Chapter 398
On the second morning when the extreme cold current passed through, the freezing wind stopped raging, the sky was still clear, and the sun was shining as brightly. Last night, it was covered with frost by the freezing wind, like flowers, plants and trees placed in glass display cases. It dissolved under the sun very quickly, and once again came into contact with the outside air. However, many of the fragile plants, which looked emerald green and bright red on the surface, had actually become extremely brittle due to the crystallization of water in the internal tissues, and had long since lost their vitality.
Plants are like this, so are animals. Except for the mutant rodents who are like little burrowers, those animals that walk alone or whose fur is not too thick on the red soil plain, almost all suffered and died in the freezing wind. Good point, the windbreak wall made up of the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled allows the ethnic group to survive.
Although the first gust of freezing wind has stopped, don't think it's time to take a breather. The frost brought by the freezing wind is disappearing at a speed that is several times faster than the melting speed of ordinary ice and snow.
Everyone knows that snow melting days are colder than snowing days, because melting ice and snow needs to absorb a lot of heat, so when the freezing wind and frost melt, the temperature drops below the freezing point, and strong convection produces strong winds, as strong as a 12-level typhoon The wind began to sweep the earth.
The objects that were frozen and cracked last night turned into fine dust in the wind, and diffused into the air. If you take a breath of air at this time, your trachea will be blocked, your lungs will be filled with dust particles, and you will suffocate and die.
If you want to survive in this situation, you must either stay at home in the city, or find a shelter and stay there until the second freezing wind comes, because after the second freezing wind, the climate of the entire region has changed, and it will not be affected by Strong convection and strong winds will not suffocate due to the large amount of fine dust in the air.
Chen Fang and his team took advantage of the short time when the freezing wind stopped in the morning and the frost melted before the wind started to find a small hillside. With the help of Neha, they dug a deep cave on the leeward side of the hillside and hid in it. Not long after people hid in, a strong wind blew outside.
"Ah owe!"
"Suck it up."
In the cave, Chen Fang and others were sitting around the fire, wrapped in a horn sheepskin blanket, and sneezing and sneezing.
"Drink some hot water."
Jimo handed over a glass of water, Chen Fang took it and drank it slowly, feeling warmer.
There was a strong wind outside, and Chen Fang asked, "When will the wind stop?"
"It depends on when the second freezing wind comes, usually tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." The well-informed charming said.
Chen Fang asked, "Then when is the best time for us to set off?"
"Before the third freezing wind comes." Zach, who has traveled to many places, said.
"Why? I heard that the second freezing wind actually blows, and there are often fish swimming in the sky." Wenren asked.
"Although there are a lot of sky fish coming out of the misty forest, they are scattered everywhere, and the further south you go, the less likely you will encounter them."
"It's different when the third freezing wind comes down. The cold current is the gentlest. At that time, the polar ice birds will follow. The number of polar ice birds is extremely large, and it is still their breeding season. It will be very dangerous to encounter them. "Zaku explained.
There are many kinds of polar ice birds, with different recipes. They can eat meat, vegetables, and earth. Although different ethnic groups will not act together, they will go forward and back to loot the places they pass, just like locusts passing through. That's a thousand miles away.
In this situation, when you are in the wild, it is okay to meet a vegetarian ice bird. As long as you don’t take the initiative to provoke this type of ice bird, you will be fine, but if you encounter meat eaters, you will be in trouble. The ice bird can pounce on you and take you away, and then bury your body in pieces like a bird's belly in the air. In this case, strength is useless, and even high-ranking bosses may die.
Chen Fang asked, "How far are we from Greenland City?"
"It will take about ten days to go on the road in this kind of weather." Wu Mei estimated.
If it is normal, it only takes a day or two to arrive, but under the influence of the extreme cold current, don't think about how much you can walk in a day, it is unrealistic, it is possible to stop and go or move a kilometer or two a day.
Chen Fang then asked again: "Is there enough food?"
"As long as you take it easy and don't eat like last night, you should be able to make it to Greenland City."
Last night, Chen Fang's body resisted the cold, and finally he couldn't stand it anymore, so he could only maintain his own calories by swallowing meatballs, which consumed almost all the meatballs in stock, plus the three meatballs that Yaya put on his body for emergencies. He will carry the skeleton plant bomb, as well as the food on the bodies of other people in the same pit, until the end of the freezing wind at dawn.
"I don't want to either. If I hadn't eaten food, you wouldn't have seen me pull up from the pit this morning, and just fill in the soil." Chen Fang said.
"Aren't you going to use a cloak with other people? Ao Guli and the others don't mention how big they are. Xiaobai is so thin. You can hug him and wrap him together."
"Don't beat me to death, let me rub a man, I might as well freeze to death." Chen Fang said resolutely.
"Next time you say anything, stay on the hood." Chen Fang continued.
Wenren gave Chen Fang a blank look: "We are so crowded that our chests are almost deflated, where do you put it?"
"I don't mind being at the bottom. It doesn't matter if you step on me or sit on me. I'll be patient." Chen Fang said shamelessly, and the little bitch glanced at the breasts of the three women. Wearing a cloak looks even more majestic.
Everyone brings their own pillows, Chen Fang thought to himself.
"Shameless." Wenren cursed after noticing Chen Fang's gaze.
"By the way, where is Xiaobai? Where are those maids?" Chen Fang looked around and changed the subject.
"I'm taking a shower." Charming said casually.
When digging the cave before, I don’t know how twelve women (Gong Xiaobai:??? I am also a man) unanimously asked Neha to open a place for bathing alone. Chen Fang, who was a man at that time, Of course Neha and Zaku objected, and they were hypocritical about whether to take a bath or not at any time now. This is not a disease, and they will not die if they are dirty for a few days.
But the three male pure men, after all, couldn't do the twelve women including Ao Guli (Gong Xiaobai: I'm really a man. Chen Fang: Damn it), so they had to follow suit and made another one. The cave is specially used for bathing.
After the bathing place was opened, the three of Chen Fang and the others were asked to take a bath, and they also specifically told them to wash carefully until they sweated. Washing is not about wasting a lot of water.
Later, it was Zaku who reacted first, and he suddenly remembered a characteristic of freezing wind, that is, if the water after the frost melted on the skin is not cleaned up in time, once it is absorbed into the skin too much, it will make the skin and muscles suffer from freezing. A layer of ice film appears between the two, so that the two are peeled off from each other. At that time, as long as you go to a place with a higher temperature, the fun will be great. Just make a cut on your body, and you can remove the whole body like undressing. All the skins were taken off.
Fortunately, this situation is easy to deal with, that is, just take a hot bath and sweat. After Zaku's Jess, Chen Fang finally understood why Jimo and the others did this.
"Together?"
Chen Fang's eyes widened.