The New Year has just passed, and the winter hunting season is about to begin. Many trivial things are mixed together, and the palace and administrative departments of the Lan Kingdom are busy flying.
Winter hunting is not uncommon in other countries in the mainland. The cold winter makes hungry beasts more aggressive and more likely to appear in front of humans, and the cold weather also prevents the nobles from other entertainment and actions. The nobles who were always looking for something to do when they came down started the winter hunting season.
Riding high-headed horses with fully armed entourage of knights, chased the poor homeless and hungry beasts amid the barking of hounds, adorning their heads with their heads and furnishing their rooms , ah, those poor little fellows are so doomed just to find some food for their own children, human beings are so cruel...
"... Grena, if you pretend to narrate again, I will send you back. Also, winter hunting here is different from other countries. Those beasts and demon beasts are pitiful, they will eat people!"
I am a little helpless. Compared with the porcelain dolls of the past, it is indeed a good thing that Ge Lina is humanized now. After all, normal people without psychological shadows will never become like that.
But the girl is sometimes too active. At this time, I can't bear this kind of nonsense that is expressionless and serious. I feel a little sympathetic to the administrative officials of Sluwell. It must have been very cool to be tossed.
Hearing that I was going to send her back, the young queen slapped the huge golem under her butt with a blank expression, and the diamond puppet MK2 (MK1 died of self-destruction), which appeared out of nowhere, rushed out of the team, rumbling and rumbling. All the way to go to chase those poor beasts in her mouth.
And her entourage is naturally impossible to leave the Queen alone. Dozens of knights rushed out of the group and quickly followed. Does the wry smile on their faces indicate that they are used to it, or are they happy to do it? From the respect and joy that comes from the heart, I think it may be the latter.
"Winter hunting? It's really a long memory."
The ground was already frosted, the horses hooves kept making a crisp sound when they stepped on the ground, and the hot air it exhaled instantly turned into white mist. The previous snow made the whole world turn white, and the endless ice fields and snow-capped mountains were in front of them, even if it was thousands of people. The Winter Hunting Brigade, placed between the whole world, still looks small.
Our team set off early in the morning. Most of them were knights with mounts. The detectives and hounds left long ago. The air knights should bring news of the herd soon.
Winter hunting in the North is completely different from winter hunting in other countries in the mainland. They are for entertainment, and we are for survival...
The living environment in the North is extremely harsh, and the strong maliciousness is not purely aimed at humans. The living environment of beasts and monsters is just as bad. Once the mountains are closed by heavy snow, the beasts can't find food in the mountains, so they will naturally come out of the mountains and attack humans. .
And the beasts that can survive in the north have long mutated to be similar to monsters. Under the leadership of the group leader, the beasts chasing each other eventually formed an unstoppable wave of beasts that swept through everything, attacking villages and towns.
In the past decades and hundreds of years, countless villages have been destroyed by the winter beast tide. In a sense, if they can't find food, they will attack humans in groups. This has become a tradition of beasts in the north. , and the northerners naturally formed another tradition, starting winter hunting as soon as winter arrives, beheading threats as much as possible in their infancy.
Attack in advance before the herd forms a beast swarm, kill as much as possible the leader of the herd of beasts, disperse the herd that has just gathered together, and reduce or even destroy the scale of the future beast swarm.
History and tradition have proved that this approach is much better than waiting for the beast tide in the castle. Passive defense will only make the beast tide roll bigger and bigger. It is a historical event that it will eventually be enough to destroy the city-states of the Northland.
Most of the countries in the Northland have the tradition of winter hunting, but it takes more than courage to challenge the beasts and the beast tide. The cunning and ferocious beasts are not easy to deal with even the well-armed knights. If the strength is insufficient, winter hunting is to take the initiative to give to the beasts. The group delivered food, and the Principality of Donglan gave up winter hunting for a long time, but it was a helpless choice.
In those years, Donglan people seemed to have gotten used to dragging their family to a big city like Defende as soon as winter entered, and then hiding in a wooden hut, shivering and listening to the beast roar outside, praying that the beast tide would pass soon. Pray that your home and inheritance will not be ruined too much.
And this is still the best development. Every year, countless residents are attacked by beasts on the way to migrate, and the knights of the duchy are simply not enough to protect their safety.
In the year we returned eight years ago, we started to organize winter hunting again, not only to remove wild animals and collect food, but also to re-invigorate the courage and morale of Donglan people, and give them a sense of security in the long run.
In the past eight years, the entire national power of Donglan and the Lan Alliance has been thriving, and the military has become the leader in the North, so there is no reason to stop the winter hunting.
