winter in greenland

Dan was completely awake the moment he heard these words, and he sat up suddenly from his sleeping bag: "What's going on?"

August frowned slightly: "The first shift was guarded by Gail and I. Everyone else was resting, and there was no movement on the other side of the dog group. About 10 minutes ago, Annie came out of the tent and asked us if there was a problem. We didn't see Datta and that's when we realized she was missing."

Dan put on his coat, came out of the sleeping bag, and frowned: "Shouldn't Anne and Lucia share a tent?"

"Lucia said that she was going to sort out the shooting materials. It happened that Gail was on the first shift at night, and she was on the second shift. She rested in Gail's tent."

"I remember that Annie and Datta's tent was a little bit in the middle?"

"Yes. Next to us is Professor Mike's tent. Gale's is on his left, John is on his right, you are next to John, and Peter's is on the back of your right. Annie's tent is between John and Peter."

Dan has quickly gone through the distribution of tents in the camp in his mind: "I didn't hear anything, and you didn't see anything?"

August shook his head: "No."

While speaking, the two had already arrived outside the tent. Annie stood nervously at the door of their tent with her arms folded. Her hair was disheveled and her face was a little pale.

Dan didn't ask August any more, and walked up to Anne and asked, "Does anyone else know?"

Annie shook her head, and grabbed his sleeve as if grabbing a life-saving straw: "Originally, Datta had always shared a tent with her father, but when she saw that Lucia was not there tonight, she begged me to come and sleep with me. I watched her fall asleep before falling asleep, but I felt a cold wind when I fell asleep, and when I opened my eyes, I found that she was gone. Gail has already searched around the camp, and I haven't dared to tell others. "

Dan and August exchanged a look, and August said: "Go and wake up everyone else. You can't hide it. One more person can find it faster."

Annie nodded with some trepidation, and ran to Professor Mike's tent.

"What do you think?" Dan asked.

August took two steps forward and pointed in one direction: "Gail and I were in this position at the time, looking from here to there, John's tent just blocked the front half of Anne's tent, I looked around, and the footprints are all in a mess, and I can't see any clues."

"Although the little girl Data looks wild, she is actually very vigilant. If it is someone she doesn't know, I think it's impossible to just take him away...I don't think it's possible. What's more, you are still at 50. Even if it is a professional person, it is impossible to steal such a big living person without any movement under your nose..." Dan looked around, but he didn't hear Augustus. After answering the words, he couldn't help but turn his head strangely: "What's wrong?"

The complex expression on August's face disappeared in a flash: "You are so sure of me..." In the middle of speaking, he seemed to think of something, and changed the subject abruptly: "The most important thing is, why is Datta , not anyone else?"

Dan raised his eyebrows and didn't ask him what the second half of the sentence was that he didn't say.

"Hey, August." A voice came from behind them, and the two turned their heads to see Gail, who was out of breath.

He trotted to the two of them: "I just walked around the camp, and I didn't find anyone suspicious, not even the slightest sign of that little girl. Did you find anything here?"

August shook his head.At this time, almost everyone else in the camp got up. Professor Mike’s jacket was unzipped, with a worried expression on his face. John followed him, and Lucia held Annie’s shoulders, comforting her in a low voice.

"How is it, Gail? Have you found anything nearby?" Professor Mike spoke first after seeing Gail.

Gail shook his head.

John hesitated and said, "Could it be that she ran out by herself? Didn't Peter say before that she often likes to go to this area by herself?"

Annie retorted fiercely: "Datta is not an ignorant child. No matter how urgent she needs to go out, she will always tell me, or go directly to her father. Doesn't she know that she is gone? Are you looking for her?"

John fell silent.

August glanced around the crowd: "Where's Peter?"

Annie sobbed softly.

Lucia patted her on the shoulder comfortingly, and said to August: "I saw Annie looking for him just now, my God, you didn't see that look in his eyes, and almost scared Annie to tears on the spot. He didn't say anything, just turned around and left." As she spoke, she looked at Annie with some sympathy, and whispered, "It can't be Annie's fault. Who would have thought that such a thing would happen."

Suddenly, there was a sharp whistling from behind the camp, followed by a mess of barking from the dogs. They only saw a man with a sled flying past the camp.

