Arctic survival, starting in hell at minus fifty degrees Celsius

The footsteps grew closer and stopped at the door.

Su Wanqing and Huang Shi exchanged a glance, held their breath, and were ready to make a move at any moment.

The door slowly opened.

The cool moonlight illuminated a corner of the room.

Just as Sun Chengwu was about to go inside, a flash of cold light suddenly shot towards his face.

Sun Chengwu was completely unprepared.

Is it possible for someone to be attacked when they go back to their own home?

Just then, a hand grabbed Su Wanqing's hand, and Huang Shi stopped her in time.

He breathed a sigh of relief and reminded her, "Sister Su, look who it is!"

Su Wanqing looked closely and saw that it was Sun Chengwu and others.

She looked embarrassed and quickly explained, "I...I...I didn't see clearly just now."

Sun Chengwu was both amused and exasperated. "You didn't even look at it."

He was pleased with Su Wanqing's growth; she was now aware of the need for caution.

On the one hand, there is a sense of helplessness.

She's likely to hurt her own people by doing this.

Su Wanqing was also a little embarrassed, so she quickly pulled Sun Chengwu's arm to ease the awkwardness and change the subject, "You must be freezing, come in quickly."

Sun Chengwu was indeed frostbitten; his hands and feet had been numb the whole way.

Huang Shi added firewood, Su Wanqing boiled water, and Sun Chengwu took off his shoes, immediately filling the air with a sour and foul smell.

Zhao Na and Juanmao were both woken up by the smell.

Not only him, but everyone's shoes were filled with snow water after walking all the way. When they sweated, their feet turned white and wrinkled from being soaked.

Erhei's toes were so cold they turned purple. If they stayed frozen for another two days, they would probably die.

Everyone had some degree of frostbite, which could only be treated slowly by soaking the affected areas in hot water every day to allow the body to recover gradually.

Just as Sun Chengwu and the others were resting, the hot water was ready.

The tin can doesn't hold much hot water, and they don't have any containers to hold the water. They can only wait for the hot water in the tin can to cool down before sprinkling it little by little onto their feet to wash them.

After washing and cleaning, the meat broth was ready.

The group had only had some rabbit soup on their journey and hadn't eaten anything else, so they were all starving.

After wolfing down his food, Sun Chengwu lay contentedly on the dry grass.

Su Wanqing was packing her backpack.

After lying down, Sun Chengwu fell into a deep sleep not long after.

He slept very soundly, and when he woke up again, it was already past three in the afternoon.

He slept for more than ten hours.

Sun Chengwu stretched and got out of bed.

The air in the cabin was stuffy, and no one else was there except him.

He pushed open the door of the wooden cabin, and a rush of cold, fresh air immediately filled the room.

Sun Chengwu scooped up some snowflakes and slowly wiped them on his face.

Outside the cabin, a path had been cleared, and not far away, three people—Juanmao, Dahei, and Erhei—were shoveling snow with snow shovels made from wooden sticks.

Making a snow shovel is not difficult; you can simply use a wooden stick with a plank or a few small sticks tied to it. It is more convenient than a shovel for pushing snow.

Further away, Huang Shi was walking back from the direction of the sea, carrying a fish in his hand.

Huang Shi was delighted to see that Sun Chengwu had already gotten up. "Brother Sun, Brother Li just took us fishing. His skills are amazing. He's already caught three fish in such a short time."

Sun Chengwu asked疑惑地, "Isn't the sea frozen over? Where did you fish from?"

Huang Shi explained, "Brother Li led us to break the ice. As soon as a hole was chiseled in the ice, the fish below floated to the surface."

If the ice hadn't been so high, I would have reached out and grabbed it.

Upon hearing this, Sun Chengwu also became curious. He had only heard of ice fishing, but those were all done on small rivers; this was the first time he had ever seen it at sea.

Sun Chengwu followed Huang Shi's footprints and arrived on the ice.

From afar, Richard and his group came into view.

Richard waved to Sun Chengwu, "Over here."

As soon as Sun Chengwu walked over, he saw Richard directing Lin Can and Su Wanqing to start a fire on the ice.

They piled up a lot of firewood here.

After starting a fire, the ice layer was slowly melted by the heat of the fire, and then the ice surface was chipped away little by little with a stone spear.

The ice layer, which was one meter deep, was broken through in just over half an hour.

A fine layer of sweat appeared on Richard's forehead, which froze into frost due to the cold air, turning his face white.

He casually wiped it clean and let the fishing line down.

Sun Chengwu noticed that the fishhook on the fishing line was actually made of bone, with a section of small intestine hanging from it.

In just this short time, a group of fish with their mouths open had already gathered in the ice cave below.

He put the small intestine down, and the fish rushed to bite it, splashing water onto the ice.

Richard reacted quickly, pulling a fish out of its belly after it swallowed a bone. The bone became lodged in the fish's belly, allowing him to lift a large fish as long as an arm.

This fish weighs at least 20 pounds and struggled constantly after being brought ashore, trying to get back into the water.

Richard placed the fish on the ice, picked up a nearby stone, and smacked the fish hard on the head.

Snapped!

The fish stiffened its body, flicked its tail twice, and died completely.

Richard followed the same method and lowered the fishing line again.

In just a short while, four or five fish had been caught.

But soon, the fish under the ice cave disappeared.

Richard wasn't in a hurry. He lowered a fishing line, tied it to a piece of wood, pressed the wood against the ice, piled up freshly chiseled ice chips on top, and then poured water over it.

In a short while, the wooden stick was fixed to the entrance of the hole.

He carried firewood and carefully walked on the ice.

After walking about thirty meters, he stopped, poked the ground with his stone spear, lay down on the ice for a while, and said, "This place won't work, the ice is too thick. Let's find another spot."

He searched the area for a while and found a spot where the ice was relatively thin, and then did the same thing again.

Sun Chengwu couldn't help but ask, "With your skills, how can you go hungry?"

Richard looked up, his breath being blown away by the sea breeze, and said bitterly, "We have no fishing line, no bones, and no bait."

They were all extremely hungry, and they would stuff any food they could find into their mouths.

Besides, I'm nobody important, and nobody listens to me.

Sun Chengwu nodded.

He discovered that some people's pitiful appearance was entirely of their own making.

With Richard's abilities, he could easily support a team.

As they were talking, the ice had been broken open, but this time not many fish surfaced.

Richard cast his bait, but no fish took the bait for a long time.

Richard stood up, shook his head, and said, "The fish should have already left. This method relies on favorable timing and location; it can't be used indefinitely."

Sun Chengwu felt it was a bit of a pity.

He even thought that with this method, he wouldn't have to worry about food anymore.

Sun Chengwu thought of the fishing net frozen in the ice and asked, "We have a fishing net frozen at sea, can we dig it out?"

Richard shook his head. "No, roasting it with fire will ruin your desire. Just dig it up directly. It's so cold now, frozen fishing nets are very brittle, and you might break them if you're not careful."

Let's wait until the weather gets warmer and the ice melts.

However, having already caught nearly ten fish today, Sun Chengwu wasn't so greedy. He put his arm around Richard's shoulder and asked, "Brother Li, besides fishing, what else can you do?"

"Shall we go get some more food?"