If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 890 All the Way West (35)

A group of people from the wooden house set off earlier than planned, and the sky above the coniferous forest was fully lit up half an hour earlier, and the light shredded through the scales of the coniferous trees and sprinkled on the snow in the forest.The forest swept by the snowstorm is full of dead branches and leaves. From time to time, you can see coniferous trees lying on the ground, and the broken trunks are full of jagged tear marks.

The old hunter's wooden house was built in the depths of the coniferous forest, about 300 meters away from the main road paved with railway tracks, which also means that you can leave the forest and reach the road leading to Verkhoyansk by crossing 300 meters .

At the very beginning, everyone in the wooden house discussed the road plan to choose to avoid the avenue and walk all the way west in the coniferous forest until they reached the small town of Verkhoyansk after walking through the entire forest.

Because even if you don’t need to look, you can know that the snow on the avenue is serious. The snowstorm of that level last night was enough to cover the unsheltered avenue with snow to the waist and crotch of a normal person. The snow of that thickness can almost be said to be difficult to walk.

If they insisted on going on the main road, they might not be able to reach the town until dark. Siberia was extremely cold at night, and a small wind would be enough to freeze people to death.

On the contrary, the snow in the coniferous forest was much shallower, and with the natural forest as a barrier, this dark forest road without sunlight became their best choice.

Right now, the only fear is getting lost and encountering something they are afraid of. It is not possible to get lost with Vika and the huntress leading the way, and the latter can only be said to be a necessary risk. If you really encounter it, you can only talk about it later. How to deal with it.

Not far away was the hunter's cabin. The huntress stopped at the edge of the coniferous forest, stepped into the snow covering her calf, and looked back at the window of the cabin.Behind her, Adam came over, looking at where she was standing with a palpitation on his face, "This is last night."

He didn't continue talking, because he saw the huntress dug out an arrow from the snow, and he could still smell the smell of fuel when the arrow was holding the burnt black waste cloth close to the tip of his nose.

"The footprints have been covered by the snowstorm, it is difficult to find them along the footprints." The huntress glanced deep in the coniferous forest, "It can be said that there are almost no traces left."

"You still want to follow the traces to find them?" Adam's face was a little strange.

"To be honest, I would rather find them first. This way I won't feel that what I saw last night was actually a nightmare hallucination." The huntress tore off the waste cloth from the arrow and recovered the arrow Going into the quiver, he took a deep breath of the cold air that froze his lungs through his mouth and nose covered under the thermal mask.

"It makes me uncomfortable to think that those things might still be hiding in the woods and spying on us."

"You said. Are those things really aimed at them?" Adam suddenly lowered his voice, and looked back to the door of the wooden house. The lieutenant colonel and Vika were making stretchers, and they could vaguely see the inside behind the window of the wooden house A small figure sitting on a table.

"I don't know." The huntress shook her head, "But you, you were the first to discover them. How do you feel about it?"

"What do I think?" Adam said with a strange expression, hesitating for a long time, "I don't know, I'm just a lost traveler, how do I think it's useful?"

"It's really useless." The huntress thought for a while, nodded, and patted him on the shoulder, "But I think since you found them and you brought them here, you saved their lives in disguise, otherwise Just save people and go to the end? Take the responsibility of a man and protect them to a safe place?"

"This..." Adam smiled wryly, without giving any promise or answer.

The huntress looked at this young American who was about the same age as her and shook her head and changed the subject again, "How is the little girl's brother now? Is the situation better?"

"It's not very good, but I ate some food. The lieutenant colonel didn't eat much himself, and gave all the fish to the two children and the old man. The lieutenant colonel is really a good person." Adam sighed.

"Hmm." The huntress looked at the KGB lieutenant colonel who was trying to tie a stretcher, and then looked away after a while, "Be smart on the road, follow me closely, don't get lost, I'm afraid you won't be so lucky if you get lost this time."

"Okay." Adam nodded quickly. In terms of survival in the wilderness, following elite hunters is always the best choice.

In less than 15 minutes, the cuckoo wall clock in the wooden house announced the hour again, and everyone was ready to go on the road. The old hunter who was still unconscious on the kang was sent with magazines and tied up with hemp rope.

The little girl was still carrying her brother on her back. Both of them were wrapped in thick leather jackets and looked like brown bear cubs. Adam also proposed to carry the boy, but the little girl still refused.

"Siblings really love each other." Adam couldn't help but say.

