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Chapter 42 Basement

I don't know if Jinhua is trustworthy now, but Ling Yi followed Jinhua to his room to play video games at night, acting like a normal person.Jinhua didn't ask where Ling Yi went, and followed Ling Yi to randomly find a CD from his private collection, and played for at least four or five hours.

When it was dinner time, Ling Yi and Jin Hua followed the elders downstairs and ate the food carefully prepared by the servants.Everyday life is very regular, and the regularity makes people tired and tired.

Finally, when Jinhua licked the last drop of sauce, Ling Yi reminded him: "The ground, the basement."

"Huh?" Jinhua tilted his head and thought for a while, and finally he had a flash of inspiration and snapped his fingers, "Then hurry up and see it."

Jinhua didn't hear the conversation between him and Xue Yayuan, but seemed to understand what they were talking about, and didn't mind the elder's gaze at all, and rushed to the kitchen quickly, holding Ling Yi's hand.There were also servants who were preparing the ingredients for tomorrow's breakfast. They were not surprised when they saw them, and they automatically moved out of the way to let them find what they wanted.

Xue Yayuan's work efficiency is really good, and within a few hours everyone here knows that he is already a part of them.

Soon all the people in the kitchen were gone, Jin Hua and Ling Yi split up to find where in the kitchen they were. Looking at the large kitchen of about ten square meters, although the equipment was neatly arranged, it was still too big to find.

Jinhua squatted down and touched each tile with his hands, trying to see if he could touch any unusual places.Ling Yi rummaged through each cabinet to see if she could find the key.Seeing that Jinhua was looking so seriously, he said with a smile, "You don't need to click on every tile, you should be looking for secret doors."

"Lu Ying is very cunning. He must have pried open something to find it." Jin Hua, who had been with Lu Ying for a long time, said something constructive.

Ling Yi was right when he thought about it. Lan Shaocheng mentioned the basement in particular, and it was also mentioned in Lu Qiu's very messy diary, but Lu Qiu didn't write how to get into the basement, which caused Ling Yi and Jin Hua rummaged over there, but couldn't find any clues.

Ling Yi touched the shelf to see if there were any protrusions. He walked along the bottom of the shelf with his palm facing up, and leaned on his fingers to explore for any mechanism.It's a pity that he and Jinhua spent a busy night in the kitchen and couldn't find anything.

Jin Hua wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve. He shrugged helplessly, "Let's look for it tomorrow night?" The hour hand of the clock on the wall was already between one and twelve.Although no one chased them away, they were rummaging around in the kitchen without a clue, which was very brain-burning.

Ling Yi sat on the ground a little discouraged, with his hands crossed over his knees, and he looked at the precarious electric lights on the ceiling, flickering brightly and dimly.The weather doesn't seem to be very good today. It's a rare wind and rain blowing outside in the dry and cold winter, banging on the windows.The servants outside had withdrawn early, he and Jinhua were groping in the kitchen in the middle of the night, it seemed a little weird.

"Alright, let's look for it tomorrow." Ling Yi nodded.

There are still two days before Lu Ying's next visit, it should be enough time to find clues, then contact Lan Shaocheng, and leave this bird place!

The next day, Ling Yi woke up very early. He checked the time and it was only six o'clock. When he opened the door and went out, the kitchen was still preparing things.Ever since she was found out to be Ling Yi, she simply didn't even wear contact lenses, and the long-term wear won't cause a burden on her eyes.

There was no one outside the door, so he walked to the middle of the stairs and looked upstairs, but there was no movement at all, probably Jinhua hadn't woken up yet.This is just right, in fact, Ling Yi's trust with Jinhua has been a little bit bankrupt, what he said is half true, half false, at one moment he has something to do with Lan Shaocheng, and at another moment he has taken refuge in Xue Yayuan.

"Mr. Ling Yi, you are up."

Suddenly, the elder's voice came from the dark place, which made Ling Yi take a few steps back in fright. He didn't regain his composure until his back touched the wall.The people in this house are weird, and it is not impossible to get up at six o'clock to be scary.

Ling Yi nodded, seeing the elder come out of the dark place respectfully, still in a suit and nose straight, waiting for Ling Yi respectfully, but Ling Yi's eyes focused on the key ring on the elder's belt.

The elder is a shrewd person. He saw Ling Yi staring at his waist, touched it wisely, shook the key ring and put it in front of Ling Yi, and said with a smile, "Are you looking at this?"

Ling Yi nodded his head, wondering how likely he was to get this thing from the elder.

Unexpectedly, the elder immediately put the key ring in Ling Yi's hand, and smiled slightly: "If Mr. Ling Yi wants it, I can borrow it from you. You are Madam's partner now."

