When the snowstorm lasted until the 24th hour, Eric, who had moved to the cave, also fell into anxiety.
"Victor, I'm going to find Leo," Eric said suddenly after waiting for Wei Ran to change the medicine for the wound on his head, "It doesn't matter even if Jonas can't be found. , at least get Leo back."
"How do you find it? Where to find it? Are you sure you can find it?" Wei Ran asked quickly while packing the medical box.
"But..."
"Eric"
Wei Ran interrupted the other party before he could say anything, "You should believe Leo , at least I believe that Leo is more likely to survive in this environment than Professor Jonas, so instead of thinking about it, you might as well find something to do, such as copying those meteorological data."
Eri. Ke opened his mouth, walked to the table in the center of the cave, sat down, lit the two kerosene lamps, and silently took pictures of the meteorological data that he had no intention of paying attention to now.
Seeing that the other party finally calmed down, Weiran turned off the fuel-fired generator outside the door. With the light provided by the two kerosene lamps on the table, he continued to repair the two generators that Jonah had used by the stove. An old radio station that Professor Si destroyed.
He didn’t know whether these three people wanted to keep it secret or for other reasons, so none of them brought communication tools for external contact. But right now, the only hope was that these two devices had obviously been destroyed recently. antique.
But in the absence of key parts, he had no confidence at all whether he could make it work based on the radio knowledge he learned at the Hongqi Forest Farm.
Amidst the sound of the camera's shutter and Wei Ran's busy work, time passed quietly, and the sky outside the cave also changed from dark to dim and then dark again. But the raging snowstorm showed no sign of weakening.
Compared with Leo, who has not returned for a long time, and the blizzard that has not stopped for a long time, Wei Ran is worried about another thing. There is enough fuel in this cave, whether it is gasoline or coking coal frozen at the door. It won't be a problem to keep them going for a month or two.
But compared to fuel, the food they stored in the cave was not much. In order to prevent an avalanche from burying the cave, most of the food was moved into Jonas and Eric's tent. But since the former escaped, not only was the tent blown away, but there was also a question mark as to whether the food was still there.
But even if the food is still buried in the snow, it can only allow them to continue here for a week. Maybe after a week, they would have to rely on hunting to fill their stomachs.
However, the only weapon they had at this time was the pistol that Wei Ran kept in the metal book. And obviously, Eric was not aware of this more serious problem at this time.
Looking at Eric who was still taking pictures of the weather data, Wei Ran stood up and walked into the cave. He took some venison, vegetables and bread at will, and lit the charcoal fire.I cooked some simple meals on the cast iron stove.
While the small stainless steel pot was simmering the venison, he started the fuel generator again two wooden doors away, and then connected the power to the radio station on the table.
After trying the radio, it still didn’t work. Weiran reluctantly cut off the power supply, and then turned off the fuel generator.
"Eric, why didn't you bring a radio station here?"
Eric stopped what he was doing and said regretfully, "At that time, Professor Jonas said to use The radio is likely to be monitored by Norway or the Soviet Union, and we might be arrested as spies."
"So you didn't bring it with you?" Wei Ran looked at the other party helplessly.
"Originally Leo wanted to take him with him," Eric spread his hands, "but Jonas insisted on refusing to take the risk. Now it seems that he was probably ready to escape privately."< /p>
"But how can he escape?" Wei Ran frowned and asked, "Didn't your cousin Leo find the fishing boat?"
"It was indeed Leo who found it. ”
Eric’s expression was also full of doubts, “Unless he hid other ships on this island, it would be impossible to escape from this island.”
Other ships?
Wei Ran shook his head secretly. If there were other ships, and if Professor Jonas had been ready to leave them and escape, then he could have left Eric and Leo alone from the beginning. Come sneaking over.
No matter it is useless to think so much at the moment, his return mission is to survive until the end, and he is not here to unravel the conspiracies one after another.
What's more, as early as when he decided to participate in this historical event, Wei Ran had the two main purposes of learning Norwegian and seeing Katenka's investigative ability. At the moment, he is most interested in it. I haven’t learned any Norwegian or French, so naturally I have even less motivation.
"Victor, I just had a new idea." Eric stood up, with surprise in his tone.
"What do you think?" Wei Ran looked at the other party in confusion.
"We don't know if there are other ships on this island, but there must be a cave on this island that was used by the second weather station!"
E Rick said excitedly, "Remember what Jonas said when we first arrived here? He said that on the highest peak of Bear Island, there is a signal tower relay station built by the Germans during World War II. Since there is a relay station, there It definitely needs maintenance. Since it needs maintenance, there is probably such a cave there!"
