Infinite Nerves [Infinity]

Heavy snow covered the entire mountain range, and the snow became deeper as you went up the mountain.After about half an hour's journey, the snow covered my calf when I stepped on it.

Every breath Jiang Chen took into his lungs was like a knife, a layer of frost formed on his eyelashes and eyebrows, and his black eyes under the ice and snow became sharper and quieter.

"He looks like he's freezing to death."

Peng Peng muttered in Jiang Chen's ear as if talking to himself, "You're a young man, why are you so afraid of the cold? I've lent him all the clothes I can borrow."

The boy with short sleeves and shorts was wrapped in the dirty overcoat that Jiang Chen used to wear. Unfortunately, no one had spare trousers for him. Under the overcoat, there were still two bare legs. One foot was not in the snow. When he came out, there were half-solidified ice balls hanging on his legs.

The child's lips were already black and blue, and he grabbed the old man's sleeve tremblingly and moved step by step.

"Save, save..." He half-closed his eyes and said vaguely, "I don't want... I'm not willing to die like this. I've passed ten or fourteen dungeons. I want, I want to leave alive ..."

Jiang Chen, who had been walking silently all this time, was suddenly a little moved, and stopped to look at him.

The old man rubbed his palms to warm up and held his hand, "Keep on a little longer, the cabin is just around this steep slope."

As soon as the words fell, the boy didn't pull up his feet, and he got short, and immediately threw himself into the snow in front of him.

Just before the ice and snow poured into his nose, a strong hand grabbed his arm and lifted him up vigorously.

Jiang Chen glanced at him, "Even with bare legs, you are exaggerating, so afraid of the cold?"

"I'm afraid of the cold, and I'm also afraid of the heat..." The guy's teeth were chattering, but he still managed to smile at the person who rescued him, "Boys are also delicate, there's nothing I can do about it."

Jiang Chen's brows twitched slightly, and after a long time, he took out the saber that returned from the nerves from the back of his waist, and cut off the two sleeves of his coat amidst the low voices of the crowd.

"Is there any rope?" Jiang Chen turned his head to look at Qu Ying who was huddled together, "I remember Ah Jiu got a lot in the dungeon."

Qu Ying fumbled for her pocket tremblingly, "Yes, quite a few."

The two sleeves are used as trouser legs, reaching up to the thighs, and a quick tie with a rope can help a person who is about to freeze to death to survive a few kilometers of mountain roads.

The high school student cried, "Thank you."

"Hold back." Jiang Chen continued to walk forward with an indifferent face, "Dare to shed tears outside in this kind of horrible weather, I think you are too dead."

After more than 20 minutes, they walked to the top along the steepest snow-sliding road, and finally saw the cabin.

"Damn it." The old man looked back at Xue Po behind him, and scolded his mother in fear, "Damn it! It's lucky that I didn't freeze to death on the road."

Jiang Chen's arms were so cold that he couldn't feel it. He stood at the door and looked at the cabin, which was no different from the rental houses near all the ski resorts in Europe. He stepped forward and opened the door, "Come in."

Inside, a fire was burning in the red brick fireplace, and the flames crackled.As soon as he entered the door, there was swelling pain on his frozen cheeks, Jiang Chen gently moved his facial muscles, and took a look at the living room in front of him.

The combined sofa is spacious and soft, there are several throw pillows on the carpet, and baskets of nuts and chocolates are placed on the coffee table.Directly opposite the door of the wooden house are four French windows, and the towering snow-capped mountains are outside the windows.

"It's so warm!!" The people behind shouted in a crying voice.

As soon as he entered the door, the right hand side was the downward stairs, Peng Peng ran down the stairs with a bang, Jiang Chen took a look at this warm living room, the sofa was close to the fireplace, and there was a large open space behind it with a dining table, There is an open kitchen next to the dining table.

Peng Peng shouted from below, "The bedroom and the bathroom are here! There are two double beds, one children's room, and two sets of bunk beds in the children's room, just big enough for us to sleep in."

The female Vajra breathed a sigh of relief, with a rare smile on her face, she turned around and asked the ponytails softly in a low voice, "You warm yourself by the fire, sleeping on the basement floor will be very dry, can you do it?"

"I can do it." The two ponytails frantically rubbed their frozen red faces, "I've slept in the pile of dead people, what's the point?"

Hearing this, Jiang Chen glanced at the two of them, and they talked with a smile, as if they were commonplace.

Qu Ying went to the kitchen and opened the cabinets one by one, and then checked the refrigerator, "The ingredients are abundant, and you can start a fire, so you don't have to worry about eating... Oh my god, there is an oven, and there is even a dishwasher."

Peng Peng yelled from below, "There are washing machines and dryers below! Electric heaters!"

