eurekapd Chapter 237 Basement
Chapter 237 Basement
Yan Xun turned to the last page of his diary and passed it around to the others.
"...So, Maoqiu is His name?" Gao Wen stared at the last two characters of Maoqiu in the diary and asked Yan Xun with some uncertainty.
"I don't know," Yan Xun said.
This might be the most memorable place for the Blue Gold owner, but whether the diary is related to the Blue Gold owner or not, no one knows.
However, Yan Xun was somewhat interested in the "Guide to Raising God" mentioned in the diary. He looked at Gu Jia and asked, "Did you hear about this back then? The Guide to Raising God?"
Since Gu Jia had heard of this place name, the other party should know about what happened here.
Gu Jia stared at the diary for a while, then shook her head. "No."
"If there really were a way to raise a god, it wouldn't just exist in a high school student's diary."
Gu Jia's meaning was clear: this so-called "feeding guide" was probably just a boring game for high school students after school.
A small game that exists only within a certain school.
Everyone else read it through as well, and finally returned the diary to Yan Xun... Yan Xun picked up the notebook and glanced at the last words of the diary again, but still couldn't find any clues about the dream's owner.
Perhaps the dream's owner is a little monster kept by a high school student?
Is his name Maoqiu, and does he like to eat French fries?
A white, fluffy monster began to appear in Yan Xun's mind, the kind that could disguise itself as a keychain.
Could this thing be a god?
Unable to come up with an answer, he had no choice but to give up looking for clues at the fast food restaurant. "I'll go check out the villa," he said.
He glanced at the villa at the other end of the fast food restaurant. "Maybe there will be some clues there."
Wen Yuanzheng was actually reluctant to go. He felt that Yan Xun was wasting his time—he even thought that Yan Xun's judgment was wrong, and that this was not the deep dream of the nightmare at all.
He stood motionless in front of the fast food restaurant, while Yan Xun walked back to where they had first landed.
The slide also disappeared from this dream world after they left.
Wen Yuanzheng remained still, while Qin Ke and the others followed Yan Xun toward the villa. Wen Yuanzheng grabbed Gao Wen, "Are you going too?"
Gao Wen shook off Wen Yuanzheng, "Why aren't you going?"
He looked at Wen Yuanzheng with a puzzled expression. "If you're not going, you can stay here." He had disliked Wen Yuanzheng for a long time.
Wen Yuan watched Yan Xun and the others' backs, then looked at the empty fast food restaurant behind him, where music was playing, and finally gritted his teeth and followed them.
……
Stepping through the giant jungle of hamburgers, Yan Xun arrived at the path leading to the villa.
If Yan Xun didn't know they were in a nightmare's dream, she would have had the illusion that she had traveled to a candy house world.
After walking for about ten minutes, Yan Xun arrived at the villa's courtyard.
The gate to the courtyard was open, and a nameplate that had once hung on it had been taken down. Yan Xun guessed that it might be the surname of the villa's owner.
He stood at the door for a while, then picked up the axe he took out of his backpack and walked into the villa—looking like he was going to seek revenge.
Qin Ke and Gu Jia followed behind him.
Then there was Gao Wen, and Wen Yuanzheng, who was peeking out from the gate of the villa.
Yan Xun pushed open the villa's door.
The expected dust did not appear, and the villa was pitch black. Yan Xun fumbled around for a moment and turned on the villa's lighting equipment—the lights in the villa immediately turned on, allowing Yan Xun to see the furnishings inside.
How should I put it? The furnishings are too ordinary.
Yan Xun thought that everything in the living room and on the stairs seemed normal.
It was as if the villa's owner had just left and would return at any moment.
Yan Xun walked around the living room a few times, and then looked at each room in the three-story villa. Most of the doors were closed; some had been converted into storage rooms, and others into studies.
This should be the master bedroom of the villa, with a double bed and clothes for both men and women in the wardrobe, suggesting that the villa belongs to a couple.
Yan Xun looked at the clothes in the wardrobe.
He reached into the pocket of one of the coats.
There was a dry cleaning receipt inside—a handwritten receipt, and judging from the date on the signature, it was at least ten years ago.
Yan Xun put the receipt back into his coat pocket. There were no photos in the room, as if they had been deliberately hidden away.
"Is this the master bedroom?" Qin Ke followed Yan Xun into the villa. He watched as Yan Xun rummaged through his pockets, as if he had found a receipt. "What does the receipt say?"
"The receipt shows the dry cleaning information for this coat, and the dry cleaner is located on Guinan North Road," Yan Xun said. "The time the clothes were cleaned is at least ten years ago."
The time he mentioned was the last year that appeared in his memory—no one knows how the time in the copy is calculated.
"What is the relationship between Guinan North Road and the dream's owner?" Gao Wen couldn't help but ask after hearing the familiar Guinan North Road. "How come both the dry cleaners and fast food restaurants are on Guinan North Road?"
"Perhaps because this villa is also near Guinan North Road," Yan Xun said. He then went to check with the only person present who knew about Guinan North Road, asking, "Is there such a villa complex near Guinan North Road?"
Gu Jia did not answer immediately, seemingly deep in thought.
After a moment, he shook his head. "I'm not in the city where this road is located; it just so happens that my tutor mentioned this place."
If it weren't for the rumors of it being haunted, Gu Jia wouldn't have remembered the name of this road either.
"However, that tutor mentioned the reason why paranormal events frequently occur on Guinan North Road." Gu Jia tried hard to find some clues from her memory.
"what?"
"I heard it's because there's a haunted house on Guinan North Road."
Gu Jia looked at their room as she spoke, "...Could it be this building?"
Gawain couldn't help but rub the goosebumps on his arms. "You mean, this might be that thing's dream?"
As he spoke, he looked around and then began to clasp his hands together in prayer, saying, "No offense intended, no offense intended!"
Yan Xun looked at the master bedroom. If this villa was really the haunted house that Gu Jia said it was, then it couldn't be that the owner of Lan Jin was the bound spirit of this villa, could it?
He thought about it for a moment, and finally said to the others, "I'll go and look around elsewhere."
"When I went upstairs just now, I discovered that there was a basement here."
……
The basement of the villa was a storage room.
Inside were discarded children's bicycles, skateboards, and roller skates.
There was also a children's basketball hoop in the corner—and judging from the clothes in the master bedroom, it was clear that at least a family of three lived in this villa.
Half of the basement is used to store these toys that no one plays with anymore, while the other half is used as shelves.
Scattered on the shelves were some discarded electronic parts and elementary and middle school books.
This suggests that the villa owner's child must be at least in high school to have all the unused books piled up in the basement.
At the other end of the basement was a double mattress, with some puffed snacks and unopened carbonated drinks next to it, suggesting that this was also the child's secret base.