Chapter 11 (Part I) White Worms
An hour later, the wind and snow had increased, and even the most senior climatologists could not understand what was going on. These snowstorms are like moons around this world, according to a certain orbit from one place to another, constantly circulating, no matter where you feel, the cold you feel, the snowflakes you see seem to be dΓ©jΓ vu, you can't escape.
After leaving the container, Gu Yan led Tang Shuxing to move forward, but he didn't seem to know much about the situation, and went in the wrong direction several times in a row, and finally led Tang Shuxing to a place like an abandoned research station with difficulty, and then asked Tang Shuxing to use the dragon blade to pry open the big lock of a room, open the door and go in, rummaging around.
Although this insulated house has been separated for seven years, even the temperature inside is very low, but it is maintained at zero one or two degrees, which is much warmer than the outside.
Tang Shuxing sat on the box at the door, looked at Gu Yan who was rummaging inside, and asked, "What are you looking for?" β
"Polar rubber raft." Gu Yantou said without replying.
Tang Shuxing was stunned: "We want to leave the island?" β
"Yes, go to the Doom Bank, it's not too far from here, there used to be an ice road connected to it, but it's not stable, it can pass people, it can't walk on machinery and other heavy things, just in case, we can only find that kind of raft." Gu Yan rummaged for a long time, and finally turned over the so-called polar rubber raft he was looking for in a huge box inside, "This thing is too heavy to take away, so I can only find it on the spot." This used to be a research station, they must have this kind of thing, and it was impossible to take it with them when they evacuated, besides, they were all dead. β
Tang Shuxing stepped forward to help, and pulled the rubber raft out with Gu Yan, Gu Yan explained while dragging it: "This thing can withstand the low temperature of minus 50 degrees, the only bad thing is that we can only rely on pulp." β
Tang Shuxing patted the thing, looked at Gu Yan and said, "Those are not problems, the biggest problem is the biggest problem." What do we use to fill this thing? Blowing with your mouth? We can't blow it to death, okay? β
"Segmented. It's like the kind of swimming ring used in the army in the early years, one by one, one of which is broken, and it won't lead the whole raft to be deflated. And the original design can be blown manually. Not in the case of lack of tools. Isn't this raft a scrap? Gu Yan said as he piled all the surrounding things into the innermost part of the room, vacated a space that was enough for the raft to be inflated, and then grabbed one of the pipes and handed it to Tang Shuxing. Come on, you are in charge of the fourth dan, and I am in charge of the fourth dan. β
Tang Shuxing reluctantly took it, the two of them stopped blowing, and it took an hour to get the inflatable raft, and then opened the door and dragged the thing with a rope all the way towards the ice sea, obviously there was only a distance of less than fifty meters, and it took the two of them another half an hour.
"Take a break!" Gu Yan stood there resting and shouted, "It's late October, and it's already approaching the time of the polar night, here is the polar night from the end of November to the middle of February of the following year, and the polar day is from mid-April to mid-August, and the night time is relatively long now." β
Tang Shuxing nodded, sat on the raft and rested, the snow wind next to the sea was much smaller, and the field of vision was much wider, and because of the white and vast relationship around him, and the starry sky was very thorough, it was easy to see the surroundings clearly, when Tang Shuxing turned his head to look, he suddenly saw a cloud of snow behind Gu Yan moving, he subconsciously pulled out the dragon lin blade and signaled Gu Yan not to move.
Gu Yan also slowly touched his hand to the pistol on his waist, and looked at Tang Shuxing nervously, Tang Shuxing signaled him not to move, and then slowly approached him with his sword, and then aimed the tip of the sword at the wriggling thing, just when he was about to start, he saw a small white head coming out of the snow, looking at him with a pair of black eyes.
Tang Shu was happy for a moment, put away the sword, reached out and picked up the thing, and handed it to Gu Yan: "It's a little polar bear!" β
Gu Yan also smiled, but his smile froze with a smile, and he pulled out his pistol and looked at a snowdrift not far behind Tang Shuxing.
Tang Shuxing looked at Gu Yan's appearance, his body stiffened, and after thinking for two seconds: "Don't say it, let me guess, is there a big polar bear behind me?" β
Gu Yan nodded silently.
Tang Shuxing swallowed his saliva: "Yes, the little polar bear is usually with its mother, it can't be too far away, you must not move, I will put the little bear down, as long as it goes back safely, it will be fine, for sure." β
Gu Yan nodded, and then Tang Shuxing put the little bear down, looked at it, and said, "Go back to your mother, good, don't be here, your mother will think I'm going to hurt you, go quickly." β
Gu Yan looked nervously at the female bear who was looking at them vigilantly with her head held high, and at the same time, the female bear had begun to slowly crawl towards them, followed by another little bear, but an accident appeared, and the little bear that Tang Shuxing put down seemed unwilling to go, holding Tang Shuxing's legs and began to crawl towards him.
