Looking at the dark basement passage beneath his feet, Frankimir couldn't help but shudder. Right behind him, there seemed to be something touching his neck, making him feel unnatural.

He touched his neck, but found nothing.

Frankimir thought that his cowardice was outrageous, that it was just a basement, and that there was nothing to worry about, and that Chubal could not have set up an ambush here, ready to calculate himself, because Chubal would not have known that he would come.

Franky Mill turned the flashlight back on and shone the light of the flashlight into the basement. Except for a glance at the glove compartment, standing on the kitchen floor, there is no other object to be seen.

It's a large basement, maybe as big as the size of the villa, and from the entrance of the basement, you can't see the whole basement at all.

Frankimir was hesitating when he suddenly heard something coming from the basement, like a rat, like some kind of domestic animal, or like a human snoring after sleeping.

There must be something in the basement, that's Frank Mir's first feeling about the basement. Maybe there's a dog down there, or someone in there, is it possible?

This seems unlikely, the basement was still locked by the latch just now, and there can't be anyone in it. Maybe it's a wild dog and a wild cat, hiding in the basement of the villa from a certain exhaust port.

Frankimir prefers to think of it this way, because it relieves the fear in his heart, the darkness is always terrifying, and no one can escape the instinctive timidity of human beings, which is the nature of all people to protect themselves.

Frenkimir struggled to conceive the most plausible explanation, to break free from the fear that bound him, and he walked slowly down the creaking staircase towards the basement, the faint light of the flashlight piercing the darkness underground.

He walked down the stairs and tried to find the switch to turn on the light in the basement at the top of the staircase twice, but he never found anything, maybe the switch was not here, maybe there was no light installed here, and Frankmir could only use a flashlight to illuminate it.

There was a huge boiler in the basement, and the pipes connected to the boiler were thicker than the burly Franky Mir, which was supposed to be the heating equipment of the villa, but it was not used, and it looked cold and uncomfortable.

Frankimir wasn't too there, and he wasn't interested in the huge rusty boiler, which wasn't what he was looking for.

The deeper Frankimir went into the basement, the stronger the smell of decay became. The cold, dark basement was filled with not only the ever-expanding fear, but also the smell of decaying corpses.

The light of the flashlight seemed to hit something, and Frankimir immediately moved the light back to the foreign object that had been unintentionally swept just now, which made Frankimir stunned for an instant.

It turned out to be a man, a naked man, lying motionless on the cold, damp floor of the basement.

Don't...... Could this be what the proprietress said about Chubal, is it...... Has he already ......

Frankimir was a little overwhelmed, he didn't know whether he should go forward or backward, he settled his panicked mind, took a deep breath, then held his breath and walked over to the naked man lying on the ground.

The closer he got to the man lying on the ground, the more Frank Miir felt the strong aura of death. In the light of the flashlight, Frankimir quickly recognized that it seemed to be a daughter, and perhaps not Chubal, the comptroller of the Gulag.

Immediately afterwards, Frankimir also discovered that around the man's neck, a silver iron chain was locked, and the iron chain reflected a dazzling metallic light under the illumination of the flashlight.

In order to find out who it was, Frankimir resisted the pungent stench of decay and continued to get closer, knowing that he had come to the man's side.

Frankimir crouched down, and now he could see very clearly that it was indeed a woman, and it was a dead woman, it was not Chubal, but it was certain that it must have been Chubal, who had locked this woman in the ground.

He asked why he was doing this, why he had locked this woman in the basement, who was this woman, could it be a girl from a sewer bar.

The female corpse lying on the ground, apparently lost for a long time, was also very badly decomposed, at least for the cold Soviet Union.

The decomposing corpse, emitting a disgusting stench, made Frankimir reluctant to touch the woman's corpse at all, and after figuring out the woman's adaptation, Frankimir decided to find out.

Frankimir at least wanted to find out if the corpse had been killed here, or had been starved to death here.

Although the dark blood had already dyed most of the woman's hair to a dirty black, Frankimir could still recognize that the woman was a blonde woman before her death. The woman's face was so badly decomposed that it was completely unrecognizable.

