Chapter 22: Avalanche
A night full of horror is also a night of danger. This night, the shrill voice did not sound again, but it seemed to continue to hover in everyone's mind, making people linger.
As the day dawned, everyone gathered in the tent to discuss the events of last night. That terrible voice is believed to be unforgettable for everyone.
At the moment, the busiest thing is the two translators. Because after the incident of last night, the sergeants were not willing to go any further, and insisted on returning immediately. But Du Chengcai and others hope to move forward, although they know in their hearts that after so many days, the probability of survival of the five players who came in in the early stage of the second team is extremely low, but they are not willing to give up just like that, they want to see people in life, and they want to see corpses in death, and they have to give an explanation to their teammates' families.
At Du Chengcai's suggestion, everyone voted by a show of hands. Eventually, more than 20 sergeants immediately pulled out and returned the way they came. Looking at their backs, Du Chengcai sighed heavily, looked at the eleven people beside him, and knew in his heart that half of the rescue mission had failed, and he looked at Tian Xiang's face, "Xiang, you can go back too." ”
Tian Xiang understood what the captain meant, shook his head with a smile and said, "Captain, I won't go back." ”
"Obedient, you are still young!" Du Chengcai said almost commandingly.
"Young people should stay, and I have to find Marinelin. Tian Xiang replied stubbornly.
Du Chengcai glanced at him with appreciation, and then shook his head helplessly.
In the tent, more than a dozen people carefully studied the route of progress, checked the limited instruments and rescue equipment, and continued to advance. This trip is not so much to rescue teammates as to find out, because it is almost wishful thinking for these few people to rescue in this snowy region. Besides, he is already in danger, whether he can go back, and how many people can go back is unknown.
For three days in a row, after experiencing several dangers, one of his teammates rolled down the snow valley and fell unconscious for several hours, and another person with equipment fell into a hole in the snow and almost died. Thankfully, everyone was still alive, and the wind was weakening and a few rays of sunlight were casting, so the skis came in handy and the speed of travel was much higher. Thankfully, nothing strange has happened in the past few days, which is a dark relief.
"It should be around here!" Standing in a gentle flat area, Du Chengcai tinkered with the locator that had no response for a long time, looking around.
Lao Huang scolded: "It's icy and snowy, looking at the goddamn bird's appearance for thousands of miles, who can tell if it's this place?"
Du Chengcai looked at him, then at the others, and stretched out his hand to point to a mountain peak in the distance, "Look at the snow on the mountainside, there is a fault, it seems that an avalanche has just occurred." ”
Everyone followed his fingers and saw that there were indeed traces of snow breaking between the peaks, and there were even some places where the mountains were faintly exposed, so they nodded in unison.
"Let's go. After Lao Du finished speaking, he took the lead in pushing the skateboard, leaving two swirling scratches in the snow and speeding away.
"Captain, be careful!" suddenly Tian Xiang shouted behind him.
Before he finished speaking, a snow hill not far away collapsed silently, instantly burying Du Chengcai underneath.
Tian Xiang hurriedly slid over, and at this time, the entire snow surface also began to move. "Avalanche, get out of here!" someone shouted. Tian Xiang's heart tightened, and he continued to slide towards Du Chengcai. The sleigh hit the snowdrift, raising a little residual snow, Tian Xiang did not stop bending down and grabbed a hand exposed in the snow, dragged out Du Chengcai and continued to gallop in the direction of the snow.
The whole mountain shook violently, as if something was shaking violently below, and the crowd in the distance hurriedly retreated, and just left the place, only to see the ground cracking, and the snow rising from the sky, like rolling flowing water rushing towards Tian Xiang. Tian Xiang didn't care about helping Du Chengcai to get up, and he didn't have time to think, so he dragged him along the snow flow to the valley.
At this time, the exclamations of the crowd in the distance were heard. Tian Xiang raised his head suddenly, and the snow peaks on the opposite side were also shaking violently, like a pillar without roots, which could collapse at any time. Tian Xiang hurriedly deflected along the direction of the snow flow, hoping to stay as far away from the snow peak as possible.
"You go quickly!" shouted Du Chengcai, who was being pulled and gliding on the ground. Tian Xiang didn't answer, he didn't let go, and continued to slide desperately into the distance.
Boom, the mountain peak broke off and smashed this way. The huge icicles and the scattered snow fell one after another, and Tian Xiang pulled Du Chengcai to rush left and right. "Ah!" Du Chengcai screamed. Tian Xiang turned his head and glanced at him with concern as he slid along, only to see an icicle pierced in his thigh, which had already collapsed with blood, and the flesh and blood were blurred.
Tian Xiang paused for a moment and picked up Du Chengcai on his back, turned around and continued to shuttle in the land where the ice and snow were flying. "Go there! go there!" suddenly Du Chengcai stretched out his hand and pointed to a snow wall and shouted. Tian Xiang rushed over without having time to think about it, and with a bang, he crashed into the snow wall and fell into the thick snow.
"Come in!" Du Chengcai yelled anxiously.
Tian Xiang was stunned for a moment and shouted, "Where to enter?"
"Hole!hole!" Du Chengcai shouted, pointing not far above his head.
