“Click—”
A soft sound.
The stone wall slowly opened to the sides, revealing a wider secret room.
The damp and musty smell mixed with a stale atmosphere hit me in the face.
Shi Heng subconsciously covered his mouth and nose, but froze the moment he stepped in.
The sensor light on the ceiling suddenly lit up, and the cold white light illuminated the entire space.
The light was so dazzling that Shi Heng had to squint.
Once his vision adjusted, the sight before him made his breath catch.
This secret room was surprisingly empty, with no furnishings or objects.
There was only a huge painting hanging alone on the wall facing the entrance.
The picture frame is made of high-quality mahogany, but it has a dull luster due to its age.
The scene in the painting is exactly the horrific night recorded in "The Secret of Toki Clan".
When the nine stars were aligned, a man in a gray robe wielded a scimitar and ruthlessly slaughtered the villagers.
Corpses were scattered all over the ground, blood soaked the bluestone slabs, and the whole painting was shrouded in a depressing atmosphere.
The strangest thing is that the blood moon in the sky of the painting has paint that is as bright as if it was newly painted.
Shi Heng was unwilling to give up and checked carefully along the wall, even kneeling down and knocking on the ground inch by inch to see if there was a secret compartment.
An hour later, he sat down on the ground dejectedly.
There is nothing here except this painting.
"strangeness……"
He muttered to himself, his voice echoing slightly in the empty room.
"Why is there only one painting hanging in such a large secret room?"
He stood in front of the painting again, his eyes scanning every detail in the painting.
Just when he was about to give up, he suddenly noticed something that went against common sense.
The scimitars in the hands of those gray-robed men had clearly just experienced a massacre.
However, there was not a trace of blood on the blade, it was eerily clean.
"Could it be that the person who painted this picture also discovered this contradiction?"
He reached out and touched the painting, and felt a strange warmth at his fingertips.
"This is a deliberate attempt to leave clues for future generations. Perhaps there's something else behind that massacre?"
My grandfather passed away eight years ago, and my father never mentioned the existence of this painting.
Shi Heng wasn't sure if they knew this secret.
When Youbao said that his grandfather was the murderer, his mind was in a mess and he completely lost his mind.
But looking at this strange painting, he gradually calmed down.
In my memory, my grandfather was clearly an old man who was reluctant to even drive away the birds in the garden.
How could they do such a cruel thing?
Could it be that someone framed me?
The Shi family has made many enemies in the business world over the years. Perhaps someone is secretly plotting to pin the blame on Grandpa...
Thinking of this, Shi Heng breathed a sigh of relief.
He quickly took a picture of the painting with his cell phone.
Just as I was about to send a message to Sim, my phone suddenly vibrated.
This is a video sent from an unknown number.
In the video, Gu Youran stood alone in the rain in front of the gate of the Shi family's old house, his thin figure soaked through by the rain.
She crossed her arms, her shoulders trembling slightly, but she stood there stubbornly and refused to leave.
At this time, a black SUV came speeding, splashing a lot of water.
A tall man rushed up to her in the rain.
The picture is a little blurry due to rain and distance.
The man excitedly grabbed Gu Youran's shoulders and said something, then took off his suit jacket and put it on her, and put his arm around her waist intimately.
At the last moment before the car drove away, the man turned around and Shi Heng saw his profile clearly.
It turned out to be... Renault.
"She doesn't believe I can handle this..."
This realization hurt him more than the content of the video.
He held the phone tightly, trying hard to resist the urge to throw it away.
Shi Heng rushed out of the secret room quickly and met the guard on duty as soon as he reached the corridor.
"Master, the young mistress insisted on going out, and we really couldn't stop her..."
The captain of the guards lowered his head and his voice became smaller and smaller.
Shi Heng rushed into the bedroom and found the bed empty.
He immediately called Sim, his voice filled with suppressed anger.
"Track Gu Youran's location immediately! I want to know where she is now!"
…
An hour later, the sky turned pale.
"Bang--"
The door of Renault's villa was kicked open.
Shi Heng rushed into the living room with Mark.
His suit jacket was open and his tie was askew, and it was obvious that he had driven all the way here.
In the living room, Renault was sitting leisurely on the leather sofa sipping coffee, as if waiting for his arrival.
Lei Shuangcheng stood beside the sofa, his right hand on the pistol at his waist.
Renault didn't even raise his head when he heard the noise. "Mr. Shi, trespassing into a private residence at six in the morning, is this the upbringing of the Shi family?"
Mark immediately stepped forward and stood in front of Shi Heng, "Sixth Young Master, please watch your words."
Shi Heng ripped off his tie and threw it to the ground, his voice hoarse, "Stop talking nonsense! Hand over my wife!"
"Your wife?"
Renault looked up at him and asked, "Where were you when I let her cry until she passed out in the middle of the night?"
Shi Heng's face turned pale. "She...she told you about Grandpa?"
"What's the matter?" Renault narrowed his eyes.
Shi Heng's voice suddenly dropped. "She suspected... that my grandfather was the murderer of her mother."
"What?!"
Renault slammed the table and stood up, smashing the coffee cup to pieces.
Lei Shuangcheng's face changed drastically, and his right hand had already reached for the holster.
Mark immediately pressed the headset vigilantly, and the dozen or so bodyguards outside the door instantly went on alert.
"I'll find out. If it was really Grandpa who did it, I..."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
