Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1101 The History of An Gang's Family
Although Xia Shou was somewhat surprised by the fact that An Gang's family kept people in a barrier, this was not something he wanted to investigate.

If the underground area only contained measures to prevent the dissipation of magical energy, Sparrow's compass wouldn't have pointed this way, because Xia Shou had absolutely no interest in such matters.

Moreover... it's impossible for a normal family to spend so much money to maintain such a protective barrier around living beings that prevents the leakage of curse power for so many years.

After all, what family would have such a strange need?

The source of living people, the management of detention facilities, the disposal of the bodies of the deceased, the aftermath of missing detainees, and so on, all require a great deal of effort and cost to resolve and coordinate.

Unless for this family, the leakage of magical power is not an accidental occurrence, but something that happens all the time over the years, no one would maintain such a thankless task.

Only under such circumstances would the head of the household expend so much effort, energy, and manpower to maintain such a systematic secret detention facility.

There must be other secrets hidden here.

With that in mind, Xia Shou continued searching.

Most of the folders on the bookshelf contain detailed rules for controlling this barrier, personnel shifts, and how to handle emergencies.

It seems... there's nothing special about it.

"There can't be only these," Xia Shou muttered.

He could clearly see the list of those people who had been scrapped. The scrapping rate was extremely fast, which meant that there was always a leak of magical energy in this place, and it didn't just start leaking after Hei Yue was killed.

However, Xia Shou found absolutely no information about the source of the leaked curse power in these documents.

"It seems they're keeping it a secret from the staff on duty here. Do I have to find it myself?"

Xia Shou left the office and checked each of the iron gates next to it, but found nothing of value. It was either the same office as before, or a small warehouse storing confinement equipment, and some drugs used to calm the detainees.

In the corridor, he saw the people who were locked up. When Xia Shou arrived, they didn't make a sound. When Xia Shou's lantern shone on their faces, they all silently lowered their heads, curled up and squatted, or stared at the wall with their backs turned. They were like dogs with no status in a pack, unable to even make eye contact with the prison guards.

It was very quiet, without any noise, which shows that it had been disciplined strictly.

There is even reason to suspect that some kind of restraint was used to discipline them, otherwise it would be hard to explain why this group of people would cooperate so well; at least some of them would scream, right?

Looking into each of the enclosed rooms, some people were still in relatively good health, while others had undergone mutations, growing strange extra limbs.

Others were tied to crosses, their joints tightly bound, and their mouths sealed shut with strips of cloth; they appeared to be the type who had gone mad and were out of control.

After walking around and finding a large number of people, Xia Shou still couldn't find what he was looking for, so he went to another side road and searched it.

Still not.

"How could that be? Unless..."

Xia Shou walked back to the fork in the road, closed his eyes, and pieced together a planar structure in his mind, following the route he had just taken.

It seems... there's a section of wall here that's a bit too thick.

Xia Shou opened one eye, stared at the wall in front of him, and activated his divine power.

A flat concrete brick was suddenly moved to Xia Shou's feet, and a cold wind whistled out from the gap in the brick. Sure enough, there was a secret room within a secret room!
Moreover, it was a completely sealed secret room without any mechanisms, which means that An Gang's family never intended to open this place.

To put it another way, this place doesn't need to be opened; in fact, it was originally intended for sealing.

Xia Shou bent down and entered the newly opened space, where the air was a little cleaner.

In this new secret room, there is only a shrine maiden's outfit hanging there, a set of samurai armor in the style of the Sengoku period, and what is that in between the two?
Xia Shou stepped forward and could sense a steady stream of magical energy emanating from the object.

Without a doubt, this is the real sealed object. It's rare to see something that continuously leaks cursed power over such a long period of time. What exactly is this?
Xia Shou used a lantern to shine it on the thing. There were two ornaments that looked like deer antlers on the long white hair, but the ends were very sharp. When he picked it up and looked at it, he found that the pair of antlers were connected to a piece of dry scalp, and the white hair was the hair.

No way, that's it? The compass was supposed to lead me to something, and this is it?
What does it mean?
Xia Shou raised the lantern in his hand high, illuminating the entire secret room, and suddenly noticed a black stone placed against the wall of the secret room.

"Could it be this?"

A stone, very flat, like... a token.

The words "Vaisravana" are written on it, and they are in Chinese, specifically simplified Chinese!
Xia Shou examined the material of the stone tablet and immediately thought of the stone that Pedros had mentioned, the stone of the Moyusi.

His fingers touched the uneven marks, and when he turned the stone tablet over, he saw a finely carved pattern on the back. It depicted a woman wearing a strange hat and a man dressed as a general fighting against a monster.

Xia Shou slowly turned his head and glanced at the two pieces of clothing beside and behind him. He immediately recognized them as the ones worn by the two people on the stone tablet.

It's highly likely that this one with horns and a scalp also belongs to this monster.

Although I still don't quite understand what's going on, since the stone is made of black jade, it's highly likely that it's related to the Black Jade Bureau and must be connected to him.

Considering what Su Weiyu said before, that she saw a scene where he was wearing a mask, it's possible that... An Gang's past is related to him at some point in the past.

Indeed, a detailed investigation into the historical background of An Gang's family is still necessary.

Xia Shou took the stone tablet with him and left the secret room.

As for the demon's horns and two sets of clothes, he didn't take them away immediately. After all, the seal was determined by An Gang's family themselves, and moving them without understanding the specific reasons might cause unnecessary trouble.

By the time Xia Shou returned to the mansion, Su Weiyu and Su Yue had also finished searching the second floor.

Moreover, Xia Shou noticed that the others had gradually gathered together and were chatting in the courtyard.

Xia Shou dusted himself off and went around the corridor from the side, pretending that he had come from the other side.

Xia Shou overheard the discussion.

"There really isn't a single person left! There were quite a few people in this family before we came out."

"They probably all escaped while we and that old monster were gone, but they seemed to have left in a hurry and didn't take many things with them."

"They may have taken the more important parts; I did find some confiscated items."

"I didn't find anything useful, but I did find the family tree. Hopefully, the one wearing the mask will have something good to exchange for it."

(End of this chapter)