Na quickly put on a pair of loafers, took off the fine steel rapier hanging on the wall, put a few bottles of potion into the ring just in case, then opened the floor-to-ceiling window to the terrace and rushed out.
On the terrace of the next room, a figure in white stood quietly. He was tall and thin, with dry black hair that was messy and curly like grass and draped behind him. Looking at the back, he seemed to be a woman. "She" had her back to Ming Na, and there was a faint green mist floating around her body, which looked particularly strange under the moonlight.
But Ming Na was not frightened. She just frowned and asked, "Who are you?! What's the purpose of playing tricks in my house?!"
The "woman" didn't answer, but turned her head slightly. Behind the withered black hair, half of her blue-grey face was revealed. Her eye sockets were sunken, her eyes were white, she smiled sinisterly, and two one-inch lips popped out of her dry lips. There were so long fangs, and a blood mark flowed from the corner of his mouth. She slowly raised her hand, and her fingers were spread out. They were skinny, like animal claws, and the edges of the nearly ten centimeter-long black nails shone with dark light. She said in a hoarse voice, "I...want to...eat...you..." As soon as she finished speaking, she screamed and was hit in the head by the flowerpot thrown by Mingna, causing bright red blood to flow out. She fell back and seemed to knock something off, making a loud "bang" sound, which was particularly loud in the middle of the night.
Ming Na sneered: "You look pretty good. Where did you get the dentures? Isn't it inconvenient to wear fake nails? The blood stains are quite realistic, and the luster and coagulation are very good, but how can a ghost be hit by a real thing?" What about me? If it’s a vampire, the blood won’t be red. You think I’m a three-year-old child, the preparations in advance are too rough!”
The "woman" was sweating profusely, got up in a panic, and ran to the room. Ming Na quickly turned around and rushed out of the room, just in time to see the "woman" disappear at the corner of the stairs. She quickly chased after her and ran to the second floor. Seeing that the woman was about to run out of her sight, she decided not to walk at all. He jumped directly from the stair railing and hit the "woman" right on top. The other party let out a scream like a slaughtered pig. The rough voice made Minna stunned. It turned out that the fake female ghost was a man.
The man pretending to be a ghost struggled desperately to escape. Mingna grabbed his wrists and twisted them behind his back to press them down. She stabbed his ear with a sword and said harshly: "Be obedient, or I will slit your throat!"
The man took a breath, stared at the sharp sword blade, swallowed, and calmed down.
Ming Na nodded with satisfaction, brought the sword blade close to the man's skin, and said slowly: "Tell me, what is your purpose? Are you the 'ghost' who has scared away all the previous homeowners?!"
The man's eyes were rolling around, but he refused to speak. Mingna shook the sword lightly, leaving a shallow blood mark on his neck. She felt the man's suddenly tense body. She knew that the man was afraid, so she said: " You're pretending to be a ghost, so you're not an idiot. You should know what the right thing to do is, right?" Seeing that the man still didn't speak, he simply pulled out his sword and thrust it hard into his ear, cutting a gash in his ear. The man only felt a coldness on his ears, followed by a sharp pain. Fear enveloped his heart. He couldn't help but tremble, and a foul smell emanated from his body.
If I had known that this landlord was so scary, he would never have taken this task!
"Tsk!" Ming Na jumped away as soon as she smelled the smell. He just didn't relax his grip on his wrist. She was a little disappointed. This "ghost" is so useless. If you are scared, you will be like this. Really boring. Let's hand it over to the security team after dawn.
But soon she noticed a contradiction. This man pretends to be a ghost. Not just because of the scary appearance. More importantly. He would float around outside the window. Like a real ghost. But just now he escaped down the stairs. So what happened to the "floating" thing before? He seemed to have knocked something over on the terrace. Is it an agency? Does he have any accomplices
Think of this. Her expression became serious again. He held the man's hand a little harder: "Tell me! Do you have any accomplices? Where are they?! What on earth do you want to do?!" Seeing the man wailing in pain. Still refused to speak. He simply took out a bottle of magic potion. Force him to drink it.
