Chapter 891 Starting Point (45)
"So you came here to see if peeing in Siberia would freeze your dick?" Dusha asked, smacking a little pine nut she found out from nowhere in the wooden house.
"That's not entirely the reason. Anyway, this trip was indeed the right one. Although yesterday was a bit thrilling, if I hadn't come, wouldn't these two cute little guys have been trapped by the snowstorm on the road? Adam looked at the girl in front of him who was carrying the little boy one foot deep and one foot shallow. After walking a few steps, he looked back to see if the boy on her back had woken up from the jolt.
"But then again, what should the two of them do when they get to the town?"
"I said, I will take them to Moscow and provide them with housing and families." Lieutenant Colonel Andrei in front of the stretcher spoke up.
"Wait a minute, didn't you say that Moscow isn't there now?" Vika suddenly remembered something.
"The motherland will be fine." Lieutenant Colonel Andre said calmly, with some firmness in his tone, "The chaos is only temporary."
"If it really gets better, I won't come back to my hometown." Huntress said, "You are indeed a lieutenant colonel. But what can a lieutenant colonel do in a situation like Moscow? I don't think the situation will get worse in the future. good"
Andre didn't explain, just walked forward carrying the stretcher. The huntress looked at his back, then turned to look at the girl wearing a ticket beside her, lost in thought.
"Respecting the old and loving the young, sending Buddha to the West, and being so patriotic. Lieutenant Colonel, you are really a good person. Were you an orphan before?" Adam couldn't help but ask after hearing Lieutenant Colonel Andre's words.
After hearing this, Lieutenant Colonel Andre looked back at Adam, and everyone else also looked at him. Only then did he realize that he had said the wrong thing. He quickly shut up and spit, and as soon as the spit fell out of his mouth, it turned into ice crystals and smashed on the snow. A small hole emerged.
"Speak less and save some energy. The road is still long and we won't have any supplies before we get to the town." Lieutenant Colonel Andre turned his head.
No one spoke in the coniferous forest, and the entire forest suddenly fell into silence. The usual chirping of tits could not be heard. Only occasionally, small strands of snow fell from the coniferous trees and fell into the forest. . At first, the group was nervous about the strange noise, but as they got used to it, they became much more relaxed. They felt that some weird things happened just by chance, and once they passed, they were gone forever.
About an hour later, there was a cough on the stretcher, breaking the silence.
"Old man!" The huntress was the first to react. She quickly turned back from the front and came to the side of the stretcher carried by Adam and Dusha. She looked at the old man on the stretcher and slowly opened her eyes.
"I"
"Tell him to talk less." Lieutenant Colonel Andre in front said calmly. "Talk will cause stress on the abdominal diaphragm. His current internal organ condition is not optimistic. If he can't talk, he won't talk."
"Stop talking, old man. We will take you to the hospital in the town now. You will be fine." The female hunter quickly leaned into the old hunter's ear and told her.
Old Arian opened his eyes and heard the voice of the huntress. It took him half a minute to understand his situation. Looking at the moving forest with light in front of him, he finally nodded slowly to show that he understood. .
"Tsk." Dusha, who was carrying the old hunter, suddenly stopped. She was probably a little depressed that the old guy was really not dead. "I won't carry it anymore. I have no strength and am tired."
"Then get out of here." The huntress walked over to push Dusha away and took the stretcher. Adam in front was a little confused. He didn't know if it was time to change his shift before the time was up, but he saw the KGB lieutenant colonel coming to pick him up. After passing the front of the stretcher, I immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"As long as it's okay, it's okay. It's best for everyone to arrive in the town safely together." Adam muttered and ran to the little girl's side to take her with him. He also took out half a piece of bread from his body and handed it to the other person. The other party glanced at it. After the bread, he nodded politely to express his thanks, tore it into pieces, softened it in his mouth, and fed it to his brother behind him.
"Is he awake?" Adam asked, looking at the little boy chewing bread slowly.
"He needs to rest," the little girl whispered.
"Well, it's indeed a long way from the town, so don't talk on the way." Adam nodded, "If you can't walk anymore, remember to ask us to carry you. You two should be pretty light, so there's no need to trouble uncle and aunt. us."
Regarding this matter, the little girl still shook her head and her attitude was very firm. She had not been separated from the boy for a moment since she entered the wooden house. In fact, Adam was quite curious if they would go to the toilet together, but he still stopped such evil thoughts under the beautiful faces of the little girl and boy. He was really not a pedophile.
After the old hunter woke up from the stretcher, the entire team moved forward significantly faster. Starting from 8:30, they walked non-stop for three or four hours. The coniferous forest above their heads covered a lot of skylight. It was difficult to determine the time, but fortunately Lieutenant Colonel Andre was wearing a Victory 10K gold watch on his wrist. He pointed the hour hand at the sun. The midline between the hour hand and twelve o'clock pointed to the south, which was much easier to use than a compass.
