Chapter 80 Password
In Igwynte, in the afternoon, the sky was gloomy, and the Buck Mansion on the shore of the Silver River was under heavy guard, and the atmosphere was tense.
The hunters who had been tracking all the way from the flooded dock had now completely blocked Buck's mansion. They blocked all the entrances and exits with guns, and the commanding heights of the surrounding houses had also been seized. Facing the mansion in front of them, all the team members held their breath and prepared to deal with a battle that could break out at any time.
At this time, the two searchers present, Greg and Turner, together with Elena who was sent by the church, had led several team members into the mansion and continued to search upwards. They did not find anything special on the two floors below. The only abnormality was that almost all the glass had cracks of varying degrees.
"The window glass is cracked... Is this some kind of mysterious phenomenon?" Turner said with a frown as he looked at the fine cracks on the second-floor window, while Gregor at the side spoke.
"I don't know... maybe these guys are performing some kind of ritual. Just now when we were on the road, there was some strange noise coming from this side... Be careful at least, and keep going upwards." Gregor answered, clenching the sword in his hand. Then the three of them continued to explore upwards. They just glanced at the floors below and did not search deeply, because the direction where the bloody smell came from was above.
The higher they went, the stronger the smell of blood in the air became. Even Gregor and Elena could smell it. Smelling this pungent smell of blood, the nerves of the three of them became even more tense.
Finally, after reaching the third floor and walking along the corridor, they saw the source of the blood, a study.
After looking at each other, the three of them continued to move forward carefully. When they arrived at the study door, they quickly entered it, spread out and stood, and quickly glanced at every corner to make sure that there were no living people here.
Although there are no living people, there are many dead people.
At this moment, what appeared before Gregor and his men was a bloody and messy scene. The chopped-off corpses were scattered here and there, and a large amount of blood flowed out, completely staining the carpet, and the body parts had become dry and withered at this moment.
Yellow and white book leaves were scattered everywhere, covering the body parts and the bright red carpet. The furniture was overturned, glass and porcelain fragments were everywhere, the walls were full of bullet holes, and all the window glass had been shattered into nothing.
This scene was much more tragic than the situation at Burton's home, and everyone at the scene couldn't help but take a deep breath. It was obvious that a fierce battle had taken place here.
"Hehe... Why does this scene seem familiar? I think we have seen it somewhere before, Greg." Looking at the scene in front of him, Turner spoke slowly, and Greg nodded seriously before speaking.
"Well... the last Burton case also happened in the study, and it was also very tragic, but this time it's definitely worse..." Gregor said thoughtfully, while Elena on the side said after carefully observing the scene.
"It's obvious that a Extraordinary War took place here... but it feels a bit exaggerated. These guys are obviously the servants of this house. They looked like they were fighting back against the invaders, and they were all in critical condition. Even so, they were quickly cut in half by the invader's sword. They also destroyed this place to this extent... It doesn't feel like an ordinary Extraordinary can do it. It feels... a little beyond the scope of an apprentice..." Elena sighed at the scene in front of her.
"Hey, hey, stop talking nonsense. A supernatural apprentice? Could it be possible that a black-level supernatural being could appear here? The current situation is a bit exaggerated, but it's not to that extent."
Turner corrected seriously that the black rank he was referring to was the rank above the apprenticeship rank of "Black Soil", which was the name used by the White Stonemasons Guild to classify the ranks of Extraordinary Beings, based on alchemical terminology. Due to the activeness of the White Stonemasons Guild everywhere, many of their Extraordinary terms were widely promoted in the secret world.
It would be a big deal if a Black-level Beyonder appeared in Igwinter.
"Anyway...it seems that those guys have encountered the enemy again in this base, and a fight has broken out. This is most likely the work of the same group of people from last time. Anyway, let's quickly search the entire house to see if we can find any clues, especially this study room, which needs to be carefully checked."
Gregor continued speaking, and Turner and Elena nodded as they listened to his words. They began to order their team members to search the mansion, while the three of them were checking the study in detail.
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And when Greg spoke out the task arrangement, a voice in his heart also shouted fiercely.
"Why don't you check it? There's nothing in this study. This house is so big, can you check somewhere else?"
