When they got closer, the two realized that the mountain was actually half glacier and half rock, and it felt like a glacier was attacking the volcano, and the volcano was holding on to it with geothermal heat.

Stepping on the ground, Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei both exhaled deeply.

"This is the real down-to-earth! When you step on it, it's hard, it's a little more gravel. ”

Xiao Weiwei stepped on the ground hard and sighed.

Liu Danqing squatted down, grabbed a handful of gravel and looked at it.

"The pebbles are quite round, it seems that the last eruption of this volcano is quite a long time ago, and great, if the eruption lasts for a long time, it is possible to form an ecosphere, which means that we may be able to find food. ”

"Weiwei, let's go. ”

Liu Danqing greeted Xiao Weiwei and climbed up the hillside again, they wanted to follow this route without ice and snow to climb a small mountain next to this volcano Mount Everest, or a small plateau.

While walking, Liu Danqing introduced: "The volcano under our feet is an active volcano, and there are many such active volcanoes in Iceland, the most famous of which is Eyjafara Volcano on the southern Afiajallajökull ice sheet, 125 kilometers east of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. ”

"The eruption of Eyjafara Volcano began at 1 a.m. local time on April 14, 2010 and continued to erupt on April 16, 2010. ”

"A large amount of volcanic ash accumulated in the sky, entrenched above the white clouds, and the ash ejected by the Icelandic Avifara volcano condensed in the cold air and seemed to be motionless. Even the people of Norway can observe the volcanic ash and blue sky and white clouds in front of their homes. Then this thick volcanic ash drifted along Iceland, Norway, all the way to England. ”

After talking about the horrors of active volcanoes first, Liu Danqing then changed his words and introduced the volcano under his feet.

"And the active volcano under our feet is now indeed a lifesaver for us, and we hope to surprise us after turning over this small hill. ”

Xiao Weiwei followed behind and asked, "What surprises can I have?"

Liu Danqing replied: "It is better to have green shrubs and plants, which means that there is a lot of food, and there will be more animals, if there are no these, then I hope that at least there will be some moss, which can also attract some animals." No matter how bad it is, we can find some edible plants. ”

"What if there are none?"

"Then let's bless ourselves, without plants, there can be no animals, unless they can live on mud and rock. ”

Talking and laughing, the two climbed the hill, and the scene ahead met the eyes of the two and the audience.

In front of them, there was a long hill that stretched forward, and then the terrain became undulating again, and in the distance, there was still a lot of snow-white, those were snow-capped mountains and glaciers.

On the hillside, there are many places with white columns, and thick white smoke billows up and soars into the sky, which is spectacular.

Further down, you can see several steaming hot springs winding down the river.

"Two pieces of news, one is good news, down the hill, you can vaguely see the green, it seems that we have hope to find food here. ”

"The bad news is that we still have a long way to go before we get to the sea. ”

After speaking, Liu Danqing looked at the sky and said distressedly: "The sun is about to go down, we have no time to go to the hot springs now, we can only find a place to camp temporarily, and wait for tomorrow, at night, even if there is geothermal heat here, the temperature in the air will still be unbearable." ”

"Let's go a little bit to the hot springs, where the geothermal heat is abundant, at least it will allow us to sleep warmly, and it is a little bad in this kind of place, there are no snow caves to insulate us from the low temperatures of the night. ”

The two walked in the direction of the pillar of smoke.

After walking for more than half an hour, the sun hid behind the mountains behind them, only to rely on the reflection of the clouds to prove that it was still daytime.

Liu Danqing took off his gloves, touched the ground, and nodded: "The ground here is already warm, you can try it." ”

"Oh, it's not cold to the touch, it's warm, it's so comfortable. ”

"Weiwei, let's walk for another ten minutes, and then we'll start looking for a suitable campsite, preferably in a depression, which will keep out the wind and the geothermal heat will be obvious. ”

After walking all the way for more than 20 minutes, Xiao Weiwei finally made a discovery.

"Qingqing, look over there, there seems to be a big pit, should we go and take a look. ”

Liu Danqing nodded, and walked over there first, and sure enough, a depression about a meter deep appeared in front of them.

"Look, there's a big rock here, and the magma should be blocked by him, and then split into two, flowing down from both sides, and under the stone, a depression has formed, a good place, I'll go down and touch it, whether it's warm or not. ”

Liu Danqing supported the ground with his hands, jumped to the bottom of the pit, and then picked up the gravel below, took off his gloves and touched it.

