66 The Way of Hades

It was already dark, the wind and snow were heavy, and He Wan'er couldn't see the road in front of him clearly.

How long has she been walking, and how has she been wandering around?

The feet were suddenly crooked, and the feet that were numb from the cold also had a trace of pain.

Ignoring the pain, she took a flashlight and shone it in the middle of the road, and found that it was a big pothole across the road, and because the pit was very deep, she stepped on it and twisted her foot.

Fortunately, she was thickly dressed and the snow in the pit was not seriously injured. And the small battery display on the mobile phone is already eight o'clock in the evening.

He Wan'er remembered that it was less than five o'clock when she found that it was snowing, and it was only a five-kilometer journey, and even if it was still snowing on the mountain road, she seemed to have walked too long.

And the road under my feet is getting rougher and rougher, and it is completely different from the senses when I came.

There was one word that came out of her head inexplicably - ghost hitting the wall.

He Wan'er shuddered.

She knew that her sense of direction was not very good, and she had never lost her way in the city with various buildings as markers, but if she was placed in a place where there was no navigation and the reference object was full of trees, it was inevitable that she would make a mistake and go the wrong way.

She still remembers that her uncle took her around when she came, if she panicked because she was afraid of snow, and it was difficult to discern the direction when it was dark and snowy, wouldn't it be bad if she really turned the wrong corner and took the wrong road?

You know, this is an inaccessible forest area, there are no street lights, no pedestrians, and no vehicles.

If the weather is good, even if she takes the wrong path, at most she will suffer a little, at least she can survive ten days and eight days longer than ordinary people with her fairly good survival ability in the wild, but the sudden cooling, coupled with such a heavy snowfall, she did not panic in her heart.

If the snow doesn't stop, if the temperature continues to drop, will she be able to survive a night in the open forest?

Moreover, before she came, she had collected a lot of information about the Nine Whiskers Sea, and knew that in this mountain range, there were not only yaks, wildebeests, red pandas, short-tailed monkeys, but also leopards and wild wolves.

And the more inaccessible the place, the greater the chance of the latter two beasts infesting.

No matter which one you encounter, it is a dangerous and abnormal thing, not to mention, it also encountered this snowstorm that covers the sky and the sun.

For the first time, He Wan'er felt so afraid of the forces of nature that a news headline popped up out of place - the woman had crossed a no-man's land illegally and had been missing for several days.

She smiled bitterly and licked her numb lips.

My lips are afraid that they have been frozen and cracked, and the tip of my tongue can feel the coolness of the snow and a hint of saltiness.

She gathered the hat of her coat and continued walking,

Since it was difficult to find the direction in the wind and snow, she gave up on finding the right path - she had to make sure she survived before she could find the right way.

First of all, find a place to avoid the snow, she has at least a sleeping bag marked -20 degrees Celsius in her backpack, although it can only resist the low temperature of about 0 degrees, but if the clothes are added to the sleeping bag, find a place at least semi-open to survive until the snow stops until dawn, it may not be lifeless.

Secondly, although there are few people here, the uncle who sent her up found that she didn't return to the village after dark, will he come out to look for her?

Yes, for the first time in her life, she pinned her hope of survival on the kindness of strangers.

He Wan'er knows that it is unrealistic, but in a desperate situation, people always have some hope that can support her to go on.

More than an hour passed, and He Wan'er leaned on a huge stone on the side of the road exhausted, leaning on the slightly inclined angle of the stone to avoid the wind and snow.

The road surface has accumulated nearly 10 centimeters of snow, and the blizzard is getting heavier.

The situation is not optimistic, and when she set out from Gyeongju, she didn't expect that she would sleep in the snow overnight, so neither the clothes nor supplies she carried could withstand such a harsh environment.

Her shoes were waterproof, but they weren't boots or even high-tops, and the snow had already soaked into them, and her toes were so cold that she couldn't feel anything.

As for the hat, it has long been soaked in snow, and the hair is hard and has long been frozen.

She had already put her sleeping bag on her body, so that it would be more or less warm and prevent the snow from continuing to soak in.

He Wan'er's physical strength is fast to the limit, and his thinking begins to be sluggish, fear, loneliness, and fatigue, once these emotions are generated, they will become more and more uncontrollably dense until they occupy the entire consciousness.

She knew that when people were about to freeze to death, their bodies would have thermal hallucinations. Although the body temperature continues to drop at this time, the person will feel the illusion of warmth.

That's because when a person is in a cold environment, the body's blood vessels constrict, allowing blood to flow to the body's vital organs. However, when the environment is extremely cold, the muscles that control the constriction of blood vessels will become fatigued, causing the blood vessels to re-expand, allowing the warm blood in the body to quickly retain the blood vessels around the skin, so that the person will feel very hot.

Moreover, because of this thermal hallucination, the body does not feel the cold state at that time, but on the contrary, it feels very warm, so people who are frozen to death often die relatively peacefully, and their faces will not show painful expressions, and even smiles.

The little match girl who froze to death and smiled, which is a very real heat hallucination.

Heat hallucinations don't make people die too painfully, but they have a side effect – it's so hot that you take off your clothes. Therefore, people who often freeze to death are found with very little clothing on their bodies, and some even take off all of them, also because of heat hallucinations.

