When Iskar awoke, he found himself lying next to a campfire, wrapped in a thick bear skin. Chu Tianjiang was sitting on a rock next to the bonfire, roasting a piece of meat.

"What's starting to happen?" Iska sat up.

"You passed out." Chu Tianjiang handed the cooked meat to her. "It's going to be dawn, and when we're full, we'll get out of here."

After taking the barbecue, Iskar still looked at Chu Tianjiang intently.

"What, aren't you hungry?" Chu Tianjiang smiled and took a big gulp. Although after the transformation, his nervous system has been composed of energy bodies, and his brain no longer needs nutrients, but his body still needs nutrients, so he still has to eat like an ordinary person.

"Are you really a savior?" This is not the first time Iska has asked this question.

Chu Tianjiang shook his head with a smile and didn't say anything.

Although Chu Tianjiang didn't admit it, what happened in the past few days, especially the unbelievable things that happened after entering the underground ruins, made Iska believe that he was the savior.

It's just that Chu Tianjiang didn't want to say more, so Iska didn't ask more.

After eating the barbecue, the two hit the road.

While Iskar was asleep, Chu Tianjiang made two pairs of sleds. It took about half an hour for Chu Tianjiang to teach Iska how to use the sled. With the use of sleds, the travel speed is increased several times. It was almost noon, and the two of them left the ice ridge and came to the colder ice field.

Affected by the change in the angle of inclination of the Earth's revolution, the northern part of the Old World became an extremely cold zone.

Even in summer, daytime temperatures can drop below -30 degrees Celsius, and in winter, nighttime temperatures can drop below -100 degrees Celsius. Not to mention people, even wild animals survive here, and it is all white ice and snow as far as the eye can see.

Iskar proposes to go east, around the Ice Ridge and then south.

Although Chu Tianjiang wanted to go to the west and go to the legendary North Wind Country to see, when he came to the ice field, he changed his mind and decided to go east with Iskar first.

To put it bluntly, if you don't have food, you can't survive on the ice field at all, let alone reach the North Wind Country.

The journey in the next few days was relatively uneventful, and although Iskar wanted to know if Lu Dao Chu Tianjiang was the savior, he couldn't find a suitable opportunity to ask. Chu Tianjiang was also reluctant to talk about things related to him, and he always kept a distance from Iska.

After five days on the ice sheet, and when the food they had prepared was about to be eaten, the two came to a valley nearby.

Seeing the smoke rising from the valley, Iskar stopped first.

"Where are people inhabited?"

Iskar nodded and said, "Hunter, maybe it's a makeshift camp. ”

"Prey on the icefield?"

"Of course there is, and there are a lot of them." Iskar glanced at Chu Tianjiang and said, "Winter has passed, and summer will come soon. Some hibernating animals are about to wake up, including snow foxes and white bears. The fur of both animals is very expensive, and a full white bear skin can be sold for a hundred gold coins in Sunrise City, which is enough for a family's living expenses for a year. Snow foxes are rarer and their fur is more precious. Because both the snow fox and the white bear change their moult in the summer, to get the best fur, hunters must head north after the winter has passed, and hunt the snow fox and the white bear when they wake up from hibernation. In the summer, even if the snow fox and the white bear are caught, the fur is worthless. ”

"Shall we go over?"

"No, it's best to avoid them."

"For what?"

"These guys are outlaws, and we'd better not mess with them." Iskar smiled reluctantly, "There must be hot land around here. ”

"Hotland?"

"It's warmer than the neighborhood, and even in winter, it's hotter." Iskar turned and walked back.

Chu Tianjiang immediately followed. "How do you know that there is a hot land around this place?"

"Snow foxes and white bears do not really hibernate, but fall into a deep sleep in the winter, and occasionally wake up, so they will find shelter near hot areas. Hunters know this, so they camp near the hot land and go in search of the burrows of snow foxes and white bears. ”

It didn't take much effort for Iskar to find a warmer place.

Chu Tianjiang also figured out that the so-called "hot land" means that there is an underground heat source, maybe a hot spring, or maybe just near the crater.

Before dark, Iskar found a huge cave.

Since there is no trace of the Daredevil, there is no need to be aware of being attacked by the Daredevil at night. The cave is very large, and there is a lot of animal feces in it, as well as some animal bones. Without asking too much, Chu Tianjiang knew that this must be the cave where the white bear hibernates. According to Iska, when the white bear wakes up from hibernation, it will come out to forage for food whenever the weather warms up, and will not return to the burrow.

It's warm in the cave and doesn't need a fire to keep warm.

