Please listen to the voice of black magic

The large wooden door to the Nares mansion was locked.

Annan repeated his old trick and shot a black snake through the lock of the mansion's door, opened the door and walked in.

"No one is there."

Annan looked around the inside of the mansion, but no one could be seen in this quiet mansion, and the legendary corpse could not be found.

"That's what I said..."

Annan stared at the floor of the mansion.

He felt that there was something underneath this mansion.

"Roderick!"

Annan turned around and shouted to Rodrick who was walking this way.

"Is there a basement under this house?"

"Basement? No."

Roderick walked over quickly.

"I have lived here since I was a child. I lived here until I left the family two years ago. I can't say that I am familiar with everything in the mansion, but I am certain that there is no basement here."

"There's none?"

Annan rubbed his chin and thought.

He still felt like there was something underneath the house.

"Rodrick, maybe this place has been renovated in the two years since you left. Let's look around to see if there is an entrance to the underground."

"……good."

Rodrick didn't think that Annan was making trouble unreasonably. He knew how outrageous this boy's intuition was, and it was very likely that the other person's feeling was right.

"Wait a minute, are you sure there is no one else here? Even if no one is here, there might be a trap."

Veronica. Buck stood at the door of the mansion and did not go in. She really couldn't rest assured about this place where many people died last night.

Even though she couldn't see any corpses, blood stains, or even smell, she was still wary.

"We will be careful, Miss Buck, please stay here to look out."

Roderick was almost doomed here last night, and he was no less vigilant than Veronica.

However, at this stage of development, he cannot stand still. Even if there is danger, he can only bite the bullet and move forward bravely.

"...Okay then, try to be careful."

Veronica finally sighed and decided to stay at the door with her bodyguard.

"Veronica, I thought you would want to be the first to grasp the weakness of the Nares family."

After Annan and Rodrick left, Caleb. Ruth, the silent bodyguard, finally spoke.

"There must be some useful things left in this Nares family's headquarters. Don't you plan to be the first to get it?"

"Since you have decided to cooperate, don't push people too hard."

Veronica took out a pack of women's cigarettes from her handbag, lit them and smoked them absentmindedly.

"Besides, I think so. Some things are better not to be seen... I suspect that the bodies of those dead Nares family members are likely to be used..."

The beautiful woman shook her head slightly and was unwilling to continue talking.

"I see."

Caleb. Lusming came to his senses, and then he returned to silence and continued to guard Veronica's side.

On the other side, Annan and his two men walked into the Nares mansion and quickly found something suspicious.

"I don't remember such a door here."

Roderick looked at the secret door on the floor with a gloomy expression.

He was now in a utility room where various tools were placed, and in his memory, at least two years ago, such a thing definitely did not exist in this place.

"It seems like they didn't hide it carefully. It's too obvious. Is it because they are in a hurry?"

Annan discovered the secret door on the floor and easily opened the door panel.

"It's not locked at all, and this is the only place in the utility room that's empty. No matter how you look at it, there's something wrong with it."

Annan glanced twice at the dark passage below and did not walk down so blindly.

He found a flashlight in the utility room. After having a light source, he held the flashlight in one hand and a small submachine gun in the other, and cautiously walked into the spiral staircase behind the secret door.

Roderick also took out his pistol and followed carefully.

"It's not very deep."

The spiral staircase was not long, and Annan reached the end in just a few steps.

Then, under the light of the flashlight in his hand, Annan clearly saw the scene in the basement.

"Really?"

"This is……"

After Roderick saw clearly what was here, he was so excited that he couldn't help himself.

His complexion changed continuously, from white to red like a face change, and his body was shaking like chaff.

"Although they have all turned into skin and bones, and their original appearance cannot be seen at all, this number should be the corpses of the disappeared members of the Nares family."

Annan looked at the stacked corpses in front of him with a normal expression.

"There is no smell or blood smell. There is no peculiar smell in this place at all. It's really strange. It is obviously an underground place with little ventilation. Well, there doesn't seem to be any traces on the ground. However, this should be the venue for some kind of magic ceremony, yes. , black magic ritual.”

Roderick bit his lip tightly, trying to calm down.

But he found that he couldn't do it.

He felt like the blood in his body was boiling and his whole body was feeling hot.

Annan, who noticed Rodrick's condition, immediately took out a sedative from his pocket and inserted it into Rodrick's arm.

"Are you feeling better?"

Annan pulled out the empty sedative and carefully looked at Roderick's expression.

"...It's not good at all."

Under the influence of the sedative, Roderick's feeling became a little numb, but it was so much that the vampire's bloody nature, which was almost uncontrollable, was finally suppressed by force.

Having said that, Roderick did not become calm because of this. He felt that if he continued to stay here, he might still have another attack.

"...I'm sorry, can I leave the inspection here to you?"

Roderick had turned around at this time and walked towards the spiral staircase of the exit.

"No problem, I think there should be no danger here, probably."

Annan waved his hand and watched the staggering Roderick leave.

"Okay, is there anything valuable left here?"

Annan walked around with a flashlight, and then he found the light switch in the basement.

The switch here still works. After pressing the switch, sufficient light comes on in the basement.

"This basement is not very big. It was really built secretly?"

Annan turned off the flashlight and started groping around here.

"The venue for black magic rituals, is this considered an altar?"

After Annan felt that there should be no danger left here, he began to wander around freely, and even boldly touched and inspected the dried corpses.

"The flesh and blood is like a corpse that has been drained, huh? I remember that Mr. Detective said that the white knights seemed to have attacked certain targets when the incident occurred. Could it be that..."