The weather in September on the north side of Tucker Town was very different from that in the south, and the temperature difference between the two sides was very large, and they had to stop and wait for the hail to stop during the half day of the morning journey.

During the journey, Stern discovered a very strange problem, the southern part of Tucker Town was theoretically more habitable and cultivated than the northern part, but the northern part was much more populated than the southern one, and everyone in the Flying Eagle Clan was puzzled by this anomaly, who wanted to let go of the comfort of the south and run to the north of this ice field and wasteland.

Stern came to the edge of a hillside and saw an old farmer harvesting oats, so he put away the little ash and walked over to him, "Uncle, do you know how to get to Black Wind Village?" The old farmer stopped what he was doing, stood up, and began to look up and down at the young man in front of him, seeing that the blond young man did not look like a bad person, it should not be with those black wind thieves, he pointed to the mountains in the northeast and said, "Young man, do you see the mountain over there, cross that mountain and walk in the northeast direction for about three or four days, you can reach the Black Wind Village."

Stern looked at the northeast and felt a point in his heart, "Thank you, uncle, by the way, why are there so many villages in the north of this Tucker Town, shouldn't the south be more suitable for living?" After listening to Stern's question, the old farmer shook his head and said, "Alas, the land and houses in the south of Tucker Town have been occupied by rich merchants and landlords, and if you want to use their land, you have to pay a tax to the lord in addition to paying a tax to them, although there can be two seasons of oat harvest in the south, but it is not enough to pay taxes, so many people go to the north to reclaim the land, although only one season of oats can be planted here, but after paying the tax, they can barely maintain a year's living rations."

After listening to the old farmer's story, he finally understood the reason for the large number of people in the north, and Stern felt deep sympathy for the people of Tucker Town, who were living in misery, and would definitely help them live a better life if he had the opportunity.

On the evening of September 8th, the night was hazy, and Stern and his party did not know that they had crossed several hills, and the four of them stopped at the foot of the mountain they had just crossed, and a clear stream stretched along the depression at the foot of the mountain to the east, and they had to wade through the creek if they wanted to continue their journey, but after running all day today, Ash and Black Brother were almost on the verge of overdraft, and Stern did not plan to continue on the road.

The place where they rested was very open and quiet, there was a large rock by the side of the stream, Stern began to set up a shelf on the rock with branches, a few days ago he had bought several goats in Tucker Town and was going to take one out to make a whole roast, all the ingredients for the barbecue were ready, Stern took out the goats and threw them to Thea to clean them, and then he went into the mountain alone with an axe to cut wood.

By the time Stern and Avanti returned to the rocks by the creek with firewood, night had begun to cover the land, and the roaring campfires were ...... with a blinding glow in the night.

Suddenly, several piercing screams pierced the silent night sky, "Ah...... Help ......" voice came from the wilderness not far from the other side of the creek, and it sounded like a child's voice. Someone on the other side was in danger, and Stern, who was constantly flipping the roasted whole sheep, suddenly stood up and looked across the stream, but there was nothing to see in the darkness of the night.

"Thea, you come over and turn the goat, don't let it burn, you stay here and I'll go and see," Stern said, wading across the creek and riding on Little Ash, running quickly towards the source of the sound.

The cries for help continued, but who would come out in this silent wilderness to save the people in distress in this dark night? In the dark night, more than a dozen black figures circled around a cedar tree more than four meters high, and the pupils of these dozen black shadows were flashing with bloodthirsty essence, and I saw one of the black shadows swooping up three meters high and fiercely rushing towards the child in the tree.

As Stern got closer, he finally saw what those swift black shadows were, and it turned out that those fierce beasts were actually terrifying wasteland hyenas. There are very few monsters in the wastelands of Tuckertown, but that doesn't mean there are no dangers in the wastelands, and these hyenas who are good at digging out their ans are even more dangerous than the monsters, and they dominate the entire wasteland of Tucker Town in groups.

From a dozen to dozens of animals, including humans, all the animals in the wasteland have become their prey, so the townspeople in the northern part of Tucker usually live in groups in the form of villages, so as to defend themselves against the threat posed by the hyena pack.

Stern quickly jumped down from Little Gray's back, "Little Gray, Avanti, hurry up and don't let that group of hyenas hurt the children in the tree", and then saw Little Gray pounce on one of the hyenas in a few jumps, and Avanti also rushed into the hyena group with a short spear in both hands.

The hyena group has been paying attention to the children in the trees, and was caught off guard by the sudden uninvited guest, "Ahhh~", with a whistling of the hyena leader, all the hyenas instantly gathered and surrounded Little Ash and Avanti.

Most of the hyenas should be ordinary animals, but one of them is obviously bigger than the other hyenas, and I don't know if it has mutated into a low-level magical beast. After seeing one of their companions fall to the ground after being bitten by a timber wolf, the hyenas began to roar angrily and rushed towards the two beasts in the encirclement.

"Avanti get rid of the biggest one inside," Stern shouted to Avanti, standing outside the encirclement.

"Good master," Avanti replied, and then rushed to the largest hyena in the pack like lightning, only to see Avanti rush to the hyena leader's hand and poke two large blood holes in its neck in an instant, and the hyena leader screamed and fell in a pool of blood, constantly struggling.

The other hyenas saw that the leader was dealt with by Avanti and their morale collapsed and began to scatter, Avanti and Xiao Ash continued to chase after and solve the two ordinary hyenas, these ordinary animals were completely inadequate in front of the monsters, and killing them was as easy as chopping vegetables.

In the blink of an eye, the corpses of five or six hyenas were left on the ground, and the other hyenas began to flee in panic after losing their leader, and soon disappeared, Stern came to the hyena leader, squatted down and found that it was actually a low-level demonic beast, so he took out the magic crystal in its skull with a dagger, picked a few leaves, wiped the dagger and the magic crystal, and hid it in the space ring, and then came to the big tree.

Stern was afraid that Ash and Avanti would scare the children in the tree, so he put them all into the spatial ring, he raised his head and said to the little boy in the tree, "Child, the hyena has been driven away by me, now that you are safe, come down."

I saw the child trembling and climbing down from the top of the tree, his feet still trembling, and Stern staring nervously below, lest the child's feet slip and fall from the tree. After a while, the child finally climbed down the tree safely, and he looked up at Stern gratefully and said, "Thank you, uncle."

Stern touched the child's head and said, "Hungry, come with me to the barbecue, now I will release a wolf as a mount, don't be afraid that it won't hurt you."

The boy nodded quietly, and Stern took the boy and ran with him towards the rocks by the stream.