"There was a bit of a problem there. Crane pointed to the staircase separating the living room from the dining room, and said solemnly.

He had seen in the inside of the Night Watch that if a similar situation appeared in the inspiration, it often meant that there was something evil and filthy hidden in the target location, and if you were not sure, it was better not to try to touch it, otherwise it would be easy to lose your life - sometimes, even just a glance at it, would take irreversible damage.

Dunn followed and looked over, and he immediately noticed that something was wrong, looked sideways at Crane, and calmly ordered: "You divinate whether it will go well to explore there." ”

Before entering the castle, the captain didn't let me divination, and I was quite confident...... This suggests that he thinks that hidden things can be more dangerous than resentful spirits...... Crane nodded silently, put away the revolch, and handed the cane to Frye next to him.

Then, he untied the citrine pendant from his cuff, held the silver chain in his left hand, and considered the appropriate divination phrase.

In an instant, his eyes turned dark, and an invisible breeze swirled around him.

"Exploring the hidden places of the Kasbah will go well. ”

"Exploring the hidden places of the Kasbah will go well. ”

......

After reciting it seven times, Crane's eyes returned to normal and he saw that the citrine pendant was making a clockwise turn.

It's not big, but it's really turning clockwise!

This means that the exploration will go smoothly.

Crane, who had become a true soothsayer, immediately nodded to Dunn and Fry:

"The danger is within the scope of what can be solved, or there is none. ”

Dunn put the "Mutated Sun Emblem" on his left chest, reached out and pressed his silk top hat, and walked briskly to the steps, expertly searching for the mechanism.

After returning the staff to Crane, who had picked up the iron glove, Frye took the revolver and stood vigilantly around him, as if he was afraid of an enemy suddenly appearing.

I'm still not professional enough...... In the field of night watchmen...... Crane pulled himself back out of his revolver and followed suit.

After a few minutes, Dunn Smith, who was half-crouching, didn't know what he had pressed, and the stairs suddenly made a heavy sound of zazaza.

The floor cracked open to reveal the staircase downward, and the cold, filthy feeling filled the air, almost solidifying.

Dunn glanced at it, removed the seal on his chest, "3-0782", and threw it directly into the secret door.

After jumping a few times, the "Mutated Sun Emblem" stopped somewhere.

If there is a necromantic creature inside, "3-0782" will definitely be picked up and thrown back...... That's interesting...... Crane stared down the stairs and waited patiently.

The lingering coldness and squalor soon melted away like ice and snow meeting the sun, and warmth and purity enveloped the entrance to the secret door.

"Crane, the two of us will go down, and Frye will stay where he is, to prevent other enemies from sabotaging the mechanism. "Dunn is experienced in making decisions.

"Okay. Crane didn't have any more stage fright, took two steps forward, and walked to Dunn's side, while Frye nodded lightly and didn't let his guard down.

Snap, pop, snap, Dunn took the lead down the stairs, footsteps echoing silently.

He didn't prepare anything like a lantern or a torch, because for the extraordinary of the "Sleepless" sequence, darkness was not an obstacle, but a favor.

In such an environment, their vision is not affected.

After descending a few steps, Dunn suddenly turned his head and looked at Klein and said, "I forgot that you don't have dark vision, and I'm used to not preparing those lighting items......"

“...... Captain, you don't have to care, I have vision. Klein found himself not surprised at all.

The handsome captain just now is really not the norm!

In his vision, the darkness ahead was filled with gray, and although it was very vague, it allowed him to barely see the stairs.

Well, the captain is healthy and in good spirits...... Crane carefully stretched out his feet and walked slowly down.

The staircase is not long, and after going down fourteen or five steps diagonally, it touches the ground.

Seal "3-0782" is lying here, radiating warmth, purity, and shimmering.

With this bit of light, Klein could see more clearly, and when he looked around, he saw that it was a small basement, and the original shade was gone, but the dampness was still there.

In the center of the basement was a black coffin with iron nails a dark red color.

The lid of the coffin had been pushed out of a gap, and it was possible to see the white bones lying inside, headless.

Dunn glanced around before stooping down to pick up the "Mutated Sun Emblem".

"Captain, this coffin, well, its purpose is to prevent the dead inside from turning into zombies or resentful spirits......"

Crane examined the dark red nails on the black coffin, examining the way they were arranged, relying on his modest occult knowledge to identify it as an ancient ritual, a ritual to prevent corpses.

At the same time, he muttered in his heart: But, under normal circumstances, who would beware of their own relatives when they are fine? Well, the person who helped to bury them was not necessarily a relative...... Well, putting the coffin in the basement instead of the tomb is for fear of being discovered......

