Chapter 656: The First Artifact in the Server
Seventh day of survival in the Arctic.
When Bifang pushed away the snow and walked out of the dim cave, almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
The snowstorm that had raged for nearly four days finally ended. Looking around, the whole world was once again covered with snow.
The initially exposed rocks, symbolizing the arrival at the tundra, also completely disappeared, as if returning to the ice field once again.
This blizzard is not ordinary, it is more like a signal before the arrival of eternal night.
Bifang took a breath and looked at the sun hanging low in the sky. If it were any other low-latitude area, the height of the sun at this time could even be called dusk, but on Greenland, it was already noon.
"In all my adventures, I have never felt so weak."
After stepping onto the land, Bifang, who was breathing heavily, was slightly out of breath. Due to his slightly excited mood, the oxygen supply was actually insufficient. Fortunately, Bifang adjusted himself in just a few breaths.
Oxygen uptake has always been Bifang 's strong point.
For seven days, I only ate some lichens and mosses. Apart from the feeling of fullness, the energy I obtained was pitifully little, and most of it was actually trace elements. But these things are not the most important things for survival.
Bifang needs fat, fat with huge amounts of oil, and every bite can bring enough calories.
Fish, foxes, reindeer, mice, anything.
But it is difficult to find mammals at this time, because people are afraid of the cold, and so are animals.
"In order to adapt to the environment, animals have thick fur and a fat layer several centimeters thick, but this does not mean that they are not afraid of the cold. On the contrary, once they sense the change in weather, these polar animals know how to preserve their fat better than humans. So after a snowstorm, it is difficult to see any traces of prey."
"On the one hand, the blizzard wiped out everything. All traces disappeared, making it twice as difficult to find prey. On the other hand, these smart natives ran away early. Three days was enough time for them to get out of the blizzard range."
"If we want to find prey to replenish energy, marine fish is the easiest and most likely prey to catch, and it is also our first choice."
After a few simple analyses, Bifang decides what needs to be done, which is also the only choice with a higher chance of success.
Changes in polar climate often cause large prey such as reindeer, seals and whales to migrate elsewhere or periodically abandon their original habitats, causing large fluctuations in prey populations.
This is an objective fact.
This fact directly determined the fate of the Native Americans who made a living by hunting.
Although the Inuit have survived in Greenland for eight centuries since their arrival, they are still affected if the abundance of prey changes.
Archaeologists have discovered that many Inuit igloos were frozen in ice, like time capsules. The bodies of entire families were frozen inside, looking as lifelike as ice sculptures.
Most of them could not survive the cold winter and starved to death in the igloos, eventually becoming living ice sculptures.
Perhaps it is not accurate, because no one can tell whether they starved to death first, or froze to death first, or both happened at the same time.
Even during the Danish colonial period, lone Inuit would often stagger towards Danish settlements, saying that all their tribesmen had starved to death and they were the only one left.
Bifang's voice was not as strong as in the previous few days, but it was still clear. In a trance, everyone seemed to see last night's snowstorm again.
In the wind and snow, a barely perceptible figure gradually became clearer and clearer. The person came and spoke in unfluent Danish, asking the Danes who came here for some bread that was frozen like a stone, or some other food.
When talking about his relatives being frozen into ice sculptures, there was no fluctuation on the man's face, because he was already accustomed to such situations.
During this snowstorm, the man had seen no less than three completely sealed igloos, buried deep in the ice and snow. There was no smoke coming out of the houses, only cold air.
The man didn't, nor did he want to open it to look. He knew what was inside. There might be one person, or maybe many, but there would definitely not be a living person.
For nearly a thousand years, there have always been members of the tribe who have died like this.
Is it painful?
No, any extreme emotion requires a lot of energy, and men no longer have that much energy to generate these emotions.
Crying burns about 1.3 calories per minute, which means you can burn 13 calories in ten minutes.
Laughing also burns calories. 10-15 minutes can burn up to 40 calories. Laughing 365 days a year is enough to lose 4 pounds.