As soon as He Wan'er thought of this, he immediately trembled his lips and encouraged himself: "No, you can't die like this, it's too embarrassing." ”

If she was frozen to death, she might not wear anything and still have a weird smile on her face, and she was not willing to be remembered like this, or be on the news.

Seeing that the wind and snow did not decrease, He Guaner stood up strongly, wanting to find a safer place.

It was easy to move a few steps, but she noticed that there was a movement in her ears other than the sound of wind and snow.

She was refreshed, her body was more flexible, and she ran up to the road in a few steps, and found that not only was the sound of the engine roaring in her ears, but also a light seemed to appear in the thick darkness that she could not see in the distance.

He Wan'er tried to keep his eyes open, and through the dense wind and snow, he saw the scene ahead.

The end of the road grew brighter, the roar drew nearer, something tall and square moving,

It turned out to be a car!

In the dark night, the dark body of the car is tall and square, and the headlights in front of the car are the only light source within a radius of several miles.

Obviously his eyes were full of cold whiteness, but He Wan'er felt a trace of warmth return to his body.

It was the joy of being in a desperate situation, and her gradually disappearing consciousness was awakened again.

He Guan'er knew that this was an opportunity that could not be missed, so he rushed to the middle of the road with all his might, waved his hands at the car, and shouted: "Help!

In the wind and snow, the car was already driving very slowly, and it had already noticed that there was someone in the middle of the road, and the speed was even slower.

Half a minute later, the car stopped a few meters in front of He Wan'er.

The door of the cab opened, and someone got out of the car, and his face could not be seen clearly with the light on his back, as if

He Wan'er stepped forward overjoyed, his voice trembling and almost speechless: "Suddenly it snowed, I ......"

She stopped in the middle of her speech and stared blankly ahead.

The person in front of him was wearing a black coat, tall and straight, with clear eyebrows, dark eyes, his hair was blown by the wind and snow, a few strands of hair hung down in front of his forehead, and the contours of his face were familiar and unfamiliar.

The wind and snow in the sky seemed to have become a blurred background, He Wan'er's mouth was wide open, and the snowflakes were swept in by the wind and he didn't know it.

For a long time, she blinked in disbelief and asked in a trembling voice, "Why are you? Didn't I hallucinate before I died?"

"It seems that you won't die for the time being," Mo Chunshan tilted his head slightly, and his voice was clear, "Why are you here?"

"So, you're lost and going in the wrong direction?"

Mo Chunshan asked He Waner while unpacking the milk tea.

He Wan'er sat by the fire, and couldn't get closer to the cheerful burning fire.

Her jacket, wet shoes, and socks were also spread more than ten centimeters away from the fire, so that they would not be burned and could be dried by fire.

She was still a little cold, but she also knew that she was completely out of danger.

Half an hour ago, Mo Chunshan picked up her on the road and was about to freeze into a popsicle, let her get into the car, put on her coat, and took her to this small house where she could hide from the wind and snow.

The house was built with stones, and the gaps in the stones were filled with mud, and in the middle of the house was a one-meter-square fire pit.

When I first came in, the temperature here was not much different from that outside, but Mo Chunshan used the ready-made wood in the house to make a fire, not to mention that it was warm like spring, at least the temperature was above freezing.

"Hmm. She was a little slow to react, and it took several seconds before she answered softly, and she noticed that her voice was still shaking.

Mo Chunshan looked back, his gaze swept over her inadvertently.

The snow on her head had melted into water, and she was steaming white, her hair was wet on her shoulders, and her trouser legs and shoes were covered with mud.

Even the coat he had just borrowed her to wear was covered in muddy water.

He frowned slightly, just as he heard the cheerful churning of boiling water from the half-new iron kettle on the stove.

He turned around and grabbed a brand new towel wrapped around the handle of the iron kettle, and lifted it up without difficulty.

A few seconds later, He Guan'er heard the sound of boiling water pouring into the paper cup, and his senses, which were dull because it was too cold, were suddenly activated.

She smelled the sweet smell of milk tea spreading through the small space in the stone house, and heard the sound of her own stomach growling.

It smells so good. I really want to drink it. I'm starving.

He Wan'er swallowed his saliva secretly, and his mind was full of scenes of milk tea cups floating in the air.

She had only eaten in the morning, and had not eaten for more than ten hours, when she was cold and hungry, and her craving for food was extreme. However, starvation is a small matter, but a big loss is a big one. In front of Mo Chunshan, although she doesn't have much face left, she has to maintain it anyway.

She was still thinking about how to be tactful and less embarrassing to ask Mo Chunshan for a bite to eat in a slightly reserved way, but the next second, she saw him hand the milk tea to her: "Drink it." ”

He Wan'er was stunned, and said no in her heart, but her body had already said yes one step ahead of her reason.

She held the milk tea, felt a slightly hot feeling from her fingertips, and said in a low voice, "Thank you." ”

Mo Chunshan had already turned around, leaning in the direction of the door, without saying a word.

Oh oh milk tea, this kind of junk food, He Guaner usually never touches it for the sake of his figure, but at this time, it is like a delicacy, and he refuses to leave a drop.

If Mo Chunshan hadn't been on the scene, she might have even licked the wall of the cup.