never one by one.
If it had been one of them and not a
stranger then the person must have been missing when it took place
and he wondered about the people that he had not seen, and from
what Mortimer told them they had checked up on them and that there
was at least ten people there that never came in contact with
anyone when it took place, and had been sleeping, and Bryson
realized that they had made a mistake by not checking them at their
rooms to see if anyone had been missing, and he also realized that
they never thought it was them and that they would not have gone to
such lengths to carry anything out.
Bryson realized the infernal place now had a
killer, who had a motive to kill for, and they and all the evidence
had shown that the person could not be in the wood and was hidden
away somewhere in the colossal castle, and that they would have to
sleep there with him lurking in shadows.
Chapter 17
The Treasure
Quest
The entire castle was colossal and dangerous
beyond belief, even during the day, and they had checked all the
stuff that they had accumulated and found there had been many
occurrences and deaths during the day, and nobody seemed to want to
go into the unexplored regions, where they also thought the killer
lurked.
So when they started their investigations of
the castle it was in search of the treasure there and was organized
by Mitchell and he brought all his men, with Bryson and the two
psychic investigators, and some scientists and archaeologists, who
were curious what was in the unexplored regions.
They had been no further than the
central region, and region that they slept in on the second floor,
so Mitchell ’ s idea of going to the central region of the
top floor was really interesting.
Bryson climbed the stairs studying
everything, while curiously watching Mitchell as he followed him up
and occasionally listened to everyone else behind him, and Bryson
noticed that his surroundings seemed to get dirtier the further up
they went and by the time they reached the top they were sweeping
giant webs away, which seemed to increase in size, and he started
to consider there being dangerous spiders there.
“ Well, ” Mitchell finally announced,
breaking his silence. “ We now know that killer has not been here!
Though there must be other staircases up here, so we still have him
being about as a problem. ”
They entered the top floor and it looked
incredible to Bryson. It was like another world and like seeing a
real haunted place, place where supernatural existed, and he
considered it as being either one of the only places like it on the
planet or one of the most powerful places on the planet.
The corridor had to be the most ghostly
darkest places he had seen, and with freezing cold and snow it was
even more still, silent, and empty of life as was possible. Even
with the lights on there were strange haunting dark shadows and
glows that held secrets and dangers!
Some of Mitchell ’ s men insisted in announcing
their being there clearly to the killer, if he was up there, and
they insisted in leaving him until the police arrived. And even
though it was one of his men and he had directly attacked them, he
had escaped and it was a police matter! Though he was sure most of
them actually still intended to do something when they
could!
They grouped closely together and wander
down the corridor in the one direction with startled and amused
faces as they searched its interior, with faint thoughts of what it
would be like there at night. The place to everyone there seemed to
be the source of all the occurrences in the wood, and it at times
was like being in a central area where something existed that was
more powerful than anything else there, and perhaps on the planet,
and the stuff in the wood avoided going there because of its power
and that they were being checked and it had hidden intentions to do
things with them.
The treasure being hidden away there was
like something