Struggling to climb the ridge, the two looked around.

The surrounding area is gray-brown mountains, and even if there is white, it is only a small dot, and it does not look like it can be dug in a snow cave and spend the night.

Although there were several snowfalls, due to its southeastern location, the Vatona Glacier blocked most of the snowflakes, and the strong sunlight eliminated the few snowflakes.

The valley at his feet was split in two, one straight east and the other southeast turning.

"Well, keep going, at least to the east we can be sure of the sea, and after turning the corner, we don't know where to go, it's really not possible, we can only go through the night, fortunately there is no wind in the valley, and I hope the stars will shine tonight." ”

Liu Danqing said helplessly, and then returned to the river valley with Xiao Weiwei and continued to move forward.

Unfortunately, God doesn't give face, and as the sun goes down, the sky gets darker and the weather becomes gloomy.

"There's no way, while there's still some light, let's go pull the weeds. ”

Liu Danqing said helplessly, then pointed to a crack on the slope of the river and said, "Send the collected plants to that crack, and we will squeeze there at night." ”

The two men each occupy one side of the river, diligently gathering moss, lichens, and weeds.

The moss lichen here is also very small, thin, not at all like the thick compatriots who grow in the hot springs, and even less like those in the rainforest that can be used as mats.

Moreover, these moss lichens are small and small, but the roots are very tough and powerful, and sometimes the two have to use Viking knives to pluck them, and this harvest is only a plant that can be kneaded less than a handful.

All the plants collected in more than an hour were only a layer of less than ten centimeters on the ground of more than one square meter in the cracks.

It looks like ten centimeters is very thick, but this is fluffy, Liu Danqing pressed it with his hands, and it was pitiful, only two or three centimeters of thickness remained.

Under the light of Xiao San, the two looked at these mosses and were entangled.

How do you use it? Spread it on the ground like this, and it doesn't have much of a warmth effect.

Light a fire, that's even more, or in ten minutes, the plants will be burned down, it's still a small fire.

Finally, the two of them gathered the plants next to the stone wall, and then the two of them hugged each other and sat on the moss, and then wrapped them in reindeer skins and tried it.

It's okay, the thick layer of plants under the buttocks finally insulates the cold underground, and the wrapped deerskin can also help the two of them isolate the air and the chill on the stone wall behind them.

But in the middle of the night, the two had to stand up.

Liu Danqing started the junior while doing high leg raises.

"Audience friends, it's so cold! It's really cold here! Even if it's wrapped in deerskin, it's still super cold! Even though there is no wind, the cold air keeps pouring in from the hole. ”

"We don't dare to eat the last piece of venison to replenish our energy, we don't have water, and eating this kind of jerky is an act of looking for death. Hunger and cold, comrades!"

Xiao Weiwei was also constantly exercising, raising the temperature of her body, panting and saying:

"Now I'd love to do a few burpees to quickly raise my core body temperature, but the rocky floor isn't suitable for this kind of exercise, and even with gloves on, I still feel a sharp pain when I hold on. ”

Liu Danqing jumped for a while, waited, and said: "Now I'm going to cheat, Weiwei, let's use Xiao San's light to go out and find stones to plug the hole in this gap, so that we can not only move our bodies, but also make us warm up in the cave for a while." ”

In this river valley, there are the most large and small stones, so after working hard for more than half an hour, the two of them picked up a large number of large and small stones and put them in the cracks.

Hiding in the hole, and then the lights of the junior, the two of them used large stones to build a wall more than one meter inside the entrance of the cave, about one meter high, basically blocking the hole of this gap.

After stacking the big stones, the two continued to stuff the gaps with small stones.

In this way, they are trapped in a triangular space that barely has a cube.

The space becomes smaller and the urine is closed, and the warmth effect is naturally much better.

Liu Danqing dug a cold well on the ground again, and now it is a confined space, although it is not completely sealed, but the cold well has been able to play an effect.

To put it well, the two were still trembling and hugging each other, but they finally managed to survive until dawn the next day.

This is also because the two of them have good physique, if they are ordinary people, I am afraid that they will have a cold and fever, or at least they will sneeze repeatedly.

Unbeknownst to the two of them, who had been frozen all night, if they had chosen a valley not to the east, but to the southeast, they would have entered a place called the Hofeld Valley, where there were a total of five or six resort hotels and inns.

If they had chosen that route, they would have been able to take a good shower last night, eat a good meal, and then lie down on a warm bed and fall asleep.

