Chapter Summaries

Su Wei prepared his rescue gear and recorded the attempt before following signs through deep powder to a gully. He found a child in a fluorescent green ski suit trapped below, face-down in the snow with an unnaturally turned ankle.

• Emily removed her ski bindings and ran back toward the staff to summon help.
• Su Wei checked his first-aid kit, opened his snow pick, attached a rope, and started recording with his GoPro.
• Su Wei used Tracking Assistance to notice a human slide mark leading behind a basalt rock.
• Su Wei spotted a broken child-sized ski pole beside the mark and looked down into a narrow gully.
• Su Wei found a child wedged between rocks and snow, face-down with a crooked helmet and an injured ankle.

Su Wei reached the boy trapped in the ravine as a blizzard began and found him suffering from hypothermia. He identified a closed fracture in the boy’s right tibia and prepared to treat him in the worsening storm.

• Su Wei descended the icy rock wall into the ravine using a rope.
• Su Wei found the boy shivering uncontrollably, pale and barely able to speak.
• Su Wei opened his first-aid kit and began clearing snow from around the boy.
• Su Wei saw that the boy’s snowboard binding still gripped his boot and identified a closed fracture in his right tibia.

Su Wei used his medical module to assess a badly injured boy stranded in a freezing ravine, then insulated him and prepared to set his broken leg. The chapter ended as Su Wei placed gauze between the boy’s teeth before treating the fracture.

• Su Wei assessed the boy and found a closed tibial fracture and stage-one hypothermia, with his core temperature falling dangerously fast.
• Su Wei wrapped the boy in an emergency blanket, restrained him during a panic, and instructed him to breathe through his nose.
• Su Wei cut and smoothed two fir branches into splints.
• Su Wei removed the boy’s snowboard and boot, exposed the deformity in his right lower leg, and put gauze in his mouth before setting the bone.

Su Wei realigned the injured boy’s fractured leg, secured it with splints, and prepared to evacuate him from the gully. A rescue team arrived and winched the boy to safety, leaving Su Wei alone below.

• Su Wei forced the boy’s displaced tibia back into place and secured the leg with wooden splints and bandages.
• Su Wei wrapped the boy in the emergency blanket and prepared to lift him with a static rope.
• A rescue team appeared above the gully and lowered a folding stretcher to Su Wei.
• Su Wei carefully transferred the boy onto the stretcher, secured him with straps, and ordered the rescuers to pull.
• The rescue team winched the boy out of the gully, leaving Su Wei behind.

Su Wei climbed out of the frozen gully after rescuing Jason and helped the rescuers get him onto level ground. Jason’s parents reunited with him, while a red-bearded rescuer examined a fragment of fir bark left behind.

• Su Wei climbed the icy rock face and nearly lost his footing in a crosswind before Emily steadied him by his backpack.
• Rescuers checked Jason on the stretcher as his mother rushed to his side and his father realized how close he had come to losing his son.
• Su Wei coiled his rope and told Jason’s father to make sure his child received proper training and instruction.
• Jason’s parents followed as rescuers carried him toward the ambulance, and Jason’s father tried unsuccessfully to offer Su Wei money.
• A red-bearded rescuer picked up a fragment of fir bark and rubbed its cut surface with his thumb.

As a blizzard swallowed Pyramid Mountain, Su Wei and Emily evacuated the ski resort and reached Su Wei’s Raptor. They drove onto the road down the mountain as the storm intensified.

• Redbeard examined Su Wei’s neatly carved bark splint and wondered if he was a professional hunter.
• The ski resort manager ordered the remaining visitors to evacuate as the storm darkened the mountain and visibility collapsed.
• Su Wei and Emily struggled through deep snow and strong crosswinds toward the parking lot, with Su Wei shielding Emily from the gusts.
• Su Wei loaded their gear and Cotton Candy into the Raptor, where Emily joined him and warmed up inside the cab.
• Su Wei started the Raptor, angled a heater vent toward Emily, and backed onto the main road down the mountain.

Su Wei and Emily drove through a blizzard to Kodiak Town and ate at the only open restaurant. Emily said she planned to take the six o’clock ferry to Anchorage the next morning, but Su Wei warned the storm could shut the port and urged her to wait.

• Su Wei drove the Raptor slowly through deep snow and black ice to Kodiak Town, where the blizzard had closed most businesses.
• Su Wei and Emily entered Ivan Russian Stew Restaurant and ordered borscht, rib steaks, bread, and tea.
• Emily ate quickly to recover from the energy she had expended skiing and rescuing someone, while Su Wei assessed the poorly cooked steak.
• Emily told Su Wei she needed to return to Anchorage by ferry to report to the Hunters' Guild.
• Su Wei warned that dangerous winds and high seas might prevent the ferry from running and suggested Emily wait a few days.

