Chapter 13 Secret
The squad leader carefully sorted out everyone’s after-dinner garbage, packed it and threw it out of the mansion. When she came back, she found that everyone was fighting with their own eyelids.
“Look at how sleepy everyone is~ Let’s do this! We’ll stand guard in shifts, each of us for two hours. This way we can ensure that everyone has six hours of rest.
Luo Di made the biggest contribution today. The one who contributed the most won the right to sleep on the bed.
I will guard the first shift today. I don’t know if it’s because I didn’t contribute much, but I’m not sleepy at all.”
Almost at the same time that the monitor finished speaking, Rody was already lying on a wicker chair and fell asleep, and he could even faintly hear snoring.
Gao Yuxuan took out the moisture-proof mat as a floor covering. In this way, the big bed was completely given to Anna.
It just so happens that with Anna’s physique, she really can’t sleep anywhere else.
In such a dilapidated old house, bedding and the like were naturally unusable. Anna removed everything except the bed board and put on her own moisture-proof mat before she managed to sleep.
“It’s great to be young, just fall asleep~”
The squad leader looked at the three people sleeping soundly in the bedroom with a look of relief. There was no trace of fatigue on her face.
The sound of heavy rain hitting the house with all its strength actually formed a very natural white noise, which also covered up other noises.
The squad leader danced around the room with ballet-like steps.
After the dance ended, she also came to the old dressing table in the master bedroom and wiped off the dust on the mirror. , and then wipe the old wooden comb clean with a paper towel.
Loosen the ponytail, apply some kind of self-made ointment on the wooden comb, and start to comb your hair slowly in front of the mirror.
The squad leader's face reflected in the mirror always maintains a smile, and there is no trace of nervousness from the beginning of practice until now.
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The sun sets and the night falls,
Unlike the city that can remain bright under sufficient lights, this hill in the suburbs has been shrouded in night,
The wall lamps posted all over the mansion by the squad leader and others in advance play their role, keeping the whole building bright,
【21:00】
Rody, who was assigned to the last vigil, woke up as if an alarm clock had been set in his body.
I thought there would be someone to change shifts with him, but in fact, there were three pairs of eyes staring at him.
"Are you awake?" the monitor asked excitedly.
“What are you doing?”
"Come on~ Gao Yuxuan discovered the secret of this mansion during the vigil, so he woke us all up. Considering that you were a little too hard today, everyone waited for an extra half hour."
"What secret?"
The squad leader stood by the wall pretending to be mysterious and knocked on the wall with his hand, and a clear hollow sound came out.
"Gao Yuxuan visually measured the length of the corridor, compared the width of the master bedroom and the adjoining room, and found that there was still a large gap between the two rooms, which could completely fit the next compartment.
There is a high probability that there is a dark room inside, but we couldn’t find the switch. Maybe the switch has been removed by the owner in advance.”
Luo Di also tapped the wall with his fingers, "It sounds like the wall is not too thick. We should be able to break it open, right?"
"Yes~ Aren't we worried about waking you up? ?”
After the monitor turned around gracefully, she spread her arms to the left, showing off her best friend.
Anna, holding a masonry hammer, was ready to break through the wall with brute force. Judging from the age of the masonry hammer, she should have found it from inside the mansion.
As the muscles of the whole body exert force, turn the waist and throw out the arms,
Bang!
The power is amazing.
With one hammer, several cracks were created in the wall, and the point of impact was completely sunken.
Without stopping, another hammer blow,
Boom!
With the second hammer, an opening the size of a fist was made in the wall, and the dark environment inside could already be seen. This kind of black makes everyone very uncomfortable. Growing up in the city, they have almost no exposure to darkness. No matter how remote the streets are, they are covered with light.
When seeing the inappropriate darkness, the monitor quickly threw a striking ball of light into it.
Pop!
The ball is activated by impact after falling inside.
The strange thing is that the light ball emits white light, but the reflected light turns red.
Smashing the wall continues,
Boom! As the third hammer fell, a large number of bricks collapsed one after another. The secret darkroom was fully revealed and a completely different stench overflowed from it.
Unlike the pure rotten smell in the backyard, the stench here is also mixed with the smell of incense candles.
The ground was covered with the corpses of crows, and the light balls thrown in before also fell on these dead crows. There was no suitable place to stay in the small dark room.
The walls of the entire darkroom were painted crimson with crow blood.
In the depth of the darkroom was an altar covered with yellow cloth.
There was a metal oil lamp on it.< br>
Rotten fruit tributes,
Burned incense candles,
Unused yellow talisman,
and a family photo.
This is also the first time that everyone has found photos of this family since they came to the mansion.
However, the objects primarily used for practice appear to have been removed.
There is another noteworthy point about this darkroom. There are four hooks on the top, corresponding to the four corners of the rectangle, which seem to be used to suspend something.
Gao Yuxuan started to analyze based on the textbook and extracurricular knowledge, "Maybe someone is "refining corpses" here... If my guess is correct, these four hooks should be used to hang the coffin. "
"Refining the corpse? ”
The first thing everyone thought of was the four corpses hanging on the locust tree, especially the old man’s corpse that was hung the highest and was difficult to burn.
And Luo Di His eyes were quite cunning, and he noticed that something was wrong with the photos on the altar,
Pah, clap, clap, clap, put a plastic bag on the soles of his shoes, stepped on the crow's body and took out the black and white photo,
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"This is it!"
Everyone was stunned when they saw the photo,
because there were five people in the photo,
among them young men and women, middle-aged women and The old man was the four corpses that were hung on the tree before, and they had been disposed of by everyone.
However, there is one person among them,
A middle-aged man in a wheelchair wearing civilian clothes.
Although this old black and white photo is a bit blurry, it can be seen that the person is in a very bad state and is probably seriously ill.
The person behind this person who is responsible for pushing the wheelchair is the old man who is hanging at the top of the locust tree and is the most difficult to deal with.
The squad leader immediately connected everything together, "Let me tell you~ There is such a big age difference between this old man and the middle-aged woman, how can they be husband and wife? It turns out that this old man is the housekeeper here.
This sick man is the head of the family!
This guy should be proficient in some kind of Taoism. He was seriously ill and was not going to die soon, so he decided to refine his own body. The whole family was an important part of this refining process.
He should have controlled his family members with spells or changed their spirits, and taught them the relevant steps of corpse refining in advance.
The first stage of corpse refining is located in this secret room.
The corpse is buried in a coffin and hung in a secret room. The rich crow blood is used to absorb the Yin energy. When enough is absorbed, the whole family carries the coffin to the real corpse refining place.
There is a high probability that it is a hidden cave somewhere,
Then the whole family arranged the things they needed for the house and killed all the pigs and cows prepared in the backyard. After everything was ready, they hanged themselves collectively.
The corpses of pigs and cows and the hanged people together nourish the locust tree in the backyard. The yin energy gathers in the roots of the tree and is transmitted downwards, thereby achieving the final refining of the corpse.
Unfortunately, we were interrupted by our temporary arrival.
Everything carefully arranged was destroyed. The head of the family in the photo might have crawled out of the coffin early because the ceremony was interrupted, or he might have returned to his old house. "
The squad leader's words seemed to put everyone in an ice cellar, their breaths froze, and everyone's heads turned towards the bedroom door closed with a paper window, motionless.
(End of this chapter)