I'm being held captive by a monster

Chapter 65: Secret Room (Please read the third update today!)
"crunch..."

The door handle was slowly pressed down, and the hallucinatory ghost pushed the door open.

"Hoohoho!"

The two mourning dogs twitched their noses and jumped up and down in the house.

The hallucinating ghost looked around the room.

He first glanced behind the curtain that had been stuck in his blind spot.

no one.

He lifted the quilt again.

no one.

"Did I see it wrong..."

The hallucinating ghost muttered.

There was a gleam in the azure eyes.

Looking at the darkness under the bed, it narrowed its eyes and squatted down.

No.

There is only a light layer of dust.

It looked at the closed wardrobe beside it.

As if in fear, the wardrobe door trembled slightly.

Amid the howling of mourning dogs, the hallucinatory ghost grasped the handle of the wardrobe.

He paused for a moment and then pulled it open!

No.

It frowned.

Open all the wardrobe doors.

"No……"

There was nothing inside except clothes.

"Are you worrying too much..."

The hallucinatory ghost walked to the window again, lifted the curtains, opened the screen, and looked up and down, left and right outside the window.

No.

Then, as if she had thought of something, she opened the drawer.

In the interlayer, there are complete strands of long aqua blue hair.

“It’s not broken…”

The hallucinatory ghost lowered his eyes, closed the drawer, walked to the floor-length mirror embedded in the wall facing the bed, and slowly raised his hand.

"..."

Behind the mirror, Lin Xing'an looked at the hallucinatory ghost's face and held his breath.

This mirror facing the bed can be flipped around like a revolving door.

There is only this one room on the entire second floor, and it is impossible that this room is only 20 square meters.

But rather than saying that this is a secret room, it is better to say that this house of more than 80 square meters with a bathroom is the room where the hallucinatory ghost lives.

"Ziming! The beef stew is ready. Go take it to mom."

When the old man's voice came, the hallucinating ghost stopped just as he was about to push the mirror away.

"It's a little hot, please ask mom to eat it carefully."

He pushed open the door.

Looking through the mirror, when Lin Xing'an saw the steaming "beef stew" he was holding, his stomach churned.

It was a mass of scarlet minced meat, still emitting a surge of blood...

The internal organs and bones were all mixed together.

There were also snow-white brains and... human fingers...

"Dad, don't stew it so mushy next time. Mom likes it to be chewy."

The hallucinatory ghost took the "beef" and did not stay any longer, but walked towards the room where the zombies were locked up in the corner of the second floor.

"Okay, Ziming is really filial. I'll remember that next time and try to make it chewier."

The man scratched his head.

"Ah."

The hallucinatory ghost closed the door.

Lin Xing'an's eyes widened little by little.

He almost forgot there was a zombie in the corner room...

Unexpectedly, the zombie turned out to be Zhou Ziming's mother in the family photo...

Lin Xing'an turned around.

Behind him was a large double bed.

Next to this big bed is something that looks like a hibernation capsule in science fiction works.

It was filled with red liquid.

In the liquid, you can see a person with tubes inserted all over his body.

Even though the people inside were so thin that they were unrecognizable and their skin was pale.

But through the brown birthmark on his head, Lin Xing'an still recognized him as Zhou Ziming.

"Imprisoning Zhou Ziming's entire family in this villa, going to great lengths to keep them alive..."

"What on earth does this hallucinating ghost want to do..."

"Could it be that its weakness is..."

Lin Xing'an walked to the instrument and looked at Zhou Ziming, who was only maintaining a trace of life inside, with a complicated expression.

I have some vague guesses in my mind, but I'm a little hesitant to confirm...

"Let's discuss this with Teacher Orange when we get back."

He shook his head.

While the gluttonous ghost was digging something in the garden outside, Lin Xing'an also looked at the desk of the hallucinatory ghost.

"Statue!" In the corner of the desk, Lin Xing'an saw at a glance a palm-sized black statue covered with lines!