"Very well, Weiwei, you can come down too, we will sleep here tonight, the ground here is warm. ”

Xiao Weiwei also jumped down, helped Liu Danqing clean up the gravel at the bottom, piled it aside, and then leveled the ground again.

Lying on the ground, Xiao Weiwei sighed: "My body is so comfortable, a warmth came from the ground, making my back hot, and the whole person was warm." ”

Liu Danqing continued: "Yes, it is very comfortable here, not only because of the floor heating, we are now on the mountainside in the southeast of the volcano, the glacier and the volcano help us block the cold wind in the northwest direction, and now there is a small wind in the depression that isolates the rest." ”

"Today, we were able to get a good night's sleep. ”

As night fell, a huge surprise struck the two of them.

"Wow! Aurora, Qingqing, look, it's Aurora!"

The entire black night sky turned into an incomparably large movie screen, and the green aurora began its show time with countless stars.

Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei lost their interest in talking and devoted themselves to this silent movie.

The audience in front of the screen in the live broadcast room was also attracted by this beautiful aurora and was fascinated by it.

I don't know how many people have made a grand wish in front of the screen, in this life, they must go to see the aurora once.

Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei really fell asleep in the aurora, and slept until the early morning of the next day.

A beautiful sunrise woke up the two.

Liu Danqing sat up, rubbed his face, took out a flat wine jug and shook it, poured the last drop of snow water into his mouth, and held it there, reluctant to swallow.

Xiao Weiwei is the same, the flat wine pot is empty, it is better than the snow cave, but it is not good that there is no water.

As usual, there was an opening remark, Liu Danqing said to Xiao Weiwei: "Weiwei, let's go and see those boiling hot springs." ”

Xiao Weiwei is now listless again.

"Qingqing, hungry, I'm so hungry, I think give me an earthworm now, I can eat it, starve me to death." ”

While following Liu Danqing forward, Xiao Weiwei complained while complaining.

Chicken soup Liu appears again.

"Weiwei, hold on, cheer up, see those green, there will be food there, excited, must be excited, come on, come on, come on, come on!"

Xiao Weiwei glanced at him with disdain and said, "Who said at the beginning, we can't find food for three days, but now it's the fourth day, and there is not even an earthworm to eat." ”

Three days of high-intensity exercise consumed the energy of the two, and it was no wonder that Xiao Weiwei wanted to complain.

Don't say that Xiao Weiwei is in a hurry, Liu Danqing is also in a hurry.

Now they are still able to lift their spirits, and that is because they are in good health, and the critical point of the weak period is relatively late.

But the tipping point will eventually come, and once they cross that tipping point, the two of them will feel weak and powerless.

At that time, let alone ploughing over snowy mountains and glaciers, it will be enough to choke on this rocky surface.

Now, Liu Danqing has felt that his body is becoming stiff, even if he is facing the morning sun now, his movements are no longer as flexible as yesterday.

This means that there is a problem with your body's heating system, or that there is a serious shortage of fuel.

After all, fat and muscle are not food, and when they burn, the effect is not as good as that of eating the food in the stomach.

However, he couldn't put this worry on his face, if he was like this, then Xiao Weiwei would be even more frustrated.

The most important thing to survive in the wilderness is to have a strong will to survive.

Walking all the way towards Bai Qi, as the distance approached, the temperature also became higher, which made the weak two feel a lot more comfortable.

After walking for a while, finally, they came to the first place where the white gas came out.

An irregular oval pool with a diameter of about three meters and a length of more than three meters.

"Wow, this pool is so powerful, it's actually boiling water in it, it's amazing!" Xiao Weiwei looked at the inside of the pool and exclaimed.

The surface of the pool was about a meter above the shore, but before they reached the edge of the pool, the steam gushing out of the pool burned people's faces with pain.

The water in the pool is constantly boiling, like a boiling cauldron, and if the man or beast falls, the result can be imagined.

At this time, it was naturally when Liu Danqing opened the Qingye Lecture Hall, and before coming to Iceland, he had done a lot of homework.

"There is actually a vein of underground water below the ground here, and when the groundwater passes through the hot area of the volcano, it will be heated to more than 100 degrees, and the white gas along the way is actually produced by the boiling water in this pool. ”

"Because there's more boiling water underground, the water in these pools is under more pressure and is more active, and if there are fewer pools, it creates a hot fountain, which is another feature of Iceland. ”

(End of chapter)