March, Beihai. If we were in Jiangling, it would already be the season when warblers are flying and grass is growing. But standing in the middle of Beihai, the fierce wind was still like a knife, threatening to roll up the snow in the ice like sand grains.
He cut He Qizhou's face hard once.
Trekking three thousand miles north from Qingcheng, He Qizhou once again learned what real cold is, but no matter how cold it is, there is no cold heart! The vast Beihai was once a place where barbarians exiled prisoners, and it was also where his adopted mother missed him.
's hometown.
In ten days, he walked hundreds of miles along the lakeshore, but could not find a suitable place to bury his mother's last ashes, so He Qizhou decided to let his mother rest at the bottom of the lake. After thawing, the lake water would flow through every inch of his mother's hometown.
land!
The vast North Sea stretches as far as the eye can see, and it seems that He Qizhou is the only one left in the world! Loneliness has become the norm, and his tears have long dried. In the ice under his feet, countless strings of bubbles are like a big lake crying for his mother.
He Qizhou nodded, that's it! The ice layer was not sure how thick it was. He Qizhou took out the frost-defying sword, thought for a while, and sheathed the heavy sword. This sword was too fierce. My mother, a kind-hearted person, should not use it to cut ice!
He Qizhou put aside the package and long sword behind him, and began to hit the ice with his fists! "Bang-bang-bang..." A dull banging sound extended on the ice, and pieces of ice shards spread out in all directions.
As the fist rises and falls, it splashes everywhere.
I don’t know how long I kept smashing it, but my fists seemed a little numb and all the energy was exhausted, but there was only a shallow pit more than half a foot deep on the ice!
He Qizhou was not in a hurry, and in his heart he even hoped that the ice would be as thick as possible, so that he could spend more time with his mother. After sweeping away the ice chips in the pit, He Qizhou crossed his legs and adjusted his breathing, and continued to smash the ice after regaining his strength!
The days were short and the nights were long. The extremely majestic and bright stars seemed to be hanging above his head. He Qizhou grabbed a handful of broken ice and stuffed it into his mouth. He continued to punch, pounding day and night. Even if the fist surface was as hard as iron, now
His flesh and blood were already a mess. The small pit on the ice had turned into a large hole three feet deep, and it seemed that the water waves flowing under the ice could already be seen...
"General Lian, did you hear what's going on? This sound has been intermittent all night long. Could it be that Lin Hu's people are also getting ice?" On the ice ten miles away from He Qizhou, four fur furs appeared on the ice.
The strong man wrapped up in the body was holding an iron ice pick and was cutting ice cubes from the lake. One of them stopped what he was doing and asked.
A tall man nearly eight feet tall stood up, looked at the place where the sound came from, and said: "It doesn't sound like the sound of ice cutting. If Lin Hu pursues him, he won't be able to come from the middle of the lake..."
"Yes, I thought it was a hunter catching fish, but it's impossible to catch fish all night. General, why don't you go and have a look?"
"Okay, let's go together." The man who was called the company general put down the iron drill in his hand, threw down the dozens of two-foot-square ice blocks that he had dug out, and took the other three people, pulling a sled, towards the lake.
Go to the center where the sound comes from.
Four well-packed men, two pulling the sled and the other riding the sled, took turns with each other after a while. They walked straight for about half an hour against the strong wind, and finally found the source of the sound. Only two people were seen.
Inside and outside, there was half a figure hammering the ice with an unknown tool. The reason why only half of the figure was visible was because the man was standing in an ice cave three or four feet deep, hammering away.
"What is that guy doing? Digging a hole to fish? Is he crazy from hunger?"
"It's possible, but what about the others? He couldn't have dug such a big hole by himself, right?"
"Let's go help him and share the fish we catch with him."
"Good idea, but if that guy keeps doing this, he's going to fall into the water soon!"
"Look, there's hot steam coming up. That guy must have penetrated it."
"Hey, he climbed up, holding something, as if he was in a daze."
…
"It's useless to talk more. Let's go and take a look first." Listening to the other three people chattering incessantly, the strong man surnamed Lian waved the three of them to continue to move closer to the figure. Because the ice hole was drilled through, the figure became increasingly blurry and already blurred.
Shrouded in a cloud of ice mist.
The two miles on the ice looked very close, but it took a long time to walk against the strong wind. When the four of them approached less than a hundred steps, they heard a "porphyry" sound, and saw that the image of the man had accidentally fallen.
Enter the ice cave you dug yourself.
"No! Go and save people!" The big man surnamed Lian immediately put down his sled and rushed towards the steamy ice cave. The other three
People also followed quickly.
By the time the four people rushed to the edge of the ice cave, the water vapor had already become extremely thin. The bottom of the ice cave, which was two feet in diameter and four feet deep, soon formed a very thin layer of ice under the severe cold.
, you can see a man in single clothes sinking slowly...
"I'm going to save him!" Without saying a word, the strong man surnamed Lian immediately took off his fur hat and mink fur, straightened his body, and jumped into the ice cave. As the thin layer of ice broke, another cloud of water vapor appeared.
It surged up and turned into ice mist in an instant.