At this time, Dunn, who was wearing the seal "3-0782", leaned closer to the coffin, looked at it carefully for a while, and said:

"The deceased should have died of poisoning. ”

"That is, the person who poisoned his killer used ritual magic to prevent his corpse from revenge...... This must have happened 13,400 years ago, right? He ended up being a ghost...... The idea is simply amazing!" Crane also walked to the coffin and said, "Where's his head? That ritual doesn't require cutting off the head......"

Dunn thought for a moment and said:

"I have a hypothesis that this ghost hasn't been around all the time, but has only recently appeared. It only takes a quarter of an hour's walk from the town to the castle, and the troublemakers of the past must have visited it from time to time, but before this incident, there were no rumors of resentful spirits in the castle. ”

Klein nodded imperceptibly:

"Captain, you mean, someone came here recently, opened the coffin, and took the head of the deceased?"

"Well, that ritual prevented the corpse of the deceased from transforming, but it also locked its resentment in the coffin, preserved in disguise, and when the coffin was opened and the ritual was lifted, those resentments quickly turned into resentful spirits with the help of their own iron gloves......"

"The person who opened the coffin didn't leave a body, it's not an ordinary person...... And what did he do with taking the heads of the dead?"

Dunn stared at the white bones in the coffin and said, "The resentment can last so long, in addition to the reason of the ceremony, it should also be because of the deceased itself, he may have been an extraordinary person during his lifetime, or a descendant of an extraordinary person who was at least in the middle sequence within two generations, well, I mean the middle sequence, sequence 6 or sequence 5 in the previous definition. ”

"And there is always something special about such a corpse, and his head maybe, maybe it can come in handy in certain ceremonies, in certain occasions. ”

Speaking of this, Dunn paused and said: "What I said before is all speculation, but there is a part of it that can be verified, we will wait and do a survey in the town to see if anyone has been to the castle when they were children and has been injured here, well, if he is still alive, it proves that the ghost has indeed appeared recently." ”

"Logical way of thinking. Klein complimented and searched the basement again, finding nothing else.

He tried to use ritual magic to depict the "guest" who had entered the basement, but due to the fact that it had been at least a month apart, and the spirit of resentment had been hovering the place for a long time, affecting the environment, he could not get any effective results.

He then replaced Frye and asked the cadaver to examine him further.

Fifteen minutes later, as the sun was about to disappear over the horizon, Dunn and Frye descended the stairs back to the castle hall.

The former fumbled to close the secret door, and the latter briefly described:

"It was indeed a poisoning death, and the marks on the neck only appeared in the last three months. ”

That means there's a big chance that someone has been there...... Crane nodded thoughtfully.

Next, the three night watchmen rushed back to Lamb Town before dark and booked two rooms at the hotel - the members of the seal "3-0782" were required to take the dangerous item for a walk in an uninhabited area outside the town, which rotated every two hours, so only two rooms were needed.

After a brief dinner, Crane, Dunn, and Frye immediately split up and went around the town to inquire about the long-time residents.

In similar scenarios, police documents are particularly useful.

......

"Officer, why are you asking about this? I remember when I was a kid I used to go to that abandoned castle...... Injuries? Surely, how could a child not fall or something, I remember, well, I was scratched by the sharp stone of the castle façade......" A man in his forties, with soft yellow hair, looked at Klein quizzically, answering the question honestly.

This was the fourteenth subject Klein interrogated, and two of them clearly remembered being wounded at the castle as a child.

The captain's guess was correct...... Klein made a judgment, took back his papers, and said with a smile:

"Thank you for your cooperation, I have no problem. ”

He was about to leave without a cane, when the man in his forties rolled his eyes and said, "Officer, are you interested in that castle? I have a portrait of the first baron of the castle, which is my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather...... Well, anyway, a long time ago, he took an oil painting from the castle, which is said to be a portrait of the original Baron Ramder. ”

"Do you want it? It's a real antique!"

If it was a genuine antique, your home would have been sold long ago...... This guy is very bold, the police dare to deceive, do you want to pull out a gun to scare him later? Klein sneered, and said with the mentality of looking at it and not spending money:

"Who knows if it's really antique, I trust my vision and judgment. ”

"You take it out and show it to me. ”

The yellow-haired middle-aged man immediately put on a smile and returned to the house, rummaging for a while.

After a while, he walked out with a painting in his arms.

Crane casually swept through the portrait on the oil painting, and saw the first baron in a white curly wig with soft features, bronze skin, and indescribable vicissitudes in his eyes.

Crane's eyes widened, and he subconsciously looked at the right earlobe of the so-called first baron.

Then, he saw an inconspicuous black mole nearby.

This is exactly the same location as the black mole of the Azk instructor!

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