Looking back on the miracle

"Beautiful Miss Dongfang, you are wonderful."

In the ski resort, the tall and handsome blond coach pushed up the goggles and gave Zhou Xiwen a thumbs up.

"Thanks." Zhou Xiwen smiled, expressing his desire to skate alone.

Finally, I can enjoy this feeling of relaxation and detachment alone.

She put on the goggles, pulled the scarf a little higher, and with the skis slightly on one side, she slid down the snow track quickly.

Chen Guanlin tapped the ski pole and slid down crookedly—one, two, three, four swung to the left, five, six, seven, eight to the right, all in all, the balance basically depended on shaking.

Ten meters, 20 meters, 30 meters... Paji, fall on your back...

Chen Guanlin thought of the Jin Yong novels he read when he was young - "Fortunately, it's not the style of flat sand and wild geese."

Looking at the fuzzy purple figure in front of him who was having fun while suffering, he deeply felt that he really really really didn't like this pure ice and snow...

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There are fewer people in the ski resort at night and it looks very quiet.Under the illumination of the light, the white snow reflects dreamlike colors, making people addicted to it.

Uh...Chen Guanlin is certainly not in the list of obsessions.He is continuing to practice ing very hard...

I slid down, took the cable car up, slid down again, and went up again... I fell five, six, seven or eight times during the period, and now my entire thigh and buttocks are numb, and I can predict that it will be bruised and purple in the next few days.

Chen Guanlin once again climbed up the snow slope, stood here overlooking the forest and snow field in the distance, and suddenly felt a sense of the vast universe and the insignificant life in his heart.

There was a trace of white on the horizon, and it was almost dawn.

After a night of intensive practice, Chen Guanlin felt that he had made great progress.Finally, I didn’t fall in vain, new skills get~

The man shook his arms and legs, took a deep breath, lifted his ski poles, and flew down.

Bow slightly, knees slightly apart and slightly bent, looking forward...

The cold wind passed by the ears, slightly stinging but refreshing...

He felt that he also fell in love with this sport that is suitable for one person.

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"Guanlin?"

Zhou Xiwen, who couldn't sleep early, got up and felt as if she saw a familiar figure from the back just now. She blurted out subconsciously, but quickly shook her head and laughed, "How is that possible, he is most afraid of the cold."

She drank the hot black coffee, put on the scarf on one side of her body, and slid down the slope into a snowy white.

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"Everyone, please pay attention. To ensure everyone's safety, you must follow the leader's arrangement when going up the mountain and skiing... (English)"

Chen Guanlin was sitting in the last seat of the bus, playing the role of "Strange Shushu" very dedicatedly - in the car, he was wearing a wide-brimmed cotton hat, black pants and a big mask. Isn't it Weishushu?

Fortunately, Zhou Xiwen was never a curious person. He didn't look at the people in the last row at all, and closed his eyes to rest after sitting down.

The ski resort is between two peaks in the Alps, and what they are going to climb this time is a natural mountain on the other side.Even if you climb up from the middle of the mountain, the distance is not close. Basically, you can't reach the peak until two or three o'clock in the morning.

As Zhou Xiwen knows, Chen Guanlin is indeed a person who is afraid of the cold - he has lived in tropical or subtropical regions all his life, and he has never experienced severe cold.So he was wearing thick clothes, and his arms and legs were a little stiff.In the eyes of many teammates, this cool-dressed uncle seems to be dancing a mechanical dance with every gesture. . .

The road up the mountain is not very easy, although it is not very steep, it is quite slippery.The entire mountaineering team marched forward in two rows under the guidance of the team leader. Everyone carried basic equipment and personal belongings, even boys and girls aged [-] or [-] carried large bags.

Chen Guanlin, who was at the back of the line, looked at Zhou Xiwen, who was wearing a dark red windbreaker and carrying a backpack almost half a person's height, who seemed to be following the line easily. He had to admit that he really... didn't know her at all.

She seems to have found herself in an unfamiliar environment, with no need to hide or pretend.At the ski resort, he saw her laughing wildly with the little foreign girl he met by chance, and he also saw her get up and jump after falling down without any image.

This is Zhou Xiwen.

The one in Singapore is Ms. Zhou Jia, the financial supervisor and executive director of Yikang.

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Two hours after departure, the team stopped to rest.

