Chapter 900 Eve (510)
When the female hunter returned with old Aryan, it was already dawn.
The lieutenant colonel took the old man, whose face was covered with ice, at the door and took him into the house to warm himself up on the kang that had been re-lit.
Vika, who should have been the first to rush out of the wooden house to look for the little girl, was unusually quiet, because he had more important things to do before hunting.
For example, digging a grave for his sister.
Dusha did not survive the second night, which was not particularly unexpected. The severe snake venom, the infection of the penetrating wound on the hand, the situation of hunger and cold, and the female body that was not too healthy, all these factors combined to make her breathing stop before the first ray of light at dawn shone into the big hole in the wooden window.
Vika cried heartbreakingly for a few minutes, and then he became quiet as if he was dead, holding his sister's body and walked to the snow outside the wooden house, and found a shovel from somewhere to dig the snow.
Digging a grave is a very physically demanding task. Tired and hungry, Vika didn't ask anyone for help. He dug a pit alone and buried his sister in it.
There was no tombstone or flowers, no priest or eulogy. After doing everything, he left the cabin alone and went deep into the coniferous forest.
On the kang in the cabin, old Aryan and weak Adam lay flat together. They were both patients who had lost their ability to move. The only thing they could do was lie in bed and wait for someone to take care of them.
"You should have stopped him." The female hunter said through the big hole in the wooden window, looking at the depths of the coniferous forest where Vika disappeared.
"He can't catch the siblings." The lieutenant colonel added hot water to the enamel cup beside the kang, "Only I can catch them."
"What after catching them? You can't escape from this forest either."
"Even if we destroy them, we can't let the hope of the motherland's rejuvenation fall into the hands of foreign forces."
"Will you really do it? To the siblings? They are just children."
"Unless it is absolutely necessary, I will not be willing to destroy the hope of the motherland with my own hands."
"Black Swan Port, what is that port used for? Is it really a human experiment as I believe? Can you reveal some of it now? Maybe the siblings have already escaped, and it's useless for you to hide these secrets."
"I don't know." The lieutenant colonel said, "I only know that my mission is to take them back. They are the property of the motherland. Those devils, the monsters we call Deadpool, are the power of foreign forces."
"Are you willing to tell me so much because you hope I can help you?" The female hunter stretched out her hand and stroked the bowstring of the wooden bow in front of her.
"You are a hunter." The lieutenant colonel looked at the huntress, "Finding prey in the snow is your strong point. You are qualified to be my helper. I can promise you the power and wealth you can get after returning to Moscow."
"No, besides this, I have a question. If you really bring the brother and sister back to Moscow, what will you do with them?" The huntress looked directly into the lieutenant colonel's eyes, "Don't lie, they are not here now."
The lieutenant colonel stared at the huntress for a few seconds, then shifted his gaze, "Leave it to the superiors to deal with."
"Those. The dignitaries? What do you think they will do?"
The lieutenant colonel did not answer, maybe he didn't know, or maybe he didn't want to answer.
Where will the final destination of an experimental subject recaptured from a remote port suspected of human experiments be? This question will not get any other results except deepening the darkness.
"Then the lieutenant colonel, if you want to find them, you have to speed up." The huntress walked towards the wooden door, and the arrows in the quiver on her back were neatly arranged.
"What are you going to do?" The lieutenant colonel looked at the huntress.
"Although we are now in a desperate situation, we can't let a madman wander around in the forest with a knife. How dangerous would it be if he really found the siblings? We have to do something to make ourselves feel at ease."
The female hunter left the cabin after saying this.
The lieutenant colonel looked deeply at the back of the female hunter, and his right hand was always on the handle of the Makarov pistol. He didn't really pull out the gun until she left.
The lieutenant colonel was the only one left in the cabin. He looked back at the old hunter and Adam on the bed and said, "Just stay here and don't go anywhere."
After saying this, he got up and left, and the cabin fell into silence again.
The old hunter on the kang tilted his head slightly, looked at the wooden toys piled in the corner, and sighed heavily that no one could understand.
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How far can a 10-year-old girl carrying a burden trek in the extremely cold snow of the Siberian taiga?
The answer to this question depends on how much physical strength the little girl has left.
It was 11:30 am on the third day. In a secluded corner deep in the coniferous forest, the little girl was digging snow alone.
The bushes covered by the blizzard were dug out, and the purple blueberries buried in the snow were carefully picked out by the little girl. Even though she was extremely hungry, she did not stuff these wild fruits into her mouth to replenish her physical strength.
To survive in Siberia, warmth, food, and drinking water are indispensable. The first and third conditions are not a problem for the little girl.
Before coming to the cabin, she could walk naked in the strong wind on the eve of the blizzard. Now she was wrapped tightly in a fur coat, and it would not be a problem for her to sleep in the snow in winter.
As for drinking water, Siberia is freezing cold and snowy everywhere. There was a blizzard the night before, so there was no need to worry about not having water to drink. It was just that before eating snow, one had to avoid the possibility of oral frostbite causing inflammation. But this was not a problem. Finding a container and using body temperature to melt the snow would ensure a steady supply of drinking water.
So in the end, the little girl had only one survival problem to face, which was food.
There were no animals to hunt in this coniferous forest, which was the conclusion the female hunter had already reached. After the blizzard, the entire forest became a barren dead land, and even birds no longer flew over from the sky. Even the most experienced hunters would starve to death in this snow.
So she could only learn from the female hunter's previous behavior, walking in the snow, she would not let go of any exposed bushes, collect all the berries she picked up in the pocket of her fur coat, and throw away the wild vegetable called Acanthopanax senticosus by the roots when she saw it occasionally.
Although these gains were very few, she still diligently collected all the food she could find.
With all the harvests of the morning, the little girl returned to the back slope of a towering snow hill according to her memory. There was a natural tree hole under the back slope. She moved away the snow-covered branches blocking the tree hole and crawled in like a mouse.
With the light coming in from outside, you can see that the tree hole is not big, but it can accommodate two children. When the little girl was alone, it was her brother who had been carrying her on her back.
The little girl did not master the way to escape from the forest as everyone in the wooden house guessed. On the contrary, she quickly found a new shelter after leaving the wooden house and hid there, and it seemed that she was going to live there for a while.
Is this her way to escape, so that everyone thinks she has escaped, and she can escape naturally when everyone leaves here.
No one knows what she thinks.
Putting berries and wild vegetables on the blanket made of fur coat, the little girl picked out the full and plump berries, stuffed the rest of the wilted ones into her mouth and swallowed them whole, and slowly fed the good berries and wild vegetables to the boy who had been resting with his eyes closed.
When it was time to feed water, she stuffed a whole piece of snow into her mouth, making her pink cheeks bulge, until the warm water melted into her palm and gave it to the boy to drink little by little.
After feeding all the wild vegetables and berries picked up, the little girl reached out and touched her brother's forehead and abdomen. When she felt the still high temperature and her chest against her back, she also realized that these vegetarian foods were not enough for him to consume. At least the calories from the frozen fish before were needed to ensure that he could complete the transformation.
Collecting food is the top priority at the moment. As she said before, she still needs time, enough time.
"Sure enough, meat is still needed." She murmured in a low voice.
The little girl thought again and again and decided to do something else.
So she stood up, let the boy in her arms go out of the tree hole, covered it up again, and went deeper into the coniferous forest.