After returning to Weining, Song Wenbin stuffed Sutina into the back seat of the car. It was only then that he breathed a sigh of relief and recovered from the long period of uneasiness and worry.
Wei Ning had no idea what was going on. Looking at Su Tina who was slumped in the back seat of the car, he asked Song Wenbin: "Yan... what's going on?"
"She is not in good spirits. Let's take a day off today. We are exhausted from the Arctic." Song Wenbin sighed.
Everyone was silent. The hardship of this trip to the North Pole was indeed beyond all their expectations. Wei Ning had no objection, and everyone drove back to the camp together. Song Wenbin did not hide it. He took out all the snacks that Su Tina was going to take to celebrate and shared them with everyone. When he went to ask Su Tina for her opinion on sharing the snacks, At this time, Sutina didn't speak, just nodded with an indescribable smile, as if he could do whatever he wanted.
Song Wenbin didn't want to face that heart-breaking smile, so he just took a group of photographers, and a group of people lit a small stove in the far north, and held a small party around the fire.
During the party, Sutina did not participate. She always loved the excitement and just ate two roasted marshmallows by the fire, and then sat back in the cockpit of her icebreaker.
Obviously, because of the departure of Baoli and Huo Yu, the young people on the film crew were also miserable in such a long and monotonous journey in the northern wilderness.
Song Wenbin comforted them and told them not to be too depressed and not to worry too much about work. If anything happened, he would take care of it.
After getting Song Wenbin's commitment, the atmosphere in the team became better.
Everyone did nothing, just chatted and had something to eat.
After taking care of the photographers in the team, the sky was getting darker and the polar night was approaching, so Song Wenbin let everyone go back to the car and rest peacefully.
After arranging the colleagues in the team, Song Wenbin looked at the icebreaker truck aside. He was worried that a similar sleepwalking incident would happen again. After hesitating for a long time, he opened the door and got in.
In the car, Sutina was sitting on a small bed wrapped in a quilt and eating bear fruit candies. Seeing Song Wenbin come in, she squinted her eyes and smiled, a little silly.
Song Wenbin sighed, pulled up the driver's seat, sat down and asked like a doctor asking: "How are you now? Are you still sleepwalking?"
Sutina bit the candy and looked at him without speaking.
Song Wenbin thought to himself and said: "I no longer intend to move forward, enough is enough. I can't watch this happen again. I plan to contact the people at the Yellow River Station tonight and ask them to send us Take it back, what do you think?"
"You are not someone who gives up easily." Sutina said softly: "If you give up before reaching the extreme, many people will scold you when the show is broadcast."
"Compared with the program, the lives of colleagues are more important." Song Wenbin said.
"Did I do something dangerous?" Sutina asked.
Song Wenbin said nothing.
"It's hard for you, Brother Song." Su Tina whispered guiltily.
Song Wenbin shook his head and said: "There is no need to talk about what happened. Now that the polar night is coming, it is difficult to see clearly from the future. It's just... Even if the Arctic Station has to send a helicopter over, it will take a long time. During this time, can you Keep it up?"
Sutina squirmed safely in the quilt, changed to a more comfortable position, and asked: "If you can't persist, what will you do?"
"I don't know." Song Wenbin sighed: "How about I tell you a joke I made on Zhihu before."
Sutina lowered her head and chuckled.
"Why are you laughing?" Song Wenbin asked.
"Say it." Sutina said with interest.
Song Wenbin had no choice but to slowly tell Su Tina a classic Tieba story about a boy from Boiling Yang High School who was kidnapped by a rich second generation and his lover counterattacked and slapped him in the face. To be honest, he guessed that Su Tina could never be like him. The audience of the story, because she was laughing from beginning to end, even when Song Wenbin told the story about the most irritating heroine in the story who abandoned the hero and joined the arms of a rich man because of an iPhone, Sutina was still laughing.
After Song Wenbin finished telling this story, he asked for trouble. To be honest, the jokes he made almost ten years ago now seem very low and backward.
