Chapter 256: Excavation
Jiang Xiaogu continued to dig the snow, wanting to dig a way out, as long as he could reach the top of the snow, the signal flare was sent out! Rescuers will know where they are.
But she felt that she seemed to spend a lifetime digging that road, as if the snow never ended, and there would always be a large patch of snow to bury her in the process of digging, causing her to crawl back in disgrace and eat a mouthful of snow.
She had never eaten so much snow in her life.
Later, she learned to be smart, and every time she dug up some snow, she must tamp the snow around the dug up! In this way, even if there is a collapse on the top, there will be no heavy losses underneath, at least the passage is still in good condition.
Her altitude sickness made her almost difficult, but fortunately, she crawled back to Mo Beiye's side from time to time to rest for a while, and it was also good to keep warm.
She kept talking to Mo Beiye, afraid that he would fall asleep! I'll never wake up again! It's a crazy feeling.
So harassing Mo Beiye became her latest job.
"Are you still awake? Don't sleep when you're awake. Talk to me. ”
Mo Beiye said "um" softly, she touched Mo Beiye's forehead, it seemed that she was still feverish, but it was not so bad, and she could still touch a thin layer of sweat on Mo Beiye's neck, so it should be that the fever was gradually getting better.
"Okay. You have to stay awake, so talk to me all the time. If you can't think of anything interesting to say, make a noise every now and then and let me know you're still conscious. Jiang Xiaogu leaned against Mo Beiye's side, and the warmth on his body was no longer as hot as just now, which made her feel a little relieved.
"Do you want to drink some water? You're sweating, you have to hydrate after sweating, the water cup is next to your body, I just filled it with snow, drink a little to make you feel better. Jiang Xiaogu didn't fumble for the cup, Mo Beiye had better move it by himself, so that she could know that he was okay.
Mo Beiye snorted, although the voice was still unimaginably weak, but it made her so excited, at least she knew that he was still awake, and she had been worried that the leg injury would kill him.
She felt hungry, there were compressed biscuits in her backpack, although she longed to be able to eat a piece of chocolate or candy, anyone would choose the former over the taste of compressed biscuits, but she knew that she could not be willful, survival was the only consideration, chocolate and candy were left until the last resort, compressed biscuits were the only food that could fill the stomach.
Feeling for a compressed biscuit, she tried to break it, put it in her mouth, and chewed dryly.
"Aye, would you like to eat something?"
She didn't know if he continued to sleep.
Anyway, she just wanted to hear Mo Beiye's voice, the fear in her heart was unimaginable, and the only criterion that could be judged was the voice made by Mo Beiye. Maybe he didn't go as far away from her as she feared.
Mo Beiye felt as if his consciousness had been split in two, and a part of his consciousness seemed to drift into the fog, only when she asked him to respond from time to time that his consciousness was pulled back from the fog. The physical pain was not severe, but it was another part of his consciousness, and listening to her allowed him to concentrate and not float into the darkness.
He didn't feel too cold, this state was obviously very different from reality, there was no clear division between reality and non-reality, he seemed to float in an uninhabited wasteland.
He vaguely felt her busyness coming in and out from time to time, and many times, she would return to him, and then she lay down next to him, wrapping her arms around him to keep warm, which made him feel a kind of warmth, which was faint but felt great.
At the same time he could understand that what she was doing must be daunting, for he felt that sometimes when she came back, her whole body tensed and trembled, and even as she leaned into his arms, breathing in the heat of his heart, every muscle would spasm and clench, every bone clicked, and she trembled so much that he almost thought she would clench her teeth. He wanted to raise his hand to comfort her and relieve her, but he couldn't.
"No!"
He also wanted to continue sleeping, if it weren't for catering to her request, he could have slept a little deeper.
"I want it to be warmer. In a few minutes I had to get up and get to work. If I lie down longer, I might fall asleep, and that's not good. There's a lot to do, but I'll have to take my time one by one, otherwise I'll get altitude sickness. Jiang Xiaogu talked to himself, except for the vague voice, Mo Beiye had almost no sound.
She got up, she knew that Mo Beiye was asleep again, he had a high fever and needed to rest, and she lay down to rest for a while to relieve her headache, nausea and cold. If she had done things carefully and not forgotten to move slowly, maybe altitude sickness wouldn't have caused her more trouble.
She sighed and continued to climb back with the shovel, she didn't know where her work would go this time, but she hated to think that the people who got out of trouble in those TV series and movies were so easy, why did they have to rest breathlessly when they dug a hole in her, and they didn't know when the hole was going to be a head.
She numbly continued to tamp the walls of the cave with a shovel, and the surrounding area was cold as if she was in an ice cellar.
Now, the rescuers will definitely come to them, but they don't have an exact location with Ben now, and it is difficult to find them at the bottom of the valley, because it is white everywhere, Jiang Xiaogu thought of the eldest sister sadly, if the eldest sister knows, she will definitely come back to save her, and if the eldest sister is there, she will definitely be able to get to their place, because the eldest sister is so smart.
The utter silence is relentless. The lack of noise around her and the lack of action to give her hope deepened her sense of isolation.
Next door, Lao Wu, they must be trying to find a way to dig.
It was the only comfort she could find.
She is not alone, Mo Beiye will not die.
The only way to solve worries is to do things. She had warm sleeping bags and blankets to cover them both, at least some food to eat, snow to moisten the air and use as a source of water, and the sapper shovel in her hand.
Damn it, she was a little dizzy again, telling herself to be careful and take her time, but when she got to work, she always forgot because the workload was so large.
She had to put the snow on both sides of them to tamp it, and then reserve the space and continue to dig, now they Zhou Wei has been more than doubled by her transformation like an ant moving, she is very proud, at least this is what she did alone, a person who does not have any building foundation and survival experience, isn't it the best to do this?
Who could ask for more.