Chapter 755: Chapter 545 Hidden Secret_1 Chapter 755: Chapter 545 Hidden Secret_1 When Duanmu Huai and Mary returned to Baskerville Manor, the others walked over with anxious expressions.
“Mr. Duanmu, what on earth happened… your clothes?!”
Seeing the torn clothes on Duanmu Huai’s chest, Baroness Baskerville was startled, while Duanmu Huai simply waved his hand.
“No need to worry, I just had a scuffle with that creature, I’m fine.”
“Eh? Ah, is that so? Are you injured? Should we call a doctor……..”
“It’s okay, that thing couldn’t harm me, it only damaged my clothes.”
Upon hearing Duanmu Huai’s response, Baroness Baskerville breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, Duanmu Huai came over to her and stretched out his hand.
“I hope I’m not overstepping, but do you recognize this?”
Looking at the pendant lying in Duanmu Huai’s palm, Baroness Baskerville slightly furrowed her brows and tried to recall.
“it seems familiar, but……..”
“This is the pendant held by the Baskerville Ancestors.”
Luckily there was someone here who knew, at this moment the old butler stepped forward, looking at the pendant and spoke.
“Oh? Have you seen it before?”
“I’ve only seen it in paintings.”
“Yes, in the portrait of that Baskerville ancestor……..please, follow me.”
Guided by the old butler, Duanmu Huai came to the living room, where indeed several portraits of Baskerville family ancestors were hanging. The old butler then pointed to a portrait of a young, lavishly dressed man standing on a rock with a long sword in his hand.
“This is him, the legendary ancestor……..”
Although the old butler spoke somewhat cryptically, when talking about the legendary ancestor of the Baskerville family, it was only that man of ill-repute that springs to mind. Looking closely, Duanmu Huai could indeed see the same pendant hanging on the young man’s chest, similar to the one he held in his hand. Furthermore, in the portraits of those who came before him, many also had this pendant.
“Is this the emblem of the Baskerville family?”
Noble families of the old continent would naturally have their unique coat of arms, but whether the Baskerville family had one, Duanmu Huai didn’t know.
“I am not so sure. I heard it was a pendant passed down through the generations of the Baskerville family, up until that ancestor. After him, the pendant vanished and no one knew where it had gone to…… I really wonder where you found it, Mr. Duanmu.”
“Oh, I got it from that creature I took care of.”
Needless to say, upon hearing this, both the baroness and the old butler were puzzled.
“So are you suggesting that that hellhound was the ancestor?”
“Judging from what we have so far, it might be the case, however…….. I have a strange suspicion.”
At least according to what Duanmu Huai saw from the pendant’s past, the ancestor’s death was certainly problematic. According to the legend of the Baskerville family, the people who arrived afterward found the bodies of the ancestor and a girl, surrounded by a hound chewing on the ancestor’s corpse.
Although the tale did not make it clear, logically following the sequence, those who heard the story would believe the ancestor killed the girl then was punished by the hellhound.
Yet as per what Duanmu Huai saw, the ancestor would certainly not have been able to defeat the girl. The final scene clearly indicated the ancestor was killed by her in turn.
At least, under the prerequisite that the girl was not human—— well, she did not appear to be human.
“What exactly does this pendant do?”
“I can’t figure it out……”
Duanmu Huai carefully examined the pendant in his hand, and at that point, Ling’Nu suddenly crawled out of his pocket, jumped onto his hand, and tapped the pendant a few times with her paw. And then……..
With a crisp sound, the pendant suddenly opened up and transformed into a key-like shape.
Seeing this, everyone was taken aback, Duanmu Huai likewise raised his eyebrows.
“Do any of you know how to use this thing?”
The baroness and the old butler exchanged a glance, shaking their heads.
However, Ling’Nu seemed to know something. She jumped down from Duanmu Huai’s shoulder and ran towards the interior of the house. Intrigued, Duanmu Huai and the others followed her through the hallway until they arrived at the study of the Baskerville family chief.
Everyone walked into the study with a puzzled look, but Ling’Nu was unfazed as she jumped onto the desk and started tapping the side cabinet. Only then did Duanmu Huai notice that there was a strange relief decoration on the wall next to the cabinet. Out of curiosity, he inserted the pendant into the cavity in the middle of the relief.
With another soft sound, the bookcase that was once towering against the wall slid aside automatically, revealing a stone door leading to the underground.
Duanmu Huai looked at the two, both the old butler and Baroness looked baffled.
“Apologies, sir, we never knew………”