Chapter 214 Winter is Coming

The interior of the secret passage was much quieter than the venue.

The passage that Kasugawa Shugo and Hagiwara Kenji fell into did not have any specific destination. It was more like a passage connecting many different secret doors. The two of them walked forward carefully, using the lights installed at intervals at the top of the secret passage. They waited until they returned to the place where they had just fallen in, and then they were sure that this secret passage was going in a circle.

"Looks like we can only rely on the machine." Hagiwara Kenji felt around the wall, and finally sighed after seeing the marks he made before, "We went around and ended up back at the same place."

He had been prepared to see some underground base or laboratory in the secret passage, or even a horror movie scene, but after going around in a circle, he saw only dim corridors and even darker corridors. He couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

At this time, he was a little envious of Kasugawa Shugo, who only needed to sit in a wheelchair and be pushed around by him.

"Let's look around again, maybe the starting machine has just fallen out again." The man he was talking about stretched out comfortably in the wheelchair and suggested.

This secret passage is probably connected to the laboratory and other places. They just took a quick look around, and didn't lean against the wall to look for the mechanism like they did in the corridor before.

Hagiwara Kenji nodded, and said helplessly as he put his hand on the wheelchair handle again, "If we don't find anything after another round, it's your turn to push me."

"That's too much! I'm a patient, and my legs haven't healed yet--"

"Really? Then why did I see you running around briskly in the hospital a few days ago? I think you ran much faster than when you first entered the police academy." The man with half-long hair glanced at him and revealed the truth without hesitation.

He found that Kasugawa Shugo was walking around the hospital for rehabilitation every day when they were not there, and he was worried for a while, but later he found that he was just too idle.

After all, no one would run around because he was in a bad mood, and he would buy so many snacks from the hospital cafeteria when he was walking. Originally, Jingguang often made snacks and sent them to him, and Tsukiyama Asari also sent three meals a day, and the result was that his face became rounder and rounder as he rehabilitated.

He did not expect that his rehabilitation in the hospital would be watched by his friends throughout the whole process. Kasugawa Shugo, who had been righteously calling himself a patient, shrank his neck and fell silent in an instant.

It was rare to see the other party looking stumped. Hagiwara Kenji wanted to say something as he pushed him back to the passage he had investigated before, but before he could open his mouth, he faintly heard a scream. It sounded

like a woman's voice, but it was hoarse and dry. The person who screamed must be quite old.

"...Did you hear that?" He stopped, and the relaxed expression on his face disappeared completely.

"I heard it." Kasugawa Shugo knew that the scream was from the old woman who was extremely excited after watching the animal experiment inside the venue. "It seems to be... the scream of an old woman?"

"Something must have happened outside."

Hagiwara Kenji paused and tried to use the communicator to contact the people in the venue again, but after trying several times, there was no response from the other side.

"Tsk." He frowned and was about to say something to Kasugawa Shugo next to him, when he saw the latter with a serious face and heavy eyes, and he didn't know what he was thinking about.

"Shugo?"

The questioning voice at the same time brought the police officer back to his senses. He quickly gave a negative answer, and whispered to the other party's completely unbelieving questioning expression, "I just have a bad feeling."

After seeing Hagiwara Kenji believe it, Kasugawa Shugo lowered his head and looked at the air with a toothache expression. He thought of the scene at the banquet that he saw from Tsukiyama Asari who was so shocked that he smashed his wine glass, and he felt bad.

Didn't the old guy say it was a routine experiment and inspection? Why did he broadcast it directly?

Can this be shown to others? !

After confirming who Rum is, he will definitely give this guy a punch.

"It seems to be in the venue." Kasugawa Shugo tried to calm down and said, "Let's look for a way out first..."

Hagiwara Kenji nodded. He put his ear to the wall and heard faint applause and loud noises from the side of the wall where the sound came from. Then he stood up and searched the surrounding walls with Kasugawa Shugo.

Their relaxed mood of giving it a try disappeared because of the scream and the unreachable phone call. The two of them carefully searched the surroundings several times and really found a small secret door at the bottom of the right wall. It

was very similar to the mechanism in the corridor before. When the secret door opened, Kasugawa Shugo subconsciously covered his eyes.

The lights inside the secret door were bright, completely different from the passage they were in before. He still felt a little dizzy when he waited for several seconds before opening it again.

"Can these guys be more humane when designing the secret passage?" He rubbed his eyes and kept muttering.

There was a flat light installed every one meter above the passage in front of him, illuminating the entire white passage. Whether it was the walls or the lights, there was a sense of coldness in the laboratory, but it was not the same as the underground laboratory that Yu Gu Miao had entered before.