After eating something hastily, the two of them lay down and fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, the roar of a beast woke Chu Tianjiang from his sleep. As soon as he sat up, Iska grabbed his arm.

Although it was dark in the cave, Chu Tianjiang could see it clearly, and Iska was shaking his head at him.

"Don't go out of the way."

"Did you hear that, too?"

"That's a white bear, and the hunters have found it."

As soon as Iskar said this, Chu Tianjiang became even more curious, and he stood up.

"White bearskins are priceless, we better ......"

"Just to take a look, shouldn't there be any problem?"

"This ......"

"Don't worry, I'm not going to provoke them."

Chu Tianjiang insisted on going out to take a look, and Iska had no choice. Although she didn't want to provoke those hunters, with her and Chu Tianjiang's abilities, it was obviously not a problem to escape.

The two men came out of the cave, searched for sounds, and soon came to a valley nearby.

It was from the valley that the roar of the beast came from the valley.

Although Chu Tianjiang was curious, he did not forget to conceal himself. Lying on the ground, he and Iska carefully climbed onto the ice platform on the west side of the valley.

Below, a giant beast that stood upright and weighed more than ten tons was trapped in a trap, surrounded by more than a dozen hunters with torches and spears in their hands. As soon as he saw this formation, Chu Tianjiang knew that the giant beast was the "White Bear", and he also understood that the white bear's fur was so precious. Such a giant beast, let alone a hunter with a spear, even a hunter with a shotgun may not be able to deal with it.

"White bear?"

Iskar nodded and whispered, "It's still an adult male bear, it should be ten years old, much stronger than the usual adult female bear." ”

"What are they doing?"

"Wait for your chance."

In the valley, more than a dozen hunters did not rush to attack, but kept waving torches, trapping the white bear, so that the white bear could not rush out of the trap. To Chu Tianjiang's slight surprise, none of the hunters rashly used spears, as if spears were only used to give them courage.

"The fur of the white bear is very precious, and if it is damaged, it will not be sold for a good price, so after trapping the white bear, they must first exhaust the white bear's physical strength, and then the most powerful hunter will launch a deadly attack to ensure that the white bear is killed with a knife, and the integrity of the white bear's fur is ensured as much as possible." Iskar explained in a low voice, then gestured to the ice field across the valley. "See that guy over there?"

Chu Tianjiang looked over, and there was still a hunter on the ice field, but he was holding a steel knife.

"He's the best hunter?"

Iskar nodded and said, "The white bear's weakness is in the back of the head, the part where the head connects to the neck. With a single stab, you can kill a white bear. ”

The white bear roared wildly, waving its giant palms wildly, but it was very afraid of the fire.

This continued for about half an hour, and the white bear's speed slowed down and his movements became sluggish. At this time, a sharp whistle came from the opposite ice field, and then more than a dozen hunters in the valley began to run around the white bear. The white bear became more frenzied and tried to attack the hunters around it, only to retract its outstretched giant claws every time it approached the torches, and then let out a louder roar.

"White bears are afraid of fire?"

"Very afraid of fire."

"Why are you afraid of fire?"

Iskar glanced at Chu Tianjiang and said, "All wild animals in the extremely cold region are afraid of fire, otherwise hunters would not dare to come here to hunt white bears. ”

Chu Tianjiang felt a little strange, but he couldn't figure out what was strange.

Although all wild animals are afraid of fire, when life and death are at stake, a beast weighing ten tons will obviously not be trapped by a few small torches.

You must know that under the drive of survival instinct, beasts can do many violent things.

Just as Chu Tianjiang was thinking about this question, the hunter standing on the ice field on the east side of the canyon jumped down. It just landed on the white bear's back, and then the steel knife was inserted into the white bear's body. After letting out a loud scream, the white bear fell to the ground with a bang.

"Alright, let's go."

"Finished?"

Iskar nodded and said, "The white bear is dead, they will skin the bear, and then go to the next hot land to hunt the next white bear." ”

"There's only one white bear around here?"

"White bears are solitary animals with a very wide range of activities, and it is impossible for two white bears to be in the same place except during mating in the fall."

"In that case, we'll wait a little longer."

"What are you waiting for?"

"They only need fur, and we've already eaten up our food, so much bear meat......"

"Bear meat is poisonous and can't be eaten."

"Poisonous?"

Iskar nodded again and said, "Even if it's cooked, eating it will poison people." Even fur needs to be tanned in a special way to make a leather coat. ”

"This ......"

"If you want to find food, there are other animals to hunt."

"We'll see."

Chu Tianjiang was even more curious, and wanted to know what this ten-ton beast of Lu Dao was, so he was even more reluctant to leave at this time.