When the snowstorm lasted until the 24th hour, Eric, who had moved to the cave, also fell into anxiety.
"Victor, I'm going to find Leo," Eric said suddenly after waiting for Wei Ran to change the medicine for the wound on his head, "It doesn't matter even if we can't find Jonas, at least we have to find Leo."
return."
"How do you look for it? Where do you look for it? Are you sure you can find it?" Wei Ran asked rapidly while packing the medical box.
"But..."
"Eric"
Wei Ran interrupted the other party before he could say anything, "You should believe in Leo, at least believe that Leo is more likely to survive in this environment than Professor Jonas. So instead of thinking randomly, you should find something for yourself.
Do, for example, remake those meteorological data."
Eric opened his mouth, walked to the table in the center of the cave, sat down, lit the two kerosene lamps, and silently took pictures of the meteorological data that he had no intention of paying attention to now.
Seeing that the other party finally calmed down, Weiran turned off the fuel generator outside the door, and continued to repair the two old-fashioned radios that had been damaged by Professor Jonas by the stove with the light provided by the two kerosene lamps on the table.
tower.
He didn't know whether these three people wanted to keep it secret or for other reasons, so they didn't bring communication tools for external communication. But now, the only hope was these two antiques that had obviously been damaged recently.
But under the premise that key parts were missing, he had no confidence at all whether he could make it work based on the radio knowledge he learned at the Hongqi Forest Farm.
Amid the sound of the camera's shutter and Wei Ran's busy work, time passed quietly, and the sky outside the cave changed from pitch black to dim and then back to pitch black again. However, the raging snowstorm showed no sign of weakening.
Compared to Leo, who has not returned for a long time, and the blizzard, which has not stopped for a long time, Wei Ran is worried about another thing. There is enough fuel in this cave, whether it is gasoline or coking coal frozen at the door, it can keep them going for one or two days.
The month is no problem.
But compared to fuel, the food they stored in the cave was not much. In order to prevent an avalanche from burying the cave, most of the food was moved into Jonas and Eric's tents. But since the former escaped, not only
The tent was blown away, and there was a question mark as to whether the food was still there.
But even if the food is still buried in the snow, it can only allow them to continue here for a week. Maybe after a week, they can only rely on hunting to fill their stomachs.
However, the only weapon they had at this time was the pistol that Wei Ran kept in a metal book. And it was obvious that Eric was not aware of this more serious problem at this time.
After glancing at Eric who was still taking pictures of the weather data, Wei Ran stood up and walked into the inner cave. He took some venison, vegetables and bread at will, and made some simple meals on the cast iron stove with charcoal fire.
While the small stainless steel pot was simmering the venison, he started the fuel generator again two wooden doors away, and then connected the power to the radio on the table.
After trying the radio, it still didn't work. Weiran reluctantly cut off the power supply, and then turned off the fuel generator.
"Eric, why didn't you bring a radio here?"
Eric stopped what he was doing and said regretfully, "At that time, Professor Jonas said that the use of radios was likely to be monitored by Norway or the Soviet Union, and we might be arrested as spies by then."
"So you didn't bring it with you?" Wei Ran looked at the other party helplessly.
"Originally Leo was going to take him," Eric spread his hands, "but Jonas insisted on refusing to take the risk. Now it seems that he was probably ready to escape privately."
"But how should he escape?" Wei Ran frowned and asked, "Isn't your cousin Leo looking for the fishing boat?"
"It was indeed Leo who found him."
Eric's expression was also full of confusion, "Unless he hid other ships on this island, it would be impossible to escape from this island."
Other ships?
Wei Ran shook his head secretly. If there were other ships, and if Professor Jonas had been ready to leave them and escape, he could have left Eric and Leo alone and sneaked over from the beginning.
Regardless of the futility of thinking so much at the moment, his return mission is to survive until the end, and he is not here to unravel the cocoons of these conspiracies one after another.
What's more, as early as when he decided to participate in this historical event, Wei Ran had the two main purposes of learning Norwegian and seeing Katenka's investigative ability. At the moment, neither Norwegian nor French are his favorites.
After learning, naturally there will be less motivation.
"Victor, I just had a new idea." Eric stood up, with surprise in his tone.
"What do you think?" Wei Ran looked at the other party in confusion.
"We don't know if there are other ships on this island, but there must be a cave on this island that was used by the second weather station!"
Eric said excitedly, "Remember what Jonas said when we first got here? He said that on the highest peak of Bear Island, there is a signal tower relay station built by the Germans during World War II. Since there is a relay station,
It definitely needs maintenance there, and since it needs maintenance, there is probably a cave like this there!"
