9 Wilderness Survival
◎Mom, help, help, I’m hungry!!◎
The old wolf left with the meat in his mouth.
Yin Yi lay beside Ye Zhizhi, clinging to it, and howled softly, as if asking, why don't you eat meat?
Ye Zhizhi responded silently, she couldn't eat...
Hungry……
I'm thirsty too...
Ye Zhizhi kept moving her dry little mouth. She felt that she would feel better if she drank some water.
She had read an article before that said the human body can only survive for about 3-7 days without water intake. She felt that with her physical condition, it would be good if she could hold on to the third day.
Ye Zhizhi tried hard to tell Brother Wolf that she wanted to drink water.
Drinking water should help you last longer.
But there was a language barrier, and she howled weakly a few times, but Yin Yi didn't understand what she meant.
Yin Yi could tell that Ye Zhizhi wanted something, but it didn't know what she wanted, so it was spinning around in a panic.
Ye Zhizhi tried hard to make movements like sucking and drinking water.
How do wolves drink water?
Ye Zhizhi thought for a long time, and then imagined how a dog drinks water, so he stuck out his tongue and pretended to lick the water.
Yin Yi looked at Ye Zhizhi's little mouth, which was so dry that the skin was peeling. Not sure if he finally understood or thought of something else, he suddenly turned around and ran away, quickly disappearing from Ye Zhizhi's sight.
...I hope Brother Wolf can understand what she means.
Ye Zhizhi tried hard to divert her attention. She was so hungry that she felt dizzy and her eyes were blurry. She seemed to have returned to the day when she just woke up in the forest. She felt the same way then.
When will Wolf Mother come back...
Ye Zhizhi felt so uncomfortable that she wanted to cry, but she couldn't because crying requires energy.
She seemed to have waited for a long time, but also seemed to have waited for only a short time. When she could no longer bear it and closed her eyes, trying to keep her mind clear, Yin Yi ran back.
It was biting a dead branch in its mouth. Upon closer inspection, there was a crack in the branch with a pool of clear water on it.
Yin Yi ran fast and some of the water spilled out along the way, but it was still enough for Ye Zhizhi to drink two or three sips. Yin Yi ran to Ye Zhizhi and poured the water on the dead branch into Ye Zhizhi's mouth.
Ye Zhizhi was suddenly awakened by the coolness of her lips. She smacked her lips, eagerly swallowing the liquid that wet the corners of her lips, and suddenly opened her eyes.
“Ouch!”
Ye Zhizhi reached out and grabbed the dead branch that was getting closer, and poured the remaining water into his mouth.
The cold water moistened her dry mouth. Although she only drank a small sip, it seemed to inject vitality into her, and she felt much more energetic.
Ye Zhizhi didn't care whether the water was clean or not, she howled at Yin Yi a few times -
Brother Wolf, I want more!
This time, Yin Yi quickly understood Ye Zhizhi's meaning and turned around and ran again.
Ye Zhizhi waited anxiously for Yin Yi to bring back the life-saving water.
She licked the area around her lips, feeling something sweet. She guessed it was the water from the rainy season. She wondered if drinking it would give her stomach upset...never mind, a stomach upset was better than dying of dehydration.
Yin Yi took the cubs out to look for water this time. They mostly looked for water in the dead branches, and secondly for water on the leaves. Even the old wolf came along and bit a large piece of dead wood back. Although most of the water was consumed on the way, the wolves had great strength in numbers, and the accumulation of small amounts made up a lot. Soon, Ye Zhizhi's belly was bulging.
She drank a bellyful of water.
Yin was very happy when he saw the wolf girl's belly swelling up, thinking that the wolf girl would not be weak after drinking enough water.
In fact, it didn't take long before Ye Zhizhi felt hungry again, and it became more and more obvious.
This water has no nutritional value and can only quench thirst but not hunger. She is also very worried that this cold water that may contain many microorganisms will irritate her fragile stomach and intestines. If it makes her sick, she will be finished.
Fortunately, I waited for a short while and only felt my stomach moving and rumbling for a while, without any other adverse reactions.
She felt cold all over and couldn't help but hug Yin Yi to warm herself.
Ye Zhizhi began to feel weak again. She closed her eyes and tried to use sleep to offset the hunger, but she was so hungry that her heart and lungs were burning and she couldn't sleep well. She didn't sleep for long before she was awakened by the ubiquitous hunger, and then she forced herself to continue sleeping, and the cycle continued over and over again.
Waking up again, Ye Zhizhi couldn't fall asleep. Her eyes were dull and lifeless, and her little head was moving slowly. What time was it? When would Wolf Mother come back...
Her vision went dark—oh, it was still dark.
It’s been two days and two nights. Have the wolves returned?
No.
At this time, Ye Zhizhi wished he was a wolf. Wolf cubs can go without food for several days, but human cubs cannot.
Ye Zhizhi looked forward to it.
Did the mother wolf forget that she has a cub crying for food?
Ye Zhizhi opened her eyes listlessly, hugging Wolf Brother, who was like a small heater, close to her. She was not afraid even though the cave was dark and silent.
I’m so hungry…
She didn't wake up Brother Wolf, and Brother Wolf couldn't help at this time.
When Ye Zhizhi thought that he might not see the sun tomorrow, he waited until dawn, feeling as if the days were years.
