It was snowing lightly in the sky, and the vision was fairly clear. The accumulated snow layer was about half a meter high, and no one would be willing to trek long distances on such deep snow.
But a team of more than thirty people appeared on the field.
There were four more people in the land reclamation team originally scheduled for 31 people, the priest Yan Mo and his three disciples.
The team was in the shape of a diamond, with a huge wooden board dragging in the middle. Everyone was walking on two feet, but there were two more wooden boards on their feet and two more sticks in their hands.
Yan Mo didn't know how Yuan Zhan found the right path in such a snowy day where he couldn't see any terrain, but after ten days of walking, it was also true that they didn't encounter a large-scale herd.
I don't know if it will be effective, but Yan Mo still used some medicinal materials he had on hand to make the animal repellent potion.
There are generally two types of animal repellents. The first is to use the fur, feces or other secretions of ferocious beasts to make other beasts feel afraid and dare not approach them. The second is to use the animals' sensitive sense of smell, but add some herbal medicines with strong and pungent smells that animals don't like.
Yan Mo did both, and distributed one to each pioneer, and the beast was Jiufeng's feces.
In fact, Yan Mo could stay in the stone house without telling Jiufeng. After all, once Jiufeng fell asleep, it would not be able to detect whether there were other creatures invading at the door of the house.
But Yan Mo didn't want to deceive Jiu Feng, Jiu Feng treated him with sincerity, he didn't say he would return the same sincerity, and he didn't want to treat him as a fool. He is bad, but he keeps promises. Since he promised Jiufeng to leave immediately, he will leave immediately.
Since he could understand the "language" of Nine Winds and the swarm of bees, he discovered that these fierce birds and insects, whose brains were not as developed as humans, had their own wisdom and ways of distinguishing things.
He can stay, but can he guarantee that he will be able to leave in time before Jiufeng wakes up
If he stayed secretly, but was suddenly bumped into by Jiu Feng who woke up, if he was Jiu Feng instead, he would definitely be very angry.
The master said to let the guest leave his home, but the guest not only did not leave, but also ate and drank at his house, making the house a mess. No matter how good the relationship between the master and the guest is, he will be furious after waking up
He didn't want to test the depth of a bird's affection for him, and he didn't want to kill Jiufeng to occupy its territory, so he had to leave.
However, he didn't just leave in such a dispirited manner, but took advantage of Jiufeng to give him another blow.
He told the Awu people that in order to test the new members of the tribe, the mountain god Jiufeng asked the tribe to build a magnificent new city in the place it designated, instead of living under its protection. And as a priest, he didn't want to let his clansmen suffer, so he went with them to build a new city with the blood warriors of God.
The Awu people have been worrying day and night whether they will be abandoned by the gods after Jiufeng disappeared for a period of time. This time they saw Jiufeng attacking them with their own eyes, and they were even more worried about whether their actions dissatisfied the gods. When Yan Mo found them, he came to see Yan Mo under the leadership of the clan witch.
Yan Mo told the Awu people that passage.
While the Awu people were relieved, at the same time, under the description of the new city by the priest, they had infinite hopes and expectations for the future life.
Although rushing to a new place of residence in the deep winter snow is difficult and difficult, but with the priest and the warriors of the gods going together, the Awu people not only have no fear, but arouse a passion to open up wasteland .
"If any of you are tired from walking, just sit on the plank for a while." Yan Mo said to the three children behind him.
The big eyes rushed to say: "Master Priest, I'm not tired, I can still walk." In fact, he was already out of breath, after all, he was only eleven or twelve years old, and even if he was physically strong, he couldn't keep up with the speed and speed of adults. pace.
The bear boy Sa sneaked a few glances at the plank, but he was too embarrassed to be the first to sit on it when his big eyes said he was not tired. Even the priest was still walking by himself, how dare they rest on the plank first
Yizimei remained silent. Among the three children, he had the best physical strength and carried the most things on his back.
