37 Wilderness Survival
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It turns out that making fire by rubbing two sticks together can be successful.
If she had persisted more and tried more, would she have been able to get fire?
Wolves are afraid of fire...
If, if she had succeeded, then wouldn't the wolf cubs have died...
All of a sudden, regret, grief, and all kinds of emotions flooded her heart, pushing her to the brink of collapse.
Ye Zhizhi thought that after seeing the wolves' revenge with his own eyes, he would let go of the past, and then slowly forget it as time passed.
But perhaps it was too unforgettable, or perhaps it had not been diluted by time. When she found out that she could have helped, when she found out that the little wolf cub she had grown up with day by day did not have to die, Ye Zhizhi cried.
She didn't cry loudly as she did when she first came to the cave, but she shed tears silently, silently, but inexplicably heartbreaking.
The silver wolf did not understand overly complicated emotions. It only felt that the cub was in pain and thought it was because its claws hurt too much. It licked the cub's claws again, with helplessness flashing in its eyes.
If one of them wasn't watched carefully, the cub would be injured again after playing on its own for only a short while.
Yinyi was originally lying in the nest to recuperate, but he also smelled the blood of the wolf sister. Seeing that she had not come up for a long time, he quickly stood up and ran over. He rubbed the wolf sister gently, and his eyes flashed with concern: What's wrong with the wolf sister?
With tearful eyes, Ye Zhizhi saw the wounds on Yin Yi's body and thought about how Yin Yi almost died in the wolf's mouth in order to save her. Her tears flowed even more violently.
In the end, Ye Zhizhi cried herself to sleep and had no memory of how she got back to her home. When she woke up, her palms were covered with wet and sticky herbs. The piercing pain had disappeared, leaving only a slight numbness.
Ye Zhizhi tried hard to open her eyes a little... She had been crying for too long, even crying when she fell asleep, so her eyes were so red and swollen that she could only open a little, and they felt sore and astringent, which was a bit uncomfortable.
Yinyi couldn't help but howl when he saw the wolf girl's appearance. The wolf girl's eyes looked exactly like Erzong's after being stung by a wasp, red and swollen!
Where did the wasp come from in the nest? Yin Yi pricked up his ears and looked around vigilantly.
Ye Zhizhi: “…”
She thought Brother Wolf had become mature and steady. Although his voice had become deeper, he was still startled.
Ye Zhizhi was obviously still in a low mood, but he couldn't help but laugh and cry at Brother Wolf's amusement.
Then Ye Zhizhi saw that the herbs that Yin Yi had applied on his body had moved away from the wound because of his violent movements.
She instantly forgot all her emotions and let out a loud cry.
Don’t move!!!
Yin Yi shuddered and stopped moving, but his eyes kept rolling around.
Ye Zhizhi squinted his eyes and moved forward, pushing the herbs back into the wound with the back of his hand.
Although I knew before that herbs were very effective in stopping bleeding and healing wounds, there was a big difference between seeing it with my own eyes and experiencing it personally.
Ye Zhizhi looked down at his palm. When did the wolf king father and wolf mother go out to look for herbs?
She turned her head and looked around. The wolf king and mother were not in the cave. Did they go out again? Their wounds were still healed!
Ye Zhizhi still remembered her duties. After telling Yin Yi not to move, she raised her hands with her palms facing up and ran down the boulder nest to see how the other wolves were applying the medicine.
She saw that there were not many wolves lying in the den. Those that were more seriously injured were all there, but the three new wolves that were less seriously injured were not there.
Ye Zhizhi was thinking about the names of the three wolves. The only black wolf was simply called Dahei, and the two wolf siblings whose fur was similar to that of Erzong's family were called Zong Lao San and Zong Si. Ye Zhizhi was very grateful that they participated in the revenge together. The sense of strangeness disappeared, and he felt much closer to them.
She thought about it and realized that winter was coming soon, and the Wolf King and his companions might have gone out hunting.
Ye Zhizhi could smell the bloody scent from the cave where the prey was stored. She knew what kind of prey it was, so she didn't go in to see.
Indeed, wolves will only eat their own kind in extreme circumstances. Rather than letting wolves go out hunting with injuries, it is better to make the best use of the wolf's prey.
Maybe it’s not enough, so the wolf king and the others still went out.
While thinking about it, Ye Zhizhi tried hard to open his red and swollen eyes and look at their wounds one by one.