Zhong Liye went out with a basin to scoop up a basin of snow and came in, and asked the people who were the most frozen to take turns rubbing the snow to invigorate their blood.Everyone went downstairs to the bathroom, but Jiang Chen stayed there.

Silently, he opened each cupboard to inspect the sweet treats stored in the cabinets-the frosted muffins, large chocolate chip cookies, thick butter scones.This is the most uniform style setting of the dungeon. The houses and food are all in a purely American style, which makes him a little anxious.

Qianwu doesn't like this style very much, especially the traditional American sweets, he thinks it is too simple and rough.

Jiang Chen searched for a long time, but he didn't find any clues to make him feel at ease, so he had to walk back to the sofa.His eyes swept over the baskets of very ordinary nuts on the coffee table, and when he turned his head, his eyes suddenly stopped above the fireplace.

There are a lot of sundries on the table above the fireplace, candlesticks, mugs, thick wool coasters, desk calendars... and a small silver tray.

Nine skewered marshmallows lay quietly on the tray, just one more than the players who came in.

Jiang Chen's eyes trembled suddenly, his fingers trembled too, he hesitated for a while before walking forward, picked up a bunch of marshmallows, and compared them above the fireplace.

Toasted marshmallows, toasted marshmallows, tossed in hot coffee.

If this marshmallow has a filling, it must be strawberry.Because the frosting has melted into the coffee, it is already very mellow, and it needs a little sour and sweet to neutralize it.

Jiang Chen swallowed, rubbed his hands on the cool coat, and gently tore open a piece of marshmallow.

A bit of bright red sandwich quietly appears in the snow-white soft sugar.

He took a deep breath, clenched his fist and blew twice, and put the marshmallow back in the tray.

"Jiang Chen!" Qu Ying shouted from below, "Come and see—"

"Here we come." Jiang Chen tried his best to make his voice sound normal, and went down the wooden stairs.Downstairs there are three bedrooms, a bathroom and a warehouse. The five doors all open out from a narrow corridor. This corridor is less than two square meters, and two people standing at the same time have to turn sideways to each other.

Jiang Chen stood at the door of the bathroom, blocked by the people inside, so he could only stand outside and ask, "What's wrong?"

Qu Ying pointed to the wall shelf and said, "After looking around, this is the only sculpture displayed in the house. There is a necklace in the drawer under the sink, but I don't know if it is the only one. Both the sculpture and the necklace are missions." The imagery mentioned in the description."

The sculpture is an armored soldier holding a spear, placed on a ledge, nothing special.Jiang Chen just glanced at it casually, and felt that Qianwu should not like this thing, so he didn't comment, and only asked: "What necklace?"

Peng Peng dodged around with difficulty, and opened the drawer to let him see, "Here, it looks like an antique, no one dares to touch it."

A silver chain, not well maintained, already a little black, with a few emeralds hanging on it.

Jiang Chen has seen countless jewels, but he was stunned at first glance.

"The top emeralds are so rare in color, so they hang on the silver chain at random?" He murmured to himself in disbelief.

"Isn't it!" Peng Peng slapped his thigh, "I think this green is very bright! I really know what to buy!"

The female Vajra frowned, "Are you sure it's a silver chain?"

"

Um. "Jiang Chen glanced at the necklace, the top jewelry casually grabbed a chain and threw it into the drawer, and then muttered, "If you have no inspiration, you might as well exchange it for something to eat." thing.

"No matter how rich the owner of the house is, he wouldn't be like this, right?" The pair of ponytails sighed, "It's so weird."

Everyone followed with emotion: "It's so weird."

The female Vajra looked at Jiang Chen, with a look of inquiry in her eyes, so Jiang Chen had no choice but to say something strange.

"Everyone, let's go up and have a look. Assuming these two things are in the mission description, then let's find all these suspicious things first." The old man clapped his hands, like leading kindergarten children, "Go upstairs one by one, don't grab them. Don't squeeze, step firmly with each step. By the way, put down the curtains first after going up, we don't want to look out of the window casually, the window is also a key word."

I have already looked out of the window, the four sliding windows are facing the door of the cabin, no one can escape once the door is opened, and it is too late for any ominous omen.

But Jiang Chen didn't think that there could be any clues in the empty snow mountain outside, so he was too lazy to get entangled, so he casually put down the gauze curtain.

The gauze curtain softened the harsh sunlight and snow outside, making the room look more lazy.Qu Ying went to the cabinet again, opened them one by one and shook her head, "The food in the task description includes tea soup, roasted food, and pork bones. But I can only find black tea, pork ribs, pork, beef, and chicken...all of them They are semi-finished products, so we may have to cook them ourselves."

"If you want to cook, do you have to find a recipe?" The female king frowned and said, "The key props should not be made casually. By the way, there is no study room here?"

The old man sighed, "No, there is not even a bookcase, the study is a good place to find clues."

