If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 892 The Second Day (55)

There was an inevitable quarrel in the taiga, and Dusha lost her temper, almost hysterical, but this time Vika didn't stop her because everyone was emotionally unstable, including the accused huntress .

"What kind of road did you lead? Is this the road you led? After walking for half a day in one morning, you turned around the road. Is there something wrong with you?"

The entire coniferous forest could only hear shouts and accusations, and the snow on the coniferous trees in the distance was shaken and fell into the forest.In front of the snow-filled clearing, a group of people stood not far from the hunter's cabin and looked at each other.

The huntress didn't care about Dusha, who was on the verge of collapse. She frowned and looked around, and even went to the window of the hunter's cabin to look inside, and then she was sure that this was the starting point before they came. There were frozen fish bones and a lot of bread crumbs, and there were scattered matchsticks beside the extinguished stove.
Yes, they did circle back, somehow returning to their original point after a full four-hour trek all morning.

"Be quiet first." The huntress took a deep breath and said, "I don't think I led the wrong way. It should be that we encountered some unexpected situations."

"Don't you think you are leading the wrong way? But you are leading the wrong way!" Dusha came over emotionally and wanted to use her intact hand to pull the collar of the huntress, but the huntress raised her hand She raised her arm, and when she was about to fight, Vika growled, "Okay!"

Du Sha turned her head to look at her brother who also had a bad complexion, and shouted resentfully, "What's wrong! What the hell is going on! What the hell is going on!"

"I also want to know what's going on." The huntress looked at the lieutenant colonel, "Can you lend me your watch?"

Lieutenant Colonel Andre knew what the huntress was thinking, so he simply took off the gold victory watch on his wrist and handed it over.After receiving the watch, the huntress stared at the time pointing to 12:15, then walked to the window of the wooden house to find an angle to look at the cuckoo wall clock inside, and confirmed that the time on the two dials was almost the same, and the maximum error was not too large. 2 minutes.

"There is nothing wrong with the direction of the watch pointer." The huntress returned the watch to the lieutenant colonel and looked at everyone else, "I am also confident in my sense of direction. We have indeed been heading west before, and there is no possibility of detours .The lieutenant colonel and I took turns to guide the way, which also reduces the possibility of mistakes, and the possibility of the two of us misperceiving the direction at the same time is very small.”

"What do you want to say?" Vika asked dully.

"If we have no problems, then the only problem is the road under our feet." The huntress took a deep breath and said, "This forest has problems."

"What's wrong with the forest?" Adam asked subconsciously.

"It can't be that we really went wrong. It's unlikely that two people's sense of direction will be wrong at the same time, but it's not impossible." Vika still refused to believe their guess.

"That's right, how could something go wrong in the forest, are you all crazy?" Dusha screamed, "You idiots are leading the wrong way!"

"I also hope that I led the wrong way." The huntress didn't avoid looking, she looked directly at Dusha and said, "I am indeed willing to be the fool you said."

These words made Dusha dumb for an instant, and besides mania, there was also a trace of fear and uneasiness in her eyes.

"Go and have a look on the avenue." Lieutenant Colonel Andre turned his head to look north of the coniferous forest.

"Yes, that railroad track." Adam's eyes lit up.

If they remembered correctly, the wooden house was built in the coniferous forest less than 300 meters from the railway tracks, which means that it is not far to go north to reach the track-paved avenue.You'll have absolutely no problem walking along the avenue.

"You can go to the avenue first." The huntress also remembered this, and looked at the lieutenant colonel, "Shall I go with you?"

"No, I'll go with him, and you and the others will stay to take care of the old man and those two children." Andre pointed to Vika, and then looked down at the old Arian on the stretcher.

Old Arian was also looking at him, his lips twitched a bit but he still didn't say anything, he really couldn't do anything in his current state.

"Old man, you are most familiar with this place. Please point me in the direction of the avenue, so that we don't go wrong again." The huntress squatted beside the stretcher and held the old hunter's left hand.

Old Ali settled for a moment, raised his right hand vigorously and pointed to the end of the coniferous forest, and said angrily, "Take a path I opened up and walk to the end."

After saying this, he didn't say anything. When he saw Vika and Dusha beside him, he naturally recognized them as the robbers who broke in, but what could he say and do in this situation?There is only silence.

"Is there still a way to the avenue? That would be great." Adam cheered up when he heard that.

