472. Separation
Chen Song followed and saw a lifelike seal among the clear and transparent ice.
The seal was also unlucky and happened to be frozen in the ice layer. Because the sea water ice was not polluted, the dogs saw its full picture.
This kind of thing is quite common in the Arctic. There are fish, seals, etc. in the ocean ice layer, because the sea water will freeze from the upper layer after the cold current arrives, and marine animals have to break through the ice layer and breathe.
As a result, the cold current further intensified, and the seawater ice layer thickened rapidly, which often freezes some fish and seals that were too late to escape.
Under low temperatures, fish and animals are prone to being frozen, just like boiling frogs in warm water, they are gradually frozen. It is often too late to run until they realize something is wrong.
Seeing the seal, Chen Song took out his cell phone to take a photo.
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As a result, the dogs saw him taking photos and thought he was interested in the seals in the ice, so they used their claws to dig up the ice.
Chen Song was so scared that he wanted to pee: "No, no, you are really my uncle! Don't destroy the ice layer, we will fall into the water and die!"
He was too worried. The dogs were not Wolverines. After digging the ice for a while, they only dug out some scratches, and they could not break the thick ice layer at all.
Chen Song dragged them away and continued to move forward.
After arriving on the island, he told Meyek's family about this. He heard that there were seals under the ice layer, and the family was so happy that Meyek carried an ice axe on the spot to break the ice and retrieve the seal.
Chen Song was startled and said, "Aren't you afraid of destroying the ice layer into the sea?"
Mayek grinned and said, "No, the Nijak wind has been blowing several times. Now the ice road on the sea is very reliable and will not be destroyed. I just go and take out the seal."
The seal was a precious asset to their family. It saved some food to eat for several days. Chen Song brought surprise to the family that had already lost food.
The old man thought Chen Song was the blessing brought to their family by the White God. He wanted to repay Chen Song, but after rummaging through the boxes and cabinets for a while, he said distressedly: "I'm sorry, Chinese benefactor, there is really nothing valuable in our family."
Chen Song hurriedly said, "Don't be polite, it's natural for me to do all this, you don't have to give me anything."
The old man was very stubborn. He didn't listen to Chen Song and looked for it for a while. Finally, he took out a statue about the size of a boy's fist: "Chinese benefactor, this is the bone sculpture I made before. If you don't dislike it, can you accept them?"
Chen Song looked at it and saw what bones were carved from, perhaps seal bones or walrus bones, with white color and yellow in color. The old man obviously rubbed it a lot, and the appearance was already a little patina, which was very old.
The bone eagle looks like a person, with deep eye sockets and high nose bridge, and turns out to be a white man.
He took the bone sculpture and asked, "Who is this carving?"
The old man smiled and said, "I don't know, I just used it."
He thought Chen Song liked this kind of thing very much, so he happily flipped it up and found several bone carvings, including bears, seals, and dogs. In addition, he also found a walrus ivory carving, which was precious.
This walrus is more than 60 cm long. It should not be called bone carving but bone carving, with some patterns and some weird words on it.
Chen Song couldn't understand this kind of text, so he asked, "What is it written on it? Is it your text?"
The old man said, "We don't have words, but other nations have words. When I was young, I had ambitions and wanted to create a kind of words. However, I couldn't do it, so I randomly carved some things on it, as a commemoration."
Chen Song was solemnly respected: "Great ambition."
Then he felt aroused and had an idea.
Later, Meyek's family was responsible for dismantling the house and packing his luggage. He went to dig out the frozen seals. Finally, they met and left the island with Chen Song.
Their family has no hunting dogs and can only rely on people to pull sleds.
Fortunately, the Inuits are hardworking, both women, elderly and children, and there is nothing else in their homes except for broken tents and some fur. The sled is not heavy, so humans can drag it.
After finally setting foot on land, Mayek looked back at the island protruding in the flat ice layer nostalgic, and murmured: "Goodbye Dad, I will listen to you in the future and no longer ventured at walruses."
Chen Song took down the bone carvings and bone carvings of this family. These were all works of art, but there were a lot of them. There were more than fifty bone carvings, all of which were fine works that the old man had nothing to do in carvings.
There are also ten walrus tusks, large or small, all with patterns or meaningless lines of text.
Although the old man has never learned carving, the artist is born, and practice makes perfect. His bone carving works are very exquisite, especially those bone carvings. You should know that walrus is a superior material in carvings and is very valuable in itself.
Chen Song gave them all the Danish kroners he had exchanged before, and then carefully taught them how to use the money. The money he gave was enough for the family to buy ten best hounds, customize a set of high-quality sleds and survive this cold winter.
The old man led the whole family to give him the highest respect from the Inuit people, took turns kissing the back of his hands and bent down and touching his feet with his forehead.
Meyek also handed him a wolf-tooth necklace worn on his neck and said solemnly: "Chinese benefactor, you keep this, thank you for saving me and saving our family. White God and Night God will bless you!"
Chen Song did not refuse, he took out his saber and gave it to the boy.
The Inuits are all honest and straight people. They drag their luggage away and waved their hands all the way. Even if they can't see each other clearly, the Meyek family will still turn around and wave hard at him.
Chen Song likes such honest people very much. If the Inuits were not willing to leave their hometown and even more unwilling to work, then he would be happy to recruit this family to work in his manor.
Everyone was about to get in the car, but Beaufort sneaked up: "Boss Vince, you don't have a saber anymore, are you?"
Chen Song said: "There is still a spare, what's wrong?"
Beaufort pulled out his dog-legged knife and said, "Look at this, the S machete from British BCB International Co., Ltd. is a special weapon for the special forces. It uses stainless steel single-edged blades. The blade is made of carbon steel. It's simply amazing. Are you interested?"
Seeing that the dog-leg knife was really good, Chen Song reached out and took it away and tried it and said, "I'm interested, thank you."
Beaufort was stunned, and after reacting, he hurriedly said, "No need to thank you, but you have to give me the wolf-tooth necklace that the child gave you just now, and we'll exchange it."
Chen Song looked at him with a smile and asked, "What's going on with that necklace?"
Beaufort said to him: "What's going on? It's the beast's teeth necklace. I like this kind of gadget, you know..."
"I don't know, I just know that if you don't tell the truth, I'll get in the car and leave." He put away the knife as he said this.
Chapter completed!