Jessica flipped through the booklet that recorded the events of the manor, and it seemed that the weight of the manor was very important in Los Angeles, and its original full name was Amatar Manor, which did not seem to come from the local area.

When we look down a little further, we see that the person who originally built the estate didn't actually leave his real name, and his public name was Faustin. Wagner, but according to later investigations, it was found that this was not his original name, and even his birthplace and family members had some more or less lies.

Some claim to have seen him stay with another woman on a Caribbean cruise ship, and that they had another pair of children with them, while others claim that he must have come from across the Atlantic, and that he had come to the United States along the shipping lanes from the island of England, but that he must have been engaged in some kind of illegal activity while he was in England.

Rumors about him grew, but people also became less and less aware of what the truth was, and in fact the family had a very inconsistent appearance after establishing the estate in Los Angeles, on the one hand, their family members seemed to be very keen on local dance parties and various public occasions, and would also be generous in some charitable acts.

On the other hand, however, they were very wary of their estates, and very few of them were able to enter their estates as guests, which did not mean that those dignitaries could gain additional advantages, in fact, it seemed that it was difficult for the local poor and powerful to receive invitations from their families to visit the manor, which at that time looked like a small palace.

At first, people were only curious about it, but as the rumors spread farther and more outrageous, people began to turn from curiosity to fear, but strangely enough, the owner of the manor, Sir Faustin, was indifferent to it.

Neither finding someone to refute the rumors, nor saying that he would prove anything by inviting people to his estate, he acted as if nothing had happened.

One side thinks that there must be something wrong with Sir Faustin's manor, and he just wants to fool people by pretending that nothing happened, while the other group thinks that all this is just unwarranted speculation by the people around him, and Sir Faustin is actually the right thing to do to ignore the rumors, believing that Sir Faustin, who seems to be very decent, must not be hiding anything terrible in his manor.

And then no matter how long such arguments exist, they themselves will seem to be somewhat weak and of little value, because the truth can never be simply through a few arguments and run out on its own.

Time has passed year by year, and there are still not many people who have been invited by the Sir Faustin family to visit their palatial manor, but as time goes by, people's speculation about their family and this manor has finally become less intense, after all, the Faustin family has still been very enthusiastic when it comes to the outside world for many years, and they will always participate in many local events in Los Angeles, which also dilutes people's suspicions about them.

But there are some people who have been secretly watching Sir Faustam's family, but they have never had the opportunity to enter the manor to find answers.

It is said that on a cloudy evening, the group formed a team of about five people, intending to sneak into the manor at night to find some kind of answer that the locals had not known for a long time.

No one knows what happened to them in the manor that night, because when they returned home the next day, they were basically delirious, and even if some people seemed conscious, they had lost the ability to speak, and after the incident was exposed in Los Angeles, the Faustin family and their mysterious manor were once again pushed to the forefront.

However, no matter how much the locals questioned Sir Faustin and his family members, they could not happily get the answer to the matter, Sir Faustin was very good at interfering with people's thinking through the art of language, and he was also very good at making himself appear very innocent, and the matter dragged on like this, because after all, the five men had broken into Sir Faustin's manor, so there was no way to prosecute him.

However, after this incident, people began to gradually move away from this kind of manor and the people in this manor, Sir Faustin usually behaved too perfectly, which caused more suspicion and fear, along with a new round of rumors about Sir Faustin's life and past experiences, Sir Faustin seems to have become the local vampire Count Dracula in Los Angeles, and many bizarre legends about him have been fabricated.

Although most people know that these statements are ridiculous, they still like this kind of story very much, just like people's imagination of the ancient and mysterious European medieval castle, they suddenly find that this Faustin family manor is very much like a European medieval castle in many ways, so people gradually believe this story, believing that Sir Faustin has a terrifying and mysterious power, and can drive each other crazy through the gaze of the eyes.

