A drizzle of rain is pouring down the earth, the muddy soil exudes a fresh aroma, the air is slightly damp, and a rental car is driving slowly on the asphalt road after the rain. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The sound of birdsong sounded from time to time in the lush forests, and as the car drove deeper into the mountains, the feeling of being out of the world became more and more intense.

Alice opened the window and took a deep breath of air. In fact, the air pressure here is very low, and the air is not fresh, at least not for morning exercisers, but for those who grew up in sunny California, this kind of weather is undoubtedly extremely fresh.

"Shiho, when I'm in England, I often come across this kind of weather, when it's okay, it rains a little bit, and then it rains and then it clears, it's very similar to Seattle! ”

Miyano was looking down at the map and said, "They're still in Japan most of the time. Okay Alice, watch driving, we should not be far from our destination. ”

Don't look at the tossing and turning until late last night, the two of them got up very early, and set off immediately after washing and eating. The taxi company's passenger records were easy to investigate, and within an hour they were able to learn of Mr. Straker's first walk after leaving the hotel. At this time, it was not very convenient to take a taxi, but it was easy to find a rental car company in Ito City, and they immediately drove to their destination.

The target was much closer than expected, an area of the Izu Peninsula that connects with the main body of Honshu, south of Hakone, where they are currently headed. The distance between the two is really close, and the whole journey of 30 kilometers, even if the destination is already completely mountainous, it will not take much time. So soon, after a little distance into Hakone, Alice knew that they were close to their goal.

"It's a great place to build a nursing home. ”

Eager to remove the roof of the car, Alice looked at the lush mountains and forests around her and said, "But Shiho, don't you think this is also a good place for ogres in the mountains and forests? What if some monster families mutated by nuclear radiation set up barricades here, and then cut us all off, rape and then kill and then amputate and cook?"

Miyano still looked at the map silently: "Don't worry, I will definitely build you a luxurious tomb after I escape, and you don't have to worry about the huge property being left unattended, I will inherit it." ”

"Hmm...... That's so much appreciated. ”

After a quarter of an hour of progress along the winding mountain road, the two finally arrived at their destination, Minami-Hakone Sanatorium. It's really hard to imagine that Mr. Straker would have taken a taxi to such a place, could it be that he once met a dancer on the Izu Peninsula in his old age, and after the passage of time, the beautiful woman was no longer there, and chose to spend the rest of his life here?

Theoretically, it's possible.

Because the building of the sanatorium looks really old, at least it was built during the war, and the level of maintenance is limited. Of course, there is a complete parking lot, but the strange thing is that there is not even a parking car here, and the iron fence gate is even locked, and it looks like it is uninhabited at all.

When Alice parked, Miyano looked at the white building in front of him and said, "I think we should be able to investigate the current ownership of this nursing home, if it belongs to an individual, maybe that Straker is using it as some secret training base, or some kind of laboratory?"

Since even the plot of Nian Power S&M has been staged, Alice of course also told Miyano everything she knows about this mysterious person. She made a lot of sense, since he was a "middle-aged" declining aristocrat who lived to be eighty or ninety years old, and he was infected with a virus that had been transmitted to African orangutans, it seemed very likely that he bought a sanatorium in Japan and secretly prepared something, right?

This is really not a conspiracy theory, although the actual evidence is limited, but if the I virus in Caesar's body is undoubtedly created by this baron, then he is an ex-convict, isn't he?

After getting out of the car, Alice first shouted a few times towards the sanatorium building, but there was no suspense, and she received nothing other than echoes from the mountains. Miyano stepped forward and tugged at the lock of the iron door, the copper lock was new and shiny, but it was in stark contrast to the weather-beaten and rusty iron door.

"Because of the rain and the time of day, we couldn't see any signs of a taxi coming. She looked at the flat parking lot around her and said, "But this place should still be a private property, and it has ceased to operate, and it is not unmanaged, but it has not been seriously repaired." Alice, what are you looking at?"

"Whether there are high-tech products such as monitoring probes seems to be too much for me. ”

Alice jumped directly onto the top of the wall, turned around and squatted down to look at Miyano and said, "You see we are moving all the way, and since we entered the mountains, we have hardly seen a car." Although the highway will be extended further away, this sanatorium is located in a dead end at a fork in the road, which means that it is impossible for ordinary people to even pass by here, and there is absolutely no need to say that it is hidden!"

