The cabinet was empty, there was nothing.

Meng Jian looked around again with some disappointment, then turned around and walked out of the utility room and returned to the outer hall.

The lights in the hall were still flickering, squeaking, and the flickering white lights made the surrounding Qiē extremely weird.

And the soundproofing effect of this room seems to be very good, or the night in the township is very quiet, and there is no one walking on the road outside at all, and Meng Jian can't hear any other sound except the squeak of the electric current and his own breathing and footsteps.

Meng Jian walked back and forth in the hall on the first floor, observing everywhere......

Finally, he noticed something unusual.

It was the sound of his footsteps as he walked around the hall on the first floor, and there was a slight difference in the sound of footsteps as he passed through the middle of the hall.

This difference is impossible for the average person to feel and notice.

After Meng Jian stomped on the right side of the hall, he went to the left side and stomped his feet......

"What are you doing?" Zhou Yan's voice suddenly sounded, and Meng Yan was caught off guard or still frightened.

"Why did you come down?" Meng Jian asked Zhou Yan at the top of the stairs, and he didn't hear any sound when she went downstairs just now.

"I woke up and found you weren't there, I was scared and heard movement on the first floor, so I came down and took a look. Zhou Yan said to Meng Conversion.

"Does your house have a basement?" Meng Jian asked Zhou Yan.

"Nope. Zhou Yan shook her head, she grew up in this house when she was a child, and she had never heard that this house had a basement or anything like that.

"There's definitely a basement down here. Meng Jian began to look around.

He had learned from Ifutia during the 'Kindness' mission, and through the subtle changes in his own footsteps, he sensed that there should be a basement or something below the ground. In the case of cavities and solids under the ground. There is a nuance between the sound of footsteps and the feeling of walking on it, but this difference. And only a trained person can detect it.

There was no underground entrance or anything like that in the hall on the first floor, and Meng Wei suddenly remembered the utility room...... He entered the utility room and came to the large cabinet again. After pushing the large cabinet to the side, a hidden movable door was found on the ground below the large cabinet, and after opening the movable door, an underground entrance appeared in front of Meng Conversion.

"This house actually has a basement!?" Zhou Yan didn't know when he followed, and looked at the entrance of this basement in shock. A place where she grew up had secrets that she didn't know before, which really surprised Zhou Yan.

"I'll go down and see, if the house is really haunted, maybe there will be some clues down there. Meng Jian found a candle. After lighting up, get ready to go down and have a look.

This candle is not used to illuminate, but to test whether the air inside is normal, if the candle is extinguished, it will be dangerous for people to breathe underneath, and they may be poisoned and fainted after only one breath.

"Don't ...... What if there is danger underneath?" Zhou Yan grabbed Meng Yan's arm.

"It's okay, I'm hard, I'm full of yang, those little ghosts can't help me. Meng Jian pushed Zhou Yan's arm away and went down the ladder at the entrance of the cave to the basement with bated breath.

The basement was full of thick dust and cobwebs everywhere. It looks like no one has come down in a long time. But when this basement was built, there were obviously some very hidden vents leading to the ground, so the air inside was not too turbid, at least the candles were not extinguished in it.

The basement is a concrete floor. There was no decoration, and there were a lot of wooden boxes, cardboard boxes, etc., all of which were covered with dust. It looks a little old, and it doesn't look like anyone lives here. Just another utility room.

After Meng Jian found a place to put the candle down, he lit it up with his mobile phone. I opened the wooden boxes and cardboard boxes one by one and looked at them.

There are a lot of old things in it, most of them are books, and there are some old tapes, old CDs, and so on, which can be seen at a glance as products of the early nineties of the last century.

There's nothing to study about these.

In the end, Meng found a large wooden box.

This large wooden box contains some photo frames and albums, and inside the large wooden box there is a small locked wooden box.

In the modern era of tablets and smartphones, few people use photo albums, and you can store photos in your mobile phone or online album, and if you want to see them, you can pick them up by hand.

The plastic album has disappeared from people's lives unconsciously, and only some middle-aged and elderly people will occasionally pick up the album to watch the old photos.

Several frames are framed with a set of wedding photos.

The man in the wedding photo should be the same person as the man in the portrait in the hall, and it should be Zhou Yan's father when he was young. According to Meng Conversion's analysis, the two people in this wedding photo should be Zhou Yan's father and mother.

