Chapter 29: The Arctic Coast
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The polar bear is still dead, its flowing blood is coagulated by the low temperature, and its warm body gradually becomes cold.
The wind blew the snow, Cheng Fan stood on the snow, looking up at the gloomy and dim sky overhead, "Ang, Ang, Ang", several loud roars echoed in the empty snow, as if announcing that he had come to this ancient land.
After the roar, Cheng Fan immediately dealt with the polar bear, and he wanted to cut off the polar bear's fur and flesh.
Using the sharp claw blade, start peeling from the bear's leg, the temperature here is too low, you must move quickly, if you don't hurry, the bear corpse will become cold and hard, and it will be difficult to peel off the whole bear skin.
After about half an hour, Cheng Fan peeled off all the fur except for the bear's head, and what was left on the snow was a flesh bear corpse that was bare and hairless, covered with ice and snow, and only had a complete head.
Cheng Fan looked at the fur in his hand, people often think that the hair of polar bears is white, but it is not, their hair is actually transparent and colorless, the fur texture is very soft, and it seems to have a warm and comfortable feeling in the hand, but the traces of flesh and blood under the fur have not been completely removed, and there are small ice chips condensed.
Without looking too much, this polar bear skin was undoubtedly better than the discarded brown bear skin, Cheng Fan draped the bear skin that still smelled fishy on his body, retrieved the compass and tied it again, and then dragged the musk deer and this small bear corpse forward in the wind and snow.
The wind is getting more and more urgent, and the snow is getting heavier and heavier, permeating the front, smashing people a little unable to open their eyes.
In the silvery snowy field, a small monster in a bear's skin traveled in the wind and snow, heading north.
The wind was like a god's anger, the snow was all over the world, the wind and snow were too big, Cheng Fan felt that the things he was dragging were getting heavier and heavier, and when he looked back, a thick layer of ice and snow had accumulated on the musk deer and the polar bear corpses.
If you can't continue walking, let's take a break.
Cheng Fan was looking for a suitable place to hide from the wind and snow in the snow, and with far beyond human eyesight, he saw that there was a small mountain in front of him, where he could dig a hole, Meimei could sleep, wait for the wind to stop and the snow, and then get back on the road.
Dragging hundreds of kilograms of things, Cheng Fan reached the mountain bag step by step, and chose a leeward position to start digging a hole, saying that it was digging a hole, but it was better to dig snow.
The snow here is so thick that it doesn't always melt clean, even in the Arctic summer.
Fortunately, it was a leeward place, and the snow was thin, and after digging for a short time, Cheng Fan dug out a cave five or six meters deep obliquely, first dragged musk beef and bear carcasses into the hole, and then sealed the hole with snow blocks, and lay down in the cave to start sleeping.
Everything in the outside world has nothing to do with Cheng Fan at this moment!
The long wind and snow covered this place, covering the footprints of Cheng Fan, here, the traces left do not need to be dealt with by themselves, nature is the best removal expert.
I don't know how long, how many hours, or how many days I slept? It won't be particularly long anyway.
Cheng Fan woke up from his sleep and stretched out in the small and narrow hole, the air in the cave was muddy and dull, he dug up the hole and accumulated a layer of snow to look at the weather outside.
The wind is still blowing, but it's not so strong anymore, and the snow is staying, but unfortunately it's the polar night, and I can't see the beautiful scenery of the first sunny day after the snow.
Drag the musk deer out and smash the ice cubes on it, the natural environment is treacherous, but there are some advantages, such as this natural refrigerator that can keep food fresh for a long time.
Sitting in the leeward, looking at the sky and snow, eating cold and hard meat, Cheng Fan was thinking, when is it now, and how long will this long polar night last?
Half of the musk ox was all belly, and after replenishing his vitality, Cheng Fan got up and continued his unfinished journey in the vast north.
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I walked north for several days in a row, and the wind was still bitter to the bone, but it carried a salty and wet smell of the sea, which is a phenomenon that will only appear when you reach the seashore.
Wearing a polar bear fur, sneaking in the wind and snow, except for a few parts that occasionally show black, Cheng Fan almost melted into the snow, he looked at the herds of seals and walruses on the beach not far away, and knew that when he arrived at the shore of the Arctic Ocean, after a few months, he would cross the sea again.
Running quickly in the snow, his steps were like flying, his running attracted the attention of the seals and walrus, and they turned their eyes one by one, and as soon as they saw Cheng Fan, they were immediately frightened and fled to the cold sea one after another.
That scene was like a group of wrapped "dumplings" taking the initiative to get into the pot by themselves.
"Plop, plop", the sea water on the shore splashed.
What they were afraid of was not Cheng Fan, but the polar bear skin that Cheng Fan was wearing, and mistakenly thought that Cheng Fan was a polar bear who came to prey on them again.
It's just that some sharp-eyed seals see that this polar bear looks a little strange for its fur?
There are those who go into the water first, and there are those who go into the water later, there are so many groups on the coast that it is impossible to complete all the launches in a short time, even if they are in the water, they may not be able to avoid the minions of polar bears, not to mention that it is not polar bears that run over, but Cheng Fan!
Cheng Fan rushed over with his teeth and claws, and found an adult seal that was still running towards the sea, and one paw stabbed directly through the seal's fat abdomen, cutting through the seal's thick subcutaneous fat, injuring its internal organs, and red blood suddenly gushed out.
He didn't see the result of the damage caused, and quickly rushed to the walrus herd again.
A walrus has just approached the water's edge, half of its head has been stretched out, as long as it exerts more force, it can enter the sea and get out of danger, but a ruthless claw blade behind it attacked, straight through its back and neck to the end, directly stabbed the walrus in the neck.
The upper and lower blood holes were "gurgling" with blood, and the walrus's head that wanted to stretch out could no longer stretch out, but the sea that wanted to get close again was so far away.
Many seals and walruses fled to the sea, leaving only one seal and the carcass of one walrus on the shore, Cheng Fan dragged the seals and walruses together, cut open the skin of the two beasts, cut out their flesh, and began to eat.
Seals and walruses have some similarities in appearance, except that walruses have two distinct tusks.
The flesh of both is very fat, especially the subcutaneous part, which is almost entirely fat, which is a characteristic of their millions of years of survival, and the fat layer is used to maintain body temperature in this cold place.
Too fat and greasy, Cheng Fan ate a few bites, his mouth was full of oil, he hunted these two seals and walruses, the original purpose was just to eat and see, to prove that he had been to the North Pole and had eaten a lot of things.
According to him, I am not only a traveler, but also a foodie with taste.
That's right, it's a gourmet!
Feeling that the fat meat was not delicious, Cheng Fan completely tore apart the seal and walrus with his two paws, split the fat layer, and grabbed out the lean meat inside to eat.
These guys are creatures that swim in the water all year round, and they must have a lot of muscles, and lean meat tastes much better than fatty meat, although tasteless, but very elastic and chewy.
After eating and drinking, Cheng Fan looked at the two mutilated corpses under his feet, kicked them into the sea, looked back at the land that he had crossed in the past few months, wrapped the bear skin, jumped into the coldest ocean on the earth.