It is said that when a person has a strong sense of death, his mind will be like those who have near-death experiences described: the past is like a movie, and scenes appear in his memory, and the images of his relatives and friends will also alternately come to his mind, as if he is saying his final farewell to himself...
When Lin Xue jumped off the cliff, this illusion also appeared in her mind. However, her fantasies were all about sneering: she met for the first time on the train, sneering and sneering and slapping taxi, holding hands in the hospital at night, eating Cordyceps stewed with snow clams in the Western restaurant, hugging and dancing in the school dance hall, kissing affectionately in the hot spring valley, quarreling in the cold night in Lengxi Village... All kinds of warm, sad, or sad scenes and feelings came one after another, making her fall down under the cliff
During the process, there was no feeling of fear. In those few seconds, the handsome, sunny, kind and gentle smile on the sneering sky clearly appeared in her mind. Strangely, although she had quarreled with him so much, and sometimes hated him so much that he gritted his teeth, but now, when he felt that he was about to leave the world, the feeling he gave her was extremely warm, extremely sweet, and extremely worthy of nostalgia...
When her body hit something hard and was so painful that she was about to lose consciousness, she suddenly shed tears, tried her best to shout two words in a hoarse voice: "Xiaotian--"
I don’t know how long it took, but Lin Xue woke up in a daze in a biting chill and heart-wrenching pain.
She slowly and effortlessly opened her eyes covered by snow and glanced around the darkness. After a long time, she realized that she was not dead, but hung on a huge pine tree with twisted branches stretching across the upper half of the cliff, and her body was stuck on two branches as thick as her arms. Because the branches were covered with snow, it relieved her huge impact when she fell down. So, except for the pain on her left calf, she was probably fractured, and she was not injured in other parts of her body. However, her waist, which was broken in the afternoon, was still very painful. She didn't know what time it was now, nor could she see how high the pine tree was from the canyon below. Her strong desire to survive made her hug the branches of the pine tree tightly with her hands, and she didn't dare to move without seeing the situation below.
Fortunately, since she knew there would be a blizzard here before she came, Lin Xue wore two thermal underwear on her body, and the red down hiking suit was also thickened. This thickened down jacket not only saved her body temperature, but also prevented her from breaking her ribs when she just fell and stuck between the branches of the pine trees.
However, despite her clothes being worn, in the middle of the night when the temperature was getting lower and lower, she was still trembling all over, and her hands holding the branches gradually became numb...
Soon, she vaguely heard in the whistling cold wind, as if many people were shouting in unison: "Lin Xue—Lin Xue—"
The sound came from the top of the cliff. Although it was not very real, it was indeed someone calling her name.
It seems that someone has come into the mountain to find him.
Lin Xue was delighted, raised her head and shouted at the top of the cliff with all her strength: "I'm here!"
However, even she could not hear her powerless and hoarse voice, let alone spread to the cliff to let those who were looking for her hear it.
After shouting like this a few times, she knew that this was just a waste of effort. Not only did it have no effect, it would consume her originally lack of calories and strength.
So she stopped in despair, held the branches tightly, and silently waited for the arrival of dawn...
In the early morning, the wind in the canyon was blowing harder, the snow in the sky was falling more, and the temperature dropped further. Lin Xue could feel that her body was covered with ice. As soon as she moved, she would make a "crack" sound of ice slag shattering. The down hat on her head was also frozen hard, as if she was wearing a cold and heavy steel helmet. Her ten fingers were frozen with branches, and they were completely numb and had no sense at all. It felt as if these ten fingers were not grown on her body, but a few branches.
I don’t know how long it took, but the sky finally gradually became brighter. However, in such a canyon that was raging with wind and snow, even when it was dawn, the process was very slow: first, a little grayish-white light was emitted in the thick clouds. Then, the light gradually expanded, gradually penetrated the clouds, penetrated the snow mist, and reflected into the canyon. Everything around it was then hazy to reveal a little of the true face of Mount Lu.
Lin Xue discovered that the big pine tree he was holding was about half a meter below, a flat rock that protruded two meters outwards. Although there was ice on the rock, if you were careful, you should be able to slide along the trunk to the rock. Moreover, this rock seemed to extend out of a cave, and you could climb into the cave along the rock.
So, she tried her best to pull out her fingers that were frozen tightly with the branches, then slid along the trunk to the rock, trying her best to stabilize her body and not slide down to both sides of the rock, and then crawled on the rock and crawled into the cave inside the cliff bit by bit.