This is the statue related to Taoyuan Village that the Taogui was transporting to the south city!

“I didn’t expect to see it here!”

Lin Xing'an's heart started pounding!

At that time, the copy ghost didn't even let him look at it for even a second!
Lin Xing'an hesitated for a moment and did not touch the statue. Instead, he squatted on the ground and observed it carefully.

It can be seen that it is a human figure, and the outline is somewhat like a mother holding a child...

But his face was blank.

and many more……

Mother……?
"Could this statue depict the mother those gluttons were talking about?"

"If so...this statue is related to Taoyuan Village..."

"Does that mean 'Mother' and 'Taoyuan Village' are also connected?"

Lin Xing'an frowned, a hint of suspicion in his eyes.

But now, he had no idea what this mother was, and he had no idea about Taoyuan Village.

So I can’t think of anything more at the moment…

"But this pattern... I feel like I've seen it somewhere..."

Lin Xing'an walked around the statue and looked around.

The strange pattern on it made him purse his lips slightly.

"hiss!"

As if he thought of something, his breath stopped!
"Isn't this the same pattern on the living room floor?!"

Lin Xing'an suddenly thought of it.

Although there are only a part of the patterns on the statue, far less than on the living room floor, the brushstrokes and style are exactly the same!
"But what does this pattern represent?"

"What does this have to do with this mother or Taoyuan Village?"

“…It’s a pity I don’t have a cell phone, so I can’t take a picture.”

Lin Xing'an tried to memorize the patterns and ask Teacher Juzi when he went out, but gave up in an instant.

It's so weird, I can't remember it at all...

"But it's okay. After we kill the illusion ghost, we can take the statue away!"

After taking a few more glances, he temporarily put his doubts about the statue in his heart.

Then he continued reading on the desk.

"Dinner..."

On the desk calendar, the hallucinatory ghost circled today's date and marked "dinner party" next to it.

"Could this ceremony... be what they call a dinner party?"

"Then what is the number 24..."

Lin Xing'an frowned.

May 24th, next Wednesday, was circled by the hallucinating ghost in bold red marker.

There are also three exclamation marks and an emphasis mark next to it.

"Will something big happen that day..."

Lin Xing'an silently kept this day in his heart.

There was no other useful information on the table.

He shifted his gaze to the bookcase beside him.

"…adoption procedures, ten years ago…"

Lin Xing'an turned his gloom into a glove and opened the cabinet door.

There were no books inside, only a photo album.

Inside were the adoption documents from Zhang Beicheng Children's Welfare Institute and a two-inch photo of Hallucination Ghost when he was a child.

"Hiss... This hallucinatory ghost was adopted by Zhou Ziming's family..."

"Yunxia, is this your real name..."

Looking at the adoption document and the happy times of the hallucinating ghost and Zhou Ziming's family in the photo album, and then thinking about the current situation of Zhou Ziming's family, Lin Xing'an felt a wave of sadness and chill in his heart...

"left handed……"

Following the adoption procedures are simple physical data such as the hallucinating ghost's height and weight. The last column also specifically notes that its dominant hand is left.

“I haven’t noticed this before…”

After Lin Xing'an put the photo album back in its original place without any mistakes, he looked at the bracelet again.

Three fifteen.

"No, we have to go, we can't delay any longer..."

"If those ghosts haven't finished digging, we have to think of another way."

Since he entered the secret room, no sound has been heard from outside.

A hint of uneasiness also emerged in Lin Xing'an's heart.

But when he walked in front of the mirror, he suddenly froze in place.

The originally smooth mirror surface actually became rusty, inch by inch, right before his eyes.

Then, it melted away little by little, just like mud in the sun...

A familiar cold breath continued to come.

Ghostland...

Lin Xing'an realized what happened in an instant!
The ghost domain is spreading!

We must leave before the ghost zone spreads completely!

Otherwise, once the ghost domain completely spreads...

Lin Xing'an's face turned pale.

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