The only bad thing was that every wolf would look at her eyes in surprise, especially Uncle Scar, who had a mocking look on his face, as if her red and swollen eyes were very funny.
Even the two brown and three white wolves had the same expression as Yin Yi, with a look of surprise and a hint of watching the fun.
Ye Zhizhi: “…”
After this, her heavy mood dissipated a lot. She found that the wolves were more open-minded than her. After avenging the dead wolves and regaining their territory, the matter seemed to be over in their hearts. Even the three white wolf father, although he looked much more taciturn, was not as gloomy as before.
For a moment, it was as if we were back to when nothing had happened.
Ye Zhizhi felt relieved. This was a good thing. Dwelling in sadness would only cause her to constantly exhaust herself. She should let it go.
Ye Zhizhi no longer imagined what if.
Time cannot be reversed. Even though regrets are still tormenting her, she must move forward firmly and turn these emotions into a driving force that makes her stronger so that history will not repeat itself in the future.
Ye Zhizhi was determined in his thoughts.
The most urgent thing is to keep warm and get food. She doesn't want to be a burden to the wolf pack this winter.
Ye Zhizhi suddenly remembered that he had successfully made fire by rubbing two sticks together yesterday!
She ran as fast as she could and rushed to the place where she had been drilling wood yesterday.
There were dead trees and leaves on the ground, with no signs of burning, as if they had not caught fire.
Ye Zhizhi almost thought she was hallucinating, but when she pulled apart the leaves, she saw that there was indeed a dark mark. She must have spun out sparks.
But it was not retained in time, causing the spark to go out quickly.
Ye Zhizhi looked at her hands, feeling like crying but unable to shed tears. All her previous efforts had been wasted.
It doesn’t matter, she thought, if she succeeded once, she would succeed again.
But when she looked at her injured hands again, she felt that it might be more difficult to succeed the second time. At least she couldn't think of trying again for the next two days.
Ye Zhizhi squatted aside, her little hands continued to keep upwards, and she pushed the dead branches with her fingers. She had no recollection of how she succeeded. It seemed as if she was possessed by a demon at that time.
Ye Zhizhi is now emotionally stable and able to think calmly.
She looked carefully and found that the branch from which the sparks came out was the one where she had drilled a hole.
She's amazing! She did this with her own hands!
She looked at the other branches that had no holes drilled into them, compared them, and found that it was probably a problem of texture. This branch was as thick as her forearm, and the part covered with bark was relatively soft, so she was able to drill through it successfully.
Ye Zhizhi looked at the dead leaves again and found that they were not ignited. After thinking about it, she tore the dead leaves into pieces, perhaps making it easier to ignite them.
When the silver wolf came back, the first thing he saw was the squatting cub.
Silver Wolf: "..." He was just playing there yesterday and got hurt and cried, and today he ran over there again, showing no memory of pain. He walked over and saw that the cub's two claws were still healed and he was messing with the pile of dead leaves.
The silver wolf didn't understand, but even though it had only given birth to one cub, it had seen many cubs in the pack. They were always very curious and would do stupid things that puzzled the adult wolves, so it felt helpless.
I originally thought this cub was too well-behaved, but I didn't expect it to be even more naughty than her wolf brother.
The silver wolf walked over, lowered its head and nudged Ye Zhizhi, then bit her hood with its teeth, trying to pull her away. Although it didn't know what it was, the silver wolf still remembered that there was a moment when it felt dangerous here.
When Ye Zhizhi saw Wolf Mother coming back, he stood up obediently and followed her back.
The wolves that went out hunting have returned. The Wolf King and Dahei have brought back prey, including three rabbits, and the Wolf King brought back a roe deer.
Ye Zhizhi didn't pay much attention to the prey. Her eyes wandered over the body of the wolf king father. The scars were still there, and no new wounds had appeared.
The herbs that were bitten back were still in the boulder nest. After Ye Zhizhi returned, he immediately applied medicine to the two wolves.
Her little baby teeth that had not yet grown in could not chew many herbs, and she had no tools to hammer the herbs. In the end, the wolf king father and the wolf mother applied the medicine to each other, and Ye Zhizhi just helped to make it more solid.
Now the family of four are lying in a row to recover from their injuries.
The silver wolf licked Ye Zhizhi's head and looked at her little paws, where the herbs were still applied obediently. It seemed that the cub knew the limits when playing. Well, she was quite well-behaved.
Ye Zhizhi snuggled in the wolf mother's fur, and his cold body slowly warmed up.
