dear archimedes

Chapter 61 The Adventures of Candy House (8)
"Things are more effective than bullets." He didn't seem to want to say clearly, "There are many scientists in the history of the Lancelot family, and the couple who built this castle are geniuses in chemistry and biology."

Needless to say, it is chemical gas and bacterial bomb.The grandparents turned out to be war rich.The ghosts of the people who died tragically are stuck on every penny. No wonder they built this maze to hide.

Zhen Ai's heart sank slowly, and she felt a heavy load on her body, which made it difficult for her to breathe.My heart feels like sinking into deep water, and I feel uncomfortable, but I can't find air.

In the past, she didn't feel tired when her body suffered a series of ravages and tortures; but at this moment, she felt that living was really hard, so hard that she wanted to cry!
Butler: "At first, the couple had several gifted children, but the children felt that the castle was gloomy, and they left when they grew up. Only Miss San came back with a tall and handsome Chinese mixed-race man who said he was her husband. They Had a wonderful time here and the first boy was born in the castle."

Zhen Ai bowed her head, her heart was already numb.Her father was a handsome Central European man, and her mother was a beautiful Eurasian, and she could no longer pretend it was a coincidence.After a while, he asked in a low voice, "Did that boy come back later?"

"I don't know. He was still young when his parents took him away. Even if he came back, I wouldn't recognize him."

Zhen Xin thought that maybe when Chace came back to buy the island five years ago, the housekeeper didn't recognize him as the third generation owner. Chace is dead, who is impersonating him now?
Together with the housemaid, she walked down the corridor to turn off the lights.The thick stone walls are painted with complicated patterns, old but classic.There are various paintings hanging on the walls, sunflowers, staves, flower fields, the sun...

They are all bright and warm scenes, so that they can change the gloomy atmosphere of the castle?

Looking at the gorgeous colors on the deserted wall, Zhen Ai felt dazed. It turned out that her family also liked colorful colors, just like her.

Is this a deformed inheritance?
Or is it because their blood is lonely and sinful, that's why they yearn for light and splendor?After so many years, so many generations, it was completely copied on her parents, her and her brother.

This is the real curse of this castle, right?
There is no happiness in those who are as sinful as Lancelot.

When people do evil things, do they really never think about the impact on their children?Did you really not worry about retribution and reincarnation, and bad luck will befall your children and grandchildren?

She was terribly sad.

Turn your head away and wipe away your tears silently, brother, why don't you tell me alive, why is this all?
Suddenly, all the lights in the corridor went out, and the surroundings suddenly fell into darkness.

The maid whispered softly: "What's going on?"

"Maybe the tree branch scratched the wire." The butler said in a deep voice, with a worried tone, and then told the maid, "I'll go and check. You and Miss Student go to the room to find the candlestick."

The maid said "hmm", took out the lighter from her pocket, and flicked it on, a small flame jumped in the darkness.She was surprised: "Where did Miss Student go?"

The butler looked around and found that Zhen Ai had already walked to the front.Before the maid and the housekeeper could call her, her figure slowly turned around the dark corner and disappeared.

The housekeeper sullenly said, "Why did she leave without saying hello?"

Maid: "Maybe she wants to go back by herself first."

The butler didn't bother to bother: "Let's go and find candles."

Zhen Ai came to her senses and found herself in a dark and narrow place.The hallway was dark and all the lights were out.She was too preoccupied just now, and she had good night vision, so she didn't pay attention to the surrounding situation.

And now, in the countless intertwined corridors, she was the only one.

"Mr. Housekeeper?" She touched the wall and stepped back carefully step by step, "Miss Maid?"

In the dark corridor, her soft tentative voice echoed in the corridor, and was immediately engulfed by the darkness without a trace.

She looked around, and the further back she went, the light got weaker, too dark even for her.The surroundings gradually became unclear. She groped for the wall and touched the railing. Her heart sank. There was no railing where she just walked.

Wrong way!

She turned around, but saw a black shadow flashing through a doorway behind her.

murderer?

