Chapter 290 Chapter 290

Sarah and Jenny were also looking out the window. Snowflakes as big as goose feathers were slowly falling from the sky. It was really snowing.

"How could there be snow?" Sarah asked in disbelief.

It's spring already, this is America, not the Ice Country!

"It's so cold." Sarah shrank her neck as the cold wind blew in through the gap in the car door.

Jenny immediately turned on the car's heater, but the warm air couldn't drive away the cold.

The temperature dropped drastically, almost like jumping off a cliff, and soon became unbearable.

"Jenny, is there anything warm in the trunk of the car?" Sarah hugged herself and her teeth began to chatter.

Jenny: "There are tents and sleeping bags, and... a gas cooker and drinking water."

This is equipment used for outdoor camping. They carry it with them every time they go out on a trip. It can withstand temperatures as low as minus ten degrees Celsius.

It may not sound like much, but remember where they live. The lowest temperature in the capital of the United States in winter is only -15 degrees Celsius. Even if Jenny and others drive out to play, they will not go too far from the capital. If they go to a farther place, they will choose to take a plane to arrive instead of wasting their car's gas money.

However, the temperature outside is now close to zero degrees and is still dropping.

Sarah got out of the car, wrapped up her coat, opened the trunk and saw the neatly packed camping bags. She tried to drag the bags out of the trunk in a panic, but her frozen hands were very inflexible. Jenny and Paul both got out of the car to help.

"Before we die of hunger, we'll probably freeze to death...A-choo!" Paul said pitifully.

"No," Sarah whispered, "We can... be rescued, we can."

Her voice was very soft, as if she was talking to herself.

The camping tent is not a large tent that needs to be nailed into the ground, but a small tent that can only accommodate two or three people. The advantage is that it is easy to set up, just unfold it and snap the corners together.

Normally they were always together as a pair, but now due to special circumstances, Paul squeezed in with the two girls.

Three sleeping bags were squeezed into the small tent. Jenny lay in the middle, and Paul and Sarah were on both sides. There was almost no gap between the three sleeping bags. They pulled the zipper and let the snowflakes fly outside.

"Don't sleep."

Seeing Paul about to close his eyes, Sarah reminded him.

“But…” Before Paul could finish his words, his stomach started to growl.

He is hungry.

Jenny looked at the top of the tent: "...cook something?"

"What?"

"Ham, beef ribs, butter..."

"That's not something suitable for cooking, is it?"

Jenny sighed, "The frying pan was in the car Tony drove away in, along with the onions, potatoes, and butter."

Thinking of Tony and Flynn, the three of them fell silent.

After a while, Sarah said with sobs, "I miss him. I wonder if he is okay."

"It must be okay." Jenny immediately comforted, "Maybe he and Flynn have already got the axe from the town, cut down the tree, and are looking for us..."

"I just hope he's safe. God, I shouldn't have left him," Sarah continued in a low voice.

Paul: "Yes, if we had gone with him, we wouldn't have encountered this. Maybe we shouldn't have left there. What we saw before must have been an illusion, or maybe..."

Hunger and cold made Paul more fearful and regretful. He began to imagine how wonderful it would be if none of this had happened and he was still lying on the sofa at home, eating pizza and watching a movie.

At this moment, there was a creaking sound outside the tent. It was the sound of something stepping on the snow.

"Tsk..." Jenny immediately signaled Paul to shut up.

Paul also heard the sound. He widened his eyes in fear and kept signaling to Jenny with his eyes.

Could it be that the doll from before has come?

Someone's voice was faintly heard.

Sarah suddenly realized something. She raised her head suddenly, and then was forced to lie down again by the stiff sleeping bag.

The sound was getting closer.

"Sarah? Are you here?" a man's voice called out.

"It's Tony!" Sarah happily unzipped her sleeping bag and climbed out. She said to Jenny excitedly, "He came to see me!"

After saying that, he rushed out of the tent, not forgetting to pull on his coat before leaving.

The zipper of the tent was opened, and snowflakes flew in along with the cold air. Paul and Jenny shivered from the cold.

"Sarah!"

The voice was clearer, and it was indeed Tony's voice.

"The savior is here!" Paul was very excited. He also unzipped his zipper and stood up, but was soon blown back down by the cold wind. "Jenny, how about... you go and take a look?"

Jenny didn't say anything, but just stared outside the tent. For some reason, she felt a little nervous.

That voice just now...was it really Tony?

After a while of silence, there was no sound from Sarah, and even Paul, who was a little slow-witted, noticed something was wrong.

