Chapter 326: Suffocation
Thor slowly looked away, and finally his eyes fell on the center of the hall on the first floor.
"Is that that one?"
Sander turned around and froze in place.
"Yes, it's my box, but... why, I just walked over there."
He said, walking quickly towards the box, stroking it up and down with his hands, and finally even held the entire box in his arms.
Sol was also a little confused.
This box was definitely not in that place when he came in!
And after his inspection just now, he found no mechanism that could hide things on the ground, nor any supernatural beings.
So how did that box suddenly appear?
Is this box special, or is there something unusual about this house that Thor didn't notice?
Thinking that an apprentice who was expelled from the Wizard Tower once lived here, and that apprentices under the age of 30 who have not reached the third level are prone to mutations, Thor is more inclined to think that there is a problem with this house.
But when he used the meditation method again and looked over, the house was still clean.
What was unclean was the rattan box that was half a man tall.
The ominous gray mist escaped from inside and finally merged with the arm around Sander's neck.
But to Thor's surprise, the gray mist deliberately avoided Sander's body and only surrounded him.
It seemed like she was afraid of hurting him.
After confirming that the gray mist was the resentment of a corpse, Thor raised his eyebrows and said, "It doesn't seem to be killing people and hiding corpses as I originally thought."
He originally wanted to let Sander sign an agreement and let him take this risk with him. The rattan box left.
Although the other party may be a perverted murderer who carries corpses with him, Thor does not intend to meddle in other people's business, and the arm will most likely avenge him personally.
But now it seems that there is something else going on behind the corpse's death.
A down-and-out man running around with a corpse. After the body was lost, he returned to the scary "haunted house" several times to find it.
A resentful spirit tightly wrapped around the man in front of him, but was careful not to let his breath hurt him.
What is the relationship between Sander and the body in the box - or the owner of the arm around his neck?
Thor was suddenly interested.
He held on to the handrail of the stairs and walked down slowly, "What is your relationship with the person in the box?"
Sander, who was hugging the box closely, froze. He looked back at Sol Zhang, who had already walked up to him. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he lowered his head in frustration.
"Sure enough, you saw it."
He stretched out his hand tremblingly, placed it on the leather straps wrapped around the rattan box, and slowly untied it.
Then, he gently put the box down and reached out to open the brass buckle.
He took a deep breath and opened the lid of the box.
Thor looked calmly into the box.
As expected, it turned out to be a female corpse.
She looked about twelve or thirteen years old. She was lying on her side in a box with her hands on her knees. She didn't have a very pretty face. If she were alive, she would be called cute.
She was wearing a light pink dress that was a little yellowish and faded, and she had a small gold hairpin on her head.
It looked like a recently deceased corpse.
The only special thing is that there are no wounds or signs of decay on her body.
Sol's eyes fell on the golden hairpin.
This hairpin is as new as its owner, with no trace of age corrosion.
"It should be this witchcraft prop that keeps her body from decaying."
Saul knelt down and took a closer look, and found that the lines on the hairpin were indeed a witchcraft symbol, but they were just witchcraft words that he had never seen before.
Seeing that Sol had no intention of touching the female corpse, Sander's tense shoulders slowly relaxed.
He began to slowly tell the story about himself and the female corpse.
In fact, the story is very simple and commonplace.
In order to prevent his sister from being sold to an old man as a plaything by his debt-ridden stepmother, Sander, as the elder brother, ran away with his sister overnight. However, the old man was a rich and powerful man, and he even worshiped a wizard.
I don't know why, but he is chasing after Xander and his sister. They even spend a lot of money and manpower to track them down.
Young men and women were easily questioned while walking on the road, so Sander specially bought this big rattan box and let his sister hide in it.
With this stupid method, they evaded the search.
Everything was going smoothly until he took a boat from the eastern mainland on the other side of the bay to the Blue Water Bay, the estuary here.
As he came down from the boat, there were some crashing sounds in the cane box. But because his sister had boarded the ship by evading fares, he looked at the talking and laughing sailors around him and did not dare to move. He just patted the box to calm his sister down.
And the box immediately became quiet.
Xander thought that the movement just now might just be that his sister was sitting uncomfortably and had to adjust her posture.
But who would have expected that when he quickly disembarked from the boat, found a secluded place, and opened the box, he found his sister curled up inside, motionless, with no heartbeat or breathing... and her body was already stiff.
Even though many years had passed, Sander still shed a line of tears when he said this.
The tears were very quiet, dripping silently from the corners of his eyes, rolling over the skin that had experienced the vicissitudes of time, and falling on the open collar of his shirt that had faded and turned yellow.
Sander wiped away his tears skillfully, then wiped his hands on his pants, and then carefully closed the box.
He would reach out and carefully arrange the skirt and hair of the female corpse to prevent them from getting caught in the box.
"I made you laugh, sir. This box is worthless, but it contains my most precious treasure."
He even smiled at Thor.
Although Xander tried hard to maintain calm, Thor could still feel the great sadness that had been suppressed for a long time from him.
Seeing that Sol didn't look impatient, Xander couldn't help but pour out some of his worries.
"Later, I often thought, if I had not thought about saving some money on the ferry ticket and opened the box immediately to check on my sister, would she not have died?" "
I always thought that the rattan box has better air permeability. But I didn't expect... maybe it was a bit hot that day, and there were a lot of people, and they were crowded around me, which made her uncomfortable. She wanted to change positions to get some air, but because of my instructions, she endured it obediently..."
Sol Looking at the rattan box that was heavily wrapped again, "Then why do you still put her in the box?" "
Mido'er likes... Oh, Mido'er is my sister, her name is Miska, and my mother and I have always Call her that. She doesn't want to leave this box, and once I take her out, she will cry."
"Will she cry?"
"Yes, sir, I didn't lie."
Sol held his chin, "Then you Pick her up and let me take a look."
"This..." Sander obviously showed a trace of reluctance, but after struggling for a moment, he still reached out and opened the box.
He was afraid that if he didn't take action, the wizard would take action himself.
Just as Sander said, when she gently lifted her sister's head, a drop of water soaked out of the girl's closed eyes.
When Sander lifted the girl's shoulders again, the tears rolled down like broken beads.
"My lord?" Sander looked at Thor pleadingly, obviously unable to bear to raise his sister's body again.
"Okay, I saw it, you put her back." Saul did not force Sander anymore, but after Sander put his sister down, he continued to say, "Your sister did not suffocate to death, she was suffocated. Killed by evil spirits."
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