Chapter 72 The Seventy-Second Day of the Beginning [Two-in-One] 18:50
Day 72 of the game [Two-in-One]
An inconspicuous buzzing sound was completely masked by the chaotic trampling of the fleeing deer, so much so that Yin Yu did not notice the sound at first.
He gripped the dagger and slowly approached He Lianzhou to avoid any unexpected situations, instantly widening the distance between them.
"Wow, so you really can't bear to part with me." He Lianzhou's teasing voice suddenly appeared behind Yin Yu.
Before Yin Yu could turn around, he felt a sudden gust of wind coming from behind him. The next second, He Lianzhou tackled him from behind and he fell into the deep snow.
Yin Yu frowned, quickly realizing that something was amiss. He sensed that He Lianzhou seemed to be covering them with something.
Yin Yu immediately realized that it was a parachute.
He Lianzhou covered them with a parachute, pinning Yin Yu down so he couldn't move.
"He Lianzhou!" Yin Yu's face was grim, and he growled in a low voice.
The weight that made him unable to move and the similar situation almost instantly reminded him of that moment, of the mission he had just entered Guanshan. It was as if his mouth and nose were filled with the taste of blood, making him tremble unconsciously, his pupils dilated as he stared intently at a patch of white in front of him.
"Shh, did you hear me?" He Lianzhou whispered in Yin Yu's ear.
Yin Yu felt He Lianzhou pull the parachute above their heads tighter and cover them more completely.
He tried to regain his composure, took a deep breath, and gradually heard a dense and high-frequency "buzzing" sound, as if it were coming from above his head, in addition to the sound of his own heartbeat.
Yin Yu's pupils contracted sharply.
"The first lesson upon arriving in the far north is about giant mosquitoes that can't be killed by the extreme cold. They swarm in groups and can suck all the blood out of a wild deer in almost two minutes," He Lianzhou's voice rang out at the same time. "They have a strong reproductive capacity and are one of the most common monsters in the glacial zone."
He quipped lightly, "No wonder it's a monster anchor point; the first batch of guests attracted were in groups of hundreds."
Upon hearing this, Yin Yu immediately realized: "Where is it?! Where did it go?!"
Lion cubs.
“This is its first lesson.” He Lianzhou still held Yin Yu down tightly, his voice cold and emotionless. “This is just a small threat and intimidation from the far north glacier group. If it can’t even handle this, it has no way to survive here.”
The buzzing sound overhead had faded away, and He Lianzhou released his hold on Yin Yu.
Yin Yu immediately opened his parachute and quickly looked around. He saw seven or eight flat-horned deer carcasses lying on the ground, most of which were obviously shriveled, and two of them were almost overlapping each other.
The carcass of the topmost flat-horned deer was even covered with a dozen giant mosquitoes.
Beneath the carcass of the flat-horned deer, there was a golden figure.
Upon seeing this, Yin Yu took a deep breath, his expression changed slightly, and he immediately ran over quickly.
He Lianzhou followed closely behind Yin Yu. When he saw the golden fur on the ground, he frowned and pursed his lips. It was a mutated ferocious lion, after all. It couldn't be this useless, could it?
Yin Yu strode closer and saw that each of the dozen or so giant mosquitoes was as long as an arm, and even larger when their elytra were added. Their long, thin, and densely packed limbs were covered with barbs, which were hooking onto the carcass of the flat-horned deer.
The long, translucent mosquito proboscis pierced the corpse, continuously drawing up bright red blood, almost swelling the giant mosquito's slender body into a spherical shape.
"Congratulations, host, for unlocking the monster encyclopedia entry for [Giant Northern Mosquito] and gaining 300 Wilderness Points."
"【Northern Giant Mosquito】: They usually swarm in groups of 30,200. Even the most ferocious monsters will avoid them. But when they are alone, they are insignificant."
Danger level: Two stars
Just as Yin Yu approached the giant mosquitoes, a system notification sounded in his mind.
