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Chapter 144

Even Ruan Qi and Akang, who had extremely little experience in exploration, did not say anything in this situation.

The snow-capped mountains in the dark night, even the most junior explorers should know that this is synonymous with "death", but under such harsh conditions, we have to climb over it.

The only thing to be thankful for is that our pioneer is Poker Bottle, who has traveled this distance, but even so, it is still very difficult to walk through the night safely.

The wild is no better than the city. Once the sun sets, you can’t see your fingers. The moonlight and starlight can’t play the role of lighting at all. We can only rely on wolf-eye flashlights and head-mounted tactical spotlights.

Originally there were only six tactical spotlights, which were divided between two yaks, so now there are only three left, one for Duyouping, one for Xiaohua, and one for black glasses. The human eye can cause sudden blindness. On the other hand, if the beam of light shakes randomly in such an environment, even if it only causes a momentary illusion, it may lead to irreversible consequences.

For safety reasons, we no longer march in file.Even though this is the most efficient way to travel, in this level of darkness, there are still two novices in our team. If one can’t take care of them, they may have an accident, so we changed to the safest but also quite slow The way to go:

As the pioneer, Poker Bottle advances for a certain distance, and then Fatty, I, Ruan Qi, Akang, Black Glasses, and Xiaohua advance in sequence. Each section of the road is taken by an individual alone, so that on the one hand, others can take care of it, and on the other hand On the one hand, even if the worst happens, casualties can be avoided as much as possible.

At first, the process went smoothly. Although the ice road was narrow and rugged, the shoes we wore were specially suitable for walking on snow and ice fields. The kind of hiking boots with deep texture, plus safety ropes and walking sticks, how many It can be barely supported, but even so, I can still deeply feel the danger of the environment. Although it is on the snow mountain, the mountain walls on both sides are close to close, forming a scene like a "line of sky", which feels like is in the tunnel.The icicles and thorns on both sides came narrowly, and there was a sense of oppression as if the sky was out of sight.

Poker bottle began to explore the next section of the journey as a forward, and we drank a little water and ate half a barley cake to replenish energy during a short break. I stood up and took a look at the situation ahead. Take a flashlight to look carefully, but you can roughly see that there is a downhill road ahead.

It is not easy to go downhill on the ice. Once the body loses control, even if it does not cause a serious accident, it will have a great impact on the explorer's psychology. Therefore, I have already planned the next section of the road in my heart. The difficulty is set at S level.

I turned on the watch on my wrist, and the number displayed on the dial was 18:15. The sun will set at about five o’clock here, and it will be completely dark at 05:30 at the latest. In other words, we are already in the dark It took 45 minutes to walk. According to the estimated time before, the distance should have been more than half, but now we have seven people taking turns walking each section. In other words, it takes a lot more time than the previous walking method.

Just as I was thinking of this, the voice of Pokerfair over there came over the radio: "This is the last section of the road, but it is very dangerous, so be careful."

Last paragraph?I was stunned for a moment. I originally expected a two-hour journey, and in the best case, it was only halfway through, but in a blink of an eye, it was already the last stretch?

Before I had time to raise the question in my heart, the fat man had already responded to Poker Bottle: "Okay, little brother, I'll be there right away."

"Wait a minute." Poker-Face said, "Are you afraid of heights?"

"Huh?" The fat man was stunned for a moment, "Yes... a little bit, but it's much better now."

"Change someone else." Pokerfing paused for a moment, "Wu Xie, come here first."

The fat man and I looked at each other, even through the thick goggles and mask I could see his suspicious and ambiguous eyes, I really want to say that I don't know what's going on, but since Poker said so, I had no objection, and immediately walked towards the road ahead.

When I walked through the short narrow ice road in front of me and came to the downhill, and saw the situation ahead with a flashlight, I finally understood why Poker Bottle asked me to replace Fatty as the second After walking this section of the road, I finally understood why 45 minutes had just passed when there was still a "last section of the road" that should have been a two-hour journey.

It will take me at least four or 10 minutes to make it through the road in front of me.

In front of me is a downhill, more precisely, a "U"-shaped valley. The horizontal distance between the two sides of the valley is almost 40 meters, but the terrain is very steep, and the inclination is almost 30 degrees, which means uphill and downhill. The two ice tracks are almost 40 meters in length.

Moreover, such a natural ice track is completely different from the ice slides in the amusement park. To be honest, the terrain itself is very strange. I don’t understand why there is such a U-shaped valley in the snow mountain. Like the course of a great river after it dries up.What surprised me even more was that the mountain walls on both sides also had a hollow that completely connected with the valley at the bottom of the valley, which seemed to be the short-term runoff of an underground river on the ground.

This made me suddenly think of what we were looking for - a big river in the snow-capped mountains. If there are traces of the runoff of the big river in this place, is there really a shocking scene like a rushing river in the snow-capped mountains ahead?

However, the bigger problem is not here, but the terrain here. Except for the steep U-shaped slope, the ground here is not completely ice, but ice mixed with gravel, which means that the climate here is not as cold as outside. , but it also exposed more spikes on the ground. No matter what kind of ice spikes or stone edges, if they collide with each other, they will cause severe head injuries, and severe death. At the bottom of the valley, such ice spikes and stone edges There are more stone edges.

I hesitated for a moment, then took out the leftover half of the highland barley cake and threw it towards an ice spike at the bottom of the valley. My technique is very accurate now, the half cake drew a good parabola and hit the stone edge .Then, without any surprise, it was split into two halves in an instant. You must know that this cake has been frozen hard enough to smash people with it.

If you want to pass through this U-shaped valley, you can only go down half-sliding and half-climbing, and then climb up to the other side. As long as you stumble and hit an ice spike, a person will definitely be turned into two halves, and the ice roads on both sides There are also many such things that can be said to be borrowed objects or murder weapons.

I took a deep breath, followed the beam of light that came down to illuminate the situation at the bottom of the valley, and looked across the valley. Pokerfing stood there, and I knew he was looking at me.I smiled wryly, I think even if he couldn't see it, he should be able to guess my expression now.

"You really trust me." I said.

"If you can't make it through, at least half of the team can't make it through." Poker-Face said, "You can't do the post-break work, and I can't handle so many people by myself, so I need your help. "

Need my... help?

"I have already marked the stone pillars that can be used." Poker Ping said, "Don't delay."

There were piles on the ground that had been laid by the oil bottle. I put the safety rope on the piles, squatted down halfway, and shone the flashlight. As expected, there was a striking fluorescent green on the ice spikes about half an arm’s length away from me. , this is exactly the mark left by Poker Bottle.

I grabbed the ice thorn with one hand and the safety rope with the other, tensed all my strength, and slowly lowered my body down the ice valley.

Anyway, it's rare for my little brother to ask me to help once, so I can't let him down.