Day 7 of Arctic Survival.

When Bifang pushed aside the snow and walked out of the dark cave, almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The blizzard that had raged for nearly four days finally ended. Looking around, the whole world was once again covered in white snow.

The initially exposed rocks, symbolizing the arrival in the tundra, also completely disappeared, as if they had returned to the ice sheet again.

This blizzard is not ordinary, it is more like a signal before the arrival of eternal night.

Bi Fang took a breath and looked at the sun hanging slanting on the horizon. In any low latitude area, the height of the sun at this time could even be called the dusk period, but in Greenland, it was already midday.

"In so many adventures, I have never been so weak."

After walking onto the land, Bi Fang, who was breathing heavily, was slightly out of breath. In his slightly excited mood, the supply of oxygen was somewhat insufficient. Fortunately, Bi Fang adjusted himself in just a few breaths.

Oxygen uptake has always been Bi Fang's strength.

For seven days, I only ate some lichen and moss. Apart from the feeling of satiety, I gained very little energy, and more of it was actually trace elements, but these things are not the most important for survival at all.

Bifang needs fat, and fat with a huge amount of fat can bring enough calories in every bite.

Fish, fox, reindeer, mouse, anything will do.

But it is difficult to find mammals at this time. People are afraid of the cold, and so are animals.

"In order to adapt to the environment, animals have thick fur and a fat layer several centimeters thick, but this does not mean that they are not afraid of the cold. On the contrary, once they sense changes in the weather, these polar animals know how to preserve their body fat better than humans.

, so it’s hard to see traces of prey after a snowstorm.”

"On the one hand, the blizzard wiped out everything and all traces disappeared, making it twice as difficult to find prey. On the other hand, these smart aborigines ran away early. Three days was enough for them to escape the scope of the blizzard.

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"If we want to find prey to replenish energy, sea fish are the easiest and most likely prey to catch, and they are also our first choice."

After a few simple analyses, Bifang decided what needed to be done, and it was the only option with a higher probability of success.

Changes in polar climate often cause large prey, such as reindeer, seals and whales, to migrate elsewhere or periodically abandon their original habitats, causing large fluctuations in prey numbers.

This is an objective fact.

This fact directly determined the fate of the Native Americans who lived by hunting.

Although the Inuit have survived for eight centuries since their arrival in Greenland, they will still be affected if prey populations change.

Archaeologists have discovered that many Inuit igloos were frozen to death, like time capsules, with the bodies of a family frozen inside, as lifelike as ice sculptures.

Most of them failed to survive the test of a certain cold winter and starved to death in the igloo, eventually becoming living ice sculptures.

Maybe it's not accurate, because no one can tell whether they starved to death first, froze to death first, or both happened at the same time.

Even during the Danish colonial period, a lone Inuit would often be seen limping towards a Danish settlement, saying that all his people had starved to death and he was the only one left.

Bi Fang's tone was no longer forceful compared to the previous few days, but it was still clear. In a daze, everyone seemed to have seen last night's snowstorm again.

In the wind and snow, an indiscernible figure emerged from blur to clarity. He spoke unskilled Danish and asked the Danes who came here for some bread that was as cold as a stone, or something else.

Eat.

When he talked about his relatives being frozen into ice sculptures, the man's face showed no signs of emotion, because he was already used to such situations.

Under this snowstorm, the man has seen no less than three igloos that were also completely sealed, buried deep in the ice and snow. There was no smoke coming out of the house, only the cold air exuding chills.

The man did not open it and did not want to look at it. He knew what it looked like inside. It might be one person or many, but there would always be no living people.

For nearly a thousand years, some members of the tribe have always died like this.

Painful?

No, any extreme emotions require a lot of energy, and men no longer have that much energy to generate these emotions.

Crying burns approximately 1.3 calories per minute, and 13 calories can be consumed in ten minutes.

Laughing also consumes calories. It can burn up to 40 calories in 10-15 minutes. Laughing 365 days a year is enough to lose 4 pounds.

Excess emotions are expensive in the face of survival.

Human survival is not an easy task. It requires a lot of work to obtain the basic necessities of life. When survival cannot be satisfied, emotions are redundant. Therefore, wild animals never have extremely abundant emotions like humans.

Life is very difficult, how can we have the energy to cry and laugh?

Under the cruel extreme, there is no difference between humans and animals.

Such a scene appeared in the minds of the audience, and they all shuddered. It was so terrifying.

[Wow, I missed hope again, Lao Fang]

【Death is like the wind, always with me】

[It feels like Boss Fang has lost a lot of weight (dog head)]

【Drained by the Arctic】

【So where to find fish?】

"Keep walking inside." Bi Fang dug out the cave he had worked so hard to dig, and the entire roof suddenly collapsed, erasing all traces of Bi Fang's stay.

