Chapter 504: Polar Survival
Cold climates are one of the most dangerous and harsh environments for human beings to live in. Cold climates are as dangerous as real enemies, destroying people's waking consciousness, normal bodily perception, and will to survive.
Eventually, people will easily give up their ultimate goal in the cold - survival!
The Arctic zone, the sub-arctic zone, and the surrounding areas are all cold regions. Cold regions can even cover up to 48% of the entire northern hemisphere continent!
In addition, according to the different climates, cold regions can be divided into wet and cold climate environments and dry and cold climate environments.
The area where the average temperature is kept around -10°C for 24 hours is a wet and cold climate environment; Areas with an average temperature of less than -10°C in 24 hours are characterized by dry and cold climates.
Tactical Group B is currently located on this small island, which is a typical area with a dry and cold climate. Although the temperature in this area is very low, it is not dangerous because the ice melts and the roads are muddy and slippery.
Although it is difficult to get food in the polar regions, that doesn't mean that Tactical Group B can't solve it.
Luo Hao looked up at the sky that had not yet fully lit up, and then at the ice extending from the island, and said to a few people around him: "Let's have a whole fish feast for breakfast!" ”
The ice outside the island is very thick, and the thickest part is more than 100 meters, and even with TNT, you can't blow it up, so you can step on it with confidence without walking carefully.
Xu Xudong and Zhou Bai walked forward about 20 meters on the hard ice with their backpacks on their backs, and Zhou Bai found an area where fish gathered.
There are many ways to fish, and in response to the current situation of fish gathering, Xu Xudong and Zhou Bai chose a simple and crude method - fish chopping method!
After Xu Xudong untied the Nepalese machete fixed to the side of the rucksack, he glanced at Zhou Bai. Zhou Bai willingly took out his strong flashlight and hit the white pillar of light in the water near the ice surface.
Attracted by the bright flashlight beam, the fish immediately approached in the direction of Zhou Bai and Xu Xudong.
After the fish were completely close, Xu Xudong picked up the Nepalese machete in his hand and slashed at the fish in the water with his back to the knife, and the fish that were stoned to death immediately floated to the surface.
In the process of cutting fish, the reason why Xu Xudong did not use the blade part was to avoid the blade directly cutting off the fish body, resulting in the loss of fish meat.
This method of using the back of the knife to cut the fish is very efficient, Xu Xudong only used the back of the knife to cut the fish a few times, and there were more than a dozen dead fish floating on the water, which was enough for the six people of the tactical group B to eat for breakfast.
Although the nutritional value of fish is very high, Luo Hao does not plan to eat fish for two whole months and eat fish for three meals a day. So while Xu Xudong and Zhou Bai were fishing, Luo Hao himself took the remaining team members to look for other food.
When Luo Hao first arrived on the island, he noticed that on the rocky shore of the island, a plant called "Icelandic moss" grew that was only distributed in the polar regions.
Icelandic moss is usually gray, white, or red and only a few inches tall, and all parts of Icelandic moss are edible. During the winter months, the Icelandic moss becomes very dry. Icelandic moss in its dry state is crunchy, but it is also easy to preserve.
When eating, the dried Icelandic moss is soaked in water to make it soft, and when boiled in water, it removes the bitterness of the moss.
Since Icelandic moss only grows in relatively open places, Luo Hao, Li Yifeng, Situ Kong, and Lin Xiaoyang searched around the camp, and the amount of Icelandic moss they found was only enough for the entire B group to eat for a week.
After Xu Xudong and Zhou Bai fished the dead fish out of the water, they disemboweled the fish directly in the snow for processing, dug up the internal organs of the fish, leaving a small part as bait for later hunting, and buried the remaining internal organs on the spot. Then clean the fish with clean snow and hand it over to Luo Hao for processing.
In the cold polar and subpolar regions, water is relatively easy to obtain than in hot desert areas, and melting snow and ice is a good way to do this. However, when there is a choice, melting ice is more desirable than melting snow, because melting ice not only gives more water than melting snow, but it also melts faster.
Luo Hao found a few pieces of ice made of fresh water and threw them into the pot, lit the firewood under the pot with a lighter, and waited for the ice to melt.
After the ice cubes have completely melted into water, the moss is first removed from the bitterness, then the fish is thrown into the pot and boiled with the moss, and finally sprinkled with fine salt. The moss and fish in the pot are all natural game, and even if they are simply seasoned with fine salt, they are very delicious.
"Bunnies, they're pretty good at eating!"
Zhao Shuai in the camp used a telescope to look at the busy tactical group B outside the camp, put down the binoculars in his hand, and instructed Liao Jiang beside him: "Go and prepare, we will also drink fish soup at noon." These bunnies have hooked out Lao Tzu's gluttony! ”
Liao Jiang smiled, then turned around and went to the warehouse to prepare materials.
Xu Xudong and Zhou Bai caught a total of more than a dozen fish, and they couldn't eat so much for breakfast, so Luo Hao cooked the remaining sea fish and stored them. Cooking on a fire in a polar environment with low temperatures and strong cold winds is not an easy task.
After eating the first breakfast on the nameless island, it was already seven o'clock in the morning, Luo Hao turned his head to look at the silver-covered volcano, and said to a few people around him: "Let's go, let's go and see the venue of our simulated confrontation in five months." ”
Although Luo Hao can determine that the venue for the simulated confrontation between Tactical Group B and the "Warriors" commando team is on this volcano, he does not know the specific area. And this may not be revealed until the exchange competition officially begins.
Therefore, Luo Hao thought about going up the mountain to check the terrain first and prepare in advance, so that when the exchange competition officially began, he would have a bottom in his heart.
What's more, the volcano occupies nearly 60% of the island's area, and the primeval jungle on the mountain is very dense, which is a good place to survive in the wild.
When the six men in Tactical Group B went up the mountain, each of them was equipped with only one Nepalese machete except for the dragon's tooth saber. In this extremely cold environment, even if you touch the cold-proof gun oil on the gun, you dare not guarantee that the gun will not suddenly explode when you use it.
Polar bears are the most ferocious and dangerous animals in the polar regions near the Arctic Ocean, but polar bears are generally only found in coastal areas. So Luo Hao and the others don't need to worry about the possibility of encountering polar bears in the jungle.
As soon as the six people carrying the backpack entered the jungle, Luo Hao stopped, he pointed to a string of animal footprints on the ground, and said with a smile: "Brother, our luck seems to be good!" ”