There was an inevitable quarrel in the coniferous forest. Dusha lost her temper and was almost hysterical. But this time Vika did not stop her because everyone was emotionally unstable, including the woman who was accused.

hunter.

"What road did you lead? Is this the road you led? One morning, after walking for half a day, you detoured back. Is there something wrong with you?"

Only yells and accusations could be heard throughout the coniferous forest, and the snow on the distant coniferous trees was shaken down in the forest. In front of the snow-filled clearing, a group of people stood not far from the hunter's cabin.

Looking at each other.

The female hunter ignored Dusha, who was almost in a state of collapse. She frowned and looked around. She even walked to the window of the hunter's cabin and looked inside. Only then did she confirm that this was where they started from, and there were still scraps left on that table.

There were frozen fish bones and a lot of bread crumbs under the stove, and there were scattered matches next to the extinguished stove...

That's right, they did circle back, and in some incredible way returned to their original starting point after a full four hours of trekking in the morning.

"Be quiet first." The huntress took a deep breath and said, "I don't think I took the wrong path. It should be that we encountered some... unexpected situations."

"Don't you think you took the wrong way? But you just took the wrong way!" Dusha came over emotionally and tried to pull the huntress's collar with her still intact hand, but the huntress raised her hand.

He raised her arm, and when she was about to start fighting, Vika growled, "Okay!"

Dusha turned back to look at her brother, who also had a bad look on his face, and shouted angrily, "What's so good! What's so good about this! What the hell is going on!"

"I also want to know what's going on." The female hunter looked at the lieutenant colonel, "Can you lend me your watch?"

Lieutenant Colonel Andre knew what the huntress was thinking, so she simply took off the gold victory watch from her wrist and handed it over. After taking the watch, the huntress stared at the time that pointed to 12:15, and then walked to the window of the wooden house to look for it.

Looking at the cuckoo wall clock inside from an angle, I confirmed that the time on the two dials was almost the same, and the error was only one or two minutes at most.

"The direction of the watch hands is correct." The female hunter returned the watch to the lieutenant colonel and looked at everyone else, "I am also confident in my sense of direction. We have indeed been walking towards the west before, and there is no possibility of detours.

.The lieutenant colonel and I took turns giving directions, which also reduced the possibility of making mistakes. The possibility of the two of us misunderstanding the direction at the same time was very small."

"What do you want to say?" Vika asked dullly.

"If there is no problem with us, then the only problem is the road under our feet." The huntress took a deep breath and said, "There is a problem with this forest."

"What could be wrong with the forest?" Adam asked subconsciously.

"No... maybe we really went wrong. It's unlikely that two people have wrong sense of direction at the same time, but it's not impossible." Vika still refused to believe their guess.

"Yeah, how could something go wrong in the forest? Are you all crazy?" Dusha screamed, "It's you idiots who are leading the wrong way!"

"I also hope that I took the wrong path." The huntress did not avoid her gaze, looking directly at Dusha and said, "I am indeed willing to be the idiot you say you are."

These words instantly silenced Dusha, and in addition to the mania, there was also a hint of fear and uneasiness in her eyes.

"Go take a look on the avenue." Lieutenant Colonel Andre turned his head and looked towards the north of the coniferous forest.

"Yes, that railroad track." Adam's eyes lit up.

If they remember well, this wooden house was built in a coniferous forest less than 300 meters away from the railroad tracks. This also means that you can reach the paved avenue of railroad tracks within a short walk to the north. Walking along the avenue is absolutely

Nothing will go wrong.

"You can go to the avenue first and have a look." The female hunter also remembered this incident and looked at the lieutenant colonel, "I'm going with you?"

"No, I'll go with him, and you and the others will stay to take care of the old man and the two children." Andre pointed at Vika, then looked down at old Alian on the stretcher.

Old Arian was also looking at him, his lips twitched but he still didn't say anything. He really couldn't do anything in his current state.

"Old man, you are the most familiar with this place. Please point me in the direction to the main road so that we don't go wrong again." The female hunter squatted beside the stretcher and held the old hunter's left hand.

Old Ali settled down for a moment, then raised his right hand with great effort and pointed at one end of the coniferous forest, and said angrily, "Go in... a path I opened... follow it to the end..."

After saying this, he said nothing. He saw Vika and Dusha beside him, and naturally recognized them as the robbers who broke in. But in this case, what could he say or do? There was only silence.

.

"Is there still a way to the main road? That would be great." Adam perked up after hearing this.

"The three-hundred-meter round trip takes about ten minutes." Lieutenant Colonel Andre glanced at his watch, "If Vika and I don't come back in ten minutes, then you can go into the cabin and rest first... If possible,

While we are away, let’s collect some firewood from the surrounding areas in advance.”

"What are you collecting firewood for?" Dusha said. She vaguely rejected the dilemma they were about to face, so she blurted out the question.

"It's already noon now. If we set out again, we may have to reach the town in the afternoon or close to evening. If something unexpected happens on the road, it will be delayed until late at night... You all know how fast it gets dark in Siberia and how cold it is at night.

"Yes." The huntress calmly said what the lieutenant colonel meant.

"So we might have to stay here for another day?" The expression on Adam's face turned ugly instantly.

"This is the worst case scenario. If the Lieutenant Colonel finds the road later, we will walk along it. It is almost impossible to go the wrong way along the road. No matter how deep the snow is, we can still get there two or three hours later.

