48 Hours a Day

"We wanted to go outside the tent to see what happened, but there were always intermittent gunfire outside, and the Blizzard was really big at the time. As long as two or three meters away, we could almost see nothing. We were worried that I was accidentally injured by a stray bullet, so I could only stay in the tent. It felt uncomfortable, especially we didn’t know what the people or creatures were at war with those retired soldiers.

"The doctor and I could only speculate wildly in the tent. Fortunately, the battle did not last too long. About two minutes later, I found the dog group in the tent quieted down, and the gunfire outside stopped. Now, strangely speaking, the blizzard also became smaller after this, and as the whistling wind disappeared, I heard the voice of someone talking. So Dr. Baker and I also walked out of the tent.

"We discovered that the speaker was the two retired soldiers who lived in the same tent with us, and when they saw us, they closed their mouths and returned to their previous blank expressions.

"We tried to talk to them, but they refused to say anything, so we had to find other people. This time we encountered Blizzard, we pitched six tents, but five of them were intact, but there was one tent. Missed away.

"I was surprised at the time, because I was definitely responsible as a guide for such a thing, but the problem was that after the tent was set up, I checked it all by myself. If I felt it was not reliable, I pierced it again and used ice. The bricks have been reinforced, so this shouldn’t happen.

"The tent that was lost belongs to a biologist. He used to live with a geologist, but because of previous events, they decided to separate for one day. So he stayed with three retired soldiers tonight. Except for the tent, he His luggage and some experimental equipment were also blown away, and he looked very frightened, his body was shaking all the time, and he kept yelling, saying that we shouldn't come here.

"The Chinese couple was comforting him. Baker and I wanted to go there too. We didn’t expect Mr. Thame to find us first, or to be precise, he came to see Dr. Baker. He is still smiling. , Patted Dr. Baker on the shoulder and said it’s time for you to work. Baker was startled, and then asked, what happened. Mr. Thame said there was nothing big, except that the strong wind blew away the biologist’s tent. After that, some hungry polar bears may have come, but they have been repelled by our people.

So what Dr. Baker will do next is to help the biologist try his best to calm his emotions and restore this poor man to his senses, because he was so frightened that he even had hallucinations and started talking nonsense.

"The doctor and I were a little bit skeptical, not only because Mr. Thame was too easy to say, but also because we did not see the footprints and corpses of polar bears around, but the doctor started working afterwards, and Mr. Thame was still standing after seeing me. In situ, I proposed to make a few cups of hot coffee for everyone to drink. I agreed, but after making the coffee, I found that the expedition was missing two people.

"The three retired soldiers who lived in the same tent with the doctor before, now there is only one person left. I asked Mr. Thame where the two had gone. He said they had something wrong and went back halfway, but when I asked if When I was about to call the boat to pick them up, Mr. Thame told me not to use it. They have their own boat. However, when I was making coffee, I clearly saw a small group of retired soldiers burying something. I saw a human-like creature there. I wanted to take a closer look at the arm, but was driven away by the retired soldiers.

"I felt a bad feeling in my heart, and when the doctor came back two hours later, his face also looked very bad. I asked him what happened. He hesitated and said that the biologist was too stimulated. , There is something wrong with the spirit, but he has given the biologist a tranquilizer to gradually stabilize his mood. He proposed to Mr. Thame that he should stop the expedition and send the biologist back to the city for treatment, but he was caught by Thame. The husband declined, and then used his usual optimistic tone to encourage others, saying that we are very close to the final goal, and victory is in sight.

"I was a little impatient, staring into Baker’s eyes and questioning him, did I forget our previous agreement? Once one party discovers something, he should immediately share it with another person. I’m sure Baker heard something from the biologist. But now he seems to be going to swallow this information alone, which makes me very angry. Baker can only smile wryly when I say this, and tell me what he has heard from the biologist.

"He said that it was not a blizzard that lifted the tent, but a very strange creature. It is difficult to find suitable words and vocabulary to describe that ugly and frightening thing. It is like the mess in the deep sea of ​​prehistoric times. Like a growing underwater monster, there are organs that look like animals and plants. Anyone who sees it will have nightmares at night. Biologists swear that it doesn’t look like a species on earth at all. The appearance is not in line with Darwin's theory of evolution at all, just like some creator put it together indiscriminately.

"As soon as it opened the tent, it started to kill a retired soldier with its tentacles. The biologist was completely frightened and motionless, but the other two in the tent reacted quickly and immediately climbed. They got up, and they actually didn't leave their bodies when they were resting, as if they knew something like this would happen early in the morning.

"One of them drew his gun and fired, but the bullet seemed to have limited damage to that thing. Several shots on his body did not affect its actions at all. Moreover, the two retired soldiers were also a little confused and didn't know the opposite thing. Where is the key to the attack, and it quickly strangled the neck of the retired soldier it caught with its tentacle.

"Then he stretched his tentacles to another person, but he was dodged by the retired soldier who had been prepared for a long time, but the hapless guy didn't expect that the tentacles of that thing would be able to separate out five more branches after reaching the limit. The tentacle came, and the result was also caught. It seemed that it was too slow to squeeze the neck. This time the thing directly pierced the body of the retired soldier with another tentacle, but at this time other people who heard the gunfire also continued. Coming, there are people carrying bazookas.

"That thing didn’t seem to want to fight, so he stretched out his tentacles to the biologist. The biologist thought he was dead, but he didn’t expect that tentacles bypassed him and gave him his travel bag with the newly acquired fossils. It rolled over, and then disappeared in the blizzard before the encirclement formed under the bullet rain."