The man's eyes gradually became blurred. Minna took the opportunity to repeat the question. He murmured unconsciously: "We are ordered by the master to scare away all the people who live in. To prevent others from discovering our secret..."
"What secret? How many accomplices do you have? Where are they?!"
"Down there..." the man said drowsily. After a while, he said. "Six people...we are underground..." He hasn't finished speaking yet. Ming Na noticed a murderous aura coming from behind her. He quickly jumped to the side. The man screamed. There is an extra dagger on the back. He died after two convulsions.
Ming Na jumped a few steps away to avoid the attacker's sneak attack. With a flick of her sword, she stabbed the opponent's hand that was holding the weapon. As soon as the person's hand was loosened, the weapon fell to the ground. She barely dodged Ming Na's sword and was about to be killed. Stung. At this time, a black object was thrown from nowhere and fell between Mingna and the attacker. It exploded with a bang, releasing a large cloud of white gas. Ming Na's heart trembled, and she hurriedly covered her mouth and nose. At the same time, she took out her wand and put a protective shield on herself to avoid a sneak attack.
But this did not happen. After the gas dissipated, only Ming Na was left in the hall. The attacker and the dead man pretending to be a ghost were all gone. If it were not for the blood stains remaining on the ground, Ming Na would have almost disappeared. You should think that what just happened is just an illusion.
What exactly is going on
Ming Na squinted her eyes and noticed a faint smell of blood in the air, pointing faintly to the door. The door panel was shaking slightly, as if someone had just opened it.
Yiqiao: Want to run? Not that easy!
There was a whispering sound behind her. She turned around and saw that it was Marcy and Jenny, who emerged from behind the stair railing with some fear, and asked in a low voice: "Mingna, what happened?"
"It's okay, they're just a few thieves." Ming Na waved her hand, "You guys go back to sleep. I'm going to catch up and see where they are." After saying that, she ignored Marcie's calls and followed the smell of blood out the door.
A slight cool breeze blew, which made the smell of blood in the air dissipate a lot. Ming Na chased her to the verandah and could no longer smell the smell. She looked around, took off the oil lamp hanging on the wall, walked down the stairs to the back garden, and saw only darkness around her.
Have you really lost track of me? She turned around and walked back to the veranda with some disappointment. She was about to go back to her room to sleep when she accidentally caught a glimpse of two drops of blood on the floor by the wall in the corner of the veranda.
She suddenly became excited and hurriedly picked up the oil lamp and leaned over to look for more clues, but except for the two drops of blood, there were no other traces nearby.
However, the shape of one of the drops of blood was a bit strange. Minna squatted down with a lantern to observe, and found that the blood drop was not round, but seemed to have been cut by something, and half of the circle was eliminated.
Ming Na stared at the wall strangely, and an idea suddenly came to her mind. The floor plan of the house provided by the customer indicated that it was a load-bearing wall, so no one had ever modified it. However, the outer layer had been painted with dust several times, and three or four colors could still be barely discerned at the corners. She tried knocking on the wall. It was solid, and she knocked again. After she knocked on the entire wall, she found that part of the wall made a fainter sound than the one next to it. Maybe it was empty inside.
She took a deep breath, suppressed her excitement, and fumbled around for switches. After a while, she finally discovered that a floor tile near the corner was slightly crooked, revealing a small crack. She tried several techniques based on the skills she learned in the Security Agency training before she opened the floor tile. Under the tile was a small one-foot-square hole with a cylindrical iron rod inside.
Gently twisting the iron rod, the wall opened silently. Minna found a stone and placed it against the entrance to prevent it from being closed, so she walked in with a lantern.
It was very dark inside. Mingna put the lantern on the ground and struck it with her wand. The oil lamp immediately lit up several times, illuminating the situation in the secret room clearly. This is a space about three meters long and two meters wide, with walls on all sides. There are several ventilation holes high up. There is a box in the corner. Mingna checked and found an empty basket and two empty kettles. All very old. She suspected that the previous owner had built it as a refuge.
