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  Chapter 546 Hidden Secret

  When Duanmuhuai and Mary returned to Baskerville Manor, they saw other people walking over with disturbed expressions.

   "Mr. Duanmu, may I ask what... your clothes just now?!"

  Seeing the torn clothes on Duanmuhuai's chest, Baroness Baskerville was taken aback, while Duanmuhuai waved her hand.

   "Don't worry, I just had a fight with that monster just now, nothing serious."

   "Hey? Ah, is that so? Are you injured? Do you want to call a doctor..."

   "It's okay, that kind of thing can't hurt me, it's just that the clothes are damaged."

   "Is that so......"

  Hearing Duanmuhuai's answer, Baroness Baskerville also breathed a sigh of relief, and at this time Duanmuhuai also came to her side and stretched out his hand.

   "Although it's a bit presumptuous, do you have any impression of this thing?"

"This is………"

  Looking at the pendant lying on Duanmuhuai's palm, Baroness Baskerville frowned slightly, recalling carefully.

   "I seem to have seen it somewhere, but..."

   "This is the pendant held by the ancestors of the Baskervilles."

   Fortunately, someone here still knows about it. At this moment, the old butler also came over, looked at the pendant and said.

   "Oh? Have you seen it?"

   "I've only seen it in paintings."

   "Draw on?"

   "Yes, it is the portrait of Baskerville's ancestor... Please follow me."

Under the leadership of the old butler, Duanmuhuai came to the living room. There were indeed a bunch of portraits of the ancestors of the Baskerville family hanging here, and then the old butler pointed to a young man in luxurious clothes, standing on a stone with a long sword in his hand. portrait.

   "It's him, the legendary ancestor..."

  Although the tone of the old butler was somewhat vague, the only one who mentioned the legendary ancestor of the Baskerville family was the guy with a bad reputation. Looking carefully, Duanmu Huai could indeed see a pendant similar to the one in his hand hanging on his chest, not only that, most of the portraits of the people before him also had this pendant.

   "Is this the emblem of the Baskerville family?"

  Old Continent nobles will naturally have their own different family crests, but Duanmu Huai doesn't know if the Baskerville family has one.

"That's not clear, I've only heard that it was a pendant that was passed down from generation to generation in the Baskerville family, until the ancestor. After that, the pendant disappeared, and no one knows where it went ...I really don't know where you found it, Mr. Duanmu."

   "Oh, from the monster I took care of."

"Why?!"

   I have to say that the baroness and the old butler were taken aback when they heard this.

   "Could it be that that magic dog is the ancestor?"

   "From the current point of view, maybe so, but... I always feel that things are a bit strange."

At least as far as Duanmuhuai saw the past from the pendant, there must be something wrong with the death of the ancestor. According to the legend of the Baskerville family, the people who arrived behind saw the corpses of the ancestor and the girl. There is also a hound biting the corpse of the ancestor around.

  Although there is no explanation in the story, judging from the sequence, those who have heard the story think that the ancestor killed the girl, and then was punished by the magic dog to kill such an order.

  But based on what Duanmuhuai saw in the past, it is basically impossible for the ancestor to be the girl's opponent. In the last scene, it is obvious that the ancestor was killed by the girl.

  Of course, the premise is that the girl is not human---well, it does not look like a human.

   "What is this pendant for?"

   "I can't see it either...um..."

   Duanmuhuai carefully looked at the pendant in his hand, and at this moment, Ling Nu got out of Duanmuhuai's pocket, jumped onto his hand, stretched out her paw and patted the pendant a few times. Then………

   "Crack!"

  Accompanied by a light sound, the pendant suddenly opened in the next moment and turned into a key-like shape.

   "This, what is this?"

  Seeing this scene, everyone was taken aback, and Duanmu Huai also raised his eyebrows.

   "Do you know how to use this thing?"

"this…………"

  The Baroness and the old butler exchanged glances and shook their heads.

   "Meow."

  However, Ling Nu seemed to know something, she yelled, then jumped off Duan Muhuai's shoulder, and ran towards the house. And Duanmuhuai and the others curiously followed the black cat through the corridor, and then came to... the study of the patriarch of the Baskerville family.

   "What's in here?"

  Everyone walked into the study with doubts on their faces, but Ling Nu didn't seem to care. She jumped onto the desk in twos and then stretched out her hand to pat the cabinet next to her. Only then did Duanmu Huai realize that there was a strange embossed decoration on the wall next to the cabinet. With the idea of ​​trying it out, he put the pendant in his hand into the gap in the middle of the embossed.

Then………

   "Click."

  Accompanied by a soft sound, the bookcase that originally stood tall by the wall suddenly slid open to the side, revealing a stone door leading to the ground.

"What's this?"

   Duanmuhuai looked at the two of them, the old housekeeper and the baroness were equally confused.

