Chapter 290 Torture Chamber

Moon-viewing platform, library, small sky garden…

The investigation team searched door by door and room by room, but found nothing except some traces left by Sunak’s team when they moved furniture and books to investigate and collect evidence. It was as if the three people had disappeared out of thin air and could not be found.

During the search, Susie and Inspector Ebnick also tried to call and radio Sunak and three other police officers, but there was no response.

“Could they have already gone downstairs?” Sheriff Ebonick speculated, “Apart from the large corridor we came up from, is there any other way to go down here?”

The man in the leather jacket lowered his head and repeated the question into the microphone, and received the answer from housekeeper Meilin: “Apart from the normal route you just took, the only way to leave the third floor is the escape passage in the city lord’s bedroom.”

They had just searched the library, and there was no sign that the secret door leading to the city lord’s bedroom had ever been opened.

“We didn’t find anyone on the main road, and the secret passage has been locked and never opened. Where did the three of them go? Could they have disappeared out of thin air?” The man in leather jacket frowned and looked at a hidden iron door in the corner.

The doors of all the rooms on the third floor are wooden doors, except for this door, which is made of iron and hidden under a curtain in the corner. If housekeeper Mary hadn’t specifically reminded them, they would never have found it.

“That is the torture room used by all the Grand Dukes of Vanessa.” The voice of housekeeper Meilin came from the headset. She said, “The style of the Flim Misret family in the early years was quite radical. Some specific people who threatened the major interests of the family would occasionally disappear mysteriously and appear in the torture room of Vanessa Castle, to be tortured by the head of the family himself.”

——The head of the Flimmisret family in the early years, usually also serving as Grand Duke Vanessa.

“The only thing left to search is the torture room.” After not finding her brother for such a long time, policewoman Susie looked a little anxious and said, “Let’s go in quickly. Maybe they are in there.”

Several people looked at each other and no one objected.

“Let’s go look in the torture room first. If we can’t find him, we’ll have to go upstairs.” The man in leather jacket said as he walked to the iron gate. A team member followed him. The two of them joined hands and pried open the door of the torture room with a short crowbar.

As the door opened, an indescribable smell wafted out, causing everyone to wrinkle their noses.

“What’s that smell? It’s like expired cheese rotting in the refrigerator…” Susie covered her nose in disgust, but in order to find her brother, she frowned and walked in first.

“We’re ready to go in.” The man in leather jacket said with his head down and walked in.

The remaining few people didn’t say much. They walked in one after another with guns in hand, and soon the corridor on the third floor was empty.

Ning Zhe, who had been hiding on top of the cabinet in the appearance of a long-tailed tit, watched the last team member walk into the torture room. He waited for a while before carefully flying down from the cabinet and landing on the curtain at the door of the torture room.

Just as Ning Zhe was hesitating whether to follow in, suddenly, his body moved uncontrollably.

The two bird claws left the curtain, and Ning Zhe’s wings began to flap in the opposite direction in a strange manner, like a movie tape being played backwards, following the original flight trajectory and returning to the top of the cabinet where he had just hidden.

The members of the investigation team who had just entered the torture room backed up to the door one by one. The man in the leather jacket just watched the female police officer Susie enter the door, lowered his head and said to the microphone: “We are ready to go in.”

“Don’t go in.” Meilin’s voice came from the headset: “Don’t go near the torture room.”

The leather-clad man was slightly startled, then immediately reacted: “Did His Highness tell you? Is there danger in the torture room? But Susie has already gone in…” “Did she go in first?” In the open space downstairs, Meilin listened to the voice coming from the headphones, turned around and said to the girl in front of the chessboard: “Susie has already gone in, are you…”

Should I take another step forward and rescue Susie?

“That’s not necessary.” Plumeria said calmly, “That female police officer must be a ghost. Dejin Hansa and the others must have died because of her deception.”

Dekin Hansa is the name of the man in leather jacket, and he is also the team leader of the four male members of the investigation team.

“Is Susie a ghost? But…” Meilin was a little puzzled: “But we have checked Susie’s fingers. Her right hand is intact, and none of the five fingers are missing.”

Anyone enslaved by the necromancer will be missing the little finger on his left hand if he is a man, and the little finger on his right hand if he is a woman. This is information they knew from the beginning.

“I don’t have any evidence, but I still have to tell you: Susie is a ghost.”

Plumeria did not waver at all and continued, “Tell Dejin Hansa not to get close to the torture chamber. No matter what you see or hear next, don’t believe it. And absolutely, absolutely don’t get close to the torture chamber.”

Meilin did not ask any further questions and relayed His Highness’s original words to the leather-clad man, Dejin Hansa.

“Is Susie actually a ghost…” Dejin Hansa frowned. He stared at the door that Susie had just entered. While recalling Susie’s actions on the way here, he said, “Everyone check each other’s fingers immediately.”

The four members of the investigation team and Sheriff Ebonick immediately checked each other and confirmed that no one was missing any fingers.

A team member then asked, “What’s wrong? Did His Highness say anything?”

“Susie is a ghost.” De Jin Hansa said coldly.

“Ah?” Sheriff Ebonick was stunned and asked with a puzzled look on his face: “But, but haven’t you checked Susie’s fingers? Her right hand is not damaged. According to what you said, how could she be a ghost?”

Ning Zhe, who was hiding on the cabinet, watched the scene silently, feeling somewhat confused.

He had also seen Susie’s right hand, and it was indeed intact. Why did Plumeria identify her as a ghost?
But if Susie was not an accomplice, why did Plumeria “repent” Vanessa Castle before Dejin Hansa and others entered the torture room?

The head of the investigation team, Dejin Hansa, and housekeeper Meilin maintained real-time contact using wireless headphones. If any accident occurred in the investigation team, she would be able to know it in real time. In other words, something did happen after the few people entered the torture room.

It is very likely that they have died after following Susie into the torture room. The reason why Plumeria regretted her move just now was to save the team members who were killed by the demons.

“What exactly is going on?”

After figuring this out, Ning Zhe became even more confused: “What happened after the investigation team entered the torture room? Why did Plumeria identify Susie, whose fingers were intact, as a ghost?”

(End of this chapter)