Medusa?

As she spoke, she took a small button off her person. "I recorded it all. This Weird Object can record important messages, but only audio."

Sheng Qingqiao asked, puzzled, "Why don't you just tell us? Listening takes too much time."

Luo Jiayu said with difficulty, "My memory isn't very good... I can only vaguely remember the general outline, and I'm afraid I'll miss some details."

An Ying immediately understood. "I know, the fish's memory."

"... Actually, it's not that bad." Luo Jiayu retrieved the Weird Object. "There's really no time to listen to that now, so I'll get to the main points."

"You can't go into the Garden. I heard that area used to be a large Forest, not Garden."

"The Count's family had bad tempers; they often beat and killed their servants, and the servants' bodies were simply buried in the woods after they died."

"Later, a servant deliberately set fire to the grove, and the flames killed all the trees and almost reached the Castle. The dead trees were then dug up and the grove was turned into Garden."

"But the Count's family still killed many servants, and their bodies were buried in the Garden."

An Ying seemed to understand something. "So, the loose soil in the Garden we saw definitely meant they buried the body there."

"Definitely!" Luo Jiayu said, "They also recorded many cruel punishments specifically used to punish servants who made mistakes!"

She lowered her voice and continued, "I heard them say that in that lake—"

Are you guys slacking off here?

A hoarse, unpleasant voice sounded behind them, and a faint, unpleasant stench of fish wafted over, causing the three to stiffen.

Suddenly, a strange creature with a sheep's head appeared at the doorway. It was tall and thin, with horns touching the ceiling, so people had to look down to see them through the door frame.

An Ying's gaze fell on its body.

Its entire body was glistening with oil, and its belly was cut open, revealing only an empty iron frame inside, making it look like a whole roasted lamb placed on a dining table.

"We didn't slack off, we all finished our work!" Luo Jiayu immediately pointed to the rules on the wall and said, "It's break time now!"

The eerie gazed at the Rules on the wall, then swept over Luo Jiayu, who was covered in fish scales and blood, Sheng Qingqiao, who was soaking wet, and An Ying, whose clothes were torn, and sneered.

An Ying sensed something was wrong when she saw its expression, but Sheng Qingqiao had already followed her intuition and pulled the two of them down to squat.

The next moment, a strange cleaver came crashing down.

"Boom!"

The blade grazed their bodies, leaving a dent in the wall.

The three quickly dispersed. Sheng Qingqiao gripped the Broadsword tightly with both hands, a smile playing on her lips as she magnified the blade several times and slammed it down on the sheep's eerie back.

"Smack!"

With a strange thud, they were slammed backward onto the ground by Broadsword. The three of them quickly crawled out of the small space, only to see a room full of ingredients outside looking at them.

An Ying's gaze quickly swept over the Rules posted behind the door.

Kitchen Rules:

First, as Count of Ravenhall's chef, you must maintain a passionate work attitude.

Second, as Count of Ravenhall's cook, you must maintain impeccable attire, free from damage and stains.

Third, as Count of Ravenhall's cook, you must obey the Count's orders completely and never disobey the nobleman.

Fourth, as Count of Ravenhall's chef, your rest time is after your work is completed, but you still need to follow the head chef's instructions.

...]

"Let's go find some clean clothes!"

An Ying blocked several flying kitchen knives and opened her bamboo umbrella.

"When!"

The cleaver left several scratches on the umbrella surface, An Ying's arm went numb from the force of the blow, causing her to retreat repeatedly.

Luo Jiayu and Sheng Qingqiao rushed towards the door, only to find a strange creature with a pig's head blocking the door completely.

The two slammed on the brakes, narrowly avoiding falling into the pig's bizarrely wide-open mouth.

"Bang!"

As the deer-headed creature guarding the door delivered a bizarre punch, Luo Jiayu dodged to the side, and her long, light blue Long Hair suddenly became transparent.

Each strand of her hair subtly raised its head, the ends resembling beautiful water snakes, all biting the deer's head eerily, with azure toxins spreading upwards along the strange wounds.

The deer, enraged, snapped the water snake in two, but its body had already been invaded by the toxins, leaving it sluggish and stiff.

Luo Jiayu's face turned pale, and a needle-like pain shot through her head.

"Wow, Medusa!" Sheng Qingqiao exclaimed as she imbued her Broadsword with fire, briefly forcing back the numerous monsters that were attacking her.

"These are my Rules Weird Object!" Luo Jiayu shook her head, and after getting used to the pain, she took out a small pair of copper scissors from her bosom, cut off a lock of her Long Hair, light blue hair, and threw it on the ground.

Each strand of Long Hair transformed into a transparent water snake, densely crawling up the ground and onto the bodies of the monsters.

After doing all that, Luo Jiayu took out a magnificent short bow.

She retreated to a safe area, her back against the wall, the water gathering in her palm, freezing, and finally shooting out!

"Call out!"

An Ying stood at the forefront, constantly using her Bamboo Umbrella to block the attacks of these strange creatures. She nimbly weaved through the gaps in each creature's attack, drawing many of their attacks away from the creatures themselves.

However, the numerous strange energies and Rules made him feel increasingly uncomfortable in his chest, his breathing became labored, and his movements became slower and slower. He was almost hit several times.

Fortunately, these strange creatures were large enough that they couldn't move freely in the kitchen, and because they were restrained by each other, they couldn't all pounce on us.

"How is it? Is it going to work?" Sheng Qingqiao forced the strange creature back with another strike and asked anxiously.

"Killing them is difficult; their level isn't high, and there are too many of them." An Ying's eyes were fixed on the monsters, and she spoke very quickly. "Go find some clothes, change your clothes, and that will solve the problem."

"But the roads are all blocked, and where are we supposed to go to find a place to change clothes?"

"Staff changing room! Turn right after exiting!" Luo Jiayu called out.

Sheng Qingqiao and An Ying replied in unison, "Understood!"

"I'll clear the way, you block the way," An Ying, stepping back from the front.

"Good."

Sheng Qingqiao amplified her weapon again, the muscles in her arm gripping the Broadsword bulging as her energy rapidly depleted.

Thump!

A massive, flaming Broadsword, several meters long, swept horizontally, causing the monsters to retreat. An Ying seized the opportunity to retreat back to Luo Jiayu's side, forcing the monsters in front of her to retreat.

Luo Jiayu controlled her hair to transform into tiny water snakes that crawled up the strange creatures that were attacking her. Wherever the snakes crawled, they left behind a trail of icy blue toxins.

Some small snakes crawled onto the pig-like creature blocking the door. The creature tried to swat them several times, but failed to hit the tiny water snakes.

Those tiny snakes, as thin as a hair, were incredibly difficult to grasp on the enormous, bizarre creature. They came to the creature's head, burrowed into its eyes and Brain through its ear canals, and attached themselves to its nerves.

Once they had all squeezed into the Brain, the water snakes bit into the eerie eyeball and nerves!

"Aww--!"

The pig-headed creature clutched its head and let out a shrill roar, blood dripping from its seven orifices. In pain, it kept hitting its head with its hands, trying to dig out the little things.