Section 08 Snow Cave
Compared to the fish underwater, Chen Zheng's patience is very limited, he can't wait a year, or even a day.
The temperature here may be bearable during the day, but at night, standing on such unobstructed ice is almost suicide.
It was necessary to leave, but in order to reduce the risk, Chen Zheng first rolled on the ground for a while, then stood up and walked for a short while, and then rolled on the ground......
Although this kind of tossing is fast, the physical exertion is fast, and the calorie loss is large, but this kind of stupid-looking movement can confuse the other person's feelings...... bar.
However, time has shown that such a simple response seems to be effective, at least the monster fish under the ice has never been seen again.
After rolling all the way forward for several hours, a black line appeared at the junction of sea and sky.
As the distance got closer, the inconspicuous black line gradually became clearer, and the terrain on the coast was not very undulating, and the forest was dense, and the big trees were as straight as pines.
At first, I just thought that the proportions of those big trees were a little strange, but as he slowly got closer, Chen Zheng gradually found that those big trees ...... It seems to be very, very high!?
Tumbling all the way, finally, Chen Zheng's first time set foot on solid ground.
At the same time, the sound of ice cracking suddenly sounded.
"Click......
At the moment when Chen Zheng's footsteps stepped on the shore, the ice behind him was directly broken, and the monster fish came out from under the ice, and after taking a final look at Chen Zheng, his tail flicked up a huge wave and retracted under the ice again.
Chen Zheng looked at the rippling water and frowned-
- It actually followed!?
But...... How does it know I'm landing around here!?
You must know that in the last paragraph, in order not to alarm the possible threats on and off the ice, Chen Zheng didn't stand up at all and rolled all the way!
Even then it can be found...... Could it hear the sound of Chen Zheng tumbling? But if it could have heard, why not strike sooner?
The rippling waves gradually subsided.
Chen Zheng looked at the route he had taken all the way, and an answer that he was most reluctant to admit emerged in his heart.
In the past, when Chen Zheng stood up and moved forward, he would deliberately choose a slightly deviated direction to advance, and when he rolled, he would deviate back a little, and the traces left on the snow were one after another completely irregular "丿" and "?".
And when he found the coast, Chen Zheng's forward route began to become regular, and the section near the shore was even directly a straight line - Chen Zheng thought that he was rolling monster fish and should not be able to hear it!
But the problem lies in the "straight line".
“…… Do you know I'm going to go ashore soon, even if you're not sure? …… Summarizing the law and predicting the position ......"
Chen Zheng frowned tightly, his eyes stayed on the ice for a while, and suddenly turned his head to stare at the towering trees behind him that were covered with thick snow.
“……”
Chen Zheng silently came to the tree closest to him, the bark was rough and hard, and it was roughly estimated that this tree was as thick as at least 20 people hugging each other!
Standing under the tree and looking up, there is an illusion of standing under the big pants of CCTV and looking up in a trance - the big pants seem to be more than 200 meters high, right?
And this one isn't even the tallest!?
As far as the eye can see, I saw that the towering giant trees did not have any branches, like sharp swords straight into the air, and the top began to taper, the branches and leaves were dense and dense, and the whole tree was like a big cat teasing stick, or a straight dog's tail grass.
The tallest tree in the world is probably the eucalyptus tree in Australia, which is said to be 50 stories tall. Based on this data, a rough conversion of 50 floors by 3 meters is 150 meters high...... And the one next to Chen Zheng is a quarter higher than the one in Australia!
Not to mention that there is even a giant tree twice as tall in the distance!!
"Alas......"
Chen Zheng sighed in a gloomy mood.
When he stood in the middle of the ice before, Chen Zheng faintly felt that something was wrong—the imperial capital did not have such a large saltwater lake. And after seeing the huge monster fish, he affirmed this, but he still didn't want to believe it in his heart.
It wasn't until he walked into this "giant forest" that Chen Zheng really couldn't avoid that reality.
"Here, it's really not the earth......"
After a short period of silence, Chen Zheng forced himself to clean up his mood, because there were still more difficult problems to solve.
It's going to be dark.
The star in the distance has sunk in the west – or is it sinking in the north-south? Who knows! One thing is for sure, night is coming.
Although he couldn't feel the temperature change at all when he wore the jelly star vest pants sleeves, Chen Zheng's head and hands were still exposed to the air, and he could already clearly feel that the temperature had begun to drop sharply!
"I need a shelter...... So ......"
Chen Zheng thought for a while, took out a dagger and cut off a large piece of bark, used this bark as a shovel, and chose a sunny slope to dig up the snow.
As mentioned earlier, snow is a long-empty structure that is filled with air. As we all know, air is a poor conductor of heat, so snow is an excellent insulation material that seems to be a little out of the ordinary.
What Chen Zheng wants to do is a snow cave. First, a vertical "snow wall" is cut out on the slope, and the excavated residual snow is piled back along both sides of the "snow wall" in a "U" shape. After that, the remnants of snow are piled up, and eventually a windbreak wall is formed.
After cutting the "snow wall", Chen Zheng dug in horizontally and dug a hole about 60 centimeters in diameter and about one and a half meters deep.
When the bark shovel touched the frozen soil, Chen Zheng slowly dug up along the slope, about another 1 meter or so, and Chen Zheng began to widen and expand the operation, in the process of piling the excavated residual snow on the windbreak wall.
Snow caves should not be dug too deep and too large, especially in this kind of survival conditions where fire cannot be made, too large snow caves will lead to unnecessary heat loss, and for Chen Zheng, who has no food to replenish, the loss of heat means the loss of life.
Chen requisitioned a slender and long dead branch to open the air hole for the snow cave, and piled the last snow on the windbreak wall, and the snow cave was officially completed.
At this time, the stars in the sky were completely hidden below the horizon, and only the stars in the sky were left to wink at him.
“…… Isn't there a moon......?"
Chen Zheng took one last look at the stars in the sky that could not be seen in constellations, and bent down to drill through the narrow entrance of the snow cave.
This snow cave is small, dark, but warm. The temperature outside the cave is almost minus 20 degrees, and the temperature in this snow cave can still be maintained above zero. As Chen Yin breathes, the temperature in the cave will further increase.
Lying in a small and dark space, a long-lost sense of security crept into my heart.
Chen Zheng, who was sleepy and tired, thirsty and hungry, his breathing voice gradually became heavy, and he fell asleep in the midst of excessive fright and hunger and cold.
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