Text: Chapter 72
It was already noon because we had been driving for four and a half hours and we had not eaten anything along the way. At this time, Lu Tao asked his son to go back to the car to get some food. Soon Lu Yu brought some bread, canned food, biscuits, mineral water and the like. I didn't know that these things were the foods I would have to deal with a lot in the future. We sat in the hall on the first floor, and there was one and only table in the hall. After the three of us simply ate some food, then Lu Tao said to me, "Jintai, do you want to go upstairs and have a look?"
"Okay" I replied and walked to the second floor, where the stairs were very old, and my feet made a "squeak, squeak" sound as soon as I stepped on it
At this moment I cautiously walked up to the second floor, the second floor is composed of two corridors, there are two rooms on the left and right, but their doors are closed, and at this moment I walked to the nearest one and opened it with my hand. It's locked, and it looks like I'll have to use the key in my hand to open it. I began to point the keys in my hand to the door in front of me.
Can't open!
I was shocked because I had tried all the keys in my hand, but the room wouldn't open at all. In other words, the key to the door is not on the chain in my hand. But how is this possible? Why? At this time, I was very puzzled. At this time, Lu Tao walked up to me without me noticing.
"Can't be opened," he said to me with a smile at the moment
"Yes, it can't be opened," I was a little puzzled
"Have you tried all the keys?" He asked me
"Hmm," I nodded to Lu Tao and said
"Maybe the door is locked from the inside," Lu Tao at this moment put forward an explanation
"Inside?" I don't agree with that
"Yes, since the key can't be opened, then the door should be locked inside," Lu Tao said to me with great certainty at this moment
"But how is that possible?" Anyone with a little common sense will know that if the door is locked inside, then there are already people in the room
"You better take a brief look in the room, I see that you can't open a door" At this moment, Lu Tao went downstairs after speaking
I didn't think much about what Lu Tao said at the moment, since the room on the second floor couldn't be opened, then I would go directly to the third floor. The space on the third floor is very small, there are only two rooms in total, but they are locked like the second floor, I tried all the doors with the key in my hand but none of them opened, not even one of them. At this time, I looked at my watch, damn! My watch actually stopped. I don't know what time it is, so I can only judge by the sky outside the window. But judging from the sky outside the window now, it should be two or three o'clock in the afternoon. I hurriedly went downstairs at this moment, at this time Lu Tao and Lu Yu father and son were taking some things from the car, and I took a closer look at the luggage, quilts, and pillows at the moment.
"What are you doing?" At this time, I asked very puzzled
"It's too far away, we're going to stay here tonight," Lu Yu said to me at this moment
"Live here?" I was surprised because there were no people living in this place at all
"And where do we stay?" I asked again
"Hall," Lu Yu said
"The hall?" I repeated one side at the moment
"It's the same as before," Lu Yu said suddenly at this time
But at this time, Lu Tao suddenly glanced at Lu Yu with his eyes, and Lu Yu immediately closed his mouth when he saw Lu Tao's eyes at this moment. At this time, although I didn't say anything, I still heard a hint of the door from Lu Yu's words just now. It seems that Lu Tao and Lu Yu, father and son, are definitely not the kind of people I imagined, they suddenly found me, and suddenly brought me to this house must have their purpose. But I can't show my suspicions at this point, I must not know what they brought me here for, and they are two people, and if they do fight, I will not be an opponent at all. But I can only get on good terms with the two of them now, and soon the two of them will be spreading their bedding on the floor of the hall. It was almost seven o'clock in the evening, and the three of us sat down together after we simply ate the food left over from noon. I don't know much about the two of them, but now I can only talk to them about innocuous things. Time flies quickly.
It's already past nine o'clock in the evening, and although I usually work or play games in front of the computer at this point, there is nothing in front of me except Lu Tao and Lu Yu.
"Let's sleep," Lu Tao said to me at this time
I was lying down at the edge of the table in the hall. I knew very well that the two of them hadn't slept yet, and that the two of them seemed to be waiting for something. At this moment I slowly closed my eyes, and after a while I started snoring, in fact, I don't snore at all when I sleep, but it's nothing, just to give the two of them a signal that I'm asleep, and I'm sleeping dead. After a while, I felt that Lu Yu, who was beside me, seemed to sit up slowly, and then he carefully stood up from the ground, and at this moment Lu Tao also stood up, and I already felt it very clearly. Then the two of them walked to the kitchen, and a few conversations began, and although I couldn't fully hear what the two of them were saying, I could hear some simple words.