"Sorry... Sutina, I haven't made up a joke like that for a long time. I really don't have any reserves." Song Wenbin said apologetically.
"Actually, it's okay." Sutina consoled her, "It's just that it's a bit unforeseen. This kind of story should be placed on our university's forum, or circulated among my high school classmates. They might welcome it, but this is the North Pole~"
"Yes, this is the North Pole..." Song Wenbin murmured.
He looked out the window, and suddenly felt as if he was in another world. The polar night was coming faster than he thought, and the aurora was already flickering in the sky.
He wondered whether the readers who read his posts ten years ago would still be outraged by such a fabricated story.
Perhaps their restless hearts have experienced the test of realistic intimacy and thus gained a greater degree of peace.
Su Tina looked at Song Wenbin and smiled narrowly: "However, I suddenly thought of a story. There is a story that is particularly suitable here, suitable for the North Pole, suitable for this wilderness, and suitable for you and me."
"Really?"
Song Wenbin came to his senses and said, "I'm all ears."
Sutina seemed to have been holding it in for a long time, and said impatiently: "It is said that there were two foreign adventurers named Robert and Jane. They went to the snow-capped mountains to take risks together. However, during the adventure, they accidentally encountered an avalanche. Robert was killed by the avalanche. Crushed to death, unfortunately, Jane escaped death because she was lucky enough to hide under a rock.”
Sutina sucked the candy and exhaled a long breath: "Because the two had a good relationship, after the avalanche ended, Jane pulled Robert's body out of the thick snow with grief and found an abandoned Hunter's Lodge, where he was buried nearby.
Due to the continuous snowstorm in the mountains, Jane could not leave, so she could only rely on the supplies she carried to take shelter in the hut. "
Song Wenbin felt vaguely that something was not good.
"It's just that one day, Jane got up from the bed, and unexpectedly found Robert, who was already dead and buried in the grave, sitting in front of the fireplace in the cabin, warming himself by the crackling fire."
Song Wenbin's eyes widened.
"Jane thought she was hallucinating, so she tentatively walked over to take a look, only to find that Robert was still a corpse and not alive.
Jane didn't know what happened, but she was scared and buried Robert again. "
After a pause, Sutina smiled and said in a low voice: "But the next day, just the second day, when Jane got up, she found Robert sitting in her cabin again, even sitting closer, facing He looked at her little bed and stared at her silently."
Song Wenbin stood on his head with all the hair on his body. He looked at Sutina's deep eyes and instinctively wanted to escape from this bizarre story, but Sutina held him down and said, "Jane was frightened. She went to call Robert." name, but no response. Robert is dead, dead as hell."
"I... I... have an urgent need to urinate..." Song Wenbin said.
There is no doubt that Sutina ignored his fear and said like a dedicated haunted house staff: "The interaction between Jane and Robert failed. She could only bury Robert again with great fear and uneasiness. This time she specially buried Robert She was buried far away. She wanted to leave this terrible place, but she couldn't because the mountains were blocked by heavy snow.
After barely surviving a few relatively stable days, when Jane thought it was all her imagination, on this day, when she woke up from her sleep again, she found Robert appearing in his house again, sitting there. Put a chair and look at yourself. "
Song Wenbin was numb, and he trembled: "You...stop talking..."
Sutina said reluctantly: "Robert's body was rotten and one of his eyes was missing, but he appeared like this, as precise as a clock.
Jane couldn't bear such torture and ran away from the snowy mountain like crazy. She was finally rescued by a passing villager, but in the end she died on her way back to the hut alone at night. Brother Song, do you know why this is? ? "
Song Wenbin:......
He was fully prepared to accept the storm of nonsense poured into his brain by Sutina when she was bored, but at this moment, he was really frightened by this story.
It was simply too scary. He didn't know why Sutina told him such a scary story. Did she think the Arctic atmosphere here was not depressing enough?
"Is it really okay for you to curse us and yourself like this?" Song Wenbin said on the verge of tears.
