Live Streaming: Great Adventure in the Wilderness

After crossing countless glaciers and trekking through dozens of kilometers of the ice cap, they finally arrived at the true Greenland.

The rocks were as hard as icebergs, and the light grey soil beneath the thick snow was so familiar it made one want to kneel and kiss the ground.

The earth is the true destination of humans.

Bi Fang leaned against a rock, feeling a slight dizziness, a symptom of low blood sugar.

"I haven’t eaten for three days."

In front of the camera, Bi Fang said this calmly, accompanied by a burning pain in his stomach. He leaned against the rock, closed his eyes to rest, and took a brief respite, looking quite fatigued.

This was his longest recorded period without food during his many live streams. The excessive secretion of gastric acid that wasn’t neutralized made his stomach feel as though it was stuffed with a fiery ball, burning and piercing.

"How long humans can survive without food doesn’t have a definitive answer. In 2006, a Japanese hiker, Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, unfortunately fell down a mountain. Immobilized, he survived 24 days just by drinking rainwater."

"In 2011, a Swedish man, Peter Kjellberg, was caught in an avalanche while driving. He survived for two months in a car completely buried in snow by eating nothing but the snow."

"David Blaine, a magician from Ugly Country, lived in a transparent glass box on the banks of the Thames River in 2003. He was live-streamed 24 hours a day, drinking only water and not eating anything, lasting 44 days before he emerged, having lost about 20 pounds, but his other bodily indicators were mostly fine."

"This shows that the human body can survive a long time on just water without food, but it will definitely become very weak."

[Stop talking, I’m starting to feel hungry]

[I was so scared I hurriedly wolfed down three bowls of rice]

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[I tried it when I was dieting before. The first day I was very hungry but could bear it, on the second day I started to lose control, and my body easily felt cold. On the third day, I suddenly wasn’t hungry anymore, but my body was clearly weak, without any strength, and it was amazing how my body would automatically wake up early, without needing an alarm clock, and I could fall asleep easily.]

[Haha, it’s so easy to fall asleep, I’m afraid I won’t wake up]

[Low blood sugar is very dangerous, if you don’t replenish it in time, you could easily pass out]

"Dieting by not eating isn’t good," Bi Fang opened his eyes and glanced at the comment stream to remind them, "Not eating or eating too little will put the body into a low metabolic state, which is the ’getting by with minimal’ state."

"In 1944, Ancel Keys from the University of Minnesota in Ugly Country conducted a starvation experiment, which was quite an inhumane study with a complex process. I won’t go into detail, but there was a control experiment that could be thought of as eating normally first, then starving, then eating normally again—doesn’t that sound like the typical dieting pattern for losing weight?"

Many viewers nodded without thinking.

After all, you can’t diet forever; eventually, you would return to a normal diet.

"Dizziness, hair loss, edema, cold intolerance, photophobia, phonophobia, blurred vision, persistent tinnitus, sluggish reactions..."

Suddenly, a string of words burst from Bi Fang’s mouth, and he concluded, "These were all side effects after the experiment, and there were no exceptions among the participants."

[???]

[What the hell, that serious?]

"The experiment was extreme, and of course, our everyday dieting isn’t that severe, but we still need to be cautious. The calorie formula we have always known is actually wrong. Many believe that reducing caloric intake equates to losing weight, but this is a mistake because intake and consumption can never be considered equal."

"Everyone has a balance system inside their body. When we eat less, the body enters a low-energy mode, reducing consumption, which means lowering body temperature, strength, and the brain’s regulatory abilities. You will feel weak, irritable, and depressed."

"And while it’s easy for consumption to drop, it’s hard to raise it again. Once the body adapts to a low-consumption mode, even if you eat the same amount of food as before, you won’t be able to increase your metabolism back unless you engage in heavy exercise over a short period."

"So when you start eating normally again, you consume the same energy as before dieting, but your consumption does not increase accordingly. Instead, your body starts to store more energy, that is, fat. This is the rebound phenomenon many people experience."

[Damn, it suddenly makes sense.]

[No wonder my sister gets fat again within a month after dieting, and even more so, in an endless cycle.]

[I’ll show this to my girlfriend (dog’s head).]

"For weight loss, it’s better to exercise more. By increasing metabolism and maintaining a normal diet, you don’t need to change your food structure drastically, and it’s best to chew slowly."

"Many times, the reactions of the stomach and the brain are inconsistent. The stomach is full, but the brain doesn’t realize you’ve had enough, and keeps sending hunger signals."

[The real trick is to eat before the brain catches on.]

Bi Fang, who had rest for a while, stood up again and stomped his feet, feeling a sense of fulfillment that filled his entire body with a trace of pride.

"This is indeed the world’s largest island. It bridges the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, facing North America across the strait to the west, bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and looking at Iceland in Europe across the Denmark Strait to the east."

"The severe cold of Greenland, where snowflakes dance all year round. Even in the height of summer, the weak sunshine can’t melt all the snow on the ground, not to mention during the long polar nights when the sun hides below the horizon, refusing to show its face, making the climate even colder and the snow even thicker."

"For hundreds of years, the cold of Greenland hasn’t changed significantly. The accumulation of ice and snow can’t withstand great pressure, turning gradually into translucent, pale blue ice blocks, covering the entire land of Greenland, with a thickness of over 1500 meters and up to 3000 meters at its thickest."

Bi Fang stretched his hand out to point at the nearby mountain range, covered in thick white snow. He didn’t know if it was a rocky mountain or a glacier; from their appearances, they were indistinguishable.

These massive glaciers slide down the tilted mountain terrain toward the vast ocean, and over time, due to the combined effects of sea currents, tides, waves, and sunshine, they gradually break apart with thunderous crashes, fragmenting into huge chunks that drift with the currents.

Along their journey, sunlight, wind, and waves carve them into various shapes reminiscent of glorious pyramids, mountain ranges, and arches, creating a spectacular and endless display of wonders.

Some of these icebergs are kilometers long and hundreds of meters high, essentially floating islands.

Yet, what one sees above the water’s surface is only a fraction of their true size. With seventy to eighty percent of their bulk hidden underwater, their enormity can only be imagined.

"These icebergs of the Arctic drift independently away from the glaciers, able to last two years, traveling a distance of 3000 kilometers across the oceans."

"When they reach warmer waters, they ultimately can’t survive and melt away, vanishing without a trace."

"However, in the Baffin Bay area, when icebergs are at their most imposing, they often bring endless disasters to ships of polar explorers."

"But that has nothing to do with us."

Bi Fang’s grandiose tone suddenly lightened.

"I’m so hungry right now that I could eat anything, even dirt."