Chapter 653: Roasting Fire
On the windy and snowy continent, a slightly arched snowpack began to move strangely.
After a while, clumps of white snow slowly rose up, and finally, under the influence of the strong wind, they disappeared without a trace, leaving behind a narrow black hole.
In the heavy snow, an extremely tiny figure crawled out of the cave.
Bifang's body was covered with scattered snowflakes, which were blown away by the cold wind like steel knives, but new snowflakes came one after another.
Even when it fell on the exposed eyebrows, there was no sign of melting, it was surprisingly cold.
Bifang couldn't help but curl up into a ball. The current temperature was conservatively estimated to be around minus 50 degrees Celsius, which was a terrifying temperature where one could freeze to death while peeing. It was terrifying.
Looking at the vast snow all around, everyone in the live broadcast room was at a loss, and subconsciously retracted their hands and feet, as if the white cold wind was freezing them through the screen.
After checking the rope around his ankle once again to see if it was loose, Bifang began to move forward with difficulty.
At this time, the Arctic wind was freezing cold, and the blizzard made it extremely difficult for people to move forward in the ice and snow wilderness, especially for Bifang, who had only eaten some moss for nearly four days. He could clearly feel that his physical condition was declining.
The amount of heat provided by the moss is too little.
"In 1902, after the 'Triple Intervention to Return Liaodong' incident, Japan hated Russia to the core and prepared for a decade, ready to fight a big battle with the Russian army in Northeast China."
"However, the weather in Northeast China is cold, and the Japanese army lacks experience in combat in cold regions, so they chose Aomori Prefecture, which has a climate similar to that of Northeast China, as their training ground. This resulted in one of the world's largest mountain casualties: the Hakkoda Mountain snow march casualties."
Although shivering with cold, Bifang began to explain a famous snowstorm event with a slight tremor in his voice while searching the snow.
The Hakkoda Mountains are a group of volcanoes in the central part of Aomori Prefecture. They are covered with forests, swamps and wetlands, and are uninhabited. In the winter, it is covered with ice and snow, and no one dares to cross except experienced local hunters.
Although they lacked experience and cold-resistant equipment, the Japanese army at that time was extremely confident.
Coincidentally, the day of departure was January 23, 1902, the coldest day in Japan.
On the first day, the team marched up the mountain singing military songs and camped as planned.
The problem arose on the second day.
The weather suddenly changed early in the morning, with strong winds and heavy snow, and the temperature dropped sharply to below minus 20 degrees Celsius. Soon after setting out, the officers and soldiers were frostbitten one after another, and the march was extremely slow. The officers wanted to return, but sadly: the heavy snow blocked the way back and they could not find the way at all.
In the snowy mountains in the severe winter, this group of Japanese got lost.
But they were so confident when they set out, how could this little snow and wind overwhelm these fearless Japanese samurai?
Keep marching! Not only that, the leader also ordered a night march to make up for the lost time.
During the difficult march, a lieutenant fainted and froze to death, becoming the first victim.
That night, the team found a sheltered place and dug a snow trench to camp.
At this time, all the food had been frozen and could not be eaten, and the clothes were frozen stiff so people had to urinate and defecate on their bodies. On the third morning, many people never got up again.
Along the way, people kept falling down and froze to death.
The severe cold made people crazy. Some people kept shouting "Let's jump off the cliff", some shouted "Let's make a raft and drift", and then they chopped trees with bayonets like crazy.
By the fourth day, only 40 people were left alive.
On the fifth day, the officer in charge finally came to his senses and issued a final order, asking those who were able to escape and seek rescue, and then freeze to death.
"A sergeant named Goto Fusanosuke was frozen on his way to escape. He struggled to stand in a dying state. Fortunately, he was found by a rescue team and saved his life. Later, his hands and feet were sawed off, and he lived for another 22 years."
"In the following week, rescue teams found a large number of bodies of the marching group, with only a dozen survivors."
"The team of 210 people stayed in the mountain for 11 days, but only 11 survived and 199 died."
"And the temperature at that time was actually not even minus 25 degrees."
Many foreign audiences were shocked when they heard this.
Honshu Island?
Bifang’s last live broadcast was there, and many people still remember it.
A snowstorm with a temperature less than minus 30 degrees Celsius resulted in a mortality rate of over 95 percent?
So it's fifty degrees below zero now, can we still be alive?
Just as many people from across the ocean were preparing to post comments expressing sympathy, they were surprised to find that Chinese netizens seemed to be celebrating something, and the strange comments were difficult to understand.
Although the system has built-in barrage translation, it is often not quite right and difficult to understand without relevant knowledge.
The lyrics of "Good Luck Is Coming" seem strange to many netizens who don't know much about it, as if... they sound very festive.
Bifang coughed twice. The example he cited was indeed world-famous. He just happened to have been to Japan not long ago and remembered it.
With the mind palace, many memory retrievals are very convenient and there is no other meaning in it.
Bifang used a homemade shovel to dig up the dry and hard snow, trying to find some remaining dead branches or something else, but unfortunately there was none.
The heavy snow blurred the distance. Bifang couldn't see the end of the rope when he looked back, so he naturally couldn't judge the distance and could only continue rubbing as before.
The length of the rope is more than 40 meters, which means that Bifang's activity radius is only 40 meters. This size may seem small, but it is more than 5,000 square meters.
According to the dead bushes Bifang saw last night, these are what he was looking for.
Greenland is not all deserted…
Standing up, Bifang recalled last night's memories and, based on the vague positional relationships, dug up the thick layer of snow that looked like ice crystals.
After digging half a meter deep, just when Bifang began to doubt whether he had remembered it wrong, finally, some brown things squeezed out of the pure white dry snow, revealing their true appearance.
At first, the audience thought that they had dug into the soil layer, but when they looked closely, they found that it was actually a thick shrub, but it was completely dead.
[Can this be eaten? ]
"Of course not." Bifang dug out all the bushes and stuffed them into his backpack. "But just because we can't eat them doesn't mean they are useless. We can use them to make fire."
The audience became more and more confused as they spoke.
Make a fire?
How to give birth?
Looking at the heavy snow all around, how can a fire be lit in such a big storm?
Of course it's impossible. The wind is so strong that it can blow out the burning alcohol. Bifang wants to take it back and burn it in the cave.
Fire is the most primitive way for humans to keep warm.
[Fuck, if we light a fire in the snow cave, won’t the house melt? ! ! ]
