The water had already submerged under the man's lips, his skin was soaked white, and something peeled off from his chest and drifted into the corners of the room with the salty water.

Now the water in this room has stopped rising, because the evening tide does not bring enough water to engulf the place entirely. And the morning tide will come here again in the near future. This time the gap was so badly damaged that there was no way to fix it.

If the man hadn't woken up in time, neither he nor his body floating on the water in the darkness would have ever seen the sun rise again.

His lips moved slightly, indicating that the man had begun to perceive, and the cold and dampness seeped into his body little by little like parasites, and at this moment they were not eroders, but openers and helpers. Help the man open the closed door of the senses and awaken the sleeping gray cells.

People who have been in the dark for a long time are especially sensitive to the small light in the shadows, and as the gap between the eyelids widens, something is stimulating the man to check its bearing.

It's a flashlight that hasn't been soaked in water for a long time, and it's waterproof when you open the case. The shape of the flashlight is very small, almost the size of a remote-controlled car lock. A slightly yellowish glow spread out on the surface of the water, appearing to be more than a dozen times its own size.

The man's eyes were stimulated by the light, and he came to his senses in an instant, and everything that had just happened came back to his mind: he was in the room, frantically trying to find a way to escape from the little cage. Then he thought of the air ducts on the roof, the huge square pipes that were big enough for him to climb out of the house alone.

But just as he was about to succeed, there was a faint sound of someone's laughter in the pipe, and the man recalled carefully, the sound was so strange, like a slight laughter, and like the sound of someone snapping his fingers. And there is a rustling crawling sound.

Just as the man was about to leave the room, the thing attacked him. This reminded the man of the wound on his back and fingers at the same time, and only then did he feel a tearing pain. The man found himself submerged in sea water for most of his body! 'Maybe that's what it feels like to rub salt on a wound!' Grinning as he tried to get up from the water, he felt like his skin was going to fall off.

Luckily, the man was a good swimmer and didn't get that top-heavy, so he quickly moved through the water, groping around for anything that could help him get out of here.

Holding a flashlight floating in the water, the man shone around. At a glance, he was so frightened that he almost fell under the surface again.

The huge water tank was nearby, and the metal edge that mingled with the water showed half of a man's head, and the man's face was blue and black as it was soaked in water from the nose down. His hands hung limply on the outside of the edge of the big sink, and the entire shoulder on one side was jet black, already swollen like steamed buns.

The man mustered up the courage to look at the face of the man in the sink—

"Thanks, Officer Thanks?!!"

——

Xie Yunmeng had already passed out, not because he was attacked by someone, but because he was poisoned by the snake in the pipe. However, the snake was not spared, Xie Yunmeng was holding it tightly in his hand at that time, and the sharp key with a flashlight on it was broken in the snake's seven inches.

The situation at that time was really a desperate situation, Xie Yunmeng had already heard the sound of snakes crawling, but he had not yet realized the danger, this kind of situation was actually very difficult to encounter in a homicide case.

It is more difficult to kill people with wild animals than with knives, or with some other tools, or even household appliances. For example, a murderer wants to use wild animals as a tool to kill! You have to make sure you're unharmed before the planned time comes, and you have to catch a poisonous wild animal, right?

It's easy to use snakes, spiders, centipedes and other poisonous animals, or some extremely aggressive quadrupeds, as mentioned in mystery novels, either you are a breeder who is particularly familiar with these animals, or you are a particularly bold and experienced hunter, but think about it, how many people living in large and small cities today are connected to these?

Therefore, Xie Yunmeng has no experience in encountering this kind of thing at all, and the small water snakes in the sewers in those cities can often be seen, but who cares about them!

Regardless of who put the snake into the air duct, or whether Mr. Detective has experience in this area. We can be sure that it must have attacked Mr. Bingbai before it met the detectives.

The snake was inside the air duct, and Bin Bai was pulling the lid at the entrance of the air duct hard, and the sound of the metal disturbed the directionless viper, making him quickly swim towards the place where the sound came from, and the smell of blood on Bin Bai's fingers instantly aroused the viper's appetite, making it launch its first attack, which caused Mr. Bin Bai to fall to the floor and fall unconscious. But the quick fall did not bite Mr. Binbai.

Just as the poisonous snake had just finished attacking Binbai, Xie Yunmeng also approached the upper part of the room. The snake is an animal with very keen senses, and when it detects an intrusion from an outsider, it temporarily abandons the food it has in front of it and waits near the entrance to the air duct.

In fact, Xie Yunmeng didn't really see the viper, and he pushed the lid off the air duct entrance, which had not been completely detached, and the lid fell to the ground with a loud sound (because the carpet was covered in a large pile of wood chips and Mr. Binbai's unconscious body). The noise disturbed the quietly waiting viper, causing him to attack early.

When Xie Yunmeng realized the danger, it was too late. Although the detective reacted quickly and retreated with all his might, the sharp teeth of the viper still cut through the flesh of his shoulder.

The perennial combat training made Xie Yunmeng counterattack very fast, and before the toxicity took effect, the only weapon (key) in Xie Yunmeng's hand opened a hole near the seven inches of the snake, Xie Yunmeng knew that the snake would not die immediately, so in the next second, the big hand of the criminal police pinched off the snake's cervical vertebrae.

The poisonous snake tooth did not directly insert the venom into Xie Yumeng's body, which was already a very fortunate thing, but the poison still invaded Xie Yunmeng's body along the blood in the wound.

The snake was very thick, and Xie Yunmeng carried Bin Bai out of the air duct on his back, and he didn't forget to take it with him. After coming to the top floor, he pretended to easily deceive Yun Yeyao's gaze, and the criminal police took Bin Bai to hide in the mechanical room on the top floor.

At this time, the criminal policeman with the last trace of clarity hid Bin Bai behind the water storage tank and waited for Yun Yeyao to come to the rescue after solving everything, while he jumped into the huge water storage tank, preparing to rely on the sea water to end the life that he thought he was powerless. (This is also a consequence of Mr. Detective's lack of knowledge in this area, if he had met Mo Haiyou at first sight, I don't think this kind of thing would have happened.) ）