Returning to the cave in a hurry, Stern had a new understanding of the island for the low-level demonic beast Wind Leopard encountered on the way, and as he continued to go deeper into the island, the demonic beasts he encountered seemed to be getting more and more powerful.

He might be able to use his stealth skills and assassination skills to get the upper hand, so he might be able to get the Wind Leopard done, but it might cost a lot of money, and it wasn't worth it for him right now.

Close the wooden fence at the entrance of the cave and walk into the cave, just like that, the day passed, and at night Stern slept in the warm quilt and could feel the temperature in the cave drop a little, he woke up sensitively, and heard the cold wind howling outside, constantly blowing, the cold wave continued to sweep from the north, as early as the daytime, Stern saw a trace of abnormality from the gloomy sky.

In the past, when I was in Cloud Dream City, one out of every two cold seasons would always be attacked by a cold wave. The Bauhinia Empire is located in the northeast, and whenever the cold wave comes, the temperature will drop by more than 20 degrees, many domestic animals will be frozen to death, and a large number of homeless homeless people will not be able to withstand the cold and will freeze to death.

Fortunately, Stern cut some more branches and piled them in the cave in his spare time, so he didn't have to worry about food, there was enough food in the cave for three days, and if it wasn't enough, he could let Ash go out and fight some back.

For two days in a row, Stern was nested in the cave, and the dark space really made him uncomfortable, and on the third day he couldn't hold it anymore, so he put on a sheepskin coat and a sheepskin hat and walked out of the cave.

If the temperature inside the cave is 10 degrees Celsius, then the temperature outside is only minus 10 degrees Celsius, and now if you live in the cave where you used to live, it is estimated that the temperature may only be minus 20 degrees, and the area that is completely covered by the cold wave on the seaside on the outskirts of the forest, so the temperature is much lower.

Stern rode Ash towards the valley, which was in the middle of the forest, and the cold wave should have bypassed the valley, so it was only fitting for him to move around.

The sky is still overcast on this day, and the cold wave will last for at least half a month before it recedes, and if there is a snow during this period, the sun will be able to bloom early.

It took more than half an hour to reach the valley, and in the distance I saw a thick layer of white ice on the lake, Stern came to the lake to observe for a while, and found that the ice on the lake was very thick, perhaps because the temperature was too low at night.

Stern stood on the ice with his feet and saw that the ice surface was not moving enough to support the weight of the whole body, Stern walked slowly on the surface of the lake, and when he looked down at his feet, he found a strange phenomenon, he found that many fish were frozen in the ice and did not move, and the fish that were originally swimming in the water became frozen fish, which should be regarded as bringing some surprises to Stern.

Maybe it was the cold wave that came too suddenly that night, so that some of the fish in the lake that didn't have time to sink were frozen in the ice by the ice that formed instantly, looking at the countless frozen fish in the ice, Stern was overjoyed, the taste of freshwater fish was very delicious, he took out an axe and a dagger and began to slowly knock the ice surface.

Stern spent the whole afternoon collecting fish on the lake, and some of the fish he picked were still alive, and he put all the fish he picked into sacks, and by the evening he had filled a sack.

So Stern returned to the cave with a sack of fish. Stern took a vine and threaded it through the fish's gill hole, and out of the fish's mouth, skewered all the fish, and nailed two stakes into the holes to hang the skewered fish.

Although the water source outside is frozen, the pool in the cave is still not frozen, and the water inside is still a little warm, which should be a hot spring emerging from the ground.

Stern took a bucket of water from the pool with a bucket and took it aside, lit two gelling candles on the side, and took a fish and cleaned it up there, and it was his dinner tonight.

He cleaned the fish, cut it into pieces, put it in an iron basin, took some mushrooms and herbs he had picked before, put them in, poured some water and put some salt on the fire, and burned it.

In addition to adding rum to the fish this time, herbs and mushrooms were also added, and the fishy smell on the fish body was almost completely removed, and when it was cooked in an iron basin, it was already full of fragrance, Stern used a spoon made of bamboo to scoop some soup and drank it, and after the fish soup was eaten, the unique umami of the fish spread from the tongue to the root of the tongue and from the root of the tongue to the throat, and this delicious taste was the first time I tasted it since I came to the island.

After the fish was cooked, Stern began to eat the fish in a big gulp, looking at the greedy appearance of the little gray on the side, he picked a large piece of fish to remove the bones inside and threw it to the little gray, the little gray just licked the fish and it was gone, not enough for it to stuff between his teeth.

After dinner, Stern continued to work and began to clean up the other remaining fish, and after cleaning up, he hung them back on the vines one by one and hung them to dry, and after doing all these things, it was already the second half of the night, and then Stern began to take off his clothes and sleep under the covers.

The wind was still howling outside the cave, but the cave was still warm as spring, so Stern entered the dream comfortably, and the next morning he still did not get up, and slept until noon when he slowly got up from the bed.

There were also some horned deer in the cave, the legs of the Pigs, and they threw one for Ash as lunch, and made a grilled fish to eat with their mouths full of oil.

After lunch, Stern rode Ash to the valley again to collect fish, there were thousands of fish frozen on the surface of a lake in Nuoda, and if he didn't take this opportunity to catch more, and once the cold wave passed, the ice would never be so good again.

Stern repeats what he did yesterday, meticulously tapping on the ice to pick up the fish, while he tells Ash to go out hunting by himself and pick him up at the lake in the evening.

With the natural cave as a backing, this sudden cold wave did not inconvenience Stern, and he still lived without worrying about food and clothing.

In the evening, Ash came to the lake to pick him up, and Stern stopped what he was doing, put away his axe and dagger, put all the fish into the sack, and rode Ash back to the cave with the sack on his back.

Until now, this tomahawk has been Stern's most practical tool, and Stern has used this axe to solve one problem after another, especially using the tomahawk to fight with Ash, and finally receiving Ash under his command, which would never have been possible without this axe.

Stern and Ash went back to the cave together, burned a little supper as they had done last night, and after eating they began to clean the scales and entrails again, and did not go back to bed until midnight, and so on for another day.