"Hey buddy, you don't have to wear full gear all the time! (English)"

A 1.8-meter-five Caucasian man laughed and patted Chen Guanlin on the shoulder, pointing to his face.

He was talking about the goggles and masks that Chen Guanlin didn't take off during the rest time.

Chen Guanlin smiled, glanced at the front, and said softly and solemnly: "Ifeelcold."

Set up an alcohol stove, boil some oatmeal, add some chocolate, and eat two compressed biscuits. This is lunch...

Alas, this was not a very tasty meal for a man with a meaty and not-so-sweet tooth.

Although he has been subtly accustomed to eating vegetables by his ex-wife during his married life for several years...

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After a short break, the team moved on after 10 minutes.They have to walk for another four hours and then set up camp to rest. At two o'clock tomorrow morning, they will continue to set off until the summit to watch the sunrise, have breakfast, camp, and ski.

The man thumped his sore thigh—although he knows how to exercise, he seldom does such a long-term exercise.Besides, he was really not used to the weather.

During the march, all the people consciously kept quiet - on the one hand, the long-distance trek had exhausted a lot of energy, on the other hand, for the snow-capped and ice-capped peaks, the loud voice sometimes even brought accidents, so several team leaders Bring an avalanche detector.

If you are climbing an ordinary mountain, it should be colorful and green grass at this time.It must be a lot of fun to climb the mountain like that, talking and laughing, looking at the scenery, and stopping to eat and drink when you are tired, it is very beautiful.

Chen Guanlin complained about the cold weather and the environment in which he inserted his foot into a nest of snow, and missed his hometown where the temperature never dropped below [-] degrees. . .

While in the small slip, all of a sudden, I only heard a commotion in the team, and I followed the sound, and saw white mist billowing from the mountain wall on the side, but there was an avalanche without warning!

"Xiwen!" Chen Guanlin shouted subconsciously, but as soon as his words came out, he was torn into pieces by the howling wind and snow. He staggered forward and ran, but was hindered by people skiing to escape.

"Hey! Don't run around! (English)"

The tall white man who was talking to Chen Guanlin just now grabbed Chen Guanlin. "Try to swim to the surface! (English)"

Before he finished speaking, a huge snowdrift slid down. The man tightly held the handle of the ax he had hewn into the mountain wall with one hand, and tugged at Chen Guanlin's sleeve with the other.

A piece of churning white snow, in the face of this huge natural crisis, any individual is completely worthless...

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At the moment of being covered in snow, Chen Guanlin did not feel fear or regret. On the contrary, many memories suddenly flooded up in his mind, such as those of his parents when he was a child, those who went to school, the first operation, and mutual care with his cousin...

Dancing in the rain, her tears and numbness, the sweetness of holding hands, the pain of going irretrievably...

The human brain is really weird and powerful, it can retrace everything you want to remember and don't want to remember faster than the world's fastest computer.In just a split second, many thoughts rolled through Chen Guanlin's mind. In the torrent of memories, he caught a glimpse and thought of Zhou Xiwen.

He can't die!

Suddenly startled, the survival essentials memorized in the Haosheng exercise yesterday flooded into his mind, and he subconsciously executed it standardly—struggling to swim upstream, using his hands or arms to create more space in front of his mouth and nose.

Fortunately, it was just a very small avalanche, the snow stopped sliding not long after, and the calm snow mountain looked like the quietest and virtuous girl, who would have thought that it might have harvested the lives of many people just now Woolen cloth!

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Chen Guanlin took a deep breath, absorbing almost all the oxygen in the created space, held back and struggled to stretch out one hand from the snow, and then the other.

Struggling to push away the fluffy snow layer on the top of his head, he finally exposed his mouth and nose, and immediately greedily breathed in the fresh air. After a while, he felt that his hands and feet were gradually numb, and immediately continued to twist his body a little bit. out of the snow cave.

As far as the eyes could see, it was all white, "Xiwen!"

He shouted her name loudly, his voice echoing in the mountains.The grandeur of the sound is astonishing.

"Help!"

Not far from his feet, there was a muffled, extremely small voice.

Chen Guanlin was shocked, right!The man who gave him a hand is nearby!

While answering, he quickly planed the snow layer, and the pile of snow thrown behind him was getting higher and higher, his arms were almost numb, and his speed would inevitably drop.

