Chapter 474: Sirius
As they walked hundreds of steps further and got closer, they all stopped. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info because they saw that the little black dot was still the weird barracks they had abandoned.
These soldiers of the Liao army, who had been driven crazy by hunger, were frightened, but they refused to let go of their last hope, even if it was a ghost barracks, they had to go to see if there was a miracle. Will they find life-saving food?
So these soldiers continued to stagger towards the barracks
Finally, they stormed the eerie barracks again. However, the sight of the scene frightened them so much that their hair stood on end. -- The barracks, which had been empty last time, was now covered with blood, just as it had been when the tragedy had happened that night. It's just that the tent is gone, but where the tent is located, there are countless people's stumps and broken arms scattered in a mess, as if they have just been gnawed down by animals, and the blood has not yet coagulated.
In the barracks, there was nothing but blood and severed limbs, and there was no food to see what they most desired.
The terrifying sight made the soldiers almost go crazy. It's been a few days since this tragedy, but it seems like it just happened. The blood on the ground was still so vivid, it had not yet turned dark black, nor had it frozen, as if it had just flowed out of a person's veins.
The soldiers only stayed for a moment, then immediately shouted and turned around and ran, running back to Xiao Gan's location in one go. They didn't know that they still had such strength, but when they got here, all of them were so tired that they collapsed on the ground, their faces were pale, and they couldn't say a word.
Xiao Gan didn't go any further, because, from the expressions of these soldiers, he knew that something more terrifying must have happened there, and he didn't want to see it. However, there should be no immediate danger, otherwise, these weak soldiers who had been hungry for several days would have already been chased and killed by the enemy.
He stood there quietly waiting for the soldiers to regain their strength and tell him what had happened.
When he learned of the strange scene in the strange barracks, his face turned even paler.
Without saying a word, he pulled up the sleigh and walked far around the strange barracks. The other soldiers struggled to pull the sleigh and followed him, not daring to glance at the barracks in horror.
I walked for about half an hour. The strange barracks had been hidden in the darkness and had long been invisible, so Xiao Gan stopped.
Looking back at the soldiers who followed him, several more fell down the road after losing hope before, and now there were less than ten people.
He stopped, gasping for breath with difficulty. Waiting for less than ten soldiers, panting and surrounding him, they looked at him in despair.
The horror on Kang Mo's face had not yet dissipated, he looked at Xiao Gan and said, "General, what kind of ghost is it? Why is it as if a tragedy has just happened in that barracks? Could it be that a ghost is doing something?"
Xiao Gan shook his head and said, "I don't know, there must be something weird happening around us, but we don't know." What we need to know now is how to get out of the ice field and find something to eat. Without food, even if the goblin doesn't come to bite us to death, we'll freeze and starve to death on the ice like the rest of our brothers. Is there any way you can get out of this ice field?"
His eyes looked over expectantly, hoping that one of the soldiers would tell him a proven way to lead everyone out of the ice field.
However, after he finished reading it, not a single soldier spoke, but only looked at him blankly, pinning his last hope on him.
So, Xiao Gan had no choice but to swallow a saliva with difficulty, and said to the remaining less than ten soldiers: "Let's bet on the last one, if we can't get out of the ice field again, we may only die here." ”
Kang Mo took a breath, and said to Xiao Gan in a difficult voice: "General, you decide, we will follow you wherever we go." ”
The soldiers were panting in the snow with their knees propped up, and they had no strength to show their loyalty, and of course, no confidence to express it.
Xiao Gan must give them courage and confidence, he said: "We can't walk by feeling, we must have a fixed direction." This direction can only be guided by the stars, so my opinion is that when we see the stars come out, we go forward, and when we don't see the stars, we camp and rest. We're going to pick a star to the south and walk towards it. -- Do any of you know the stars in the south? Not necessarily accurate, even if you guess. ”
Xiao Gan himself didn't know the constellations, except for the most famous Big Dipper, he didn't know any of the other stars, he didn't have time or mood to identify the stars, but he didn't expect to rely on the stars to guide them to find a way to live at this time.
His only remaining soldier said: "General, we don't know the stars, except for the Big Dipper, if we look for other stars, we will definitely go in the wrong direction." We had to look for the White Dipper and walk in the opposite direction to the south and out of the ice field. ”
All of them nodded in agreement, they no longer had the strength and food to make another mistake. If they don't succeed this time, they will die. So you have to be absolutely sure. Because they didn't encounter any other wildlife on the ice field these days, and they couldn't dig through the thousands of feet of ice to fish below.