At this moment, behind the seemingly normal bookshelf in the study, Dorothy was sitting against the wall of the dark secret room, leaning against the wall, complaining loudly in her heart.
After seeing the hunters enter the house, Dorothy panicked and quickly hid in the secret room of Buck's house. Then she pulled the mechanism to close the door of the secret room disguised as a bookshelf, so as to temporarily avoid being found directly by the hunters. She didn't want to stage a brother-sister reunion in this place at all.
Dorothy is now completely trapped in the secret room. Just across the wall is her brother and his team who are investigating the crime scene. Who knows when they will be able to uncover the mechanism in the study and open the door of the secret room.
At this moment, Dorothy's heart was pounding. She had never been so nervous even when she was being hunted by Edwin and held hostage by the Holy Communion in a carriage. Because the current situation could not be solved by killing people, she now wished she had an extraordinary ability to become smaller and then find a place to escape.
But this is impossible, she must find a solution immediately.
"Huh... calm down. Now is not the time to panic. There must be a way to escape. Even if the outside is surrounded by people, there is still a way to escape. Think about Dorothy quickly. If you don't want to be called to a parent-teacher meeting, think about it quickly..."
Dorothy thought quickly, and after a while she finally came up with something.
"By the way, according to those guys, there is a secret passage in this house. If it is a secret passage, it is likely connected to this secret room. As long as we find the entrance to the secret passage, we can escape."
Thinking of this, Dorothy stood up and began to search the secret room where she was. At the same time, she also used the corpse puppet ring to control Brandon beside her to search together. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, she asked Brandon to come in as well.
Dorothy and Brandon kept searching in the secret room. Fortunately, as a secret room with a hidden structure, the sound insulation here was very good. When Buck and others were collecting things inside, Dorothy verified this with Brandon who was outside, so she didn't worry about her footsteps being noticed by outsiders.
At last, after searching for a while, Dorothy found a thick iron door behind a curtain.
Seeing the iron gate, Dorothy was delighted, thinking that she could finally leave. However, just as she was about to open the door, her expression sank again.
'Is there a password for this?'
That's right, this iron door has a safe-like roller mechanical combination lock, and it's a combination lock with a ten-digit combination! Without a key, it's obvious that the door will only open if all the combinations are entered correctly.
"What the hell, where can I get the password now? That guy has been taken away!"
Dorothy complained again in her heart and began to rack her brains to think of a solution. After carefully observing the combination lock in front of her, her eyes suddenly lit up.
Of the two metal code wheels in front of Dorothy, four from left to right were stained with blood, and the blood was still slightly sticky and had not dried yet, which proved that the blood had only been stained not long ago.
What does this mean? It means that when Buck was in the secret room, he was entering the password. He killed a bunch of zombies and his hands were stained with blood, so when he entered the password, the blood was stained on the scroll wheel.
Buck definitely knew the combination. Generally speaking, this kind of roller combination lock would turn the wheels one by one before moving to the next one. There were four bloodstains on this ten-digit combination lock from left to right.
This means... Buck had already entered at least three codes. When he was entering the fourth code, the door of the secret room was opened. Dorothy controlled Edwin to shoot inside the secret room, and Buck had to turn back and fight back...
Dorothy smiled slightly as she looked at the bloodstains all over the cipher disk.
'If my reasoning is correct, at least the first three digits of the combination lock were entered incorrectly, leaving the last two digits... There are only about a hundred possible two-digit combinations, and if you spend some time trying them one by one, you'll eventually be able to find them. This secret room is fairly well hidden, and it will take some effort for the brothers to find it, and some more effort to open it once they find it. I should have enough time!'
As she thought about this, Dorothy began to turn the wheel and slowly try the password.
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Outside the secret room, Greg was checking everywhere carefully. After taking a quick look around and not finding any important clues, Elena stood in the middle of the house and took out a compass.
Then Elena injected a trace of spirituality into the compass in her hand, and the compass began to rotate, and then slowly stopped.
Finally... the pointer pointed in the direction of the bookshelf in the study.
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In the secret room behind the bookshelf, Dorothy began to try the code, and not far behind her, Clifford, who had turned into a mummified corpse, was lying there with a horrible expression that was almost like a skeleton. He was killed here.
Under Clifford, the symbol that was completely suppressed and could not be detected was still silently playing its role.
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