My lord, I will be brought to justice!

The two walked not far away, and Liu Xiwu felt a pain in her fingertips.She stopped, looked down and found a cut on the index finger of her left hand, and blood gushed out.

"Miss Liu, what's wrong with your hand?" Nan Zhuye found that she hadn't followed, so she turned back and asked.

"I seem to have scratched my finger accidentally." Liu Xiwu pinched her index finger, her delicate eyebrows slightly frowned.Although the wound was not big, the faint pain was also very noticeable.

Nan Zhuye took out a handkerchief, "Miss Liu, let me bandage it up for you." He was about to reach out his hand, but before he touched it, Liu Xiwu quickly put away his hand and hid it behind his back. "It's...it's okay, Mr. Ye, a little injury is nothing serious. Let's go back quickly, sister Gu Lan and the others are waiting anxiously."

Since Liu Xiwu said there was no serious problem, Nan Zhuye couldn't say anything, so she put away her handkerchief and walked towards the west courtyard.

Chu Tiankuo was supported by Mu Aichen, and he limped up to the two of them, before they had time to ask, the two left.

Liu Xiwu, who just hid her hand behind her back, didn't notice it. A drop of blood dripped from her fingertip, and the drop of blood fell on the weeds on the ground.And Nan Zhuye's hand hidden in his sleeve was holding a small gleaming dagger.

Chu Tiankuo and Mu Aichen who were behind him could see clearly, they stepped forward, squatted on the ground and looked down at the grass.The truth of the matter is often right in front of you. If you want to grasp it, you need to accumulate bit by bit of clues. Any clues can be the key to solving the case. All you have to do is connect them together.This is also the most basic common sense as a detective.The puzzle of the case became clearer and clearer. The two looked at each other and smiled. It seemed that the truth was getting closer.

"Brother Daha, my leg is fine, let's go back soon." To prove that his foot was fine, Chu Tiankuo kept turning his ankle, "It's really fine."

Mu Aichen looked at his feet suspiciously, and let go of his hand after confirming that it was all right.

Wu Yougong disappeared in the room for no reason, and the people guarding the door did not see him go out.Nan Zhuye looked around and said to Chu Tiankuo and the two who came, "There may be a secret room in this room."

"The secret room! This old and cunning Wu Yougong, if there is a secret room, don't tell me sooner." Chu Tiankuo was very curious about the ancient secret room, and also sneered at Wu Yougong's own escape behavior. "It's really dishonest to run away by yourself."

"Let's find out where the agency is?" Everyone checked carefully in the house, not letting go of any suspicious places.

"According to my many years of experience, that teacup must be a mechanism." Chu Tiankuo excitedly picked up the teacup, turned it up and down to look at it, but the secret room did not appear at all.

"It must be hidden behind this painting..." Chu Tiankuo lifted the painting hanging on the wall, and behind it was just the wall without any mechanism.

"That must be this table...stool..."

Chu Tiankuo, who was looking for nothing, was a little discouraged, leaning on the flower table, "I can't find it at all, where is the mechanism?" He accidentally glanced at the vase behind him, and Chu Tiankuo held the vase and turned it back and forth, "It's so ugly. The vase must not be this!" Before the words finished, a voice came, the wall door was opened, and a secret passage appeared in everyone's field of vision.

"The secret room..."

When the blind cat ran into a dead mouse, he really found it.

Mu Aichen picked up a lighted candle and walked into the passage first, followed by Chu Tiankuo and others.A long and slender corridor appeared first, with candles flickering on and off. The ghost mansion is already weird enough, and it is even more bizarre to hide a secret room.

It was pitch black inside, with only faint candlelight lighting.I don't know if everyone has a little bit of timidity, and they didn't speak along the way.Accompanied by the sound of everyone's breathing and footsteps, it seemed even weirder here.

After walking for a short time, a downward staircase appeared in front of them. Everyone went downstairs along the stairs. The potholed road made everyone move extremely carefully.A stone door appeared at the end of the stairs, the stone door was tightly closed, and there was a depression in the wall, Mu Aichen put his hand in the depression, and pressed hard.Accompanied by the heavy opening sound, the stone door slowly rose.

Behind the stone gate is a room similar to a main hall, which is much more spacious than the imagined secret room. Inside the stone hall are placed large and small coffins, which are covered with cobwebs and thick with dust.For a moment, Chu Tiankuo thought that the tomb he came to "Did we discover the ancient tomb?"

Bei Chen and Nan Zhuye stepped forward and forcefully opened a coffin.The coffin fell heavily, and layers of ash floated up, making people sneeze uncontrollably, "It's empty inside, there's nothing there." Bei Chen glanced inside, and saw that there was nothing.Then I opened several others, also empty.

"Could it be stolen by tomb robbers, but they can't even steal the corpse?" Chu Tiankuo couldn't figure out what the coffin was for, and he didn't understand it for a while, so he put it aside for the time being.

There were torches inserted in the main hall, the lights were brightly lit, and Mu Aichen extinguished the candles.In front is an arch, through which you come to another hall.

