Although the temperature outside was not optimistic, after entering the house, both of them clearly felt the temperature change - it was not a low temperature in summer, it was almost close to five degrees Celsius.
It's so cold in the house...it means the house is not good.
"Yes, it stands to reason that there wouldn't be such a heavy cold..." Lin Xi crossed his shoulders and looked at the small house.
Compared to the splendor of the villa, this room is simply worse than a woodshed.
The term "house with four walls" is so appropriate here - there is really nothing in the room, just empty walls and a cold iron floor.
"Ah," Zhao Zichao didn't know what to say. He didn't even have the thought of complaining. "We have been hesitating for a long time just to find this thing?"
In order to prevent the wind from closing the door, Lin Xi blocked the door with an earth brick thrown on the ground, and then lit a second candle.
"The temperature in this room is too cold," she said to herself, "if it were an empty room..."
Zhao Zichao somewhat understood what she was thinking: "You mean... the floor?"
"Yes," Lin Xiyan said concisely and concisely, "Do you still remember Master's previous analysis? In the era of the Republic of China, if most people wanted to cool down, they used cellars instead of refrigerators."
"Yes, if the wall is blank, there is only the floor!" Zhao Zichao scratched his fluffy hair in frustration, "I didn't even understand such a simple logic..."
"Tch, that's so mean..." Lin Xi teased as she leaned down and looked for the location of the mechanism on the floor. According to her speculation, this room must have a "cellar" type of basement, where it is very likely that
It was Ye Nanan's first death scene, and there may even be some traces left.
"Found it!" Zhao Zichao on the other side touched something on the cold floor, and then called her over, "There seems to be a handle here!"
"Here we come." Lin Xi raised the candle and walked in the direction of Zhao Zichao. He was already trying to pull the handle away.
Zhao Zichao exerted all his strength and grabbed the handle with both hands. He pushed his feet on the ground and leaned back hard, but there was nothing on the ground.
She shook her head, trying to stop Zhao Zichao's reckless behavior: "It's definitely impossible for you to do this. It's similar to the mechanism last time, which combined elements of Go. How could it be so simple this time..."
"Click..."
The door opened.
It actually opened.
Zhao Zichao looked at Lin Xi suspiciously: "Huh? What did you just say?"
"Well, this...it's nothing, it's nothing..."
This is so smooth!
What kind of mechanism is this? It is obviously opened by brute force!
But time was running out, so Lin Xi nodded: "Since it's open, let's go in?"
"Sneeze!" Zhao Zichao sneezed loudly. He took a step back and muttered, "You stand over here and try?"
Before entering, Lin Xi felt a chill that penetrated his bones. Sure enough, this kind of temperature was completely unbearable for the human body.
Under the floor that Zhao Zichao opened was a long staircase that led directly to an unknown area underground. At present, it seems that there is probably an ice cellar below.
Can you imagine what it feels like to walk on the streets of Shenyang in winter wearing short-sleeved shirts?
Not to mention freezing to death, I'm afraid the blood will freeze and solidify...
"No way, there's not enough time," Lin Xi gritted her teeth and rushed down the steps. She now understood that the difficulty of this script did not lie in solving the puzzle at all, but in limiting the time.
The shorter the time, the fewer choices players can make, and they will naturally make some low-level mistakes.
For example, now, everyone knows that they will freeze to death if they continue like this, but judging from the current time, they don't seem to have the right to choose.
"Just kill me, what's the point of torture! Hey, slow down!" Although he said this, Zhao Zichao followed quickly. The candle in his hand illuminated the surroundings very clearly, both sides of the steps.
The simple adobe wall was covered with shocking scratches, which were obviously from a pair of sharp nails.
"It seems that Ye Nanan was indeed killed here." Lin Xi quickly went downstairs. The height of the stairs here was roughly the same as the height where they fell in the secret passage. "However, there seems to be no trace of blood left..."
"Isn't this nonsense?" Zhao Zichao trembled coldly. "If you kill a chicken, you still have to wash the floor, but if you kill someone, you don't have to clean up the scene? Although those times were very chaotic, you couldn't let the neighbors see someone killed in your home, right?"
The two of them soon arrived at the cellar, which was more like an ice cellar than a cellar.
At a glance, the entire cellar is filled with piles of ice cubes of different sizes, one at each of the front, back, left, and right corners, with an empty space in the middle.
"Those are...clothes?" With the faint light of the candle, Zhao Zichao glanced at the open space in front of him. He walked closer and took a look, and shouted in surprise, "It's true!"
It was a Chinese tunic suit with a sense of age, and there was a green badge embroidered on the right side of the chest. When he looked closer, he saw the word "Liteng" written on it.
"The clothes on Ye Nanan's corpse also have the same badge." Lin Xi nodded slightly, "Is this the phenomenon of undressing that Master mentioned? It was so cold that people would involuntarily take off their clothes... That's why she wore so little
…”
"Do you suspect that she froze to death?" Zhao Zichao raised his eyebrows, "But her bleeding volume is so heavy, it's definitely impossible."
"Perhaps she was taken out in a near-death state?" Lin Xi retorted, "Since the plot requires us to restore the scene when she died, then naturally we cannot let go of any possibility."
"But..." Zhao Zichao frowned, "But no matter what, the cause of her death was... hmm? What a noise!"
"Who?" Lin Xi turned around alertly, "Who is there!"
There was a sound of widely spaced footsteps coming from the steps where the two came. The man staggered towards the cellar, his voice sounded like he was very weak.
Since the cellar door has been opened, the other party must know that someone is in the cellar, so hiding is impossible. The only option for the two is to confront each other head-on, two on one, and it sounds like the other party is injured. Zhao Zichao believes that one
The two of them are sure to capture him within a few minutes, and they might even be able to ask some questions.
As the two of them gradually approached the stairs, the sound of footsteps became more and more obvious.
A tear slipped from the corner of Zhao Zichao's eyes.
What's going on?
"Why do I feel like...crying?" He looked at Lin Xi behind him with a confused expression. There was a teardrop remaining in the corner of her eye, and she was looking at him strangely.
"Emotions seem... out of control." Lin Xi's mind was filled with crazy murmurs. She held her head in her hands and tried hard to control her mental stability, "What's going on?"
