Chapter 3: Despair and Ingredients
My throat felt like it was cracked, and I felt pain when I drank water.
is uncomfortable anywhere, which is definitely the most difficult time in his life for Zhang Xiaokai, who was born in a warm family.
During the more than five hours of climbing, his physical strength had already been exhausted.
In such temperatures and conditions, climbing such a small hill would be difficult for even a strong adult, not to mention that he is only a child in his early twelves and has no professional tools.
At first, he still had the heart to think about things, and the more difficult it became in the end, at the moment he only had a thought in his head to support him, trying to find his parents, find another plane, and then walk out of this ghost place safely, find a restaurant to enjoy the most delicious meal!
Zhang Xiaokai now feels that he can eat a whole sheep, and when he thinks of the delicious roast sheep, he is so hungry that he gurgles, and begins to miss the pine towers that he missed along the way.
The summit was originally rocky and could only accommodate weeds and shrubs, but now it is covered in snow and can be seen in the distance.
Just the last few meters remain.
The slope is steep, and you will fall after walking a few steps.
Stop and sit in the snow, untie the "skis" under your feet, and stuff them into the gap between your bag and your back, and then continue to climb up.
There are too many clothes on his body, and the whole person looks bloated, clearly less than 100 catties, but wrapped as if he is 150 catties.
Almost squirming on the snow, he climbed to the top of a small area, lying there panting, letting the snowflakes fall on his face, Zhang Xiaokai looked at the snowflakes and dark clouds in the sky, and his vision began to blur.
I was so tired that I didn't even have the strength to get up, my fingers moved, I lifted it up with difficulty, grabbed the snow casually and stuffed it into my mouth, and waited for it to melt.
Consciousness gradually blurred.
This is a bad sign.
Out of nowhere, a deer roared, it didn't seem to be far away, and it was clearly audible.
Zhang Xiaokai opened his eyes suddenly, and after more than ten seconds, he heard the voice again, and then dragged his tired body to stand up.
If he had just fallen asleep, he might never have gotten up again, and in the wilderness, his skeleton might not have been discovered until years later, or it might have been covered by summer vegetation and would never have been discovered.
Look around first.
The white expanse shows the outline of the forest sea.
Dark green and white are intertwined, and the weather is so cold that even the birds can't see it.
I couldn't see the nose of the plane in the valley, and I couldn't find the tail of the plane where my parents were, so I stared at every place and walked around the top of the mountain, but I still didn't find anything.
A huge sense of loss and despair poured into my heart one after another, and I didn't give up, and I searched for it again, and the results were the same.
Standing on the top of the mountain and shouting the names of his parents, expecting the cold wind to send the sound into the ears of his relatives, but no one answered him, and he waited in place for several minutes, shouting countless times, but no one spoke.
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Dizziness to the point of unsteadiness on your feet.
After squatting on the spot for about two minutes, he finally died.
Climbing a mountain in vain consumes a lot of physical strength in vain, how can you not be aggrieved.
The deer could still be heard barking in his ears, Zhang Xiaokai packed his things, prepared to continue on the road, to climb the higher mountain next to him, stared at it and looked, and found that there were trees on the top of the mountain.
Even if you go up, you probably won't be able to see anything unless you climb to the top of the highest tree.
After a moment's hesitation, he dismissed the idea of climbing it.
It is much easier to go down the mountain than to go up, and after strapping on the "skis", you can still be lazy, follow the cry of the deer to find it, and the pistol is already in hand.
There is no pizza in this wilderness, no one cooks, all the food you can eat, and you have to find the ingredients by yourself if you want to eat.
The process of finding the fawn is not complicated.
After going down more than twenty meters, it curled up in the leeward of a tree.
The boy's eyes made contact with the fawn, the gun was in his hand, the safety bolt had been opened, and he could kill it by pulling the trigger.
The distance is only more than five meters, and there is no reason to miss.
A very small deer.
Reddish-brown hair, with scattered white spots on the body, and white under the tail, white-tailed deer are quite common in North America, and Zhang Xiaokai has seen them a long time ago.
If it were an adult deer here, he would not hesitate to shoot it, regardless of the male or female.
But there is only a fawn in front of him, and Zhang Xiaokai has never hunted animals with his own hands since he grew so old.
After seeing the person, the fawn stood up tenaciously, looked at Zhang Xiaokai with a wary face, opened his mouth and let out a scream, his eyes were clear and thorough, with a bit of threat.
Looking around, there were no deer footprints, no other white-tailed deer tracks, and it seemed that the little one had been here for a long time.
I struggled with hunger.
He didn't hesitate for long, he was so hungry that he lost his mind, and after a few seconds, he decided to roast it to replenish his strength.
Just as he was about to pull the trigger, he caught a glimpse of a small snow mound next to the tree, where a deer's hoof was exposed, and immediately shifted the muzzle of the gun away.
Since he was a child, he was favored by teachers for being smart, and he skipped grades in school, Zhang Xiaokai was smart enough to guess that since the fawn was still alive, the doe should have been dead for a long time.
The temperature was colder than his refrigerator, and the meat was still edible.
Hurriedly walked over, put down the fawn who had hit himself with his head and bravely defended the doe, unzipped his bag to find the spare wire, and trapped the four hooves together, intending to serve as a spare ration.
It's so cold that animals don't want to stay outside, and it's not easy to find suitable food.
In Zhang Xiaokai's opinion, these two deer are simply gifts from God!
Despite the fawn's struggles, the boy ran over and cleared the snow, and just as he thought, it was a doe under the snow.
The adult doe, emaciated by lack of food, maintained the same posture as when she collapsed half a day ago, and her body was so hard that she could not die anymore.
How to cut off the flesh on its body has become a top priority, and there is no knife at hand, and there are a lot of sharp iron pieces in the cockpit of the plane, and it is obviously unrealistic to go back and get it.
I took out all the contents of my bag, squatted in the snow and looked at it as if I was sure I didn't need it, and then stuffed it back into my bag, and finally fixed my eyes on the whiskey bottle, the broken glass was sharp enough.
The wine is not all frozen, and it is clear how to choose between it and the desire to eat.
I smashed the bottle on the tree, held the sharp mouth of the bottle, and thought that I should be able to cut the flesh and skin, and immediately jumped to try.
Behind him, the fawn barked, its legs tied, and it lay down in the snow.
When he was about to make a move, Zhang Xiaokai's movements paused, and he still had a childlike heart, he was not a cold-blooded character.
Carrying the fawn and placing it behind another tree to make sure it couldn't see what it was going to do, it gestured to the doe carcass, and finally fixed its eyes on what looked like more fleshy hind limbs.
Taking a deep breath, he began to use the glass to cut the frozen deer legs.
Saliva is already secreting, and the breathing sound is heavy......