Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 752 Preparations for a Desperate Situation
The mountain eagle played with the children until late at night. After the fish swam away and the children had eaten and drunk their fill, they quickly fell asleep...

The tents on the ice weren't particularly warm, but there was a fire pit inside, and the equipment that Mountain Eagle and his team had brought was very advanced...

The sleeping bags, which can withstand temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celsius, the self-heating underwear, and the reindeer skin sleeping mat and waterproof pad provided by Old Joe are enough to help the children cope with the low temperatures inside the tent.

However, while they slept relatively peacefully inside the tent, Tiffany and Lilith, who were assigned to look after the moose outside, felt like they were going to die!
They came out to adapt to the environment and train their survival skills. The textbook-style ice and snow windbreak wall was built, and because of women's natural meticulousness, this windbreak wall was even piled into a semi-circle about ten meters high, so that people could completely avoid the direct invasion of the cold wind by hiding inside it...

The wall was built, and naturally, the campfire was lit...

The thoughtful Tiffany and Lilith cleverly used the body of a moose that had been injected with a sedative to keep warm.

With six layers of preparation—walls, fire, moose, self-heating underwear, sleeping bags, and hot coffee—Tiffany and Lilith managed to stay outside for three hours before they were so cold they were almost incapacitated. They had to use the radio to wake up the sleeping mountain eagle and drag them into the tent.

This is the power of nature!
Without professional equipment and systematic training, a normal person entering this environment probably wouldn't last even an hour.

Their choices weren't fundamentally wrong; the only thing they did wrong was that they were too much of a perfectionist...

The snow wall is 1.2 meters high and 10 meters long...

Logically, this should be a life-saving windbreak, and piling up snow to form a wall isn't that difficult. So why did those guys who parachuted in from the north prefer to dig holes in the snow and then huddle like quails in the snow holes where their heads would be exposed if they looked up?
The disadvantages of the consumption are disproportionate to the benefits of the slight increase in temperature!
Tiffany did nothing wrong, but her competitive spirit kept her striving for perfection, which drained both of their energy.

Furthermore, she overestimated the insulating properties of her clothing and underestimated the lethality of the low nighttime temperatures. To make matters worse, they sweated while working, which is a fatal mistake in temperatures below -20 degrees Celsius.

In Alaska, it's not that you can't sweat, but that once you sweat, no matter how advanced or warm your gear is, you must return to the shelter within 2-3 hours and start a fire to keep warm.

Otherwise, the clothes on your body will lose their heat-insulating properties due to the freezing of sweat, causing you to quickly lose your core temperature.

The Arctic expedition team's cold-weather gear is definitely among the most advanced in the world. From hats, clothing, gloves, and shoes, all the team members' equipment is equipped with heating and circulation devices. However, they have to return to camp to replenish their body heat after working in the field for two hours.

This is the downside of lack of experience. Tiffany thought she was fully prepared, but theoretical knowledge, when applied to such an extreme geographical environment, can easily lead to death.

When the children woke up in the morning, they saw two women squatting dejectedly by the fire pit to keep warm, while their father was heating up the leftover fish soup from last night and took out a bucket of noodles, as if he was going to make some noodles for everyone.

Luna rubbed her eyes and got up, then clutched her stomach and, without even putting on her coat, slipped on her shoes amidst the eagle's shouts and dashed out of the tent...

When the little girl returned a minute later, two strands of frozen snot were trailing from her nose. She rushed into the mountain eagle's arms and curled up in his windproof suit like a big worm.

Mountain Eagle put the lid on the fish soup pot, sighed, and sat down by the fire pit. While warming Luna, he said to the other children, "If you need to pee, at least get dressed before going out..."

As he spoke, Mountain Eagle pointed to two negative examples beside him and said, "Look at them, they didn't hesitate to freeze to death. You can't be that stupid..."

Tiffany was furious. She had been reviewing her mistakes since last night and had learned a great deal. Being treated like a fool by the eagle made her very unhappy, but she couldn't find the words to refute them...

Because it really is stupid!

Yue Yi, a tough kid who wasn't afraid of the cold, didn't listen to his father's advice. Instead, he walked up to the two heroines in his underwear, glanced at them, shook his head in disgust, and swaggered out of the tent. When he returned after urinating, his hair was frozen stiff, but he didn't show much pain.

Mountain Eagle picked up a fish bone and threw it at Yue Yi, laughing and scolding, "Hurry up and put on your clothes, and put your socks on too..."

Tiffany looked at Yue Yi, who was making a face at her, and said dejectedly, "Where did these little monsters come from?"