With Xue Yayuan's relationship, it's like adding wings to a tiger. After Ling Yi smiled and said thank you, she hurriedly searched all the way down from the fourth floor.If he doesn't agree to Xue Yayuan, the whole villa, let alone the kitchen, he can go there except Jinhua, and the rest will be watched.

The flowers hanging on the door of each room correspond to the keys of different styles.Except for the door of Lu Ying's room without a key, Ling Yi opened the other rooms very quickly. The disappointing result was that each room looked about the same, and the furnishings were similar to his and Jinhua's rooms.

When he reached the third floor, he was very nervous, afraid that the door of Jinhua's room would open suddenly, but fortunately, after searching most of the rooms, Jinhua did not open the door, but he also found nothing.

After going around to the second floor, two hours had passed, and he felt a sense of depression in his heart. It seemed that Lu Ying, a narrow-minded guy, would not leave any clues.

When he saw the wooden door that Jinhua described as a hellish existence, he looked at the unused keys. Except for the key with various flowers engraved on the key head, one of them had no special decoration.Ordinary copper keys look particularly crude.

Ling Yi inserted the key into the keyhole of the wooden door, and it fit!

He excitedly turned the key, and when he heard the sound of unlocking the lock, he was so nervous that he could hear his heartbeat clearly.

I touched the electric light on the right, and turned it on with trepidation. It was not the fluorescent lamp I imagined, but a dilapidated old light bulb, which seemed to be in disrepair. Some light bulbs were not bright enough, and the whole space looked dim.

Looking to the right, there were all kinds of instruments of torture placed on the shelf, well maintained and well oiled. Thinking that those sharp instruments might be used on Jinhua, Ling Yi suddenly forgot to breathe.In the center is a torture frame in the shape of a person, with various iron chains strung on it, so that it can be used to fix people.The floor was also littered with candles and boxes of oddly shaped toys.

Lan Shaocheng's punishment room was not so scary, and there was a decaying smell in the air. The pungent smell controlled Ling Yi's head, making him a little confused.

The most outrageous thing is that, as Jinhua said, there is a 32-inch TV next to the wall. Although it is not playing any pictures, there are various video tapes in the cabinet under the TV, which must be some unsightly pictures.

There was a humanoid doll on the chair beside it, which was made just like a real person. Ling Yi stepped forward and touched it. The skin was very detailed and elastic.Ling Yi took a deep breath. He straightened the puppet so that its face was facing him. He was stunned for a while. The facial features of this puppet were made more delicate. The perfect, not-thick-not-thin lips smiled quietly, and it looked as if it was still alive.

Ling Yi had never seen Yuan Yeliu's appearance before, and it was thousands of miles away from the current Xu Chen.Yuan Yeliu looks very individual, with a pair of slender eyes next to the high bridge of the nose under the upside-down sword eyebrows, squinting narrowly and staring ahead, the lips under the pointed nose are pale and bloodless, and the whole face is pale horrible.Yuan Yeliu's cheekbones were very high, his face was very slender, and his forehead seemed to be high too, covered by bangs, and his black hair was well trimmed and draped over his shoulders.Without speaking, Yuan Yeliu exuded an aura of inviolability.

He was tall and slender, and he wore a Dylan Boys School uniform, with a jacket on.When Ling Yi found him just now, she really thought someone was staring at him.He touched the puppet's hand, the delicate touch was a little rough at the end of the middle finger, it was exactly like reality.This astonishing technology has already left Ling Yi speechless, not to mention how Jin Hua, who never forgets Yuan Yeliu, feels when he receives this visual stimulation.

Ignoring the dolls, there is another interesting place in the room, which is the scattered photos of Yuan Yeliu on the ground.

Ling Yi picked up one and looked at it. In the photo, Jinhua and Yuan Yeliu looked to be only 15 years old. One of the two boys was holding a basketball, and the other was on his shoulder. They were smiling brightly. Sweating on the basketball court, while someone is holding the championship trophy.

But after a few years, looking back, things have changed, Yuan Yeliu is no longer here, and Jinhua is now living like a walking dead, as for which side he takes refuge in, Ling Yi really can't guess.

In the scattered photos, the two of them, from about ten years old, to the bits and pieces in Dylan, are presented to Ling Yi through the photos one by one.It turned out that the two not only had a three-year relationship in Dylan, but also played together very early.

It's just that Lan Shaocheng broke them up three years later, one was tortured in Lu Ying, and the other was thrown in Dilan to supervise Lu Qiu, but he committed suicide with the help of others.This once admirable couple, today, only Jinhua is left, still struggling to survive in adversity.

