Arctic survival, starting in hell at minus fifty degrees Celsius

Nothing happened that night. The next morning, Sun Chengwu got up.

Wang Hai's accident left a lingering shadow on the faces of both Su Wanqing and Huang Shi.

Only Lin Can was in a slightly better mood, getting up early to prepare breakfast with Su Wanqing.

After Sun Chengwu got up, Su Wanqing had already boiled water with pine needles in it, let it cool for a while, and then placed it next to Sun Chengwu.

Sun Chengwu noticed her bright red fingers.

Su Wanqing immediately turned her back to him, "No...it's nothing, I just accidentally burned myself."

After breakfast, they still had to go out to find food.

The nuts dug out of the tree hole can only last for two days. Food is scarce in the Arctic. If all the places where this squirrel hides its food can be found, it can last at least another week.

After calming themselves down, the four of them returned to the tree hole where they had found the hamster hiding its food the day before.

There were many footprints in the tree hole. Sun Chengwu reached inside and, sure enough, more than half of the nuts inside were gone.

Sun Chengwu said, "The squirrel has already moved the remaining nuts."

After discussing it, the four decided that Huang Shi would stay behind to keep watch. If the squirrel came back to take more food, they would follow it to find the next hiding place for the food.

The others continued searching for other food in the woods.

Even during the day, the temperature in the forest was below minus twenty degrees Celsius. Sun Chengwu searched through the forest, his shoes quickly getting soaked with snow, which was very uncomfortable.

Soon after, Sun Chengwu spotted a grouse perched on a tree in the distance.

He picked up a stone, intending to knock the grouse down.

Unfortunately, his aim was off; the stone grazed the grouse's body and hit a nearby tree trunk, knocking down a large chunk of snow.

The grouse flapped its wings and flew away.

After a day of searching, Sun Chengwu only found some pine nuts and some unidentified berries.

The berries had signs of being eaten by animals, indicating that they were not poisonous.

Back at the camp, Lin Can and Su Wanqing were already back, but Huang Shi was nowhere to be seen.

Looking at my watch, it was around 7 p.m., but the sky was still very bright.

Everyone waited for almost an hour, but Huang Shi still hadn't returned.

Sun Chengwu said, "I'll go look for it."

He arrived at the spot where the squirrels had hidden their food the day before. There were snowdrifts where people had been lying on the ground, and footprints nearby that stretched deep into the forest.

It looks like Huang Shi chased the squirrel deep into the forest.

Sun Chengwu followed the footprints for a long time. When he reached a hillside, he saw messy footprints and traces of someone sliding downhill.

The footprints below suddenly turned in the opposite direction from the camp.

What worried Sun Chengwu even more was that a series of footprints the size of a face followed the first footprints, which looked very much like bear footprints.

Sun Chengwu had only seen brown bears in zoos and had never seen polar bears, but he knew that with climate change in recent years, the territories of brown bears and polar bears had partially overlapped.

Polar bears and brown bears have even produced hybrid offspring, such as the grizzly polar bear.

He couldn't determine whether the footprints belonged to a polar bear or a brown bear.

But either way, Yellowstone is in a dangerous situation.

When he arrived here, he must have seen the bear, and then ran away. In his panic, he tripped and fell, and the bear followed him.

Sun Chengwu followed the footprints and ran for almost a kilometer before seeing a pool of blood on the ground.

The red blood was particularly striking against the snow, making it hard to ignore.

Sun Chengwu rushed over and saw the skeleton of a grouse amidst the blood, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Huangshi should be fine.

The footprints became more chaotic here, but the human footprints were still very clear. Sun Chengwu followed the footprints all the way down, but what he saw was not Huangshi, but a brown bear resting under a tree.

Upon seeing the brown bear, Sun Chengwu's head buzzed and his whole body stiffened.

His mind went blank. At that moment, his brain told him to hurry up and leave, but his body couldn't move at all.

How big are brown bears up close?

It was a colossal object, about the height of a two-story building.

But what you see on TV is just a big, lovable, and silly creature.

This psychological gap causes many people to experience a kind of giant fear when they see a brown bear for the first time.

Having seen polar bears before and even faced them directly, Sun Chengwu quickly recovered, stiffening his body and crawling backward step by step on all fours.

At that moment, the brown bear turned around and glanced at him.

The brown bear still had some fur left on its mouth from when it ate the grouse.

Perhaps they were full, or perhaps they didn't recognize Sun Chengwu, so they didn't chase after them.

Sun Chengwu ran for more than 300 meters before he dared to stop and catch his breath.

He looked back in the direction of the brown bear, thankfully it hadn't chased after him.

"call……"

Taking deep breaths, Sun Chengwu gradually calmed down.

However, this also allowed him to determine his approximate location, which was likely in the frigid zone near the Arctic Circle and the Arctic Ocean.

They didn't really go deep into the Arctic Circle.

Only in such areas do the territories of brown bears and polar bears overlap; any deeper, and even brown bears cannot withstand such low temperatures.

Huangshi was still nowhere to be found, so Sun Chengwu kept searching the vicinity for several more times until the sun was about to set.

I glanced at the time; it was already past nine o'clock at night.

He had no choice but to go back first, otherwise he would be in trouble if he didn't find Huangshi.

Back at the camp, Sun Chengwu still hoped to see Huang Shi had returned.

There was no result.

Wang Hai died yesterday, and Huang Shi went missing today. Sun Chengwu felt a heavy weight on his heart.

When Lin Can saw Sun Chengwu return alone, he knew something had happened and asked, "Didn't you find it?"

Sun Chengwu shook his head. "We'll have to look again tomorrow."

Even in the outer reaches of the Arctic, nights can be as cold as -30 or -40 degrees Celsius, and in some extreme cases, the temperature can even drop to -50 degrees Celsius.

In such an environment, without fire, it would be very difficult for people to survive.

But there's no better way now; all we can do is pray that Yellowstone can find a sheltered spot to spend the night.

The night grew deeper.

Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. In the latter half of the night, a sudden gust of wind arose, and the flames flickered in the cold wind, threatening to go out at any moment.

Sun Chengwu shielded the firewood from the wind, wrapped his clothes tightly around himself, and endured the meager heat emanating from the fire.

Snowflakes began to fall from the sky; it was snowing.

Snowflakes fell into the fire, making a hissing sound, and the firelight dimmed considerably.

Sun Chengwu regretted not building a windbreak or a thatched hut during the day so he wouldn't have to suffer from the cold.

I still lacked experience and didn't think of so many things. After all, not everyone has experience in wilderness survival, so we can only take it one step at a time.