28 Wilderness Survival
◎Ye Zhizhi turned his head and looked at the Wolf King in disbelief.◎
When the wolves went out hunting, Ye Zhizhi was busy near the cave.
Since she failed to make fire by rubbing two sticks together, and there was no sign of lightning suddenly striking trees in broad daylight to start a fire, she turned her attention to the sunlight.
Ye Zhizhi recalled for a moment and was immediately happy. Not only did she know this principle, she also knew how to put it into practice. She only needed to use the focusing principle of convex lens. When the weather was clear, she could focus on flammable objects and quickly ignite a fire.
Great! This is even easier than rubbing two sticks together to make fire! But here's the problem: she doesn't have a convex lens, or even a mirror. How can she focus?
Ye Zhizhi walked around in the sun but couldn't find a substitute, but she used her clever brain to come up with an idea.
She found a broad green leaf and carefully dug a small round hole in it.
Ye Zhizhi saw her messy little fingernails. Her nails had never been cut, but she had been sick and weak most of the time before spring. Maybe she didn't get enough nutrition, so her nails didn't grow very fast. Later, she wore them off without noticing while climbing around. They had only grown faster recently, but before she could wear them off herself, they were almost broken again while climbing a tree a few days ago.
Ye Zhizhi just glanced at her little nail and didn't take it seriously. After she finished digging the hole, she found a tree branch and laid it horizontally, spread the leaves on it, then found the direction of the sunlight coming through the small hole and put a handful of dead leaves on it.
Artificial focus√
Ye Zhizhi clapped his hands in satisfaction, not believing that he couldn't start a fire this time.
Ye Zhizhi squatted aside and stared. The direct sunlight made her forehead sweat, and even the hood on her head could not block it.
She quickly picked up another leaf from the ground and covered her head with it. The broad leaf almost completely covered the small ball of cub. Maybe it was a psychological effect, but she soon didn't feel particularly hot anymore.
Ye Zhizhi looked for a long time and couldn't help but squinted up due to sleepiness, his little head nodding like a chicken pecking at rice.
Just as she was about to fall asleep, she suddenly fell forward as if she had lost her balance and woke up instantly.
Ye Zhizhi rubbed her eyes and yawned slightly. She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and looked at the dead leaves under the leaves.
She opened her big eyes with distinct black and white and looked closer. The whole cub was almost buried in the pile of dead leaves, and she didn't see any signs of it being ignited.
Ye Zhizhi sighed in disappointment. Is it really not possible?
None of the methods she could think of could successfully start a fire. Ye Zhizhi rubbed her face, gathered her energy, and threw the leaves on the ground, then carried the dead branches and leaves back to the cave.
Even so, what if she comes up with another solution one day?
We still need to pick up and dry dead branches and leaves to be prepared for any eventuality.
But maybe it was because she was a little shocked, but Ye Zhizhi felt sleepy after picking up the trash for a while. She yawned several times and finally ran back to her nest in the cave to take a belated nap.
When the wolves came back in the evening, she got up from her den sleepily and walked down the boulder den. When she looked up, she saw the mother wolf walking towards her with a piece of meat in her mouth.
Ye Zhizhi rubbed his eyes and woke up instantly.
She jumped up suddenly, swung her short legs, and ran away like a gust of wind.
Silver Wolf: “…”
Yin Yi, who was also walking towards Ye Zhizhi: "?" I seemed to see something running past just now?
Gin's eyes widened in shock as he noticed it was Wolf Girl.
The wolf girl is so disabled that she only has two legs left, but she can actually run faster than when she had four legs!
Yin Yi turned his head and looked at the wolf girl's back, feeling very proud. His wolf girl was really amazing. Even though she only had two legs left, she still didn't give up. She secretly practiced running and gave them such a big surprise.
It admired the wolf girl very much. She must have worked very hard to become what she is now. Look at her speed. She can even catch up with small prey.
Brother Wolf expressed his relief.
Ye Zhizhi was unable to run before, so she was held down and almost force-fed. Now she can run!
If you don't run now, when will you run?
But she didn't run far before she was blocked by the Wolf King.
The wolf king lowered his head and looked at the cub, seeming speechless. His expression seemed to be asking, "Why are you running, little cub?"
