There is a large hall in the building. When everyone enters the hall, a police officer lights up the kerosene lamp in the room. At the end of the hall are two stairs on the left and right. They meet in the middle and go up to the second floor. Under the stairs is a small room.
, filled with various daily cleaning tools.
The hall is luxuriously decorated and fully furnished. On the left is a smaller dining room with a long dining table and a dozen chairs. On the right side of the hall is a wall with a door above it. The police officer opens the door and inside is a study room with many bookshelves and bookshelves.
A large desk.
The police officers had already turned on the lights on the second floor. The two followed Frank up to the second floor. After coming up, there was a small hall connecting the two ends of the walkway. Room doors were opened on both sides of the walkway. Several groups of police officers entered each room to search.
, the three of them also entered the room one by one and searched together.
These rooms seemed to be bedrooms, and the beds, bedding, pillows, etc. were fully equipped. There was no dust on the floors and furniture in all rooms. It seemed that they were cleaned daily. Soon, all the rooms on the second floor were searched, and no abnormalities were found. Frank left
The next few police officers continued to search carefully, and then led the two people through the stairs to the third floor.
The layout of the third floor is the same as that of the second floor, with passages connecting the bedrooms. Several groups of police officers entered the bedrooms to search. Frank led the two of them down to the lobby on the first floor. Later, several people came outside from a side door beside the stairs in the lobby.
Opposite is another building. Next to the building is a stable with many haystacks inside. Several groups of police officers have entered the building and the stable to conduct searches.
There are kitchens and warehouses for storing sundries on the first floor of this building. There are also some food and vegetables in the warehouse. It seems that people here are indeed leaving in a hurry. There are also some bedrooms on the second floor of this building, which should be servants.
It is a rest room for craftsmen and the like, but there are no signs of long-term use in the room. It seems that there are almost no outside servants in this manor.
The police quickly searched all the rooms in the building, but found nothing special.
Several people came to the lobby of the first building again. Frank sent several teams to search the outdoor garden, and then they waited for the search results in the lobby.
Later, the police officers on the second and third floors came down to report the search results, but nothing was found. Frank frowned and said to Steven and Kate: "Do you think this is normal? You must know that this is the residence of a cult.
But all the decorations are no different from those of ordinary families. From this point of view, I think there is a problem, what do you think?"
Steven replied: "There is obviously something wrong with this! You must know that they left in a hurry, and some things that are difficult to carry must be hidden, but now they have not found any of these things, not even religious items. Maybe
There are hidden spaces that have not yet been discovered, unless this is not where the sect is based.”
Frank nodded in agreement: "I think so too! You must know that any sect's residence will have some things that cannot be taken away in a short time, so we might as well deduce that as a sect's activity venue, where it needs to be hidden will be
Which one is more suitable? I don’t think it should be placed in the service building at the back. There is a high probability that it will be in this building. Of course, the most suitable way to hide it is underground, so the most likely way is on the first floor, under the stairs.
Storage rooms and dens are the most likely places."
Steven and Kate both agreed with Frank's inference, so Frank called a few police officers and began to carefully search the two rooms again. The three of them came to the study and planned to search together with the police officers.
This study room is very luxuriously decorated. The room is more than 200 square meters. The entire end wall is lined with a row of huge bookshelves. The grids inside are filled with books. The stacking of books in some grids is obviously sparse. They must have been left.
The people took some away.
Several people carefully checked around the huge desk, moved the desk, and checked the floor under the desk. No obvious traces were seen. Finally, the three of them stood at the huge desk that covered the entire wall.
In front of the bookshelf.
The three of them observed the bookcase carefully, and Frank soon found something unusual. The wooden boards and wooden pillars that separated the bookcase were obviously separated. It seemed that there was a tight gap dividing the entire bookcase into two pieces, and the separation was just right in the middle.
It's the size of a door.
Several people moved the big desk and the chairs behind it, and then pushed the middle part. There was a slight rattle, and the middle part of the bookcase was pushed open, revealing a doorway.
Several people quickly called the police and brought kerosene lamps. Steven pulled out a straight knife and entered the doorway. The bookcase door opened to the right. After entering the doorway, a horizontal walkway appeared. On the right side of the walkway was the end wall, and the ground faced
After extending a few meters to the left, it began to extend underground. Steven walked to the edge of the flat ground. In front of him was a staircase going down. On the side wall of the staircase, there was a lamp holder inserted into the wall every few meters, with kerosene lamps placed on it.
Several people followed Steven in front of him down the stairs. The police officer behind him then turned on the lights on the wall. After Steven walked forward for a few meters, the stairs turned around and continued to the right. After they turned around
After walking for another ten meters or so, the stairs disappeared and turned into a walkway on the ground. After a few meters, there was a closed iron door.
Several people came to the iron door, and Steven said softly: "I will open the iron door later. You guys stand back a little and stand on the stairs." After saying that, he waited for a few people to stand on the stairs and then held down the iron door.
, he pushed open the iron door with a little force. Behind the iron door was a room. Steven's senses did not detect anyone or anything in the room, so he nodded back to signal the people behind him to come in.
Steven entered this underground room. It was very dark inside. With his night vision ability, he could see that the room was very empty. There was no furniture or anything like that, but the air inside was not dull.
Later, several people who followed walked into the room carrying kerosene lamps. They then lit the kerosene lamp hanging on the wall. Everyone began to look at the room. The room area was about 50 square meters and the height was about 4 meters. Except for the lamp hanging on the wall,
There were no kerosene lamps and nothing else, and the floor and walls were all paved with granite.
The granite on the wall is a very rough large stone, and the joints are filled with cement. The wall looks uneven, but the stone tiles on the floor are obviously polished and are very smooth and smooth. They should be cleaned frequently.
Everyone stood in the room and looked around, but found nothing unusual. Frank said with some disappointment: "Have they taken away all the unusual things? This is a bit troublesome! I have arranged for the police to search for people working in the manor this afternoon.
Temporary servants and craftsmen, we will get their confessions tomorrow at the latest, and it seems we have to find a breakthrough point in these confessions."
At this time, Steven said: "There is something abnormal here! Don't you smell anything?"