Su Wei drove through a severe blizzard after dropping Emily at her old apartment building. He reached the Emerald Lake property safely, with Cotton Candy asleep in the carrier.

• Su Wei left Emily at her apartment building as she trudged through the snow and disappeared inside.
• Su Wei drove through Kodiak Town at low speed while Mechanical Repair LV3 helped him monitor the Raptor.
• Su Wei countered powerful crosswinds as the snow-covered journey stretched to three and a half hours.
• Su Wei arrived at the Emerald Lake property and stopped the Raptor behind the cabin.

Su Wei returned to his cabin during a snowstorm, warmed up, and prepared footage from his day on Pyramid Mountain. He edited and uploaded a sponsored lifestyle video, then left it to gain views.

• Su Wei carried Cotton Candy and his gear into the cold cabin, shut out the storm, and started a fire.
• Su Wei made coffee, triggering a brief boost to his alertness and concentration.
• Su Wei reviewed footage showing the warming patch placement on Emily, their snowboard run, and Cotton Candy riding in the temperature-controlled compartment.
• Su Wei edited the footage into a short video titled [Polar Daily Life 07: Wind, Snow, Snowboards, and Black Coffee.].
• Su Wei uploaded the video to Northern Frontier Daily Life, which had 551,000 followers.

Su Wei edited and published footage of rescuing a boy from an icy crevice, using it to demonstrate his survival skills and warn viewers about the polar wilderness. The next morning, Matt arrived at the cabin in a snowplow after the Kodiak Island blizzard.

• Su Wei blurred the boy’s face, edited the rescue footage, and added a warning about leaving groomed trails.
• Su Wei uploaded the video to TikTok and YouTube, bringing his main account close to one million followers.
• Su Wei rejected unsuitable sponsorship offers and reviewed his funds for the Emerald Lake property projects.
• The blizzard intensified outside Su Wei’s cabin as he shut down his computer and looked out at the storm.
• Matt drove a heavy snowplow through the wall of snow outside the property gate and climbed down from the cab.

Su Wei and Matt inspected the snow-buried shooting range excavation after construction stalled against unusually hard granite. Su Wei’s analysis confirmed a dense granite-like surface but revealed a natural fissure that might contain an even harder hydrothermal filling.

• Matt reached Su Wei’s cabin through the heavy snow and told him that the county road had been buried and construction had lost time.
• Su Wei and Matt went to the planned shooting range, where Matt showed him the rock face that had broken two tungsten steel drill bits.
• Su Wei climbed into the excavation and used his Substrate Analysis skill to scan the gray-white rock.
• Su Wei found an irregular fluctuation and a natural fissure in the granite, then reasoned that ancient hydrothermal activity might have created a harder filling.

Su Wei used Substrate Analysis to identify a high-grade gold-bearing quartz vein extending along Pillar Mountain, then decided to conceal it by agreeing to move the construction site around the rock. Matt climbed down from the excavator as Su Wei prepared to keep the discovery hidden.

• Su Wei told Matt to clear loose soil and ice from the rock, and Matt used the excavator to expose a dark red mineralized band.
• Su Wei pressed his hand to the band and used Substrate Analysis to detect a dense anomaly beneath it.
• Matt identified an intrusive quartz vein and proposed moving the construction site around the rock rather than trying to break through it.
• Su Wei's analysis detected a high-grade gold-bearing quartz vein extending along Pillar Mountain.
• Su Wei considered the risks of revealing the vein, pulled away from the rock, and told Matt they would go around.
• Matt climbed down from the excavator.

Su Wei ordered changes to the ammunition depot excavation at Pillar Mountain, then secretly extracted gold-bearing rock samples from the site. After securing the samples in his cabin, he began researching Alaska’s laws on mineral rights on private land.

• Su Wei told Matt to shift the excavation eight meters, reinforce a load-bearing wall, and keep heavy machinery away from a three-meter buffer zone.
• Matt warned that hand-clearing the permafrost would add at least three days and increase costs, and Su Wei told him to send the extra bill by email.
• After the crew left, Su Wei used a geological hammer to extract rock samples, and the system estimated the ore contained about eight grams of gold per metric ton.
• Su Wei stored the samples in a locked toolbox in his cabin and searched the official databases for Alaska’s private-land mineral rights laws.

Su Wei discovered that the ambiguous mineral-rights clause in his land contract could leave the gold-rich quartz vein outside his ownership, so he drove through the blizzard’s aftermath to consult lawyer Greg Parsons. Parsons examined the contract, but the chapter ended before he gave his legal assessment.

• Su Wei found that his land contract waived some shallow mineral claims and contained an ambiguous ANCSA exemption clause that could threaten his rights to the quartz vein.
• Su Wei tried to contact a Kodiak Town law firm but reached a voicemail announcing its closure during the polar blizzard.
• Twelve hours later, Su Wei drove slowly through snow and ice to Kodiak Town after the blizzard stopped.
• Su Wei met Greg Parsons at Howard and Pell Law Firm and gave him copied pages from the title contract to review.
• Greg Parsons read the mineral-rights clause and leaned back in his chair without yet explaining its meaning.