While crawling hard, she consciously used her strength to ten numb fingers, trying to promote blood circulation in her fingers and restore their perception. She knew very well that if her fingers were frozen for a long time, she would likely die.
At this time, she felt hungry and thirsty again. So she stopped crawling, buried her head in the snow layer, and ate a few bites of snow in big mouthfuls. After the cold snow water entered her stomach, the problem of thirst was solved, but the feeling of hunger became stronger.
When she climbed into the hole with great effort, she was delighted to find that the hole was actually dry. Although she felt the wind was strong at the entrance of the hole, she crawled into it a little more and warmed up a little.
Just as she was crawling into the depths of the cave bit by bit, she suddenly smelled a strong smell, floating out of the cave, and the man was about to vomit!
After slowly adapting to the dim light in the cave, she followed the direction of the smell, staring inside with wide eyes and saw a huge black bear lying motionless in the innermost corner. There were also some dead branches and winter thatch piled up on the bear, which was obviously the bear's "winter quilt".
Before coming to Xionghu Mountain, Lin Xue specially collected some information about the habits of tigers and bears. She once told Su Cheng and the others: It is absolutely impossible to encounter bears in winter. Because bears have hibernation habits, it is now the "sleeping period" for them to hibernate, so they generally do not wander outside.
However, even Lin Xue herself did not expect that although she had not encountered a bear outside, she finally climbed into a "bear nest". In just one day and one night, she personally saw the three ferocious animals of Xionghu Mountain: tigers, wolves and black bears - I really don't know whether this is her luck or misfortune.
At the same time, she also knows that the bear hibernates for a long time. Before hibernation from September to April of the following year, it usually takes several weeks to eat, and sometimes it can eat continuously for 20 hours a day, resulting in a weight increase of about 40 kilograms. After hibernation, the bear's weight decreases by 1/3. The hibernating bear is only in a semi-sleep state, and its body temperature does not drop much. If its hibernation residence is invaded, it will easily wake up. The female bear usually wakes up in January to raise bears, but it does not eat any food or moisture before April... Therefore, the bear's hibernation is not like cold-blooded animals such as snakes and hedgehogs, and it will not wake up after hibernation. In fact, the bear's hibernation is just a kind of "fake sleep" - from the outside, it seems to sleep very heavily, but in fact, as long as the sound outside is louder, it will wake up immediately...
Because Lin Xue was injured, she was in disguise when she climbed into the bear cave: because she could only climb into the cave slowly and gently, so the sound made was very small. As a result, she climbed into the cave from the rocks. Although it took nearly half an hour, she did not wake up the sleeping bear in the cave. You must know that a bear that woke up from hibernation was the time of hunger, the most ferocious and manic time. If Lin Xue woke up the bear, she would have nowhere to hide and escape on this cliff, and she was unable to move, the only result would be a delicious lunch to become the bear...
After seeing the hibernating black bear clearly, Lin Xue immediately stopped crawling, turned around with difficulty, and crawled towards the entrance of the cave again.
She wanted to climb outside and stay away from the black bear sleeping in the cave like a time bomb. However, she didn't dare to take this risk: it was already cold outside, and the stone was bulging out in the air of the cliff, just in time to bear the howling cold wind in the canyon. Although she was wearing thick clothes, she had been frozen for one night last night. If she was freezing again today, her down jacket would soon turn into a lump of ice and her body would soon freeze...
After thinking about it, she finally endured the fear in her heart. She found a leeward place at the entrance of the cave, curled her body into a ball, and sat against the wall of the cave. Her teeth were chewing and trembling constantly...
The long day passed, and the night fell again in this deep and quiet canyon.
Lin Xue was in a state of cold and hunger, and her broken left leg began to get inflamed again, and gradually she had a high fever.
At first, she just felt sore all over her body. Gradually, her body trembled more violently than before, and her consciousness began to become blurred...
In a daze, she seemed to feel that she was sitting by the fire pit of the very distinctive wooden house in Lengxi Village. Leng Jidao smiled kindly at her, holding up chopsticks to pick up a fragrant big chicken leg, and kept saying, "Daughter, this chicken leg was reserved for you, you're about to eat it!" She felt her saliva flow out suddenly...
When the second dawn came, Lin Xue murmured: "Xiaotian, you dead farmer, a big liar... Why haven't you come to save Xiaoxue yet... I feel so uncomfortable..."
After shouting these few words in a low voice, her head tilted to the wall of the hole and completely unconscious...