Faga quickly caught up with Ellen, taking a few steps to stand behind Holmes.

As they walked, Eileen turned her head and asked, "What just happened? It's been a long time since I've heard Lina give a long speech."

"Oh, just now..."

Just as Fagga was about to speak, he suddenly felt a chill down his back, and even a tingling sensation in the back of his neck, as if an electric current had shot through his entire body.

A moment later, a huge shadow, supported by the crinoline, enveloped Faga and Ellen. Faga couldn't help but swallow hard and whispered:

Do you understand now?

"I understand... I won't ask anymore."

Ellen also muttered softly, gripping Fagga's hand with some fear, as if that would make her feel better.

Finally, Lina's shadow quietly receded, and the electric current emanating from her body slowly subsided. She gently landed back on the ground, taking graceful, ladylike steps. The clatter of her footsteps was far more pleasant than the sound of the electric current.

"We're here."

Soon after, Hols opened his somewhat hoarse voice again and slowly began to speak.

Everyone stopped in their tracks, staring at the white wall in front of them.

"Lekahn, please turn the vase on your right 90 degrees clockwise."

Lycahn did as he was told, and the base of the vase rubbed against the windowsill, making a pleasant rustling sound. Suddenly, the sound of a huge mechanical gear turning came from underground.

"Huh? Aren't we on the second floor? How come we're hearing gear-like sounds coming from downstairs?"

Eileen was a little confused, her tail swaying back and forth as she pondered.

Fagga lowered his head and thought for a moment before saying, "I think there must be a secret room on the first floor, but it can only be entered from the second floor."

"good..."

Hols nodded slightly in approval upon hearing this, then quickly looked away.

"However, it's not on the first floor, but below the first floor, there's a basement that can only be accessed from the second floor."

"What you just heard was the sound of gears turning in the space between the second-floor floor and the first-floor ceiling. It will activate an elevator and take us underground."

Eileen was even more puzzled upon hearing this, and tilted her head, saying:

"But wouldn't building a separate room to hide the elevator shaft be even less discreet?"

The house looks very large from the outside, but it is rather small inside. Doesn't that make people even more suspicious?

Unexpectedly, Hols suddenly burst into laughter, as if very proud of his ingenious idea, and threw his head back and laughed loudly:

"So I hid the elevator shaft inside the pillars! If you look closely when you come, you will find many different large round pillars below the first floor, and our elevator shaft is hidden in one of them."

"Alright, that's enough for now, the elevator's here."

As soon as Hols finished speaking, the white wall in front of them suddenly split open to the sides, revealing an elevator that was more than a meter long and wide.

Led by Hols, everyone stepped inside.

As the jagged white wall in front of us slowly closed in, the sunlight outside became less and less, gradually unable to penetrate, and the warm yellow lights inside the elevator were turned on.

The gears started grinding again, and the elevator began to fall.

About thirty seconds later, the elevator doors opened again.

As a slightly dim white light came into view, everyone in Victoria narrowed their eyes and stared blankly at what was happening before them.

They were stunned; they hadn't expected this at all.

Beneath this land on the outer ring road, there is such a huge underground laboratory.

Even more unexpectedly, Hols was also researching demons!

Hols was the first to emerge, slowly walking towards the end of the laboratory, pointing at the demons preserved in glass jars filled with formalin on both sides of the passageway:

“TOPS Financial Alliance was researching the monster, and every CEO knew about it. Although I wasn’t one at the time, I did have some understanding of it.”

"But many years ago, I stumbled upon a vampire clan that had actually bypassed TOPS Financial Alliance and was independently developing the Beast Demon."

"I know that knowing too much is not a good thing for me, but my curiosity was so strong that I decided to find out anyway."

"So later... I was forced to leave my homeland under the oppression of the vampire clan. I have nothing to regret, but I feel sorry for little Kleida and White Heavy Industry."