When Ling Yi looked up, he saw a painting hanging on the largest wall. The painting was not Yuan Yeliu, but it was Lu Qiu who was about ten years old. He was holding a book in his hand, and another Holding a young man in one arm, that young man was Lu Ying, who was about 20 years old at the time.The two people in the painting looked at each other and smiled warmly. Lu Ying led Lu Qiu, who was wearing a primary school uniform, talking and laughing, walking side by side.

Why did Lu Ying put this irrelevant painting in the punishment room that Lu Ying used to punish Jinhua?

Ling Yi thought of Lan Shaocheng, and guessed that it was the interest of the rich. Lan Shaocheng also liked to hang some paintings at home to enhance his taste.He thought of Lu Qiu again, and thought that he was in the small wooden house where he was imprisoned. There were a bunch of photo frames hanging on the wall, but they were all Lan Shaocheng and Lan Shaoxing.

etc?photo frame?

Ling Yi suddenly remembered that there was a photo of Lu Ying and Lu Qiu hanging on the wall next to the dish dryer in the kitchen. It was probably when Lu Qiu graduated from junior high school. Lu Qiu in the photo was depressed, and Lu Ying teased him with an awkward smile. Smile and ask him to look at the camera.It's a pity that in the final product, Lu Qiu still had a bad face. This moment of helplessness was captured by the photographer, and then Lu Ying hung it in the kitchen.

For Lu Ying, the younger brother, that photo must be very imperfect, so why does he hang it?Thinking that there must be something wrong with this, Ling Yi quickly turned off the lights, closed the door, and locked it again.

"Ling Yi."

Ling Yi's cry was so crisp, Ling Yi, who was trying to dig out clues, was overly frightened, and the key fell to the ground.He hurriedly turned his head and saw Jinhua wearing Dickes' gray T-shirt and knee-length denim shorts. He looked youthful, walked up to him and looked at him with a smile.

Ling Yi was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat, he was really frightened by Jinhua's silent footsteps, his ten fingers clutched the wooden door, his hands were sweating, "Jinhua, you really scared me."

"You too, you are very energetic early in the morning." Jinhua didn't know whether it was a compliment or a joke, he stood on tiptoe and looked at the closed wooden door behind Ling Yi, and said in a relaxed tone, "You went in?"

"Uh... yes." Ling Yi scratched her head and said apologetically, "I just took the key with the elder and looked around to see what Lu Ying's preferences are and where the agency might be located. ..."

"Oh? Very good." Jinhua smiled and curled his lips, "So did you find anything?"

Ling Yi was surprised that Yu Jinhua didn't care what he saw, nor what he thought after seeing Lu Ying decorate the "perfect room".Could it be that he is about to forget about Yeliu, or does he feel that the basement is more important in his heart.

Unable to understand Jinhua, Ling Yi stretched his waist to relax his nerves that had been tense all morning. He smiled and said, "I'll tell you while I'm having breakfast."

"it is good."

Jinhua followed Ling Yi's footsteps, and the two quickly went downstairs. Sure enough, hot food was already prepared on the dining table.Ling Yi really admires Lu Ying's taste in food, he eats well, even his two pets can eat so much.Had a lobster dinner one morning and was damned.

Ling Yi also returned the key to the elder, but the strange thing was that the elder happily accepted the key without asking any questions.

When he and Jinhua were the only ones left, Ling Yi talked about his experiences from exploring all the way from [-]:[-] am to just now, and shared his thoughts. The painting in the room should be related to the imperfect photo in the kitchen. .

So after Wang Jinhua with a big stomach finished eating, an hour later, the two went to the kitchen, dismissed the servants who were preparing the ingredients for lunch, and started searching.

This photo is about [-] meters wide and [-] meters high. It is hung on the wall at a distance of [-] meters. There are also dish dryers and cabinets in the way. Ling Yi and Jinhua are not tall, so it is really difficult .

Fortunately, Jinhua moved a chair from the dining table, he asked Ling Yi to go up, and he himself followed from below.

Ling Yi looked at this photo carefully. The frame was made of ivory white vine totem, and it was extravagantly inlaid with gold.Ling Yi touched the photo frame with both hands, thinking about where there was a key or something, but after a long time of touching, it was all in vain.

"You take down the frame, maybe it's a photo?" Jin Hua suggested from below.

Ling Yi still had some difficulty standing on the chair, so he tiptoed to the cabinet where the dish dryer was placed, held the bottom of the photo frame, and lifted it up with great effort, the rope hanging the photo frame was detached from the hook on the wall, The photo frame was very heavy, about three kilograms. Ling Yi didn't expect its weight, and the center of gravity was unstable for a moment, and the photo frame was thrown backwards and fell to the ground.

