Chapter 232
After five or six hours, the three of them finally caught three smelt. Edward's plan for fishing had completely failed. Frustrated, he focused on clearing the ice. Chu Huaiqin and his team continued fishing, and the temperature continued to drop. Just as everyone was feeling uneasy, the director announced that a heavy snowstorm would occur in three days due to the influence of the hot air.
Everyone turned around and looked at the half-built ice house and exclaimed, "Oh shit! We shouldn't have played like this! We played too much! More than half a month had passed, and the ice house was still not built."
"How about we close the roof?" Edward compared, and tears almost came out when he saw the igloo that was shorter than his own. They built it too wide, and even if they closed the roof, it would take some time.
"I think it's about right, brother, what do you think?" Xia En agreed. Their igloo was in the shape of a loaf of bread, gradually building upwards. The highest point was about 1.7 meters high, which was fine.
"Okay, let's cap it!" Chu Huaiqin also thought this was feasible.
The other groups also hurried to close the gap, and Chu Huaiqin's snowmobile tricycle with an open-top trunk caught their attention. The motorcycles of Groups BC had long since run out of gas, but even using fish for fuel wasn't enough for them, so where would they get the extra fish?
So when they saw Chu Huaiqin and his team pulling cartloads of ice bricks to the camp, while they could only pull two or three at a time tied with ropes, the contrast was instantly apparent.
Paige from Group C was the first to react and ran to find Chu Huaiqin.
"Chu, good brother." Paige raised her hand and wanted to hug Chu Huaiqin, but Xia En put an ice brick into her arms and almost lost her grip. "You are so stingy."
Peppa Pig touches her nose.
"Talk!" Chu Huaiqin was pulling the ice onto the shore. He came over to help as soon as he cast the net. He had to pull up the net later and had no time to talk to Paige.
Peppa Pig: "I..."
"Chu, when you're done transporting, lend us your bikes!" Liman came over. "We'll pay you with fish."
Liman was particularly smart. After their nets were repaired, they had Ali, an expert in wilderness survival, and their fishing skills were much better. In addition to having enough food and clothing, they also had some money.
"Hey, Liman, I came here first," Paige said angrily, "Chu, I'll come first. I'll help you with the bricks. When you're done, lend them to us first."
"Sure!" Chu Huaiqin said, his eyes glancing at Liman's dissatisfied look at Paige, and shrugged, "Indeed, he was here first."
"Yeah, I was here first." Paige put her hands on her hips and sneered at Liman.
"Here," Chu Huaiqin put the float rope used to pull the ice ashore into Paige's hand, "help pull the ice ashore, I'll go get the net."
Paige: “…”
"You don't want me to come." Liman didn't mind helping to move the ice at all.
"I'd love to, of course I would." Paige quickly grabbed the rope and started helping Group A. The sooner Group A finished, the sooner they could get the car.
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"Hahaha, Peppa Pig: Mine, mine, don't move."
"I feel like Lehman has changed a lot since the global competition."
"The blizzard the show was talking about, is that fake? It rarely snows in the Arctic! It's not winter yet."
"But it's not impossible. It's better to be prepared and safe first."
"I'm really looking forward to seeing the snow in the Arctic. Ahhhh, I must capture the video."
After learning of Paige's idea, Caesar from Group C quickly joined in. With two extra workers, Group A's igloo was built very quickly. Truckloads of ice bricks were brought back, and Xia Entropy and Edward stacked them one by one, forming a spiral that slowly moved toward the center. Lin Zhinan and the monk patched the gaps with snow, allowing the bricks to fuse together more quickly.
The man stacking the ice bricks was inside, while the man mending the cracks was outside. The snow piled up in handfuls, some of it drifting down, making both men shiver. Edward couldn't stand it any longer, so he rushed out and chased the little monk, playing with him. At eight o'clock in the evening, Chu Huaiqin returned from work. The two men, still playing and joking, cried out to Chu Huaiqin that they were hungry.
