Zhao Yixuan is not very smart about this kind of thing.
Lin Mengya thought to herself, if Elder Zhao was really a master of romance, why would the relationship between him and Aunt Fang have been wasted for so many years.
Tonight was a good time for the two of them to explore the secret room.
Coincidentally, after Mrs. Duan was reminiscing with Elder Zhao that day, she mentioned that she had received a letter from her brother, saying that one of her nieces wanted to visit her in the past few days.
At that time, Elder Zhao didn't think there was anything wrong, so he agreed.
Today, the person finally arrived, and Mrs. Duan was so happy that she took Zhao Zifei to pick him up.
She and Elder Zhao also got an excellent opportunity.
Opening the door to the secret room with ease.
After that day, Elder Zhao intentionally or unintentionally increased the time he stayed in the study.
According to Lin Mengya's observation, Xu'er tried to sneak in several times after that, but unfortunately she never found the best opportunity.
So no one should have entered the secret room.
Each of them was carrying a light lantern.
Under the dim light, the tunnel was long and silent.
Both of them were extremely alert, fearing that there was some kind of trap or something inside.
Fortunately, although it feels inexplicably depressing inside, there are no other dangers.
Lin Mengya is more adaptable to the darkness than Elder Zhao.
Not long after, she saw what seemed to be a stone gate not far away.
Following the signal they had agreed upon outside, Lin Mengya gently shook her lantern.
Elder Zhao turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"
Lin Mengya lifted the lantern and illuminated the position above.
Only then did Elder Zhao see the existence of a stone gate not far from him.
The door was open, but unfortunately it was darker inside than outside, so I couldn't see what was inside.
He stopped Lin Mengya behind him and drew out the long sword from his waist.
"I'll go explore the road first, please be careful."
With that said, the people walked in immediately.
The smell of dust inside is even stronger.
She had to cover her mouth and nose with a handkerchief. Even so, she still felt uncomfortable in her nose.
After about a few minutes, except for the footsteps of Elder Zhao, there was no other movement inside.
She also walked in, but saw Elder Zhao, who was one step ahead of her, standing quietly in front of a wall.
"Ahem"
The air inside was so turbid that she couldn't help but cough.
Even so, Elder Zhao remained motionless.
Lin Mengya couldn't help but have some doubts. Could it be that the other party had been tricked into something?
Thinking of this, she I couldn't help but be more vigilant.
But when she waited behind Elder Zhao, the man suddenly turned around, startling her.
Oh my god!
She screamed in her heart and patted her chest gently with her little hand.
She gave the other person a fierce look, even if the other person was older than her, she couldn't be so scary, right?
But Zhao Yixuan didn't realize the inappropriateness of his behavior at all.
Instead, he asked her anxiously.
"Am I still alive?"
In the gloomy secret room, the person in front of me seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit, asking myself if he was still alive.
If her voice hadn't become hoarse, she would have screamed by now.
Then, she reflexively kicked the opponent and took two hurried steps back.
"His ha——"
Her kick was really not light. Elder Zhao felt that the toes of his right foot were probably broken by her.
"It hurts. It seems like I'm alive, but you don't have to use so much force, right? After all, I'm your uncle's generation. Why don't you, girl, know how to respect your elders?"
Zhao Yixuan has long had resentments.
You must know that Madam has been talking about Miss Su lately, and she seems to like her very much.
But he felt vaguely that the other party didn't seem to respect him as an elder.
Now it seems that there is really no such thing.
Lin Mengya glared at him angrily.
It's scary, it's scary!
Every step on him was light. Fortunately, she didn't have any heart disease, otherwise she would have been frightened and sick by him!
Zhao Yixuan also touched the back of his head with some guilt.
But after his eyes came into contact with the situation on the other side of the wall, he immediately became serious again.
"Then come and see, what is this?"
Lin Mengya was almost a step away from him defensively, and then turned her eyes to the direction he pointed.
The situation in front of her also surprised her greatly.
They saw a "person" lying on a stone bed in front of them!
No, not a living person.
It was just a corpse with only a complete skin left wrapped around the bones.
But what is even more strange is that although the face of the corpse is a little shriveled and dehydrated, the facial features are clearly visible. It can be seen that it is a man who looks familiar and is about in his twenties.
There was an iron chain in the middle of the body's waist, and the other end was submerged in the wall.
Ordinary people definitely cannot forcefully reverse this chain. Could it be that the cause of death of this dead body is related to this iron chain?
"Do you know him?" Lin Mengya pointed at the corpse and asked with her eyes.
Elder Zhao looked complicated and said quietly, "If I didn't have hallucinations, this corpse looks very similar to me when I was young."