Fortunately, the material of this photo frame is very good, and the back is facing down, so the photo frame is not broken.

"This is..." Ling Yi saw a rectangular groove on the wall where the photo frame was originally hung, which seemed to be able to be pushed back.

He looked at Jinhua below, and Jinhua looked at him excitedly, "It should be this! Do you push it?"

Ling Yi nodded confidently, and he pressed hard. After the groove was pressed by about three centimeters, a miraculous thing happened. A snow-white wall in the depths of the kitchen suddenly turned 180 degrees, and a door appeared.

This movie-like scene actually appeared in front of Ling Yi. He was so happy that he hurriedly got off the cabinet, stepped on the chair, took Jin Hua's hand and shouted: "Yes! It should be this!"

The two happily ran to the door that appeared suddenly, and with a light push, the door opened. Fortunately, after finding the door, Lu Ying did not set up a second line of defense.

After excitedly opening the door, behind the door is a space where you can't stretch your fingers. I don't know how deep it is, but I can only see the stone steps at the door.

"Wait for me, I'll get the flashlight." Jinhua asked Ling Yi to wait here, but after he disappeared, he happily ran over with two flashlights in his hand within two to three minutes.

The two held a flashlight each, holding each other's hands, with Ling Yi in front of Jinhua and behind, exploring step by step.

It seems that no one has been in this basement for a long time. The damp and decaying smell of the confined space is stronger than that of the punishment room. Ling Yi frowned and carefully looked at each step of the stone steps. If you accidentally fall down, who knows what's underneath.

"It's kind of scary..." Ling Yi held Jinhua's hand tightly, which was the only warm touch in this dark and damp space.

He held his hand and felt Jinhua's heartbeat, beating faster than his.Jin Hua swallowed his saliva, "Don't be afraid, I'll always follow you."

They go down in a circle. This design is very similar to the second floor of Dylan Building C. They are all circular stairs, and the head is dizzy. The only difference is that Dylan's basement is much more lively. , and electric lights, but this piece of garbage Xue Zhao never turns on.

After Ling Yi reached the ground with the limited light of the flashlight, and when Jin Hua also set foot on the road together, Ling Yi turned around and hugged Jin Hua desperately, crying with tears in the corner of her eyes: "Finally! We found it!"

"Yeah." Jin Hua smiled, but his reaction was not as intense as Ling Yi's.

Ling Yi told Jinhua that Lu Ying's handle was hidden here, so they started searching in this dark place.This was more difficult than the kitchen as the floor was full of broken glass and was not cleaned.

"What do you think is Lu Ying's excuse?" Ling Yi looked at the wall that was wet from groundwater, covered with moss, and some insects were laying eggs on it, which was very disgusting.

"Huh?" Jin Hua wandered around with a flashlight, not as careful as Ling Yi.

"I want to say that you have been with Lu Ying for a long time, and you may know some of his thoughts." Ling Yi said.

"Oh, I don't understand." Jinhua smiled, "Besides, you should be stronger than me, you found the door."

"Ah? That was an accident." Ling Yi shrugged and continued to look at the things in the basement.

The condition of this basement is similar to that of a punishment room. The walls are covered with various instruments of torture, and there are lingering bloodstains, which have not been cleaned up and have been left there for a long time. The dark brown blood splattered everywhere looks ugly. startling.

The light of the flashlight can only reach within five meters in front of him. Looking at Jinhua's light, Ling Yi knew that this person had no intention of searching, so he could only sigh and stand up for himself.

So far, Ling Yi has not been able to find anything that can be regarded as "evidence" for Lan Shao's claim.He thought about Lu Qiu's diary, and that guy just wrote that Lu Ying tortured him with a bunch of sharp weapons.

"I remember, here."

Thinking of Lu Qiu's description, it is written in the diary that Lu Ying tied the young Lu Qiu to the wall of the basement, and the handcuffs on the top were still equipped with barbs. When Lu Qiu was a child, he couldn't touch the ground at all. Blood flowed.

Sure enough, after groping for a while, I found that the basement was actually a long and narrow rectangle. On the wall farther away, there were two pairs of handcuffs, one for handcuffs and one for feet. Until you can't see the original gravel.

Ling Yi frowned, took out the mobile phone in his pocket, and managed to capture the bloodstains with the help of the flashlight.He checked the signal before turning off the screen, and there wasn't even a bar.

