Chapter 892 The Second Day (55)

There was an inevitable quarrel in the coniferous forest. Dusha lost her temper and was almost hysterical. But this time Vika did not stop her because everyone was emotionally unstable, including the huntress who was blamed. .

"What road did you lead? Is this the road you led? One morning, after walking for half a day, you took a detour. Is there something wrong with you?"

Only shouts and accusations could be heard throughout the coniferous forest, and the snow on the distant coniferous trees was shaken down in the forest. In front of a clearing filled with snow, a group of people stood not far from the hunter's cabin and looked at each other.

The female hunter ignored Dusha, who was almost in a state of collapse. She frowned and looked around. She even walked to the window of the hunter's cabin and looked inside. Only then did she confirm that this was where they started from, and there were still scraps left on the table. There were frozen fish bones and a lot of bread crumbs under the stove, and there were also scattered match sticks next to the extinguished stove.

That's right, they did circle back, and in some incredible way returned to their original starting point after a full four hours of trekking in the morning.

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

"Don't you think you took the wrong way? But you just took the wrong way!" Dusha came over emotionally and tried to pull the huntress's collar with her still intact hand, but the huntress raised her hand. He raised her arm, and when she was about to start fighting, Vika growled, "Okay!"

Dusha looked back at her brother, who also had a bad look on his face, and shouted angrily, "What's so good! What's so good about this! 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 from his wrist and handed it over. After taking the watch, the female hunter stared at the time that pointed 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, with no more than an error at most. A minute or two.

"The hands of the watch are oriented correctly." 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 walking towards the west before, and there is no possibility of detours." . The lieutenant colonel and I took turns giving directions, which also reduced the possibility of mistakes. The possibility of both of us misunderstanding the direction at the same time was very small.”

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

"If there is no problem with us, then the only problem is the road under our feet." The huntress took a deep breath and said, "There is a problem with this forest."

"What could be wrong with the forest?" Adam asked subconsciously.

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

"Yes, how could something go wrong in the forest? Are you all crazy?" Dusha screamed, "It's you idiots who are leading the wrong way!"

"I also hope that I took the wrong path." The huntress did not avoid looking at Dusha and said directly, "I am indeed willing to be the fool you say."

These words instantly silenced Dusha, and in addition to mania, there was also a hint of fear and uneasiness in her eyes.

"Go take a look on the avenue." Lieutenant Colonel Andre turned his head and looked towards the north of the coniferous forest.

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

If they remembered well, this wooden house was built in a coniferous forest less than three hundred meters away from the railroad tracks, which also meant that you could reach the paved avenue of railroad tracks not far to the north. You'll never go wrong if you just follow the avenue.

"You can go to the avenue first and have a look." The female hunter also remembered this incident 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 the two children." Andre pointed at Vika, and then looked down at old Alian on the stretcher.

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

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

Old Ali settled down for a moment, then raised his right hand with difficulty to point to one end of the coniferous forest, and said angrily, "Go in and follow the path I opened to the end."

After saying this, he said nothing. He saw Vika and Dusha beside him, and naturally recognized them as the robbers who broke in, but what could he say or do in this situation? There is only silence.

"Is there still a way to the avenue? That would be great." Adam perked up after hearing this.

"The three-hundred-meter round trip takes about ten minutes." Lieutenant Colonel Andre glanced at his watch, "If Vika and I don't come back in ten minutes, then you can go into the cabin and rest first. If possible, we will leave During this time, collect some firewood from the surrounding area in advance.”

"What are you collecting firewood for?" Dusha said. She vaguely rejected the dilemma they were about to face in her heart, so she blurted out the question.

"It's already noon. If we set out again, we may not reach the town until the afternoon or evening. If there is any accident on the road, it will be delayed until late at night. You know how fast it gets dark in Siberia and how cold it is at night." The female hunter calmly said what the lieutenant colonel meant.

"So we may have to stay here for another day?" Adam's expression suddenly became ugly.

"This is the worst case scenario. If the lieutenant colonel finds the road later, we will follow it. It is almost impossible to go wrong along the road. Even if the snow is deep, we can reach the town at the edge of darkness two or three hours later. There will be no big problems." The female hunter said.

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

The lieutenant colonel and Vika set off and went into the coniferous forest. After a few steps, they saw the artificial path pointed out by the old hunter. After a while, they could not see any figures or hear any footsteps. On the open space, several people stood there for a while. Finally, the female hunter and Adam carried old Arian into the house and re-lit the stove.

"Things are getting weirder and weirder." Adam said to himself. The female hunter beside him didn't say anything after hearing it. She looked at Dusha who was walking back and forth in the open space kicking the snow angrily, 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, ". Yelena? That's her name, right? Are you okay?"

The little girl turned her head and looked at the female hunter and nodded.

Looking at the little girl with brown and black eyes as clear as water, the female hunter considered the words for a long time, and finally said, "Do you have anything you want to tell your sister about me?"

