Chapter 7: The Snow Hut
[You are alive: 4 days, 1 hour and 1 minute]
Cold!
Before dawn, Qin Fei was awakened by the low temperature in the cave in his sleep.
In fact, the early hours of the day tend to be the hottest hours.
Qin Fei looked at his status bar.
[Ambient temperature: -31°C Perceived temperature: -5°C]
The temperature of my body has dropped to a negative number, and the temperature outside has become so low at this time......
"Whew!"
The sound of the wind outside the cave kept blowing, making a roaring sound like a beast, and after hearing this wind, Qin Fei went to the entrance of the cave and took a look outside.
At this time, not only was there a strong wind outside, but it was also snowing in the sky, and it was white, so that the outside environment could not be seen clearly.
The cold made Qin Fei shiver uncontrollably.
It is certainly unrealistic to continue to move forward in the face of this blizzard.
Now for Qin Fei, the most necessary thing is to light a fire first to ensure the temperature in the cave.
He took out some of the remaining wood from his backpack and stacked them on fire.
After the fire was lit, the cave gradually warmed up, and looking at the wood, Qin Fei estimated that the fire could last for about one to two hours at most.
While the fire was still burning, he heated up some more snow water and stored it in his backpack.
The rate of water consumption is still very fast.
Qin Fei waited in the cave for about an hour or so, until the flames in the cave gradually became smaller, and the blizzard outside still did not stop.
The wood he was carrying was almost burned out, and it was not a way to stay in this cave all the time, so now he had to go out in the blizzard.
While there was still some temperature left in the fire, he took out the flower tea in the bag and put it in the tin can to heat it.
Before leaving the cave, Qin Fei planned to drink a cup of hot flower tea before setting off. By doing so, you can make your body temperature drop more slowly when you move in cold weather.
It took about ten minutes to boil the flower tea, and at the same time, the embers of the fire had been completely burned.
After drinking the flower tea, Qin Fei walked out of the cave.
Navigating the blizzard is no easy task.
There are a lot of twists and turns in the deep valley, and it is good to go with the wind. Once the direction of travel changes to a headwind, it can really be said that it is difficult to move an inch.
Not long after walking, Qin Fei saw a few maple saplings on the side of the road.
Maple seedlings have high toughness and good elasticity, so they can be used as a material for bows and arrows. But at the same time, the extremely high toughness also makes this sapling impossible to break with bare hands.
There are no axes or saws in his backpack.
It is impossible to pull it out directly, unless your strength is as strong as that of a brown bear, it is a fool's dream to pull this sapling out of the snow.
Now the only way is to use a knife to cut little by little.
Qin Fei looked at his state.
[Ambient temperature: -28°C Perceived temperature: -15°C]
[Cold: 20%+]
[Warmth Bonus (Buff): A cup of flower tea can not only relieve your fatigue a little, but also slow down the rate of body temperature dropping]
At this time, the temperature has reached -15 degrees, and in this environment, the risk of freezing to death in the snow increases exponentially for every time you stay in this environment.
But this maple sapling is too important to me, and if I miss this opportunity, it will be even more difficult to return and retrieve it next time.
Qin Fei didn't hesitate for too long, he took out the dagger from his backpack and began to cut the roots of the maple sapling.
said that it was cutting, but in fact, Qin Fei used the knife as a saw, grinding the sapling back and forth with the blade.
Fortunately, Qin Fei has been single for twenty years, and his hand speed is extremely fast. When his hands were already shaking from the cold, and he couldn't even hold the knife steadily, the sapling was finally cut off.
[Maple sapling: The sapling of the maple tree, with high toughness and strong elasticity. After 10 days of drying indoors, it can be used as a material for making bows and arrows.
After putting this maple sapling into the backpack, Qin Fei was so frozen that he didn't dare to stay any longer, so he sped up and left here.
If you don't hurry up, I'm afraid I'll freeze to death in this deep valley.
Cutting maple saplings is already very laborious, and sometimes you have to go against the wind in the snow, this speed of physical exertion is difficult for even a strong man to withstand.
After walking for a while, Qin Fei was already exhausted.
While he felt extremely tired, his body was also frozen to the point of numbness, and his legs just relied on muscle memory to move forward mechanically.
I'm so tired!
I want to put down my sleeping bag in the snow and get a good night's sleep!
Qin Fei looked at the ground and found that his thoughts were getting stronger and stronger....
No way!
Qin Fei quickly dismissed this idea, sleeping in this snow was tantamount to suicide.
But now I'm so tired that I want to pass out!
Qin Fei thought of the snow hut that the protagonist often used when spending the night outdoors in this game....
This type of igloo is a makeshift shelter in the snow using scraps of fabric and tree branches.
The fact that the gaps between the snowflakes can contain air allows people who hide in the snow room to get a certain amount of warmth.
This principle is similar to that of a down jacket, where the snowflakes are the feathers that fill the down jacket, and the fabric is the cortical layer that wraps the feathers.
I just don't know if it can be used in real situations.
Fight!
If you don't get rest now, you will never be able to get out of the deep valley. Qin Fei took out the knife and used the little strength he had left to dig a small pit in the snow.
Then Qin Fei took out the cloth and some small branches to support the snow pit slightly.
In this way, a simple shelter in the snow was built. Qin Fei climbed into the snow cave, and then added a few more branches to his head, and then he slept with confidence.
Adding a tree branch to your head can prevent you from falling asleep and the newly falling snowflakes from burying your head, resulting in a coma due to lack of oxygen and dying in this snow room.
After four to five hours......
Qin Fei woke up slowly, and at this time, the blizzard had also stopped, and there was still a little sunlight in the sky... At this time, I was in the igloo, and my whole body was warm, and even a little hot.
The snow on the surface of this snow room is much thicker than before I went to sleep.
When you climb out of the igloo on your own, you have to be very careful. Otherwise, the snow on the surface is likely to collapse directly, burying Qin Fei's entire body in the snowdrift.
After coming out of the igloo, he removed a few pieces of fabric from the outer layer of the ground, as well as some small branches, and put them back in his backpack.
Considering the fabric in the snow room, it was too inconvenient to put it away, so Qin Fei gave up.
After regaining his strength, Qin Fei resumed his journey, without the hindrance of the strong wind, and after about an hour or two, he walked out of the deep valley and came to a railroad track.
The track was built on a high mountain. Looking down from the mountain, you can see the endless sea in the distance.
Near the ice by the sea, there is a long road that stretches as far as the eye can see, and there are low wooden houses scattered along the roadside.
Seeing this familiar scenery, Qin Fei breathed a long sigh of relief, he finally came to the coastal road!