Chapter 33 Chapter 32: The Forgotten Village

There were two huge ice hockey balls not far ahead. At this time, a strong wind blew and the two ice hockey balls rolled up. Everyone dodged to a safe place. Finally, the three ice hockey balls collided together and arranged the finished characters. The warden said, "What's in the egg?" Dr. Sloppy said, "Chop it open and you'll know." The King of Pain effortlessly cuts a puck in half with a pyrotechnic knife, revealing a large frozen mass of snakes huddled inside.After identifying it, Hawthorne told everyone that this kind of snake is called the red-edged garter snake. It lives at the northernmost point of the earth and is the only snake in the world that can tolerate freezing. Then, it rolled into a snowball, and the snowball got bigger and bigger, forming a huge egg.In spring, snakes poured out of the ice eggs, and the Eskimos were afraid of it, thinking that it was the eggs laid by the devil.

Nanook said, "Snake, it will bring us bad luck." "Dude, we've had bad enough luck, my feet were frozen and I couldn't feel anything," said Keith. A reindeer ran over from the snowy forest. It was probably very hungry. It approached the crowd cautiously. Iga raised his gun, and Linfeng said, "Watch me capture it alive." Everyone stood still, and when the reindeer approached, Linfeng quickly grabbed the antlers with his eyes and hands. Those antlers were like branches, with many branches extending in all directions. The frightened reindeer shook his head suddenly, and Linfeng jumped onto its back .The reindeer jumped desperately, trying to throw Linfeng off. However, Linfeng's legs tightly clamped the reindeer's belly, and his hands grabbed the antlers. Like a cowboy in the west, his body heaved up and down with the reindeer's jump.When everyone saw this scene, they found it very interesting. After a while, Linfeng couldn't hold on anymore, and fell to the ground, in a very awkward position, everyone laughed.

"Using brute force is not an option," Nanook said. Dora said, "Then what should be used?" Nanook whispered a few words to Dora. Dora took out the food from the sleigh and put it in the palm of her hand, and walked slowly towards the reindeer. The reindeer who had panicked just now saw the food calm down. Dora stroked the reindeer's neck, Said softly: "Eat, eat." Dora did not take much trouble to subdue the reindeer, and the reindeer followed Dora, and could not be driven away. Nanook said, "It's yours now, you can ride it." Dora rode on the reindeer as proud as a princess, but she was frightened, and rode only a little while before she got off.Dora put the harness on the reindeer and asked the reindeer to help pull the sled. She said to Linfeng: "You big horse, rest for a while, and change to a small horse-drawn carriage."

Sitting side by side with Dora, Linfeng said, "Okay, I'll act as Santa Claus for now." Everyone continued to move forward, and after a short walk, the sled dogs in front suddenly stopped and barked vigilantly. Everyone looked around, and a polar bear was hiding behind a snowdrift and poking around. Soon, the polar bear came over with a pair of black eyes. , exhaled rough air from his nostrils, and let out a threatening roar. The frightened reindeer sprinted away, broke away from the team, and ran away pulling the sled.After running not far, the ground cracked an ice crack, and both the reindeer and the sled fell into it.Linfeng hugged Dora in time and rolled off the sled to survive.

The ice sheet is densely covered with innumerable crevasses hidden under the white snow that are hard to see with the naked eye.These ice cracks that are densely covered on the ice sheet are more terrifying than snowstorms, and if you fall, you will be doomed.The most dangerous thing is that some ice crevasses are covered with a thin layer of ice, and people can't see whether there is an ice crevasse below. Only when people or sleds pass by, will they collapse. This ice crevasse was as deep as a kilometer and stretched for more than ten kilometers. The ice crevasse that gradually changed from white to blue blew a cold air, and both Linfeng and Dora broke into a cold sweat from fright.

At this time, the polar bear was getting closer and closer, and General Rogge fired a shot in a hurry, but missed, and the polar bear rushed towards General Rogge.Nanook tied ice cubes to both ends of a rope, held it in his hand, and made some provocative noises. The polar bear was enraged and ran towards him quickly. Nanook threw out the rope tied with ice cubes. Just entangled the polar bear's legs, and the running polar bear tripped and fell to the ground. The clumsy polar bear twisted its body on the ground, and General Roger fired three shots in a row to kill it. The ice ditch was insurmountable. That day, they returned to the ice and snow forest to camp.Sleeping in unclothed clothes is impossible in the Arctic. They can only wear clothes to drill into a layer of plastic membrane, which prevents the heat emitted from the body from freezing with the sleeping bag.

