Arctic survival, starting in hell at minus fifty degrees Celsius

The night passed peacefully, but Sun Chengwu couldn't sleep because he kept thinking about the brown bear from the previous night.

At dawn, only three in the morning, he got up, dug out the food that had been buried deep underground the night before, and started cooking.

When Su Wanqing woke up, Sun Chengwu had already cooked the meat soup.

She was a little surprised and quickly went to help, "Aren't you asleep?"

Sun Chengwu shook his head and said, "I can't sleep."

Su Wanqing grasped Sun Chengwu's hand. Sun Chengwu's palms were covered in blisters from yesterday, and he couldn't help but hiss.

Su Wanqing quickly turned Sun Chengwu's hand over and saw the wound on his palm. She said with a hint of reproach in her tone, "You're a doctor yourself, why didn't you treat your wound?"

Sun Chengwu smiled, casually grabbed a strip of cloth and wrapped it around his neck. "It's nothing, just a minor injury."

Su Wanqing forcibly pulled Sun Chengwu's hand over, soaked a strip of cloth in hot water, and gently wiped Sun Chengwu's wound.

Sun Chengwu hissed softly in pain.

Su Wanqing looked up, her eyes filled with heartache, and asked, "Does it hurt?"

Sun Chengwu smiled. "A little."

Su Wanqing's movements became even gentler.

After cleaning the wounds, Su Wanqing washed the cloth strips again and wrapped them around his hands.

Then, she held his hand without saying a word.

Sun Chengwu remained silent for a moment, and the only sound in the air was the crackling of burning firewood.

Not long after, a yawn came from inside the tent, and Lin Can came out.

Sun Chengwu and Su Wanqing simultaneously released their hands, looking at each other in an awkward manner.

Lin Can, oblivious to their awkwardness, looked at Sun Chengwu, yawned, and asked, "Up so early?"

Sun Chengwu said, "Can't sleep? What about you?"

Lin Can raised his hands and said, "The blisters hurt so much, they woke me up. I want to pop them."

Sun Chengwu said, "Let me help you."

Lin Can sat down next to Sun Chengwu, who heated the general's sword over the fire for a while before wiping it clean with hot water.

The water sizzled as it fell onto the scorching hot saber.

The military knife had many nicks and nicks, and Sun Chengwu carefully popped the blisters on Lin Can's hand.

Lin Can looked at Sun Chengwu's profile and suddenly said, "When I first met you, I thought you were the pretty boy type, but I didn't expect you to be so ruthless."

Now that he's grown a beard, he looks a bit more manly.

Sun Chengwu looked up at Lin Can helplessly and asked, "Are you praising me or insulting me?"

Lin Can smiled and said, "Just take this as a compliment."

Sun Chengwu put her hand down. "That's enough."

Su Wanqing had already boiled water again to help Lin Can clean the wound on his palm.

Lin Can thanked her, "Thank you, Sister Su."

Su Wanqing tied a very pretty knot, and Lin Can only then noticed that Sun Chengwu also had the same kind of cloth wrapped around his hand.

She suddenly realized what was going on, then pretended to yawn and said, "I'm sleepy, I'm going back to sleep."

After Lin Can's interruption, Su Wanqing and Sun Chengwu lost their previous tacit understanding and went about their own business.

Sun Chengwu wanted to make a bow and arrow.

Spears have limited effectiveness against brown bears, as they are difficult to pierce their skin; only arrows can cause effective damage.

However, he encountered a problem with the choice of materials for the bowstring and the bow body.

This area is full of larch and coniferous pines. These pines are good materials for firewood and furniture. They are flexible enough to make bows and arrows, but not hard enough.

However, this is the Arctic, and in extremely cold conditions, the hardness of trees will increase somewhat, but only to a limited extent.

To hunt brown bears, the bow needs to be stiff enough to shoot arrows with sufficient power.

The problem with the bow can be solved, but what about the bowstring?

The best material is cow horn tendon. The only cattle herd in the Arctic Circle is the musk ox, which is a social animal and it is rare to find one alone. Moreover, it is extremely aggressive and not even afraid of wolf packs.

Hunting a musk ox might be more difficult than killing a brown bear.

Musk oxen won't work, so what about deer?

Sun Chengwu remembered that they had previously wounded a reindeer with a spear, injuring its hind leg. If they could find its trail, they might be able to catch up with and kill it.

Thinking of this, Sun Chengwu could no longer sit still. He greeted Su Wanqing and then entered the forest with his stone spear.

If Huang Shi hadn't been injured, he would have wanted to take Huang Shi with him.

The wind was biting cold in the woods in the early morning, and the temperature was estimated to be minus fifty or sixty degrees Celsius. Sun Chengwu's hands and feet became icy cold after walking for a short while, and he kept breathing on them to warm them.

After searching for two hours, he arrived at the location where he had previously spotted the reindeer.

The traces here have long been covered by heavy snow, and there are no traces left on the ground.

Sun Chengwu searched the vicinity, just trying his luck and not holding out much hope.

Incidentally, they can also look for other prey or food.

Pine trees occasionally passed overhead, their trunks trampling and causing snow to fall, creating holes in the smooth snow surface.

There were rabbit tracks on the snow. Sun Chengwu followed the tracks and saw a rabbit struggling to walk through the snow in the distance.

He circled around to the rabbit's back, to the hillside.

Then, it ran towards the rabbit.

The snow was up to his thighs, which created a lot of resistance when he ran.

But the rabbit also faces significant resistance.

In such a snowy weather, rabbits have short legs, and every time they jump, their hind legs sink into the snow, making it impossible for them to run.

Moreover, it's downhill, so the rabbit has difficulty putting weight on itself and is very likely to fall.

The rabbit in front heard the danger behind it, its ears perked up, and it immediately ran in the opposite direction from Sun Chengwu, down the mountain.

After running for about twenty meters, the rabbit finally slipped and rolled downhill, crashing into a tree.

It rolled over, trying to keep running, but Sun Chengwu had already caught up.

The rabbit panicked even more, slipping and tumbling several more times. The man and the rabbit had already run nearly a hundred meters away.

Sun Chengwu finally caught up with the rabbit and was about to catch it when he suddenly noticed a familiar figure in the woods ahead.

In that brief moment of distraction, the rabbit rolled over and ran away again.

This time, however, Sun Chengwu did not chase after him. He slowly squatted down, burying most of his body in the snow.

About forty or fifty meters ahead in the woodland, a reindeer was nibbling on white lichen on a rock.

Lichens are snow-white plants that grow in the Arctic and are among the few plants found there.

In extreme cases, it can even be eaten by humans.

The reason Li Mu and the others stayed by the sea was because they had their eyes on the moss and lichen in the vicinity.

This reindeer walks with a limp, its left hind leg too heavy to touch the ground. A palm-sized wound on its leg is frozen and hasn't scabbed over or healed because of the cold.

Sun Chengwu was excited. Wasn't this the reindeer that had been injured and escaped last time?