The two walked for a while and then encountered a forked intersection. Situ Xiu looked around the corner and found Conan standing not far away.
The two of them walked in, and when they came to Conan's side, Situ Xiu glanced at the cart, and then saw that the road ahead was a wall.
Then I looked around and looked carefully with a flashlight, but I couldn't find the door.
Situ Xiu frowned slightly and asked, "Conan, have you seen where that person went?"
"I didn't see it. I only saw the cart when I came here. I suspect there should be a secret door here." Conan shined a flashlight on the ground. The woman disappeared from here, so there must be a hidden secret door.
"There" Ayumi suddenly pointed to the ground with her hand.
The three of them walked over and saw a hollow in the ground. Conan stretched out his hand and pulled it with all his strength, but failed to pull it up.
"It's too heavy." Conan sat on the ground and kicked his breath loudly, turning to look at Situ Xiu.
"Don't look at me, I can't pull him back." Situ Xiu waved his hand quickly.
"I want to ask you what you can do." Conan rolled his eyes, suddenly looked at the strap on his chest, and remembered something.
He stood up and unhooked the strap, stretched the length of the strap, then looked at the surrounding wall and saw a hook on the wall. He threw the other end of the strap up with a flick of his hand and hung it accurately on it.
"What is this for?" Ayumi asked curiously.
Conan pulled the strap, fixed it on the door handle recessed in the ground, and pressed on the strap.
"Is this invented by the doctor?" Situ Xiu asked, remembering that this strap was used to hit a plane with his helmet in the dark movie version.
"Yes, the retractable strap has good elasticity and strong pulling force." Conan nodded.
At this time, as the strap was pulled, a piece of the ground opened up, revealing the stairwell. Conan was surprised and said: "This is the staircase leading to the basement."
"Misuhiko and Genta must be down there," Ayumi said.
"Go down and take a look first." Situ Xiu walked down first. With Ghost Stone by his side, it wasn't a big problem.
The basement was dark, but luckily they all had flashlights, which Genta had brought with him for the purpose of exploring.
After walking for a while, they saw a light coming from the bottom of the basement. The three of them quickened their pace. It was a door, which opened a little, and the light came out from the door.
When they came to the door, the three of them peeked inside. Inside was an iron cage with a cabinet in the corner. No one was seen. The three of them opened the door and walked in.
"Why is there such a thing in this place?" Conan frowned slightly and looked around. The iron cage was a bit dark and he couldn't see what was going on inside.
Ayumi shined a flashlight into the iron cage and screamed: "There is someone there, there is a bed inside."
Situ Xiu took a closer look and saw that he was indeed a human being. However, his sloppy appearance suggested that he had not taken a shower for a long time. The other things inside also looked very dirty.
"Ah..." The man inside suddenly shouted.
Conan was startled. He looked carefully and saw that he was a man. He had a long beard and a head full of long hair, as if it hadn't been trimmed for a long time.
The three of them were startled by the man's roar. At this time, they heard footsteps outside the door and hurriedly ran to hide behind the cabinet in the corner.
Situ Xiu secretly glanced at the man in the iron cage. This man must have a mental problem. He kept making noises and didn't speak at all.
A woman walked in from outside the door. She was holding something to eat. She looked at the man in the iron cage and asked worriedly: "Have you had another nightmare?"
"Hey," the woman sighed, and then said, "It's been five years since the incident. Please forget about it. It's impossible for people to come back to life after death."
Conan's eyes flickered, and he remembered what Ayumi had said about the male owner of this house dying five years ago, and that case became an unsolved case, so these two...
He looked at the two people carefully and suddenly found that the man in the iron cage was very familiar. He looked very much like the man in the photo he had just seen in the study. The more he looked at him, the more familiar he looked.
"I don't lock you here to torture you, I do it for the sake of your future..." Before the woman could finish her words, she suddenly heard a voice.
"Sneeze..." Situ Xiu sneezed at this time.
Conan and Ayumi glared at Situ Xiu, and lost control at the critical moment. Then they heard the approaching footsteps, and they secretly thought that it was terrible.
"Auntie, I'm sorry, I accidentally overheard your conversation." Situ Xiu reluctantly walked out. He didn't know who missed him, causing him to sneeze suddenly.
"It turns out there is a mouse. I thought it was just those two guys." The middle-aged woman had a gloomy face and held a knife in her hand.
"Auntie, can you put down the knife first and listen to what I have to say?" Situ Xiu glanced at the sharp knife in the middle-aged woman's hand, and then gave Conan a look.
It probably means it's your turn to play. You haven't performed well in so many periods, so today I'll let you perform.
Conan rolled his eyes. He had already thought about the whole incident and said, "This lady...".
It turned out that these two people were the wife and son of the deceased five years ago. The son lost his mind and killed his father in a moment of anger because of his father's scolding. The deceased's wife later came to the room and saw him.
In order to conceal her son's murder, the mother lied about not knowing. In the days that followed, the son wanted to surrender because he felt guilty, but the mother did not allow it.
The mother's original intention was to wait until the case expired before leaving. Generally, some cases would expire after many years. Even if the murderer was known afterwards, the case had expired and the police could not arrest the person.
The man was imprisoned in the basement for five years. The man could not bear the condemnation of his conscience and would yell in pain from time to time to vent his regret.
"Actually, your son is right to surrender. He has endured this kind of life for five years. Even if the case is invalidated, he will definitely feel very uncomfortable psychologically. Instead of enduring such pain, it is better for him to surrender."
Situ Xiu said this, glanced at the man in the iron cage, and then said: "You can ask your son, in the past five years, when has he had a better day? Even if the case fails, he will always be in this pain."
"He has escaped the punishment of the law, but he cannot escape the condemnation of his conscience. You still don't understand his pain."
Conan looked serious, and then said: "Can you bear to let your son live in the shadow of killing his father for the rest of his life?"
Under the verbal attacks from Situ Xiu and Conan, the middle-aged woman finally couldn't bear it anymore. She looked at the man in the iron cage and broke down crying.
Subsequently, the mother and son went to the police station to surrender. Situ Xiu, Conan, and Ayumi found Mitsuhiko and Genta sleeping on the lawn outside the house.
...
After returning home, Situ Xiu finished dinner, returned to the bedroom and joined the chat group.
King Qin Yingzheng: "Yang Guang, is the Ryukyu Kingdom you mentioned last time true?"
Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty: "King Qin, it is indeed true. There are still some countries beyond the sea. I can't understand what those people say."
King Qin Yingzheng's eyes flickered. Regardless of whether the news was true or not, he must send someone out to find out. It would be best to know the location of these overseas countries accurately and make plans for the future.
Da Qin must unite everyone in this world before it can stand firm in the world.
"Yue Buqun entered the chat group."
"Chu Wanxin entered the chat group."
