amaotonovel Chapter 2250 Jincheng comes late in autumn (4)
Chapter 2250 Jincheng comes late in autumn (4)
Chapter 2250: Late Autumn in Jincheng (Forty)
A long black dress fell on the slightly damp floor. When Talia landed, she looked towards the area where the green was the most intense, but she did not see Pamela.
"What's going on? Didn't we agree to meet in the garden?" She muttered a little puzzled and walked out of the garden.
But at this moment, her nose moved slightly, and the breeze blowing from the south corner of the garden brought a subtle smell of blood.
Talia's first reaction was that someone might be preparing food in the kitchen. Although she was a seasoned female killer, her sense of smell was not sensitive enough to distinguish between human blood and pig blood.
Contrary to what many people imagine, even upper-class banquets are not filled with fragrant aromas. Smells of various ingredients waft from the kitchen, with the smell of blood and offal usually the heaviest. Women who are menstruating will also have the smell of blood on their bodies. It is not a very uncommon smell.
But when Talia turned around, she saw that the manor's buildings were in the north, and the back door of the manor was in the south. There was nothing there except a large garden. It was obviously impossible for anyone to process fresh ingredients there.
After standing there for dozens of seconds without seeing Pamela, Talia knew that she must have been tripped up by something else, but what was worse might be that the smell of blood came from her.
Although Talia knew Pamela well enough to decide this was unlikely, she still decided to go and have a look. After all, they needed Pamela's help to complete their plan.
Talia walked forward in the direction of the wind, bypassed the tool room next to the east wall of the big tree in the center of the garden, and came to the southwest corner of the garden.
This place seemed a bit desolate, obviously it had not been developed yet. The brick road seemed to be intended to enclose some more fertile soil. Talia looked at the shape of the ridges and thought that Schiller might be planning to grow vegetables here.
Continue walking forward, passing the small vegetable garden and you will arrive at the back door of the garden, but the back door is locked at this time. Behind it is an old manor area with dim lights. Only the fire of the Gotham River can be seen on the distant horizon.
The smell of blood here was getting stronger and stronger, but it was still faint. Talia wandered around here for a long time and finally, based on her rich experience, she guessed that the smell of blood might be coming from underground.
In fact, there is no other possible answer. There are only low bushes and ridges around here. There is no place to hide anything. The only possibility is the cellar.
Talia knew that such a large manor could not be without a cellar. The cellars were usually located beneath the garden. This was because the construction technology was not mature enough when the manor was built. Wooden and stone buildings were different from reinforced concrete buildings. The supporting force of the foundation was not that strong. Building a cellar under the main building could easily cause the ground to collapse. Therefore, placing it under the garden was a common choice.
Talia began to look for the entrance to the cellar nearby, and finally she found a dilapidated, rusty iron door in the middle of a square bush that looked like a decorative ornament at the intersection of two paths.
This camouflage makes good use of optical illusions, making people think that the square bushes are enclosed, but in fact there is a small gap close to the wall, which cannot be seen unless you turn around completely.
And because there is a wall behind when looking from the front, most people would feel that there is no need to turn around. The mud there is particularly loose. Even Talia, who was looking for it with a purpose, hesitated for a few seconds about whether to go over because she was worried about getting her shoes dirty.
Fortunately, she was cautious and finally chose to go over and found the entrance to the cellar.
As soon as they entered the center of the bushes, the smell of blood became stronger. Talia carefully put on gloves, took off her high heels, stood barefoot on the edge of the concrete platform, and squatted down to check the rust on the door.
If no one has opened the door for a long time, rust will accumulate on the door hinges. However, if it has not been used for a while and is suddenly opened recently, there will be traces of friction on the rust. By the depth of the traces and the degree of the reappearance of rust, you can roughly determine how long ago the door was opened and how many times it has been opened recently.
Talia observed and found that the last time this door was opened was probably today, but it had not been used for a long time before that, so this should not be the storage room for banquet ingredients, because if it were, the door should have been opened frequently in the past week to prepare banquet dishes.
Talia took another look at the lock on the cellar door and saw that it was locked from the inside, which meant that there must be another entrance to the cellar, most likely leading to the interior of the manor.
Talia thought for a moment, then she took out a small lighting device from her bag. However, she did not dare to shine it directly into the crack of the cellar. She just walked towards the direction of the manor building and shone it from a distance, imitating the lights of the manor.
Great, it's the simplest and most practical bolt, which means Talia has a way to hook it open from the outside.
