Next, Tianxuan followed Hercules and began to search for the palm that kept sticking out in the snow. Pull it up as soon as you find it. However, every time a hand suddenly emerges from the snowdrift, Tianxuan's heart will still chuckle, which is also to blame for his usual watching too many ghost movies and being frightened by himself.

In the end, Tianxuan and they had 28,740 survivors, which can be regarded as basically preserving the establishment.

"Where are we now?" Blake, who had just been dug out of the snowdrift, asked with his hands in his hands.

"Oh!" Tianxuan was startled and hurriedly touched his waist. When he touched the bag on his waist, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a faint smile: "The thing is still there, let me take a look." ”

Then, Tianxuan began to fiddle with the navigator with his head down, and after a few minutes he looked up and said, "We are now 50 kilometers in a straight line to the east of the track back to Labor City. ”

"Oh! It doesn't seem too far! Blake nodded in relief.

"Huh!" Tianxuan pursed his lips and said with an embarrassed face, "Blake, the distance shown above is a straight line, but we definitely can't climb the mountain along the same path. ”

"What is the actual distance?" Hercules interjected.

"Alright! Let me do the math! With that, Tianxuan continued to bow his head and fiddle with his navigator. After a few minutes he looked up and said, "We walked along the foot of the mountain, about 86 kilometers after that. ”

"That's almost double!"

"Yes!" Tianxuan put away the navigator, shook his head, and said helplessly.

"Without further ado, let's hurry up!" With that, Hercules ordered his troops to move on.

After walking for a while, the snowman did not chase after them, but the sky was snowing heavily, and snowflakes and ice particles kept drifting towards them. After a few moments, their vision began to blur, and many of them had lost their helmets as they rolled down, and their necks, ears, and hair were not only covered with cold wind, but also stuffed with snow particles, which they had to clean every few minutes.

"It's too much snow, I really want to find a place to take shelter." Tianxuan complained as he cleaned the snow from his ears and nose.

"Hold on! Bypassing these 86 kilometers we are free! "Blake cheers everyone up.

"That's all we can think about, there's no snowman chasing us here!" Tianxuan sighed and said.

In this way, these 30,000 people walked in the snow "hard, hard" for an unknown amount of time, and suddenly Tianxuan felt sleepiness attacking, and his eyelids began to fight. Looking at other people, there are many people who are in the same situation as him.

"Don't sleep in the snow!" This is an old saying that has been circulated. Thinking of this, Tianxuan hurriedly accosted Hercules and Blake, trying to keep himself awake. However, this does not have much substantive effect.

After a while, many of the 20,000-strong troops were slow, their limbs were heavy, their gait was unsteady, and they often fell or collided with obstacles on the ground several times during their walking.

"Why don't you take a break! I'm really tired! Tianxuan suggested.

Originally, Hercules resolutely disagreed, but at this time, everyone echoed Tianxuan, and he had no choice but to compromise and announce a ten-minute break before moving on. Suddenly, there was a cheer from the crowd.

However, it was a fatal mistake for them to stop in the snow to rest in the middle of the process, which soon became clear.

When the ten minutes were up, Hercules immediately ordered the group to continue walking. However, to his surprise, there were very few people who responded.

"What's going on? Hurry up! Hercules exclaimed. Despite this, very few people responded.

So, he looked at it and found that many people had fallen asleep in the snow, and they didn't wake up even if they were beaten, and they still showed a sweet smile.

"Oh my God!" Hercules held his head and screamed, and quickly ordered the awake to wake up those who were drowsy or had fallen asleep.

After a few minutes of hard work, more than 20,000 people got back on their feet and continued their march. However, it didn't take long for strange things to happen: I saw those who were still shivering just now, but now they took off their clothes, shoes and socks, or turned their clothes up, exposing their chests and abdomen, or wearing only Nei clothes and pants, exposing most of their bodies to the cold wind.

Tianxuan, Hercules, and Blake were all shocked by this abnormal undressing phenomenon, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop it. But the undressed ones replied, "It's hot, it's hot!" It's burning in the furnace! ”

"How is that possible? Are they poisoned? Tianxuan's eyes widened, his chin shrunk, and he asked in horror.

"No, it won't! If it is poisoned, how can it only be a small number of people? Blake said as he tapped his fingers on his chin.

"Don't worry about it so much!" Then Hercules gave the order to move on.

However, not long after they advanced, they found that more and more people were undressing, and there was a tendency to spread rapidly.

However, soon after, something more serious happened, and the first group of undressed people began to scratch uncomfortably, and their skin was blue and red. Soon after, the men suddenly fell to the ground and died.

"It must have been poisoned!" Some people in the army shouted, and for a while people were panicked, and many people collided with each other, and suddenly the formation was completely chaotic.

"Ahh Suddenly, there was a scream.

Tianxuan, Hercules, and Blake quickly rushed to the scene of the screams, and it turned out that a large reddish-brown blister appeared on the body of a well-known undressed elite soldier.

"What's going on?" Hercules asked the people around him.

"Report to the commander. He said he was burned. ”

"What? Scald? Can you be scalded in this cold and snow? Hercules' mouth opened wide and arrived incredible.

However, when Hercules and the others looked at the screaming wounded part, it was indeed burned.

"Huh? Could it be that there is a heat source here? Tianxuan touched his chin and muttered to himself.

"Great! Saved! The crowd cheered.

