Chapter 21

Hu Xing thought that Qingmu went upstairs, and she was the only one left on the dark stairs. The mother and son in the basement are still there. One is kneeling, the other is standing, and they don't speak. The atmosphere is very strange.

As a criminal policeman, she has seen many big scenes, but women's natural fear of darkness and loneliness makes her very uncomfortable.

Damn Aoki! I walked so fast without saying a word!

She cursed in her heart. She was about to go back upstairs. She turned and saw a dark shadow walking down behind her.

She was startled. Seeing the outline of a chicken nest head on the shadow's head, she patted her chest with confidence, pressed her throat and said, "what are you doing down again?"

The shadow saw her turn and stopped.

Hu Xing suddenly found something wrong. Although Aoki's stature is also quite tall, he generally looks gentle, like an intellectual in the second middle school. In front of him, the dark shadow is obviously stronger than Aoki, and the hair on his head is more messy, like an explosive head than a chicken Wotou.

With the police's keen intuition, she reached out and pulled out the gun.

At this time, the shadow also moved, and the seemingly huge body stepped on the steps without a sound, like a ghost.

Hu Xing held up the gun and suddenly felt dizzy in his head. She fell back violently, hit the wall heavily, hurt her elbow, and the gun in her hand fell to the ground with a clatter.

The shadow seemed to realize something and rushed over with a low roar.

Hu Xing remembered that the roar seemed to have been heard in the backyard before. She thought Ma Fuqing had a Tibetan mastiff.

What's this?

No matter what it was, Hu Xing was powerless to resist.

She was very dizzy and her stomach rolled like she would wake up after a hangover. She could do nothing but watch the shadow pounce on her.

Seeing that the shadow was about to jump on her, she heard a loud bang, and then lit up a faint blue light.

Aoki appeared on the stairs with a mobile phone that lit up the screen. The dark figure was kicked over by him, and then he climbed upstairs. His action was as agile as an ape.

The light of the mobile phone was very weak, and Hu Xing couldn't see what it was.

Aoki held Hu Xing and asked, "are you okay?"

"Watermelon... Poisonous..." Hu Xing leaned softly on Qingmu's shoulder.

"I'll help you up first."

Aoki helped Hu Xing up the stairs. When he came to the first floor, he found that the iron fence door on the stairs was locked.

This iron door is made of stainless steel bars. It is not an ordinary aluminum alloy anti-theft door. It is very solid.

What kind of people need such a solid iron door?

Aoki remembers that the gate outside Ma Fuqing's house is very ordinary. If it's not to prevent outsiders from coming in, it's to prevent something from running out.

"My gun... Is... Below..." Hu Xing said weakly on Qingmu.

Aoki helped her down again, shining his mobile phone on the stairs until he found no gun in the basement.

The mother and son in the basement are gone.

Aoki saw that there were tables and chairs in the basement, so he helped Hu Xing to sit down there.

He opened Hu Xing's eyelids and asked Hu Xing to stick out his tongue and shine it with the light of his mobile phone.

Aoki preliminarily judged that she was taking neurohallucinogenic hypnotic drugs such as triazolam. From the morning to now, Hu Xing only ate a few watermelons cut by Ma Fuqing, in addition to drinking mineral water in Lu County criminal police team.

Aoki carefully recalled the whole process.

He didn't eat melons because he smoked. Ma Fuqing fed melons to his mother, but he didn't eat them. Ma Fuqing's mother didn't eat them because she disliked that the melon seeds were not clean.

Finally, only Hu Xing ate the watermelon on the table.

Fortunately, watermelon is different from drinks. The drug dose contained in watermelon should not be large, otherwise Hu Xing should have gone to sleep by now.

Fortunately, I don't like to put sweets in my mouth when I smoke! Aoki secretly rejoiced.

"You lean here and have a rest." Aoki asked Hu Xing to lie on the table.

The stairs that went up must have been locked by something that was neither human nor ghost just now, because Ma Fuqing's mother and son were still in the basement at that time.

Aoki now prays that there is no other exit in the basement so that Ma Fuqing's mother and son are inside. As long as people are there, there is always a way to deal with it.

If they had already gone out, they would have no choice but to seal all the exits.

In this dark little room, there are left and right doors.

Of course, this ordinary wooden door can't stop the green wood.

He first opened the door on the left. It was a long and narrow corridor. There seemed to be rooms on both sides.

He groped through the aisle and found an old-fashioned pull-wire light switch. An incandescent lamp of about twenty-five Watts at the top gave off a faint yellow light.

Inside along the aisle, there is a utility room on both sides, which is full of messy things, covered with thick dust and cobwebs.

Aoki retreated again and opened the door on the right. It's also an aisle, but it's obviously cleaner here than there. It won't raise dust when walking. But Aoki smelled the smell of a public toilet.

On one side of the aisle are several empty rooms with no lights. On the other side was a large room with an iron gate as strong as the stairs.

The door was unlocked. Aoki went in, found the light rope, opened the light, and found a two meter high iron cage in the middle of the room. There were several thick chains in the cage, covered with straw and dirty mats.

There is a pit in the corner of the cage, from which the smell comes out.

This is probably where that thing is kept.

He left the room and went to the end of the corridor. There was an exit, but it was sealed by the same iron door.

Aoki looked at his cell phone and there was no signal. He went back to the stairs outside, and there was no signal.

He heard that the police's mobile phone can contact the outside world without a signal, but he didn't know how to use it, and Hu Xing had fallen asleep on the table.

The drug dose on watermelon will not be very large. Should you wake up soon after sleeping?

Aoki lit a cigarette and began to pace around the room.

In the open and quiet basement, the pull board makes a particularly loud tap sound, just like a loudspeaker installed on the soles of his feet.

What is their purpose?

Is this a black shop selling barbecued pork buns? And he just came to the door.

Basements, dark rooms, chains, cages, putrefaction... How strange all these add up to be like scenes in some movies.

Could the room with the iron cage be the underground morgue?

incorrect!

If so, what happened to the Headless Woman?

Is it really just for a dream that Ma Fuqing found himself?

Aoki felt a little irritable, and the sound of pulling the board and kicking was urgent.

At this time, the sound of the iron door moving suddenly came from the right aisle.

He rushed over as fast as he could.

This time, his pulling board stepped on the ground without making any sound.