Today is a rare sunny day. The warm sunshine dispels the slight chill, and the cave is also very bright.
Ye Zhizhi became even weaker. The two days and two nights seemed to have drained away all her energy. The fair and tender skin that she had worked so hard to maintain began to turn yellow, and the baby fat on her cheeks had shrunk visibly.
When Yin woke up, the first thing he did was to nudge Ye Zhizhi. She barely responded, then lay there motionless, unable to call out anymore.
Hungry……
Ye Zhizhi felt that he could survive three days but not the fourth or fifth day.
I didn’t expect the wolves would not come back for so long. Will she starve to death?
Yin Yi glanced at Ye Zhizhi, ran out with the wolf cubs, and soon brought back a pool of water for Ye Zhizhi to drink.
Ye Zhizhi forced himself to drink a few sips, but still looked very weak.
Yin Yi's eyes were filled with worry. He was puzzled as to why the wolf girl, who had become energetic after drinking water yesterday, was still not energetic after drinking water now. He whimpered a few times and ran out with the wolf cubs again.
At this moment, the three old wolves also left the cave with their cubs. Only Ye Zhizhi was left in the cave. It was so quiet that even breathing was barely audible.
The den is full of the wolf pack's scent marks and is relatively safe. Although the area outside the den is the wolf pack's territory, it is not absolutely safe. Otherwise, the silver wolf and the wolf king's other cub would not have been taken away by the giant tiger that broke into the territory when they were out for a walk.
After this incident, the old wolf watched the cubs more closely and never left their side when they were outside. Of course, one of the old wolves would not run too far, but would stay around the den to prevent other predators from sneaking into the cave.
Besides that, it’s about finding fresh food.
In the eyes of the wolf pack, Ye Zhizhi is just a wolf cub that looks a bit different. Only newborn wolf cubs cannot leave their mother for a moment and need her to breastfeed them. After a while, when the wolf cubs grow up a little and can eat meat, they grow faster.
How could they have imagined that their cubs, who had been born for more than a hundred days and nights, were so weak that they were not even as strong as newborn wolves?
The old wolf had never seen a wolf cub that had lived for so many days and nights and yet had no teeth yet and could only eat milk but not meat. He had also never seen a wolf cub that was so weak that it seemed as if it would die at any time after only two or three days and nights without food.
The mother wolf was not around and could not feed the cubs. The old wolf could only look after the other cubs while running as far away as possible to find fresh food, hoping to feed the cubs some blood from the prey.
Whether it was the old wolf or the young wolf, they all realized at this time that what Ye Zhizhi needed was food that was edible.
They searched everywhere near the cave. It was difficult to find small prey here, otherwise the wolves would not have run so far. They searched for anything they thought was edible.
Two hours later, the old and young wolves, having gained something, ran back to their den.
No one knew where the wolf cubs had gone. They were all dirty, with mud and rotten leaves stuck to their fur. Even if they shook their little bodies, they couldn't get rid of all the mud.
The cubs couldn't wait any longer, they just waved their hands and rushed towards Ye Zhizhi impatiently, putting the food they found in front of Ye Zhizhi one by one.
Yin Yi used his head to nudge Ye Zhizhi, wanting her to eat.
Ye Zhizhi tried hard to open her eyes wide and see that most of the food the cubs found were dead insects whose species she couldn't identify. They looked strange in shape and must have been found from cracks in dead branches, rotten leaves and stones. Their black shells and slender legs were covered in rot.
Regardless of whether those insects are poisonous or not, she can't bite them.
The most conspicuous thing was a small animal that looked like a mouse, about the size of her two fists.
The rat-like creature stared at her with its round, bean-shaped eyes wide open, its body covered in a bloody, fatal wound, clearly a result of a wolf's bite.
Ye Zhizhi stared at the wound, thinking that animal blood seemed to be able to replenish some energy, but looking at the dirty rat-like creature, Ye Zhizhi couldn't help feeling nauseous. She was thinking, if she didn't eat anything, she would die later, or if she threw away the burden of humans and drank that little bit of blood raw, she would be able to struggle a little longer.
But seeing that the hair was wet and dirty, and thinking about how many kinds of germs the body might carry, Ye Zhizhi: "..." No, she couldn't accept it.
Ye Zhizhi breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes blurred, and he almost thought his soul had ascended to heaven.
So hungry...
Ye Zhizhi even had difficulty thinking, the only thing in his mind was hunger.
She exhausted her remaining energy and tried hard to keep her eyelids open, not daring to let herself fall into a complete sleep, for she was afraid that she would never wake up again.
Living is so hard...
Suddenly, an old wolf howled loudly at the entrance of the cave. Soon, the cubs also howled excitedly.
Ye Zhizhi thought it was an illusion at first, and was a little slow to realize that she had not heard wrong.
The remaining wolf was very excited, just as the pack was when they returned.
!
Wolves!!
Ye Zhizhi seemed to have a sudden moment of clarity, and she raised her head quickly.
Perhaps sensing the wolves' repeated calls, a familiar figure appeared at the cave entrance that afternoon and rushed over.
Ye Zhizhi saw the shadow getting closer and closer, and cried out anxiously. To sum it up, it was -
Mom, help, help, I’m hungry!!!
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