It is said that when a person has a strong premonition that he is about to die, his mind will be described as described by those who have experienced near-death: the past will appear in his memory like a movie, and the images of his relatives and friends will also come to his mind alternately, as if he is saying his final goodbye to himself......

When Lin Xue jumped off the cliff, this illusion also appeared in her mind. However, her fantasies are all about Sneer: the first acquaintance on the train, Sneer's beating up the car bully, holding hands in the hospital at night, eating cordyceps stewed snow clams in a Western restaurant, hugging and dancing in the school dance hall, kissing affectionately in the hot spring valley, and quarreling on a cold night in Lengxi Village...... All kinds of warm, sad, or sad scenes and feelings came one after another, so that she did not feel a little afraid in the process of falling down the cliff. In those few seconds, Sneer's handsome, sunny, kind, and gentle smiling face clearly appeared in her mind. The strange thing is that although she quarreled with him so much, although sometimes he gritted his teeth with hatred, but now, when he felt that he was about to die, he gave her an incomparably warm, incomparably sweet, and incomparably worthy of nostalgia......

When her body slammed into something hard, and the pain was about to lose consciousness, she suddenly burst into tears, and with all her last strength, she shouted two words in a hoarse voice: "Laughing sky-"

I don't know how long it took, Lin Xue woke up in a daze with a biting chill and a heart-piercing pain.

Slowly, laboriously, she opened her snow-covered eyes, glanced around the dark paste, and it took a long time to realize that she was not dead, but hung on a huge pine tree that stretched out over the upper part of the cliff, and her body was stuck on two branches as thick as a child's arm. Because the branches were covered with snow, which somewhat relieved the huge impact of her fall, she was not injured except for the pain in her left calf, which was probably broken. However, the waist that was broken in the afternoon still hurts badly. 、

She didn't know what time it was, and she couldn't tell how tall the pine tree was from the canyon below. The strong desire to survive made her cling to the branches of the pine tree with her hands, and she did not dare to move until she could see what was going on.

Fortunately, because she knew that there would be a snowstorm here before she came, Lin Xue wore two warm underwear, and the red down mountaineering suit was also thickened - this thickened down jacket not only kept her body warm, but also prevented her from breaking her ribs when she just fell and stuck between the branches of the pine tree.

But despite how much she wore her clothes, she shivered with cold in the middle of the night, when the temperature was getting colder and colder, and her hand holding the branches became numb......

Soon, she faintly heard that in the whirring cold wind, there seemed to be many people shouting in unison: "Lin Xue—Lin Xue—"

The voice came from the top of the cliff, and although it was not very real, it was indeed someone calling her name.

It seems that someone has come into the mountains to find themselves.

Lin Xue was overjoyed, raised her head, and shouted with all her strength to the top of the cliff: "I'm here!"

But her weak, hoarse voice was inaudible even to herself, let alone to the top of the cliff for those looking for her to hear.

After shouting like this a few times, she knew that this was purely a waste of effort, not only did it have no effect, but it would consume her already small amount of calories and strength.

So, in despair, she clung to the branches, silently waiting for the dawn to come......

In the early hours of the morning, the wind in the canyon blows harder, the snow falls heavier in the sky, and the temperature drops even further. Lin Xue could feel that her body was already covered with ice, and as long as she moved, there was a "clattering" sound of ice slag shattering on her body. The down hat on his head was also frozen and stiff, like wearing a cold and heavy steel helmet. Her ten fingers were frozen together with the branches, completely numb and unconscious, and it felt as if these ten fingers were not growing on herself, but a few branches.

I don't know how long it took, but it finally started to lighten. However, in such a snow-swept canyon, even at dawn, the process is very slow: first in the thick clouds, a little grayish-white light shines. Then, the light gradually expanded, gradually penetrating the clouds, penetrating the snow and mist, and reflected into the canyon, and everything around it suddenly revealed a little bit of the true face of Lushan.

Lin Xue found that the big pine tree he was holding onto, about half a meter below, just stretched out a flat rock that protruded two meters outward, although the rock was frozen, but if he was careful, he should be able to slip along the trunk to the rock. Moreover, the rock seems to have protruded from a cave, and it is possible to climb into the cave by following the rock.

So, with all her strength, she pulled out her fingers, which were tightly frozen with the branches, and then slipped down the trunk to the rocks, trying to keep herself from sliding down the rocks, and then crawled on the rocks, little by little, to the cave in the cliff.

