Chapter 133: The Clue Emerges
When He Fei, Zhang Hu and Zhao Ping followed Earl Houghton to the door of a room in the corner of the second floor, He Fei and the three of them had already guessed that this should be the room of the old earl before his death.
"This is the room where my father lived when he was alive, and I locked it up since he died."
Then Earl Houghton took out the key, and with a click, the room, which had been closed for two years, finally appeared in the eyes of the crowd.
Sure enough, the first thing a few people saw after walking into the room was almost as many mirrors as there were on the walls, which was the same as He Fei's guess, but there was one thing that surprised He Fei and the others... Although there are more or less mirrors on the four walls of the room, the number of mirrors on the south wall is very small. It can't be said that there is also a single mirror standing on the south wall, but it is a large floor-to-ceiling mirror, which is even close to two meters high, and it is also the largest mirror that He Fei's reincarnation group has seen in the manor so far.
Since no one has been in the room for two years, the room is covered with a layer of floating ash on both the floor and the furniture, and the whole room is due to long-term air circulation, and there is a faint musty smell in the air, but these are not problems, the problem is... He Fei and the three of them used their eyes to scan the room almost from top to bottom, but they didn't see the portrait of the old earl.
"Your Excellency, you said this was the old earl's room, but why didn't you see his portrait?"
He Fei's question naturally reached the ears of Earl Houghton, but the Earl did not answer, but walked straight to a wall on the left side of the room in the next moment, that is, the largest mirror on the south side, and then he pushed the mirror aside in the puzzled eyes of everyone, and when the mirror was pushed away, an oil painting of a figure about one person tall appeared in everyone's sight.
I didn't expect the portrait of the old count to be hidden behind the mirror!
After the Earl of Houghton pushed the large mirror aside, he then stretched out his hand and pointed to the oil painting and said to He Fei and the others, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is my father Elzer, Linton, and the first owner of this Olivia manor, this painting was painted by the most famous painter in England when he first left the army. ”
Hearing the earl's introduction and confirmation, sure enough, this painting was the earl's father, so He Fei and the others did not hesitate to take a few steps closer to the painting and began to observe.
This is a typical European style oil painting of a human body, and it is also full of realism, so the content of the oil painting is also clear at a glance, the picture is a man wearing a standard English officer's uniform, the man's military uniform is full of medals of different sizes on his chest, and the appearance of this man is also somewhat similar to the Earl of Houghton next to them, and he also has a forked beard, the difference is that he is much older than the Earl of Houghton, and his beard is already a little gray.
Generally speaking, this is a very ordinary portrait of a noble officer, and there is nothing special about it, so that Zhang Hu and Zhao Ping next to He Fei both said that there was no difference after carefully looking at it, but He Fei still looked at this oil painting impatiently over and over again.
So this also made the Earl of Horton on the side feel a little strange, what is this person named He Feiqing looking at?
"Hey, there's nothing special about me looking at this painting, why don't you keep looking at it, brother?"
However, Zhang Hu's words obviously did not make He Fei make any intention to stop observing, so Zhang Hu looked at Zhao Ping again, as for Zhao Ping, after glancing at Zhang Hu, he walked directly in front of the earl and said apologetically, "Your Excellency the earl, can you let us stay here first, my companion doesn't seem to have finished observing this painting, if you have something, you can go and get busy first." ”
After hearing Zhao Ping's words, although the earl was a little puzzled, after all, he was invited to save the manor, so after a little thought, Earl Houghton nodded slightly and said, "Okay, then I'll go back, if you need anything, you can directly tell my butler Alpha or come directly to my room to find me." ”
"Yes, Your Excellency."
When the earl left the room completely, Zhao Ping immediately turned around and looked at He Fei again, but what made him a little different was that when he looked at He Fei again, He Fei had stopped observing the oil painting, but was sitting at the table in the room and seemed to be thinking about something, as for Zhang Hu, he spread his hands to Zhao Ping, saying that he didn't understand.
