After the sound of opening the door, Xie Chen trembled all over.
He immediately went over and turned off the light switch on the wall as quickly as possible.
Then he crawled on the ground, relying on some impressions of the area around the curator's room, and slowly climbed to the back of the counter.
Although the hiding space here is quite large, in fact, as long as people walk this way, they will be completely exposed to the field of vision.
It doesn't count as a suitable hiding spot.
But there is nothing that can be done now. After all, the incident happened too suddenly and there was no chance for him to deal with it.
When Xie Chen heard the footsteps getting closer and closer, he couldn't help but shrink back.
The wall it leans against feels slightly tilted back.
Xie Chen felt a little confused and stretched out his hand to push back.
Unexpectedly, a small opening about half a meter high was opened.
This is a design similar to a pet door.
Xie Chen frowned as he looked at the dim lights inside.
Previously, I was still thinking about how the woman disappeared into the curator's room.
I thought it was another series of visions caused by strange stories.
If you look at it now, the answer is probably right in front of you.
Faced with the current situation of a wolf in front and a tiger in back, Xie Chen felt a little uneasy.
This has a feeling of neither progress nor retreat.
In the end, Xie Chen shook his head. This situation was not the time for him to spend time thinking about it.
As the partition on the wall opened, Xie Chen slowly pushed his body in.
There is a relatively small narrow passage here, and the space is probably larger than an ordinary ventilation duct.
But it is not difficult to accommodate a person lying on his stomach.
As soon as Xie Chen came in, he smelled a somewhat pungent smell.
But for a moment I couldn't quite tell what the smell was, it just felt familiar yet strange.
The smell became stronger the further back I went, and I even felt like nauseating when I smelled it.
With no other choice, Xie Chen could only stretch out one hand, pull up the collar of his clothes and cover his mouth and nose.
Although the speed of crawling forward will be much slower, it can only be used as a last resort, otherwise I really won't be able to stay for a second.
The walkway outside the curator's room.
Luo Guyu walked in from the door with a smile on his face.
Fortunately, Xie Chen locked the door again after picking the lock, otherwise she would have discovered the flaw.
Unaware of anything, Luo Guyu walked forward slowly, and in less than a moment he had arrived outside the door of the curator's office.
She just stood at the door and took a deep breath, showing an expression of enjoyment.
While placing one hand on the door handle, the other hand slowly stretched out from behind.
A bright kitchen knife, under dim light, will still reflect a dazzling light on the tip.
Luo Guyu, who gave people a crazy look, gently pushed open the curator-like door, and then walked in with a look of enjoyment.
Luo Guyu turned right, squinting his eyes and groping for the light switch on the wall.
With a press, all the lights in the curator's room turned on.
The darkness was illuminated without a trace in an instant.
Luo Guyu just stood there and looked around, his original smile restored to his face, but after seeing too much, such a smile also gave people a numb feeling.
After looking around like this, Luo Guyu didn't see anyone, and his expression showed a hint of displeasure.
"Looks like he's woken up."
"But where are people hiding?"
There was only a flash of doubt on Luo Guyu's face, and it disappeared in an instant, replaced by an even crazier look.
"Want to play cat and mouse?"
"That would require paying a greater price."
Luo Guyu covered his bright lips and giggled, like a madman standing there talking to himself.
But while smiling, she also started to move her feet.
Under the even more dazzling lights in the curator's room, the kitchen knife in Luo Guyu's hand was not just the tip of the knife shining brightly.
The whole knife was horribly bright.
Luo Guyu slowly came to the bookcase in the curator's room, reached out and opened the cabinet inside.
"oh?"
"It seems that these files have been reviewed. Even if you know these old events, what can you do?"
"Besides...you originally knew all this."
Luo Guyu muttered about an unknown person, with his face sometimes excited and sometimes slightly gentle.
She just walked around the curator's room, stopping in front of desks and cabinets, and then bent down to check them.
But the result is also empty.
Finally, Luo Guyu came to an open space behind the cabinet.
She didn't know when she was holding half of the photo in her hand, and then she threw it to the ground without a care.
The photo then fell to the ground. Only the lower half of the body was inside, and it was unclear who the person who took the photo was.
It can only be roughly analyzed from the body shape that it is just a child.
Luo Guyu stared straight ahead. That was where Xie Chen opened the partition, and there was a narrow passage hidden inside.
"It seems like the mice are hiding inside."