Yan Mo didn't try to persuade them any more, these little kids were too tired to walk, so they would naturally climb up the planks by themselves.
He didn't want to take these three children on the road, isn't this a burden? But ever since he heard that the priest was going to go with the land reclamation team, and that all their disciples were going to be sent back to the Awu tribe, Yizimei first expressed to Yan Mo that he wanted to follow.
Yan Mo's unibrowed eyebrows are pleasing to the eye, the child's face is a bit fierce, but his heart is the best among the older children, and also the most sensible among all the children. Considering that he really needs a person beside him to help with some errands, and the monogram is also strong, he agreed.
But when someone sent the other children home, the big eyes saw that the unibrow was left behind, he ran back immediately, followed Yan Mo closely without saying a word, and looked at him with big eyes pleadingly .
As soon as the big eyes were left behind, that bear boy Sa might also run back with the idea that the benefits should not only be shared with those two.
The child Awu also wanted to stay, but was forcibly thrown back into the hands of the adults by the three older children, and so did the other children who wanted to stay.
Yan Mo smiled, "You can stay if you want, but the journey is difficult and difficult. If you fall behind because you can't walk, no one will look back for you. Similarly, if the entire team's schedule is affected because of you, I will not Because you are my students, please show mercy."
The three children didn't understand everything, so they could only guess what the priest was talking about based on Yan Mo's expression and tone, plus some understood vocabulary.
Yan Mo said again: "I told you yesterday that you will also shoulder a heavy responsibility when you go back this time. You need to pass on the language and knowledge I taught you to your clansmen. Now think about it carefully, you should go back Help your people, or risk your life to go with me, think it over, and come to me again."
This time, in order to let the children correctly understand what he said, Yan Mo put his hand on the forehead of the unibrow for the second time. Since the first day of teaching, he has not put his hands on the children's foreheads, because he does not want the children to be dependent.
The one-word eyebrow relayed Yan Mo's meaning, and the three children muttered for a long time, and they didn't know how to discuss it, and finally appeared together beside Yan Mo who was about to set off.
In this way, three children appeared in this wasteland reclamation team.
Seeing that Yan Mo didn't object, Yuan Zhan didn't object either. In his eyes, the three children were not too young. He was already a first-class fighter when he was twelve years old, and he could go hunting with other adults.
The two of them didn't say a word, and it was even more unlikely that the other Awu people objected to the three children traveling together, and even took care of them a lot on the way because they were the priest's disciples.
Yuan Zhan came around from the front of the team.
"What?" Yan Mo raised his head immediately, every time Yuan Zhan came over while walking, he must have something to discuss with him.
Sure enough, Yuan Zhan walked side by side with him, wiped off the snowflakes on his eyebrows, and said, "Do you feel that walking is more difficult than the previous two days?"
Yan Mo nodded. Not only hard, but also cold. Not only did he wear the cloak with sleeves and double breasts, but he also wrapped a larger animal skin coat outside the cloak, and directly tied the cloak tightly to wear it as an inner jacket. Among all the people, he wore the most. He was like a bear, but he still felt cold, feeling like his ears and nose were going to freeze off.
The boots made of simple animal skins became less and less warm as he walked, his toes were numb from the cold, and the pain was unbearable if he rubbed them a little while resting at night, not to mention his two hands.
"That's because we're almost there." Ten days' journey, if he had arrived by himself, but because of the large number of people and the heavy snow, he hadn't reached the destination yet.
Yan Mo cheered up, "How much longer?"
"If we hurry up, we will definitely arrive within three days. In fact, we have already walked up to the highland range, and we have been walking up the slope since yesterday afternoon."
Yan Mo turned his head and looked around, pondering, "The slope is not obvious."
"The slope is very long. If you don't pay attention, you won't even notice that you are going uphill. When you get to the top of the slope, there is a large flat land, which is very big, almost the size of a salt lake."
"You didn't come here just to tell me that you're coming soon, right?"
