Chapter 20: The Chamber of Secrets, the real Chamber of Secrets!
"What on earth did you find?" Qingmi Ruri became irritable and her little face began to twist. The thing she hates most in her life is others cheating on her. "Did you find any important clues about Tominaga-san's whereabouts?!"
Nanahara Takesai didn't care whether she was angry or not, he said in a very comfortable mood: "I don't know, it might have something to do with it, or it might have nothing to do with it."
You bastard who deserves to be burned in the fire of hell for a thousand years!
Seeing that Liuli's fists were hardened, Qing Qing resisted from pushing him to the ground and beating him severely - I have to hold back, I am older now, and I am a lady with both beauty and wisdom. I can't hit anyone, I can't hit anyone...
She counted from one to ten in her mind, and then from ten to one before she suppressed the evil fire, gritted her teeth and asked, "What on earth did you find?"
"A secret room."
Qing Jian Liuli was shocked: "A secret room?!"
"Yes, a secret room." Takeshi Nanahara said casually as he looked at the house, "Don't you feel it? The combined area of the rooms on the second floor is a bit off, especially when compared with the first floor and the appearance of the house.
Now, does the feeling that something is wrong get stronger?"
"Ah, can you still feel this kind of thing...?"
"Of course." Takeshi Nanahara tapped his forehead with his index finger, "The human brain receives information all the time and is active all the time, so sometimes even though the surroundings are calm, the brain will still make you feel uneasy and feel that something is wrong, thus
It is a genetic instinct to improve your concentration, allow you to concentrate on thinking, and allow you to judge whether there is danger around you."
After a pause, he added, "Sometimes we also call people with this kind of implicitly active brain a person with keen intuition."
Qingjian Liuli suddenly said: "If you put it this way, I seem to be this kind of person..."
Takeshi Nanahara looked at her speechlessly for a while and said directly: "You are not. The prerequisite for keen intuition is to have a brain. You do not meet the conditions."
Qing Jian Liuli's breathing suddenly became heavy, she glared at Nanabaru Wu, and started counting in her heart.
When she suppressed her anger again, her heart suddenly became excited again - the secret room, the real secret room, the secret room that she had only seen in mystery novels before, was now in front of her!
I really didn’t come here in vain, and I didn’t suffer from this guy’s cowardice in vain!
She immediately asked with great anticipation: "Where is the secret room?"
"Most likely in the study on the second floor."
Takeshi Nanabahara recalled the layout of the second floor, built a model in his mind and compared it with the appearance, deduced it some more, and set off immediately, followed closely by Qingmi Ruri. When passing by the first floor, he found Hidakaji smoking in the kitchen.
Taiji Okuno was on the phone and hesitated before calling them.
We don't know yet whether the secret room is directly related to Tominaga Yosuke's disappearance. Maybe it's just a place where he keeps valuable belongings. There's no need to rush to call people yet.
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Soon, she returned to the study on the second floor, and immediately looked left and right, trying to figure out where the entrance to the secret room was, but she couldn't find it, so she immediately asked: "Where is the entrance to the secret room?"
Takeshi Nanahara could have figured it out through modeling and calculation, but there was no need to go to such trouble. He casually pulled out a small steel ball from the "Newton Pendulum" on the desk and said with a smile: "Do you still need to ask about such a simple thing? Try it.
You’ll know immediately!”
As he spoke, he placed the small steel ball on the floor in the center of the room. The ball stood still for a moment and slowly rolled to the side of the bookshelf.
Qingjian Liuli's eyes lit up and she shouted, "You don't need to explain, I know this method!"
Generally, secret rooms are renovated and additional reinforcements are carried out, which directly causes the center of gravity of the house that was originally balanced in all aspects to shift. When this happens, it doesn't matter if it lasts for a day or two, but over time, one side of the foundation will naturally sink.
, let a smooth ball roll slowly.
This cannot be done with heavy furniture such as bookshelves alone, something heavier such as steel is needed.
Of course, this must be a normal house, not dilapidated and shoddy houses with unstable foundations or even ground that cannot be leveled. The Tominaga family's house is of good quality, so this method is immediately effective.
At least, that direction is the most suspicious.
Qing Jian Liuli immediately ran to the bookshelf wall, first pushed the bookshelf, and then started to pull the books, saying: "There must be a mechanism that can open the door. Don't tell me, I can find it."
Takeshi Nanahara stood aside and waited. As a result, after waiting for four or five minutes, Qingmi Ruri could not find the so-called "opening mechanism."
He couldn't stand it anymore and prompted: "You squat down, what's the use of standing and flipping through the book? How could the secret room switch be hidden in such a conspicuous place? Isn't Tominaga afraid of others accidentally touching it?"
What he said made sense. Qingjian Liuli quickly squatted down to look for it, but he said unconvinced: "It might be at a high place, and ordinary people wouldn't encounter it."
"Every time Tominaga opens the door, do you have to find a bench first?"
Qing Jian Liuli was still dissatisfied and muttered in a low voice: "Maybe the switch is somewhere else, not necessarily in front of the secret room."
