Mystery: The Returner of the Stars

Chapter 62 Secret Road and Chamber, A Corner of Fate

Docklands, Sunrise Workhouse.

Lecturer Furren stayed in the house where Professor Wayne lived the night before his disappearance, and two police officers were investigating various suspicious places beside him.

"Teacher, where are you? Are you kidding me, or are you really missing?" Lecturer Furren was worried.

He only got the news from the police the day after the teacher disappeared. It is said that someone from the workhouse went to the police station to call the police, and then the police notified him.

After receiving the news, he rushed to the poorhouse very quickly. After fully understanding the information the police had, he sent a letter to Mr. Hasta in a hurry on the third day.

As a lawyer, he also often dealt with the police department. He knew that in such cases as disappearance cases, if the missing person was not found within five days, it was basically a disaster.

Now, there are only two days left before the five-day time limit, and I hope everything is still in time.

The setting sun in the distance was gradually setting, and a darkness began to cover the entire workhouse.

Several police officers in charge of the case left two police officers to investigate in the workhouse, while the others went back to rest first.

At night, the night breeze was cool, Lecturer Furlun stayed in the room alone, locked the door, and did not dare to go out at will, for fear that he would disappear suddenly by accident.

Boom!Boom!Boom!
There was a knock on the door, and Lecturer Furren in the room immediately stood up from the bed, gripped a silver-plated cane, and stared in the direction of the door vigilantly and in panic.

Trying to calm down, he said in a trembling tone, "Who, who is outside?"

Boom boom boom!
The other party did not speak, but there were three more knocks on the door, which made Lecturer Furlun tremble again.

He was even more afraid to open the door.

When he was about to shout, someone outside said, "Lecturer Furren, it's me, open the door."

This voice is Mr. Hastur?
Lecturer Fran's tense spirit relaxed, took a few breaths, and hurriedly opened the door.

Outside the door, besides Mr. Hasta, there was another person, a man with a pale face and cold eyes.

"Mr. Hastur, you are finally here!"

Lecturer Furren was on the verge of tears of joy. It was torture for him to be here alone.

"Waiting for a friend, so I'm a little late."

"Hey, there's a reason for it."

Maric looked away in embarrassment. He arrived two hours later than the expected meeting time.

"Come in first, let's talk after closing the door."

Lecturer Furren got out of his way, and after Hastur and Maric came in, he closed and locked the door again.

Hastur sat on the edge of the bed, and said solemnly: "I have already learned the basic information from the police. I want to know, did Professor Wayne mention anything to you in advance?"

"Five days ago, when I was discussing the law with my teacher at home, he once said that he would come to the Sunrise Workhouse to take a look and see if everything here is developing in a good direction under the leadership of Vice President Bard. .”

"Only in this way?"

Hastur frowned slightly.

"The teacher is a very decisive person. The next day, he came here alone, and he wrote me a letter that night."

"What about the letter, show it to me."

"Here, I carry it with me all the time and I don't tell anyone else."

Lecturer Furren carefully took out the letter paper folded into small squares from his coat pocket.

Hastur took it, spread out the letter, and Maric came over and read it.

"Flon, my good student, I am writing to you by the dim light in my room at the Sunrise Workhouse.

A lot has changed here. Vice President Bard, who was successfully elected as the dean, is very kind to the children here. Whether it is food or clothing, they are much better than before.

My arrival was warmly welcomed by Dean Bard, who took me around many places, and everything seemed to be moving in a good direction.

But I felt deeply uneasy, it was too quiet here, and the natural and innocent smiles on the faces of the children gradually lost their natural and innocent smiles, and the eyes they looked at made me feel scared.

Those eyes are so calm and indifferent, as if they can see through everything, and it seems that there is another mature soul in the body. In short, those eyes should not be children's eyes!

I began to realize that there might be some weirdness here, and I also thought about leaving at first light as if nothing had happened.

Fran, my good student, but you should know my character, I will not leave easily, even if it may require a fight.

Well, what I'm saying is if, if anything changes, you go ask Hastur for help, he should know how to solve the problem. "

Hastur finished it, and re-read it twice, so as not to miss anything important.

The abnormality mentioned by Professor Wayne in the letter, Hastur had guessed it last time, but this time it was only confirmed.

What made Hasta unable to figure it out was Vice President Bard, who should be called Dean Bard now, and his performance didn't seem to be a problem.

Even this time when Professor Wayne disappeared, he was the one who called the police.

"Tsk, your teacher is really reckless. How can he, an old professor who studies knowledge, solve the weirdness that can affect the entire workhouse."