The conversation between the two of them is basically the same as I imagined, the two of them are indeed looking for something, and it should be something of great value, but I didn't hear what it is, but they mentioned me a few times, and I felt a trace of fear in my heart at this time, maybe I was an important part of their search for something this time. So what exactly are they looking for? Is there any treasure buried in such a dilapidated house? At this moment, my mind flashed the letter that my father wrote to me, my father valued this house so much, it would not be for nothing, there must be something precious in this house worthy of my father's protection. Soon the father and son cautiously walked up to me, and I slowly narrowed my eyes into a small slit to look at the two of them. At this time, they began to slowly dig something in my clothes pocket, and at this time, the letter left by my father was seen by them, and Lu Tao looked at me with an excited and obscene expression, and I still pretended to be asleep. At this moment, the two of them would not have known what they were doing, and I saw them all. The reason why I haven't done anything in this situation yet. Mostly waiting for the right moment, at a time when I also wanted to see what new clues they could find from my father's letter.
The two of them quickly walked to the kitchen with the letter in hand, and then they began to look at it carefully by the moonlight outside the kitchen window. After a while, I heard Lu Tao laugh quietly. But soon he closed his mouth, and then he cautiously poked his head out to look at me, and I was still pretending to be asleep. Then the father and son went back to the bed in the hall, and the father's letter was put back in my clothes as they were. At this time, I kept thinking about Lu Tao's weird laughter just now, why did he laugh? Did he find something?
The next day, I woke up early because I had barely slept all night. At this time, Lu Tao and Lu Yu, father and son, were still asleep, and it seemed that they had no sign of me pretending to be asleep last night. I took the letter from my clothes and went to a window on the second floor to look at it, but I read it many times and found nothing. What did they find in the letter? At this time, I was very puzzled. At this time, I heard that Lu Tao and Lu Yu downstairs seemed to have woken up, I put the letter back in my clothes at this moment, and then slowly walked downstairs.
At this time, Lu Tao and Lu Yu had already woken up, they looked at me and said to me, "You woke up so early."
I didn't answer them right away, and then I said, "When are we leaving?" ”
"You want to leave now, huh?" At this point, the two of them were a little surprised by the idea that I wanted to go
"yes, what's the point here, and there's nothing here," I said to them
It was only when I said this that I began to feel the difference in this house. That's right, there are no household appliances in the house, not even flashlights and small radios, no televisions, refrigerators, even if these appliances are very old. But there is nothing here, are the electrical appliances locked in which rooms? At this point, I felt that this place was getting stranger and stranger.
"Let's stay for a while and let's go," Lu Tao said to me in a pleading voice
"Okay," I replied
"So what are we going to do now?" I asked
"Didn't your father leave you anything else?" At this time, Lu Tao asked me
"There is a letter" I said immediately at this time, because I knew very well at this time that in fact, Lu Tao had already known about this letter, and he was just covering up what he did last night
"You can give it to me..."
"Yes," I took the letter out of my clothes pocket and handed it to him before Lu Tao could finish speaking
At this time, Lu Tao took the letter I handed to him, and his expression was a little unnatural, maybe he didn't expect that I would hand the letter to him so happily. He took the letter and slowly opened the envelope, and then he began to pretend to read it, and I knew very well that he had read it many times last night, and that perhaps he could still recite the contents of the letter. He pretended to read the letter and handed it back to me, and then I said to Lu Tao, "Do you see something?" ”
He shook his head at me, and then said to Lu Yu, "Do it"
At this time, before I could react, Lu Yu suddenly hugged me from behind, and then Lu Tao found a wooden stick from somewhere and hit me on the head. I felt a wave of dizziness and tingling, and then I felt as if my head was bleeding, and it was getting more and more. But I still have some awareness. At this time, I felt that my hands and feet had been tied by Lu Yu with a rope, and it seemed that the two of them had been studying for a long time last night. Soon I was moved by Lu Yu to the edge of the table in the hall, and I was now leaning back against the table and lowering my head, blood flowing downward.
