The employee who was looking at the fries finally didn't pay attention, and the dog pecked open the lock, and flew out of the door with its wings fluttering.

Standing outside the door, Matsuda Jinpei grabbed it with quick eyes and hands: "Don't run around. I won't be able to see you when Furukawa comes back and I'll be anxious."

Fries became furious and began to peck his fingers frantically. Matsuda Jinpei was in pain: "Hiss... you stinky bird!"

But it was a pain, so he still didn't let go of the fries. After all, in this snowy weather, finding a pet was much more troublesome than finding a person.

"Is it..." Natalie looked at the grumpy French fries and hesitated, "...looking for Kumisa?"

She is the one who is most familiar with Furukawa Kumisa among all the people, and naturally knows the French fries the best.

, she has seen the interaction between Fries and Furukawa Kumisa many times, so she naturally knows their feelings, as well as Fries’ Chita and almost demonic character.

She thought for a while: "This bird... is quite smart, and I always feel that it seems to understand what Kumisa says. Does Kumisa also understand what it says?"

Just when everyone was silent, Matsuda Jinpei suddenly screamed: "It scratched me!!"

Zhufu Jingguang reached out and took the French fries from Matsuda Jinpei's hand - he has always been very close to animals, but even in his hands, the French fries were struggling desperately.

Hagiwara Kenji thought for a moment, "Now is not the time to worry about French fries. Furukawa has gone somewhere. The cable car will be out of service in half an hour. If she hasn't come back yet..."

Everyone understands what he has left to say.

On the other side, Rei Fukutani hung up the phone and came back: "I have contacted the search and rescue team, but they said that we have not confirmed the disappearance of our companions and cannot be dispatched for the time being. The same goes for calling the nearby police station."

Datehang secretly cursed: "In this kind of weather in the snow-capped mountains, everyone will be cold when the missing person is confirmed!"

"Um..." In the hotel lobby, a tourist who had been sitting next to them for a long time suddenly came up to talk to them, "Do you have any friends who are missing?"

Zhu Fu Jingguang frowned: "Yeah?"

The young female traveler nodded, "Yes, we have a companion who skied on a separate slope with us. He is on the junior slopes and has been unable to be contacted."

The primary ski trail is where Kumisa Furukawa disappeared.

Fang Gu Ling's eyebrows darkened. He took a step forward and was about to ask something when suddenly the hotel door was hurriedly opened: "No, it's not good!"

The night wind and snow suddenly blew away the heat in the house, and another strange traveler pushed open the door and stumbled out, holding a lot of things in his hands.

"Kanon-chan!" He rushed towards the female traveler just now, "I was just looking for Kawakami-kun near the hotel, but I only found this in the incinerator at the back."

He handed the thing in his hand to Kanon. Kanon looked at it and exclaimed: "This, this seems to be Kawakami-kun's coat!"

What he was holding in his hand was a coat that had been mostly burned, and there were still some suspicious dark stains on it.

Matsuda Jinpei was the closest, glanced at the pile of unburned things, and instantly snatched another piece of clothing from his hand, "This color... is the coat Furukawa wore today!"

Hearing this, Zhu Fu Jingguang started struggling with the French fries in his hand like crazy.

He was afraid of hurting it, so he never dared to use force. He was so uneasy that he accidentally broke free from it.

"fries!"

However, they saw that although Fries broke free from the restraints, he no longer rushed out of the door. Instead, he stopped on Jiang Guling's shoulder, grabbed his clothes and flapped his wings towards the inner room.

Natalie frowned: "The French fries are..."

Fukitani Rei was a little upset and didn't want to talk to the bird, but suddenly he remembered all the experiences he had at Furukawa Kumisa's house...

He thought for a moment and looked at the others: "The French fries are probably hungry. I'll go to the room to find some food for them."

After saying that, he grabbed the fries and returned to the room, leaving the others looking at each other.

Matsuda Jinpei clicked his tongue irritably, "Why do you still want to eat it?"

As soon as I returned to the room, the French fries flew to the table and I looked around.

Fangtani Ling watched its movements, and a somewhat absurd idea arose in his mind: "...Fries, do you know where she is?"

After saying this, he felt that he was crazy and was actually dreaming of talking to a bird.

As a result, the French fries nodded quickly, as if they were about to peck out the afterimage.

Falling valley zero:???

Before Fangtani Rei could react, he saw the fries flying to the cup on the side. He dipped his paws in some water and painted on the table.

He came over and took a look, and saw that he had drawn a triangle crookedly with his paws, and then pecked the top of the triangle crazily with his beak.

"Triangle...snow mountain?" He tried to guess its meaning, "You mean, Furukawa is at the top of the mountain now?"

Fries nodded crazily again.

...The matter has come to this, he

It was too late to think about how outrageous it was that he could communicate with a bird, Fangtani Rei lowered his head and looked at his watch, six forty.

