129 Wilderness Survival
◎Ye Zhizhi called out to it, "Yin Yi."◎
Ye Zhizhi finally came up with a way to divide the work and cooperate.
She and the wolf pack hunted here, Xiaohua and Damo dragged the prey to the mouth of the canyon, and then Daxiong was responsible for carrying it back.
It just so happened that the wolves were relatively not good at water, so they didn't have to go back and forth in the water all day. After Ye Zhizhi took Xiaohua and Daxiong for a walk, they understood their mission.
The weather is getting colder and colder now, and the division of labor and cooperation is even faster. In a few days, the temperature will drop more sharply, and snakes and bears will hibernate.
The wolves' hunting went into a frenzy. When they caught a group of prey, they would chase them relentlessly, bite several of them to death, and then drag them to the river bank. Because there were plenty of prey nearby, they did not need to walk far and basically hunted five or six prey a day.
Wolves specifically pick large prey, and sometimes they need two snakes to drag the huge mountain of meat together for it to swim.
Of course, the prey is of different sizes. For smaller prey, it will just bite them, making them unable to resist and leaving them with a breath.
During the days of hunting, the wolves did not go back but stayed in the mountains.
Ye Zhizhi had to go back to gather and organize the prey, so he went back to the cave with Xiaohua every night and went hunting with the wolf pack the next day.
The terrain they are located on is higher, and the temperature drops faster. Just two or three days after the rain stops, the wind becomes icy and biting.
Fortunately, there are many prey here, and she and the wolf pack can hunt a lot of food in a day if they work hard. However, considering the appetite of two snakes and one bear, the snakes can swallow one directly at a time.
Ye Zhizhi had never spent the winter with them, so he didn't know their feeding situation, so he just prepared more food.
After the wolves had been hunting for five days, Ye Zhizhi called a halt. She felt that the food that filled up half the cave was enough for them to survive the winter.
So the wolves began their return journey.
All the prey had been reeled in, with the wolves trailing behind.
Everything went smoothly at the beginning, but when they reached the middle section where there was no place to rest, Yinyi could swim upstream, but the other wolves swam for a long time and almost stayed in the same place.
The water rushes down too fast and is very cold. If you soak in it for a long time, your body will suffer from hypothermia.
Ye Zhizhi saw that this was not going to work, so she weaved an extra long vine and tied it to the wolf. Yin Yi dragged it in front, while Xiao Hua and Da Mo swam beside it to help mitigate the impact of the water flow. Xiao Hua also stretched out her snake tail to wrap around the vine to help pull it.
After going back and forth several times, I finally pulled all the wolves onto the rocks, and then I jumped all the way back.
After returning to the cave, both humans and animals looked tired. Everyone was very tired after the recent days of high-intensity work.
Especially the wolves, they were all injured during the hunting. Even Yin Yi had a few wounds on his body. However, based on their past experience, these injuries were not serious, so they didn't care.
After they kill their prey, there will occasionally be greedy predators who want to reap the benefits, so a fight is inevitable. Even if they win, they will inevitably suffer some injuries. In addition, when hunting large animals, they may encounter resistance, which they sometimes cannot avoid.
But overall, the wolves are in good condition.
Ye Zhizhi checked them one by one and sprinkled some medicine powder on them.
After the wolf's hair is completely dry, it returns to its den and lies down.
Xiaohua and Daxiong also returned to their own nests and curled up to rest.
For a moment the cave was very quiet.
Ye Zhizhi was worried about this and that, and also went hunting together every day, so he was also very tired. He snuggled up to Yin Yi, closed his eyes and fell asleep instantly.
Ye Zhizhi lay down for three days to rest, until her bones became weak. It took her a long time to sit up, push the animal skin blanket aside, stand up, and lean over Yin Yi to look outside.
The cave was dimly lit. She crawled over Yin Yi who was still sleeping, stretched her muscles, and then started to jump down.
Yin Yi rested his head on his front legs. He noticed Ye Zhizhi's movement, opened his eyes slightly to look at her, and then closed them again.
After Ye Zhizhi landed on the ground, he walked out of the cave.
She and Yinyi moved their nest to the cave allocated to Yinyi, and then used the huge rocks in the cave to make a nest.
