Chapter 176 Surrounded by Snow
When Xia Xiaoman opened the door and saw the scene in the living room, she was stunned.
The living room door was blown apart by the wind at some point, and the accumulated snow slid in from the door. One of the windows collapsed along with half of the wall that she had later blocked, and the white snow completely blocked the collapsed gap.
The walls, ceiling and floor were all covered with frost, and there were short icicles hanging on the stairs leading down from the second floor. Standing on the stairs, you could still feel the cold wind blowing.
Xia Xiaoman gathered the blanket around her body and walked upstairs carefully.
All the windows on the second floor had been blown down by the wind, and a thick layer of snow had accumulated inside the room, making a crunching sound when one stepped on it.
Xia Xiaoman slowly walked to the window and looked out. The wind was still blowing, but not very strong, and it was not snowing.
She looked down and saw that the snow in the yard had accumulated to a position about 10 centimeters below the second-floor windowsill, and the entire first floor was completely submerged.
There is so much snow and I don’t know how long it will take to clear it all.
Xia Xiaoman rubbed her stiff cheeks, put away the blanket, and cleaned the snow in the room.
Although the wind had not stopped, the temperature today was not too cold compared to the day when the blizzard hit. At least she was clearing the snow in the room with ventilation on all sides, and she did not feel like she was about to freeze into an ice man.
After clearing the snow from the attic and the first and second floors, Xia Xiaoman went back to the basement to warm himself by the fire. When his hands and feet were no longer so cold, he returned to the living room and blocked the broken doors and windows with wooden boards, then lit the kang in the living room to drive away the coldness in the room.
After cleaning up the first and second floors, Xia Xiaoman decided to move back to the living room.
In two days, when the wind stops, she will have to go out to clear the snow. If she doesn't adapt to the cold weather in the living room now, how will she go out to shovel the snow in two days?
After adding enough honeycomb coal to the kang, Xia Xiaoman lay down on it and covered herself with five layers of quilts before she could fall asleep peacefully.
“Creaky…Creaky…Creaky…”
In the silent night, the slightest movement would be infinitely magnified. Xia Xiaoman opened his eyes suddenly when he heard the strange sound, and the hand hidden in the quilt had already taken out the pistol from the space.
“Creaky…”
The sound continued, and judging from the direction of the sound, it seemed to be coming from the window.
Xia Xiaoman frowned, feeling somewhat puzzled. The entire first floor was buried in snow. Who could have penetrated the snow to pry open her window?
Full of doubts, Xia Xiaoman put on her clothes gently and approached the place where the sound came from carefully.
The source of the sound came from the upper edge of the window that she had nailed with a wooden board. Xia Xiaoman pricked up her ear and listened against the window, and found that the sound was a little strange.
Whose window creaking sound keeps coming out when you pry it open? It sounds like... like something is gnawing at the wood...
Xia Xiaoman stood up straight suddenly, staring at the place where the sound came from. She knew what the sound was. If she guessed correctly, it might be a ferocious white rabbit outside!
Xia Xiaoman took off his gloves, touched the place where the sound came from, determined the location where the white rabbit was gnawing, put on his gloves, and took out the Tang sword he found in the Mad Dragon Society from the space.
The Tang sword had been sharpened and was extremely sharp. The moment it was unsheathed, a cold light flashed, and it was obvious that it was a rare and good sword.
Xia Xiaoman tightly grasped the Tang sword, his eyes were sharp, and he quickly drew his sword. The next second, the Tang sword pierced through the window, and the creaking sound stopped abruptly.
Pulling the knife back, there were a few traces of blood on the tip. Xia Xiaoman wiped the knife clean and put it away, then opened the wooden board and put the white rabbit pierced by the knife into the space to prevent the smell of blood from attracting more rabbits.
After dealing with the white rabbit, Xia Xiaoman did not feel relieved. The villa was covered with snow, which meant that there were loopholes on all sides of the villa, and the ferocious white rabbit could get into the house from many places.
If she didn't clear the snow in the yard quickly, she might be bitten to death by a ferocious rabbit while she was sleeping one day.
The more Xia Xiaoman thought about it, the more he couldn't sleep, so he simply gave up, got dressed, and planned to start clearing the snow from today, without waiting for the wind to stop, since the wind was not strong anyway.
Collecting snow cannot be done directly like collecting coal, as the snow particles are stuck together. If she collects the snow directly into the space, it is very likely that all the snow in the area will be collected at once.
This operation would make it easy for people to discover the abnormality and trace it back to her, after all, the space was accumulating snow outwards with her as the center point.
In order to avoid exposing the space, she could only shovel up the snow and put it back into the space.
After shoveling snow for four or five days, we caught a total of 18 rabbits, five of which ran into the house.
She found that these ferocious rabbits liked to go into the basement. She guessed that they smelled food in the basement, so they all ran into the basement.
On the sixth day of shoveling snow, Xia Xiaoman was a little upset. It wasn't that she couldn't shovel the snow, but that she couldn't build the fence. The fence she built... collapsed...
The entire circle of the wall collapsed except for the two layers of ice bricks connecting to the ground.
Xia Xiaoman was devastated. It took her half a month to build this wall, and it was only with the occasional help of Wang Shijin and Fu Baiwei that the progress was so fast. Now it has all collapsed. If she wants to rebuild it, she has to raise it one meter higher. She doesn't know when she can build the wall.
Xia Xiaoman cursed the evil God while shoveling snow angrily.
Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in her heart, and then a white shadow shot out from her body. Xia Xiaoman grabbed her chest tightly and looked in the direction where the white shadow landed. It was a white rabbit with blood coming out of all seven orifices.
The scene before her appeared when she first got the space.
The space cannot contain living things. Once a living thing is accidentally contained, it will be bounced out by the space. At the same time, the living thing will bleed due to the compression of the space.
She didn't understand at that time, and she took a pheasant in without thinking. As a result, the pheasant was bounced out just after it was put into the space. The pheasant died with blood flowing from all seven orifices, and she was also punished, with heart pain for almost a week.
Xia Xiaoman rubbed her aching chest, her face a little pale. The white rabbit must have been accidentally mixed with the snow when she was shoveling snow just now and put it into the space.
The pain in her chest made it difficult for her to breathe. Xia Xiaoman slowly walked back to the living room, holding on to the wall. She sat on the kang for a long time before she recovered.
I'm so unlucky. Not only did the wall collapse, but I also got internal injuries.
The pain lasted for three days before it began to slowly subside. Xia Xiaoman felt that the pain was not so severe anymore, so she went out to continue clearing the snow.
This time, she didn't dare to be careless anymore. Every time she shoveled snow, she would check carefully to see if there were any ferocious rabbits mixed in the snow. Only after making sure that there was no living creature would she store the accumulated snow into the space.
After seven or eight days of cleaning, the snow in the yard was finally cleared away, even the three-meter-wide area outside the yard was cleared away, to prevent the ferocious rabbits from jumping over the wall in the snow.
After clearing the snow, Xia Xiaoman started making ice bricks to build the fence. The previous ice bricks were either broken or stuck together and could not be used, so she had to make some new ones.
In order to build the wall as quickly as possible, she specially made an extra storage box of the same size to make ice bricks.
While removing the ice bricks from the mold, there was a rumbling sound in the distance. Xia Xiaoman stood on tiptoe and looked into the distance, only to see a wall of snow...
She forgot about her height problem, and when she realized what was happening, she ran up to the second floor and looked into the distance. She saw a snowplow moving slowly forward in the snow.
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