Zhao Ping walked in front of He Fei and sat down, but just as his ass was about to sit on the stool, He Fei on the side suddenly opened his mouth and said two words...
- "Escape. ”
"What? What did you say? ”
"I mean escape."
He Fei looked at Zhao Ping and Zhang Hu and repeated those two words again, and Zhao Ping on the other side asked a little puzzled, "What do you mean?" If you mean that we are going to leave this manor, it is impossible, the outside of the manor is sealed off by the fog, and after entering the fog, we will only return to the manor, and no one can leave here. ”
However, He Fei shook his head, then stretched out his finger and pointed to the oil painting on the opposite side and said, "Look at the lower left corner of the oil painting frame. ”
Hearing He Fei say this, Zhao Ping and Zhang Hu hurriedly walked back to the oil painting, and then their eyes looked at the place according to what He Fei said.
After careful observation, sure enough! The two found a very small line of English words in the lower left corner of the oil painting frame, the frame is made of poplar trees, the overall color is dark, and the small string of words and sentences is written with a black pen, so if you don't look very carefully, you can't see anything at all, as for the two English words spelled together, it is just two words escape!
I didn't expect that there were really clues, and Zhao Ping guessed in surprise... Although I don't know who left such a secret sentence in this painting, but the person who left the words and sentences is very clever in taking advantage of the loopholes in human thinking, because ordinary people want to find any clues in a painting, so according to human habitual thinking, the observation perspective must be focused on the picture itself of the oil painting, and who will observe the frame of a painting?
So when he saw the words, Zhang Hu immediately patted his head and couldn't help but praise, "I'll do it!" Who wrote it, it's so smart and can play! High, clever! ”
At the same time, it also proves that He Fei is a more careful person.
To get back to the point, when Zhang Hu and Zhao Ping also saw the small line of extremely inconspicuous words in the far corner of the frame, Zhao Ping turned his head back to He Fei and asked, "So what is the real meaning of this escape?" ”
He Fei frowned and shook his head, but he vaguely felt that this painting might really play a vital role in this supernatural mission.
...............
At this moment, Cheng Ying was lying on the bed in a certain room with his upper body naked, his waist was wrapped in a white bandage, there was a basin of red blood under the ground in front of the bed, and the cabinet next to the bed was also full of almost the best medicine in this era, after all, this is the earl's house, there can be no fake medicine or secondary medicine.
At his bedside, however, sat a man who had cleaned and medicated his wounds, as well as bandages he had wrapped around him.
This person is Zheng Xuan, but Zheng Xuan, who is sitting in front of Cheng Ying's bed at the moment, is looking at Cheng Ying who is lying on the bed with a smile, but Cheng Ying is blushing and lowering her head...
Looking at Cheng Ying, who deliberately blocked her chest with the quilt, the next moment, Zheng Xuan reached out and touched Cheng Ying's face and smiled, "Girl, I didn't expect you to lie to us for so long." ”
After hearing Zheng Xuan's words, Cheng Ying's already reddened face became even redder, and then she raised her head and said to Zheng Xuan, "Sister Zheng Xuan, you are so annoying, don't laugh at me!" ”
Hearing Cheng Ying say this, Zheng Xuan nodded, but then she pointed her finger at the strip of cloth on the bed and said, "The chest strap will have an impact on the development of your chest after a long time, I see that your breasts are not small, it's not good to tie this thing all day long." ”
"But Sister Zheng Xuan, you must know that I am a killer, with your cleverness, you should be able to guess the reason why I am pretending to be a man all day long, I can't help it."
Yes, of course Zheng Xuan guessed the reason, the assassination of a killer is a very high-tech job, although being a killer as a woman can better use the physical advantages of women to confuse men and achieve the effect of assassination, but the premise is that sometimes it is necessary to sell some hues, but in terms of Cheng Ying's character, he would never do that rather than die, and because of his... No... It's her appearance that is very beautiful, if she sneaks into a ball or an occasion with a large number of people in women's clothes to assassinate someone, then she is very beautiful in women's clothes and is very easy to attract the attention of some people, so Cheng Ying finally chose to dress herself as a man, coupled with his neutral appearance, how to look at it when he wears a chest belt and wears men's clothes, he is a young man who has just become an adult, and over time Cheng Ying is used to it, and she is also used to living as a man, so this is why Cheng Ying always pretends to be a man.
