Heading north, the weather gets colder.
The whistling cold wind rolled over the plain with fine sand and dust, and also blown those light and unknown fluffy plants to roll around on the ground. The bleak air enveloped the entire plain, and the cold wind seemed to be silently telling What a savage stage the world is in. Tall vegetation can rarely be seen on the endless wasteland. Because of the cold climate zone here, and because of the low temperature environment that has not completely faded all over the world, only low bushes and low bushes can be seen on the wasteland. There are clusters of nameless weeds in the east and west, this is really not a place suitable for life.
Certainly not suitable for hunting.
Of course there are hunting grounds and plants, but there is a fairly lush coniferous forest tens of kilometers away from this wasteland. Herbivores and a few predators haunted the place, and they supported two small primitive tribes—and of course the reverse was also true for the primitive tribes, which supported the carnivores of the woods.
This is an era when humans and beasts are at the same level and are prey to each other.
Hao Ren climbed onto a rock protruding from the ground wearing a frayed leather robe. His attire looked weather-beaten, but for the aborigines at this time and place, this attire was still an incomprehensible magical thing. He built a pergola with his hands and looked far into the distance, looking deeper into the wilderness: This place full of gravel and tundra plants looks the same everywhere, but once you get here, you don’t have to worry about getting lost, because there is a very eye-catching " "Landmark" stands in the distance, it is a white pointed cone reflecting the sun, it looks like a white tower from a distance, but in fact it is a huge block of ice, which is called "Tatumnu" by the locals in awe ——The translation of this awkward word means "tomb made of ice", and the meaning of the word is quite majestic.
Hao Ren looked back, and the two skinny men wrapped in animal skins immediately showed signs of shrinking in his gaze. Their skin is light brown, their faces are painted with paint made of grass juice and animal blood, and they hold sticks and spears with stone tips in their hands. They are warriors in the tribe, but when they confront Hao Ren It is very simple: the power beyond comprehension caused great fear to these two tribal natives who only had the concept of primitive religion. Hao Ren used a glowing long spear to hunt and kill mammoths single-handedly. The terrible scene is still lingering in the minds of the two tribal fighters.
This is a temporary guide—in this era when there are no landmarks, no historical records, and even the topography is inconsistent with later generations, it is a painful thing to have no guide. At that time, Hao Ren trekked alone on the Gobi Desert for nearly a month, so as long as he had the conditions, he would definitely try his best to lure a guide or two from the local area.
Fortunately, as we get closer to the ancient times, the difficulty of cheating guides becomes less and less—most of the time, we just need to show the power beyond their comprehension. These primitive people who are full of awe of nature and mysterious power Loyalty will be respectfully offered.
Of course, there is also a bad side—it is always troublesome to communicate with primitive people. Although the translation plug-in can solve the language problem, the difference in worldview cannot be ignored. Many times Hao Ren has to learn from a lot of specious and crude words. I wondered if what they said meant what I thought.
At this time, he can't help but miss the little friends who have left the team—such as Lily, such as Hessianna, such as Hasselblad and Hesperis. The three perspectives are all on an approximate horizontal line.
However, they have all left. Hesperis left the queue in 4705 BC, and Hasselblad accompanied Hao Ren until 6012 BC. After that, Hao Ren continued to travel alone. Go upstream in the long river, exploring the increasingly barbaric ancient earth.
"Where is the place where the Great God sleeps?"
Hao Ren shook his head, put aside all the irrelevant things, raised his finger and asked the huge iceberg in the distance.
The two Horde warriors waved their arms down once—their customary sign of affirmation—and the taller one said, "Yes, that is. The ice around it will melt, but the piece of ice from Don’t melt, this used to be our hunting ground, but now everyone dare not come here.”
Hao Ren nodded. He already knew about this. He had inquired clearly when he was in the primitive tribe: this plain was not as barren as it is now. At least there are still some wild animals on the plains, even if they are not many, they can still support a few small tribes during the difficult times of the last ice age. But then a "big god" passed by the plain. She was angry because someone hunted her prey, so she froze the whole plain with a big ice block, which led to several tribes on the plain had to migrate to areas where predators were active. In the wild forest, to this day, there are only two tribes that migrated there.
The Great God lives on the plain, and the tribes living nearby all firmly believe this: Although the big ice block that covered the entire land has melted, there is an ice tower like an iceberg left in the middle of the plain. There will be no shrinkage under direct sunlight or being scorched by flames, and around the ice, it is extremely difficult for plants to grow, and wild animals are afraid to approach in fear. These are the proofs that the Great God lives here.
