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Chapter 791: 775: Smoked Fish and Black Bear

Chapter 791: Chapter 775: Smoked Fish and Black Bear

Yue Feng had some level of proficiency in various skills, but when it came to pottery making, he was a complete novice. The beginner’s general skill set in the system didn’t include anything related to it either.

Fortunately, there were knowledgeable followers in the live stream who guided him through the process, and after some attempts, he achieved a bit of success!

Following tips from his live stream audience, Yue Feng dug out the clay and carefully picked out the debris. He then ground the clay as finely as possible, mixed it with water, and kneaded it into round strips. He layered these strips to form a small, arched basin and used water to seamlessly merge the gaps between each layer of the strips.

Although the appearance was somewhat ugly, once Yue Feng found his method, he became more skilled as he progressed. In just a few hours between dinner and bedtime, he managed to make three pieces of pottery that looked reasonably good.

Since the clay was slightly too moist, Yue Feng did not dare to fire it immediately. So, he left it out overnight. The next morning, after waking up, he saw that the clay had hardened somewhat after being roasted by the campfire all night. He then carefully placed them over the fire and, after several hours, successfully fired two of the three pots. Now Yue Feng finally had some basic utensils at his disposal!

With the wooden cabin and other miscellaneous living utensils taken care of, Yue Feng’s initial plan was somewhat complete.

By this time, five days had passed since the challenge began.

Each of the ten Challengers had begun to settle down in their assigned areas, and no one had dropped out yet.

However, not dropping out didn’t mean everyone was doing well.

For instance, Challenger Number Two, a middle-aged Caucasian woman, was purportedly an expert in outdoor survival according to her profile, but she found it extremely difficult to obtain food in this unfamiliar territory.

She set multiple snares, but only managed to catch one rabbit over five days. Most of her time was spent gathering wild berries and plant roots, or just being hungry. She was currently weaving a net by hand at the location of her makeshift shelter, preparing to catch fish in the big lake!

Challenger Number Three, a young Caucasian man named Kaman, also did not have sufficient food, but he built a decent shelter. He brought along an axe and a saw and in four days, constructed a proper wooden cabin.

His main source of food was fishing with hooks baited with pine-tree entrails. Since his equipment was not professional and his fishing skills were average, his catch was poor. He spent a significant amount of time fishing by the water each day but chose a spot where the water was too shallow, earning just enough catch to fill his belly, with hardly any surplus.

The one who was doing the best was probably Challenger Number Eight, a young black man named Claude. After scouting the surrounding area initially, he had a fair estimation of the game in his territory. On one hunting trip, he even spotted a badger from a distance, but unfortunately startled it during his approach and failed to hunt it down.

The porcupine meat he caught at the beginning meant he had enough to eat for a while. He also had plenty of time to wander around the campsite. Occasionally, he would try his luck fishing at the lake with a homemade fishing rig. The lake area where he was had deep water, yielding a decent catch, and he already had three smoked fish in reserve.

After successfully making the pottery, Yue Feng officially started his food preservation efforts.

At dawn, after a quick breakfast, Yue Feng, carrying his fishing rod along with a survival knife, headed to the lake to fish.

After carefully selecting a good fishing spot, Yue Feng had a very successful catch!

In less than a morning, he was able to catch over ten fresh fish ranging from three to eight pounds each. The only setback was that he accidentally lost a blade lure during the process, which upset him a bit.

Since daytime temperatures were still around the teens, fresh fish couldn’t be preserved for long. Thus, Yue Feng resorted to the oldest method of preserving meat.

Smoking!

On one side of the fireplace inside the shelter, he added an extra stick to hang fresh fish. He made a fire in the fireplace using fresh pine branches, which have a high oil content and can burn even when fresh, though they emit smoke while burning. This warm smoke was perfect for drying the moisture inside the fresh fish while preventing the fish from spoiling and turning rancid!

Ever since Yue Feng had started fishing to stock up on fish meat, the popularity of his livestreaming room had been steadily climbing.

Yue Feng had now confirmed that his sponsor had reached an exclusive cooperation agreement with the livestreaming platform, and because the content was extremely novel, it was even placed in a separate section on the homepage.

Many wilderness survival experts were exhausting themselves daily to gather as much food as possible, yet their reserves were meager. However, Yue Feng, a fishing expert whose basic records showed no outdoor survival experience, had not only quickly set up a tidy shelter but also demonstrated a uniquely exaggerated fishing skill.

Other streamers would be thrilled to catch a few fish in a day, but for Yue Feng, it only took a few casts to land one fish.

If he weren’t worried about the lure snagging and losing it by constantly fishing off the bottom, Yue Feng’s rate of catching fish could have been doubled.

In just a few days, by the first week of the challenge, Yue Feng’s cellar had stored over fifty smoked fish, split and dried in the middle,

Without going into detail, just this food reserve alone, if used sparingly, could help Yue Feng survive the next fifty days!

But with these smoked fish reserves, Yue Feng was far from satisfied. To use his words in the livestream, he was there for a good two months, aiming to live well, not just to avoid starving!

With provisions in his pocket, there was no panic in his heart. Yue Feng spent another two days increasing his dried fish count from fifty to a hundred!

The old saying goes, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” To prevent theft of food from the cellar while he was away from camp, Yue Feng adopted the same strategy.

He stored half of the dried fish in a cellar sealed with a large stone and kept the other half near the lakeside area. He chopped three pine trees from a height of a few meters and built an open-air triangular platform. The cut-off tree tops were fashioned into a simple ladder.

After laying pine branches on the platform for storing smoked fish, he covered the fish with another layer of pine branches to block sunlight. This not only prevented spoilage from high temperatures but also kept most ground-dwelling animals from stealing the food.

Every day when he went to the lake to fetch water and cook, Yue Feng carried his fishing gear with him. If he caught fresh fish, he would not touch the reserves; if the fishing was poor, he would just use some of the dried fish for cooking. This way, several days passed without incident.

However, after living in the area for a while, bad luck was bound to occur eventually,

This morning, as Yue Feng was livestreaming to inspect the snares around his territory, from a distance, he saw a big fellow standing upright under the pine tree, scratching an itch!

Good lord, a bear!

Yue Feng instantly crouched down and raised the drone’s altitude to over thirty meters.

“What’s the matter, Brother Feng?”

“What happened? Why did you suddenly stop talking?”

“I just saw someone in the distance a moment ago? The camera swept by too quickly and I didn’t see clearly!”