Ye Zhizhi didn't know whether the temperature in this cave was constant. To be on the safe side, he decided to move down from the platform of the largest cave as the smaller cave would be more heat-insulated.
While sleeping on the boulder, Ye Zhizhi didn't feel the cold at all. Yin Yi lay on the boulder, directly blocking the direction of the cave entrance with his huge body. Ye Zhizhi slept with the mountain wall on one side and Yin Yi on the other.
She used a not-so-soft fur, half of which was spread on the mountain wall to isolate herself from the cold, and the other half was placed on the grass nest. She then covered herself with a thick animal skin blanket, and even with Yin Yi's constant-temperature blanket next to her, she still felt hot because the blanket was not covered too tightly.
Walking out of the cave, Ye Zhizhi first went to check on the condition of his friends. Whether it was a wolf or a snake or a bear, they were all defenseless against Ye Zhizhi. The wolf did not have the habit of hibernating, and when it smelled Ye Zhizhi's scent, it would open its eyes to look and then rub against him.
The two snakes and one bear seemed to have entered hibernation.
The big bear lay in a nest of thick grass, his huge body moving up and down as he snored.
Ye Zhizhi couldn't even wake it up when he came in.
On the other side, Ye Zhizhi discovered that Xiaohua was not in the cave. She was subconsciously nervous, but she smelled Xiaohua's faint scent, so she should still be nearby.
She went looking for it and found that Xiaohuapan had taken the most comfortable position in the cave originally given to Damo, while Damo was curled up silently in the corner.
Ye Zhizhi: “…”
Okay, she understood. Xiaohua disliked the big bear's voice disturbing her sleep, and the place that was the farthest away and could not be heard without special attention was the deepest and most remote place in the cave chosen by Da Mo. Da Mo's cave was the largest one nearby.
Ye Zhizhi poked Da Mo's cold snake scales. She persisted until Da Mo finally raised his head slightly and gave a slight reaction. Only then did Ye Zhizhi retract her sore fingers and opened her big, sincere eyes: "Hiss~"
Da Mo, I’ll find you a better cave!
Da Mo: “…” It didn’t respond.
Ye Zhizhi didn't give up. She walked around, found Da Mo's tail, then carried it on her shoulder and dragged it out.
She used all her strength to walk to the cave entrance, but only dragged a small half of the snake's body. She couldn't drag it out any further, but she still struggled to carry it out.
Da Mo's snake head turned back, its tongue silently moved twice, and as if helpless, it slithered out of the cave.
Ye Zhizhi was sweating profusely from pulling, and was about to exert more force when she suddenly felt something was wrong. She looked up and found that Da Mo's snake head was already in front of her, looking back at her. The silent snake eyes were still silent, but she inexplicably interpreted Da Mo's silent message at this time.
Can you let go of its tail?
Ye Zhizhi bared his teeth at it, then let go of the snake's tail.
The big black snake's tail moved, then crawled in front and crawled directly into other caves.
Ye Zhizhi watched Da Mo's tail disappear into the cave entrance. She blinked. It wasn't her fault. They had been together for so long, and Da Mo was indeed trustworthy. But how could a single male and a single female, without a legitimate relationship, coexist in the same cave? Unless there were more than two snakes.
She has to protect her little friend and not let it be easily deceived.
Ye Zhizhi went back to look at Xiaohua. Xiaohua's reaction was very slow. Even when she sensed Ye Zhizhi's presence, she only moved her head slightly. She couldn't resist her instinct and interacted with her enthusiastically.
Ye Zhizhi touched it and then did not disturb her hibernation.
Then she walked out of the cave and stood in front of the huge cave entrance.
Ye Zhizhi could clearly feel the extremely low temperature. The cold wind was howling outside, and he could also hear the rustling of leaves in the distance.
The cave entrance is sheltered from the wind, so there is no cold wind blowing into the cave, and the temperature inside will not drop significantly.
Ye Zhizhi felt that she would not suffer this winter.
The light outside was relatively bright. Although the heavy snow had not yet begun to fall, the green plants in the canyon were all covered with a layer of frost and were slightly white.
The squirrels on the ancient trees seemed to have hibernated.
All is quiet.
Ye Zhizhi only wore a fur suit and didn't feel cold.
