153 Wilderness Survival
◎She thought she had found a way out.◎
Time flies, the seasons change, and in the blink of an eye, several winters have passed and another spring has arrived.
The mountains and forests that had been frozen for the entire winter began to lift their seals. The ice that was once as solid as armor melted into water, forming trickles that flowed towards the low-lying areas.
The wolves, who had been hiding there for almost the entire winter, had already run out of the cave and had been running for most of the day. Their agile bodies shuttled through the mountains and forests, and their howling echoed throughout the forest.
But in the wolf pack's lair, there was a slight rustling sound along the ground.
When I got closer, I found that it was a young girl in her prime squatting on the ground, holding a stick in her hand and gesturing something on the ground.
The girl was wrapped in a fur vest and a fur skirt, with her calves and forearms wrapped in fur. Her thick, shiny black hair was casually tied with a few pieces of dry grass and draped behind her head. Her face, which had been covered for a whole winter, looked white.
Under the long curled eyelashes, a pair of pure black eyes are slightly lowered, and their gaze is fixed on the ground.
After careful observation, I discovered that she had drawn countless crooked and horizontal lines on the ground.
These lines are the jungle map that Ye Zhizhi has filled in and drawn bit by bit after exploring the jungle for more than ten years.
This was not her first time drawing, and the topographic maps she drew became richer and more complex year by year.
Ye Zhizhi concentrated and drew all the places she had been to on the ground before she stopped and stared at the ground in a daze.
This time, she drew a map centered on the wolf pack's territory. For every route, Ye Zhizhi remembered the terrain and environment, as well as what was and what she encountered along the way.
Ye Zhizhi had spent fourteen years in the jungle without realizing it.
During this period, she had already explored so many places, but still had not explored all of them. However—
The branch in Ye Zhizhi's hand unconsciously fell to the ground.
She thought she had found a way out.
If the most dangerous area she had ever visited was regarded as the central area, then she actually spent most of her exploration time walking around this central area, and a small part of her time running into the central area.
Now that it was drawn so intuitively, she had a vague idea in her mind which direction the real exit was.
She might have taken the right path before, but she encountered a dangerous area along the way, so she took a detour. This detour led her in another direction, and in short, she was just wandering around in the jungle...
Behind Ye Zhizhi, a giant wolf approached silently. Its eyes were like rubies, and its silver hair seemed to be sparkling with light. The silver wolf, which was raised to be very majestic and beautiful, had light limbs at this time. It deliberately restrained its breath and approached the person with his back to it, and then pounced suddenly.
Ye Zhizhi, who was in a daze, was knocked to the ground.
Ye Zhizhi turned around helplessly, then rubbed and licked his eldest niece Yin Fei passionately.
“Ouch—”
Ye Zhizhi couldn't help but remind it again that it was already an adult and could no longer flutter at her like it did when it was a child.
"Awoo~" Even though Yin Fei has grown to a size that is not weaker than its wolf father, it is still a spoiled child in front of Ye Zhizhi. Even though the little aunt is much younger than it, it still acts like a spoiled child.
Ye Zhizhi had no choice but to indulge Yin Fei's enthusiastic licking, and after a while pushed its head away and sat up.
Ye Zhizhi hugged the silver head that came closer and rubbed it again and again.
Yin Fei lay on the ground with all four limbs, his huge wolf head poked into Ye Zhizhi's arms, and his thick and long tail swung.
"Ouch!"
Yin Fei asked, why don’t you come out and take a walk with them?
Ye Zhizhi rubbed Yin Fei without saying a word, his childish face still silent, as if he had something deep on his mind.
Yin Fei didn't care whether Ye Zhizhi answered it or not. It felt very comfortable being rubbed. It couldn't help but squint its eyes and raise its head to move closer.
Seeing this, Ye Zhizhi felt a little relieved.
In the past few years, Ye Zhizhi has taken Xiao Yinfei and Xiao Chijin to many places, continuing to look for a way out while training the two wolf cubs.
Ye Zhizhi has been with Yin Yi and the others for so many years, and he has already realized that he can train himself better and improve his strength rapidly outside.
In the second year, she took the underage Xiao Yinfei and Xiao Chijin to visit the big bear. Along the way, they were accompanied by Yinyi and a large group of friends. They walked through familiar places and they were confident that they could protect the two wolf cubs.
A new bear smell appeared in the big bear's territory. Ye Zhizhi initially thought that another bear had come to seize the big bear's territory, but unexpectedly it was a female bear. The big bear had also found a mate.
I don’t know if he was influenced by Yin Yi, but he also went to find a partner.
Ye Zhizhi deeply realized that she had not grown up yet, but her friends had already grown up.
It seems that before long, she might be able to see the bear cub again.
When the two wolf cubs grow up, she will take them to farther places to visit her little friends, and then take them to find good things.
Ye Zhizhi has encountered many fruits with magical effects in the past ten years, but that was because she ran around everywhere and went to unfamiliar places, so it was easy for her to find good things. But in fact, these things are very rare in the entire jungle.
Moreover, many things are not available every year. Later, Ye Zhizhi finally found an opportunity to go back to the place where she and Xiaohua had snatched the fruit, but there was no such grand occasion. All the animals were attracted there and fought for the fruit of a plant.
However, she asked the wolves to remember these locations, so that they might see them again if they had the chance in the future.
