"Yin, Yin Cang..."
Long Linger opened her heavy eyelids, and what came into her sight was Yin Cang's cold and worried face.
Seeing her wake up, Yin Cang finally let go of his worry and quickly helped her sit up.
"Where are we? Where are my brother and grandma?"
Long Linger looked around and found the scene here very unfamiliar. Her small and delicate eyebrows unconsciously frowned.
Hearing the question, Yin Cang shook his head with a heavy expression.
When he woke up, he only saw Long Linger and no trace of other orcs. He was afraid that they had been separated from the team.
Seeing the gloom in Yin Cang's eyes, Long Linger roughly guessed their situation.
"No, we have to find my brother and the others as soon as possible. We don't know what happened to them or whether they are okay. Yin Cang, let's go back together to find them." Long Linger did not give up and stood up from the ground firmly.
As soon as she stood up, a gust of cold wind blew, making her teeth chatter.
"Hiss... so cold..."
Long Linger shuddered and hugged her arms tightly.
Only then did she realize that it was getting dark. Winter nights are when the temperature is the lowest. Without any means of keeping warm, she would most likely be frozen into an ice cube in the wild.
Yin Cang held her shoulders and let her sit back on the stone.
He pointed at the dark sky, shook his head at her, and then turned around to find some wood.
Long Linger understood what he meant. It was getting dark, and it would be very dangerous for them to go look for the person now. The person might freeze to death before they even find him.
While thinking, Yin Cang was already half-kneeling on the snow, using a clean stone as a cushion, placing the wood on top, and rubbing it vigorously with both hands.
There was still a childish look on his serious and stern face, and he was staring at the wood meticulously. Although he was obviously just a cub, it inexplicably made Long Linger feel more at ease.
"Do you want to make a fire?" Looking at Yin Cang's actions, Long Linger asked.
Yin Cang nodded, but his hands did not slow down at all.
If you don’t have a fire on a winter night, not only will you freeze to death, you may also be eaten by wild beasts.
He used to wander in the forest with his brother and was very skilled in making fire. But now it was winter and the wood was damp and cold, not dry at all, making it difficult to make a fire.
After a while, beads of sweat appeared on Yin Cang's forehead.
But soon, it was blown away by the cold wind.
"Why didn't you tell me you wanted to make a fire? I have a fire starter!" Long Linger took out a small brown wooden stick from her arms and looked at Yin Cang with curved eyes.
Then he broke the small wooden stick and blew towards the long side. After a while, a string of red flames came out of the small wooden stick.
Yin Cang looked at her in surprise.
"This was made by my mother before you came. I never had the chance to use it in the tribe, so I secretly took it when my mother wasn't paying attention. It just so happens that it comes in handy now. It's much more useful than flint and steel, hey..."
Long Linger explained with a smile.
After saying that, he handed the fire starter to Yin Cang, and gently stamped his cold feet to urge him: "Use it quickly, otherwise when the fire goes out, I will secretly take this one, and it will be useless if it goes out."
Yin Cang came back to his senses from his surprise, quickly reached out to take the tinderbox, quickly lit the haystack as kindling, and made a fire.
A layer of stones was piled next to it to prevent the fire from being blown out by the cold wind at night.
The two men sat in front of the fire, using stones as cushions to warm themselves.
There is nothing else in this mountain stream, but there are a lot of stones.
The scorching flames were like elves dancing, warming the blood in both of their bodies.
Long Linger's pale face turned a little redder, and at this moment, her stomach rumbled.
"Gurgle..."
Yin Cang turned to look at her. Long Linger smiled shyly and said, "I'm a little hungry, but it doesn't matter. We'll have food to eat when we find Big Brother and the others tomorrow."
She was already starving, and she said these words to comfort Yin Cang. She knew that in such an environment, it was good enough that he didn't freeze to death, so there was no point in causing him more trouble.
Yin Cang said nothing, turned his head, suddenly stood up and walked into the darkness.
“Yin Cang, where are you going! Come back…” Long Linger’s eyes widened and she hurriedly followed.
After following for more than ten meters, Long Linger found Yin Cang squatting on the ground, digging something into a small hole.
"Yin Cang, what are you doing? There's nothing to eat here. You should go back and rest. I'm really not hungry..."
Long Linger was worried that he might encounter some wild beast and tried to persuade him to go back.
Unexpectedly, after a while, Yin Cang looked back at her, then pulled out a gray, furry thing from the hole.
"This is... a rabbit!" Long Ling'er's expression suddenly changed from worry to surprise, "It turns out this is a rabbit nest!"
She was also worried that it was a snake hole or something, it would be terrible if Yin Cang got bitten.
Long Ling'er had been bitten by a snake before, and had a deep trauma and aversion to such animals.
A faint smile appeared on Yin Cang's lips. He saw a rabbit running by when he was looking for wood just now, but he was not sure. He didn't expect it to be real.
"That's great, we have meat to eat, Yin Cang you are so awesome!" Long Linger praised happily.
Yin Cang's ears turned red. He twisted the rabbit's neck with his backhand and handed it to Long Linger.
Rabbits can bite, and their teeth are very sharp.
Long Linger took the rabbit, and Yin Cang continued to dig in the rabbit nest, apparently wanting to catch all the rabbits in one fell swoop.
She waited quietly on the side, and soon Yin Cang emptied the rabbit's nest.
In total, we caught two big rabbits weighing 20 kilograms and four small rabbits the size of a palm.
In Long Linger's eyes, the soft and cute little rabbits were all delicious meat. She had no pity at all. She carried the four little rabbits back to the fire and took out a knife from her arms.
While excitedly dissecting the rabbit, he said to Yin Cang:
"Yin Cang, take a rest first. I'll kill the rabbit and grill it for you later."
Yin Cang originally wanted to do it himself, but when he saw that Long Linger's technique was skillful and precise, he withdrew his hand awkwardly and placed the two 20-pound rabbits next to her as a sign of his agreement.
There was no water here, only snow. Yin Cang was not idle either. He went to find a stone and polished a rough large pot. He put it on the fire to melt the snow into water for Long Linger to use to wash the rabbit.
Soon, Long Linger killed the rabbit and skewered it with the wooden stick that Yin Cang found.
The two men roasted rabbit meat over a fire. Soon the cold air was filled with the aroma of meat, accompanied by the sound of sizzling oil.
Winter has just begun, and the rabbits are still fat, with a lot of fat and oil on their bodies.
By the end of winter, all they could eat was dry, flat, lean meat.
The two men had just escaped from an avalanche and had been busy for so long that they were already tired and hungry. They couldn't wait for the rabbit meat to be fully roasted and started to feast on it.