"Zhi Nan, go make some dumpling soup and catch two fish! Let me handle the rest." Chu Huaiqin instructed, "Make enough for two more people."
Lin Zhinan glanced at Paige and Caesar who were working hard for them and nodded.
With the addition of Chu Huaiqin as a laborer and his presence in power, the little monk didn't dare to make trouble anymore and Edward also calmed down. Two hours later, Group A's ice house was completed first.
Chu Huaiqin took a few pictures outside and called the director's staff to inspect it. Several professionals took things and knocked here and there, and finally confirmed that it was suitable for living.
"Oh, God, I can't take it anymore." Peppa Pig sat down on the snow, looked at the white sky, yawned, and wanted to sleep. She was too tired.
"Chu, we'll borrow this car." Caesar was very hungry. He had to go back to see if there was anything he could eat and take the car away.
"Okay, but let's eat first!" Chu Huaiqin saw the two of them were stunned and said with a smile: "I'll cook your share."
When Peppa heard this, she didn't hesitate and ran towards Group A's camp with the little monk, yelling.
It was not the first time that Peppa had eaten the fragrant dumpling soup, but it was the first time she thought it was so delicious. All the ones they had eaten before were half-cooked.
Group C made pancakes at first, but with food being scarce, they would starve to death if they tried to exchange fish for oil. So they learned to make noodle soup from Chu Huaiqin and others, but they really didn't know how to make noodle soup. They did learn from Chu Huaiqin and others, but their learning was a mess.
The sliced fish tasted delicious when boiled in soup and dipped in salt. Paige even wanted to ask Chu Huaiqin if they were short of anyone else.
After eating and drinking, Paige and the others left quickly. Chu Huaiqin and the others were also very tired. They had been moving around almost non-stop today and could hardly lift their legs. They simply decided not to move today. Five of them crawled into the tent and fell asleep, while the others were still cooking and moving bricks.
The next day, Chu Huaiqin and his friends slept until they woke up naturally, hungry, and crawled out to see Team BC trudging along, moving bricks. With their bicycles, they were moving loads at a brisk pace. Seeing the temperature drop again and the wind pick up, everyone was feeling a bit anxious.
The people in Group B had to find Chu Huaiqin and exchange the car for fish.
"It depends on how long Paige and the others need it." When Chu Huaiqin lent the car to Paige and the others, he did not agree on a time with them.
"We'll take care of this," said Liman.
"Okay, you don't have to give me any fish, just consider it a friendship." Chu Huaiqin said. He still had to survive here for more than two months, and he might need their help one day.
"Thank you!" Liman smiled at Chu Huaiqin.
Liman's plan was simple enough. He wanted to use Paige's method to help Paige and the others build the igloo as quickly as possible today and get the car. However, Ilona opposed this plan. If Team B sent someone to help Team C, she would also join the labor. She could ask them to move ice bricks. If they couldn't, she would ask them to go fishing. She wanted to have an extra person accompany her. For a while, the mood in Team C was low.
"If you don't want to, then you don't have to come into the built igloo." Liman said coldly.
“Why?” Ilona screamed, “I’ve been helping, and I’m also part of the half-built igloo.”
"In that case, we don't need this igloo. Let's rebuild it." Alexander's tone was not very good.
"Ilona, please understand that we are now surviving in the wild." Wade was troubled by Ilona's strength.
"Let's go fishing. I'll go fishing." Ilona chose this.
"No, you fish and I carry bricks all day and still go hungry." Liman objected without any hesitation.
"You, you..." Ilona was so angry that her face turned blue, and finally she had to agree to move the ice bricks.
The BC team was busy building the ice house, while Chu Huaiqin and his team moved into the cold house the next day. Apart from the ice wall, there were five ice beds inside. The tent was insulated, so they were laid on top of it again. With the ice wall blocking the wind, it was indeed warmer.
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