The scene here surprised everyone.

In the long, narrow and empty hall, there were corpses scattered all over the place, piled up on the ground. "Ah—" Gu Lan yelled, closed her eyes, and hid in Beichen's arms, no matter how much Beichen pushed her, she couldn't get up.Liu Xiwu was obviously also frightened, and stood still in place with her eyes blank.

Chu Tian took three steps and two steps forward to check the appearance of the corpse.

This is a dried corpse, lying on the ground, with a knife stuck behind her, which is obviously a fatal wound.The musculature had shriveled and collapsed, and only a layer of black skin remained tightly wrapped around the bones. Only the knife stuck in the back was stained with dust and rusted.Chu Tiankuo turned the corpse. From her clothing and skeleton, it can be roughly seen that this is a female corpse, and the corpse died within a year.

Nan Zhuye and Mu Aichen went forward to inspect the other bones, some of them had turned into white bones, and some still had flesh and blood remaining.After inspection, all of them were female corpses, and they were young women, including children.Mu Aichen roughly counted, and there are about twenty corpses here.

The mission of Mu Aichen and Beichen from Lingyang this time is to find the missing woman.In recent years, countless women have mysteriously disappeared while passing through Yanzhou City. Even their bones cannot be found, no one is alive or dead.From this point of view, these missing women are all here, but there are more missing than found here.

What is going on here?Why are there so many corpses hidden under the ghost mansion?

Next to the bones were several huge wooden basins, which were exactly the same as those found in Xie Zishu's room. "Look quickly, the pots!" Nan Zhuye shouted loudly when he saw the pots piled up in the corner.

Hearing the sound, Chu Tiankuo rushed over, he opened the lid, and there was no poisonous snake or scorpion in the basin.This wooden basin was not as heavy as imagined, Chu Tiankuo lifted it vigorously, and the wooden basin left the ground.Why was it so heavy in Xie Zishu's room?

A button near the bottom caught his attention.Chu Tiankuo stuck his head into the tub and pressed it lightly.No matter how much he shakes it, the tub doesn't move at all, and the weight must have increased by a thousand catties from just now. "It turns out that the weight of this pot can be adjusted, no wonder!" The pot in Xie Zishu's room must also come from this place.

Everyone bypassed the bones and walked forward.Tall pillars support the entire secret room, there is a corner in front, and there is a stone door around the corner.Mu Aichen opened the stone door, and a smell of corruption came to his nostrils, everyone choked on the breath and coughed.When they recovered, everyone stopped breathing.

The room behind this stone gate is relatively narrow, and the bones piled inside are no less than those in the main hall.Rolled heads and fragmented bones were all over the ground.And in the middle of the room, there is a person kneeling.Surrounded by many skeleton rings, one can't help but feel chills down the back.

When Chu Tiankuo saw this person, he shouted "Wu Yougong——" Wu Yougong who disappeared was found in the secret room, so he must have known about the corpses scattered all over the place.

Wu Yougong heard the voice, saw the person behind him, and slumped on the ground. "You...how did you find this place?"

Chu Tiankuo stepped forward and looked at Wu Yougong who was full of surprise, and said, "You don't say anything when you leave, it's too dishonest. If not, we'll come to you. I didn't expect to have a major discovery."

"Ghosts are all ghosts." Wu Yougong's hair was loose and in a mess.The look of fear in his eyes was undoubtedly revealed, perhaps because he was a little mentally disturbed due to fright.

The so-called ghosts claiming their lives are nothing but the demons of the guilty.However, if the crime is so serious that countless dead souls cannot rest in peace, they will be punished one day.The rumors of the ghost mansion circulating in Yanzhou City really lived up to its reputation when I saw it today.The ghost mansion is just a place for those with a heart to hide their sins. They bury it deep in the ground, and also hide their ugliness under a mask.

Good and evil will pay off in the end!

With the emergence of the secret room in the ghost mansion, countless corpses buried underground have come to light again.The ins and outs of the case gradually became clear. Even though he was close to the truth, Chu Tiankuo did not feel relaxed or relieved.Behind the truth is an analysis of human nature, and human nature is so daunting.

Chu Tiankuo has always pursued the role of detective, and now he also wants to explain the truth to everyone with confidence like a detective.When he finally got his wish, he was not as excited as he imagined, and the glory did not come. "Everyone, I have roughly grasped the truth of the ghost mansion case, including the murderer of this serial murder case." Chu Tiankuo said very calmly, and he couldn't see whether he was happy or sad.

"What? You said you already know who the murderer is?" Bei Chen asked with disbelief.Not only Beichen, but Mu Aichen also expressed doubts and surprises.

"Master Chu, who is the murderer?" Gu Lan urged, a little impatient.

Chu Tiankuo looked at everyone right on time, with sharpness and confidence hidden in his eyes. "The so-called truth is to give the deceased an explanation, to make the guilty person pay the price for what he did. In fact, the truth has always been in everyone's heart."