The superstitious tribal residents believed that the God's punishment was not over yet, and she wanted the expelled tribes to prove with bravery who was qualified to return to their homeland, so the two tribes in the distant forest have been at odds over the years.
Hao Ren didn't care about the blind and ignorant myths of primitive people. He could only be sure of one thing: the "great god" who could freeze the entire plain with big ice blocks in the mouths of the nearby tribal residents should be Vivienne.
"I'm going there." Hao Ren said casually.
The two tribal warriors who followed as guides were taken aback, and then showed great panic at the same time. They trembled all over and backed up again and again: "No, no, no one can get close to the place of the Great God, we will be frozen into ice cubes, which then melt away when the sun comes up the next day…”
Hao Ren looked at the terrified looks of these two primitive people, and he could imagine the terrible legends of Vivian's sleeping place in the hearts of these ignorant ancient humans—if they were forced to follow him to dig Vivian's Tomb, these two primitive people wearing animal skins might be frightened to death.
So he shook his head: "Go back, I'll go by myself."
Then he took out two alloy short knives from the portable space, and handed them to the two temporary guides: "As agreed before, this is a reward for you."
The two tribal warriors carefully took over the two weapons that had never appeared in their world view, and quickly confirmed its sharpness and sturdiness, and they all showed great surprises.
Not caring about the thoughts of the two primitive people, Hao Ren walked down the ledge and walked towards the Ice Crown Tower in the distance.
The cold north wind blew again.
As he walked, he couldn't help but feel a sense of emptiness and loneliness. Looking at this uninhabited permafrost Gobi, he even felt that he was the only one left in the whole world. How long has this journey back in history been going on? He couldn't even figure it out, and he was constantly traveling through those distorted and messy time and space. The time disorder also caused sensory confusion. He stepped from the advanced city of human civilization into the dark and barbaric Middle Ages, and then entered from the backward Middle Ages. The glorious age of mythology, and then from the age of mythology to the barbaric ancient times, advanced and backward, civilization and barbarism, human beings and aliens each built two completely different landscapes in different historical periods, and all kinds of contradictory Things are distributed in a spiral shape on this historical track, so that as a passer-by, Hao Ren is not even sure whether he is advancing along a continuous timeline.
The more one entered the ancient times, the more obvious this feeling became.
Sometimes his last foothold was an ignorant and primitive natural tribe, but the next step was a steel city transformed from a stranded interstellar spaceship. After coming out of the steel city, he plunged into a certain theocracy country. The next stop might be full of magic and steam...
The aliens did not immediately build the great empire of the age of mythology after arriving on the earth. They also went through the early stage of development. The initial alien stronghold may be just a broken city wreck or a crumbling fragment of different space. Then they It took hundreds or even thousands of years to figure out how to use these things from the home world, and only then began to turn our attention to the original intelligent residents on this planet, that is, the people on earth.
At this moment, Hao Ren is at the point in time when the aliens have just landed on the earth and are still surrounded by each other.
The huge ice block was already very close. At this distance, Hao Ren noticed that it was indeed very large. The height of the conical ice structure may be more than 100 meters. The cold breath spread outward from the huge ice. A semi-permanent frozen area was formed in the nearby area of hundreds of meters, and traces of strange blood red were irregularly distributed in this white frozen area, like capillaries under the skin.
Hao Ren looked over the ice tower and landed on a mountain peak in the distance. He could see a beam of light rising from that mountain peak, slowly sweeping across half of the sky.
That is the observation tower built by Odin and the people. The Norse gods who have just recovered from the alien syndrome are about to observe this mysterious and strange planet. They have hundreds of sick and weak people who need food and medicine. The nourishment of medicine; in the southern part of the plain, a tribe of rune dwarves is engraving words on young people and celebrating the first furnace of steel; in the more distant mountains, Zeus has just set foot on the land of this planet, Looking for rocks that can be used as building materials in the mountains to repair the houses on Mount Olympus that collapsed due to space shocks; Watching the crashed propulsion engine baffled with Isis and preparing for a millennium-long ship repair plan...
And humans, humans have not recovered from the cold of the Ice Age, and their tribes are not ready for the age of the gods, but the age of mythology has come crashing down.
Hao Ren came under the Tower of Ice. Through the thick layer of ice, he seemed to be able to see the "princess" sleeping in the ice.
He put his hands on the ice and sighed softly: "Vivian, I found you again."
It is now 7715 BC, the glaciers receded, and everything was revived.