Yin Yu narrowed his eyes slightly and approached silently.
When they were only a few steps away, they saw several giant mosquitoes spread their transparent elytra and pull their long, sharp proboscises out of the carcass of the flat-horned deer, with a few drops of blood falling down.
The giant mosquitoes discovered Yin Yu.
Seeing this, Yin Yu stopped being careful and rushed forward. He first severed the giant mosquito's elytra with his dagger, and then with a flick of his wrist, he easily ripped open its swollen abdomen. Like a bursting balloon, all the blood in its belly sprayed out.
Yin Yu moved with lightning speed, giving the other giant mosquitoes still clinging to the deer's carcass almost no time to react. In the blink of an eye, he slashed down all the sluggish, engorged mosquitoes.
Even the giant mosquito that had already spread its elytra and was about to fly away was pierced through its huge abdomen by Yin Yu's flying knife, and blood splattered all over the snow.
In an instant, the pristine white snowfield was stained with green and red blood, and the stench of blood filled the air.
The live broadcast ball flew over from not far away, and you could see that there were many scratches on the ball, as if it had been attacked.
【Aaaaaah!! What was that thing just now?!】
【A deluge of birds?!】
[Damn, it's a mosquito!! Mosquitoes!! Look at the ground!!]
[Mosquito?! This must be a prehistoric mosquito that sucked dinosaur blood! It's so big!? Cherry and pear are for the streamer [sunglasses] x1]
[I get goosebumps just looking at a tiny, normal mosquito, how can this be magnified hundreds of times?! I can't stand it!!!]
[Those dozen or so stingers that just now were really trying to get me killed.]
[Yu Ge's knife skills are amazing!!! He's a professional, right?! So cool! Wu Wu is sending a lollipop to the streamer!]
[Absolutely!! What does the streamer do in real life? Are they capable of everything?]
【】
The carcass of the flat-horned deer, bitten by a giant mosquito, suddenly twitched, and Yin Yu and He Lianzhou both took a step back in unison.
Then, something seemed to be moving beneath the corpse, making laborious, panting sounds.
The next second, the carcass of another flat-horned deer that was underneath the first carcass was turned over.
The lion cub had the deer's neck firmly in its mouth, its sharp fangs piercing the neck, and hot blood was flowing out continuously.
Yin Yu was slightly taken aback when he saw this, but then he realized that this guy probably deliberately crawled under the carcass of the flat-horned deer to hide.
The lion cub whimpered as it dragged the flat-horned deer to Yin Yu's side, then stuck its rear end out at Yin Yu, revealing a large mosquito bite on its hind leg.
The lion cub raised its large, furry paw and made a fussy scratching motion behind its rear end, as if complaining that a mosquito had bitten it, or perhaps demonstrating to Yin Yu how it swatted away the giant mosquito.
Yin Yu patted the lion cub's bottom, both amused and exasperated. It seemed fine and was still jumping around happily.
He Lianzhou smiled and said, "See? I told you there was nothing to worry about."
The lion cub pressed its paw against the neck of the flat-horned deer and let out a domineering "roar" at He Lianzhou.
Yin Yu and He Lianzhou looked down and saw that the carcass of this flat-horned deer was different from the others that had obviously been sucked dry by the giant mosquitoes.
This one is at least quite plump.
He Lianzhou raised an eyebrow slightly: "This is what it hunted."
Yin Yu was stunned. He hadn't expected that the lion cub would actually manage to catch an adult flat-horned deer after such a surprise attack.
The lion cub proudly raised its chin.
Holy crap, you big yellow kid!
[I told you it wasn't a cat (weak.jpg)]
[What a vicious plant! It bit right through me! What is it?!]
[Big Yellow Boy: Hunting to support his master, do not disturb]
[But it complained even after being bitten by a mosquito, how cute!]
[Who is this streamer? Their pets are definitely something else!]
