The cold made Lin Ge rub his palms vigorously: "You guys think, if we go further north and really reach the Arctic Circle, how will we survive?"
"Since the Inuit can live in the Arctic, we can do the same." Xu Yun said: "It's just a little colder. If people living in this place went to the tropics, they would probably die of dehydration in a day."
Lin Ge pursed his lips and said: "Brother, the Inuit are out-and-out indigenous people. They are used to living here all year round. We are not the indigenous people. We, the yellow race, have the poorest physical fitness among the races in the world.
Already."
"There is one fact that really should make you understand that the yellow race is the most vulnerable to the cold." Xu Yundao said: "The indigenous Inuit people living in the Arctic are all yellow race people, replaced by black people with good physical fitness.
Come here, you might have died here long ago."
Lin Ge was stunned for a moment.
Looking at the environment here, maybe except for the hard-working yellow people who are not afraid of anything, others really can't bear it.
Most of the black brothers are lazy and don't like to do things. It is almost impossible to expect them to survive in such a place where no one can shit.
"Brother, are the ancestors of these Inuit people really Chinese?" Lin Ge was dubious.
"Who said they are Chinese? It's not like only Chinese people are of the yellow race." Xu Yun smiled bitterly: "The ancestors of the Inuit should be from Siberia. As far as I know, tens of thousands of years ago, the Siberians came from Asia.
Crossing the Bering Strait to reach North America may also be through the ice-covered strait land bridge.”
Gu Qiya had never heard of this either: "Does this mean that they also belong to the eastern Asian ethnic group?"
"Well, according to some human history that I know, this is what it says." Xu Yundao said: "In the offshore, they caught sea animals and fish, and in the inland location, they hunted for a living."
"Brother, there's another thing I didn't understand. You said they might have come through the frozen Strait Land Bridge?" Lin Ge said: "The entire Bering Strait is frozen?"
"Yes." Xu Yundao said: "Ten thousand years ago, it was the Ice Age. The straits in the extremely cold areas were completely frozen. You could walk directly from Asia to the Americas."
Lin Ge suddenly realized that he had never thought that that time was still the Ice Age of the century. Like now, with global warming, there is no possibility of the strait being frozen, right? It should be impossible.
If the Titanic had taken the North Atlantic route now, it might not have hit the iceberg.
"These people are really awesome." Lin Ge said, "I just don't understand. It's cold in Siberia, and it's cold here. Why would they go so far here?"
"Do you think they came to such a cold place?" Xu Yun said: "Of course not. The migrating army that set out from Asia and crossed the Bering Strait was headed for the hinterland of America. They also wanted to find a fertile land.
A place with a comfortable climate.”
Lin Ge was stunned for a moment: "Yes, there are many good places in the Canadian and American empires."
"But they didn't ask the American Indians if they agreed before they came? Faced with the pursuit, interception and brutal killing of the Indian natives, they could only fight and retreat, and finally retreated to the Arctic Circle." Xu Yun said: "It was winter.
, the Native American Indians thought that the Inuit would freeze to death in this place soon, so they stopped chasing them. But no one thought that the Inuit miraculously survived in the Arctic, and they created the foundation for human survival.
of miracles.”
In terms of being able to endure hardships and stand hard work, yellow people are indeed extraordinary.
"I don't know if we can meet the Inuit." Lin Ge said: "If we do, let us express our condolences. They were fellow villagers ten thousand years ago."
"If it's north of Big Bear Lake, it's possible to encounter Inuit people," Xu Yun said.
Gu Qiya laughed loudly: "Even if we meet, we can't be sure if they are Inuit. We can't go up and ask, right? After all, some rich people in America who love life may also deliberately come to the extreme cold at this time.
We’re skating and skiing on the ground.”
"The Inuit are yellow people. I guess not many yellow people living in North America would have the time to come here to ski," Lin Ge said.
Xu Yun smiled: "Although the Inuit are from Asia, due to their long-term living in the polar environment, the Inuit are different from the yellow people in Asia."
Lin Ge shook his head: "Is it possible that he was assimilated by the native Indians? You can still tell the appearance of Asians at a glance."
"They are short and stocky, with slender eyes, wide noses, the tip of the nose curves downward, a wide face, and thick subcutaneous fat." Xu Yun said: "Because the short and thick body can resist the cold, and the small eyes can prevent reflection from polar ice and snow.
Strong light is irritating to the eyes. Are your eyes particularly tired from driving in this white snow and ice?"
Lin Ge nodded. They drive slowly here because the ice and snow here reflect strong light during the day and make the eyes uncomfortable. When driving at night, the light will also reflect and make the eyes unbearable.
"It is because of the evolution of such physical characteristics that they have an amazing ability to withstand severe cold." Xu Yundao said: "Of course, another important reason why the Inuit are cold-resistant is that the daily food they eat is
High-protein and high-calorie foods, otherwise I would have been unable to bear them long ago."
Lin Ge looked at the grilled fish they were eating: "Is this considered high-calorie?"
"Wait a moment for this question. Let me ask you first, do you know why they are called Inuit?" Xu Yundao said: "This is the name given to themselves by their language. Inuit means' in their language consciousness.
Real people,' they would say, because the native Indians gave them a name they didn't like, Eskimos."
Lin Ge neither understood the Aleut language of the ancient Asiatic language family nor the indigenous Indian language: "Isn't this nice to hear? How foreign, Eskimo."
"But the Indian meaning of Eskimos is 'raw meat eaters', which means to laugh at them." Xu Yun said: "Many people now know the Eskimos, but not the Inuit, but for such a strong and surviving people,
As a nation, the name Eskimo should really be abandoned."
"Then they really eat raw meat?" Gu Qiya was a little surprised: "Is it because they eat raw meat that they can maintain their calories?"
Xu Yun nodded: "Inuit people do eat raw meat, and they prefer meat that has been preserved for a period of time and is slightly rotten. The traditional Inuit view is that cooking meat is a waste of food."
"I guess, their evolution seems to have failed to keep up with the pace of society. In the ancient society, it would have been understandable to eat raw meat, but now they still eat it..." Lin Ge was also a little surprised: "There is no need for this.
Bar?"
Xu Yun shook his head: "Actually, this is an adaptation to the Arctic cold. People who hunt outside have no hope of making fires everywhere. And in order to ensure high protein and high calorie intake, the traditional recipes of the Inuit are all meat.
, fish, seals, walruses and even big fish like whales, reindeer, musk oxen and even polar bears on land, these are what they eat.”
Lin Ge couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "I can't help but want to make friends with the Inuit people, eat whales, eat polar bears... This is so cool, I haven't eaten whale meat and...
As for polar bear meat, if you can make a friend, it should be okay to go to his house and try it, right?"
"If it's eaten raw, I'd rather not meet the Inuit." Gu Qiya shook her head vigorously. She couldn't accept eating it raw. It would be better to eat sashimi. After all, the fish meat is relatively fresh, but on land
Animal meat is not that easy to "melt in your mouth".
Especially when I think of polar bears, the meat of such a strong guy must be "muscle", and it must be particularly difficult to chew. How can you eat it?
Gu Qiya almost vomited when she thought of this.
In fact, Lin Ge doesn't like eating raw meat, and he doesn't even like sashimi: "We have an electric pot. If we fry it, they shouldn't mind, right?"
"But Xu Yun said that the traditional Inuit view is that cooking meat is a waste of food." Gu Qiya said: "Do you think they will entertain a guest who wastes their food?"
"Then I'd better not make friends with them." Lin Ge shook his head.