Chapter 397 Dawn
Withers is dead.
Died simply and sloppily.
Fisher collapsed on the ice, gasping for air.
He was certain that Withers was dead.
Ten or twenty meters away, the muscular Texas man lay quietly under the crack, his limbs bent irregularly, with a large pool of frozen blood under him.
Fisher didn’t know if he was hallucinating, but he felt his own face appear on the blood ice.
He roared and cursed at the top of his lungs.
Every sound echoed in the cracks.
But no one responded to him.
After an unknown amount of time, a warm stove appeared in front of Fisher. His 67-year-old mother appeared in front of him, shook him awake, handed him a cup of steaming coffee, and then sat on the sofa and cried.
"Why are you crying, Mom? Why?"
Fisher was very confused, but when he got closer he was stunned. What his mother was holding in her hand was his photo.
"I, I'm dead?"
Fisher took two steps back and suddenly felt a severe chill. He shivered and when he woke up again he was in tears.
There was no stove, no hot coffee, only an icy blue abyss.
Fisher wiped away his tears, took two energy gels from his backpack, and grasped the ice axe on the ice wall.
Stab, kick, shift, repeat.
"I won't die. I won't die here. Never!"
…
"No oxygen?"
Tomonobu Saito flapped the oxygen cylinder, and the pressure gauge on it had completely stopped working. At this moment, Saito's heart was filled with despair.
In 2014 and 2015, he witnessed avalanches with his own eyes, but luckily escaped. Now it's finally his turn.
Saito wanted to escape, but the heavy snow made it hard for him to breathe. Saito couldn't judge how deep he was buried. His right leg hurt so much that he broke into cold sweats when he moved.
Maybe I'm going to die here.
Saito stopped struggling and stared into the darkness with wide eyes.
…
In the confined space, Yao Jun, who had already completed the sixth round of excavation, climbed out of the cave and shook off the snow on his body.
"Phew, I'm freezing."
"Suck on an energy gel to warm yourself up? Rest for fifteen minutes and then continue."
The hole was getting deeper and deeper. When the first person was digging, it took at least three people behind him to clear the snow and create a passage. Rotation was no longer effective, so they could only dig for a while and then rest for a while.
"Forget it." Yao Jun declined the energy gel handed over by Bifang, turned around and said happily, "I feel like I'm almost done digging through. I just suspected I heard the wind!"
Hearing this, Bifang poked his head into the cave that was big enough for a person to enter and exit, shook his head and said, "That might be your hallucination."
Yao Jun sighed, "I don't know when we can get out. Digging diagonally is too laborious. If we could go straight up and down, we might have gotten out. What time is it now?"
Attenborough, who was sitting in the corner, lifted up his sleeves to reveal his watch: "It's half past five. We have been buried for an hour."
"The sun is about to come out. I don't know when the rescue will begin. Camp C2 may also be in a terrible state. I estimate there will be many casualties." Bifang thought for a while and said.
[It’s a pity that we can’t watch the whole live broadcast, otherwise the contrast would be absolutely strong. ]
[There is probably only one store that can live stream and chat during an avalanche.]
[It’s alright, it’s nothing serious, time to go to sleep, my life is more important]
[I actually watched Lao Fang and his team digging a hole the whole night]
[At least you got to see the first recorded live broadcast of avalanche in human history, and it was in the first person (dog head)]
[I was just streaming live on my computer, and I watched the host’s other live streams on my phone. It’s so awesome! I just learned about this treasure host? ]
[You don’t watch live broadcasts much, do you ? You don’t even know the superstars in the live broadcast industry? ]
[I never watched live broadcasts. I always thought that there was nothing interesting about them. They were either playing games or acting ugly. But I can actually find gold! ]
[It is indeed a gold rush in a manure pit, but Langya and Langya No. 1 are still worth a look. This is the real industry benchmark! ]
[Follow, follow ! Treasure anchor! ]
[Tacitus gave the host a spaceship *1.00——Fang Shen, awesome! ]
[Fuck, that old man is the chief's rich man! ]
[I'm so jealous, rich people, look at me, I can do anything! I can do anything! I can do anything! ]
The comments from the audience in the live broadcast room were flying, and Rob was also digging the hole with his hands and feet. Jarrett, Tenzin and Yao Jun behind him hollowed out the snow bit by bit in order.
