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Chapter 25 February [-]th
This is a black building with about four or five floors. It is not as imposing as the buildings on the Bund and Nanjing Road, nor as elegant as the small western-style buildings on Huaihai West Road.This black house gave people a gloomy and oppressive feeling, like a solid medieval castle standing in the middle of two small roads, not many people noticed its existence, except Ye Xiao and me.

We walked to the gate, and the house number read "No. 125, Nanhu Road".Ye Xiao said to me: "Before liberation, the house number here was No. 79, Tongtian Road."

"That's the address of Duanmu Yiyun's studio in his work log." I continued.

"Yes, I checked. This building was built by the Japanese in 1942. It was the command post of a secret department of the Japanese Army at that time. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the National Government took over here and became the Ministry of Health of the Executive Yuan. A research institution, Duanmu Yiyun Studio is a part of it. Yesterday in the archives, we saw that the investigation report on the death incident in the ALT experiment said at the end that the ATL experiment was stopped, and the queen’s body was temporarily stored in basement."

"I see. You said that we came here to find the queen today."

But he sighed: "It depends on our luck, maybe there is only a [-]% possibility, because it is written in the document that the body is temporarily stored in the basement, and the files behind are gone, maybe It stopped with the disbandment of the studio, or it may have been destroyed, or even taken to Taiwan. Therefore, we cannot rule out the possibility that the Queen's body was transported to other places later."

"I hope the queen is still here." I looked up at the black exterior wall of the building again, and my heart beat wildly.

Ye Xiao led me into the gate, this is a public institution now, there are few people, the building seems empty, we found the person in charge here, Ye Xiao showed his work card of the Public Security Bureau, and asked about the building. Some aspects of the building.The people here don't seem to be very familiar with this building, so they can't answer anything.Finally, Ye Xiaowen went to the basement.

"The basement has never been opened. No one knows what's inside, but you can take a look if you want." After that, the person in charge found a big and heavy key from a safe , "It hasn't been used for decades, I don't know if it can still be opened, just try your luck. Do you want me to accompany you?"

"No need, let's go by ourselves, thank you for your cooperation." Ye Xiao took the key, and went straight to the basement with me.

In an inconspicuous corner on the ground floor, we found the door to the basement. It was made of steel and looked very strong. Ye Xiao inserted the key into the lock.Decades had passed, and there was a lot of rust in the keyhole, and it took him a lot of effort to open the lock.Then, he pushed open the door.

Inside the door is a row of steps going down.We looked down, and couldn't see anything clearly in the darkness, only a coolness emerged from the depths.

I was about to go down boldly, but Ye Xiao stopped me, and he turned to the basement door, where there was a row of old-fashioned electric switches, and he pushed the electric switches up.A ray of light suddenly appeared in the depths of the basement.

"You are great."

"Okay, let's go down." Ye Xiao walked down the steps, and I followed closely behind him.

The steps are very wide, about five or six people can stand side by side.Surrounded by cold walls with peeling plaster, I made my way down cautiously, following a gleam of light ahead.About 1 minute later, we saw a light bulb overhead, emitting a yellow light.The steps continued to go down, and we walked for another minute. It is estimated that we are now more than 1 meters vertically from the ground, but we are still going down.

"Why is the basement so deep?" I finally asked, I didn't expect our voice to echo several times in the long tunnel, I was so startled that I almost fell down the steps, Ye Xiao pulled me a handful.

"Be careful, this used to be a department of the Japanese Army. This basement was built by the Japanese military. I guess it might have some military function at that time, such as air defense, so it was built very deep and large." Ye Xiao reminded me.

We continued to walk down, and along the way we saw several electric lights with yellow lights.It suddenly occurred to me that in the archives yesterday, I saw in Duanmu Yiyun's work log that the reason why he wanted to put the queen's body in the basement was to imitate the environment of the Huiling Underground Palace.When I think of this, I feel a chill in my heart, no wonder he chose this place. Sure enough, I have a feeling of entering the tomb here, just like playing the last maze game in "Ghost of the Tomb". This kind of atmosphere, and here, is also a kind of virtuality, a virtuality that is as frightening as the real one, which makes me suddenly out of breath.Ye Xiao and I both held our breath and remained silent, we could only hear our own footsteps and echoes.In this environment, I think anyone will have a feeling of entering the underground palace, and will unknowingly regard himself as a tomb robber. In ancient times, most tomb robbers acted in partnership, and the two It's better to have a kinship relationship, just like Ye Xiao and I now, I don't know why I thought of this.But I understand that our purpose of entering here is to some extent the same as that of the tomb robbers - to find the queen.

