Chapter 289: The Stage of Crime - Hong Ke's Final Struggle
Pry open the roof of Exit 11, and everything is easy, and Hong Ke enters the last compartment from the roof of the secret room.
But this place is divided into two parts, and now the part where Hong Ke is located is blocked by wooden walls on all sides, at this time, the most important thing is how to distinguish which wall can be opened and which wall cannot be moved.
Of course, this Hong Ke knew it well, and he adjusted his position so that he was facing the main room of the secret room and facing the west side of the Luoque House with his back, so that the wall on his left hand was the passage that could be opened.
As for how Hong Ke discerns his direction in the dark, this is also easy to explain, he does not need to make out at all, when he comes down from the gap in the roof, he faces the wall below the edge of the grooved notch, which is eastward; And then behind me, of course, is westward.
After Hong Ke stood in his position, he groped up and down the middle of the wall panel on the left with his hand, he groped along the edge, and did not reach his hand to the middle of the whole wall, and soon, Hong Ke found what he was looking for.
Pulling hard, Hong Ke felt a hard bulge in his palm, and he turned this bulge down half a circle like a doorknob, and the wooden wall on that side opened like a room door.
In fact, it's a door disguised as a wall. Then Hong Ke entered the cubicle where Bian Benyi and Lu Huimei had stayed.
Everyone still remembers that at that time, Bian Benyi was a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and accidentally found that the floor was very loose, and then found that the floor was actually a clamshell, so he escaped from the inside of the house.
However, it was not his luck, but Hong Ke opened the lock on the floor for him on the 28th.
At this moment, Hong Ke only wanted to escape and survive, and after entering the last secret space of Exit 11, he lay on the ground and began to grope along the edge of the floor, where the floor was severely corroded, full of potholes and rotten wood pits, and slippery moss grew into the house.
There are a total of four wooden buckles, which are not located on the four corners of the rectangular floor, and were originally built to make them difficult to find, and were designed in unexpected places.
You have to be very careful to feel how their surfaces differ from other floors, especially now that the cracks in the floors are covered with moss and small leaves of unknown plants, making it even more difficult to find their bearings.
Due to the narrow space, Hong Ke did not close the wall when he came in and the roof of the square compartment outside, which greatly shortened the time for Hong Huijian to come to confirm the final exit of the Luoque House later
Little by little, Hong Ke used his fingernails to snap off the plants growing on the edge of the floor, and confirmed the condition of the floor underneath, he was very familiar with where the key was, and quickly knocked off the three wooden buckles.
Yes, they are knocked off, not opened, and these wooden clips cling to the bottom of the floor, with only a little bit of it exposed, and you have to knock them down hard to make them fall.
After a lot of effort, Hong Ke finally found the fourth wooden buckle, at this time his fingers were already bloody, regardless of the damage and pain of his nails, Hong Ke tried his best to tap the last wooden buckle, and at the same time it was the last elegy of his own life.
When the last wooden buckle fell down and made a 'bang' sound, Hong Ke's heart flashed with temporary joy: 'I can finally go out, I can go out!' The surprise of his success in surviving made him completely oblivious to the question of why the wooden card made a sound when it fell on the grass.
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It was already more than nine o'clock in the morning of May 28 when Hong Ke finished all this, and the light was projected through the cracks in the floor that were gradually opening, Hong Ke felt that hope was in front of him, and he used his body to press the end of the floor even harder, which was like a seesaw, one end was cocked, and the other end could be dropped.
Below is the lawn, and Hong Ke is completely sure that he can escape safely.
But today is different, as if preparing to catch big game, Hong Huijian has already covered the lawn below with hard iron sandalwood planks (which he temporarily took from the top of the rope bridge), and in the middle of the first floor of the entire wall on the south and west sides of the house, Hong Huijian also pulled a transparent fishing line, hidden among the dense ivy branches and leaves on the wall.
There was a certain distance between the fishing line and the floor on the second floor, so Hong Ke flipped over the floor of the compartment and didn't touch the fishing line at all, he thought it was safe, and jumped down suddenly......
Later, there was no later, the fishing line hooked Hong Ke's body, but because it was too thin, it could not bear the weight of his whole person, and under the action of shaking and momentum, Hong Ke's whole person turned upside down and fell to the ground.
The hard pieces of iron sandalwood directly came into contact with Hong Ke's head, and blood splashed in an instant, and Hong Ke was killed on the spot without saying a word.
This is part of the reason why Bu He had told Ho Mina to chop up the wooden planks of the bridge deck but only hastily glued them with strong tape instead of planting the gunpowder, and he also used the planks as a tool for his father's murder.
The iron sandalwood itself is rust-colored, and even if blood seeps into the wood, it is impossible to see it. Besides, when the police later found out that the bridge had been chopped, they would only suspect that it was a means of destroying the rope bridge, and would never have thought of using it to kill people.
Hong Huijian only needs to calculate the time to come over and recover the bridge and fishing line afterwards. Don't worry about anything at all, the bloody rain on the bridges and the grass will wash him away.
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Late at night on 28 May, the west side of the house was completely restored to its original state, and the heavy rain washed away the lush grass and bushes, washing away the last vestiges of evidence.
On the dark mountain road, there was the sound of a motorcycle leaving, and this was the last time Hong Huijian went up to L Mountain before he officially started the Luoquewu murder incident. The gunpowder on the rope bridge has also been arranged, all the preparations for Hong Huijian have been completed, and the next terrifying and bloody journey will become a nightmare that he and all the victims of the Luo Que House will not be able to escape from for the rest of their lives.