Chapter 3 Self-help in Danger

In the darkness, the heavens and the earth fell silent in an instant. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info The sky is full of light. Yi San: They felt imprisoned in a beautiful crystal ball. And that aurora is the surface of the crystal ball.

They sit in a circle like a doll still inside the crystal ball, allowing the "people" outside the crystal ball to watch, marvel or admire.

"Click...... Click" broke the tranquility, and the crystal ball seemed to have been accidentally broken by a "person". And the crack starts to spread from the bottom.

"Hurry up and get that damn alcohol, hurry, I can't see anything with my eyes." John shouted.

"Don't make a noise, bring that polar bear or that stuff over then, you won't be enough for them." Nick interrupted John quietly.

"Can you be quiet for a while?" Kara said with tears in her voice.

"Rest assured, there are no big carnivores in Antarctica, except of course for penguins and seals." Yi San said comfortingly.

"So what now, I've been out of touch for three hours now. If there had been a rescue team, they would have been heard by now. At least the helicopter can be heard. Sato said uneasily.

"You stupid, all the electromagnetic instruments are out of order, how did they get here." Ahn Hee-hyun still retains most of his sanity.

"If this is the best, I'm afraid, this is deliberately arranged by them." Yi San said calmly.

"So what now?" Carla asked Yi San.

"Take out all your things, first for help, and then for self-help." Yi San said categorically.

Immediately after, a faint light pierced the darkness, and a dark yellow flame burst out from Yi San's fingertips. A cold wind blew, and the flames faltered and looked like they were about to be extinguished.

"I brought matches, and we'll light a bonfire." Yi San said.

"Burn what you don't want." Yi San said categorically.

The light of the fire is something that can overcome fear, and everyone instantly finds motivation again when they hear about the campfire.

"I have a copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude here, and some change of clothes. There are also some cosmetics. Carla was the first to rummage through the contents of her bag again.

"Hey, what about glowsticks." Nick said.

"The tent is pressing." John didn't remember that there were glow sticks to illuminate.

"I've got a poster of Kobe Bryant, a fashion magazine, and a sheet music." Nick took out his treasure in distress.

"Hey, John, what's on your wrist?" Yi San noticed that John was wearing a special watch on his hand.

The watch strap is gray plastic, which looks a little rough and a little incongruous. So Yi San speculated that it should be a self-help tool.

"I can't swim, so ......," John said embarrassedly.

"So it's a drowning meter?" Yi San said in surprise.

"Yes, yes." John didn't understand why Yi San was so excited.

"Then I think the problem with our distress tool is solved." Yi San smiled.

"Ahn Hee-hyun, you help us calculate. What volume of gas is required at an altitude of 10 kilometers for gravity and buoyancy to balance.

"Why ten kilometers?" Ahn Hee-hyun said.

"Because the gate of time and space is ten kilometers away." Yi San said.

"You mean, yes, haha." Ahn Hee-hyun also said happily.

"Yes, it's John's anti-drowning watch, and the self-rescue system in it is our rescue tool, which can solve the problem of high oxygen deficiency." Yi San took the Swiss Army knife and tossed at the tarpaulin tent again.

"First of all, you have to reduce the gravity of the tent and balance the center of gravity." Yi San cut the canvas one more circle and tied the nylon rope to an even length.

"What are you talking about and what?" Kara didn't understand what was going on. Why do their moods change so quickly.

"It's the chemical reagent inside the waterproof watch, and it's not unfamiliar with what bounced out of the cockpit when it crashed, right?" Sato said to Kara.

"Airbags!" It dawned on Kara.

"Yes, the principle of this watch is to press the emergency button in an emergency, and the chemical reagents inside react to generate a large amount of gas, so that the drowning person can be rescued." Sato went on to explain.

"You're saying that this device will levitate our hot air balloons in the air." John also understood.

"yes, that's it." Yi San said happily.

After everyone understood what was going on, the motivation came.

John and Carla write SOS on the canvas of the tent with fluorescent liquid, and Yi San is checking the balance of the hot air balloon. Ahn Hee-hyun is carefully calculating the relationship between buoyancy and gravity of a 78% nitrogen balloon at an altitude of 10 kilometers.

And Nick, this is sitting around the campfire, responsible for adding fuel to the campfire.

"Every life has a soul, it's just how to awaken them. What a beautiful sentence. Let me awaken your souls. As he spoke, Nick tore off a few pages of One Hundred Years of Solitude and sprinkled them on the fire.

"Can't you be gentle with my books?" Kara said as she looked at Nick like a sprinkled piece of paper.

"There must be a man in this strange world who will deal with her with his incomparably indifferent attitude." Nick continues to quote quotes from the paper that is about to turn to ashes.

In a short time, a thick hundred years of solitude burned out, and the flame gradually became smaller. And Yi San's simple hot air balloon is almost done.

"Nick, add to the fire, hurry up and add fire." John said as he looked at the flames that were getting smaller.

"Do you have a phobia of secrets?" Ahn Hee-hyun asked John.

"Where, is the fear of darkness a common human nature?" John denied it.

"A reporter asked Kobe Bryant why you succeeded. Bryant said, have you ever seen the sky at four o'clock in Los Angeles? The reporter shook his head. Bryant said, I know what it's like to be in Los Angeles at four o'clock every morning. Nick said, staring at Kobe's poster.

"Goodbye, my idol, let me awaken your soul." Nick kissed the poster and threw it into the fire. A string of orange-red flames spread on the poster, and the fire instantly brightened up a few points.

"Nick, let me ask you, do you know what animals can hang on the wall?" Yi San asked Nick with a smile.

"What?" Nick thought for a moment, unable to answer.

"Seals!" Yi San said.

Everyone paused for a moment and laughed.

