Arctic survival, starting in hell at minus fifty degrees Celsius

The bow has a smooth, curved shape, and the deer sinew string is taut.

Sun Chengwu's face lit up with joy, and his excited hand gently plucked the bowstring, producing a low, trembling hum.

"It's done!"

Sun Chengwu let out a long breath, a satisfied smile appearing on his face.

Men can't take their eyes off bows and guns once they see them.

He tried pulling the bowstring a few times in the air, feeling the rebound force of the bowstring and the resilience of the bow.

Although it is far inferior to modern composite bows, it is the most lethal weapon that can be manufactured on this icy plain.

Next came the arrows.

Sun Chengwu selected some straight, uniformly thick hardwood branches, peeled off the bark, sharpened one end, and then heated them slightly over a fire to harden and carbonize them, thus making arrowheads.

The arrow's fletching has grooves carved into it for attaching the string.

Arrow fletching is for stabilizing balance; it's not available yet.

However, there are grouse in the pine forest; if you catch one, you'll get arrow feathers.

Now that we have bows and arrows, catching grouse is a piece of cake, isn't it?

Sun Chengwu nocked the wooden arrow onto the bowstring, slowly pulled it back, and aimed at the trunk of a tree in the distance.

The bow made a slight creaking sound, and the deer sinew string was pulled into a full moon shape.

Sun Chengwu released his grip.

"Whoosh!"

The arrow left the bowstring but missed.

Sun Chengwu didn't have much of a foundation in archery.

After trying more than ten times, he finally managed to hit the tree trunk with an arrow.

The wooden arrow was embedded in a tree trunk more than ten meters away, its tail twitching continuously.

Sun Chengwu jogged over and forcefully pulled out the wooden arrow.

It penetrates two inches into the wood.

However, the arrowhead broke because it could not withstand such great force.

Such great power was beyond Sun Chengwu's expectations.

Now we have a way to deal with brown bears.

However, brown bears have thick skin and tough flesh, and are very resilient.

Although the wooden arrows were powerful enough, they were still difficult to kill a brown bear unless they were aimed at a vital spot.

After much thought, he remade the wooden arrows, carving grooves on both sides of the shaft for bleeding.

In this way, even if the shot doesn't hit a vital spot, the time it takes to delay the bear will cause it to bleed to death.

Worried that he might miss at the crucial moment, Sun Chengwu made more than twenty wooden arrows to increase the probability of hitting the target.

After finishing, Lin Can and Huang Shi had already woken up.

The snowflakes in the sky grew larger and larger, and a thick layer of snow fell on the ground once again.

Such heavy snow is beneficial to them, as the brown bears are buried up to half their bodies in the snow, greatly reducing their speed.

That night, everyone was waiting for the brown bear.

With nothing else to do, Sun Chengwu continued making bows and arrows; the remaining deer tendons should be enough to make another bow and arrow.

Not all deer tendons meet the standards; they need to be long enough and tough enough.

Some deer tendons are not long enough and can only be used to make ropes for simple binding of things. Those that are not strong enough will break. Only those that are long enough and strong enough can be used as bowstrings.

Therefore, less than one-fifth of the deer tendons that Sun Chengwu pulled out were ultimately usable.

Of these, one-fifth was damaged during the bowstring making process.

Everyone took turns resting, but by dawn, the brown bear still hadn't arrived.

As dawn broke, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

Sun Chengwu said, "Waiting like this is not a solution. We can't waste all our time on brown bears."

"You all go about your business. I'll take a look around the area. If I can find a brown bear, great; if not, consider it a good lookout."

After speaking, Sun Chengwu looked at Huang Shi and asked, "How is your injury?"

Huang Shi covered his wound and said, "It's healed, but it still hurts a bit. Wounds really don't heal easily in winter."

Sun Chengwu nodded, "Okay, you and Lin Can go cut down the trees."

Then he looked at Zhao Na.

When Zhao Na met Sun Chengwu's gaze, she subconsciously shivered.

Sun Chengwu's ruthlessness gave her a preconceived stereotype.

Sun Chengwu asked, "How's the fishing net weaving going?"

Zhao Na quickly took out a fishing net, which was three meters long.

It seems she hasn't been slacking off at all during this time.

Sun Chengwu nodded and asked, "How much fishing line do you have left?"

Zhao Na quickly took out the remaining fishing line. What was originally a whole bundle of fishing line was now only as thick as a finger.

"How long will it take to finish knitting everything?"

Zhao Na thought for a moment, then whispered, "Three days."

Sun Chengwu frowned.

Three days is a bit long.

However, they have venison now, so it doesn't matter if they don't have fish to eat for the time being.

But his frown caused Zhao Na to misunderstand, and she quickly said, "Two days, I can finish weaving it in two days. If I'm quick, I won't sleep, and it can be done in one day..."

Seeing her gaze, Sun Chengwu was both amused and exasperated. "Three days is fine, no need to rush."

However, these words caused Zhao Na to misunderstand, and she thought that Sun Chengwu wanted to drive her away.

She quickly replied, "I can do it! I can do it!"

Sun Chengwu didn't say anything more. He said to Su Wanqing, "We're leaving dinner to you. You'll also be in charge of the firewood and clothes."

Su Wanqing agreed.

She never refused anything Sun Chengwu asked her to do.

After the tasks were assigned, Sun Chengwu took his bow and arrows and went into the mountains.

He first searched around the camp to make sure there were no brown bears within a hundred meters before heading off into the distance.

The nearby snowfield was covered with bear paw prints, indicating that the brown bear had been lingering in the area all night.

But why didn't it appear?

Could it be that it sensed danger?

This isn't a Japanese anime, so there's no such thing as sensing murderous intent.

Sun Chengwu leans towards another guess: the brown bear isn't hungry right now.

He wandered in the woods for almost two hours before a grouse appeared before him.

Sun Chengwu eagerly took out a wooden arrow, intending to practice his skills.

The grouse was more than 20 meters away from him. Sun Chengwu drew his bow and aimed an arrow at the grouse's belly.

"call out!"

The wooden arrow shot out, slicing through the air, and flew out about a meter away from the grouse.

Startled, the grouse flapped its wings and flew away, disappearing into the forest.

Sun Chengwu wasn't too disappointed, because he saw that the wooden arrows, lacking fletching, clearly deviated from their trajectory when they were shot.

He inspected the traps that had been set up earlier around the area.

Most of them didn't find much, but there was blood around one of the traps, as well as bear paw prints.

No wonder the brown bears didn't attack the camp last night; they've found a new food source.

Sun Chengwu rearranged the trap and chased after the brown bear following its tracks.

After walking for nearly two kilometers, Sun Chengwu realized that the road seemed somewhat familiar.

Continuing forward, a cave came into view in the distance.

This is the place where they killed Wang Yu.

Sun Chengwu's heart pounded, and a terrifying thought flashed through his mind.

Could this brown bear have eaten Wang Yu's corpse?

At the time, because Wang Yu had stabbed Huang Shi, and there were obvious signs of animal activity in the cave, he was worried that the smell of blood would attract wild animals, so he took Huang Shi and fled without dealing with Wang Yu's body.

Could it be that……