Oh! Lin Mengya's eyes turned to contempt.
Could it be that he is another illegitimate child?
And he died in the secret room of his study. ??
In an instant, countless scenes from bloody TV dramas flashed through her mind.
Things like "a poisonous father kills his innocent illegitimate son for reputation", his eyes are becoming more and more complicated.
Elder Zhao suddenly felt blessed. He pointed at the corpse and shouted angrily, "Look at it clearly! The style of clothes he was wearing was only available about ten years ago! My clothes
I had just returned to the Zhao family, and the house hadn't even been built yet, so how could I kill him?"
Is this really what happened?
Lin Mengya touched her chin, thinking she was calmly walking away from Elder Zhao with her little rag.
Elder Zhao, who felt that there was no hope of clearing his name, wanted to strangle her to death.
This ghost girl! She must have been sent by God to make him mad!
In fact, Lin Mengya was not entirely suspicious of Elder Zhao.
She turned around, raised the lantern and looked carefully at the wall of the secret room.
Judging from the traces, it was indeed quite a long time ago, but she was not a professional and could not yet tell the specific date when the traces existed.
But she accidentally discovered a dead plant in another corner of the corpse.
"Master, it's the branches and leaves of Ye Naiguo!" Xiaoyao reminded her in the system, and also sent the information he found directly to her.
Leaf milk fruit is a plant that grows in dark and dark places.
It is characterized by a small bunch of black fruits that look like grapes but are only the size of soybeans at the top of the slender leaves.
It tastes sweet and is rich in nutrients.
Under suitable conditions, fruit can be produced year-round.
The information on the Qing Zheng Pu also shows that within a year, the paper strips of the leaf milk fruit will grow into a section, and there will be traces like bamboo sections on the branches.
She touched the branches with her hands and found that in addition to the ones on the ground, there were as many as fifteen knots on the top.
However, the branches of the leaf milk fruit are now completely dead.
She carefully looked at the distance between the branches and the direction of the dead body.
While being restrained by iron chains, the corpse could still pick fruits from the leaf milk fruit to satisfy its hunger while it was still alive.
In order to confirm her conjecture, Lin Mengya walked up to the dead body which was still in a peaceful shape.
"Stay away from him, be careful of scams!" Zhao Yixuan immediately stopped him.
But it's not as fast as her hand speed. > I saw her pinching open the mouth of the corpse through the handkerchief.
Compared with the completeness of other parts, the teeth of the corpse were incomplete, and there was a lot of black powdery substance in the mouth.
Lin Mengya stretched out her hand and twisted it, and then confirmed her guess.
When she looked up again, she saw Elder Zhao looking at her in disbelief.
Lin Mengya suddenly smiled at the other party, her eyebrows full of excitement.
Elder Zhao was instantly startled by her, and he took a few steps back before calming down.
Oh, you deserve it!
Now you know how uncomfortable it feels to be scared!
Elder Zhao was obviously unable to accept what happened tonight.
"Why don't we go up now? Besides this body, there are no other clues here."
Frightened by her perverted smile just now, Elder Zhao felt chills all over his body.
But Lin Mengya still slowly checked the condition of the corpse, and then nodded with lingering meaning.
Elder Zhao, whose scalp was numb, seemed to have received a pardon and hurriedly walked out.
Lin Mengya followed closely behind.
The two of them quickly exited the tunnel.
After the mechanism was completely sealed, Elder Zhao breathed a sigh of relief, but when he saw what Lin Mengya was holding, he took the breath back again.
"You, what are you doing with this thing?"
In Lin Mengya's hand, she suddenly held a severed hand.
Under the horrified gaze of the other party, she placed the things in her hands on Elder Zhao's desk.
"This is a prosthetic leg, not a real hand. If you don't believe it, you can come and take a look." She wrote casually.
Elder Zhao cannot be as calm as her.
Holding back his heart pounding, Elder Zhao still came over and observed it carefully under the bright candlelight.
It is indeed a prosthetic leg made of wood.
The workmanship is so lifelike that at first glance, I thought it was a human arm.
But he still didn't dare to touch it, so he had to ask her.
"What are you doing with this?"
Lin Mengya wrote, "The prosthesis on this right hand is very delicate. It should not only be used for decoration. Look at it, it is hollow in the middle, and only two of the five fingers are solid. Although I can't understand it.
, but there seems to be a mechanism that can be manipulated here."
After being reminded by her, Elder Zhao observed carefully again.
Upon closer inspection, he realized that this prosthetic limb was really exquisite.
The arms and palms are equipped with simple and compact mechanisms, and the two solid fingers can be controlled by the other three hollow fingers.
This is a prosthetic limb specially customized for the corpse’s right hand!
