Chapter 13: Snow Bubbles



Walking on the plateau for more than three hours, Samba's face did not change, but our group began to breathe, before leaving, deliberately changed some equipment, with the experience of Changbai Mountain, I deliberately wore a pair of long soft leather boots, the bottom is very soft, the soles of the feet with soft nails, snow and cold. Xiaohua saw it and joked, Little Third Master, you have experience.

I said, when I was climbing the snowy mountains, you were still listening to the music at the Crescent Moon Hotel.

There was nothing to say all the way, and when we reached the bottom of the mountain, we found a few big rocks to sit and rest. Several big men who came with him were all members of the Xie family, and that passer-by A didn't talk much along the way, and he seemed to have something to do with Xie Yuhua, and he didn't see him close to other people, as for who his surname was, I didn't bother to ask.

I sat on the rocks and gasped, looking at the road ahead, it was a low forest, the trees here were not growing, the small ones were only the thickness of a finger, the big ones were not as thick as an arm, and the temperature at the bottom of the mountain was not as low as on the mountain, so these shrubs could still see some green.

Samba said that when you go further into the mountains and see the snow, you can see some big trees, all dead, all strange, and of all shapes.

Samba spoke Chinese fluently, so I asked him where he learned it, and he said that he learned it from a Han girl who came to teach her, and the Han girl taught the baby in the Gaogang Gangyuan in the east. I asked him what kind of illness his grandmother had, and he said that the lama said that he had fallen into an evil cult and could not be cured, but in the county hospital at the foot of the mountain, it was said that it could be cured by spending money on surgery, so he wanted to try it. As soon as I talked about it, I realized that Samba is not yet twenty this year.

After resting, our group picked up our luggage and continued on the road, each of whom had at least nearly 15 kilograms of weight on them, from the outside, they were all items commonly used in mountaineering, but the contents of the bag, guns, bullets and explosives were all prepared.

Next, Samba opened the way in front of us, and we followed through the rocks, and the destination was a snow ditch on the mountainside, around which we could climb the mountain as fast as possible. The originally flat grassland was replaced by mountain rocks, and after traveling for more than an hour, the snow was seen, and the mountain rocks under his feet were gradually covered with white, and the forest was depressed, and there was no green in sight.

Dry branches are all over the snow, squeaking when stepping on them, now we are at an altitude of at least three thousand five or more, coupled with the relationship between weight bearing and walking, everyone's face is not good-looking, snorting and panting, at first you can still see the road ahead, but then you can only step on the footprints of the person in front of you, and it seems that you don't even have the strength to look up.

After a while, Samba, who was leading the way, stopped and said, "You can rest here." "That's when I realized that we were already in the snow ditch.

In the middle of the snow gully is a very small stream, gurgling in the small snow gully, as if it came out of the ground, half covered with snow, half bare in the sun, and some of them burrow into the snow for a while, hiding their heads and tails.

This snow gully is very large, and the road up the mountain is more difficult along the opposite side of the snow gully, but that is not our destination, our goal is to walk around the snow gully and walk to the opposite side of the mountain.

Xiuxiu wore a white mountaineering suit, black leather pants, and long boots, outlining a pair of beautiful legs seductively. After resting on the spot for nearly twenty minutes and nibbling on a few bites of compressed biscuits, we started our journey again, trying to bypass the snow-capped mountain this evening and camp at the foot of the mountain.

Samba said: "Don't look at the thickness of the snow, there are some places under the snow layer, which has already made the snow water more empty, and if you don't care, you will step into the water holes, and some of the holes are so deep that you can swallow the whole person. ”

I know how powerful the snow holes are, and if you encounter a shallow one, at best, you will wet your legs and feet, and you can only pull it out, but if you encounter a deep snow hole, if you accidentally fall into it, the surrounding snow will slide down, and you can only wait to be buried alive. If there is water in the hole, it will be even worse, you will freeze to death in the snow, no matter how good your swimming skills are, after freezing for a long time, your body will stiffen, and you will not be able to swim, so you will sink and drown.