The most incredible thing is that the woman's body is full of bite marks, as if the woman was bitten to death. Could it be that Chubal let a wild dog bite this woman to death, that is really a crazy perverted beast.

Anyway, the secret of the mother in the basement has finally been solved, and the chase here makes people feel uneasy, all because of the hiding of a long-lost female corpse, maybe it is really the rotten smell emitted by the female corpse, which makes the whole villa strange and inexplicable.

Now that he finally knew the answer, no matter how terrible the corpse was, but she was a corpse after all, and there would be no danger, Frankimir finally breathed a sigh of relief, and felt a long-lost comfort, restless mood, and began to gradually relax.

There was nothing terrible about the dead man, Frank Miri, for his work was always known to all sorts of dead bodies, most of whom died more horrically than the woman lying here, and he had told of the head being crushed by a truck, so miserable that Frankimir could not eat anything for a day.

Just now, Frankmir had only roughly observed the female corpse, and he was carefully examining it, and it was best to get the corpse to be taken to a lighted kitchen, so that at least he could see it more clearly, and maybe he could find some other clues from the female corpse.

Hiding a female corpse that was bitten to death in his own home is definitely not a personal habit of fun or some kind of perversion, there must be other reasons for Chubal to lock the female corpse in the basement.

The most puzzling question is how long the woman has been dead and why the body is so badly decomposed. The temperature in the basement may be higher than that of the world, but it will not be above minus twenty degrees, in this dark basement, it is not warm in any way, and the steam boiler looks useless for a long time, at such a temperature, the corpse has been dead for a long time, and it is entirely possible that it will stop decomposing, and how long has this corpse been lying here, is it far longer than Frankimir expected.

According to the proprietress account, Chubal disappeared about a month ago, when Vladivostok was already icy and snowy, so it seems that Chubal was by no means the woman he killed before leaving, but that Chubal had killed this woman earlier.

If Chubal hadn't killed the woman before she disappeared, and had been in a hurry to dispose of the body, he locked her in a low or indoors. So it doesn't make sense that earlier, that is, when Chubal was still living here every night, why he didn't dispose of the corpse, but stayed in his basement all the time.

Because it is now a cold winter, the smell of decay of corpses is not too obvious in the temperature, but once it is a hot summer, if there are still corpses lying in the basement like this, then the whole villa will be filled with the smell of rotting corpses.

Those thriller novels that kill people and hide corpses, there are always perverse ways to hide the corpse in their own home, but no chaos is from the psychological level, or the natural change of corpse decay, which will make the behavior of hiding corpses at home unsustainable, because there are always too many reasons that will expose the corpses at home, so the murderer often has to rack his brains to try to deal with the corpse, as many people say, killing may be very simple, but if you want to destroy the corpse, it is the real problem.

Frankmir looked intently at the female corpse, wondering why Chubal had killed the woman. At this time, Frankmir had a strange feeling, as if the rotting female corpse did not seem to be dead, but only asleep, and he could even hear the slight snoring of the female corpse.

Frankimir suspects that this may be due to the fact that the various gases in the body leak out of the decaying organs after the corpse is decomposed, which makes such a snoring sound.

Suddenly, Frankimir felt his back move in the basement, as if someone else was in the basement.

Frankimir raised his flashlight and looked around the basement, still not seeing half a figure, this feeling was so strange that he could fully perceive that there was life in the basement.

There's nothing in the basement, maybe it's just the darkness at work. Frankimir turned his attention back to the female corpse, but he instantly felt that there was a strange and powerful aura, which seemed to appear behind him, only a stone's throw away from him, and it seemed that there was something to hold something, but it was definitely not a human breath.

Fear caused Franky Mill to jerk his head away, seeing nothing behind him. Although there was nothing, the uneasiness did not diminish in the slightest.

Frankimir stared silently at the darkness in front of him, as if he wanted to see through the darkness, and it was at this time that a pair of strong and powerful arms tightly choked Frankimir's neck. (To be continued.) )