"I feel like I'm cleaning the feces on Mount Everest," Yao Jun said, panting.
Bifang smiled and kicked Yao Jun's butt, saying, "You survived under the protection of Mount Everest. You will be in trouble if you say such things."
At this moment, Rob, who had been digging, suddenly felt a lightness on his fingertips. He trembled and stretched out his hand in disbelief.
wind!
It's the wind!
"It's connected! It's connected! There's wind!"
"It's connected!?" Bifang stood up excitedly.
Rob dug out the snow in a hurry, kicked his legs impatiently, and got out of the passage little by little. The cold wind blew on his face, as cold as a knife, but so refreshing!
The second person to come out was Tenzin, who stood on the hillside, stayed there for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter and shouted towards the top of the mountain.
"Lamaqin! Lamaqin!"
"Oh my god, stop shouting, be careful of another avalanche!" Yao Jun came out fourth and scared Tenzin.
Tenzin immediately covered his mouth.
"Don't listen to him. There just was an avalanche. The probability of another one is almost zero." Bifang crawled out of the cave exhausted, and at the same time reached out to support the last Atenburg.
Five fifty-seven.
Bifang raised his head and turned off the U-turn lights.
Dawn is the coldest time of the entire night, and Bifang felt like his blood was freezing.
He sat on the ground, leaning against a fallen rock, staring blankly at the sunlight rising from the side of the antenna, shining on the Khumbu Glacier that seemed to have been cleared again, and a faint white smoke rising.
The sun shines over the earth and a new day begins.
…
"I don't know whether I should say I'm lucky or unlucky to have survived the avalanche."
The cigarette butt was extinguished on the corner of the table. A white man turned off the live broadcast and slurped the last mouthful of noodles in the bowl.
Opposite the man was a black man with dreadlocks. He looked at the vast world on the narrow screen with interest and suddenly asked, "I heard that your brother's case has been tried in court? Don't you want to make some money?"
"I'd risk my head to get it back. Hundreds of thousands of people saw the evidence of his crime, but I couldn't get it back even if I spent 100 million dollars. I've said before that you can't accomplish anything by fighting alone. There's no logistics support, it's troublesome and dangerous, and no one will help you if something goes wrong. The people who help you are also a bunch of scumbags. What's the point of having been a soldier? Besides, he's not my brother. We just happened to be in the same family."
The black man was a little puzzled: "If it's not your brother, why did you come all the way here to do this?"
"It's a company assignment. I happened to be nearby. Okay, have you finished eating? I'll leave after eating. I haven't slept all night. I'm so sleepy. Argali sheep are not easy to deal with."
"Where's he?" The black man pursed his lips. "Is it okay to leave him there? Isn't this your company's mission?"
"I am only responsible for putting things away. The outcome has nothing to do with me."
Picking up the hat on the table, the white man put it on his head and then took out the leather armor and several rubles, and put them on the table without even looking at them carefully.
The black man smiled and shook his head, put on his hat and followed the man out.
"Hey, there are so many guests, so many more!"
The boss who noticed the noise picked up the rubles, counted them, and hurriedly chased after them, only to find that the two men had disappeared long ago.
“There are so many rich people.”
“Can you come to our place to travel without money?”
"That's right." The boss smiled, picked up the banknote and looked at it in the sunlight. After a while, a red spot caught his attention. He rubbed it for a long time, breathing on it and rubbed it, but it still couldn't be removed.
I got closer and asked, and there was a smell of rust.
"This money is actually stained with blood, it's really scary."
The boss was startled and looked around, but found that no one noticed him, so he put the bills into his arms.
"Boss, do you have breakfast?"
"Yes, coming!"
