Varina followed the shadows and crouched to a blind spot.
According to his observations and calculations inside and outside the building, this area that is prohibited to outsiders should not be large, at most it is equivalent to a few chess and card rooms outside.
He touched his eyes with his right hand, opening up his gray vision.
Looking around, he was surprised to find that there was only one place where there were people.
And judging from the outline, it might be a bedroom with bunk beds, and the people inside are sleeping.
This state of tightness on the outside and looseness on the inside made Varina feel at ease a lot.
After all, his infiltration this time was much more difficult and dangerous than his previous infiltration into the dock union. If the guards were alerted, they could still pull out a few shotguns, and it would really be a matter of life or death.
Varina exited the gray field of vision, avoiding occupied bedrooms and searching other places.
What he was looking for was something like a list or ledger to convince Detective Zerrell to accept his story.
There are four rooms in total here, two of which are bedrooms. There is nothing valuable in the unoccupied room, and the occupied room must be about the same.
The third room is a small office.
Varina closed the door after entering and checked carefully, focusing on the desk.
There was a harvest, but the main purpose was not achieved - he only found 30 pounds in cash.
The ledgers in this office contained normal running data from bars and casinos, and were of no value to him.
Then you can only put your hope in the last room.
Varina opened the door and found that it was a utility room, but it was probably the most important of the four rooms.
Because the entrance to the basement is here.
He entered the gray field of vision again, and after making sure that no one was near the entrance, he gently lifted the cover on the ground and got in.
There was a wooden staircase connecting to the basement, and Wariner used the assassin's lightening technique to prevent it from making a "creep" sound.
Varina descended the stairs and soon saw a bright light in the basement.
The basement was partitioned, so he could only see the front floor and couldn't judge the overall size.
The light came from a candle on a square table, not far from the front of the stairs. There was a drowsy middle-aged man sitting on the seat next to him, who seemed to be a guard.
To be on the safe side, Varina connected him to the table next to him, and then boldly walked into the light range.
The harvest came so suddenly and reasonably.
He found an open notebook on the table - that was the list he wanted.
Varina took a quick look and found that fifty or sixty people had been recorded on it in just the past half month!
He continued to flip through the records for the period when he disappeared, that is, around October 8, and found that there were thirteen people in the records for those three days.
Varina picked up the pen next to him, followed the format of other records, and added himself in the empty space.
"Varina, male, twenty years old, literate."
He was not worried at all about being exposed because of the imitation of handwriting, because there were at least a dozen kinds of handwriting on this record.
After drying the ink, Varina put the notebook into his arms.
Now that the goal has been achieved, it's time to think about how to end it.
Go deep into the basement and release the imprisoned people to cause chaos? Or just leave quietly?
After thinking for a while, Warina decided to leave without causing any trouble.
Just when he was about to open the entrance cover, a shrill scream suddenly came from deep in the basement.
The voice quickly calmed down, but it had already stirred up waves in his heart.
Varina changed his mind, turned back quickly, opened the thick wooden door of the first partition, and entered deeper into the basement.
The foul smell hit his face, and Varina retched silently several times before he managed to get used to it.
This is a dark, dirty, and smelly dungeon. The area is no smaller than the casino above. There is an aisle in the middle and cages surrounded by iron bars on both sides.
Varina walked to the source of the sound and found that the drama unfolding there was exactly what he expected.
A small candle was placed outside the cage, illuminating a small area. A strong man overwhelmed a lady, covering her lips with one hand and tearing off her clothes with the other.
There were many people locked up in the surrounding cages, but no one made a sound, and most of them were not even interested in taking a look.
How long has this been closed? Why have you become so numb?
The lady may have been exhausted or desperate, and she gradually stopped resisting.
At this time, Varina took action.
The first thing he did was simple - he smashed the candle out with his peaked cap.
A sudden change occurred, and darkness completely descended on the dungeon.
The man in the cage who was in high spirits let out a strange scream, but he obviously still didn't realize the danger. He just relied on his memory and feeling to find his way to the location of the candle.
When he approached the iron fence and reached out to fumble for the candle, a foot stepped on his hand.
"who?!"
The man asked in surprise: "Tucker?"
"Don't make random jokes, you'll scare people to death."
What responded to him was a cold dagger, which slit his throat cleanly.
The man could no longer speak. He could only make a "loud" sound while waiting in terror for death in the dark.
He even had no way of knowing who killed him with what cruel means.
Time passed by bit by bit. In this dark dungeon where dozens of people were imprisoned, two people were waiting for death to come.
While Varina was waiting, he realized a new layer of acting rules - "Assassin" is not only about killing people, but also about making people feel the fear of death.
There is great terror between life and death, and life and death are also the greatest fairness in the world, and the "assassin" is the scale that determines life and death in the dark.
Therefore, people should fear "assassins" as much as they fear death itself.
The man fell, all his blood drained.
he died.
Varina did not immediately rescue these poor people, but continued to explore deeper, because he discovered that the men did not seem to come in from the bar.
After walking a certain distance, Varina found that a channel wide for one person had been dug into the wall ahead.
He finally realized that it should lead to another nearby house.
Or...the sewer!
He decided to move on and reveal the final answer.
If the front is connected to the sewer, then he does not need to return the same way, and the safety is greatly increased.
Warina soon reached the end of the dirt passage, and in front of him was the sewer.
With the help of double dark vision, Varina could clearly see that the corner of the left wall connecting to the sewer was rubbed clean and rounded.
Obviously, this is a commonly used passage leading to other strongholds of the Blood Bottle Gang on the left.
Varina returned to the dungeon, wrote a note, and threw it on the lady, along with the candle and the man's coat.
Before leaving, he only said two words: "Light up, note."