"Why do you ... At this time, my voice began to feel a little weak
"We don't really want your life, just like we don't want your father's life, we only want the gold in the house now" At this time, Lu Tao squatted in front of me and said to me
"Gold? Is there gold here? "I'm a little shocked at this point, but even if there's gold here, I'm not interested in it anymore, because my life seems to be on the verge of being saved now
"You take the gold, take it away," I said to Lu Tao very weakly at this time
"Of course we have to take the gold, but we can't take it yet, because we haven't found where the gold is, but your father's letter tells us where to go, haha, haha" At this moment, Lu Tao's very obscene laughter began again
At this time, Lu Tao and Lu Yu, father and son, took out the letter from my clothes, and then began to look for the location of the gold according to the address written in the letter, but at this time, I didn't care where the gold was, and I didn't care what the letter said, I was about to die now. My consciousness is getting more and more blurred at this point, and I don't know what I am going to do now, am I going to die here? Who can come to my rescue?
But at this time, Lu Tao shouted loudly to Lu Yu, the two of them seemed to have found something, at this time Lu Tao saw that there was a secret door on the floor in the corner of the kitchen, at this time Lu Yu pulled the secret door on the floor hard, maybe because the secret door was closed for too long, Lu Yu and Lu Tao pulled together for more than a minute before pulling the secret door open. Basement, this secret door is a basement. At this time, Lu Yu and Lu Tao walked slowly and cautiously. It was very dark inside, and at this time, Lu Yu was groping around on the left and right sides after going down, he was looking for the switch, and then finally let Lu Yu find the switch in the basement, and Lu Yu pressed the switch. The lights came on, and everything here was illuminated by bright lights. The area of the basement is very large, about 30 square meters, and there is a long table in the basement, there is an old chair on the side of the table, and the most conspicuous place in the whole basement is that there is a very strange chair in the center, which can even be said to be an instrument, some like a massage chair, but it is much larger than the massage chair, and the chair is connected to a lot of wires and circuits, which looks like a tool for prisoners to be tortured in the movie. However, at this time, Lu Tao and Lu Yu were not interested in this chair at all, because what they were looking for was gold, and gold did not let them find it for a long time, because behind the mysterious chair were several wooden boxes, at this time, Lu Yu and Lu Tao ran to the front of the wooden box together, and then pried the box open, and gold, rows of gold appeared in front of the two of them.
"Gold, it's gold," Lu Tao said excitedly at this time
"We finally found the gold we wanted" Lu Yu was also very excited at this time
Then they began to slowly lift a box of gold from the top of another chest, because there was really too much gold in the chest, and the chest could not bear such a heavy amount of gold, and soon the two of them carried a box of gold scattered on the ground in the basement, and the two of them had to slowly pick up the gold on the ground and put it back in the chest.
"Go, you go and find the box," Lu Tao pointed to Lu Yu at this time and said anxiously
At this time, Lu Yu ran out of the basement like a gallop, and then he ran to the trunk of the car, and at this time he found the two iron boxes that had been prepared long ago from the trunk. Then he took the iron box back into the basement. At this time, Lu Tao had already begun to put the gold scattered on the ground into the iron box that Lu Yu brought. Soon the three iron boxes were full. Then the two of them slowly put the three iron boxes back into the car. Although the box does not contain a lot of gold, it is enough for the two of them to eat and wear for several generations without worrying.
By this time, my consciousness was completely blurred, and I gradually fell to the ground. I don't know how long it took, but I slowly opened my eyes, and I felt as if I was somewhere, and I could clearly feel that the place I was was was no longer under the table in the hall. My eyes seemed blurry and hazy. However, I can still see something clearly, I have been moved into the basement by Lu Yu and Lu Tao, and at this time, half of the gold in the basement has been moved by the two of them.
At this moment, the two of them did not seem to have any intention of moving the remaining gold. Because the car can no longer bear this weight. And I was tied to a chair in the middle of the basement by the two of them. Although the bleeding from my head had stopped at this point, my consciousness was still in a very vague state. At this point, I felt that my body seemed to be slowly starting to regain some strength, maybe it was because I was sitting on this chair. At this time, my hands and feet have begun to be able to move, but at this time my hands and feet are still tied, and then Lu Tao walked up to me and said: "We will leave after taking the gold, but we still have to kill you before leaving"