Na quickly put on a pair of loafers, took off the steel sword hanging on the wall, and put a few more bottles of magic in the ring just in case, then opened the floor-to-ceiling window that opened to the terrace and rushed out.

On the terrace of the next room, a figure dressed in white stood quietly, tall, thin, with dry black hair curled like grass behind him, looking at the back, it seemed to be a woman. "She" turned her back to Minna, and a faint green mist drifted around her body, which looked particularly strange under the moonlight.

But Minna wasn't frightened, she just frowned and asked, "Who are you?!" What's the purpose of pretending to be a ghost in my house?! ”

The "woman" didn't answer, but turned her head slightly, and behind the messy black hair, she revealed half a gray face, with deep eye sockets, white eyes, a yin smile, two fangs more than an inch long appeared from her dry lips, and a blood mark flowed from the corner of her mouth. She slowly raised her hand, her fingers spread out, skinny like the claws of an animal, and the edges of her jet-black nails, nearly ten centimeters long, shone with a dark light. She said in a hoarse voice, "I... Want... Eat... Finish... As soon as the words fell, he screamed miserably, and was hit in the head by the flower pot thrown by Minna, bleeding red blood. She fell backwards, as if she had knocked something off, and made a loud "clang" that was especially loud in the middle of the night.

Minna sneered: "It's a good look, where did you get the dentures?" It's inconvenient to carry fake nails, right? The blood stains are quite realistic, and the seze and condensation are very good, but how can a ghost be hit by a real thing? If it's a vampire, it won't be red blood. You and I are a three-year-old, and the preparation is too rough! ”

The "woman" sweated profusely, got up in a panic and ran into the room. Minna quickly turned around and rushed out of the door, just saw the "woman" disappear at the corner of the staircase, hurriedly chased up, ran to the second floor, saw that the other party was about to run out of her sight, simply did not walk, jumped down directly from the staircase fence, just smashed on the "woman", the other party let out a pig-like scream, the rough voice heard Minna stunned, it turned out that the fake female ghost was a man.

The man pretending to be a ghost struggled desperately to escape, Minna grabbed his wrists and twisted them behind his back and pressed them, stabbed him in the ear with a sword, and said fiercely: "Be obedient, or I will cut your throat!" ”

The man gasped, his eyes fixed on the sharp blade, swallowed his saliva, and was honest.

Minna nodded in satisfaction, pressed the blade close to the man's skin, and said slowly, "Say, what is your purpose?" The 'ghost' who has been scaring away previous homeowners, isn't it?! ”

The man's eyes rolled wildly, but he refused to speak, Minna shook the sword lightly, leaving a shallow blood mark on his neck, feeling the man's suddenly tense body, she knew that the other party was scared, so she said: "You pretend to be a ghost so much, it can be seen that you are not stupid, you should know what is the right thing to do, right?" Seeing that the man still didn't speak, he simply pulled out his sword and inserted it vigorously, cutting a hole in his ear, the man only felt a cold in his ear, followed by a spicy pain, fear enveloped his heart, he couldn't help but tremble, and a stench emanated from him.

I knew that this homeowner was so terrible, he would never have snatched this task!

"Tsk!" Minna jumped away as soon as she smelled it. Just didn't relax the grip on his wrists. She was a little disappointed. This "ghost" is so useless. I'm scared to be like this. It's boring. Let's hand it over to the security team after dawn.

But soon she sensed a contradiction. The man pretended to be a ghost. And not just because of the horrible appearance. More importantly. He'll float around outside the window. It's like a real ghost. But just now he had escaped down the stairs. What happened to the "floating" before? He seemed to have knocked something off on the terrace. Is it a trap? Does he still have accomplices?

Come to think of it. Her expression became serious again. Holding the man's hand, he increased his strength a little: "Say!" Do you still have accomplices? Where are they?! What the hell are you trying to do?! And he saw the man crying out in pain. Still refusing to speak. He simply took out a bottle of magic leaves. Pour him hard and drink it.