And all kinds of horror stories about the inside of the manor have also been made up, and no one knows which story is well-founded and which is not, only one thing is certain, and that is that these stories will become more and more terrifying.

However, it is very strange that Sir Faustin's family did not react in the slightest to all the speculation and slander that haunted their family, and they were like people living in another world, and sometimes they did show emotional reactions that normal people would not have had, which made them more and more mysterious.

Because many people in Los Angeles no longer dare to deal with the Faustin family, many times the Faustin family has less and less access to outsiders, and they themselves have become more closed, and the gate of the manor has been tightly closed.

Seeing this, Jessica and I couldn't help but leave a trace of cold sweat on our backs, I really didn't expect that this manor had such a story at the beginning, and now that it is directly open to the public by its owner, I can't help but feel that everything is so interesting.

But it's no wonder that few people are willing to go into this manor anymore, it seems that the mysterious legend about this manor is still very old in Los Angeles, maybe many adults when they are still very young, they will take the legend of this manor as a fairy tale before going to bed, in order to scare them and make this manor particularly terrifying.

Anyway, Jessica and I had some discussion about the first half of the manor, and from what we know so far, it is very likely that Sir Faustin is from England, and that the name Faustin is just a change of his name, and what his real name is is still undecided.

In addition, Sir Faustin's family is very complicated, he announced that the family members include a wife, two sons and three daughters, but according to some local investigations and reports, Sir Faustin has at least two former wives and at least five children, and these wives and children did not appear in his subsequent life, so this is still doubtful.

Sir Faustin was very active in the establishment of the city of Los Angeles at first, and even felt that it was too positive, his money and wealth seemed to be endless, and he was extremely generous to outsiders, which may be why his deliberate concealment of his estate was all the more strange, and it was no wonder that so many people were suspicious of him, and he was never willing to talk about anything related to the estate directly.

Jessica and I have been to the estate three times, and in my personal opinion, if it had been a hundred years ago, it was indeed a small palace in size and luxury, although it is dilapidated in many places today, but its overall layout, the planning of the building, and the attention to detail are very amazing, this is just an intuitive feeling, and there are many more things that may require some professional knowledge to understand.

There is no doubt that there is a lot of oddity hidden in this manor, just like the feelings of the neighbors who originally lived around Sir Faustin, Sir Faustin behaved elegantly and decently, but in many ways was perfect not like a real person, of course we don't know if this is due to the personal jealousy of Sir Faustin by the locals or Sir Faustin is really like that, just through a few black and white photographs that have traveled through more than a world of years, Jessica and I couldn't tell the truth.

On the other hand, what does the truth mean to me and Jessica, of course, Jessica's parents have also visited the manor, and they say that there is a top-secret document hidden in the manor, and its existence is likely to affect the lives of many, many people.

Time passed very quickly, and the closing time of the museum was approaching, and Jessica and I had no way to continue reading them or lend them out.

Our knowledge of the manor was only the beginning, and after much discussion with Jessica, we decided to come back early tomorrow morning and make sure we knew everything we needed to know about the manor.

With mixed feelings, Jessica and I left the museum, but at the moment I had a vague sense of unease in my heart, I didn't tell Jessica about it, because I didn't want her to add more troubles to it, it was clear that although the clues to his parents began to appear, the clues themselves became more and more complicated, and we didn't know when it would be the beginning and when it would be the end.

An hour later, Jessica and I went back to her house, but instead of following Jessica into her house for the first time, I was going to go to a gym near Jessica's house to practice hard, and Jessica told me that she would try to make a few dishes and let me try her dishes, and I was very happy to agree.

When I entered the gym, which looked pretty good, I was greeted by several big black men with their backs on their backs, but they had a smile on their faces, otherwise it would have been easy to scare people with their posture.

