The Keys

The stairs were built near the wall, and the two descended carefully. The entire basement has an area of over one hundred square meters and a height of over two meters, but visibility is very low, making it difficult to see even with a flashlight.

The surrounding walls seemed to have been treated not long ago, even in this dark and opaque basement, there were no traces of mold or moisture, and it should have been treated with a moisture-proof treatment, which was unusual.

There are many showcases on the surrounding walls, which are exactly the same as those in the previous secret room, but instead of all kinds of weapons, they are filled with cardboard boxes.

In the center of the room, there were a large number of cabinets similar to showcases, with a weapon placed on top, covered with a delicate glass cover.

"Are these... ancient weapons?"

"It should be..." Merle looked at the weapons in the showcases with disgust. They were all flashy things, and with this amount of weapons, no one would become a walker. If the basement was only used to store weapons and ammunition, it would be enough for several thousand people to use for years.

He reached out and opened the showcase and, by the way, pushed the box inside.

"Eh? It's actually quite heavy!" Merle murmured quietly, somewhat surprised.

"Is it something good?"

With a dagger movement, the box was opened directly and Merle looked inside.

A cartridge! A box full of ammunition!

Incredible, he opened the other boxes and there were still many more bullets!

"Wow, could it be that the owner of this place is a complete idiot? Was it impossible for him to use these weapons and ammunition to protect his home?"

"There must be some reason why I couldn't use these ammunition and weapons..."

Little Hanna thought of the well-dressed walkers on the third floor before, secretly guessing what happened to them.

But Merle couldn't control his calm. Seeing so much ammunition found at once, he couldn't help but smile from ear to ear. What is needed most in these last days?

Naturally, it's firearms, and firearms without bullets will become scrap copper and rotten iron.

Although he had a gun on his waist, he only knew that he had six bullets in the gun, and it was enough to scare the bad guys, but it was not enough to deal with fast walkers.

Fortunately, he had not encountered anything scarier than simple walkers. Therefore, he had been fine so far, but now that unease had ended.

After walking through the basement and confirming that all the boxes were filled with various types of ammunition, Merle felt relieved and finally discovered why the firearms in the secret room of the study didn't have bullets.

There are so many dry goods found only in this basement, what will be in the other two basements?

It goes without saying that there were many hidden secrets in the owner of this house. He didn't know who they were before the end of the world. Perhaps the only walkers in this mansion were workers in this house who didn't know about the existence of these basements. Perhaps the true owner of this house had evacuated before, and these resources were left forgotten without anyone else knowing of their existence.

Of course, Merle didn't care too much about this kind of thing, so he thought, "Well, I'm damn lucky!"

He took two boxes of ammunition and moved them up. Merle isn't in a hurry to get these things now. The other two basements that haven't been found attract him even more, and since he knew the value of these basements, he wanted to find them as soon as possible.

Finding a basement gave the two people a lot of confidence. Next, Merle focused on checking some places that could easily be overlooked and found another basement half an hour later.

This time it wasn't weapons and ammunition, but a large amount of stored food. This discovery made little Hanna laugh and she couldn't help but get excited. She had never seen so much food in one place before, and eagerly ran to a box and opened it, discovering that it was packaged food.

Special ham, dried food, various cans, compressed biscuits, sealed food, and even a lot of military food.

"Who owns this house? Why did they stockpile so many supplies?"

Merle looked at these things in the room and smiled indifferently. In his opinion, no matter who the other party is, they have taken advantage of these benefits.

"Whoever it is, I just know that tonight's dinner is very good." As he spoke, Merle took some bags of food from the box and gave them to Hanna, saying, "Go up and prepare the food first, and in the meantime, I'll try to find that basement on my own."

Rubbing the biggest key, Merle couldn't help but look forward to what the third room would be. Why even the key is very different.

Hanna went to the kitchen to prepare the food alone, while Merle conducted a meticulous search and for now only found two basements. According to the large basements, there shouldn't be one near this place.

So he focused on the rest of the area, and needless to say, everything intensified, every room became a mess, and when Hanna returned and called him to eat, she saw the disorder in the room.

"Old man, it's time to eat!"

Hanna walked down the hallway, calling out loudly to Merle, wondering where he was.

...

What made her feel strange was that the corridor became extremely quiet, and there was no sound in the room that was still sounding just a moment ago. She called several times but no one answered. Hanna felt a dark wind blowing around her, and there was no one there, the corridors of the room seemed to be getting darker and darker.

Hanna, increasingly nervous, couldn't help but take out the small axe she had on her waist. She was really lost by the sudden disappearance of old Merle. The death of her parents and Elena made her uneasy about this sudden disappearance.

"Merle? Where are you?"

Hanna continued to peek her head into each room's door, but each room was empty and Merle was nowhere to be found, which made her feel uneasy. But then she saw the entrance to the basement.

Did he go to the basement?

She hurried to the basement entrance and shouted twice, but could hear nothing but the echo. This made her panic even more, everything she looked at turned gloomy, even the basement full of supplies turned into a gloomy shadow, and the black hole entrance became frightening.

Hanna's heart began to beat hard, she became increasingly agitated, her palms were sweating, and all kinds of thoughts rushed into her mind.

Are there other survivors in the villa? Did they attack the old man while she was disconnected?

Her nerves were pushed to the limit, the strength of her hands to hold the axe handle increased again, and her body slowly retreated to the hallway and walked towards the villa door.

Slowly retreating to the door, Hanna breathed a sigh of relief, she just needed to walk a few more steps before she could retreat to the villa door. She looked around one last time and confirmed that there was no danger.

Just as she turned around and put her hand on the door handle, there was a knock outside the door. The sudden sound made Hanna scream and her body jumped back like an electric shock.

Staring at the door in horror, she exhaled a long sigh of relief until a familiar voice came from outside.