1855 United States Tycoon

The dog sled travels slowly in the vast snowy field. Even if you rely on dog sleds from the port to the mining area, it takes about ten days. The workers and the guards of Heishui were all wearing thick cotton robes, wearing thick leather hats, and thick leather boots under their feet. However, the cold continued to get in from the gaps in the clothes, which made Chen Guang unable to help. He shivered, and at the same time he wrapped the cotton robe tightly with his thick gloved hands.

Since leaving the port, the weather has obviously become cold, so cold that it can freeze a person's nose. Chen Guang, whose hometown is in Guangxi, has never seen such cold weather. To be honest, he doesn't even see much snow. When it snowed for the first time in Alaska, he was very excited, but now, in such a place where he breathes a little bit from his nose and can form a layer of hoarfrost on his eyebrows, no one can get excited anymore.

"Bachi, it's time for you to drive the sled!" Thomas slowly stopped the sled, then handed the sunglasses to Chen Guang, and at the same time gave Chen Guang his own position. He sat down in Chen Guang's position, closed his eyes and started to rest.

Thomas closed his eyes actually not because he was too tired, but to protect his eyes. Because of the dazzling white in the snow, the brightness is high and the color is monotonous. If people stay in this environment for a long time, they are prone to the symptoms of snow blindness, that is, they are all white in front of them and can't see anything. Even with sunglasses, it can only postpone the onset of snow blindness, but it cannot prevent Ci Ning Gong from avoiding snow blindness. If the sleigh rider can't see it, it's too dangerous.

Although Chen Guang learned some sled driving skills temporarily, to be honest, his level was only average. The road in this section is quite flat, so it is not difficult for him to control it.

"Thomas." Chen Guang chatted with Thomas as he drove the carriage, "You said what kind of treasures are there in this dog day place that caused the boss to let us run all the way to such a place where birds don't shit? And it's such a secret. You said that there shouldn't be gold and gems in that place, right?"

"Don't think too much about this kind of thing." Thomas said, "Even if you get there, it's a golden mountain, you can't take a grain of gold. This ghost place, there is no sufficient supply, no teammates to cooperate, alone, you just do It’s amazing and can’t get out of this snowy field. Besides, we can get double wages for performing this task here. This is no less than the gold prospectors in the past. What’s more, everyone’s family members are well taken care of by the company. Yes, whoever wants to rebel, I am the first one to refuse. Besides, I heard that if you perform well in this action, you have a great chance of promotion. So, be smart and don't think about it. Lest you do something stupid and regret it."

"I know this." Chen Bachi said, "I'm just a little curious."

"Speaking of curiosity, I'm really curious about one thing." Thomas said angrily. "It's so cold, why didn't you freeze your mouth?"

"Speak more and you can forget about cold." Chen Guang said with a smile.

After another hour of running in this way, the entire sled team began to stop and rest. Chen Guang also jumped off the sledge to do activities. Some people took out the kerosene stove and lighted it up, and shoveled some snow from the ground to pour the broth into the pot. Chen Guang walked over slowly and looked at the snow in the pot. The snow hadn't completely melted yet, so he squatted aside and used the kerosene stove to grill the fire.

If you want to say that Chen Guang has something to admire from the players in Heishui, um, there is basically only one thing: that is the level of cooking and eating.

Before joining the Taiping Army, Chen Guang had helped cook in a small restaurant. Although he had not officially cooked, he was more knowledgeable. Heishui did not send a special chef to the Alaska team. When in the port, he can also let the chefs in the port prepare food for Heishui. But when he is on the road, he can only have the chef’s problem. People solved it by themselves. So Chen Guang was pulled out to be a cook. Who made him a Chinese anyway? According to the impression of United States people at the time, Chinese people were basically cooks.

Similar stereotypes have always existed, even in later generations. For example, if there was a Bruce Lee in the 1970s, people in the United States felt that they were Chinese, they should have learned "China Kung Fu", and by the beginning of the 21st century, in United States schools, they were taught as teachers. When you have a math problem that everyone can't solve for a while, teachers are often used to finding a Chinese student to solve the problem, because in their impression, if they can't do math problems, how can they be considered a Chinese?

However, Chen Guang did not let them down. The bear meat and salmon he cooked have won unanimous praise from the players in Heishui. Thus, Chen Guang's chef's hat was put on like this.

At this time, the water gradually opened. Chen Guang put in the fish and meat that had already been frozen as hard as a rock, added salt, and cut a large piece of butter in, and then put the lid on. . After a while, a fragrance wafted from the pot.