Will the Queen be in there?Something twisted my heart again, and the image of a naked woman suddenly appeared in my mind, but this image did not bring me any excitement, but death and fear.I stopped suddenly.

"I don't want to go down." I said softly.

Ye Xiao turned his head, the yellow light shone in his eyes: "To be honest, I'm scared too."

"Then, let's go back."

"If we look back, we will be more afraid."

I didn't dare to look back, so I nodded to him, and we continued to walk down.

We finally reached the end of the steps, and a black iron gate blocked us under the yellow light.Ye Xiao tried to push the door with his hands, but the door was not locked, it was concealed, we walked in this door.what will i see
In the turbid, cold and humid air, we saw that this is a large space, about 100 square meters, with a row of lights hanging from the top, emitting yellow light.It was surrounded by rows of wooden shelves, probably used for displaying something, and in the middle was a large table with a shattered glass coffin on it.

The coffin was empty inside.

Ye Xiao and I looked at each other, he sighed, and then scanned the whole room, but found nothing but rows of wooden shelves and broken glassware.

The queen is not here.

Maybe it's already been transferred?Maybe they took it to Taiwan in 1949?Maybe it was destroyed by those ignorant people of the national government?In addition to the deep regret in my heart, I also secretly rejoiced that I really feared this woman.

"Look at the wall." Ye Xiao pointed to the wall.

On the white wall, I saw lines of large crooked characters written with paint—"Sea sailing depends on the helmsman, making revolution depends on Mao Zedong Thought", "Chairman Mao lives without bounds, Vice Chairman Lin will always be healthy", "Long live the Red Guards" .

what is this?How could the language of big-character posters that existed during the Cultural Revolution appear here?I am completely confused.

"It's unbelievable. The only explanation is that someone must have been here during the Cultural Revolution."

Ye Xiao is right, there is no other possibility, these large characters have "Vice Chairman Lin will always be healthy", indicating that the time should be before the Lin Biao incident in 1971.Before leaving the basement, I took another look at the shattered glass coffin, stretched out my hand, and touched the place where the queen lay. My fingers felt a cool touch, and the coolness instantly penetrated into my heart.

Back on the ground, we finally got a breath of fresh air.

We found the person in charge again and asked about the situation here during the Cultural Revolution.

"The situation at that time, our people here are not clear, why don't you go to the old Dong who is in the door room. He is a retired employee and has worked here for more than 40 years. He was also here during the Cultural Revolution."

The door room was very dark, and an old man in his 60s was sitting in it listening to an old-fashioned radio.

"Old Master Dong."

"Who are you?" The old man looked at us suspiciously.

"I'm from the Public Security Bureau." Ye Xiao took out his work ID card, "Master, we want to ask about the situation here during the Cultural Revolution."

The old man lowered his head and didn't answer. After a while, he finally squeezed out a few words: "Why are you still talking about the past?"

"It is indeed a matter of the past, but the matter of the past is related to the present, and human life is at stake." Ye Xiao said every word.

The old man looked at us and finally spoke: "It was the first year of the Cultural Revolution, and Red Guards were everywhere. Since we are a public institution and there are many intellectuals, a group of Red Guards occupied our unit. Every day Criticism meetings were held, revolutions were held, almost all the rooms were occupied by them, most of our employees were kicked out, and only I was left. These children are amazing, they said they would write in every room here Commemorate the quotations of Chairman Mao forever. They did exactly that, even the men’s and women’s toilets were not spared. In the end, only the basement was left that they never visited. They ordered me to open the door. I found the key and opened the door of the basement. They went down, I waited outside, I watched outside for a whole day, but I didn't see them coming out, and I didn't dare to go down alone, so I had to leave here and go out to avoid the limelight. I didn't come back until a month later, here No one has disappeared, so I locked the basement door."

"Master, do you know which school these Red Guards came from?"

"It's the nearby Nanhu Middle School."

"Master, thank you very much." We left here.

Walking out of the gate, I looked back at the building again, and my eyes seemed to be filled with the black exterior walls.I asked Ye Xiao, "Do you think the Red Guards are related to the Queen's body?"

"I don't know. If the Queen's body had been moved long ago, then the Red Guards would have seen nothing and had nothing to do with them. However, if the Queen's body had been stored in the basement, then the situation would be different. It's very complicated."

"I hope the old man remembers correctly." I quickened my pace.

(End of this chapter)