Ling Yi was in a worse mood when exploring the basement than when he looked at other rooms in the morning. When he thought that Lu Qiu's wailing and inner thoughts in the diary were real, he couldn't help feeling sick. How could Lu Ying treat his only younger brother like this?

"Look, Ling Yi." Jin Hua stopped him in the distance, and Ling Yi hurried over to have a look.

The light of Jinhua's flashlight revolved around an iron cage beside him. The iron cage was not big, about one meter in length and width. There was also an empty dog ​​bowl and a glass of water. The water was dirty and dirty. There was a strange smell, and it seemed that there was unclean water in it.

When seeing this cage, Ling Yi quickly remembered the passage in the diary, describing that Lu Qiu and his younger brother whom Lu Qiu called "Lu Dong" were trapped in this small iron cage together, and then Lu Ying kept heating the iron cage, He was still holding wax oil and dripping randomly on the two people who were hugging each other in the cage.

Wait, the information in his brain was like several bullets suddenly shot at his forehead, which made him squat down on the ground with his head in his arms, and the flashlight fell to the ground.Ling Yi has a mysterious sense of déjà vu, he has a shallow impression of the iron cage, but the memory is fragmented and intermittent.

"Brother...brother...I'm so scared, I'm so scared!"

"It's okay, it's okay." The petite boy could only respond to the youth who was slightly older than himself.

"Ah! Please! Please, we all listen to you, let us go!"

"No...don't..." Ling Yi thought painfully that these were not his own memories, he didn't know the people in those pictures!He had never seen Lu Qiu at all, nor had he been caught by Lu Ying.

"Ling Yi?" Jin Hua knelt down, hugged Ling Yi, and let him rest on his shoulder, "Don't be afraid, it's fine."

"Shut up!" Lu Qiu's immature voice shouted "It's okay" in the memory, overlapping with Jinhua now.Two lines of tears hung on Ling Yi's cheeks, he cried and grabbed Jin Hua's shoulder, "Who am I?"

"You are Ling Yi."

After receiving an affirmative answer, Ling Yi regained his sanity a little bit. He picked up the flashlight again, held Jinhua up with his hands, and said with a choked voice, "Sorry... I lost control."

"It doesn't matter." Jinhua smiled slightly.

The two of them fumbled around in the basement, and I don't know how long it took, until Ling Yi felt that if he stayed in this suffocating space again, he would angrily stab himself to death with the glass shards underneath.He hated those pictures that appeared suddenly, they were unfamiliar, it didn't seem to be him, but Lu Qiu's worried face seemed to be holding a stapler, piercing deeply into his heart.Reminding him over and over again that these things really existed.

When he found a dilapidated wooden table, Ling Yi opened the drawer. In the drawer, he found a photo album. He put the photo album on the table, illuminated it with a flashlight, and slowly opened it.

"──" just opened it, and he seemed to lose the air in an instant, and fell to the ground again.

He found some photos about Lu Qiu being abused.

Jin Hua, who noticed something strange, hurried over, and after seeing the photos in the album, he sighed, "Ah, so it's here, I've been looking for it for so long."

Jinhua put away the photo album helplessly and held it on his waist. Ling Yi looked at him under the dim light in puzzlement, "Jinhua, what are those? What are they!"

"It's the photo. Thank you for helping me find it for so long. It's exhausting." Jinhua's smile disappeared. He took his flashlight and photo album, and winked at Ling Yi, "Okay, thank you Ling Yi."

When Ling Yi was still full of question marks and hadn't escaped from the sorrowful emotions, Jin Hua turned around and ran up the stairs quickly, as if planning in his heart, he ran to the top at top speed.

"Jinhua!" Ling Yi struggled to hold the flashlight and shouted, trying to catch up with Jinhua.

Jinhua was at the entrance, looking expressionlessly at Ling Yi who rushed up, "I'll never see you again, Lan Shaocheng's thing."

"I hate Lan Shaocheng, he will die badly." Jin Hua dropped a sentence, and in Ling Yi's last hopeful light, he mercilessly closed the door. In an instant, there was no light in the basement except for the flashlight in his hand.

Ling Yi rushed to the door and patted the blocked wall. No matter how much he knocked and shouted, the other side of the wall was still quiet and there was no movement at all.

The soundproofing is fucking great!The basement only needs to be closed once, unless the groove behind the painting is pressed again, the wall cannot be turned over, and this place is like a separated space.A closed space without a door.

"Damn it!" Ling Yi squatted helplessly on the stone steps, her heart was empty, she was too careless about Jinhua, she didn't expect him to count so far!

Then what?Is he going to be stuck here forever?A space mingled with a bunch of fucking memories?