I see!

Red hat!It's that person's jacket!

Chen Guanlin's spirit was shaken, he held back his discomfort and accelerated his speed, groped and grabbed the hat in the nearly one-meter snow cave, and swept away the surrounding snow.

With a bang, a hole suddenly appeared at the bottom of the snow, and Chen Guanlin was almost flashed into it.

"Ahem! Ahem! Ah... Oh! God!"

Chen Guanlin heaved a sigh of relief, and laughed loudly against the snow behind him.

a life.

He saved another life.

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One after another, the team members who escaped by skiing just now came back.Everyone spontaneously searches and rescues other teammates.

Chen Guanlin took off his hat, scarf and goggles, and searched for them one by one in the line, feeling a little bit like falling into an ice cave.

Everyone who asked didn't come across the oriental woman.

"Captain, six people were found, and three people are still missing, not in this area. (English)"

"Captain—" Chen Guanlin squeezed over and was about to ask, when he heard someone crying for help.

"Is there a doctor! Help us!"

A red-haired woman half-carried a teenager who was unconscious.

Gritting his teeth, Chen Guanlin raised his hand, "I am, let me see."

He knelt next to the young man, bit his gloves and tore them off, looked at the young man's eyelids, and checked, "It's a concussion, don't worry, he will wake up soon, pay attention..."

The woman cried and nodded repeatedly, and hugged Chen Guanlin gratefully.

The man forced a smile, he was worried about Zhou Xiwen, and his whole body felt pain from stomach to chest.

"Did you see an oriental girl? About 1.7 meters, wearing a dark red ski suit? (English)" he asked without hope.

"Oh... I remembered! She and Vincent slid over there! They must have escaped the avalanche! (American)"

"Really?! That's great!" Chen Guanlin suddenly widened his eyes and thanked God in his heart.

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But it seems that Chen Guanlin was happy too early.Half an hour later, the three people's communicators still had rustling sounds.

There are dark clouds rolling in the sky, and the sky is about to change.The team leader must be responsible for most of the people. They are going to retreat to the "base" where they rested just now, and they have already contacted the rescue team down the mountain.

"Are you going to leave? But no one has been found!" Chen Guanlin was anxious, and asked the team leader.

"I'm sorry, but I have to be responsible for the entire team. If we stay here again, everyone's life will be in danger." The captain said seriously, pausing, "If they are covered by snow for more than 10 minutes, the chance of survival is already very small gone."

"...If you don't go, I'll go." Chen Guanlin's chest heaved violently.He could no longer find his goggles, and a bloodstain was drawn at the corner of his eye by the ice edge of the stone, and his whole body suddenly became a little sharper than before.Shaking off the blocking hand of the team leader, he packed up the necessary equipment and prepared to go into battle lightly.

"You are crazy! It will snow soon, it is likely to be a blizzard, you are a rookie, let alone find someone, you will have an accident yourself!"

Yes, the team leader could tell at a glance that Chen Guanlin was a rookie who came to the snow mountain for the first time.

"My friend's life or death is uncertain." He only said this sentence lightly, and said no more.

The team leader was silent for a moment, and asked the team members to gather together and gave Chen Guanlin goggles, life detectors, GPS locators and a lot of solid alcohol.

"I will contact the rescue plane as soon as possible."

"...Thank you." The refined man who was no longer young smiled, showing a resolute expression, put on his hat, and walked step by step in the direction pointed by the red-haired woman.

"A hero, huh?" said the leader to his friend. "Come on, let's hurry down and get someone to help."

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"You should put me down and go for rescue, so we won't survive." Vincent said with difficulty, and once again persuaded the woman who was dragging him forward.

"Shut up, you! I'm sorry if you keep talking!" Zhou Xiwen desperately pulled the weak "stretcher" tied up with two skis, an iron plate removed from the discarded equipment, and their backpacks in front of him. He growled angrily.

Damn damn damn damn!

What a bad year!

Why do you encounter avalanches when you climb a snow mountain! ! !Obviously everyone said that the recent weather is very suitable, there will be no avalanches! ! !

It's fine if there's an avalanche, at least he escaped, but the person next to him accidentally bumped into a stone hidden in the snow, and tragically broke a leg after the car rolled over.

