A hunting adventure [unlimited]

He is only skeptical.

"You said before that it is weak because it is old, and I agree." Du Yu grabbed the sharp corner of the photo and pointed to the monster's withered calf, "The skeleton is shriveled and shrunk, the skin is loose, and there are wrinkles and age spots of pigmentation; That's right."

Irene was six years older than her brother. She was 36 when she died; 50 years later, if her brother was still alive, he would have been 80 years old.

Yu Zhen objected: "But its teeth are sharp and its reaction speed is fast, and it is not sluggish and bloated as it is in old age."

"That's why it's a monster. Its mandibles obviously don't belong to humans, and its body functions should be different from normal people." Du Yu imagined according to his guess, "If you are Irene, take the clues left by your parents to come Go to the basement and see the wax figures of your younger brother and parents who have changed beyond recognition and turned into monsters, will you go crazy?"

In view of his own violent behavior before, Yu Zhen felt ashamed of the monster, endured the discomfort and hugged it, which was bundled into rice dumplings, to a chair, letting it lean crookedly against the back of the chair.

The monster looked at him with lifeless eyeballs.

After finishing all this, Yu Zhen clapped his hands and said honestly, "I don't know, I have no father, no mother, and no younger brother."

Du Yu: "..."

Yu Zhen: "What do you think? Don't you have a sister?"

Du Yu has an older sister, and once had parents. If he substitutes himself, he won't be crazy, but he can't accept it either. The main reason is that he can't accept that his sister has turned into this face.

Yu Zhen seized the opportunity and asked, "How is your relationship with your sister?"

"She treats me very well." Du Yu replied indifferently.

Yu Zhen smelled something hidden inside, and asked enthusiastically, "How do you treat her? Do you really hate her fiancé? What's the matter?"

"Sorry." Du Yu was confused, "Why are you so interested in my sister?"

Yu Zhen's cheeks were flushed, and she said shyly, "It's human nature to gossip."

"I'll tell you later, the grievances between me and Lei Meng can't be explained for a while." Du Yu blocked his words, got back to business, and organized his thoughts:

"The former Queen Greta built this secret room for her and Josie's secret plan to transform the fake mermaid to cover up the truth about the disappearance of the real mermaid; Josie participated in the design and supervision of the secret room. The plan promoted For a period of time, things went well, but due to some reasons, Josie's work was terminated, and she and her husband disappeared together, or died."

Yu Zhen raised her eyebrows: "Are you so sure that Qiao Qian is dead?"

Du Yu said in his mind: "I know a queen in the empire who is cautious and suspicious, and does not allow mistakes. She can only feel at ease when a useless courtier is dead. Combining your dream and speculation, Qiao Qian's son is not She died young, but she only claimed to be dead, but was actually taken away by the Queen as a hostage; Josie's daughter, Irene, got some clues left behind and found it here after a few years, but she died in the end."

Yu Zhen added: "Irene would not have died. Since Josie left a clue and wanted her daughter to find out the truth, the crossword puzzle on the iron gate was for Irene; but the answer to the riddle on the sculpture was erased. Someone didn't want Erin to escape."

Du Yu snorted softly: "It's better to say that Josie knows how to insure herself, and Queen Greta also knows how to protect her secrets."

Yu Zhen horrified: "The queen did it again?"

Du Yu: "The mechanism we encountered in the sewer is like a trap. It is not to prevent people from entering, but to prevent people from going out. The same is true for this basement. Anyone can enter as long as they have a key, but people who enter cannot enter." If you leave by yourself, you can keep the secret forever if you can't get out. Qiao Qian saw through this, so she built a secret passage and left a code word."

Yu Zhen: "Leaving the code words in such a conspicuous place, isn't it telling the queen that she has a way out?"

"That was the queen's acquiescence. If you send someone to do things for you, you must give some trust and allow selfishness. However, there must have been a quarrel between them later, and the queen decided to kill people, so Qiao Qian and her husband disappeared." Du Yuli Looking at the crumpled photo, read the words on the back, ""I know that I have sinned deeply, and even death cannot forgive my sins. I beg you to forgive my children..." The "you" here refers to the Queen. "

Yu Zhen listened intently, resting her chin on one hand, "Qiao Qian is afraid that the queen will pursue her children, so she pleads for Irene and her son?"

Du Yu placed the photo flat on top of his head, to see if it would fall off; he said, "These words are also hinting at Irene—who killed her parents."

Yu Zhen put down his hand, his wrist was numb; the photo above his head fell down.

In this way, all the clues and information are connected in series.

"But Josie didn't expect that the queen would be so cruel that she not only turned her son into a monster and imprisoned her in the basement for life, but also let her daughter die here together." Yu Zhen sighed silently, "I always feel that Irene Didn't get to see the picture before he died."

Du Yu said: "That's fate."

Yu Zhen muttered softly: "But my dream is just a dream, and it cannot be regarded as an established fact."

Du Yu: "Then let's look at the established facts."

***

They sat on the spare chairs at the dining table, and Du Yu picked up the white candle that smelled of roses, "Musk roses."

That's a good idea.Yu Zhen pointed to the resinous eyeballs of the woman beside him with brilliance and said, "Bright eyes?"

Du Yu set off a white candle and said, "Pull out their eyes and have a look."

The hardness of the wax figure would hurt the nails if you touch it directly, so Yu Zhen's small scissors came in handy again.

The sharp blade stuck into the inside of the wax figure from the gap between the eye socket and the eyeball. Yu Zhen held the wax figure's face steady with one hand, and held the handle of the knife with the other to pry it open.

