Chapter 397: Passage Under the Ice
After spending two days in silence in peace, Chen Fan found that his body could move, and he dealt with the wound on his lower abdomen again, and found that the wound had been scarred and the superficial cortex had been roughly closed, but the penetrating wound in the body had not yet been completely recovered, but it did not affect his movement, so he ate a few bites of compressed biscuits and discussed his next plans with Zhao Yu.
Zhao Yu checked the bag he was carrying, and said that there were not many supplies, and they brought a lot of emergency things with them when they left, but they were all destroyed in the car, except for the extremely limited food, and a few injections of antibiotics, as well as the potion that Wu Tian gave to Chen Fan when he left.
After that, the two climbed up the crack of the glacier and found that the entrance to the cave had been tightly sealed by snow, and after two days of precipitation, the snow had formed a deep enough hardness that it was impossible to carve out another escape hole on the ice before Chen Fan completely recovered his combat strength.
After thinking about it for a long time, Zhao Yu planned to take the risk and give it a try, but when he started, he was stopped by Chen Fan, he pointed to the hollow structural layer above, and said with a sigh, "There is no support here, if you attack the ice layer above, it is very likely to fall down entirely, and even if we are not prepared to bury it alive at that time, I am afraid that we may not be able to survive in these ice and rocks." ”
Zhao Yu was a little discouraged and asked him what he was going to do? Chen Fan pondered again for a while, and then turned his eyes to the ice slope behind him, and thought deeply for a long time before he calmly spoke, "I don't know how many years this ice slope has been formed, I guess it is the original face of the glacier crack, maybe we can find our way out from below." ”
Zhao Yu frowned and said, "Although there is a certain possibility, we are not familiar with the environment below, and the environment under the ice structure is very complicated, and we cannot find someone who is familiar with the road conditions to guide us, and it is very likely that we will be trapped and die below." ”
Chen Fan shook his head and said, "No matter what, you have to give it a try, have you noticed that the space under the ice is much warmer than above, I estimate that it will not be below minus 20 degrees at most, we can adapt to such a climate, as long as there is no danger of avalanches, there should be no other problems." ”
"Okay!" Zhao Yu thought about it, but he really couldn't think of any other way, so he had to nod in agreement.
Then, the two began to crawl slowly down the steep slope under the ice, the ice in this area was very smooth, there was almost no cover, the two of them descended quickly, and walked down the steep slope for nearly 200 meters, only then did they feel that the ice surface was a little smoother, and they no longer had to be supported to move forward.
Although the wound has recovered, Chen Fan has lost a lot of combat strength, coupled with his relatively weak body, the two of them did not advance quickly, and continued to walk towards the crack of the glacier for two or three hours, Zhao Yu found a natural ice crevice, helped Chen Fan in to rest, injected him with an antibiotic, and then said, "How do I feel that we have come to the underground world of the entire Snow Peak, and there is no way out after walking for so long, we won't really be trapped here, right?" ”
Chen Fan shook his head quietly and said, "The terrain of Snow Peak is not as simple as the plain, at least our direction is correct, if Lama Baijiang doesn't lie, continue to walk forward for a day, we should be able to get close to the target location this time." ”
Zhao Yu was taken aback, and hurriedly asked him why he made such a judgment? Chen Fan said unhurriedly, "The cracks under the snow peak should be interconnected, we have walked for so long, and the air is still abundant, which shows that there is wind speed flowing under the ice, although I am just guessing, but my intuition has always been very effective." ”
Zhao Yu stopped talking, at this time, she could hardly think of any other way except relying on Chen Fan's intuition, the two of them rested for a while, and continued to walk deeper along the passage under the ice, about a dozen hours of walking, Zhao Yu already felt that her breathing had become short, and the invisible pressure in her heart was gradually intensifying.
There is no doubt that she and Chen Fan are both determined people, but in this environment, the two of them have been advancing in this frozen underground passage for more than ten hours in a row, no one around them is talking, and they can't see any familiar scenes, only the sound of their own pace, empty and quiet, every footstep is like an awl knocking on Zhao Yu's body, it is a miracle that they can hold on until now.
Zhao Yu looked a little broken, and suddenly stopped and said to Chen Fan, "Forget it, let's just not leave, why waste our physical strength when we know that we can't go out." ”
"It's also a kind of recovery." Chen Fan shook his head stubbornly and said, "After walking, it can speed up our blood circulation, which is very helpful to my injury, I can no longer feel the pain in the wound now, and the air in front of me is getting more and more humid, indicating that my judgment should be correct." ”
"What if it's wrong?" Zhao Yu retorted, "Our food can last for a day at most, if we still can't leave this damn ice after a day, you and I will starve to death, and the supernatural also needs to eat to survive, you don't understand this truth, right?" ”
"Of course I do." Seeing that Zhao Yu's spirit was a little broken, Chen Fan had no choice but to slow down his speech a little, and said patiently, "Trust me, I will definitely be able to take you out, this time we are not fully prepared, we really underestimate the cruelty of the Great Snow Mountain, even if it fails, it is nothing great, but I will definitely take you out alive." ”
Chen Fan's assurance made Zhao Yu regain a little confidence, and then laughed again, "I didn't expect you to care about me so much, did the events of the past two days change you?" ”
Chen Fan was silent, the reason why his injuries recovered so quickly was all due to Zhao Yu using his body to maintain his temperature in the past two days, Chen Fan had never tried a man and a woman to be so close, to say that he didn't feel it at all, it was obviously not the truth, but he didn't want to discuss this topic anymore, so he looked away and shifted his gaze to the depths of the ice crevice.
This is a huge ice sculpture cave, the walls are smooth, the dome is more like an inverted giant bowl, and the light is not dim, there are many faint reflections on the rock wall, as if shining on the fragments of countless mirrors, and the ice on the heads of the two people is getting thinner and thinner, constantly emitting soft light, through the reflection of the ice surface, refracted to every corner, everything in the line of sight is very clear.
Chen Fan said, "I feel that we have been climbing up, it seems that my previous guess was right, the road that the Baijiang River took me through was only a new passage formed after the canyon was covered by glaciers, and the road we are taking now is the real road to Tianchi." ”
Zhao Yu was full of grievances, and was about to complain about why Chen Fan pulled the topic to other places again, but at this time, there was a sudden "grunt" sound in his ears, like a big toad hidden under a deep well, and the expressions of the two immediately became serious.