The room was silent in unison, and then everyone sighed together.

"Outside the window and the snow-capped mountains, couch and bed, leaves and tea soup, burnt food and pork bones, necklace and check, Shura and fire, plaster and sculpture, life and death." Zhong Liye pushed his glasses, "If the fire is this fireplace , the food can be cooked in a way, Shura may be some kind of decoration, the check may be hidden in a corner, and what are the leaves? This is a snow-capped mountain, where are the leaves?"

No one knew the answer to the riddle, everyone summed up a few words in a low voice, and the members of the small team all looked at Jiang Chen at the same time.

Jiang Chen never joined the discussion, he sat on the sofa with his long legs stretched out on the carpet, looking out the window at the snow-capped mountains at dusk.

"I have a question, I want to ask the four of you." Jiang Chen suddenly opened his mouth, and slowly moved his gaze back into the room from the window.

The old man raised his eyebrows, "What's the problem?"

Jiang Chen looked at them, "You have entered fourteen dungeons, when did you enter the dungeons?"

The old man thought for a while, "Most of them are at night, and there are also some in the middle of the night. After all, it is always daytime on the sea of ​​nerves, and it will only set when the next stop is about to arrive. By the way, this time is the earliest one, after so long , the sun just went down."

The female King Kong nodded, "So do we."

Qu Ying glanced at Jiang Chen with deep meaning, and realized that he was thinking about the sentence "8 minutes at sunset" on Qianwu's note, nodded and said softly: "Well, most of them are after dark, but there are exceptions, Ah Jiu We started that dungeon in the morning, as did the valuation dungeon of old objects."

"But in those two times, we did not enter the book from the sea, but from the inner island." Jiang Chen said immediately, "If we only consider the direct entry from the sea of ​​nerves, the 28 books in their two groups, plus ours, Nearly forty samples were all after dark."

"Only this time, seeing the sun should be at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, tossing until now—" Jiang Chen turned his head and looked out of the window, and said every word: "Sunset and dusk."

Twintails asked, "Why do you care about time so much? The task description doesn't seem to have a clue to point to time."

Jiang Chen paused and looked away, "It's just strange. The further you go, the more subtle the clues are, and you can't let go of every abnormality."

"Can I intervene." The boy who had been standing by the curtain and looking outside suddenly raised his hand to signal.

He was the one with the worst frostbite. Although he had been rubbing the snow for a long time, every inch of his exposed skin was red and swollen, and some places were chapped and bloodshot. He looked like he had aged a few years.

However, it was only here that Jiang Chen discovered that although this guy is thin and delicate, his muscles are very tight, and his line arrangement does not seem to be casual training at all, at least he is considered a half-professional.

The boy swallowed, "If there are no leaves on the mountain and nothing related to leaves in the house, then maybe I know what leaves are."

Peng Peng immediately took two steps forward, "What?"

The boy paused, "Falling leaves."

Jiang Chen's heart trembled suddenly, and he looked up suddenly, but the other party's expression was very calm, he was completely different from the guy crying in the snow just now.

"What?" Twintails suspected that he hadn't heard clearly.

The boy repeated again, "Falling leaves". A term in skiing, the source is that the snowboard slides out of a Z shape after a sloped descent. If viewed from a distance, the skier looks like a leaf falling in the air, hence the name .”

There was no sound in the house, and the boy turned his head to look out of the window again, "I think, if there are no other leaves appearing at the end, it probably means that. Someone needs to go skiing, but..."

Everyone looked out the window in unison.

——However, the snow-capped mountains outside are towering and steep, and there are no standardized slides like ordinary ski resorts.No matter where it slides down, the ending will be an abyss of bones.

"you……"

Jiang Chen was about to speak when his eyes suddenly went dark.

"What's the situation!" Peng Peng screamed, "Zhong Liye! Zhong Liye!"

"Don't be surprised!" Zhong Liye said angrily, "It's just getting dark suddenly, are you retarded!"

Don't blame Peng Peng.

The original brilliant dusk was replaced by night in an instant, and the snow-capped mountains outside were hidden in a dark gray night.Qu Ying lightly stepped on the switch of the floor lamp next to her, and a cluster of warm light came on. She went to the window and opened the gauze curtain. The light reflected eight figures and eight faces in the room on the glass, and the snow-capped mountains outside were blurred and hard to see. .

Peng Peng murmured: "The boss of this dungeon is purely sick. He deserves a beating if he f*cking pulls the brakes! The most annoying thing is this kind of deliberate surprise. Don't make it into Lao Tzu's hands one day. beat--"

Jiang Chen's cold voice suddenly sounded, "Say one more word, at this very moment, I'll blow your head off immediately."

Peng Peng: "?"

"Shut up." Zhong Liye desperately covered his mouth.

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