Second Secret Room

"Don't move! Everyone squat down and put your hands on your heads."

In less than five minutes, a team of armed men rushed into Guangjiang Residential Area.

Terry and his team were arrested without any surprise.

Dachang City is currently under martial law. If these people dare to cause trouble, they will be subdued quickly, even without Yang Jian lifting a finger. If they resist, it is not impossible for them to be shot dead.

"Remember to interrogate these people. They contacted me with a purpose. This matter needs to be reported. Let me know if there are any developments," Yang Jian said.

One of the team leaders said, "Please rest assured, we guarantee the mission will be completed."

Yang Jian had no interest in killing a few insignificant figures, and that wasn't the root of the problem. He wanted to find out which forces wanted to contact him so he could give them a warning later, instead of having them constantly cause him trouble, interfering with his work during the day and disturbing his sleep at night.

"Alright, let's get back to business."

Yang Jian quickly arrived at the Republican era old house.

The construction team did a great job renovating this place. They built exterior walls, repaired the roof, reinforced the collapsed walls, and cleaned it inside and out. It's much better than when I last visited. Zhang Xiangui's efficiency is quite good. However, according to the original plan, a temple was to be built here to hide this old house.

However, due to previous events, the temple construction will have to wait for some time.

"Great, the renovation has reduced that gloomy feeling."

Yang Jian looked around and followed the stairs to the dimly lit second floor.

Although it has been repainted and the damp, rotten smell is gone, the strange architectural structure still makes the passageway very dark. Outside, the sun is shining brightly, but inside it is chilly and somewhat eerie.

"The paper on the human skin describes the inside of this house." Yang Jian stopped in front of the door on the second floor.

This is a brass door, not prone to rust, and incredibly heavy. There's no keyhole; the entire door is sealed shut, as if the people who built this place didn't want it to be opened casually.

"The room where the ghost mirror was placed only had a wooden door with a lock, which means that the original owner wanted the ghost mirror to be discovered. But the second door was sealed shut, which means that the original owner didn't really want the things here to see the light of day again. No, that's not right either. The door was made of brass, not gold. It's not that the original owner didn't want it to see the light of day, but that he hoped that the next person would treat it with caution and not open it easily."

"In other words, whatever's inside is definitely more special than the ghost mirror."

Yang Jian thought for a moment and concluded that there were probably no ghosts inside.

If there were ghosts, such a secret room wouldn't be able to contain one. On the contrary, the first room is more likely to be haunted, since gold has been used as the door, and in that context, the value of gold was self-evident.

I thought about it for a moment.

A red light emanated from Yang Jian's body. He activated his Ghost Domain, passed through the heavy door in front of him, and entered the second secret chamber.

Although it was pitch black, his Ghost Eye could see everything in the darkness.

Although I entered with extreme caution, after seeing everything clearly, I realized that my worries were unnecessary and that my deduction was correct.

The second secret room is not dangerous.

This is just a small room with only an old cabinet inside. The paint has peeled off, revealing the dark, worn wood underneath.

Besides that, there was only a small table.

Someone had carved a line of words on the table with a carving knife.

"You will have everything, and you will lose everything. Be careful."

The handwriting was neat and precise, and it looked like a warning, the only clue left by the original owner of this place.

"It's like saying nothing at all, like taking off your pants to fart—completely unnecessary. What were the people who did this thinking? Couldn't they have left more information? What difference does it make whether you leave anything or not? You could have carved some words or left a few letters; it wouldn't kill you. Are you trying to make me guess this riddle?"

Yang Jian still had some hope that he could discover some secrets from the past, but the original owner must have had a penchant for being a pretentious intellectual, leaving no information behind except for a vague warning.

"Forget it, I'll just have to figure it out myself."

He patted the table, trying to see if there was anything strange about it, but he accidentally smashed it to pieces with too much force.

It was just an ordinary wooden table, nothing special.

"The wooden table is fine, so this is all that's left." Yang Jian examined the wooden cabinet in front of him.

It's unremarkable, like an ordinary old object.

The cabinet is divided into two layers. The first layer is a wooden lattice window. The horizontal and vertical wooden strips form many square holes on the cabinet door. It is pitch black inside, and it is impossible to see clearly whether there is anything behind the cabinet door.

The bottom shelf is a cabinet, with the doors tightly closed.

"Could this be it?"

Yang Jian frowned; "This thing can pinpoint Zhao Lei's location? Are you kidding me?"

He didn't go closer to try and see what was inside the first cabinet; with his Ghost Eye, he should be able to ignore the darkness.

But the Ghost Eye couldn't see through the darkness inside the cupboard.

Through that small square wooden compartment, he could only see pitch blackness, as if some strange force was blocking everything. Although the cabinet door was openwork, it could not reveal anything.

"It is a little strange," Yang Jian thought to himself, while turning on his phone and shining the flashlight inside.

However, they could only manage to penetrate a few centimeters further inside, and still couldn't see the true situation inside the cabinet door.

However, the next moment, just as he was staring at the cabinet door, suddenly a pair of eyes appeared in the darkness inside. These eyes were pressed against the back of the cabinet door, eerily scrutinizing Yang Jian was looking inside through the openwork wooden lattice.

Their eyes met, and the scene froze for a second.

"Oh shit."

Yang Jian was startled and took several steps back, almost leaving the secret room.

Is there a pair of eyes inside the cupboard door?

But once you're far away, when you look back, you find that the pair of eyes behind the cabinet door have disappeared.

"Is there a ghost inside?" Yang Jian's expression changed constantly, but he calmed down when he saw that the thing didn't come out.

Although everything happened too fast, he was certain that it was not a hallucination; there was something inside.

"Judging from the size of those eyes, the thing shouldn't be very big. If it's a ghost, it's probably just a child ghost, because only a child could hide in a closet door that big."

"But why didn't it come out from inside and attack me? The cupboard door shouldn't be able to close properly."

Yang Jian's gaze shifted uncertainly. "And what exactly did the original owner mean by that sentence? That I will have everything, and I will also lose everything?"

"This matter is definitely not that simple."

He felt that if it were just a simple ghost, the original owner wouldn't have gone to such lengths to keep it. This thing must be a special existence, like the Ghost Mirror, and he just couldn't fully understand it because it was his first time encountering it.