Although Mallory thought he might not wake up again.
But when the sky lit up again, he woke up again.
It was only slightly light.
To be more precise, Mallory woke up from the cold.
His hands and feet were numb from the cold.
The whole body was cold.
This state is still not dead, Mallory think is a miracle.
Where is the help? Why hasn't it come?
Obviously there are drones coming, why is not the rescue helicopter sent over?
Is it because the department in charge of rescue does not have the money to buy a helicopter?
Mallory felt that his current situation, even if the rescue is not a waste of national resources.
After all, he's not a donkey who got trapped after making his own death.
He was kidnapped by someone.
But why didn't anyone come to rescue him?
For a certain moment, Mallory even felt a little aggrieved.
Opening his eyes, his weak body slowly regained his vision.
Looking at the gray sky overhead and feeling everything around him, Mallory had the urge to curse again.
It's actually ... snowing!
Or goose feather snow!
What's wrong with that?
It's only April, right?
Mallory's tattered thin quilt has been covered with a thin layer of snow.
His head and face have also appeared a lot of ice.
Mallory can no longer complain about this.
"Why didn't anyone come to save me?"
"Die!"
"FUCK! Let me die!"
Mallory shouted in despair and anger.
But his mouth was indisputably licking up the broken snow and ice on his lips.
After a while, Mallory suddenly sat up and used his hands to gather the snow on the quilt in front of him into a snowball, and then viciously stuffed it into his mouth.
Already frozen mouth can not melt the ball of snow, Mallory had to chew the ball of snow with teeth, although the root of the teeth because of the cold was frozen raw, but he still insisted on the ball of snow to swallow into the stomach.
Ice cold.
From the mouth all the way to the stomach.
It was really sour to the extreme.
The stomach cramped up once again.
It turned upside down.
The snowball didn't resist hunger at all, it just made the stomach uncomfortable.
So uncomfortable that Mallory bent down and put his fist against his stomach.
At this moment, Mallory could not help but cry again.
It's not a crime for men to cry ...
The key is that he now does not even have the strength to cry.
After eating a snowball, cold and hungry Mallory really did not have the courage to eat the next snowball.
The body is cold from outside and inside, getting stiffer and stiffer, and it's not even close to being able to listen.
Mallory slowly moved his body to the side of the bed and looked at the bottom of the stone pillar.
Because of the drifting snow, it was impossible to see anything below the stone pillar.
Such a heavy wind and snow, it is estimated that even if there is help will not come.
Dead certain.
"Jump down."
"Jump down, it's all over."
"Maybe, it's just a dream."
"It's just a bad dream."
Mallory kept trying to convince himself to get up the courage to jump from here.
To end it all.
Even if he didn't jump now, he figured he wouldn't last much longer.
Jumping, at least, can let people know how he died.
Let his life is not meaningless.
Jump ...
Just as Mallory was repeatedly debating whether to end it all, a rumbling sound came over.
From far and near.
The sound was getting louder and louder.
It wasn't quite the same sound as the last time a civilian airliner approached.
A small dot appeared in the dimly lit field of vision in the distance.
A small black dot.
Through the snow curtain, the small black dot gradually became larger and larger.
The rumbling sound also became clearer and clearer.
It became deafening.
It even brought a huge airflow, blowing Mallory's whole body shivering.
It was a helicopter! The strong wind from the helicopter's propeller!
Finally, we could see clearly!
It was indeed a helicopter!
A black helicopter.
So black that even the glass of the cockpit of the helicopter was black, Mallory could not see the pilot inside.
It flew from below, gradually rose, and finally hovered above Mallory's head.
"Is it a rescue?"
"The drone from yesterday called in?"
"There will be rescue in such a heavy snowstorm?"
"Is help really coming?"
"Or is ... I'm hallucinating?"
Mallory sat on the edge of the bed, tilting his head, looking somewhat dazedly at the helicopter overhead, even forgetting that at this time he should get up and call out to it for help.
But there was no need to hurry, the helicopter was obviously coming for him.
After hovering, the helicopter lowered a lifeline ladder.
"It's really here to save me!"
"Thank you, Dad! Thank you mom!"
"Thank you rescue team!"
"I knew you guys wouldn't leave me alone!"
In an instant, Mallory burst into tears.
As long as he could go back alive, he would be able to find out who had kidnapped him and brought him here.
This matter, Mallory will not be so easy to give up.
Of course, subconsciously, Mallory also have some doubts about the origin of this helicopter.
Suspect that it does not belong to the rescue organization, but the people who kidnapped him sent.
Now arrange for the helicopter to come, in fact, to pick him up to another more dangerous place?
It just ... doesn't matter who this helicopter belongs to and what it is here for, even if it is to pick him up and take him to the execution ground and execute him on the spot, he will not hesitate to climb up.
The company is already not even afraid of death, what else is there to be afraid of?
Mallory stretched out his hands, using the last strength of his body to grab the rope ladder, and after climbing upward reluctantly two steps, two feet finally stepped on the ladder.
But he no longer has the strength to continue to climb up.
The operator of the helicopter also realized this, the rope ladder automatically retracted the cabin, by the way, Mallory also brought up.
After another difficult climb by the hatch, Mallory finally climbed into the helicopter's cabin.
The helicopter retrieved the rope ladder, closed the hatch, and then tore through the snow curtain and flew off into the distance.
The stone pillars below, and Mallory's bed, soon disappeared in a blanket of snow.
Mallory climbed into the helicopter's cabin only to find that it was empty.
And the cabin door closed, the black glass blocked all the light into the cabin, so that the cabin became invisible black, nothing can be seen.
Of course, there is no way to see the outside.
The front cockpit and the back cabin were separated by metal panels, so Mallory could not enter the cockpit, see the helicopter pilot, or ask him questions.
Mallory did not know where the helicopter was headed and where it was going to take him.
But it was better than staying on top of Stonehenge, right?
Mallory remembered seeing a box in the cabin when he first came up.
Now, although he couldn't see it, he could still feel around with his hands.
He soon found the box.
An unlocked box.
After opening the box, Mallory felt around in the box and found several bags of food wrapped in plastic.
And drinks!
One of the bags was torn open and sniffed, and after taking a bite, he found it was bread, and the other two bags were cookies.
Then there were a few drinks.
Mallory first opened the drink a few sips, so that the esophagus and stomach moisten some, then tore open the bag of bread and cookies, the wind swallowed them all into the stomach.
Then he drank a few more drinks.
To him, no matter what the food is now, it is the most delicious delicacy in the world.
Even if the food was poisoned.
Even if he dies, he can't be a starving ghost.