In the process of crawling with great difficulty, she consciously applied her strength to ten numb fingers, trying to promote blood circulation in the fingers and restore their senses. She knew very well: if you leave your fingers frozen for a long time, they are likely to die.

At this time, she felt hungry and thirsty again. So, she stopped crawling, buried her head in the snow, and gulped down a few mouthfuls of it. After the cold snow water enters the stomach, the problem of thirst is solved, but the feeling of hunger is even stronger.

When she struggled to climb into the hole, she was delighted to find that it was actually relatively dry. Although I felt a lot of wind at the entrance of the cave, I climbed in a little further and it warmed up a little more.

As she crawled into the depths of the cave little by little, she suddenly smelled a strong stench, wafting out of the inside of the cave, and she wanted to vomit!

After slowly getting used to the dim light in the cave, she followed the direction from which the stench came from, and looked in with wide eyes, only to see a huge black bear lying motionless in the innermost corner. The bear also has some dead branches and winter thatch piled up on its body, which is obviously the bear's "winter quilt".

Before Lin Xue came to Xionghu Mountain, she specially collected some information about the habits of tigers and bears. She once told Su Cheng that in winter, it is impossible to meet bears. Because bears hibernate and now is the "deep sleep" period of their hibernation, they generally do not wander outside.

However, even Lin Xue herself didn't expect that although she didn't encounter a bear outside, she still climbed into a "bear den" in the end. In just one day and one night, she personally saw the three fierce animals of Xionghu Mountain: tigers, wolves and black bears - I really don't know if this is her luck or misfortune.

At the same time, she also knows: bears hibernate for a long time. It usually spends several weeks before hibernation from September to April, sometimes up to 20 hours a day, and as a result, it can gain about 40 kilograms. After hibernation, the bear's body weight is reduced by 1/3. Hibernating bears are only half-asleep, their body temperature drops little, and they can easily wake up if their hibernation dwelling is disturbed. The mother bear usually wakes up in January to feed her cubs, but she herself does not eat any food or water until April...... Therefore, bears do not hibernate like cold-blooded animals such as snakes and hedgehogs, which do not wake up after hibernation. In fact, a bear's hibernation is a kind of "fake sleep" – it looks like it is sleeping very deeply, but in reality, it wakes up as soon as there is a loud noise outside......

Because Lin Xue was injured, she was a blessing in disguise when she climbed into the bear cave: because she could only crawl slowly and gently into the hole, she made very little noise, and as a result, she climbed into the cave from the rock, although it took nearly half an hour, but she did not wake up the sleeping bear in the cave - you know, a bear that wakes up from hibernation is the time when it is hungry, and it is also the most ferocious and manic time. If Lin Xue woke up the bear, on this cliff, she had no way to hide, she couldn't escape, and she couldn't move, and the only result would be to turn into a delicious lunch for the bear......

When she saw the hibernating black bear clearly, Lin Xue immediately stopped crawling, turned around with difficulty, and crawled towards the entrance of the cave again.

She was tempted to climb outside and get away from the black bear that was sleeping in a hole like *. But she didn't dare to take the risk: it was freezing outside, and the stone was jutting out of the cliff, just in time to withstand the cold wind that whistled in the canyon. Although he is dressed thickly, he has been frozen all night last night, and if he goes to freeze again today, it is estimated that his down jacket will soon become an ice lump, and his body will soon freeze......

After thinking about it, she finally endured the fear in her heart, found a leeward place at the entrance of the cave, shrunk her body into a ball, and sat against the wall of the cave, her teeth clucking and shaking......

A long day has passed, and night has once again fallen on this deep and silent canyon.

Lin Xue was cold and hungry, and her broken left leg began to become inflamed again, and she gradually developed a high fever.

At first, she just felt sore, but gradually, her body shook more than before, and her consciousness began to blur......

In a state of confusion, she seemed to feel that she was sitting by the fire pit of the very characteristic wooden house in Lengxi Village, Leng Jidao smiled kindly at her, and was holding chopsticks to clip a fragrant and oily chicken leg, and kept saying: "Girl, this chicken leg is specially reserved for you, you eat it quickly!" She felt that her saliva flowed out at once......

When the second dawn came, Lin Xue muttered, "Xiaotian, you dead peasant, big liar...... Why didn't you come to save Xiaoxue...... I'm so uncomfortable......"

After uttering these words in a low voice, she tilted her head against the wall of the cave and fell into a complete coma......