Chapter 55: A Thousand Ice Layers
In the early morning of the next day, Leng Yuan was woken up by a burst of severe pain.
When I woke up, I found a lot of blood coming out of my arm and the duvet had been soaked.
He didn't bring water on this trip, so he could only wipe it with clothes, and it was inevitable that there would be some infection, but fortunately, the wound medicine used in this one had a strong effect of sterilization, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and hemostasis, and the powder was poured directly on it, and the bleeding was stopped by seeing the bleeding wound, fortunately, the wound this time was just a hole, and the arm was gently bandaged although it was painful but still able to move.
At present, the worst thing is Leng Yuan's foot, because he kicked a hard object twice during the running, his toenail fell off, and now his toes are swollen like a steamed bun, and he can't move if he wants to!
The real trouble is his body, he didn't feel anything last night, maybe he was covered by pain in his hands and feet, but at this time, his body only felt that even his hair hurt!
As long as you breathe a little harder, the ribs on both sides feel like they're going to tear apart.
Seeing this, Leng Yuan immediately sensed it with his divine sense. The divine consciousness covered all parts of the body, and although there were many capillaries in the body, they were all in the skin, and they were not in the way.
There is nothing wrong with the other organs.
After getting such a result, Leng Yuan also breathed a sigh of relief, if he was really injured internally, he could only go home!
"It's not time to go back!"
Leng Yuan washed his face with cold snow water, refreshed himself, and then ate a few more pieces of beef.
After one night, the beef was frozen like a stone, and after eating a few pieces of beef, my whole body was hot and my jaw was numb.
"Damn, be sure to bring some firewood and coal when you come back!"
Although he said this every time, he didn't dare to do it, when exploring, the most taboo thing is heaviness, if there are too many unnecessary things, then it will bring a lot of trouble to the expedition. Especially when escaping, the weight of the items you bring determines the probability of your escape.
Therefore, Leng Yuan will focus on the heavy before every mountaineering, and try not to bring the unnecessary ones, although the beef is difficult to swallow, but there will be no worries about life.
In order not to touch the wound on his feet, Leng Yuan had to take back his shoes and wrap his feet with gauze, with cotton on the inside and transparent gauze in the middle, and the two sleeves of his shirt on the outside.
After wrapping, Leng Yuan used two shoelaces as a guide and tied the sleeves firmly on his legs.
Leng Yuan stood up and looked left and right, and laughed out loud, where are these still human feet?
Although it doesn't look very good, it's very relaxed, it's very warm, and it's much softer on the snow than wearing shoes.
Leng Yuan put away his bags again, and while the snow ants were resting during the day, he wanted to walk through the snow ant colony valley that stretched for more than ten miles in one go.
Coming to the edge of the Snow Ant Valley again, Leng Yuan only felt that the five flavors were mixed, and he almost died here last night, and now he still has palpitations.
This black valley, stretching and undulating, is completely different from the scenery seen at night, only a piece of black and misty can be seen at night, in the sun, the whole picture of this valley is clearly reflected in the eyes, although Leng Yuan has seen it three times before, but each time there will be a different feeling, especially after experiencing last night's nightmare, which makes him have a new understanding of this valley.
There are unimaginable snow ants in the valley, and they are incredibly fast, herbivore, flesh-eating, and fierce.
"If these things mutate into ants that are not afraid of heaven and earth, then it will be a disaster for mankind! There are too many! ……”
Leng Yuan looked at it for a long time before he cautiously stepped into the valley, he didn't dare to walk where there were too many cracks, so he could only take a detour, so a detour would take twice as long as the distance.
Although there are snow ants passing by on the road, there are very few of them, and basically you can't meet a fingernail in ten steps.
"Probably because I was tired last night! Today's collective foraging ant colonies have been greatly reduced! ”
Even so, Leng Yuan was still in trouble!
Leng Yuan was stunned by the scene in front of him!
Dozens of meters away, directly in front of him, seven or eight giant pythons as white as dragons stood up and entangled with each other.