For Maric's words, Hasta deeply believed that if it was him, he would never let the matter develop to this point.

Knowing that there is a weirdness, of course he should leave here first, and then come to find a solution, instead of directly disappearing himself.

Professor Wayne is definitely a master of death!

Hastur put away other miscellaneous thoughts and asked, "You lived here last night, did you hear the bell?"

"Yes!" Lecturer Furun's expression was shocked, and he hurriedly lowered his voice: "It's still about that time!"

"Didn't you take a sneak peek?"

"No, I don't dare to take risks at will."

Lecturer Furren shook his head and sighed. He didn't dare to sleep at all last night, especially after hearing the sound of the bell.

"The sound of bells?"

Maric became interested, Hastur asked Lecturer Furren to explain to him, and took out his pocket watch to check the time.

It was still relatively early, 43:[-], and there was still a long time before the bell sounded.

Perhaps we can no longer just sit here and wait, but take the initiative to investigate.

Where would Professor Wayne be if he were simply imprisoned?
In two days, the police should have searched the entire workhouse several times, but nothing was found.

Secret passages?

In the secret passage where Dean Dan died?
Hastur thought for a long time, and finally made a decision.

"I may know where Professor Wayne is, let's go out now."

"It's already so late now?" Lecturer Furren was startled by Hastur's sudden decision.

"Well, it's very difficult to catch ghosts hiding in the dark during the day, they only come out at night."

"Do you need to call Dean Bud and them?"

"No, just the three of us."

……

Facing the weird clock tower, Maric immediately noticed this problem, and his expression became more dignified.

"You can ask your good friend to help."

"No problem, they've been waiting a long time."

Hastur had a brief conversation with Maric, Maric left for a while, and then came with four living corpses.

Before entering the workhouse, Hastur had Maric place his zombie squad nearby.

It was surrounded by dense forests, so it was very easy to hide a few living corpses without being discovered.

That's why Hastur didn't want to alarm the police and Dean Bard.

With living corpses, let them clear the way.

Hastur and Lecturer Furren followed with a kerosene lamp in their hands.

The living corpse opened the door of the basement, and a group of people entered the basement under the dim light, and then asked the living corpse to close the door of the basement, and at the same time let a living corpse guard here to prevent outsiders from entering.

The twelve confinement rooms here have been cleaned out, and no one is detained in them.

A group of people soon came to the lounge in the middle, which is the house where the secret passage was discovered.

The secret passage, which had been well hidden, had been blasted open by the police with gunpowder, revealing a small section of passage. The end of the passage was blocked. Dean Dahn died here holding a box of gold coins.

"There is no road here, why is the teacher here?" Lecturer Furren raised his own doubts.

Hastur approached a wall with a kerosene lamp, the dim light illuminated the dark stone wall, observed for a while and said: "Don't you think this secret passage is too short?

Building such a short secret path is meaningless except to hide a few people. "

"There is a secret room in the secret passage!"

Lecturer Furren's breathing became short of breath. This kind of wonderful plot that belongs to the adventure story is being played out in front of him at this moment, so he is also a protagonist in the adventure story?
"It's a very reasonable guess that the secret passage is connected to the secret room."

"Let me try."

Hastur got out of the way, and Maric looked back and forth several times, and let his living corpses knock against the surrounding walls, as if they were sensing something.

"There's something wrong here."

After several inductions, Maric finally found a relatively weird place.

The stone walls here are very cold, much colder than the surrounding stone walls.

Ordinary people cannot perceive this temperature difference, but he can.

"Can you break it open?"

"You should be stronger than me now, right?"

Maric turned to Hastur, beckoning him to try it.

The strength of the living corpse is not small, but Hastur, who is in the barbarian sequence, is even stronger.

"There are no suitable weapons here."

Without a proper weapon, Hastur didn't want to use his fists to harden a stone wall.

Maric had no choice but to make his living corpses work harder, picked up the blasted stone on the ground, and smashed it towards the stone wall.

咣 咣 咣!
After dozens of blows, a hole the size of a head was smashed out of that stone wall.

A disgusting, stench wafted from the dark hole.

This is the smell of severely decomposed corpses!
Maric was most familiar with this smell, so he hurriedly let the living corpse stand in front, and let Hastur and Lecturer Fren retreat to a safe place behind.

Lecturer Furren praised: "There really is a secret room! Mr. Hastur, it's a pity that you don't become a detective."

"It's just very reasonable speculation."

Hastur would not claim to have had a glimpse of the fate before arriving at the workhouse.

The place shown by fate is a stone wall, which is here.

(End of this chapter)