Zhou Xiwen followed this talent and did not suffer the "disaster". She really couldn't do it without saving her, so she racked her brains and exhausted all her ingenuity to come up with this basically one-touch The "ski stretcher" that was about to break down fixed Vincent's leg bones, and dragged his shoulders to the place where the avalanche happened just now without touching his injured leg.

However, this is not a groomed ski resort after all, but a genuine natural snow mountain. The bumpy road surface makes Vincent almost feel uncomfortable.

It was very cold again, and he was almost frozen, and he lost all feeling in his burning leg.

"The snowstorm is coming. We, we must stop..." Vincent said with trembling lips. "We must find a shelter from the wind, otherwise we will freeze to death."

Zhou Xiwen's face was full of snow, and his brain seemed to be frozen. After hearing it, it took a long time to realize that he let go of Vincent. Her hands were already stiff from holding on to one movement for a long time.

"You are a veteran, what should you do?" Professional is the best.she asked cheerfully.

"Go there, it's the leeward side, and the snow is very strong, we're going to dig a hole close to the ground, and then empty it out." Vincent gestured, took out the ice ax and folding shovel in his bag, "You dig a hole, and I will bring the snow you dug."

"it is good."

Without further ado, Zhou Xiwen changed his posture a few times and started digging a snow hole.His hands were already numb, and he could barely hold the tools in his hand.

This snow is also very hard, it is really not so easy to dig.

The wind is getting stronger and the snow has started to fall.She must speed up.

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In the boundless wind and snow, Chen Guanlin was struggling.Although he has learned to ski, his skills are too bad. At this time, skiing will not speed up, but it will be unsafe.So he continued to insert his feet into the snow nest and then...

Stopping from time to time, the man would wipe the surface of the compass with his cold hands, look in the right direction and move on.

Where the hell are you?

Wait, calm down, calm down... If I'm trapped on a snowy mountain right now, where should I hide when a blizzard comes?

Chen Guanlin forced himself to calm down and think carefully.It's an operation, it's an operation...

He hypnotized himself.

I need to find the entry point.

Closing his eyes suddenly, he felt the direction of the wind and adjusted his direction.

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Zhou Xiwen dug as fast as he could, and achieved some results. The snow hole has been dug in more than one meter horizontally, and now he can dig up.

She was crawling to work in the snow cave, and soon her arms were trembling with pain.She withdrew and stood outside to take a break, gasping for breath, but she couldn't help but think of many things in her mind.

Although she is trying her best to survive, Zhou Xiwen doesn't have much expectation for the two of them to survive - her backpack is broken, food and fuel are lost, and Vincent came to climb the mountain with his friends, he All the daily necessities are on the girl, and he is carrying heavy things such as instruments, equipment, and skis.

Even if they can dig a good hole, as long as there is no rescue for two days, they will still die.

Maybe it will stay here forever, and even a set of bones cannot be transported back to the hometown.

Dad, I'm sorry, I'm going to let you white-haired man send black-haired man.

She thought of her father and couldn't help but want to cry.This is her only family member, her only concern.

And my younger brother, Ya Shan, Wu Ma... and... that man.

At the moment of the avalanche, perhaps she was so eager for someone to rely on and be protected at the critical moment of life and death, she actually felt that she heard his voice, faintly.

"Sivan!"

This time the sound was loud and clear.

She turned around suddenly.

On the other side of the snow slope, the man who took off his goggles and gasped for breath looked so insignificant in the wind and snow, yet so stalwart.

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"Ahem, you two, don't hug, hurry up and a storm is coming."

A disturbing voice sounded, weak but full of ridicule.

Chen Guanlin and Zhou Xiwen, who were very excited to reunite after the catastrophe, parted in embarrassment, "Yes, yes. This is... a snow cave? I'll come." Chen Guanlin took off his coat and threw it to Zhou Xiwen to put it on, then took the shovel and climbed into the snow cave upwards dig.

"Is he your husband?"

"Shut up and work." Zhou Xiwen put on Chen Guanlin's warm coat and helped Vincent throw the snow outside.

She didn't ask why this man appeared. Firstly, she didn't have time, and secondly, as long as there were a few clues, she would soon understand many things that she once thought were strange.

For example, the clumsy familiar figure who always falls down on the ski resort, or the strange man with big sunglasses in the back seat of the car. . .