dognovel Chapter 809
Chapter 809
Captain Chen had considered whether to let all the residents board the mothership, but if the blizzard continued to rage like this, it would be safer to stay in the stone house than on the ship.
There is nothing wrong with taking precautions in advance.
Like accumulated cotton wool, heavy snow fell for several days, covering the entire island in white, and then froze into ice.
Under the eternal night sky as dark as ink, the severe cold of minus forty degrees Celsius has frozen this isolated island into a piece of ice jade embedded in the inky ocean.
At this time, people were still watching the heavy snow outside through the windows, worried that it would be even more difficult for them to fill their stomachs with such heavy snow in the future.
But within two days, the blizzard intensified again. First, fine ice chips were blown by the wind from nowhere and hit the ice surface, making a harsh sound like sandpaper friction. In a blink of an eye, snowflakes as big as goose feathers poured down like a collapsing Milky Way.
In just half an hour, the stone houses, watchtowers and villas whose outlines could still be barely discerned were completely swallowed up by the snow, leaving only rounded snow hills undulating in the darkness.
What's even more terrifying is the wind.
What started out as a gust of wind that made the snowflakes fly sideways soon turned into a roaring beast. The strong wind swept up the snow on the ground and crushed the snowflakes in the air into sharp-edged ice particles and ice crystals, forming a gray-white storm wall visible to the naked eye, pressing straight down from the other side of the sea level.
"Bang, bang, bang--" Ice particles hit the deck of the mothership, like countless pebbles knocking wildly. Soon a thin layer of ice accumulated and was swept up by subsequent storms, turning into more destructive "ammunition".
One of the portholes failed to hold up, and after a crisp sound, ice particles poured into the cabin like a waterfall. The people in the cabin only had time to scream before they were frozen speechless by the rapidly spreading ice fog.
The makeshift wooden houses on the island were even more vulnerable. The wooden beams groaned painfully in the wind and snow. Chunks of snow mixed with broken wooden boards fell, splashing only a fleeting cloud of snow dust.
No one dared to take another step outside.
Looking out from my window, the whole world was turned into a pot of chaotic porridge by the ice storm, and visibility was less than three meters.
The steel cables originally used to secure the boat were now being pulled straight by the strong wind, making a mournful buzzing sound, as if they would break at any moment.
Someone who tried to take the risk to check the situation outside was choked by a gust of cold air as soon as he opened the door, and he took three steps back. His eyelashes were instantly covered with frost, and the wind and snow outside the door rushed in as if they had life. Frightened, he quickly held the door tightly against the wall, and heard the door panel whimpering in the storm as if it would fall apart at any time.
The sea surface had long since disappeared.
The sound of waves that could be heard was completely drowned out by the sound of the wind. Only the occasional muffled sound similar to the roar of a giant beast came from the depths of the storm. It was the sound of the frozen ice cracking in the storm.
This isolated island, along with the surrounding warships, is now like ice cubes thrown into a blender. In the bitter cold of the eternal night and the tearing of the ice storm, they are gradually losing traces of their "human territory".
Going to sea?
At this moment, even raising your head to look directly at the storm has become a luxury. The only things left in the world are the roaring wind and snow, and the suppressed breathing of people hiding in the corners.
"Captain Chen!" A deep voice sounded in the command room. It was Deputy Captain Shang.
He quickly walked over to Captain Chen and pointed at the increasingly violent blizzard outside the window: "The wind has reached level 12 and is expected to continue to intensify. The waves are at least ten meters high!"
Captain Chen stared out the window. The gray-white storm wall almost swallowed up his entire field of vision. There was no trace of the boundless ocean. There was only the roar of the storm and the muffled sound of breaking ice.
He took a deep breath and gave the order: "Immediately activate the second-level warning. All personnel must immediately enter the safe area! All outdoor operations must be stopped!"