Takeshi Nanabahara felt helpless and stretched out his foot to kick, "Here, reach in and touch from here."
Qingjian Liuli looked back at him in confusion, put her hand in from the top of the book and touched it for a while, with a look of surprise on her face: "Hey, there is a handle, it feels like it can be pulled."
Then she looked at the place in confusion, "How do you know this is here? There is nothing special here!"
There were slight burrs on the spines of several books there. They should have been rubbed occasionally. Of course it was suspicious, but Takeshi Nanahara didn't want to explain it to her at the moment. He took two steps back and said, "Stop talking nonsense, let's try it."
try."
Qingjian Liuli pulled the handle obediently. It felt quite heavy, but after waiting for a while, there was no response. She was about to ask Nanabaru Takeshi again when she suddenly heard a slight sound of motor starting, and then the bookshelf in front of her became silent.
It started to rise, probably through the ceiling and into a hidden space in the attic, which was part of the renovation.
She was dumbfounded as she watched the bookshelf rise, revealing a door with an electronic code lock, and said in surprise: "I found it, there really is a secret room!"
Takeshi Nanahara was not surprised. He looked carefully at the silver-white door and then at the nameplate under the password dial. He said thoughtfully: "It's not a secret room. It's a large safe. It's made in Germany. It's anti-theft and fireproof. It's very labeled."
Gao...well, for this one, you need to enter two sets of sixteen-digit passwords. If you enter any one set incorrectly three times, it will be completely locked."
"So it's just a safe?" Qing Jian Liuli was disappointed, "That's nothing special."
Takeshi Nanabahara was noncommittal: "It's very special. This kind of safe is rarely purchased by private individuals. Although it is highly secure and easy to open, it takes up too much space and is too bulky. The cost-effectiveness for private use is very low. It is usually installed in a small
In a bank, or even in a bank’s vault, why would Tominaga get such a big thing to put in his home?”
"Maybe he has some rare treasures hidden?" Qingjian Liuli pondered, "Maybe what the reporter saw was not a imaginary scene, but someone was really asking him about the safe... No, since the area is so large, it looks like a small house.
Same, it should be considered a secret room, and someone beat him severely just to get the password to the secret room."
Then she looked at the safe carefully, the curiosity in her eyes almost overflowing, "I don't know what treasures are hidden in it, and whether those people can get it."
Takeshi Nanahara also became interested at this moment and said with a smile: "You will know if you open it and take a look."
Qingjian Liuli said depressedly: "It's easy for you to say, but how do you open it? Isn't this a safe that is only used by banks? I guess the police will have to contact the manufacturer or weld it open directly, right?"
"Passwords are set by people. As long as they are set by people, it will be easier to remember, so there is an opportunity to take advantage of it." Takeshi Qingjian didn't care at all about Qingjian Ruri's words. He was full of interest and his hands were itchy. He turned his head and carefully looked at the bottom of each button on the dial.
He said to himself, "Well, 8, 9, and 0 don't show any signs of wear and tear. Are these three keys hardly used? Two independent sets of sixteen-digit passwords, but the property inside belongs to Tominaga alone. He
There is no need to use mutual defense measures, and there is no need to use two sets of unrelated passwords, which means..."
After he finished talking to himself, he raised his hand and began to enter the password, humming a song softly in his mouth, four long tones and one bar, with a slow and steady rhythm, a bit like an old nursery rhyme, but the tone was quite eerie, "The crack in the door"
The crack in the door is squeaking, mother is laughing, mother is laughing, she is not talking, she keeps laughing; at the end of the village, desolate rocks appear, a turtle carries a bucket on its back, and crows are croaking..."
The tone was really sinister. Qing Jian Liuli shuddered subconsciously, then she realized what she was saying and said quickly: "Don't do this nonsense. If the safe is completely locked..."
Before she finished speaking, Takeshi Nanabahara had already finished entering a set of passwords. He only heard a soft "ding" from the door lock, a green light turned on, and there was also a faint sound of gears turning inside the door.
Qing Jian Liuli's eyes widened, the password turned out to be correct!
Takeshi Nanahara kept humming the tune and continued to enter the next set of passwords. She finally realized: "It's that nursery rhyme, the weird nursery rhyme that appeared repeatedly in the old movie "Bone Village"! The simplified nursery rhyme score is the password!"
"You're not that stupid after all." Takeshi Nanahara said with a smile after entering another set of passwords, then turned the handle to let the door open automatically, and said with great interest, "Okay, let's see what kind of treasure is inside.
…”
This time it was his turn to speak only half of the words. As soon as the door opened a small crack, his expression suddenly changed. He took a step back and dragged Qingjian Liuli over to block him. He looked over her head with a strange look on his face.
Look inside.
"What are you doing?" Qing Jian Liuli was puzzled, but immediately smelled the strong smell of blood, and when he looked into the "secret room", his head was dizzy, and he turned around and ran into Takeshi Nanahara's arms.
Fortunately, the collision suppressed her screams, otherwise the glass on the window would probably have shattered.
What a bullshit treasure, there is a corpse inside, all the blood has drained out! This chapter has been completed!