Dog sledding slowly drives through the vast snowfield, and it takes about 10 days to travel from the port to the mine, even if you rely on dog sledding. The workers and the guards of Heishui were all wearing thick cotton robes, thick leather hats, and thick leather boots under their feet, but the cold still kept penetrating through the cracks in their clothes, making Chen Guang shiver, and at the same time wrapped the cotton robe a little tighter with his hands with thick gloves.

Since leaving the port, the weather has become noticeably colder, so cold that it can almost freeze people's noses. Chen Guang, whose hometown is in Guangxi, has never seen such cold weather, and to be honest, he doesn't even see much snow. He was still very excited when it snowed for the first time in Alaska, but now, in this place where a little exhalation from his nose can put a layer of hoarfrost on his eyebrows, no one can be excited.

"Eight feet, it's your turn to catch the sled!" Thomas slowly stopped the sleigh and handed the sunglasses to Chen Guang, while also giving up his place to Chen Guang. He sat down in Chen Guang's place, closed his eyes and began to rest.

Thomas closed his eyes not because he was too tired, but to protect his eyes. Due to the harsh white in the snow, the brightness is high, and the color is monotonous. If you stay in such an environment for a long time, you are prone to the symptoms of snow blindness, that is, your eyes are white and you can't see anything. Even if you wear sunglasses, you can only delay the onset of snow blindness symptoms, and it cannot fundamentally avoid snow blindness in Cining Palace. If the sled driver can't see with his eyes, it's too dangerous.

Although Chen Guang has temporarily learned some sled skills, to be honest, his level is only average. This section of the road is quite flat, so it is not too difficult for him to maneuver.

"Thomas," Chen Guang chatted with Thomas while driving the carriage, "what kind of treasure do you say this place is a dog day, and the boss made us go all the way to a place like this where birds don't shit?" And it's so secretive. You think that place is not gold and gems, right? ”

"Don't think about it." Thomas said, "Even if you get there, it's a mountain of gold, and you can't take a grain of gold." In this hellish place, without sufficient supplies and without the cooperation of teammates, no matter how powerful you are, you can't get out of this snowfield. Besides, we can get double wages for this task here. This is no less than the gold diggers of the past. What's more, everyone's family members are well taken care of by the company, and whoever wants to rebel, I will not agree to it first. In addition, I have heard that if you perform well in this action, you have a good chance of promotion. So, be smart and don't think about it. lest you do something stupid and regret it. ”

"I know that." Chen Bachi said, "I'm just a little curious. ”

"Speaking of curiosity, there's one thing I'm really curious about." Thomas said angrily, "It's so cold, why didn't you freeze your mouth?" ”

"If you talk more, you can forget about the cold." Chen Guang said with a smile.

After another hour of running, the entire bobsleigh team began to stop and rest. Chen Guang also jumped off the sleigh to do his activities, and some people even took out kerosene stoves and lit them, and shoveled some snow from the ground to pour it into the pot to cook broth. Chen Guang walked over slowly, looked at the snow in the pot, and the snow had not yet melted, so he squatted on the side and used the kerosene stove to bake the fire.

If Chen Guang has anything to admire in the eyes of these players in Heishui, well, there is basically only one thing: that is, the level of making food.

Before joining the Taiping Army, Chen Guang worked as a cook in a small restaurant, although he had not officially cooked, but he was more knowledgeable. Blackwater didn't send a special chef to the Alaska detachment, and when he was in the port, he could also ask the chef in the port to prepare food for Blackwater, but when he went out on the way, the chef's problem could only be solved by the Blackwater's people. So Chen Guang was pulled out to be a cook, anyway, who made him Chinese? According to the impression of Americans at that time, Chinese were basically cooks.

Similar stereotypes have always existed, even in later generations. For example, after a Bruce Lee came out in the seventies of the twentieth century, people in the United States felt that he was a Chinese, and he should know "Chinese kung fu", and at the beginning of the twenty-first century, in American schools, when the teacher came up with a math problem and everyone couldn't solve it for a while, teachers often used to find a Chinese student to solve the problem, because in their impression, if they can't do math problems, how can they still be considered Chinese?

However, Chen Guang did not disappoint them, and his cooking of bear meat, salmon and other things was unanimously praised by the members of the Blackwater team. So, Chen Guang's chef's hat was also put on.

At this time, the water gradually boiled, Chen Guang put in the pieces of fish and meat that had already frozen as hard as stones, added salt, and shaved a large piece of butter into it, and then covered it. After a while, the fragrance wafted out of the pot.

