Nightmare Attack

Chen Xiaomeng's face was gloomy, her eyes slightly cold, and half of a sharp wooden hairpin was exposed from her left cuff.

Jiang Cheng was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly whispered: "I was joking with you, I saw you were nervous just now." He raised his head and said righteously: "I'd better go out first."

Chen Xiaomeng took back the wooden hairpin without saying a word and made way for him.

Jiang Cheng quietly moved behind the door and looked along the crack of the door for a long time. Finally, under Chen Xiaomeng's pressure, he slowly opened the door and waited for a while before walking out.

The whole hotel was quiet, as if there was no one alive.

They did not go directly up the stairs, but planned to check the entire first floor.

After all, if there was an ambush here, they would face the embarrassing situation of being blocked upstairs if they went up rashly.

Chen Xiaomeng followed Jiang Cheng quietly about 2 meters away. She made up her mind that if she encountered an ambush, she would decisively abandon Jiang Cheng and rush to the third floor to catch Qian Jianxiu.

She only hoped that Jiang Cheng could delay for a little longer so that she could leave safely.

They first walked into the bathroom to check. After all, this was Jiang Cheng's birthplace and had special feelings for him.

Due to lighting problems, it was very dark inside, the low ceiling was covered with cobwebs, and there were faint brown stains remaining on the walls, along with an unpleasant stench.

They opened all the bathroom stall doors and found no one inside.

The two men signaled with their eyes and quietly retreated.

Then they came to the kitchen door, which was the only unexplored area on the first floor. If nothing was found here, it meant that the village chief and his party had not arrived yet.

This was good news for them, but neither of them had any joy on their faces.

Because this also means that the "accomplice" has succeeded.

Even left this world through the door.

Jiang Cheng took a deep breath and pushed open the kitchen door. The sharp "squeaking" sound was like a pair of scissors, cutting the heartstrings of the two of them.

Chen Xiaomeng glared at Jiang Cheng, seeming to blame him for being so careless and making such a big noise.

But Jiang Cheng knew in his heart that this was not his problem. He did not use any force, but that the door had been tampered with.

Now that the matter was over, Chen Xiaomeng stopped complaining and they immediately entered the kitchen. A sharp piece of iron appeared in Jiang Cheng's hand, and Chen Xiaomeng was holding a wooden hairpin.

More than ten seconds passed, and there was still no change in the kitchen.

Now it was Chen Xiaomeng's turn to be confused.

Jiang Cheng seemed to realize something and walked towards the kitchen. Chen Xiaomeng turned around and closed the kitchen door, then kept a relatively safe distance from Jiang Cheng.

The kitchen was larger than they imagined. After passing the stove filled with a row of dark iron pots, there was a semi-partitioned room used to store firewood.

There were piles of firewood everywhere inside, neatly stacked in bundles.

Chen Xiaomeng's face suddenly darkened, and she smelled a smell that made her uneasy.

It's the smell of blood.

After Jiang Cheng walked into the room where the firewood was piled, he moved a bundle of firewood near the wall. Chen Xiaomeng's vision suddenly changed. From her position, she could just see a pair of exposed feet.

Jiang Cheng slowly knelt down and took off the light blue floral apron covering the deceased's face. Sure enough, the deceased was Qian Jianshe, the owner of the hotel.

His body was in a curled-up position, his arms were tied behind his back with a hemp rope, and his mouth was stuffed with a tattered rag. His eyes were wide open, his entire face was weirdly twisted, and his body was covered with large amounts of blood, which made him look very scary.

Chen Xiaomeng found two more bodies in a remote location on the other side.

One was that of a pregnant woman whom they had met before. She was the pregnant wife of Qian Jianshe and the proprietress of Anping Hotel.

There was also a young man, probably just an adult, whom they had never seen before, but from the way he was dressed, he looked like a service staff member in the hotel.

The necks of all three people were cut open, and their throats were sealed with a single knife.

Jiang Cheng stood up, walked to the window covered by a bamboo mat, and pulled off the bamboo mat.

The room was much brighter now.

The two carefully examined the three dead people and found that only the hotel owner Qian Jianshe had a fatal wound on his neck and many irregular scars on his body.

Considering his tied hands and the rag stuffed in his mouth, it is not difficult to guess that he suffered inhuman torture before his death.

It was their "associate" who lost contact.

Torture was not the purpose, the purpose was to extract information from him.

As the room became brighter, they discovered some shallow bloody footprints on the oil-stained ground. The footprints started from here and led outside.

They followed the footprints and came to a corner of the kitchen.

This place is very hidden. There are several large brooms made of bamboo piled here, and there is a dark green water tank next to it.

It was here that the footprints disappeared.

Chen Xiaomeng immediately became vigilant.

She suspected that person was lurking in the

To her surprise, Jiang Cheng walked forward and found a low secret door through the gap between the broom and the water tank.

The height of the secret door can only allow an adult to crawl in while squatting, and a copper ring is tied to the door.

Jiang Cheng held his breath. The moment he pulled the ring, he ducked behind the water tank at an extremely fast speed.

But fortunately, nothing suddenly appeared and attacked.

After a while, he carefully poked his head out.

There was light spilling out of the secret door, and there was an exquisite candlestick in the corner, with a white candle as thick as a baby's arm burning faintly on it.

A small wooden staircase came into view.

Bloody footprints were also left on the stairs.

Jiang Cheng quietly stepped back a few steps, came to Chen Xiaomeng's side, and suddenly said, "How did you get in when I met you in the abandoned building of Qian's house before?"

Chen Xiaomeng originally didn't want to answer his question, but Jiang Cheng's expression was very different from before, and even gave her a vague illusion of threat.

She couldn't guess the meaning of Jiang Cheng's question now, but she still subconsciously answered: "Enter from the second floor, through the rope."

"You didn't go to the first floor?"

"No, I just searched on the second floor and noticed someone coming in. Then you alerted the ghost, and then" Chen Xiaomeng did not continue.

Jiang Cheng knew what happened next. He narrowed his eyes slightly and said after a moment, "It's Li Lu."

Chen Xiaomeng blinked: "Is it her?"

"Well, on the stairs of Qian's abandoned building, I found some very strange footprints, which should have been left by women." He looked at Chen Xiaomeng and said slowly, "I thought it was you before."

Suddenly a light flashed in front of Chen Xiaomeng's eyes, and she seemed to realize the problem.

Li Lu had previously stayed alone in the Qian family's old house on the pretext of an injured leg.

Of all the people, she was the only one who had enough time to explore the abandoned building of the Qian family, and she was able to avoid the eyes and ears of the others.