"Hi Kobe, we're all your fans

, It's nice to see you here, it's not me bragging, the equipment in this gym is more NB than the NBA, don't believe you look at my biceps. ”

I shook hands with them separately to show friendship, saying that it was quite stressful to shake hands with these guys, and some of them deliberately squeezed hard when shaking hands, but of course this is quite normal, it is a way of expressing friendship between men.

They seemed very enthusiastic, first took me to visit this large gym, at least from the scale and hardware equipment, I will feel that this gym is indeed very perfect, in fact, I don't really need how complete fitness equipment, of course, fitness equipment as complete as possible must only have benefits and no harm.

One of the reasons I chose this gym was that it was close enough to Jessica's home that I could come whenever I wanted, and secondly, I would be very happy if it was good enough.

Seriously, the fitness enthusiasts here are really hardcore, their fitness level is so high that it is estimated that there are not a few of the same level in the whole of Los Angeles, and it seems that they are not exactly bragging when they say that the equipment is more than the NBA.

I quickly got into a fight with these guys, and even though they may not be more than six feet tall, some of them are close to Shaq's weight, and of course we NBA players can't train our muscles like them, and this kind of balloon-like muscles can greatly reduce our flexibility and endurance, so I can't actually do it the way they like to train my muscles, and I have a training model that suits me better.

If I were to play a fitness competition, I would lose to them, but if they wanted to play on the basketball court, I could probably play at least five by myself (manual funny).

These guys wanted to test their strength with me at first, but what should I say, these guys' arms are thicker than my thighs, even Shaq's arm muscles don't look so scary, I don't know if their muscles come from natural exercise or hormones, of course it's probably nonsense for me to say this, it's impossible for these people to work out like this without hormones, it's just a matter of how much they eat.

I didn't want to compete with them, but then it was really hard to say goodbye, and the whole gym became very excited because of the arrival of me as an NBA star, after all, I am the future star of the Los Angeles Lakers, and if I come to this gym often to work out in the future, it will undoubtedly advertise for them for free.

So soon the person in charge of this gym came out and had a friendly exchange with me, and immediately promised to give me at least two years of gym senior membership experience, I thought to myself how to experience it after two years of senior membership, and then I thought that I didn't seem to be able to accept this gift from others in private, after all, I am a public figure, if the agent knows and don't know how to scold me, so in the end I politely refused the kindness of the gym manager, I took out real dollars to set up a senior membership here for a year, you must know that my brother is not short of this money, and he can't make a name for a little cheap.

Originally, the gym also wanted to promote the atmosphere of the scene and arrange a temporary small competition, but I didn't have too much time, so I promised them that they would come here often if they were free in the future, and I just came here today to have a look, and then I was ready to leave before I could really move my arms and legs.

Of course, the warm welcome of these fitness enthusiasts still touched me very much, I left a lot of autographs for them before leaving, you really don't underestimate these muscles bulging up like balloons of black men, their muscle explosiveness is still very terrifying, not outsiders think that fitness people are so-called dead muscles, a few guys showed me their bounce power on the spot, I didn't expect that their weight can also have more than one meter of bounce ability, Unlike the lightness of ordinary skinny people jumping up, their whole body is like a small steel bullet, and if this kind of guy wants to dunk you, I bet he can press your whole body into the basket.

After seeing their excellent bounce demonstrations, I also went to show off my own bounces, in fact there were a few times before when I had the opportunity to measure my bounce that I eventually gave up, and this time I was eager to see my exact bounce.

This gym has very advanced bouncing measuring instruments, which can be accurate to the millimeter, and I started the bouncing test after some warm-up exercises, the first test is the ability to jump on the spot, which requires very strong leg muscle strength, in fact, this way of jumping is not what I am best at, so even if I tried my best, I only jumped 101 cm in place.

It wasn't enough for me to hit my head to the basket after I jumped, but my dashing ability was excellent compared to my somewhat mediocre ability to bounce on the spot, and I tested two different run-up jumps, one with one foot and the other with two feet.

