"Victor, will something happen to Leo?"
In the valley on the southeast side of Bear Island, Eric, whose head was wrapped in gauze, asked worriedly. Nearly ten hours had passed since Leo chased Professor Jonas, but he still hadn't come back. At the same time, the snowstorm outside was getting worse and showed no signs of stopping.
"If you are in the mood to worry about Leo, why not worry about us."
Wei Ran said helplessly. In the past ten hours, the snow outside the tent has accumulated. Fully half a meter thick. At the same time, due to the high temperature emitted by the continuously burning gasoline stove in the tent, in addition to the heavy snow, a thick layer of ice crust formed outside the tent.
These burdens not only make this thick tent possible to be crushed at any time, but also cause the temperature in the tent to drop below 20 degrees. Even if the snowstorm continues for a while, they will even It is possible to freeze to death.
Eric looked at Wei Ran, who kept hitting the tent with his ski pole, and sighed, "It's my fault, I should have known this would happen..."
"I can't say this now. No meaning."
Wei Ran stopped the other party, "Since Leo is confident of catching up with Professor Jonas who escaped, you should believe that he can come back."
"What if he doesn't come back?" Eric asked, already falling into self-doubt.
"Then find a way to survive." Wei Ran poked his ski pole into the snow, "If Leo comes back and you die in the end, it will be him who is sad."
Eric opened his mouth, finally got up and got up, pulled out the ski pole that Wei Ran had just poked next to him, and helped him tap the tent cloth to slow down the accumulation of snow and ice outside.
While the two of them waited nervously for the blizzard to stop in a tent that could be crushed by the snow at any time, the fishing boat also headed for Finnmark, 400 kilometers away, despite the blizzard.
However, I don’t know if it was retribution after doing all the bad things. Just when the ship was about to sail past Bear Island and the center of the mainland, the fishing boat that was surrounded by waves moved forward without any warning. Hit a huge ice floe.
Amidst the violent shaking, Professor Jonas, whose wounds had been simply bandaged, limped towards the cab, while Captain Martin, who was having a sweet dream in the cab, panicked and put the bandage on himself. life jacket!
"What's going on?" Professor Jonas asked in horror.
"Our ship hit an ice floe!"
Martin looked at the bow of the ship getting closer and closer to the ice-filled water, and pushed away the approaching ice floe. Professor Jonas got into the cabin, took the other party's hiking bag and ran to the back deck.
"Wait for me!" Professor Jonas climbed up with difficulty, holding on to the wall of the corridor and chasing the other person while shouting, "Without me, you can't find a buyer at all!"
p>Martin, who was busy preparing the survival boat, glanced at the panicked Professor Jonas and said nothing.Hesitantly pulled out his pistol and aimed it at the opponent again, "Old man, I only give you one last chance to tell me how to find a buyer!"
Jonas pressed the wound on his leg and He leaned against the cold hatch and summoned up all his strength to shout, "Take me away, and I will give you all the money from the sale! I just want to survive! Or kill me, and you can take those films and sell them to you as you like." Who?"
Martin cursed and finally waved to the other party, "Come up!"
Professor Jonas secretly breathed a sigh of relief, resisting the pain and walked along the slope. The deck limped over as the temperature became higher and higher.
"If these films cannot be sold for 5 million US dollars, I will send you back to Bear Island!" Captain Martin said, roughly pushing the other party into the lifeboat.
Looking at the body on the bow deck that had been completely covered by ice and snow, Captain Martin simply jumped onto the lifeboat, untied the chain that fixed the survival boat, and shook the oars desperately to try to get away from the collision. The iceberg fishing boats are further away.
However, even if the fishing boat is struggling on the seemingly furious sea, how long can this wooden boat, which is only three meters long, last?
Before the fishing boat with its upturned stern sank completely, the survival boat was knocked into the bottom of the sea by an ice block carrying a large number of ice floes.
After the wave, only a big red mountaineering bag filled with film was left on the undulating sea, floating with the current, and then completely disappeared without a trace under the influence of another wave. trace.
Wei Ran and Eric, who knew nothing about this, were not in good condition either. The tent they were hiding in had been mostly buried by the snow, with only less than one tent left. meters above the snow surface.
Inside the tent that was crazily squeezed by the snow, Wei Ran and Eric were hitting the sloping tent cloth with their backs again and again, trying to compact the snow outside so that they could They make more space.
Although the temperature inside the tent has dropped to single digits as the snow outside becomes thicker and thicker, it is not without its benefits. At least the tent is more stable than when the snowstorm just started. A lot.
The only thing they have to worry about now is that the wooden pole fixed to the sled does not break due to the heavy pressure. Or it would be enough that the gasoline stove that provided them with heat and the kerosene gas lamp hanging on the sled did not go out.