"The round trip of 300 meters will take about 10 minutes." Lieutenant Colonel Andre glanced at his watch, "If Vika and I don't come back after 10 minutes, then you can go into the wooden house and rest first. If possible, we will leave During this time, collect some firewood in the surrounding area in advance."

"What are you collecting firewood for?" said Dussa.She vaguely rejected the predicament they were about to face, so she blurted out the question.

"It's already noon now. If we start again, we may have to arrive at the town in the afternoon or evening. If there is any accident on the road, it will be delayed until late at night. You yourself know how quickly it gets dark in Siberia and how cold it is at night. "The huntress calmly said what the lieutenant colonel meant.

"So we might have to stay here for another day?" The expression on Adam's face instantly became ugly.

"This is the worst case scenario. If the lieutenant colonel finds the avenue in a while, we will walk along the avenue. It is almost impossible to go the wrong way along the avenue. No matter how deep the snow is, we can still be there two or three hours late. It will be no big problem to reach the town at the edge of darkness," said the huntress.

"Okay." Adam's complexion changed several times and he finally accepted his fate.

The lieutenant colonel and Vika set out to drill into the coniferous forest. After walking a few steps, they saw the man-made path pointed by the old hunter. After a while, no one could be seen or the sound of footsteps could be heard.On the other side of the clearing, several people stood dryly for a while, and finally the huntress and Adam carried old Arian into the house and lit the stove again.

"Things are getting weirder and weirder." Adam said to himself, the huntress next to him didn't say anything after hearing it, and glanced at Dusha who was angrily kicking the snow back and forth in the open space, and then looked at The little girl sitting in front of the wooden house, she walked over and sat beside the little girl and whispered, "Elena? Is that the name? Are you okay?"

The little girl turned her head to look at the huntress and nodded.

Looking at the little girl with brown eyes as clear as water, the huntress pondered over her words for a long time, and finally said, "Is there anything you want to tell my sister about me?"

The little girl looked at the huntress for a long time, then nodded slightly, "My brother is hungry."

"Here, feed it to him, but you have to eat half of it too." The huntress took out a small piece of frozen jerky from the fur coat, which she found from rummaging through the wooden house before, but did not hand it over to the table.

"Can I feed him all?" the little girl asked.

"No. You have to eat half of it." The huntress looked at the little boy wrapped in fur behind the little girl. His weak appearance made people feel distressed, but the most hungry person after a long journey was the little girl.

She knew that this girl didn't eat anything in the morning, and all the fish tacos allocated to her were fed to the little boy. She almost drank some water and ate some bread crumbs, and then walked away with them Half a day of snow.

"Okay." The little girl seemed to have made some difficult decision, and nodded in agreement.

Passed the jerky to the little girl, watched her bite the second half into her mouth and swallowed it, the huntress reached out and patted her head and stood up, ready to go to the coniferous forest not far away to pick up the stove Firewood, but at this moment she heard the weak voice of the little girl behind, "Be careful with them."

"What did you say?" The huntress immediately turned to look at the little girl.

"Be careful with them." The little girl looked at the huntress with clear eyes.

"They? You mean the group of devils from last night?"

The little girl shook her head, and looked into the depths of the coniferous forest, "Everyone, be careful of all of them."

everyone?

The huntress froze for a moment as if she didn't understand what she meant, but after saying this, the little girl carried her brother back to the wooden house, and the fire was already lit.After entering the room, she opened her mouth to spit out the jerky under her tongue, wiped it clean, and stuffed it to the little boy behind her. The little boy closed his eyes and opened his mouth, gently biting the warm jerky, chewing and swallowing it up.

"Thank you." He said in a barely audible voice.

"Live, and I will take you out of here." The little girl whispered, "For me, for him, and for yourself."

The short 5 minutes passed quickly. Adam, who was collecting firewood in the open space, and Dusha, who was still angry, heard footsteps in the bushes. They subconsciously ran back to the wooden house in fear and away from the coniferous forest until the end. They breathed a sigh of relief when the two familiar figures came out.

"How's the situation?" The huntress heard the movement and ran out from the side of the wooden house holding firewood. She saw the lieutenant colonel and Vika coming out of the bushes at a glance, and she noticed their ugly faces as soon as she asked. expression.

