Chapter 151: Murder Tricks
The road up the snowy mountains is narrow and steep, at first, there are some trees on the side of the road, halfway up the mountain, only a few low weeds remain, and further up, more and more bare stones.
Schweiker estimated that at an altitude of 1,500 meters, the men who had set off from the guard station had placed their horses in a hollow.
The terrain of the mountains no longer allowed horses to force their way.
The strength of these people's feet also surprised Sveker, and they didn't walk slowly, but Svek and the others didn't see the stragglers.
For every kilometer of elevation, the temperature drops by about 6.5 degrees, but when he came to this position, Svecker found that the temperature of this snow-capped mountain dropped even faster.
Moreover, the intensity of sun exposure increases exponentially, which is the power of ultraviolet rays.
In the guard station, Beach picked up a cowboy hat made of sheepskin, and at this moment he gave it to Ethel, the sunlight was too poisonous.
When it was almost dark, they saw Doug Moss's highest snow-capped peak, sacred and inviolable.
Xuefeng's huge body covers the sun's rays, and the backlit side is cold and terrifying.
Jammett's camp wasn't far from Sveker's five-man camp, just above everyone's heads.
They need to keep their distance from Jammert.
At this location, the temperature is already quite low, and the cold wind with scattered snowflakes is constantly blowing, and people hiding in tents will feel that the tent will be blown away at any time.
Tonight, Svek and Goabone live in a tent, Ethel in a tent by himself, and Satsuma and Beech in a tent.
"Luckily, we were well prepared. ”
Gousskeed: "Farmer, is our camp too close to them?"
"It's out of the way, do you feel tired?"
"I'm thinking about sleeping right now. ”
"That's it, your physical strength is so good, you are too tired to move, who else will crawl down and ask us who we are, they do this again, the distance is not short, I am worried that Ethel will not be able to climb up tomorrow. ”
Ethel had a slight altitude sickness, a headache, and was not breathing well.
She had just drunk water, barely eaten, and at the end of the day she had fallen asleep, and she was exhausted.
The slope of this snow-capped mountain is too steep.
The next morning, Beechcraft came to call. "Head, they went up, we didn't follow. ”
"Follow, of course. ”
Svecker screamed for a while, and Ethel woke up, and today, she was in a much better state, not as pale as yesterday.
"Does your head still hurt?"
"Don't worry about me, I'm a monk. ”
"Are you sure?"
"Absolutely. ”
Svek followed the mountaineering team to bite hard, and then there was snow up, not thick, but quite slippery, the road became blurred, just up the mountain, you can still see the bluestone paved mountain road, at this time, you can only see scattered stones paved on the mountain road, and nearly 90 degrees straight up and down.
Beechcraft began to shake his head and curse.
Such a snow-capped mountain, how often do the island keepers go back and forth.
The road is small, the slope is steep, and there is snow on the road, and the roadside is basically a deep cliff, and it is inevitable that if you accidentally fall down, you will be broken bones.
By the time Sveck estimated that the altitude had reached 3,800 to 4,000 meters, the mountains were covered with snow, and the sun was gone, shrouded in low dark clouds.
There was a cliff in front of him, and ropes hung down, which were left by the people in front of him.
Svek was the first to climb up the rope.
Beechcraft is the second, Guyabone is the third, Ethel has a bitter face, and also climbs up, Beechcraft wants to applaud and encourage, but is reprimanded by Guyabone in a low voice: If you want to die, no one will stop you, pay attention to the avalanche!
Sveck looked up, the cliffs were covered with snow that had accumulated over an unknown number of years, and the slightest movement would cause an avalanche.
After crossing the cliff, the people went forward and came to the edge of a great rift valley.
The depth of the rift is so deep that people dare not look down, and the bridge across the rift valley has only a slightly chopped log.
The log is about 1.2 meters in diameter and about 25 meters in length.
If it is not a rift valley in front of you, but a stream, I believe that children can also go there, but the problem is that there is a bottomless abyss under your feet, and in the middle of the rift valley, the mountain wind is blowing, and the bridge deck is still very slippery.
Svek takes the lead, and there is a thrilling past.
Ethel arrived here, covered her face, she was afraid of heights, is she afraid of heights, is she afraid of heights, it is indeed a little.
Svecker returned, closed her eyes, and carried her across the bridge.
Further up, there are all cliffs, and next to them are unfathomable deep cliffs, such a terrain, everyone is cautious and frightened.
Suddenly, the sound of a cannonball exploding sounded overhead.
The first thing that thought of Guabone was the artillery of the Vaissunlons, and it was not right to think about it, how could the artillery of the Vassunons be moved to such a place.
Overhead, there was a terrible rumbling sound, and in between, there were countless screams.
It's an avalanche!
Above their heads, there was a huge protruding cliff, and under the huge cliff, there was a recess, although it was not a cave, just enough to avoid the avalanche.
As soon as Sweik and the others hid in, the snow like a collapse slanted down.
The snow fog stirred up by the avalanche made Svek unable to see anything around him, only to hear the desperate screams of someone in the falling snow.
There was a little less snow in the fall, and Svek witnessed the two men mingling in the snow, right in front of their noses, falling off a deep cliff.
The avalanche stopped, and Svecker was barely buried in snow.
Finally climbed out of the snow, and looked down boldly, in the abyss, in the white snowdrift, mixed with several black dots, it was a mountaineer who fell from a high altitude, whether you are a mage or not, a wizard, falling from such a high place, the chance of survival is almost impossible.
Goabones: "They're finally getting started. ”
Sveker: "Are you talking about the Island Keeper?"
"Redundant, of course, it is the island keepers, there are no more than fifty island guards on the snow mountain, and there are at least three hundred people with Jaime, this man-made avalanche, I estimate that half of Jaimet's people will die. ”
Sveker: "I now understand why James struggled with so many helpers in the snowy mountains. ”
"The best is yet to come. ”
Beech: 'How far are we from the highest snowy peak?' ’
Guabones: "We don't want to go anywhere now, just stay here, I believe, we will keep dropping people." ”
Svek smiled heartily, "Okay, you cunning snake, let's just wait and see if the island keepers are using their murderous tricks." ’
Svek didn't dare to go up at this time, the people who made the artillery-like movement must be the island guards, they used the advantage of the terrain to create an avalanche to kill the climbers, since they have already started to do it, what will be the next move, Svek just hides here and listens to the excitement.
Sure enough, from above the rock where they were hiding, there were occasional scolding, the clatter of weapons, and some sounds that Sveker couldn't guess.
Soon, someone screamed and fell.
A person smashed on the stone cliff, rolled along the stone cliff in front of Schweik and others, and jumped down into the abyss under the effect of inertia.
The man had a staff in his hand, and the staff was stuck in a snowdrift, barely enough to support his entire body in mid-air.
Obviously, it's this one who knows magic.
"Help Me ....."
The magician with a bloody face called for help to Sveek and the others, perhaps he didn't expect that there were a few people hiding in this place.
Beach stood up and kicked over: "Hurry up and die, don't reveal our location!"
One kick didn't work, the man clutched the staff, Beechcraft picked up the hammer, smashed it over, and the game ended.