16. Switchback
Poor Yin Sabella has lived for eight years, started pulling sleds at the age of one, and has also pulled for seven years, serving countless world-famous polar explorers, and has never seen such a strange request.
Woof!
She smacked Song Wenbin.
As a Samoyed who has forgotten to return to the pole dozens of times, Yin Sabella enjoys a high reputation and prestige in the polar training camp, and the instructor of the training camp even said that Song Wenbin can not rely on any guide, just need to follow Yin Sabela, and he can come and go between the pole and the camp freely, provided that he can control this arrogant.
But now, Song Wenbin didn't care about Yin Sabela's status and honor, his eyes were full of the other party's white jade, hairy and fat body.
Song Wenbin glared, pulled out the whip on his waist, breathed heavily, and threatened: "Go up!" ”
"Uhhhhhh
Seeing Song Wenbin pull out the whip, Yin Sabela's voice changed, and she looked at the position of the head dog with some grievances, as if to say that she should be in front of the car, not in the car.
But Song Wenbin doesn't care about these rules, he is already too cold to want to, seeing Yin Sabella resisting, he raised his whip and threatened: "You serve me well, I will let Nidel lead the way, you are still the head dog, but if you don't serve me, I will let Rao lead the way!" Hmph, if it leads the way for a long time, you won't be a head dog. ”
A dog and a man stared at each other for a moment on the snow.
I don't know whether she understood Song Wenbin's words or was intimidated by Song Wenbin's whip, she let out a whimpering sound, climbed to her position aggrievedly, and sat down.
The nine dogs in front stuck out their tongues, sighed, and watched this scene inexplicably.
Song Wenbin dragged Nidel to the position of the head dog and put the reins on it. This caused Rao to bark in dissatisfaction.
Song Wenbin was unceremoniously about to fight, and Rao's plane shrank his head and closed his eyes.
Song Wenbin nodded with satisfaction, put away the whip, returned to the chair, and touched Yin Sabela's head, Yin Sabella suddenly let out a fierce whimper.
Song Wenbin took out a small piece of dried fish from his pocket, and Yin Sabella still whimpered. So Song Wenbin took out a jar full of dried fish from behind, and Yin Sabella's eyes were straight and she stopped screaming.
Song Wenbin said: "Hold it for an hour and eat a piece, no comment." ”
"Wang!
”
Yin Sabella screamed.
Song Wenbin didn't care if she understood it or not, he directly hugged her and buried his hands and face in her furry back.
Sure enough, after having Yin Sabella as a windshield this time, the cold was much better, and Song Wenbin was overjoyed, calling himself a genius.
Yin Sabella, who was hugged by Song Wenbin, was very reluctant and restless, and kept making a sound from the chair, um, um, um, very anxious, very aggrieved.
Nidel, who was pulling the sled, glanced back from time to time, and made a hmm-huh sound.
Song Wenbin saw that this dog dared not pull the sled well and looked back, so he immediately waved a small leather whip and whipped it lightly and heavily.
Nidel was in pain, so he had to turn around, and with the helplessness of being a dog, he stuck out his tongue and sledled with a snort.
The sleigh moved on.
Song Wenbin sat on the sleigh and laughed, at this moment he finally realized that Huo Yu was keen on violence, and the feeling of being in power was too pleasant.
……
Since it was August, the Arctic had not yet entered its coldest season, and the Song trio had to go to the northernmost tip of the archipelago, where they could find suitable ice and make their way to the pole.
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If it was planned, it would have taken about two days to reach the northernmost part of the archipelago, but after Song Wenbin dragged Yin Sabella onto the sleigh to warm the baby, the already slow sleigh was even slower.
He thought that at his speed, he would catch up with Huo Yu and Sutina, but he was afraid that he would not be able to rest at night. But he didn't expect that at nine o'clock in the evening, he saw a Dongfanghong tractor and a blue snowmobile in the snow.
Song Wenbin was surprised, and when the dog sled chased after him, he found that this was a wilderness full of strange-shaped snowdrifts, some of which looked like mushrooms, and some of which were like men's things, standing on the wasteland, and the whole scene looked quite strange.
If you get closer, you can see that the snowdrifts are low snowy shrubs, covered in frost and snow after the fall of the Arctic, forming a labyrinth of snowdrifts in the moor, blocking the way of the two men.
