Conan: I'm really not a model worker at a winery

After staring at the skeleton with only half of the orbital bone left for two seconds, Gin silently raised his sinful left foot that offended the dead.

"My lord, I'm sorry, Suisui is safe, you must have a good pregnancy in your next life."

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If the skeleton could talk, it must be speaking sweetly by now.

Too bad it can't.

So much so that its barely intact half of the skull was held up by gin for a closer look.

"Well... from the perspective of the skull, he is an adult." Gin put down the skull and put it back on the cervical spine. "Although a large part of the clothes are rotten, but from the perspective of the standard, this kind of plain clothes is more likely to belong to those who disappeared. scholars."

Gin took a flashlight and looked around.

This secret passage is different from what he thought:
The floor where he opened the hole was not the very beginning of the secret passage, but some distance down the stairs, and the skull happened to be on one of the steps, and was stepped on by Gin.

The real entrance to the secret passage is to go up the steps. Gin Jiu made a judgment, and it seems that it is just connected to the door of the reception room...

After pondering for a while, Qin Jiu caught a glimpse of the groove in the stone wall above his head, "This secret passage should be controlled by a mechanism."

But it's been so long, who knows how this mechanism works?

The decaying smell of the underground secret passage is not so heavy, it is probably because the smell floats up and attaches to the wooden floor, and the secret passage is made of stone bricks, which makes people feel shady and cool.

The depth of the secret passage is unknown, but after Gin crossed the corpse, he turned a corner and found that there were still stairs going down, and there were black marks under the corpse and at the corners that were different from the color of the stone bricks.

Coupled with the shape of this corpse, it is not difficult to judge that the corpse closest to the exit was probably thrown into the secret passage before it was completely dead, and finally relied on its remaining willpower to drag its wounded body along the road. Climbing all the way up the steps, he finally died near the exit of the secret passage due to excessive blood loss and exhaustion of breath...

"Weird..."

Qin Jiu glanced back at the corpse lying on the steps, shook his head sighingly, and continued to descend.

"Almost, this should be the location under the stairs on the first floor."

Every time he walked, he stopped to calculate the distance.

And the dry black blood on the steps still exists, and no other corpses are seen...

That is to go further down?
Qin Jiu once again admired the above sentence of the skeleton stepped on by him, dragging his seriously injured body to crawl so far.

If you don't wait until you go back, help it glue up the broken head, or you will be embarrassed.

After making up his mind, Gin put aside that sentence of skull for the time being, and went all the way down.

The depth of the secret path is far beyond Gin’s imagination:
Gin is still very sensitive to the sense of spatial distance, and the distance between the steps is basically fixed. When he reached the bottom and there were no steps, he reckoned that he was already about 20 meters underground, that is, five or six floors underground. deep……

It is also equivalent to digging through a small half of the cliff where the annex is located.

Gin: I can only say that the Karasuma family is really rich.

you do not say?

The flashlight illuminates the dark and deep underground space.

What's outrageous is that there is actually a door built underground!

——That's right, the space suddenly opened up. In addition to the aisle about ten meters wide at the front, there are iron gates on both sides that resemble castles.

Both doors are locked and cannot be opened without a key.

but……

Gin went over to take a look at the ancient and exquisite big lock, and silently took out two heavy iron wires from his pocket, bent them a few times, inserted them into the keyholes, and fiddled with them a few times.

A few seconds later, only a 'click' was heard, and the two palm-sized locks sank slightly in Gin's hands.

Lock, open.

However, when Qin Jiu took the lock and pushed the huge iron door open a gap, he really regretted——

In an instant, a stench comparable to a marsh gas bomb roared out from the gap in the door, pouring into Gin's mouth and nose from 360 degrees without any dead angle.

This made Gin Jiu's already pale face even paler, and he chose to hold his breath without hesitation.

This sour smell of rotten meat thrown in the cellar and fermented for three months is really anti-human!
Worse than canned herring!

Gin resisted the urge to slam the door shut, put on another layer of mask for himself, and then looked inside.

... Sure enough, the huge underground room was not clear about its original purpose, but right now, this room is full of corpses.

"Six...eight...27?" Qin Jiu counted the number of these corpses, slightly speechless, "Counting the one above, it's 28..."

From the inside to the outside of the corpse, through the light of the flashlight, you can barely see the clothing on the innermost skeleton, most of which are noble costumes, while the few corpses outside are relatively simple, they are those scholars...

In other words, the number of deaths in the first massacre far exceeded that of the subsequent massacres.

Condemning the Karasuma family's insanity in his heart, Qin Jiu just wanted to close the door, but suddenly thought of something, hesitating for a moment, he opened the door wider to let himself in.

Because it is a closed space, the smell of corpses in the room lingers for a long time, and the smell will become more foul after accumulating for a long time...

This is probably the reason why everyone in the Karasuma family moved out of this place-not to mention the remote location, there are so many corpses buried in the warehouse under the house, how uncomfortable is it to live above?
For gin, gin...

Qin Jiu is happy to live here, there is a lot of yin here, if he can ignore the corpses, he will live quite comfortably.

He shuttled among the piles of corpses with only bones left, and from time to time stopped by those bones that seemed to be nobles, looking at the faces of those skulls.

'Could Belmode's father be among these people? '
Gin has this kind of suspicion, but he is not very sure. After all, Belmode's father is the legitimate son of the old Patriarch Renye Karasuma, and he casually throws the bones of his relatives here. Such an act of mourning , shouldn't be able to do it... right?

After a circle of identification, the identification of gin failed.

After all, he is not a small expert in bone tracking, maybe he can tell Belmode to let the latter find it himself.

After having an idea, Qin Jiu stepped forward and wanted to leave the corpse room, but when he left, he seemed to glance at the corpse at his feet, paused, bent down and carefully dragged the corpse to the Leaning against the wall, he walked out the door and put the lock back on.

Gin also opened the door on the opposite side and took a look, but there was nothing special...

Then, the rest is the passage in front of you.

When I opened the secret passage above, I could feel a weak wind, indicating that the underground passage was not airtight—either there was a vent hole or other exits.

Combined with the fact that there are rooms below, Gin is more inclined to have both.

"The road surface still has a downward trend. This depth...should be able to penetrate the mountain."

Gin narrowed his eyes.

Let him see where the end of this secret path is.