With the winter hunting going on, the size of the beast herd has been decreasing year after year, and the pressure on city-states and villages has also decreased. If it is possible to defeat the beast tide in advance, there is no need for the people of Lan to carry out the dangerous winter migration.
Now we have thousands of people traveling, which seems to be not small in scale, but it is only the beginning and preparation for winter hunting. Our main task is to detect the location and scale of the herd, and discover high-level and super beasts in advance. If they are scattered, if there are thousands of large animal herds and beast tides, they will still be handed over to the regular army.
Winter hunting is completely two concepts in the Northland and the central region. In those warm regions, winter hunting is the entertainment season for nobles to show off their strength, and it is the peak season for hooking up with ladies and daughters. In the Northland, winter hunting is a game. War is a military training, and participating in winter hunting is the duty and responsibility of every royal child.
Why didn't Grena return to China to organize winter hunting? In fact, other countries in the northern region hunt every year in winter. After so many years, the size of the herd has long been controlled. Winter hunting is not dangerous, and it can be carried out as a routine. Only the Principality of Donglan has been weak for too long, and the number of herds has probably exceeded. The sum total of other countries, to control the size of the herd is not as simple as slaughtering them all.
She was very happy, not only could she tease her sister for the New Year, but also participate in the hunting season to relax, so she insisted that she was unwilling to return to China, but asked her entourage, and learned that the domestic situation was stable and everything was fine, and I did not force her out.
Along the way, she was hyperactive like a bunny, constantly causing trouble for the hunting party, but she has a special status and must be taken seriously, but to me...
"...Sister Kelly, too, what's the responsibilities of a royal prince if you want to get the royal annuity?" After so many winter hunts, my responsibilities have already been fulfilled. It's so cold, I want to lie down and warm Drink hot cocoa in the quilt and sleep in a daze…”
We were still waiting for the report of the detective riding while we were blowing the wind. I simply dismounted and rubbed my hands and stomped my feet, but I still felt very cold. I silently looked at the dead child who had started to build a snowman on the roadside. I felt more and more urge to go back to sleep. .
"...The spirit of the dead child is so good, the physical age can really affect the mental age to this point..."
But soon, I realized that I was wrong, the snowman more than three meters high was made into a golem with obvious joints, and then the big engineer inserted something in it, and said something mysteriously, The snowman actually stood up and started to move with a rumble, it was running and he was jumping... It was building a bigger snowman!
"Is this the premium version of the dead bear kid playing in the snow..."
Seeing me looking over there, Grena, who was already jumping on the snowman's shoulders, waved to me, signaling me to go too... I'm not stupid, I saw you put a lot of explosives into the snowman, I'll do it What, I haven't had enough of the explosion of MK1 last time, now take the initiative to enjoy the explosion of MK3
Wait? MK3? Grena did mark the snowman's head, so, MK2, is it possible that the MK2 that Grena has been stepping on is not equipped with explosives... I subconsciously stayed away from Grena's side.
"It's rare to see Sister Grena relax so much."
Unlike us all hugging into a zongzi, Renee was wearing a tight black hunting suit, showing her beautiful curves, and I suddenly found that she was actually taller than me.
The leather clothing made of nine-headed dragon skin looks light and thin, and its defense and cold resistance are extremely amazing. With a hunting bow, it looks more heroic and valiant. The knight princess is more and more mature, but I stand with her Too close to be scorned by two concubines at the same time...
Seeing that I was a little taken aback, Renee smiled.
"Sister Ge Lina is not like this in China. She is the resourceful core and pillar of the entire Lan Alliance. She always shows confidence and dignity. Only in front of you can she really relax, put aside those messy things, and show Be the same age as you look."
Hearing this, I feel a little guilty. I was a little selfish back then, so I just left everything and left, and left the responsibility to two girls who just reached puberty, and let them work so hard to independently support the family business, I should To compensate them well, let’s start by giving more pocket money…
"... Grena, you pretended that I had no problem with the narration. I did feel a little guilty, but the pocket money is really okay... "
We are still joking here, but there are two ice and snow knights in the west sky. They have returned as the Aurora knights of the scout, so it is time to do business.
But the next moment, there were bursts of exclamations, one of the aurora knights was unconscious on his mount, while the other was also injured.
Needless to say how powerful the Aurora Knight is, even the rookie knight in the investigation is incomprehensible.
But for me, it became more and more uneasy. It seems that some of the previous guesses were correct. I was lucky this time. Not only did I come right, but I also met the target ahead of time.