Chapter 369: The Ghost Puppet Case 28
The two stared at the knives for a moment, and felt that they couldn't find out why these things were true.
The kitchen is roughly rectangular in shape, and when you enter, you will be greeted by a wall full of knives next to the door.
Directly facing the wall is a long cutting board, which doubles as a workbench with cutting boards and a washbasin next to them.
On either side of the worktop, perpendicular to the wall, are two floor-to-ceiling windows filled with cabinets.
Qiao Jinyuan and Jin Yi rummaged through the cabinets one after another.
The cabinets were filled with ordinary kitchen items, and no suspicious items were found.
There are several abstract paintings hanging on the wall facing the knives.
Jin Yi stared at these portraits for a long time.
I think it's a little strange, but I can't tell what's strange.
Next to the portrait is a narrow door, behind which is a storage room.
The storage room was unusually cold, and some of the ingredients that were often used in the local area were stored.
After inspecting the storage room, Jin Yi and Qiao Jinyuan were a little reluctant, after all, there was nothing to gain in this room.
At this time, Jin Yi thought of the oil painting hanging on the wall again.
"Bridge, come and look at these paintings.
Do you find anything weird? ”
"Except that it's ugly, it's ugly." Qiao Jinyuan said with his chin dragged.
"Do you think there is some mechanism hidden behind the painting?"
Jin Yi said, cocking his feet and picking off the first painting.
After the first painting was removed, there were no clues other than the long-lasting traces of the wall.
Immediately afterward, the two took off the second painting.
The back of the second painting was still empty, and Jin Yi felt a little annoyed and lost, and even wanted to give up looking at the back of the third painting.
Qiao Jinyuan slowly leaned down from the high chair.
"This is the last one, and I don't believe there's anything behind it."
After Qiao Jinyuan took off the painting, the eyes of the two were attracted by the iron cabinet on the wall.
"Is it locked?"
Jin Yi raised his head and asked.
Qiao Jinyuan picked at the crack in the door of the cabinet and said, "It should be locked, and it can't be opened." ”
Hearing his words, Jin Yi took out the keychain, which contained various small tools in the keychain provided by the Secret Case Bureau.
Qiao Jinyuan fiddled with the keyhole for a moment, and opened the rusty iron door.
Inside the cabinet behind the tin door is a nesting doll.
"What's the situation, just put a doll?"
Suddenly, both of them had a feeling of being teased.
Qiao Jinyuan was a little deflated and climbed down the ladder with the doll.
"It's clear that someone might check this place and play tricks on us."
Qiao Jinyuan said that, and angrily put the doll on the table next to him.
The two of them stood leaning against the table, looking at everything in the kitchen depressedly, hoping to find some clues in what they had seen.
Suddenly, as if she remembered something, Jin Yi picked up the doll that was put aside by Qiao Jinyuan.
"Oh, forgot to check, here's it."
After opening the nesting dolls layer by layer, the smallest one in the middle is a small doll.
Although the little doll looks no different from the usual nesting doll, it has a lot of edges and corners on its body.
Jin Yi looked at the little doll for a long time, and felt that it seemed to be able to insert into some hole.
"Bridge, look around this house with me and see where we can put this little doll in." ninth
The two searched the room, checking all the holes in the walls and cabinets.
The two of them do not let go of any corner of the house, and they will touch the invisible places with their hands.
When Jin Yi searched the sink of the console, he found a hole in the stone underneath it.
Jin Yi took the little doll and tried to press it into the hole.
When Jin Yi stuffed the little doll into the hole, there was no reaction in the room.
At this point, she felt that something was missing, so she searched the bottom of the little doll with her fingers and found that it could be gently moved.
Jin Yi tried to press the little doll, and then a rumbling sound sounded.
Qiao Jinyuan and Jin Yi glanced at each other and smiled with joy.
After Jin Yi pressed the mechanism, a gap opened under the console.
"Sister Jin, the door is here, there is a passage to the basement."
Jin Yi followed behind Qiao Jinyuan, and the two entered the basement from the passage under the operating table.
"It's so dark here, let's see if we can find the light switch." Jin Yi said, and the two turned on the flashlight and looked for the switch indoors.
It was supposed to be a wine cellar filled with all kinds of wooden barrels.
"The smell is quite special, it's just how this room looks, how it feels weird." Qiao Jinyuan stood between the rows of barrels and searched.
"It looks like it's quite big inside, I don't know if I can find something." Jin Yi turned on a flashlight and shone it on the wine barrel in the distance.
The barrels are placed on the shelves, and looking into the depths of the cellar, it is pitch black. There were vague black shadows all around, and Jin Yi and Qiao Jinyuan couldn't help but feel a little terrifying.
"I'll give Team Yang a call and ask them to come and see together." Qiao Jinyuan said, walking in the direction of the door.
"No one answered the phone, I guess I'm busy, I'll see it later! Let's check first. ”
Qiao Jinyuan hung up the phone and walked to Jin Yi's side.
"In a place like this, there should be bottled wine, so why don't you see it? Or even if it is stored in wooden barrels, there should be tools for making sake.
Is this just a place to store, not to drink? ”
Jin Yi looked up at the wine cellar and felt a little surprised.
"Besides, don't many people here like to drink spirits? I don't know much about wine, so don't I think wooden barrels are used to store red wine? ”
Qiao Jinyuan shone a flashlight on a wine barrel, which was stained with wine, which made him feel a little weird.
"I don't know much about alcohol, I don't know. The key is to put it in this kind of place, which should be a bar of high value.
If this is only for wine, then do we really have a clue here? It's clear that all the testimony points to Duncan.
Could it be ......"
"Could it be that he moved everything away in advance?" Qiao Jinyuan looked at Jin Yi.
"Who leaked our news?"
"Yesterday after we came here, Duncan may have been suspicious. Otherwise, his lawyer would not be so unrelenting to us. ”
"That's what I'm saying, his lawyer is a tough one." Jin Yi pursed her lips.
"Bridge, it's too big here, let's divide the labor, you go over there, I'll go over there."
"Okay, no problem." Qiao Jinyuan and Jin Yi hit it off.
The two went separately to find clues, and the direction Jin Yi came from was always pitch black because there was no light.
Looking into the depths, there were no fingers in the pitch black, and there were only rows of black shadows in the distance.
Jin Yi didn't know how many rows of wine cabinets she checked, but there was still no clue, and when she walked to a row of empty shelves, she heard the sound of rustling.
Could it be that there are rats here? No, in such a high-sealing storage room, if there are rats, wouldn't it be a big loss to suck the barrel?
Jin Yi stopped, looking for the source of the sound.
At this moment, the light of her flashlight fell on a nearby wine grid, which was filled with bottles of red wine.
The flashlight projected the red liquid in the bottle to the side, and Jin Yi looked at the ray of light and felt that something was wrong.
She walked over and picked up the bottle, which was dark red with a lot of sediment at the bottom.