This inheritance condition is very strange.
but……
This is the Federation, and there have been even weirder inheritance inheritance conditions than this. At the very least, Alexis does not need to run around naked on the street when inheriting this manor.
So a few people have no reason to think otherwise.
Five o'clock in the morning.
Baker opened his eyes, walked out of the tent, and looked thoughtfully at Richard, who was shirtless, showing a furry and fat figure, and seemed to be walking deeper into the main hall, smacking his lips.
Sleepwalking?
Never heard of it.
"What's wrong?"
"..."
Baker glanced back and seemed to notice that he was not there, or that Barbara was awakened by the movement of getting up, and pointed at Richard who was about to disappear from sight.
Barbara looked: "Sleepwalking?"
Baker shrugged: "Maybe, I'll go take a look."
Barbara didn't stop her. Anyway, the Lord of Hell on Earth is already her man's younger brother. There is nothing else on this Earth that can hurt him, but: "Then be careful."
Baker laughed and chased after Richard, who was about to disappear in the corridor leading to the side hall of the manor.
only……
"Boom!"
When Baker caught up with Richard, before he could do anything, there was a bang, and Richard, who was walking in front, flopped down on the corridor that was filled with dust and garbage before he had time to clean it.
Beck blinked.
Half an hour later.
Richard Castle was sitting on the sofa with a water bag wrapped in a towel and applying it to his forehead, grinning. After all, the posture he had just lied down on was lying face to face.
The forehead is swollen.
The nose is red.
Kate Beckett and Alexis look at each other.
"Your dad sleepwalks?"
"It may have been my responsibility before, but now he is your boyfriend. Don't you know whether your boyfriend is sleepwalking or not?"
"It never happened when you slept at my place."
"Not when he was at home anyway."
"New problem?"
"Maybe."
Richard looked at his girlfriend and daughter who were singing and pretending to be doctors to diagnose him, and couldn't help but said: "Hey, hey, hey, I haven't sleepwalked since I was a child."
Finished.
Richard screamed twice, rubbed his somewhat bulging cheeks, and said in a low voice: "Sure enough, there is something weird in this manor."
Barbara looked at Baker who was walking back from the side hall not far away: "Did you find anything?"
Baker shook his head.
Again.
It is an old house, and it is a house built near the cemetery of a group of dead people. It is normal for there to be some free dark energy in it.
Anyway, Baker didn't feel any trace of the devil's presence here.
After a while.
Especially since Richard was sleepwalking, everyone no longer had any desire to sleep. After tidying up a bit, they once again got back to helping clean up the manor.
Although Alexis has not yet decided whether to accept the inheritance here, everyone is going to live here for a while after all, so it is done.
The building of Rogers Manor is a combination of a main building and an auxiliary building. The main building is five stories high and the auxiliary building is three stories high. It is a very typical American manor building.
The fifth floor of the main building.
Baker directly called two or three demons from hell to help him clean this floor, and then he walked to the large bedroom on the fifth floor.
The large bedroom was also in a dilapidated state, with dust and cobwebs everywhere.
obviously.
Either Mr. Clive Rogers is too lazy, or Mr. Clive Rogers has no time to take care of his living environment because of something in the manor.
Baker prefers the former.
reason?
Clive Rogers was a bachelor, and an old bachelor at that. If he paid a little attention to hygiene, there must be a girl following him in the existence of such a manor.
Of course.
It's not that Baker hasn't thought about the second possibility. Just now, Baker went to the annex building and walked around, and he didn't find anything unusual.
Boom, boom, boom!
Baker turned around, and almost as soon as the few cleaning devils disappeared, Richard, who was cleaning on the fourth floor, ran up and spread his hands: "Okay, I give up."
Baker smiled and said, "Give up?"
Richard said: "Yes, I have called the cleaning company, and they promised to send a special cleaner over in an hour and a half."
Beck smiled.
The phone rings.
Richard made an apologetic gesture to Baker and answered the phone. Three seconds later, Richard's tone increased: "What do you mean you don't accept this order?"
Beck looked up.
The call seemed to be from the cleaning company, and it seemed that the cleaning company was unwilling to accept Richard's commission.
It’s funny, a professional company would choose to refuse when an order comes to our door.
