The hurricane had weakened, but it had not completely disappeared. Amid the jagged steel wreckage, violent air currents still whistled sharply. The chaotic winds blowing in from all directions lashed against their faces like whips, painfully so. In the darkness, a team of more than twenty people was struggling forward.
"Wasn't it still a little too early to come out? What if the wind suddenly picks up again?"
The speaker was a short man. Like most of the people in the team, he had wrapped himself from head to toe in thick cotton clothing to ward off the unbearable cold around them. Naturally, that outfit made it hard to walk in the howling wind and even risked getting blown away, but compared to being frozen stiff by the icy wind carrying ice crystals, putting in a little extra effort to walk was an acceptable price.
Besides, everyone in the team had prepared before setting out. Others had helped tie down every loose edge of their cotton clothes tightly against their bodies, preventing danger if they encountered a sudden gust or got snagged on roadside steel wreckage. Without professional protective gear or specialized transportation, this somewhat crude attire counted as the wisdom of common folk.
"Wait for the wind to stop? It'll take days for it to stop completely. By then, everyone will have frozen or starved to death beneath the cliff," said the tall, powerfully built figure at the front of the team. He too was bundled beneath thick cotton clothing. Judging from his build and booming voice, this was undoubtedly Tie Ke, the highly respected man of action from Condenser Town. "Didn't that scientist say so? The next twenty-four hours are the most stable window. If help from the big city or elsewhere really comes, we can only go