"It smells so bad." Yu Zhen sniffed. He didn't like the smell of wax figures, which was very similar to the stench on monsters—that freak wouldn't just lick his parents' statues for fun, right?

The monster sitting in a separate chair seemed to understand it, and suddenly twisted its body and let out a loud cry.

"Shut up!" Yu Zhen turned around and yelled sharply, "If you keep screaming, your head will be knocked off!"

The monster changed from hissing to howling, whimpering, extremely miserable.

Boom.The scissors pried out a yellowed resin eyeball!The eyeballs popped out of their sockets and bounced onto the table - Du Yu quickly caught them.

"See if you can break it open." Yu Zhen asked the other party to check whether there is any information hidden in the eyeball, and continued to pry the second eyeball of the wax figure.

This one was so firmly embedded that it couldn't be pried off, so he got closer and changed his hand to exert force.

The left half of the face of the wax figure occupies Yu Zhen's field of vision; Josie's nose bridge is very straight, like a towering mountain peak, a row of dense black spots meanders across the mountain range like a shadow, and climbs up to his fingers along the undulating terrain .

Itchy, this is Yu Zhen's first feeling.When he took a closer look, it turned out that a group of ants the size of sesame seeds had crawled all over his right hand!

Yu Zhen's scalp exploded, and goosebumps rose all over his body!The fear of trypophobia dominated his limbs, he stepped back a few steps, and brushed off the bugs on his hands in disgust.

"What the hell!"

Seeing this, Du Yu walked over, and was so shocked by the scene that his face showed fear.

The right eye socket of the wax figure that lost an eyeball turned into a black hole, from which thousands of ants spewed out, spreading like black poison throughout the wax figure!

A rotten stench overwhelmed the scent of roses and wafted into the secret room...

Du Yu covered his nose and approached the wax figure, feeling a bad feeling.

"Why are there so many bugs!" Yu Zhen stomped his feet and crushed the ants to death, but the ant colony quickly occupied the floor like a raging tide.

Du Yu turned a deaf ear and held a white candle to the wax figure's nose, waiting for the skin-colored wax on the surface to melt.The insects and ants crawled out of their eye sockets, fearing the high temperature, and fled around his hand one after another.

The melted wax oil turned into cloudy droplets and fell on the clothes of the wax figure, and quickly condensed and formed lumps in the air.Soon, the sound of "sizzling" fat burning lingered in Du Yu's ears, and the bitter and rancid smell of burning came straight to the tip of his nose.

Du Yu put the candle back on the table, picked up Yu Zhen's scissors, and used the tip of the knife to scrape off the softened wax layer on the bridge of the wax figure's nose——

A piece of sticky skin peeled off as the wax layer was peeled away, and the white bones were exposed under the yellow and green rotting flesh.

Du Yu was choked by the smell and coughed, took a few steps back, touched Yu Zhen's arm and said, "It's a corpse."

Yu Zhen even forgot to step on the worms, and stared at the two wax figures dumbfounded, "Dead?"

Du Yu nodded, "Well, it should be Qiao Qian and her husband."

This surprise is really big.The goosebumps on the back of Yu Zhen's hands disappeared a lot, but the hair on the back of his neck was still standing on end, and the coldness rose from the soles of his feet.

"...I will stay here to repent, and I will never be able to close my eyes until there are no more souls crying in my ears."

This is actually a literal meaning!

"You queen must have some brain problems." Yu Zhen expressed his feelings, but he actually wanted to scold Du Yu.

Du Yu tried to push the cabinet leaning against the wall, "Stop talking nonsense, find the exit quickly, I don't want to be in the same room with rotting corpses."

"Who would think that!" Yu Zhen retorted, but still went to help.

The two worked together to lift the cabinet, but there was only a bare wall behind the cabinet, without hidden doors and passages.Du Yu knocked on the wall resolutely, and listened to the echo from behind the wall. It was dense and clear, and it was solid.

"Bright eyes...a sad soul...it's all messed up, and I don't give any hints or logic." Yu Zhen pulled his hair irritably, and a group of ants crawled across his shoe in panic; when he saw the ants, He was itching all over.

He lifted his foot and shook it, becoming more and more irritable.

When Yu Zhen glanced around, a leaf-shaped pattern caught his gaze.

——It was the bottom of the dining table exposed after the chairs were removed, a dusty woven carpet.

The size of the carpet is equivalent to the size of the tabletop, the pattern is elegant and symmetrical, and there is an oval pattern in the center that looks like an eye or a leaf.

Yu Zhen was too lazy to do anything, and kicked the dining table away.

The wind and dust brought up by his rude actions hit Du Yu's face, causing the latter to cough.

"Can't you be gentle?" Du Yu said displeased.

"What time is it, you're still gentle." Yu Zhen said dismissively.

The dining table was kicked out two meters. This kind of solid wood furniture is very heavy. Yu Zhen's kick seemed light, but it was actually very destructive.Du Yu had a new understanding of his thin and slender figure.

With no obstacles, Yu Zhen looked at the pattern of eyes on the carpet, whistled to attract the other's attention, raised his sharp chin and pointed out: "I found it, Bright Eyes."

In the center of the carpet is an eye pattern woven with red thread, with thick eyelashes, round eyeballs, and charming eyes.

Du Yu squatted down and lifted the blanket, and a small square door suddenly appeared on the wooden floor.

"So it's so easy to find." Yu Zhen said angrily, he regretted that he was lazy and sleepy.

Du Yu took the initiative to do the work and said, "I'll open it."

The author has something to say:

Yu Zhen: Working part-time can not only make you rich, but also make friends and marry a wife.I love working! ~(≧▽≦)/~

Du Yu: Hehe.