"You really are not afraid of death."
As he spoke, Luo Guyu slowly lay down, and his white lotus arms gently propped up the partition that was no different from the wall.
Under the illumination of the lights in the curator's room, the narrow passage this time looked very dim.
But Luo Guyu didn't hesitate. He slowly lay on the ground and crawled in, dragging the kitchen knife in his hand.
Probably because of the smell, her brows furrowed slightly, but it was fleeting.
…………
Xie Chen knew that Luo Guyu should have come back to check on the woman. After finding no trace of the woman in the curator's room, he would probably go inside the partition.
So there isn't much time left for myself now, and the level of danger here is definitely high or low.
But there was nothing he could do.
We can only bite the bullet and push against the wall.
The further we get here, the strange smell gets stronger and stronger.
But what makes people feel a bit magical is that the more you smell this smell, the more you get used to it.
While Xie Chen struggled to crawl with one hand, he inadvertently let go of the hand covering his mouth and nose.
The crawling speed also increased a lot.
After passing two curves, Xiechen finally reached the end.
It's just that it's not dark here, even your fingers can't be seen clearly.
Xie Chen groped with his hands. When he realized that there was no way ahead, he could only turn around and grope around.
As something was pressed down by him, the wooden board under his knees suddenly loosened, and he slid down.
Fortunately, the momentum was not strong, and Xie Chen quickly grasped the tendency of his descent. While sliding to the bottom, he also used his hands to support it.
"Ouch."
Although Xie Chen had done well enough, his butt still came into close contact with the ground at the end.
The soreness made him scream out.
While rubbing his butt, Xie Chen stood up and looked around.
This is a different space.
There are many cabinets inside, and there are many bottles and cans on them, and I don’t know what they contain.
Just as Xie Chen was looking around in confusion.
The unpleasant smell in the secret passage hit me again, and I almost made myself vomit.
Xie Chen covered his mouth, enduring the turmoil in his throat and even feeling nauseated.
I had already adapted to it, but for some reason, my body still had such a big reaction.
Xie Chen looked forward and saw a familiar figure reflected in his pupils.
The woman was gagged and tied to a chair, her eyes full of panic and fear.
After seeing herself, the woman whimpered and struggled, making a lot of noise.
Xie Chen also noticed her immediately, but then he also got goosebumps on his body.
It's not because of women.
It's because there are seven or eight training warehouses erected around the woman.
The inside is like a movie, filled with culture fluids of various colors, and even plastic tubes connected to the instruments.
Xie Chen was frightened by this scene.
The cultivation chambers contain some indescribable creatures.
The one closest to me was a culture chamber filled with green solution. Inside was a strange mole-like creature with a face that looked vaguely like a human.
It looks like a face was peeled off a person's body and glued on bit by bit.
In the training warehouses at the back, there are several things similar to health cabins.
There are many broken limbs inside.
Those various parts and organs even have nerve responses from the muscles, making it look like they have just been cut off.
Xie Chen held the pocket watch in his hand tightly, fearing that something unexpected would happen and it would kill him.
In front of these training and treatment cabins, there are three or four rooms.
There was restlessness in several of them, as if there were monsters locked inside.
Although Xie Chen was in a panic now, he still believed that his subconscious judgment was absolutely correct.
The sounds coming from those rooms were not the sounds of normal cats and dogs raised by humans at all.
If you listen carefully, it sounds more like a wailing feeling.
Xie Chen then came to the woman's side, and the woman whose mouth was gagged reacted very fiercely.
At such a close distance, Xie Chen could clearly see the traces left on the woman's body.
The hair on his head is messier than at the beginning, and it can be seen that it has been pulled hard by life.
There are even some broken hair scattered on the head. From this, it can be initially judged that the woman should have been dragged off for a long distance.
This made Xie Chen couldn't help but think of the secret passage behind him.
If a woman was forcibly dragged from above the curator's office to below, one can imagine the pain and despair involved.
Xie Chen just stretched out his hand and was about to help her untie the rope that tied her hands to the chair. However, the woman struggled violently and fell to the ground together with the chair.
There was a boom, and there was a loud noise in this area.
Xie Chen himself was shocked.
It is obvious that in the eyes of women, Xie Chen and everyone in this swimming pool are the same.
He probably thought that he stretched out his hand just to strangle her to death.
Xie Chen immediately raised his head and looked at those rooms, but apart from the wails, there was no other sound.
