Chapter 794: Igloo and Hunting (Part I)
"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, there must be minus twenty or thirty degrees here, right?"
Fang Yi withdrew the true qi of the protective body, and suddenly felt a chill penetrate through his heart, he couldn't help but shiver when he was cold, the temperature on this ice was really much lower than in the sea water, especially the howling north wind, like a small knife blowing through his body. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Almost, according to the old dragon, we are relatively lucky, we didn't send our brothers to the South Pole, which is colder than the North Pole......"
Although Peng Bin's cultivation is much stronger than Long Wanda, this will also be shivering from the cold, if Peng Bin hadn't spent a few years in the Siberian weather, I'm afraid he would have to learn from Long Wanda to meditate.
"Big brother, can you set a position here? Maybe we'll use the teleportation array below in the future......"
Fang Yi raised his eyes and looked around, all of them were white and vast, and there were a few icebergs in the distance, but Fang Yi heard Long Wanda say that these icebergs would move with the ice floe, and they could not be used as a basis for determining the location.
"Positioning, this is easy!" Peng Bin agreed without thinking about it, but Fang Yi was stunned for a moment.
"Easy?" Positioning in this place where the surrounding environment is almost exactly the same, Fang Yi originally thought that he was difficult for some strong people, but he didn't expect that it was not a problem in Peng Bin's opinion.
"Of course it's easy, it's just a matter of ......"
Seeing Fang Yi's surprised look, Peng Bin laughed, raised his left wrist, and after a few operations on his watch with a large dial, he said: "That's it, this is 64.5 degrees north latitude, in fact, when I was in the cave below, I had already made the positioning!"
"Big brother, you have a lot of functions, right?"
This big problem that originally plagued Fang Yi, Peng Bin actually operated the watch a few times to solve it, which made Fang Yi, who had never been very interested in foreign objects, couldn't help but stare at the watch a few more times.
"This is a special watch made by British intelligence, which is similar to the people in 007 in the movie, but ordinary people can't see it, what's the matter, I'll get you a strap when I get back?"
Most of the products used by Peng Bin are military products, but Myanmar was formerly a British and French colony, so Peng Bin has the best relationship with the military of European countries, and most of the products he uses are produced by European countries.
"Big brother, then go back and get me a piece, this thing is really practical......"
Fang Yi has never liked electronic products very much, but he is really a little tempted by this kind of watch, if it is not for this watch, it is almost impossible for them to go back here and find a cave in the sea in the future.
"I'll get you a state-of-the-art ...... when I get back."
Peng Bin smiled proudly and said, "I may have to go to England when I turn around, do you want to go with me?" By the way, bring the treasure you brought out, and let people see if they can melt down and fight a weapon?"
"Go to England, I have to go back to Jinling first to see if there's anything going on......" Fang Yi thought for a while, and said, it would be half a year since he disappeared this time, presumably the fat man Sanpao and the teacher were all worried, Fang Yi wanted to go back and appease them first.
In addition, Fang Yi also has to go to the capital, last time she originally promised Bai Chuxia to meet her parents, but she was delayed by Peng Bin's matter, Fang Yi planned to go back to contact Bai Chuxia first, if she still wanted, she would go to the capital to ask for the guilt.
"Okay, I'm not in a hurry anyway, it's up to you when the time comes. Peng Bin rubbed his face vigorously, looked left and right, and said, "This ghost place is too cold, I can't stand it, brother, let's build an igloo......"
"How to build an igloo?" Fang Yi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, "Can a house made of ice be warm?" Big brother, I think you should cultivate first, and when the old dragon recovers, let's find a way as soon as possible." ”
"Hey, you don't know the benefits of igloos, listen to me......"
Peng Bin waved his hand and said, "Building an igloo is very simple, you do what I say, and we can sleep in the house in less than half an hour......
"Well, then you command, big brother. Although Fang Yi was not afraid of the cold, the taste of being blown by the cold wind on his face was really not very pleasant, he didn't know what the benefits of the igloo were, but it should be no problem to come and shelter from the wind and rain.
According to Peng Bin's request, Fang Yi used his broken sword to cut out dozens of large ice blocks 50 centimeters square from the ice, and Peng Bin ignited a piece of solid fuel, and every time Fang Yi cut out an ice cube, he used solid fuel to grill one side of the ice cube, and then piled it on the ice.
