Nightmare Attack

Chapter 155
Chen Xiaomeng had a gloomy face, her eyes were slightly cold, and half of a sharp wooden hairpin was exposed from her left cuff.

Jiang Cheng was silent for a few seconds, and suddenly said in a low voice: "I was joking with you, I saw you were nervous just now." He raised his head and said righteously, "Let me go out first."

Without saying a word, Chen Xiaomeng retracted the wooden hairpin and made room for him.

Jiang Cheng quietly moved behind the door, and looked along the crack for a long time. Finally, under Chen Xiaomeng's pressure, he slowly opened the door, and then waited for a while before going out.

The whole hotel was quiet, as if there was no one alive.

They didn't go directly up the stairs, but were going to check the entire first floor first.

After all, if someone is ambushing here, then they will face the embarrassing situation of being blocked upstairs if they go up rashly.

Chen Xiaomeng quietly followed Jiangcheng at a distance of about 2 meters. She made up her mind that if she really encountered an ambush, she would decisively abandon Jiangcheng and rush to the third floor to catch Qian Jianxiu.

She only hoped that Jiang Cheng could delay a little longer so that she could leave safely.

They first went into the bathroom to check. After all, this was Jiang Cheng's birth point, and it had a special feeling for him.

Because of the lighting problem, it was very dark inside, the low ceiling was covered with cobwebs, and there were faint brown stains on the walls, accompanied by an uncomfortable stench.

They pushed open the doors of all the bathroom stalls, and there was no one in them.

The two gestured with their eyes and quietly backed out.

Then they came to the kitchen door, which was the only unexplored area on the first floor. If they haven't found it here, it means that the village chief and his party should have not arrived yet.

This was good news for them, but neither of them had any joy on their faces.

Because this also means that the "accomplice" has succeeded.

Even left this world through the door.

Jiang Cheng took a deep breath and pushed open the kitchen door. The sharp "creaking" sound was like a pair of scissors, cutting the heartstrings of the two of them.

Chen Xiaomeng stared at Jiang Cheng, as if blaming him for being so careless and making such a big commotion.

But Jiang Cheng knew in his heart that this was not his problem. He didn't use force, but someone tampered with the door.

Now that the matter was over, Chen Xiaomeng didn't complain anymore, they immediately dodged into the kitchen, and a sharp piece of iron appeared in Jiang Cheng's hand, and Chen Xiaomeng was holding a wooden hairpin.

Ten seconds passed, and there was still no change in the kitchen.

Now it was Chen Xiaomeng's turn to be puzzled.

Jiang Cheng seemed to realize something, and raised his legs to walk into the kitchen. Chen Xiaomeng turned around and closed the kitchen door, and then kept a relatively safe distance from Jiang Cheng.

The kitchen was bigger than they imagined. After passing the stove filled with a row of dark iron pots, there was a half-separated room for storing firewood.

There are piles of firewood everywhere, and the bundles are neatly stacked.

Chen Xiaomeng's face suddenly darkened, and she smelled an uneasy smell.

It's the smell of blood.

After Jiang Cheng entered the room where the firewood was piled up, he moved away a bundle of firewood near the wall. Chen Xiaomeng's line of sight changed suddenly. From her position, she could just see a pair of exposed feet.

Jiang Cheng knelt down slowly, and removed the light blue floral apron covering the face of the deceased. Sure enough, the deceased was Qian Jianshe, the owner of the hotel.

His body was curled up, his arms were tied behind his back with hemp rope, his mouth was stuffed with a tattered rag, his eyes were wide open, his whole face was twisted in a weird way, his body was covered with large amounts of blood, and he looked very scary.

Chen Xiaomeng found two more corpses in a remote location on the other side.

One was of a woman with a big belly. They had seen it before. It was Qian Jianshe's pregnant wife, who was also the proprietress of Anping Hotel.

There was also a young man, probably just an adult, they had never seen him before, but from his attire, he looked like a service staff in the hotel.

The necks of the three were all cut open, and their throats were sealed with a clean method.

Jiang Cheng stood up, walked to the window covered by the bamboo mat, and tore off the bamboo mat.

The room is much brighter now.

The two carefully inspected the three dead people, and found that only the hotel owner Qian Jianshe had a fatal wound on the neck and many irregular scars on his body.

In connection with his bound hands and the rag stuffed in his mouth, it is not difficult to guess that he suffered inhuman torture before his death.

It was done by their lost "associate".

Torture is not the purpose, the purpose is to get information out of his mouth.

As the room brightened up, they found some shallow bloody footprints on the oily ground. The footprints started from here and led to the outside.

They followed the footprints and came to a corner of the kitchen.

This place is very hidden, a few big brooms made of bamboo are stacked here, and there is a dark green water tank beside it.

It is here that the footprints disappear.

Chen Xiaomeng immediately became vigilant.

She suspected that the man was in ambush
To her surprise, Jiang Cheng stepped forward and found a low hidden door through the gap between the broom and the water tank.

The height of the secret door can only allow an adult to squat and get in, and a copper ring is tied to the door.

Jiang Cheng held his breath, and the moment he pulled the ring, he evaded behind the water tank at an extremely fast speed.

But fortunately, nothing came out of nowhere to attack.

After a while, he poked his head out cautiously.

There is light overflowing from the secret door, and there is an exquisite candlestick in the corner, on which a white candle as thick as a baby's arm is burning faintly.

A small wooden staircase came into view.

Bloody footprints were also left on the stairs.

Jiang Cheng stepped back quietly, came to Chen Xiaomeng's side, and suddenly said, "The time I met you in the abandoned building of Qian's house, how did you get in?"

Chen Xiaomeng originally didn't want to answer his question, but Jiang Cheng's expression was quite different from before, and even faintly gave her an illusion of threat.

She couldn't figure out the meaning of Jiang Cheng's question now, but she still answered subconsciously: "The one who enters from the second floor passes through that rope."

"You didn't go to the first floor?"

"No, just after I searched on the second floor, I noticed that someone came in, and then you alarmed the ghost, and then..." Chen Xiaomeng didn't continue.

Jiang Cheng knew everything after that, he narrowed his eyes slightly, and said after a while, "It's Li Lu."

Chen Xiaomeng blinked: "It's her?"

"Well, on the stairs of the abandoned building of Qian's house, I found some strange footprints, which should be left by a woman." He looked at Chen Xiaomeng, and said slowly, "I thought it was you."

Suddenly, a light flashed before Chen Xiaomeng's eyes, and she seemed to realize the problem.

Li Lu used to stay alone in Qian's old house on the pretext that her leg was injured.

Of all the people, she was the only one who had enough time to explore the abandoned building of Qian's family, and she was able to avoid the eyes and ears of the others.

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