But there was no one here. Since the blood stains disappeared at the door of the secret room, where did the people go
Suddenly, her sharp eyes spotted a faint bloody fingerprint on the wall. She hurriedly moved over to take a closer look, and found that the wall was slightly darker in color than the surrounding areas. She raised her hand and touched the fingerprint, and pressed hard. The wall dented, and the wall on the left suddenly moved, revealing a staircase behind the wall.
Minna walked in with a lantern and spiraled down the stairs. She estimated that she had reached about twelve or three meters underground before she stepped onto the flat ground. It is surrounded by stone walls, which are dry and flat and seem to be quite long. The iron handrails of the winding ladder are also full of rust. Minna recognized that the texture of the stone wall was the same as that in the cellar of the main house, and guessed that this was probably a secret room that was opened when the house was built. To be more precise, it was a secret room within a secret room.
The dark tunnel in front of her led to nowhere. Mingna hesitated for a moment, then walked forward lightly. As she walked, she suddenly heard the voice of someone speaking in front of her. She hurriedly extinguished the oil lamp in her hand and carefully followed the tunnel. Touch the direction of the sound.
The closer you get, the clearer the sound becomes. She listened for a while and determined that it was the sneak attacker she met outside.
"...Kill him, he is our comrade!"
"If we don't kill him, he will reveal our secret! It's all you. You didn't check it out in advance. What's the matter? The new house owner is a delicate rich lady. She only has two maids and a stable boy. She's pretty good-looking. You can use the money to take advantage of it, bah! That's just a tigress!"
"Stop talking! We didn't expect something like this to happen. Now we have to recognize the dead people. Evacuate quickly and observe for a while. If the powerful daughter-in-law doesn't notice, let's come back."
"No! My brother died like this, and I don't accept it!"
"What are you dissatisfied with? If he doesn't die, we will die! He's a new guy, and he still takes over the job. If I still act as a ghost, at least I won't be caught!"
"That's enough! What's the noise about? Are you afraid that others won't know we're here?!"
Ming Na secretly counted the number of people in her mind and heard that there were about four.
There was silence in the tunnel for a while, and then someone said again: "Do we really want to evacuate? It will be completed soon. If we complete the task earlier, we can get the money earlier."
"There is nothing we can do. Although they keep urging us, the most important thing is to keep it secret. If the matter is exposed, all the hard work over the past few years will be in vain."
Ming Na silently added two more people, and after listening for a while, she determined that there were only six enemies, maybe seven at most, and she still had a chance of winning.
"Okay, let's go, don't leave anything behind. Let's find a place to stay while it's still dark."
Ming Na held the sword handle tightly and waited for those people to come out. After a while, she only heard their footsteps going in the opposite direction. She felt bad. Is there any other way out? He quickly took the risk and ran in. As soon as he turned a corner, he came to a large stone chamber. Several figures had just disappeared into the passage in the corner of the stone chamber. She quickly took out two bottles of magic potion and threw them over. Two people noticed the movement, and just had time to turn around when they heard the sound coming from the broken medicine bottle.
Fuminated.
Hum hum, you are not the only ones who can use biological and chemical weapons! This is the "stun bomb" she made based on her grandfather's description in her memory (she can't explain why it's called "bomb" instead of "bottle"). It's a must-have medicine for traveling at home and fighting thieves!
Ming Na held her nose and walked over. She found that there were only six people on the other side and one corpse. She kicked each of them to confirm that they had all fainted, and then used wind magic to disperse the gas. Unfortunately, the space here was airtight. The gas dissipates very slowly.
There was sudden movement behind her, and she immediately turned around, raised her sword on guard, and clenched her wand in her left hand. As the sound got closer and closer, a figure emerged from the tunnel she had just passed. Ming Na thought about it and immediately put it down.
The person coming is Alex.
He was wearing a robe, and inside the robe was a white shirt with a round collar and dark-colored trousers. Mingna knew that this was how he usually dressed when sleeping, so she asked with a smile: "Why are you here? Have you just gotten up?"
