Chapter 152: The Cruel Truth
On the sixth day it was daylight, when it was just daylight. It's been a long time since the head has closed his eyes, and he's going to see how the situation is outside.
"Let's hope it's better!" After all, the snow has subsided quite a bit since the last few days.
He was not willing to stay in the snow pit and be consumed naturally, although his reserves were still somewhat surplus, but if he didn't take the risk of making a little initiative attempt. The physical strength and courage that you possessed before will soon be exhausted when the resources are exhausted. So he poked his head out of the snow pit, and the outside world became slightly more acceptable.
It's not that the snow has receded a lot, at least it doesn't show an indefinite growth trend. Now the snow layer has reached at least five meters or more. So they were literally stuck at the bottom of a snow pit. However, the leader has not been idle for the past few days, and he has slowly observed the firmness of the edges of this snow layer in detail.
That's why he's able to go through five meters to the top. As time continues to grow, the temperature here will not grow for a while and a half. This means that the snow covering the surface of the earth will freeze so hard that the head can even carve out steps on its surface for itself to crawl on. Although it takes a lot of effort, it also gives a sense of relative peace of mind from the side, at least the thick layer of snow is very solid.
Stepping on it doesn't even give you a noticeable sense of falling. The leader managed to climb out, and first weighed with his hands the snow near his head. Now he's alive and well like a groundhog that has come out of his hole. I was cautiously observing the wind and grass around me.
He tried to roll his whole body on the surface of the snow, which was a very risky step. He held his breath tightly. I hope that there will be more air in my body to reduce the density of my body. So much so that there is not much psychological pressure. When the nerves in the body stopped tensing, the whole person lay down on the surface of the snowfield. The leader turned his head sideways and looked at the distant sky. It is as if the world has drawn an astonishing landscape here.
On one side, there is a clear blue sky, without any dust, which is really a rare good weather. On the other side, there is the endless land of snow. They are perfectly separated by a long horizon. It's like God's palm is closed on one side and quietly attached to the other, which is the shock of a miracle.
The head felt a little dizzy in his spirit, so he propped himself up and sat up. Look at the surroundings and still look like you're lying down. There is no psychological difference. He didn't hesitate to stand up, unconcerned about any fact that might cause the snow to collapse. Standing up like that, the actual situation is that the snow here has been perfectly cured at a low temperature, and it can fully support the weight of ordinary people's bodies.
He experimented with jumping around on the snow, using the additional force of his body to simulate whether the effect of the extra weight of the material on his body would cause irreparable panic explosion damage to the snow.
As he thought, the snow didn't move. At least the snow layer in the upper part of the range of my perception has also undergone the same low temperature transformation and has become extremely strong, and I don't know how far away. Maybe it's not warm enough and the snow may melt away.
But can't wait. The leader excitedly lay on the edge of the snow pit and shouted inside: "Brother, we have to get up." The ground here is more than enough to support our own weight. Without waiting for the old man to respond. The leader's body was already clinging to the steps he had picked out with his hands, and he slowly and tentatively climbed down. He didn't want to slip and fall when he was most comfortable, after all, he would fall if he wasn't careful.
The old man was half-conscious, but he seemed to have heard what the leader had just said. He struggled to get up, but he didn't have enough strength to change the situation because he didn't have enough strength to change the situation by holding the same curled up position for so long. The leader pretended not to see this scene and ran to his side to pack up his supplies and equipment.
He didn't want to embarrass the old man, and after struggling for a long time, the old man finally stood up against the snow wall. Slowly paced two steps. "Are you okay?" , the leader's kind greetings came from behind! "Uh-huh! Not bad. Not a problem. The old man replied heartily and quickly. I don't want others to see my difficulties. So I'm gritting my teeth and holding on.
As he spoke, his own part of the supplies had already been sorted out by the leader. In fact, there is nothing that needs to be cleaned up explicitly. The two men were carrying food supplies in their bags to survive. In the past few days, it's just that Hi has opened his backpack and taken out the corresponding food from it. The leader threw the lighter backpack over to the old man. That's nearly twenty servings of food missing. The reason why there were no twenty servings, because the old man seemed to have difficulty eating for several days, was the basic fact that the chief believed that the old man was not in good health.
The Chief's own parcel was still full of all the portable food. He had just pulled the two layers of tarps out of the snow, and they were still going to have a huge effect in the near future. So it's important to put it away. The leader didn't understand why it was so easy to pull them out of the ice.
