Chapter 10: Camp Bear Creek

The collection and the back and forth transportation of meat almost exhausted his physical strength, and after returning to the house, Qin Fei took a nap again.

[You are alive: 7 days, 4 hours, 33 minutes]

When I woke up again, it was dawn.

Qin Fei planned to go out and continue to collect those venisons, but as soon as he arrived outside the house, a gust of wind blew directly in his face.... In this environment, there is no way to make a fire on the ice.

Qin Fei didn't want to wait any longer.

The carcasses of gray wolves and reindeer outside can't be left like this all the time.

If a passing gray wolf or crow sees it, they will eat some of the meat.

Gray wolves will eat their own dead companions.

If a brown bear passes by, it is not as simple as eating a part of it, it may simply take the carcass and take it to its own hole to enjoy it slowly.

At that time, there may not even be a single hair left for Qin Fei.

Time waits for no one.

Qin Fei came to the ice, he took out the hacksaw from his backpack, and planned to directly divide the reindeer carcass into several pieces, and then bring it back in batches.

But in fact, cutting the bones of this reindeer is not as simple as imagined.

At this temperature, the carcass of a reindeer that is completely frozen is like a lump of iron.

The meat is okay, especially the bone part of the reindeer, if Qin Fei is alone, it is difficult to cut them. In addition, they had to be transported back to the house, which was too much physical exertion.

Moreover, the carcass of the reindeer has long been frozen with the ice, and it is equally unrealistic to drag it back to the house.

Therefore, Qin Fei can only use a saw to withstand the cold wind on the ice to divide the deer into small pieces and then transport it back.

In this way, every time Qin Fei cuts for a while, when he can't stand the cold, he has to go back to the wooden house to rest for a while, and after his body gradually warms up, he will come back and continue cutting.

With this method, there is a lot of back and forth transportation and a break in between. It took Qin Fei more than two days in total to collect all the meat from the carcasses of the reindeer and the gray wolf.

Of course, it's not just meat that's being gathered.

Even the bones Qin Fei didn't let go, he had found salt in these coastal huts before, as well as some garlic powder, with seasoning, these bones could be used to stew soup.

In addition to some of the meat that Qin Fei had eaten in the past two days, the total wolf meat and venison he got together were about 40 kilograms.

In addition, a cut and incomplete deerskin and a wolfskin were harvested.

Deer and wolves have a number of stomach pouches, although the capacity of this thing is not large, but it is better because of its good elasticity and high toughness.

In the end, Qin Fei also got some animal intestines.

These harvested materials need to be dried before they can be stored and used.

However, there is limited space indoors, and it is impossible to air dry so many things at once. So Qin Fei put part of the fur and intestines in the next room.

The temperature in these huts is generally around 10 degrees, and the meat does not last long.

If you put it outside, it is easy to be taken away and eaten by the gray wolf.

So Qin Fei spent another 2 days lighting a fire outside the house to dry these pieces of meat, and after turning them into jerky, the time for which these pieces of meat could be preserved was greatly extended.

In fact, if you add some salt, the shelf life of the jerky can be longer.

But Qin Fei didn't do it on the jerky, because the amount of salt in his hands was too little. He can only sprinkle a little bit carefully when eating, so that it will not be used up quickly.

During these two days, Qin Fei also took a little care of the maggots raised in the iron can, which he had found in the refrigerator of a wooden house before.

Maggots don't eat much, and the rotten and smelly fish hasn't been eaten by them yet.

Moreover, maggots have a strong ability to survive, and the indoor temperature in the polar regions is only less than 10 degrees. At such low temperatures, they are able to survive and thrive just as well.

But the lower the temperature, the slower the maggot grows.

At this low temperature, maggots take at least a month or more to develop into adult worms, that is, flies.

Of course, flies can also be fished with hooks, and they work pretty well.

In the jar where maggots lived, in addition to a rotten fish, Qin Fei also added some water to it to ensure humidity.

Now that the food was sufficient, Qin Fei decided to start preparing the things needed to make bows and arrows.

The place where he lives now is called a fishing camp.

A wooden hut on the far left side of the fishing camp has a workbench for making and processing, on which are hand-chiseled, planed, and clamped, and wheeled.

These tools are indispensable for making bows and arrows and some animal skins.

Plus the toolbox found on the workbench, and the dagger in your own backpack .... The equipment needed to process bows and arrows is almost complete.

