Chapter Ninety-One: Cutting the Ice River
"What's going on?" asked Caitlyn in surprise after saying goodbye to Mifia.
"I'll have to ask Grand Officer Bailey about this. Eric glanced in the direction of the Blizzard Bar.
"I'll tell Chiko now, maybe we'll be able to catch the fool's tail soon. Caitlyn pulled out her phone.
"No, I can't. Eric pressed Caitlyn's right hand holding the phone, "Not yet." ”
"What's wrong? Doesn't that just prove your instincts right - Mayor Soros and the town are weird. Caitlyn laughed.
"Although I would also like to prove right away how innocent that woman is. But—" Eric glanced around, "don't forget, we're the focus of the town now, and our every move is in the eyes of the residents, and if the three of us get together, not to mention Cook's henchman, our actions will soon reach Soros's old fox." ”
"Okay. Caitlyn felt like she was a new person in front of Eric, was this what a woman is like when she was in love?
"Looks like we'll have to find the truth about Cher first. Eric's mind conjured up the child's white and sharp fangs.
"Could it be twins?" Catelyn joked.
"That's a statement, but I don't think Miffy is so bad that she doesn't even know that she has twins. Eric laughed, "We have to prove if Mifia's child really died at the time." ”
"Ask Grand Officer Bailey?" Catelyn shook her head, "That's too obvious. ”
"Go to the glacier. A cold wind blew, and Eric couldn't help but shudder, "Looking at this kind of weather, only people here are stupid enough to believe Soros's nonsense about global warming." ”
Originally, the journey to Binghe was only 15 minutes, but it was dragged by Eric for more than an hour. But even Caitlyn admired the detective's mind, and perhaps if Eric had good skills and a strong belief in national security, he would have made an excellent agent. In order not to arouse suspicion, the two of them visited and chatted with each of their homes, and the inhabitants of the house, like Bilis, gave them a very warm welcome - and a growing trust.
"It's finally here. Caitlin breathed a sigh of relief at the sight of the glacier in front of her.
"Although we have said so many things against our will, we are not at a loss. Eric smiled and gestured to the bag with all sorts of strange gifts from the townspeople—flashlights, tape measures, small hammers...... And the shovel on Caitlyn's shoulder, and Eric's reason for wanting it was even more interesting - he told the people here that he thought the snow in the town was very soft, like marshmallows, and that he had dreamed since he was a child to use a shovel to pick up marshmallows and pile them into a small snowy mountain, but unfortunately he regretted not bringing a shovel with him this time. So, naturally, the enthusiastic inhabitants of the town fulfilled his wishes.
"Let's go check it out. Eric first tapped the ice on the surface of the river with a small hammer, and judging by the sound that came back to his ears, the ice was at least about 50 centimeters thick. From the standard value of the ice carrying capacity, the ice layer with a thickness of more than 40 cm can not only bear the weight of an adult, but also the driving of a car weighing 2 tons.
"It doesn't look like it's being affected by global warming. Caitlin jumped the glacier.
"I think it's affecting the minds of these residents. Eric put away his hammer and walked towards the place where Miffy's child had had been killed.
"It's been five days. Is there really a clue here?" Caitlyn skeptical.
"In the detective world, there's a saying called 'Fire and Ice,'" Eric took the shovel from Catelyn's shoulder.
"What do you mean?" asked Caitlyn curiously.
"A fire burns a lot of evidence, but freezing does the opposite, it preserves a lot of evidence?" said Eric, struggling to raise his shovel.
"That's what Holmes said, too?" Catelyn smiled at Eric's struggled look.
"No, that's what I said. Eric swung a shovel down, leaving only a shallow trail on the ice.
I think that sentence will go down in history as well. Caitlyn sneered, took the shovel from Eric's hand, and with a vigorous swing, a hole was immediately made in the thick ice. "Is that deep enough?"
Eric looked at the hole in the ice with a black face, as if he had been laughed at mercilessly. He pursed his lips and said critically: "It's not enough, at least 15 centimeters deep and 2 centimeters wide." However, within three minutes, the shovel in Caitlin's hand seemed to be endowed with divine powers, and a hole in ice 15 deep and wide and 2 long and 10 long appeared in front of Eric's eyes at once.
"You female agents are all monsters. Eric leaned down and shone his flashlight into the ice profile.
"Really? Looks like there's Agent Chiko here. Caitlin shook the shoulder of the hand she had just shoveled the ice.
"She's a monster of monsters. Eric's flashlight suddenly focused on a single point.
"Did you find anything?" asked Caitlyn.
"Hmm-" Eric shuddered, "I think-"
"What are you doing!" Before Eric could finish speaking, a familiar rough roar was heard from the river, and Catelyn turned back to see Grand Officer Bailey cursing on the riverside with a red nose.
"What are you two doing there!" Bailey repeated aloud.
Eric got up, put away his flashlight, and instead beckoned to Bailey, motioning for him to hurry over. Bailey was stunned for a moment, then walked up to the two of them in a huff, and when he saw Eric holding an ice opening at his feet, he was furious: "What do you want to do? Don't you see the warning sign on the glacier that prohibits entry?" In fact, when Eric first arrived at the river, he knocked down the warning sign and buried it with snow, creating a scene where the warning sign was blown down and the snow was buried.
"Officer Bailey, we were new and didn't know that this glacier was inaccessible. Eric quibbled.
"You!" Bailey looked at the strange-looking Eric and guessed that the sinister detective must have done it, but he couldn't produce any evidence for a while.
"Well, even if you don't know. Bailey swallowed the breath and then looked at Eric and Caitlyn with a vicious look, "Then tell me now what you guys are doing here!"