Parcels of all sizes are piled up next to the fountain in the square, and members of the expedition team are doing their final checks.

After some small talk, Bai Ye had a deeper understanding of the five team members—why five? Because Senel, the man in the trench coat, is really a police officer.

After Senel received the news that the legendary explorer Rick Jones was going to explore the Pickman Mansion, he immediately sealed off the North Point District, and evacuated the people of the North Point District to other parts of Burton City...... In fact, they are all Senel's men.

As for the case of missing children, it is also true, but Anna is not the mother of the missing child Stephen.

"I'm the doctor of this expedition, and it's a pleasure to meet you."

This woman with deep nasolabial folds introduced herself like this, and her smile was very friendly.

And the others......

Sebastian was a gunslinger with a revolver stuck in his crotch to the left and right, and Rodman gossiped about Sebastian's stories about his family being ruined by fires, but I don't know if it's true or not.

Grylls is a veteran explorer, pathfinder, with a wealth of knowledge about survival in exploration, armed with a knife, and a typical foodie, with a habit of taking out some 'suspicious' food from the small bag he carries with him and eating it as a snack.

Rodman, on the other hand, is a trap expert and part-time thief, who acts as a deminer on the expedition team.

As for the 'little girl' Joey - Bai Ye didn't know her actual age, and it wasn't clear if she was still a little girl - because the age was on her childish face, as long as she was over 10 years old, it was possible to lie.

Joey has excellent speed and agility based on her thin size, but has a rather obvious weakness for relying on brute force, and her role in the squad is similar to that of Grylls, as a pathfinder.

The materials prepared by the expedition team were quite abundant, and Bai Ye was also assigned a huge backpack.

This is a 200-weight bag that can be stacked with the player's own bag, but cannot be taken out of the scene after the game ends.

Backpacks contain ropes, ignition items, canned food and other items, all of which are essential for adventure.

When everything was ready, Rick Jones led the team through the air wall leading to the outside in the North Point area and into a dark and dirty alley.

……

This small alley is not empty, there are many of Senel's men who are guarding it openly and secretly, all of them are fully armed, as if they are facing a great enemy.

Finally, the group stopped in front of an old house.

It was a two-story house, and it looked like it was no different from the surrounding houses, the exterior walls of the house were badly peeled, revealing large patches of mottled black, small square window panes were tattered, and the broken curtains flicked from time to time, looking like ghosts fluttering from a distance, and the old chimneys could be seen standing in the dim moonlight, like an isolated tombstone.

The door of the Pickman mansion was stamped with a police seal, and two officers wearing the same trench coat as Senel were guarded.

Senel stepped forward and ordered two of his men to open the door.

"Let the explorers in."

The two officers complied, and Grylls led the way into the house, followed by the rest of the team.

Bai Ye heard Senel say to Rick Jones, "Please." ”

He followed Joey into the Pickman mansion, and noticed that the front hall was cramped, the tables and chairs inside had fallen over and the wallpaper was falling off, and the road leading to the stairwell had been cleared, and the clutter had been swept to both sides of the road, and the air smelled of mold.

There were four hideous scratches on the walls, which looked like Wolverine's claw marks left after he had slammed into the wall out of control, and there were dried and coagulated blood stains on the ground, as well as some kind of gelatinous white sticky object.

The expedition team walked straight down the basement and into a gallery-like room with empty picture frames and easels attached to the walls.

"The owner, Pickman, is a painter, and his paintings here should have been taken away."

Moving on, the group stopped in front of an empty picture frame still on the wall.

"Only this frame is still hanging on the wall, is there some mechanism on it?"

Bai Ye was thinking like this, when he saw Rodman walk to the frame, take out the [Pickman's Original Works] from his backpack, smooth it, and then paste it into the frame.

When this step is complete, there is a click of gears behind the frame, revealing a hole the size of a fingernail underneath the frame.

Rodman pulled out the [Stephen's Eraser Badge] and embedded the badge into the hole.

Boom –

There was a short, muffled sound on the wall, and the entire wall slammed 90 degrees, turning from horizontal to vertical, revealing two doorways that could be passed sideways.

At the same time, Bai Ye also received a prompt from the system:

- You have completed the main quest [Investigate the North Point District] and received rewards: 20 points, 1000 reward points.

- You triggered the new main quest [Secrets of the Pickman Mansion]

……

"The points have increased a lot...... And the follow-up main line? ”

It is already foreseeable that when Bai Ye's game is completed, he will explode the chrysanthemums in the top ten in the standings again.

While following the others to the back of the doorway, Bai Ye checked the follow-up main quest.

【The Secret of the Pickman Mansion】

[Mission Description: After investigating the Pickman Mansion, you have found a strange dry well in the deepest part of the basement, and there is no other entrance or exit, it seems that ...... If you want to find out the truth, you have to go down to the dry well to find out. 】

[Objective: Investigate the dry well in the basement of the Pickman Mansion.] 】

When Bai Ye squeezed sideways into the doorway, with the help of the light of the torches, he noticed that it looked like a natural karst cave, with an area of nearly ten square meters, surrounded by strange rocks, with pointed stalagmites hanging on the top, and a strange dry well in the center of the cave.

This dry well is made of stones, the diameter of the wellhead is about 1.5 meters, looking down from the wellhead, the bottom is pitch black and unfathomable.

Rick Jones took the torch from Grylls and threw it down the well.

The torches fell all the way down the walls of the well, and finally fell on the stones at the bottom of the well, where they burned as if they were burning, proving that there was oxygen needed to burn below.

Judging from the time of the fall and the degree of visual vision, the height from the wellhead to the bottom of the well is about 20 meters.

Rick Jones bowed his head slightly and waved his hand.

"Let's go down."

The team members immediately moved and began to erect a simple lifting device at the wellhead.

Officer Senel, who sent the expedition team here, said goodbye to Rick Jones and returned to the surface alone, leaving the expedition underground to the expedition team.

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