Accident
"Huo, this pig trotter truly fragrant!"
【Heart 9】 strongly sniffed the dishes placed on the table, and couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva.
"Yi ya!" 【Clown】 clutched the table with both hands. Due to his height being too short, he could only hang his entire body in the air. But this didn't affect him from crazily drooling over the table full of dishes, dripping onto the ground.
"This Senior, your saliva is about to drown the 【Kitchen】 ah hey!" 【Jian Changsheng】 looked at these two people, and couldn't help complaining, "Can we restrain ourselves a bit?"
【Clown】 silently closed his mouth, but the saliva didn't disappear. It only flowed back into his stomach with crazy swallowing, his small face full of grievance.
【Jian Changsheng】 let out a long sigh, "I said we shouldn't have come here... If this goes on, they will discover us sooner or later."
"Calm down, they won't discover us."
【Heart 9】 said completely uncaringly, "This 【Kitchen】 is two storeys high, the place is big, there are too many places to hide... If it's not a deliberate carpet search, it's very hard to discover us."
Is this place really not bad? Could it be that 【Heart 9】 choosing this place truly wasn't because he was hungry, but because he actually had experience?
【Jian Changsheng】 looked towards 【Heart 9】 with a bit more respect, thinking that he was indeed a senior of the 【Dusk Society】, and he himself still had a lot to learn in this aspect.
"Right, what are we doing next?" 【Heart 9】 casually dug out a chicken claw from a plate and started gnawing on it while asking doubtfully.
"..."
【Jian Changsheng】 stared wide-eyed, "You're really eating??"
"What are you afraid of? With so many dishes piled up together, who could notice one missing?" 【Heart 9】 said completely unconcerned.
Seeing 【Heart 9】's deadbeat appearance, 【Jian Changsheng】 knew he had been overthinking earlier. This guy was fundamentally a lunatic with a strange brain circuit... He sighed and said:
"Next, we wait for 【Heart 6】 to send us a message, to see if that painting is here."
"Send a message?"
"He said... as long as we are also on the '【Stage】', fate will deliver the message to us."
Just as the three of them were speaking, a gust of wind carried a paper crane, floating lightly in from the window. After spinning lightly in the air for a moment, it swayed and happened to land right in the middle of the three of them.
"Damn." 【Heart 9】 stared wide-eyed, "What kind of method is this? It can even be played like this?"
【Jian Changsheng】 immediately picked up the sticky note and opened it. The first line of words was:
[△ The sticky note carrying the news flutters with the wind, perhaps favored by fate, it just happens to land in the middle of the three slacking people. At this moment, even if they are slow-witted, they know that they should start acting...]
【Jian Changsheng】 looked at this line of words, his expression suddenly becoming bizarre, "... Is he scolding us?"
"That's not important, look at the back."
【Heart 9】 pointed to the back.
【Jian Changsheng】 turned the sticky note over, and saw a few lines of scribbled handwriting, obviously just written on the spot.
"That painting is indeed in the 【Flower Capital Consortium】." 【Jian Changsheng】's eyes lit up, "He said that painting is currently mixed in with over a hundred paintings, being transported by staff from the top floor to the 【Warehouse】. This is exactly the best time for us to make a move!"
"Let's go! Then hurry up and..."
Before 【Heart 9】 could finish his words, the sound of people talking came from outside the door. His and 【Jian Changsheng】's expressions changed, and they looked at each other at the same time.
"Someone is coming in, let's hide for a bit."
In the blink of an eye, 【Heart 9】 had burrowed behind an oven. At the same time, it was unknown where 【Clown】 had run off to. 【Jian Changsheng】 froze in place for a long time, then hurriedly ran towards a freezer he had spotted earlier, and flipped his body to hide inside.
There were fully nine freezers like this in the 【Kitchen】, lined up in a row. The frozen meat inside just happened to be able to cover up 【Jian Changsheng】's figure. It was considered the best hiding spot in the entire 【Kitchen】.
"Quick, the Chairman's side is urging for the dishes! Move faster!!"
"Take those finished dishes up first! What dishes haven't we prepared yet?"
"There's still a pork chop."
"Then do it quickly! It must be on the table within fifteen minutes!"
"..."
A figure that looked like the 【Head Chef】 hurried into the 【Kitchen】 with a group of people, immediately put metal covers on the finished dishes on the table, and transported them out using exquisite pushing carts... Perhaps the process was too hasty, unexpectedly no one noticed that the bone that had been gnawed clean by 【Heart 9】 was mixed in among this pile of chicken claws.
When the dishes on the table were basically all transported out, a few chefs began to chop vegetables rapidly, seemingly preparing to start making the big dishes on the spot. At the same time, a figure walked straight towards the direction of the freezers.
"We still have quite a few pork chops left, right?"
"Plenty, they are in those cabinets, pick a few at random."
"Okay."
That person casually walked to a freezer, took away the two pork chops covering the very top, and just as he was about to turn his head and leave, he saw a pair of astonished eyes buried under the frozen meat, looking at him in disbelief...
That person rubbed his eyes. After confirming he wasn't dreaming, he pointed at the freezer and fiercely cursed "Fuck!"
"There's a person hiding here!!"
"Fuck!!"
【Jian Changsheng】 couldn't help cursing angrily. His figure leaped out from the freezer like an afterimage, casually grabbed a piece of frozen meat, and heavily smashed it on the back of that person's head, knocking him out cold in one blow.
But this sudden change also attracted the attention of the other chefs. They looked in shock at 【Jian Changsheng】 who had bounced out of the freezer. Before they could regain their senses, another figure flashed out from behind the oven, knocking them all out in a few strikes!
Looking at this group of chefs lying crisscrossed on the ground, 【Jian Changsheng】 was furious.
With so many freezers lined up, and dozens of pieces of meat piled up into a mountain, you fucking had to pick the exact one I was under. What kind of ghost luck is this... Now that these chefs have been knocked down, the other side will soon notice something wrong. Their existence has basically been exposed.
【Jian Changsheng】 absolutely didn't expect that 【Heart 9】 and 【Clown】, who had been acting wildly the whole time, were completely fine, while he, who had been doing his duty, became a part of the "accident". He felt extremely depressed in his heart.
"They will discover it sooner or later, we must grasp the time." 【Heart 9】 didn't mock 【Jian Changsheng】, but became rarely serious, and said in a deep voice,
"Since being exposed is a foregone conclusion, don't be cowardly anymore... Snatch 【The Scroll】 at the fastest speed, and then leave here!"
A look of determination flashed in 【Jian Changsheng】's eyes, and he nodded heavily, "Okay!"
The two looked at each other, rushed out of the 【Kitchen】 at top speed, and flew towards the direction of the courtyard!
...
Meanwhile.
Chen Ling slowly took a seat in the courtyard's dining room.
Following closely, under 【Zong Wen】's instructions, dining carts with metal covers were pushed into the center of the luxurious dining room...