Chapter 11: Encountering an avalanche
Ansu still went back to the vicinity of the ice cave to take a look, the area was completely covered with snow, and the thickness of the snow was estimated to be ten or twenty meters. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info She glanced at it from a distance, then finally changed direction and turned away.
It is not easy to find dry trees in the snow, and most of the fallen trees are buried by heavy snow, and those that are still on the trunk may be alive. Ansu relied on the location of the woods in his memory, searched all the way, and when he looked up again, he found that the mirror-like cliff not far away was a little familiar. She took a closer look, and it turned out to be the place where the flint had been last found. The cliff shimmered with a metallic sheen under the snow and ice, giving Ansu the feeling of standing under the Explorer for the first time, looking up at it.
The originally babbling stream has completely frozen. And those cedars --
Ansu climbed down the branch and found that the leaves had become silvery white and crystal clear, as if the leaves were made of ice and snow. There is no two-tailed squirrel in the tree, and it is estimated that it has returned to the tree hole to spend the winter.
It seems that there is nothing here except snow and ice, and there is no cold wind.
An Su sighed into his palm, looked at the bare branches, picked up the cold dagger, and walked over.
The Canaanite Guardian had just returned to his clan and saw Suda already waiting. The apprentice dutifully re-conveyed the high priest's order that the defenders would march west as soon as possible.
Canaan frowned unhappily, he had his own decision, why did he need to be reminded! But in view of the fact that the other party was the high priest's right-hand man, he had to press down the unhappiness in his heart and nod his head yes.
The deer people don't know if it's because they live in the ice and snow, and their temperament is infected with the breath of ice and snow and becomes faint. On the surface, the conversation between peers is simple and direct, lacking in warmth, but in fact they also value their peers, but they may not be very good at expressing themselves.
Canaan was going to the west, and the work of guarding the tribe had to be done by other guards, so he gave this job to his most capable subordinate, Ramati, and after giving him some instructions, Canaan set out on a journey to the west with four guards.
The High Priest and Suda stood on the hill and looked at their figures in the distance, the bitter cold wind raising their silver hairs. The high priest's silver hair was already so long that it almost fell to the ground, indicating that he was very old, although he did not look old on the outside. The age of the deer people, as can be seen by their hair, the longer they get, the older they get. Their hair grows slowly and they don't cut their hair for the rest of their lives. Even so, during their long lives, their hair can grow to about two meters at most, which is about the same height as their height.
By the time the silver hair grows long enough to touch the ground, their lives are coming to an end.
Suda's hair, like most of the youths of the clan, reached to his shoulders.
"Priest, is there a second energy body in this world?" Suda couldn't help but express the doubts in his heart.
The High Priest did not immediately answer the apprentice's question, but put his hands behind his back and looked at a chaotic dark sky. After a while, when Suda thought he would not answer, the high priest whispered, "Yes, I also believe that they will come back one day." ”
It's just that he may not have been able to see it that day. The High Priest's heart was filled with melancholy.
Ansu tied another knot with her stiff fingers, and let go of her hand only after making sure that the firewood had been tied up strongly. She pressed her hand to her stomach, where there was a dull ache. After eating only a little snow and moss from the trees one day, her stomach was already protesting.
However, snow also has the advantage of snowfall, and the firewood is dragged on the snow much faster than on his back, because Ansu has set up a wooden raft under the bottom as a sled, and drags it along the way, saving a lot of effort.
Ansu carefully walked down the mountain while dragging the wooden raft, the snow-covered mountain road was even more difficult, and there were a few times when Ansu almost slipped and fell while there was a deep ravine around him. With such a deep and steep ravine, she may not be able to climb up. Ansu was concentrating while enduring a throbbing stomach, and her hands were also strangled with pain, and she had to stop and move from time to time to keep the blood flowing.
There was a muffled sound from the mountain, and Ansu stepped on the soft snow under his feet, and he felt bad in his heart. Not only did the snow pour down from above, but the snow under her feet also slid downward, and it got faster and faster, causing her body to shake a little, but she immediately steadied.
An Su glanced around quickly, and didn't see a large rock to dodge, but the snow tide behind him had already pounced with a thunderous momentum. Ansu could already feel the ice particles splashing on his body and the oppressive momentum.
An Su gritted his teeth, got on the wooden raft carrying firewood, and slid down the slope!
The snow tide clung behind it, and Ansu's wooden raft slid down at high speed, temporarily avoiding the fate of being swallowed by the snow tide. But at this high speed, the chill and cold wind seemed to turn into a substantial knife, constantly cutting through the bare skin on An Su's body. Ansu's lips cracked, and she tasted the smell of blood in her mouth.
It seemed that her breathing and vision had also been taken away, and An Su squinted her eyes, still feeling a tingling pain in the corners of her eyes, and tears flowed reflexively. She simply closed her eyes and used her mental power to perceive everything around her. She avoided the trees and stones that stood in her way. Ansul's wooden raft is like a small boat in a storm, rising and falling in the snow, although thrilling, but not sinking.
Ansu's face turned blue from the upside down, her internal organs seemed to be turned over, and she wanted to vomit in discomfort, but she never let go of the hand that grabbed the wooden chop, although the pain in her hand was almost unconscious.
The wooden raft slipped up a steep slope and was thrown high, and An Su endured the pain and carefully adjusted the direction of the wooden raft so that it would not tip over. The snow tide hit the steep slope, bursting out thousands of snow waves, and the momentum finally eased. Ansu's wooden chop smacked and slipped far away.
When Simon returned to the igloo, Ansu hadn't returned. He removed the ice bricks and lifted the hides, the charcoal in the fire was still burning, and he went outside to the ice-made storage room and dragged back a few sticks of wood to light the fire again. After the fire was restarted, Simon cut two pieces of frozen meat and roasted them on the fire, and boiled some water with coconut husks, so that Ansu could have food and drink when he returned.
While the meat was boiling water, Simon was cooking the two skins. He stretched them on a wooden frame, scraped them off with a saber, and then smeared them with wood ash and dried them close to the fire.
But when the barbecue was ready, the skin was dried, and Ansu hadn't come back yet. Simon couldn't sit still any longer, stuffed the roast meat into a leather bag, lifted the curtain and walked out.
But in the vast snowfield, where to find it? Simon was a little dazed for a moment. (To be continued.) )