As she spoke, Tiffany looked at the mountain eagle beside her and sighed, "I don't have a chance anymore, do I?"

Mountain Eagle nodded matter-of-factly and said, "I gave you a chance, but you didn't make the most of it..."

As he spoke, he looked at Tiffany's dejected appearance and, following the pattern of giving a slap followed by a sweet treat, said with a smile, "However, experience is something that always needs to be accumulated. You made a lot of mistakes last night."

If you can summarize everything, you can try it a few more times at the camp.

You need to design a complete shelter setup plan that suits your needs, and the time limit must be within one hour...

Setting up a shelter takes at most an hour, and then you need to be able to withstand 14-16 hours of darkness inside. Otherwise, you are not qualified to enter the Alaskan wilderness!

Tiffany exchanged a glance with Lilith beside her, then sighed in frustration… Seeing that Lilith seemed a little unconvinced, Mountain Eagle waved his hand and said, “You don’t need to argue with me…”

You're a doctor, you probably know more than I do, and you might say my expectations are too high...

But I must tell you, if you want to go into the wild and fight people in such extreme weather, you need to have this ability; otherwise, you'll spend all your time trying to survive.

Lilith, who was always proud and arrogant, couldn't help but say after hearing this, "In this situation, our enemies won't be any better off either."

Mountain Eagle felt Luna's body gradually warming up. He reached out and took a piece of paper, pinched it on the little girl's nose to wipe away her snot, then stood up, lifted the lid of the fish soup, glanced at it, and threw noodles into the soup while shaking his head and saying, "The Sinaloa Cartel drug dealers all know that if they want to come to Alaska to confront me, they have to send people to extreme training camps like those in Estonia for acclimatization training."

They may not be as well-equipped or as skilled in combat as you, but they are psychologically prepared and have experience in dealing with extreme environments.

Even so, I still believe you can defeat your opponents in the wild, but if you expend a lot of energy in the process, even if you win, you will eventually lose to nature.

Therefore, staying at camp is the best option for you; you can be most effective there.

Seeing the two proud ladies fall silent, Marta, who had suffered the first time yesterday, came over and said meekly, "Captain, I think the boss is right!"

As she spoke, Marta noticed the strange look Tiffany was giving her, and she waved her hands repeatedly, saying, "What I mean is, we'll get better in the future!"

Oh, no, we're doing fine now, just a little unsettled. I don't think the enemy's situation is any better than ours..."

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"Look what you've all done!"

Thiago of the Sinaloa Group sat in the cold cabin, watching through the window as several corpses on the shore had their equipment removed and were stuffed into body bags...

Looking at General Sid before him, Thiago said angrily, "We've only been here two days and six men have already died..."

They froze to death!

Shouldn't you say or do something?
I don't think it's necessary to have someone stand guard at the bow of the ship in this kind of weather, and I fucking don't think it's a good idea to send a large force across the snowfield from the open.

General Sid looked at Thiago, who was wrapped up like a ball and still shivering, and shook his head in disgust. He said, "I am the commander. You either take the speedboat back to Arakanak, or you shut up and stop telling me what to do."

Vincent spent a lot of money and effort preparing the equipment on shore; the plan was made long ago. Are we going to give up just because the temperature dropped a few degrees?

Sid placed a map on the table, pointed to the brown bear camp circled in red, and several attack routes marked with arrows, and said, "That mountain eagle is waiting here; he's already prepared..."

The harsh winters of Alaska are the walls he built for himself. If you don't even have the courage to break down those walls, what right do you have to challenge him?

Upon hearing this, Thiago slammed his fist on the table, glared at General Sid, and shouted, "Then let your men do the night watch, and let your men ride snowmobiles across the snow."

Fuck, you're a complete lunatic...

Don't think I don't know you're using my people to test your drugs. I fucking know more about stimulants than you do...

You fucking have to stop your pointless experiments. If my men freeze to death again because of your unreasonable demands, you fucking can forget about getting a single penny of the final payment.

General Sid smirked and remained silent for a moment before shaking his head and saying, "Your men are not capable of operating the heavy weapons on the ship. The gentlest arrangement for them is to have them carry machine guns across the wetlands and then cooperate with us to bombard the brown bear camp across the Yukon River."

Thiago, you need to understand, my men will be responsible for the final attack mission, that's the hardest part.

"And if you want to take those Boy Scouts back, you'll have to listen to me!"

Thiago looked out the window at the piles of ammunition boxes at the bow, and the two large-caliber mortars and grenade launchers already welded to the deck. He rubbed his stiff face in annoyance...

"Money in Sinaloa is both easy and hard to earn. Hopefully, the final result will satisfy us all..."

(End of this chapter)