When they opened the secret passage just now, they were still muttering in their hearts, wondering if this secret door was a trap because it only had a mechanism and no other settings. It was not until they saw clearly that there was another door inside that needed a fingerprint to unlock that they reluctantly dispelled this suspicion.

The environment here is very different from the secret passage just now. There is no light that is so dim that you can't even see yourself clearly to block it. This way, they are directly exposed to the bright lights and the corridor without any shelter. The two guys who are considered intruders here have restrained their actions.

For the sake of confidentiality, even this corridor was not equipped with any surveillance, as if to indicate that everything that happened in this secret passage would not be recorded in any way. After observing the surroundings, Kasugawa Shugo rubbed his neck, which was a little sore from lifting it all the time. Just as he was about to speak, Hagiwara Kenji covered his mouth.

A series of light footsteps came from the corner at the end of the corridor. The two looked in the direction of the footsteps at the same time, and their originally tense expressions froze when they saw the thin figure reflected on the corridor wall.

There was only one person...

Kasugawa Shugo turned his head to look at the door that needed a fingerprint to unlock, and then turned his head to confirm with Hagiwara Kenji. The vigilance in their eyes disappeared, and turned into a kind of eagerness to try.

It's really a pillow for a sleepy person, so don't blame us for being rude.

A few dozen seconds later, the semi-long-haired police officer clapped his hands casually and threw the unlucky egg tied up with a torn lab uniform on the floor, "Huh, it's solved smoothly."

After Kasugawa Shugo performed a seal clapping at the side, he lowered his head and grabbed the researcher who had not yet reacted to what happened. His eyes, which were originally bright when he was imitating the seal clapping, changed and became fierce in an instant.

"Hey." He lowered his voice, stretched out his hand and grabbed the collar of the man on the ground while sitting in a wheelchair, and pulled the researcher's upper body directly off the ground. "I have a few questions to ask you."

Hagiwara Kenji raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"I advise you not to do anything small." Kasugawa Shugo used his other hand to pull the cloth strip in the man's mouth. Before taking it, he narrowed his eyes and said lightly, "I don't have much patience."

The researcher who has a lot of common problems of office workers is more venomous than risking his life. The dealer asked too many questions. After he finished asking all the questions he could, he stretched his back with a relaxed expression. The scary expression on his face quickly disappeared. He knocked the man unconscious and muttered, "This is definitely the best guy I have ever interrogated... Where should we throw him?"

It was impossible to throw him here directly. The two of them looked around and left the unlucky guy who happened to run into them in the dim passage when they came in after opening the door.

The inside of the laboratory door unlocked by fingerprints was indeed a small laboratory as the researcher had just said. It was very different from the layout of the laboratory for human experiments. There were mechanical parts and drawings of what they could not tell everywhere.

In the middle stood a huge mechanical device, without any shape, like many things thrown together. Kasugawa Shugo walked over and saw a very small pattern in the center of the device built of steel and unknown metal liquid. It was a very small ship, like a symbol.

"It seems that they are doing more than just experiments here." Hagiwara Kenji looked around and then spoke. The researcher just now was only responsible for some simple equipment work, and no matter how he asked, he couldn't explain what this place was used for. After he and the curly-haired police officer looked at the sign together, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "After arriving on the island, was the original ship still docked at the shore?"

Kasugawa Shugo shook his head, "I don't know."

He didn't think Rum would leave the ship at the shore. After all, when they got off the ship, all the members of the organization who were originally serving as waiters on the ship came to the manor with the passengers, but none of the crew members in the ship's cockpit left, as if they had other sailing missions.

"If they are going to attack in the manor, they have to have an explanation to the outside world." Kasugawa Shugo touched his chin and said after thinking for a long time, "Shipwreck should be the best reason."

If they want the outside world to believe, they have to leave some evidence. They will probably sail according to the original route to the agreed destination, and then deliberately cause an accident on the ship during the voyage, and then use the escape equipment that has been prepared long ago to leave the sinking ship.

Thinking about this, both of them frowned. After a while of silence, Kasugawa Shugo suddenly said, "Hagiwara, can you contact Jinpei and the others now?"

"What's wrong?" Not knowing why the other party's expression suddenly became so serious, the man with half-long hair subconsciously did as he was told, took out the communicator and tried to contact the other side several times, but there was still no response as before.

"Nothing, I just don't feel good." It was impossible to tell him directly that something happened at the venue, so he suppressed the expression on his face and said, "Let's go somewhere else first."

"Do you and Xiao Zhenping have telepathic connection?" Hearing this, Hagiwara Kenji muttered, but there was no joking expression on his face, and it was obvious that he was also worried about the situation of others because of this sentence.

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