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I was quite scared at first, but seeing Tong Suo's cowardice, I secretly found it funny. Fortunately, there is a more timid bottom, otherwise I really can't afford to lose face.

I tried to calm down, patted him on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "Old Tong, be steady, don't embarrass the Lantern League."

The copper lock grabbed my clothes and hid behind me trembling.

Li Yang stood in front of the wall, staring up at the patterns on it with a flashlight. The scene at this moment was very strange.Neither of us spoke, the air was almost frozen.

He suddenly turned around and raised his nose: "Do you smell anything?"

I sniffed it carefully, and there was an indescribable stench in the air.I said to Tongsuo: "Old Tong, don't you pull your pants?"

"Fuck, no matter how scared I am, I won't be incontinent." Tongsuo was not convinced.

Li Yang sniffed around like a dog, walking back and forth in the bathroom.My heart was in my throat, my back was soaked, and I said tremblingly: "Brother Li, let's stop smelling it, let's go quickly. This is the toilet, it's normal to have a smell."

Li Yang frowned suspiciously, scratched his head and said, "Since you're here, how can you leave like this."

He took out his phone from his pocket, turned on the camera mode, and took random pictures of the wall.

The screen of the mobile phone emitted a glint of light, which reflected on his face, making him look very gloomy.

"The light is so poor, can your mobile phone work?" Tong Suo hid behind me and said, "Or use mine, Samsung."

"Pull it down, I guess your phone is short-circuited by the urine bubble." Li Yang said.

While patting and patting, he suddenly turned off his phone, strode to the curtain, and pulled it suddenly, revealing the bathtub behind it.

The moment the bathtub was exposed, I seemed to see a cloud of black mist steaming out of it.

Li Yang took a photo with a flashlight, and Tongsuo and I also moved over.When the flashlight was on, I could see that the inside of the bathtub was full of black water, and the edge of the water was almost out of the mouth of the tank.

"Strange, where did this water come from?" Tongsuo asked.

"The faucet is not tightened." I guessed.

Li Yang came to the head of the bathtub and looked for the faucet with a flashlight.The faucet is still very eye-catching, made of brass, glowing faintly white under the light.Li Yang carefully stretched his fingers under the faucet, then retracted his hand, the rubber gloves were indeed black and wet.

To be sure, the black water did flow from the tap.Because the water level in the bathtub was too high, it almost touched the water outlet, and the water flowed out from the faucet without the sound of dripping.

Li Yang pulled off his mask, sniffed the black water on his fingers, nodded, and said, "That's what the smell was just now. It smelled bad. Smell the copper lock." He stretched out his hand.

The copper lock seemed to be bitten by a dog, and quickly jumped away: "Don't make trouble."

"Strange, why is black water coming out of the bathtub faucet?" Li Yang half-kneeled in front of the bathtub, almost lying on the edge of the bathtub, squinting one eye to look at the black water surface.

"There's nothing to study. Maybe the water pipes are burst and rusted. Or the groundwater is polluted. It's all possible," I said.

Li Yang seemed to have discovered something, thoughtfully: "Tongsuo, turn on the faucet of the washstand."

"What are you doing?" Tong Suo had an extremely painful expression on his face. He wanted to leave this ghostly place quickly, and he didn't want to cause trouble.

"Just do it, don't talk so much nonsense. Look at what kind of water is flowing out there." Li Yang said.

The copper lock walked over, turned on the faucet of the washstand, and there was a clear trickle of transparent tap water flowing out of it.

"Damn, what's going on? Could it be that the washstand and the bathtub use two pipes to feed water?" The copper lock was extremely shocked.

"It's interesting." Li Yang stood up, carefully supported the edge of the bathtub, slowly leaned his body against the wall behind the bathtub, and began to slowly tap the wall with his fist.

Tong Suo and I grabbed each other's arms, neither of us spoke, completely overwhelmed by his daring.

Li Yang listened to the sound while knocking. After knocking on one piece, he moved his body slowly and continued to knock on the next piece.At this time, he was completely volleying above the black water, and I was really afraid that he would fall into the water if he missed it.

This pool of dark bathtub water, under the light of the flashlight, looked extremely deep, as if it had no bottom.

After knocking for a while, Li Yang turned back, stretched his waist and said, "The back should be empty. Obviously, the black water in the bathtub comes from the space behind this wall."

"Then what do you want to do? Get a construction team to cut the wall?" Tongsuo said.

"Don't tell me, your idea is really good." Li Yang looked at him.The copper lock was taken aback: "Fuck, what are you staring at me for?"

"Old Tong, let me discuss something with you. Anyway, this house is also for rent, why don't you just rent it out. I will contact a buddy's engineering team, and we will remove this wall quietly. Let's see what's behind." Li Yang said.

"Aren't you... just kidding?" Tongsuo opened his mouth wide.

"Do you see my serious expression, does it look like I'm joking?" Li Yang said.

"Fuck, whoever you want to look for. I dare not touch this damn place again."