Huo Yu's snowmobile was fine, it was just stuck by a tree, but Sutina's Dongfanghong tractor was already stuck in those snowdrifts, and it was difficult to move an inch.
At this moment, two female colleagues are holding chainsaws and shovels, struggling to cut through snowdrifts and ice blocks blocking the road, trying to remove the obstacles that are blocking the progress of the vehicle.
When Song Wenbin saw this scene, he was happy and said, "Hey, aren't these turtles and rabbits, they haven't slept digging snow here." ”
The two girls had already heard the sound of the dog behind them, and when they saw Song Wenbin coming, the tired and panting two people straightened their waists.
Seeing that Song Wenbin was like an old man, sitting on a sleigh with a big white dog in his hand, Su Tina couldn't help but be a little annoyed, and said: "You are still in the mood to say cool words, this place is difficult to walk, why don't you come down and help!" ”
"What?" Song Wenbin was surprised: "Help? It's a competitive project, how can I help. Right, Huo Yu. ”
He sat on the sleigh and winked at Huo Yu.
Huo Yu bent down and picked up a handful of snow and threw it at him, Song Wenbin bent his waist to dodge, and then laughed and said, "It seems that the icebreaker you chose for me is quite useful, my dog is not afraid of such terrain." ”
"If you don't help, go away, save yourself from looking upset!"
Huo Yu scolded, scolding and throwing snowballs at him.
"Bye-bye, twenty-first century."
Song Wenbin said with a grin. As he spoke, his dog was already writhing from the frozen bushes with him.
Seeing that Song Wenbin really planned to go over directly, Su Tina couldn't help shouting, "Hey! Brother Song, only we have a guide, if you go forward, there will be no guide and no ruts. ”
Song Wenbin has entered the ice and snow maze, and there are bursts of echoes from him in the maze: "Don't bother with it, my queen is very professional~"
"Queen, what queen?"
Sutina asked Huo Yu a little inexplicably.
Huo Yu sneered: "It's probably the big white dog." ”
Sutina showed a look of disgust: "Yi, furry is disgusting. ”
……
……
After passing over the two female colleagues, Song Wenbin was in a good mood. It seems that even the air at minus 10 degrees Celsius has become less uncomfortable.
He laughed out loud on the sleigh and said to the camera, "Great, dog sledding, this thing is frozen and primitive, but in an extreme environment like the Arctic, modern technology is not so easy to use, and it can fail at any time." If you want me to say, I'm the turtle in the tortoise and hare race, because I'm always moving forward~"
As Song Wenbin was talking, Yin Sabella suddenly writhed wildly in his arms, making an irrepressible whining sound.
There was longing, a threat in that whine.
Seeing this, Song Wenbin didn't dare to hug her, let go of his hand, Yin Sabella jumped off the sleigh almost instantly, and ran to the front, and the dogs saw Yin Sabella running, and one by one they also made a barking sound in place, and the speed of the sled suddenly increased a lot.
"What are you doing?"
Song Wenbin scolded: "What about nerves? ”
The dogs didn't listen to his reprimand at all, and ran fast one by one, running to thirty kilometers per hour in the forest, Song Wenbin felt as if he was sitting on a bumpy mountain bike, because it was too bumpy, he didn't even dare to sit down anymore, he was afraid that the sled would overturn, so he quickly got up, grabbed the materials on the sled, climbed to the back of the banana-shaped sleigh and stood on it as a load-bearing, which stabilized the sled.
I have to say that running wild in the snow like this is still very exciting, but Song Wenbin doesn't know why these dogs are crazy, so he can only stare at the front tightly.
After about a kilometre of running, the dogs pulled their sleds out of this peculiar frozen bush and came to the edge of an frozen fjord.
The scenery here is very arctic, the white ice is covered with thick snow, and the white mountains in the distance are undulating, which are not the common pinnacle mountains in China, all the mountains are flat-topped.
The dogs probably smelled something, and the girl ran to the ice with the sled, and Yin Sabella had reached her destination first at the moment because she had no rope on her, and was confronting several arctic foxes.
The arctic foxes were still trying to deal with Yin Sabella, but after hearing the barking of the dogs behind them, they flew away very interestingly.
At this time, Song Wenbin saw clearly that there was a reindeer corpse on the ice, it may have been dead for a while, and its internal organs have been eaten empty, but there are still a lot of muscles left in its limbs. Yin Sabella just smelled it, so she couldn't wait to come here.