"Your cousin came over to inform me." Alex waved the wand in his hand, and the gas of the "stun bomb" was rolled into a ball by a whirlwind and got into a jar. Mingna looked around, picked up a cloth bag dropped by the six people, stuffed it in, and sealed the jar.
Alex looked around, glanced at the six people, and asked, "What's going on? There is such a place underground in the new house you bought?"
Ming Na told the whole story and said, "I suspect that the owner dug the tunnel when the house was built. You see, the walls here are dry and flat, very similar to the walls in the cellar, right? But I think It's strange, how did they find this place? Also, they just evacuated in this direction. I suspect there are other exits in the tunnel." At this point, she frowned: "When I thought about the underground of my house, I don’t know the secret passage, and I don’t know when someone will come to my house. This feeling is really annoying!”
Alex checked the luggage of those people and said: "They brought food, it is fresh, and it will not be more than two days old. If they did not come in from your house, then there must be another exit here. He turned to Ming Na and his expression became serious: "Ming Na, I know you are very confident in your own skills, but you should not act alone when encountering something like this where the situation is unclear."
Whether you leave a message for your family or notify me, it's better than barging in alone! Haven't you ever thought that if something happens to you here, no one outside will know about it? ! "
Ming Na shrank her neck and whispered: "I'm sorry...I originally thought they didn't seem to be very capable, so..."
Alex glared at her, picked up a shovel in the hands of the six people, and said: "Do you understand? They are not powerful people, they are just diggers! What if there are powerful people here? manage?!"
Ming Na was a little unconvinced, but she still kept her mouth shut. Experience told her that when Alex was angry and scolding others, especially when he was wronged, she should never refute, otherwise she would be scolded even worse.
Seeing her like this, Alex laughed angrily. Seeing that she was only wearing a thin linen nightgown and her brown hair draped over her shoulders, she looked particularly endearing, which was very different from her usual aura. His heart softened, he took off his robe and threw it over: "Put it on! You ran down here without changing your clothes, be careful of catching a cold!" After he finished speaking, he thought his words were funny, so he turned his head and stopped talking.
Minna stuck out her tongue and quickly put on her robe. Alex's body temperature was still on the clothes, which immediately drove away the chill from her body. She looked at the shirt on her friend's body and hesitated: "You gave me your robe, won't you feel cold?"
"I'm very strong, you don't need to worry about me."
"Strong?" Ming Na looked at his thin figure suspiciously, "You are obviously very thin, so I'd better give you your clothes, lest I don't have anything to do and you get cold and sick first."
Alex raised his eyebrows: "You don't believe it? You might as well test it yourself."
Ming Na blinked and really stretched out her hand to "test" the other person's body. She found that although his figure was thin, the muscles under his clothes were very strong and he should be strong and strong. She squeezed two handfuls and nodded: "So you are really strong, and you really can't tell from your appearance."
"Ming Na..." Alex's voice came from above. Ming Na raised her head and found that his eyes were staring at her, his eyes were deep, and the hot breath exhaled from his nostrils was falling on her forehead, followed by her nose, Lips, chin, neck...
She suddenly realized that she was too close to Alex, her heart skipped a beat, and she quickly stepped away, her face turning red.
Alex kept looking at her, not moving.
Ming Na felt very uncomfortable, her eyes drifted to the side, and she asked softly: "What should we... do now?"
Alex looked away: "You really want to explore, right? Why don't you tell the truth?"
She laughed dryly, and her mood became lighter. It was indeed an illusion just now. She quickly conjured up some thick hemp ropes and tied the six people tightly, then relit the oil lamp and stood at the entrance of the passage, looking at Alex with blinking eyes.
Alex grabbed the oil lamp angrily and took the first step. Minna followed with a snicker.
The tunnel was only about two meters wide and only a little taller than Alex. The two of them explored along the way and found nothing. They passed several stone chambers of different sizes on the way, but they were all empty. I don't know how long it took before they stopped.
Ahead is a fork in the road
(I ran 5K for two consecutive days. A certain L vomited blood and asked for pink tickets~~~)