While they were waiting unbearably, the sky outside the ventilation window above their heads became slightly brighter, and the blizzard that had raged for more than ten hours also weakened somewhat. At least, they could barely see what was happening in the distance.
"Victor, look in the direction of the cave!" Eric retracted his head and handed the telescope to Wei Ran, "Look! Look!"
Hearing this, Wei Ran curiously took the telescope and looked in the direction of the cave on the edge of the valley. What surprised him was that although thick ice and snow accumulated where they set up their tent, the snow at the edge of the valley was blown extremely clean! even himThey all vaguely saw the stone steps and the remaining moss and lichen on the surface that had not been found at the entrance of the cave before!
“Look to the left!” Eric reminded in a loud voice.
Under the guidance of the other party, Wei Ran gently moved the telescope to the left, and then discovered that in the southwest corner of the valley facing them, there was a three- to four-meter-long and one-meter-tall object. The big stone seems to have something carved on it.
Turn the focusing wheel of the telescope, and when he saw the mottled writing on it clearly, Wei Ran couldn't help but show a weird expression that made him laugh or cry, and on the stone a few hundred meters away, he used a striking enough The line "2444 kilometers from Berlin" written in German is full of rigorous scientific information.
Behind this big stone shaped like a sign, there is a pass slightly higher than the ground. The strong wind blowing into the valley from the north carries the snow accumulated here and spreads it across the pass. The pass blows into the cold Arctic Ocean.
"Victor, look at the wooden building ruins left by the weather station."
Eric shouted excitedly in the tent, "They must have done some damage here." The weather station was built there only after careful inspection! Those people at that time were geniuses!”
They were indeed geniuses!
Wei Ran couldn't help but sigh. He didn't know if this was a coincidence, but at least the current situation was that the strong wind blowing from the north of the valley not only took away the snow near the cave and even above the head, but even The ruins of the weather station were all blown clean, revealing rusty airdrop cans that were neatly placed and half-buried in the ground.
Look at the location where they set up the tent. The ruins were less than two hundred meters away, but their tent was almost buried in the snow!
"How is this done?" Wei Ran retracted his head and asked curiously.
"The canal effect! Of course it's the canal effect!"
Eric seemed to have forgotten the wound on his head and the tent that could collapse at any time around him, and used the ski poles in his hands to move quickly He drew a simple topographic map of the valley at his feet, and explained excitedly, "Normally, the canyon effect is mostly harmful. But in this place, the wind blowing from the north enters where we are. After entering this valley, when the speed reaches a certain critical value, it will be accelerated, and the strengthened wind speed will easily take away the snow in this valley."
Wei Ranzhang. When he opened his mouth to say something, Eric continued, "The mountains on the southern edge of the valley, as well as the pass near the stone, also have crucial wind speed!
When blowing from the north If the wind speed exceeds the threshold, the west side of the valley will be like turning on a vacuum cleaner! But look at us, although it is only two hundred meters away, because the ones only two or three meters high to the north of us are more than ten meters away! The stone mountain blocked it, so instead..."
"Stop, stop"
Wei Ran had to shout and stopped, as if Conan and Einstein were both at the same time.Eric asked simply and directly, "Just answer me, is it safer for us to hide in the cave now?"
"Of course!" Eric pointed with his ski pole. The topographic map of the words at your feet, ready to continue to explain the principles to Wei Ran.
"Since it is safer, don't waste time."
While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already begun to move the oil drum holding down the tent door, and then started to clean up the outside with a snow shovel. snow.
Eric reacted and quickly helped extinguish the gasoline stove that had been burning for more than ten hours, and then moved the blankets, sleeping bags and various things in the tent onto the sleigh one by one.
While rolling up Leo's polar bear skin blanket, Eric discovered that in addition to a few pornographic magazines that he had dug out in the cave, there was also Leo's usual precious silver. A cigarette box and a silver lighter, and in the cigarette box that was still open, in addition to a few cigarettes, there was also the black and white photo that Leo dreamed of finding the shooting location.
Eric lost his previous excitement and worriedly picked up Leo's cigarette case and lighter and put them into his pocket. Then he carefully rolled up the polar bear skin blanket left by the other party and moved it onto the sled. car.
After Weiran dug a passage along the tent door, the two of them worked together to push the sleigh out, then put away the tent that was almost buried in the snow, and braved the strong wind and moved to the distance to become stronger. of cave.
When the iron door full of bullet holes was pushed open by Eric, he instantly fell into a low mood again when he saw the old fuel generator. It was just less than 24 hours ago. , Professor Jonas also reprinted the meteorological data with them in this warm cave.
But now, under the cover of a snowstorm, the other party left the valley alone with his own treasure.