In the valley on the southeast side of Bear Island, Eric, whose head was wrapped in gauze, asked worriedly. At this time, almost ten hours had passed since Leo chased Professor Jonas, but he still hadn't come back. At the same time, people outside
The snowstorm intensified and showed no signs of stopping.
"If you are in the mood to worry about Leo, why not worry about us instead."
Wei Ran said helplessly. In the past ten hours, the snow outside the tent had accumulated half a meter thick. At the same time, due to the high temperature emitted by the gasoline stove that continued to burn in the tent, in addition to the heavy snow outside the tent, Wei Ran said helplessly.
In addition to the snow, there is also a thick layer of ice crust.
These burdens not only make the thick tent they live in likely to be crushed at any time, but also cause the temperature in the tent to drop below 20 degrees. If the snowstorm continues for a while, they may freeze to death.
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Eric looked at Wei Ran who kept hitting the tent with his ski pole, and sighed, "It's my fault, I should have known this would happen..."
"It doesn't make any sense to say this now."
Wei Ran stopped the other party's words, "Since Leo is confident in catching up with Professor Jonas who escaped, then you should believe that he can come back."
"What if he doesn't come back?" Eric, who had already fallen into self-doubt, asked.
"Then find a way to survive." Wei Ran poked his ski pole into the snow, "If Leo comes back and you die in the end, he will be the one who is sad."
Eric opened his mouth, finally got up and got up, pulled out the ski pole that Wei Ran had just poked next to him, and helped tap the tent cloth together to slow down the accumulation of snow and ice outside.
While the two of them waited nervously for the blizzard to stop in a tent that could be crushed by the snow at any time, the fishing boat also headed for Finnmark, 400 kilometers away, despite the blizzard.
However, I don't know if it was retribution after doing all the bad things. Just as the ship was about to sail past Bear Island and the center of the mainland, the fishing boat being carried forward by the waves hit a huge floating piece of land without any warning.
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Amid the violent shaking, Professor Jonas, whose wounds were simply bandaged, limped toward the cab, while Captain Martin, who was having a sweet dream in the cab, put a life jacket on himself in panic!
"What's going on?" Professor Jonas asked in horror.
"Our ship hit an ice floe!"
Martin looked at the bow of the ship getting closer and closer to the ice-filled water, pushed Professor Jonas away, got into the cabin, carried the other person's mountaineering bag, and ran to the back deck.
"Wait for me!" Professor Jonas climbed up with difficulty, holding on to the wall of the corridor and chasing each other while shouting, "Without me, you can't find a buyer at all!"
Martin, who was busy preparing the survival boat, glanced at the panicked Professor Jonas, and without hesitation pulled out his pistol and aimed it at him again, "Old man, I only give you one last chance to tell me how to find a way to buy a lifeboat."
Home!"
Jonas pressed the wound on his leg, leaned his body against the cold hatch, and shouted with all his strength, "Take me away, and I will give you all the money from the sale! I just want to survive! Or kill."
Damn it, you take those films and sell them to whoever you want."
Martin cursed and finally waved to the other party, "Come up!"
Professor Jonas secretly breathed a sigh of relief, endured the pain, and limped along the increasingly steep deck.
"If these films cannot be sold for 5 million US dollars, I will send you back to Bear Island!" Captain Martin said, roughly pushing the other party into the lifeboat.
Taking one last look at the body on the bow deck that had been completely covered by ice and snow, Captain Martin simply jumped onto the lifeboat, untied the chain that fixed the survival boat, and shook the oars desperately to try to stay away from the fishing boat that hit the iceberg.
However, even if the fishing boat was struggling on the seemingly furious sea, how long could this wooden boat, which was only three meters long, last?
Before the fishing boat with its upturned stern could completely sink, the survival boat was knocked into the bottom of the sea by an ice block carrying a large number of ice floes.
After the wave passed, only a big red mountaineering bag filled with film was left on the undulating sea, floating with the current, and then completely disappeared without a trace under the influence of another wave.
Wei Ran and Eric, who knew nothing about this, were not in good condition either. The tent they were hiding in had been mostly buried by the snow, leaving only less than one meter above the snow surface.
superior.
Inside the tent, which was crazily squeezed by the snow, Wei Ran and Eric were hitting the tilted tent fabric with their backs again and again, trying to compact the snow outside to give them more space.
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Although the temperature inside the tent has dropped to single digits as the snow outside is getting thicker and thicker, it is not without its benefits. At least the tent is much more stable than when the snowstorm just started.
Now all they have to worry about is the wooden pole fixed to the sleigh and not breaking due to the heavy pressure. Or the gasoline stove that provides them with a heat source, and the kerosene gas lamp hanging on the sleigh.
It's enough not to put it out.