Peng Bin is very particular about the direction of stacking ice cubes, he first placed a circle of ice cubes on the ice surface to form a circular igloo foundation, and then piled up pieces of ice cubes, when accumulating, Peng Bin piled up about 20 centimeters of ice cubes upward.
In this way, when a circle of ice cubes was piled up to a height of two or three meters, an arc roof appeared in the igloo, and after directing Fang Yi to cut out another arc-shaped ice cube, even if the entire igloo was completed, it really took more than half an hour to say it.
The pieces of ice melted on the surface, and then immediately froze again, the ice cubes and ice cubes were simply seamlessly integrated, the huge igloo looked crystal clear under the illumination of Yangon, standing in the igloo, looking at the colorful luster that appeared after the refraction of the sun, Fang Yi actually felt like he was in a fairy tale.
"It's really not too cold, big brother, what is the principle of this?"
Fang Yi felt the temperature of the igloo, and he found that compared to the dozens of degrees below zero outside, this in the igloo under the sun, there was actually a temperature of about zero degrees, at such a temperature, Fang Yi could directly withstand it with his physical body without using his true qi to protect his body.
"Hehe, you don't understand this, ice is a bad conductor of heat, it can be well insulated, plus the solar energy in the sky, isn't it hot here......"
Peng Bin laughed proudly, when he was in Siberia, he also built an igloo, but at that time, due to the conditions, he only drilled a cave on the surface of a frozen lake, which was far less bright than this igloo.
"If only there was a curtain. ”
Peng Bin looked at the igloo he had built with his own hands, and felt a little dissatisfied, and immediately asked Fang Yi to thin the ice surface of the three igloos, so that it was like having three more large windows, and the light transmission became better and better.
"When we go back and slaughter a few seals, skin them and make curtains, our igloo will be complete. ”
When he was floating on the ice before, Peng Bin saw seals moving under the ice, but he was busy coming out of the water, and Peng Bin didn't care about hunting at that time, but with Fang Yi, who could break through the ice at any time, their food was not to worry about.
"Old Long, how about taking a look at my masterpiece and Fang Yi's masterpiece?" woke up Long Wangda who was meditating, and seeing Long Wanda's surprised expression, Peng Bin couldn't help laughing.
"How long have I been cultivating, and you've built an igloo!"
Long Wanda was really shocked, he had been to the North Pole and seen the igloos built by the Eskimos, but compared to the igloos of Peng Bin and Fang Yi, the difference between the two was like a rural earthen house and a luxury villa, there was simply no comparison.
However, the Eskimo igloos usually have several rooms, some are used for rest and sleep, and some are used to store food, unlike the one built by Fang Yi and them, which is purely for resting.
"Half an hour, our brothers cooperated, and it only took half an hour!"
"It's Fang Yi who cut the ice cubes, you came to build it, right?"
Long Wanda thought of Fang Yi's means of breaking the ice in the sea, and his heart was suddenly relieved, the most difficult thing to build an igloo was to cut the ice, but this was an easy thing to do under Fang Yi's hands.
"Sure enough, it's an old fox, and I guessed it at once. Peng Bin pursed his lips when he heard this.
"Old Dragon, how big is the area here, when will we be able to go to a place where people live?" Fang Yi interrupted Peng Bin's display, he had observed it just now, and there were no people in sight at all, Fang Yi wanted to know how many days it would take them to get out.
"We can't get out on two legs......"
After hearing Fang Yi's words, Long Wanda smiled bitterly and said, "The glacier area in the Arctic is about eight million square kilometers in summer and twelve million square kilometers in winter, do you think we can go out?"
"So big?" Fang Yi was a little dumbfounded when he heard this, this place covered in ice was actually as big as the land of Huaxia, and he could only go out in this monkey year by walking on two legs?
"Fang Yi, don't listen to him scare you, it's not difficult to get out......"
Peng Bin glared at Long Wanda angrily and said, "Old Long, although you Thailand is not a developed country, it seems that you have also united several small countries to carry out polar expeditions, right? As long as we find your expedition group, are we still afraid that we won't be able to go back?"
Although Peng Bin didn't know anything about the scientific expedition community, a few years ago, he happened to see a news on a Thai TV station, and the content of the news was that Thailand sent a polar expedition map to carry out scientific research in the Arctic.
"Yes, indeed, but at the beginning of the year, we were going to cut down the expedition team, and I don't know if there are any more now?"
