38 Wilderness Survival
◎It ran away, she chased it, it couldn't fly away even if it had wings.◎
The wolf pack was very tolerant of the cubs. Although they were still instinctively afraid of fire, they knew that this thing could allow the only picky and underdeveloped cub in the pack to eat meat, and that there would be no danger if they didn't get close, so they no longer bared their teeth at the fire.
It's still annoying though, so I'll just stay away from it when I see it.
Ye Zhizhi finally achieved the freedom to barbecue and even keep warm during the day.
The wolves went out hunting again, and this time even the mother brown wolf went out with them.
Because now Ye Zhizhi can finally eat meat.
When the wolves went out hunting, Ye Zhizhi squatted by the fire. She didn't keep the fire burning all the time. After all, winter had not come yet, and winter was so long, so she had to use it sparingly.
After the wolves came back, Ye Zhizhi roasted the meat that was allocated to him.
Seeing that the wolf girl was eating with great relish and smelling the food which was quite special, Yin Yi and the other wolves squatted aside curiously.
Ye Zhizhi then distributed the barbecue to all of them.
The young wolf who was eating barbecue for the first time: "..." It tastes better than plants and eggs, but still not as good as fresh meat and blood.
Ye Zhizhi didn't know whether the other wolves liked it or not, but it was a fresh taste at least. For this reason, she specially roasted a lot of meat and ran to give each wolf a piece to taste.
The wolves responded: "..."
The cub has a really weird taste. It has to make the meat so unpalatable before it can eat it.
Don't understand, but respect.
With fire, Ye Zhizhi thought her survival problem was solved, but she never expected that she overestimated the role of fire and underestimated the horror of winter.
On the second day of heavy snow, Ye Zhizhi lay shivering in the wolf pack.
The temperature of the fire was almost useless in the face of the sudden drop in winter.
In the empty cave, the pervasive cold overwhelmed the warmth of the fire, and it couldn't provide her with much warmth, even if she desperately added firewood.
We can only be thankful that she had the foresight to roast a lot of meat, which can be stored for a long time in the winter. She nibbled on it a little bit every day and drank the milk of the two-brown wolf mother, so she finally did not starve to death this winter.
But she almost froze to death, luckily the wolves kept her warm.
Ye Zhizhi was thinking that he wouldn't have to cause trouble to the wolves this winter, but he didn't expect that he still had to rely on them to survive.
And she was seriously ill.
This was not a surprise to Ye Zhizhi. She had felt several times that she might get sick, but it turned out to be a false alarm. She felt that she was already great for being able to hold on for so long without getting sick.
In such a harsh environment, people's living needs are still difficult to solve. This experience is something Ye Zhizhi never wants to recall again, but in the face of survival, it is meaningless to worry about it.
Time moves forward step by step. As the cold winter passes, another spring comes.
The sun shines through the clouds and onto the earth, dispelling the remaining chill of winter.
The ice crystals on the branches have not yet begun to melt, but unknown birds can't wait to sing loudly to celebrate the arrival of spring.
Hibernating animals have awakened, emerging from caves or tree holes and walking in the mountains and forests.
Ye Zhizhi looked at the wolves rushing out of their den with envy that was beyond words. She also wanted to go out!
She finally realized that to keep warm, she needed thick clothes and thick quilts.
Although she didn't know how to make animal skins.
Making fire by rubbing two sticks together could be understood literally, and success would come with more experiments. However, making fur was completely beyond her knowledge, but no matter what, she had to try it.
The temperature in the nest is always higher than outside. It didn't take long for Ye Zhizhi to be able to move around in the cave. On the day she was able to get up, she used a stone to carve two deep scratches on the wall of the grass nest.
This is her second winter.
Ye Zhizhi felt that it should be recorded.
Then, with her now thinner legs, she ran down the boulder. She had only a small pile of firewood left, thinking it would last at least half a month, but it was almost gone in just a few days, and she had to continue collecting firewood to dry.
Ye Zhizhi silently counted the things he had to do this year and felt that he was too busy and might not have enough time.
She thought about it again to make sure she hadn't missed anything, and then she became more motivated.
As the year passed and she grew one year older, her memory became better. Unlike before, when her brain capacity was limited and she would forget everything else after remembering one thing.
The wolves, who had been out for a day, came back with a lot of prey in their mouths.
After a winter, the bodies of the four young silver wolves had grown larger and were no different from adult wolves, except that they were more lively.
The furry body, which had been dull and thin due to the lack of food in winter, quickly became stronger due to the abundance of prey these days. The fur became smooth and shiny, and the prey it could hunt became larger.
Yin Yi placed the deer in his mouth in front of Ye Zhizhi, and his narrow and long animal eyes showed his concern as always: Wolf sister, eat more!
Ye Zhizhi felt like she had grown up a bit, but in the eyes of the younger wolf, who had grown even bigger, how come the wolf girl had shrunk again?!
Still eating too little.
Brother Wolf is worried about his sister Wolf who is not growing taller.