During their unbearable wait, the sky outside the ventilation window above their heads became slightly brighter, and the blizzard that had raged for more than ten hours also weakened a little. At least, they could barely see the situation in the distance clearly.
"Victor, look in the direction of the cave!" Eric retracted his head and handed the telescope to Wei Ran, "Look! Look!"
Hearing this, Wei Ran curiously took the telescope and looked in the direction of the cave at the edge of the valley. To his surprise, although there was thick ice and snow where they set up their tent, the snow at the edge of the valley was blown clean!
He even vaguely saw the stone steps and the remaining moss and lichen on the surface that he had never seen before at the entrance of the cave!
"Look to the left!" Eric reminded in a loud voice.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Wei Ran moved the telescope slightly to the left under the guidance of the other party, and then discovered that in the southwest corner of the valley facing them, there was a foot.
There is a big stone about three to four meters long and about one meter high. There seems to be something carved on this big stone.
After twisting the focusing wheel of the telescope and seeing the mottled writing on it clearly, Wei Ran couldn't help but show a weird expression that made him laugh or cry. On the stone a few hundred meters away, in sufficiently eye-catching German, it was written "2444 Distance to Berlin"
The line "km" is full of information with rigorous scientific meaning.
Behind this big stone shaped like a sign, there is a pass slightly higher than the ground. The strong wind blowing into the valley from the north carries the snow accumulated here and blows across the pass into the cold Arctic Ocean.
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"Victor, look at the remains of the wooden building left by the weather station."
Eric shouted excitedly in the tent, "They must have carefully inspected this place before they built the weather station there! Those people at that time were geniuses!"
Genius indeed!
Wei Ran couldn't help but sigh. He didn't know if this was a coincidence, but at least the current situation was that the strong wind blowing from the north of the valley not only took away the snow near the cave and even above the head, but even around the ruins of the weather station.
It was blown clean, revealing the rusty airdrop tanks that were neatly placed around them and half-buried in the ground.
Looking at the location where they chose to set up their tent, it was less than two hundred meters away from the ruins, but their tent was almost buried by the snow!
"How is this done?" Wei Ran retracted his head and asked curiously.
"Isthmus tube effect! Of course it is the isthmus tube effect!"
Eric seemed to have forgotten about the wound on his head and the surrounding tents that could collapse at any time. He used the ski pole in his hand to quickly draw a simple topographic map of the valley at his feet, and explained excitedly, "Normally speaking, the canyon canal
Most of the effects are harmful. But in this place, after the wind blowing from the north enters the valley where we are, it will be accelerated when the speed reaches a certain critical value, and the strengthened wind speed,
It will also easily take away the snow in this valley."
Wei Ran opened his mouth and was about to say something when Eric continued, "The mountains on the southern edge of the valley and the pass near the rock also have crucial wind speeds!
When the wind speed blowing from the north exceeds the threshold, the west side of the valley will be like turning on a vacuum cleaner! But look at us here, although it is only a distance of two hundred meters, because the wind that is only a dozen meters away from us to the north is only
It is blocked by a stone mountain two to three meters high, so instead..."
"Stop, stop"
Wei Ran had to stop Eric, who seemed to be both Conan and Einstein, and asked simply and directly, "Just answer me, is it safer for us to hide in the cave now?"
"Of course!" Eric pointed to the terrain map drawn under his feet with his ski pole, ready to continue explaining the principles to Wei Ran.
“Don’t waste time when it’s safer”
While Wei Ran was talking, he had already started to move the oil drum holding down the tent door, and then started to clear the snow outside with a snow shovel.
Eric reacted and quickly helped extinguish the gasoline stove that had been burning for more than ten hours, and then moved the blankets, sleeping bags and various items in the tent onto the sleigh one by one.
When rolling up Leo's polar bear skin blanket, Eric discovered that in addition to a few pornographic magazines that he had dug out in the cave, there were also Leo's treasured silver cigarette cases and silver lighters.
, and in the cigarette case that was still open, in addition to a few cigarettes, there was also the black and white photo that Leo dreamed of finding the shooting location.
Eric lost his excitement and worriedly picked up Leo's cigarette case and lighter and put them into his pocket. Then he carefully rolled up the polar bear skin blanket left by Leo and carried it onto the sleigh.
After Wei Ran dug a passage along the tent door, the two of them worked together to push the sleigh out, then put away the tent that was almost buried in the snow, and braved the strong wind towards a stronger cave in the distance.
When the iron door full of bullet holes was pushed open by Eric, he instantly fell into a low mood again when he saw the old fuel generator. Just less than 24 hours ago, Professor Jonas had
Together with them in this warm cave, we took pictures of the meteorological data.
But now, the other party took advantage of the cover of a snowstorm and left the valley alone with his own treasure.