She was startled, someone would come to kill her?She left in a hurry, running in the dark without a clue, and now she can't call out.She could feel keenly and accurately that in the dark, someone dangerous was approaching her.

Will it really be killed?

She ran hard, her heart pounding like it was going to burst out of her chest.what to do?If she died, Yan Su would be sad!
The thought came to an abrupt end.

A hand suddenly reached out in the darkness, and it tightly covered her mouth, extremely forcefully.She tried to catch it reflexively, but a bright light suddenly appeared in front of her, which was too dazzling, as if she had opened a brightly lit door.

She was pushed hard into it.The thick door closed instantly, and the people behind him disappeared.

Zhen Ai broke free from the bondage in an instant, staring at the white scene in front of her, dumbfounded.

The front is covered with silver and mist, like a glass world in a fairy tale.

Layers of white "crystals" are caged with various experimental equipment, bottles, jars, and motionless rabbits, white mice, frogs, animal tissues...

Each one is wrapped in a transparent lens, shining brightly under the light.

She trembled all over suddenly, her teeth chattered, strong cold air came up from the soles of her wet feet, stirring in her body like ice skates.The side display reads -1°F (-18.3°C).

She was locked in the ice cellar.

The lights are all off.

The butler and the maid held candlesticks and walked in the silent and dark corridor in the middle of the night. A small piece of faint candlelight flashed across the stone wall of the ancient castle as they moved, leaving darkness behind them.

The butler walked a few steps, then stopped suddenly, turned around and looked back, behind him was an endless corridor, countless closed doors and side roads.

Maid: "What's wrong?"

The butler was thoughtful: "Did you hear any strange noises? It seemed like a bang."

The maid listened attentively and shook her head: "No, I didn't hear anything."

The butler stopped talking and stood quietly.But there was no sound behind him, not even the wind blowing through the hall.

"Maybe I got it wrong." The butler said to himself, holding a candle and continued on his way, "Let's go to the main castle!"

The small candlelight gradually moved towards the end of the corridor, and as soon as it turned a corner, the corridor of Fort No. 7 plunged into darkness.

And at this moment in the ice cellar, Zhen Ai huddled into a single point and curled up on the ground, shivering from the cold.The wet clothes and hair were gradually frosted, and the nails were colorless from the cold.

In the quiet ice cellar, there was only the sound of her teeth chattering, and she felt that her jaw was about to freeze.

The cold is like a fine needle-pointed knife, bit by bit invading the limbs and bones, scraping the heart and bone pain.Her nerves were torn, and she suddenly remembered what she said to Yan Su not long ago: Don't follow me.

He will definitely not come.

She had thought of countless ways to die, but she never thought that she would freeze to death in the ice cellar where her relatives stored undestroyed experimental materials.

Yan Su took a flashlight and ran all over the castle but found nothing, Zhen Ai was nowhere to be seen.

Looking from a high place, the lights of the attached castle were all extinguished.Only the lower half of the main castle was lit.

Did they miss it all the way, and Zhen Ai has already gone back?
Yan Su started to run back.He has a good memory, and he returned to the living room with ease after a while.This time when he pushed the door open, his heart sank again.

Everyone was sitting in the living room chatting and drinking tea, except Zhen Ai.

They have all returned, which means that the murderer has successfully attacked... Zhen Ai may have been killed in a dark and cold corner of this castle.

His heart suddenly became cold, and he didn't know how he came to them, and asked word by word: "Has anyone seen her?"

The conversation in the living room stopped abruptly.

Everyone turned their heads and looked at him strangely. His pale and empty face at the moment was scary.Although everyone knew who the "she" he was talking about was, no one answered.

The actor noticed something strange and gloated: "Didn't she follow you all the time?"

Yan Su looked over coldly, and the actor was inexplicably startled.

Steward: "We met her just now."

The maid also said: "Suddenly there was a power outage, so she left first. We thought she was back. Seeing that she and you are not here, we thought you two were together!"

When Yan Su heard the word "power outage", he felt even worse: "Take me immediately to the place where she disappeared just now."