She thought about it and walked out to take a look. The water in the riverbed had receded a little and was not as turbulent. It seemed that it was the highest water line before.
Ye Zhizhi knew what was going on and returned to the cave soon.
Next, we just have to wait for winter.
The first snow of this year fell in the middle of the night. When Ye Zhizhi woke up, he went out and saw heavy snow falling. The canyon was covered in white.
She looked at the thickness of the snow and it was obvious that it had been snowing for quite some time.
The temperature outside the cave was extremely low, and the biting cold wind was howling. Even though it did not blow directly into the cave, the ubiquitous cold still invaded.
The temperature only rose when Ye Zhizhi walked deeper into the cave.
The entrance to the cave is too large, and unlike a den, it will not be frozen by heavy snow, requiring wolves to dig open the entrance every once in a while. Therefore, the temperature of the cave just after entering and exiting the entrance is not much different from that outside.
However, if Ye Zhizhi put on a fur cloak over her fur suit, she would be able to keep warm. At the largest platform, she didn't even need a cloak.
The wolves came out and walked around on the second day of the heavy snow.
Xiaohua and Big Bear are sleeping even more deeply and are in complete hibernation.
There was heavy snow, and Ye Zhizhi and the wolves couldn't go out, so they played in the cave.
Ye Zhizhi was still sparring with the wolves to kill time, with howling sounds coming one after another.
Ye Zhizhi smiled as she watched the wolves chasing and playing with each other, thinking that it was a good thing that she had these very human-like animals to accompany her. Otherwise, if she were alone, even if she survived by chance, she would go crazy. No one can endure such endless loneliness for a long time.
There was no trace of human presence, as if she was the only one left in the world.
Ye Zhizhi maintained a certain amount of activity every day, howling and interacting with the wolves, and then chanting the name of each wolf.
"Silver, silver one, two brown!"
"Three Whites!"
"Xiao-Xiao Bai."
"Silver, Little Gray!"
The tender and loud baby voice stuttered and echoed in the cave. After Ye Zhizhi finished reading, he avoided Yin Yi and covered his mouth.
Yin Yi didn't know when he learned the wolf mother's mouth-covering skill. Every time she opened her mouth, Yin Yi's paw pads would move, wanting to lift up and cover her mouth at any time.
Fortunately, Ye Zhizhi basically doesn't speak human language. She just needs to make sure her language function doesn't degenerate. At other times, she communicates using animal sounds.
She hadn't spoken for over a year, and when she spoke a few words, her speech was a little disjointed, but that was because she spoke less. If she spoke more in the future, she would definitely speak more fluently.
Ye Zhizhi saw Yin Yi looking at her, her big eyes rolled around on her little hands, and then she called out to Yin Yi again: "Yin Yi!"
Yin Yi walked towards Ye Zhizhi, and Ye Zhizhi turned around and ran, running around in the huge cave, shouting "Yin Yi" as he ran.
The other wolves lay on the ground and watched the lively fun of the brother and sister. They were used to the wolf sister occasionally shouting in strange tones and shouting different tones at them. Their good memory also allowed them to remember the sound of the wolf sister shouting at them.
"Yin Yi" is the voice that the wolf sister shouted to the boss, as if it was a title that the wolf sister gave to them that belonged only to them.
And they are called "two browns" and "three whites"...
They actually quite liked the wolf girl's tone, but for some reason the eldest brother never liked it. Every time the wolf girl yelled, they wanted to slap her mouth. Ye Zhizhi ran like a cool runner, jumping up and down, running around the rocks in the largest cave, while shouting its name non-stop in a very rebellious manner, with Yin Yi chasing after him.
In the end, it was Ye Zhizhi who closed his mouth and declared a truce, and Yin Yi stopped chasing.
Sweat was oozing from Ye Zhizhi's forehead. She leaned on Yin Yi and drank a few sips of cool honey water to moisten her throat, which was dry from shouting.
Thinking of the wolf mother, Ye Zhizhi missed the wolf mother and the wolf king father, and missed every wolf in the den.
We won’t be able to see them until the beginning of next spring, which is such a long time!
I miss them so much.
Ye Zhizhi lay on Yin Yi, pouted, howled in grievance, and missed his wolf mother.
Yin Yi turned his head and licked her cheek.
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