It's Peter.

The crowd was silent for a few seconds, and Professor Mike sighed: "Well, Anne and Lucia stay here, and the rest of us go out and look for it."

Gail walked up to Lucia and talked to her in a low voice, greeted the others, and set off with John first.

Professor Mike looked at Dan and August, and smiled apologetically: "I'm really sorry to cause you trouble."

Dan's tone was very gentle: "It's nothing, Professor, that little girl Datta is very cute, and we don't want any accidents to happen to her."

Professor Mike nodded perfunctorily at the two of them, then turned and left in one direction.

August squinted his eyes to see where the others left, and led Dan to the direction where the white wolf family left during the day.

After walking a few hundred meters, seeing that August was still silent, Dan couldn't help asking: "Do you want to inform Ian that they are coming?"

August shook his head: "No, they won't be needed here for the time being."

Dan keenly heard something else: "Have you got a clue?"

"Not sure. What do you think?"

Dan straightened out the thoughts in his mind, and said, "I always feel that it's not an outsider, nor a beast. The troublemaker should be among us."

August's brows were still furrowed: "What do you think of Peter...?"

Dan thought for a while: "I don't think it looks like him. I saw the interaction between him and Datta during the day. They are normal father and daughter. If he is an agent of country A, there is no need to bring Datta with him when he comes out superior."

August's eyes were a bit thoughtful, he stopped and looked behind him, and he obviously made some decision when he spoke again: "Did you see the direction Peter was going just now? You go in the direction he is going See if we can find anything. I'll go back to camp and see."

"You think there's something wrong with those two guys in the camp?"

August narrowed his eyes: "I just intuit that this is a bit too coincidental."

Dan didn't ask much, and simply agreed, and just before he left, August called him: "Dan."

He turned around: "What?"

"Do you have your gun with you?"

The nerves in Dan's back tensed instantly, and he nodded.

August took a deep look at him and paused for a few seconds before speaking: "Although it's just my intuition, I hope it's best not to use it. Be careful. Let's meet at the camp."

The traces left by Peter's sledge on the snow were obvious. Two straight traces were mixed with the messy sled dog paw prints, making them very easy to distinguish.It seemed that he was heading towards the foot of the glacier.

Dan looked up at the reddish-brown rocks on the mountain wall, and raised his hand to press the position on his back waist. The hard and cold outline seemed to give him some sense of peace of mind.

Seems like it's been a long time since I've been this excited, old man, are you too?Maybe that person is right, I am a cold-blooded monster at my core.

Taking a deep breath, Dan quickened his pace and walked forward.

He followed the trail for about ten minutes. Although this area is at the foot of the glacier, there are many rolling hills. Although they are not high, they are enough to block a person's sight.He circled about two small hills, couldn't see the rest of the scientific expedition team, and the camp disappeared from sight.If it weren't for the messy footprints under his feet, he would almost doubt whether all this was real.

The footprint of the sled board became visibly twisted here, and it was obvious that Peter had slowed down.Dan bent down to look at the snow, and when he looked up again, a figure emerged from behind a brown rock in front of him.

Dan immediately bent down and took a few steps back, turning to a snow slope behind him.

The man in front of him looked around, then strode forward.

Dan's heart sank.It's not that he didn't understand the look in August's eyes before he left, and it's not that he didn't think of the possibility: Why didn't he invite other guides, but Peter?How did the news about the mine leak out?

If their guesses were true, then splitting up was inevitable. He only hoped that Peter would be smarter and not be brought down so quickly.

He walked carefully behind the person in front along the way, keeping a distance of about 50 yards. After walking like this for about 10 minutes, he suddenly felt as if he heard something in the air.

Pausing in his tracks, he raised his head and squinted in the direction he came from, only to see a black dot appearing in the sky not far away.The sound of the blades churning the air became more pronounced as the distance got closer.

— a helicopter?

As far as he could see, all Dan could see was the silvery white fuselage, unpainted with any markings, staggering behind a hill.

That was the direction of their camp.

Dan's heart beat wildly, and a strong uneasiness suddenly rose from the bottom of his heart, exactly the same as that time.

Pausing for a second, his eyes flickered again and again, and finally turned in the direction of Peter and the others.