Morning of December 31, 2014

The hands of the watch were already pointing to 9 o'clock in the morning, and the man in the restaurant opened his eyes in a daze, he and his wife thought they would stay awake all night, but as soon as they touched the bed last night, they fell asleep in a daze, and they didn't even dream.

Dizzy, there is a feeling of being top-heavy and fluttering, the middle-aged man finally let himself get up from the bed, but his eyelids are still so sour that he can't open them, he rubs his eyes with his hands, and at the same time pushes his wife on the side.

"Hey! Wake up, what time is it? The man asked.

It took about a minute or so for the woman to finally react, and like the man, she was dazed and couldn't wake up, and she didn't even speak intermittently, not knowing what she was talking about.

The two of them communicated for a long time before they finally came to their senses. When his mind cleared up, the man also came to his senses, he got up from the bed with a bone, grabbed the mobile phone on the bedside table and wanted to check the time. But the phone was out of power at all, and he remembered the watch placed next to the phone.

Eyes hurriedly browsed the watch dial, and then dropped it on the table, the man said while dressing: "There should be no danger during the day, we have to go home and see, you remember to put away the key here, the proprietress is usually a good person, she has not done anything real, and we can't be suspicious." ”

"Of course I do." The woman replied, "I don't understand why we slept so hard last night, and it stands to reason that you wake up very much in normal times!" ”

"Who do I ask if you ask me? Isn't it a good thing to be able to sleep while alive anyway? Don't be cranky, get up and make breakfast! I saw yesterday that everything is normal in the kitchen, I'll go down and clean up first, you move faster! ”

As he spoke, the man had already dressed hastily, he was not so particular, a pair of old cotton pants, two sweaters, and a down jacket were draped on his body and walked downstairs.

The door was just a safety card from the inside last night, and today it can be opened with a slight pull. The woman looked at the back of the man who hurriedly left, and unconsciously quickened the movement in her hand. In this extraordinary period, she must be more panicked than her husband.

Without even putting on her shoes, the woman hurried out of the room with her husband, and the sound of their hurried footsteps could be heard on the stairs.

Thankfully, when they ran downstairs, everything was the same as the one they had seen last night, with the counter standing on the edge of the door, and the drawers and furnishings inside, the couple were relieved.

"I said, husband, why is it so cold here?" When she settled down, the woman realized that the air conditioner in the house seemed to be completely unactivated, and the temperature was almost as cold as outside.

The man sniffed, habitually rubbed his earlobe with his hand and said, "Probably the power of the air conditioner jumped at night, the air conditioner here should be very old, and it is indeed easy to stop if it is turned on for too long." You don't care about this, let's go make breakfast first, I'll look for where the power valve is? ”

With that, the man immediately began to search, while the woman walked into the kitchen.

At this moment, neither of them noticed the anomaly outside the window, and outside the window next to the main entrance, there was a long trail of blood, and it could be seen from the inside of the glass that a thick layer of ice had been frozen outside.

It's not a form that can be broken when you knock it, but it's like an ice sculpture, and it's thick and hard. This is definitely not a natural cause, and it can freeze such a thick layer of ice on the outside of the house, there must be someone outside in the middle of the night who keeps splashing water.

But if you splash a lot of water for a long time, it is impossible for the people sleeping in the house to not notice it at all, so there must be some special reason why the couple slept so dead?

But the strange thing is that they don't have much to do with the treacherous house incident, and it's not worth the murderer's trouble at all! What's the point of freezing the house? There was food stored in the house, and the ice could not completely prevent the air from entering. With the current situation, there is no problem at all for people to stay in it for a few days, and the murderer is tantamount to doing something that is time-consuming and laborious, and has no practical effect.

Perhaps the answer to this matter will soon be revealed, because the man in the room has looked at the wall between the window and the counter in search of power for the air conditioner.

Just below his left side, almost to his chest, above the window frame was a little above the hair on the top of a man's head, whose hair was frozen and looked as gray as an old man's.

His entire skull had been completely frozen with the ice, and the little skin that had come out of his hair was blue, like a lump of meat in a refrigerator, and there were still wisps of blood on it, which were connected to the blood stains on the window glass.

The concealment of the window frame and the position of the man just formed a unique perspective, and if his gaze was tilted a little more, it would be met with a pupil that turned up in both directions, and a blue-black forehead, just like the face of a zombie in a movie.

A little more, the people in the room would have screamed, but, God forbid, the man in the room did not slant his gaze, he just glanced at the gap between the counter and the wall, and turned away, without even reaching in and touching it.

The man shrunk back, the air in the room was getting colder and colder, and all the warmth he had brought out of the bed had been dispersed, and his body below the neck trembled unconsciously, thinking: Isn't the main valve of the air conditioner upstairs?

