Early the next morning, He Peng watched Liu Yishuang drive on the highway before driving an American-style pickup truck full of supplies and heading towards the glacier in the north of the grassland.

The farther north you go, the colder it gets, and the cold snap from Siberia turns the sky and the earth white overnight, and the snow covers the roads, but fortunately, the chassis of the pickup truck is high enough and the tires are big enough to run freely even where there are no roads.

Anyway, the river is in the north, as long as it goes north to the north, because of the wind and snow, He Peng did not dare to stop, and drove day and night, according to Jing Bo, the glacier can be seen more than 200 kilometers in the north, but the car odometer turned 400 kilometers and still did not see the river, He Peng felt that he might be lost.

When the wind and snow stopped, He Peng used the inheritance artifact to retrieve the map data, and found that there was indeed a small river in the north of the grassland, judging from the direction, it was right, maybe the odometer was broken, or Jing Bo concealed the specific river distance.

After another hundred kilometers, I finally found the creek after a few low hills.

It is indeed only a small river, the channel is about seven or eight meters wide, but the glacier is less than three meters wide, and it is difficult to imagine any amazing fish in such a small river.

He Peng found a gentle leeward place to stop the car, set up a tent to raise a fire, chiseled ice and boiled water, and ate a hot meal.

In this kind of cold environment, the tent is not suitable for long-term living, the first thing is to find yourself a suitable place to live for a long time, preferably a natural cave.

He Peng, armed with a dagger, walked around several nearby hills to find caves, the snow was thick and he walked slowly.

Most of the mountains in Inner Mongolia are dirt mountains, there are not too many rocky stone walls, and there are few natural caves, after searching for a long time without results, He Peng gave up, before it gets dark, he has to dig a cave for himself to shelter from the north wind and severe cold.

A multi-purpose shovel bought at an outdoor store helped a lot.

On the sunny leeward slope, He Peng began to dig, shoveled off the snow on the surface, and used the pickaxe at the other end of the shovel to chisel the thin ice and hard soil on the surface, and then dug with a shovel and a shovel, which was a personal work, fortunately He Peng's physical strength was good, and he carried enough chocolate, and when night fell, He Peng had dug into the mountain, barely able to accommodate himself.

But he didn't stop, the cave was still too shallow, and it was necessary to dig deeper, preferably to dig a corner, so that the safety would be much higher.

In the second half of the night, the cave was dug in its first form.

Got into my sleeping bag and spent the first night in the cave.

On the morning of the second day, I chiseled through the ice of the river that was not too thick, tied a hook with a rope and caught a fish, and a pot of fish soup replenished enough heat.

He Peng is not in a hurry to find the Arowana, this is a long job, taking advantage of the good weather to continue to expand his cave.

For two whole days, a simple one-bedroom living room was excavated and the items on the car were stored in the cave, and He Peng was very happy.

The mobile phone is out of power, and the car can be charged when it starts, but He Peng doesn't, diesel is a scarce material, it can't be wasted, and it needs to be used when you go back.

Huge tires were removed and doors were made into holes, which could be used to defend against wild beasts if necessary.

Everything was ready, He Peng observed the river, he climbed to the top of the hill, watched the river turn from the foot of the mountain in the distance, meandered through the valley between several mountains, and then meandered into the distance, the vast ice and snow world, there were no people, even the most industrious herdsmen would not come here in this season, because there was no pasture on the grassland to graze, and the cattle and sheep were eating the hay that had been prepared long ago.

This is destined to be a lonely winter.

During the day, when the sun was good, He Peng would walk on the river, step on the nearby places, and was lucky to catch a snow chicken, barbecue is a luxury, because it will waste a lot of dry firewood, but after drinking fish soup for many days in a row, He Peng still made a barbecue extravagantly.

As he munched on the delicious roast chicken with salt, two animals and two wolves appeared on the hill in the distance.

The appearance of wolves made He Peng nervous for a while, there is nothing more terrible in the wild than encountering wolves, but fortunately, there are only two, they are still very strong and obviously not lacking food, so there is no intention of attacking humans, and intelligent animals generally do not take the initiative to attack humans.

On the seventh day, He Peng was sure that he had adapted to the snow environment, so he began to look for the arowana.

The first practice was to chisel the ice and release the line fishing, which is easy to catch in the winter, and even when you chisel the ice, schools of oxygen-loving fish will swell and flutter in the opening. There is a lot of harvest to see.

He Peng didn't have much interest in capturing them.

What He Peng wants to catch is a magical little fish, and when you see it, you will know that it is an Arowana.

He Peng remembered the fat man's words, but after more than ten days, none of the fish left this impression on him.

He Peng was unwilling to wait for the rabbit to go down like this, the fat man said that they all dived into the water to find the arowana, but in the cold winter, even if the water temperature under the ice was not completely unbearable, He Peng did not have the courage to endure the torture of the biting ice water every day, fortunately, He Peng was a good carpenter, and he thought of an alternative to diving.

