A hunting adventure [unlimited]

- Bang!Bang!

The loud bang was amplified infinitely in the tunnel.

Du Yu's hands were firm and ruthless, the iron tongs hit the head of the stone statue accurately, a crack crawled across the mermaid's neck; Smash!Stones rolled down the bust and fell to the bottom of the water, and the sewage splashed everywhere...

Yu Zhen pursed her lips, thinking that she had great strength.

"Come here quickly." Du Yu shouted.

The head of the mermaid is separated from the body. After the head is smashed, a metal shaft embedded in the neck is exposed, which controls the rotation direction of the head. On the section of the neck of the stone statue, there is a half-circle disc scale and a golden shaft. The last red vertical line is aligned with the far right starting point.

"I understand." Du Yu's voice trembled slightly, whether it was fear or excitement.He grabbed the gold ring on the mermaid's wrist and said: "This is its built-in alarm. Once the volume in the tunnel exceeds 40 decibels, it will trigger the mechanism—that is, the iron net at our entrance. The mermaid's head is from the left Turning to the right means that the iron net is falling, and the scale here is its rotation speed. It will slowly turn from the right to the left again. When the red pointer is close to the end point of the left end of the disc, the iron net will be retracted, and the entrance Reopen."

"There is no need for human supervision and operation. Just like a flytrap, the person who enters this place is its prey. As long as there is a sound above 40 decibels around it-such as walking and talking normally, it will trigger the mechanism and make the entrance and exit pass. close; it turns back perhaps at a rate of a month, a year .

Yu Zhen was stunned by a series of analyzes and subconsciously said, "How did you find out?"

"I've seen drawings of similar designs in my sister's room." Du Yu searched through his memories, his expression gloomy, "But I thought it was just something to make people laugh, but it turned out to be made a long time ago..."

Yu Zhen thought about it: "In this way, it can indeed explain the cause of Irene's death."

——She fled into this sewer from the brick wall that smashed the secret passage, but accidentally triggered the hidden mechanism of the mermaid stone statue.

But one thing is crucial.Yu Zhen said: "If people are to be locked up to death, the entrance and exit will never be closed for more than a year."

Du Yu cast a puzzled look.

Yu Zhen: "If we were to stay here for a month without food and water, would you be willing to eat raw rats to satisfy our hunger?"

Du Yu imagined, frowned, but did not answer.

"You're not sure, are you?" Yu Zhen brushed the dust off the headless statue's shoulders, "In extreme circumstances, people would rather give up their humanity in order to survive. There are not a few people who eat rats to survive during wartime, and even eat pets and meat. Anything of the same kind can happen.”

Du Yu waited intently for his conclusion.

"So what I mean is that one year and one month are too short. Don't underestimate the vitality of people. The person who designed the mechanism must take this into consideration. If I set the time for the reopening of the entrance and exit, it should be at least ten years. "

"Ten years." Du Yu reread this exaggerated time unit.

"Yes." Yu Zhen returned to the shore, looked around, the lights swayed with the arc of his head. "I can't get out, I want to die with you."

Du Yu's thin chin pointed to the dark passage on the right, the broken wall with a big hole on it, "We have another choice."

Yu Zhen was tired from standing, so she sat down on the spot with her legs curled up, and said, "Before we make a choice, we have to think about whether it is a life gate or a dead end."

He continued: "We walked back and forth on this road a few times, and found no traces of Irene eating or living, indicating that she did nothing before she died, neither eating raw mice, nor trying to do something to continue life."

Du Yu: "Perhaps she has lost hope and lost her desire to survive?"

Yu Zhen: "Yes, but Irene is an upper-class woman with a noble background and good conditions. She is engaged in a respectable career and has a very high social status. It can be said that she can get the wind and the rain. Why did she lose her life?" The desire to go down?"

Du Yu: "It's complicated, family environment, work pressure, inner emptiness... It's a pity that we don't know her, so we can't understand her experience and psychological state."

Yu Zhen sat at the corner, raised her arm and pointed to the secret passage on the right, "Look, that's where she came from."

Du Yu nodded in approval.

"Back to the original question." Yu Zhen put down her hand, "Irene was wearing the overalls of the Royal Academy when she died, so when it happened, she was either at work or on the way to and from work; what was she trying to avoid? Things are hidden in such a dark and dirty sewer?"