Anyway, it's very easy to do, and I'm very happy to accomplish such an event. I was able to spend less effort on something like this, and I thought it would be tricky. However, in the depths of the corner that he didn't realize either. Layers of snow wrapped up in the center, and a crack quietly rose and spread out at a very slow speed. Like a spider's web spread out in space, the intention of expansion takes over the thing itself.
The old man's face became even more gray, and he trembled and handed the small cloud that was close to him to the leader. The leader gladly accepted the little fellow and wrapped him in his coat. Every day he would always give the child some predetermined provisions, and the little one would gladly accept it, and he had never seen him pick and choose on these inferior things. "Hey! Little one, you have to bless me and my brother! After all, it's not easy to take you back, I hope luck is on our side! The leader finally sighed softly, not knowing who was listening.
But the subject is obviously not Brother and Xiaoyun. As for who, only God knows! Immediately, there was silence. The leader climbed up first, and when he reached the top of the snowfield, he quickly threw away his part of the supplies. By the way, he wrapped the little one in his arms in his coat. Although I don't understand why the little guy is naked and not afraid of the cold. He didn't want to understand, after all, that's part of the reason this kid was here!
He returned to the pit as quickly as he could. As concocted, he carried the old man's lighter supplies on his back. He gulped out a warm breath from his mouth, which was enough to turn the cold wind around him into a misty white flake of gas. The next thing is to see the old man's own efforts. The leader quickly floated down above the snowfield.
He put on a gesture of "big", stretched out his hands as far as he could, and waited for the old man who was trying to climb below, and the old man was indeed very difficult. This kind of climbing five meters is not only for the elderly, but also for young and vigorous young men who do not have enough physical capital and a certain amount of climbing experience. It is difficult to move up and down vertically, albeit at a distance of five meters.
But the old man rested while climbing, and sometimes hung for a long time on a snow wall of several meters. In a short period of time, it is also a desire for life to be able to regain the confidence to stretch out your arms next time. Although the leader was tempted to jump down and help the old man climb up, he knew that if he did do that, no one would come up. Sometimes this kind of thing can really only be done by one's own efforts. He just hopes that the old man's potential can continue to burst out with the vitality of a young man, and that's all.
The leader can't climb forward, and if he goes any further, he'll fall. At this time, the old man was only an arm's length away from him. The old man was still in his place, panting, which obviously caused a lot of water to be consumed during that inhalation and exhalation movement. It doesn't matter if the boss does that himself, after all, he is very complete with his daily energy. So there is no need to worry about a certain moment of sudden exhaustion and shock, and once you fall into that level of long-term coma here, it means that you will abandon it without any cover. After all, there are not enough medical supplies, and there is no need for rescue.
is originally a livelihood licking blood on the tip of a knife, and the rhetoric of logistics and supply is naturally very imperfect. In a word, as long as you don't starve to death, it's enough. Therefore, in such an environment, it is especially important to consume enough energy to sustain the next day's actions. The boss was worried that the old man had barely met the food requirement in recent days.
I'm afraid that he won't be able to hold on, and if he falls, it'll be over. "Hey! Dude! We've got to take this kid back! We're going to have a big drink! Tight! I don't know what kind of pain point this sentence hit the old man's heart, anyway, he suddenly used a force that burst out of the unknown, supported with his left hand, grabbed with his right hand, and just stretched his body to a higher level. However, it is still about a palm's distance from the position of the arm that the leader thinks of himself.
The leader couldn't care about anything anymore, he just continued to descend his lying body. The toes are already in the tightest friction with the surface of the snowfield, and they may fall beyond the threshold at any time. It was just because he saw that the old man suddenly lost the so-called grasping force, and the leader reacted with a god and grabbed the old man's wrist.
The old man suddenly woke up, as if the only remaining idea of survival was struggling to support him, and he willingly pressed into the wall, so that the head would be much more affected by the pull of the fall.
The physical fitness of the good boss is also excellent, and he has not been troubled by any illness for such a long time. But it won't be said to be able to lift an adult's weight with one hand.
It's just a guarantee of assistance to keep the old man from falling!
Things are clearly at an impasse, and on the one hand, the boss is still struggling to hold on. After all, his physical age is there, and his muscles are obviously not as strong as they were at the beginning.
But the old man still showed a state of slump, and there was no movement for a long time from the part of his wrist that was being held!