The wind and snow got heavier and heavier, and within a short time, several people were covered with a thick layer of snow.
The sudden drop in temperature was also affected by the exhaled water vapor, causing ice ridges to appear on the stubble, eyebrows and hair.
The six of them did not dare to slack off at all. At this moment, the warm hunting clothes they were wearing seemed to have no effect. The biting cold kept drilling into their bodies, like needles.
When the igloo was built to a height of more than one meter, it became difficult for everyone to roll snow balls outside to build the igloo. Lu Lu, Zhao Yongke and Liang Kangbo entered it first, and Chen Xiuqing, Zhang Shaofeng and Lei
Meng rolled the snowballs over and gave them to the three of them to pile on.
It took more than half an hour for the igloo to gradually shrink into the shape of a yurt, leaving only a vent about fifty centimeters in diameter on the top, which was blocked with a few snowballs, leaving a gap as a vent.
There is also a small door hole left at the base of the igloo, just big enough for one person to get in and out while squatting.
Things have been so busy now that the igloo is finally completed. Several people stood inside the tent and moved in the birch bark, urala grass and mattresses. Of course, there were also firearms and the few wooden pillars that were enough to burn for one night.
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Several dogs and Bai Yu were also brought in by Lu Lu. Yuanbao and the others seemed to be frightened by the snowstorm. After getting into the igloo, they lay down on the side without moving.
When Lu Lu finally came in, a big snowball rolled up and blocked the entrance.
At this point, the wind and snow outside were finally isolated.
Several people breathed a sigh of relief.
They spread the birch bark on the ground again, and then put urala grass and their own mattresses on the birch bark. Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng immediately took off their roe deer leather gloves that had soaked in a lot of snow and made them wet, and stretched out their hands.
His hands, which seemed to be unconscious and constantly moving, were warming themselves by the fire next to the wooden pillar.
Seeing this, Lu Lu quickly shouted to stop: "You can't warm yourself by the fire like that. If you are too hasty, your hands will be injured."
"Rub your hands with snow and rub them vigorously until your hands feel warm!" Zhao Yongke also said at the side.
The snow inside the roe deer leather gloves melted and became damp due to the body temperature. The temperature quickly disappeared and the fingers became unruly. If you immediately ran to the fire to warm yourself at this time, it would be like experiencing a violent "thermal expansion and contraction"
, not only will your hands not warm up quickly, but they will become itchy and unbearable, and you will easily get arthritis. In severe cases, your muscles will become necrotic.
Lu Lu's hands couldn't bear the cold. He gritted his teeth, grabbed a handful of snow, and rubbed it vigorously on his hands.
Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing saw that Lei Meng and others were doing the same thing, so they quickly followed suit.
After rubbing for three or four minutes, they finally felt that they had regained control of their hands. They dried their hands with cotton cloth and stuffed them under their own armpits.
"When I first transferred to Yan's Nest Island with the army, I didn't understand the situation in the wilderness. I carried a washbasin to the small ditch in front of the station to wash clothes. Before we came, it had just snowed there.
There is a layer of crystal clear ice on the ditch, and the water under the thin ice is still flowing happily. As you know, I am not from here, and I don’t know how to be powerful, so I picked up a wooden stick and knocked on the ice, and then
Put the clothes into the opened hole.
At this time, the thin ice above was frozen again, and my two hands were fixed under the ice. The clothes in my hands were about to float away under the impact of the running water. No matter how hard I tried, my hands refused to control me.
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Today's events reminded Raymond of some past events, and he smiled bitterly: "I was so anxious that I screamed loudly, and a deputy platoon leader who came after hearing the sound stepped hard on the ice with his big-toe shoes, and finally broke my pair.
My stiff hands and clothes were red and swollen from the cold every minute, and I pulled my stiff hands and clothes out of the hole in the ice. Just like today, he grabbed a lot of snow and put it on my hands and rubbed them vigorously, and then his hands slowly regained consciousness.
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From then on, I learned that if you can’t wash clothes in the river in the winter in the wilderness, not only will you not be able to clean your clothes, but you will also get frostbite on your hands, which is a disgrace to me in this wilderness.”
Several people laughed when they heard this.
In fact, how could two natives, Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing, not know about it? They just didn't think it was serious enough and didn't take it to heart.
However, Lu Lu was different. He was afraid of such "not taking it to heart".
"We are all playing with guns. We must protect our hands. Don't be careless!" Lu Lu warned.
How can you use a gun or hunt when your hand is injured?
This is indeed an issue that must be taken care of.
Zhao Yongke dried his hands, turned the roe deer leather gloves inside out, and put them on the wooden pillar to bake: "When I was on the mountain, I also knew a tribesman who went to dig out the bear's barn. His back was scratched to pieces by a blind bear.
After finally escaping back, my back was frostbitten and I was treated with frostbite by rubbing it with snow."
Using snow to overcome snow is an excellent method when there are no other conditions.
At this point, some people think that the temperature of snow is very low, and the local temperature will recover slowly when rubbing, and the frozen tissue will also melt slowly, which will cause the blood vessels in the frostbite area to expand and become congested, the permeability of the blood vessel walls will increase, plasma will leak out and cause edema, and the blood will become deformed.
It is sticky, blood flow is slow, and thrombosis is easy to form.
I think that using warm water is the best way to treat frostbite, but as everyone knows, this is a completely wrong approach.
