I'll also work hard to conquer the dungeon today.

Chapter 24, December 4: The Secret Mansion and Miss Lily's Toy House

"I don't want to go!" Miss Lily said with a hint of disgust.

"An eight-year-old girl who doesn't even know how to read." Mu Yegui said this with a very serious expression and no hint of sarcasm, but Miss Lily could still see that her left cheek was written with 'shameful' and her right cheek with 'embarrassment', which is commonly known as being shameful and embarrassing.

Miss Lily: "..."

Sure, after nearly killing her and then publicly attacking her personally, Miss Lily says this isn't over! She will absolutely not back down to this person! Absolutely!

So, the unwilling Miss Lily glared fiercely at Mu Yegui, who was unable to react.

Stare again!

Still no response.

After finishing her steak, Mu Yegui put down her knife and fork and slightly raised her eyes. Miss Lily thought that Mu Yegui was finally going to react, but she saw Mu Yegui pick up her dessert, put it on her plate, and continue eating.

During this time, he managed to completely ignore Miss Lily.

Unable to bear it any longer, Miss Lily suddenly stood up and screamed, "That's enough!"

At this moment, Mu Yegui gave Miss Lily a look, his cool silver eyes quietly watching her, his tone carrying a hint of barely perceptible confusion, "What's wrong? Do you want some too?" As he spoke, he took a bite of cake and held it out in front of him.

Miss Lily's attention was completely drawn to the cake. She pursed her moist cherry lips, clearly captivated by the dessert. However, the next second she heard Mu Yegui say, "It's too far, you can't reach it."

So he took it back and ate it in one bite.

I ate it in one bite...

"Wow—" Miss Lily was so angry that she burst into tears. She didn't even care about her beloved doll and just threw the chair down and ran out.

Just as Ifa was about to enter, Miss Lily bumped into her, looked at her with a puzzled expression, and ran away crying.

At the dining table, Mu Yegui ate dessert with a calm and serious expression, as if this was the most important thing.

"What happened?" Ifa asked.

"I don't know." Mu Yegui shook her head slightly and said seriously, "She threw a tantrum again."

Fei, who watched the whole thing, felt sorry for Miss Lily and suddenly thought she was quite pitiful for being bullied.

"The doll is exquisite." Mu Yegui walked to the other side, picked up the black-haired doll, and gazed at it quietly with his cool silver eyes, praising it earnestly.

"The puppet master's new work, which is said to possess self-awareness." Ifa slowly walked behind Mu Yegui, casually watching the puppet in her hand, elegantly adjusting her white gloves, and casually picked up a steak knife from the table. Her deep and mysterious amethyst-like eyes slowly turned to the back of Mu Yegui's neck.

Fei tensed up instantly, fearing that the young deacon would kill the girl holding him.

Mu Yegui suddenly turned to face him, "Are you planning to attack me?"

Ifa's smile froze for a second. He chuckled and denied it, "I'm just tidying up the dishes. You should go and supervise Miss's studies. Should I put the doll back in the dollhouse?"

"No need, I'll take it and play with it for a while." Mu Yegui took the black-haired doll away without giving Yifa any chance.

Fei breathed a sigh of relief; at least she hadn't been handed over to the young deacon. But who exactly was this person? Why wasn't she mentioned in the rules?
He suddenly remembered that the young butler had told Miss Lily that she had a guest. Could this be Miss Lily's guest?

To supervise learning? A etiquette teacher?
In any case, it's fortunate that this person didn't fall into the hands of the young deacon. The next step is to figure out this person's stance. Since the rules don't mention staying away, the danger shouldn't be too great, at least for them.

"A moving doll?" Mu Yegui returned to the room, placed the black-haired doll on the table, and stared at it intently, saying, "Move it for me to see."

Fei felt a cold sweat breaking out on his brow, as if he had been seen through.

However, the young deacons all said that they could move, and it would be strange if they didn't.

So Fei changed from standing to sitting.

Mu Yegui clapped her hands, her rosy lips slightly open in surprise, but her expression remained as calm as ever, perfectly embodying the term "expressionless face".

"Wow, that's amazing. How did you do that?" Mu Yegui picked up the black-haired puppet and lifted it up, scanning it from all 360 degrees, but he couldn't find any trace of the mechanism.

"Even Xu couldn't achieve such perfection. I really want to take it back for Xu to study." Mu Yegui put the black-haired doll back on the table, rested his chin on his hand, and murmured softly.

叙？
This word reminded Fei of a legendary figure—Nalan Xu.

But how could that be! Nalan Xu is indeed the top doctor in the interstellar world, but this is an independent world; there's no way a legend about Nalan Xu could exist here. Besides, this person might just be an NPC, and what they're referring to is simply another NPC with the same name.

Suddenly, a faint sound came from somewhere in the room.

Mu Yegui was slightly taken aback, then turned his gaze precisely to the direction from which the sound came, his clear, cold silver eyes narrowing slightly.

The entire spacious and luxurious bedroom was suddenly filled with an atmosphere of danger.

"Ah!" A pitiful scream rang out, and a strange man suddenly crawled out from under the bed.

A flash of white light appeared, and a fluffy little ball of fur appeared in Mu Yegui's palm. She gently stroked its fur and placed it on her head.

"No, don't kill me! I didn't mean to!" He cried and squatted on the ground, holding his head, begging Mu Yegui to spare his life.

Fei, who was sitting at the table, was shocked. Wasn't this the person who hadn't returned since going out last night? So he had been hiding. He had thought that the dungeon NPC had found him and killed him.

"Who are you?" Mu Yegui guessed that this person might be a player. He had heard in the information shop that the Crown Prince route and the ordinary route could be pursued simultaneously, but he did not expect to encounter her on the first try.

"I...I came to steal something! But the maid found me and I had to hide in a hurry! Please forgive me! I really didn't mean to!" The man said quickly, a sudden thought flashing through his mind.

Fei thought to himself, "No one would believe this reason, whether it's true or false."

“Mr. Thief, could you please hide in another room?” Mu Yegui asked, watching him quietly.

Fei was stunned! Someone actually believed it!
"Okay, okay! I'll get out right away!" The man staggered out of the door.

However, just a few seconds later, a pitiful scream was heard from the corridor.

Mu Yegui opened the door and asked the maid who was cleaning up unidentified objects mixed with bones on the floor in the hallway, "What happened?"

"I'm so sorry to have bothered you while I was taking care of the trash." The maid's apron was stained with crimson blood, and the carpet in front of her was a darker color than the surrounding carpet, as if some liquid had been spilled on it.

All of this made the corridor incredibly eerie, and the elegant mansion was gradually revealing its true nature.

(End of this chapter)