"I'm so hungry." Tusha didn't know where she found a wooden stick and swept the branches and shrubs on the road. She had finished eating the pine nuts. The breakfast in the morning said that all the food would be taken care of, but it was divided among everyone. I only had a few pieces of frozen fish rolls and half a piece of bread in my hand, so it was impossible to support a whole day's trek.
"I'm hungry too. Just hold on for a while. We should be there soon." Vika comforted his sister while observing the surroundings. They were safe along the way and didn't see any ghosts. But the more he was at such times, the more nervous he became. He didn't forget what happened when he broke into the hunter's cabin and relaxed after the old hunter was blown away. Now his sister's palm was still wrapped in gauze and couldn't move.
Dusha only complained a few words and then stopped talking, because she found that the youngest child in the group didn't complain. The little girl wrapped in a fur coat carried her brother silently from beginning to end, and stopped from time to time to feed her brother water when the stretcher changed shifts.
"It's almost twelve o'clock." The lieutenant colonel carrying the stretcher looked at the watch with one hand and asked the female hunter behind him, "How far is it."
"According to this progress, we should be there soon. At most half an hour's journey, we can walk out of the coniferous forest, and then walk another half an hour on the main road to see the town." The female hunter estimated their progress and said confidently.
"I must have a good meal when I get to town. I'll order two or three frozen fishes to eat!" Adam said, rubbing his palms.
"In fact, if we are lucky, we can solve the problem of lunch by encountering wild rabbits on the road." The female hunter carrying the stretcher shook the quiver behind her, "I still kept one or two arrows without poison."
"We didn't encounter any wild animals along the way." The KGB lieutenant colonel cast a deep gaze into the dark coniferous forest.
"Because of the blizzard?" Vika looked up at the dense coniferous forest above his head. In the pristine nature, he couldn't even hear the birds singing.
"It shouldn't be. After the blizzard, it's the peak hunting time. All the wild rabbits come out to hunt. Normally, I can at least hang a circle of fat rabbits on my body now." The female hunter shook her head, "Maybe it's because we are at the edge of the coniferous forest."
The lieutenant colonel stopped talking. The others thought about it and didn't take it seriously. The old hunter on the stretcher drooped his eyelids and looked at the coniferous forests passing by his head. He seemed to want to say something but didn't have the strength to say it. The forest was quiet again. One conifer tree after another passed by, leaving clear traces underfoot on the snow. The friction between fur and snow was hissing and endless.
Occasionally, the little girl who had been walking quietly without saying a word in the team raised her head. She stopped and looked around twice without moving forward.
Adam was the first to notice the little girl's abnormality. He stopped and turned to look at her and asked, "What's wrong?"
When he stopped, the whole team stopped. The female hunter looked back at the little girl standing in the snow and looking at the forest, "Can't walk anymore? Do you want me to carry you?"
The little girl didn't answer. The female hunter signaled Adam to take the stretcher temporarily and walked over to ask further about the situation. As a result, she found that the girl suddenly raised her feet and stepped on the snow, running quickly in a direction deep in the coniferous forest, and she almost disappeared in a flash!
"Wait, where are you going?" The female hunter was startled by her movements and quickly followed her.
"What's going on?" Dusha frowned and spat impatiently at the female hunter chasing the little girl.
The lieutenant colonel stood still, looking around and examining the surrounding coniferous forest. He suddenly understood something, temporarily put the stretcher on the ground, and followed the footprints left by the female hunter and the little girl.
"I'll go and see, you stay here." Before leaving, the lieutenant colonel looked at Adam and ordered.
Adam wanted to follow to see what was going on, but after receiving the lieutenant colonel's order, he seemed to look at the robber brother and sister and the old hunter who was taking a nap on the ground. He also understood what the other party meant, so he could only sit there and wait. When the lieutenant colonel also walked deep into the coniferous forest and disappeared, Adam looked at Vika and Dusha on the left and the stretcher on the ground on the right, smiled awkwardly and said, "Take a break."
Going deeper into the coniferous forest, the female hunter found the little girl in just two steps, because the other party stopped in front of a bush not far away.
"Why are you running?" The female hunter ran behind the little girl and took a breath. She was about to ask what was going on, but suddenly she heard another sound.
Is that the sound of birds?
Yes, that was the sound of birds or cuckoos.
But this is northeastern Siberia, where can there be cuckoos that only exist in tropical and temperate forests?
The female hunter walked step by step behind the little girl, and she gently placed her right hand on the girl's shoulder, and followed her line of sight through the low bushes in front of her and looked forward. Unexpectedly, there was a snowy open space in front of her, and the cuckoo's call was repeated from the open space.
The cuckoo's call was full twelve times.
The little girl bent down in front of the bush, picked up something and handed it to the female hunter behind her. The female hunter took it in a daze and found that it was a piece of black cloth after burning.
In the open space, a wooden house stood quietly. From the window, you can see the familiar layout inside, the stove, the kang, and the clock with a wooden bird popping out on the wall.
Hunter's hut.
They returned to the starting point.