Chapter 192: Treasure Exploration of the Ancient House
Then several people came into the hallway.
"This door is locked, what's inside?" Momoko tries to open a closed door and finds it won't open.
"It's my father's library, maybe the password to the safe is in it." Laura explained to Peach.
"Do you rely on this treasure map?" Chen Fan walked up with a road map, and some carved marks could be seen on the spread out paper.
"This is the map I drew when I first played an adventure game with my father as a child, and it shows the route from the servant's passage to the library, where did you find it?" Laura looked at the road map in front of her with a look of surprise.
"I don't know who put it there at random." Chen Fan pointed to the box of miscellaneous items in the corner of the wall and said.
"Okay, now that we have a roadmap, let's start the 'adventure' game." Elise took the road map and shouted excitedly.
Ignoring the mentally handicapped little girl, Chen Fan turned his head and asked, "Since it is your own home, the route should be very familiar." ”
"That's nature, come with me." Laura said confidently, then pushed open a door on the side and walked in.
The corridor was very dark, and several people turned on their flashlights and walked down the stairs.
The interior of the manor is very old, and a few people will step on the floor from time to time when they walk.
"This house is so old that I should consider letting my uncle take over the management." Laura, looking at the big rats that popped out of the darkness from time to time, sighed.
Then they came to an underground corridor that resembled a wine cellar, and the eerie atmosphere frightened Elise into huddling beside them.
"Hey, you're also the goddess of life, what the hell is this afraid of the dark? It's a bit of a god's momentum, right? Looking at the timid Elise, Chen Fan couldn't help but complain.
"What? Goddesses can't be afraid of the dark? You don't look at how eerie it is, either. Chen Fan dispelled a little of the fear in her heart, and Elise expressed her dissatisfaction with Chen Fan with a coquettish face.
"It's a bit eerie here, and I was really scared when I first came here as a kid." Laura calmed the frightened Elise and said to the others.
After passing through the corridor, several people came to a sewage passage in the basement.
"When I was a kid, I called this the Basement of Despair. At first, my father encouraged me that this was the only way to get into the library. Looking at the scene around her, Laura was full of emotion.
"I can't believe that your father was nurturing your hobby at such a young age. When I was a child, I was not as lucky as you, my parents let me learn those I didn't like to play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting when I was a child, hoping that I would become a celebrity when I grew up. Listening to Laura's story, Peaches was full of unhappiness.
Chen Fan, who was walking at the end, heard this, and looked at the two girls with contempt on his face, "I'm afraid you don't know what Xia Guo-style education is, and you peach, haven't you grown up and gone out of the way to run the kind of birds in Africa where birds don't." ”
"Hmph, if I hadn't gone to Africa, you wouldn't have met me." Peach turned her head and looked at Chen Fan coquettishly.
"yes, if I hadn't thought about going on an adventure, I wouldn't have met you, I guess it's all fate." Laura looked at herself inexplicably and sighed.
Listening to the sighs of a few people, what can Chen Fan do? I can't say that this is some kind of fateful arrangement, isn't it all the ghost of the system.
"Don't say it, it's too dirty in here, let's get out of here quickly." On the side, Elise saw that she couldn't interject, and hurriedly urged a few people to leave quickly.
"It's true that this place has been unmaintained all year round, and it is very dilapidated after being soaked in rain and leaking, so let's hurry up." Hearing Elise's displeasure, Laura smiled and pulled her forward.
Later, several people, led by Laura, finally reached the library after passing through a closed door.
As soon as I entered the door, a musty smell instantly hit my nose, and the full of damp smell filled the entire library.
"Let's look around for any clues." Laura said to the men who were covering their noses.
The group then split up and began to search, eventually finding a hidden compartment under a table, in which they were given a bunch of keys.
Through Laura's account, it is known that this set of keys can open most of the doors of the manor.
Later, Laura discovers that the password to the safe may be related to her mother, so everyone plans to go to the west wing where Laura's mother lived back then.
"When I was a child, my father never allowed me to come to the West Wing." Walking down the corridor to the West Wing, Laura explained to a few people.
"Why? Isn't this your home? Momoko asked curiously.
Hearing this, Laura shook her head, "I don't know, although this is my home, I don't know a lot of places. ”
As she spoke, Laura inserted the key into the lock of the door leading to the West Wing.
Twisting the key and pushing the door in, several people were immediately stunned by the scene in front of them.
"Damn, Laura, are you sure this is your house and not some abandoned haunted house?"
Looking at the room in front of him that had been covered with vegetation, Chen Fan said dumbfounded.
"Damn, it's worse than I thought it would be, I didn't expect it to be like this in just a few years." Laura looked at the dilapidated picture in front of her with a look of chagrin.
"My God, I guess even if you inherit the manor, it will cost a huge amount of money to repair and maintain it, do you have that much money?" Chen Fan looked at Laura in front of him amusedly.
"Hmph, I don't have any money, but will you just look at it?" Laura rolled her eyes at Chen Fan coquettishly.
Chen Fan, who was slightly distracted by the charm of the woman in front of him in an instant, suddenly said: "No, no, what is this little money, I will pay for all the expenses at that time." ”
"That's pretty much it." Seeing Chen Fan patting his chest and assuring him, Laura couldn't help but turn her anger into joy.
Later, after several people rummaged through the cabinets, they finally unlocked the password of the safe.
It was really an unexpected surprise for Elise, she had had enough of this gloomy place, and if it weren't for Laura's pull, she would have gotten into her body and hid herself.