"You want to go there?" Wei Ran looked at the other party and asked.
"Maybe there is no second boat, but what if Professor Jonas is hiding in that possible cave?"
Eric said excitedly, " As long as we capture Professor Jonas, we can at least ask him if he has seen Leo. Besides, even if he hasn't seen Leo, didn't he still take away two reindeer?With two reindeer, it would be much easier to find Leo. "
After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran sat across from Eric, poured him a cup of scalding coffee and asked, "Eric, tell me in detail what you plan to do. ”
“We need to prepare the supplies needed to find another possible cave before the snowstorm stops. If Leo hasn't come back after the storm stops, we'll set off immediately. "
Eric said while writing on the paper, "In addition, if we can't find the cave, or there is no Professor Jonas in the cave, we have to go to the pier on the west side of Bear Island. Wait for the fishing boat and borrow the radio on the other boat to call the police. We can even try to call the police directly if there is a working radio station in the cave. "
"Call the police? "
"Of course you have to call the police! Eric pointed to the wooden box on the table, "Compared to these precious meteorological data, Leo's safety is more important. "
In the quiet and warm cave, Wei Yan let out a long breath, "What do you need me to do? ”
“Let me find out from the information whether there is a cave under another signal tower. How about you prepare the supplies? Eric asked in an almost pleading tone, "I know I shouldn't drag you into taking risks, but if we want to get out of here alive, this may be the only way,"
Wei Ran nodded, He happily agreed, “Okay, I’ll prepare the supplies. "
Hearing this, Eric was visibly relieved. He immediately stood up and walked to the shelf, looking for clues about the existence of another cave.
He took a look. Eric, who seemed to have regained hope, shook his head secretly, stood up and walked towards the entrance of the cave. He moved the frozen canvas tent on the sleigh into the cave with difficulty, put it on two tables, and used the fire not far away. Baking the ice on it
Under the two people's busy work, the canvas tent and sleeping bag, which weighed more than 30 kilograms, gradually became dry and soft, and all the few ingredients in the cave inside were cooked. Cooked, then brought outside to freeze into a lump of ice that can be eaten immediately by simply heating it.
Even the tent where Eric and Professor Jonas lived was eaten by two people. People dug through the blizzard and dug out some cooked and frozen seafood, a large box of easy-to-preserve vegetables, and several bottles of unopened potato wine from the one-meter-thick snow.
Dangmao. When a short day came, Eric, who had almost turned the entire cave upside down, finally let out a cheer.
“Look at this, Victor! "
Eric held a plastic-covered book and shouted excitedly, "Relay station maintenance records! There is indeed a relay station there! And it seems there really is a maintenance warehouse! ”
“Is there a specific location? "Wei Ran came up and asked.
"Yes! Of course!
Eric flipped through the plastic notebook excitedly, showing the obviously hand-drawn map on the last page and said, "We just need toYou can find it by following this map, which even indicates locations prone to avalanches and precautions! "
"Now let's wait for the snowstorm to stop"
Wei Ran took the book and looked at it. The content recorded in it was extremely detailed, such as which year and which day. Routine maintenance on the relay station, replacing the battery, or encountering an avalanche during routine maintenance, who was injured, or who was buried under the snow and was not rescued, etc.
It can be seen that the people working in this weather station at that time were very serious and very bored at the same time. Otherwise, they would not have had to say such things as "by the way, I found a few Arctic foxes dancing in circles under the aurora". The nonsense that I don't know is true or false was written into the maintenance record.
He returned the plastic book to Eric. After thinking about it, the latter actually tore off a piece of white paper from the next page of the book, and then He took out his pen and wrote something in Norwegian that Wei Ran couldn't understand.
Seeing Wei Ran looking at him curiously, Eric put away his pen and explained, "If Leo comes back then. If he found out that we were gone, he would definitely look for us, so I left him a message in advance, so that if he came back, at least he wouldn't have to look for us anymore, and we would never be able to touch him. "
"If you had been so careful earlier, you wouldn't have ended up in this situation. "Wei Ran muttered to himself, and simply changed the topic to the blizzard that still didn't stop outside the cave.
As the two waited patiently, two full days passed. The wind outside gradually weakened and finally stopped completely. Even the top of their heads was filled with a strange aurora.
The two of them did not dare to waste time. They had enough to eat and drink and give Eric a headache. After changing the dressing for the wound, they immediately lit all the four kerosene gas lamps that they had found in the cave in advance and hung them around the sleigh filled with supplies. Then the two put on their snowshoes and each picked up a thumb-thick The climbing rope pulled the sleigh all the way north, leaving the valley and the warm cave along the gently rising terrain.