There was a large sink in the middle of the kitchen, which had an outlet that looked like a chimney. Next to the sink was a table where the chef prepared the ingredients. The table was connected to an unknown black hole outside, from which several washed, wrinkled pigs were coming out.
The chef was standing in front of the portal, holding a big chopper in his greasy hand. Every swing of the chopper landed accurately on the pig's head.
The pig's head fell into the black mud on the ground and slowly melted away. It was as if the black mud was a swamp that could sink anything.
Although the puppet chef's hands didn't stop moving, its head was looking to the other side.
Judging from the direction, he was talking to the maid who stuck her head into the main hall.
There were many cabinets in the kitchen, but they were all covered in grease and blood stains.
Angor could not believe what he was seeing.
First of all, there was a kitchen right next to the main hall. This design alone was strange enough. What was even stranger was that there was only a curtain between the two rooms, yet it felt like he was looking at two completely different scenes.
The main hall was a little gaudy, but it could at least be considered grand in the eyes of someone who did not know how to cook. The kitchen next to the main hall, however, was even dirtier than a dirty gutter.
What was the Earl of Dark Tea thinking when he saw such different styles of houses next to each other?
Ridiculous, contradictory, and strange. Was this what the Earl of Dark Tea was thinking? Or was this the norm in the Teapot Kingdom?
While Angor was complaining about the kitchen, Rabbit Chacha whispered to him, "We're lucky. The servant is sleeping, and the chef is distracted. We can sneak into the storage room."
"Servant?" Angor was surprised.
He only saw the chef, not the servant.
"In the air," Rabbit Chacha whispered.
This time, Angor almost stuck his head out of the shadow and saw two teapots floating in the air. They floated above the water tank, one up and one down. It looked like they were breathing, moving in a regular pattern.
"That's how the servant looks when sleeping. Now, they look like teapots, but when they wake up, they'll look like puppets whose heads are teapots." Rabbit Chacha signaled Angor to move quickly.
Angor understood that this was not the time to chat. He followed Rabbit Chacha and tiptoed under the cabinet like a thief.
When they moved, they had to walk in the shadows. Once there was any movement in the outside world, they would immediately stop moving and carefully hide in the shadows.
Just like that, it took them about three minutes to successfully move from under the leftmost cabinet to the door of the outer hall of the storage room.
The whole process was basically smooth, except for a small interlude.
One of the pig heads that the chef had cut didn't fall into the black sludge when it fell to the ground. Instead, it fell under the sink.
Coincidentally, the pig's head was facing Angor and Rabbit Chacha.
The pig head was still alive. Its eyes were still blinking, and Angor could see his and Chacha's reflections in those dark eyes.
Angor's heart skipped a beat.
When Angor thought they were discovered, the chef, who was still chatting with the maid outside, kicked the pig's head into the black mud without looking back.
Slowly, the mud engulfed the pig's head.
When the pig's head disappeared, Angor's anxious heart finally calmed down.
It didn't seem to notice them yet. But the pig head clearly saw him and Chacha. Would it cause any trouble?
Angor was anxious, but he couldn't ask Chacha about it now. He could only keep his head down and follow Chacha.
When they reached the outer hall of the storage room and made sure there was no one around, Angor finally asked his question.
"You mean that pig head?" Rabbit Chacha paused and spoke in a soft voice, "Don't worry. They're all human animals. Even if they see us, they won't …"
Rabbit Chacha's eyes dimmed a little as she spoke.
"Human animals?" Angor didn't really understand Rabbit Chacha's explanation.
That was a pig. Why would it be called a "human animal"?
Rabbit Chacha remained silent for a moment before she explained, "Because they're all created using Animal Creation."
Animal Creation?
Following Rabbit Chacha's explanation, Angor gradually understood what Animal Creation was.
This was a transcendent technique that could turn living beings into livestock. Most of the victims were sinners of the Teapot Kingdom, who were basically humanoid. After being turned into meat animals, they were also called "human animals".
"Meat animals … You mean they turned the people of the Teapot Kingdom into food?"
Rabbit Chacha nodded and continued, "Animal Creation is very popular among the upper class of the Teapot Kingdom. They call it a punishment for sinners, but in my opinion, it's just to satisfy their evil fetishes. They look like they're eating pork … but the texture is completely different from real pork. "
Angor thought the Animal Creation spell was similar to the work of the Dark Gourmet in the Northern Territory. But after listening to Rabbit Chacha's explanation, he shook his head.
This was even worse than the Dark Gourmet. The Dark Gourmet sacrificed their own kind to demons, while the upper class of the Teapot Kingdom ate their own kind.
This was truly … an absurd country.
Rabbit Chacha said, "Let's not talk about this. We don't need to worry about being exposed. That human animal is already taken care of."
"The mud on the ground?"
Rabbit Chacha nodded. "Those are carnivorous fungi. They're poisonous."
Rabbit Chacha paused and walked to the front. "The outer hall of the storeroom is filled with miscellaneous items. The more valuable ones are in the inner hall. If Count Dark Tea placed the mirror in the storeroom, he must have put it in the inner hall. We'll have to climb the wall if we want to get inside. We need to hurry. "
While Rabbit Chacha was talking about their next goal, Angor felt that something was wrong. Looking at Rabbit Chacha's back, Angor recalled the sadness in Rabbit Chacha's eyes when talking about "human animals".
Rabbit Chacha didn't want to talk about it and even changed the topic. Was that the reason?
Angor didn't know what Rabbit Chacha was thinking. However, at this moment, he felt that although this world was absurd, every living thing here was very real.
As if they really existed.
"Alchemy omen … How does it work?" Angor mumbled to himself. His eyes were filled with confusion and confusion. In the end, he sighed deeply and stopped thinking about it.
