Under the guidance of Meow's "nonsense", I found a terrifying secret room in the basement, which contained more than a dozen bottles of medicinal wine made from babies. When looking for the mechanism to open the door, it was discovered that an infrared alarm was installed in this ancient secret room with no electric lights. To make matters worse, Miaomiao couldn't be woken up by all means, and the revolving door was pushed open from the outside at this moment.
Fortunately, the entrance to the secret room is a revolving door, so the situation is not too bad. The person outside pushes the left side of the revolving door, then he will definitely come in from the left, we just go out on the right when he comes in, he won't notice us. So I quickly picked up Miaomiao, only touched the ground with my toes, and immediately got out when there was a door gap on the right side that we could pass through.
However, just when I thought we wouldn't be in danger for a while, a bright light hit my face and I couldn't keep my eyes open. A familiar voice sounded immediately: "It's you... Maybe it's the Lord's arrangement..." His eyes gradually began to adapt to the light, and a familiar figure appeared in front of him—Sister Yuan.
"Is it you? Could it be that you killed all the babies inside?" I can't believe the compassionate Sister Yuan would do such a terrible thing.
"This has nothing to do with her, I did it alone." The revolving door turned again, and Dean Lu slowly stepped out from inside.
"President Lu, I hope you can explain to me what this is all about." I said this arrogantly, but it was just a bluff. My hands are holding the sleeping Miaomiao. If I am attacked by the other party at this moment, I will be very passive.
However, Dean Lu didn't seem to mean to attack me, he just smiled helplessly at me: "If you don't mind, please come to the office with me, and I will give you an explanation."
It is necessary to guard against others. He may have some conspiracy when he wants me to come to his office, but if he has the intention to harm me, there should be no other place than this basement. And leaving this ghost place, at least the mobile phone can receive the signal, which is convenient to ask for help from the outside world, so I followed him to the office.
As soon as I walked out of the basement, Miaomiao woke up and asked me why I was holding her with a blushing face. Alas, it seems that she completely forgot what happened just now, and I didn't bother to explain to her, so I put her down and told her to inform Zhen Zhen and Xueqing to come over immediately, and then entered the office with Dean Lu alone.
"Managing an orphanage is not an easy task, especially in turbulent times..." Dean Lu sat at his desk and sighed, then told me about the difficult years of the orphanage—
After Dean Smith returned to Heavenly Father's arms, I took over the post of Dean. It was just after liberation and the society was still in turmoil. It was a difficult time because of the loss of contact with the church and the fact that local government officials could not even feed themselves, let alone provide us with aid.
At that time, the first problem I solved was the food problem of the nearly 100 people in the hospital. I failed to ask the government for help, so I begged from the merchants who illegally sold grain and oil. At that time, food was rationed by the government, and almost all business activities were illegal. Who would be willing to help us with risk-taking businessmen? After hitting a wall again and again, I finally understood a truth, I must be a businessman in order to deal with businessmen.
At that time, the only things that could be sold in the courtyard were the dozens of jars of wine brewed by Dean Smith and stored in the secret room. If they were all sold, they might be able to exchange for some food, but it was only a drop in the bucket. Week is fine. So I wondered if there was a way to make these wines more precious than gold.
Boss Li was one of the businessmen I knew at the time. He was in his 40s at the time. Because of his long-term hard work, he was in very poor health and often had to take supplements. However, in the era of shortage of supplies, although he made huge profits by illegally engaging in grain and oil trading, it was very difficult to get supplements, even a bowl of ginseng chicken soup.
After learning about this, I thought that if I could turn all those dozens of jars of wine into Shiquan Da tonic wine, I should be able to exchange more food with Boss Li. However, in those days, it was difficult to get a single wolfberry fruit, so what about making wine with so many medicinal herbs
At this time, another problem arose in the courtyard, that is, something strange happened during the burial of the baby's body. If the baby's body was left unattended in the open space behind the church, it would turn into white bones, so no one dared to bury the body. Both were annoying problems at first, but they solved it at the same time - I decided to use these baby corpses to make wine!