Ye Zhizhi hugged the wolf king's front legs and whimpered.
She doesn't want to eat raw meat. If she is given more time, she will definitely be able to make a fire, and then she will definitely eat cooked meat!
But Ye Zhizhi seemed to have forgotten its attitude when Wolf Brother felt wronged and tried to seek justice from Wolf King Dad.
Although the wolf king did not pretend not to see it at this moment, it grabbed Ye Zhizhi's clothes and half-pushed her towards the silver wolf.
Ye Zhizhi thought the Wolf King would help her reason with the wolf mother, and she went back to the den in a very cooperative manner. But the Wolf King just wanted to take credit for it. He pushed the cub towards the silver wolf, saying: Look, I helped you find your cub.
Ye Zhizhi turned his head and looked at the Wolf King in disbelief.
Yin, who was standing by, let out a cry, indicating that he had something to say.
It lowered its head and nodded to Ye Zhizhi, as if to comfort him. Its animal eyes showed sympathy. Our dad is like this, you'll get used to it.
Ye Zhizhi: "..." Feeling a little hurt, she said that she would never pay any attention to her father, the Wolf King, again.
Ye Zhizhi looked at Wolf Mother with grievance.
Despite walking into a trap, Silver Wolf ultimately refused to force Ye Zhizhi, and the piece of meat became Yin Yi's snack. As Silver Wolf licked the teary-eyed cub, he felt helpless. Why was he so resistant to meat? He had already grown a lot of teeth, and even though they looked blunt, they probably couldn't even tear apart meat. But if he didn't eat meat, he wouldn't grow.
As the cubs grew older, the amount of milk they produced began to decrease. The mother wolf could sense that she wasn't enough to feed the cubs. It wasn't just a matter of milk. Like other wolf cubs, as they grew older, they needed meat to grow stronger and faster, allowing them to quickly outgrow their pup phase.
This little wolf cub is still in its cub stage because it doesn't eat meat and can't grow up.
Ye Zhizhi lay between the wolf mother's limbs, acting coquettishly and lovingly with her. She felt that she looked very normal. Last year, she was just a little baby who could only lie in the nest and even had difficulty turning over. Now she can run, jump and talk.
Human cubs usually take longer to grow; it's a racial issue. There's no way to compare her with other wolf cubs.
And Ye Zhizhi didn’t want to eat meat, she just didn’t want to eat raw meat. She couldn’t get fire for the time being, but she wouldn’t give up, she would think of other ways.
Ye Zhizhi didn't know how to change Silver Wolf's perception of her. She thought hard and decided to put the issue of making fire aside for the time being. She originally thought that if she could make a fire, she could keep warm in the winter and eat meat at the same time, which would be a win-win situation, so she spent a lot of energy on it.
But since none of the solutions she could think of were successful, she decided to focus on finding food.
As long as she found plenty to eat, maybe she could make Wolf Mother realize that she could eat other foods.
So when the wolves went out hunting, Ye Zhizhi continued to look for firewood to dry near the cave and also tried hard to find food.
Ye Zhizhi couldn't run very far. She basically moved within a fan-shaped range of two hundred meters in front of the cave. She found that there were basically no living animals near the cave, and there were few edible wild fruits. Even when the wolves took her to a farther valley, there were no large prey. There were only a few small animals such as rabbits occasionally, and there was no water source, which showed that resources were scarce.
No wonder wolves have to travel great distances to hunt.
When the wolves stopped hunting, Ye Zhizhi would pester her wolf mother and brother to take her to a farther place.
Of course, the wolves still wouldn't take her far. She instinctively guessed that they were always moving within the wolf pack's territory.
Perhaps the environment can transform people's adaptability. Ye Zhizhi can now slowly distinguish the scent of wolves. Her sense of smell has become more and more sensitive. Not only can she capture the scent of wolves, but when the wolves do not deliberately hide their scent, she can sense the direction of the wolves by her sense of smell.
Ye Zhizhi was able to discover this because the wolf mother was originally lying in one direction, but for some reason she changed her location. When she turned back to look for the wolf mother, she felt that the scent belonging to the wolf mother over there was weaker, and instead she sensed the scent of the wolf mother in another direction.
