Chapter 465 Noah in the Locked Room
Andy only found a metal key in the drawer, and at the bottom, there was a keyhole!
He frowned and muttered, "What's this key and keyhole for?"
As he spoke, he inserted the key into the keyhole and turned it.
A crisp sound came from the keyhole.
He saw a wooden cabinet nearby automatically move aside.
In the middle of the white wall, there was a hidden door!
Andy was dumbfounded.
He had lived in the Johnson Mansion for over twenty years, yet never knew there was a hidden door in Heather's bedroom!
Everyone else in the room, including Sandra, who had just been arguing with Andy, was equally puzzled!
There was no doubt that Heather must have known about this hidden door; it was even possible that she was the one who had devised it!
Could it be that behind this door lies some important inheritance left by Heather?
Realizing this, everyone in the bedroom became excited and quickly gathered in front of the hidden door.
Andy stood at the front, placing his hands on the surface of the hidden door and opening it slowly.
They saw that behind the hidden door was a staircase leading down, with dim lighting inside, making it impossible to see anything clearly!
Andy turned on the flashlight on his phone and slowly walked inside with the others.
As they went deeper, a foul stench permeated the air, reminiscent of human waste or something decaying and fermenting.
A young man couldn't help but frown and complain, "So smelly! How could there be any inheritance in such a filthy hidden room? Could Heather have thrown her unused trash here?"
Sandra frowned and scolded, "Shut up! Hurry up and go down!"
After descending about twenty steps, they arrived at a small, enclosed room.
The foul odor in the air was even stronger.
Andy shone his phone's flashlight around the small room.
He found the floor covered with excrement, rotting food, broken bowls, and snapped forks!
In the far corner, there was a moldy, raised blanket.
Suddenly, the blanket moved, startling everyone!
"What is it?"
"Whoa, could it be a nest of rats?"
"Why don't you go over and lift the blanket to find out?"
"I'm scared! What if there's a monster inside that bites me? I couldn't handle that!"
Hearing this, Andy impatiently mocked, "You guys are too timid. How will you support the Johnson family in the future? I'll go check it out!"
With that, Andy mustered his courage and cautiously stepped closer!
His left hand clenched into a fist.
If there were something under the blanket, he would punch it immediately!
Just as Andy got within three feet of the blanket and was about to reach out and lift it.
The blanket was suddenly thrown off, and a dark figure lunged straight at Andy!
Andy screamed in fright, his body uncontrollably stumbling backward!
Then he fell to the ground, his hands landing on something sticky.
He knew what he had grasped in his hand, but he couldn't care less about the disgusting mess; he was so scared that he kept retreating, his voice trembling with sobs.
After all, the "scattering ashes" incident at the funeral that afternoon remained vivid in his mind!
The others present were freaking out too!
They kept shouting in shock!
But when someone shone their phone's flashlight on the dark figure, they were stunned!
It wasn't a monster but a person!
Under the light, they saw a man in tattered clothes with dirty, messy long hair and a foul odor. His face was sunken from extreme thinness!
His long hair was already white, his eyes cloudy, and he looked really old!
"I'm so hungry, please don't shine the light on me," the man weakly pleaded, waving his hands in front of his eyes.
Upon closer inspection, everyone noticed a chain around his neck, with the other end fixed to the wall, limiting his movement to within the room!
It was like he was chained up like a dog!
This scene left everyone speechless!
There was a person inside Heather's hidden room, and it was clear he had been locked up for a long time!
They couldn't help but ponder, 'Who's this person? And why did Heather imprison him here?'Who was he?
Why did Heather imprison him here?
These questions popped into everyone's mind at the same time! At this moment, they saw Sandra's body tremble.
She took two steps closer to the man and asked in a trembling voice, "Dad, is that you?"
The man slowly raised his head, and when he saw Sandra, tears immediately welled up in his cloudy eyes, and he whimpered with his mouth open!
He couldn't say a word!
But it was clear that he recognized Sandra!
Sandra's expression instantly became emotional as she shouted, "Dad! It's you, it really is you! I thought you had disappeared all those years ago, but you were locked up here."
The others, witnessing this scene, felt their minds go blank.
Sandra was calling this filthy, imprisoned man "Dad"!
That meant this man was the one who had founded the Johnson family, led it to its glory, and then suddenly disappeared one night twenty years ago—Noah?
But the legendary figure and the man before them were worlds apart.
More importantly, wasn't it said that Noah had disappeared while traveling? Even the police had looked for him for half a month but gave up.
The official announcement was that Noah might have gone missing and met with foul play, presumed dead!
Who would have thought he was imprisoned by Heather here, and for nearly twenty years!
Probably no one in the Johnson family knew about this except Heather!
What could be the reason behind this?
It must be an explosive piece of news!
At this moment, Sandra suddenly turned her head and scolded, "What are you all standing around for? Hurry up and call an ambulance to take Noah to the hospital. If anything happens to him, I won't forgive you!"
Though the others were still in shock, they didn't dare disobey Sandra's words, so they quickly started to act!
Andy, who had just been scared, sat on the ground in a daze.
He watched everyone busying themselves, feeling at a loss!
At this moment, he had a strong and ominous premonition.
The position of the head of the Johnson family, which he had just secured, might not last long.
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