"She came in from the outside through that secret passage and found that the way of life was blocked. Why didn't she go back the same way to find another exit? What is she afraid of? Is there something more terrifying than death hidden inside?" Yu Zhen took a breath, After resting for half a minute, he said again, "Or, the inside is the same as the outside, they are all blocked by mechanisms, and she knows there is no way to escape."

"Du Yu, do you really think it's necessary for us to go in?"

The reason why Yu Zhen spent such a long time going around was because he really didn't want to go.He agreed to take the risk before because there was still a way out, but now there is no way out, he would rather die with Du Yu, sink into another dream and start over.

"There is another possibility, throwing away the corpse." Du Yu was not deceived by his words, and said clearly, "She was moved here after her death, and the secret road leads to the exit of the ground."

Yu Zhen: "..."

This man is so stubborn!

But he thought about it again—whoever thought he was living a good life would be willing to stay here to die.

Du Yu just made the choice that ordinary people would make, to survive.

Du Yu came ashore from the water, his legs were straight and long, his boots were dripping water, he looked more like a mermaid than when the sculpture was intact.

"Let's go." The mermaid with legs stretched out a hand towards him and smiled kindly, "You're so smart, we can definitely get out."

Yu Zhen clenched her tongue tightly to control her facial expression from twitching randomly.

——Is sweet mouth useful?really useful.

He reluctantly held out his hand, allowing Du Yu to pull him up with force.

Du Yu pulled him up from the ground and muttered, "It's so light."

"It's so light! I'm not much shorter than you!" Yu Zhen lost his temper.His face is young, he is always underestimated in work and life, and he is sensitive to such evaluations.

"You have a bad temper." Du Yu returned to his expressionless and calm appearance.

Yu Zhen: "You're not much better either."

***

The loose walls, the black holes are like the pierced belly of a monster, and a gust of cold wind blows from the long and dense passage. The wind not only smells of cement dust, but also mixed with a strange fragrance that seems to be absent.

How can there be a fragrance?Yu Zhen suspected that her nose was out of order.

Through the lighting of the headlights, it can be seen that the space in the secret passage is narrow and narrow, and the height is only enough for one person to crawl forward.It is said to be a secret passage, more like a vent.

Du Yu no longer tried to evade him, and took the lead in throwing the backpack into the hole, and leaned over into the darkness.

The cold white light rolls into the secret passage like a luminous bead, illuminating the scene inside clearly and brightly; there is nothing but the endless concrete wall and the end shrunk into a black dot.

Yu Zhen and the others went in, and asked, "How is it?"

Du Yu didn't rush forward, and visually measured the length, width and height of the secret passage, and replied, "It's about 80 meters long, it's safe."

Only then did Yu Zhen feel a little relieved, and followed him into the hole.

The echo of the narrow passage was thick, the sound of the clothes rubbing against each other and the sound of the two people's breathing and heartbeat swirled around, and the low space caused invisible pressure to coil around the heart.

Yu Zhen's fingers caressed the cold concrete wall, the rough gravel scratched the delicate skin next to the nails, and there was a dense pain.

That strange smell is still there.He asked the person in front: "Do you smell the fragrance?"

"A little bit." Du Yu was not sure.

After crawling for 80 meters, I arrived at the end of the secret passage, which is a vertical corner to the right; the passage to the right has been polished, the wall surface is smooth, and the temperature seems to be higher.

The strange fragrance that Yu Zhen smelled along the way was not an illusion. Now the fragrance is closer and stronger, it is the smell of roses, mellow and fragrant, not sweet enough, but quite intoxicating.

Essential oils, candles... or fragrances?

The most unexpected thing was that they saw a flickering warm light.

There is light, which means it is powered on, and there is fragrance, which means it is still in use, but they are located 20 meters underground. Could it be a basement?

Having come here, there is no reason to retreat. Whether it is a surprise or a shock, it will be revealed soon.

This passage was slightly wider, but shorter. Yu Zhen propped up his upper body a little, and hit his head with a "bang", the muffled sound caused Du Yu to turn his head.

He stared at the other party pretending to have nothing to do, and signaled "Hurry up, you are blocking me".

Seeing that he was fine, Du Yu turned around and continued on his way.

Yu Zhen rubbed his red forehead, he suddenly thought of something, and thoughtfully traced across the top of the passage wall with his fingertips; at such a low height, there is no way to crawl with a dead body on his back.

