Gui Jia's Second Young Master

Chapter 893 The Floor in the Middle of the Candle

"I believe that one day, all the wrongdoers, the addicts, the punishers, and even the entire criminal alliance will be completely eliminated!" I clenched my fists with righteous indignation, my voice surging with encouragement.

"Yes, Section Chief He, we must take action now. Let's find Zhuge Tianyu first! Since he dared to appear within China's borders, we won't let him leave!"

"Exactly, Yu Ning, you've said it well!"

"Everyone, let's each do our jobs. First, find someone to continue interrogating these women. Second, keep tracking Zhuge Tianyu's movements. Third, everyone must also be careful and protect yourselves. The people from the criminal alliance could launch terrorist attacks on us at any moment. I have a feeling that 2023 will be a year of many disasters for us, but as long as our will is firm, we will surely persevere!"

"Right!" Everyone responded and dispersed. I, however, remained in the conference room, flipping through some photos. Liu Yu Ning, who had not yet left, approached me. "Director He, shall we go do something else now?"

"I'm looking at the photos from the investigators' inquiries into those three families, but something seems a bit off at Mi Xue Lei's house. No, I need to investigate it personally!"

"Alright, but what did you find that seemed wrong?"

"Look at these photos. I don't know if the investigators were careless, but why are there so many water ripples?"

"Water ripples? It seems so, but these patterns look a bit..." Before Liu Yu Ning could finish her sentence, her face suddenly turned grim. I nervously asked, "What's wrong?"

"My head is pounding. Don't stare at those photos anymore. There's something wrong with the image!"

"What?" I immediately put the photo down and then helped up Liu Yu Ning. We temporarily moved away from the photos and then walked towards the outside of the conference room.

I supported her as we went to the lounge. To my surprise, her condition did not improve. She pressed her hands to her head, shaking her head in pain in front of me. She then grabbed my arm, and her fingernails dug into my skin. My skin was immediately injured, and blood began to flow. With her other hand, she used her fingertip to rub my neck. I noticed her lips trembling, and then she bit down on my arm!

"Ah! What are you doing?"

Liu Yu Ning giggled a few times and murmured, "Much better, much better!"

Her eyes slowly filled with tears. She pulled my hand up and pressed her entire face against it. My hand immediately felt a wave of wetness. She was crying...

I hugged her tightly from behind. "What's going on with you?"

"That photo, no! It must be the scene itself that's problematic. It seems we have to investigate it ourselves. But I'm worried I'll lose control even more if I go there alone."

"Why don't I ask Xia Xiao Ling? She's so good at psychology; she probably won't be easily influenced."

"No, let's go together. That way, if I can't handle it, she can help me immediately."

"Okay, then the three of us!"

I sent Xiao Ling a message. Upon realizing we were going to Mi Xue Lei's house, she replied, "Didn't the investigators already check it?"

"Perhaps there are still some things that haven't been discovered. If you don't want to go, just say so!"

"No, I don't know what I should be doing anyway. Let's go together!"

A few minutes later, we were already in the car heading to Mi Xue Lei's house. Xiao Ling was driving. Mi Xue Lei was still at the provincial department.

When we arrived, Mi Xue Lei's house had already been unlocked by the investigators, so we put on our gear and went straight in.

We ignored other areas and went directly to the study room she had mentioned. I brought out the photos and compared the angles. Upon entering the study, I found it to be quite tidy, except for some messy candle remnants on the floor. The investigators had collected some powder, fingerprints, and hair samples here before, all of which had been confirmed to belong to Mi Xue Lei's husband.

I ignored these and went to a corner of the problematic photo. It was at this spot that Yu Ning had started feeling unwell. When I approached the area, I found a gap in a bookshelf. I asked Xiao Ling to help me push it open, only to discover that beneath the cabinet... countless skulls were placed!

It was only then that I realized why Mi Xue Lei's husband had been staring at this spot. He probably knew what was hidden here long ago. But why? Who were these people?

We carefully removed all the skulls. The process was cautious; we only touched them through two layers of rubber gloves. Then, we placed each skull individually. Xiao Ling had already called the forensic team.

We stood near the skulls, staring at them. Countless dark, deep eye sockets appeared on the skulls. Lined up, we estimated there were about 20 of them. That was quite horrifying. If a few skulls were enough to send chills down one's spine, twenty skulls at once proved that many people had died here, or that these skulls had been brought from somewhere else.

Could it have been Mi Xue Lei's husband?

But where did he get so many skulls? And why had he been locking himself in the study recently, as if chanting, and facing this direction? Did facing this direction have some meaning?

Thinking of this, I looked back at the spot with the candles and noticed that this position formed a one o'clock angle with the direction of the candles. I made a gesture of taking a photo with my hand and observed from left to right, discovering a strange light shining from the top of the gap in the adjacent bookshelf. I followed the light, and Xia Xiao Ling quickly followed. "This light is shining directly onto the floor in the middle of the candles!"

Xia Xiao Ling and I exchanged a glance and immediately returned to the spot where the candles were placed. Then, we tried to pry open the floor. To our surprise, the ground was very hot, and there seemed to be some kind of entrance. I had originally planned to wait for everyone to arrive before investigating further, but then Mi Xue Lei's strange voice echoed from behind us: "So you found it. Fortunately, I came back early. My apologies, you can go down now!"

As soon as Mi Xue Lei finished speaking, I noticed her suddenly pull a book from the bookshelf. Xia Xiao Ling and I instantly plummeted downwards in one direction!

We let out a simultaneous scream and fell into a wet, murky, unknown substance, quickly being covered by the viscous, piled-up material. I struggled on the ground with all my might. After a while, I pushed away the slippery objects. When I sat up, I found that Xia Xiao Ling was gone. Around me were countless... adipocerous corpses.