This kind of thing is also reported a lot on TV, and the average professional mountaineer will bring a kind of equipment similar to a sled, which is mounted on the sole of the shoe to disperse the heavy area, but if you encounter a big hole, such equipment will inevitably suffer.

I cautiously followed the samba, the group was very cautious, the rest of the journey, almost always in danger of encountering snow bubbles, so no one dared to be careless, the road was quiet, only the wind whistling, the sound of the dead trees blowing and brushing, from time to time I could hear the sound of unknown beasts, I don't know if it was a snow hare or something else.

We walked cautiously through the snow gully for more than two hours, and the road ahead was still undulating snowfields, and some wild berries could be seen in the forest from time to time, which was about the last supper of the vegetarians in the mountains.

Counting the hours, we have been in the plateau above 3,000 altitudes, walking for more than five hours, the sun on the head that was originally covered by the fog is obviously dazzling, Samba said: "This snow-capped mountain we call Nima, that is, the meaning of the sun, because the layout of the top of the mountain is very narrow, the mountainside is very heavy by the sun, when the sun is strong at noon in summer, from a distance, the whole snow-capped mountain is like a sun that falls on the grassland, exuding golden light, very beautiful." ”

I looked at Samba's fascinated expression, and it seemed that I could understand the reverence for the snow field in his heart, but unfortunately, that kind of beauty can only be seen from afar, and now we are deep into the snowy mountains, except for the white expanse, there is really nothing to see.

Due to the topography of the snow gully, the wind is particularly strong, and although it is noon, the sun is very strong, but the chill does not decrease but increases. The whistling north wind blew along the snow ditch, at first I could squint, but in the end I felt that I couldn't even open my eyes, as soon as I opened my eyes, there was snow droplets flying in front of me, I felt that something was wrong, this wind seemed to be unusual, I was about to ask Samba what the situation was, suddenly there was an exclamation behind me, I quickly turned around, only to see a large section of space behind.

Our team went down in a straight line, I followed behind the samba, keeping a certain distance between each of them, and the distance behind me was a little larger, I was shocked, I saw that there was a cave not far behind me, and the surrounding snow was slowly pouring into it, and there was a faint tendency to increase it.

I immediately exclaimed, "Oops, stepping on snow bubbles." And the snow bubbles are getting bigger and bigger, I subconsciously took a few steps back, just bumped into Samba, Samba also panicked when he saw this situation, and said, "What, this is a big hole." "He is still young, and I can't count on it at this time, I estimated that I immediately counted the people behind me, and found that it was the passerby who was missing, so it should be him who fell into the snow hole.

Passerby A was followed by Xiaohua, and I immediately gestured to him and said, "Get off the rope." ”

Samba immediately said: "You can't use a rope, you have to lean forward with a rope, this hole is still cracking, as soon as the rope is exerted, the snow will pour down all at once, and everyone will be stunned, maybe even we will have to fall." ”

That passer-by, no one cares along the way, holding his hands leisurely, if it weren't for the occasional upturned corners of his mouth, to the style of a stuffy oil bottle, I thought that the general dare to be so unscrupulous people, must hide some real skills, that is, whoever stepped on the snow bubbles could not step on his turn, but I didn't expect that it was really to see people can not see the surface.

But now is not the time to think about this, I scolded in a dark voice, and yelled at the person opposite: "Aren't you good at rock climbing, can you jump in and dig people." ”

Xie Yuhua roared back unceremoniously and said, "Shut up, which eye do you see that you can climb for me here?" Fuck, no matter, get on the rope! After saying that, one of the big men immediately threw out a rope and threw it into the snow hole, the distance between the hole and the middle of the rope was about five meters, and the other end of the rope was held by Xie Yuhua.

The snow on the edge of the hole kept pouring into it, there was no sound at all, I wasn't sure if the passer-by had been smashed by the snow, the rope was thrown down for a long time, and there was no reaction at all, I was about to add a few sounds, but I saw that not far from the snow hole, there was a hole, and a human head suddenly appeared in this hole.

The head of the person was covered with snow, and he couldn't see his face clearly, but the mirror with a special sense of light was eye-catching, and then he saw two hands also stretched out from the snow cave, and then with a force, the whole body jumped up from the hole.