The human-shaped shadow that seemed to be laughing wildly, its legs trembled on the long table.
The thin legs like sheets of paper swept across the crystal utensils on the long table and even directly through the candles without any obstruction.
Originally, Raymond, whose whole body was covered in goosebumps, looked at the human-shaped shadow sitting leisurely in the chair and laughing. His mood gradually calmed down.
Because under the chip's monitoring, the radiation power that filled the entire room was about to disappear.
As time passed, the color that formed the human-shaped shadow became darker and thinner.
Shaking his head and recovering his senses, Raymond also laughed dryly with the echoing laughter in the room.
Hearing Raymond's dry laughter, the human-shaped shadow suddenly sat up straight in the chair, stuck out its head and shouted: "Little guy, who are you fooling? You don't even know how to use the wizard's book, how can you have a teacher!"
As it spoke, the human-shaped shadow stood up somewhat contemptuously: "If you had such a teacher, you wouldn't even qualify as a wizard!"
For some reason, Raymond, whose lie was seen through, felt depressed.
From time to time, his peripheral vision left this bizarre human-shaped shadow to look at the wall clock. It had been nearly an hour past midnight, and the human-shaped shadow standing before him was now almost transparent, so thin that it seemed about to disappear at any time.
"Don't look anymore. In two minutes I have to go back! Seeing you are a guest of the Tolly family and the only one who can recite the wizard's book, come find me tomorrow at this time. Old lady has huge benefits for you!"
As if sensing Raymond observing the time, the human-shaped shadow suddenly said in despair.
Then its body slowly collapsed, and all the shadows were like melting candles piled on the floor.
Then, to Raymond's astonishment, a large area of shadow climbed up the walls and into the back of the clock, disappearing completely.
His heart pounding violently, Raymond slowly groped for the door handle behind him and tried to pull it.
Ding ding ding came the sound from outside the door.
Soon Raymond heard the maid pulling the door from outside, accompanied by the maid's slightly tired crisp voice. The door opened slowly from the outside.
When Raymond saw the maid's tired and pretty face before him, his nerves, which had been tense all the time, finally relaxed.
In excitement, Raymond directly stretched out his arms and hugged the maid with fatigue around the waist, rushing towards the spiral staircase...
In the middle of the night, a woman's scream came from the basement of the ancient castle, accompanied by echoing hurried and heavy footsteps throughout the ancient castle. The woman's screams soon disappeared. A moment later, the sound of doors closing came from the top floor of the ancient castle.
The knight on night duty outside the ancient castle looked up in astonishment in the direction of the top floor of the ancient castle, faintly hearing the woman's weak murmurs. Then the entire ancient castle fell silent again.
A meaningful smile appeared on the face of the knight on night duty...
...
His head hurt, and his arms were sore...
When the morning glow shone into the room, Raymond, who had slowly opened his eyes, sensed an abnormality before his mind was fully awake.
There was a fragrance of orchids and musk.
His left arm was numb, swollen and tingling, while his right hand felt soft and slippery.
In an instant, Raymond opened his eyes wide, and the golden hair covering his face almost caused him to jump up.
But Raymond soon woke up completely. Lowering his head, Raymond saw a girl curled up in his arms.
A fair neck, delicate skin, and his right hand had slipped into the girl's clothes, grabbing her round and protruding chest. The slippery feeling in his hand reminded Raymond of everything last night.
But because of Raymond's move, the girl in his arms immediately opened her slightly dazed eyes. When she saw Raymond's face close at hand, her eyes were still a little out of focus, but the girl in his arms blushed quickly and then opened her mouth as if to scream loudly.
Raymond hurriedly covered the girl's mouth with his right hand, frowning in embarrassment for a while.
The shyer girl in his arms, the shocked expression on her face slowly disappeared. Then she gently peeled off Raymond's palm, blushing shyly, "Sir... I have to go to work..."
Raymond breathed a sigh of relief and quickly climbed out of bed. He saw that he was still wearing the clothes he had worn yesterday.
The maid in the bed also quickly got out of bed, turned her back to Raymond and straightened her clothes, then quickly rushed out of the room covering her face.
With a calm face, Raymond watched the back rushing out of the room and couldn't help feeling a little swayed. His right hand still had the maid's body fragrance.
Last night, after escaping from that bizarre scene, the frightened and physically and mentally exhausted Raymond had almost instinctively hugged the maid who had been standing outside the door and brought her back to the room.
Then...
Frowning, Raymond laughed. It seemed that nothing had happened last night. He had just hugged the maid and fell asleep in bed.
Glancing at his lower body, fortunately, the effect of the restorative he had eaten yesterday had disappeared, and his body seemed to have returned to normal.
The scene last night frightened Raymond terribly. Thinking for a while, he gave an order to the chip. "Call up the record from last night, event retrospection!"
"Task established, starting retrospection..."
"Retrospection failed, data source has abnormal force field surround, unable to record."
Looking at the retrospection scene in his vision, Raymond was astonished to find that nothing about the human-shaped shadow last night was recorded by the chip, even the dialogue between the two was a rustling sound in the chip's audio recording, with only Raymond's voice.
Involuntarily shuddering, such a bizarre scene plunged Raymond into thought.
After the chip playback ended, the mechanical chip issued a request for data analysis: "Analyze the cause of recording failure?"
"Yes!"
"Task established, expected completion in 70 hours..."
After obtaining the chip's processing time, Raymond hesitated for a moment before calling the butler and the two guards over.
Taking them back to the basement, Raymond put away the book that was still open on the table. Standing in front of the long table in the basement, he re-examined here.
Exactly the same as the last scene recorded by the chip, nothing had changed in position.
The clock hanging on the wall was still ticking and slowly moving.
The white-haired butler looked at the nervously tense Raymond early in the morning and felt strange: "Master Raymond, what happened?"
With a frown, Raymond confirmed through the chip's detection that there was no such abnormal force field in the entire basement. He hesitated for a while before saying to the butler: "Prepare the car, I want to find Hai Wentian."