fear game

A few days later, Lance was at home tidying up.

"Xiaobai, Xiaobai," Lance asked while tidying up the bookshelf, "Have you seen my book "The World as Will and Appearance"?"

"Meow——" Xiaobai yawned, jumped off the top shelf of the bookshelf, and got under the bed.

Lance laughed at himself and said, "Of course, it's useless to ask you." So he continued to stretch his slender fingers and slid across the rows of book spines.

He is a tidy person, and even has a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder. If the books are not arranged in alphabetical order, he will feel uncomfortable.So it was hard for him to imagine that he would forget to plug in after finishing a book.

Where did you go?

Lance's reflective glasses stand out in the darkness under the bed.He lifted the sheets and started looking under the bed.Could it be that Xiaobai took it down?No way, Xiaobai is not a dog. Apart from tearing down balls of yarn, he doesn't seem to have the strange habit of picking things up.

Lance squinted his eyes and scanned around. A book is so big, it is impossible not to find it. It seems that it is not here.

"Xiaobai? What are you scratching?" Lance saw that Xiaobai was scratching a crack on the wooden floor with his claws hooked.

Lance felt even more curious. He got up and found a flashlight from the bedside table, held it in his mouth, and crawled in to the edge of the brick.Xiaobai stepped aside tactfully, and Lance held the flashlight in his hand and took a photo. Sure enough—this floor is movable.

Lance used his nails to pick and pinch the floorboards, and the wooden floor below seemed to have been deliberately hollowed out. It was about [-] centimeters square, not very deep.Lance felt that this looked like a secret compartment, but if it was really a secret compartment, it was empty at the moment.

Before he moved in, there was no furniture in this bedroom, and the bed was newly added according to his own preferences. Why didn't he find such a raised floor before?Well, even if I was careless, I didn't notice it before.So before he went to work in this nursing home, this small bungalow as a staff dormitory had been built long ago, but who would deliberately leave such a space on the floor?If it was really man-made, it was obvious that something was stored in this secret compartment before, but where did that thing go now?

Lance stared at the hidden space for a long time, he always felt that things would not be so simple.That dark secret compartment is like a Pandora's box. Once opened, some kind of secret will be revealed, and it can never be closed again.