Chapter 234
The blizzard started in the middle of the night and everyone had already noticed it. The temperature dropped again, and the howling wind blew against the heavy door curtains. The howling sound of the wind woke everyone in the ice house.
"Little monk, little monk."
"What's wrong?"
"Are you cold?"
"cold."
The conversation stopped, and then there was the rustling sound of fabric rubbing against each other.
"Little monk, I want to sleep with you." Edward went into the little monk's tent with a pillow and quilt, and soon calmed down again.
"When we wake up tomorrow, we might all be buried." Chu Huaiqin yawned and buried his head in the quilt.
"Okay, let's dig snow tomorrow." Xia Entang said vaguely and fell asleep in his arms.
The next day, the weather was indeed very cold. Everyone stayed inside and didn't want to get up until Peppa and the others called them, and then they reluctantly got up and put on their clothes.
"Hurry, hurry, something big is happening, come out quickly." Paige's voice was very excited, and it didn't sound like something big was happening.
The little monk and Edward liked to join in the fun, so they quickly put on their clothes and rushed out. Then there were screams of "Oh oh", and Chu Huaiqin and Xia En exchanged a glance.
"What do you think it is?" Xia En asked.
"Maybe they are surrounded by polar bears!" Chu Huaiqin said lightly.
Lin Zhinan dressed at about the same speed as them. The three of them walked out with their necks hunched, which was really spectacular.
"So many bears!" Lin Zhinan exclaimed.
Before, they could occasionally see polar bears, but they were always far away. But this time, the polar bears all came to their doorstep, almost turning it into a zoo. They counted them and found that there were about ten of them, including the little cutie and its mother who were also walking in the distance.
When the little cutie saw Chu Huaiqin twisting his chubby body and trying to run over, he was slapped to the ground by his mother.
"Brother, why are there so many bears?" The little monk was very curious.
It was also strange that the live broadcast room was crowded with viewers, as some of them were night owls who had been there last night, in the latter half of the night, and had watched these bears migrate in.
"This snow fell due to the influence of hot air, which means that mid-summer has arrived. The cold in other places has begun to melt, but the temperature here is still relatively low because of the snow. Polar bears are afraid of heat and have to rely on floating ice for hunting, so they have to come here." Chu Huaiqin explained.
A group of people had nothing to do, so they went to the beach to see what was happening. Sure enough, they saw that the ice that had almost melted had frozen again, making it very difficult for them to go out to sea.
"Then we will starve to death," Ilona said loudly.
Everyone looked towards the director team, only to see that they were pretending to be dead and ignoring everyone.
"If we go to the residential area, there should be a way to get out to sea," Ali said, "but this boat isn't amphibious, so there's no way we can tow it over there."
"What if I carry it over there?" Paige thought about this possibility.
"It takes almost half an hour to ride a bike. Can you lift it?" Edward rolled his eyes.
Paige: “…”
"It's not that we can't," Caesar said, and everyone looked at him. "We can cut a piece of dry ice, secure the boat to it, and tow it over with a snowmobile. But we need three teams to work together."
"I agree." Liman and Alexander from Group B, Wade also nodded. Ali thought it was feasible, but no one asked Ilona.
"That's fine with us." Chu Huaiqin felt that this plan was feasible.
"That's it, but what about the oil?" Paige giggled at Chu Huaiqin. Before the heavy snow, both families were working hard to build ice houses. Only Chu Huaiqin and his family had two extra days to fish, so it goes without saying that they had a lot of money.
"Equally." Xia En said lightly.
"Stingy," Paige muttered.
After the decision was made, the first thing to do was to send someone to check the route. Chu Huaiqin, Ali, and Caesar were sent out to check it out. They came back after almost forty minutes and said that it was a bit icy there and there was a layer of snow on the ground, so it should be easy to drag.
The conditions were better than they had imagined, so they decided to take action instead of just thinking about it. The three families pooled their food and exchanged it for gasoline from the director crew. Then it was just a matter of seeing who would be towed first.
"Rock, paper, scissors!" Peppa Pig started warming up and doing stretching exercises.
"Chu, you are the lucky man who sent out our team." Edward pushed Chu Huaiqin forward without hesitation. Ever since he went fishing and caught three smelts, he called Chu Huaiqin a lucky man.
"Let me do it!" Wade stepped forward.
The three of them were in a triangle position, ready to go, and the referee grabbed someone from the director's office.
"Three, two, one."
"yeah!"
The rock hit two pairs of scissors, and the lucky person Chu Huaiqin from Group A won the first place. Next was the individual competition of Groups BC.
"Peppa, come on!" The little monk and Edward jumped up and down. They had better feelings for Paige and the others in Group C. Because of Ilona, Group C could never get familiar with them.
"Little monk, you can't be partial." Wade rolled up his sleeves and took a stance, "Come on!"
"Humph, the little monk and I have a revolutionary friendship. Of course he supports me." Paige smiled proudly, ran to Chu Huaiqin, shook his hand vigorously, and ran back, "Okay, I'm ready too."
"Three, two, one."
"Hahahaha," Paige laughed, "I'm so smart. It turned out to be the right decision to shake hands with Chu."
The order was decided: Group A first, Group C second, and Group B third.
