Zhutian: Starting from the Space-Time Merchant

Chapter 497 Since I'm bored anyway, let's go hunting!
"Hiss~~~"

Gazing at the vast icy sea before them and watching the massive icebergs constantly drifting by, everyone was deeply awestruck.

"There is such a magnificent place in the world."

Wearing a heavy military overcoat, Liu Ji looked at the icebergs and exclaimed, "How magnificent it is to gather ice into mountains!"

"Come early."

Lin Dao, holding a hot water bottle in his arms, looked up at the sky filled with rolling dark clouds. "I arrived about half a month ago."

"This is not the Little Ice Age."

"They took my payment, but they got the date wrong."

"We'll talk about it when I get back."

He paid someone to calculate the freezing time of the Bering Strait, but the calculation turned out to be wrong.

Arriving half a month early is also a hassle.

The most obvious problem is that the temperature has now dropped to tens of degrees below zero.

Especially at night, especially when a blizzard is blowing.

Relying solely on a line of vehicles to withstand the severe cold would be extremely difficult.

Lin Dao had no choice but to place an emergency order for a large number of simple insulated houses.

Moreover, staying in such an environment for a long time can make people feel very uncomfortable.

These are all troublesome matters.

"Immortal chief."

Fusu stepped forward and asked, "This place is so dangerous, even if there are boats, they can probably pass through."

The strait is full of huge icebergs; any icebreaker that hits one will be destroyed, so it's impossible to cross by boat.

"Don't worry."

Lin Dao waved his hand, "At most half a month, this place will be completely frozen over, and then we can just cross it on the ice."

Fusu was a native of Qin. He had seen the Yellow River frozen over since childhood, and that crossing the two banks was as easy as walking on flat ground.

I can understand Lin Dao's explanation.

The main difficulty is that it's incredibly cold here.

Moreover, let alone finding food to fill one's stomach or wood to keep warm, one couldn't even find a single blade of grass!
As far as the eye can see, there is nothing but ice and snow, or the cold sea with rolling icebergs.

In such a perilous place, anyone who can survive for three days is a true hero!

Without the supplies provided by the forest road, these hundreds of thousands of people would have perished long ago beneath the vast snowfield.

"correct."

Lin Dao asked with a smile, "Where is your brother who spends all day seeking out beautiful women to serve you and drink with?"

Upon hearing this, Fusu's face darkened.

Hu Hai also came, but he remained incorrigible.

Fortunately, he learned his lesson and hid in the forest, blending in with the main group.

But Lin Dao had been keeping a close eye on him and directly instructed Zhao Gao to follow him closely and report back immediately if he did anything illegal, or else bury them both in the snow.

Zhao Gao had no choice but to report them to the authorities, which resulted in a rapid deterioration in the relationship between the master and his apprentice.

After that, Hu Hai went into hiding, and even Zhao Gao said he didn't know where he had gone.

Just as Fusu was about to speak, he saw Zhao Gao, dressed like a bear, stumbling and tumbling over.

"Why are you so panicked?"

"Young Master Hu Hai!" Zhao Gao, looking flustered, hurriedly explained, "He was out with his guards when he ran into a white bear!"

"A polar bear as big as a mountain!"

"A guard has returned seeking reinforcements; we beg the immortal for help!"

Fusu was startled and quickly looked at Lin Dao.

"Oh." Lin Dao nodded. "It should be a polar bear, the largest bear in the world."

"Immortal Master!" Fusu cried out urgently, "Immortal Master, please save me!"

"What can I do?" Lin Dao laughed. "If I had been killed, I would be digested in my stomach by now."

"If they had turned the tables, they would be back by now."

In other words, it doesn't matter whether you go or not.

Fusu stamped his foot in frustration and simply ran out on his own.

Zhao Gao was still staring intently at Lin Dao.

"Dont look at me."

Lin Dao simply shook his head and waved his hand, "I don't know the art of bringing the dead back to life."

"If he were really torn to pieces and swallowed whole, at most it would be killing a polar bear to avenge him."

"Hmm, don't waste the polar bear pelt, remember to shoot it in the eyes."

About half an hour later, a disheveled Hu Hai returned.

His face was pale and he was trembling all over.

Muttering to himself, "What a big bear, it's really big!"

"One slap and you'd kill someone!"

"The photos are all broken and fragmented~"

Lin Dao was about to say a few jokes when he noticed that the crotch of Hu Hai's coat was wet and frozen.

Too lazy to waste words, he immediately turned and left.

Before long, the polar bear was seen being dragged back.

It was indeed enormous; lying there, it looked like a car.

His body was riddled with arrows and bore wounds from cuts and stabs.

Hu Hai was bored all day, so he ran out of the chariot formation to play.

Fortunately, the person wasn't stupid and knew to bring guards.

Without guards, no one would even know where he was taken out.

The Qin warriors were truly fierce.

This polar bear looks incredibly heavy; when it stands upright, it's taller than two people.

Even so, the Qin warriors were truly daring to charge forward.

It's a pity that hundreds of thousands of Qin warriors in history encountered the combination of Huhai and Zhao Gao.

A foolish ruler paired with treacherous ministers—even the strongest Qin warriors in an era of universal conscription could not withstand the devastation of such a combination.

"What a waste of this leather."

Lin Dao stepped forward and pinched the polar bear's fur.

The fur is very thick and long, not as soft as I imagined, but rather quite stiff.

