Chapter 44

Feng Feng Yushu walked down the semi-circular stairs with an umbrella, came to the back of the hall, and stepped into a wide corridor.

The walls on both sides of the corridor were hollowed out, and rows of various types and brands of alcoholic beverages were placed in the wooden grids embedded in the walls, from the most common banquet champagne to local-flavored rice wine. Whiskey was placed between white wine and dry red, and jarred yellow wine sealed with clay could also be seen. All kinds of alcoholic beverages were dazzling, filling the two long walls.

As soon as she got on the corridor, a sweet wine aroma hit her face. Feng Feng Yushu looked in the direction where the fragrance drifted, and saw a man wearing a loose robe falling to the ground, leaning against the wall, and had stopped breathing. Half of a broken red wine bottle rolled not far away, and a pool of bright red wine liquid soaked the dark red glass fragments.

Feng Feng Yushu walked up carefully, turned the corpse to the front with one hand, and found that it was someone she knew.

This person was Bai Fugui's secretary, named Liu Buzhu. Feng Yushu was a leisurely noble lady and didn't have much contact with people in the company. She only vaguely remembered that Liu Buzhu and several other management levels liked to pretend to be elegant and were keen on tasting and appreciating wine.

It seems that Liu Buzhu was killed by a ghost when he came here to get wine.

Except for the small scratches left by the broken glass on the back of his hand, Feng Yushu didn't see any suspicious traces on Liu Buzhu's body. Like Gu Yunqing and Xie Sining who died of the Serpent God's death taboo in He Family Village, there were no signs of death from any external or internal injuries on his body.

"People killed by ghosts seem to be the same." Feng Feng Yushu thought in her heart.

Silent, traceless, and without any traces, life was taken away.

Feng Feng Yushu didn't linger on the corpse for too long. After simply checking it, she continued to walk forward and passed through the corridor.

"I always feel that the corpse is strange somewhere... Is it an illusion?" Feng Yushu was confused in her heart. Although there were no suspicious traces, she still felt that there seemed to be a strange feeling lingering on Liu Buzhu's body, as if this was not a corpse belonging to a human, but some other kind of thing similar to a "person."

Liu Buzhu's body looked like a person, felt like a person, and the body temperature remaining on the corpse was also real, but Feng Yushu intuitively believed that something seemed to be missing from him, something very important but very easy to be ignored. As for what exactly was "missing"... she couldn't determine, nor did she find it.

Feng Feng Yushu passed through the two walls of famous wines and arrived at the back of the hall.

There are two largest blocks on the first floor of the castle, the front hall and the back leisure club, connected by gorgeous corridors filled with famous wines, famous paintings, or ornamental fish swimming in the walls.

The hall tends to be social, while the club focuses on privacy. There are many independent boxes with ambiguous decoration inside, from entertainment board games to gambling facilities that are not allowed to bet cash in principle, all of which are available, but the people who originally used these facilities have become dead people.

Feng Feng Yushu turned sideways to avoid a fat middle-aged man lying on the billiard table. The atmosphere light on the ceiling was still on, making her dare not put down the umbrella in her hand.

"Found it..."

Feng Feng Yushu walked up in two or three steps and turned off the light switch hidden under the curtain. This area immediately fell into darkness.

After doing this, she breathed a sigh of relief and continued to wander between the rest rooms with an umbrella. She had heard the staff say before that the monitoring room on the first floor was located in the area between the hall and the club. If something was lost or young children were lost, she could go to the staff to adjust the monitoring.

But she didn't ask in detail at that time, so she only knew that the monitoring room was probably in this area, but didn't know where the specific entrance was.

"Can only look for it slowly."

Feng Feng Yushu took a deep breath and continued to walk forward, turning off the lights along the way.

A Bluetooth headset was worn on her ear, and the sound of faint wind and crisp footsteps came from inside.

"How is it, Auntie, have you found the monitoring room?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's voice came from inside.

"Not yet." Feng Feng Yushu lowered her voice: "I'm nearby, but I haven't found the door to go in."

"You hurry up, I'm already out of the main gate." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe continued: "Okay."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had already walked out of the castle hall from the main gate and began to look for the hidden small compartment where the total power grid circuit breaker was located along the outer wall.

The design of hidden small compartments is not uncommon in modern buildings. For example, in residential buildings, there are always some remote dead corners that cannot be used. It is not enough to put electrical appliances such as washing machines and air conditioner outdoor units, and it is a waste to leave them empty. Conscientious decoration companies will unify facilities such as gas meters and electricity meters here, forming a small compartment, which not only saves space but also facilitates residents.

Only Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe is suffering now. The positioning of Bishuiwan Manor is relatively high-end. Both the exterior and interior decoration take aesthetics into account. The hidden small compartment for water meters and circuit breakers is also hidden particularly secretly. If you don't have the design drawings or know the exact location, even if you are at the door of the compartment, it is difficult to find it, and you might even think it is just an ordinary outer wall.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had to look around the outer wall slowly.

Picking up his phone, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe glanced at the time: June 05, 2018, Lunar April 22, 11:07 PM.

"It's so late?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked up at the pitch-black sky. Not to mention the moon, not even a single star could be seen.

Perhaps it was because the ghost had killed almost everyone in the manor, everything around was quiet, and occasionally he could see one or several corpses lying on the ground, looking like they died on the way to escape.

Along the way, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe verified the accuracy of the rules given by Bai Zhi again: —These corpses all fell in places illuminated by light.

In places with shelter such as under tree shade, in pavilions, etc., Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't encounter a single corpse. Only places with light had corpses, once again confirming the fact that ghosts need light to kill people.

But what is going on with ghosts being afraid of light? Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe vaguely felt that whether he could solve this puzzle was likely the key to him cracking the rules and escaping from Bishuiwan Manor.

When there is something to do, time always passes quickly, especially since the area of this castle is surprisingly large, plus Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had to look for the hidden compartment, so the speed of walking was not fast. Nearly an hour passed, and he still couldn't find anything suspicious.

"I have no progress here at all." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said somewhat helplessly: "How about you, Auntie? Have you found the monitoring room?"

"Not yet, but soon." Feng Feng Yushu's voice sounded a bit panting, as if she had been running: "It's too big here, I almost got lost... But don't worry, I just found the paper floor plan of this castle on an engineer's desk, and I already know where the monitoring room is. I'll be able to point out the way to the circuit breaker for you when I go in."

"OK, then it's up to you." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked up at the street lamp not far away and breathed a sigh of relief.

However, his nerves had not relaxed for two seconds before they became extremely tense again.

Because directly under the street lamp, a person standing upright came into Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's view.

"Ghost..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe whispered to himself.

"Ghost?!" Feng Feng Yushu was immediately surprised: "You encountered a ghost? Aren't you holding an umbrella?"

"Yes, I'm sure I'm holding an umbrella..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said softly while putting his phone into his pocket: "I'm holding an umbrella, that's right, I'm indeed holding an umbrella, but the ghost still found me. It's standing under the street lamp now, motionless."

"It's looking at me."

"It's observing me."

"It seems to be confirming something."

"... Okay, it's coming over."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe gripped the umbrella tightly. Just see, under the street lamp not far away, that upright corpse jumped high and landed heavily. The anti-slip steel nails on his casual shoes landed on the lawn, making a muffled thump.

He turned his head subconsciously, wanting to escape to the back, but a bright red shadow made Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stop.

A young girl wearing a wedding dress, wrapped in red cloth, with no facial features on her pale face, and only a pair of cherry lips as red as blood, stood behind him at some point.

"He Nianjun?" In an instant, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's chest felt icy cold.

(End of chapter)