disappearing gold

Chapter 59 Looking for foreign objects in gaps
  Lao Sun took the lead, followed by Zhu Lan, and they walked slowly down the steps one after the other.

There is some moisture in the underground space, but there is no musty smell that has been blocked for a long time. It can be inferred that this space must have been entered by someone in recent times.

The flashlight's halo gradually expanded, penetrating the darkness, hitting the ground and quickly shining on the wall. The floor and walls have been beaten with cement, and it is still relatively rough cement. It seems that there are relatively many sand grains.

After walking up the steps, Lao Sun and Zhu Lan stood on the ground, grinding the soles of their shoes until they creaked. When I looked down, I saw that the sand was quite rough, much rougher than the concrete floor of the villa.

However, although the cement is rough, it is generally clean. In short, it feels weird here, and Lao Sun can't tell what this feeling is.

She turned back and asked her disciple, "Zhu Lan, do you feel something weird here?"

"Weird?" Zhu Lan came back to her senses from looking at it, "It seems a little bit."

"That's right, it's a bit unusual, we have to be careful." Lao Sun reminded.

"What are you careful about?"

"do not know."

Zhu Lan scratched his head.

Lao Sun shined the flashlight on his head again, where there was also a layer of cement. It seems that the person who created this space was very thoughtful.

She shook the flashlight and glanced around. This is indeed a basement, and it is a square space, but if it is not a square, you have to take measurements to know.

really! This space was secretly created later, and its use has yet to be verified.

"According to the direction we are walking now, this basement should open towards the entrance of the villa." Lao Sun said.

Zhu Lan followed and looked around, "In other words, our current location is at the bottom of the hall?"

"Yeah." Lao Sun said.

The stairs are suspended and don't take up much space. So there is still space behind the stairs, and it's worth a look there.

She went around to the back and started looking at the wall with her flashlight.

In the basement space, most of the light comes from the light coming in from the utility room window on the first floor. However, this staircase blocked this poor light.

This leaves the space behind the stairs always shrouded in shadow. Although there were flashlights to help, the light was still not enough.

She looked left and right here.

Zhu Lan also came over, "Master, do you have any new discoveries?"

"I haven't found it yet." Lao Sun smiled bitterly and shook his head.

She shined the flashlight at a close distance and carefully, but didn't seem to find anything strange.

So she touched it with her hands, inch by inch, just like a blind person touching an elephant. She had to feel it with her heart. After an unknown amount of time, Lao Sun's eyes suddenly widened, "This area doesn't seem to be smooth."

"Really? Let me take a look." Zhu Lan said and started to touch it.

After feeling the cement wall in the middle, she gradually approached the master. She exerted a little force, and her long nails scraped off a tiny grain of sand.

Put it under a flashlight and rub it, and the sand grains can produce cement powder. "Huh?" She was stunned for a moment, then put her hand to the wall, and then scraped off more sand grains and crushed more powder.

After a while, her fingers were covered with cement powder and turned gray.

Zhu Lan raised a flashlight to look at it and found that where the sand and gravel particles could be scraped off, it was almost an outline that was not very round.

"That's weird," she said.

Lao Sun asked: "Any clues?"

"As you said, it's true." However, when Zhu Lan touched the side and tried to scrape off the cement particles from the wall in the same way, he did it easily. Zhu Lan immediately took back what she had just said, hoping it was not too late, "Well, Master, I just said it wrong. Cement particles can be scraped off everywhere."

Lao Sun immediately glared at her, "Who asked you to hang cement? Just touch it with your hands and feel it carefully!"

The voice was a little rough, even tinged with emotion.

But Zhu Lan didn't feel aggrieved, she just felt that what the master said made sense. She immediately pressed the entire palm of her hand up and pressed all five fingers against the wall. At the same time, the flashlight's light did not leave the wall.

But after touching it for a long time, she didn't feel much.

So she simply put out the flashlight, put her hands on the wall, closed her eyes and touched it gently.

After touching the area behind the stairs, she quickly moved to the side and touched it. Sure enough, there were some subtle differences.

There seems to be a little protrusion in the center of the wall, but if you don't feel it carefully, ordinary people won't notice it at all.

Zhu Lan immediately turned around and asked, "Master, why is this happening here? Is it just that the workers who built the basement accidentally made a little thicker cement?"

"I can't say for sure." Lao Sun waved his hand.

That's it again! Zhu Lan couldn't help but rolled her eyes and complained in her heart.

But Lao Sun didn't take it seriously. She had already squatted down and held up the gap in the cement floor with a flashlight. Because the sand and gravel are relatively rough, the gaps are relatively larger than those in the cement floor on the first floor of the villa.

The space is relatively large, and naturally there are many things that can be hidden.

Lao Sun went with this idea.

Now, the flashlight's light is aimed at a large gap in the ground. There is a hollow gap inside, but there is a larger sandstone on the top as a "bridge".

Therefore, Lao Sun could not see clearly.

She said it would be nice if there were toothpicks now. You can try to poke a toothpick in. If the contents inside can be shaken, it will be no problem to pull it out.

Don’t you know what this thing is by then?
  "Forget it!" she said to herself, who would bring a toothpick when going out?
  So she moved to the side to study the cracks in the cement floor, but she looked left and right and couldn't see anything foreign in the cracks.

She shook her head vigorously and sighed.

Standing here, Zhu Lan had already noticed the master's unusual behavior. Seeing this scene again, she finally couldn't help it anymore, "What are you looking for?"

She ran over, squatted down, and shined her flashlight.

Two flashlights, two beams of light shine on the concrete floor. For a moment, bright light shone into the gap.

There is indeed a large gap under their feet. Under the light of the flashlight, everything is invisible.

It's just that there is nothing in this gap, so nothing can be photographed at the moment.

Lao Sun moved to another place to look for something, which made Zhu Lan find it strange.

Zhu Lan stood back in front of the wall and tinkered, then raised her fingers to knock on the wall. It's a pity that it took a long time to knock. The echo from the wall was very dull. Needless to say, the space behind it was made of solid concrete.

"Master, there seems to be nothing behind you."

"Ah."

"I suspect we need tools."

"What tool?" Lao Sun looked up blankly and asked.

"Hmph! It seems that the room in the poem is not the room in the bedroom, but the room in the basement!"

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