These pythons are the thickness of a water tank, and from a distance, they look strikingly similar to the appearance of the legendary dragon. On weekdays, when I meet a little white snake, I regard it as a god, but now this legendary white snake has turned into a python, and there are so many of them.
Leng Yuan turned around and wanted to go home, but he found some clues.
Something seems to be wrong with these pythons, because they seem to lack the essence of pythons, they can't wrap around and crawl, and the most incredible thing is that these snakes seem to be very light, and their body swings can be affected by the wind.
"Strange!"
When Leng Yuan got closer, he suddenly discovered, where is the python?
"! It's disgusting, too! ”
Under these seven or eight pythons are gathered snow ants like a lake, and these seven or eight pythons are composed of snow ants below.
From time to time, the python sheds one piece after another of detached snow ants, and then there will be more snow ants to fill the vacant space.
"Damn, I'm a little out of luck! How can anything happen to me?? …… No wonder the number of snow ants is so small, there must be millions of them, right? The people who chased me yesterday were far less than that! ”
"Next time, you must bring a camera to take pictures of these beautiful scenery, and maybe you will win some awards!"
Leng Yuan didn't dare to stay too much again, in case these snow ants swarmed and attacked, they didn't even have a chance to escape, but in this valley, there would be more snow ants at any time.
If he was eaten by these soft, bug-like creatures, he would kill himself before he was eaten.
Leng Yuan tried his best to bypass the ant colony, so that he went even farther away, and it was not until it was dark that he walked out of the colony's colony.
After replenishing some energy, Leng Yuan continued to move forward non-stop, there are no snow ants in this place, it does not mean safety, if it wasn't for his negligence yesterday, he would not have ended up in such a miserable end today.
In the middle of the night, Leng Yuan walked out of the snow ant valley that stretched for more than ten miles and ate people without spitting out bones.
After coming outside and walking a few miles ahead, Leng Yuan couldn't walk anymore, and his body was crooked and he lay down in the snowdrift directly into a 'big' character.
"Further on, there are a thousand ices, the last rapid, and if you cross it, you will reach the end of the road you have reached before! This time it's going to break through no matter what! ”
Thinking of this, Leng Yuan had to get up and set up the tent.
He's going to have to accumulate all his experience to deal with a thousand ices. The three rapids are the most dangerous places.
Leng Yuan woke up several times by the pain of the wound at night, but fortunately, he was infected, and the wound healed quickly, and it was only a day and a night that Leng Yuan's feet had become swollen, and there were already signs of scarring at the wound, and the local part had begun to heal, and the toenail had also grown partially.
The toenail is quite strange, first a thin film is spread on the surface of the foot, and then this layer of film is quickly filled to form a new toenail.
"Tickle! I didn't expect such a wonderful thing to happen! ”
As for the wound on the arm, this one is a bit troublesome, because it is a recurrence of the old disease, so some blood vessels have been punctured and broken, and it is not easy to connect them, so the recovery is slower, but the injuries in other parts of the arm have healed.
As long as you are careful, I believe that it will not take long for the injuries on your body to heal.
"It's strange that my body heals so fast! Eating snow ginseng won't be so powerful, right!? ”
He didn't think much of it, he just thought it was a coincidence.
After a brief meal, he lay down in the tent and fell asleep in a few seconds.
This can only be said that he has a wide heart and a fat body!
…
Nothing happened overnight, early the next morning.
He slept quite deeply this night, his body was fully rested, he looked at the wound on his foot, it was basically healed, and even if he pushed hard now, he would not feel pain, only a slight itch.
As for the wound on the hand, except for some infrared at the edge of the hole, the blood has basically stopped, and the blood vessels have healed. It will probably take another day or two for the wound to heal completely.
"It seems that a body like mine was born for exploration!"
…
Walking until noon, Leng Yuan came to a stop in front of an ice field.
Because this is the destination of his trip, a thousand ices.
The ice layer is endless, and in the distance it is a hazy white, not like snow, but more like a mirror, and the sunlight will even appear in a certain place, which is very dazzling.