The housekeeper thought of something, and got up immediately: "I just said that I heard a strange sound over there just now, hurry up!"

The housekeeper tried to recall what the "bang" sound was like as he walked quickly. At a certain moment, he realized: "Oh no, it's the door of the ice cellar, and it can only be opened from the outside."

Yan Su's face was shrouded in the dark light: "What's the temperature?"

"One degree below zero Fahrenheit."

"……How long?"

"When I heard that voice, I was walking towards the main castle, a few minutes!"

"You came as soon as we came back." The maid ran quickly, "It shouldn't be long."

The three of them quickly rushed to the door of the ice cellar. The housekeeper and maid opened the thick door together, and the white air-conditioning rushed towards them.

Yan Su lowered his head and saw that Zhen Ai was curled up into a ball, sitting motionless by the door, burying her head in her arms, her whole body covered with thin frost, like a snow doll.

With just one glance, his heart was about to bleed, and he immediately stepped forward to hug her out.She remained in a curled up position, unconscious.Su Yan asked quickly, "Which room has hot water?"

The maid quickly opened the door next to her.

She leaned against his arms with a pale face, motionless, as if she was dead, but also like an ice sculpture that could not be melted, the whole body exuded air-conditioning, icy cold to the bone, she threw herself into Yan Su's heart, the pain made his heart shrink into a fist point.

He couldn't believe that he let her stay in such a low temperature environment for so long!
The maid quickly turned on the bathroom faucet to adjust the temperature.

"Constant temperature 95℉!" Yan Su carried Zhen Ai into the bathtub, took off her coat and sarong, took the shower, and poured water from the top of her head.Her body was white and cold, and as soon as the warm water touched her, it cooled down suddenly and slid down coldly.

He saw her eyes closed tightly, her eyelashes still covered with frost, she cried...

At that time, she squatted alone in the ice cellar in a desperate and fearful mood. He didn't dare to think about it. His heart ached like a knife, and he hurriedly pulled off his windbreaker and inner shirt without measure, and pressed the bone-cold her hard. Into Guanglu's bosom.

The warm water was rushing down, but the person in his arms was still terribly cold.

The others followed at some point and rushed into the bathroom, all stunned when they saw this.

The writer turned pale when he saw Yan Su, and hurried to pull him: "Her body temperature is too low, just soak in the water, you will frostbite yourself if you hold her like this..." The lawyer and the host also came to pull him.

"Get out!" Yan Su shook off them, and everyone was stunned by the instant burst of anger.

Yan Su's clothes were disheveled, and he was kneeling in the bathtub, wet and embarrassed, holding the unconscious Zhen Ai in his arms, like a cornered and seriously injured beast - scarred somewhere invisible, but stubborn and inviolable , with hatred on the verge of explosion, like a wolf guarding its companions.

Absolutely, never leave.

There was a fierce light in his usually indifferent eyes, looking at the people in front of him, he said every word, almost gnashing his teeth: "Just now, one of you must have seen her and hurt her."

The corners of his lips are pale, and his handsome face is gloomy, with a strange sense of beauty, "Why did you attack her? Do you think she found out your secret? Oh, because you attacked her, I now know who you are. Now You can wait with peace of mind, I will definitely make you pay the price!"

Those low-pitched words chilled the hearts of those present, but they didn't know who his empty eyes were looking at.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, Yan Su had already withdrawn his gaze, and looked at the maid: "Heating up, 104."

The housekeeper left the maid and took everyone to carry the quilt and hot water bottle.

The water level rose slowly, Yan Su sat in the bathtub, hugging his Zhen Ai tightly.It was still cold to touch her face, which made him feel distressed.

Time passed by every minute and every second.Her body gradually softened, and she lay in his arms softly and coolly.Although it is still cold, there are obvious signs of warming up.

"Heating up, 109.4."

The maid did so.

The bone-chilling chill gradually dissipated, but the fear in his heart kept lingering, and his teeth chattered in fear until a certain moment...

She moved in her arms, she was still unconscious, but she murmured to him: "Yan Su..."

