This is a family portrait. A dignified-looking middle-aged man is sitting in the middle, and behind him stand a simple-looking young man and a woman who lowers her head and smiles.
Recalling the newspaper he found in the library, Shiraishi recognized the man in the photo as the homeowner who was beaten to death in the news.
He reached out to pick up the photo, but the moment he touched it through his gloves, a text bubble with a [!] symbol popped up on the photo frame.
It really has a hidden mission.
But before taking it, Shiraishi stopped again when he remembered that there were only three or four minutes left in the countdown to the Mask state.
If you complete the task halfway and the mask time is up and it is transferred back to the body, you don't know whether the task will be interrupted.
To be on the safe side, it would be better to come back tomorrow or take it home and pick it up again.
Time was running out, and Shiraishi was ready to take the photo frame out of the haunted house quickly, but when he reached the door, his palms shook.
Shiraishi lowered his head in surprise and saw a description pop up next to the photo frame:
[This is a relic full of regret and nostalgia]
【Taking away is invalid】
"..." Just a photo, can it be so full of emotion?
I don’t know if the so-called “ineffective when taken away” means that it can only take effect in this room, or if it will lose its effect permanently once it leaves the door.
Shiraishi could only compromise, found a nook in the room, hid the photo frame in it, and left alone.
Having found the hidden mission, Shiraishi's search of other rooms was not so detailed.
After briefly checking a few empty houses and turning a corner, Shiraishi stopped.
Ahead is the end of the corridor.
There are no doors on either side of this section of the corridor, no windows at the end, and it's not as big as a storage room. All in all, it's a bit suspicious.
Just as he was thinking about it, the fox suddenly took a few steps forward, sniffing all the way with the tip of his nose close to the ground. Finally, he stopped two or three meters away, raised his paw and patted the ground.
Shiraishi walked to it, lowered his head and took a closer look, and found that there was a secret door hidden on the ground.
Slightly to the left, there is a recessed handle. It is hidden in the dark pattern of the floor. It is difficult to find it without looking carefully.
Shiraishi stretched out his hand to grab it, and before pulling it up, he asked the fox next to him in a breathy voice: "Is there anyone behind the door?"
The fox shook his head very humanely, and it seemed that he did have an IQ "not lower than that of a child."
Speaking of which, the word "no less than" is used very vaguely. If we insist on a comparison, Einstein can also be classified as a group of people with "IQ no less than that of children"...
There were too many items to try last time. In terms of IQ, Shiraishi only tried simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and he could do it.
When I have time next time, I really have to let him try advanced mathematics...
The fox sneezed, then raised its ears and looked around vigilantly. Unfortunately, it found nothing, and in the end it could only shake its fur in confusion.
Shiraishi lowered his head as if nothing had happened and pulled the door open with all his strength.
This door is heavy, but not so heavy that it cannot be opened completely.
If I have to describe it, it's a bit like the strength required to change the bucket of a water dispenser - a strong adult woman can pull it open with just a little effort.
Bai Shi held on to the secret door and looked inside.
There was a staircase sliding down in front of me. After extending for about two or three meters, the staircase turned to the left, leading deeper underground.
Shiraishi glanced at the fox and originally wanted to let it explore the road, but then he thought, if he jumped into the trap and alerted the snake, it would be easy to miss the information.
Anyway, it’s not the main body that I’m using now, so I’d better just go down and have a look.
One person and one fox quickly entered the tunnel. Bai Shi gently closed the door and went down the stairs.
After turning the last corner, a dark wooden door appeared in front of me. Faint light overflowed from all sides of the door - there were lights on inside.
The fox patted him again to remind Baishi that there was someone inside.
Bai Shi stuck to the door and listened for a moment, then pushed the door open a crack and looked inside.
Inside is a basement of about 30 square meters. On the right side of the door, there is an iron fence dividing the basement into two parts.
To put it simply, this is more like a prison cell.
A dim incandescent lamp hung not far from the door, its filaments trembling. In the corner of the cell where it could not illuminate, there was a messy and dirty bed.
A savage-like man was curled up at the head of the bed, covering his face, and occasionally letting out a shrill howl. His beard and hair were extremely long, as if they hadn't been shaved for many years.
Shiraishi suddenly took a slow breath.
He finally remembered what the case was.
…
Five years ago, the male owner of Sugijiang House was beaten to death with a blunt instrument late at night. The female owner panicked and reported to the police that someone had broken into the house and robbed her.
The police quickly dispatched, but failed to catch the murderer. Afterwards, the sad hostess took her son away, and the spare house became a haunted house...
All of the above are false.
In fact, Shiraishi remembered that the truth given in the original work was that it was not the robber who killed the male protagonist, but the son who had a quarrel with him.
By the time Mrs. Sugie returned home from her work, her husband was already cold and her son had become a murderer covered in blood.
Mrs. Sugijie, who was on the verge of collapse, felt heartbroken when she saw her son kneeling in front of her and crying bitterly.
After being in a daze for a long time, she finally made a difficult decision - she wanted to protect her son and protect this only remaining relative.
The two then pretended to leave, but in fact they secretly returned to the ancient bungalow and lived a shady underground life, hoping to survive the prosecution period so that Akio Sugie could no longer be prosecuted.
In theory, this is possible, but in reality, Akio Sugie, a submissive student, lives underground in a gloomy old house where people have died every day, and the person who died was his own father, and the person was knocked to death with his own hands...
After gritting his teeth for a year, Akio Sugie finally collapsed. He found his mother and cried, saying that he wanted to surrender.
But he didn't expect that his mother, who had always been tolerant and doting on him, would not agree this time. She even drugged his food and imprisoned him.
The "ghost scream" occasionally heard in the middle of the night was Akio Sugie's painful roar. The "will-o'-the-wisp" by the window was Mrs. Sugie passing by holding a candlestick, who did not dare to turn on the light.
Although Shiraishi didn't know where they had accumulated so many candles and food, they were able to stay in the same house for five years... However, this should be the truth behind the "haunted house".