Sutina was very happy to see Song Wenbin's reaction, and asked narrowly and ghostly: "Brother Song, are you also scared by this kind of story?"
"If you told me at home, maybe I wouldn't care much...but here..." Song Wenbin stammered.
After being exhausted from continuous travel, quarreling with colleagues, sleepwalking with colleagues, and having to appease the photographer and Miss Su, he was about to have a nervous breakdown. If he didn't relax with this ultimate refreshing article, he would feel sorry for himself. How could he listen to it? Such a scary story.
"Ah, when I was a child, I was also frightened by this story. But now I think this story is actually very interesting." Sutina said thoughtfully: "But, Brother Song, if I am that adventurer, if you If I froze to death here, I might do something similar."
"What??"
Song Wenbin was so tense that his hair stood up after hearing this.
"Are you crazy? I'm dead and you still won't let me live in peace?" Song Wenbin was horrified.
"I think it's too lonely to die alone, what do you think?" Sutina whispered.
"I said... I have something to say..." Song Wenbin said, "I think it's better not to think about this kind of thing."
"Will Brother Song die with me?" Sutina suddenly asked inexplicably.
"What are you talking about, Sutina, don't say such nonsense... I just brought you back from the snow, so please stop scaring me."
"Tell me, is it possible?" Sutina said coquettishly.
"Of course not." Song Wenbin said slightly angrily: "If I want to die, I will definitely die alone. If I want to die, I will die with others. There is no such weird thing in this world."
"Oh?" Sutina had never heard such a statement before and asked curiously: "Die alone? Why do you want to die alone?"
Song Wenbin recovered from the fright of the terrible story just now and said: "Don't you feel embarrassed to bother others when you die? I mean, I don't pretend to be a saint, and I definitely don't want my parents to die when they are old. It drags me down. If I apply myself to others, others definitely don’t want me to drag them down. Besides, I don’t want to be in the hospital with a bunch of tubes inserted into my body when I get old, and the doctors and nurses are messing around with me. So, I really If you are going to die, you will probably wash yourself clean, then find a place to sit down, and wait for death quietly without dragging anyone down."
"Then what should I do if you feel uncomfortable?" Sutina immediately asked: "What should I do if there is pain after death?"
"Uncomfortable? It won't be uncomfortable for just a moment. Besides, living is already a miserable life. You've suffered it all your life, but you can't bear it for a moment?" Song Wenbin said calmly.
Sutina was silent.
Song Wenbin also felt that this topic was really unlucky, so he kept silent and stopped talking about it.
But after a while, Sutina suddenly said aggrievedly: "That's not what I want, I don't want that..."
"What don't you want?" Song Wenbin asked curiously, "What do you want?"
"I think when I died, there was a whole family around me holding my hand... That feeling must have been very scary. I simply can't imagine being alone and dying alone. That feeling... was so pitiful, I can’t even think about it.”
"Are you pitiful?" Song Wenbin said in surprise, "I don't feel very pitiful. I feel... quite comfortable and quite dignified."
But Sutina grabbed his hand and begged: "Brother Song, please don't choose that kind of life. As soon as I heard that ending, I wanted to shed tears. It's so unbearable."
Song Wenbin was caught and shocked. Looking at Sutina's red eyes, his heart twitched inexplicably. He pulled out his hand and turned away, unwilling to speak.
Su Tina opened the conversation, and said to herself a little aggrievedly: "Actually, I have no ability, and I don't want a big future or high pursuits. I just want to live an interesting and fulfilling life. Huo Yu misunderstood me. ”
"Well..." Song Wenbin was noncommittal.
To be honest, he didn't want to hear this kind of talk between girls. If Sutina was still gossiping around him, he probably wouldn't believe it.
"But she is right about one thing, Brother Song."
Sutina whispered.
"Huh?" Song Wenbin was surprised, this was an unfolding that he had never imagined.
He turned his head, but was startled.
Sutina, who was originally paralyzed, sat up and looked at him with wide eyes, looking at his eyes and his face.
"I will never give you up to anyone..." she said in a very low voice.