Then Meng Jian looked through the albums again, although the photos in the album involved a lot of people, it can be seen that it is basically Zhou Yan's father and mother, and the background of some photos is in this old house, at that time, the furniture in this old house was still relatively close, needless to say, these must be old photos of Zhou Yan's father and mother when they were young.

It's just that what makes Meng Jian a little strange is ...... There are no photos of Zhou Yan when she was a child in these photos.

I flipped through all the photo albums, and there was not a single photo of Zhou Yan when she was a child.

This illustrates...... When these albums were sealed, Zhou Yan was either not born yet, or she was not long born, and her parents had not taken a photo of her.

Zhou Yan said that her mother died when she was a few months old and drowned in the big river behind, so these photos are likely to be sealed by Zhou's father after Zhou Yan's mother died.

By the way, Zhou Yan also told him on the way over that she had never seen her mother, and every time she asked her father about her mother, she would be scolded, so she didn't even have a photo of her mother.

These old photos must be precious to Zhou Yan.

"Little Swallow?"

Meng Jian remembered that Zhou Yan was still standing on it, so he climbed up from the basement with a few photo albums, wanting to show her a photo of her mother.

But after Meng Jian crawled back into the hall, he didn't see Zhou Yan.

Where did she go, did she go back to her room and sleep?

Meng Jian frowned, went up to the second floor lightly, pushed open the door of the second floor and looked inside......

Sure enough, Zhou Yan slept on the bed with her back facing in.

She went downstairs without saying a word just now, and now she went back to the room without saying a word?

Meng Jian frowned slightly, and after a while, he walked lightly to the other side of the bed and looked at Zhou Yan who was lying on the bed on his side.

Zhou Yan was not abnormal, and was obviously asleep.

Just now...... The scene of her appearing in the hall on the first floor is a little weird......

Could it be that she didn't go down at all, and she in the hall on the first floor was either his hallucination or ...... Ghost!?

After Meng Jian stood for a while, Zhou Yan still didn't wake up, so Meng Jian walked out of the bedroom and went downstairs, through the hall with flickering lights to the utility room, and then down to the basement again.

There was also a locked small wooden box in the big wooden box where the album was placed just now, Meng Jian didn't find the key to the small wooden box in the big wooden box, but the small wooden box didn't know if it was a little old, and the wood was a little rotten.

In the small wooden box was a very old bronze mirror, and a very old yellowed book.

Because it was placed in a small wooden box, the copper mirror was not stained with any dust. Meng Jian used a bronze mirror to shine on himself, although the ancient bronze mirror was very smooth, but it was still incomparable with the current glass mirror, the image was hazy, and Meng Jian could barely see his face clearly in the bright light of the mobile phone.

And then...... Meng Jian found that there seemed to be a face behind him in the bronze mirror......

Meng Jian hurriedly looked back...... There was nothing but the shadow of itself reflected on the basement wall by the flickering candlelight.

Meng Jian took the bronze mirror and took a look around the basement, but he couldn't find anything unusual. So Meng Jian turned the bronze mirror over and observed, and there were some words engraved on the back of the bronze mirror, which looked very ancient at first glance. Meng Jian didn't know these words very well, so he took out his smartphone and looked it up, and barely recognized a few of them.

Among them are the words 'underworld', 'underworld', 'prison', 'evil ghost', 'life', 'psychic', and so on.

Although it is impossible to read the meaning of all the words in series, it goes without saying that this bronze mirror is by no means a mascot, and it is likely that it was used by witches and wizards in ancient times for channeling, divination, and fortune-telling.

The words on the book next to it are not so ancient, they are traditional characters, as if they were printed during the Republic of China, Meng Jian can basically recognize them, and occasionally if he doesn't know them, he can also use his smartphone to translate them.

There are also some illustrations in the book, which are obviously instructions for the use of this bronze mirror.

After taking a casual look, Meng Jian found that the use of this bronze mirror was quite complicated.

Meng Jian had already vaguely sensed that if this house was haunted, it was likely to be related to this bronze mirror. It's not surprising that a very old psychic object, when used incorrectly, attracts some difficult evil ghosts for the owner and the house, which is a common episode in many horror movies.

The death of Zhou Yan's mother is likely to be related to this bronze mirror, Zhou Yan's father and grandmother later became weird, and they didn't love Zhou Yan at all, it is likely that they are related to this bronze mirror.

Even, Meng Conversion's survival of this nightmare mission will also involve this bronze mirror. It seems that this is a very important item in this nightmare mission, so it needs to be studied carefully. (To be continued......)

PS: Praise ~~