When Ye Zhizhi thought that he would soon have fire, he was no longer so afraid of the coming cold weather.
The transition between the rainy season and winter is only half a month, which is not a long time. After resting in the cave for five days, the wolves began to follow the wolf king out hunting. Although their injuries have not healed yet, they can still assist the wolf king in hunting.
Only the second brown wolf mother and the old wolf were left in the den.
Ye Zhizhi continued to tinker with her fire-making machine.
Her palms were already scabby and still hurt a little when pressed, but she couldn't wait for the wounds to heal as the temperature was getting lower and lower.
Ye Zhizhi thought for a moment and found a scrap of cloth from her cotton-padded jacket.
This little cotton-padded jacket was already tattered beyond recognition, but she still couldn't bear to throw it away as garbage. Instead, she hid it in a corner, feeling fortunate that it was a dead object and the invading wolves didn't eat it up.
Here it is, it can be used again.
Ye Zhizhi tied the rags to a wooden stick so that when she rotated her hands, it would not hurt so much.
Everything was ready. Ye Zhizhi recalled how she had successfully made the transition before. After thinking for a long time, she concluded that it was probably because of speed.
Ye Zhizhi took a deep breath, placed his hands on the cloth-wrapped wooden stick, and began to rotate.
Although there were several layers of cloth between them, the wound, which had not yet healed, was still quite painful due to repeated rubbing, and the outer scab began to fall off.
Ye Zhizhi tried hard to divert his attention and focus on the branches under his feet.
She will definitely succeed!
Even though he had some barely successful experience, Ye Zhizhi still spent nearly a day and successfully started a fire near dusk.
The faint flame was reflected in the clear pupils, and it seemed to be slightly jumping with life.
Ye Zhizhi had completely forgotten that her palms had turned blood red again. She almost trembled with her little hands as she moved the dead leaves next to her close to the fire source and lit them before putting them down, for fear of accidentally extinguishing the hard-earned fire.
The fire grew bigger and bigger, and the dead branches crackled.
Feeling the warm firelight, Ye Zhizhi grinned and let out a happy howl: "Ao-ao?" Just as she uttered the first short sound, her neck tightened instantly. The two brown wolf mother who had come over bit her hood and dragged her back. The animal eyes looked at the swaying fire with vigilance and fear.
Ye Zhizhi's neck was strangled, so he had to cooperate and retreat. The old wolf, sensing something was wrong, also ran over. It stood on the other side of Ye Zhizhi, bared its fangs, and growled towards the fire.
"Aoao!" Ye Zhizhi knew that wolves were afraid of fire, but she didn't expect them to be so scared. She quickly made a soothing sound, saying, "Don't be afraid, I'm here!"
However, Ye Zhizhi's comfort was useless, as the wolf's fear of fire was ingrained in its instinct.
They stretched out their sharp claws to grab the ground and roared anxiously.
They obviously wanted to put out the fire, but were too afraid to move forward.
Before Ye Zhizhi could pacify the two wolves, there was a noise at the cave entrance. It turned out that the wolves that had gone out hunting had returned.
Ye Zhizhi: “…”
It’s over, she can’t keep her fire.
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Ye Zhizhi was right, the wolves were very afraid of the fire.
I never expected that after all the hard work of hunting, they would be robbed. What kind of horrible creatures are these? They stay in their territory and I can't drive them away!
The wolves had never seen fire. Only the wolf king had seen it when he was young. When the rainy season came, overwhelming lightning struck a dry tree trunk, causing it to catch fire, but it was extinguished by heavy rain the next moment.
The Wolf King is still deeply impressed by that scene. The pile of things in front of him are exactly the same as what appeared when lightning struck, which makes him deeply afraid.
This cub...the wolf king narrowed his eyes.
The silver wolf thought about how the cub was always making trouble here, and guessed that this was something the cub had done. The silver wolf was puzzled, what did the cub want to do with such a scary thing?
It saw the cub's palm was covered in blood and licked it again and again. It turned out that this was the thing that made it feel dangerous that day.
“Ooo ...
Ye Zhizhi was exhausted. She screamed at the top of her lungs, but no wolf listened to her. She was also restricted in her movements and could not go forward to show that she could control the fire.
Until the fire slowly died down.
The dead branches and leaves piled up by Ye Zhizhi were all burned up, and the wolves were no longer so anxious.
The adult wolves were still very cautious, but Yin Yi and the others were curious at this time and couldn't help but get closer, step by step.