He Lianzhou pointed to the deer carcass that the lion cub had brought over and said, "The meat of this deer is still edible, but the meat that was sucked dry by the giant mosquitoes is no longer edible. The meat that started to rot from the inside out is very likely to breed a large number of bacteria that carry the monsters and cause death."
Yin Yu nodded in agreement and stroked the deer fur, saying, "This fur is very warm; we can take it off to keep warm."
He then looked at the other deer carcasses around him and asked He Lianzhou, "What about their pelts? Can we use them?"
"Fur is acceptable."
“Then go and peel it off. Take everything you can,” Yin Yu said. “We only have this one set of equipment. If the weather changes, this equipment will have a hard time coping with even harsher weather conditions.”
As he spoke, he glanced at the horizon, where a faint mist still lingered and the sun remained unseen all day.
The polar day here is so long that it almost makes people lose their sense of time. Even Yin Yu can only vaguely estimate the time. It is probably seven or eight o'clock at night now, but it is still as bright as day.
He Lianzhou was harvesting deer fur and hides not far away, while Yin Yu had already stripped the deer that the lion cub had caught, leaving it completely intact, with its whiskers and tail showing.
“These furs are hollow, very thick and warm.” Yin Yu spread out the deer hide, quickly rubbing the blood off the hide with the clean blood on the ground, and said, “This is why these flat-horned deer can still be active in such severe cold.”
“Scrubbing the blood off deer hide with snow is very effective. It’s not for the sake of cleanliness, but to remove the bloody smell.” Yin Yu glanced at the live stream and saw many comments teasing him for being “obsessive-compulsive” and “exquisite.” He shook his head.
"I don't want to fall asleep wearing it at night while predatory wild animals are also approaching me by the smell of blood."
Yin Yu then cut open the deer's belly, emptied out all the internal organs, and threw them out.
He squinted slightly, his hands reaching inside the deer's belly as if searching for something. After a moment, he exerted a slight force, as if cutting through something, and pulled out a lump of bloody red flesh.
The heart of a flat-horned deer.
Even under the icy and snowy ground, it still emitted heat.
The heart of a flat-horned deer is very large, as big as four fists of an adult man.
Yin Yu let out a soft breath and looked at the live broadcast ball: "It's still warm; this is its heart."
"In fact, even now, many indigenous civilizations on the snowfields still retain the tradition of drinking fresh blood and raw meat from wild animals. In the earliest times, eating raw blood and raw meat helped them keep warm, but now, in most civilizations, it symbolizes courage and maturity."
Yin Yu swallowed hard: "For us, warmth is the most important need."
As he spoke, he lowered his head and bit off a piece of flesh from his heart. A small clump of blood gushed out, which Yin Yu caught and drank without wasting a drop.
His face and mouth were covered in deer blood, so much so that when He Lianzhou dragged back several tattered deer hides, he was almost startled by Yin Yu.
He Lianzhou took a small step back, and it took him a second to react. He looked at the heart in Yin Yu's hand, then at Yin Yu's face, and his lips twitched violently.
Yin Yu held up the heart and handed it to He Lianzhou: "Eat."
He Lianzhou: ""
[Ahhhhh, if this were on the set of that horror movie next door, I wouldn't even need makeup to act!]
Wow, they actually eat here!
[This streamer is ruthless! I'm sending him a cardboard box with a [666 light stick] x1]
I feel like throwing up.
[Is it this exciting and thrilling right from the start of the live stream?! Newcomer 007 is gifting the streamer a [999 bouquet] x1]
[Hilarious! Was that half-step back by the Monster Hunter guy for real?]
He even wanted to share with Monster Hunter, I'm so upset!
"While giving me my heart is romantic," He Lianzhou said, taking a step back, "I'll pass on this."
Yin Yu clicked his tongue lightly. If this person hadn't helped him block the first wave of giant mosquitoes, he wouldn't have been willing to score.