The maximum jump height of my one-foot jump reached an astonishing 115 cm, and the maximum jump height of my two-foot jump was only 108 cm, which shows that my best way to jump is to run and jump on one foot, which is also vividly demonstrated in the usual game, I launched a fast counterattack after stealing the opponent's ball has a very terrifying speed and impact, and I can jump to complete the dunk at a distance from the basket.

The people in the gym around me were very surprised by my results, but they all said that if I could do a special training on bounce power with them, I would definitely be able to take my bounce to the next level.

However, I was a little worried that I didn't want to increase my weight while increasing my jump, and that I needed to maintain my current body shape, which would help me maintain my flexible pace and lower physical exertion, and that too much muscle mass would not be much good for me.

These guys looked at their muscles and smiled innocently, but they said they knew that as a professional basketball player, I had to stay in shape and keep my mouth shut, but these bounce drills are divided into many different types, and there are also special training for NBA players, and the biggest advantage is that the trainer has stronger leg explosiveness, so as to get more terrifying bounce speed and continuous jumping ability.

They told me that in order to get the muscles to a level that is beyond imagination, you have to stimulate the nerves that manage the muscles and make them a little more excited than ever.

I know a little bit about their theories, in fact, these theories should be relatively advanced in this era, but they are nothing in my previous life, but I am a little curious about how people in this era can effectively stimulate their muscles even if they know this.

In the end, I didn't discuss this further with these fitness enthusiasts, after all, I had already spent a lot of time here, and Jessica was still waiting for me at home.

I finally left the gym, which is a pitfall, I went inside for almost an hour, and when I came out, I didn't even sweat, just a few jumps couldn't make me sweat, and the rest of the time was spent in conversations with these fitness enthusiasts and the gym directors.

But in the process of talking to them, I found that most of them seem to be NBA fans, and of course they are also fans of the Los Angeles Lakers at the moment, and they are also fans of me and Shaq, but obviously these guys still know a lot about the game.

The popularity of basketball in the United States is terrifying, even if these guys spend most of their time in the gym, but according to their own words, their basketball level is not bad, if you have the opportunity in the future, you must ask me to play ball, let me see the level of these amateur players.

Of course, there is still a huge gap between them and me, but when I see that some of them look fatter than Shaq can jump more than a meter, I do look forward to seeing what they really are capable of on the basketball court.

When I got back to Jessica's house, I smelled the smell of the shop as soon as I walked through the door, and I don't remember when I had taught Jessica how to make this broth, but the smell alone was enough to make people hungry.

"Wow, Jessica, are you already this good at cooking? It's the best broth I've ever smelled. ”

I followed the direction of the smell and walked to the kitchen, Jessica's kitchen was very large, with several quite professional stoves, and it was obvious that Jessica's parents used to like to cook food, but unfortunately they were away for a long time, leaving poor Jessica alone at home and not being able to enjoy the delicious food from them.

When I asked Jessica, she told me that she had made it based on her own childhood memories, that her parents had made this soup for her more than once when she was a child, and that her memory of this soup was so deep that years later, she restored it with her own memories and feelings.

When I took my first bite of this delicious soup, it was as if I had fallen into a fairyland, and I held Jessica tightly in my arms.

Well, I suddenly found that Jessica also has a good talent for cooking, at least as long as it is a dish that can impress her, she should be able to do it well, but because of the taste buds of Europeans and Americans, Jessica and I can't perfectly restore many dishes in my previous life, but maybe it is because the taste buds of Europeans and Americans are not so developed, so they will not be so picky about eating, as long as we can do our best, we can still reach a very high level.

To celebrate Jessica's success in making soup today, we had dinner and drank a lot of wine, some of which was taken from Jessica's basement, and the bottle of red wine we are drinking is more than 20 years old, according to Jessica.

In fact, I am really not very good at appreciating red wine, and it takes a lot of money to develop a particularly sensitive sense of smell for the taste of red wine, not everyone has the capital to do it, even if Jessica and I are not short of money, but we may not really have the leisure and elegance to spend energy on appreciating red wine.

