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hit and froze his face giving
him sensations of collapsing into the ground snow!
    The Russian scientist looked close to being
blown over or collapsing in a heap!
    How had he talked him into this, went
repeatedly through his mind! He could have been sitting in front of
a nice log fire in the ice station lounge, and instead he was
battling to survive against what must be the coldest blizzard on
the globe!
    Why had he had to agree to go to the Russian
base? He had claimed that it was nearby, like a rush around some
buildings!
    The time had also tricked them as it had not
seemed late or dark outside, and of course as soon as they had made
it out the door and too far out to return the blizzard had
arrived!
    Out of nowhere high-powered blasts shook him
out of his rigorous routine of shuffling on through endless deep
snow! The sounds definitely were a rifle blasts and his attempt to
persuade the Russian scientist into going back was dismissed! Yet
if it was nearby they were better going there. Except if it was
where the gunmen were, and they intended in killing them, it was
stupid going there!
    He was not even sure the scientist had
acknowledged what was happening! They had to go on now, and he saw
that they would have a bad time trying to see them.
    It seemed far more astonishing within the
mind-bending blizzard engulfing everything! Further explosions
sounded so powerfully he believed they were walking straight into
them, and he thought he saw powerful blasts from bullets hitting
ice!
    Whoever was after them had to be crazy and
out for the kill, and it was stupid entering such a blizzard and
fury of cold and snow! He could not realize how the hell they knew
they were there, and realized that they must have guns equipped to
see in the dark, and they perhaps had trigged something on their
approach to the base, which only left why they could not properly
hit them!
    The place had to be located in the coldest
and most remote place on the planet! Even in the summer it had
deadly cold!
    The men could be heard over to his side and
he realized that he could surprise them, even though they could
have infrared sights, and he was willing to risk it! They were too
close! Surely they could find them there! It was a mistake just
remaining there and he whispered in the Russian scientist’s ear
that he was going to do something and he was to keep going the way
he was.
    He dived through the snow when he was sure
that he was not being watched and rushed away at full speed going
to an area behind him and them.
    Again he could hardly believe the situation
that they had put themselves into! He was not use to the
environment and conditions! Soldiers would normally have avoided
such a confrontation in such deep snow and blizzard, and at
night!
    The coldness made him cringe and not only was
he not used to it he had never been in such a hellhole in his life!
He was blindly rushing on through the now blinding blizzard, and
realized that he could leave the Russian scientist and return to
the ice station and that the gunmen would follow the Russian
scientist.
    A loud explosion blasted out and thudded
somewhere near where the scientist was and Weaver ran through the
dark snow landscape as he knew that they were closing in on the
scientist! He owed the scientist it for what he gave him! He knew
the gunmen dared not use lights and he would barely see them!
    Once he fully realized that they had not
noticed him breaking away from the scientist he started to enjoy
being free from being attacked. He realized that the location that
they had entered had been a region that nobody at the ice station
went near, and he started to wonder what was there and what he was
missing.
    Could there be another reason for them
killing them? What could it possibly be? What else could be there
in such a place?
    When he finally saw the men and realized that
there were only two of them and that he could easily get them he
decided to approach as close as he could and tried to sneak up