The man's eyes were blurred. Minna took the opportunity to repeat the question again. He muttered in a delirious voice, "We are under the orders of our master." Scare away all the people who live in it. lest any one discover our secrets..."

"What's the secret? How many accomplices do you have? Where are they?! ”

"Below—" the man grogged down. It took a while to say. "Six people... We're underground...". Minna sensed a murderous aura coming behind her. Busy flashing to the side. The man screamed. There is an extra dagger on his back. After two convulsions, he lost his breath.

Minna jumped a few steps away to avoid the sneak attack of the passerby, and with a flick of the long sword in her hand, she stabbed the opponent's hand with the weapon, and as soon as the man's hand was released, the weapon fell to the ground, barely dodging Minna's sword, and she was about to be stabbed. At this moment, a black whirring object was thrown out of nowhere, and it was falling between Minna and the sneak attacker, and it exploded with a bang, emitting a large cloud of white gas. Minna was so distraught that she covered her mouth and nose and took out her wand to put a protective shield on herself to prevent someone from sneaking up.

But this kind of thing didn't happen, and when the gas dissipated, Minna was left alone in the hall, the sneak attacker just now and the dead man who pretended to be a ghost were all gone, if it weren't for the blood stains left on the ground, Minna would almost think that what happened just now was just a hallucination.

What the hell is going on?

Minna squinted, sensing a faint smell of blood in the air, faintly pointing out of the door, the door panel swaying slightly, as if someone had just opened it.

Yiqiao: Want to run? It's not that easy!

There was a chattering voice behind her, and when she looked back, it was Marcie and Jenny, who cowered from behind the railing of the stairs and whispered, "Minna, what's going on?" ”

"It's fine, just a few little thieves." Minna waved her hand, "Go back to sleep, I'm going to catch up and see what they're all about." Ignoring Marsie's call, he went out with the smell of blood.

A slight cool breeze blew, causing the smell of blood in the air to dissipate a lot. Minna chased her all the way to the verandah, but she could no longer smell the smell, she looked around, took the oil lamp hanging on the wall, and walked down the stairs to the back garden, only to see that it was pitch black all around.

Is it really lost? Somewhat disappointed, she turned and walked back to the verandah, and was about to go back to her room to sleep, when she accidentally caught a glimpse of two drops of blood on the floor of the wall in the corner of the verandah.

She suddenly became excited, and hurriedly lifted the oil lamp and leaned over to find more clues, but there was no other trace nearby except for the two drops of blood.

However, the shape of one of the drops of blood was somewhat odd. Minna crouched down with a lantern to observe, and found that the blood droplet was not round, but rather as if something had cut it, erasing the small half of the circle.

Minna stared strangely at the wall, and a thought popped into her mind. On the floor plan of the house provided by the guest, it is indicated that this is a load-bearing wall, so no one has ever remodeled it, but the outer layer has been painted with ash a few times, and three or four colors can barely be identified in the corner of the wall. She tried knocking on the wall, it was real, and knocking again. When she knocked on the whole wall, she found that some of the walls were making a less sound than the other one, and maybe the inside was empty.

She took a deep breath, pressed her excitement, fumbled around for the switch, and after a while, she finally noticed that a floor tile against the corner of the wall was slightly crooked, revealing a thin slit. Based on the techniques she had learned from the training in the Security Department, she tried several techniques before she opened the floor tile, which was a small one-foot-square hole with a cylindrical iron rod inside.

Twisting the iron rod slightly, the wall opened silently, and Minna found a stone to hold against the entrance and exit to prevent the entrance from closing, and walked in with a lantern.

It was dark inside, and Minna put the lantern on the ground and knocked it with her wand, and the oil lamp immediately brightened several times, illuminating the situation in the secret room clearly. It was a space about three meters long and two meters wide, surrounded on all sides, with several ventilation holes at the heights and a chest in the corner, which Minna inspected and found to be an empty basket and two empty water bottles, both very old. She suspected that it had been built by its previous owner to take refuge.