Thailand's relevant scientific expedition projects used to be in charge of Long Wangda, but it was precisely because of this that he learned that the government submitted a topic at the beginning of the year, that is, to withdraw the Arctic scientific expedition to the country and then turn it into an Antarctic scientific expedition, Long Wangda now does not know whether it has been carried out.
Arctic scientific research has been developed for many years, and the rich resources of the Arctic region have long been exploited and utilized.
Antarctica, on the other hand, has more abundant resources and energy than the Arctic, with the world's largest iron mountains and coal fields, abundant marine life and oil and gas resources, and more than 72% of the earth's natural freshwater resources.
The current Antarctic is the only unique area on the earth that has no permanent residents, no borders, and its huge potential resources have not been exploited, but Thailand is only a small country, and in the past few years, it simply did not have the strength to go to the Antarctic to compete with those big countries, so it can only pick up the leaks in the Arctic.
However, Thailand also has a pursuit, and last year it was studying the feasibility of building a scientific research base in Antarctica, but due to personnel and technology limitations, it was impossible to build scientific research stations at both poles like those big countries, so they could only abolish the Arctic scientific expedition team to build a point in Antarctica.
"Old Dragon, do you know the coordinates?" Peng Bin looked at his watch and said, "We are now at more than 60 degrees north latitude, how far away are we from you?"
"Huh, can your watch be positioned?"
After hearing Peng Bin's words, Long Wangda's face suddenly showed joy, before he also wanted to go over to find the scientific research stations built by various countries at the pole, but Long Wanda didn't know his latitude and longitude at all, so he couldn't judge the distance from those scientific research stations.
"It's not far, it's only more than 300 kilometers away, even if our scientific research station is abolished, it doesn't matter, I know that a scientific expedition team in Huaxia is only more than 100 kilometers away from us......"
Long Wanda converted the number of kilometers through latitude and longitude, and reported a distance, to be honest, on millions of square kilometers of ice, the distance of more than 300 kilometers is really not far, if there is a snowmobile of the scientific expedition team, that is, it can be arrived in two or three days.
"The current North Pole should be polar daylight, more than 300 kilometers, and it can be rushed over in a week at most!"
Peng Bin breathed a long sigh of relief, Long Wanda's words let him know that he and Fang Yi had finally escaped from danger and could see the way home, before that, the string in Peng Bin's heart never dared to relax.
"Big brother, what is the polar day?" Although Fang Yi had read a lot of books, he really didn't know anything about the North and South Poles, and he hadn't dabbled in relevant knowledge before.
"Polar day means that it is day for several months in a row, and polar night is dark night for several months in a row, and usually the polar night has more time than the polar day, so we are lucky to be able to rush at any time......
Peng Bin explained to Fang Yi with his words, then waved his fist excitedly and said, "Let's celebrate today, Old Dragon, you rest in the house, Fang Yi and I will go hunting, and when you go back, you will wait to peel the skin and eat the meat......
"Hunting, are you going to catch fish?" Fang Yi corrected Peng Bin's statement, tens of millions of square kilometers in this place are covered with ice, where there will be any wild beasts to survive.
"Your eldest brother and I are tired of eating fish, let's eat meat today!" Peng Bin said mysteriously when he heard this: "Let's go, follow the eldest brother to have meat to eat, grandma's, when it comes to eating, why am I suddenly so hungry?"
Peng Bin didn't want to wait for a moment now, he pulled Fang Yi out of the igloo, and came to the big hole that was not completely frozen up, Peng Bin said while taking off his clothes: "Brother, don't go into the water, lend me the broken sword to use ......"
"Big brother, are you going to hunt those seals?"
Fang Yi suddenly saw a black shadow crossing the ice under his feet, and his heart suddenly understood, when he floated up before, Fang Yi also saw that there were many seals and other animals foraging under the ice.
"Well, there are walruses, the meat of seals is better than walrus, but the skin of walruses is tougher than seals......" Peng Bin nodded, took the broken sword handed by Fang Yi and bit it in his mouth, stripped himself naked, and jumped directly into the sea from the ice hole.
Through the thick ice, Fang Yi could see Peng Bin's shadow shuttling under the ice, and soon approached another black shadow about one or two meters long, and as soon as the two made a slight contact, Peng Bin turned around and pulled the black shadow back.
