pig's head.

The pig's head fell into the black mud on the ground and slowly disappeared, as if the black mud was a swamp that could settle everything.

 Although the puppet chef's hands did not stop moving, its head was looking to the other side.

　Judging from its orientation, he should be talking to the maid who stuck her head in the main hall.

There are many cabinets and other furnishings in the kitchen, but they are all covered with oil stains and some dark red blood stains.

 In Angel's opinion, this kitchen is simply weird.

 First of all, next to the main hall is the kitchen. This design alone is very weird. What’s even more weird is that, just separated by a curtain, it seems like you are seeing two completely different scenes.

Although the main hall is a bit gaudy, in the eyes of those who don’t know the art, it can at least be called magnificent. But the kitchen next to it was even more filthy and horrible than a stinking ditch full of oil.

With houses of such different styles next to each other, what does Earl Black Tea think?

Absurd, contradictory and full of weirdness, is this the idea of ​​Earl Black Tea, or is this the norm in the teapot country?

While Angel was observing and complaining about the kitchen, Rabbit Chacha leaned into Angel's ear and whispered: "We are lucky. The tea servant is sleeping and the chef is distracted. We can sneak into the storage room secretly." .”

Angor was stunned for a moment: "Tea servant?"

 He only saw the cook, not the tea servant.

Rabbi Rabbit Chacha whispered: "In the air."

Angor’s head almost came out of the shadow this time before he saw two teapots on plates floating vaguely in the air. They are suspended above the water tank, moving up and down, looking like they are breathing, moving regularly.

"This is the shape of the tea servants when they are sleeping. Now they look like teapots, but when they wake up, they are puppets with teapots on their heads." Rabbit Tea finished talking and signaled Angel to leave quickly.

Angor also understood that this was not the time to chat, so he followed Rabbit Chacha like a thief, tiptoeing and quietly moving under the cabinet.

They must walk in the shadows when moving. Once there is any slight movement from the outside world, they will immediately stop moving and carefully hide in the dark.

In this way, it took them about three minutes to successfully move from under the cabinet on the far left to the door of the storage room.

 The whole process was basically smooth, except for a small hiccup in the middle.

 One of the pig heads cut by the chef did not fall smoothly into the black mud when it fell to the ground, but fell under the sink.

  Coincidentally, the pig's head was pointed at Angel and the rabbit Chacha.

 But the pig head didn't seem to be completely dead, and his eyes were still blinking. Angel even saw the reflection of him and Chacha in the pig head's dark eyes.

At that moment, Angel's heart skipped a beat.

Just when Angel thought they had been discovered, the chef didn't even look back. While chatting with the maid outside, he stretched out his foot and kicked the pig's head into the black mud.

 Slowly, the mud swallowed the pig's head.

 It wasn’t until the pig’s head disappeared that Angel’s feeling rising in his throat slowly subsided.

 It seems like they haven’t been discovered yet? But the pig head obviously saw him and Chacha. Will this cause any trouble?

Angor felt very uneasy, but he couldn't ask Chacha now, so he could only keep his head down and follow Chacha.

 It wasn’t until they entered the storage room and confirmed that no one was here that Angel asked the doubts in his heart.

"You mean that pig head?" Rabbit Chacha paused and said softly: "Don't worry, they are both humans and animals, even if they are discovered, nothing will happen..."

 When Rabbit Chacha said this, his eyes flashed with sadness.

 “Human and animal?” Rabbit Chacha was fine if he didn’t explain it, but Angel couldn’t understand it once he explained it.

It is obviously a pig, why is it named after "human and animal"?

Facing Angel's doubts, Rabbit Chacha was silent for a moment and said: "Because they are all transformed using animal creation techniques."

 Animal creation?

With Rabbit Chacha’s explanation, Angel gradually understood what the art of animal creation was.

 This is an extraordinary technique that turns living beings into meat animals. Most of the people who were subjected to the spell were the criminals of the Teapot Kingdom. The criminals of the Teapot Kingdom were basically humanoids. After these humanoids were turned into edible carnivorous animals, they were also called human-animals.