"I'll pay the rent for you." Li Yang tried to persuade.

"Come on, I'm not short of money. Even if I'm on duty at the crematorium every day, I still don't live in this unlucky house."

"Be quiet first, there seems to be something in the water..." I said slowly.The two of them looked at me together, and my expression was ugly because I was so scared that I couldn't control myself.

Just now, I was lying on the side of the bathtub, imitating Li Yang, squinting my eyes and looking sideways at the water surface. Under the light of the flashlight, I clearly saw some bubbles rising from the bottom of the black water.

Looking deeper into this pool of water, there is nothingness and darkness, like an abyss.

I suddenly had a strange thought, could it be that under the water is the underworld that I have been looking for?Imagine a picture, Li Damin walked into the bathroom, stared at the pool of black water, with a sacred expression, slowly took off his clothes, stepped into the bathtub devoutly, gradually disappeared under the black water, and went to the weird and mysterious place. Underworld.

Li Yang heard me say that there were air bubbles coming out from below, and his expression was a little eager to try. I was startled, for fear that he would jump into the water impulsively.

He was quite sensible, picked up a leather stick next to the toilet, and slowly plunged into the black water.

Tongsuo and I leaned on each other and stood in the distance, watching nervously, like staring at a time bomb, not daring to breathe.Soon, the leather stick was completely stretched into the water, and it seemed that it hadn't reached the bottom yet.

Li Yang simply sat on the edge of the bathtub, leaned over, tightly grasped the handle of the leather spit, and pushed down hard.

"There is really something under the bathtub." Li Yang said in surprise.

"Isn't it empty below?" I asked tremblingly.

Tongsuo smiled: "Old Liu, are you stupid? Can this bathtub be empty? If it is empty, how can there be such a full tank of water?"

I laughed at myself, thinking that I was really naive in thinking that the bathtub was connected to the underworld just now.

Li Yang said: "Don't be dumb, come and help me, I just bumped into something."

The two of us walked over and looked at each other: "How can this help? We don't have any tools at hand, how can we fish it out?"

Li Yang thought for a while and said, "How about this, I'll reach out and grab it, you two watch it."

"Don't..." I looked at the black water in this tank, and I had an ominous premonition: "The water here is not poisonous, is it?"

"It's okay." Li Yang rolled up his sleeves, slowly put his right hand into the water, and slowly lowered it.After a while, his entire arm was submerged in the water, and his body was completely lying on the edge of the bathtub, his face almost touching the surface of the water.

We watched thrillingly and had to admire his courage.

"I touched it." He raised his brows, "It looks like a box."

Before the words fell, he slowly straightened his body, only hearing the sound of splashing water, and sure enough, he fished out a dark square thing from below.

Once it was out, he hurried to the sink, turned on the tap, and rinsed his arm.Then wash the thing that was fished out.

After washing away the black water outside, we saw that it was really a green iron box, square and square, all made of iron sheets, without any decorations.It looked very sturdy, with a lock hanging on the head of the box, and it was fastened tightly.

The copper lock tapped twice with his fingers, making a "bang bang" sound of rough iron, and then he shook it again, and there was a sound of "crashing, clattering" and something hitting each other inside.

"Don't move! Be careful, what if it's a glass container?" Li Yang thought carefully.

"I said let's go quickly." Tongsuo pleaded.

"Old copper, look at you, I would not have called you here if I had known. Don't you find all this exciting?" Li Yang said, "Does it look like a real-life secret room game? Such a creative secret room, you You can’t even spend money to play.”

"Oh, by the way." He said again: "I let you rent this house, not joking. You think about it carefully."

"Okay, okay, let's talk." Tongsuo didn't want to continue this topic.

We took a cursory look around the bathroom again, but couldn't see anything.There are too many puzzles here, and each of them will take time and effort to explore in depth, and looking at the watch, it is almost three o'clock in the morning.

The drowsiness came in waves, and I no longer had the energy to follow them around.

Tongsuo also yawned one after another, but Li Yang was a real night owl, his eyes were staring brightly, as if he still had more to say.

Yawning is contagious. Seeing us yawning constantly made him hit a few times, which made him look a bit disappointed.With a wave of his hand: "Go back. See if there is a chance tonight, let's do it again."

Tongsuo smiled wryly: "Brother, please spare me. I will give you a key, so you can come by yourself at night."

"Let's go, let's go." Li Yang rubbed his brows and beckoned everyone to go back together.

We were about to leave the bathroom when we heard a strange noise overhead.It seems to be the sound of the wind, and it seems that someone "peddled" and ran past.

You know, this is absolutely impossible, we are now on the top floor, and above is the heavily locked roof, how could someone run on it in the middle of the night?

Li Yang made a gesture to tell us not to make a sound. Everyone kept their postures like puppets, motionless, with their ears pricked up.

The bathroom was silent, we didn't dare to breathe, our hearts were in our throats.I don't know how long it took, maybe two or three minutes.My mind is so numb that I have lost the notion of time.