Although it is said that most people do not usually install the main valve in the bedroom, the man still decided to go back upstairs to have a look, and just as he took a step and walked in the direction of the stairs, a small exclamation of a woman suddenly came from the kitchen.

The man quickly turned around and ran into the kitchen, and before he could see what was happening, he yelled and asked, "What's wrong?" Wife. ”

"It's... Why did this door freeze? His wife was studying the back door in the kitchen and found that it wouldn't open, as if it was frozen in ice outside the crack.

"This kind of weather is normal! You take some water from the faucet and splash it. Seeing that nothing major had happened, the man's tone of voice was much more relaxed.

However, his words were immediately retorted by the woman: "You are really stupid! If you splash water in this kind of weather, you don't know how long the ice will melt? It's so cold in the house, I think it's better to forget it! Anyway, there are ingredients in the house, and we don't need to go to the pantry, just let it go through the back door. ”

"Whatever, I'll go upstairs, I don't see the main power supply of the air conditioner in the restaurant, I'll go upstairs to look for it."

"Isn't there only a bedroom upstairs? Besides, who would install the main valve in the bedroom? You must not have looked carefully, and then you went outside to look around, maybe behind the cabinet where the old things were stacked? ”

What the woman said is indeed reasonable, there are many things in the restaurant here besides tables and chairs, and maybe one of them covers the small door of the main power valve.

The man couldn't refute this, so he could only continue to go to the restaurant to take a closer look.

If the two of them stayed quietly in the house for a few days, nothing would happen, but it was a pity that the murderer's game would be seen sooner or later. Unless someone else unknowingly helps them.

And this person is Yan Muheng, at this moment, Yan Muheng, who was assigned by Liu Qiaopu, was already standing in the snow in the middle of the restaurant and the warehouse, and the wind and snow covered almost his entire body.

During the day yesterday, the criminal police thought that Yan Muheng had not moved, so Liu Qiaopu did not take into account the problem of physical strength when he arranged for him to come to the warehouse in the morning.

In fact, since the early morning of the 29th, Yan Muheng has basically not rested, until now, he is quite tired, and the white breath exhaled from his mouth proves that this man is struggling with fatigue.

He couldn't stay in the snow for long, and he would easily freeze, so after taking a few breaths, Yan Muheng quickly took a step towards the food warehouse.

He had already seen the edge of the cliff just now, there were no other traces except for the snow, maybe the murderer did leave a subtle clue, but in this weather, any traces would be quickly covered by snow, Yan Muheng didn't have much hope, but it was just to cater to the old criminal policeman's intentions.

What can he do about this kind of thing? Casual advice may not bring benefits, and good cooperation is the best policy.

After seeing the food warehouse, you can go to sleep in the house, and it is better to stay away from everyone during the day, so as not to be annoyed by them! Yan Muheng thought that he would also be afraid that those people in the room would say some questioning things indiscriminately, and it would be too troublesome to explain and explain.

Inadvertently, Yan Muheng's eyes that were squinting in the wind and snow glanced behind him. It's just a small precaution to prevent someone from behind from behind. But instead of an imaginary attack or an empty snowfield, the pupils were greeted by a house that looked like a giant ice sculpture!

"It's... This is ......" Yan Muheng suddenly ran towards the house desperately, his position at this time was on the back of the house, so he didn't see the terrible head.

When the people rushed to the front of the house, Yan Muheng was so anxious that he couldn't hold back his steps and hit his head on the huge ice block, and his tall body immediately caused several cracks to appear on the surface of the ice block.

"Smack! Smack! ”

The sound came from inside the ice, as if something was breaking. Yan Muheng didn't care about the source of this sound, he straightened up on the surface of the ice, and his gloved hands still felt a piercing pain due to the cold.

'What now?' It's not easy to get this thing! Yan Muheng seemed to know something, his eyebrows furrowed, thinking in his heart. He raised his head and looked towards the roof, and above the invisible eaves, there was something that Yan Muheng wanted to confirm.

I've got to climb up and take a look. ’

Yan Muheng looked around and began to look for a way to climb, but there was no flaw in the smooth ice, even if he had the same dexterity as Xie Yunmeng, there was no way to climb it.

By the way, go back to the detective, he will definitely find a way. Thinking of Xie Yunmeng, Yan Muheng felt that the only way for him now was to ask for help.

Yan Muheng could guess who the trapped person in the frozen house was, and only one person could do this. Judging from the current situation, the trapped people will not be in danger of their lives for the time being, and the person who froze the house did not want to kill the people inside, but just wanted to make the criminal police guess something through the predicament.

Yan Muheng can vaguely guess a little bit about these things, but unfortunately he doesn't stay in the mountains most of the time every year, so he has no way to know more.

You must confirm and ask for help, and you can't hide it." Thinking of this, Yan Muheng couldn't care about being tired, and strode towards the direction of the treacherous house.

Asking him to rush to help, our eyes turned back to the inside of the treacherous house.