“Eatable carnivorous animals...you mean, they turned the people of the Teapot Kingdom into food?”

Rabbit Chacha nodded and said softly: "This animal-making technique is very popular among the upper class in the Teapot Kingdom. It's called punishment for criminals, but in my opinion, it just satisfies their evil eating habits. They It looks like you’re eating pork…but the texture is actually completely different from real pork.”

Angor had previously thought that this animal-making technique was a bit like the work of the dark gourmets in the Northern Territory wizarding world, but after hearing what Rabbit Chacha said, he couldn't help but shake his head.

This is even a step further than the Dark Gourmet. The Dark Gourmet sacrifices the same kind to the devil, while the upper-class nobles here feed on the same kind.

This is really... a country of absurdity.

Rabbi Rabbit Chacha: "Let's not talk about this anymore. Anyway, we don't have to worry about being exposed. The human and animal just now have been dealt with."

Angor: "The mud on the ground?"

Rabbi Rabbit Chacha nodded: "Those are carnivorous fungi and are poisonous."

After a pause, Rabbit Chacha turned around and walked to the front: "The outer hall of the storage room is full of sundries, and the more expensive ones are in the inner hall. If Earl Black Tea puts the half-length mirror in the storage room, he must put it there. In the inner hall. We want to enter the inner hall, but we have to climb the wall again, so we have to hurry up."

 Rabbi Rabbit Chacha talked about their next goal naturally, but Angel vaguely felt something was wrong. Looking at Rabbit Chacha's back, Angel remembered the sadness that flashed in Rabbit Chacha's eyes when he mentioned humans and animals.

Rabbi Rabbit Chacha is unwilling to talk more and even takes the initiative to change the topic. Is it because of this?

Angor didn’t know what Rabbit Chacha was thinking. But at this time, he felt that although this world was absurd, every creature here was very real.

 It’s like, it really existed.

"Alchemy Omen... what kind of operating mechanism is it?" Angel murmured in a low voice, doubts and confusion flashed in his eyes, and finally he let out a long sigh and stopped thinking about it.

 …

Rabbi Rabbit Chacha was right. There was no half-length mirror found in the outer hall of the storage room. There were just some sundries piled up here. There were replacement teapots, dirty blankets, and various non-edible living supplies, but they were basically all dirty and old.

"Some of the things kept in the outer hall will be cleaned, and some will be taken out and destroyed. The really good things and brand-new things are all placed in the inner hall." Rabbit Chacha: "Here, this is it."

Rabbi Rabbit Chacha pointed to an iron door deep inside.

 This door is locked at this time. But there are ventilation holes right above the door, and these holes are just big enough for them to get through.

There is no way to climb directly onto the door, but you can climb up the wall next to it.

 It took them a few minutes to successfully climb up to the wall crack at a suitable height, and then move towards the door little by little.

When he was about to reach the gate, Rabbit Chacha jumped onto the lock of the gate, and Angel followed. It would have been a bit difficult for Angel to jump like this before, but with the saddle as "wings", it was much easier.

 Climb all the way up from the gate lock and soon reach the air vent.

Through the air hole, Angel can already see the environment inside the storage room.

The inside is indeed filled with good things as Rabbit Chacha said, but most of them are daily necessities and teapots with unique shapes.

 At first glance, I didn’t see the half-length mirror.

However, there were cabinets blocking many places, and Angel couldn’t see the specific situation.

“At the moment, it seems that we don’t have the half-length mirror you want. Do you want to go in and have a look?” Rabbit Chacha turned around and asked.

Angor nodded: "Go in and have a look."

 Just in case, Angel was still prepared to enter the inner hall for further confirmation.

About ten minutes later, the door to the storage room was opened. This was the patrol maid coming back from outside. She entered the storage room and began to sort out the materials here.

When the patrol maid didn't notice, Angel and Rabbit Chacha quietly got out of a teapot jar, and then walked out quickly through the open door of the inner hall.

 The whole process was uneventful.

They returned to the outer hall of the storage room. The only regret was that Angel did not find the half-length mirror during the ten-minute search.