Excess emotions are costly in the face of survival.
Human survival is not an easy thing. It requires a lot of work to obtain the material necessities of food, clothing, housing and transportation. When survival cannot be satisfied, emotions are redundant. Therefore, wild animals never have extremely abundant emotions like humans. They even have a hard time surviving, so how can they have the energy to cry and laugh?
In the cruel underground, there is no difference between humans and animals.
Such scenes appeared in the minds of the audience at the same time, and they all shuddered. It was too scary.
[Wow, I missed hope again, Lao Fang]
【Death is like the wind, always with me】
[I feel like Boss Fang has lost a lot of weight (dog head)]
[Drained by the Arctic]
So where can we find fish?
"Keep going inside." Bifang chiseled open the cave he had dug with great effort, and the entire roof collapsed at once, erasing all traces of Bifang's stay.
"If we continue to go inland, the living environment will be much better, and there is a possibility of finding a river. The ice there is not too thick and it is possible to break it. Besides, river fish are much easier to catch than sea fish."
Putting on the backpack, Bifang continued his journey.
As the world's largest island, Greenland's total area reaches an astonishing 2.1756 million square kilometers, nearly one-third of Australia, and is close to being a continent.
Even UNESCO has stipulated that any landmass with an area larger than Greenland is called a continent. It is precisely because of this academic standard that six continents were divided on the earth.
So it's not surprising that there are many inland rivers on the island.
Even on the ice field, there are many weak spots, which may even melt into rivers in the summer. You can dig up those weak spots for fishing, but it is very dangerous.
"It is impossible for the thickness of the ice formed by natural rivers to be consistent. Especially in recent years, the greenhouse effect has intensified, and many ice surfaces have become extremely thin. The load-bearing capacity of such ice cannot be observed with the naked eye. When you stretch out your foot to test whether the ice is solid or not, you are actually playing with your own life."
"The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. Some predict that by 2050, the average annual temperature in the Arctic will rise by 4°C, and the sea ice will disappear completely in the mid-summer. So it's not completely safe here, and the chances of getting out alive if you fall into a glacier are much smaller than in a normal river."
"In 2016, a man in Anshan was skating on the Wanshui River under the Shuguang Bridge when he fell into the river due to the broken ice. He was killed. Someone threw a branch into the water, but the man was exhausted and the water was too cold, so he drowned before he could reach the branch."
[It has begun. Fang Shen’s “lesson from the past”]
[Ah, this is Anshan, it’s right here. I seem to have some impression of it.]
[If you fall into a glacier, you will either drown or freeze to death]
"Unlike normal rivers, once you fall into a glacier, the blood vessels throughout your body will suddenly contract due to the extreme cold, and you will feel an electric shock. This feeling usually disappears within three minutes."
"Then your body will have a trunk reflex due to the stimulation of cold water, which will cause you to hyperventilate continuously, causing your heart rate to increase rapidly and produce a brief shock."
"So you have to control your breathing rate and not gasp for air. Then you have to deal with hypothermia because the body loses heat 32 times faster in cold water than in air."
"In fact, this is also the most dangerous part. You may lose consciousness due to hypothermia before the electric shock disappears."
Bifang adjusted his strength with breathing while searching around with his eyes.
The snowstorm, which lasted four days, was so heavy that there was little to collect on the ground.
All the shrubs collected previously had been burned as fuel, resulting in Bifang now having no materials to make snowshoes. Walking in the snow was extremely tiring, and each step was like pulling a cork.
Shaking his head, Bifang continued chatting with the audience.
"When you first hit the water, you need to unload as much weight as possible, but don't take off your clothes immediately, because the air in your clothes can keep you afloat and can temporarily keep you warm."
???
This sentence immediately overturned the audience's common sense: Don't take off your clothes after falling into the water?
[Fang Shen, did you say something wrong? 】
[Why does it feel different from what I have learned...]