"I'm going to check it out." Jenny climbed out of her sleeping bag.

"Don't go--" Paul hurriedly grabbed her wrist, "Something must have happened to her, that person is definitely not Tony! You will be in danger."

Jenny looked at him and pulled Paul's hand away: "She is my best friend."

After saying that, he walked out of the tent wrapped in his coat.

Paul was the only one left in the tent, and he murmured pitifully, "Don't leave me alone, I'm scared."

However, no one responded to him, and Jenny had already walked into the snowstorm.

Never came back.

The zipper of the tent was only half-zipped, and Paul waited for them to return through the remaining gap until fatigue and cold made him fall into sleep.

His eyes slowly closed, and the wind and snow blew in through the gaps in the zipper of the tent and landed on his already blue face.

Paul fell asleep and never woke up.

However, in his dream, he saw Sarah and her friends coming back with Tony and Flynn, calling him to sit by the fire and eat.

That was a wonderful dream.

Jenny soon got lost in the snowstorm. She wrapped herself in a coat and called out her best friend's name, but got no response. It was dark, and all she could see was white snow and trees. She couldn't find the road. She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that these trees were a little short and sparse, not like the forest she had seen before when it wasn't snowing.

The scenes in the strange realm are always somewhat different from reality.

"Sarah——" Jenny continued searching.

She saw a female figure standing in the woods in front of her. She was wearing a dark blue coat and jeans and had big curly golden hair. It was Sarah's back.

Jenny quickly chased after him.

But the figure walked forward, was blocked by trees and disappeared again.

Jenny chased for a long time, but she didn't see Sarah, and she didn't even find her footprints. At this time, Jenny gradually realized that she might have fallen into a trap, so she slowly backed away and planned to leave.

Then she bumped into the person behind her and fell forward. When she was about to fall, the person behind her grabbed her arm.

"Jenny? Why are you here? Where's Sarah?"

Jenny turned around and saw Tony, who was wearing heavy clothes and a plush hat, and carrying a huge package.

I have never seen such clothes and luggage before. Is this Tony? Or is it fake too?

Jenny looked at him warily and kept a distance from him.

Tony looked puzzled, not understanding why the other party was so wary of him, but he noticed something more important. Jenny's clothes were very thin and her fingers were already blue, which was a sign of frostbite. He quickly put down his backpack and opened it, revealing heavy clothes inside.

"Hurry, put this on first!"

Taking the thick clothes hesitantly, noticing the softness and weight in her hands, Jenny began to believe that the other party was the real Tony. She hurriedly explained their situation, and her words were a little incoherent in her anxiety: "We were in the car and couldn't get out. It was snowing, so we went into the tent, and then Sarah heard your voice and came to find you."

"My voice?" Tony nodded. "I was looking for her, but... I didn't meet her."

"Is she coming this way?" Tony said. "Take me back. I'm sure I'll find her."

Jenny nodded. Just as she was about to say that she could follow her own footsteps back, she turned around and found that her footprints suddenly stopped about five meters away.

It was as if she suddenly traveled to that place and walked from there to here.

Following Jenny's stunned gaze, Tony also saw the half-broken footprint and smiled helplessly: "It's like this again."

"again?"

Tony nodded and put his backpack back on. "Yes."

Then he told Jenny what happened after he and Flynn went to the town, saying, "I drove to the place where the tree fell smoothly, but I didn't meet you. I thought it was strange. I thought you were driving to the town, and then you ran off the road and crashed into the woods because of the sudden snow. So I drove slowly all the way to look for you."

"But I couldn't find you no matter how hard I looked. I was in a hurry and didn't pay attention... and the car flipped over." Tony sighed, "The car went off the road and hit a tree. The front of the car was smashed. I had no choice but to carry my luggage and walk step by step to find you."

As a result, when he was walking, he found that the surrounding scenery would undergo some strange changes after walking for a while. After several observations, he found that the space was completely messed up. After walking a few steps, he might arrive at a new place because of a certain step.

However, the changes in space were irregular and he could not find a way to break the impasse, so he could only keep searching and moving forward.

"Maybe the voice Sarah heard...was really mine," Tony whispered.

He felt a little regretful. He shouldn't have shouted, so that Sarah wouldn't have walked out of the tent out of her eagerness to see him.

Perhaps the other party was also teleported away in the chaotic space. He only hoped that the other party could come to the town by accident, so that at least he could avoid the severe cold.

"It's okay, we will find her." Jenny comforted.

"Yes, I will find her." Tony's eyes were firm. "I will keep looking for her until I find her."

Or until he couldn't find it anymore.