Seeing that the wolves seemed to think the danger had passed, Ye Zhizhi quickly rushed over and squatted to the side to observe. Fortunately, she had put in a lot of dead branches, and there was still a strong spark. If she put more dead branches and leaves in, it would soon be reignited. Otherwise, all her efforts would have been wasted.
Yinyi's eyes widened in shock as he saw the wolf girl running ahead of him like a gust of wind.
The wolf girl is even braver than it!
So awesome!
Yin Yi didn't care about being afraid and rushed forward and squatted beside Ye Zhizhi.
The moment he saw Mars, Yinyi instinctively wanted to retreat, but seeing that the wolf girl was squatting so close without any fear, he suppressed the instinct to retreat and watched curiously from the side.
Erzong, Sanbai and Xiaobai also gathered around curiously.
Ye Zhizhi looked at it for a moment and then thought of how to grill meat.
Her mouth immediately began to water, and she rushed to the silver wolf, howling loudly, pointing at the prey on the ground not far away, and making sounds of desire and longing.
When the wolves entered the cave, they first discovered the fire. Before they had time to put the prey into the storage cave, they just threw it aside.
The wolves came back after eating their fill, and the prey was to be put into the cave. Silver Wolf pushed a dead rabbit that Silver Yida had picked up in front of Ye Zhizhi.
Ye Zhizhi swallowed her saliva and communicated with the wolf mother about her idea of tearing the meat apart. The silver wolf could easily understand her meaning. After all, the cubs' teeth had not grown yet and they probably couldn't chew it.
The silver wolf tore the rabbit into pieces. Ye Zhizhi picked up a rabbit leg, rushed to the fire, and put the rabbit leg in.
Sizzle——
The sound of fur being burned was heard instantly, and Ye Zhizhi smelled a burnt smell. The smell was not pleasant, but she couldn't control her saliva.
Meat, meat, meat!
Yin Yi and the other wolves were even more confused. Why did the wolf girl throw the food into the scary thing?
Ye Zhizhi stared at the pile of charcoal ash for a while with shining eyes. He felt that the rabbit legs would not be cooked through, and he was also afraid that the sparks would go out later and he would not be able to blow up the fire.
She rolled her eyes and ran over to get a bunch of dead branches and leaves. She first buried the rabbit legs in the charcoal fire with a wooden stick, then threw the leaves on top, and finally piled the dead branches horizontally and vertically.
Ye Zhizhi had just blew twice and the leaves had just started to burn when her back tightened and she was instantly lifted into the air, and then she was five meters away from the fire.
Ye Zhizhi, who was held in the mouth, moved her limbs and looked at the four wolves that ran away in a circle. Forget it, they were doing it for her own good.
Ye Zhizhi looked at the fire that was burning again and seemed to smell the aroma of barbecue.
The wolves that had just dispersed surrounded them again.
This pile of things scared the wolves, as if they wouldn't be hurt if they didn't get close. This time they saw that it was made by this strange little wolf cub. What on earth is this?
The silver wolf walked in front of Ye Zhizhi, complex emotions flashed through its eyes, but it was only for a moment, so fast that Ye Zhizhi thought it was an illusion. In the end, the emotion of protecting its cubs prevailed, and it carried Ye Zhizhi to the nest.
Ye Zhizhi didn't have the mind to worry about whether her clothes would be damaged. She hunched her hands and feet guiltily. After the wolf put her into the den, she watched the wolf chew the herbs and stretched out her hands to cooperate.
She belatedly felt the stinging pain in her palm.
Ye Zhizhi instantly let out a whimper of grievance. Although she felt that as long as she could create a fire, no matter what the cost, it would be worth it, it did not stop her from acting coquettishly towards the Silver Wolf.
The silver wolf applied herbs to the cub and then licked her head. A hint of helplessness and tolerance flashed in the animal's eyes.
Ye Zhizhi lay on the silver wolf's belly for a long time, so long that she thought the fire had gone out, and her keen sense of smell detected the aroma of barbecue.
At this time, the light began to dim.
Ye Zhizhi got up, gently pulled the wolf mother's hair, and howled in her mouth to urge it to follow her.
The silver wolf looked at the cub for a moment, then stood up and obediently followed the cub downstairs.
Ye Zhizhi led the silver wolf to the campfire, where four young wolves were already surrounding it.
They all smelled a strange fragrance and realized that the source was in this terrible thing. After the flames went out, they lay aside curiously.