After driving away the arctic fox, Yin Sabella kept barking around the carcass of the reindeer, and the dogs were also very excited when they smelled it, and the barks came and went.
Only Song Wenbin was so frightened that he quickly stopped the sleigh, and took a double-barreled shotgun from the side of the sleigh and held it in his hand, and then he rushed down the sleigh and strode to the carcass of the reindeer.
Yin Sabella, who loves blood, has already bitten at the ribs of the reindeer's abdomen.
"Don't worry, you can't eat it!"
Song Wenbin drove away the impatient Yin Sabella.
Yin Sabella was very unhappy, whimpered a few times, and tried to protect her food, but when she saw the gun in Song Wenbin's hand, she had to retreat in annoyance.
With a shotgun in one hand and a camera in the other, Song Wenbin circled around the reindeer carcass.
The Arctic fox can't kill this large prey, and there is only one thing that can kill a reindeer in the Arctic Circle.
Sure enough, after walking for a while, Song Wenbin found a huge footprint in the snow, he compared his hand to the palm print, his legs were shaking, and the palm print left behind was almost the size of his three hands, with a diameter of thirty centimeters, and it was extremely scary.
Song Wenbin stood up, straightened his hat and glasses, and looked around.
It is surrounded by a vast snowfield and is very empty.
And this emptiness added to the fear in Song Wenbin's heart.
There is no doubt that the one who killed the reindeer was a polar bear, and it must have been a bear in the prime of life, because the other party ate only the fattest offal and left, indicating that it was at the peak of its hunting and there was no shortage of prey.
At the camp, the instructors reminded them of one of the dangers of polar bears, which are even more numerous than humans in the Arctic Circle, and who are the masters of the land.
At this moment, it is the autumn of the Arctic, and the polar bears are preparing for hibernation, and they all have to eat fat and strong, generally able to eat 800 kilograms, and some of them can even grow to a ton in size, there is no doubt that this body shape is extremely terrifying in Song Wenbin's opinion.
Although he had a gun in his hand, although he had ten strong, experienced sled dogs, but... He's just a modern guy after all, a reality TV host who was driven to the North Pole, and a month ago, he didn't even have a gun, and even during training, he was just a fake target, and if a polar bear did rush at him, he wasn't sure if he really had the mental quality to give it a shuttle.
Damn it...
Song Wenbin thought about it and turned around without hesitation.
Unlike Song Wenbin from modern times, Yin Sabella is not afraid of polar bears, especially as the head dog of ten sled dogs, leading them to eat can help her solidify her position as the leader of the team.
But Song Wenbin didn't want to stay here longer, he couldn't wait to go back to Huo Yu.
"Hey! Don't eat it, we're going back!
”
Song Wenbin shouted.
Yin Sabella just glanced at him, and then ate it to herself, and the other dogs saw that Yin Sabella was disobedient, so they all came over and gnawed around the carcass of the reindeer.
Song Wenbin was a little annoyed, these dogs were obviously very well-behaved during the training camp, but they turned into ghosts as soon as they came out. Presumably there were coaches in the training camp who watched them, Yin Sabella was vain and wronged with him, and after she came out, she instantly became the boss again, and she ignored him.
"I can't cure you yet."
Song Wenbin took out another axe from the sleigh, and he walked towards the dogs with the axe.
The eating dogs watched him rush over with an axe, and quickly got out of the way one by one, only Yin Sabella was still lying on top of the reindeer, staring at him intently, trying to prove to him that she was the boss.
"Are you leaving?" Song Wenbin pointed an axe at Yin Sabella.
Woof!
Yin Sabella scolded him.
The meaning was obvious, she was going to eat the venison.
"Bastard."
Song Wenbin raised the axe and slashed down.
Yin Sabella was frightened and quickly jumped away.
Song Wenbin slashed at the reindeer leg with an axe, slashed more than a dozen times in a row, and cut off the frozen deer leg stiffly.
"Go back and eat."
Song Wenbin said to Yin Sabella with a deer leg.
He threw the deer's leg back onto the sled.
Yin Sabella immediately understood what he meant, and jumped into the sleigh chair with joy.
"Get out of here and pull the cart! Delicious old! ”
Song Wenbin kicked her down.
There were polar bears around, he didn't want to stay here for a second longer, he had to hurry back to Huo Yu's side.