Entertainment: A song that brought his deceased wife back to life.

"Brother Erlei, hurry up and open it!"

The tall, thin man next to him urged.

Those eyes were fixed on the can, and drool was practically dripping from their mouths.

Er Lei snorted smugly.

He pulled a folding knife out of his pocket.

The knife was almost dull from rust.

He struggled to scratch the metal lid.

The hissing sound was so loud it made my teeth ache.

"What's the rush?"

Er Lei cursed.

"Good food is worth waiting for, you know?"

"This contains real beef."

"You guys usually can't even get pig bristles to eat, but you're lucky to be with me today."

While prying, Er Lei didn't forget to brag.

The tip of the knife finally pierced the sheet metal.

A delicious aroma of meat wafted out.

In this snowy, icy mountainside, the smell is absolutely unbearable.

Several of his lackeys couldn't help but swallow hard.

The one called Mouse is the smallest.

He hunched his shoulders, his eyes darting around.

"Brother Erlei..."

The mouse spoke in a low voice.

"Are we just going to leave like this? What will happen to the mute guy?"

Er Lei paused for a moment while prying open the can.

He looked up and glared at the mouse with great impatience.

"What should we do?"

"Cold salad."

Erlei lowered his head again and continued to struggle with the sheet metal.

"He went in willingly."

"Nobody's pointing a gun at him."

"Besides, aren't there still plenty of cotton-padded coats in that warehouse?"

"If he gets cold, he can just take out a couple of boxes and put them on himself."

The mouse was still a little worried.

"But the door was locked, and we blocked the exhaust fan..."

"If we can't get out of here, tomorrow morning..."

Er Lei slammed the knife onto his leg with a snap.

"What's wrong with tomorrow morning?"

"When Lao Zhang comes on patrol tomorrow morning, he'll definitely hear the noise."

"Just open the door and drag him out, that'll solve everything."

"At worst, I'll just get a beating."

"Or maybe they'll be locked in a dark room for two days."

"That mute guy has thick skin and won't die."

After Erlei finished speaking, he finally opened the lid of the can.

Inside was a solidified grease and a red chunk of meat.

Er Lei stretched out his dirty fingers, picked out a piece, and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Um!"

"fragrant!"

Er Lei chewed loudly.

That greedy way of eating was nauseating.

Jiang Yue hid behind the bushes.

Her hand gripped the steel bar tightly.

The rust on the steel bars was gritty against my palm.

She felt all the blood rush to her head.

Are these people even human?

Locking a grown person up in that kind of hellish place.

He's enjoying a life of luxury outside.

And you make it sound so easy.

Can't die?

It's several degrees below zero inside.

Jiang Yue took a deep breath.

That breath caught in his chest, turning into a burst of brute force.

She was like an enraged little leopard.

It suddenly burst out of the bushes.

The snow underfoot was kicked up and splashed.

Er Lei was preparing to cut off the second piece of meat.

Suddenly I felt a cold wind behind me.

Before he could even turn around...

A cold steel bar came crashing down with a whoosh.

boom!

It struck Er Lei squarely on the kneecap.

"Awooo—!"

A scream pierced the night sky.

This commotion was even worse than the pig slaughter just now.

The can of food in Erlei's hand flew out.

The precious piece of beef rolled into the snowdrift.

It was instantly covered in mud and snow.

Erlei was completely stunned by the pain.

He rolled around in the snow, hugging his knees.

The pain was so intense that tears and snot streamed down my face.

The other henchmen were terrified.

Everyone gaped, speechless.

Jiang Yue was carrying a steel bar in her hand.

That face, which usually looked quite handsome, was now filled with ferocity.

My hair was covered in snow.

She looks like a female demon.

"My flesh! My flesh!"

Erlei was still wailing.

I feel more sorry for his canned food than for his leg.

Jiang Yue took two steps across.

He grabbed Erlei by the collar.

The neckline is quite tight.

Jiang Yue squeezed him so tightly that his face instantly turned purple.

"Shut up!"

Jiang Yue roared.

The sound wasn't loud, but it carried a chill.

Er Lei was startled by the shout.