I originally wanted to tout these baby corpse wines in front of Boss Li, and then exchange more food with him. But I was afraid that he would not dare to drink it, and just using the baby corpse to make wine might not be able to blow the cowhide to the sky. At that time, a naughty ghost in the yard found a lot of big ants on the nearby hillside, so I asked him to catch as many as possible and make wine with the baby corpse.
A few days after the wine was soaked, I filled a small bottle for Boss Li and told him that it was the ant king wine that had been passed down earlier, in exchange for some food. I originally wanted to cheat a few packets of rice from this boss, and a few packets of flour from another boss, but I didn't expect that after about three or five days, Boss Li came to me in person. I thought he was here to trouble me. Unexpectedly, he said that after drinking my ant king wine, he felt much better than before, and said he was willing to exchange more food for me.
Since there are water fish coming to the door, and if they don't catch them, they won't catch them for nothing, so I played with him for a long time, telling him how amazing the effect of this wine is, how precious it is, and of course I asked him for more food. During the most difficult period of the orphanage, I survived with this messy baby corpse wine.
(Shuiyu: another name for Wang Ba, which means taking advantage of others in Cantonese dialect.)
Later, I found that the effect of baby corpse wine was much better than I thought. After drinking it for a while, Boss Li became younger than before. And maintaining the daily expenses of the orphanage requires a lot of money, and it is impossible to feed everyone just by begging from others. So I added all the wine in the secret room to the baby corpse and ants to make baby corpse wine, and sold it to rich businessmen such as Boss Li at a very high value...
After listening to Dean Lu's narration, I couldn't help but have a question in my heart, and asked him with a trembling voice: "How old are you this year?"
He smiled lightly: "I was sent to an orphanage in 1930, and I'm almost eighty years old now."
Another immortal. Although he did not directly admit that he had been drinking baby corpse wine for a long time, he admitted that his age was equal to confessing this fact. Desecrating a corpse, or even using a baby's corpse to make wine, although it is an evil act that people and gods are outraged about, this happened in an era of chaos and chaos.
Our country's first constitution was amended in 1954, and I honestly don't know what to do with the crimes committed before that. No wonder Boss Li said that their dealings with Dean Lu were immoral but not illegal, because there was no law that could hold them accountable. Just like women and men, because there is no relevant law, then it is equivalent to legal.
Although it was not "illegal" to make baby corpse wine more than half a century ago, it is obviously not suitable to store this terrible medicinal wine now. Once it is discovered, it is certain that it will be confiscated and destroyed. Zhou Shaolong had been to the basement before he was killed, if he also found the baby corpse wine in the secret room...
"Zhou Shaolong was killed by you! Because he discovered the secret of the secret room, you have to kill him!" I said this in a firm tone, but I was not confident because I had no evidence to prove him at all, so if he denied it , I can't help him.
However, after being silent for a long time, he finally nodded slowly: "Yes, he was killed by me."
Did he admit it? I thought he would deny it, and I was thinking about how to make out the loopholes in his words and make him confess, but I didn't expect that he would confess without my words.
Perhaps my surprised expression made him smile a little, and he explained with a wry smile why he pleaded guilty so easily: "I know about Junlong, he is a good boy, he still has a long way to go in the future, and his mother has to take care of him. , it's not worth being an immortal scapegoat like me."
"He knew you killed his brother?"
"This is a matter between us. I don't think it is necessary to tell the police. I hope you can allow me to keep a little privacy." He was quite frank, and he just didn't say anything he didn't want to say.
"Then how did you kill the deceased, and how did you turn his corpse into a skeleton?" That's the point of the point.
He sighed and said, "He knows my secret, of course I can't let him go back alive. So as soon as he left the orphanage, I ran after him. I grabbed his neck and dragged him up the side of the hill. When he was halfway up the mountain, he was dead. I saw no one around, so I ignored his body and rushed back to the courtyard. As for his body Why only the skeleton remains after nine days, I don't know, but I may be able to give you a clue - there were a lot of ants on that hillside, the big ones I use to make wine."