Xiao Gan nodded slowly, he also felt that this was the truth. Since they don't know the constellations, they only know the Big Dipper, so they can only wait for the appearance of the Big Dipper.
Xiao Gan said: "Then we will camp and rest now, boil hot water, and boil porridge to drink." Everyone drank the porridge and went to sleep, waiting until the stars appeared. ”
Indeed, there is not much dry food left now, and it is not enough to distribute it to everyone, so it is better to gather it and boil it into porridge in hot water, and there is still a little thin soup in the stomach, and there is still a spiritual comfort, and there is also a strength to go on.
So, they staggered and struggled to set up their tents, and then one by one, panting and sitting, they began to cook and eat. They only set up one big tent, and decided to throw away all the other tents, leaving these eight or nine people to live in a big tent, and they could also keep each other warm and encourage each other.
After drinking the gruel, it was determined that the two men were on guard and observed whether there were any stars in the sky, while the others slept in the bedding.
It's polar night, and it's mostly a gray night all day long, so as long as the weather is clear, you can see the stars in the sky, no matter what time of day. The probability of seeing the stars is still very high. It's just that there has been a snowstorm for the past few days, and since then there seem to have been clouds covering the starry sky above. Occasionally, a small piece of starry sky is revealed.
What they need to look for is the Big Dipper in the north, but there are always thin clouds on the horizon, and only a few stars pop out and flash a few times, and they are blocked by the clouds. The two soldiers who were outside sentry and looking for the Big Dipper kept their eyes on the horizon. However, if I find them all the time, I am about to turn into ice lumps, and I still haven't found the Big Dipper.
Two more soldiers were sent outside to look for them. In such a rotation, the remaining eight or nine soldiers were all changed, including Xiao Gan, who also personally came out to look for it outside and waited for an hour, but he never found the Big Dipper. And time continued to pass without mercy, and when you count it, they stayed in this place for almost another day and night.
At this time, their food was further reduced, and the gruel they cooked could be seen.
At the same time, after the day and night had passed, two more soldiers never got up again.
Xiao Gan gathered the remaining seven soldiers around him and said heavily: "No, if it drags on like this, everyone will still die." Instead of sitting back and waiting, it's better to gamble again. ”
Kang Mo's body was also extremely weak, he hadn't eaten enough for so many days, he didn't even have the strength to stand up, and said in a weak voice: "Okay, general, you decide, which direction should we go?"
Xiao Gan called them out of the tent, pointed to a bright star in the sky, and said, "I don't know if that star is Sirius." But I've heard that Sirius is in the south. As I had noticed, the star was brighter than the surrounding stars, and it was probably Sirius, so we walked in the direction of that star. We follow the direction of the stars, at least not in the direction. Big deal: Going in the wrong direction. If that star is really Sirius, then the direction is south, and we go out. However, if we don't, we can't go south, and we're afraid that we will all die on the ice sheets. - Would you like to bet this last one with me?"
Several soldiers looked at each other, and finally they all nodded vigorously, and only bet all their bets on this.
Xiao Gan said: "Let's just leave two knives for defense, and throw away all other knives and other heavy objects." There was only one sleigh, a tent and each person's bedding, and everything was placed on the sleigh, and we took turns pulling it all the way in the direction of the star. ”
So they packed their bags again, leaving only a tent and a minimum of bedding, the last two knives, and the last bit of dry food.
Dragging the sleigh cart, they staggered in the direction of what Xiao Gan had identified as what might be Sirius.
The blizzard was gone, and it was surprisingly quiet. They struggled forward in the quiet of the night. The snow and ice that fell were basically frozen into ice again, and it was slippery to walk on and even more difficult to stand on.
And a little bit of food continued to be boiled and drunk by them.
Over the next few days, seven soldiers fell one after the other.
In the end, only Commo and his only soldier were still struggling to walk towards the shining star.
At this time, only Xiao Gan still had the strength to pull the sled, Kang Mo and his own soldiers could no longer pull the sled, and it was good that they could insist on following forward.
After another day's walk, they pitched their tents and slept for the night.
When he woke up the next day, Xiao Gan saw that Kang Mo and the soldiers had no strength to get up, so he gritted his teeth and put the last remaining piece of dry food in the pot to cook it into gruel, and the three of them drank it separately.
Drinking a bowl of gruel, Kang Mo and his soldiers had some strength, and they were finally able to sit up.