"There's something wrong there." Klein pointed at the staircase that separated the living room and the dining room and said seriously.

He had seen in the internal information of the Nighthawks that if a similar situation occurred during inspiration, it often meant that there were evil and filthy things hidden at the target location. If you were not sure, it was best not to try to touch it, otherwise you would easily lose your life - sometimes, even just a glance would cause irreversible damage.

Dunn looked over there. He was also very intelligent and immediately noticed something was wrong. He turned his head to look at Klein and calmly instructed, "Tell me whether the exploration there will be smooth."

Before entering the castle, the captain did not let me do divination. He was quite confident. This meant that he thought the hidden things might be more dangerous than the resentful spirits. Klein nodded silently, put away his revolver, and handed the cane to Frye beside him.

Then he took off the topaz pendant from his sleeve, held the silver chain with his left hand, and considered the appropriate divination phrase.

In an instant, his eyes turned dark and an invisible breeze swirled around him.

"Exploring the castle's hidden locations will go smoothly."

"Exploring the castle's hidden locations will go smoothly."

After silently reciting it seven times, Klein's eyes returned to normal and he saw the topaz pendant rotating clockwise.

Although the amplitude is not large, it is indeed rotating clockwise!

This means exploration will go smoothly.

Klein, who had become a true fortune teller, immediately nodded to Dunn and Frye:

“The danger is either within the realm of being solvable, or it isn’t.”

Dunn put the "Mutated Sun Holy Emblem" on his left chest, reached out and pressed down his silk hat, walked quickly towards the stairs, and began to look for the mechanism familiarly.

After Frye returned the cane he had picked up with the gauntlet to Klein, he raised his revolver and alertly watched his surroundings, as if he was afraid that an enemy would suddenly appear.

I'm still not professional enough in the field of Nighthawks. Klein perked up, drew out his revolver again, and followed suit.

After a few minutes, Dunn Smith, who was half squatting, pressed something, and the steps suddenly made a heavy creaking sound.

The floor there cracked, revealing a staircase leading downwards, and a cold and dirty feeling filled the air, almost solidifying into a entity.

Dunn took a look, removed the seal "3-02" on his chest, and threw it directly into the secret door.

After jumping a few times, the "Mutated Sun Holy Emblem" stopped somewhere unknown.

If there are undead creatures inside, they will definitely pick up "3-02" and throw it back. That would be interesting. Klein stared at the downward stairs and waited patiently.

The lingering coldness and filth soon melted away like ice and snow meeting the sun, and warmth and purity enveloped the entrance to the secret door.

"Klein, the two of us will go down, and Frye will stay here to prevent other enemies from destroying the mechanism." Dunn made the decision based on his experience.

"Okay." Klein was no longer stage-frightened. He took two steps forward and walked to Dunn's side. Frye nodded slightly without letting down his guard.

Snap, Snap, Snap! Dunn was the first to go down the stairs, and the sound of his footsteps echoed silently.

He did not prepare lanterns or torches, because for the extraordinary people in the "Sleepless" sequence, darkness was not an obstacle, but a blessing.

In such an environment, their vision is not affected.

After walking down a few steps, Dunn suddenly turned around and looked at Klein and said, "I forgot that you don't have dark vision. I am used to not preparing those lighting items."

"Captain, don't worry about it. I have clairvoyance." Klein found that he was not surprised at all.

The captain who was so handsome just now is indeed not his normal self!

In his spiritual vision, the darkness ahead was filled with gray. Although it was very blurry, he could barely see the stairs.

Well, the captain is in good health and in good spirits. Klein stretched his feet carefully and walked down slowly.

This staircase is not long. It touches the ground after going down fourteen or fifteen steps diagonally.

The Sealed Object "3-02" lies here, radiating warmth, spreading purity, and shining a faint light.

With this little light, Klein could see more clearly. He looked around and found that this was a not very large basement. The original shade was gone, but it was still damp.

In the center of the basement was a black coffin with dark red iron nails.

The lid of the coffin had been pushed open to reveal a crack, and inside one could see a headless skeleton lying inside.

Dunn looked around before bending down to pick up the Mutated Holy Emblem of the Sun.

"Captain, this coffin, um, its function is to prevent the dead inside from turning into zombies or ghosts."

Klein examined the dark red nails on the black coffin and their arrangement. With his fairly good knowledge of the mysticism, he recognized that it was an ancient ritual to prevent corpse transformation.

At the same time, he muttered in his heart: But, under normal circumstances, who would be on guard against their relatives turning into corpses? Well, the people who help with the burial are not necessarily relatives. Well, putting the coffin in the basement instead of in the tomb is to prevent people from discovering it.

