To smoothly get through the later stages, 20 kilograms of game per day was the target Bi Fang set.
There was less than half a month until the perpetual darkness descended, roughly fifteen days, and during that time there could be another blizzard, combined with other unforeseen events, plus building a shelter; the actual days that one could go out hunting and gain a yield might only be about a week.
A healthy adult male typically consumes about three jin of food a day, which adds up to forty-five kilograms a month, and for three months, that would require at least one hundred thirty-five kilograms.
In the Arctic, this amount needed is even greater.
About one hundred fifty kilograms of food reserves would be relatively safe.
Two puffins, plucked of feathers, might not even amount to eight jin, or four kilograms, meaning today's task was completed by less than one-quarter.
[Isn't this too difficult? Twenty kilograms, I couldn't finish that much meat in a month]