Thinking of this, Zheng Xuan nodded again, but then, Cheng Ying said to Zheng Xuan on the bed, "By the way, you can keep the password for me?" ”
Zheng Xuan was slightly stunned after hearing this, and then asked, "Do you still want to continue like this?" ”
Cheng Ying nodded and replied, "Yes, I don't want others to know my real gender, I get along well with He Fei and Zhang Hu, I don't want to be estranged from them because of gender, let alone want..."
However, speaking of this, Cheng Ying's expression became a little lost, and she didn't say the rest of the words, but after being silent for a while... Zheng Xuan, who had been watching her next to her, continued: "I don't want to let them let you go everywhere from now on because I learned that you are a girl, right?" ”
"Well, that's not interesting, I've always treated them as buddies, and I don't want to create a gap with them because I'm a girl."
Cheng Ying's words were exchanged for another smile from Zheng Xuan, Zheng Xuan nodded seriously at Cheng Ying and said, "Okay, I promise you!" ”
Although Cheng Ying had already said the reason for letting Zheng Xuan keep it secret for her, and Zheng Xuan agreed, Zheng Xuan faintly felt... Cheng Ying also seems to have hidden a reason that she may not want to tell anyone.
"It's already dark, you have a good rest, I'll go pour the water first, I'll come to accompany you later, in addition, He Fei and they have already begun to investigate the matter of the old earl, I believe that He Fei's wisdom will definitely be able to solve this matter, we just need to protect ourselves now."
However, just as Zheng Xuan was about to leave with the water, Cheng Ying, who was lying on the bed, jumped up from the bed in the next moment! Then he grabbed Zheng Xuan's arm regardless of the pain of the wound, and with a bang, the basin fell to the ground, and the blood in it also spilled all over the ground!
Just before Zheng Xuan could react, the next moment, Cheng Ying, who had just grabbed Zheng Xuan's arm, immediately pulled Zheng Xuan out of the door as fast as she could!!
Cheng Ying, who was barefoot, dragged Zheng Xuan to the staircase on the third floor and stopped carefully, and then Cheng Ying turned her head to look at the door where the two ran out before, and after making sure that there was nothing abnormal, Cheng Ying exhaled deeply.
Of course, with Zheng Xuan's wisdom, she naturally knew what it was just now, so when she looked at Cheng Ying, Cheng Ying nodded and said, "Just when you squatted down to carry the basin, I noticed that a phantom in the shape of a skeleton gradually appeared in the mirror on the wall behind you, and that phantom was gradually transforming from blur to clear!" ”
Originally... Just now, the skeleton ghost actually wanted to attack them!!
If it weren't for Cheng Ying's keen eyes and forcibly dragging the skeleton ghost out of the mirror before she could escape the room, once the skeleton ghost came out of the mirror... Then the two of them will surely die!
Although I was scared for a while, but in the next second... Zheng Xuan stared at Cheng Ying at this moment...
Since Cheng Ying was lying in bed before, she didn't wear anything on her body except for a pair of shorts... And after feeling Zheng Xuan's gaze, Cheng Ying, who is currently in a state of open chest and exposed breasts, only discovered her current situation at this time!
"Ahh
The next moment, Cheng Ying's face turned red in an instant! And hurriedly stretched out his arms to cover his chest!
No, Cheng Sakura is not that kind of pretentious female voice after all, and fortunately, there is no one in the corridor on the third floor except for her and Zheng Xuan, otherwise the scene of her walking away will definitely be a big news, but fortunately, no one sees it, because if a man sees it... With Cheng Ying's character, it is estimated that her eyeballs will be gouged out at the least, and her life will be at worst!
Then Zheng Xuan hurriedly took off his coat and draped it on Cheng Ying's body, and then pulled her towards his room.
To be continued...