There is a large sink in the middle of the kitchen. There is a flue-like air outlet in the center of the sink. Next to it is a table where the chef handles ingredients. This table is connected to the unknown black hole outside, and there are wrinkled pigs that have been washed.
came from the cave entrance.
The chef stood in front of the transfer port, holding a machete in his oily hands. Each cut could accurately chop the pig's head.
The pig's head fell into the black mud on the ground and slowly melted away, as if the black mud was a swamp that could settle everything.
Although the puppet chef's hands did not stop moving, its head was looking to the other side.
Judging from its orientation, he should be talking to the maid who stuck her head in the main hall.
There are still many cabinets and other furnishings in the kitchen, but they are all covered with oil stains and some dark red blood stains.
To Angel, this kitchen was simply weird.
First of all, next to the main hall is the kitchen. This design alone is very weird. What is even weirder is that there is only a curtain separating it, so it seems that you are seeing two completely different scenes.
Although the main hall is a bit gaudy, in the eyes of the uninitiated, it can at least be called magnificent. But the kitchen next to it is filthier and more terrifying than a stinking ditch full of oil.
With houses of such different styles next to each other, what does Earl Black Tea think?
Absurd, contradictory and full of weirdness, is this the idea of ​​Earl Black Tea, or is this the normal state of the teapot country?
While Angel was observing and complaining about the kitchen, Rabbit Chacha leaned into Angel's ear and whispered: "We are lucky. The tea servant is sleeping and the chef is distracted. We can sneak into the storage room secretly."
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Angel was stunned for a moment: "Tea servant?"
He only saw the cook, not the tea server.
Rabbit Chacha whispered: "In the air."
Angel's head almost came out of the shadow this time, and then he saw two teapots on plates floating vaguely in the air. They were suspended above the sink, rising and falling, as if they were breathing, and they were regular.
of movement.
"This is the shape of the tea servants when they are sleeping. Now they look like teapots, but when they wake up, they are puppets with teapots on their heads." Rabbit Tea finished talking and signaled Angel to leave quickly.
Angel also understood that this was not the time to chat, so he followed Rabbit Chacha like a thief, tiptoeing and quietly moving under the cabinet.
When they move, they must walk in the shadows. Once there is a slight movement in the outside world, they will immediately stop moving and carefully hide in the dark.
In this way, it took them about three minutes to successfully move from under the cabinet on the far left to the door of the storage room.
The whole process was basically smooth, except for a small hiccup in the middle.
One of the pig heads cut by the chef did not fall smoothly into the black mud when it fell to the ground, but fell under the sink.
Coincidentally, the pig's head was aimed at Angel and the rabbit Chacha.
But the pig head didn't seem to be completely dead, and his eyes were still blinking. Angel even saw the reflections of him and Chacha in the pig head's dark eyes.
At that moment, Angel's heart skipped a beat in fright.
Just when Angel thought they had been discovered, the chef didn't even look back. While chatting with the maid outside, he stretched out his foot and kicked the pig's head into the black mud.
Slowly, the mud swallowed the pig's head.
It wasn't until the pig's head disappeared that Angel's feeling rising in his throat slowly subsided.
It seems that they haven't been discovered yet? But the pig head obviously saw him and Chacha. Will this cause any trouble?
Angel felt very uneasy, but he couldn't ask Chacha now, so he could only keep his head down and follow Chacha.
It wasn't until they entered the storage room and confirmed that no one was here that Angel asked the doubts in his heart.
"You mean that pig head?" Rabbit Chacha paused and said softly: "Don't worry, they are both humans and animals. Even if they are discovered, nothing will happen..."
When Rabbit Chacha said this, his eyes flashed with sadness.
"Humans and animals?" Rabbit Chacha was fine without explaining, but once he explained, Angel couldn't understand.
It's obviously a pig, so why is it named after "human and animal"?
Faced with Angel's doubts, Rabbit Chacha was silent for a moment and said: "Because they are all transformed using the art of animal creation."
Animal-making skills?
With Rabbit Chacha's explanation, Angel gradually understood what animal creation is.
