I stood at the basement door and looked inside. A long corridor appeared in my field of vision. There seemed to be a corner at the end of the corridor, and I didn't know where it led.
"This basement is scarier than the first floor of the villa. I have to be careful." I took out the kitchen knife again and held it across my chest to avoid any accidents.
When Li Yingyang saw me picking up the kitchen knife again, she was a little scared and thought I was going to attack her, so she didn't dare to hold my hand.
I took the initiative to take back her little hand and gave her a reasonable explanation: "Don't be afraid, little Yingyang, uncle is holding the kitchen knife to protect you."
Li Yingyang blushed and seemed a little ashamed: "Well, then Yingyang mistakenly blamed uncle, uncle won't blame Yingyang, right?"
Seeing that Li Yingyang was about to cry with grievance, I immediately replied: "Silly Yingyang, how could uncle blame you?"
After saying that, I led Li Yingyang into the basement corridor.
It was also raining blood in the basement, even harder than on the first floor of the villa. I could only take off my coat to cover Li Yingyang to prevent her from getting caught in the rain and catching a cold.
Although it was raining blood, it was very warm inside the basement. When I walked in the corridor, I didn't feel cold at all. I even felt a little hot.
The floor of the aisle was full of pits and scattered with many ring-shaped scales, which made me almost trip.
"I've seen these ring-shaped scales on the arms of women with broken legs. They look like snake scales." As I walked into the aisle, I felt the smell of snakes in my nose getting heavier and heavier, faintly covering the smell in the air.
The smell of blood.
"But in addition to the smell of snakes and blood, I also smelled a very strong fragrance. Hey, it turned out to be Li Yingyang's body fragrance." Looking at the little girl next to me, I was a little confused as to why her body fragrance could be compared with that of snakes.
The fishy smell is just the same? Is this little girl really a perfumer?
As I went deeper into the corridor, I gradually discovered that both sides of the corridor were covered with long bloody vines. The bodies of these bloody vines were even redder than the ones on the Snake Tower, as if they were about to drip blood.
These long bloody vines were intertwined together and formed into cages, just like an ancient prison with iron bars.
I originally thought that the bloody vines would take the initiative to attack me after discovering me, so I had secretly decided that if I couldn't fight them, I would pick up Li Yingyang and run away.
But I guessed wrong. After seeing me, those long bloody vines remained motionless and even retreated faintly, as if they were afraid of me.
"It's impossible for the bloody vine to be afraid of me. Could it be that it's afraid of Li Yingyang next to me? It's impossible. It's probably because the bloody vine has undergone some changes, so it doesn't want to attack me." I shook my head and walked toward the place surrounded by blood vines.
Looking inside the cage.
There are many live snakes trapped in these blood vine cages. These live snakes keep roaring, filling the basement with a hissing sound, which makes people very impatient.
Suppressing the irritability in my heart, I continued to observe the cage. It was fine not to observe, but I was shocked when I observed it.
In the corner next to the group of snakes, there were more blurry figures. Their eyes were filled with blood and they were looking straight at me.
"Are these living people...what are they doing here?" I got goosebumps all over and wanted to run away.
But when I looked closer, I found that these figures were just human-shaped stone statues.
They just look like humans.
Each of these humanoid stone statues is different. Some of them have their hands cut off, some have their faces bitten off, some have their hearts ripped out, and some have their intestines ripped open and disgusting small intestines flowing out.
But one thing they have in common is that their faces are all twisted, as if they are undergoing hellish torture.
Where they stood, it was like living people were fixed there, unable to move and could only scream silently in pain.
These humanoid stone statues are like cursed living beings who cannot escape from the blood vine cage for eternity.
"These human-shaped stone statues really look like living people. Looking at them, it feels like looking at living people. Could it be that these figures are made of human corpses?" I thought with horror.
I suddenly remembered the dining table in the hall on the first floor of the villa, and the food in the round bowl on the dining table - human organs.
These two scenes kept overlapping in my mind, and finally, I came to a horrifying thought: "Are the humanoid stone statues made of dead bodies? Because... because their missing organs and limbs are in the round white porcelain bowl on the dining table!"
Although this is just my conjecture, I vaguely feel that this possibility is very high, and even this conjecture is the truth and is the origin of the human-shaped stone statue.
Because that makes perfect sense.
"There were only severed human organs on the first floor of the villa, but no body of the victim. At first I thought the body might be in the basement."
"But as I walked along, there were no dead bodies in the basement, but these strange figures appeared, and these figures happened to have missing arms and legs."
"The majority of coincidences are the truth, so the owners of the dining table organs were probably made into human-shaped stone statues."
"How much hatred does this man have against the dead? After cutting off their organs, he also turned their corpses into stone statues."
"Judging from their distorted expressions, they should not have been completely dead when they were made into stone statues. It can be seen that they were not dead when they died.
How hopeless, life is worse than death."
I stopped and looked at these horrific portraits carefully, and finally came to a shocking conclusion.
Seeing me stop, Li Yingyang also glanced at the stone statues. She was so frightened that she hid behind me, trembling.
"Uncle...Uncle, what are these? Why are the tears they shed blood red?" Li Yingyang asked in a trembling voice.
But while Li Yingyang was trembling, she muttered to herself in a daze: "Why do I feel that they are familiar? I seem to have seen them before when they were alive."
After hearing this sentence, I was shocked: "Li Yingyang said she had seen them. Could it be that these stone statues are really made of human corpses? Are her father or mother among these statues?"
I can’t imagine it anymore. If her parents are really inside and turned into human-shaped stone statues, how can I explain to this little girl? She will be so sad that she will die.
I didn't know what to do for a moment, so I had to cover her eyes and deceive her first by saying, "Don't look at it. Those are just ordinary stone statues. Let's go quickly. Maybe your parents are in front."
After all, she was just a child and had no thoughts. I hid it with just one word, but there was still some fear on her face.
In order to eliminate her fear, I covered her eyes while talking to her: "My parents have left you on the second floor of the villa for so long, why don't they come up to see you."
"It's not that my parents didn't come up to see me, it's that my sister didn't let them come up." Li Yingyang suddenly felt aggrieved.
This was originally a very ordinary sentence, but after hearing it, I was shocked and filled with questions: "What? You have a sister? And your sister is here? Why didn't you tell me?"
Seemingly frightened by my series of questions, Li Yingyang thought that he had done something wrong again, and said with a sad face: "Uncle, you didn't ask, so I forgot to tell you whether Yingyang did something wrong again, uncle, I'm sorry."
How could I possibly blame a child who just thought it was strange? How could she have an extra sister? What role does this sister play in the Snake House?
Judging from what Li Yingyang said, it was her sister who refused to let her parents come up. How could a girl stop her parents? Why did she stop her parents from coming to see Li Yingyang?
"Does my sister think that Li Yingyang is not worthy of having parents? It seems that this sister does not care about her sister and even regards Li Yingyang as an enemy."
"This extra sister is not easy."
I secretly reminded myself to be careful about this extra sister.