"Fang Yi, go on!"
With Peng Bin's voice, a seal about one meter eight long was thrown onto the ice by Peng Bin, and the seal had a deep wound on its neck, which was constantly gushing out of blood blisters.
"Seals have more fat than meat, I'll kill another ......" Peng Bin did not come up, but dived underwater again.
In places like the Arctic, although seals also have natural predators, they will not be hunted by humans, so there are still a lot of them, that is, more than a minute later, Peng Bin threw another seal up.
"You drag them over first, let the old dragon skin and take the meat, I saw a walrus, see if you can slaughter it?" Peng Bin showed his head and breathed a sigh, and another fierce man stabbed down.
This time, Peng Bin stayed underwater for a long time, and after seven or eight minutes, his head popped out of the ice cave, and he gasped and said to Fang Yi: "Brother, I can't get this thing alone, you can help carry it......"
As he spoke, Peng Bin lifted a long tooth out of the water, and the sea water in the ice cave was also stained red with blood, Fang Yi stretched out his hand in the water, and actually felt a trace of warmth, which showed how fast the walrus's blood flowed.
"So big?"
Fang Yi stretched out his hand and grabbed the ivory, and lifted it up hard, when half of the walrus's body broke away from the seawater, Fang Yi suddenly felt that there was a weight of thousands of catties, and after he completely dragged the walrus out, he found that the length of this big guy was more than four meters.
"I was almost bitten by it, damn it, I froze to death, brother, it's up to you to peel the skin......" Peng Bin also jumped out of the ice cave at this time, threw the broken sword to Fang Yi casually, and ran towards the igloo with a strange scream.
"The skin of this walrus is enough for the three of us......
Growing up in the mountains, I don't know how many animals have died in Fang Yi's hands, his methods are a little more flexible than Peng Bin, a walrus weighing two or three thousand catties, Fang Yi only took seven or eight minutes to peel off a whole piece of skin.
"Big brother, don't you want all that meat?" Returning to the igloo with the skin, Fang Yi opened his mouth and asked Peng Bin.
"Walrus meat is the worst to eat, let's eat seals!"
Peng Bin replied, pointed to the stone-like seal meat that had been cleaned up and frozen by Long Wangda outside, and said, "You cut some bricks, let's build a windshield wall, otherwise we won't be able to barbecue these seal meats." ”
"Peng, in fact, seal meat is the best to eat raw...... Long Wanda suddenly interjected: "Soak seal meat in seal oil and dip it to eat, that's the real way to eat." ”
"Come on, old dragon, that's the way the Eskimos eat it, the taste is too strong, I can't get used to it......"
After hearing Long Wanda's words, Peng Bin shook his head again and again, although he had also done the thing of Ru Mao drinking blood, but if it was a condition, Peng Bin would definitely not be willing to eat like a primitive person.
Half an hour later, Peng Bin, Long Wanda and Fang Yi were already sitting in the Xiaoice house, and the seal meat was grilled on the fire of solid fuel.
The seal has a lot of fat, and almost as soon as it touches the fire, it makes a "zizi" sound, and the drops of oil continue to drip down, and Fang Yi, who smells the smell of meat, also moves his index finger, and immediately sends the broken sword with seal meat into his mouth.
"Delicious ......" The seal meat wrapped in a mass of fat is only three or four medium-rare, but it actually tastes like beef in the mouth.
Peng Bin and Long Wangda's movements were also very fast, Peng Bin had a set of knives and forks in his equipment, and he had never thrown them away, but at this time, it came in handy, and Long Wanda was very happy to eat, and in a moment dozens of catties of seal meat were eaten by several people.
When it comes to the experience of surviving in the wild, Fang Yi and Peng Bin are comparable, but in terms of knowledge, Shang Yi is much worse than Peng Bin, after filling his stomach, Peng Bin returned to the igloo and cut the whole walrus skin into several sections, and then took it and roasted it on the unextinguished fire.
In Peng Bin's words, they don't have the time to nitrate this walrus skin now, they can only use some simple methods to make it not so hardened, Fang Yi touched it, and the seared walrus skin really became a lot softer.
Peng Bin's method of making clothes is a bit rough and simple, he just made a hole in each leather, and then sewed both sides together, and put it directly on his head, even if he made a walrus skin coat, as for the exposed arms and calves, Peng Bin completely ignored it.