This is an extraordinary technique that turns living beings into meat animals. Most of the people who are subjected to this technique are criminals in the Teapot Kingdom. The criminals in the Teapot Kingdom are basically humanoids. After these humanoids are turned into edible fleshly animals,
, also known as humans and animals.
"Eating carnivorous animals...you mean, they turned people from the Teapot Country into food?"
Rabbit Chacha nodded and said softly: "This animal-making technique is very popular among the upper class in the Teapot Kingdom. It's called punishment for criminals, but in my opinion, it just satisfies their evil eating habits. They
It looks like you are eating pork...but the taste is actually completely different from real pork."
Angel had previously thought that this animal-making technique was a bit like the work of the dark gourmets in the Northern Territory wizarding world, but after hearing what Rabbit Chacha said, he couldn't help but shake his head.
This is even a step further than the Dark Gourmet. The Dark Gourmet sacrifices the same kind to the devil, while the upper-class nobles here feed on the same kind.
This is really...an absurd country.
Rabbit Chacha: "Let's not talk about this anymore. Anyway, there is no need to worry about being exposed. The human and animal just now have been dealt with."
Angel: "The mud on the ground?"
Rabbit Chacha nodded: "Those are carnivorous fungi, they are poisonous."
After a pause, Rabbit Chacha turned around and walked to the front: "The outer hall of the storage room is full of sundries, and the more expensive ones are in the inner hall. If Earl Black Tea puts the half-length mirror in the storage room, he must put it there.
We are in the inner hall. We want to enter the inner hall, but we have to climb the wall again. We need to hurry up."
Rabbit Chacha talked about their next goal naturally, but Angel felt vaguely that something was wrong. Looking at Rabbit Chacha's back, Angel remembered the sadness that flashed in Rabbit Chacha's eyes when he mentioned humans and animals.
Rabbit Chacha doesn't want to talk much and even takes the initiative to change the topic. Is it because of this?
Angel didn't know what Rabbit Chacha was thinking. But at this moment, he felt that although this world was absurd, every creature here was very real.
It's like, it really existed.
"Alchemy omen... what kind of operating mechanism is it?" Angel murmured in a low voice, doubts and confusion flashed in his eyes, and finally he let out a long sigh and stopped thinking about it.
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Rabbit Chacha was right. There was no half-length mirror found in the outer hall of the storage room. There were just some sundries accumulated here. There were replacement teapots, dirty blankets, and various non-edible living supplies, but basically
They are all dirty and old.
"Some of the things kept in the outer hall will be cleaned, and some will be taken out and destroyed. The really good things and brand-new things are all placed in the inner hall." Rabbit Chacha: "Well, this is it."
Rabbit Chacha pointed to an iron door deep inside.
The door is locked at this time. But there are ventilation holes right above the door. The size of these holes is just big enough for them to get in.
There is no way to climb directly through the door, but you can climb up the wall next to it.
It took them a few minutes to successfully climb up to the wall crack at a suitable height, and then move towards the door little by little.
When they were about to reach the gate, Rabbit Chacha jumped onto the lock of the gate, and Angel followed. If it were before, Angel would have found it a bit difficult to jump like this, but with the saddle bag as "wings"
Under the circumstances, it was much more relaxed.
Climb all the way from the gate lock and soon reach the air vent.
Through the air hole, Angel could already see the environment inside the storage room.
It is indeed filled with good things as Rabbit Chacha said, but most of them are daily necessities and teapots with unique shapes.
At first glance, I didn't see the half-length mirror.
However, many places were blocked by cabinets, and Angel couldn't see the specific situation.
"At the moment, it seems that we don't have the half-length mirror you want. Do you want to go in and have a look?" Rabbit Chacha turned around and asked.
Angel nodded: "Go in and have a look."
Just in case, Angel was still going to enter the inner hall for further confirmation.
About ten minutes later, the door to the storage room was opened. This was the patrol maid coming back from outside. She entered the storage room and began to sort out the materials here.
When the patrolling maid didn't notice, Angel and Rabbit Chacha quietly got out of a teapot jar, and then quickly walked out through the crack in the open door of the inner hall.
The whole process was uneventful.
To be continued...