Bob was afraid that his neck would be scratched, and his big body stiffened.
"Don't, please don't hurt us."
"No.Please.Don't hurt us."
His wife also shouted nervously.
Christina's face was pale, but she did not show any mercy to them.
The knife was pressed against the Bearded Man's neck.
The cold metal blade instantly left a visible blood mark on his neck.
A thin trace of blood dropped down slowly.
"I'll go! I'm going! I'll go out and get the firewood!"
It turned out that the Bearded Man was also afraid to be hurt, and he said hurriedly.His wife burst into tears.
"She is insane and too scary!" Christina ignored them.
Geoffrey tugged at her pants nervously beside her.
"Could you please help me take care of him for a while?" Christina turned around and told the photographer.
The photographer seemed to be surprised by her words.
He looked at Christina thoughtfully and did not answer for a while.
Christina didn't understand why she trusted this stranger, but someone had to go out to pick firewood under this circumstance.
It was not safe to go out alone, so two people had to go together.
However, she didn't trust the Bob.So she must went with him.
It would be better to let the photographer stay behind and take care of Geoffrey and Barbara.
Why did she trust him? Christina didn't know why she trusted him either.
Strictly speaking, she felt that an arrogant man like him would not attack the weeks and children.She had no choice at this moment.
Someone had to go out and get firewood.
"I'm going to get us some firewood and will be back no later than an hour.It's too dark and cold outside.It's too easy to get lost if you go out."
Christina squatted down beside Geoffrey and kept saying.
"Wait for me here in the stone house, okay?"
Geoffrey struggled a little and refused to let Christina go.
"I promise I will be back,"
She promised him in a low voice.
Geoffrey's eyes were wet, and his eyes were filled with reluctance.
"Mrs.Hopkins, you have to come back.Promise!"
"Okay"
Christina stopped wasting time.
She rubbed his little head, glanced at the photographer before she left, and strode into the snowy darkness.
The Bearded Man was forced to walk forward by Christina.He was very reluctant.
"It was suicide to go outside in the weather like this."
"The trees were buried by the avalanche earlier.There are no branches for the fire.Even if you can find some, it will be difficult to start the fire because of the wetness."
Christina ignored him and turned the flashlight on her phone, which had only 15% battery left.
However, the light was still weak.
The pitch-dark sky looked heavy, and the snow was still falling from the sky.It seemed too empty and gloomy around them.
Bob's voice echoed in the mountains, which made Christina feel a little braver.
The previous avalanche buried the whole area on the left side of the mountain.
Christina walked to the opposite side, hoping to find some branches as soon as possible and go back to the stone house.
"We can't go that far! What if we get lost and can't go back to the stone house?" Bob walked more and more slowly.
Looking at the empty and silent mountain, he shivered all over in the snow and wind.
He felt more flustered as he walked further and turned to shout to Christina.
Christina pressed the knife against his back and said with a cold face, "Keep going!"
"You're insane, you know?!"
Bob's face was ferocious, but he didn't dare to do anything with the knife against his back.
He continued, "That man said that there were black bears on the mountain...Do you want to kill us both?"
Christina's expression darkened.
She felt that the Bearded Man was useless and replied angrily, "The black bears are hibernating!"
But just then, they heard a strange sound coming from a small patch of forest in front of them.It sounded like the sound when animals walked by the forest.
Christina immediately stopped
She straightened her back and held the flashlight in her hand.
The light was too weak to see what it was, but she could tell that the thing was about 100 feet ahead.
A dark shadow was rushing towards them.
Bob shouted in fear.
"I told you there were black bears!" He turned around and ran away in panic.
He bumped into Christina's side when he was running away.
Her cell phone fell on the snow, and the light source disappeared.It was so dark that she could not even see her fingers.
The temperature was so low that she felt the cold go into her bones.
Her lungs were burning as she breathed in the icy air.It was undoubtedly hazardous to walk around on such a night.
Christina looked ahead.Her legs were numb from the cold, and her thought was in a mess.She hesitated whether to run away, but she knew that it could not be the black bear.
The bears had already hibernated.
It didn't sound like an animal either.
The speed of the thing wasn't that fast, and the sound of footsteps was a little heavy.
It sounded more like a human.
Sure enough, she was right.
Someone was running towards them.
Christina heaved a sigh of relief and bent down to pick up her phone.
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