Is it an ant dismembered? Although this explanation seems bizarre, it is not impossible. A large number of carnivorous ants can indeed eat human corpses to only skeletons and hairs in a relatively short period of time. The army ants (aka legionary ants) in the African jungle can eat the skeleton of an adult leopard in half a day. Of course, I don't mean a single army ant, but a colony of hundreds of thousands. Moreover, it could also explain why the clothes of the deceased were perfectly worn on the skeleton.
He solved most of the questions in my mind, but I still had one problem that I couldn't figure out: the phosphorus powder on the clothes of the deceased, and the lavender residue on the bicycle. His explanation for this is: "It's not necessarily that he must have been in the Dead Boy's Cave on the day of the accident. The lavender may have been stained before, and he usually goes there to play. As for the phosphorus powder, his skeleton does not also have phosphorus powder. ?"
His statement seemed to be reasonable, but I always felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't think of what was wrong for a while, so I had to take him back first and have a further trial.
When putting the handcuffs on him, a flash of light flashed in his mind, and finally he thought of what was wrong - the phosphor powder was on the outside of the deceased's clothes, not the inside.
At this time, I suddenly heard Miaomiao shouting for help outside the door. I rushed out the door together with the dean, and found that Miaomiao was hiding behind Sister Yuan, huddled in a ball. As soon as she saw me, she pointed to the front and shouted: "She is a bad person. , they say she's the bad guy!"
I looked in the direction she pointed, and what I saw turned out to be Meilong. Meilong was confronting Sister Yuan, and the ground between the two was full of black things. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that there were ants everywhere. However, these ants were several times larger than the average ant, were red and black in color, and felt like army ants, but slightly different.
As soon as Meilong saw me, she glared at me, and when she found Dean Lu who was wearing handcuffs beside me, she even roared at me: "I'm going to kill you!" I am afraid that nearly a million giant ants rushed towards me like a tide at once.
Seeing the army of ants rushing towards me, I suddenly felt a sense of deja vu, was it just one of their squads that attacked me and Zhen Zhen in the basement? Before, we have been ignoring a detail, that is, the formic acid that corroded Zhen Zhen shoes, which may be the "saliva" of ants! (Formic acid, also known as formic acid, was originally extracted from ants.) Zhou Shaolong's body was probably gnawed into a skeleton by these ants. Perhaps the real cause of his death was being besieged by swarms of ants!
Just when the army of millions of ants was about to climb on me and gnaw me to the bone, Dean Lu suddenly stood in front of me and shouted at Meilong: "Stop! You have to add more to yourself. Sin? Don't you know how much we paid and hurt to protect you!"
The army of millions of ants suddenly stopped moving forward at the same time, and they all stayed where they were. Meilong stared at Dean Lu, tears welling up in her eyes, and she said softly, "I know, I know you are the best for me, so I can't let him take you away. I'm so scared, without you by my side, I will be very scared. Didn't you promise me that you would stay by my side to protect me forever?" Crystal tears fell like rain.
"Meilong, promise me to live well, and let me handle the rest! Sister Yuan will take care of you when I'm away." Dean Lu also shed a tear of a man.
"No, I don't want you to leave me! Sister, she refuses to drink baby corpse wine, she will leave me sooner or later, and what I want is that you stay by my side forever! I want to kill them, as long as I kill them, No one knows about us, so no one will break us up!" With Meilong roaring, the army of millions of ants marched forward again, bypassing Dean Lu and attacking me.
What kind of spectacle is it to be surrounded by nearly a million giant ants? Maybe you can imagine it: the ant army is overwhelming like a flood, and I hardly even have a place to stand. Want to escape? The floor of the entire corridor was covered with black ants, and a large area of shoes could be trampled to death if dropped in that position.
There is no way to escape, I can only pray to God to save me. Although I am not a Christian, I hope that the almighty Heavenly Father will show mercy. But the severe pain from the calf let me know that this hope is too slim...