Confused, she changed direction and saw the wolf mother right there.
She tried it several times later and it was accurate every time.
Ye Zhizhi was quite happy. She heard that predators could identify the direction of their prey by smelling its scent. When she grew up a little and went hunting, wouldn't it be easy to find prey?
But Ye Zhizhi only thought about it for a moment before forgetting it. She continued to look for food in a hurry. She had finally begged the wolf mother to take her to a place farther than the valley, so she couldn't waste time.
Not long after, Ye Zhizhi followed the incessant bird calls and found a large bird's nest on a huge tree.
This time she observed carefully and confirmed that there were birds staying near the nest, so the nest was not empty!
Ye Zhizhi's eyes lit up and he wanted to climb the tree again to see if there were any bird eggs there.
However, just as her limbs were hanging on the tree trunk, Brother Wolf bit the hem of her clothes and pulled them down. Ye Zhizhi turned her head and saw that Brother Wolf's eyes were full of worry: "Don't climb anymore, wolf sister. What if you can't get down again?"
Ye Zhizhi: “…” Last time was an accident, an accident.
But she couldn't convince Wolf Brother. Ye Zhizhi tried to avoid the wolves' sight and climb secretly at first, but there was not only Yin Yi but also three other young wolves staring at her. They even seemed to know that she was thinking of climbing the tree again, and they took turns staring at her all the time, leaving her no chance at all.
Ye Zhizhi had no choice but to give up. She consoled herself by thinking that she had heard the tender chirping of young birds, and that there must be no eggs on the nest.
Of course, the biggest reason was that while she was looking for wild fruits, she found five eggs of some unknown animal in a pile of grass deep in the bushes. They looked like pheasant eggs, but they were very large.
Ye Zhizhi could only be sure that this was not a snake egg.
She picked up the egg and held it up to the sunlight. It didn't look like a fertilized egg. It was just a black mass.
Ye Zhizhi happily picked up all the eggs.
She kept saying it was fine to eat the egg liquid raw, but who would want to eat it raw if they could cook it? But there was nothing here, and she couldn't think of any other way to cook the egg. Maybe she could bake it in the sun? But the sunlight wasn't very hot when it was refracted.
Maybe this vast expanse is covered in green forest, so even in summer, it is not particularly hot.
Maybe medium rare?
Ye Zhizhi looked at the sky which was already setting in the west, and resisted the urge to bake eggs immediately. She carefully brought the eggs back to the nest, and waited impatiently for the next day. She even had a sweet dream at night. She dreamed that she had baked sugar-coated eggs, which were delicious!
When Ye Zhizhi woke up, he was drooling all over the floor.
She wiped her mouth, picked up one of the eggs in the corner, and ran out quickly.
When Yin saw the wolf girl's hurried look, he followed her with his tail wagging.
The weather is nice today. Although the sun is just rising, it can be seen that it will be a sunny day.
Ye Zhizhi was turning around in front of the cave entrance, and Yin Yi followed behind him in confusion. Several times, Ye Zhizhi almost bumped into him when he turned around.
In the end, Ye Zhizhi chose a rock not far away. She climbed up carefully and sat on it.
She carefully cracked the egg in her hand to see what was inside. She could clearly see the egg liquid flowing out. She put it under her nose and sniffed it. There was a faint smell of egg.
This is a pheasant egg!
Ye Zhizhi looked at the pheasant egg, which was so big that her two small hands couldn't even hold it, and felt very strange. This was the largest egg she had ever seen. Even the double-yolk egg was not as big as it. Could it be that she was too small to see the big thing?
Ye Zhizhi didn't want to think about it if she couldn't figure it out. She placed the pheasant egg on the rock with the opening facing upwards. Here, the sun would shine on it all day long, and since it had a opening, it should be cooked faster, right?
Ye Zhizhi was full of anticipation.
The sun was not particularly hot in the morning, and Ye Zhizhi waited patiently. Yin Yi, who was lying beside him, was bored and took a nap. Later, when the weather got hotter, he ran to the bushes and played with the other wolves that had escaped.
The sun was getting brighter and brighter, and Ye Zhizhi was getting happier and happier. Soon... her sugar...
Hmm? What does that smell like?
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