Yin Yu withdrew his hand, took another big bite, and then threw the rest of the heart to the lion cub.
The lion cub pressed down with its paw, then looked at Yin Yu and took a bite in a very professional manner. Seeing that Yin Yu was still struggling to chew, it also put its own food in its mouth and chewed for a long time. Even after it had chewed into bits of meat, it had to wait for Yin Yu to swallow before it swallowed its own.
Upon seeing this, He Lianzhou lowered his head and laughed.
Yin Yu didn't notice the lion cub's little movements at all. He wiped his mouth and then began to butcher the venison.
“Even after removing the internal organs, this adult flat-horned deer still weighs over 200 kilograms. I absolutely cannot take it with me,” Yin Yu said as he butchered the wild deer into eight pieces. “But wasting it is even more shameful.”
He removed the four deer hooves, tied them together with a parachute, and hung them on his backpack, instantly adding dozens of kilograms to his load.
Looking at the lion cub, it chewed slowly like Yin Yu for the first two bites, but then it started wolfing it down. In just a few bites, it swallowed the deer's heart and licked its lips, clearly still not full.
Seeing this, Yin Yu handed over the remaining parts of the corpse to the lion cub to deal with.
This was the first time it had ever eaten a whole wild animal. It stood in front of the carcass of the flat-horned deer, seemingly unsure where to begin its meal.
After hesitating for a few seconds, it lowered its head and began to tear at the wild deer's softest belly, where the fat was most abundant.
When Yin Yu saw that the lion cubs had started to kill the wild deer, he turned to look at the deer hides that He Lianzhou had skinned back. They were tattered and in pieces, with about ten pieces of fur from several wild deer skinned. Compared to Yin Yu's hides, they looked particularly scattered and pitiful.
Yin Yu looked at He Lianzhou, who shrugged innocently: "It's peeled off, it's usable."
As he spoke, he picked out a small piece and wrapped it around his neck; the thick, dense white fur looked warm just by looking at it.
Yin Yu: ""
[Not only does it work, it looks great too! Yu Ge, please stop criticizing him! Hahahaha (doge)]
[Yu Ge: Look at my deer fur blanket! Monster Hunter Ge: I got a scarf!]
[Haha, I'm really impressed!]
[Great! Yu-ge took the best part, the thigh meat, and Da-huang-zai finished up. Good division of labor.]
[Monster Hunter Guy: Responsible for looking beautiful and exquisite]
Yin Yu was silent for two seconds, then picked out a piece and covered his head with it.
"Keeping your head warm is very important. Often, if your head is warm, your body will warm up quickly as well," Yin Yu explained. He then saw He Lianzhou pull off a headscarf.
Yin Yu adjusted his hat, then disassembled a few more deer bones, sharpened one end of a knife to make a needle, and used it to sew the fur on.
The two men, wearing strange-looking deerskin hats, made the lion cub blink in confusion.
[It's surprisingly useful (not really)]
[Your brother even unlocked the tailor's secondary profession]
[Hilarious! Suddenly these two seem like real locals!]
[Reasonable]
【Integration】
[Get matching hats (not really)]
While Yin Yu was mending and patching things up, the lion cub was feasting and quickly filled itself up.
It let out a satisfied burp, then buried its face in the snow and rubbed it vigorously to roll off the blood on its fur. The whole sequence of movements was so fluid and natural, it didn't need to be taught at all; it was all instinct ingrained in its bones.
Before leaving, Yin Yu asked the system if there were any giant mosquito corpses on the ground that needed to be collected. In the end, he collected thirteen slender mosquito proboscises, each one sharp and thin, about twenty or thirty centimeters long.
"The host has exchanged 13 [Low-level Collector] items, costing 650 Wilderness Points."
"The host has exchanged for 13 [Beak of the Giant Northern Mosquito], gaining a total of 6500 Wilderness Points."