It was not difficult to cut off an area of snow as large as a small boat, but the difficult part was how to pull the ice up. However, since they were many in number, they were not afraid.
Lin Zhinan said hello to Chu Huaiqin and went back to cook. He hadn't had breakfast yet! The others took their tools and went to the ice quarry. A thin layer of ice had formed where they had been harvesting ice before, and they had to break it open.
Everyone took a shovel and found a place to start knocking the snow. It was new snow that fell last night, so the snow layer was thin and not difficult to knock. It was fun to knock the snow, and a group of people were sweating profusely.
"Wait, is there any sound?" The little monk stopped and listened carefully.
"Really? I didn't hear it." Peppa Pig, who was right next to the little monk, asked back.
"No?" The little monk scratched his head, bent down, and continued to knock on the ice, but found a crack under his feet. He raised his foot and stomped on it in confusion.
“Crack!”
"Oh no, the ice is cracked, run." Caesar shouted, and the people standing on the ice immediately stepped back.
Everyone rushed back, but they didn't dare run, as this would hasten the collapse of the ice. Chu Huaiqin was repeatedly pushed back by Xia Entang's hands. He glanced around and found that the little monk and Peppa were still standing on the ice.
Chu Huaiqin: "Little monk, Peppa, what are you still standing there for? The ice is about to crack!"
Because there were so many people and they were scattered very widely, Chu Huaiqin was some distance away from them. Seeing that they were still standing there stupidly, he couldn't help but shout.
The little monk was still a little confused, but Paige had already reacted and was walking towards Chu Huaiqin and the others. The little monk hurried to follow, but as soon as he moved, the ice surface shook.
"Brother, brother, it's moving, it's moving." The little monk stopped in an instant, not knowing whether to leave or stop, and was about to cry.
"Ahhh, save me, I'm going to fall into the sea." Peppa Pig and the little monk were standing on the same piece of ice, their bodies were stiff. They tried to lift their feet to walk again, but the ice shook rapidly again.
Their faces turned pale instantly.
"Brother, brother, save me."
"Ahhh, Elijah, Caesar, Zorro, Franco, Chu, save me, I don't want to die!"
The ice continued to crack, and everyone watched helplessly as seawater gushed out of the cracks. The staff were also alarmed. Two professionals tried to run to retrieve the little monk, but before they could get close, the ice began to shake, and one of the staff members stepped into the water in the crack and was smashed hard against the ice.
"Crack, ah..."
The staff member fell down, causing the cracks in the ice to widen and sea water to gush out. The little monk and Edward ran together without knowing when, and hugged each other and cried "wow wow".
The audience in the live broadcast room felt their scalps tingle. This is the Arctic, and there is an ocean under the ice.
"Ahhh, it's over, it's over, little monk, aren't you from Shaolin? Quickly use 'Water Flying'!"
"God, it's so scary. If you fall down, you will die. Who knows what monsters are down there."
"Great Jade Emperor, Sun Wukong, and Tathagata Buddha, please protect this little monk and make sure nothing happens to him!"
"I heard the seawater here is at least three hundred years old. Could there be any viruses?"
"Shut up, everyone, shut up. How could anything happen? Do the directors dare not save them?"
The scene was a bit chaotic. Someone had already notified Anthony at the camp, and he was bringing people over with life jackets, but judging by the extent of the cracking of the ice, it seemed that no one would arrive at all.
"Rope." Chu Huaiqin's face changed drastically and he turned around to look for the rope. Xia En had already brought the rope and handed it to Chu Huaiqin.
The thick, long rope was used to drag the ice. Chu Huaiqin found the end of the rope, coiled it around, and called out to the little monk and Peppa, "Don't move. Tie the rope around your waist and slowly move over here, okay?"
The two hugged each other and nodded with tears in their eyes.
Chu Huaiqin squatted down, rolled the rope into a coil and placed it on the ice. He tried the feel of the rope and slid along the ice towards the little monk, bumping into the little monk and Peppa's feet.
The little monk squatted down carefully, grabbed the rope, and was about to tie it around his waist when he suddenly thought of Peppa and looked up.
"You tie it up first!" Paige looked ready to die. It wasn't that he didn't want to tie it up, but the rope was thrown by Chu Huaiqin! "Zorro, Caesar, you, you..."
"Hold the rope." The staff felt helpless when they saw Paige staring at their team members with a betrayer's look. There was still so much drama at this time.
The rope slipped out, and Paige successfully caught it. She found the end of the rope and quickly tied it around her waist, but it was too late...
The people on the shore watched helplessly as the crack widened. With a "bang", the ice block the two men were standing on officially broke away from the ice layer. Before everyone could react, the ice under the feet of the little monk and Paige instantly shattered like powder. Everyone watched helplessly as the two men were drowned by the sea, and the ropes in their hands had not been tied yet.
"Bang!"
The little monk and Peppa Pig fell from the ice, screaming and splashing a large wave of water.
"Little monk."
"Peppa."
"Hurry up and save them."
The scene immediately became chaotic. This was the Arctic sea, and there were still many mysteries that scientists could not find the answers to. They had no idea about the undercurrents beneath the water. If they were caught in the undercurrent, or fell in and could not find the original hole, they would surely die.
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