"Hey, you're leaving!" Tang Shuxing didn't dare to move, staring at the little bear, the little bear was still struggling to climb towards it, and at the same time, the female bear behind him was getting closer and closer.
Gu Yan slowly raised the gun in his hand, but it was not easy for him to aim at this angle, and he also knew very well that if the pistol missed the vital point, a shot would not kill the mother bear, and besides, he didn't want to hurt the animal, it was they who inadvertently broke into the bear's territory.
"Tang Shuxing, is there anything to eat in your pocket?" Gu Yan suddenly asked, "Jerky meat!" There's jerky! β
Tang Shuxing suddenly remembered, then took out the jerky and sniffed it for the little bear, the little bear stretched out his head to bite, Tang Shuxing deliberately took it away, and then took it close to let it smell it carefully, and then threw it out, and the little bear immediately turned around and ran in the snow.
Tang Shuxing breathed a sigh of relief, because the mother bear took another bear cub to chase the bear, Gu Yan was also relieved, and was about to say that when Tang Shuxing pushed the raft into the sea, the bear ran back with the jerky he found!
Tang Shuxing was directly dumbfounded: "You are a bear and not a dog!" What are you running back for! That's for you! Eat it! That's beef jerky you've never eaten in your life! Very precious! I can't even eat it myself! β
The little white bear ran back with the jerky in his mouth, and continued to hold Tang Shuxing's legs, Gu Yan couldn't take care of it so much, and pushed the raft into the sea by himself, and then said: "You throw the little bear to the mother bear, I'll row the raft farther away first, and then you jump over!" β
Tang Shuxing looked at him and said, "Are you stupid!?" Can polar bears swim well! I also threw her child! If I throw you child, will you let me go!? β
"If you don't run, you'll die!" Gu Yan jumped on the raft and beckoned desperately towards Tang Shuxing, then his eyes widened, and he pulled out his pistol and pointed it at Tang Shuxing's back.
Tang Shuxing knew that the she-bear had reached behind him, and he turned sharply and saw that the she-bear had already stood up in front of him, waving his bear claws at the same time.
it! Tang Shuxing instantly turned into a corpse, and directly blocked the bear's claws with his arm, on the contrary, the female bear slapped down as if it had slapped a piece of hard ice, and the body lost its balance and fell into the snow, the little bear immediately turned its head and pounced on his mother, and the other little bear saw Tang Shuxing's appearance, smelled the smell, and buried his head directly under the body of the mother bear.
The female bear slowly got up, looked at Tang Shuxing, let out a strange low sound, and ran away quickly with the two cubs in a few steps and turned around in a few steps in fear.
Tang Shuxing turned to look at Gu Yan, and then lifted the corpse and jumped onto the raft.
Gu Yan kept staring at Tang Shuxing, Tang Shuxing sat down with the pulp, glanced at him, and said, "Surprised? Didn't your intelligence state what kind of monster I was? β
Gu Yan was stunned for a few seconds, then shook his head and said, "Yes, but this is the first time I've seen it with my own eyes." β
Tang Shuxing smiled: "Scared you?" β
Gu Yan shook his head: "How is it possible, it's not that I haven't seen corpses, it's just the first time I've seen you like this, it's very different, those corpses will become very crazy after corpses, like walking corpses without brains, they only know how to kill, and they won't stop until they kill enough." β
"The corpses are hierarchical, and the low-level corpses will be manipulated." Tang Shuxing slid his slurry and decided to divert the topic, "How long do we have to row to get to that doomsday bank?" β
"According to the information, it will take at least more than an hour." Gu Yan looked ahead, and kept using the slurry to push away the surrounding ice floe, "We arrived at the real Doomsday Bank, the Doomsday Bank that everyone knows is only a part, and there is also a Doomsday Bank on a small island further north from Dragon Island, except for high-level personnel, no one knows there, even if someone goes unintentionally, they will not stay there for too long, because that place is very small, and there are many icebergs around that will collapse at any time, The waves caused by the collapse of icebergs in the Arctic Ocean will directly submerge a medium-sized fishing boat, which is terrible, and even the research ship will not go under the premise that there is no way. β
Tang Shuxing nodded: "Then let's work hard, it seems that before dawn, we can still row to that place, fortunately, this is not the Shangdu monitoring area, right?" If that's the case, once the two of us are exposed to the sun, they will be wiped out in an instant, and even if we can't die and fall into the sea of ice, we won't live for more than two minutes. β
The two of them rowed towards the deep sea, and when they were heading forward, because of the current, they saved a lot of effort, but soon they saw one of the most wonderful scenery they had ever seen in their livesβthe reflection of the bright starry sky on the slow-moving sea and the ice floe, and for a moment neither of them could tell whether the raft they were riding on was wandering in the sea or in the starry sky.
Tang Shu stopped the pulp, lay on the raft, and looked at the starry sky.
Gu Yan sat at the other end, but he was watching Tang Shuxing, and the raft slowly floated forward along the current. (To be continued......)