   "Sorry sir, we never knew..."

   "It seems that your black cat, sir, knows our own family better than us..."

   After all, Suzuna is a ninja, so finding a place to hide is already a vocation for a ninja.

   "In short, let's go in and have a look."

  The secret room is also a necessary part of the adventure. Although I didn't expect to find it at this time, but if I encounter the secret room and don't go in, I am obviously sorry as a player and investigator.

Duanmuhuai picked up the flashlight, followed by the baroness and the old housekeeper. Although Mary was a little curious, considering that this was a private matter of the Baskerville family, she did not join in, and Duanmuhuai also asked Lorena to stop other People—after all, I don't know what's down here, if it's something like a sealed evil god, it will be troublesome.

  The underground passage is very wide and deep, and it is very cold inside. To be honest, Duanmuhuai once hoped to let the baroness wait outside. After all, she is not in good health now, let alone suitable for this occasion. But the baroness refused.

   "Now I am the only survivor of the Baskerville family. I must know everything that happened to this family before I can pass it on."

  While speaking, the baroness stroked her belly—how should I put it, a mother is strong, this is how the phrase is used.

   It's just...

  Duanmuhuai held a flashlight and looked around.

  Mysterious secret room, old butler, there won't be anything related to bats in it, right?

  At the end of the passage, there is a wide basement, but there is no Batmobile here, and of course there is no Bat Armor. However, there are many weapons and armors here, even weapons such as crossbows and arrows.

   "What the **** is..."

   "What the **** are the ancestors doing?"

  Seeing this scene, not only Duanmu Huai was taken aback, even the baroness and the butler were dumbfounded looking at the scene before them.

   "Ah, ma'am, here are the records of the Baskervilles!"

  At this moment, the old butler seemed to have seen something, and hurried to a wall, which was covered with dust, but he could still see some characters engraved on it. The old butler wiped the wall desperately, and quickly wiped clean the part of the wall covered by dust and cobwebs. Although he himself was covered in dust, he didn't seem to care—from this point of view, the old butler treated Basque The Weir family also seems to be quite loyal.

  The records on the wall are the legends of the bravery of the ancestors of the Baskerville family. How should I put it, it looks more like a fantasy novel. According to the records on the wall, the earliest ancestor of the Baskerville family was an exorcist. When he came here, the lord's daughter was haunted by monsters, and then the ancestor expelled the monsters that entangled the lord's daughter, and then Baskerville The ancestor of the Weir family married the lord's daughter, and then made a vow.

  As the descendants of the exorcists, they want to protect this territory from all demons and ghosts, which is also regarded as the testimony of the love between the exorcists and the lord's daughter. So after that, the patriarchal heirs of the Baskerville family will learn all kinds of exorcism skills and fight against the demons that attack their territory...

   Frankly, this looks more like some kind of fantasy than a record.

   But for the baroness and the old butler... there was something unimaginably real.

   "I never expected that the Baskerville family would have such a secret past..."

The old butler looked at the secret room in surprise, and the baroness next to him was also shocked, but Duanmuhuai looked very calm. The image he saw when he touched the badge had already made Duanmuhuai suspicious of the rumor. Now it seems that things are somewhat clear. Obviously, the girl captured by the ancestor of Baskerville was not a human being, but a monster like a werewolf. She chose to flee before the Lord Baskerville killed her, and was chased by the other party. Then the girl killed the lord...

   Well, how should I put it, things like capsized boats in the gutter do happen occasionally.

Um? But according to the legend, the girl's body was found after that.

  Unfortunately, it was more than a hundred years ago, and there must be no useful clues now.

In fact, Duanmuhuai really wanted to investigate the matter of the ancestor more than a hundred years ago, especially after seeing the vision of the past, he always felt that this matter was a bit strange. As a judge, Duanmuhuai can be sure that there is absolutely There is a taste of conspiracy. But it's a pity that too much time has passed, and the Baskerville family has changed for several generations.

  Fortunately, there is indeed a diary here that can be used to answer questions!

   Geez, it's great that the world loves journaling, both for victims and perpetrators alike.

   To be honest, Duanmuhuai has never been able to understand that the victim would write a diary just in case, why would the criminal try to confess his seamless criminal plan in the diary?

  Through that ancestor's diary, Duanmu Huai and others discovered something.

  According to the records in the diary, this ancestor, like his ancestors, inherited the power of the exorcist, and has been secretly protecting the residents of this area.

   Then, the ancestor met a scholar from other places.

  He called himself Dominique, a scholar of mysticism, and he came here to study the folk customs and legends here. At the beginning, the ancestor was also a little curious about his research, and had been communicating with the other party, but then he gradually discovered that there seemed to be something wrong with this scholar named Dominique.

