Chapter 58: Secrets on the Shelf
In the dead of night, the door of Dahl's room slowly opened a small slit, and a faint light shot out from inside. A few seconds later, a black shadow sneaked out of it with a lit candle in his hand.
"I'm really convinced of you, why can you make a sense of being a thief even though it's in my own home."
"Can you stop arguing for now! I can't even hear the movement around me, and it will be a problem to catch someone later. ”
"Isn't it my parents who want to catch it...... Hey, be careful, there's a stool in front of you! ”
As soon as Dahl finished reminding, Ling Tianmao kicked on the stool, he was so frightened that he hurriedly stood in place and listened carefully, fortunately, the room was as quiet as just now, it seemed that Dahl's parents were not awakened by the noise just now.
After Ling Tianmao came to Dahl's house, he explained the situation to Dahl's father, and Dahl's father hurriedly told him not to worry about these things, and asked him to stay here first and figure out the situation outside.
Back in Dahl's previous room, Ling Tianmao couldn't sleep. One is that he doesn't know if those guys will chase after him again; Besides, there is a lot of information he got tonight, and he needs to digest it carefully.
After waiting for the second half of the night in fear, those guys didn't come to the door, Ling Tianmao's heart finally relaxed a little, it seemed that the other party was really as they said, and didn't want to attract too much attention outside the hotel.
Everything else he's heard has to think about it.
From their conversation, it seems that the purpose of the gang is related to the war between Ionia and Noxus, and Noxus is now supposed to be close to the vicinity of Ionia's holy place of Precidian, and the two sides seem to have set the upcoming decisive battle in this place.
Another piece of information was that one of the elemental cores he was looking for was currently rumored to be in Presidium, which made it worth considering whether to continue his journey to Freljord as originally planned, or to return to Presidium in a temporary change of direction. It seemed that it was more likely that Precidian had one of the elemental cores, and that it would be much more difficult for him to get it back when it fell into the hands of Roxus.
The final question, of course, is what exactly is hidden in Dahl's house. This is the root cause of the recent turmoil in Bandle City.
He and Dahl discussed this issue for a long time, but judging from Dahl's memory, there was nothing special about his family, he lived with his parents and grandfather since he was a child, and later had a younger sister. A year before he left, his grandfather had died, but he really couldn't think of anything wrong with him.
It was fruitless to think about it all the time, so Ling Tianmao first carefully inspected Dahl's room, and found no suspicious clues inside. So, he set his sights on the living room again.
The living room of Dahl's house was not large, and Ling Tianmao quickly illuminated the surroundings with a candle, and finally, he stopped in front of a huge bookshelf.
"How did you get this bookshelf?"
"I had it when I was born." Dahl seems to have become accustomed to it.
"Bookshelves don't usually appear in the living room." Ling Tianmao said while stroking the covers of the books on the shelves.
"That's true, but I've never seen anyone put their bookshelves in the living room. However, we didn't use this bookshelf much before, and I have the impression that my grandfather saw it a lot, and he basically didn't touch it much after he died. ”
"That's even weirder." Ling Tianmao looked at the thick dust on his hands, in fact, as soon as he heard Dahl finish speaking, he had a little doubt about Dahl's grandfather.
Dahl's father has already told him that the family has been living in this house, that is, it has been passed down from the ancestors, so the probability that there is a problem with the house itself is very small, that is, if there is really something hidden in this house, it must have something to do with Dahl's family.
His father had been in contact with him since he was a child, and there was no reason why he wouldn't know why. Then the problem is more likely to be with the members of the family before his father, and it is possible that someone for some reason decided not to tell this secret to his children and grandchildren, which caused a disconnect in the information.
Dahl had just told himself that no one had used the bookshelf since his grandfather died, which aroused his suspicions. And this bookshelf itself has big problems, the first is that it should not appear in the living room; Another problem was that the top layer of this bookshelf was about the same height as the top of his head, which was very unusual in Bandle City, the cabinets or shelves that Ling Tianmao saw here could basically only reach his chest, and this bookshelf was too high for the yodelers, basically reaching the ceiling of Dahl's house.
His first instinct, of course, was that there was something hidden behind the shelves, so he carefully removed all the books from the shelves. Seeing the empty wall behind him, Ling Tianmao was slightly disappointed.
But he had a little trouble putting the books back on the shelves, they were out of order when he took them off, and now he didn't know what order to put them back in.
"Don't bother, it's all my stuff anyway, you can put it wherever you want, it doesn't matter if you take a few copies, no one will look at it now anyway, hurry up and set it up and we'll look elsewhere." Seeing Ling Tianmao's hesitant look, Dahl couldn't help but urge him.
Ling Tianmao was so annoyed by Dahl's quarrel that he had to stop caring about the order of the original books and put the books on the shelves according to his own arrangement, his family shouldn't have noticed it anyway.
However, Ling Tianmao originally had a mild obsessive-compulsive disorder, and when he placed the books, he still deliberately arranged them according to the size of the books, and when he put the last book back on the shelf, he heard a "creaking" sound coming from the position behind him.
Turning around, a piece of the floor in the living room actually slowly opened upwards, and a dark hole appeared in front of Ling Tianmao.
"Goo", Ling Tianmao swallowed, "I think they should be looking for this thing......"
"Then why don't you hurry down and have a look." Seeing such a secret passage in his own home, Dahl was much more excited than Ling Tianmao.
"You can't have any beasts or anything like that......
"Would you keep a beast in your own home? And we didn't know for so many years that there was such a place where you would starve to death if you raised anything. ”
Ling Tianmao thought about it for a while, and felt that it was the same, so he raised the candle in his hand and walked towards the entrance of the tunnel.