Chapter 735: life after snow
Chapter 735: Survival of the Snow
Xia Ling only felt snow hitting her face.
Just when he was about to look up, his body was suddenly tackled by Li Lei: "Danger, avalanche!"
She felt the world was spinning for a while, and before she had time to scream, her whole body was buried in the overwhelming snowflakes, her vision went dark, and she lost consciousness.
When she woke up again, she felt a sharp pain in her temples, and some warm liquid flowed into her mouth, with a fishy-sweet taste. Her vision went black for a while, and she couldn't see the surrounding scene clearly. Before the deafening roar passed, snow particles splashed onto her cheeks from time to time, which was cold and painful.
She moved.
A pair of solid and strong arms hugged her tighter.
Only then did she realize that she was curled up in someone's arms, leaning against his warm chest. His body was like a small boat in the storm, creating a safe world for her.
She gradually regained consciousness.
Remembering where I was and what had just happened - after the tourist shouted, a large-scale avalanche occurred. The snow on the top of the mountain roared down with thunderous force, swallowing people up in an instant. At the last moment, she remembered that it was Li Lei who caught her, so the person holding her now must be Li Lei.
But…
Shaohui…
Where is Shaohui? !
She suddenly became anxious, struggling with her body and looking around.
Li Lei noticed her movement: "Don't move, Xiao Ling, the avalanche hasn't passed yet." His voice was as light as a whisper, and he leaned against a big stone. The moment the avalanche happened, the survival instinct he had honed over the years in the wild and on the battlefield allowed him to spot the big rock immediately, and without thinking, he rushed in with her in his arms. A large rock resisted the avalanche, forming a small safe space, and they survived until now.
Xia Ling still struggled and made a vague sound: "Hui... Shaohui..."
Li Lei understood what she was saying and was silent for a moment before saying: "He will be fine. Xiao Ling, don't move around. If it triggers a bigger avalanche, you will be in trouble. You have to live well and wait for the avalanche." Once it's over, we can find Shao Hui." His voice was steady and strong, with a strange soothing power.
She was still very irritable, but she barely restrained herself and didn't make any noise.
She waited anxiously. She had never felt that time was so long. The roar of the wind and snow outside continued. She didn't know how long it took, maybe seconds, or hours, before it finally calmed down.
Xia Ling came out of Li Lei's arms immediately and wanted to stand up, but couldn't. Only then did she realize that they were trapped in a small space between a few natural boulders.
“I’m going out to find Shaohui!” she said eagerly, trying to dig out the snow outside.
Li Lei took her hand and said, "Don't move! If there is a landslide, we will all be buried!"
Xia Ling was so anxious that she almost cried: "What should we do? The child is so young and can't last long in the snow!" She couldn't imagine how little Shaohui would survive alone in the harsh snowy mountains.
Li Lei said: "He is a brave child, he will be fine." He didn't know whether he was comforting Xia Ling or himself. He pulled her behind him, "I'll dig it."
He is more experienced than her and knows where to dig and where there is danger.
Xia Ling took a few steps back and looked up at him digging worriedly. This small hiding place was blocked by boulders and ice and snow, and the light was very dark. It was not until he was close to the ice and snow that she could see clearly - "Your head is injured?!" She suddenly remembered that in his arms The sweet smell of blood that she tasted while inside turned out not to be her injury.
It's him.
Li Lei raised his hand and wiped the blood on his forehead: "It's a small injury, it's not a problem." This was the wound caused by the hail when he protected her from throwing herself behind the boulder. It hurt for a while and bled a little. In such cold weather, the bleeding actually stopped quickly, it just looked scary.
She was very distressed. She groped for a long time in her luggage, found gauze, and wrapped it around him.
When her forehead came into contact with the gauze, he wanted to scold her not to waste first-aid supplies—if subordinates or mercenaries in the same team had done this, he would have expelled them from the team long ago. In the wild, sometimes a little gauze and medicine can mean a life. How can you waste extravagant money on such a small injury?
However, she is not his subordinate.
She is just a woman who panicked because she cared about him.
Li Lei felt his heart warm, and all the reprimands he was about to say melted like ice and snow without a trace. It is said that people in love have zero IQ. Classmate Li Xiaolei, who has zero IQ, allowed her to carefully bandage his wound. Then, he took out a piece of gauze from his medicine bag and added it to her medicine bag.
Xia Ling said: "What are you doing?"
Li Lei: "It's too heavy, use mine first."
She looked at the snow chisel, snow shovel and other items he was carrying. Without doubting that he was there, she let him put the life-saving supplies into her backpack.
Li Lei carefully dug a hole in the snow, and finally, a ray of skylight shone down. He piled the snow **** he had dug out under his feet to form a snowdrift for stepping on, and climbed out first. Seeing that there was no danger, he stretched out his hand to pull Xia Ling out.
Xia Ling’s feet set foot on the outside world again.
Avalanches in the mountains come and go as quickly as they come. At this time, the weather has already cleared up, and the blue sky is cloudless. The whole snow-capped mountains are reflected in the crystal clear and solemn light, making them as gorgeous as a fairyland.
The landscape has changed drastically, and it is no longer clear where we came from and where we are going.
Xia Ling looked around and found no trace of Shao Hui, not even the slightest clue left behind. She was so anxious that the tone of her voice changed: "What should we do? Where should we find Shao Hui?!"
Li Lei took out the compass - fortunately, in the avalanche just now, this military compass was only slightly distorted and deformed, which did not affect its function - he fixed his position and said to Xia Ling: "The snow is rolling down from the mountain. , Shaohui should have been rushed down the mountain, let’s look in that direction.”
Speaking, he pointed in a direction.
Xia Ling was about to go there in a hurry.
Li Lei grabbed her and said, "Follow me."
The road after an avalanche is very loose and covered with soft snow, which is very dangerous. There may be cliffs or snow pits somewhere, and something will happen if you are not careful. He wouldn't let her go ahead.
She barely controlled herself from walking in front of him, but her anxiety was burning: "Hurry up, Shao Hui is so young, what should I do if I can't hold it?" As she spoke, she wanted to cry again, and raised her hands and shook her head. Wiping his eyes, knowing that now was not the time to be vulnerable, he followed Li Lei's steps to search.
(End of this chapter)