Ye Zhizhi picked up the wooden stick that she had not thrown in. Knowing that the wolf would not let her get too close, she kept a distance that would not make the wolf feel dangerous. She stretched out her little hand and used the stick to dig in the charcoal ash pile for a while, pulled out the charred rabbit leg, and moved it to a stone nearby.
The aroma is stronger now.
Ye Zhizhi lowered his head and blew hard, not caring about the heat, and peeled off the charred rabbit skin on the surface, revealing the greasy roasted meat inside.
She couldn't lift it with her hands, but luckily the stone in front of her was of a decent height. She lowered her head and took a bite of it.
It’s hot! It’s hot!
Ye Zhizhi's mouth felt so hot that it was a little numb, but he still used his four front teeth to tear off a small piece of meat, chewing it with a hissing sound, and was reluctant to spit it out.
Even though it has no salt or seasoning and is a bit fishy and woody, it is cooked meat! Cooked!
Ye Zhizhi's eyes were filled with tears, and her red and swollen eyes were sparkling.
She finally got to eat cooked meat!
At this moment, Ye Zhizhi didn't care about anything else. She ate one bite after another, her face covered with grease. She used her few small baby teeth to tear the whole rabbit leg and eat it cleanly.
“Ah~~~”
She wanted to tell the silver wolf that this was the kind of meat she ate. She wanted to tell it that she made the fire not to scare them, but just to eat and keep warm.
With these, she can grow up well and become stronger, and the wolf will no longer have to worry day and night about how to feed her.
These fires will never be used as weapons against their own wolves.
Not only Silver Wolf understood what Ye Zhizhi wanted to express, but also the four young wolves including Silver One beside him understood it.
It turns out that she only eats this kind of meat.
Although he didn't understand, the wolf girl finally agreed to eat meat, which made Yin Yi feel relieved. So he bit out another rabbit for her and pushed it towards the wolf girl.
The remaining meat of the rabbit that Silver Wolf had torn apart had been eaten by Yin Yi as a snack.
Ye Zhizhi was very touched, but she pushed it back. She was full after eating a rabbit leg. Besides, she was so young and it was her first time eating meat. It would be troublesome if her stomach couldn't bear it.
Ye Zhizhi looked at the silver wolf, trying hard to open her red and swollen eyes, wanting to see the silver wolf's expression clearly, but before she could see clearly, the approaching silver wolf licked her forehead and cheeks.
Ye Zhizhi felt that she understood what Wolf Mom meant.
In the end, the cubs triumphed over everything.
Next, Ye Zhizhi tentatively ran over to pick up branches again and put them on the fire to burn, but the silver wolf did not stop him.
Ye Zhizhi thought of something, she didn't know how to keep the fire burning, so she could only use the stupid method of keeping the fire burning.
Ye Zhizhi almost slept next to the fire tonight. She wanted to add some firewood at night, but the mother wolf took her back to the den.
Ye Zhizhi thought that luckily she had picked up some tree roots thicker than her body among the firewood she had dried. If she buried them in the fire, they would slowly burn and should last for a whole night, right?
The next day, before dawn, the wolves were still in their den when Ye Zhizhi woke up. She was thinking about the fire, so she immediately got up and rushed down.
He used a wooden stick to dig at the pile of charcoal ash, and finally saw a little spark underneath. Ye Zhizhi quickly threw some dead leaves in, puffed up his little face and blew on it, and finally it caught fire.
Ye Zhizhi raised her head, her face turned gray, but she didn't care about anything else. She quickly grabbed another handful of leaves and threw them up, put down a few twigs, and quickly ran to hug the branches.
The increasingly strong flames dispelled the chill of the early morning. Ye Zhizhi sat by the fire and wiped the sweat off his face.
The silver wolf came down behind Ye Zhizhi shortly after he ran down. He saw the cub running around busily. He went into the storage cave, picked up a rabbit, tore it into pieces again, and pushed it towards the cub.
The redness and swelling in Ye Zhizhi's eyes subsided a lot. She looked at the wolf mother with a very moved look. She howled coquettishly, and then threw all the rabbit meat except the internal organs into the fire. Although this would burn the meat, it was not convenient for her claws to pick up the meat and roast it, and there was nothing to put on the fire for the time being.
She believes that her barbecue skills will get better and better in the future!
After one night, Ye Zhizhi's stomach and intestines were healthy and nothing happened.
She felt that her body was very strong. Perhaps this was how people adapted to the environment.
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