[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-starting-from-a-solitary-life-in-the-wilds":3,"chapter-starting-from-a-solitary-life-in-the-wilds-starting-from-a-solitary-life-in-the-wilds-chapter-61":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Starting from a Solitary Life in the Wilds",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2302446,4503,"Chapter 61","starting-from-a-solitary-life-in-the-wilds-chapter-61",61,"\u003Cp>Xiao Yi, frozen awake, opened the wooden door and immediately checked the outside conditions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking up at the sky, under the drone’s light, he saw heavy snowflakes swirling and drifting through the air, turning the entire wilderness into a blanket of white.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Xiao Yi beneath the light appeared utterly isolated and detached from the world in the endless snowy expanse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing how heavy the snowfall was, Xiao Yi wasted no time; he used a flint to ignite the stored sandgrass and immediately started the stove.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Yi hadn’t anticipated that his newly built fire-heated hut would be put to use on the very first day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dry sandgrass ignited easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, as the stove burned, the heated bed naturally warmed up, and the indoor temperature rose several degrees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the instant Xiao Yi opened the wooden door, the cultivators in the livestream erupted with excitement upon seeing the snowscape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I checked—it’s snowing! As a southern person, I’ve rarely seen snow since childhood; it’s so beautiful.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I love the silence of this wilderness under the snow—everything seems to have fallen still.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m raising my hand too—I’ve hardly ever seen snow. At eighteen, I’ve only seen snow three times in my life, and never enough to cover the ground. Today, I finally feel the northern scenery described in books.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn, what’s my god Xiao Shen doing? This is a crime against the other contestants—he’s already lit the heated bed! This is too comfortable!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course, only Xiao Shen has foresight! The real challenge of the Arctic wilderness is coming.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Exactly! Anyone who wants to win the grand prize must endure the cold—though I take back what I said about Xiao Shen.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Haha, my Ningningzi is truly the eternal god—he just blessed the contestants to have smooth sailing, and yet before even a day passes, snow falls from the heavens.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pfft! I laughed out loud—I just checked other contestants’ livestreams; nearly all of them woke up freezing. This snowstorm must have covered the entire Lake Ryan shoreline.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By the way, Xiao Shen, don’t forget Heidan and Goudan! With snow this heavy, don’t let them freeze to death.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s right! I’m Xiong Zai, still young—I can’t die this early!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, what the livestream viewers realized, Xiao Yi quickly grasped too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the stove ignited, Xiao Yi put on his hat and headed toward his temporary bear den.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The den was mostly buried under snow, with only a few strands of sandgrass exposed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Yi then used a wooden stick to dig through the snow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath the snow lay the pile of sandgrass Xiao Yi had stacked inside the den.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the sandgrass pile, Xiao Yi found Heidan and Goudan, their heads poking out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were sleeping soundly, barely affected by the heavy snow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, the sandgrass had insulated them from some of the external cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, Xiao Yi woke the two giants with a stick—he feared the snow might completely bury the den and suffocate them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Roar! (What are you doing?)”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heidan instinctively roared, then rolled over and went back to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In contrast, Goudan was far more alert than Heidan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Xiao Yi’s stick touched her, Goudan immediately rose, tense and defensive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She assumed a posture of defense and counterattack—but when she saw it was Xiao Yi, she relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heavy snow is falling. You two big guys, move into my old shelter.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Yi pointed toward the direction of his former shelter and spoke to Goudan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He believed this dumb bear could understand him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the temporary den, his original shelter was clearly warmer and sturdier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For these two bears, living there was far safer than staying here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the snow was still falling—no one knew how long it would last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Slap!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Roar!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Xiong Zai swung a massive paw straight onto his foolish brother’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Heidan, still sound asleep, he jolted awake with a furious roar after being slapped by his brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, he was in fighting mode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when he saw his brother glaring at him, his aggressive energy instantly dimmed by three-tenths—he turned from a furious bear into a docile one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, under Xiao Yi’s lead, the two bears headed toward his original shelter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Yi entered first, spreading the stored sandgrass across the entire floor, then let the two bears in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Yi’s original shelter wasn’t large; with both bears inside, it was cramped—but much warmer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Roar!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Roar!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at their new home, the two bears roared excitedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiong Zai had long coveted this shelter—but now, he coveted Xiao Yi’s wooden hut even more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once both bears were settled, Xiao Yi no longer paid attention to them and headed back to his own hut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the way back, his footsteps crunched through the snow, and suddenly Xiao Yi felt childlike joy, as if he’d returned to his youth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered how, as a child, he most looked forward to snowfall—so they could have snowball fights and ski.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as he grew older, Xiao Yi began to resent snow—he hated its cold, hated how it disrupted daily life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, alone in this wilderness under heavy snow, Xiao Yi felt as if he’d returned to his unbound childhood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After walking in the snow for over ten minutes, Xiao Yi finally returned to his hut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shook off the snow from his body at the door before stepping inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside and outside the hut were two different worlds—the temperature difference reached twenty degrees Celsius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the warmth rising, drowsiness naturally followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened the makeshift stove lid—made from a scrap iron sheet he’d collected—and added another log, as thick as a thigh, then climbed onto the heated bed and went to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that thick log, he could at least guarantee a deep sleep through the second half of the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Yi’s situation was still fine, but others weren’t so calm—some had already chosen to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Crack!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu De’s makeshift shelter collapsed under the weight of the snow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu De, who had been shivering from the cold, was instantly buried beneath it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, the viewers staying up late in his livestream grew anxious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the moment the shelter collapsed, the drone’s livestream briefly lost video feed—clearly, it had been buried along with Wu De.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the control room, Li Yong, upon seeing Wu De’s shelter collapse, felt a sudden tightening in his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the snow began, he had been closely monitoring all the contestants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he saw Xiao Yi light his heated bed, he couldn’t help but envy his own room’s small space heater.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The abandoned airport base, though improved by Yin Music, had only been wired for electricity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Air conditioning, heating—these were mere fantasies for the staff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, it was only a hundred days; though Yin Music wasn’t short on money, they couldn’t afford to throw cash around recklessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yong silently felt relieved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Qingning’s mouth—still as blessed as ever—thankfully, she hadn’t finished blessing the production team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Really scary!\u003C\u002Fp>",1169,"2026-06-20T08:19:46.963Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","29a37a223b45c772b2577063fac9a43c6ae8e0f0ded838bb46589ab4163512da","starting-from-a-solitary-life-in-the-wilds-chapter-62","starting-from-a-solitary-life-in-the-wilds-chapter-60",366,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-from-a-solitary-life-in-the-wilds-cover.jpg"]