"Do you know why you were asked to go to the Great Snow Mountain?"

"You know, it should have something to do with my background."

"It's related, but it's been more than 20 years, and that place is deserted, so I don't think there will be many clues"

"Then I'm going to check it out"

"That's what it means, the two children of Long Da and Long Yi are all fine except for a little bit of not growing up, you can also see their kung fu, as long as they are convinced by you, they are definitely super partners"

"Don't worry, they will leave it to me, I want to find out about the matter of Daxue Mountain, and I will also find out about my life experience by the way."

This is a conversation between Cui Ning and Jiang Lao before going to Daxue Mountain.

At the junction of the countries of the Dragon Kingdom and the Nepal Kingdom, there is a huge mountain range that stretches for thousands of kilometers, and due to its location on the plateau and the latitude, it is extremely cold all year round.

The dozens of snow-capped mountains in the mountain range system have made this area a world-famous "snowy plateau", and it is said that there are religions that have been passed down for thousands of years, and even the birthplace of some mysterious sects around the world, and there are still ancient practitioners who still exist today.

The continuous snow-capped mountains are also a paradise for scientific research, photography, tourism, and mountaineering, although many people stay here forever every year, but still attract snow-capped mountain lovers from all over the world, and there are more than a dozen peaks known as "sacred mountains" and "holy places".

But in this harsh winter season, there are hardly any outsiders in the area, except for the natives, and there are hardly even birds. Himalayan black bears, clouded leopards, long-tailed langurs and cats have also largely gone into hiding. Himalayan antelopes, such as the Thar sheep, can be seen occasionally.

At an altitude of 3,000 metres above the snow line, snow leopards, brown bears, red pandas and Tibetan rhinos can be spotted, as well as extinct animals that live alone and do not want to be disturbed.

With the development of the world, many young people actually no longer like this kind of environment, and many old people are left behind in many hot and cold areas, and young people have basically gone to live in the metropolis. Although there are some exceptions in the Great Snow Mountain, because there are no people in a radius of hundreds of miles, and since they have lived here since childhood, some young people still have some simple jobs in the village, including occasionally being a tour guide for people, etc., to get by.

Long Da and Long Yi have actually been to many countries in the world, and the two of them are not only strong in martial arts, but also have super IQ and hands-on and wilderness survival ability, according to the two of them, "have received the world's top wilderness survival training".

On the contrary, Cui Ning, who was the person in charge of this trip to the Great Snow Mountain, did not have much survival skills in the wild, but both Mr. Zhuge and Jiang Lao strictly ordered Long Da and Long Yi to obey Cui Ning's arrangements in everything.

Long Da and Long Yi are strange in life, they are geniuses among geniuses, except for their parents who rarely meet people who convince them, so before leaving, Mr. Zhuge and Jiang Lao and other seniors deliberately arranged a two-day artificially created real snow mountain experience, including tests in states of extreme cold, hunger, and thunder and lightning.

Just when the two of them were trying to cope with various environments, seeing Cui Ning's face always changing and dealing with it casually, especially in the face of the cold of minus 40 degrees, the two of them also had to use enough skills to ensure physical fitness and physical strength.

And Cui Ning regarded it as a normal temperature at all, and the two children knew that they had met a freak who was even stranger than themselves, and they had a strong curiosity about Cui Ning.

There is no direct route from Longdu to Daxue Mountain, you have to fly from Longdu to the nearest city to the Snow Mountain, and then transfer trains, and finally you need to get off in a small town and walk dozens of kilometers to reach the area where the incident occurred.

A small village, in fact, is a few villages, but the distance between the villages is not very far, and it takes about three days to transfer from the holy city and walk. According to the arrangement of the local public security department, the local public security organ sent a special car to Cui Ning, Long Da, and Long Yi to the town closest to the place where the incident occurred.

In the end, it was determined that the local police officers who were ordered to enter the mountain were all between 30 and 40 years old, one was called Dawa and the other was called Deji.

Both of them have more than 10 years of experience in public security, not only can speak fluent Longguo Mandarin and the local language, but also have a very good understanding of the local customs, plus they grew up in the snow mountains, and they are well aware of the local climate characteristics, precautions, etc., with them as guides, Cui Ning and the three of them will bring a lot of convenience along the way.

The town is still more than two days away from the place of the incident, and almost all the roads are buried by snow, and in some places the snow is even more than half a person's height.

Dawa and Deji are not particularly high-level, and their understanding of the dragon group is limited, but they only know that Cui Ning and the three are from the special operations team of the public security department, but they still expressed surprise at Long Da and Long Yihe's age, with the usual simplicity of ethnic minorities, Deji, who is slightly two years older, still expressed concern:

"Three leaders, we are still about 60 kilometers away from the place of the incident, and due to the snow problem this year, the car cannot go.

And there are many places where sledding is not convenient, so we have to go on foot. According to the calculation of walking for 8 hours a day and about 4 kilometers per hour, it takes about two days, and then you need to spend the night in the snowy mountains, and each person needs to carry a backpack of about 50 kilograms for tents and necessary items.