The huntress thought about it before setting off, then turned around and squatted in front of the little girl, stretched out her hands and scratched her cheeks that were frozen by frost not long after she left the wooden house, and said, "Follow me on the road, if you feel tired, come with me or that Uncle (Lieutenant Colonel) said, I will help you."

The light brown eyes of the little black-haired girl reflected the face of the huntress. After a long time, she nodded and said nothing else.

"I don't think I have autism." Adam whispered on the side.

"Hurry up." They immediately heard the lieutenant colonel's voice not far away.

In the open space under the wooden house, the lieutenant colonel had already lifted the stretcher with the silent Vika.The old hunter's body was very light, and after being ill, he seemed to have pulled out a few muscles and bones. The two men lifted up the stretcher without any burden. When the stretcher left the ground, it also represented their journey to Verkhoyansk. The journey begins.

After a snowstorm, it is often sunny. This rule also works in Siberia. Even if there is a coniferous forest overhead, there are a lot of scattered sunlight shining through the gaps in the leaves on a group of people walking on snow in the forest. The outdoor temperature has reached A gratifying minus 30°C.

After leaving the hunter's hut, with the female hunter walking in front, first walked about 200 meters in the direction of the main road, and then walked through the coniferous forest in depth after leaning on the main road.

This is the most reliable way forward after their discussion, using the railway track avenue as the corrected way forward, avoiding the extremely deep snow, and avoiding getting lost due to the complicated forest road conditions after the snowstorm.

Along the way, Adam, who was not a local, was amazed by the situation in the coniferous forest. The destructiveness of the snowstorm far exceeded everyone's imagination. Even the vast Siberian forest could hardly resist the natural destructive force. The whole road was uprooted. The conifers, and the giant boulders that seem to have moved out of nowhere highlight the chaos of last night's snowstorm.

If anyone in this group didn't find the hunter's hut, aside from the group of weird 'devils', they would be strangled by the blizzard in the ice and snow.

"We are really lucky." Adam looked around, watching the huntress who helped the little girl climb over the fallen tree trunk, and expressed his heartfelt emotion.

"Lucky?" Dusha sneered at this, "If you're really lucky, you all would have died in the snowstorm, that's really lucky."

"Dusha, don't say a few words." Vika, who was carrying the stretcher, reprimanded in a low voice.

Dusha raised her eyebrows provocatively at the huntress who was looking at her not far away, and said nothing.The huntress also thought there was something wrong with this guy, and she was a little immune to this shrew-like taunt after hearing too much.

"So what are those things last night? Are they really 'devils'? If they are 'devils', why are we still alive?" Adam raised his hand to clean up the excessive accumulation of frost on his eyebrows that blocked his vision.

"Probably true to what you said, they're all 'vampires' of the sort that didn't get invited into our house."

"Do vampires show up in a blizzard? Sounds weird."

"The whole thing is weird, so you don't think it's weird when you think about it." Vika said blankly while carrying a stretcher behind him.

"But there have never been any legends of monsters in this area. If there are, I will definitely know." The huntress walked ahead and observed various traces in the coniferous forest, but unfortunately she did not find any large monsters. Tracks left by animals or paw prints on tree trunks, "it's as if they just appeared out of nowhere."

"In short, it's good that those things disappeared, there's no need to mention this matter again." Vika's eyes were filled with restlessness, and he seemed to avoid this topic. It seemed that those dark shadows last night had left him with considerable psychological distress. shadow.

"I must write a book about this matter when I go back. The title of the book is "Walking with the Snow Monsters." Adam sighed.

"American, why did you travel to such a remote place? Is there something wrong with your head?" Dusha seemed a little uncomfortable with Adam's plastic Russian, and kept frowning whenever the American spoke.

"I want to see what the real Soviet Union looks like. Isn't my motherland always in tension with your country? The news reported on TV and folk rumors have portrayed you as heinous sinners, but I think Sometimes seeing is believing, so I decided to travel to the Soviet Union, and I have been to Moscow, Leningrad, and Minsk."

"Later, I lamented how cold the Soviet Union was. No wonder why Germany couldn't get in. Someone next to me told me that Moscow was considered cold? Northern Siberia is the coldest place in the Soviet Union. If you pee standing up there, you will pee. Frozen from the ground to yours. Keke, you know what I mean."

After the crisis was over, Adam, the American, seemed to have finally opened up his chatterbox and let himself go. When no one in the team was talking, he could be heard in Barabara all the time, trying to stir up some enthusiasm for chatting.And no one bothered him to shut up, because walking in the dark coniferous forest is indeed a depressing and dull thing.

(End of this chapter)