Ye Zhizhi looked at the neck of her prey, which was killed by a single blow and was still bleeding. She suddenly thought, should she replenish her salt now? The human body needs salt. Without salt, it will gradually become weak.
I heard that animal blood can replenish salt...
Ah, one more thing to do.
Ye Zhizhi's eyes moved around and finally found a large intact leaf among the dead leaves. She rubbed it... and rubbed a hole in it.
Ye Zhizhi: "..." She looked at her hands. After a winter of rest, the wound on her palms had healed. She should have a physique that was not prone to scarring. There was no trace of the wound on her palms. But that was not the point. The point was that she seemed to have more strength. Although it might be because the leaves were brittle, she just had that feeling.
She found another leaf and blew on it carefully this time to remove the dust. She pretended to have cleaned it, then ran to the deer's neck and used the leaf to catch the blood that was still flowing out.
Yin Yi tilted his head and watched the wolf girl's series of actions.
Wolves also drink animal blood, but they drink it directly.
It always couldn't understand the wolf girl's behavior, but even though the wolf girl was disabled, bald and her hair couldn't grow, in its heart she was still the most powerful wolf girl. She did a lot of strange things that it couldn't do!
Her success last year was extinguished again, but Ye Zhizhi was not worried at all because she had succeeded the first and second time.
She felt she had mastered some of the tricks of starting a fire and knew how to keep the embers burning longer.
Ye Zhizhi dug the palm-sized shallow pit a little deeper. Of course, she didn't know how long it would take her to dig it out by herself, so she demonstrated it to Yin Yi and the others, and then they helped her dig it out with their claws.
Now she has plenty of time and her hands are uninjured, so she can do more and many of her previous ideas can be realized.
She also used the excavated soil to tamp a small mound on both sides of the pit, then pressed it with stones and inserted two crossed sticks. In this way, when she put the barbecue on it, she could grill the fragrant meat.
The embers from burnt firewood can be preserved longer if buried in a pit.
The location of the fire pit is quite good. It is not far from the cave entrance, has good air circulation, is far away from the wolf den, and is blocked by some rock pillars.
It was also here that Ye Zhizhi made seven small mounds in the corner when he was digging a hole a few days ago. Only Ye Zhizhi knew what these represented.
Ye Zhizhi filled a handful of deer blood with leaves, watched it slowly solidify in his hands, and then placed it on the stone. The temperature was still low, so Ye Zhizhi didn't have to worry about it going bad.
When she lights the fire again, she can roast the deer blood and eat it.
The ice and snow melted into water to nourish the earth, and all things came back to life. The temperature at this time rose again. Ye Zhizhi was finally no longer restricted in his movements and could finally leave the cave!
When he walked out of the cave again, Ye Zhizhi turned into a spinning top, busy as a whirlwind.
Although she could eat barbecue, she couldn't just eat meat. Now was the season for all things to grow. She not only looked for fruits and eggs, but also picked up plants that animals had gnawed on and roasted them to eat.
In Ye Zhizhi's understanding, as long as animals can eat it, she can definitely eat it.
Besides that, firewood was essential. Wherever she went, she would pick up any broken branches she saw, especially those from broken tree trunks and roots. If she wanted the fire to burn longer, she would need thicker firewood.
Yin Yi and several wolves became her porters.
In spring, there is plenty of prey, and wolves can easily catch prey. They have no worries about food, and they seem content in every move.
This year they are not like last year, when they spend most of their time in the den when not hunting, but are walking around in the territory.
Ye Zhizhi could often see them. The wounds on the wolves' bodies had all healed, leaving only the slowly fading scars that showed where they had been injured.
While stockpiling food, Ye Zhizhi did not forget to continue her breeding plan.
Ye Zhizhi felt that the reason for not being able to successfully keep the prey in captivity in the cave was an environmental problem. Their territory was not too small, so it would be possible to find a few places to semi-free-range the prey.
There are simply too few prey in the territory. I don’t know if the wolves have eaten them all, or if the wolves’ presence in the territory is too strong and scares the prey away.
The first thing Ye Zhizhi noticed was the valley, which had relatively abundant vegetation. She could simply enclose it and turn it into a natural breeding farm.
Her first choice was still rabbits. She had long been aware of the rabbits' reproductive ability and felt that she would definitely be able to raise them this time.
She asked Brother Wolf and the others to catch a dozen live rabbits and put them into the valley.
This valley is so big for a rabbit, they should be able to find a place to build a nest, right?
Ye Zhizhi waited for the next day with great anticipation. She ran to the valley again, ready to quietly look for where the rabbits built their nests.
As a result, she looked around but couldn't find the rabbit. Was it hidden so deep?
Ye Zhizhi was puzzled. She still didn't believe that she couldn't find it!
Ye Zhizhi thought that since her sense of smell could distinguish the scent of wolves, she might also be able to find prey. She sniffed, trying to distinguish the scent in the valley. She took a deep breath, and it was the fragrance of grass and trees. Another breath, and it was the ubiquitous scent of wolves. She lowered her head and sniffed, and there was also the odor of dead branches and leaves mixed with the decaying smell of soil.