Yin Yu can make advanced collectors, but he currently lacks almost all the necessary materials and has to exchange them from the shop. In particular, the price of ore in the points mall is incredibly high, making it more cost-effective to simply exchange for it with points.
After collecting the monster's corpse, Yin Yu called for them to continue their journey.
They were located in a low-lying area, like a glacial canyon, surrounded by towering mountains. The cold air all descended here, making the temperature even colder.
This place was definitely not suitable for spending the night, so Yin Yu quickened his pace, intending to find a suitable temporary campsite before night truly fell.
After rushing forward for nearly half an hour, the sky finally began to darken.
Their view opened up again, the narrow slopes and rocks of the past replaced by a vast, boundless snowfield.
The wind on the ice field swept across the vast landscape without hindrance, stirring up the loose snow near the ground and forming patches of light white, ripple-like waves.
Right here, at this very moment, the wind suddenly took on a tangible form.
The lion cub opened its mouth, trying to swallow all the wind, but was soon frozen by the snow and wind and began to shake its head wildly.
He Lianzhou clicked his tongue and said, "Stupid cat."
Yin Yu narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the farthest point in his field of vision, his expression changing slightly.
In the distance, thick, heavy plumes of cold air were seen moving toward them.
The snow on the ground was swept up by the wind, making these clumps of cold air look like snow-white, icy cotton candy, with eerie clouds swirling around them.
"Do you see that?" Yin Yu asked He Lianzhou loudly, his head bowed against the wind.
The fierce wind seemed capable of severing their voices.
"A cold front is coming!" Yin Yu shouted, then paused, quickly correcting himself, "A blizzard! The weather's changing!"
“The blizzards in the far north can freeze any creature in less than half a minute.” He Lianzhou narrowed his eyes and his expression became slightly serious. He warned, “We must find a closed cover point immediately.”
He looked around; they were in a fairly open area.
Although they were heading down to lower altitudes, they couldn't walk fast at all while traversing glaciers and snow-capped mountains. Their current altitude was probably still around 6,000 meters.
A blizzard six thousand meters high would be overwhelmingly destructive.
[Holy crap, is that a blizzard ahead?! I thought it was just a cloud!!]
It looks completely still and doesn't seem to be getting any closer.
Is it possible that the movement is not noticeable because the area is too large?
[Such a large area???]
[What did Monster Hunter say?? Frozen solid in half a minute?? Even a freezer couldn't do that!]
"No, right here? This place is so open, you can't even find a single rock. Where am I supposed to hide?!"
[Damn, should we keep going? See if we can find a shelter or something?]
Yin Yu and He Lianzhou exchanged a glance simultaneously. He Lianzhou said in a deep voice, "No one knows what will happen if we continue forward. We might encounter a cave, or we might remain in a similar environment. But we've wasted precious time."
Yin Yu responded, "We'll prepare right here."
The surrounding area was sparsely covered with birch trees, which were almost insignificant in the face of the cold air mass that blew away the snowstorm.
Yin Yu stepped on the snow and found it to be soft enough.
He quickly dug a few deep digs, clearing away the snow, and a snow pit about ten centimeters deep appeared before him.
"Dig a hole, we'll go down to cover you," Yin Yu gave a concise order, glancing at He Lianzhou.
He Lianzhou raised an eyebrow, realizing what Yin Yu was up to.
The lion cub was overjoyed to hear the command. After seeing what Yin Yu was doing, it frantically followed behind Yin Yu and dug. In just a few minutes, the lion cub had dug a snow pit that was deeper than itself.
It let out a howl and jumped out of the snow pit it had dug, attracting Yin Yu's attention.
Yin Yu looked back, paused, and quickly cleared the huge snow pit that the lion cub had dug not far behind him.
“Very good. A deeper snow pit will draw cold air into that other side, and the temperature where we are will be a few degrees Celsius higher.” Yin Yu rubbed the lion cub’s ears in a praising and encouraging manner.