"Brother, what burned you!" Hercules asked, screaming.

"Over there, that's the rock." Screaming, he turned his head and hooked his head back.

Hercules let go of his screams and touched the stone lightly with the index and middle fingers of his left hand.

"Silk!" Hercules immediately put his finger back, then tilted his head and twisted his eyebrows to ask the screamer, "Is this a hot stone?" It's obviously cold. ”

Then, Tianxuan and Blake also reached out and touched the cyan stone, and it was really cold.

"It's cold!" Both Tianxuan and Black were unanimous in their determination.

"What I said is true! It's really hot. Screaming, he twisted his body and pleaded hoarsely.

So, Tianxuan squatted down and pressed his entire palm on the stone. After a minute, he stood up and said, "It's really chilling." ”

"Impossible! I'm not lying! ”

The crowd ignored the screamer and prepared to disperse. At this time, Tianxuan made an astonishing move - he grabbed a small cyan stone and placed it directly on the arm of the screamer.

Then, something strange happened: after the cold stone touched the skin of the screamer, it immediately emitted a white mist, like the vapor of boiling water. Then, the screamer screamed again, and Tianxuan quickly took the stone away.

At this moment, everyone was immediately stunned by the scene in front of them - the gray blisters characteristic of burns immediately appeared on the skin that had just come into contact with the stone.

"This ...... That's impossible! Everyone denied it, still not believing the scene in front of them, and after a few minutes, someone shouted: "It must be poisoned!" It must have been poisoned! ”

"It's troublesome, no one of us here will detoxify!" Blake said with a frown.

"Urgent! Let me try! With that, Tianxuan hurriedly turned on the single-channel communicator and connected with Heikati.

A few minutes later, in the midst of a cacophony of voices, Black Katy's voice appeared.

"Oh! Black Katy, that's great, you're so quick to react! Tianxuan grinned and said excitedly.

"Of course, I'll always have it with me, anytime!" Black Katy muttered a little.

"Huh! I was so impressed! Tianxuan praised it and quickly turned to the topic, "However, there is an important matter now, please help you!" ”

"Help what?"

"Quite a few people have been poisoned in the snow!"

"In the snow, poisoned?"

"Yes!" Then, Tianxuan spent 10 minutes telling Heikaty everything that happened in detail.

After listening to Tianxuan's description, Heikaty said decisively: "It's not poisoning. ”

"It's not poisoning, what is it?" Tianxuan blinked and asked suspiciously.

"Extreme cold is extreme heat. When it's extremely cold, it will feel hot! ”

"Is there such a thing?" Tianxuan and the people around him were surprised.

"Of course! In a low-temperature environment, at first you will shiver, your teeth chatter, your legs stretched, and you will dream of hot wine and a warm campfire. It's hot, yes, there's nothing as hot as the cold anymore. But after a while, it will burrow into your body and fill your body, and after a short time you will have no strength to resist, longing to sit down and rest or take a nap, and it is said that in the end you will not feel any pain at all. You're just weak and drowsy, and then it's all gone. Black Carty explained.

"Really?" Tianxuan rubbed his eyes, still a little disbelieving, and asked rhetorically.

"Of course it's true!" Black Carty replied.

"What the hell is the reason, you can explain it briefly, okay!"

"Okay! Hear me clearly! Under the action of the thermoregulatory center, the body maintains a normal body temperature with a relative balance between heat production and heat dissipation. Then the body in the cold environment, when the body temperature drops to 30-27 °C, the human body is drowsy, feeling fatigue, general weakness, cold and uncomfortable, but there is still consciousness, the general reflex can still be maintained, there are slow movements, heavy limbs, unstable gait, often fall or collide on the ground obstacles many times in the process of walking, resulting in non-fatal superficial injuries. This phenomenon is common in people who freeze to death in the snow. ”

"I see!" Tianxuan nodded at this time, and understood the approximation.

"Hmmm! Pay attention a little more! Black Carty continued to remind.

"What?"

"When the temperature drops to a certain extent, the cold sensation of the body temperature center is paralyzed, the cold sensation disappears, and the temperature center is in a relatively excited state, therefore, through the regulation of nerves and Ti fluid, the heat dissipation center of the body temperature center is excited, resulting in the expansion of peripheral blood vessels, due to the sudden expansion of blood vessels, the warm blood in the body quickly flows to the surrounding blood vessels, so that the frozen person in the low temperature environment produces a heat sensation that does not match the reality."

"That's why the ice comes into contact with the skin?"

"That's what happened, so you people who are in trouble should deal with it quickly, and now it's better to hurry to a warm place. When I'm done, you have to remember that you have more than ten minutes left, so save some money. That's it! With that, Heikaty hung up the communication.

After the call, Tianxuan immediately chuckled in his heart, he was a little sleepy, and he was suddenly shocked when he said this to Hei Katy. He put away the communicator, looked around at everyone, and said, "Did you hear the call just now?" ”

"I heard you!" Everyone replied in unison.

"Good! Then I don't need to say more! Hercules, you can give the order to move on. ”

"Hmm!" Hercules answered, and immediately gave the order to set off.

At this time, more than 20,000 people immediately became energetic and sleepy, presumably stimulated by the truth that extreme cold is extreme heat. But this is also good, after everyone understands it, not only has they recovered their spirits, but there are no casualties in such incidents.

This book was first published in Reading Books