Su Wei confirmed that his Alaska property included all subsurface mineral rights and secured Parsons’s confidentiality agreement. He left with his ownership legally verified and awaited the lab’s analysis of his rock samples.

• Su Wei questioned Parsons about whether the federal government had retained mineral rights beneath his land.
• Parsons checked the state title database and confirmed that neither federal nor state mineral-rights reservations applied, and that the 1987 transfer included all subsurface rights.
• Su Wei paid Parsons for the title check and signed a confidentiality agreement with him.
• Parsons offered to help Su Wei obtain exploration reports, environmental approvals, and a commercial mining license if he found valuable resources, but Su Wei left without answering.
• Su Wei received a message confirming that the lab had begun separating the three rock samples and expected a report within five business days.

Su Wei woke at Emerald Lake and discovered that his ice-crevasse rescue video had pushed his TikTok account past one million followers. He found the video’s success tangled in a growing medical-safety controversy and weighed whether to respond.

• Su Wei returned to the Emerald Lake cabin, slept, and fed Cotton Candy the next morning.
• Su Wei checked TikTok and saw that his follower count had reached 1.017 million after the rescue video gained 34,000 followers.
• Su Wei read the video’s millions of views and praise, including a verified hunter’s account of the rescue.
• Su Wei found a verified trauma surgeon’s warning that reducing the child’s fracture without imaging was dangerous, prompting a fierce argument in the comments.
• Su Wei considered whether to address the criticism and decided that responding could make the controversy worse while silence might increase traffic.

Su Wei managed the commercial fallout from his viral rescue video and collected the Polaris sponsorship package. He left the UPS pickup location with the box containing the high-performance polar shell suits.

• Su Wei pinned a three-sentence statement explaining the emergency rescue, inviting medical review of the footage, and warning viewers away from unmarked snow areas.
• Su Wei declined Polaris's proposed rate increase and recorded his growing income and $2.45 million in assets.
• Su Wei saw that Cotton Candy's viral clip had boosted his lifestyle account and saved new sponsorship offers without responding.
• Su Wei received a UPS notice that the Polaris gear had arrived at the Kodiak Town pickup location.
• Su Wei collected the box, thanked the UPS worker for recognizing his rescue video, and left.

Su Wei inspected the Polaris collaboration jackets, bought Chinese groceries in Kodiak Town, and reviewed the Emerald Lake construction report. He ordered the crew to keep clearing permafrost by hand while adding workers and approving the extra labor budget, protecting the gold-bearing quartz vein until the mineral tests came back.

• Su Wei opened the Polaris box in his Raptor and examined two outdoor jackets and their accessories.
• Su Wei bought sauces, frozen foods, rice, dried goods, and cabbage at Golden Dragon Supermarket.
• Su Wei read Matt's report that the ammunition depot foundation had been shifted and that workers were struggling to clear hard permafrost by hand.
• Su Wei rejected the recommendation to use a pneumatic breaker and approved a third crew, shorter work periods, and additional labor costs.
• Su Wei considered the confidentiality agreement, mineral rights, and pending lab results before valuing the mountain.

Su Wei planned a Polaris commercial shoot and arranged to have the Raptor modified in town, while keeping his excitement about a possible gold vein at Pillar Mountain under control. He returned to the Emerald Lake property, warmed the cabin, and tried on a navy-blue shell jacket for the shoot.

• Su Wei wrote a Polaris commercial script focused on strenuous outdoor work and Cotton Candy roaming on the ice.
• Su Wei received Daniel Ross's message that the Raptor modification parts had arrived and booked an appointment for ten the next morning.
• Su Wei reminded himself that the reported eight-gram-per-ton gold vein remained unconfirmed until the laboratory assay arrived.
• Su Wei drove back to the Emerald Lake property, where Cotton Candy approached him as he carried in groceries and the Polaris box.
• Su Wei relit the fireplace, unpacked the jackets, and tried on the navy-blue shell jacket.

Su Wei prepared a detailed filming plan and dinner before going to sleep, then began shooting on Emerald Lake the next morning. The shoot finished ahead of schedule, but Cotton Candy slipped across the ice and crashed into a tripod leg.

• Su Wei revised his filming schedule and planned shots for chopping ice, splitting firewood, and filming Cotton Candy.
• Su Wei made dumplings and stir-fried cabbage, while Cotton Candy begged for food and rejected a piece of cabbage.
• Su Wei set alarms, checked his equipment and clothing, and went to sleep thinking about the empty federal mineral rights reservation record.
• Su Wei finished filming twenty minutes early and put Cotton Candy on the ice, where she slid into the tripod leg.