Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

As they joined the group watching the video, the screen showed an empty shot. In this shot, the villa appeared to have been somewhat cleaned up; the body on the second-floor corridor was gone, some of the bloodstains had been wiped away, and only a few remnants remained on the ground. But the cleaner and blank the shot, the more unsettling it became, and everyone unconsciously held their breath.

The camera slowly pans forward, continuing to move until it reaches the doorway of a room. The scene freezes for a few seconds, then begins to shake 360 ​​degrees.

"Da Bao, what are you doing here?"

Finally, a female voice ended the camera's rotation.

The camera panned around, and people appeared in the frame; Yu Ru had arrived.

Seeing Dumpling Number One wandering around aimlessly, Yu Ru feared it had malfunctioned and quickly called it over to examine it closely. It seemed to have just bumped into someone; there was a lot of blood on its body. The blood emitted a pungent, metallic smell, causing Yu Ru to gag. She frowned at Dumpling and asked, "Da Bao, who did you just stab? Why are you covered in blood?"

As she spoke, she took out a tissue from her pocket, folded a large wad of tissue together, and pressed it against the dumpling machine to wipe it.

"No, no, blood from upstairs and downstairs splattered all over me. Mom, the power's out, the power's out," Dumpling replied in a mechanical voice.

"Okay, I'll change the battery for you."

The villa had many rooms, and Yu Ru had set aside one for sleeping on the second floor. She took Jiaozi back to the room where she slept, changed its batteries, and then took it out to interrogate people.

On the way,

Yu Ru encountered Sister Shan leading three people towards her, each carrying a weapon. Upon seeing this, Yu Ru asked, "Sister Shan, have you found anything?"

“Madam, we’ve discovered a hidden compartment in that room ahead.” Sister Shan pointed to the location of a room ahead. “Someone just said that when he was using the toilet in that room, he heard the floor tiles outside the toilet door make a few clattering noises. It was very clear that the noises were coming from underground.”

"I'll go with you to take a look."

After the group arrived at their destination, the person who had noticed the unusual noise stepped forward and pointed to a floor tile near the toilet entrance, saying, "Boss, this is it. We just heard the noise coming from here."

Yu Ru stepped forward and tapped the floor with her golf club. The floor made a dull sound, not like it was hollow. She turned to her bodyguard and ordered, "The tallest one in the middle, take the drill and drill a hole here. The other two, take the hooks."

"Good boss."

After the bodyguard drilled a hole in the area where the sound was coming from, Yu Ru had two other people use hooks to pull the hole out. Unexpectedly, this pull revealed something different. It turned out that the sound wasn't hollow because there was something underneath the floorboard, making it feel solid when tapped.

After Yu Ru had her bodyguard lift up the surface brick and the piece connecting them, the most fundamental thing was finally revealed. Suddenly, something resembling a manhole cover appeared on the ground, except it wasn't round but square, with two small handles, making it look like a small door.

Two bodyguards grabbed the handles on either side and pulled hard, flipping over the "manhole cover" and revealing a dark hole.

"You guys stand back a bit," Yu Ru said to her bodyguards, and then had someone bring her a high-powered flashlight. She took the flashlight herself and stood about half a meter away from the cave entrance, pointing it at the opening.

Now, the situation inside the cave is roughly clear. There seems to be a basement below, and there is a staircase leading down to it.

Yu Ru frowned as she looked at the basement, remaining silent for a while.

A moment later, she took out her phone and opened the app connected to the dumplings. The app showed her live feeds of the dumplings. The basement entrance was too narrow; she didn't dare send the bodyguards down to check the situation easily. If something happened, they might not be able to get out in time. They were already short-handed; if something happened to these bodyguards, they'd be truly short-staffed.

Furthermore, most of these bodyguards were borrowed from other members of the Yun family, and each one was an elite they had carefully trained for years. If they were lost here, she didn't know how she would compensate them. Therefore, she decided to send Jiaozi down to scout the situation first, and only send the bodyguards down after confirming that everything was alright.

The clever dumpling immediately understood Yu Ru's instructions. It flew into the underground passage alone, and soon, Yu Ru's phone displayed a picture. Although the basement was dark, Yu Ru had attached a powerful light to the dumpling, so it could clearly see the scene in the basement.

The basement was furnished like an unconventional operating room. Metal shelves, one after another, were pieced together to form new walls, each compartment filled with bottles and jars, leaving no empty space. In the very center of the basement sat a bloodstained operating table. On this table were clumps of yellow fat and dark red, fleshy substances, along with several bones inserted into these red and yellowish masses.

The operating table appeared to have been used recently; the bloodstains on it hadn't completely dried, and the liquid still shimmered. Next to it was a trolley containing a saw, barbed hooks, syringes of various sizes, and other strange tools, all stained with blood and unidentified liquid, and seemingly not completely dry either.

After taking a quick look around the basement and recording the general situation, Dumpling began to refine its notes. It slowly approached the shelves and started carefully and clearly recording the contents of the jars. The first jar it photographed startled Yu Ru, who gripped her phone tightly and took a sudden half-step back.

"Madam, are you alright? Is anyone inside?" Sister Shan asked anxiously, reaching out to help her.

Yu Ru shook her head, declining her offer. "I'm fine. I haven't seen anyone yet. I'll tell you the details later."

The jar contained a skinned human head, with a pile of eyeballs resembling apple snail eggs on it. These were submerged in a yellowish-green liquid, creating an eerie scene. Yu Ru had been startled when she suddenly saw this head staring into her eyes. She was thankful she didn't have a heart condition, or she would have died a thousand times over.

After the initial shock of seeing the first head, Yu Ru wasn't as frightened when she saw the strange and unusual things behind it. The bottles and jars on the shelf were filled with human tissues: heads, eyeballs, breasts, hands, and so on. There were also a few jars containing undeveloped fetuses.

After carefully recording the bottles and jars on the shelf, Dumpling flew to the corners to observe. In the corners hung human skins and various severed limbs, these human parts just like the pork hanging on the pork stalls in the market, suspended upside down, silently suspended in mid-air.