Yuan Zhan wiped the snowflakes off his face, and his stubble has turned white, but this guy doesn't know if it's because of his special ability, and he doesn't feel the cold, and he still has two big feet bare, every time When Yan Mo saw his feet, he felt chills all over.
"We don't have enough food, we have to hunt. It's only a day's journey from here to the stone mountain with goats. I plan to take half of the people there. The first is hunting, and the second is quarrying. I will leave all the food to you, You take the other half of the people to the new residence, and when we come back with prey and stones, the other half of the people will go there."
"Did you plan to do this before you came?" That's why I asked everyone not to bring extra food as a burden.
"yes."
"I don't know the way to go." Yan Mo frowned.
"Look up and look forward, do you see a soil pillar? I also planted a lot of grass on it." Yuan Zhan pointed forward.
Being pointed out by Yuan Zhan, Yan Mo looked into the distance, and really found that there seemed to be a thorn of soil with a pointed top and a round bottom standing on the ground in the distance. The soil thorn was covered up a lot by snow, but the upper part could still be seen. This is probably the original land occupation sign, right
"Did you pee around that dirt pillar?"
Yuan Zhan said affirmatively, "Of course."
Yan Mo muttered, "... I knew you would do this."
Yuan Zhan couldn't tell whether this sentence was a compliment or a derogation, but he just pretended not to hear it, "From here to that soil pillar, there are no too powerful beasts in this area, leaving half of your manpower should be enough for you to get there safely But remember, no matter what happens on the road later, don’t change your route, you just lead people forward in a straight line.”
"Are you sure there are no beasts and threatening herds? Maybe you didn't see it last time, this time..."
"I am not sure."
Yan Mo immediately suggested: "How about we go to that rocky mountain together?"
Yuan Zhan suddenly smiled strangely, "I'm not sure if you will encounter ferocious beasts on the road you take, but I'm sure I will definitely encounter them on the road I'm going to take later. This is a winter lack of food, and there are many carnivorous beasts nearby. Keep an eye on the goats."
Yan Mo was silent for three seconds, and spit out four words: "It's easy to leave!"
Yuan Zhan laughed and left, he didn't feel that his priest was greedy for life and afraid of death, he knew this person a little bit now, he knew that this person was just afraid of trouble.
After a short rest, Yuan Zhan left all the food behind, and took half of his staff to speed up to the stone mountain where the goats lived. For the convenience of transporting things in the future, they also took the big board.
The remaining Awu warriors were led by a man named Huhu. Huhu came to Yan Mo and said that they would all follow his command.
"Let's go!" Yan Mo didn't talk nonsense, pointed at the thorn-like pillar, and took the lead.
Hu Hu has received Ermeng training, so naturally he will not let the priest walk in the front of the danger, he immediately assigns people, changes the formation, and keeps Yan Mo and the three children in the middle of the team.
Yan Mo prayed all the way so that he would not encounter powerful herds of beasts. I don't know if his prayers worked, or his repellent medicine package worked, or the wild beasts didn't want to come out in winter, and they didn't want to come out. Running to a place without food, they walked all the way for three days, and when they reached their destination, they didn't encounter any threatening beasts.
Of course, they also encountered some lonely wild beasts on the way, and even met an old wolf. The old wolf ran away when he saw how many people there were.
In order to prevent wild beasts from following them with the smell of blood, they would bury some inedible internal organs and bones deep under the snow every time they hunted. Yan Mo also sprinkled an unpleasant-smelling veterinary medicine powder to prevent things from being pulled out by the sharp-nosed beasts.
When the group reached the soil pillar that was more than half buried by snow, and when Yan Mo announced that they had arrived at the future tribal residence designated by the mountain god Jiufeng, the Awu people cheered with joy and relaxation.
I didn't dare to shout too loudly, for fear of attracting wild animals.
Under Yan Mo's command, fifteen Awu warriors immediately shoveled the snow to clear a flat ground, then set up tents and lit the fire.
Nothing to say all night.