Whether it's a good wine or a peerless wine, it's more of a special thing for Jessica and me

Drink, a wonderful drink that can completely release our emotions, all the troubles seem to have disappeared between half drunk and drunk, and finally we can forget all the things that should not be remembered, and only feel happy that we are still alive and happy.

Jessica had largely fallen asleep after the meal, and I myself was no better, lying on the couch in a state of sleep.

Before I knew it, hours had passed, and when I woke up again, I felt a little dizzy in my head, and it was only after I washed my face with cold water in the bathroom that I gradually returned to my conscious state.

"Jessica, where are you?"

When I woke up, my first thought was to go to Jessica, wondering if she was still asleep.

Sure enough, when I came to the living room again, I found Jessica asleep on a stool, and I picked her up and put her on her own bed, and then covered the bed.

I walked out of Jessica's bedroom, but I saw that the door to Jessica's parents' room was opened at this time, I think it must have been opened by Jessica herself, but I don't know what she did when she went in.

When the slight headache in my head hit, I rubbed my temples vigorously, trying to fully clear my senses.

I gently pushed the half-hidden door open, and found that the light inside was bright, which aroused my suspicion a little, remembering the appearance of Jessica just now, would Jessica, who was already drunk like that, really enter this room?

But when I searched the room more closely, I couldn't find anything that wasn't quite right in the first place, which means that at least on the surface, nothing seemed to be wrong.

I checked the window inside and out, and found nothing wrong, and finally I went back to the door and checked the door several times, and the final conclusion seemed to be that I was too suspicious, and I didn't find anything wrong in this room.

When I gently closed the door of Jessica's parents' room, Jessica rubbed her eyes and slowly walked over to me.

"Jessica, do you feel better?"

I handed her a glass of water, and she took it and drank the whole cup in one go, and then she seemed a little more comfortable, and her eyes were much bigger than just now.

"I haven't been so drunk in a long time, and the stamina of this bottle is really extraordinary, I'll have to pay attention to it next time, but it feels really good to be drunk."

"Jessica, I have a question for you, do you remember if you used the key to open the door to your parents' room when you were drunk?"

"I want to think about it."

Jessica was lost in thought, and for a moment she couldn't really remember if she had actually used the key to open the door to her parents' room.

"And where's the key to your parents' room?"

Jessica was stunned when she heard this, and subconsciously touched her pants pocket with her hand, and when she slowly took out a key from her pants bag, I still hadn't completely put my mind at ease.

When I used the key Jessica took out to easily open the door of Jessica's parents' room, my whole heart fell, but why did Jessica use the key to open the door of her parents' room, according to her current appearance, she was probably in a state of no autonomy at that time, which is indeed a bit too suspicious.

But I don't want to pursue these things anymore at this time, as long as Jessica is safe.

Jessica's strength slowly recovered, and soon Jessica seemed to remember something, and I looked into Jessica's eyes, trying to read something from her eyes.

"Jessica, I still feel a little strange about this tonight, do you still have an impression of that drunken memory?"

"To be honest, I'm trying to think about what I did during that time, if I really opened the door to my parents' room with a key while I was drunk and unconscious, it would be incredible, was I sleepwalking, and could a sleepwalker do something as complicated as opening a door with a key without being conscious, knowing that the shape of the key doesn't particularly fit the door."

I bowed my head in deep thought, and after a moment I took Jessica tightly into my arms.

"There's a game between our Lakers and the Houston Rockets tomorrow night, because it's our Lakers' home court, so I'm going to go to the court early in the morning to practice, you know, I'm on the rise right now, and I have to spend a lot of training time to improve my personal fitness."

"Well, of course I can understand your thoughts, you just have to concentrate on your practice, and tomorrow morning I will go to the Los Angeles Museum of History again to learn everything about the Sir Faustin family and the manor."

