Arctic survival, starting in hell at minus fifty degrees Celsius

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye. With Sofia's help, Sun Chengwu's Russian improved by leaps and bounds, but his language of the Hadza people did not make much progress.

Their language is very similar to Russian, and the pronunciation is similar, but there are no particular rules.

There is no pinyin, no written record, only pure pronunciation.

This language is the most difficult to learn.

He stretched and said to a Hazara woman in front of him, "Go back and rest. It's just a common cold. Don't drink cold water anymore; remember to boil it before drinking."

A Khazar who understands Russian helped translate.

The Hazara women expressed their deepest gratitude to Sun Chengwu, pressing their palms together and bowing repeatedly.

After half a month of treatment, Sun Chengwu saved two lives and helped them resolve many of their ailments.

In the freezing cold, arthritis and colds are most likely to occur, and occasionally bones may be broken.

Sun Chengwu's prestige among ordinary Hazar people rose rapidly.

Erhu also woke up; although he was missing an arm, he was alive.

Upon learning that a person from another race had saved him, Erhu carried thirty pounds of seal meat to Sun Chengwu's clinic.

He slammed the seal meat onto the table and said to Sun Chengwu, "You saved my life. From now on, my life, Erhu's life, is yours."

Sun Chengwu ate and lived in the village. When he saw the meat, he didn't take it. He said, "I appreciate your kindness, but you can take the meat back. I have nowhere else to put it here."

Erhu was somewhat at a loss, as he couldn't understand what Sun Chengwu was saying.

At this moment, Ataya, who was standing nearby, suddenly spoke up to help translate.

Sun Chengwu looked at Ataya in surprise, "You can understand Russian now?"

Ataya nodded. "I remember everything you usually say."

Sun Chengwu had seen many geniuses when he was in school, and Ataya's abnormal language talent was not an isolated case.

They were once the top scorers in the college entrance examination at their school, and they could solve science problems just by glancing at them.

Even more outrageous are the humanities subjects; students can memorize most of the texts in Chinese and English after reading them only once.

The top ten students in the college entrance examination in each province are all extraordinary; they are all geniuses like Ataya, no matter where they are placed.

It's like how some people learn Japanese by watching certain Japanese action movies.

Many people's talents cannot be revealed by exams.

Sun Chengwu asked, "How much do you know?"

Ataya switched to Chinese this time, replying, "So-so."

Sun Chengwu was a little envious and jealous. "Do you speak English?"

Ataya replied in English, "A little bit."

Then she said in Russian, "You speak so little English normally, I only remember a little bit."

Sun Chengwu breathed a long sigh of relief.

Fortunately, she only remembered a little bit, otherwise it would have hurt his pride too much.

It's true what they say, comparisons are odious. Sun Chengwu thought he was pretty amazing because he got into a top medical university.

But compared to geniuses, he was just an ordinary person.

After a busy day, Sun Chengwu took Ataya home to rest.

Ollie's mother was busy in the kitchen; she was the one who fed the family for the day.

Ataya naturally walked over to her mother, squatted down, and added firewood to the stove.

His younger brother and sister are still young. His sister is leading his brother in building a snowman and playing house.

Around three o'clock in the afternoon, a gap appeared in the clouds on the horizon, and golden sunlight shone through the gap onto the earth.

In the distance, the snow-capped peaks reflect golden sunlight on their pristine white snow.

This is a rare moment of sunshine during the day, lasting only about half an hour.

Then the sunlight will disappear, and the earth will be plunged into darkness again.

Sun Chengwu has gotten used to the polar night, but he's also grown tired of it.

He found the initial polar night quite novel; the distant lasers and the Milky Way reflected each other, and the night view here was something that no amount of money could buy in the city.

But even the best scenery can become tiresome after a while, and Sun Chengwu now longs for the sun.

He sat in the courtyard, squinting, with a black cloth covering his eyes to prevent direct sunlight from causing inflammation.

Ataya sat beside him; having grown up in the Arctic, they were used to the intense ultraviolet radiation.

But the price they paid was that each of them had an eye disease.

Sun Chengwu has recently seen many patients whose most common problems are eye discomfort, dryness, lack of tears, or constant tearing.

Dry eye syndrome is characterized by no tears, while excessive tears may indicate inflammation of the retina or iris.

A group of people who appeared to be healthy, upon closer examination, each of them was found to have some health issues.

This is something that working people cannot avoid.

They traded their health for a chance to survive.

Ataya asked, "What are you looking at?"

She can already speak some simple sentences in Chinese.

Sun Chengwu said, "Look at the sun."

Ataya looked blankly at him. "What's so interesting about the sun?"

Sun Chengwu replied, "For the next period of time, we probably won't see the sun at all, just like when your brother leaves home, you will miss him."

Sun Chengwu's teaching methods were not as meticulous and patient as Su Wanqing's.

He applied what Sofia had taught him, using dialogue to deepen Ataya's understanding of Chinese.

Ataya frowned; the long sentence was a difficult passage for her to understand.

She bit her nails, a habit she had when she was thinking.

Sun Chengwu did not interrupt her.

Almost two minutes later, Ataya stammered, "Brother, he will come back. The sun will come back. I miss my brother, I don't miss the sun."

Sun Chengwu smiled and said, "You're just used to it."

Ataya didn't quite understand what "habit" meant. "What is a habit?"

Sun Chengwu explained, "It's when you keep doing something and treat it as part of your daily life, that's called a habit."

Ataya frowned again, trying to understand.

Half an hour passed quickly. The sun disappeared, but the clouds in the sky remained and continued to gather.

Sun Chengwu stood up, shaking off the snow dust that the cold wind had blown onto his clothes. "Looks like it's going to snow soon. Let's go back and eat."

Ataya nodded.

Just as Sun Chengwu turned around, a wolf howled behind him.

He had just turned around when he felt a bump on his chest, and before he knew it, Xiaobai had tackled him to the ground in the snow.

Big White rushed over and kept licking him.

Sun Chengwu kept trying to defend himself with his hands, but the two wolves worked together so well that they soon licked his face until it was covered in saliva.

Sun Chengwu, holding Xiaobai, asked, "What happened? Didn't you leave?"

Why did you come back again?

Xiao Bai rolled over and got up, biting Sun Chengwu's trouser leg, signaling Sun Chengwu to follow.