[Don't take off your clothes? Clothes will get heavier after being soaked in water, and it will be even colder if they are close to your skin, so you can't swim at all! You are misleading the students! If you don't have any common sense, you should just stop broadcasting, okay? ]
Most of the audience were puzzled, and even a very small number of new audiences, who might be haters, went so far as to say that Bifang was misleading young people.
Bifang shrugged, not caring about those who criticized him. He had tens of millions of fans, and even if there were only one in a thousand black fans, the number would still be over 100,000, which was more than the fans of an average anchor. He could see this kind of barrage almost every time, and if he really cared about it, he would be exhausted.
"Taking off clothes when falling into the water is a mistake in thinking inertia, and it does not take into account the actual situation."
"First of all, you should wear thick enough clothes in winter. Clothes made of fine fabrics such as nylon, cotton, shirts, and jackets are waterproof and can insulate the body. Down jackets contain a lot of air so that people who fall into the water will not sink temporarily, and they will not immediately feel the cold brought by the cold water."
"On the contrary, some woolen fabrics are easy to absorb water and will indeed become heavier. They should be taken off, but... will you have time to take them off? Will you still have the energy to swim after taking them off? And woolen products are basically underwear, right? In winter, I think everyone has at least three pieces of clothing. Can you guarantee that you can take them all off within one minute?"
The three consecutive questions stumped the audience.
Yes, it will become heavier, but do I have to take it off if it gets heavier?
The water was icy cold and physical strength was decreasing rapidly. Most people were in a state of fear at this moment, but they still had to calm down and take off their coats one by one. Are they sure they are not reincarnated early?
On the contrary, heavy objects on your body, such as backpacks, are convenient to take off and should definitely be thrown away.
In fact, with the quality of modern clothes, a large winter coat is actually very difficult to be filled with water all at once even if it falls completely into the water, at least in minutes, and can even serve as a life jacket.
"Even if the clothes are filled with water, we don't need to take them off. They can block the circulation of water. Have you ever played with water? If you put your hand into ice water, is it colder if you stay still or if you move?"
Anyone with a little common sense knows that it's obviously colder when you move.
After the body temperature raises the water temperature, once you start swimming, a water circulation will be formed, and the cold water that has not raised its temperature will wrap the body again. However, wearing clothes will isolate this water circulation to a certain extent.
Furthermore, even if the weight increases, it is not noticeable in the water. Only when you get on shore will you feel so heavy that you cannot move. There is buoyancy in the water to support you, and it is not so heavy that you cannot reach the bottom.
So no matter from which angle you look at it, it is best not to take it off.
The netizens suddenly realized.
[Damn it, it turns out that what I thought was wrong! ? ]
[I learned it, another little trick for survival. 】
【Fang Shen is awesome!!】
[I have reason to suspect that the next step is the practical part]
“Without practice, I would freeze to death.”
Bifang sneezed again. If he was in the same condition as when he first arrived, it would be no problem for him to go into the water. But now that he has a cold and is weak, something could really happen. It is better to be careful.
While Bifang was explaining the key points of survival in the Arctic to the audience, he finally found some usable materials after walking along the way.
"Hey, look what I found."
Bifang pulled his feet out of the thick snow, turned around and hopped towards a black spot on the ground.
There was snow everywhere, and suddenly a black spot appeared. There must be something different.
When Bifang arrived at the black spot, he dug away the snow and took a look.
ha!
A long branch!
hiss!
The audience gasped. The global greenhouse effect suddenly intensified. The glaciers in the Arctic melted faster. Something fell from the sky onto the ice surface, causing waves that scared the cruise ships passing by.
The fans didn’t expect that they could see old friends they hadn’t seen for a long time in the desolate Arctic!
Bifang's face was covered with snowflakes. He wiped them clean and then pulled out the entire branch.
A very thick branch with many forks, it is a good material for using as a stick!
[Obtaining the artifact will increase your chances of surviving successfully by 100%, your chances of obtaining food by 100%, and your chances of finding a river by 100%! ]
【Find the stick and you win! 】
[Server-wide announcement: Congratulations to player Bifang for obtaining the only designated artifact on this server, a dry branch.]
