Live Streaming: Great Adventure in the Wilderness

"You're a great storyteller."

In the ship's corridor, Bi Fang was just about to return to his room when he ran into the captain, complete with a full beard.

Leaning next to a seat with a cup of steaming coffee, the captain raised his cup in a toast, the faint mist emanating from it brought a touch of warmth amidst the cold of the Arctic Ocean.

Bi Fang smiled, "Actually, a good half of my livestream is storytelling, which I've gotten better at over time."

Having just come down from the deck, many of the listening tourists were somewhat reluctant to leave.

Human knowledge comes from three levels: experience, understanding, and epiphany.

Experience is undoubtedly the most direct way to acquire knowledge, and for a lazy cognitive system, acquiring knowledge through experience is both natural and unquestionable—humans are born with a love for visual thinking.

This is also Bi Fang's greatest strength; his audience never feels bored during his livestreams.

Other people need to edit a day's worth of 'Wilderness Survivalist' content down to an hour, or even half an hour, to ensure enough attractiveness, but Bi Fang can keep his viewers intensely online, thanks to his strong storytelling ability.

"So you haven't told the end of the story yet? That explorer, called... Mon... Mon..." The captain handed over a cup of hot cocoa. He had listened in for a while and enjoyed it, but had to return midway to the captain's quarters for some tasks, and now he was curious about the ending.

"It was Roald Amundsen," Bi Fang took the hot cocoa and took a small sip, praised it, "Nice drink, but next time you could add a few more cubes of sugar." Continue reading on My Virtual Library Empire

The captain had his own charm.

Bi Fang was on his way to Greenland, but he was headed somewhere further, more remote, where large cruise ships with set routes couldn't possibly change course just for one person.

In the end, Bi Fang found this small cruise ship, originally converted from a deep-sea fishing vessel. Although its facilities were definitely not as luxurious as the 'Titanic', and comfort was somewhat lacking, the captain had very readily agreed to Bi Fang's request without any additional charges.

He even mentioned he had been watching Bi Fang's livestream for a long time.

"According to your request, I have already added three sugar cubes and plenty of chocolate," the captain said, at a loss for words.

"Hm, is that so," Bi Fang shrugged, "Do you have donuts on board? I'll have them for dinner tonight."

The captain spoke seriously, "If you keep this up, you'll get diabetes by your mid-thirties."

"Ah, it's just for this period of time."

These days, Bi Fang had been trying to gain weight, eating several meals a day, mostly sweets, to store as much fat in his body as possible to cope with the potential drastic weight loss during his Arctic survival.

Thanks to the strong digestive capability of the 'King Fish's Stomach', Bi Fang's weight had already broken through the eighty-five kilogram mark, reaching 170 pounds.

It is for this reason that Bi Fang had been livestreaming all these days. Because of the gradual change, it seemed not too noticeable; if there had been an interruption, the weight gain would feel much more obvious.

"So you haven't finished the story yet," the captain reminded him.

Even though he had sailed this route for more than a decade, the captain still didn't know there was such a legendary explorer, nor did he know the origin of the Strait's name.

He had always thought Fram Strait was always called Fram Strait, just like how Angola was always called Angola, since time immemorial.

"The ending is that the explorer's glory was in Antarctica, but the curtain fell in the Arctic. The fireworks faded, and everything returned to Nature," Bi Fang explained.

Hearing this ending, the captain felt a moment of astonishment.

"After returning from Antarctica, Amundsen did not bask in the glory of plucking the crown jewel of the exploration world. He proposed early on to use aerial transportation to investigate the Arctic and made several attempts."

"In 1915, he obtained Norway's first civilian pilot license. The following May, he flew with the Ugly Country People's Ehrlich and the Italian Nobile, taking a dirigible from Spitsbergen and traversing the North Pole to Alaska, a journey of 4,000 kilometers in total."

"That was humanity's first flight across the Arctic. Previously, it was rumored that a vast land existed between the North Pole and Alaska. This flight proved those rumors wrong."

"But on May 23, 1928, Nobile flew a dirigible to the North Pole for an exploration, and on the return journey, the airship crashed, leaving nine people stranded on the ice, with six unaccounted for. Upon receiving this news, Amundsen departed on June 18 to rescue his former exploration companions by plane, only to then be involved in an aviation accident."

"An aviation accident?"

"Yes, on June 18, 1928, Amundsen took the French aircraft 'Latham Aircraft' to the Arctic in an attempt to rescue the missing Italian exploration team. On the way, the plane crashed, and Amundsen never returned."

December 14, 1928, was designated by the Norwegian government as Antarctica Day to commemorate Amundsen.

At noon on that day, church bells across Norway would ring, and people would remember this great explorer with two minutes of silence.

The spirit of Amundsen, who was resolutely committed to his ideals, dared to challenge himself, feared no difficulty, and was unwavering in his pursuit, will forever inspire future generations to explore the unknown world.

After musing for a moment, Bi Fang began to recite.

"After completing his part of the work, he returned to the wilderness of the Arctic, the place where he vacationed.

Under the pure sky of the world of ice and snow, he found an unknown eternal resting place, permeated with everlasting music.

His name, like the splendid Northern Lights, shall forever illuminate Norway's young generation."

"That's really nice."

"That wasn't me who said that."

"Then who did?"

"Fridtjof Nansen, a sailor, Arctic explorer, zoologist, and politician, was also a predecessor and idol of Amundsen."

"He became famous in the science world for his expedition across the Greenland ice cap in 1888 and for sailing the 'Fram' across the Arctic Ocean from 1893 to 1896. He also received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work repatriating 500,000 prisoners of war and directly aiding the starving people of Polar Bear Country."

"Wait a minute? The Fram again? Didn't you just say that Amundsen took it to Antarctica?" The captain questioned his own ears, wondering how this ship could be so prominent.

"Yes, but who told you a ship could only undertake one expedition or go to a single pole?" Bi Fang said with a twinkling, mischievous smile.

The Fram, a legendary polar exploration ship that became famous twice over.

Apart from this ship, no other vessel in the world had ever been to both the Arctic and Antarctica.

Having drained the last of the hot cocoa from the mug, Bi Fang handed the cup back to the captain and turned to leave.

Watching Bi Fang's departing figure, the captain reflected thoughtfully.

The name of Amundsen, like the dazzling Northern Lights, will forever shine upon the younger generation.

The Polar Region...

Here I come.