This time, the reason why there were three people instead of two was mainly because Russian is generally used in Central Asia, and Fairmont had also learned Russian due to its similarity to his native language, Ukrainian, which made communication more convenient.
In fact, after returning from Chernobyl last time, Leonard Ethan began to try to teach himself Russian, but due to the lack of time, he could only manage ordinary daily conversations, so a translator was necessary.
Of course, this did not mean that Leonard's level of Russian was not high, because of repeated strengthening before, his overall learning ability could be called genius if put among ordinary people, but he was too busy and did not have much time to spend on this.
Crossing the snow-covered road through the forest was not as difficult as they imagined, because the slope of the hillside was not steep, and there were some roads that could help them cross those hills.