188: Skeleton

"The owner of this castle is really emotional, and he actually makes wine."

Eric seemed interested in the barrels of wine, "It would have been a great pleasure to have at least ten years of wine in the castle without that damn ghost." ”

Vera doesn't have Eric's leisure, she's not cold to alcohol, and only clues can hook her nerves.

They walked around the barrels that lay near the staircase and headed inside.

Augs, who was in the head, stopped without saying hello, and several people behind him were unprepared and almost bumped into each other.

"Augs, what the hell are you doing?!" Eric immediately cursed.

Vera also tugged at the hem of Raogs' T-shirt and asked, "What's wrong with you, Aug-"

As she spoke, she took a small step forward, and when she saw the place where the flashlight was shining, her mouth suddenly disappeared, and the hand that pulled the corner of her clothes tightened.

Ma Hao and Eric could also see that something was wrong at this time.

Eric pushed the people in front of him directly and looked at the situation in front of him. When he saw what was inside, he reacted more than Augus and Vera, and his body shook and he almost cried out.

On the inside of several oak barrels, there is a dry bone.

The dry skeleton was covered with a pink and white lace skirt covered in dust and cobwebs, giving the whole dress an old, dirty texture.

The two hollow eye sockets on the skull are facing the direction of several people, and it will indeed make people scream in fear when they see such a scene.

When Ma Hao was punishing the world, he had also seen the skeletons of dead people, and he was not so afraid at this time.

On the contrary, it was the clothes on the skeleton that attracted her attention even more.

This lace style is so distinct that it's hard to remember.

"It's the same style as in the master bedroom." Ma Hao said, "This skeleton is probably the mistress of the ancient castle. ”

The initial shock passed, and the other three also came to their senses.

"Mistress ......" Vera chewed on the hemp guess and got up to check on the skeleton.

Ma Hao followed her a few steps forward, and without looking too closely, he saw the unusual color of the skeleton.

White bones and white bones, under normal circumstances, the bones of a person after death are white, but the bones of this skeleton show signs of blackening.

Thanks to the blessings of various costume TV series, even Ma has a good rookie who knows that the blackening of the bones is a manifestation of poisoning.

"She was poisoned?" Eric asked.

Well, it seems that this is a common sense/knowledge that everyone knows, and Eric can answer it.

Vera nodded: "There is a high possibility of being poisoned." But ......"

But why did she die in the basement?

Was he tied up in the basement and forcibly fed poison to death?

Vera didn't dare to touch the bones of the corpse easily, and who knew if the toxins left on it would kill them by touching.

She searched around the bones, but found no rope or anything else to tie them up, but something that shouldn't have been in the basement struck her as weird.

A baby bouncer.

Several broken bowls.

A broken doll.

“……”

Vera picks up the doll that has fallen to the ground.

It was already broken, one eye was nowhere to be seen, and the other would only turn with the angle of the shake. Vera touched it, and the doll moved, making intermittent sounds from its body.

“Ma…… Mama…… M……”

The sound is strange, probably the battery placed inside is dead, so there is a strange feeling that it is blocked by the current.

A basement with wine, cribs and dolls.

The latter two things can be explained together, but they can't be put together with wine.

The castle has an attic, a special utility room and a storehouse, which shows that the owner or servant of the house is very concerned about the classification of things.

If the basement is a wine cellar, why are cribs and toys appearing? If it's a storage room, why is there wine?

While Vera was thinking, Eric also came to the side of the hostess's bones and kicked on the blackened skeleton as if venting: "Make you scary, make you scary!" If you have the ability, you are so scary! ”

Ma Hao hurriedly asked Augs to stop him, Eric went crazy, why didn't he even let go of the dead?

Vera was also startled by Eric's commotion, and shouted at him, "Eric, what are you doing here?!" Have you forgotten the ghost in the house?! ”

Eric's biggest fear now is the ghost, and Vera's words wake him up from his anger and immediately retract his feet.

"Eric, please control your temper!"

Vera said, "It's you who keep saying that there are ghosts in the house, and you have a little awe of dead souls. Aren't you afraid that the owner of this bone is the ghost? ”

"No...... No......" Eric shuddered at her, apparently acting without his brain, leaving only fear and regret after acting impulsively.

Vera didn't want to comfort a thug, and if Eric really offended the ghost because of this, he did it himself.

Her eyes glanced at the skeleton that had been kicked over by Eric, swept under the bone skirt, frowned, and asked, "What is that?" ”

Ma Haohao also saw something under the skull skirt, because of Eric's atrocity, a silver-black edge peeked out from the pink skirt corner, shining in the light.

Is it a silver jewelry box?

Eric didn't dare touch the skeleton anymore, his lips trembling and muttering something to himself. Augus bent down and took what appeared to be a jewelry box out from under her skirt.

Ma Hao and Vera saw the whole picture of the "jewelry box" clearly.

Only part of the handle was revealed, and the jewelry box was actually a sharp short knife......

Augs was particularly uncomfortable holding the short knife in his hand.

The dagger resembles a lady's dagger, with delicate carvings on the hilt and several red gems encrusted with them. The blades were covered with dried blood, and the erosion of time had made the bright red blood black and dirty.

Augs and the others glanced at each other, and they all thought of the news clipping.

- Mr. Andri, the owner of the castle, was stabbed more than 40 times in a row and died in the corridor on the second floor.

The murder weapon that stabbed the man to death couldn't be this dagger, right?

Thinking of that news, Vera felt that something was wrong, "Who can remember that report clearly?" I remember that it was written that the hostess died in the room and was stabbed in the chest. ”

"If the report is correct, then whose body is this body dressed in the clothes of the hostess?"

Ma Hao was reminded by her and remembered, "Indeed, the hostess above was stabbed to death by a knife in the chest, and their daughter was poisoned." ”

"The body of the adult should have been taken away by the police, and the body of the little master was thrown in the basement."

Vera analyzed, "Could it be that this is why she became a ghost in the castle?" ”