Chapter 173: Mirage
"I took a nude picture of you, too, this sleeping position is so unique." Hong Tao picked up the camera with a wicked smile, then opened the sleeping bag a little, and took pictures of Erin's fully exposed upper body and that strange sleeping position.
"What are you doing, why are you so cold, you troublemaker." It may have been the sudden change in temperature or the intense light of the flash that woke Erin from her sleep, and she stretched before she realized that she was exposing her upper body.
"Hehe, I'm revenge, you didn't ask for my consent when you and Katie filmed me." Hong Tao shook the camera, put it behind him, and then lay down again, covering the sleeping bag, it was really a little cold after sitting for so many minutes just now.
"It's shameless that you secretly photographed a lady's body in the middle of the night." Although Erin said it was serious, her actions were just the opposite, she automatically leaned up and hugged Hong Tao's body.
Soon, there was a heavy wheezing sound in the tent, followed by a shudder, and the whole tent shuddered, and the snow on the roof of the tent was shaken down.
After an early morning exercise, Hong Tao and Erin lay down and rested for a while, then dressed up and got out of the tent. The air outside is so good, you can feel the smell of the trees after taking a big puff, the creek next to the camp is even better, the water temperature inside it is not cold at all, it is a natural washroom.
The fire had long been extinguished, Hong Tao took out magnesium rods and gasoline, restacked a few large pieces of firewood, and then used a knife to scratch the magnesium rods, and with a bang, the fire began to burn again.
Since you got up early, let's make a contribution to everyone, Hong Tao used the pot of stuffy rice last night to cook a pot of venison porridge, and poured out 3 packets of mustard brought by Boss Liu's bag, put vinegar and soy sauce, and then took out two large breads from the food box and cut them into slices. Put it in the oven and bake.
As the generator turned on, there was movement in several tents, and Austin and Old Gale came out one after another, and then the whole camp suddenly came alive, and people kept coming out of the tents, running to the creek to wash, and then sitting on the wooden pier waiting for the meal, or to pack their own bags.
Pavey was the third to last to emerge from the tent, and breakfast was almost ready. The big fat man's hair and beard were unkempt, like a wild man. He swayed towards the stream and shook his hand at Hong Tao: Chinese wine is too powerful, and he has a headache!
Jim and Katie were the last to get out of the tent, the two of them were the first to get into the tent last night, and now they are the last to get out, Hong Tao wanted to see the traces of their activities last night from Jim's face, but after looking at it for a long time, he finally found a problem: black people don't have dark circles, even if they have. You can't see it either!
After breakfast, the second team of hunting teams set off, compared to Hong Tao's first team, today's weather is particularly powerful. Although the shadow of the sun has not yet been seen, the light of its old man has swept over the top of the mountain in the distance, and the trees where have all been gilded with a layer of gold, and it seems that the mountain seems to have grown a circle of light.
"Hey. You see, there are footprints in the snow! Hong Tao took his rifle and looked around with a scope. Suddenly, I noticed that there were two obvious rows of small footprints on the snow not far away, and I quickly called Gail to come and see.
"Oh, it could be a fox or a rabbit, or a raccoon or something, I can't tell the difference, Austin and Iggy can tell." Old Gale took the gun and looked at it a few times, but the effect was better than Hong Tao's.
"Hey, let's get ready to go, there's still a long way to go, and we have to rush back to make lunch at noon, we need to hurry." Harrison's fighting spirit is still so strong, Hong Tao originally thought that last night's gamble was a drunken joke, but now it looks like they are going to get real.
Because there is still a camp to be guarded, old Gale and Erin can only stay, Harrison, Pavey, and Hong Tao are contestants and must participate, and Boss Liu is the referee and cannot be absent. The four men brought the necessary equipment for fishing, and carried 2 guns on their backs in case of accidents, and began to set off for the lake that did not freeze, led by Harrison.
The mountain forest in the snow looks a little different from the mountain forest on a sunny day, when the eyes are full of heavy snow, the trees are a little short, now the sky is clear, the surrounding woods seem to have grown a lot taller, although a day ago just walked through this place, but Hong Tao can't recognize the surrounding appearance at all, if it is not for Harrison to lead the way, although he knows the direction of the southeast and northwest of the road, Hong Tao is not sure that he can get out of this forest, and the lost one can grasp that there can be a seventy or eighty percent.
Going around, Hong Tao did not adapt to this environment of mountains and forests, he felt that he was going around in the same place several times, but there were no human footprints on the snow, this feeling made Hong Tao very depressed, and he was also very depressed, it turned out that he had been to several very desolate reservoirs in China, those reservoirs were in the mountains, and there were no people, at that time he felt that he must be better than others, at least walking in the wilderness would not get lost, who thought that those were all illusions, the main reason for not getting lost at that time was not his own ability, but the wilderness is not wild enough, and now that I have really stepped into the wilderness, I have also revealed my true face, and it turns out that I have always been a mallet!
After walking for about 1 hour, Harrison, the leader, suddenly stopped, and after Hong Tao walked a few steps, he suddenly felt that the light became very bright, and then a blue water surface popped out in front of him.
The area of this lake is not too large, in fact, the size of Hong Tao has been adjusted, since coming to Toronto, after seeing Lake Ontario, all the lakes that can see the opposite shore have been reduced to the adjective "not big" in Hong Tao's thinking.
The other side of the lake could be seen very clearly, but Hong Tao did not dare to judge the distance between him and the other bank, which was another place where he was very depressed. It turns out that when he was in China, he had a good sense of distance, whether it was hundreds of meters to throw a rod to hit the nest, or a few hundred meters or even thousands of meters to observe the fishing position, he could say the same, but since he went to Niagara Falls with Old Gail and Pavey, he felt that his judgment ability was also disrupted.
On the way back, Gale used to fill up his car at a gas station on the side of the highway, located on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, close to St. Catherine.
When the car was refueled, Hong Tao became addicted to cigarettes and walked alone to the outside of the gas station to smoke, but he suddenly found that a city appeared faintly on the surface of the lake!
There are tall buildings, mansions, and a spiky TV tower in the city!
At that time, Hong Tao was a little confused, and immediately took out the map to compare, according to the instructions on the map, there should be nothing in front of it except the lake, what is the situation!
Blame Hong Tao for being too excited and didn't think much about it, and immediately shouted loudly for Pavey and Old Gail to come and see the "mirage", and as a result, not only Pavi and Old Gail were called, but also other people who were in the gas station were also called.
When everyone came around, he was the only one dancing and pointing to the city in the distance for old Gale and Pavey to see, and everyone else looked at him blankly, including old Gale and Pavey, after a few seconds, everyone slowly dispersed, and Hong Tao also heard a lady and the gas station employee say: This young man is so pitiful, did the long-distance trip drive him crazy!
Hong Tao was forcibly dragged into the car by Pavi's arm, and then old Gail didn't even fill up the gas, and drove away from the gas station like a runaway, in Pavey's words: I really regret knowing you, you made us a joke here!
It turns out that the city is not a mirage, but the downtown area of Toronto, and the tall TV station is Toronto's famous CN, the Canadian National Television Tower. The downtown area of Toronto and the gas station where Hong Tao is located are just across Lake Ontario, one south and one north, the two are more than 50 kilometers apart, because the air on the lake is relatively pure, you can see the high-rise buildings in the downtown area of Toronto in a farther place. (To be continued......)