Chapter 44 I Hear You Coming
Chapter 44 I Hear You Coming
Feng Yusu walked down the semi-curved stairs holding an umbrella, came to the back of the hall, and stepped into a wide corridor.
The walls on both sides of the corridor are hollowed out, and rows of various types and brands of liquor are placed in the wooden grids embedded in the walls, from the most common champagne for banquets to rice wine with a strong local flavor. Whiskey is placed between white wine and dry red wine, and rice wine in jars sealed with clay can also be seen. There are all kinds of liquor, filling the two long walls.
As soon as he entered the corridor, a sweet aroma of wine wafted into his nose. Feng Yuxu looked in the direction of the fragrance and saw a man in a loose robe lying on the ground, leaning against the wall. He was dead. Half of a broken red wine bottle rolled not far away, and the bright red wine soaked the dark red glass fragments on the ground.
Feng Yusu walked forward cautiously, turned the body over with one hand, and found that it was someone he knew.
This person was Bai Fugui's secretary, named Liu Bushu. Feng Yusu was a lady of leisure and had little contact with people in the company. She only vaguely remembered that Liu Bushu and several other managers liked to show off their knowledge and were keen on wine tasting and appreciation.
It seems that Liu Buzhu was killed by a ghost when he came here to get the wine.
Apart from the tiny scratches on the back of his hand caused by the broken glass, Feng Yusu did not see any suspicious marks on Liu Buzhu's body. Just like Gu Yunqing and Xie Sining who died in Hejia Village due to the snake god's death, he did not have any signs of death due to external or internal injuries.
"It seems that all the people killed by ghosts are the same." Feng Yusu thought to himself.
Silently, without a trace, without a trace, his life was taken away.
Feng Yusu did not linger on the corpse for too long. He gave it a quick inspection and continued walking forward across the corridor.
"I always feel that there is something strange about the corpse... Is it an illusion?" Feng Yuxu was confused. Although there were no suspicious signs, she still felt that there seemed to be an indescribable and strange feeling lingering around Liu Bushu, as if this was not a human corpse, but something else similar to a "human".
Liu Buzhu's body looked like a human, felt like a human, and the body temperature left on his body was real, but Feng Yushu intuitively felt that he seemed to be missing something, something very important, but very easy to be overlooked. As for what that "missing" thing was... she couldn't be sure, and she didn't find it.
Feng Yusu walked through two walls of exquisite wine and came to the back of the hall.
There are two largest sections on the first floor of the castle, the hall in the front and the leisure club in the back, which are connected by gorgeous corridors filled with famous wines, famous paintings, and ornamental fish swimming in the walls.
The hall tends to be social, while the club focuses on privacy. It has many independent rooms with ambiguously decorated rooms, ranging from entertainment table games to gambling facilities that in principle do not involve cash gambling. However, the people who originally used these facilities have become dead.
Feng Yuxu dodged sideways to avoid a fat middle-aged man with his upper body lying on the pool table. The ambient light above her head was still on, so she didn't dare to put down the umbrella in her hand.
"found it……"
Feng Yusu took three or two steps forward and turned off the light switch hidden under the curtains, and the area suddenly fell into darkness.
After doing all this, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief and continued to wander between the lounges with an umbrella. She had heard from the staff before that the monitoring room on the first floor was located in the area between the lobby and the clubhouse. If something was lost or a younger child was lost, she could ask the staff to check the surveillance.
But she didn't ask in detail at the time, so she only knew that the monitoring room was probably in this area, but she didn't know where the specific entrance was.
"I can only look for it slowly."
Feng Yusu took a deep breath, continued walking forward, and turned off the lights along the way.
She had a Bluetooth headset on her ear, through which she could hear the rustling sound of wind and the crisp sounds of footsteps.
"How is it, Auntie, have you found the monitoring room?" Ning Zhe's voice came from it.
"Not yet." Feng Yushu lowered his voice and said, "I'm nearby, but I haven't found the door to go in yet."
"Hurry up, I'm already out the door." Ning Zhe continued.
Now Ning Zhe has walked out of the castle hall from the main gate and started looking along the outer wall for the hidden compartment where the main power grid switch was located.
The design of hidden small compartments is not uncommon in modern buildings. For example, there are always some unused remote corners in residential buildings in residential areas. There is no room for washing machines, air conditioners and other electrical appliances, and it would be a waste to leave them empty. More conscientious decoration companies will place facilities such as gas meters and electricity meters inside to form a small compartment. This saves space and provides convenience to residents.
The only thing that was hard on Ning Zhe was the current situation. The Bishuiwan Manor was positioned as a high-end property, and both the exterior and interior decorations were aesthetically pleasing. The hidden compartments for the water meter and the switch were also very well hidden. Without the design drawings or knowing the exact location, it would be difficult to find them even at the door of the compartment, and one might even think it was just an ordinary exterior wall.
Ning Zhe had no choice but to search slowly around the outer wall.
Picking up the phone, Ning Zhe checked the time:
2018年06月05日，农历四月廿二，深夜23:07。
"Is it so late?" Ning Zhe looked up at the dark sky. There was not even a star, let alone the moon.
Perhaps it was because the ghost had killed almost everyone in the manor, so everything was quiet. Occasionally, one or several corpses could be seen lying on the ground, apparently they had died while escaping.
Along the way, Ning Zhe once again verified the accuracy of the rules given by Bai Zhi:
——The bodies were all lying in areas where there was bright light.
Ning Zhe did not encounter any corpses in dark places such as under the shade of trees, in pavilions, etc. There were corpses only in places with light, which once again confirmed the fact that ghosts need light to kill people.
But why are ghosts afraid of light?
Ning Zhe vaguely felt that whether he could solve this puzzle might be the key to breaking the rules and escaping from Bishuiwan Manor.
Time always passes quickly when there is something to do, especially since this castle covers an incredibly large area. Ning Zhe was looking for a hidden compartment, so he didn't walk very fast. After nearly an hour, he still couldn't find anything suspicious.
"I have made no progress at all." Ning Zhe said helplessly, "Auntie, how about you? Have you found the monitoring room?"
"Not yet, but soon." Feng Yushu's voice sounded a little breathless, as if he had been running all the time: "This place is really huge, I almost got lost... But don't worry, I just found a paper plan of this castle on an engineer's desk, and I already know where the monitoring room is. I will go in later and show you the way to the switch."
"OK, it's up to you then." Ning Zhe looked up at the street lamp not far away and breathed a sigh of relief.
However, his nerves had just relaxed for less than two seconds before they became extremely tense again.
Because right below the street light, a person standing upright caught Ning Zhe's sight.
"Ghost..." Ning Zhe whispered to himself.
"Ghost?!" Feng Yushu was immediately surprised: "You met a ghost? Aren't you holding an umbrella?"
"Yes, I'm sure I was holding an umbrella..." Ning Zhe put his phone into his pocket and said softly, "I was holding an umbrella. Yes, I was holding an umbrella, but the ghost still found me. It's standing under the street light, motionless."
“It’s looking at me.”
“It’s watching me.”
“It seems to be confirming something.”
"…Okay, it's coming."
Ning Zhe clenched the umbrella in his hand, and saw the straight corpse jumping high and then falling heavily under the street lamp not far away. The casual shoes on his feet fell on the grass with a dull thud.
He subconsciously turned his head and wanted to escape to the back, but a bright red shadow made Ning Zhe hesitate.
A young girl in a wedding gown and a red cloth around her waist, with no facial features on her pale face except for her lips as red as blood, had stood behind him without him noticing.
"He Nianjun?" In an instant, Ning Zhe's chest felt cold.
(End of this chapter)