Now Qin Fei still lacks materials.

The maple saplings have been drying for four or five days, and it will probably take another two days to dry before they can be used for the making of the bow arm.

Qin Fei also needed to find a furnace for forging arrows for bows and arrows.

In addition, he had to find birch saplings to make the body of a bow and arrow, and the birch saplings also had to be dried indoors.

It might take Qin Fei several days, but forging arrows would only take a day or two to complete. So, he had to go to the mountainside to look for birch saplings first.

Qin Fei stored most of the supplies in the fishing camp, only brought the necessary materials such as daggers, matches, and hacksaws, and began to head to the nearby mountains.

Across the road is the snow-capped mountains.

On the mountainside, Qin Fei found a wooden house that had collapsed. It seems to have been destroyed in a blizzard, and the roof and walls are all damaged, making it uninhabitable.

But Qin Fei was near the house and unexpectedly found some rosehips.

If you want to survive for 200 days, you have to eat only fish and deer. Qin Fei is likely to die due to a lack of vitamins and minerals in his body, causing various diseases.

But these rosehips, and rich in vitamins and minerals, can perfectly make up for this, and rosehips can be used in medicine, soaked in water or eaten, with the effect of blood circulation and blood stasis.

This is an absolutely good thing, Qin Fei picked all these rosehips one by one and put them in his backpack.

When he was picking it, he took one by the way, threw it into his mouth and chewed it.

Qin Fei frowned.

The fruit tastes a little salty, a little sour, and the taste is not very good.

In fact, this rose hip generally needs to be soaked in sugar water before eating. After the flesh is softened, it will taste better.

But Qin Fei naturally didn't have this condition.

After picking the fruit, Qin Fei continued to walk forward.

Not far away, Qin Fei spotted a stream that stretched down from the mountain. But there was no water in the stream, it was completely frozen.

In the vicinity of the stream, there are still some cattails growing faintly, but the number is not very large.

Looking at these cattails, Qin Fei immediately drooled.

It's not that he loves this stuff much, the cattail has a rough taste, so he can barely eat it. But the ingredients of this thing are made up of starch and a small amount of sucrose.

That's sugar!

If you eat only meat for three meals a day and don't eat a little sugary food. After seeing these cattail stalks, there will be such a reaction from Qin Fei.

People can only be satisfied by eating a mixture of protein and sugar.

Qin Fei followed the stream and walked all the way upstream, collecting these cattails by the stream.

It didn't take long for Qin Fei to discover a cave.

The mouth of this cave is very large.

At the entrance of the cave, there are several saplings with several white threads on the surface.

Qin Fei saw this appearance and immediately recognized it, these must be birch seedlings!

Further away from the cave, there are many felled tree stumps, on top of which some mushrooms actually grow.

Qin Fei reached out and touched it....

What a hard mushroom!

No, this is not a mushroom. The hardness of mushrooms is not so high, like wood. This should be Ganoderma lucidum.

Ganoderma lucidum can cure stomach problems, detoxify, and has high medicinal value.

Qin Fei began to collect these lingzhi.

But before he received half of it, he couldn't stand the cold.

In this polar environment, that's it. No matter how much you wear clothes, as long as you don't stay indoors, it won't be long before people shiver with cold.

Qin Fei planned to go to the cave in front of him first, put down the sleeping bag and rest for a while, and wait for the body temperature to return before making a move.

But before he could enter the entrance of the cave, he heard a thunderous snoring from a long distance.

Qin Fei adjusted the angle at which he was standing and looked inside the cave.

In the cave, there is a bear with brown and black hair all over his body, lying not far from the entrance of the cave, snoring and sleeping!

There is no winter in the polar regions, and the brown bears here do not have the habit of hibernating.

Although the desire of brown bears to attack humans is not as high as that of gray wolves.

But the brown bear is wary of creatures that intrude on its territory. Once Qin Fei gets close, the brown bear will attack the intruder and kill him as soon as possible.

Adult brown bears are very combative, far from being comparable to a gray wolf. When brown bears are extremely hungry, they will even snatch food from tigers to eat.

Although Qin Fei wanted to cut down those birch seedlings and take them away, he still stood in the distance, looking at the entrance of the cave and looking away.

He doesn't slide.

If you want to get these birch saplings, you can either come back when the brown bear is gone. Or, you'll have to find a way to get rid of the brown bear.