"That was the first time I really felt despair and death, and I never wanted to experience that feeling again. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

-- Allen quotes

Winter in the north always comes suddenly, and although there are never any warm days here, the sudden drop in temperature still makes him realize that winter is coming.

Alan hadn't eaten meat for a long time since the last time he ate meat at Xiao De's house. He felt that since his strength was greater than that of a normal child, and now that he had the ability to support himself, he was no longer willing to accept other people's relief, but after all, he could not hunt, so the income from chopping wood was enough to feed and wear. The people in the village would always change their ways to send him some wild things and meat, but he chose to dry or freeze them, and invited the children of each family to eat them when he found the opportunity, after all, the environment here makes it not easy for every family to live.

Today is a rare sunny day in winter, Alan decided to go to the forest to fetch some firewood, the firewood in the sunny day is drier, it does not take too long to dry, and it is more labor-saving. By the way, you can try your luck in the farther forest, the depths of the far north forest naturally can't go, it's still okay to go around the periphery, and a few snow hare traps made before should also be updated, in case you really catch a snow rabbit, you can also satisfy your cravings, after all, it's an 8-year-old child, and there is still a natural desire to eat meat.

Carrying his firewood rack and carrying an axe and a firewood knife into the woods, Alan has been wandering around the woods since he was 6 years old, and now he is familiar with the way. This place is far from the outermost part of the extreme forest, not to mention snow beasts, not even snow wolves, only some small animals such as snow rabbits, there is not much threat. Because he likes to learn from the hunters in the village, Alan himself can already make some small traps for hunting, although he has not often harvested because of the fact that there are few snow hare haunts in this area in recent years, but he still enjoys it.

Today is obviously Allen's lucky day, and the first trap has a catch, this trap is at the edge of the forest, usually there are no birds, I didn't expect to be able to catch prey. Carrying the fat rabbit and humming a little tune into the forest, he gradually discovered the abnormality. Along the way, his three traps actually caught prey, and those ice fruit bulbs that snow rabbits usually don't want to smell seem to have become the best delicacy, making countless snow rabbits throw themselves into the net, one or two can be attributed to luck, but when Alan caught his fifth prey in his fifth trap, he finally couldn't deceive himself anymore.

"Something must have happened in the forest. Alan thought so, but just thinking about it, these are just a flash of light in his mind for the 8-year-old, and he will forget it in the blink of an eye, after all, being able to eat is the key.

When Alan decides to ignore the firewood today and concentrate on looking for snow rabbits in the trap he had made earlier, the weather starts to change.

The winter calendar in the Far North has a stable climate, a heavy snow often falls for ten days and a half before it ends, and a sunny day should be a week or more in a row, but today it seems that there is a trend of change again.

A gust of wind blew from the north, so strong that it rolled up the snow on the ground and flew all over the sky and raged southward. Alan stood in the woods and watched the strange wind and felt that he should have finished his day earlier, and the thousand needles tree in the distance had been almost broken by the strong wind, knowing that it was the toughest tree in the Far North.

He threw the snow rabbit in his hand on the wooden frame on his back, tightened the covered oiled paper, and was about to turn away, but found that he suddenly saw that he couldn't move. The air seemed to turn into colloids in an instant, like sticky honey, and it became especially difficult to move an arm in it. Alan was a little panicked by this sudden change, and for a while he could only stand still, as if even his thoughts were stagnant.

He didn't come to his senses until the knife-like north wind struck his face and stabbed his skin, although he didn't know the reason for this change, but he couldn't just stand in the wind and snow, the weather had changed from sunny to gloomy, and it seemed that it wouldn't be long before the blizzard came. "You can't freeze to death here. Thinking so, Alan began to struggle towards the village, every time he lifted his feet, every movement required considerable physical strength, and even turning back became an easy task, in this state, he became out of breath after only a few steps.

And when he finally reached the edge of the forest, his body was dyed white by the heavy snow, and in such a situation he had no strength to pat off the snow from his body, so he had to walk back to the village and his hut as soon as possible.

After struggling for nearly twenty more minutes, Alan stood by the trap of the first snow hare of the day, falling into deep despair. There was a lot of snow in the forest, but the sun was shining in the clearing just a few miles away, and there was not a single snowflake. When Alan felt that he was about to successfully get out of the predicament, he found that it was the end of the world. At the edge of the Far North Forest, an invisible barrier seems to have formed, invisible to the naked eye, but hard enough to be destroyed. I used all my strength to knock it, but it was like hitting a metal wall, and there was no reaction. Alan felt that he was like a fish in a water tank at this moment, waiting little by little for the water to be drained and his life to end.

The snow in the forest was getting heavier and heavier, so much so that it was obvious that a barrier was several centimeters above the forest, and it was not known if his cries could penetrate it, and even if he could, no one could hear it some distance from the village.

Alan shouted that his voice was hoarse and didn't do anything, and after making sure that he couldn't break it and couldn't be rescued, he faced reality. There is no way to avoid the blizzard in the northland, when the wind and snow are combined, the wind will send the blizzard to every corner and every crevice, and even the houses in the village that are not strong enough have been destroyed several times, not to mention the woods that have no shelter.

Sitting down with his back against the barrier, looking up at the sky with a clear boundary between light and dark, when he accepted the reality, there seemed to be not so much to worry about, Alan was even in the mood to reach out and catch one or two snowflakes to feel them melt in the palm of his hand, as the snow dripped down the palm prints, he felt his body temperature also lose a little bit. The eyelids are getting heavier and heavier, and the body's functions are gradually disappearing, and although I have tried to accept all this, I inevitably feel the desolation of despair

When he closed his eyes and prepared to sleep in the wind and snow, he heard a sound similar to the breaking of glass behind him. Then I heard a lot of familiar voices, some Xiaode, some Aunt Hua, and it seemed that there was also the village chief's scolding. Although I wanted to turn back but didn't have the strength to do it, the last thing I felt before I passed out was that I seemed to be being lifted, and then I didn't know anything.