He dismantled several small mirrors that Liu Yishuang had randomly stuffed in, as well as the rearview mirrors of the pickup truck, and made several periscopes out of wood.

One is installed on the ice every 50 meters, so that it is easy to observe the underwater situation every day. The best part is that you don't have to dig through the ice repeatedly.

He Peng thought that if there really was an Arowana, then as a magical creature, it must have a good intelligence, at least it would be very smart, no matter who had Tang Seng meat, it would not be too stupid, and if it was stupid, it would be eaten.

As a smart little fish, when someone chisels through the ice and makes such a big movement, it must be stupid if it doesn't run away quickly, so ...... He Peng smiled, maybe this is the reason why he can't catch small fish after decades of killing.

Since the periscope of the river is monitored by a periscope, He Peng no longer destroys the ice, and only observes the underwater world through the periscope at noon every day when the light is full.

Even at noon, the grassland was cloudless, and the winter sun could not illuminate the world under the ice very clearly, and He Peng's high-speed perception ability helped a lot, and those fish that were swimming slowly in the shadows that were not very clear or those who were suddenly frightened and ran away quickly could be distinguished.

The river is not wide but not shallow, He Peng once experimented with a rope to drop heavy objects, the average is more than two meters deep, the periscope is obviously not enough to see the bottom, but He Peng can only do so much.

Ice could not be drilled to catch water, snow water became drinking water, and hunting became a daily necessity.

Thankfully, he was a good carpenter, and made a man-tall longbow out of a whole tree for hunting, and a small crossbow to guard against wild beasts that might appear at any time while resting in the cave.

Another half a month a bigger cold snap hit, the snow was blown by the wind like cow hair flying all over the sky, and the eyes and nose would be covered by the snow as soon as they appeared.

He Peng could only hide inside the cave, eat dried meat, and drink ice water.

Three days, three full days, before the heavy snow stopped.

He Peng was like a prisoner released from prison, rolling in the snow excitedly.

Unfortunately, however, two new footprints not far from the cave took his good mood to death.

It was the footprints of the two wolves, and the snow had left them without food, so they began to consider the feasibility of eating this human neighbor.

This is bad news, wolves are patient animals, they have stepped on a point, and the next step may be to attack while He Peng's defense is lax.

He Peng didn't want to clash with them, but when he walked on the river, he still met unexpectedly.

The two wolves were on the riverbank, silently watching him, He Peng held the longbow on his back in his hand and they would run away, obviously they had observed He Peng's hunting, and knew that the bow and arrow were the ones who could kill them from a distance.

And so the tug-of-war fatigue tactics began.

He Peng was exhausted by their harassment, so he had to be cautious when observing during the day, and he didn't dare to sleep at night. One night, he woke up to find the wolf quietly picking the tires from the hole.

Fortunately, the crossbow bolts shook them.

The Arowana was useless, and he became the prey again, and He Peng became more and more anxious.

Seeing that the wolves were getting thinner and thinner day by day, He Peng knew that their patience was gradually disappearing, He Peng was not afraid of a head-on duel, he was afraid of being attacked.

Finally, He Peng thought of a helpless way - raising wolves, since they can't hunt food, I will share the food with them.

In order to hunt more food, He Peng had to run farther, fortunately, the inheritance artifact taught him some wild hunting skills, where there were pheasants, and where the hare's burrows were dug he knew.

He Peng fixed the hunted hare at the mouth of the cave with steel ropes and wooden stakes.

However, the wolf didn't come, it was not a safe distance, He Peng's bow and arrow could hurt them, and He Peng secretly scolded the wolf's cunning but there was no way.

When He Peng went to the river again to observe the Arowana, he came back and found that there was only a puddle of blood left on the snow, and the rabbit was gone.

He Peng smiled.

The next day, a snowcock was tied to the spot.

The third day was the same again.

Gradually, the wolf grew stronger again, away from He Peng's sight.

Ten days after they disappeared, suddenly one day, there was a leg of lamb at the mouth of the cave. He Peng was surprised, and then heard a wolf howl, and two gray wolves stood there a hundred meters away.

He Peng raised the leg of mutton knowingly and gestured to accept their gifts. He Peng decided to have a roast leg of lamb in the evening.

The leg of lamb was roasted, and the aroma wafted far away, and when it was ready to be eaten, the wolf ran up, but did not come close.

He Peng felt that they had no malicious intent, threw a piece of roast lamb leg over, and the wolf ate it, and then ran away happily.

After that, almost every day there was an extra leg of lamb, or half a sheep, at the mouth of the cave.

He Peng smiled bitterly, not knowing that it was the unlucky herdsman's sheepfold that suffered.

But whatever, wolves are protected animals.