Chapter 34: Quest in the Snow
(Foreword)
Looking for them in the snow and ice,
Forging ahead in the midst of hardship.
(Text)
January 14, 2020 at 16:10 p.m
Our group stepped onto the extremely cold Arctic glacier and made a difficult journey.
As we walked out of breath and sat down on the ground, the Queen's apparatus suddenly reacted.
I saw her running forward and running with excitement...... Finally, he stopped in front of a snowy mountain, holding an instrument in his hand, and kept comparing them around. As the instrument approached the ground, it made a "tick-tick" sound, and the "queen" crouched down and lay on the ground, listening intently.
"This should be it." The 'Queen' muttered something to herself, and she picked up the instrument in her hand again, as if searching for the exact location.
"Yu Bo, give me that!" "The Queen" shouted to Bo from a distance as she lay on the ice.
Yu Bo quickly ran over, took out a bundle of small bombs from the backpack he was carrying, and handed it to the "Queen".
The "Queen" looked at the bomb, led one of the fuses out, and placed the bomb on top of that position, and then she carefully moved it out of the way, pulling the fuse dozens of meters away.
"Yubo, quick, lighter." The 'Queen' turned to look at Yu Bo not far away.
Yu Bo took the lighter from her pocket and threw it at the 'queen', she took the lighter with one hand, quickly lit the fuse, and watched it burn towards the bomb little by little.
However, just as the lead was halfway burned, it was blown out by a gust of cold. When Yu Bo saw this, he immediately snatched the lighter from the "queen", and said that it was too late, then it was too fast, only to hear a "snap" The lighter flew towards the lead.
His technique, which is really miraculous, impartial, just right, threw the end of the lighter that lit the flame to the position where the fire was extinguished.
I was so impressed by this scene that I almost couldn't help but scream, but thinking of what he had done in the past, I controlled myself and pretended to be disdainful.
I only heard a "bang", and a huge hole was blown out of the ice in front of the snow-capped mountain.
"Sure enough, here it is, here it is." I've never seen the Queen so happy.
We hurried over and stood around the ice, taking a closer look at what was going on in the iceβwe saw that the huge hole under the ice stretched outward, empty, as if it were a bottomless pit.
The ice around the cave continued to break and fall, and Arthur and I couldn't help but take a few steps back.
We looked at each other and then at the Queen. The "Queen" took one look at us, then took a fluorescent ball from the small satchel she was carrying with her and threw it into the bottomless pit.
"Puff, puff, puff"
The fluorescent ball bounced three times, then rolled diagonally to the right.
"The Queen" looked at the direction in which the fluorescent ball was rolling, dragged her chin with her hand, and said to us: "This is not a bottomless pit, in fact, it is not very deep, there is only one passage, and that is to the right. β
"Okay, in that case, then I'll go down first and make a way for you." Yu sat and walked over.
The "Queen" nodded, and Yu Bo directly tied the rope to his body and slid all the way down.
"Yu Bo, how are you, is there a road down there?" I stood at the entrance of the cave and shouted.
"No problem, there's a road down there."
After a while, Yu Bo shouted at us.
"Come down, and I'll catch you below."
"We can't see you." I yelled at Bo.
"Wait a minute!"
Yu Bo bent down, picked up the fluorescent ball on the side, and held it in his hand.
"So what?"
"You can see it that way."
I looked at the fluorescent ball and handed the rope to the Queen.
I know that the person who wants to be the first to go down is her.
"Thank you."
The "Queen" thanked me, took the rope from my hand, tied it to herself, and slid all the way down, falling into Yu Bo's arms.
"Come down, it's safe here." "Queen" shouted to us.
I climbed down the rope first, Arthur following me. It was a lot easier than I thought. The giant hole that looks very deep is really not deep,
Once we reached the ground, we each glanced at each other and slowly walked to the right with the faint fluorescence. The road stretches gently downward, and it's colder here than outside.
I just walked along the path. Along the way, the 'Queen' took out the instruments she was carrying from time to time to measure something. But looking at her expression, she knew that she hadn't found anything.
January 14, 2020 at 22:29 p.m
We walked in the giant cave for a long time. The air was cold, and our pace was starting to slow down a lot.
But the strange thing is that since the beginning, we seem to have been stuck in the same place, walking around and returning to this place.
"I've been gone for so long, but it's still this place." I asked.
"yes, strange, it should be here, it stands to reason that it can't be wrong." The queen looked at her surroundings.
"I think we're just going around in circles." Although the outside environment cannot be seen in the giant cave. But I feel like it's too late.
"Yes, we've been walking for a long time, and it's just a waste of energy to walk like this, so let's set up camp here tonight. Spend the night first, rest and rest, and continue tomorrow. Yu Bo held the fluorescent ball in his hand and turned to face us.
I looked at Xiaoyu, her face was already pale, and she looked very reluctant.
I agreed with Yu Bo's suggestion and said to everyone: "Yu Bo is right, we can only have the strength to find them if we have a good rest now." β
They looked at me, nodded, took the tent out of their backpacks, set it up, and after a few people's efforts, the tent was formed in a few moments. However, in order to ensure the safety of the underground ice, we did not dare to use any firearms, nor did we dare to move or rub arbitrarily, but we just lay quietly in our sleeping bags and closed our eyes.
Arthur slept next to me, and she quietly reached out of her sleeping bag with her left hand, which I had placed aside.
I held her left hand, felt the warmth coming from her hand, and wrote three words with my fingers: Trust me.
She cried.
Although she tried to suppress her voice, I heard her sobbing that night.
I couldn't sleep tossing and turning alone, remembering everything on the island.
I don't know if we'll be able to find them, but I'm going to find a way to change them anyway. For Arthur's sake, for everyone...