Rocky is free. Robert personally acquitted him.

"I should have been free! I didn't kill Will!" Rocky held his flashlight and slipped into an unknown secret passage.

That night, while drinking tea with him, Mr. Will accidentally cracked the secret of the four paintings in the hallway. Even he didn't expect that the manor where he had lived for more than forty years would have such an ingenious secret room. He followed Mr. Will into the chamber, and although Mr. Will promised to help him pay off all his debts, he thought that perhaps there was a more valuable treasure hidden in the chamber, which would allow him to return to the ranks of glorious nobles, rather than a reviled ruined and sick gambler.

"It's a pity, Will's life is not good!" Rocky saw the black poison dart cut through Will's carotid artery, and Mr. Will cried out to him in a hoarse voice.

"I can't save him!"

"Only the dead don't reveal the secrets here. ”

"I don't want to share the treasure with anyone else. ”

So, Rocky stood in front of Mr. Will and watched him bleed to death. Then he began to search the 15-square-meter chamber, but there was nothing of value except a wooden box and a mess of books. Rocky opened the box, and it was filled with bottles and jars of powder. He opened one of the bottles and poured some on the floor, and a smell of * came to his nose.

"Damn, there's no treasure here at all". Rocky laboriously dragged Will out of the chamber, set up a clean crime scene, and then took the box* from the chamber – maybe it could sell for a good price – and hid the box of dangerous items in the secret passage he used as a child hide-and-seek. Because as long as he hid in this secret passage, no one could find him, not including his parents and grandparents.

But when the National Investigation Bureau and the Intelligence Agency showed up at the manor at the same time, Rocky knew he was really on the move. However, this feeling turned into anger in an instant, and on the intercom of the police officer who was guarding him, he heard the small talk of the police officer:

"You know, it turns out that Navel is a spy for the National Investigation Agency. ”

"Spy?

"Our Sergeant Robert has a habit of not turning off the walkie-talkie, and Morse can hear it clearly"

"What are the spies doing on this manor?"

"I don't know. But the spy deliberately lured Mr. Lodge into a loan shark—"

"Haha, this idiot. I didn't expect the descendants of Lord Onco to be so stupid. ”

Rocky listened to all the facts of the case as he pretended to be asleep. He sneered at himself in his heart, and at the National Investigation Agency, the CIA, the police station, and all the uninvited guests in this manor.

"I will show you the power of Lord Uncor's great bloodline. "Now Mr. Lodge still has the box in his hand*. This is his estate. This secret passage was the paradise he was most familiar with. He didn't quite understand why his ancestors had gone to great lengths to devise this useless secret passage—because no matter how many times he tried, it was a dead-end path with no exit. It wasn't until Will King opened the secret room under the fireplace that, judging by the direction, Rocky faintly felt the connection between the secret room and this secret passage.

Sure enough, today, after he infiltrated this secret passage again, the originally truncated secret passage appeared in a passage that was not there before, and this passage led directly to the secret room.

"It will work. Rocky remembers how he discovered the passage in the first place, and carefully groped for the walls and floors of the passage. He believed that the glory of his forefathers would sustain him in doing so.

"You're still here. When he opened the mechanism leading to the chamber, he saw Eric who was still stranded in the chamber.

Eric saw the box he was holding, and asked alarmedly, "Is this—"

"A few cans*. Explosives. Mr. Lodge calmly walked into the chamber and sat down on the chair next to his desk, "You seem to have guessed it." ”

"We detected the ingredient of * from the data of a mosquito, and I think this mosquito must have entered this secret room at the same time as you, and then followed you away, and it happened to stick in the process. Eric reasoned.

"What a smart mosquito, just like you. Rocky laughed.

This is a rude analogy. Eric stared at the box in Rocky's hand, which could blow them both to pieces at any moment, "I'd love to know, what are you doing here?"

"Can't you see?" Rocky gestured to the walkie-talkie in Eric's hand, "I know it all." ”

Eric immediately understood why a pathological gambler could become an avenger. Not only the police officers, but even Eric knew that Robert had a bad habit of keeping the walkie-talkie online all the time.

"Maybe things aren't as bad as you think. Eric tried to stall for time.

"It's useless. Rocky became very conscious at this point, he took out a walkie-talkie and said, "Sheriff Robert is not the only one who forgot to turn off the walkie-talkie. Now they're in trouble with the people in the National Investigation Agency. ”

"But this box* is not enough to blow up the entire manor. Eric reminded, "But it's enough to kill us both." ”

"I'm a gambler, but I'm not an idiot. From the voice over the intercom, Rocky knew that one of the officers at the police station had been held hostage by the National Investigation Bureau and was now retreating from the manor to the room. However, Rocky doesn't know how strong the Chamber of Secrets really is, and in order to ensure success, he decides to make a deal with Eric.