"Quick, let's go open the safe." Elise looked like she couldn't wait to open the safe.
Looking at Elise, who was obviously scared to death and wanted to leave here, but insisted on pretending to be very interested in the contents of the safe, several people couldn't help but laugh wildly in their hearts.
However, I was afraid that I would make Elise angry after a few people laughed, so I endured it very hard.
Eventually, with Elise's tugging, the group quickly returned to the room where the safe was located.
After looking at the sunlight that came in, Elise couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in her heart, thinking that she was pretending to be good and not being discovered by everyone, but she didn't know that she looked like a quail just now and was under the eyes of the three of them.
With the password obtained, Laura was able to open the safe very smoothly.
The first thing that catches the eye is a palm print on the plaster.
Laura picked up this mudra with a happy face, "I didn't expect my father to keep it until now, this is what my father made for souvenirs when I was a child." ”
Handing the mud seal to Chen Fan, Laura continued to rummage through the contents of the safe.
Chen Fan took the clay print with Laura's small handprint and quietly collected it into the space as a collection.
The contents of the safe were all Laura's father's own research manuscripts and the like, and there was no will at all.
"Damn, neither, I'm pretty sure there will be a will here." Laura, who rummaged to no avail, said angrily.
Picking up a blank piece of paper casually, Chen Fan said thoughtfully: "What is this blank paper?" It stands to reason that the safe is full of valuables, so why put a blank piece of paper? ”
"Wait, this must be something that my father Liu gave me, it must be very important, and it may have something to do with the will." Laura looked at the white paper in Chen Fan's hand as if she suddenly thought of something, and then grabbed it and began to look at it.
Holding the white paper, Laura looked at it, muttering to herself, "What the hell is it?" Damn, I can't remember it for a while. ”
This is the peach on the side interjected, "Could it be that there is something hidden on this paper?" Didn't there be a lot of this kind of letter in the ancient Xia Kingdom, and it would appear as long as it was roasted with some special potion or fire? ”
After hearing Peach's words, Laura suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said with surprise on her face: "Ah! I see, thank you so much Momoko!!"
Stunned, touching Laura's saliva-stained forehead, Momoko watched Laura run in the direction of the library.
After rummaging through the cabinets, Laura finally finds a bottle containing an unknown liquid, and she pours the contents of the bottle on top of the white paper.
"Huh? There's nothing on it! Elise looked at the blank white paper, her face full of confusion.
Looking at the puzzled Elise, Laura smiled and said, "Of course it's not that simple, Chen Fan, help dry this piece of paper over the fire." ”
"I'm afraid I'm not the tool man in your treasure hunt." Although Chen Fan complained on his lips, his hand took the blank paper very faithfully.
After a snap of his fingers, a burning flame ignited on Chen Fan's fingers, and with the wet white paper, Chen Fan began to roast.
"Look at it, there are pictures on the paper." Looking at the paper that had been baked by Chen Fan, Elise said with excitement on her face.
Holding a piece of paper that seemed insignificant to others, Laura was surprised by the pictographic numbers her father had taught her when she was a child.
Next, Chen Fan and the three of them followed Laura to the basement corridor again.
With Laura's manipulation, the password was pressed to open the door to a secret room, and finally the four of them entered a hidden underground research room.
"I can't believe that your father, like other researchers, has built a hidden laboratory for himself." Looking at the messy research room, Chen Fan remembered that the cutting-edge laboratories he would establish when he established Zhutian Technology were hidden in some unknown places.
"This may be a common problem for some researchers." Laura said thoughtfully.
After that, several people called again, but still did not find the so-called will.
The few people who were busy working and didn't find anything couldn't help but be a little discouraged.
"Laura, could it be that your father really didn't leave any will?" Momoko asked Laura dejectedly.
Laura, who was slightly distracted, muttered to herself: "Impossible, there must be something we missed." ”
Laura then looked around the lab.
Suddenly, she was drawn to something, the crest of their Crawford family.
"yes, I see." Without saying anything, Laura took off the family crest hanging on the wall and walked towards the hall.
After following the unknown people to the location of the hall on the first floor, they saw Laura put the family emblem in the center of the hall, and then began to follow the clues to find it.
Eventually, she set her sights on the T-shaped staircase facing the main door.
I saw her quickly climb up to the center of the T-shaped stairs and call to Chen Fan: "Chen Fan, help me break this wall." ”
Chen Fan, the tool man, very honestly began to dismantle the house, and it didn't take long to break the wall.
What followed was a passage into the depths of the earth.
"This should be the ancestral tomb of our Crawford family." Walking through the passage, Laura looked at the surrounding scene and analyzed.
As soon as they walked down, they finally came to the main hall of the tomb, and looking at the sarcophagus placed in the hall, Laura suddenly seemed to realize something.
Walking slowly to the sarcophagus, Laura gently picked up a letter placed on it and read it.
Eventually, looking at Laura's emotions, she couldn't control her emotions and began to cry bitterly.
Sensing the letter slightly, Chen Fan immediately knew that this was the letter left by Laura's mother, so the situation here was self-evident.
Glancing at Peach, Chen Fan told her about the perceptual connection.
After getting the hint, Momoko changed her previous hurry and stepped forward to comfort Laura.
With Momoko's comfort, eventually Laura falls asleep before she knows it.
After motioning for Peach to take Laura back to rest, Chen Fan very smoothly obtained the will left to her by Laura's father from the tomb and sealed the tomb where Laura was buried.