Richard was definitely not willing to clean it up by himself. If he continued to clean it up, he was afraid that he was not here for vacation and adventure, but to be a volunteer. Therefore, Richard used his ultimate move.
Money offensive.
When the hourly cleaning fee was directly raised to five hundred dollars, the cleaning company there finally relented and reluctantly said that they would take the order.
quite a while.
Richard hung up the phone and said somewhat speechlessly: "This is why I like being in New York."
The implication of this sentence is that New Jersey is in the countryside, and country people are used to cheating on outsiders. Richard thought that the cleaning company was treating him like a little fat sheep.
Baker thought for a moment and said, "I think maybe they're just scared."
The Rogers family is a famous family here. Of course, this fame is evil. After all, within a hundred years, all the direct men of the Rogers family have become GG.
after an hour.
Two vans with the logo of a cleaning company drove into the Rogers Manor. The ten cleaners who stepped out of the van had expressions on their faces that suggested they only came here because of the generous pay.
Moreover, the cleaner who came down also made a request to Richard, the employer this time, that they would leave before three o'clock in the afternoon, regardless of whether the hygiene was cleaned or not.
Richard's eyebrows were beating, but considering that this was indeed the only cleaning company willing to come over, he nodded.
When the cleaner saw this, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, and then revealed to Richard: "Mr. Castle, frankly speaking, except for us, no one dares to accept your entrustment to come here. Cleaned up."
Richard sneered: "Then you are really cowardly."
The cleaner frowned: "Mr. Castle, I'm afraid you don't know that in the past fifteen years, at least thirty-five young people have disappeared in the small town outside the manor, right?"
"Does this have anything to do with this place?"
"Through investigation, the police discovered that the biggest thing these thirty-five young people have in common is that they visited this manor within 48 hours before they disappeared."
"..."
The cleaner looked at Richard, who seemed to know the news for the first time, and said nothing more. Instead, he turned around and started distributing tasks to his employees.
After all, five hundred dollars an hour is a lot of money. Even if it is three o'clock in the afternoon, if you calculate it from now on, you will have almost five thousand dollars in income.
Baker, who was next to him, raised his eyebrows when he heard the cleaner's words, and said to Barbara next to him: "Can you find out the case this person mentioned?"
Barbara nodded and took out her phone.
After a while.
The town's electronic list of missing persons was sent over by Agent Daisy Johnson.
Oops.
The number of missing people is really the same as what the cleaner just said, no more, no less, just thirty-five people, and the missing people are concentrated in the age range of eighteen to twenty-five.
Alexis, who came closer, was a little suspicious: "Does the local police station not care?"
"There is no body, no case, we can only go missing."
Officer Kate Beckett said to Alexis from the side: "Actually, the police department in this small town can conduct such a detailed disappearance investigation, which is better than 99% of the small towns in the federation."
The Federation can be said to be second in the number of unsolved missing cases, and no country can be said to be number one.
For these cases where no one is alive or dead, most small town police departments will not launch an investigation. They will just put a stamp on the file and leave it to fate.
at this time.
When the leading cleaner entered the main building to prepare for the cleaning work, he turned to Richard and said: "By the way, Mr. Castle, we are not responsible for cleaning the basement. We don't dare to pay for that place no matter how much money we pay." Go down."
"basement?"
Richard was stunned for a moment, nodded, and then looked at Alexis: "Is there a basement in the manor?"
Alexis took off his backpack, found the documents handed over by the lawyer at the time, opened the design drawings of the manor, looked at it, and shook his head: "There is no basement above."
Baker looked at the cleaner: "Do you know the entrance to the basement?"
The cleaner smiled: "Of course, there are two missing cases here that I was responsible for investigating when I was a police officer."
Baker: "..."
A former police officer turned janitor?
Baker didn't think it was magical at all. After all, the officers of the New York Police Department had to rely on fundraising dinners to raise their salaries before Baker, a big donor, came along. A police officer in a small town resigned because of salary issues. It is normal to become a more promising cleaner.
After a while.
The cleaning officer led Baker and others to the hall of the auxiliary building, and then he knocked twice on the fireplace in the auxiliary hall very familiarly. With a dull sound, the fireplace instantly split into two.
There really is a basement.
Baker raised his eyebrows. He had also checked the deputy hall just now and found no secret passage.
at the moment?
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