"Do you want to go there and visit?" Wei Ran looked at the other person and asked.
"Maybe there isn't a second boat, but what if Professor Jonas is hiding in that possible cave?"
Eric said excitedly, "As long as we capture Professor Jonas, we can at least ask him if he has seen Leo. In addition, even if he has not seen Leo, didn't he take away two reindeer? As long as
We have those two reindeer, so it will be much easier to find Leo."
After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran sat across from Eric, poured him a cup of scalding coffee and asked, "Eric, tell me in detail what you plan to do."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "We need to prepare the supplies needed to find another possible cave before the blizzard stops. If Leo has not come back after the blizzard stops, we will set off immediately.
"
Eric said while writing on the paper, "In addition, if we can't find the cave, or there is no Professor Jonas in the cave, we will have to go to the dock west of Bear Island to wait for the fishing boat and borrow the other party's boat.
If there is a working radio station in the cave, we can even try to call the police directly."
"Call the police?"
"Of course we have to call the police!" Eric pointed to the wooden box on the table, "Compared to these precious meteorological data, Leo's safety is more important."
In the quiet and warm cave, Wei Ran exhaled, "What do you need me to do?"
"Let me find out from those information whether there is a cave under another signal tower. How about you prepare the supplies?" Eric asked in an almost pleading tone, "I know I shouldn't drag you with me to take risks, but if we
If you want to leave here alive, this may be the only way,"
Wei Ran nodded and agreed happily, "Okay, I'll prepare the supplies."
Hearing this, Eric was obviously relieved. He immediately stood up and walked towards the shelf, looking for clues about the existence of another cave.
Looking at Eric who seemed to have regained hope, Wei Ran shook his head secretly, stood up and walked towards the entrance of the cave. He moved the frozen canvas tent on the sleigh into the cave with difficulty, put it on two tables, and used the help not far away
The fire is baking the ice ballast above.
Under the busy work of the two people, the canvas tent and sleeping bag, which weighed more than 30 kilograms, gradually became dry and soft. All the few ingredients in the cave inside were cooked, and then brought outside to freeze. They could be simply heated.
The ice cream in your mouth immediately.
Even the tent where Eric and Professor Jonas lived was dug out by the two of them in the snowstorm, and they dug out some cooked frozen seafood and a large box from the snow that was one meter thick.
Easy-to-preserve vegetables and a few unopened bottles of potato wine.
When another short day came, Eric, who had almost turned the entire cave upside down, finally let out a cheer.
"Victor look at this!"
Eric held a plastic-covered book and shouted excitedly, "Relay station maintenance records! There is indeed a relay station there! And it seems there really is a maintenance warehouse!"
"Is there a specific location?" Wei Ran came up and asked.
"Yes! Of course!"
Eric excitedly flipped through the plastic book and showed the obviously hand-drawn map on the last page and said, "We can find it just by following this map. It even indicates locations prone to avalanches and precautions!"
"Now we just have to wait for the storm to stop."
Wei Ran took the notebook and looked at it. The contents recorded in it were extremely detailed, such as which year and day of the year the relay station was routinely maintained, the battery was replaced, or when an avalanche was encountered during routine maintenance.
, who was injured or who was buried under the snow and was not rescued, etc.
It can be seen that the people working in this weather station at that time were very serious and very boring at the same time. Otherwise, they would not have had to report such things as "by the way, I found a few Arctic foxes dancing in circles under the aurora".
Put the bullshit in the maintenance records.
Returning the plastic leather notebook to Eric, the latter thought for a while and actually tore off a piece of white paper from the last page of the notebook, then took out a pen and wrote something in Norwegian that Wei Ran couldn't understand.
Seeing Wei Ran looking at him curiously, Eric put away his pen and explained, "If Leo comes back and finds that we are gone, he will definitely look for us, so I left him a message in advance in case he comes back.
, at least you don’t have to look for us anymore, otherwise we will never be able to touch you.”
"If you had been so careful earlier, you wouldn't have ended up in this situation." Wei Ran muttered to himself and simply changed the topic to the blizzard that still continued outside the cave.
As the two waited patiently, two full days passed before the wind outside the cave gradually weakened and finally stopped completely. Even above their heads, there was a strange aurora.
The two of them did not dare to waste time. After eating and drinking and changing medicine for the wound on Eric's head, they immediately lit all the four kerosene gas lamps they had found in the cave in advance and hung them around the sled truck filled with supplies.
, then the two of them put on their snowshoes, each picked up a climbing rope as thick as a thumb, and pulled the sleigh all the way north, leaving the valley and the warm cave along the slowly rising terrain.
