Rosewood was a private estate on an island surrounded by water. Detection devices had been set up all around it, making infiltration risky. The best approach was to get invited as a guest, but the owner preferred peace and quiet and rarely hosted visitors, so they would have to find another way in.
The options of disguising themselves as estate staff, applying for jobs, or showing up as reporters to conduct an interview had already been exhausted by other players. Now, anyone entering or leaving the estate had to pass several rounds of verification, and players were keeping watch. Changing identities would make them easy to expose.
Xu Huo first looked into the estate owner's circumstances, paid to obtain a certificate stating he was a therapist, then tracked down one of the owner's distant relatives and persuaded him to pay a visit. After that, he entered openly with the man.
As expected, several players were already staying at the estate, each under a different identity. There was a scholar the owner had specifically invited over for a chat, an expert brought in to deal with diseased plants, as well as a photographer and a gourmet.
When Xu Huo arrived, they were chatting on a small second-floor balcony. After exchanging glances, both sides watched one another in silence for a few seconds before looking away.
"Is my great-uncle busy today?" Harry, the estate owner's distant relative and a new friend Xu Huo had just made, asked the butler familiarly. After presenting his gift, he added, "I came especially to see him this time, and to introduce him to a friend of mine."
The butler smiled. "Sir went out to visit a friend and hasn't returned. Before he left, he asked me to show you around and see whether there are any