It was close to noon, and the slippery white pavement reflected a blinding glare of light. Sergei, who was concentrating on driving, was wearing a pair of dark sunglasses, and I couldn't tell his eyes, only the dark green reflection of the sunglasses. It made me feel that he was serious, and I swallowed all the questions in my stomach.

Sergei, who was staring at the road ahead, suddenly said:

- "Linna, are you hungry?" How about we take a break for lunch? ”

I don't drive, so I don't work as hard as him and maybe not as hungry as him, but after sitting in the car for half a day, even I am a little sleepy, and I certainly have no objection to his suggestion.

Along the way we finally found a small restaurant.

The low restaurant façade and the signboard are also very inconspicuous, and we almost missed it.

There were only four small tables in the small restaurant, and it was a typical mom-and-pop shop, and the owner was a tall middle-aged man, and the owners of all such small shops were as welcoming.

Perhaps such roadside restaurants have a characteristic that people pass by for a meal and a rest.

They recommended us the best meal he could cook here, and the funny, chubby hostess said it would take a little longer but would allow us to rest a little longer.

Sergei asked them about the road to Khorinsk.

The shopkeeper said that the distance from here to Khorinsk is not far, but there is no road ahead, and it is necessary to turn to the country road below, if it takes 2 hours in summer and snow on the road in winter, but it will not take 3 hours at most.

The shopkeeper reminded us that the road surface is very poor, and we should be more careful, it is better to hurry at dawn, as it will still be dangerous for people who are not familiar with the road to drive after dark.

He also said that there are no more restaurants from here to Khorinsk, and that it is better for us to eat enough before we hit the road.

After a full meal, we walked out of the restaurant, and what we didn't get there before we had only one meal, the sky had been covered with a thick layer of dark clouds, and the sun had already hidden behind the clouds. The overcast sky makes the road surface less dazzling.

As we continued on our way, the clouds covered us like a great quilt, which was not only getting lower and darker, but also darker, and the thick black clouds pressed down on the ground as if to swallow up the distance between heaven and earth. What was even more terrifying was that the gray clouds in the sky gradually turned black and inky. It soon became dark.

It didn't take long for light snowflakes to begin to fall in the sky.

Sergey, who took off his sunglasses, stared at me with big eyes of surprise and sighed at the vagaries of the weather in the Far East!

Soon the snowflakes were no longer light. They began to become dense and crowded, scurrying down from the sky to the ground. The wilderness, already covered in snow and ice, was now becoming more and more difficult to distinguish, and I only felt confused outside the car, and our car was alone on the rough path.

Sergey sped up, I knew he was trying to get to his destination as quickly as possible, but faster than we were in the increasingly urgent snowstorm.

I don't know when the wind started to sound in my ears. The dense snowflakes were no longer falling to the ground as they had been at first, they were carried by the wind and danced wildly in all directions, banging on the windows in clumps like irregular waves.

It was getting dark, and Sergey turned on the headlights, but that didn't help us see the road ahead. The visibility outside the car is getting lower and lower, and we can no longer see anything on both sides of the road, and there is no boundary between heaven and earth.

We drove for less than an hour, and it was completely dark outside, and the road under the headlights was only visible to less than five meters, and I could only see the snow falling everywhere in the night sky, the road conditions in the dark, and I didn't even know what reference Sergei was based on to locate and drive.

The temperature inside the car is not low, but listening to the roaring wind outside, I can imagine the biting cold outside.

Suddenly, our car skidd, Sergey tried his best to hold the steering wheel, and our car turned a 180 turn and stopped.

I was so frightened that I kept staring at Sergei and couldn't say a word.

Sergei stared out of the car, and after a while he looked at me and smiled and said:

- "Linna, we really can't go, in case we roll over, don't expect the traffic police to come and save us...... Also, I felt like I couldn't find my way out. ”

- "So what do we do?" I asked.

Sergei dialed Yuri's phone, but there was no signal at all. Sergey looked at the heavy snow and thought for a while. He got up and handed me his thick fur coat and said:

- "It's okay, I think we still have enough gasoline to burn for a while, wait until tomorrow morning, let's go!" ”

It was warm in the car, which made me not feel how dangerous I was, and I obediently covered my coat and prepared to sleep like this.

- "Linna, are you scared? "In the darkness I heard Sergei ask me with his head leaning back in his seat.

- "Don't be afraid, didn't you say that when the day comes, we can go?" I replied innocently.

- "Just don't be afraid!" Covered, don't freeze! Sergey said.

There was plenty of heating in the car, and I even felt that Sergei was too much to cover me with such a warm and heavy coat, so where would it freeze me? - I thought to myself, simple and ignorant.