Chapter 230. To Stay Alive
In temperatures below minus seventy degrees, those who struggled to stay alive, desperately searching for firewood and food, still wouldn’t stop for fear that once they did, they would never stand again.
To keep warm, they even lost their fear of wild animals, just to obtain their pelts.
The human potential, it must be said, is boundless. Faced with hunger-maddened humans who feared not even death, beasts could only flee.
All was for survival.
The people who had endured innumerable hardships to reach Qinggu Mountain felt immense relief that they had gambled right, otherwise the first wave of cold would have been unbearable, especially since there were elderly and children among them.
This was a place with many mountains and few people, so finding a cave to shelter in wasn’t difficult. With a cave, resisting the cold was possible to a larger extent, provided there was enough firewood, and the mountain was least lacking in that.
The mountain range here was high and lush with vegetation; wild greens could be found everywhere. Though the wild greens had frozen solid, they were better than eating bark or dirt.
Except for a few whose health was really poor, most people got through.