"Continuing to go inside, the living environment will be much better, and it is possible to find rivers. Where the ice is not too thick, it is possible to cut through it, and river fish are much easier to catch than sea fish."

Bifang put his backpack on his back and continued trekking.

As the world's largest island, Greenland's total area reaches an astonishing 2.1756 million square kilometers, nearly one-third of Australia, and is close to a continent.

Even the International UNESCO stipulates that all lands larger than Greenland are collectively called continents. It is precisely with this academic standard that six continents are divided on the earth.

Therefore, it is not surprising that there are many inland rivers on the island.

And even on the ice sheet, there will be many weak spots. In summer, they will even melt and become rivers on the ice sheet. Those weak spots can be dug out for fishing, but it is very dangerous.

"The thickness of the ice surface frozen by natural rivers cannot be consistent, especially as the greenhouse effect has intensified in recent years, and many ice surfaces have become extremely thin. The load-bearing capacity of this ice surface cannot be observed with the naked eye.

When you step out to see if the ice is firm, you are actually kidding with your own life."

"The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. Some predict that by 2050, the annual average temperature in the Arctic will rise by 4 degrees Celsius, and all sea ice will disappear in mid-summer. So it's not all bad here.

It’s safe, and if you fall into a glacier, the chance of coming out alive is much smaller than in a normal river.”

"In 2016, a man in Anshan was skating on the Wanshui River under Shuguang Bridge when the ice broke and fell into the river. He was unfortunately killed. Someone threw a branch into the water. Due to the man's lack of physical strength and the cold water, he died.

He drowned before he could reach the branches."

[It’s started, it’s started, Fang Shen’s “lessons from the past”]

[Ah, Anshan is right here, I think I still have some impressions]

[If you fall into the glacier, you will freeze to death if you don’t drown]

"Unlike normal rivers, once you fall into a glacier, under the influence of extreme cold, the blood vessels throughout your body will suddenly shrink and you will feel an electric shock. This feeling will generally disappear within three minutes."

"Then the body will produce a trunk reflex due to the stimulation of cold water, causing you to constantly hyperventilate, leading to a rapid increase in heart rate and a brief shock."

"So you have to control your breathing rate to avoid gasping for air. Then you have to deal with hypothermia, because the body loses heat 32 times faster in cold water than in air."

"In fact, this is also the most dangerous place. You may not even wait until the electric shock disappears before you lose consciousness due to hypothermia."

Bi Fang used his breathing to adjust his physical strength while looking around.

The snowstorm that lasted for four consecutive days was so heavy that there was almost nothing on the ground that could be collected.

All the shrubs collected before had been burned as fuel, so Bifang now had no materials to make snowshoes. Walking into the snow was quite energy-consuming, and every foot was like pulling out a plug.

Shaking his head, Bi Fang continued chatting with the audience.

"At the first moment of falling into the water, you should remove as much weight as possible, but do not take off your clothes immediately, because the air in the clothes can support your floating and can temporarily keep you warm."

???

This sentence suddenly overturned the common sense of the audience. Don't take off your clothes after falling into the water?

[Fang Shen, did you say something wrong? 】

[Why does it feel different from what I have learned...]

[Don’t take off your clothes? Clothes soaked in water will make it worse, and it will be colder next to you and you won’t be able to swim! It’s misleading! If you don’t even have any common sense, why don’t you come out and broadcast it, okay? 】

Most of the viewers were confused, and even a very small number of new viewers might be black people, and even said that Bi Fang was misleading people.

Bi Fang shrugged, not caring about the trolls. He has tens of millions of fans. Even if he is one thousandth of a black fan, the number is more than 100,000, which is more fans than the average anchor. Basically, this kind of barrage happens every time.

I see it every time, and I really care about it so much that I tire myself out.

"Take off your clothes when you fall into the water. This is a mistake based on the inertia of thinking, and it is not considered in light of reality."

"First of all, you should wear enough thick clothes in winter. Clothes with fine fabrics such as nylon, cotton, shirts, jackets, etc. can be waterproof and play the role of isolating the body. The down jacket contains a lot of air to prevent the person who falls into the water from sinking temporarily, and the body

You won’t feel the coldness of the ice-cold water immediately.”

"On the contrary, some wool fabrics absorb water easily and will indeed become heavier and heavier. They should be taken off, but... can you take them off in time? Do you still have the strength to swim after taking them off? And wool products are basically

Underwear, right? In winter, I want everyone to have at least three pieces of clothing. Can you guarantee that you can take them off within one minute?"

A series of three questions stunned the audience.

Yes, it will become heavier and heavier, but do you have to take off the weight?
To be continued...