Integrating the Clues
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"I made my way silently into the interior of Dales' mansion..."
Tang San recounted his experiences at the Dales' mansion.
At that time, Tang San sneaked into the courtyard and saw five servants carrying seven or eight food boxes and more than twenty dishes. He thought about how the meals of wealthy people were very disciplined and found it strange. So he secretly followed the five servants, hoping to find out some information.
After following the five servants to the kitchen, Tang San, seeing that no one was around, immediately thought of knocking out four of them, intimidating the last servant, and interrogating him.
Such actions will surely alert the enemy.
Therefore, after much deliberation, Tang San decided to hold back and continue to observe.
Unexpectedly, the five servants then left the kitchen carrying food boxes and dishes, returning the way they came.
So, Tang San decided to go all in and followed them, wanting to see who was having dinner so late in this quiet mansion, and judging from their appearance, it seemed like they had been there more than once.
Finally, Tang San quietly followed the five servants, crossing the courtyard and walking through the corridor, until they arrived at a house at the very back of the mansion.
"The five servants didn't come out until half an hour after they entered the room, but during that time, I didn't hear anyone eating inside, let alone talk."
Tang San frowned. "Moreover, when those servants came out, their faces were deathly pale, as if they had been frightened by something terrifying."
"There's a secret room underground!" x2
Zhou Qing and Tang San uttered these words simultaneously.
"That's right, that's what I guessed too. Whether it's Xiao Lang in Nuoding City or Dales in Falling Star City, they both seem to like building basements, not to hide treasures, but to do some secret things." Tang San half-complained and half-stated a fact.
"My dad would never do anything shady in the basement!" Romantina suddenly shouted.
"Hmm?" X2
Zhou Qing and Tang San looked at each other, speechless.
They only mentioned Xiao Lang, not Romanyac. Why are you so agitated?
Faced with their suspicious gazes, Romantina seemed resigned to her fate and revealed Romanyac's secret. "Actually, my father collects many storybooks depicting physical intimacy between men and women, and sometimes he secretly goes to the basement alone to read them..."
As she spoke, Romantina opened her arms, her face a mixture of excitement and embarrassment, and shouted, "Come on! Laugh at me all you want! I don't mind!"
Zhou Qing: "... This sentence is your real purpose, isn't it! Also, I strongly suspect that you often go to the basement to browse those books behind your father's back, and you definitely read them more often than your father!"
Whenever Zhou Qing thought Romantina was already incredibly amazing, she always managed to refresh his understanding and shatter his worldview!
However, You Hui seemed to have long been accustomed to Romantina's extraordinary abilities, and even showed an expression of admiration for Romantina.
Perhaps, in her eyes, Romantina's behavior was what it meant to dare to show one's truest self in front of others, a symbol of courage?
[Now, I'm 100% certain that You Hui, who can become friends with Romantina, is definitely not a normal person!]
At this thought, Zhou Qing suddenly realized that the people who might join the team in the future all had some kind of "problem" in their minds.
He then shook his head, clearing his mind of the jumbled thoughts, and gestured for Tang San to continue.
"After the five servants left, I entered the house. It was empty. Our suspicions were correct; there was a secret room inside..."
Tang San described it vividly—
Upon entering the house, one is greeted by an antique-style desk with a bookshelf behind it.
Tang San walked behind the desk and examined the items on it:
The three books are "Safe Pregnancy for Expectant Mothers", "The Fetal Development", and "The State Before the Martial Soul Awakening: A Hypothesis".
A black charcoal pencil.
A Soul Conductor candle.
Tang San memorized the positions of the three books, the pen, and the Soul Guiding Lamp. He then slowly squatted down, aligning his line of sight with the table, and observed the dust on the table before turning the pages of the three books.
The book "Safe Pregnancy for Expectant Mothers" records many dietary precautions for pregnant women, as well as hundreds of folk remedies and pharmacies, mainly about how to help pregnant women take care of their bodies.
The book "The Fetal Development" describes the process of each stage of fetal development in the uterus... Tang San knew that this kind of book must have been made possible by the "Fallen Ones".
Only the Fallen Ones would conduct such Human Dao experiments on pregnant women to determine what a fetus looks like at each stage of its development in the womb.
"Actually, it doesn't necessarily have to be the Fallen Ones," Zhou Qing said. "It's not impossible that they could use the name ' Fallen Ones ' for research purposes."
"That's true."
Tang San also knew that the rough diagram of the Ren and Du Meridians for circulating Soul Power that came with the Meditation Method could not possibly be drawn so accurately on paper based on feeling alone. It must have been the result of research using living human lives.
Because the basic theories of various cultivation methods in the previous life, such as meridians and acupoints, were not derived out of thin air, but were obtained through the dissection of the human body.
"However, it is ultimately Fallen Ones." Tang San sighed and continued, "I have examined the three items on the table. The three books and the charcoal pencil are nothing special. Only the Soul Guiding Lamp is special. It is connected to the table and seems to be able to rotate."
"That must be the switch to open the secret room!"
"However, I was worried about disturbing the people inside, so I didn't touch anything. After putting the three books and charcoal pencils back in their original places on the desk, I carefully left..."
Tang San's decision not to act rashly was the best one, as it avoided alerting the enemy.
But based on the existing clues—
Whether the unfortunate couple whom Dales used as a scapegoat six years ago were his biological parents remains a complete mystery...
The most useful clue Xiao Wu obtained was that the disappearances of people in Falling Star City over the past six years were suspected to be the work of Dales ' people behind the scenes.
Romantina found her old classmate and friend, You Hui, and learned that Dales did indeed have contact with a certain Soul Ancestor, but it was impossible to determine whether that Soul Ancestor Soul Ancestor was the same one they were currently tracking.
The clue Tang San obtained was that there was an underground secret room in the Dales mansion, which might hide something terrifying that could frighten the servants who delivered the food.
The three books, "Safe Pregnancy for Expectant Mothers," "The Fetal Development," and "The State Before Martial Soul Awakening: A Hypothetical Situation," may be related to the existence of the underground secret chamber...