It means that after the Earl of Black Tea came back, he did not put the half-length mirror in the storage room.

Although Angor was a little regretful, he had already tried and failed at least one, and there were only two places left, the study or the treasure house.

 The treasure house is too heavily guarded and it is underground, so even if you want to escape, it is a bit difficult. If you are really in the treasure house, you need a more detailed infiltration plan.

 So, the next place Angel chose was the study room.

 The study is upstairs, and the stairs are on the left side of the main hall, which means that they have to pass through the kitchen and the main hall again before they can reach the stairs going upstairs.

 Although he had already experienced it once, Angel still did not relax when he returned to the kitchen again.

 The situation in the kitchen changed slightly. The tea servant was still sleeping, but the chef did not chat anymore. Instead, he continued to chop off the pig's head while preparing some kind of highly toxic sauce.

However, in general, it is still easy to lurk and leave.

 This time, it only took Angel and Rabbit Chacha two minutes to return to the main hall.

There were more changes in the main hall. The two maids retracted their snake-neck-like heads. The maid who had been chatting with the chef before went to the door and was cleaning up the dust on the floor to prevent the count from getting angry. The other maid who had eaten cockroaches did not look for cockroaches at this time, but wiped the porcelain bottles one after another.

 The main hall has changed a lot, but the overall difficulty is much less than before.

Since the maid at the door had her back turned to them, and the cockroach-eating maid didn't pay attention to the ground, they had much more space to hide, and they didn't have to take the air route.

 The method they chose was the same as in the kitchen, by constantly moving into the shadows of the furniture and the blind spots of the two maids' vision.

 In this way, they successfully walked back to the left side of the main hall.

 Through the thick curtains, they came to the corridor leading to the pond in the atrium. However, they did not go towards the pond, but towards the stairs.

 Because the puppet maid was not good at climbing stairs, and other servants would not go upstairs at this time, they boldly chose to take the stairs.

However, even if there are no servants to interfere, walking up the stairs is not easy.

 The main reason is that their body size is too small.

 From the first floor to the second floor, there are two stairs, each with twelve floors, for a total of twenty-four floors. Angel had difficulty climbing every staircase. Fortunately, the stairs were also covered with blankets. Although they were tired from climbing, at least they wouldn't slip.

When he climbed to the last level of the second staircase, Rabbit Chacha suddenly signaled Angel to stop.

 Actually, Angel had already stopped climbing without Rabbit Chacha’s reminder, because he had already heard the creaking sound coming from the corridor on the second floor.

 There is no doubt that this is the patrol maid from the second floor.

 The patrol maid will not go downstairs, but will patrol back and forth on the second floor from time to time.

Angel and Rabbit Chacha were waiting with bated breath. As long as the patrol maid made a round of inspection and stayed away from here, they could go to the second floor.

The stairs of the main building were built at the end. After the patrol maid came over, she casually looked down and saw no one, so she started walking back.

 Confirming that the maid's footsteps began to move away, Angel and Rabbit Chacha immediately climbed up to the second floor.

Then he climbed non-stop towards the stairs to the third floor.

Just like this, while avoiding the patrolling maid, they climbed the stairs. After a quarter of an hour, they finally reached the fourth floor where the study was located.

 …

Earl Black Tea's study is not far from the stairs on the fourth floor.

According to Rabbit Chacha, they can go directly to the study as long as they avoid the patrolling maid. There is no need to worry about not being able to get in, because there is an entrance hole for tea servants on the door of the study.

 The tea servant can quietly float into the study through the entrance and exit, and place snacks, food and tea.

 They can go to the study room through the entrance and exit of the tea servant.

Along the way, Rabbit Chacha also showed off his record of sneaking into the Earl's study. It stole a hat from Earl Black Tea's study and was still hiding in the rabbit hole.

But for some reason, the more confident Rabbit Chacha was, the more Angel felt he had a bad premonition.

Soon, the premonition came true.

When they quietly poked their heads out to take a look at the situation in the study, Angel and Rabbit Chacha were stunned.

 A heavily armed puppet guard, like a wooden stake, stood motionless at the door of the study.

 (End of this chapter)