Talia is very familiar with this job. Her earrings are in the shape of peacock feather eye spots, with a circle of metal filaments on the outside and a golden sequin inside. After the sequins are removed, the remaining metal filaments become a wire ring.
Then he took out a fishing line from his bag, tied it to the wire ring and let it in through the gap in the cellar door. After a few tries, he was able to use the wire ring to cover the iron rod of the bolt.
After making sure it was put in, she used the friction between the uneven wire and the iron rod to slowly move the iron rod out. Talia adjusted it several times and found an angle that was the fastest and quietest.
But then she took out the wire ring again and changed the direction of the bolt handle, because the bolt is equivalent to a lever, when inserted, both ends are equally heavy, but when it is about to come out, the handle side must be heavier.
If you just put the front half of the bolt on to open it, when the bolt falls off, the handle will surely fall down with the entire iron rod. Although it will not fall, it will hit the iron ring that fixes the handle and make a noise.
And if Talia changes direction at this time and slowly pulls the handle, the handle will always not hit the iron ring that fixes it, and there will always be no sound.
Talia adjusted for a while, and after hearing a slight click, she finally opened the door safely.
She put away her tools, turned around and hid her high heels under the grass, then used her fingers to hold the door of the cellar and slowly lifted the door up.
To prevent the door from being blown down by the wind, Talia's hand never left the door, but she twisted her body flexibly, turned around, and put one foot on the ladder.
After her first foot landed on the ground, she decisively turned around and faced the inside of the cellar to prevent any danger from behind her. Then she held the cellar door with one hand and walked slowly down.
The cellar was pitch black and Talia didn't dare turn on the light. Her feet felt some damp vapor and the smell of blood was getting stronger.
Going further, Talia discovered that this did not look like a cellar, but rather like a specially built underground fortress. The corridor was not narrow, but rather wide and magnificent like underground ruins.
Talia looked carefully at the floor tiles and walls here, and then determined that this was neither the cellar of an ordinary manor nor a building built by Schiller later.
Then there is only one possibility left, that the original owner of the manor built this place.
Talia didn't know much about the predecessor of Rodriguez Manor, but she knew that given the geography of the East Coast of the United States and the overall strength of the United States, the owners of the manor should not need to dig complex mazes of tunnels for garrisoning or escaping like the castle owners in Europe.
So it is worth thinking about why this kind of underground fortress was built.
Going further in, Talia heard heavy breathing and thought that this must be the source of the smell of blood.
Sure enough, a little light coming from the corner at the end of the dark corridor illuminated the scene in the room. A figure was lying on the ground, pressing his abdomen, breathing slowly, and his chest rising and falling very slowly.
Before Talia had walked all the way over, she felt a chill running down her bones. With the help of the light, she saw that the walls of the cell where the man was imprisoned were covered with fine ice.
The glowing blue blood flowed into the corridor, which made Talia hesitate. If the opponent was not human, she was not 100% sure that he would not suddenly attack and hurt people.
In the end, Talia chose to move over.
There is no other reason. If Schiller chooses to capture rather than completely destroy an alien race, it proves that this non-human existence must have its value. Talia has always liked valuable things.
If the other person lost consciousness, she would take some blood and then leave. This blood obviously had a strong icy power and might be able to become the raw material for something. If the other person was still alive and could communicate, she might be able to figure out why Schiller had locked him up here.
Talia walked quietly along the other side of the corridor and tiptoed to the opposite side of the cell. Under the dim light, she saw that this was a handsome young man.
He had a handsome face that was slightly feminine and melancholy. His skin color, which had turned blue, did not affect his facial features, which became a hazy oil painting under the dim light.
For a moment, Talia was mesmerized by the sight of this cold, blue-skinned creature, lying in the dark cage like a captured animal or a piece of shattered ice.
At this moment, Talia's heart began to beat violently, and she suddenly realized that she seemed to have no right to say that Pamela's habit was strange.
Humans always have their own weird habits. If you think you don't have them, then it must be because the time is not right yet. Talia now understands this deeply.
If she had to sum it up, she thought she liked things that were human-like but not human. For many people, this was an extremely terrifying existence, but for Talia, she liked their vulnerable, crazy, and uncontrollable moments.
She somehow walked to the other side of the cage.
The moment the green eyes met hers, Talia's words were finalized.
That's him.
But at this moment, a human-like panic suddenly appeared on the face of the strange creature, and he opened his dry lips and mouthed to Talia.
"run!"
The bright light flashed by, and the dark shadow at the corner appeared for only a few tenths of a second. By the time Talia was startled, the extreme danger was hidden in the darkness and quickly emerged from the darkness.
boom!
(End of this chapter)