169 The Strange Gues

" Mag, please open the door! Alright! why you're still mad at me, ha?" I'm seriously upset with you now! See what you have just done!"

When Damian had heard it, he immediately looked at Magee.

" Mama...Papa is mad at you?" Damian whispered.

" Shh...no...he was suspicious of the locked door on the first room. He thought we're here inside the 7th so he maybe will proceed to the 3rd room where there's one daylight optic hole installed. He's interested to find out who that man is. Likewise, he felt we're trapped in here so we better need to be extra careful. But hey...do you see this?" Magee pulled out from her pocket a thicker hanky.

" Yes, a handkerchief."

" You bite this three times to lessen your tension." Magee smiled and whispered to Damian.

" Really..." Damian followed what Magee had said and he felt relieved a bit, afterwards.

" How are you now?" She smiled.

" I'm a bit better now. But...Mama...why Papa had a scary voice, seems really, really angry at you." The little boy whispered again.

" Shh..he isn't really mad. Its a trick. It means he has a plan of rescuing us. But we still have to prepare, anytime if that man could find out where the 7th door is; would forcibly open the door then, we don't have any choice but escape passing at the daylight optic hole." Magee's voice lowered and was staring at the door.

" Mama...you're sweating...are you afraid?" Damian peed in his pants.

" Yes, I'm afraid, but everything will be okay soon." Magee replied.

But deep inside her mind she thought that fighting could be easier if without the child. Momentarily, she took the responsibility for the child's safety and protection.

Meanwhile, George hurriedly went down the granite house and climbed above the surface of room number 3.

" My God...is my wife and Damian alright this time? Heavens! No, not...someone's not an ordinary man but an expert. He didn't even make a commotion or anything but buff me. Here, I'm getting inside now..." George thought so anxiously.

When George was already inside room number 3, he was shocked upon seeing that the door going to room number 4 was also locked.

The optic hole above room number 7 was very difficult to locate. So he immediately knelt on a certain spot and knocked three times on the ground. When Magee has heard the signal, she then carry the small table;stepped on a cabinet and successfully reached the daylight optic hole. Afterwards, she used her dagger to also tick the optic hole three times.

When George heard it subtly, although he was on a wrong spot but tried to search where exactly the spot for Magee's location. Fortunately, George patiently put his ear on the ground once more when Magee tick the optic hole again and George responded for another ticking of the optic hole, sending the message somewhat he already found the hole and Magee also let him know she's just fine.

" Here...this is it, the daylight optic hole. But why its hard to pull? Is there something wrong with this hole? Oh my...no! its not a real hole! how can this be, my God...help us. My wife's inside! and the little boy too." He thought while stamping his palm on the fake optic hole.

He stayed for a whole to observe. While underneath, Magee was already sweating inexorably after finding out that its a fake hole.

" Damian, the passage is fake. It doesn't have a hole but just a design and shape of an optic. We gotta find the real one...if there's any, otherwise, we'll be trapped in here. But I guess there's really a real hole up there or where?"

" Mama, I wanted to shout I'm so scared." Damian covered his mouth in awe.

" No! no...shh...no Damian, Papa has a plan, and me too, let's think together. I plan out of touching and pushing the granite walls. You may help me and it will help lessen our tensions. Come." Magee uttered in an undertone.

After several minutes of pushing the walls, there was never any sign of holes or exit passages.

"There isn't any..." Damian murmured silently while drinking from the flowing water using his hand.

" Hah...yes, me either. I didn't find anything. Oh dear, the strange man was still silent, what is he doing right now?" Magee sighed and clasped his knees while huddling on the ground.

In the meantime, Damian wanted to snuggle himself beside the wall at the southern part of the room when his soldier clay toy fell below the big golden pothos pot. When he attempted to pick it up, he noticed a marking, and when he followed to see the rest of the design, it shocked him.

" Damian...what are you staring at? Come on in." Magee whispered.

" Nothing Mama...its just that it looks like a hole. But the hole we're looking is only located above and on sides, right? So this isn't possible."

Magee immediately stood up and moved closer to him.

" Wow...its possible Damian." She leaned her handgun beside the wall and pulled the big pot that looks like a wineglass. It's bottom is circle. Fascinatingly, after trying hard in doing so, something she noticed - there's a darker side. Then she persistently pulled it again but it's extremely heavy. Subsequently, after half an hour, she successfully discovered a hole.