It turns out that in Chinese, the pronunciation of seals and posters is the same.

The atmosphere became less tense.

"And, Nick, what do you guess would have happened if Kobe Bryant had been a reporter just now?" Yi San's mood is also much better.

"What?" Nick said.

"Bryant asked reporters, why did you succeed? The reporter asked Kobe Bryant, have you ever seen the sky in Los Angeles at four o'clock in the morning? Kobe nodded, having seen it every day. The reporter said, oh, that's nothing. End of interview. Yi San performed emotionally.

Hahahaha. The crowd slowly let go. At this time, John and Kara's SOS were also painted.

"It's time to go." Sato said with a serious expression again.

Sato opened the bag of solid alcohol and put the alcohol into the cooking utensils, leaving only a small vent, which was actually an upside-down iron bowl with a small hole in the bottom of the bowl.

In this way, the wind is blocked, and the alcohol does not burn so quickly.

"You hold the canvas, I'm going to get ready to light the fire." Yi San said with a match in his hand.

"Wait a minute, I'll hang this watch on it." Ahn Hee-hyun took out a watch from his pocket, "This is an atomic watch, the accuracy is very high, and the error in 10,000 years is no more than 1 millisecond." ”

"That's right, since we met it, let's test whether the space-time gate really exists." Yi San nodded.

"Click." Yi San struck a match, and as soon as the flame came out, it was blown out by the cold wind. Yi San drew another one. Carefully hold the bowl with your hand and place it in the upside-down cup.

But the clicking sound that had been quiet for a while in the distance came again, Yi San's hand shook, and the match went out again.

The hearts of the people hung in the air again. The bonfire is lit and extinguished. The aurora in the sky is like a white fog gathering, and the light curtain is getting thinner and thinner, and it seems that space will also fall into extreme darkness. The gray-white cloud was even more glaring. Everyone ignores the fact that why can you see a gray-white cloud in the darkness where you can't see your fingers? Maybe it's because people think it's the light reflected off the clouds by the aurora. However, the aurora is getting weaker and weaker, but the clouds are not darkening.

Yi San didn't pay attention to this, but focused all their attention on the hot air balloon, which was their lifesaver and their hope. They hold the hot air balloon as carefully as a newborn baby, for fear that a single effort will ruin their last hope.

Yi San struck another match, and the flame cut through the darkness, and the spark slowly moved away like the mouth of the cooking utensils under a hot air balloon. Everyone surrounded the ground precisely to block the cold wind, and everyone held their breath for fear of blowing out the matches.

As soon as the flame approached the mouth of the bowl, it encountered the gas volatilized by the solid alcohol, and a light blue flame burst out, and the canvas was blown up by the heat. Sato held the corner of the canvas and shouted when he felt that the hot air balloon was already full and was about to come out, "One, two, three, put it." ”

Nick, Kara, and John let go of their hands at the same time, and the improvised hot air balloon staggered up. Everyone watched nervously as their life-saving straw slowly rose, and they didn't dare to come out.

The distant clicking was getting closer, but the crowd had ignored it. Because the hot air balloon has risen several hundred meters in the air, it looks like it is only the size of a fist.

"The alcohol is running out. John looks at you. Ahn Hee-hyun glanced at John.

"I set an alarm for 300 seconds on the watch, but when the alarm clock goes off, the wire that is stuck in the first aid device will be released, and the nitrogen will fill the canvas, and the canvas will be no longer needed." Yi San was also very nervous.

Although the anti-drowning watch is fixed with a nylon rope in the center of gravity of the most balanced force on the inside of the canvas, Yi San is very worried that the shaking of the hot air balloon will cause the wire to fall off, and when the nitrogen gas is filled in advance, the gravity of the hot air balloon will be too large and all this will be in vain.

5 minutes passed, however, the nitrogen did not turn on. Because when the nitrogen is turned on, it will give the hot air balloon a recoil force, and the hot air balloon will rise and fall suddenly. If the hot air balloon does not turn over at this critical moment, it will be considered a success. Become a beacon floating in mid-air.

They stared intently at the hot air balloon, and after 6 minutes, the hot air balloon continued to float upward.

"Failed." Ahn Hee-hyun sat down on the ground in a hurry.

Kara couldn't hold back her crying anymore, and her tears dripped onto the tundra, instantly freezing into ice.

Losing hope is a frustrating thing. Their only sustenance was to drift away with the cold snap.

"There is an old Chinese saying that if you are not afraid of bad things, you are afraid of being discouraged. If you think about it, we have at least five minutes to get the rescuers to see our hot air balloon. And you see, the aurora looks like it's coming to an end, and then our electronics are back up. You can send a distress signal. Isn't there a spare solar panel in Xixuan's backpack, but the circuit is not connected, and there must be a power supply in it. Yi San couldn't mess with himself in this situation, so he said to everyone calmly.

"Yes, yes, yes." Nick also put his arm around the desperate John and said.

At this time, Yi San felt that his face was wet, as if something had fallen on his face. Yi San touched it with his hand, it was cold.

"It's snowing." Sato reached out and caught a piece of sparkling snowflake.

Despair spread silently among the crowd, and everyone sat silently around the campfire, watching the snowflakes fall on the orange flames. All at once, it dissipates moisture in the air.

The hot air balloon soared, and the SOS of the fluorescent liquid had turned into a grain of light the size of a grain of rice. The wind and snow are getting heavier and heavier.

Kara leaned against Yi San's shoulder and sobbed.

This group of fifteen or sixteen-year-old teenagers, who were going through something that many people had never experienced in their lives, frowned, and it was a shock to them both mentally and physically. I believe that if they are rescued, their lives will not be too ordinary.

That's also if rescued, if not rescued.