"Walking back...?" Vika stood in front of the bushes and stared blankly at the wooden house and his sister in front of the wooden house.

"Going back." The lieutenant colonel looked at everything in front of him indifferently.

"But we are indeed walking along the road! Damn it, could it be that the road itself is going around!" Vika's breathing was a little short, and anxiety filled his eyes.

"No, I'm pretty sure we're going in a straight line." The lieutenant colonel looked into the depths of the bushes from which they came back. "The road may turn around, but the watch will never point the wrong way."

"No, I don't believe it." Vika's expression twitched, and he turned his head and rushed into the coniferous forest with some anxiety, but this time the lieutenant colonel did not follow him, but walked out of the bushes towards the wooden house .

"Lieutenant Colonel, is it really a road problem?" the huntress looked at the approaching Lieutenant Colonel and asked.

"The road problem." The lieutenant colonel admitted with a nod. "We must have been trapped. We walked straight according to the direction of the watch or came back here."

"What's the reason?"

"I don't know." The lieutenant colonel shook his head. "I've never seen this before. But there is no doubt that it has something to do with the snowstorm last night."

"Blizzard. You mean the group of devils?" This time the huntress also used devils to describe those black silhouettes.

"That's not the devil," said the colonel. "That's the enemy."

"Enemy?" The huntress stared at the lieutenant colonel, as if trying to find more information from the other's expression.

"Anyone who wants to take things away from us is an enemy." The lieutenant colonel's expression was flawless, and he looked sideways at Dusha who was still walking around not far away, "How is the firewood collected?"

"A piece of good news and bad news. The good news is that the snowstorm has blown down a lot of branches, and the firewood only needs to be picked up a few times to burn until tomorrow. The bad news is that I didn't find any traces of animals nearby when I was collecting firewood." The huntress put down the firewood in her hand and said.

".Are you sure?" the lieutenant colonel asked in a low voice.

"The animals seem to be extinct. I have never had such a clean forest before. Have you heard any birds since this morning?"

"Except for that clock, no."

"Huna, it seems that it's not a matter of my personal ability." The huntress took a deep breath, because she had a premonition that things seemed to be really bad.

"The food in the wooden house has been eaten this morning." The lieutenant colonel said after a moment of silence, "In any case, we have to find a way to survive today."

"Or take a gamble and go straight to the road to see if we can walk to the town. The food has already been eaten. Even if we survive today and tomorrow, I'm afraid we won't have the strength to trek for an entire hour on the snowy road."

"You can't gamble. The experiments in the morning and just now have proved that if we don't find the reason why we detour back to the original point, all the roads we have taken will only be in vain."

"Lieutenant Colonel, you don't seem to be scared at all from the beginning?" The huntress suddenly looked at the man who had been calm.

"The word fear is not in the dictionary of Soviet officers, we only bring fear to our enemies." The lieutenant colonel said lightly, "And I don't think you are very afraid, you have always been calm and have the qualities of a soldier. "

"Maybe I got tired of seeing all the chaotic scenes during my last stay in Moscow," the huntress said self-deprecatingly.

"I believe that the motherland will get better and better. That's why I'm here," said the lieutenant colonel in a deep voice.

"Yes." The huntress gave a not-so-standard military salute.

"The main problem now is food. You are a hunter. Can you temporarily get us something to eat in this forest? Even if there are no animals." The lieutenant colonel asked, "If there is no food, people will die when they are hungry. The degree of moral depravity will be far beyond imagination, and even I will not be able to control the situation."

"I'll try my best." The huntress inhaled.

"Thank you. Not only for ourselves, but also for those two children." The lieutenant colonel looked towards the wooden house, and from the opened door, he could see the little girl and boy quietly warming by the fire.

"You seem to care about those two children?"

The lieutenant colonel did not answer this question, he looked towards the bushes not far away.

Urgent footsteps were heard there, and a figure rushed out, no surprises, it was Vika, his body was covered with snow, and he looked at the wooden house and them in front of the wooden house with a face of dead parents.

"Get ready for another night here," said the lieutenant colonel. "I don't think this night will be peaceful."

"There shouldn't be a blizzard tonight, and those devils will appear again?"

"The enemy, yes, the enemy will appear again. The problem we encountered from the very beginning was never the blizzard, but an enemy more terrifying than the blizzard." The lieutenant colonel said quietly.

(End of this chapter)