On the knee-deep snow-covered mountain road, a tightly packed team was walking slowly forward along this completely contourless mountain road.
The cold mountain wind and the heavy snow blowing on people's faces made even Lin Cheng feel a little sore, let alone others.
However, perhaps because of hope, Luo Shihu and Anfiya, the two ordinary people who were the weakest in the entire team, never fell behind from the beginning to the end. They didn't even complain. They just followed with their heads down.
Lin Cheng walked silently behind him, and only when he needed to make a turn did the bearded man speak to remind him.
Walking through the snow is an extremely physically demanding thing. As ability users, Lin Cheng, Bai Ling and Ke Ke have no problem. As a former amateur hunter, Lu Xihu is already used to the rhythm of traveling in the snowy mountains.
Only Anfiya was a bit worrying, but although her physical strength was not as good as the others, she very wisely chose to follow Lin Cheng, following the snowy road he had just walked and effortlessly keeping up with everyone else's pace.
The whole journey was silent. In the icy and snowy mountains, no one wanted to speak unless there were special circumstances. After all, no one wanted to be swallowed by a mouthful of snowflakes as soon as they opened their mouths.
"Stop—"
After walking through the snowy mountains for a long time, just when Lin Cheng thought that Beard had forgotten the specific location of the cave, he heard Beard suddenly let out a low shout, and then saw him quickly running to the side inconspicuously.
Stopped in front of the rock wall.
"The cave you are talking about is invisible, right?"
Seeing the beard groping wildly on the rock wall, Lin Cheng couldn't help but frown, and simply took off the snow goggles on his face and asked him.
"How can it be!"
Hearing this, the bearded man quickly shook his head, and suddenly took out a short blade from his pocket and carefully scraped the ice on the rock wall in front of him.
"you--"
Seeing Beard's nervous behavior, Bai Ling was worried about what kind of tricks this guy was playing. He was about to scold him, but was suddenly stopped by Lin Cheng, "What's the rush? Let's wait and see."
After saying that, he nodded towards the bearded man who turned around to check after hearing the scolding, and motioned for him to continue.
He scraped the ice of the rock wall with a short blade for a while, and then his bearded figure suddenly paused. Then he turned around, pointed at the snow under his feet and said to Lin Cheng with a wry smile: "Found it! No.
If something unexpected happens, the cave should be right under our feet!"
"Under your feet? You mean-"
Hearing Luochi's nonsense that the cave was actually at their feet, Lin Cheng was stunned for a moment, then realized, "Due to the sudden change in climate, that cave has been covered with snow and ice?"
"That's right!"
He nodded vigorously, squatted on the ground with a short blade and said while digging: "I was a little strange when I was searching for the location of the cave. I always felt that the layout of this mountain forest had changed for a long time, giving people a familiar feeling.
It feels strange. Now it seems that the layout of this mountain forest has not changed at all, but because the overall climate in the north has become colder after the end of the world, the entire Lartai Mountains have been covered with a layer of several meters.
The thick layer of snow and ice cannot even avoid such corners..."
Hearing Beard's analysis, Lin Cheng nodded slowly and suddenly asked: "In that case, how did you determine that the cave is at this location? After all, once we determine the location of the cave, we will take action immediately
After digging, it would be great fun if we only found out after we dug a few meters deep that we dug the wrong way!"
"The location is definitely correct because I have found the evidence!"
Hearing this, the bearded man shook his head confidently and directly waved to Lin Cheng to follow him.
Following Beard Hu to the rock wall, following the guidance of Beard's fingers, Lin Cheng took a closer look, and then discovered that on the rock wall where Beard had just scraped away the ice, there was a hole as wide as an index finger.
Cave entrance!
"This is a wedge hole. It was used to fix the hanging rope when I went down the hole."
Rubbing his fingers on the edge of the cave entrance a few times to let Lin Cheng see more clearly, the bearded man explained to him: "The Lartai Mountains are inaccessible, especially in the mountains and forests on the Chinese side, where few living people have been seen for many years.
, Apart from me, there is no way that anyone else would come to such an inaccessible place to do such boring things."
But Lin Cheng's attention was attracted by his previous words, "Fix the rope? Is this cave difficult to get down? How did you get in the first time?"
Hearing Lin Cheng's question, Lu Xiu smiled and said: "The cave is not difficult to get down, but I have told you before, right? After discovering this cave, I used it to do a lot of secret business, those
Goods are not as easily beaten as people, so they must be hoisted down slowly with a sling!"
"Fine."
After carefully analyzing the conversation between the two in his mind, and confirming that the bearded man was not telling lies, Lin Cheng nodded, then waved his hand and said: "Now that the location is confirmed, let's start digging quickly."
Come on! It's snowing harder today. If we keep stalling, I'm afraid we won't be able to move today!"
"Okay!"
Upon hearing Lin Cheng's order, Beard nodded vigorously, then bent down and prepared to dig.
"Wait, you don't want those hands anymore or what? Take them!"
Lin Cheng was speechless after seeing Beard's actions. He took out four folding engineer shovels from his backpack and threw one to him, saying: "Looking like this, it will be difficult to finish digging this morning. You'd better do it."
Take it easy, don’t let anyone else die before the hole is dug out!"
With that said, he threw the other two engineer shovels at the feet of Bai Ling and Anfiya, signaling them to take action quickly.
Although Lin Cheng had no intention of pitying her, the two women were not ordinary people after all. Without saying anything, they picked up the engineering shovel and started digging hard in the area marked by the beard.
"Chacha..."
"Wow..."
In the snow-swaying mountain forest, apart from the howling cold wind and the blowing ice and snow, only Lin Cheng's group was left squatting on the ground, digging hard at the snow under their feet, making some noise from time to time.
There are already tall snowdrifts piled up.
"How much longer do we have to dig? We've already dug almost three meters deep. Why can't we see the entrance yet?"
After running the snow in the shovel into the snowdrift above his head, Lin Cheng raised his stiff neck, turned to the side and asked the bearded man who was still digging hard.
"I do not know either..."
Hearing this, the bearded man finally stopped what he was doing, raised his head and untied the scarf around his face, spread his hands with a wry smile on his face and said: "I am very sure of the location, and I remember the location of the wedge hole from the entrance.
The distance is only three or four meters at most, and we should have dug it by now, but this..."
As he said that, he glanced at the surrounding ice walls, and for a moment he didn't know what the problem was. (To be continued)