Long Da and Long Yi looked at each other, and then Long Yi said to Cui Ning:

"Brother Cui, you say it, listen to you"

Cui Ning nodded:

"60 kilometers of road, we try to rush overnight, one day and one night, there is no problem with the physical fitness of the three of us, I just don't know if you two can bear it, if you have to sleep at night, this temperature and weather, the backpack of the two of you prepare more items, if the backpack on the road is heavier, then you can let Long Da and Long Yi help you"

Dawa and Deji shook their heads repeatedly:

"We don't have a problem, as long as we don't encounter extreme weather, we can travel overnight, there are local villages and residents near the place of the incident, we can rush there and rest"

"Alright then, pack your belongings and leave as soon as possible"

Out of the town, there are endless snow-capped mountains and snowfields, relying on the compass to identify the direction, a group of five people set off in the early morning and walked towards the destination.

Because the place of the incident is very far away from the Holy City, including the town, and a lot of information is also communicated by telephone, whether it is the public security organ of the Holy City or the police station of the town, there are no more clues about the incident itself, and with Cui Ning's character of always doing projects, as well as the inevitable results of receiving special training from the Dragon Group, he will never easily draw conclusions without investigation, so he did not talk much about the case on the road.

Coupled with the climatic characteristics of wind and snow, it is the basic rule of survival in the snow field to conserve physical strength by talking as little as possible. So a few people walked more boring along the way.

Six hours later, Dawa and Deji, who were at their peak of age and physical fitness, had reached the limits of their human body, first of all, the energy consumption brought by the low temperature, and the need to replenish enough calories and energy, and then the endless snowfield was prone to the symptoms of snow blindness.

Despite wearing glasses, the monotonous scenery and plateau climate still make the brain a little hypoxic, plus a 50-kilogram backpack, walking dozens of kilometers in one breath, has exceeded the training level of ordinary special forces, of course, if there are no special forces who have survived in the snowfield, coming here is really not as good as the survival ability of Dawa and Deji.

The first rest was after the five people walked for more than six hours, and it was Cui Ning who ordered them to rest, and Long Da and Long Yi would not have any problems with their physical fitness, but they were also hungry.

To rest and eat in the cold snow-capped mountains, you must first find a sheltered place from the wind, otherwise seven or eight strong winds and a temperature of more than minus 40 degrees will turn water into ice, and it is impossible for normal people to eat or replenish energy.

Of course, a 50-kilogram backpack is not a professional travel equipment, nature gives people a cold environment, of course, it also gives people wisdom and survival skills, ice and snow are ruthless, but they can also be used, Long Da and Long Yi took out the armor shovel from the backpack, and soon built a snow house on the vast snowfield.

The Igloo is made purely of snow and ice, and due to the harsh cold environment, it does not require any support. A qualified igloo is made of snow bricks of various specifications.

The first step in building an igloo is to choose an open, sunny flat land, determine a specific foundation, and then use sharp knives and tools to compress and cut the snow into large snow bricks of various sizes, so that the igloo can be built.

Later, with each superimposed circle, it shrinks inward a little, and the circle becomes smaller and smaller, until it forms a closed, hemispherical dome. It is similar to the yurt or yurt house in ancient times, except that the building material has become snow bricks.

In the Arctic Circle, where the Eskimos (Inuit) live, igloos are generally built underground (digging down) and half on the ground, while the Inuit not only live in the igloo but also use snow furniture, beds and tables are made of snow, covered with seal skins, there is not much in the house, and people use seal oil as fuel for cooking, lighting, and heating.

In the deepest part of the Eskimo Snowroom, there is a high platform made of snow, which is their couch.

They rest and eat on this snow-made bed, but they don't get frozen. At night, the whole family, young and old, strips naked, burrows into a large seal skin bag, and snuggles up to each other for warmth.

When a guest visits, the Inuit spread another layer of soft snow on the snowbed, which is covered with branches and animal skins, so that the snowbed is warm.

The igloo is round, which not only blocks the biting cold wind, but also protects the roof from melting. The practice of digging deep holes and building shallow roofs in the snow room makes it relatively warmer for people to live underground in winter than on the ground.

In order to protect the snow from the wind and snow, the locals often cover the hemispherical roof with a thick layer of weeds and seal skin, and at the same time, the spiral-shaped walls of the house are covered with animal skins to protect against the cold. Another way to keep out the cold is to shade the windows, which are generally made of transparent sea beast intestines, which only transmit light and are not breathable, which is very distinctive.

In the igloo, the locals also build a fire to keep warm from the cold, they hewn a stone stove out of stones, which is filled with oil fried by sea beasts, and kneaded into a wick with animal hair, and when lit, even if it is a low temperature of minus 30 or 40 degrees Celsius outside, the house is still quite warm.

Some igloos don't have doors at all, but dig a passage from the ground as a door after the igloo is built (because it is semi-underground, similar to the entrance to the basement), so that the room is warmer. The so-called survival that adapts measures to local conditions and can be positive and optimistic in the face of any environment shows the creative spirit of human beings in the face of nature, and the courage to never succumb to suffering.

"I like it here," Cui Ning's little dragon said.