The scream was forced back halfway.

It turned into soft moaning and groaning.

He looked at Jiang Yue in horror.

Why did this crazy girl find me?

With such heavy snow, is she born in the Year of the Dog?

"Where's the mute?"

Jiang Yue stared into Er Lei's eyes.

Er Lei's eyes darted around.

He wanted to run, but his legs hurt so much that he couldn't stand up.

That steel bar just now probably cracked his bones.

"I...I don't know..."

Er Lei is still being stubborn.

This is his instinct.

Lie first, and if you can get away with it, then do so.

"I'm looking for him too..."

"We...we were just passing by..."

Jiang Yue didn't speak.

She raised her hand and slapped him.

Snapped!

That slap was delivered with full force.

Er Lei's face swelled up instantly.

The corner of his mouth was also broken, and blood was seeping out.

"Do you think I'm blind?"

Jiang Yue pointed to the empty food cans on the ground.

"Try making up another sentence for me!"

Erlei was stunned.

He covered his face, watching Jiang Yue raise the steel bar again.

I was genuinely scared.

That crazy woman really dares to do it.

If that steel bar hit me on the head, my life would be over.

"In...in the warehouse..."

Erlei finally chickened out.

"He crawled in there himself!"

"real!"

"I didn't force him!"

He said he was cold and wanted to go inside to find a down jacket to wear!

Er Lei is still twisting the truth.

They completely shirked their responsibility.

Jiang Yue didn't want to listen to this nonsense.

She loosened Er Lei's collar.

Erlei lay sprawled on the snow like a puddle of mud.

"How did you get in?"

Jiang Yue asked.

Er Lei pointed over there, trembling.

"There's an exhaust fan vent over there..."

"That opening is damaged..."

Jiang Yue turned her head and glanced in the direction of the warehouse.

It's about fifty meters from here.

The huge red brick building looked like a tomb mound in the night.

"Where's the key?"

Jiang Yue asked again.

Where is the door key?

Er Lei shook his head.

"No...no key..."

"The dean locked that door..."

"We just wanted him to crawl in and get something..."

Jiang Yue's heart sank.

No key.

She knew about that big iron gate.

It was one of those old-fashioned security doors.

Let alone steel bars, even explosives might not be able to break it open.

"Then how do we get out?"

Jiang Yue's voice was trembling.

Er Lei dared not speak.

He lowered his head, his eyes darting away.

Jiang Yue knew something was wrong the moment she saw his demeanor.

She kicked Er Lei in his injured leg.

"say!"

Erlei let out a loud howl of pain.

"We can't get out!"

"We can't get out!"

"That entrance has been sealed off!"

Er Lei shouted it out.

"Old Zhang's here, he has a dog..."

"We're afraid of being discovered..."

"They blocked the hole..."

Jiang Yue's mind went blank.

Is it sealed off?

Those beasts.

For a few cookies.

In order to avoid being discovered.

They just sealed a living person inside?

How is this any different from murder?

Jiang Yue felt her whole body trembling.

I'm so angry.

I'm also afraid.

She stopped paying attention to those scoundrels.

He turned and ran towards the warehouse.

Erlei was humming and groaning behind him.

"Jiang Yue... don't waste your energy..."

"That's an iron plate...and bricks..."

"I can't open it..."

Jiang Yue turned a deaf ear.

She ran very fast.

They don't even care when someone falls down.

Get up and keep running.

at last.

She rushed to the base of the warehouse wall.

She saw the opening of the exhaust fan.

really.

It was completely blocked.

Outside was a large, rusty iron plate.

Several heavy red bricks were piled up outside the iron plate.

Seal that hole completely shut.

Not even a fly can get out.

Jiang Yue lunged forward.

She tried her best to move the bricks.

The bricks were all frozen together.

That's because Er Lei and the others had just poured some water on it to make it more secure.

The water has now frozen.

The bricks and iron plate were stuck together tightly.

Jiang Yue tried to pick at it with her hands.

Her hands were already covered in chilblains.

The pots I was washing in the cafeteria got soggy from being soaked in hot water.

Now we encounter these rough, cold red bricks.

