Chapter 396 Shelter

"See, I told you that it would be hard to pull this sled at first, but it will be easy once it starts moving." Qin Lang and Song Qian pulled the rope, then dragged the sled loaded with hundreds of kilograms of musk oxen and walked forward easily.

Hua Bao, who secretly helped them with 90% of their strength, silently stretched out a vine and waved a small leaf to Jiang Yan.

Song Haitao, who was still worried that this behemoth could not be transported, breathed a sigh of relief, "Everyone, hurry up and set off. We will try to arrive before noon."

The daytime is very short now.

After arriving, there is still a lot of preparation to do.

They don't have much time.

"Okay." Jiang Yan and Ye Qing started the motorcycle engine and led the team to continue to rush towards the Phoenix Mountain Observatory.

The wind and snow were stronger.

The biting cold wind mixed with snowflakes hit everyone.

Everyone could chat for a few words at the beginning, but gradually they stopped talking and concentrated on moving forward.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Sun Jingtao, who took the telescope from Qin Lang, looked ahead and said in surprise, "Dr. Song, I see a forest!"

"Forest?!" Everyone was shocked at first, then surprised.

"Yeah, black, a large area!" Sun Jingtao said, handing the telescope to Song Haitao, "Doctor, do you think this terrain looks like the vicinity of an observatory?"

Observatories in general cities have iconic white round dome buildings.

Dongshan is Su Dai's hometown, but when Sun Jingtao accompanied her back before,

he didn't pay much attention to it. In addition, visibility was poor in the wind and snow, and now the top of the mountain was covered with thick white fog, so he couldn't judge.

"Yes, those are the black pines unique to Fenghuang Mountain. We are almost there." Dr. Song felt relieved.

When they heard that they were almost there, the people who had been exhausted for a long time suddenly regained their strength.

"Black pine?!" Song Qian took the telescope and took a look, "If it is a pine tree, we don't have to worry about heating during this period."

After experiencing high temperatures, heavy rains and extreme cold, these trees have long been dead.

Not to mention that there are so many firewoods, pine trees contain oil and are particularly easy to burn.

"Can we still pick up pine nuts?" someone in the team asked.

"Of course not." Song Qian returned the telescope to Sun Jingtao, pulled up the rope and continued to move forward, saying, "We are lucky to have some tree trunks left."

In my impression, pine trees are all strange and rugged, but these pine trees seem to have no branches, only bare trunks.

Half of them were buried by heavy snow.

From a distance, the part exposed on the snow looked like a pile of crooked tree stumps.

He knew that in the absence of tools, branches would be easily taken away.

If the temperature was higher, the blizzard was smaller, or the other party had tools, or was closer to the base, these tree trunks would probably not be left.

The team continued to move forward.

Seeing that the goal was within reach, everyone was very energetic.

It was originally an hour's journey, but it took more than 40 minutes.

However, reaching the edge of the black pine forest was only the first stage. Now they faced the more difficult second stage: climbing.

There is still a long distance from the mountainside to the top of the mountain.

In everyone's opinion, the pulling force of the snowmobile was not enough to pull the sled carrying so many people and supplies to the top of the mountain.

But it was not a difficult task for Hua Bao.

He had already defied the heavens once, so he didn't care about defying the heavens again.

The key point was that it was obviously unrealistic for Song Haitao and his team to climb up on foot.

Seeing that Jiang Yan had no intention of stopping for the time being, Song Haitao couldn't help but worry:

"Xiao Jiang, is there enough gas in the tank?"

A regular motorcycle can ride two or three hundred kilometers without any problem.

But in such extremely cold weather, with so many heavy objects being towed, the fuel consumption has obviously soared.

"It's okay, Doctor, just sit on the bike and relax." Jiang Yan said, and stepped on the accelerator.

Although Ye Qing was very skeptical about the motorcycle pulling so many heavy objects up the mountain, since Jiang Yan said it was okay, then it was okay.

Kong Wu and another soldier tied two more ropes to Song Qian's sled and helped pull the sled up.

At the front of the entire team, Hua Bao stretched out three vines and pulled the three sleds slowly forward.

Ye Qing only felt that the gravity behind him suddenly became lighter from a certain moment.

However, the terrain on the snow slope was a bit complicated, and he did not dare to slow down temporarily to look back.

"Aren't we going to cut some pine trees to take away?" Su Dai looked at everyone leaving the pine forest without any intention of stopping, and couldn't help wondering.

Lin Xiaohui, who was sitting on a sled in front of her, said, "We have to find a place to stay first."

Su Dai said "Oh" and looked back at Sun Jingtao.

After Jiang Yan and Ye Qing's motorcycles speeded up, Sun Jingtao, who was originally walking on both sides of the sled, was now left behind the sled team.

"Hubby, be careful!"

"Okay." Sun Jingtao waved at her.

Following the snow trail left by the woods, Jiang Yan and Ye Qing soon reached the end of the snow trail.

On the wide platform, several lonely houses collapsed by snow and meteorites, several huge radio telescopes, and a white iconic dome building appeared in sight.

The dome building had a half-buried gate in the snow, and the dome was covered with long and thick ice chains.

"Thank God, we are finally here." Qin Lang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after pulling the sled to a stable place and stopping it.

Song Qian glanced around vigilantly, "Everyone should be careful."

Jiang Yan and Ye Qing also parked the car, turned around and said to the people sitting on the sled:

"Doctor, don't get off yet."

"Let's go explore first." Jiang Yan said, and took off the submachine gun on her back.

According to Song Haitao, since there is equipment that can contact the Musen base here, it should be heavily guarded.

But now it seems that it is obviously not.

And the pine forest we just passed, near the observatory, obviously has fewer tree trunks exposed on the snow, which means that there is a high probability that there are people here.

People who can survive in such an environment are not ordinary people.

Sun Jingtao and others have also caught up with them panting.

"Old Sun, you stay here, we will go in and take a look." After Song Qian finished speaking, he took off his gun and chased Jiang Yan and others with Qin Lang.

"Huff and puff" After finishing the physical work, Hua Bao, who was lying on Jiang Yan's shoulder again, shrank his body and got in through the crack of the door.

Ye Qing leaned over to the door of the white room, listened attentively for a while, observed for a moment, turned around and whispered:

"It seems that there is no one inside."

But he heard Jiang Yan said, "There should be, and the door is locked, locked from the inside."

Ye Qing: "."

Song Qian: "."

Kong Wu: ".Sister Yan, how did you know?"