"I see you're interested in that drawing. Rocky saw the drawing in Eric's hand and threw out the "bait".

"Just take a look. Eric hated the feeling of being seen through.

"I have a catalogue with a drawing on it, and the place drawn is exactly the same as the one you have in your hand. ”

Eric said disapprerovingly, "But there's no way to prove if it's a lie, can you?"

"But there's also a 50% chance it's not a lie. Rocky smiled, "Let's make a deal, you lure that captain of the National Investigation Bureau named George underground, and I'll tell you where this atlas is." ”

With that, Rocky took out his phone, typed a few letters into the text message bar, and asked, "Your phone number?" If I see George here, I'll immediately press send. ”

"But you'll be done too. Eric kindly reminded.

"Thank you for your concern," Rocky gave a strange look of relief, "when I knew you had discovered this secret room, and that Will King was a spy for the National Investigation Agency, I knew I couldn't get out." ”

Eric asked, "Will King's death from blood loss means that the dart was not fatal, and the teacup on the tea table proves that you were in this room with Mr. Will at the time, so it should be that he entered this secret room with you, which means that you watched Will King slowly bleed to death." ”

"I thought there was a bigger treasure in this vault, and I didn't want more people to know the manor's secrets. Rocky didn't feel guilty about not being able to save himself, "and in the end, it turned out that he really deserved to die." ”

"You don't have to go this far. Eric said with regret for Lord Oncor.

"I don't need your sympathy, Great Detective. This is the path I chose. Rocky smiled coldly, "Indeed, my ancestors were indeed very glorious. But I was tired of it as a child, and you can't understand the suffocation of living for the glory of your ancestors, and the etiquette of the nobility, the rules of the upper class, is not as pleasant as a deck of cards at the table. ”

"Since you are not incomprehensible, then why should you take this road of no return. Eric tried to convince Rocky.

"I don't understand, but that doesn't mean I don't care. Rocky had a sneering expression, as if he was laughing at himself as well as at Eric, "Will King is dead, his promise has been fulfilled, I can't afford to repay the tens of millions of bank loans, and the NIA will eventually know that I have nothing to do with Will King's death - so, this point of no return is the right choice for me." ”

At this moment, Robert's low roar was heard intermittently above the chamber. Rocky asked Eric again, "One of your police officers is injured, are you sure you want to die here with me, or do you make this deal with me that will make you a good deal?" ”

Eric didn't answer, he sighed and turned to leave the chamber. Ten minutes later, a violent explosion was heard in the chamber, and black smoke rose from the fireplace.

Chiko asked Eric in surprise, "What ......is this?" What's going on......"

"I don't know. Eric said calmly, "Perhaps Lord Uncor would be happy to see such an outcome." ”

The day after the explosion, Eric sneaked into the manor following the address in Rocky's text message. Rocky's text message told him that the address of the album was the secret passage of the manor. There are a lot of miscellaneous things piled up in the secret passages, toys, game consoles, erotic magazines, cigarettes, wine bottles...... But the only thing that wasn't there was the album.

"Damn, where would it be!" said Eric, frustrated, sitting on a chaise longue with a hole in it.

"Doesn't the atlas that Mr. Lodge spoke of not exist?" Erik wondered why he believed a gambler's words so much. He recalled the place on the drawing again, but this time it felt more real to him than the last. The drawings were etched into his mind again: this time the pitch-black doors disappeared and were replaced by a pitch-black tunnel. The drawings are folded into a flaming paper airplane that carries Eric's memories like exploring deep into a tunnel. But soon, when the paper airplane burned out, Eric was plunged into endless darkness again.

"Damn!" Eric cursed as he opened his eyes. At this moment, there was a "bang-" sound, and the cloth on the recliner cracked from both sides of the hole, and Eric fell to the ground in an instant. At the moment of falling from the chaise longue, Eric looked to the top of the secret passage, and he saw that the top of the secret passage seemed to be carved something.

He found a golf club, wrapped it around a rag at one end, and stretched it out to wipe the top of the secret passage. After a while, a 1m*1m petroglyph appeared in front of Eric's eyes. Perhaps the petroglyphs have become blurry due to age and poor maintenance, but Eric can still make out that this is the place on the drawing, and next to the painting, there is a line of words:

The Nicholas School • Guarding the Truth • Discovering the Truth.