He quickly took out a pen and paper from the table, hurriedly wrote a few words, and warned: "After I leave in a while, you can call them in."

"Quack!" French fries shook his head and flew to his shoulder, as if he wanted to go with him.

"Obey," Fangtani Rei emphasized, "There are blood stains on the clothes of the two friends outside the door. They probably encountered an accident. In the weather with heavy snow closing the mountains, the murderer can only be the people around him. Furukawa is probably a mistake.

He was attacked by the murderer only after entering the murder scene."

He folded the note and put it at the feet of French fries, "The murderer doesn't know yet that we know Furukawa's whereabouts. I will go out from the window without disturbing them. You can call Jingguang and the others in later, and they will watch the murderer."

, and then find an opportunity to call the police and contact the search and rescue team.”

He touched the head of Fries: "And now, only you know the whereabouts of Furukawa and me. If you follow us, then we will be alone."

He pulled up his clothes, put on his goggles and hat, took out his backpack from the room, emptied everything, brought some necessary cold-proof equipment, zipped up his backpack, and climbed out of the window.

There were still twenty minutes left for the cable car to stop operating. The cable car from the bottom of the mountain to the top took fifteen minutes. He had to rush up the mountain in the last minute.

*

Furukawa Kumisa woke up with a tearing headache. She subconsciously touched her head and felt the wetness that had solidified. When she raised her hand, she saw blood that had frozen into ice slag.

"hiss……"

It took a lot of effort for her to get up, and she checked herself a little. Fortunately, except for a slight break on the back of her head, there were no other fractures on her body.

After all, she was buried directly by the snow that was cut from the top of the mountain. If it weren't for her abnormal body, she might not have survived.

- Just like the body lying next to her now.

She looked around. Although she had never been to the top of the mountain, looking at the frozen windmill next to her, she could tell that this was the top of the snow-capped mountain mentioned by her boss.

She reluctantly stood up and looked at the cable car next to her. It was still running with a "creeping" sound, but the speed was obviously slower than the normal speed. She was afraid that the power supply was about to be insufficient.

She gave up the idea of ​​getting on the cable car immediately and returning to the bottom of the mountain. If the cable car stopped running halfway through the ride and she was trapped on the cable car high in the sky, she would really have no choice but to wait for death.

Furukawa Kumisa casually grabbed a handful of snow on the ground and applied it on his face. His chaotic mind slowly woke up.

She saw the cable car cabin next to her, walked over and tried to open the door, but as expected it was locked.

She gradually became clear about the situation - she was now trapped at the top of a snow-capped mountain where the cable car was about to cease operations. It was already dark, and there was no shelter from the wind and snow around her. The snowflakes were getting bigger and bigger, with no intention of stopping.

Furukawa Kumisa sneezed and then noticed that someone had taken off his coat, leaving only a thin sweater. All communication equipment and possible useful props had been taken away.

It seems that after the murderer buried himself and the body, he was afraid that it would be too dangerous to leave them by the ski slopes, so he took them up the mountain and left them on the top of the mountain to die.

Even if he didn't die in that small avalanche, he would be a corpse tomorrow if he stayed in the snow for a night wearing such thin clothes.

She looked at the body hanging beside her - yes, it was hanging.

It seems that in order to destroy the evidence, or to cut off her chance of survival after she wakes up, the murderer took off all the clothes and pants from the body, without even leaving a pair of gloves for her.

Furukawa Kumisa sighed: ...Should we be glad that the other party at least didn't strip her naked and left her some clothes?

"A sneeze!"

Sneezing again, she stood up and moved her body, trying to keep her body warm.

With a "creak" sound, the cable car stopped operating.

Furukawa Kumisa glanced at the cable car parked in mid-air and secretly felt lucky that he had not gotten on the cable car just now.

She turned around

I turned around and walked around, trying to find some props that would help the current situation, but failed.

She walked to the cable car cabin and kicked it hard several times, causing the iron door to loosen.

She judged that if it was normal, she should be able to break open the door based on her strength, but now that she had just woken up from a coma after being hit on her head, and her body was gradually freezing, it might be difficult.

Her eyes turned to the tall windmill next to her. It was an ancient windmill that powered electricity. Several huge blades had been frozen by thick layers of ice. Even if they wanted to melt, they would not melt overnight.

Furukawa Kumisa touched his somewhat burning forehead and suddenly realized that this was the moment of "life and death" that he had encountered for the first time in two years.

"On the verge of life and death" should obviously have been the most common state for her in the past, but her comfortable days have been too long, and when she thinks back to those times, it feels like a lifetime ago.

...It is indeed a world apart.

She sighed and walked towards the windmill.

The most promising thing now is to find a way to melt the ice on the windmill so that it can generate electricity again so that she can take the cable car down the mountain.

She shook her frozen head and rubbed her arms with both hands, trying to add some heat to herself.

If you want to melt the ice, you need to make a fire...

Make a fire...tinder...
To be continued...