"General, be careful!" The other three people leaned down to look down, but in the mist, the person who entered the water disappeared in an instant.
After a few breaths, the water vapor dissipated again, but there was no trace of the two people under the water anymore. The three of them were anxious, and after a short discussion, two more people undressed and went into the water, while the one who couldn't swim stayed on top to help each other.
After the two people dived for several feet, they finally spotted General Lian, who was floating upwards quickly. General Lian was shaking his head and pointing upwards. The two understood that they could not save anyone, so they turned to the surface.
Different from the severe cold on the ice, it was quite warm under the water. When the three of them looked up, a thin layer of ice had formed in the ice cave. Because the entrance of the cave was too small, it could only accommodate one person, and the two people who entered the water later were
, make room for General Lian to go up and take a breather first.
General Lian, who had just dived more than twenty feet deep and could no longer hold his breath, was not polite. He quickly surfaced, broke through the ice, and came out. The severe cold on the water surface immediately caused a layer of frost on General Lian's head that was exposed from the water.
The thin ice and the big mouthful of cold air made General Lian choke and cough uncontrollably!
"Give me your hand!" Because the ice cave is four feet deep and the walls are as smooth as a mirror, the person above can only lie down on the ice and reach down with one hand.
With great difficulty, General Lian stretched his right hand out of the water and held the hand stretched out from above. However, the chill that penetrated the bones could freeze a person to death in just a few breaths. General Lian found that his chest was hurting so much that he could hardly move his hands.
After being lifted up two feet by the person above, I tried several times to grab the ice with my left hand, but failed. In the end, I couldn't even lift my hand.
Although the man on the ice was also a big man, he couldn't exert any strength while lying on his stomach. After pulling General Lian up two feet, he could no longer lift him up one point. In desperation, the man tried to change his position and used his feet to support the other man.
Side of the ice wall, but in this way, he was almost dragged down the ice cave by General Lian.
"Save them first!" Seeing that the person above him was about to be dragged down the ice cave, General Lian hurriedly let go of his right hand and said four words with difficulty. Due to the cough just now, there were already several streaks of frozen blood at the corners of his mouth.
"General!" Following the urgent cry of the person above him, General Lian fell into the water again. After entering the water, General Lian seemed to have regained some consciousness and pushed a comrade underwater to surface.
The man obviously knew that he was at a critical moment of life and death. After preparing to go up, he joined hands with the people on the ice to save people, but he soon fell into the same predicament as General Lian. After getting out of the water, his stiff body could not use any strength at all.
, even if someone pulls him above the water and two companions hold him underwater, he still cannot reach the four-foot-high ice surface.
Because the third person had to breathe, the second person quickly gave up trying to climb onto the ice. The person above used a leather cloak to hang on the water, which was more conducive to exerting force, but the third person's hands were frozen.
Unable to hold on to the leather cloak, he pulled it up a little, and then dropped it heavily. After many twists and turns, the people on the ice were almost exhausted, and they started to cry at a loss.
The three people under the water could only take turns to go to the entrance of the cave to breathe. The three of them were getting weaker and weaker, and they were almost unable to move their limbs. General Lian, who was the first to enter the water, was the first to be unable to hold on and slowly sank down. The other two wanted to
He grabbed him, but was dragged to the bottom of the lake by General Lian...
Lying on the lake, the despairing man was thinking about whether to go into the water to save others. Suddenly he noticed a black shadow swimming upwards quickly, and then pulled the three stiff men to the ice cave, one after another.
He pushed the three of them out of the lake without any effort. In the end, the magical guy actually used his hands to climb up the lake against the ice wall.
"Use a dry cloth to wipe them dry!" He Qizhou, who was covered in moisture, came up, pointed to his baggage beside the ice cave, and asked the man who seemed a bit stupid to help. There were several pieces of replacement clothes in the baggage.
As He Qizhou spoke, he tore open the frozen underclothes of the three of them one by one. The person who had not yet entered the water wiped them dry and quickly wrapped them in the leather cloaks and hats that the three of them had taken off before entering the water.
"Will they, will they die?
"Seeing that the three of them could no longer speak, the big man who stayed on the lake asked in a trembling voice.
"No, but we need to find a sheltered place quickly and drink some hot water such as ginger soup." While changing clothes for the three of them, He Qizhou had already checked their pulses. These three people were all in extremely strong constitution. If treated,
In time, it should be no big deal.
"Brother, our camp is about ten miles away from here, and there is a sleigh there!" The big man pointed to the sleigh a hundred steps away, where the four of them had just discovered He Qizhou had fallen into the ice cave, and the four of them had rushed over.
He Qizhou had been exercising to keep his body warm. At this time, he had taken off his wet clothes, put on a set of dry clothes, put on his leather cloak, and then quickly rushed towards the sled that was originally intended to be filled with ice cubes. In the blink of an eye,
He then pulled the sled to the entrance of the cave and placed the three people on the sled one by one. He also spent a stick of incense to inject some infuriating energy into the three people, and tapped a few acupuncture points to protect the three people's heart veins, and then
Another person pulled the sled together and headed south towards the camp where the four of them were.