The little girl looked at the female hunter and nodded gently after a long time, "My brother is hungry."

"Here, feed him, but you have to eat half." The female hunter took out a small piece of frozen jerky from her fur coat. This was what she found in the wooden house before, but she didn't hand it over to the table.

"Can you give it all to him?" the little girl asked.

"No. You have to eat half." The female hunter looked at the little boy wrapped in fur behind the little girl. His weak appearance made people feel distressed, but after a long journey, the person who should be said to be hungry the most is the little girl.

She knew that the girl had not eaten anything in the morning. She had fed all the fish rolls assigned to her to the little boy. She had only drunk some water and eaten some bread crumbs and accompanied them on the snowy road for half a day.

"Okay." The little girl nodded and agreed as if she had made a difficult decision.

After handing the frozen jerky to the little girl and watching her tear off half of it and swallow it, the female hunter patted her head and stood up, preparing to walk to the coniferous forest not far away to pick up firewood for the stove, but at this moment she heard the little girl's weak voice behind her, "Be careful of them."

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

"Be careful of them." The little girl looked at the female hunter with clear eyes.

"Them? Are you talking about the group of demons 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 female hunter was stunned for a moment and seemed to not understand what she meant, but after saying this, the little girl had already carried her brother back to the wooden house, and the fire had already lit up. After entering the house, she opened her mouth and spit out the dried meat under her tongue, wiped it clean and stuffed it into the little boy behind her. The little boy closed his eyes and opened his mouth to gently bite the warm dried meat, chewed and swallowed it.

"Thank you." He said in an almost inaudible voice.

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

The short five 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 turned back and ran away from the coniferous forest in fear. They were relieved until the familiar two figures came out.

"What's the situation?" The female hunter heard the noise and ran out of the side of the wooden house with firewood. She saw the lieutenant colonel and Vika coming out of the bushes at a glance. She noticed the ugly expressions of the two people before she asked.

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

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

"But we did follow the road! Damn, could it be that the road itself is a circle back!" Vika's breathing was a little rapid, and anxiety surged in his eyes.

"No, I'm sure, we walked in a straight line." The lieutenant colonel looked into the depths of the bushes where they came back, "The road may circle back, but the direction indicated by the watch will never be wrong."

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

"Lieutenant colonel, is it really a problem with the road?" The female hunter asked the lieutenant colonel who was walking over.

"The problem with the road." The lieutenant colonel nodded and admitted, "We should be trapped. We walked in a straight line according to the direction of the watch and still returned here."

"What's the principle?"

"I don't know." The lieutenant colonel shook his head, "I have never seen this before. But there is no doubt that it should be related to the blizzard last night."

"Blizzard. Do you mean those demons?" This time the female hunter also used demons to describe the outlines of those black figures.

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

"Enemy?" The female hunter stared at the lieutenant colonel, as if she wanted to find more information from the other person's expression.

"Anyone who wants to take away things from us is an enemy." The lieutenant colonel's expression was flawless. He turned his head and looked at Dusha who was still walking around not far away. "How is the firewood collection going?"

"Good news and bad news. The good news is that the snowstorm blew down a lot of branches, and it only takes a few trips to collect firewood to keep it burning until tomorrow. The bad news is that I didn't find any traces of animals nearby when collecting firewood." said the huntress, putting down the firewood in her hand.

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

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

"Nothing but that clock."

"Huh, it seems 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 cabin has been eaten this morning." The lieutenant colonel was silent for a while and then said, "No matter what, we have to find a way to survive today."

"Or take a gamble and just go on the road and see if we can reach the town. The food has been eaten. Even if we survive today and tomorrow, I'm afraid we won't have the strength to trek on the snowy road for several hours."

"You can't bet. The experiments this morning and just now have proven that if we don't find the reason why we take a detour back to the starting point, all the roads we take will be in vain."

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

"There is no word fear in the dictionary of Soviet officers. We will only bring fear to our enemies." The lieutenant colonel said calmly, "And I see that you are not very afraid. You have always been calm and have the qualities of a soldier. "

"Maybe it's because I got tired of seeing all the chaotic scenes during my last stay in Moscow," the huntress said mockingly.

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

"Yes." The huntress saluted with a less than standard military salute.

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

"I'll try my best," the huntress breathed.

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

"You seem to care about those two children?"

The lieutenant colonel did not answer this question. He looked at the bushes not far away.

Urgent footsteps were heard there, and a figure rushed out. No surprise, it was Vika. His whole body was covered with snow, and he looked at the wooden house and them in front of the wooden house with a look of dead parents.

"Get ready for another night here," the lieutenant colonel said. "I have a feeling this night is not going to be peaceful."

"There shouldn't be a snowstorm tonight. Will those demons show up?"

"The enemy, yes, the enemy will still appear. The problem we have encountered from the beginning has never been the blizzard, but the enemy that is more terrifying than the blizzard." The lieutenant colonel said quietly.