But there was no one here, and since the blood stains had disappeared at the door of the secret room, where did the people go?

Suddenly, she spotted a faint bloody fingerprint on the wall, and hurriedly leaned over to take a closer look, and found that the wall was slightly darker than the surroundings. She raised her hand to the finger print, pressed it hard, and the wall was concave, and the left wall suddenly moved, revealing a staircase behind the wall.

Minna walked in with a lantern and circled down the stairs, and estimated that she had reached a place about twelve or thirteen meters underground before stepping on the flat ground. It was surrounded by stone walls, dry and smooth, and looked to be quite long, and the iron handrails of the ladder were covered with rust. Minna recognized that the texture of the stone walls was the same as that in the cellar of the main house, and guessed that it was probably a secret room that had been opened at the beginning of the construction of the house, or more precisely, a secret room within a secret room.

The tunnel of the black hole in front of me didn't know where it led, Minna hesitated for a moment, then walked forward with a light step, walking, and suddenly heard the voice of someone talking in front of her, hurriedly extinguished the oil lamp in her hand, and carefully followed the direction of the sound.

The closer you get, the clearer the sound. She listened for a moment, and was sure that it was the sneak attacker she had encountered outside.

“… Kill him, he's our companion! ”

"If we don't kill him, he'll give away our secrets! It's all you, I didn't find out in advance, what do you say, 'The new owner is a delicate daughter, and she only brought two maids and a horse, and she looks good, and she is quite rich, and you can take advantage of the opportunity', I bah! That's a tigress at all! ”

"Say no more! We didn't expect this to happen, and now that people are dead, we can only admit it. Evacuate quickly, observe for a while, and if that powerful daughter doesn't find out, let's come back. ”

"No! My brother died like this, I don't accept it! ”

"What do you have to disagree with? If he doesn't die, we die! He's a newcomer, and he took care of it, if I still play the ghost, at least I won't be caught! ”

"Enough! What is the noise? Are you afraid that people won't know we're here?! ”

Minna secretly counted the number of people in her mind, and heard that there were about four.

There was silence in the tunnel for a while, and someone spoke again: "Do you really want to evacuate?" It's going to be done soon, and the sooner we finish the task, the sooner we can get the money. ”

"There's no way, although they always urge us, the most important thing is to keep it secret, if the matter is exposed, the hard work of the past few years will be in vain."

Minna silently added two more people, listened for a while, and determined that the enemy was only six, at most seven, and she still had a chance to win.

"Alright, let's go, don't leave anything behind. Before dawn, let's find a place to stay. ”

Minna held the handle of the sword tightly and waited for those people to come out, but after a while, she only heard their footsteps go in the opposite direction. Hurriedly ventured in, and as soon as he turned the corner, he came to a large stone chamber, and several figures had just disappeared into the passage in the corner of the stone chamber. She hurriedly took out two bottles of magic and threw them over. Two of them sensed the movement, and before they could turn around, they were emitted from the broken bottles

Smoked down.

Hmph, you're not the only ones who use bioweapons! This is the "stun bomb" she made according to the description of her grandfather in memory (she can't say why it's called "bullet" instead of "bottle"), which is a must-have for home travel and fighting thieves!

Minna covered her nose and walked over, and found that the other party was really only six people plus a corpse, so she kicked one of them to confirm that they had really fainted, and then used wind magic to disperse the gas, but unfortunately the space here is closed, and the speed of gas emission is very slow.

There was a sudden movement behind her, and she immediately turned around, raised her sword on guard, and clenched her wand in her left hand. As the voice drew closer, a figure turned out of the tunnel she had just passed, and Minna was relieved of it.

The person who came was Alex.

He was wearing a tunic with a round neck and a white shirt and dark trousers, and Minna knew that this was what he was used to wearing when he slept, so she smiled and asked, "Why are you here?" Just woke up? ”

"Your cousin came running to inform me." Alex waved his wand, and the "stun bomb" gas was swept into a whirlwind and burrowed into a jar. Minna looked left and right, picked up a cloth bag dropped by the six and stuffed it, sealing the jar.