It was the fifteenth day of the Watona Glacier, and after the departure, the two of them were lucky, and they didn't have long to come across a small pool, or Xiaoice pool.

There was no water in the pool, just a hard block of ice with a layer of snow remaining on top of it.

Because ice is no better than rocks and has a very poor ability to absorb heat, this snow is able to accumulate on the ice.

This is one of the little white spots they saw yesterday, and it can't be expected to dig a snow hole to avoid the cold, but it's okay to get some snow and cover it in hot water.

And with water, they were able to eat the last piece of venison.

After walking for more than three hours, patches of green began to appear in front of them, some of the weeds in Iceland.

Walking near the grass, Liu Danqing exclaimed in surprise: "Thyme, slightly, most of the grass here is thyme!"

"Thyme?" Xiao Weiwei rushed forward, pointed to the grass on the ground and asked, "This is thyme?" ”

"It's a bit similar, but their stems are different in color, sunflowers are usually red, and thyme is green or lavender. ”

Liu Danqing said as he began to pick it.

"Nothing else, pick a little first, if we see any animal in a while, we can use it to roast meat, and then there should be a small tree or something. ”

"I hope to find Icelandic sheep later, it is said that some Icelandic sheep eat thyme, so there is no need to add spices when roasting, the taste is particularly fatty, I don't know if it is true, I really want to try it." ”

After picking half a bag of thyme, the two of them stood up and continued to move forward.

"Look, Binghe!"

Xiao Weiwei made a new discovery, and pointed to a winding river in front of her.

There was no water in that little river, it was all ice.

Liu Danqing nodded and smiled: "It's good news, at least we don't have to worry about the water problem." ”

As the two of them continued to walk, some dwarf, no more than a meter of small trees began to appear on both sides of the glacier, and the further they went, the more small trees there were.

Xiao Weiwei looked at the small trees all over the mountains and asked suspiciously, "Qingqing, why are there only small trees and no big trees here?"

Liu Danqing said with a smile: "These are actually big trees!"

"Big tree, you can't even see a tree that's more than a meter, or is it a big tree?"

"Yes, these are birch trees, one of the few woody plants in Iceland, where they can only grow so tall. Liu Danqing continued: "When many tourists come to Iceland, the first question they ask the tour guide is why there are no trees in Iceland, and the tour guide will point to these dwarf plants that look like shrubs and tell them that this is our Icelandic tree. ”

"These birch trees are small, but they are enough to make a fire, so at least we don't have to worry about freezing again tonight, and now my best hope is to catch an Icelandic sheep and roast it by the warm fire. ”

Climbing a ridge, Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei did not find Icelandic sheep, but they found something that made them even more happy.

It was a red roof, on a hillside across the river about two kilometers from them.

"Look, the roof, that's the roof, the red one, see it?" Xiao Weiwei jumped up happily and screamed.

Liu Danqing was also very happy, but he still said very calmly: "See, don't be excited, let's go over now." ”

The excited two quickened their pace and walked towards the house.

Halfway through, Liu Danqing finally found the goal he had just set.

"Look, there's a flock of sheep, Icelandic sheep, they're eating the weeds on the ground, they might be the herbs, and if I don't find the house, I'm going to hunt one, but for now, we're going to move on. ”

"After all, these sheep may have been free-range by the owner of the house, and it would be embarrassing if we hunted them. ”

Walking to the vicinity of the house, the two realized that it was not a house, but not far to the east of the red-roofed house, and to the south of it, there were also two houses, and a path connected them and led to the east.

Walking to the door of the red house, Liu Danqing found that the door was closed, shouted loudly and knocked on the door a few times, but there was still no response.

The two reluctantly walked east, but there was still no one in the two houses.

"It's miserable!" Liu Danqing smiled bitterly: "These families won't all go out, let's go to the south to have a look, if there is no one, we will have to sleep out tonight." ”

Xiao Weiwei also had a bitter face.

Originally, the two of them didn't care whether they slept in the open or not, but now that they have low birch trees, it is not difficult to build a fire at night.

But now that there is hope for a better one, what is not difficult becomes difficult.

And Liu Danqing's happiness of "roasting mutton by the warm fire" has become no longer happy.

Walking south to the vicinity of the house, the bursts of singing and laughter made the two of them smile happily, it seems that these families are idle and bored, and they have come to this house to play.

(End of chapter)