She smelled a faint, faint scent among these mixed scents.
Ye Zhizhi instinctively felt that it was the scent of a rabbit. Although she didn't specifically remember it, it was very similar to the smell of a rabbit she smelled yesterday.
She followed the general direction of the smell and soon came out of the valley. The direction the rabbit ran was obviously towards the outside of the wolf's territory.
Escape overnight?
Ye Zhizhi reacted and realized that they were no longer in the valley!
Why is this? Ye Zhizhi couldn't understand. It was just a matter of changing nests to continue living. Is it so difficult to accept?
Could it be that there were no plants here that rabbits could eat? Ye Zhizhi decided to observe and see what the rabbits ate, and then transplant them to the valley. She also had to fence off this place as soon as possible.
She just didn't believe that she couldn't raise the baby like this.
Act as soon as you think of it. Ye Zhizhi was not in a hurry to catch the rabbit, but surrounded the valley first.
She used the terrain, vines and branches, and spent half a month to finally complete this major project. During this period, she had to keep an eye on it and tell the wolves not to destroy her natural fence. There were only two places to enter and exit the valley.
Then transplant some plants that rabbits eat, and finally continue to catch rabbits.
Soon, several wolves each brought a rabbit back. Ye Zhizhi smelled the scent and felt a sense of familiarity. She took another look and saw, oh my! Isn't this the rabbit she had runaway from a while ago? It had gained weight in the past two weeks.
Although I don't know if Yin Yi and the others did it on purpose, but——
Ye Zhizhi gave Yin Yideng Wolf a look of appreciation for a job well done.
The four wolves swung their tails happily and continued to catch the other rabbits.
Rabbits: “…” Why are you wolves here again?
Ye Zhizhi didn't know about the rabbit's resentment, so she put the rabbit back into the valley and watched from the side.
The rabbits squatted on the ground, surrounded by wolves and trembling instinctively: "?"
The rabbits and wolves looked at each other. They looked at the circle of wolves lying beside them, and saw that they were just looking at them but not eating them. After a long time, one of the gray rabbits jumped tentatively, turned its head to observe, jumped again, and turned its head again.
The wolf still didn't move.
The rabbit turned around, jumped quickly, and ran a long way away, making a few calls.
Brothers and sisters, run away!
The other rabbits seemed to react and quickly chased after him.
Ye Zhizhi watched the rabbits disappear into thin air and couldn't help but sigh, "They're so energetic! They look easy to feed and must be delicious!"
On a dark and windy night, I quietly escaped.
The gray rabbit led a group of rabbits, rustling and poking its head out from the edge of the rock. It looked around vigilantly but found no trace of the wolf, and ran back to the same route it had escaped last time.
The journey was smooth, and the rabbits finally jumped out of the valley and were about to run towards freedom.
Rabbits: “???” Why is the exit blocked?
The rabbits walked around for a while and found that they were blocked by plants and could not jump out.
But that's okay, because rabbits dig holes.
So when Ye Zhizhi hurried to the valley, she found that her rabbit had escaped again, and the place she had painstakingly surrounded had a rabbit hole connecting the inside and the outside.
Ye Zhizhi: "..." She blocked the hole with stones.
Or is it that he is allowed to roam too freely? Should she tie him up with rattan?
She stared at the rabbits that were brought back by Silver Wolf, thinking about something.
The rabbits that were caught again: "..." Or you could just eat us.
What on earth were these wolves trying to do? They caught them but didn't eat them. They finally managed to get back to their den, only to be caught again.
Ye Zhizhi didn't tie up the rabbits in the end. She wanted to see how many times these rabbits could escape.
The other wolves also seemed to find it interesting. The first thing they did when they woke up in the morning was to run excitedly with the wolf girl to catch rabbits.
The rabbits that were still caught after moving overnight: "..."
These damn wolves! They're fighting!
A few days passed like this. When Ye Zhizhi and the wolves hurried to the valley again, ready to catch rabbits again, they found that the rabbits were squatting in groups of three or two beside the bushes in the valley. Some of them were chewing grass with their mouths moving, some were squatting beside the plants and sticking their heads out to bite the plants, and some were jumping on the roots and rocks.
Noticing the appearance of their natural enemies, the rabbits just shook their ears and continued to do their own things calmly.
The plump gray rabbit cast a disdainful glance: "Didn't you expect that? They won't run away!"
Huh? The moment they saw the rabbits staying peacefully in the valley, Ye Zhizhi and the wolf looked disappointed.
Why don’t you run away?
Yin Yi walked up to the rabbits and bared his teeth to scare them. The rabbits remained motionless, as if their natural enemies did not exist, and continued to play and eat grass calmly.
Yes, after countless times of being chased and escaped by the wolves, the rabbits overcame their fear of their natural enemies and were no longer afraid of the wolves.
I won't eat them anyway.
The disappointment was only a moment, and Ye Zhizhi soon became happy. If the rabbits didn't run away, then her breeding plan was successful!
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