After drinking a bit of water and resting for a while, Lin Ruoxue looked out from the summit to the distant mountains, only to see successive, meandering peaks all covered in white snow, with only some mountains far away where the snow was slightly less and a hint of greenery visible.
Moreover, the mountain’s summit reached high into the clouds, surrounded by swirling vapors that mingled with the snow, truly making it seem like a paradise on earth!
"Indeed, endless scenery lies at the pinnacle!"
Lin Ruoxue couldn’t help but exclaim, feeling only when one is amidst it can one truly appreciate the wonders of nature and the minuteness of humanity.
In such an environment, one’s heart seems to open up much wider!
Especially after Lin Ruoxue went through an incredibly difficult process to climb up here, she felt it was even more meaningful!
After admiring the mountain-top scenery for a while, both of them became hungry, and as Lin Ruoxue was feeling the cold more, Su Chen started to make a fire.
However, making a fire on the high snowy mountain was not that easy, because the winds and snow here were very strong, temperatures extremely low, and the air pressure much higher than on the plains.
The most crucial point was the thin air, which naturally contained less oxygen, and combustion cannot occur without oxygen.
"Husband, what are you doing?"
Lin Ruoxue asked curiously as she watched Su Chen clear some snow and then place stones and other debris on the ground.
"Making a fire. If I don’t place something underneath, the fire will easily go out."
Su Chen was adept at any wilderness survival method, because whether in the Eighth Brigade or the Nether Temple, you never know what kind of environment you’ll encounter.
So any survival skill could be the key to saving your life at a critical moment!
After padding the ground, Su Chen began to start the fire.
Su Chen first found a piece of ice, which was plentiful in this area, and slowly fashioned it into the shape of a convex lens.
"Husband, are you going to use the principle of focusing light with a convex lens to start the fire?"
Lin Ruoxue asked, surprised.
"Smart."
Su Chen praised with a slight smile.
"Husband, don’t you have a lighter?"
"A lighter won’t work here. At such a high altitude and with so much humidity, a lighter would never ignite.
Of course, methods like fire drilling would be even more out of the question in this place. The best way is to use ice to start the fire."
Su Chen explained with a smile:
"Of course, if it were night, we would use an oil lighter or waterproof matches. But we’re heading back in the afternoon, so I didn’t bring any."
"Husband, how do you know so much?"
Lin Ruoxue was becoming more and more curious about Su Chen; he seemed to know everything and was very formidable at it, like fighting, like medicine, like languages!
In every aspect, his skill seemed to reach the pinnacle: fighting, he easily took down dozens of the Liu Family’s bodyguards.
Not to mention his medical skills, once with grandfather and once with herself, when even the hospital had no solution, yet he was able to save the day.
His linguistic abilities were even more impressive. She knew he could speak the languages of various countries and regions, and this time in Tianshan, he could even communicate with others using the local dialect!
And now, watching him make fire with ice, he did it with such ease as if he had done it many times before.
Lin Ruoxue couldn’t help but wonder, is there anything in this world that he cannot do?
Soon, a fire was blazing. Su Chen said to Lin Ruoxue:
"Wife, hurry and bring the cakes over to heat them up, and come warm up yourself."
Upon hearing this, Lin Ruoxue immediately took out the cakes she had brought from the village chief’s house and handed them to Su Chen. After receiving them, Su Chen used a thin twig to thread them and then roasted them over the fire.
Lin Ruoxue also hurried to the fire to warm up, and after a while, her body finally began to feel a bit warmer, no longer as cold as before.
The two then ate some of the cakes and drank a little water, played around on the mountaintop for a while, and then prepared to head down the mountain.
Descending the mountain also takes a long time, and the descent becomes much more dangerous after nightfall, especially since Lin Ruoxue was a woman!
Chatting as they went, the two made their way down the mountain. Going down was a bit easier than climbing up, and by three or four in the afternoon, they had already covered about half the distance.
"Su Chen!"
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Just then, a voice rang out from the foot of the mountain. Even though it was quite distant, it still reached Su Chen’s ears.
Lin Ruoxue also seemed to faintly hear someone calling and turned her head together with Su Chen to look down the mountain.
What entered Lin Ruoxue’s field of vision was a group of people, but she could not make out their faces or clothes clearly due to the distance, only vaguely seeing two vehicles parked beside them.
However, Su Chen’s visual acuity was far superior to that of an ordinary person, and he saw clearly that the leader was Lv Shimo, and the group standing beside him were all fully armed, clearly mercenaries.
Moreover, judging from their looks, they seemed to be from the Middle East.
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Upon seeing Su Chen and Lin Ruoxue looking in their direction, Lv Shimo’s mouth curled up in a meaningful arc, his laugh sinister!
As soon as Su Chen saw that smirk, he immediately felt a very bad premonition, as though he was being stared at by a famished wolf.
At that moment, Lv Shimo made a throat-slitting gesture with one hand while gently lifting the other above his head. In his hand was a cell phone, and his finger lightly pressed a button!
At the same time, several explosions burst forth from the mountaintop, blasting the snow into the air!
At such a distance, the explosions alone couldn’t hurt Su Chen and Lin Ruoxue.
However, a faint sound of cracking changed Su Chen’s expression dramatically:
"No good! Avalanche!"
No sooner had the words left his mouth than the snow on the mountaintop began to tumble down like cascading seas and rivers, instantly burying everything in its path!
The white waves of snow rolled toward them with an unstoppable force!
Su Chen didn’t think twice and started running with Lin Ruoxue in tow. But Lin Ruoxue had nearly used up all her strength just climbing the mountain, how could she run now?
Regardless of her current state, what would her usual pace matter against the speed of an avalanche?
Even Su Chen by himself wasn’t confident he could outrun it, because the speed was too fast and the momentum too overwhelming!
Of course, if it were just the speed of the falling snow, Su Chen could take a chance on his own. But the most dangerous part of an avalanche wasn’t that; it was the air blast in front of the snowslide!
Because the snow rushes down from a height with great potential energy, it causes intense air oscillation, which can form an air blast at extremely high speeds. This air blast is somewhat similar to the shockwave produced by a nuclear explosion.
The avalanche can drive the air blast in front of it, and the impact of this air blast is even more dangerous than the snowslide itself. Wherever the air blast travels, houses will be destroyed, trees will disappear, people will suffocate to death.
Therefore, sometimes the body of the avalanche isn’t there yet, but the air blast has already sent everything in its path tumbling!
No matter how fast Su Chen was, he couldn’t compete with the speed of the air blast!
Moreover, he had Lin Ruoxue by his side. There was no way he would abandon her to escape alone!
After running a few steps, Su Chen immediately realized they could not outrun the avalanche. So, what he needed to consider next was how to increase their chances of survival!
In an instant, Su Chen made a judgment, which was to run to the side!
So, he picked up Lin Ruoxue and sprinted to the left...
"Goodbye, both of you! Hahaha~~~"
Below the mountain, Lv Shimo’s exuberant laughter sounded again, after which he and the others got into their vehicles and sped away...