Chapter 487: Tower Keeper (Second Update)
Jenina's Kelly Hotel is located in the south of New Haven, very close to the harbor, and her room is a sea-view room facing the sea, but at night, through the window, you can only see the distance in the dark, occasionally a little fishing fire.
When Ponty asked the service staff to open the door, he found that it was spotlessly clean and everything was in order, and it should have been cleaned by the cleaners.
In this way, even if there was a clue, it is now gone......
After searching around the room to no avail, when everyone was in trouble, Shi Xun stared at the portable paper on the TV counter, he picked it up and observed it, and then lightly brushed it with a pencil next to him.
Shi Xun's actions quickly attracted the other three, and they all looked at what slowly began to emerge on the paper, it was a set of handwritten words, the handwriting made Ponty feel familiar, it was indeed his sister Jenina's!
“L…… I…… G…… H…… T…… H…… L……? Phelps said silently beside him.
"What do you mean......?" Jack was also puzzled, "I've never seen a word spelled like this." ”
"Light knows, but with an H and L at the end, what does she want to express?" Ponty was puzzled, so he said, "Forget it, let's let the police solve this matter." ”
Ponty took out his mobile phone and was just about to dial 911, when Shi Xun suddenly said excitedly: "It's a lighthouse!"
"Lighthouse!?" Jack was puzzled, "I said Commander, Jenina is also a top student, she can't misspell such a simple word, right!?" ”
"No, she didn't misspell it." Shi Xun said firmly, "Rather...... Didn't finish writing. ”
Shi Xun pointed to the last letter and continued: "This is not 'L', but the letter 'O' written halfway through. ”
"How do you know?" Just as Jack was asking, Ponty also put away his mobile phone, looking forward to Shi Xun's next explanation.
And Shi Xun also continued: "Don't you think...... Is Jenina's hand actually shaking when she writes these words? ”
"Trembling ......?"
"That's right, each letter here is of different size, and the height is staggered, it doesn't look like a girl wrote it under normal circumstances, and the last letter, if it's 'L', the fold at the bottom is too arc and inclined upward, right? It's exactly like a reversed 'J'! ”
"IF THAT'S WHAT YOU SAY, THEN THIS WORD IS INDEED THE UNFINISHED 'LIGHTHOUSE'......" Ponty took the note, "in that case...... Lighthouse...... ...... by the sea"
Shi Xun nodded at him: "That's right, we have to go to the lighthouse by the sea!" ”
"Let's go!"
Everyone left the room and left the hotel to run to the nearby beach, where there is a very famous lighthouse park, where almost everyone who comes to New Haven goes to enjoy the beautiful coastal scenery.
Fortunately, the park is not far from the hotel, and after running a few hundred meters to arrive, a lighthouse with a bright light at the top of the distance is in sight, and Ponty is running towards it like crazy, while the others are following closely behind him, among which Jack is out of breath at the moment due to his usual lack of exercise, and is gradually left behind.
Normally, the lighthouse is manned at night, commonly known as the tower keeper, and Ponty was the first to come to the door below, and found that it was locked, so he slapped it vigorously, but there was no response, and no one came down to open the door.
I saw him shoot harder and harder, and shouted anxiously: "Hey! Anyone! Come down and open the door for Lao Tzu! ”
Shi Xun pressed Ponty's hand, which was already red at the moment, and shook his head: "Wait, if Jenina is really kidnapped here, do you think someone will come down to open the door for us?" ”
"Hell!" Punk kicked the door with his foot, "Looks like I can only break in!" ”
"Leave this to me."
After Shi Xun finished speaking, he took out a tight leather glove from the bracelet and put on his right hand unhurriedly.
Ponty wondered, "What are you doing with these dishwasher-like gloves?" ”
Shi Xun didn't answer, and then a charged shape, the originally black gloves began to glow red at this time, accompanied by a rolling heat wave, as if they were burned!
Then he pressed his gloved right hand against the iron door, which looked very strong......
Ka – Ka ——!
The surface of the door began to twist and deform due to excessive heating, and finally "boom", detached from the door frame and slammed into the ground!
Everyone was amazed, after all, they were the first time they had seen the so-called props and skills, and Jack couldn't help but exclaim: "Cool ......"
After entering the lighthouse, the first thing that catches your eye is the messy pile of old objects at the bottom, as if you have returned to the seventies and eighties, or come to some thrift market.
Ponty ignored all of this, and shouted Jenina's name as he began to walk up the winding staircase to the top of the tower.
One of them came to the room of the tower keeper, and found that the door was not locked, so he pushed the door open, only to see that on the small bed against the wall, there was a rosacea old man who was tied up with a rope, and his mouth was still sealed with tape and paper, and he was struggling desperately, and the "whine" sound from his throat continued, and when he saw someone coming in, the eyes full of distress seemed to finally look forward to a savior!
After Shi Xun rescued the old man, before the other party could thank him, Ponty couldn't wait to ask: "Who did it!?" ”
The old man breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's four or five damn young men, who look about the same age as you......"
"Are there any girls in there!?"
"Uh...... There is no ......"
"Have you looked closely, really not!?"
"Not really, I swear ......!" The old man looked frightened, and after picking up the tin cup on the table and taking a sip of water, he suddenly thought of something, so he said: "By the way, the one who took the lead asked me to give a message to the person who came after, I think this person should be referring to you......, right?" ”
"Well, what did he tell you to say?" Ponty was trying to keep his emotions in check.
The guy said...... The treasure is in the pirate's skeleton ship......" The old man looked at the four young men in front of him, "I said, are you guys playing some role-playing game?" Don't mess with me! ”
"Treasure, pirate, skeleton ship......" Ponty repeated these three words, but he felt a mess, if he met him who was calm on weekdays, he might be able to think of something, but now, his mind was full of finding his sister Jenina, and he couldn't spare any other space for thinking.
"If I'm not mistaken, the treasure should be Jenina." Shi Xun pondered, "And the pirates and skeleton ships...... Maybe it has something to do with 'Tomb', because it explicitly mentions the word 'skeleton', but I don't know exactly what it means......"