At this time, Thomas also carefully roasted his MacDonald 1864 rifle next to the kerosene stove so that the gun oil would not freeze. Then he pulled the bolt of his gun, tried it, nodded in satisfaction, and got up and went on his duty - it was not uncommon for grizzly bears and arctic wolves to be attracted by the smell of cooking food.

But today is normal, there is no mess, in the afternoon, it is still a good weather with wind and sunshine. After eating, everyone had to rest for half an hour before going on the road. It's just that the captain Boris suddenly informed everyone not to rest and hurry up.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Thomas asked.

"Look at the sun for yourself." Boris said.

Thomas squinted his eyes and glanced in the direction of the sun, and he saw that the sun was surrounded by a large seven-colored halo.

"Hell!" Thomas said. Although the United States does not have a proverb that "the sun is coronated with three shifts of rain, and the moon is dizzy at noon", everyone knows what this phenomenon portends. The appearance of this thing means that there may be a snowstorm at night!

"The guide told us that we had to run fifteen miles longer than we had planned to find the best place to shelter from the snow." Boris said, "So, everybody has to get moving." ”

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In the middle of the night, the blizzard did come. Fortunately, at this time, under the guidance of the guide, everyone had taken refuge in a depression with a ridge to block the wind. The guide knew that the tent could not be tied up, and if it was tied up, it would definitely be blown away by the wind. So he taught everyone to dig a hole in the snow and squat in it. This reduces the area of exposure to cold wind, thus better maintaining body temperature. In order to keep warmer, the Alaskan Malamutes were also put into the snow pit - holding it can also make it a little warmer. But when the blizzard really came, even if these measures were taken, even if they were wearing thick cotton robes, in such a cold wind, everyone was shivering with cold. The wind whipped up the powdery snow and the snowflakes that fell from the sky like cotton wool, stirred them together, and then struck people in the face. After a few steps away, there was no one in sight at all, and Chen Guang could only hold the two Alaskan Malamutes assigned to him tightly. I don't know how long it took, the blizzard finally passed, the dark clouds in the sky dispersed, and the moon came out again, and in the moonlight, all the qiē that had been covered by the white-haired wind appeared.

Chen Guang shook his head and looked out of the snow pit, and he saw that several Alaskan Malamutes had run out of other snow pits and were standing on the snow not far away.

"Hell!" Chen Guang immediately wanted to jump out of the snow cave and pull the sled dogs. You know, one of the problems with these guys is that they often run around and are easy to lose. If you lose your sled dog at this point, what will you do with the rest of the road?

But the two Alaskan Malamutes who stayed with him in the snow cave let out a warning whine, and Chen Guang looked closely to see that these sled dogs did not have a ring around their necks - they were not sled dogs, but wolves!

Chen Guang gently pulled the spear from his leg, and at such a distance, the spear was more effective than the gun. At this time, the others also showed that something was wrong, and several sled dogs jumped out first, letting out a low roar at the wolves, and then the Blackwater guards hiding in the snow cave also drew their spears or pistols and crawled out.

The wolves also whined and began to slowly retreat. Facing so many people and so many dogs at once, the wolves are estimated to feel Alexander for a while.

The guards of the black water gradually got together, and they didn't expect to see it approaching, although their number, plus the number of sled dogs, were more than the wolves, but in such a dark night, they really fought with the wolves, and they could not necessarily guarantee that they would be unharmed.

The wolves retreated farther and farther away, and finally, the tallest of them, let out a long howl towards the sky and ran away with the pack.

If this matter was born in Jin Yong's novel, or in some plane of the secret text, it is estimated that the next step is that tens of thousands of wolves in the entire wasteland are gathered by the howl comparable to wireless telegraphy, and then under the command of a wolf king, follow the principle of the art of war of "ten rules of encirclement", and surround the guards of Heishui and those workers, just like they surrounded Chen Jialuo in the first place. Then divide into a joint attack, the enemy is stationed and disturb us, and then surround three and one, and finally the entire company or even the entire division of the People's Liberation Army (the milk bottle has really seen a lot of such stalls), oh wrong, it is the entire black water team annihilated.

However, our plane is subject to the simplest laws of energy conservation and entropy increase, which makes it impossible for predators like wolves to have such large groups. Because within the range of a pack of wolves, it is impossible to have so many herbivores to fill their stomachs. In fact, there have never been more than forty wolves on the earth, and there are generally only ten or twenty at most, which can be regarded as a big wolf pack that has topped the sky. So after the wolves left, the guards of Blackwater stayed here all night, but there were no more wolves with no eyes or any other group running over to deliver Xiao Xianrou.

After the night had passed, the sledding team had gone for another day, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was about to set, they finally saw the camp and warehouse that the former expedition had left for them.

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