If we arrive at the town on the edge of darkness, there won't be any big problems." The female hunter said.

"Okay..." Adam's expression changed several times and finally he accepted his fate.

The lieutenant colonel and Vika set off and went into the coniferous forest. After walking a few steps, they saw the man-made path pointed by the old hunter. After a while, no one could be seen and no footsteps could be heard. On this side of the clearing, there were several people.

Rengan stood for a while, and finally the huntress and Adam carried old Arrian into the house and lit the stove again.

"Things are getting weirder and weirder." Adam said to himself. The huntress beside him didn't say anything after hearing it. She glanced at Dusha, who was pacing back and forth angrily kicking the snow in the clearing, and then looked at

She walked over to the little girl sitting in front of the wooden house and sat next to the little girl and whispered, "...Yelena? That's her name, are you okay?"

The little girl turned her head to look at the huntress and nodded.

Looking at this little girl with brown and black eyes as clear as water, the huntress thought about her words for a long time and finally said, "Is there anything you want to tell your sister about me?"

The little girl looked at the huntress and nodded slightly after a long time, "My brother...he is hungry."

"Here, feed it to him, but you have to eat half of it." The huntress took out a small piece of frozen meat from her fur coat. She found this while rummaging through the cabinets in the wooden house, but did not hand it over to the table.

"Can you give it all to him?" the little girl asked.

"No. You have to eat half." The huntress looked at the little boy wrapped in fur behind the little girl. The weak look made people feel distressed, but after a long trek, the little girl was the one who should be the most hungry.

She knew that this girl didn't eat anything at all in the morning. All the fish tacos assigned to her were fed to the little boy. She almost only drank some water and ate some bread crumbs before accompanying them.

Half a day on the snowy road.

"Okay." The little girl nodded in agreement as if she had made a difficult decision.

He handed the dried meat to the little girl and watched her bite off half of it and put it into her mouth before swallowing it. The huntress then reached out and patted her head and stood up, preparing to walk to the coniferous forest not far away to pick up a stove.

But at this moment she heard the little girl's weak voice behind her, "Be careful of them."

"What did you say?" The huntress immediately turned back to look at the little girl.

"Be careful of them..." The little girl looked at the huntress with clear eyes.

"Them? You mean the group of...devils from last night?"

The little girl shook her head and looked into the depths of the coniferous forest, "Everyone...be careful with all of them."

Everyone?

The huntress was stunned for a moment and didn't seem to understand what it meant, but after saying this, the little girl had already carried her brother back to the wooden house, and the fire had been lit. After entering the house, she opened her mouth and put her tongue down

He spat out the dried meat, wiped it clean and stuffed it into the little boy behind him. The little boy closed his eyes and opened his mouth and gently bit the warm dried meat, chewed and swallowed it.

"Thank you..." he said in an almost inaudible voice.

"Stay alive, and I will take you out of here." The little girl whispered, "For me, for him, and for yourself."

Just five minutes passed quickly. Adam, who was collecting firewood in the clearing, and Dusha, who was still angry, heard footsteps in the bushes. They subconsciously turned back in fear and ran towards the wooden house, away from the coniferous forest, until finally

They were relieved when the two familiar figures came out.

"How's the situation?" The huntress heard the noise and ran out from the side of the wooden house holding firewood. She immediately saw the lieutenant colonel and Vika walking out of the bushes. As soon as she asked, she noticed the ugly look of the two people.

expression.

"Walk back...?" Vika stood in front of the bushes and stared blankly at the wooden house and her sister in front of the wooden house.

"We're back." The lieutenant colonel looked at everything in front of him indifferently.

"But we did walk along the road! Damn it, could it be that the road itself went around!" Vika's breathing became a little rapid, and uneasiness filled his eyes.

"No, I'm pretty sure we are walking in a straight line." The lieutenant colonel looked towards the depths of the bushes where they came back, "The road may circle back, but the direction pointed by the watch will never be wrong."

"No...I don't believe it." Vika's expression twitched, and he turned around anxiously and rushed into the coniferous forest. But this time the lieutenant colonel did not follow him, but walked out of the bushes towards the wooden house.

Coming.

"Lieutenant Colonel, is it really... a problem with the road?" the huntress looked at the approaching Lieutenant Colonel and asked.

"It's a problem with the road." The lieutenant colonel nodded and admitted, "We must have been trapped. We walked in a straight line according to the direction of the watch and still got back here."

"What's the principle?"

"I don't know." The lieutenant colonel shook his head, "I have never seen anything like this before...but there is no doubt that it has something to do with the snowstorm last night."

"Blizzard. You mean those... devils?" This time the huntress also used devil to describe those black silhouettes.

"That's not the devil," the lieutenant colonel said, "that's the enemy."

"Enemy?" The female hunter stared at the lieutenant colonel, as if she wanted to find more information from the other person's expression.

"Anyone who wants to take away things from us is an enemy." The lieutenant colonel's expression was flawless. He turned his head and looked at Dusha who was still walking around not far away. "How is the firewood collection going?"

"Good news and bad news. The good news is that the snowstorm blew down a lot of branches, and it only takes a few trips to collect firewood to keep it burning until tomorrow. The bad news is that I didn't find any traces of animals nearby when collecting firewood."
To be continued...