…
Rabbit Chacha was right. They didn't find the mirror in the outer hall of the storeroom. The place was filled with miscellaneous items. There were replacement teapots, dirty blankets, and all kinds of non-edible daily necessities. But most of them were dirty and old.
"The outer hall. Some will be cleaned, while others will be destroyed. The really good stuff, the brand-new ones, are all kept in the inner hall, "Rabbit Chacha said." Here. "
Rabbit Chacha pointed at an iron door further away.
The door was locked at the moment. However, there was an air vent right above the door. The vent was just big enough for them to get in.
They couldn't climb the door directly, but they could climb up the wall beside it.
It took them several minutes to get to the top of the wall. Then they slowly moved toward the door.
When they were about to reach the door, Rabbit Chacha jumped onto the lock of the door. Angor followed. It would have been difficult for Angor to jump like this before. But with the "wings" of the saddle, it was much easier.
They climbed from the lock of the door and soon reached the air vent.
Through the air vent, Angor could already see the inside of the storeroom.
Just as Rabbit Chacha said, the storeroom was full of good stuff. Most of them were daily necessities and some strange-looking teapots.
At first glance, he didn't see a half-body mirror.
However, there were many cabinets blocking the view, so Angor couldn't see what was inside.
"I don't think there's one here. Do you want to take a look?" Rabbit Chacha turned around and asked.
Angor nodded. "Let's go."
Just in case, Angor decided to go into the inner hall to check.
About ten minutes later, the door of the storeroom was opened. The patrolling maid had returned from outside. She entered the storeroom and began to organize the supplies.
When the maid didn't notice, Angor and Rabbit Chacha sneaked out of a teapot jar and quickly walked out of the inner hall through the crack of the door.
The whole process was more dangerous than dangerous.
They returned to the outer hall of the storeroom. The only regret was that Angor did not find the mirror during the ten-minute search.
This meant that Count Dark Tea did not put the mirror in the storeroom after returning.
Angor was a little disappointed, but at least he got one wrong. There were only two places left: the study or the treasury.
The treasury was heavily guarded underground. It would be difficult to escape even if they wanted to. If it really was the treasury, they would need a more detailed plan.
So, Angor's next choice was the study.
The study was upstairs, and the stairs were to the left of the main hall. This meant they had to go through the kitchen and the main hall again to reach the stairs upstairs.
Angor had already experienced this before, but he still did not relax when he returned to the kitchen.
The situation in the kitchen changed slightly. The tea servant was still sleeping, but the chef was not chatting. Instead, he was preparing some kind of poisonous sauce while chopping the pig's head.
Still, it was easy to sneak away.
This time, it only took Angor and Rabbit Chacha two minutes to return to the main hall.
The main hall had changed a lot. The two maids had retracted their snake-like heads. The maid who had been chatting with the chef earlier went to the door and tidied up the dust on the ground to prevent the count from getting angry when he returned. The other maid who had eaten the cockroaches didn't look for cockroaches anymore. Instead, she was wiping the porcelain vase.
The main hall had changed a lot, but it was still much easier than before.
The maids at the door had their backs to them, and the maid who was eating cockroaches did not pay attention to the ground. Angor and Rabbit Chacha had more space to hide. They did not have to walk through the air.
They used the same method as when they were in the kitchen. They kept moving into the shadows of the furniture and the blind spots of the two maids.
They successfully reached the left side of the main hall.
They went through the thick curtains and arrived at the corridor leading to the pond in the atrium. However, they did not go to the pond. Instead, they went to the stairs.
The puppet maid was not good at climbing stairs, and the other servants would not come upstairs at this time. Angor and Rabbit Chacha boldly chose the stairs.
Even without the servants' interference, the stairs were not easy to walk.
Angor and Rabbit Chacha were too small.
Angor and Rabbit Chacha had to climb two flights of stairs from the first floor to the second floor. Each flight of stairs had 12 steps. Angor had a hard time climbing each flight of stairs. Luckily, the stairs were covered with blankets. They were tired, but at least they did not slip.
When they reached the last step of the second flight of stairs, Rabbit Chacha suddenly signaled Angor to stop.
Actually, Angor already stopped climbing without Rabbit Chacha's reminder. He already heard creaking noises coming from the corridor on the second floor.
No doubt, it was the patrolling maid from the second floor.
The patrolling maid would not go downstairs. Instead, she would check the second floor from time to time.
Angor and Rabbit Chacha held their breaths and waited. As long as the maid finished her inspection and went away, they could go to the second floor.
The stairs to the main building were built at the end. The patrolling maid looked down and did not see anyone, so she began to walk back.
Angor and Rabbit Chacha quickly climbed to the second floor after making sure the maid's footsteps were far away.
Angor and Rabbit Chacha climbed the stairs to the third floor without stopping.
They climbed the stairs while avoiding the patrolling maid. After 15 minutes, they finally reached the fourth floor where the study was located.
…
Count Dark Tea's study was not far from the stairs on the fourth floor.
According to Rabbit Chacha, they only needed to avoid the patrolling maid to reach the study. They did not have to worry about not being able to get in because there was a special entrance for the tea servants on the door.
The tea servants could quietly float into the study through the entrance and leave snacks and tea.
They could easily enter the study through the tea servants' entrance.
Along the way, Rabbit Chacha bragged about how it had snuck into the Earl's study. It had stolen a hat from the Earl's study and was still hiding it in its rabbit hole.
For some reason, the more confident Rabbit Chacha was, the more Angor had a bad feeling about it.
Soon, the feeling came true.
When they quietly poked their heads out to check the study, Angor and Rabbit Chacha both froze.
A fully armed puppet guard stood at the entrance of the study like a wooden stake. It did not move at all.
(End of Chapter)
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