The next day, the warden suggested a detour, and Hawthorne looked at the ice ditch and said, "We can build a bridge." The warden asked, "What material are you using?" Dora said, "Yes, Grandfather, there isn't even a tree here." Hawthorne said, "Ice!" Hawthorne told everyone about the idea of ​​building an ice bridge. Everyone thought it was a bit risky, but it was worth a try.When they moved their hands, the icicles in the snow forest were extremely hard, and only a shallow knife mark could be left when they were cut with a knife. The King of Pain easily knocked down a few icicles with a firework knife.Everyone put the icicles on the ice ditch to cover the snow, so that an ice bridge was built.

The ice bridge looked very strong. Hawthorne and Nanook drove the sled and shouted at the six sled dogs, and rushed across the ice bridge first. The county butcher, pulling the sleigh, tremblingly walked to the middle of the ice bridge, and the warden shouted from the other side, hurry up, hurry up.The Dutch Scarecrow said, I have a fear of heights.He glanced down, and the thousand-meter-deep ice crevasse made him dizzy. He slipped and grabbed the Yorkshire butcher in a hurry, and the two of them fell off the bridge together with the sled. "Two idiots," said the warden. "Our weapons are gone," said Keith.

Dr. Sloppy said, "And food." Two people died in a row, and two sledges were lost. The sledges were loaded with food and weapons, which made everyone feel depressed and worried about the future expedition. . We descended from the ice field and entered an ice valley, and we all slid to the bottom of the valley on a sled. There are many snow houses at the bottom of the valley, and there are more than 30 Eskimos living in this place, and they form a small village.Most of the Eskimos have left the polar regions, and they live a modern life in Denmark, Canada, and Alaska, only a very small number of people reject civilization and stick to the primitive way of life.

An old man with a cane came out of the snow house, with ice shards hanging from his beard.Nanook went up to talk to him. The old man claimed to be the head of the village. When Nanook said that they came from the far south, the old Eskimo said, "That's impossible. There is nothing in the south except ice." More Eskimos came out of the snow house, and some women were still holding their children. These people looked at Hawthorne and the others as if they were aliens. Nanook said: "Going all the way to the south, there is another world." The village chief said: "It was a world where people killed each other, and people didn't trust each other. I heard from my father that he died. He also saw a huge smoking monster with wings spread. I don't know if it came from the sun. Come up, or come up from the moon."

Nanook said, "This is a ship." The village chief said: "A monster compatible with water and fire." Nanook noticed that the old man was on crutches and his foot was missing. He asked, "What happened to your foot?" The village chief said, "I ate it." Dora said, "Ah..." The village chief said: "Last winter, I couldn't eat a single thing. My right foot was frozen, as hard as ice, and I didn't feel it at all. I couldn't massage it with snow—the wind blew the snow away." It was all blown out, and death was creeping up my leg, and it was going to kill me, so I took the snow knife and cut off my foot." Dora said, "Isn't that painful?" The village chief said, "I didn't feel any pain at all, I just knew that if I didn't get something to eat I would die, so I ate my foot. My father ate his trousers and also Two people were forced to eat their dogs and another, after eating his own boots, walked barefoot on the ice until his feet froze." "Why don't you get out of here?" asked Dora. Village head: "Home, this is our home." Nanook looked around, it reminded him of his childhood. Hawthorne and the warden gave some daily necessities to the village head. These gifts made them feel incredible, especially when the lighter was lit, all the native Eskimos screamed in disbelief.The village head treated Hawthorne and his family warmly. They lit dry moss on the snow and sat in a circle around the fire. The village head used a piece of oyster shell as a knife to cut up the carrion and distributed it to everyone. Eskimos think rotten meat is delicious, probably for the same reason that Westerners love pungent cheese.Rotting seal fins are a delicacy for Eskimos and are a great treat for friends. After eating, a strange scene appeared in the sky. A pink curtain fluttered slowly in the air. In an instant, it turned into several golden snakes. In the farther sky, a ball of flames floated, and a huge waterfall of colorful colors approached from far away, hanging above people's heads, and slowly disappeared. Hawthorne said, "Aurora!" Nanook said: "This is a harbinger of disaster to come!" Most of the aurora appear for a very short time, and in a few cases, they can shine in the sky for several hours.Sometimes the aurora is scattered on the horizon, like the dawn light; sometimes the aurora gathers together, like a curtain; The wind dances.Eskimos are afraid of the Northern Lights, believing it to be a harbinger of disaster. Hawthorne asked, "What disaster will happen?" "I don't know, maybe it will snow," Nanook said. The warden said: "There is nothing to be afraid of when it snows." Nanook said: "How big are the snowflakes you've ever seen? It's unbelievable how rare it is." That night, giant snowflakes attacked the ancient village...