Hal led Lustern behind, the small valley inhabited by the dwarves of the ice field looked verdant and verdant compared to the surrounding desert, like an oasis in the desert, with fruit-bearing shrubs and grass in addition to the tall cedars, but in a smaller area.

"I was picking pine cones on the tree, when I first saw you, I thought it was a thief from the Black Wind Thieves, but when I saw Lakala following behind, I knew that you were good people, and Brother Andy really thanked you for your rescue", the middle-aged dwarf Hal said gratefully to Stern as he led the way.

Stern and the dwarves chatted sentence by sentence, and it didn't take long for them to come to the foot of the barren mountain, and under the leadership of Hal, everyone came to the halfway point of the barren mountain.

The ice dwarves like the dwarves led by Higg like to dig caves in the middle of the mountainside, Stern counted that there should be more than a dozen caves here, large and small, some caves are stocked with food and tools, and some caves have some goats and snow hares, he also saw for the first time that sheep can be raised in caves, and after asking the reason, he found out that the dwarves had found traces of snow wolves around this valley, so he kept the goats in the cave.

Hal led Stern and the others to a well-ventilated cave, where there was a thick haystack, and Yulia and Alinas were indeed a little tired from the long day's journey, and as soon as they entered the cave, they half lay down on the hay and rested.

At this time, all the members of the entire Ice Dwarf Clan had arrived, a total of less than 30 people, and everyone had a happy smile on their faces when they saw Lakala return, especially Lakala's parents were trembling with excitement.

Not long after entering the cave to rest, the dwarves brought food, goat's milk, oatcakes, pine cones, and the unknown fruit plucked from the bushes, and all the food of the ice dwarves should be here.

Yulia picked up the cherry-like fruit in the clay pot, put it in her mouth, chewed it a few bites, and her eyes immediately narrowed into a slit, "What kind of fruit is this, why is it sour and astringent?"

Seeing Yulia's funny expression, Hal couldn't help but laugh and said, "These are the fruits picked from the bushes at the foot of our mountain, called bear fruits, and we can only eat them here in this season."

Seeing this, Xia also curiously picked up a bear fruit and put it in his mouth to eat, he shook his head while eating, and said, "Wow, it's really unpalatable, this fragrant fruit on our island is just ripe, it's really much better than this bear fruit."

Seeing that Xia opened his mouth to speak, Hal became interested, "Little brother, my name is Hal Gray, I see that you are also from our dwarf clan, where are you from, and your family?"

Thea replied, "My name is Thea Andrew, who followed Uncle Andy all the way to this island from a small island east of Cadia, where my people live, and I heard from Abba that we all fled to the island from Pompeii, which is now Blackwind."

As soon as Hal heard Thea mention Pompeii, he immediately understood, it seems that the large army of the fleeing clansmen who heard from their ancestors should have gone, and the patriarch who led the dwarves to flee at that time seemed to be called Andrew.

Seeing that Xia and Hal chatted instantly, the three of Stern saw that the two were chatting in full swing and did not mean to interject, but listened quietly on the side, and also had a general understanding of the difficulties of the ice dwarf race, they were the dwarves who were left behind when they fled as the dwarven leader Hig Andrew, it turned out that they had stayed on the edge of Tucker Town and never left.

For a hundred years, they had been living in the mines until twenty years ago, when the Black Wind Thieves stationed in Pompeii Village discovered their traces and sent a large team to capture the dwarves in the Mir Caves, but fortunately, they took precautions in advance so that most of the dwarves could escape safely, and finally found this habitable small valley after a lot of hardships.

"We live in this small valley, not only have pine cones, but also free up a piece of land for planting oats, and from the wasteland to pick bear fruit trees to plant in the valley, more importantly, there are goats and snow hare caught in the wasteland are raised by us in captivity, up to now there are twelve goats and thirty-six snow rabbits, every morning we wake up we can drink hot goat milk, in the cold season we have black stones for heating, after the hard work of our people has been much better than in the Mier Mine when the life has been much better, alas, just ......" Speaking of this, Hal shook his head and couldn't help but sigh, "My eldest brother Hamm and eight or nine other clansmen have not been able to build this beautiful home with us."

"What's wrong with them?" Seeing that Hal's mood changed from sunny to cloudy, his face changed faster than turning a book, and Xia couldn't help but ask weakly. Remembering the sad past, Hal's eyes flashed with tears, "They were captured by the Black Wind Thieves when they lived in the Mines of Mir twenty years ago, and I couldn't do anything at that time, and I don't know what happened to them now."

Stern listened to Howl's account and asked, "Why did the Black Wind Thieves come to arrest you?"

Speaking of the Black Wind Thieves Regiment, Hal couldn't help but show a look of fear, "There is an iron mine in the northwest of Pompeii Village, and there is a Black Stone Mine in the north of the village, this Black Wind Thieves Group occupies these two mines, they need a lot of manpower to mine for them, so all the humans and our dwarves near this Black Wind Village are the manpower they want to capture, haven't you found that there are no people around this Black Wind Village along the way?"

Stern nodded and said, "I did discover this strange phenomenon along the way, what is the origin of this Black Wind Thieves who dare to act so recklessly?"

Hal continued, "Speaking of this Black Wind Thieves Bandits, everyone knows about the entire Tucker Town, they are numerous, there are about a thousand people, and there are at least two or three thousand relatives and family members, they rely on the strength of the crowd to use Pompeii Village as a base to run rampant in the north of Tucker Town, and do all kinds of evil, the most hateful thing is that they have bribed the mayor of Tucker Town with gold coins, and they have turned a blind eye to their evil deeds of arresting people to be strong laborers in broad daylight, so it has further fueled the arrogance of the Black Wind Village."

Originally, Stern wanted to go to the Mir Mine to find the treasure that the dwarf patriarch Higg said and immediately go to the Ice Lake Secret Realm to find the dragon's blood fruit, but now it seems that it is necessary to go to this Black Wind Village, after all, Howl's people may still be slaves in the mines of the Black Wind Village.

How could he not lend a hand when such a thing happened to him, now maybe only their Flying Eagle Clan has the ability to eradicate the evil forces in the north of Tucker Town and win a free and peaceful life for the ice dwarves and the people in the wilderness, why not?