The mountain has no name for the time being, but Lide decided to name it Jietian Peak according to its shape and size.
By the same logic, the previous lake was also called Fried Egg Lake by Lidd.
It takes about three to four hours to walk from Fried Lake to Jietian Peak, but that's the time it takes to walk in the dark at night. During the day, the visibility has greatly improved, and you don’t have to worry about stepping on the ground and falling into some abyss. The walking is also significantly faster. It only took two hours to return from Jietian Peak to Friedan Lake.
For this distance, it would definitely be faster if the giants walked.
There are many things that Lide needs to prepare this time. The first is at least 1,500 kilograms of live fish. Although it didn't sound like a small amount, in fact, the guy who looked a bit like a bluefin tuna that Alaya killed at the Huxin Pavilion before was about 200 kilograms. This can only be regarded as a medium-sized creature in the lake. The lantern fish Lide saw that night was conservatively estimated to be more than 500 kilograms, which is about the weight of eight adults.
But if you want to get so many fish, just fishing on the shore seems like a drop in the bucket. So Lid once again came near the center of the lake. The lake was not as lively during the day as it was at night, but Lid knew very well that there was simply a bottomless abyss full of dangers below.
Based on the principle of the enemy advancing and retreating, and the strong support of Shiloh and Alaya, Lide finally spent a lot of effort to catch a sufficient number of fish. This lake is very big. Lide quickly moved to another place after disturbing one place and continued to toss. He didn't have too much contact with those horrible things. Anyway, one was on the ice and the other was under the ice. They hit the ice. Kungfu Lide had already run away.
The monsters living at the bottom of the lake didn't really break through the ice. Except for serious cracks in the ice in a few places, there were no major abnormalities in other places. Due to the strong wind and snow, the excavated part will soon refreeze. Lide must carefully remember which places have been excavated before, otherwise it is very likely that fishing nearby will cause him to fall directly into the water.
Seven large fish three to four meters long were piled on the shore, and a pile of fish of various sizes was placed beside them.
Alaya lay down on the snow and gasped for breath. This kind of hunting was more exhausting than the direct battle with the giants.
Shiloh was also a little tired. She rubbed her stomach, squatted down and watched the fresh fish on the shore swallowing her saliva at a close distance, feeling that she had a chance to have a big meal today. Unexpectedly, Lide directly put his hands under her armpits, picked her up and put her aside, and let her and Alaya go to cut trees together.
The wood of the coniferous trees was dry and hard. After a few trees were felled, the ice field became completely bare.
Alaya split the trunk into long wooden strips, and under the leadership of Lide, he and Hilo carried the pile of things and walked eastward. Little Slime slept in the box all morning, and now regained his energy, he got out of Lid's collar to watch the excitement.
In fact, halfway through the arrangement of things, Hilo already guessed what Lid wanted to do. She faithfully carried out Lide's ideas to the extreme, and used her light and flexible body to help Lide build one after another barbecue grills that were taller than a person.
There will be a small grill every 500 meters or so, and three or four small grills will be followed by several large grills. A lot of fish are placed at a distance, like a reward level.
It extends all the way to the vicinity of Jietian Peak.
I also went back and forth several times on the way, after all, no one can carry such a heavy material all at once. Several people tossed until the evening before it was completely arranged. Finally, start from the grill closest to the mountain peak, put a burning wooden stick on the firewood of each grill, and light the dry wood when the wooden stick burns to a certain extent. This time is about 15 to 20 minutes.
For this reason, it is necessary to spend some effort in advance to make a simple windbreak wall with ice and snow to prevent the wooden strips from going out in advance.
In this way, all the preparatory work is completed.
Fishing needs bait, and the same is true for fishing giants—
For the giants who don't know how to use tools, there is no chance to become a fishing expert in the cold winter. When the smell of grilled fish wafted all the way to the foot of the mountain, the giants living here stood up uncontrollably. The cold wind brought the aroma of the food, which was unprecedented. If they had the habit of thanking the gods before eating like people, they should have folded their hands and started praying by now.
But food is limited. Even the lowly giants with little wisdom at all know this very well.
When food is found, those who arrive there first can often get meat to eat, and those who arrive later even drink the northwest wind that others have breathed. So at the moment when they smelled the fragrance, the hungry giants chose to swarm up. This number was more than Lide had imagined, not dozens of them, but as many as two or three hundred, like a landslide.
Lide still underestimated these giants' desire for food. There may be only a few dozen of them moving at first, but it quickly triggered a group effect. Many giants didn't even smell the scent, and started running with other companions.
Then, they arrived at the first [supply station].
This is the grilled fish farm closest to the mountain peak. About a quarter of the grilled fish is placed here. There are more than a dozen grills scattered everywhere. The giant who came first rushed towards the largest one, and the giant behind Some began to compete for the remaining grilled fish, and the other had keenly discovered the unattended grill in the distance, and started a racing race all the way west.
These numbers of grilled fish are allocated to a team of giants of this size, and each giant can actually get very little. The giants who ate the fish could not be full, but were lured by the food to have a desire to eat, and became more fanatical. And the urgency in the hearts of the giants who didn't grab the food is completely visible to the naked eye. Every time food appears where they can see it, and every time it is swallowed by others, even wild beasts will feel anxious.
Some of the giant races have already begun to fight among themselves while roaring, while the rest of the giant races continue to follow the food to the west.
The sense of competition is greatly diminished if the grill is zoomed all the way up. If the small barbecue grill is kept on, there will be some weaker giants who choose to give up because they have been fighting for food. But Lide adopted a centered strategy, so that most of the giants could see a lot of fish and eat a small amount of fish, and their desire would intensify.
So, they rushed towards the fried egg lake in a mighty way.
On the lake, the grilled golden and crispy fish is beckoning to them.
The giants who have traveled a long distance here are bound to win, and the aroma of the food gives them enough reasons.
The first giants rushed forward without hesitation.
Step on the ice and nothing happens.
This is of course, how could the solid ice that even the monsters at the bottom of the lake couldn't easily break through collapsed so easily.
One was fine, two were fine, three, four, five, and six were fine... But when dozens of giants were running, scrambling, clamoring, and beating on the ice, a part of the ice— In particular, cracks began to appear where Lidd had fished.
And then hundreds, hundreds. The grilled fish in the center of the lake has been eaten by the first giants, but the follow-up giants are still coming here. They don't know the information that the food has disappeared, they only know to run in the direction where they last saw the food.
A cold wind blows.
When the giant who was the first to finish eating the grilled fish in the middle of the lake had the idea of "going back", a huge crack suddenly appeared on the ice under his feet, and the cracking sound made people's eardrums hurt. The thick and solid ice on the vast lake finally collapsed in the middle under the strong pressure brought by the giants. The once solid foothold disappeared in an instant, and the icy cold water completely paralyzed the nerves of the giants who were already insensitive to pain.
Realizing that they fell into the water, the giants began to struggle, but the indescribably huge black shadow under the lake was also approaching in twos and threes.