   To put it simply, Dominic once wrote him a letter, expressing that he wanted to investigate some legends in the mountains. But in another letter that followed, Dominic felt a certain fear, claiming that "something has been following him", and the ancestors at that time naturally had doubts about what happened to Dominic, so he went to that place. Residence of scholars.

  At that time, he saw Dominic lying on a chair, looking seriously ill. The scholar said that he had suffered from the wind and cold in the mountains, and at the same time hoped that his ancestors would help him recover some things that fell in the mountains. At that time, the ancestor didn't doubt it, so he agreed.

   But later, the ancestors discovered that something was wrong with Dominic's situation, and...

"... The things he asked me to collect are not as simple as he said. Although he himself said that this is just some kind of scientific instrument, he doesn't know. I have also learned related knowledge. I can be sure that These parts are not used in ordinary scientific instruments at all, I began to doubt whether he is an ordinary scholar, and then I conducted some investigations..."

   There is no specific process written in the middle, but the next part is very clear.

"Sure enough! He is not a scholar, but a demon in human skin! I don't know what he wants, but I will never let him succeed! He has already gathered all the things he needs, but I will not let him go At the mercy of me, I have already prepared, that thing has been hidden in the secret room by me, and as long as he can't find that thing, then he can't leave. In this way, I can completely destroy it, even if he Even my lackeys can't stop me..."

  The diary ends here.

   "This is really a very interesting record."

   After reading the diary, Duanmuhuai raised his eyebrows, then looked around, and then, he saw a strange thing on the table next to him.

It looks like some kind of glass product, with a circular base underneath, a glass barrier on top, and a button-like device on the outside, indeed, from the outside, it does look like some kind of science instrument.

   It's just...

   "It's actually this thing?"

Seeing that thing, Duanmu Huai frowned slightly. Although he hadn't seen this thing with his own eyes, he had heard it from many players on the forum... After all, it was one of the most commonly used items for players to check in. up.

  Well, if this is the case, then it is not surprising that the ancestor capsized in the gutter.

  After all, his enemy is not a monster, but...

   After reading the diary, the baroness and the old butler were extremely surprised.

   "Dominique's family? Does it have anything to do with them?"

"oh?"

  Hearing this, Duanmu Huai turned to look at the two of them.

   "Why, do you know?"

   "Yes, Dominic's family is very famous in this area. I heard that the old man Dominic is very knowledgeable..."

  The old butler's expression was a bit complicated.

   "How many people are there in Dominique's family?"

   "I remember that it seems to be him and his granddaughter..."

  Hehehe, old man and granddaughter.

  Hearing this, Duanmuhuai narrowed his eyes, and a chill flashed in his eyes.

   "Where is that Dominique's house?"

   Then, he asked.

  Dominique's house is located in a remote mountain forest outside the town. According to the old housekeeper, the old Mr. Dominique and his granddaughter have always lived here.

  For the people in this small town, Mr. Dominique is a difficult person to get along with, but his granddaughter seems to come out to buy occasionally. In the eyes of the town residents, they are just ordinary residents, nothing more.

   Until today.

   "Good evening and Merry Christmas!"

  Accompanied by the sound of speaking, Duanmuhuai kicked open the closed door, and strode into the dark and gloomy hut in front of him. At the moment, he looks like a random killer on Christmas Eve, trying to kill every innocent victim who is celebrating Christmas with a grinning grin—well, technically not wrong.

   "You, who are you?"

   Facing Duanmuhuai's sudden intrusion, a girl came out with a terrified expression, looked at him and shouted, still holding a microphone in her hand.

   "Please leave immediately, or I will call the police!"

   "Oh, I was just passing by, so I wanted to come in and have a look, then again..."

  Speaking of this, Duanmuhuai stared fiercely at the girl in front of him, parted the corners of his mouth, and revealed a ferocious smile.

"You live in such a remote place, and you don't even have a few dogs to visit the nursing home. This is really careless... Or are you worried that these dogs will bite your throat first? From aliens bastard!?"

  After the words fell, Duanmu Huai suddenly grabbed the chair beside him and threw a head-on blow at the girl. Facing Duanmuhuai's sudden attack, the girl screamed suddenly and dodged backwards. I saw the chair slamming heavily on the door frame next to the girl, and at the same time, Duanmuhuai rushed in, clenched his right hand suddenly, and swung directly at the girl's face, punching her in the face!

"boom!"

   "———————!!"

  Duanmuhuai's punch was enough to smash the heads of ordinary people, but when it hit the girl's face, it only gave off a heavy echo like a tire. However, this blow was enough to make the opponent scream in pain. Along with the monster-like scream, the face of the girl who was hit by Duanmuhuai's face suddenly split open, and then, a monster head full of tentacles just like that Emerged from it, rushed towards Duanmuhuai!

   That was the distorted and hideous face that Duanmuhuai had seen in the phantom of the past!

  (end of this chapter)