Alex looked around, glanced at the six again, and asked, "What's going on?" Is there such a place under your newly bought house? ”

Minna explained the ins and outs of the matter, and said, "I suspect that the owner dug the tunnel when the house was built, and you can see that the walls here are dry and smooth, very similar to the walls in the cellar, right?" But I think it's weird, how did they find this place? Also, they just evacuated in this direction, and I suspect there are other exits to the tunnel. Speaking of this, she frowned: "The thought that there is a secret passage under my house that I don't know about, and I don't know when someone will run into my house, this feeling is really annoying!" ”

Alex checked the luggage of the men and said, "They brought the food, it was fresh, and it wouldn't last more than two days." If they didn't come in from your house, there must be some other exit. He turned to Minna, his expression becoming serious: "Minna, I know you are very confident in your skills, but when this situation is unknown, you should not act alone.

Whether it's leaving a message to your family or notifying me, it's better than if you break in alone! Didn't you think that if something happened to you here, the people outside wouldn't know about it?! ”

Minna shrunk her neck and whispered, "I'm sorry... I thought they didn't seem to be very capable, so..."

Alex glared at her, picked up a shovel in the hands of the six, and said, "Do you understand?" They're not some kind of awesome, they're just excavators! What do you do if someone awesome is here?! ”

Minna was a little unconvinced, but kept her mouth shut. Experience has taught her that when Alec is angry and scolding, especially when she is at a loss, she must not refute it, otherwise she will be scolded even worse.

Alex smiled angrily when he saw her like this, seeing that she was only wearing a thin linen nightdress, and her brown hair was draped over her shoulders, which looked particularly cute, very different from her usual momentum. His heart softened, and he took off his robe and threw it over: "Put it on!" I ran down without changing my clothes, beware of catching a cold! When he had finished speaking, he thought his words were funny, so he turned his head away and said nothing.

Minna spat out her little tongue and quickly put on her robe, which still carried Alex's body temperature, and immediately drove away the chill on her body. She looked at her friend's shirt and hesitated: "You gave me the robe, won't you feel cold?" ”

"I'm very strong, you don't need to worry about me."

"Strong?" Minna looked at his thin figure suspiciously, "You're obviously very thin, I'd better return the clothes to you, lest I'm fine, and you'll be sick first." ”

Alex raised an eyebrow: "You don't believe it? Try it out for yourself. ”

Minna blinked, really reached out to "test" the other party's body, and found that although he was thin, the muscles under his clothes were very strong, and he should be strong and powerful. She pinched two handfuls and nodded: "It turns out that you are really strong, and you really can't see your appearance." ”

"Minna..."Alex's voice came from her head, Minna looked up and found that his eyes were staring at her, his eyes were deep, and the hot breath exhaled from his nostrils was falling on his forehead, then his nose, lips, chin, neck...

She suddenly found that she was too close to Alex, her heart jumped suddenly, and she quickly retreated, and her face couldn't help but turn red.

Alex kept looking at her, not moving.

Minna felt uncomfortable, her eyes drifted to the side, and she asked in a low voice, "We... Right now... What to do? ”

Alex looked away: "You really want to investigate, right?" How not to be honest? ”

She laughed dryly twice, and her mood became relaxed, which was indeed an illusion just now. She quickly conjured up a few thick hemp ropes, tied the six men together, re-lit the oil lamp, and stood at the entrance of the passageway, her eyes blinking at Alex.

Alex snatched the oil lamp angrily and walked first, Minna snickering and following.

The tunnel was only about two meters wide, just a little higher than Alex, and the two of them explored all the way, but they didn't find anything, and there were several stone chambers of different sizes on the way, but they were all empty. I don't know how long it took for them to stop.

Ahead, there is a fork in the road

(On 5K for two consecutive days, a certain L vomited blood and asked for a pink ticket~~~)