Chapter 285: The Secret Passage

Because the dosage of the potion was not much, in order to avoid waste, Leach and the others decided to start the plan that night, and to be safe, they would only use the secret passage of the old dwarf's house once, and then find their way back to the town from there after determining where the other end of the secret passage leads.

But when it really started to act, something unexpected happened.

I don't know if it was Leach's repeated investigation of the dwarf old man's house that caused the "father and son" to be vigilant, when Leach and Howard estimated that the two had gone to bed, and when they touched their house at night, they unexpectedly found that the "father and son" had not slept at all.

There was no way, so the two had to wait patiently in the shadows.

I thought that there would definitely be a chance to appear late at night, but until dawn, the "father and son" had been busy in the house, and in desperation, the two had to return to the hotel.

"Could it be that they sensed something?" something was wrong, and Leach could only guess.

However, when the two went again the next night, they realized that they had thought too much, and the reason why the "father and son" didn't sleep all night was probably making rat poison.

The potions brought back from the prairie will only pay attention to the little residue that is no different from the fly ash after burning, but there is no need to return to clean it up afterwards.

Although they already knew that there was a secret door behind the door, Leach and Howard wasted a lot of time when they were looking for the mechanism to open the secret door.

At first, Leach thought that there must be a loose masonry on a nearby wall, or that the floor under his feet was a hidden mystery, but the two searched for a long time, but they didn't find anything unusual.

Then, Leach thought that the mechanism must be in the yard, but it turned out that there was still nothing.

After the two of them turned over the entire courtyard according to the specifications they had when they came to investigate in broad daylight last time, they couldn't help but stare at each other.

"No, how could it be?" said Leach, tugging at his messy hair, "but there are indeed traces of drag at the gate!"

"Could it be that we were mistaken from the beginning, that the traces there were not left by the secret door at all, but that their father and son usually liked to put things there?"

As soon as Leach heard it, he knew that his subtext was "There is no problem here, which means that there is nothing suspicious about Qinguo", but considering the series of so-called "coincidences" related to Qinguo that they have discovered in the past few days, they still feel that the direction of their previous suspicions is not wrong.

Ignoring Howard, who had apparently begun to steal fun, Leach forced himself to calm down and think about what else they hadn't checked.

"It's dark under the lights, it's dark under the lights...... "Will it be ...... Isn't the agency in the yard?"

As soon as he thought of it, Leach slapped the absent-minded Howard, motioned for him to follow, and then went out over the wall.

Although Howard didn't understand why Leach suddenly gave up, he was happy to do so and hurriedly followed.

As soon as his feet touched the ground, Howard knew that he was mistaken, and saw Leach start groping around the wall again, and although he was a little reluctant, he stepped forward to help rummage through it.

"I think, let's give up, there must be a link in the middle that we have made a mistake, in fact, there is no problem here at all, and it is just a waste of time to look for it. Once again with nothing, Howard finally couldn't help but persuade Leach to come over.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Leach frowned, "Mr. Howard, I know that you actually hope that Qin Guo is okay, but if you think about it, judging from the clues we have found so far, is she really not suspicious?"

Howard stopped talking. Although he wanted to excuse his sweetheart, when the words came to his mouth, he helplessly found that he couldn't find a reason to refute Leach, so he could only remain silent.

"Where, where?" Knowing that Howard could not be counted on, Leach began to babble again.

After three laps around the small courtyard, Leach finally noticed something that stood out but didn't even want to touch it: the long string of dead rats hanging at the gate.

Holding back his nausea, Leach reached out and tugged at the rope.

Sure enough, there was a slight sound of stones rubbing against stones from inside the gate.

"Found it!" Leach jumped three feet high in excitement, and if his head wasn't clear enough to know that it was still daylight, he would have almost shouted.

Comparatively speaking, Howard was not so happy, and even very disappointed, if he didn't know, he would still think that he was in the same group as Qinguo.

Climbing over the wall again, there was an entrance on the wall to the right of the gate that was large enough for two skinny people to walk side by side.

After such a long delay, worried that the "father and son" might wake up at any time, Leach and Howard did not hesitate at all, lit the torches prepared in advance, and then went into them one after the other.

The mechanism that controls the secret door in the secret passage is very conspicuous, just on the right hand side of the secret passage. After restoring the secret door to its original state, the two cautiously walked forward.

Although judging from the ingenuity of the other party's design of the secret door, it is unlikely that there is a mechanism in the secret passage, but for the sake of caution, the two still try to control the speed of progress.

From the fat shopkeeper, Leach learned that the "rebels" in the town had come a year ago, and that it had only been two months before the nest had been moved outside the town, and that such a hasty time was not enough for them to dig a secret passage to the outside of the town, and the only explanation was that their leader had been prepared for a long time, which made Leach more and more curious, not knowing what their origin was.

Half an hour later, the secret passage finally came to an end.

Pushing away the boulder that was blocking the way, the two finally saw the light of day, and it was already dawn at this time.

To Leach's surprise, after Howard's identification, the place where they came out was not far from where Leach had parked the Enchantress.

"It's a problem. Leach frowned, "I thought that the other end of this secret passage must be in a remote place, so it would be easier for us to find the traces of the group's walking, but I didn't expect them to be so bold to put another entrance in a place with so much traffic, and now I'm afraid it will take some time to find their nest." ”