Chapter 425 Intuition
Elizabeth had lost consciousness below the waist, so Ranran could feel her being picked cold and strong hands tightly wrapped around her waist, making her shiver uncontrollably.
"Where is the Count?"
She looked shivering and pitiful, like a flower trembling in the cold wind.
Ranran always keeps her mission in mind. She needs Count Armand's approval, so she has to move in this direction all the time.
She regarded this person as her lifeline when she was drowning at the bottom of the lake, and as her only support in this castle.
Armand was obviously very pleased with Ranran's dependence on him. He unconsciously played with Ranran's soft long hair hanging by her waist, and his cold gray eyes showed a little warmth.
Mellis looked at Ran Ran, with an inexplicable look in his eyes. He seemed to be joking, "I wonder which earl this dear lady is calling for?"
Christine immediately followed her husband's lead, "Yes, Earl Mellis is also a famous earl in the kingdom!"
Armand could ignore what Melris said, but Christine couldn't.
He had never recognized this woman, even though she had truly become the mistress of the Mellis family.
Armand held Ranran tighter in his arms and looked at Christine with contempt, "Such a joke is not funny."
"Do you really hope that it was Mel Reese that Elizabeth was calling?"
Christine was stunned. Before she could explain, Armand said cruelly, "Give up this useless fantasy. You are no match for Elizabeth."
"From head to toe, nothing can compare."
Christine's face flushed instantly. "I can't beat her?! She's a cripple! A cripple who can't do anything! Her legs were burned and the flesh was hideous! It's unbearable to look at!"
"You actually said that someone like this is better than me?!"
Armand smiled sinisterly, and his cold gray eyes were like sharp blades flashing with cold light, instantly piercing Christine.
"If you keep talking, I promise..."
"Your legs will be worse than poor Elizabeth's."
Christine froze in place, not daring to move at all. She was so scared that she even forgot the instinct to call for help from Mellis.
Alice should have had a bad expression seeing her own sister being humiliated like this, but she just stood there with a normal expression, even as if she was in a trance.
Hei Cha took note of it calmly. It seems that not all people in the Dawn Association have good acting skills. At least the acting of this "actor" in Alice's body is quite poor... He didn't even get into the role at all.
Ranran had no time to pay attention to the farce that kept happening. She put her head against Armand's chest.
This was done because, just now, her side quest was completed.
She gained the recognition of Count Armand, although completely without her knowledge.
The reward for the mission was successfully distributed, and she recovered her hearing, but difficulties followed. What she needed to perform next was Elizabeth, who had clearly recovered her hearing but had to pretend to be deaf.
There was no sound of heartbeat in the cold chest.
Ranran's heart sank, and the danger level of this copy increased again.
Armand looked down at Ranran in his arms with some surprise. Her lifeless eyes were staring blankly ahead, but the expression on her face was very at ease.
"Afu, does she know it's me?"
Being called out unexpectedly, Ah Fu was shocked. Wasn't the master scolding Mrs. Mellis just a second ago? Why did he care about such a thing the next second?
Ah Fu wiped the sweat off his head, "Of course! Miss Elizabeth must know that you are holding her!"
Armand looked puzzled, his emotions unexplained, "Why?"
"It is said that," Ah Fu racked his brains, "for people who lose other senses, their remaining senses will become quite sharp." "Miss Elizabeth only has her sense of taste left because of the fire, so correspondingly, her sense of taste... and intuition will become very sensitive!"
The more Ah Fu spoke, the more convinced he became, as if he wanted to put all his doubts behind him.
"Intuition..." Armand chewed on these words playfully and lowered his eyes to look at the person in his arms.
"Elizabeth, do you have a gut feeling about me?"
Ran Ran calmly matched the cold and low voice with the cold chest against which her cheek was leaning.
The tall man holding her seemed to care about her a little. What was his relationship with Elizabeth?
Toque was ruthlessly expelled by Armand, "If you cultivate the branches well, you still have a chance to stay in the castle." This is what he said to him.
The farce of a foreign guest's visit finally came to an end.
The castle's dinner party then began, with people of noble status sitting around the banquet table.
As the owner of the castle, Armand sat at the top, with Melris and Ranjan sitting on his left and right respectively.
Next to Ran Ran are Christine and Alice.
Next to Mel Reese are his two sisters, Helen and Ida.
Leonor, his fiancée who was not loved by Armand, sat alone at the other end of the long table, separated from everyone by a long distance.
Ah Fu watched him sigh, and Hei Cha followed him and asked tentatively, "Butler Ah Fu, why are you sighing?"
"What else could it be..." Ah Fu lowered his voice helplessly and said, "Miss Leonor will definitely become the master's wife in the future, but the master doesn't like her at all."
"It's so disrespectful to let Miss Leonor sit in that position at this dinner!"
"Ms. Leonor should have sat in Miss Elizabeth's place."
Hei Cha sneered in his heart, what a bunch of useless twists and turns, if you don't like her, don't waste the girl's time!
Unfortunately, this was just Hei Cha's idea, not Eve's, so Eve could only listen calmly without commenting.
"The Earl has his own ideas, and no one else needs to worry about them."
Ah Fu sighed and nodded, "You are right. The master is the most distinguished earl in the kingdom, so naturally he can do whatever he wants."
Hei Cha was feeling anxious. After entering Flower Eater for so long, the plot of the dungeon could be said to be progressing step by step and was completely out of the control of players like them. But what on earth was this dungeon trying to do?
What is released to players now are some side quests, which can be said to have no impact on the plot. Even the rewards after completing them are inexplicable, and some even have no rewards.
There was only a hint when the factions were introduced that they needed to complete the deduction before the other faction, but what exactly did they need to deduced so far...
Nothing happened, right?
Hei Cha didn't even have to worry about the preparations for the dinner, because just as Ah Fu said, Eve was a very reliable head maid, and even if the guests suddenly visited a day in advance, everything for the dinner could go on in an orderly manner.
As night fell, the only sound in the castle was the clinking of cutlery, and it was a dinner where no one spoke.
Armand wiped his hands slowly on the table, a smile on his lips.
"An unusual dinner party, what do you think?"
Hei Cha's breath was held in his throat when he heard this. Among the eight people sitting at the table, only Count Armand and Christine were non-players... Armand suddenly said this, and Hei Cha felt that he had discovered something!
Good friends, their wives and sisters, and even their fiancées were all replaced. Hei Cha felt that no matter how careful he was, he would inevitably be discovered.
But Armand has not reacted until now. He didn't notice... or didn't have an attack...
She looked up at Armand carefully, only to hear him speaking in a calm voice from the seat above.
"That's right, Melris."
"You haven't told me why you chose to visit today, the time we agreed on..."
"Isn't it tomorrow?"
The scene fell into dead silence.