He told He Lianzhou and the lion cub to continue digging deeper and wider, at least enough to squeeze in space for the two of them and the beast, while he climbed out of the snow pit and gathered branches that were readily available on the ground, spreading them evenly and alternately across the snow pit.
Yin Yu even scooped up a few handfuls of snow and sprinkled it evenly on top.
From the perspective of the live broadcast, the rectangular snow pit looked like a coffin, not to mention that Yin Yu was even covering it with branches, just like sealing the coffin with nails.
[Brother Yu, you really don't shy away from anything!]
[I was wondering how Yu Ge would build a snow house out of thin air, but it turns out it's backward compatible??]
[Tell me, isn't this a closed system?]
[6666, only Brother Yu would think of hiding himself in a coffin.]
【Wait, why are they pouring snow on it? Anyone who didn't know better would think they're setting a trap. They should hide better so the blizzard doesn't find them!】
[Wow, the person upstairs has such a unique way of thinking, hahaha]
Yin Yu glanced at the live stream room and shook his head to explain, "No, adding a layer of snow is to prevent the top gap from freezing."
He quickly crawled back into the snow pit, where a parachute was laid at the bottom to insulate against the cold air, followed by a thick layer of deerskin he had previously stripped off, and finally a few large pieces of deerskin to be used as blankets to cover himself.
The lion cub had already curled up inside, its huge, fluffy body taking up most of the snow pit.
Yin Yu and He Lianzhou rolled up their legs, just enough to squeeze inside.
[Wow, you know what, it actually looks pretty good?!]
[Big Yellow Boy looks so warm!]
[Before the broadcast: Why bring a pet?; After the broadcast: Big Yellow Boy, this family can't live without you!]
[It only took twenty or thirty minutes! That's efficient!]
So what do we do now?
Yin Yu glanced at the live stream, paused for a moment, and then said, "Next, we'll wait. Wait for the blizzard to pass."
He looked at He Lianzhou.
"It depends on the cause of this blizzard. Usually, it will end quickly," He Lianzhou said.
“But if it has nothing to do with the weather, then we can only pray,” He Lianzhou said.
Yin Yu paused upon hearing this: "What do you mean?"
How could a blizzard be unrelated to the weather?
"Weather systems aren't the only cause of blizzards," He Lianzhou smiled. "Similarly, earthquakes, tsunamis, and wildfires..."
He looked at Yin Yu: "These are just phenomena."
Yin Yu frowned. He was about to speak when He Lianzhou interrupted him, covering the last gap above their heads and pressing the deerskin onto the two of them: "Here it comes."
A distinct chill suddenly swept over him, and Yin Yu involuntarily shivered.
He Lianzhou grabbed Yin Yu's lower back and whispered, "Get closer, or you'll hit me."
Yin Yu: ""
Yin Yu exhaled a breath of cold air and grabbed He Lianzhou: "Try your best."
Before long, Yin Yu felt his fingers and toes begin to sting and go numb. He had to rub his fingers vigorously to prevent them from freezing.
Soon, an even warmer and heavier weight pressed down on me.
Yin Yu was stunned for a moment, then opened his eyes and saw the lion cub let out a low whimper, and then forcefully pulled the two of them under its belly.
Yin Yu pursed his lips, patted the lion cub's forehead, and then tugged at the lion cub's sleepy face: "Big Yellow? If you fall asleep, you can't come home to eat meat."
The lion cub suddenly opened its eyes, its blue eyes wide and bright.
Seeing this, Yin Yu chuckled. He would tug at the lion cub's whiskers from time to time, which would annoy the lion cub and wake it from its drowsy state. The lion cub would then keep nudging Yin Yu with its head.
【Awooooo, Big Yellow Boy】
[So cute and fluffy, waaaaah!]
Help! No one is allowed to sleep!
[Although, Yu-ge, plucking Dahuang's whiskers was really mean!]
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