You should know that even if you rub your hands directly to quickly raise the local body temperature, this process is too rapid and causes a large amount of cold blood to pass through the heart quickly, which will instead cause symptoms of hypothermia in the body.
On the contrary, rubbing with snow can move the frostbitten parts while preventing the blood from flowing quickly.
This is relief.
Slowness is not necessarily a bad thing.
This is also the accumulated experience of many older people who have had personal experience.
After half an hour of tossing, the six of them were no longer sleepy, so they sat in the igloo, warming themselves by the fire and chatting.
"Let's start a fire in the igloo. Will the igloo melt and collapse?" Chen Xiuqing had obviously never experienced such an operation. From time to time, she looked up and saw that the top was only blocked by a few snowballs, revealing a large gap.
The vents looked a little worried.
"Won't!"
Lu Lu said with certainty: "As for the temperature emitted by the fire on our wooden pillar, it has already been reduced to almost the same as outside before it reaches the top... However, there is one thing we need to pay attention to. We have to ensure the ventilation above.
The mouth should not be blocked by ice and snow, otherwise, if we are not careful, we will be suffocated inside."
Lu Lu said, taking a piece of firewood and cleaning several smaller holes covered by falling snow.
Now, he is more worried about another question: "Third brother, there is a snowstorm, will our horses be unable to bear it outside?"
The temperature is 30 to 40 degrees below zero. If the horses are frozen and cause problems, they can go home tomorrow.
"No need to worry, they are fine. Oroqen horses spend most of their time outside, so the cold will have no impact on them."
Zhao Yongke laughed and said: "When we were in the mountains before, no matter what the weather, the horses were tied outside."
After saying this, Lu Lu felt relieved.
"Don't tell me, it's really warmer inside this igloo than in the tent!"
Liang Kangbo reached out and poked at the snow wall, and found that the surface of the inner wall had already frozen: "Let me change the place and build an snow house like this. It will be comfortable to live in."
"It's good...it's just too troublesome!"
Zhang Shaofeng smiled and looked up at the dark night sky outside through the gap between the snowballs, listening to the whistling wind: "I don't know how long this big smoke bubble will last. If it rains for a whole day, we will have to stay in there for a whole day."
, can’t do anything!”
Lu Lu also sighed slightly: "I hope it won't last that long!"
The rotation of guarding in the tent turned into the rotation of poking the vents on the roof of the igloo, and the night was spent safely.
However, after dawn, the big smoke bubbles showed no intention of stopping. In the snow house, the shrill wind could still be heard outside, and large clumps of snowflakes were still swirling and flying.
It was indeed a comfortable sleep in the igloo.
But you can't stay inside all the time. You have to prepare more firewood and other things. What worries Lu Lu is the horses outside.
After putting on his dried shoes and leggings, Lu Lu reached out and pushed the doorway blocked with snowballs. He found that the ice had joined together and was motionless. He had to pull out his hunting knife and break up the snowballs.
, only to find that after clearing the snowball, a thick layer of snow was revealed that was slightly higher than the doorway.
During this night, a layer of snow as thick as thirty centimeters fell, at least. Adding on the previous snow, it was even up to the knees.
Lu Lu smacked his lips, pulled away the snow, stuck his head out, and looked at the gray world outside. A biting cold wind blew against his face, making him shiver.
He turned around and saw that the tent had been crushed and covered with snow, leaving only a small tent tip.
The fire left outside the tent door last night had already been buried by the snow, including the sledge placed outside the tent.
The six Oroqen horses were still alive and kicking, but their bodies were also covered with a layer of white snow, and their long manes turned into ice skates. They must have been tossing around a lot during the night, and their range of activities was tightly trampled.
It has become a pit, and it is still eating snow.
Lu Lu was about to get out when he suddenly saw a group of figures moving in the snow out of the corner of his eye. He couldn't help but get a look on his face. He took a closer look and found that it was actually a large brown bear, moving awkwardly in the snow.
He stood upright from time to time and looked this way.
Lu Lu quickly retracted and reached for the gun.
Chen Xiuqing, who had been prepared for a long time, saw this and wanted to go out and take a look first. As a result, he squatted down and as soon as his head got out of the hole, Lu Lu pulled him back and sat down on the ground.
He looked at Lu Lu with a puzzled expression.
"There is a bear bully!" Lu Lu whispered.
On this snowy day, I thought everything would be quiet, but I didn't expect that as soon as I woke up in the morning, a bear bull came to my door.
After hearing what Lu Lu said, the expressions of the other people suddenly became solemn.
"Yuanbao and the others didn't respond!" Zhang Shaofeng looked at Yuanbao and the others out of habit, and said a little strangely when he saw a few dogs lying quietly.
"With such a heavy snowstorm, the sound cannot be heard clearly, and the smell emitted by the animals should be lighter and not disperse. Besides, we are in the snow house again, so it is normal not to notice it." Liang Kangbo explained in a low voice.
Lu Lu smiled: "It's still far away, two hundred meters away!"
Then, he took out his semi-automatic, got halfway out of the hole again, lay on the snow, and looked at the brown bear wriggling in the snow through the scope.
It seems to have smelled the scent of the horses here, and it keeps walking towards the igloo. It seems that it wants to come and have a big meal.
Lu Lu just stared quietly. When the brown bear entered the visual range of 200 meters and stood up again, looking this way, he aimed at Xiong Ba's head and pulled the trigger.
There was a loud gunshot and bullets flew out.
However, the bear bully did not fall down. Instead, he roared and rushed towards the igloo.