Yang Yi spent the entire day in his room assembling and disassembling those few handguns, doing nothing else.
The few who were taken out by Pasanin for adaptation training did not end up freezing outside this time; instead, they went to chop trees, using axes instead of chainsaws to fell the pines, then, after clearing the branches and leaves to leave only the trunk, they carried it back together.
With Chris absent, the number departing was just four people, two men and two women, and they needed all four to bring home a tree trunk that was over ten meters long. Pasanin didn't care whether they carried it or dragged it; as long as they brought the tree back, it was fine.
After bringing back the felled tree, their work was still not over. Zhang Yong and the others had to chop the trunk into sections, and then split those into firewood pieces small enough to fit in the stove.
Being active meant they didn't feel as cold, but the four of them were truly exhausted.