Yan Su's heart was shaken, he couldn't tell what kind of ecstasy and happiness it was, the tense strings in her mind snapped, but when she looked down at her, she closed her eyes again.

He supported her head, soaked her in the hot water, and said: "Hot water." The maid handed her a glass.

He gently blows on the cooling air, takes a mouthful of hot water, brings it to her mouth, and sends it into her mouth bit by bit.The ironing water slowly flowed into her body, and the warmth spread all over her body like spring breeze melting snow, and gradually flowed to her limbs and bones.

Zhen Ai slowly opened her eyes again. Although her consciousness was hazy, she knew that she had returned to a warm place.She soaked in the warm water and his embrace; the severe cold that invaded her body gradually dissipated, and was slowly replaced by a warm feeling.

In front of him was his face, pale and handsome.He kissed her, clean fragrance, sincere breath.Gentle and peaceful, she can remember it for a lifetime.

After Yan Su fed her half a cup of hot water, he felt her eyelashes flicker on his face, light and itchy.

He raised his eyes suddenly, and saw her dark eyes, like washed obsidian, looking at him purely and intently.Her lips were still pale, but she smiled slightly: "Don't worry about me."

He stared blankly at her for a second, ecstatic as if he had found a treasure, and held her tightly in his arms again, gritted his teeth for a long time and was speechless. After an unknown number of seconds, he said:
"Constant temperature, 116.6."

The girl in her arms couldn't help laughing softly, her breathing was shallow and slow, and her voice was intermittent and weak: "I'll be fine." She put her head on his shoulder and smiled slightly: You are so anxious, I How can something happen?
He held the back of her head and did not forget to soak her in the warm water. With inexplicable emotions in his chest, his voice choked: "Ai, call me again, my name."

She was stunned.

Can't see his face, but actually heard the sound of crying?
Her heart seemed to be pulled hard by someone, and she obeyed obediently, but her voice was still a little weak:
"SA"

"Eh."

"SA"

"Eh."

"SA"

"Eh."

Leaning in his warm embrace, she felt as if the ice in her eyes had melted, and her eye sockets were filled with sourness.

He will not fail to come to her;

He never gave up on her;

With him here, how could she end up miserable?

Suddenly, he leaned forward and hugged her tightly.

"Oh, sorry." He let her go suddenly.Zhen Ai lost her attachment and sank straight into the water. He was startled and quickly picked her up.

Heartbeat like a drum.

After confirming the relationship, the kiss has always been polite, and it has never been so intense like this moment.

The two stared at each other stupidly, without saying a word.

Someone knocked on the bathroom door, and the maid went out early at some point.

Yan Su hurriedly helped Zhen Ai who was weak all over.

The housekeeper and everyone came with quilts and hot water bottles, and the kindergarten teacher brought dry clothes.

Yan Su didn't appreciate it, took the things and locked everyone out of the bathroom without saying a word.

Although Zhen Ai woke up, her body temperature was very low and her limbs could not use any strength.Yan Su took off her clothes and wiped her body, but at first he didn't think so, he just thought it was a legitimate way of saving lives.

The textbook says that the next step to relieve frostbite is to take off your clothes and dry your body before sleeping in a warm bed.

Yan Su took her off to try on her clothes, his hands trembled uncontrollably, his face gradually turned red, his eyes wandered around in embarrassment, as if he couldn't find a place to rest in the huge bathroom.

Zhen Ai sat in the water, staring at the wall in embarrassment and in a daze.My heart was beating in a mess, but my body temperature was still low, and my face couldn't even turn red. It's really cheeky.

Both of them were very embarrassed, Yan Su coughed uncomfortably: "Take off the rest by yourself..."

Zhen Ai lowered her head and nodded: "Okay."

He pulled a towel and spread it on the carpet, and lifted her out of the water and placed her on the dry towel.

Out of the water, she suddenly trembled.Knowing that she was cold, he quickly wrapped her in a big towel, rubbed her hair, and began to wipe her body again, like wiping a wet puppy.

(End of this chapter)