At this time, Dunn, wearing the seal "3-02", approached the coffin, looked at it carefully for a while and said:

"The deceased should have died of poisoning."

"That means the people who poisoned him used ritual magic to prevent him from turning into a corpse and taking revenge. This should have happened 1,300 to 1,400 years ago, right? In the end, he turned into a vengeful spirit. This idea is simply amazing!" Klein also walked to the coffin and said, "Where is his head? The ritual does not require cutting off the head."

Dunn thought for a moment and said:

"I have a guess. This vengeful spirit has not always existed, but has only recently appeared. It only takes a quarter of an hour to walk from the town to the castle. Troublemakers from past generations must have come here often. But before this incident, there were no rumors of vengeful spirits appearing in the castle."

Klein nodded barely noticeably and said:

"Captain, do you mean to say that someone recently came here, opened the coffin, and took away the dead man's head?"

"Well, that ritual prevents the deceased from rebirth, but it also locks its resentment in the coffin, preserving it in disguise. When the coffin is opened and the ritual is lifted, the resentment will quickly transform into resentful spirits with the help of its own iron gloves."

"The man who opened the coffin didn't leave the body behind. He's not an ordinary person. And what did he do with the dead man's head?"

Dunn stared at the skeleton in the coffin and said, "The resentment has lasted for so long. In addition to the ritual, it should also be due to the deceased himself. He might have been a Beyonder, or a descendant of at least a mid-sequence Beyonder within two generations. Um, I mean the mid-sequence, sequence, or sequence 5 in the previous definition."

"And such a corpse is always special. His head might, might be useful in some rituals or occasions."

At this point, Dunn paused and said, "What I said before was all speculation, but some of it can be verified. Let's split up and investigate in the town to see if there is anyone who came to the castle as a child and was injured here. Well, if he is still alive, it proves that the ghost did appear recently."

“A very logical way of thinking.” Klein praised and searched the basement again, but found no other items.

He tried to use ritual magic to depict the "guest" who had entered the basement, but because it had been at least a month since then and the resentful spirit had been lingering there for a long time, affecting the environment, he was unable to obtain effective results.

He then replaced Frye and allowed the expert in the field of corpses to do a closer examination.

Fifteen minutes later, as the sun was about to disappear over the horizon, Dunn and Frye walked up the stairs back to the castle hall.

The former fumbled to close the secret door, while the latter briefly described:

"It was indeed poisoning. The marks on the neck appeared within the last three months."

This means that there is a high possibility that someone has been here. Klein nodded after thinking about it.

Next, the three Night Watchmen rushed back to the town of Ramde before dark and booked two rooms at the hotel - the members who got the sealed object "3-02" needed to take this dangerous item for a walk in an empty place outside the town, and they would take turns every two hours, so only two rooms were needed.

After a simple dinner, Klein, Dunn, and Frye immediately went to various parts of the town to inquire about the residents who have lived here for a long time.

In similar scenarios, police credentials are particularly useful.

"Officer, why are you asking about this? I remember that I often went to that abandoned castle when I was a child and got injured? Of course, there was a way a child wouldn't have fallen down. I remember, um, I was scratched by the sharp stones on the outer wall of the castle." A man in his forties with soft blond hair looked at Klein in confusion and answered the question honestly.

This was the fourteenth person Klein had questioned, and two of them clearly remembered being injured in the castle when they were children.

The captain's speculation was correct. Klein made his judgment, took back the certificate, and said with a smile:

"Thank you for your cooperation, I have no problem."..

He was about to leave without his cane when the man in his forties rolled his eyes and said, "Officer, are you interested in that castle? My family has a portrait of the first Baron of the castle. It was my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather. Anyway, it was a long time ago. He took an oil painting from the castle. It was said to be a portrait of the first Baron Ramde."

"Do you want it? This is a real antique!"

If it was a real antique, your family would have sold it long ago. This guy is so bold that he dares to deceive the police. Should I pull out a gun to scare him later? Klein complained in his heart and said with the mentality of taking a look without spending any money:

"Who knows if it's a real antique? I trust my eyesight and judgment."

"Take it out and let me see it."

The blond middle-aged man immediately put on a smile, went back to the house and started searching.

After a while, he came out holding an oil painting.

Klein casually glanced at the portrait on the painting and saw that the first-generation baron, who was wearing a white curly wig, had soft features, bronze skin, and eyes that contained an indescribable sense of vicissitudes.

This looks like Mr. Azik! Klein's eyes suddenly widened, and he subconsciously looked at the right earlobe of the so-called first-generation baron.

Then he saw an inconspicuous black mole nearby.

This is exactly the same location as Instructor Azik's mole!