Miyano looked back at the way he came again. Yes, the winding road stretches forward, and here it is turned in by a fork in the road, not to mention the dead ends, and there is no outside at all, so the sanatorium is not visible outside, everything is hidden by the winding road and the woods. If someone wants to hide something secretly or do something unseemly, there is no better place to do it.

"Then let's go in, but Alice, even if you don't open the door, should you pull me along?"

Alice smiled lightly, jumped off the high wall, patted her calf, and then easily the princess picked up Miyano, jumped and jumped easily, and landed inside the wall.

"If I ...... Oops, it's good to have such good skills as you. Miyano jumped out of her arms, patted his trench coat and said, "So what's next?

"It's hard to say, there are so many possibilities. Alice didn't rush into the building, but looked at it carefully: "The first thing we have to think about is, why did we choose a ready-made nursing home, what are the unique advantages of a nursing home compared to an ordinary office building or any other building, and what can this advantage be used for? From this point of view...... We get a lot of results. ”

"Patient...... Medical experiments, the American psychiatric hospitals in the sixties were indeed terrifying, and Alcatraz Island in San Francisco was also a product of the era. If the declining baron was really a man who had prolonged his life because of the virus, as his adopted daughter said, it would be normal for him to delve into the field of medicine, but the question is, how will he study it?"

This question can only be answered by practical investigation, and Alice immediately tries to open the door to the pathogen. Of course, the doors were locked, and the windows of the entire hospital were closed, so it was easy to break in, but Alice was lucky to find that the lock structure was obviously very old.

"Shiho dear, do you have a card for me?"

It's the same girl, Alice really doesn't have this, and Miyano has a dozen in her purse, so she took out one casually. It was very efficient, Alice just poked the hairpin into the keyhole and twisted it only seven or eight times, and the door lock opened.

"Hey, if I really give you a master key, even if Alice's Mansion is crashed by a plane one day, you won't be able to strangle yourself. ”

"Hmm...... I believe the skyscrapers in Manhattan are more dangerous......"

The entrance to the sanatorium was exactly as expected, with an empty and abandoned hall and dusty floor, apparently uncleaned for a long time. Yellowed old lights, rusty iron railings, and cracked office chairs behind the front desk are reminders of the passage of time in this building. Even if Alice laughs at herself, if she wants to make a zombie-themed movie one day, she will definitely shoot here.

"Like The Walking Dead or something......"

The sanatorium is neither large nor small, enough for two headless flies to wander around for a long time. The first was a tour of the building, which proved that there was not a single person in the office, dormitory, cafeteria or storage room, and there was no obvious Nazi biochemical laboratory. Of course, Alice hadn't made it to the basement yet, and before that, she was going to go inside the dean's office.

“…… Oh, it's different here. ”

As soon as I opened the door, I noticed that the spacious dean's office, the floor, tables, chairs and benches were not spotless, but they were definitely cleaned frequently.

"Look at the bookcase!"

Miyano opened the cabinet door directly, and there were heavy books lined up, eighty eighties of them in German, Miyano didn't know why, but Alice immediately translated the titles sentence by sentence.

"Biology, virology, smallpox...... Spore botany, these portfolios ......"

From the drawer under the bookcase, Alice took out a heavy file bag. These are definitely experimental logs, and after glancing at the documents inside, Alice can come up with this confirmation, as for the specific project......

"Wait a minute, Alice. Miyano suddenly interrupted her: "Do you have a creepy feeling?"

Alice looked up and returned the document she had just taken out to the file bag: "Creepy? No, what do you mean creepy? This place is indeed a bit barren, an abandoned sanatorium deep in the mountains and old forests...... Hey, Shiho, are you scared?"

However, Miyano didn't take her ridicule to heart, but shook his body: "Actually, you should feel the most obvious in this regard...... When I got out of the car, I had the awkward feeling of being spied on, like ...... It's like walking into a haunted house. You know what I mean, it's a real haunted house, the kind of ghost waiting for me to step into a trap...... That kind of ......"

Alice's expression was really not your average weirdness. She really didn't feel anything, but looking at the look of surprise on Miyano's face now, it definitely didn't look like a joke.

Feeling your feet in a haunted house?

What the hell is that?