At this time, Thomas also carefully roasted his MacDonald 1864 rifle next to the kerosene stove so that the gun oil would not freeze. Then he pulled the bolt, tried the gun, nodded in satisfaction, and stood up to perform the alert task-because of the smell of cooking food, it is not uncommon to attract grizzly bears and arctic wolves.

But today everything is normal, no disturbances have occurred, and in the afternoon, it was still sunny and sunny. After eating, everyone had to rest for half an hour before going on the road as usual. It's just that Captain Boris suddenly informed everyone not to rest and hurry up.

"What's wrong, what happened?" Thomas asked.

"Look at the sun for yourself." Boris said.

Thomas squinted his eyes and glanced towards the sun, and he saw that the sun was surrounded by a big seven-colored halo.

"Damn it!" Thomas said. Although the United States does not have a proverb of "sun halo at three shifts and rain, moon halo at noon wind", everyone knows what this phenomenon indicates. The appearance of this thing means that maybe there will be a blizzard at night!

"The guide told us that we would have to run fifteen miles more than planned to find the best place to hide from the wind and snow." Boris said, "So, everyone must move quickly."

In the middle of the night, the blizzard really came. Fortunately, at this time, under the guidance of the guide, everyone had already hid in a depression with a ridge to block the wind. The guide knew that the tent would be unstoppable, and it would surely be blown away by the wind. So he taught everyone to dig a hole in the snow and squat inside. This can reduce the area that people are exposed to the cold wind, so as to better keep the body temperature. In order to better keep warm, those Alaskan malamutes were also put into the snow pit-holding it can also make people warmer. But when the blizzard really came, even if these measures were taken, even if they were wearing thick cotton robes, everyone was shivering with cold in such a cold wind. The gust of wind engulfed the powdered snow and the falling snow like cotton wool in the sky, stirring them up, and then slamming them on the face. A few steps away, no one could be seen at all. Chen Guang could only hold the two Alaskan Malamutes that he had given him tightly. I don’t know how long it took. The blizzard finally passed, the dark clouds in the sky dispersed, and the moon came out again. Under the moonlight, everything that was originally covered by the white wind appeared.

Chen Guang shook his head and looked outside the snow pit. He saw that several Alaskan malamutes had run out of other snow pits and were standing on the snow not far away.

"Damn it!" Chen Guang immediately wanted to jump out of the snow cave to hold these sled dogs. You know, these guys have a problem that they often run around and get lost. If the sled dog is lost at this moment, how can the remaining road go?

But the two Alaskan malamutes who stayed with him in the snow cave made a warning-like whine. Chen Guang took a closer look and discovered that these sled dogs had no loops around their necks—they were not sled dogs. It's a wolf!

Chen Guang gently pulled out the spear thrust from his leg. At this distance, the spear thrust is more effective than the gun. At this time, other people also found something wrong. A few sled dogs jumped out first and roared low at the wolves. Then the black water guards hiding in the snow cave also pulled out spear thrusts or climbed with pistols. Came out.

The wolves also roared low and began to back away slowly. Faced with so many people and so many dogs at once, the wolves might think of Alexander for a while.

The guards of Blackwater gradually got together, and they didn’t want to see it approaching. Although their number, plus the number of sled dogs, is more than this wolf pack, but in such a dark night, they really fight the wolf pack. When you get up, you may not be able to guarantee that you are not injured.

The wolves retreated farther and farther, and finally, the tallest one of them howled for a long time towards the sky, and then ran away with the wolves.

If this happened in Jin Yong’s novels, or in the mid-plane of the secret text in some places, it is estimated that the next step would be to gather tens of thousands of wolves on the entire wasteland by the howls comparable to wireless telegraphs. Then, under the leadership of a wolf king, following the principle of "Ten Rules of Encirclement", he surrounded the guards of Heishui and the workers in groups, just like they had surrounded Chen Jialuo in the first place. Then split and attack, the enemy garrisoned us, and then a round of three rounds, and finally the entire company and even the entire division of the People’s Liberation Army. The team was all annihilated.

However, our plane has to follow the simplest law of conservation of energy and law of increase in entropy, which makes it impossible for predators like wolves to have such a large group. Because within the range where a pack of wolves can move, it is impossible for so many herbivores to fill their stomachs. In fact, there have never been more than forty wolves on earth, and generally there are only a dozen or twenty wolves at most, which can be regarded as a big wolf pack that has topped the sky. So after the wolves left, the guards of Heishui stayed here all night, but no wolves with eyes or other groups came to deliver little fresh meat.

After the night passed, the sled team went for another day. By 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was about to set, they finally saw the camp and warehouse left by the previous expedition.

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