Tian Xiang looked up, there was indeed a little recessed, the bare hole was not big, and there were several rows of thick icicles hanging through, running through the top and grounding, if it wasn't close at hand, it would be difficult to find.
Tian Xiang put down Du Chengcai, waved his hand to pull away the loose snow on the outside, picked up Du Chengcai and pushed him to the edge of the hole, and shouted, "Captain, fast forward." Du Chengcai glanced at the snow stream that was rolling in, swung the sled unloaded from under his feet and smashed a slightly thinner icicle into it. Then he turned around and grabbed Tian Xiang, who was stretching out his hand, "Hurry!
The snow poured into the hole, and Tian Xiang crawled between the icicles with half of his body, laughing at the captain in the darkness. Du Chengcai, who had survived the catastrophe, breathed a sigh of relief, laughed too, and held his hand tightly, "Come in." Tian Xiang only climbed in under his drag.
Du Chengcai took out a flashlight on his body and turned it on, and the two looked around briefly under the light. Although the entrance to the cave is small, it is very large, and there is even a hole that extends inward.
"Captain, your eyes are so poisonous that you can find such a place in a panic. Tian Xiang said as he squatted down to help Du Chengcai deal with his wounds.
"What a ball bird place, it will be an avalanche when you meet people, and it's fucking endless. Du Chengcai scolded as he took out a cigarette from his body and lit it.
"Captain, when are you still in the mood to smoke this thing? Tian Xiang said with a bandage for him.
"Suppressed shock, he almost had a fucking hiccups. Du Chengcai took a hard breath of his cigarette and seemed to be very enjoyable.
Tian Xiang smiled and asked, "Captain, what should I do next?"
Du Chengcai shook his head, "I don't know what happened to Lao Huang and them, if they are fine, it will be easier to do, otherwise it will be ......"
"Otherwise?" Tian Xiang stared at him.
"We can only dig holes little by little. Du Chengcai pointed to the entrance of the cave.
Tian Xiang was stunned, "Captain, you're not talking nonsense, there is a snow-capped mountain outside, and we are hungry before we can take it out." ”
"Then what do you think you can do?" Du Chengcai took another hard puff on his cigarette.
"Let's take a look inside?" Tian Xiang gestured towards the depths of the cave.
Du Chengcai looked at the cave and turned his head to look at Tian Xiang, patted his leg and scolded: "Boy, you are so stupid, I am a wounded now, you have to think clearly, it is inconvenient to come out and go in." ”
Tian Xiang glanced at his leg and nodded, "That's right, it's really inconvenient to run around with your body." ”
"Fuck off, your kid is more disgusting than Lao Huang," Du Chengcai glanced at him, and then said with some worry and self-reproach, "I hope Lao Huang and they are safe, otherwise they should have turned back a few days ago." Hey, it's my miscommand. ”
"During the avalanche just now, Brother Huang and the others retreated a lot, there shouldn't be anything, right?" Tian Xiang comforted himself.
"Who can tell this ghost place?" Du Chengcai paused, "I hope it, I hope they are all safe." ”
The two of them leaned on the cave wall and chewed some compressed biscuits and swallowed a few mouthfuls of snow, the excitement of the rest of their lives just now gradually fell, Tian Xiang took off the small snow shovel on his body and began to dig a hole outside, but the digging collapsed a little bit, and after a while, the residual snow piled up a hill in the hole, but the two still sat cross-legged at the entrance of the cave and did not take a step.
"Captain, this won't work, if you continue like this, you'll have to sit on the snowdrift and smoke. Tian Xiang put the snow shovel on the snowdrift, looked at Du Chengcai, who was lighting a cigarette, and sat down on a stone, "If you don't do it, it's for nothing!"
Du Chengcai spat out a pillar of smoke and said disdainfully, "I said digging a hole, did you let you dig it now?"
Tian Xiang gave him a blank look, "Captain, why don't you say a word when I'm busy for a long time?"
"I see that you are working very hard, I am embarrassed to disturb you!" Du Chengcai smiled evilly, "Turn off the flashlight, save some electricity, I don't know if we have to stay here for a few days." ”
Tian Xiang turned off the flashlight and rested against the cave wall. The two of them didn't speak again, only the cigarette in Du Chengcai's hand was bright and dark in the dark hole.
"Are you afraid?" After a long time, Du Chengcai suddenly asked.
After a few seconds of silence, Tian Xiang replied softly, "I don't know!"
"I don't know?" Du Chengcai was puzzled.
"Hmm! just want to go back. Tian Xiang said and took out his mobile phone, but the battery was exhausted, and in the dark, Du Chengcai didn't notice what he was doing.
"Do you miss that girl at the airport?" Du Chengcai asked.
Tian Xiang nodded heavily in the dark, "She is the pillar of my life." ”
Du Chengcai didn't answer, let alone laugh, as if he was pondering. After being silent for a long time, Du Chengcai suddenly spoke, "My daughter should take the college entrance examination next year." ”
Tian Xiang opened his mouth and closed it again, not knowing how to answer, he understood Lao Du, although he couldn't describe that feeling, but he really understood it in his heart. Maybe Lao Du should be crying at this time, because he is already like this.
There was another round of silence in the cave, and the silence was a little terrifying, Tian Xiang had the urge to turn on the flashlight, but in the end he held back.