"Damn it!"
Ethan was directly buried by a heap of snow.
On top of that, before being buried, he had been swept along and rolled across the ground several times. He couldn't even tell east from west anymore.
Now, as he dug around in the snow, everywhere seemed like it could be the ground, yet everywhere also seemed like it wasn't the real ground, making it impossible to tell which side was the sky, and which side was the ground.
At this moment, Ethan suddenly remembered a foreign survival-in-the-wild show he had watched before.
(Bear Grylls: You might as well just announce my ID number while you're at it!)
It said that if you can't tell directions in the snow, then you should spit toward the ground.
Wherever the spit falls, that's the ground. Because of gravity.
"Ptoo!"
Ethan spat, and sure enough, the spit fell toward the lower left.
So he was neither upright nor upside down, but tilted sideways.
Now that he'd found the ground, things were much easier. He just needed to dig in the opposite direction of the ground.
No matter how thick the snow was, as long as the direction was right, he would definitely dig his way out.
"Heave-ho~ Heave-ho~"
Ethan soon dug into something hard.
'Did I hit an ice layer?'
He directly took out the Dragon-Slaying Blade and stabbed upward, but when he pierced through the thing above the ice layer, Ethan realized something was wrong.
Because the white blade went in, and the red blade came out.
That thing above wasn't ice at all, but a corpse frozen stiff.
[Giant Snow Monster Corpse, can be dismantled. Dismantle?]
'A snow monster corpse?'
Ethan was completely stunned, because he clearly remembered that snow monsters were kings of the snow.
The one he had chased before could even burrow into the snow within a second, escaping through the snow and into rock caves in the snowy mountains.
A creature that lived in ice and snow year-round like this should be impossible to freeze to death.
It was like how polar bears don't freeze to death easily.
So, the situation in front of him confused Ethan.
"Do not dismantle for now."
Ethan dug the giant snow monster above him out and let it fall onto the snow he had cleared.
Once the snow was compressed, it naturally left an empty space.
And just like that, Ethan had himself a snow chamber.
The giant snow monster that fell landed right in the center of the chamber. Only then did Ethan see clearly that this snow monster hadn't frozen to death at all, but had been drained completely of blood, turning it directly into something like a dried corpse.
And the owner of this dried corpse was the Snow Monster Queen he had been dragging along earlier. Her small body and that dazzlingly white fur were unforgettable.
And now, the Snow Monster Queen had died a truly miserable death.
Ethan pressed a hand to his forehead, 'How could the Snow Monster Queen die so tragically?'
'Could it be…'
Ethan hurriedly took out the magic book.
He checked the time on it and only then realized that it was already past five in the afternoon. He had completely missed sunset by more than three hours.
'Haven't I just been unconscious for a little while?'
That one blink had actually cost him over three hours.
'And judging from the Snow Monster Queen's condition, could it be that she has been turned into this by the monsters in the fog?'
Ethan felt his skin crawl.
He cautiously glanced upward.
[Extreme Danger!]
[The monsters in the fog are nearby. Do not make any sound. Do not make any movement whatsoever.]
"!!!"
A chill shot straight from the soles of Ethan's feet to the top of his head.
He had missed the time to return. The monsters in the fog had appeared. But if he stayed completely still in the snow, he would definitely freeze himself to death.
Since he couldn't move, he could only quietly check the magic book to see if there was anything that could help him keep warm.
Very quickly, Ethan saw a blueprint he had obtained from the golden treasure chest.
[Self-Heating Fur Coat Blueprint]
'Learn!'
[Self-Heating Fur Coat: After putting it on, you'll understand what "warm as spring" really means. Especially suitable for sub-zero temperatures. Can withstand extreme cold down to minus thirty degrees! Crafting requirements: Advanced Beast Hide 20/2, Hemp Thread 0/1 (Water Ghoul Silk 4301/2), Fire-type Beast Core 1/1]
All the other materials were in the warehouse back home and hadn't been brought out.
But fortunately, hemp thread could be substituted with water ghoul silk, and he just happened to have a fire-type beast core. He had dug it out from the octopus meat.
Of course, if he needed more fire-type beast cores, Ethan could dig them out of the octopus meat right now.
That huge pile of octopus meat was basically like opening blind boxes. At any time, it could yield all kinds of beast cores.
Not just ordinary fire-type beast cores. There should even be a multicolored beast core in there.
And who knew how much random stuff that magma octopus had eaten anyway, so who the hell knew how many beast cores were hidden inside its body.
Now he could only wait until he got back and had Cook Four's group process it in the kitchen to find out how many beast cores that magma octopus would actually bring him.
"Craft!"
Before long, Ethan's intermediate backpack had an extra self-heating fur coat inside.
He hurriedly took it out. The style was actually quite nice. Snow-white all over, a mid-length coat style, and it even had a hood. Even wearing it in the city wouldn't look tacky at all.
Carefully putting on the coat, Ethan tried his best not to make any sound.
After spending several minutes, Ethan finally managed to put the coat on. The warmth brand really lived up to its name.
'It is really warm!'
The entire coat felt like it was lined with heating pads. The moment he put it on, Ethan had only one feeling.
That it was incredibly comfortable. It felt just like stepping indoors from the cold outside into a room full of heating.
And this coat even felt like it was hugging you with warmth.
'If I can give every resident, and every player in my region, one coat each, then surviving the extreme cold coming in two days shouldn't be too difficult, right?'
It was just a pity… that the requirements for this thing were a bit harsh. It had to use advanced beast hide.
Ordinary beast hide wasn't something Ethan lacked, but advanced beast hide, he had only gotten twenty pieces from that giant snow monster he took down with a sliding kick. Now, to make one coat for himself, he had used up two more.
But the dried corpse of this giant snow monster right in front of him should be able to replenish some. It couldn't go to waste.
"Collect!"
[Advanced Beast Hide +20]
[Snow Monster Bones +365]
[Advanced Beast Tendon +1]
[Earth-type Beast Core +1]
[Water-type Beast Core +1]
Another twenty pieces of advanced beast hide.
If he could mass-kill this kind of giant snow monster, then Ethan wouldn't need to worry about running out of advanced hides anymore.
When the time came… he could take the opportunity to make another big profit.
"Hehehe…"
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