However, the dense inner layer of fleece does have a soft feel.

Look closely, the fur isn't truly white; it's almost transparent. "Hmm, I learned about this in school; it's called total internal reflection."

If you pinch the skin again, it's very hard.

I took out a knife, inserted it, and cut open the skin. I estimated that it was at least five or six centimeters thick.

After circling around to observe, the real fatal wounds were the close-range barrage of crossbow bolts and a long spear that pierced one of the polar bear's eyes.

The long spear churned in his mind before he finally killed the giant bear.

"A true warrior," Lin Dao exclaimed. "To face a giant bear head-on and still manage to pierce its eye with a spear—that's a real warrior."

"Drag it away," he instructed. "Peel it and put it in the pot."

In the modern world, there are still people calling for the protection of polar bears.

They say things like rising temperatures, melting icebergs, and polar bears having nowhere to live.

Lin Dao could only laugh when he heard such an appeal.

None of my business!

It's not like I caused the temperature to rise, so what does it have to do with me if polar bears can't survive?
Here in the forest, any kind of animal, even extinct dinosaurs, can reappear.

Anyone who dares to hurt or eat people must die!
No animal can be more precious than a human being!
If you can't even protect people, how can you protect animals?

That's insane!
Any animal that dares to hurt people, no matter what it is, will be cooked.

Speaking of eating meat, Lin Daoyuan gazed thoughtfully at the groups of seals on the ice floes of the sea.

"Since I've got nothing better to do, let's go hunting!"

He sought out Liu Ji and asked him to find some boatmen to go hunting with him.

You don't need to know how to swim, just how to row a boat.

At these temperatures, falling into the sea would result in freezing to death in no time.

Whether you can swim or not doesn't matter.

Lin Dao brought back several ships from the modern world. After a brief practice session, he led Liu Ji and the others into the churning sea of ​​floating ice.

At that time, there was no seal hunting industry, and seals were everywhere on the sea ice, all of them round and plump.

"Hold on tight." Lin Dao raised his gun, his eyes close to the scope. "There will be a sound later, don't get scared and fall into the sea."

Lock onto the target and pull the trigger.

'Snapped! '

One of the seals immediately surrendered and lay down on the ice.

The nearby seals looked up in alarm, each one looking completely bewildered.

'Snapped! '

'Snapped! '

'Snapped! '

Lin Dao knocked down five or six seals in succession, and the remaining seals scrambled into the sea in a panic.

"Get a ship over there." Lin Dao changed his magazine and instructed the frightened Liu Ji and the others, "Get those seals ashore and have someone dispose of them so we can have them as a treat."

It didn't matter that the seal had escaped; he turned his gun and pointed it at another patch of ice.

There were also more than a dozen seals gathered there.

Lin Dao spent the whole afternoon hunting seals, and several boats made many trips back and forth to transport them.

These seals had never seen high technology from humans before.

Facing a long-range kill is incredibly stupid.

Lin Dao continued fighting until he lost interest, and then he stopped.

At night, the aroma of cooking meat wafted from every heated room in the car park.

The large iron pot that Lin Dao brought was the same kind of large iron pot used by the army's cooking squad.

Fill the container with snow water and throw in the skinned and chopped seal meat.

Add salt and various spices, then cover and simmer.

The aroma was so enticing, it made my mouth water.

Once cooked, the lid is lifted, revealing the tumbling seal meat, its trembling flesh making one's mouth water.

Everyone lined up to get their food, and the atmosphere was lively with everyone eating and drinking.

After eating seal meat for three days in a row, Lin Dao quickly lost interest.

He then set his sights on another kind of prey in the sea.

A whale with a huge body.

Guns are useless against whales.

Lin Dao returned to the modern world and upgraded his hunting tools.

They not only replaced the fishing boats with larger ones, but also set up whaling cannons.

There are actually many kinds of whales, and they vary in size and shape.

Lin Dao first practiced on a group of whales with long horns on their heads.

In half a day, more than a dozen were caught.

A long rope tows the whale, lifting it up and down in the sea.

Once the whale was dragged ashore, the waiting crowd surged forward, and with their combined strength, they managed to pull the heavy whale ashore.

Before it froze solid, everyone rushed forward and broke the enormous Kunpeng into pieces, sending them directly to various large cauldrons.

Of course, Zhao Gao and others also offered advice.

They said that these long-horned Kunpengs, even the white ones, are spiritual creatures and should not be killed, and so on.

Lin Dao's response was simple.

"Then don't eat it!"

Later, Han Xin told me that someone saw Zhao Gao secretly running off to steal and eat the flesh of the Kunpeng in the middle of the night.

After eating whales for several days, Lin Dao turned to catching walruses.

The walruses in the ice floe area are enormous, with truly thick skin and tough flesh.

But when faced with firearms, they are no different from the seals; they can be taken down with a single shot.

Lin Dao also set up fishing nets, which were towed by fishing boats to catch fish in the sea.

No one has ever come here to hunt, so the abundance of resources in the sea is beyond imagination.

A single net can catch over a thousand pounds, and that's considered a small amount.

These sea fish are very plump and really big.

When cooked together in one pot, it's incredibly delicious.

As the ice surface became increasingly solid, the gaps were gradually filled.

Knowing that it was almost time to depart, Lin Dao began preparing to catch another local specialty to try.

King crab!
(End of this chapter)