The next day, Yan Mo walked out of the tent and looked around against the cold wind.
The field of view is very wide.
In the north is a vast plain or prairie, and at the northernmost end you can see faint mountains.
The front part of the west is a grassland, behind the grassland are small rolling hills, and behind the mountains is an endless forest.
The most conspicuous thing in the east is the huge lake that stretches as far as the eye can see, like an inland sea, and there are many small and large islands scattered in the lake. There are many trees and shrubs growing tall and short by the lake.
And the south is the direction they came from. There are salt lakes, plains, and forests.
I didn't see it in the distance, but when I got closer, I found that there are several small lakes and several large and small streams on this vast highland. Looking at the direction of the streams, they should have converged to that place. In a huge lake.
At the bottom of the highland, near the forest to the west, you can also vaguely see a large river flowing around the mountain.
There are also large rivers in the north, but Yan Mo is not sure, but thinks that the reflection looks like river water.
No wonder Yuan Zhanhui chose this place, even after he saw it, he also felt that this is a treasure land with lush water plants, rich surrounding environment, retreat and attack. Such a place must have been occupied and developed by humans in the original world, and only in this different world where there are more beasts than humans can this still be an undeveloped virgin land.
It's just that although this land looks good, it is still difficult to start from nothing.
And where food is plentiful, if there are no people, there must be beasts at the top of the food chain. Yuan Zhan did find traces of life similar to large beasts in the vicinity.
Fortunately, the beasts have the habit of hibernating, so although it is not easy to move the soil in winter, they must move.
I don't know how long the winter here is, but before spring comes, they have a lot of things to rush to do.
They are the first group of people to arrive here, and Ermeng will lead the rest of the Awu tribe to migrate here after 30 days according to the marks they left along the way. This is not Yan Mo's request or Yuan Zhan's order, but the result of joint discussions between the chief Awu, the clan witch and the whole clan.
After Yan Mo observed the terrain, he took a deep breath, turned to face his clansmen, and asked Hu Hu to start assigning specific tasks. As a priest, he couldn't just wait for Yuan Zhan to bring people and prey back, he had to find ways to settle these people and do it first. Something within our power.
At the same time, on a high mountain, in a majestic hall.
"Master Priest, have you found Princess Duofei?" A tall, extremely handsome young man in dark armor anxiously asked a middle-aged man in his forties.
The middle-aged man was wearing a long linen coat and sat cross-legged on a futon. In front of him was a huge transparent crystal.
The crystal has a beast-shaped base made of gold, and the workmanship is very delicate and atmospheric.
The young man pressed the question again, and the middle-aged man slowly raised his eyes.
The middle-aged man seemed to be extremely tired, his expression was tired, his eyes were full of red silk, and his voice was low but gentle: "I found it."
The young man was overjoyed and immediately asked, "Where is she?"
The voice of the middle-aged man became more and more difficult: "On the other side of the Father God Mountain that we have never set foot on."
"So far?" The young man walked around anxiously twice, then turned to look at the middle-aged man, "Then... is she still alive?"
"The guardian spirit told me that Her Royal Highness is still alive."
"Really, as long as you are alive, you are fine." The young man looked very happy, "I want to tell His Majesty the good news."
The young man was so excited that he even forgot to thank the priest and left in such a hurry.
The middle-aged man raised his eyes to look at the back of the young man, and the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, revealing a sarcastic smile.
"Lord Ye He." A tall man with shawl hair came out from behind the screen behind the priest, "Do you think His Majesty will send someone to rescue the princess?"
"Of course." Ye He smiled lightly, turned his back to the visitor and said, "Your Majesty has only one biological daughter with so many women. In order to inherit the throne, he will also send someone to bring the princess back."
"Then it looks like I'll have to go there myself."
"Your Excellency," Ye He stared at the crystal stone in front of him, and suddenly stopped the tall man, "No one has ever been to the other side of Father God Mountain. If you want to go there yourself, you must be careful, it is the world of barbarians."