I work as a housekeeper in Guilou

Chapter 5 The Last Painting ()

"Are you the assistants of Detective X?"

Xia Qimiao opened her eyes and found a woman standing in front of her. She looked about twenty-seven or eighty-years-old. She was dressed simply and her face was slightly haggard but beautiful.

However, none of the four people, including Xia Qimiao, stayed on her face for more than a few seconds and opened the task panel in unison.

Mission name: The final painting
  Grade: E grade

Details: Painter Lin Jiangdan committed suicide in pursuit of the ultimate art and used his own blood to paint, and finally died on the canvas. Her assistant suspected something was wrong with her death and asked Detective X to investigate. However, Detective X is very busy recently, so he asked his assistant, you guys, to come over and collect clues.

Requirement: Survive until 22:00 tonight
  Failure penalty: None (of course there is no penalty for death)

Success reward: 100 points of source power, E-level treasure chest

"Haha, the great detective is different. Even his assistant is so rude and refuses to listen to what others say." Seeing no one responded, the painter's assistant frowned, "You go ahead and investigate, I want to see what you can find out!"

After saying that, she turned around and left, just a little slower, as if she was waiting for someone to catch up with her, but she was disappointed. No one called her until she left the door.

The four of them looked at each other. The team had a balanced gender ratio, two men and two women.

"There's something wrong with the mission level this time," the man with glasses among the four was the first to speak, "Is that correct? I'm C-level."

He extended an olive branch, and another man continued: "I'm D-level."

There was also a girl who was very tall, visually measuring 1.8 meters, with neatly cut short hair. She also said readily: "I am C-level."

Xia Qimiao had no intention of being unsocial. Although she had single-handedly lowered the average level of the entire team, she still admitted generously: "F level."

The player upgrade system of "There Are No Ghosts in This World" is very transparent. The more times you clear the dungeon, the higher your level will be.

The matching mechanism is related to level. Putting aside the BUG just now, under normal circumstances, the dungeon level and the player level are only one level apart, so there is something wrong with the two C-level players in the E-level dungeon now.

"Is this because the system has not been repaired?" the man with glasses guessed, "If that's the case, it would be a bit troublesome."

Before he finished speaking, a fifth person suddenly appeared in the room. He was a boy. He had headphones hanging around his neck and looked around with a confused look on his face: "Here, where is this?"

His appearance immediately relaxed the tense atmosphere.

In one case, it is normal for player levels to be confused in low-level dungeons, and that is dungeons with G-level newcomers, commonly known as beginner's dungeons. This is also the safest type of dungeon in the game.

Moreover, this kind of copy has additional rewards - high-level players in the novice notebook will receive the "new mission". If the new player survives successfully, the old player who received the mission will receive an A-level treasure chest.

The eyes of the man with glasses and the tall woman shone brightly. They looked at the newcomer as if they were looking at a treasure chest. It was obvious that they had received the mission.

"Who will explain to him, let's guess the game?" The man with glasses asked the tall woman.

After two consecutive defeats, he began to popularize the basics of the game.

As long as you don't repeatedly jump on the minefield of monsters in the novice dungeon, you won't die. So the remaining two people had no intention of cooperating, so they went separate ways to look for clues.

The mission requirements are the clearest. The more clues there are, the easier it is to find out the truth. The higher the degree of completion, the better the reward. This is the consensus.

Xia Qimiao walked out of the room and found herself in a villa.

The sun is shining brightly outside, and the bright light shines through the glass into the corridor, making it look very warm and harmonious. The decoration inside is also warm-toned. If Xia Qimiao didn't know that this was a copy, she would probably be deceived by the false appearance.

The huge villa was empty, there was not a single servant, and the painter's assistant from earlier was gone.

After Xia Qimiao figured out the general layout, he went to the study first. This room was in a black and white minimalist style, like a sharpened knife, cold and sharp.

The books, newspapers and periodicals were clearly classified, and she found the corresponding newspaper with almost no effort. The headlines on the front page were very exaggerated.

"shock! The famous painter Lin Jiangdan was found dead in his home. Was it a murder of love or a vendetta? 》

The reporter's narrative was not as exaggerated as the title. It was logically rigorous and solid, allowing Xia Qimiao to see a part of that time.

Lin Jiangdan's death time was 22:00 on Monday night. She was found dead on the canvas by her assistant.

Her last painting was a self-portrait, with the knife in her hand as her brush and the blood as her paint.

The smiling face of the woman in the painting was cut open from her forehead to her mouth, which made everyone who saw it feel horrified.

This is not the scariest thing. The scariest thing is that the blood in this painting maintains the color of the fresh blood and will not be oxidized and changed due to contact with air.

The police found searches such as "How to stay awake when bleeding excessively" in Lin Jiangdan's browsing history in the past few days. There was no sign of a second person at the death scene.

The medical examiner found that she had taken a large amount of painkillers before her death and found no signs of trauma.

Therefore, the case was classified as suicide.

"Her suicide is not surprising. After all, she comes from the famous Lin family. The daughters of the Lin family will all take the path of art and eventually die of suicide. This is the case for her, as are her aunts and her ancestors. Next issue, this article The press conference will bring you the special topic "The Cursed Lin Family? Deal with the Painters Surnamed Lin Who Take Suicide", so stay tuned!"

This concludes the article.

Xia Qimiao flipped through it. There was no newspaper with a newer date. This should be the last issue, so he closed it and took it away.

Anything is possible in the dungeon world. If it goes in the scientific direction, it might be a family hereditary mental illness; if it goes in a weird direction, it might be a sacrificial ritual.

Xia Qimiao didn't care about this. What she thought was that if Lin Jiangdan became a monster and went crazy, he would probably stab himself, so he would be a suitable tenant in her mysterious building.

But to recruit her, you must first find her.

Xia Qimiao's legs trembled a little when she thought of going to find the strange thing, but nothing could be seen on her face, which was still as cold as ice.

After silently reciting the words of self-comfort that she was not afraid and had nothing to fear several times, Xia Qimiao walked to the studio on the third floor.

Generally speaking, monsters will haunt the place of their death.

She happened to see the man who claimed to be D-class coming down the stairs. There was no basic communication between the two, so they passed by each other after remaining vigilant. Xia Qimiao walked up to him.

She walked towards the room with the "Work" sign. The moment she turned the doorknob, she suddenly felt a cold air coming towards her.

She seemed to have stepped on something under her feet. When she looked closely, she saw that it was long black hair.

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