"Jessica, I have a bad feeling, I always feel that something is going to happen tomorrow morning, forget it, tomorrow morning I will accompany you to the History Museum to collect all the materials before going to Staples Arena to practice."

"Bryant, you're really good!"

I hugged Jessica tightly into my arms and carried her to the bedroom.

Early the next morning, Jessica and I woke up from sleep in the sound of birdsong outside the window, and I went crazy with Jessica last night, I thought I would wake up late this morning, but according to the current situation, we both have super good sleep quality, and we will wake up in a sleep, and the whole person's mental state is at its best.

I took out my phone and looked at it, and it was actually just seven o'clock in the morning.

An hour and a half later, Jessica and I drove back to the history museum in Los Angeles, and it was still some time before the museum opened, and Jessica and I arrived at the entrance of the museum early.

However, I was very surprised that there were several police cars parked in front of the Los Angeles Museum of History at the moment, and it seemed that something major had happened, and the police cars blocked the surrounding people behind the barrier in front of the museum.

"What's going on?"

A young man with a satchel asked.

However, the police officers only cared about what they said on the walkie-talkie, and did not respond to the questions of the surrounding crowd.

A few minutes later, as the crowd gathered at the entrance of the history museum grew, and in the face of more and more questions, a police officer who looked older and more experienced finally spoke.

"I'm very sorry, I'm afraid that the Los Angeles Museum of History can't open normally today, I apologize for the curator for you, the normal opening time of the museum will be notified separately, please leave here as soon as possible if you have nothing else."

Jessica and I glanced at each other, and it was clear that the situation was beyond our expectations, and it was obviously a little strange why the museum was not open because of something when Jessica and I were about to investigate the matter about Sir Faustin and the manor, and the police were so secretive about why it couldn't be opened properly.

Apparently just last night, something unknown happened to the largest history museum in Los Angeles that prevented it from opening today.

In the face of the doubts of the surrounding crowd, this guy who looked like a Los Angeles sheriff became more and more resolute, and he directly asked his police officers to drive more and more people out, and just when Jessica and I were also kicked out by the police, those reporters with a very keen sense of news also arrived at the scene.

I don't know who told the reporters about this, but the reporters who came this time seem to have a lot of backgrounds, of course, in an international metropolis like Los Angeles, anything that happens will be looked at as if it is under a magnifying glass, which may be why the police in Los Angeles are so cautious in dealing with these things.

Soon the first wave of clashes between the police and the reporters came, Jessica and I happened to be standing next to watch the excitement, I really didn't expect the reporters in Los Angeles to have such a strong energy, even in the face of the power of the police, there was no intention to back down, Jessica and I certainly did not want to leave the scene just like that, although the situation seemed to have developed in a direction that we could not predict.

Jessica and I could only quietly watch the situation unfold, and the most important thing was that we both came to the Los Angeles Museum with an important mission, and unlike most of the people around us who were in the mood to watch the excitement, if what happened in the museum really had something to do with the Sir Faustin and the manor we were investigating, then there must be a very big conspiracy behind it.

Although I am reluctant to make any pointless inferences without any evidence, the bad premonitions that I have had many times since last night may correspond to this incident.

The police and reporters are facing each other, and it is clear that this time the Los Angeles police must have received a direct order from their superiors to completely block the news on the scene, so their attitude is still very tough in the face of more and more reporters.

Jessica recognized the identities of some of the reporters who appeared on the scene, many of them were reporters from major international newspapers, and she didn't know where they got the news from, so they could come so early, and it seemed that there were a lot of big-name reporters and big-name media that came this time, it was hard to imagine that just the temporary closure of an inconspicuous local museum could attract so much attention.

Jessica and I also speculated that maybe there are some big secrets in the Los Angeles Museum, and behind all this, there are a pair of invisible eyes and black hands that are secretly planning all this.