Of course, this is not the most peculiar place, the sun is shining, and from any angle, you can see colorful lights appear above the ice, as if the entrance to the fairyland is suspended above the ice field.
Standing in Leng Yuan's position, if you listen carefully, you can feel a strange sound.
"--Poof! --Burst! --”
This is a discontinuous but high-frequency sound of blisters breaking, very light but quite rapid, and a large number of breaking sounds together become like something leaking and blocking.
Leng Yuan broke off a fist-sized stone and threw it in a parabolic trajectory, causing the stone to fall freely and crash into the ice.
The expected scene of ice splashing did not appear, only a 'poof' sound, and there was no trace of the stones, leaving only a round bottomless hole in the ice.
Leng Yuan threw more than a dozen stones one after another, all of them in various ways, angles, and with various strengths, but all of them disappeared without exception.
Even if you gently slide the stone out to reach a certain point, it will fall down with a pop.
"I haven't seen you for a year, and the degree of hollowing under the ice is getting bigger and bigger! Last year, I was able to withstand the gravity of the stones, but now I can't even withstand the stones! It seems to be more difficult than expected! ”
The reason for the formation of the thousand ice layers is peculiar.
It's not caused by some magical unknown factor, the mystery is simple.
Because the snow in the mountains melts, part of the water formed will appear in the form of an underground river, and the ground on the river will gradually dissolve after years of continuous impact, and I don't know how many thousand years of life have passed, and the soil layer on the surface of the earth has disappeared.
It's just that over the years, I don't know how much snow has fallen on the soil, how much rain has fallen, and under the unique climate of winter and summer here, a unique landform with a layer of ice and a layer of water has been formed.
Ice water is mixed and endless, and I don't know that there are tens of thousands of layers over the years.
Because of the existence of the underground river, the ice in the direction of the river water is constantly melting, so the water in the ice is lost little by little, and finally the water between the ice disappears, leaving only transparent layers of hollow ice.
Layer after layer, an extremely high ice field was formed!
Thousands of meters of ice and the depth of the underground river have made it more than 6,000 meters deepest. Anything that falls is ultimately a broken end.
Leng Yuan kept observing the places that could withstand the force, a few years ago it was because he was short and flexible, and the structure of this place was far less fragile than it is now, so he could have a thrilling past, but now all this has become unknown.
If you can't find a good place, you can only go home, although you are very unwilling.
"Huh? It's ......"
While Leng Yuan was looking for it, he suddenly discovered a strange phenomenon.
When he crouched down, there were some places where the surface of the flat layer, which was still smooth, suddenly protruded!
This discovery immediately made Leng Yuan excited, because there is a protrusion that proves that the tension under the ice is extremely strong, it can be said that this is the backbone of the entire ice layer, and it is difficult for the ice layer to hang in the air without such a thing!
"Haha..., it's really an endless road! It's time for me to make a fortune! I'll be able to climb over here, a few hundred zhang away! ”
Then he took a closer look, although there was a little bit in the middle, but it didn't matter, as long as he dealt with it carefully, nothing would happen.
After making up his mind, Leng Yuan reorganized the things on his body, and his previous dress was basically about to be shattered if he stepped on it.
He had been prepared for this, and he took out a huge black cloth bag, which was made of plastic, soft and tough, and would not lose its elasticity in the cold. He placed his belongings evenly in it, spread it evenly, and then tied it around his waist with a rope.
In this way, as long as he lies on the ice and swims slowly, there will naturally be no sudden collapse.
Leng Yuan first lay on the ground and then crawled forward like insects, and in his divine sense, the place where the ice ridge was located came to mind, and a route had been formed in his mind.
The magic of divine consciousness is more like a map with life, and he will give you what he wants, which cannot be done by divine thoughts.
Leng Yuan crawled forward, trying to keep the maximum body surface area on the ice.
"Click!"
When Leng Yuan's body was all pressed against the ice, a cracking sound suddenly came to his ears.
Leng Yuan immediately stopped moving, and his body naturally lay on the ice.
After more than ten seconds, but nothing happened, Leng Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. He lifted his head slightly, as slowly as he could, and crawled forward.