The snow is not falling much, very small snowflakes drifting slowly.
No wonder last night, the first half of the night was too hot to sleep, and the second half of the night slept like a dead pig.
Between the heat and cold, there may be a few hours of particularly comfortable temperature stage, so that he is very rare to sleep peacefully.
If he didn't have a cold, Mallory would have preferred the cold to the heat.
Although the cold may also freeze to death, but slightly better than the heat to suffer.
And he has now also had the experience of digging a snow hole under the bed to escape the cold.
In the absence of water to drink, too hot sometimes really can not do anything about it.
Blizzard weather, at least do not worry about being dried out.
A cold wind blew over, Mallory freezing shivering.
Now this situation, slightly embarrassing.
The snow is not falling much, the temperature has dropped to very low.
So, he did not have enough snow for building a snow cave to shelter from the wind.
He could only put on his pajamas, the single coat he bought, his hospital gown, and the raincoat Daisy gave him, and then draped the tattered quilt over him to protect him from the cold.
It was still cold.
"Why can't the weather be milder?"
Mallory sighed.
He soon adjusted his mind.
This is the third day, another day tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, you can return to the film city.
Hold on! Hang in there! Endurance! Endurance!
The snow is getting heavier and heavier, from scattered flakes to gooseberries.
Mallory finally had something to do.
He compacted the snow that fell on his bed one by one, made snow bricks, and then put them between the bed slab and the top of the stone pillar, and began to build his snow house.
Mallory even had a vision to make the walls around the snow house higher, and then try to find a way to make a roof or something, which would give him more space to move around, rather than being trapped in that small snow cave can not move.
There is no room to solve physical problems.
Although it is across the wadding to compact these snow bricks, and did not use hands directly contact these cold snow, but not a short time, Mallory's hands are still frozen stiff and raw.
Sometimes, the cold is not terrible.
What is scary is the lack of food, no heat to replenish the body, the body's heat is constantly losing, in the cold by the pure consumption of the body to resist the cold.
This simply can not resist.
But now the hardest thing is not his hands, but his lungs.
The cold irritated his respiratory system more and more difficult.
The condition of his body made Mallory give up the intention to build a high snow wall, and he had not thought of a way to solve the snow house roof, just to build the snow wall higher, it does not make much sense to him.
It's better to build the snow hole under the bed before you get too sick and have the strength to do so.
Lying inside is at least much stronger than blowing outside, otherwise, his sick lungs will definitely not hold up.
Do it for a while, catch your breath.
Three hours later, Mallory finally used the snow to build the snow cave under the bed.
Lying in the snow cave can be sheltered from the wind, the respiratory system finally feel better.
But it was still hard.
The throat was getting more and more sore.
It was so swollen that every time I made a swallowing motion, it was painful.
But inexplicably every once in a while the urge to do the swallowing action is great again.
Go to sleep! Go to sleep!
Hurry up and get through these two days.
Just get through these two days and get back to Film City.
Can't sleep.
Feel colder and colder.
It seems to be ... fever?
"On purpose, right?" Mallory lamented.
People with fever and colds especially don't like the cold.
After the fever, it would feel twice as cold.
If it were yesterday, he would not feel so bad.
Had to endure.
Simmer.
I don't know how long it took.
Mallory's mind was in a bit of a trance.
A rumbling sound, followed by a 'da da da da' sound woke him up.
Along with the sound of a crunching bedpan, there was suddenly a sharp pain in his upper right arm.
Mallory reached out and touched it, and it was blood!
There was a big bloody gash on his upper arm!
It was as if something from ... had penetrated the wall panel and grazed his upper arm, making a large bloody gash!
Mallory felt on the slab under his upper arm and sure enough, he felt a slug!
"Holy shit! Someone shot a gun?" Mallory couldn't help but be confused.
Who was shooting at such a high place? And shooting down from above?
Reaching up to the bed board above, he felt a few gunshot holes!
Because the snow on the bed is too thick, these gun holes do not let the light through.
After a while, the sound of rumbling came again.
Mallory felt that the situation was not good, he climbed to the corner of the bed board was smashed by the tail of the civilian airliner, pushed away the nearby snow, probe to look outside a circle.
Sure enough, it was a plane!
And combat helicopters!
Several of them, chasing each other in the sky.
One of them was fleeing frantically, a dive, rushing to the bottom of the top of the stone pillar where Mallory was.
Looking at the color of the fighters, only that one fleeing madly was different from the others, and it looked like it did not belong to the same camp as the others, which were all chasing it.
Probably no other cover was found nearby to hide from the other fighters, and this one actually circled around the stone pillar where Mallory was.
Several other fighters were in pursuit, and kept shooting at the fleeing fighter with their machine guns, and the bullets that pierced Mallory's bed were the ones they had inadvertently fired.
While Mallory was watching, a combat helicopter whistled and swooped down from less than ten meters above Mallory's head, bringing up a gust of wind that even blew most of the snow off Mallory's bed.
Mallory hastily retracted his head and hid back in the snow cave, his whole body kept trembling.
What a disaster!
A few damn warplanes, so much open space around, you can fly as hard as you like, flying around this pillar of mine what to do?
While Mallory was cursing in his heart, 'Bang! There was a muffled sound, and the stone pillar shook violently.
A heat wave also rose up from below.
It felt like a warplane had crashed into the pillar at high speed, or the missile fired had hit the pillar, causing the accident.
Probably due to the frontal impact or bombing, the stone pillar shook far more than the last civil airliner's tail scrape.
Mallory's snow wall under the bed, and the snow on the bed, as well as the bed's frozen quilts, padding, etc., were all thrown out in the violent shaking.
Mallory in this violent shaking, waist hit a bed leg, was stopped by the bed leg, he hurriedly with both hands to hold the bed leg, so as not to be thrown out by the violent shaking of the stone pillar.
The pain in the waist, snow, quilts, padding all gone.
His entire body was completely exposed to the top of the stone pillar.
A combat helicopter pilot, who was hovering near Stonehenge, glanced this way and saw Mallory's bed on top of Stonehenge, and Mallory holding the legs of the bed.
He whistled and then turned the nose of the aircraft toward Mallory.
He pressed the firing button.
''Ta-da-da-da-da!''
The barrel of the heavy machine gun under the nose of the machine spun wildly.