Chapter 1180 Life Is Difficul (1/2)

After an hour and a half of rest, they set out again to work.

Some remained behind to tear down tents and clean up the place, while others carried

tools into the snow.

Hudi gave Li Du a pot of hot liquor so that he could drink it as he walked on the ice. Li

Du replenished the energy of the little bug and felt better in the afternoon.

They searched the ice field carefully. It was so big that they looked like a few drops of

water sprinkling into a big lake.

The afternoon was as busy as the morning, but still they got nothing.

It was windy in the evening, and the sun was still high in the sky.

Steve waved and said, ”Li, get on the sled, we're leaving now!”

One had to be careful to survive in the Antarctic, and at the first signs of change in the

weather, one had to make a quick return trip to the camp.

It was a little frustrating to hike all day, spending so much energy and effort without

getting anything out of it.

Steve saw Li Du's low spirits and smiled. ”Let's grab a drink when we go back. Cheer

up, it is very common to find nothing.”

Li Du spread out his hands and said, ”There are many of us, so I think somehow we

would find a piece of meteorite between us. Even a small piece would be fine.”

”How could it be so easy?” Steve shook his head. ”You're spoiled by good luck, man.

You'd be lucky to find one meteorite piece a year here. The truth is that my family have

set their camp here twenty years ago and have only found five meteorite pieces since

then.”

”So few?” said Li Du in surprise.

Steve nodded helplessly. ”Yes. The damn things are too rare. They're so scattered and

they lack markers, so that sometimes you don't know where you're looking and if you've

searched the area before.”

This made Li Du give up on the idea of staying here to find meteorites and make a

fortune. He was not afraid of how deep the meteorites might be hidden, but he feared

that the meteorites were scattered too far apart.

Not long after they got back to the camp, a storm began.

It was the first time Li Du had seen a storm like this. It was a tornado, and not only one

current, but many.

This was a once in a lifetime experience for him. In the past, no matter whether in China

or the United States, he had seen windy days, rainy days or snowy days.

He was not new to big storms, like the one he experienced on his first trip to Australia

when the tide even swept a shark ashore.

However, now it was deceptively sunny and clear out, the view was good, and then the

storm came out of nowhere.

Li Du could see for miles through the window, his view unobstructed, and at that

distance, he saw several twisters edging their way closer.

Because there was nothing above the ice, there was very little snow. Although the

Antarctic was very cold with a lot of ice, the weather there was very dry, and the

average annual rainfall of about 50 ml was equivalent to the Sahara desert.

That was why the day before, when Sophie's sled flew off, Li Du and the others were so

worried. The sled was sliding on the ice, with no resistance, and it would be very painful

to tumble down from it.

Li Du and the others were not far from the shoreline, where it was a little warmer and

more humid, and there was some snow on the ice.

When the tornado came, the snow in the air first danced crazily and was quickly swept

away to nowhere.

In this way, with no snow, Li Du had nothing to watch but ten thousand years' worth of

motionless ice and those arrogant tornadoes.

Without a reference object, he could not see the scale of the storm, but he could see the