In the past few years, she and Silver Wolf have taken the two wolves to many places, both familiar and unfamiliar. Naturally, they encountered many dangers along the way and were on the verge of life and death several times, but they finally made it through successfully.
Yin Fei has a strong learning ability, especially the environment that trains wolves. In order not to be surpassed by Yin Fei so quickly, Ye Zhizhi works harder, for fear of being embarrassed in front of the younger generation.
The two siblings, Yinfei and Chijin, also became very powerful as she wished.
Although they are still a little immature in front of their elders, they will eventually surpass their parents.
Now that Yin Fei has grown up, she has no excuse to delay any longer.
It's time for her to leave.
Ye Zhizhi's gaze fell on the map on the ground again.
She should leave.
Ye Zhizhi had already made up her mind, and she packed her package silently.
She had already prepared many things, but this time she did not bring the animal skins that took up the most space. She only brought food and medicine powder.
She had a feeling that she could really get out this time.
And she knew that this time she went out, she didn't know when she would be able to come back.
Ye Zhizhi wrapped a large bag of wolf hair in a snakeskin bag, wrapping it tightly and cherishing it.
The wolves, especially Yin Yi and Yin Lang, developed this habit very early on. It seemed that they envied her for having hair because she had no hair. Every year when they shed their hair, they would shake off their hair and leave it to Ye Zhizhi.
Although Ye Zhizhi had never used it, he kept the habit and unknowingly accumulated a thick pile of it.
Ye Zhizhi couldn't take the wolves with her when she left this time, but after seeing the wolf hair in the corner, she had an idea in her mind: she wanted to take the wolf hair with her, so that it would be as if they were always with her.
Ye Zhizhi knew that she could not delay any longer. Her feelings for the wolf pack and the jungle were growing stronger and stronger, and her bond with them was getting deeper and deeper. Now, when she thought about leaving the wolf pack, her heart felt like it was being cut by a knife, and the pain was so severe that she had difficulty breathing.
Many times she even forgot that she was still a human being. Only when it was late at night and everyone was asleep would she repeatedly hypnotize herself to go out, and only then would this idea become her obsession.
Yin Fei is still looking forward to going out with Ye Zhizhi this year, but Ye Zhizhi has already told it that it needs to go out and gain experience independently, and then it will be with its brother Chi Jin.
Ye Zhizhi already has a deep understanding of the strength of this brother and sister, and they are more than capable of protecting themselves.
Although Yin Fei still wanted to be with Ye Zhizhi in her heart, she listened to Ye Zhizhi's words very much, especially this kind of experience. Young wolves who had just reached adulthood would also have the ambition to leave their elders and wander around the world.
So after Ye Zhizhi sent Yin Fei and Chi Jin away, he began to prepare to leave.
Yin Fei was too clingy to her, so she had to wait until it left before she could leave.
Ye Zhizhi also did a lot of things during this period. She repaired the farm and put prey back in.
The pack hadn't had any new cubs in recent years, but Ye Zhizhi estimated that Erzong and Sanbai's cubs would be born this year or in the next two years. A wolf pack couldn't afford to have too many generations lost. Judging by Yinyi's experience, it took ten years for them to truly mature into independent wolves.
And during this period, some may fail halfway.
Ye Zhizhi sighed in his heart. This territory could no longer support the survival of more wolves. The matter of migrating the territory was imminent.
She had been to the canyon cave last year. That Feng Shui treasure land had not yet been discovered by other predators, and the stone road she and the animals had built was now covered with green plants and was as solid as a mountain.
But every year when Ye Zhizhi asked for advice, the Wolf King still felt that there was no need to migrate.
Ye Zhizhi felt that one or two of the farms might have to be closed soon. The Wolf King noticed this, but he felt that things were already better than before and it wasn't a big problem.
Ye Zhizhi looked at his father, the Wolf King, who still looked as charming as ever, and his temper disappeared.
And with Wolf Sister Chi Wang as a neighbor, Ye Zhizhi felt that Yin Yi might not migrate either.
Ye Zhizhi had figured out the Wolf King's father's thoughts over the years. Migrating to a new territory was a very important decision for the wolf pack.
Generally speaking, wolves will only migrate when food becomes so scarce that it threatens their survival, when their territory is invaded, or when their territory is damaged by natural disasters and they can no longer survive. Strictly speaking, wolves haven't occupied any of these areas.
Food was scarce here, but it only caused the wolves to starve during the rainy and winter months, a problem her farm had solved. Their territory had once been invaded, but the wolf king had led the pack to reclaim it. As for natural disasters, she had rarely seen them in all her years in the jungle.
The only thing I've seen is floods.
However, the wolf pack's territory is located on high ground, so even if there is a flood, it will not reach here, not to mention that there are no large rivers nearby.
As for mudslides and landslides, there are no conditions for them to form because of the lush forests and the well-developed root systems underground.
As for fires, the forest is wet all year round, and lightning only occurs during the rainy season. Even if a fire is struck, it will be extinguished by the rain in the next second and cannot burn at all.
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For all these reasons, there is no need for wolves to migrate their territory. They have been breeding in this territory for many generations and have always lived like this.
Ye Zhizhi's main concern was to hope that the wolves could live a better life. She was worried that after she left, the breeding farm would gradually fail to sustain itself, hunting would become increasingly difficult, and the wolves would then go back to starving.
Ye Zhizhi thought for a long time and decided to respect the Wolf King's opinion.
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