That was pure torture.

With a sharp crack, his fingernail broke off in the crack between the bricks, and blood dripped from his fingertip, instantly staining the white snow red.

"What a hassle."

Jiang Yue cursed and squatted down, groping around haphazardly in the snow.

I touched a rock with sharp edges, about the size of a fist.

It's quite heavy.

Jiang Yue picked up the stone.

They smashed it into the gaps between the frozen red bricks.

"Bang!"

A muffled thud.

Ice shards splashed everywhere.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

......

This is a nightmare with no end.

The cold was like a wet, venomous snake, creeping up the trouser legs and collar into the clothes, finally coiling around the bones and causing excruciating pain.

Xu Qing felt her body gradually becoming lighter.

The violent shivering caused by the cold had stopped.

Instead, there was an eerie warmth.

It felt like being soaked in warm water, so comfortable that it made you want to sleep.

But he knew he was going to die.

I've heard adults say that people who freeze to death always feel hot in the end, and may even take off their clothes and die laughing.

Xu Qing didn't want to take off her clothes, nor did she have the energy to laugh.

He just felt tired.

My eyelids felt so heavy, like they were weighed down by two lead weights, and I couldn't lift them no matter what I did.

It was absolutely dark all around.

The darkness wasn't just the absence of light; it was more like a thick, sticky asphalt that blocked his nose and mouth, making every breath incredibly difficult.

Consciousness began to fade.

The images in my mind were fragmented and discontinuous.

One moment it's the fire from that night, flames licking at the curtains, crackling and popping.

A moment later, it was Jiang Yue's perpetually dirty face again, grinning at him with half a hardened sweet potato in her hand.

"Don't sleep..."

Xu Qing said to herself.

But the sound was too faint and was quickly drowned out by the howling wind.

Clang!

Clang!

A loud metallic clanging sound suddenly rang out.

The sound was muffled, like someone was using a hammer to smash a large vat filled with water.

But in the deathly silent warehouse, the sound was louder than thunder.

Xu Qing suddenly opened her eyes.

Of course, there's really no difference between having your eyes open and closed; it's still pitch black all around.

But he heard it clearly.

The sound was coming from the direction of the exhaust fan.

Clang—Sizzle—

It's the sound of metal rubbing together.

It's so sharp it makes your teeth ache.

"Open it! Open it for me!"

A roar came from outside.

The sound, muffled and tinged with a sob, came through the thick walls and iron plates.

It's Jiang Yue.

Xu Qing's heart, which was almost stopping, suddenly twitched violently.

thump.

dong dong.

Blood began to flow again, and that maddening stinging sensation returned to every part of my body.

She's here.

That crazy girl who said she'd protect him really came.

Xu Qing wanted to respond.

He opened his mouth, desperately trying to call out that name.

But my throat had long been frozen, and with the loss of speech over the past few years, my vocal cords were like rusty strings, unable to vibrate at all.

"Heh...heh heh..."

It can only make this kind of broken bellows-like sound.

Even if he squeezed all the air out of his lungs, the sound wouldn't travel more than five meters, let alone penetrate that thick red brick wall.

A sense of despair washed over me again.

The crashing sounds outside continued.

Each one is heavier than the last.

Jiang Yue seemed to have gone mad; Xu Qing could easily imagine her current state of mind, with her reckless and unrestrained behavior.

His hair was definitely flying everywhere, he was gritting his teeth, his face was covered in snot and tears, and he was holding that half-cut steel bar, fighting desperately against that damned iron plate.

She had frostbite on her hands.

I soaked in cold water for so long today.

If you hit her like that, her hand will be ruined.

Xu Qing moved her fingers.

stiff.

It looks like a few withered tree branches.

But he had to do something.

If you can't make a sound, then you have to make some noise.

light.

It needs light.

As long as there is a glimmer of light, Jiang Yue can see through the gap that has not yet been completely blocked.

Xu Qing started groping himself.

He was wearing the tattered cotton-padded jacket he had just touched; it didn't fit properly, and the sleeves were way too long.

He rummaged through the pocket, which was full of holes.

My finger touched a hard little cardboard box.