96: Secret Room

The two studied the situation of the Liu Family villa complex.

There were dozens of villas in this area; searching inch by inch would likely be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Yang Chunlai asked, "Xiao Ying, if you were Old Master Liu, where would you dig the secret room?"

Xiao Ying thought for a moment, "Of course it would be under the villa where he lives!"

Yang Chunlai replied, "Right, that villa is the most likely spot."

They found the villa where Old Master Liu lived; among all the villas, his was the most luxurious.

It was magnificent, just like a palace.

Just the chandelier in the entrance hall probably cost millions!

Old Master Liu was the overall Sect Head of the Liu Family, so the secret room was most likely located here.

Yang Chunlai found two sticks and tapped on the floors and walls throughout the first floor.

If he heard a hollow sound, it often meant there was a secret excavated space underground.

After tossing and turning back and forth for over half an hour, there was no hollow sound from any of the floors.

Xiao Ying wondered, "Brother, could we be looking in the wrong place?"

"Maybe it's in another villa!"

Yang Chunlai asked, "Then which other villa is the most likely?"

Xiao Ying recalled that all the villas were occupied by Liu Family members, and the sickly Young Master Liu was the second most suspicious.

But after all, the Young Master hadn't officially taken over yet, so Old Master Liu wouldn't have given it to him.

So after thinking it over, Old Master Liu's villa was still the most suspicious.

Yang Chunlai asked, "Then what other place have we not searched yet?"

Xiao Ying replied, "We've searched the inside and outside of this courtyard!"

The two were currently in Old Master Liu's bedroom.

Strangely, in the center was a square glass pool with clear water, where a group of goldfish were swimming.

Beside it was a stone statue in ancient costume, looking like a strange philosopher pondering while gazing at the swimming fish.

Its mouth was slightly open, as if wondering about some profound philosophical truth.

It was in a state that invited contemplation.

Xiao Ying looked around, pointed at the pool, and laughed, "It couldn't possibly be in the pool, right?"

"How would one go down there?"

Unable to find anything, Xiao Ying made a joke.

But Yang Chunlai's line of thought opened up, "Could it really be under the water?"

After all, it was a secret room!

The more unexpected it was to others, the more likely it was to be the location of the secret room.

Yang Chunlai said, "Maybe the secret room is right under this pool, we just need to find the mechanism to open it."

Xiao Ying checked around the pool but didn't find anything resembling a switch.

"Brother, I think it might be some kind of remote control that Old Master Liu hid in some secret place."

If they had to search for a tiny remote control among dozens of villas, who knew how long that would take?

Yang Chunlai looked at the stone statue, always feeling that something was off.

Suddenly, the statue's mouth seemed a bit worn.

This was the kind of wear caused by people frequently taking things.

Could the switch be hidden in the statue's mouth?

Yang Chunlai examined the statue's mouth with his eyes; it was just a mouth and a tongue, it didn't seem like there was anything strange there!

It seemed the switch wasn't here either.

Yang Chunlai was a bit annoyed and casually reached out to touch the tongue in the mouth.

Unexpectedly, the tongue actually moved.

"Rumble!"

A large hole opened at the bottom of the pool, and within a few minutes, the water and goldfish had all drained away.

Then, the stone slab at the bottom of the pool lifted, and a flight of stone stairs appeared before their eyes.

"Wow!" Xiao Ying exclaimed, "So it was hidden here! Who would have thought of that!"

Yang Chunlai replied, "No wonder it was so hard to find!"

"Even if thieves came to steal, people would only think to search in the living areas."

"Who would think to look in the pool?"

"We only found it by blind luck."

Both of them clicked their tongues in praise; it was truly ingenious!

They went down a dozen steps.

Inside, the walls and floors were all made of white marble slabs.

On the walls were posters of naked beauties, with alluring expressions!

A lewd atmosphere rushed towards them!

Yang Chunlai frowned, "This wouldn't be Old Master Liu's sex room, would it?"

"How come we didn't find the beauties he kept in the villas above?"

Xiao Ying replied, "Brother was wreaking havoc above; the others probably heard the commotion and fled long ago."

They arrived at a black steel door with a combination lock.

Xiao Ying knocked on the steel door, which was very sturdy, "Brother, there's a big door here. This lock probably wouldn't even break if hit by a machine gun."

Yang Chunlai sneered, "For others, it might be impossible to open."

"But for me, it's a piece of cake!"

He reached behind his back, and the long spear was already in his hand.

He used the spear to cut through the steel door.

Just like a kitchen knife cutting through tofu, he cut a square opening into the steel door.

Xiao Ying clapped and laughed, "Brother, that's amazing!"

Yang Chunlai took Xiao Ying inside and saw a large bed, with many toys arranged around it.

On the floor sat several tied-up beauties.

There were sexy urban mature women in black silk stockings and long-legged stepmother skirts!

There were beauties with the air of noble ladies wearing ancient-style cheongsams!

There were pretty nurses in nurse uniforms!

...

There were about seven or eight of them!

Xiao Ying untied them and asked, "Who are you all? Why are you here?"

The leading mature woman said, "Thank you, sister. I am Zhu Yi. Everyone calls me Auntie Zhu, but actually, I'm only twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old."

"We are all models who like traditional Chinese costumes. We were arranged by a company to come to the Liu Family secretly to shoot ancient-style portraits."

"Unexpectedly, halfway through, the company people all disappeared, and we were all trapped here by Old Master Liu."

The beauties added in a flurry of voices, "We were so confused; it's the modern era, how could someone still be forcing people to stay!"

"We have been trapped here for over a month."

Yang Chunlai asked, "Oh, over a month, huh? Do you know what the situation is like outside?"

"Outside, it is already the Apocalypse. Zombies are running rampant, and it's survival of the fittest!"

The mature woman Zhu Yi said, "We know. That old bastard Old Master Liu told us."

"We thought they were lying to us, but it turns out it was true."

Xiao Ying asked, "That's strange. Old Master Liu kidnapped you and kept you here by force; what was his goal?"

The mature woman Zhu Yi replied, "Little sister, we are so beautiful; what do you think he was after?"

It seemed self-evident; naturally, he wanted to forcibly keep these beauties here as Old Master Liu's sex slaves.

Xiao Ying thought of Old Master Liu's skin, which looked like withered tree bark, and his zombie-like, decrepit face, and couldn't help but feel her scalp tingle and shiver all over.

"That old bastard, that animal with one foot in the grave, actually dared to target these beauties!"

"You don't know, he even tried to target me today!"

"At first he wanted me to be his daughter-in-law, and later he wanted to cheat with me. How can there be such a perverted person?"

"If it weren't for Brother saving me, I would have really been... you know!"

Thinking that if Brother hadn't saved her in time today, the consequences would have been unimaginable!

Yang Chunlai was concerned about their situation and touched Auntie Zhu's face, "You all didn't have anything happen with Old Master Liu, did you?"