It is also unrealistic to tie the dead body with auxiliary tools such as ropes.When a person kneels down, the strength of the whole body is dispersed, and the friction force in the passage is high. Carrying an immobile corpse is tantamount to dragging a large stone weighing tens of kilograms, making it difficult to move an inch.

The purpose of dumping the corpse is to hide evidence and cover up the crime; if it is only for the purpose of "not being discovered", the corpse should be thrown in this hidden pipeline instead of being taken to the sewer outside.

Therefore, what is certain at present is: Irene crawled through the secret passage by herself, and she was not dead at that time.

If she was murdered, the scene of the crime could only be the sewer outside, and the murderer returned to the secret passage after committing the crime and escaped.

...Tracking and stalking, or an acquaintance committing the crime?

Yu Zhen shook her head, telling herself not to think about it, it's important to run for her life first.

They groped and crawled for dozens of meters in the secret passage, and finally saw the source of the warm light——

A small shutter.

Sure enough, it was the basement.

Just in case, the two tacitly turned off the headlights.

The warm orange light sprinkled into the dark secret passage like the rising sun, and the light and shadow interlaced reflected on Du Yu's face, illuminating his tea-brown eyes as transparent as amber.

Du Yu moved his knees, and slowly approached the shutter, peeking at the source of the light through the narrow window——

Yu Zhen patted Du Yu's calf and asked in a low voice, "What did you see?"

Du Yu didn't make a sound, but turned sideways to make room for half of the space, asking Yu Zhen to squeeze into the already small space side by side with him.

"You come and see."

Yu Zhen was full of doubts, and squeezed his arms and legs hard to squeeze into half of the space left by Du Yu; the ventilation duct less than one meter wide could barely fit the two of them, shoulders to shoulders, heads to heads, and he still felt through several layers of clothes Get the other party's high body temperature.

Du Yu made a silent gesture towards him, his amber eyes turned to the blinds, and Yu Zhen followed those gazes——

The height of the air vent is close to the ceiling, and it overlooks a corner of the room from here.

The spacious stone chamber is brightly lit.The simple and old-fashioned tables and chairs, carpets, candlesticks, and unlit fireplace seem to be the living room of a family of three.

The six-seater dining table was covered with a filthy tablecloth. A man and a woman sat at the table. They wore one black and one red evening dress. Dirty black.The corners of the mouths of the man and the woman curled up, their happy smiles forever frozen on their faces.

——Two lifelike wax figures.The skin texture, hair, and movement are all extremely realistic, but the lack of tracking of the resin eyeballs betrays the fact that they are just a pile of wax.

An emaciated child of seven or eight years old was sitting next to the wax figure of a woman, dangling his two skinny and emaciated legs—he was the only living person in the "family of three".

The child's hair has never been trimmed, and it is messy like a clump of wild weeds, covering most of his face; the knotted tail hangs on his narrow shoulders, and under the tattered clothes is a skinny Arms, literally human skin wrapped around skeletons.

There was no gender, nor even an age, since he must have been severely malnourished.

The child was humming softly, fiddling with a set of ceramic tableware with dead-twig-like fingers, and the spoon and the cracked porcelain plate made a jingling sound.

And the strong fragrance of roses comes from the burning of white candles placed on the table.

Yu Zhen was horrified at the sight, and couldn't help turning away to meet Du Yu's gaze.

"What is this?" Yu Zhen mouthed and asked, unavoidably letting out some breath sounds and panting.

Du Yu keenly pressed over and covered his mouth and nose!Sticking to his ear, he warned hoarsely, "Don't breathe!"

The scorching breath sprinkled on Yu Zhen's ears, and the hair scratched his cheeks brought a nervous itch, and the moment the words fell, the two of them held their breath together!

At the same time, the warm light from the shutters was covered by a shadow, the stench of rotting pervasively wafted to the tip of the nose, and the coolness penetrated into the bones...

Yu Zhen looked vigilantly at the window slit, and the next second his pupils dilated with fear——

A deformed face that cannot be called a human face occupies half the area of ​​the window!The bloodshot protruding eyeballs hang precariously on the edge of the eye sockets, the melting nose sticks to the lips, the closed mouth has whirlpool fine teeth, and the blood-red esophagus exhales the festering stench of the wound...

It does not see, it smells through only its senses, it perceives the presence of living things.

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