After a goose feather snowfall, the whole earth seems to be covered with a thick white carpet, everywhere is white, covered in silver, and the world is shrouded in white.

After the big stone blocking the entrance of the cave was vigorously pushed away, the leader, Dali and several other powerful adult male clansmen of the snake tribe took the weapons and walked out of the cave first, and only after making sure that there was no danger outside the cave did the leader allow the others to leave the cave and move in the area within the wall.

The snow was the heaviest since the beginning of winter, and the snow in the clearing was more than a foot thick, and the adults would make a deep footprint every time they walked on the snow, while the lighter children only left a faint footprint on the snow.

The first thing the hungry tribesmen did when they left the cave was not to get food, but to go to the area planned by Su Yan, where several short walls blocked the view, and the earthen pit was used to collect excrement, which was a very rudimentary toilet.

Before the appearance of this rudimentary toilet, people in the primitive era did not defecate in the open, they also hated their excrement, if they accidentally stepped on the excrement, they would become unhappy, thinking that they were going to be unlucky today, so before the toilet appeared, the people of the snake tribe also set aside a fixed area for convenience.

After the convenience was completed, the adults began to be busy with breakfast, and under the command of the chief, they first cleared the snow at the mouth of the cave to the side, brought firewood and grass, and a bonfire was blazing, and several clansmen took out some frozen fish from the snowdrift and put it next to the bonfire for barbecue.

In previous years, all kinds of fruits are the main food of the people of the snake tribe, and they can only eat a small amount of fish at each meal, and when the winter is over, most of the people have lost weight, even if the grilled fish is not better than the fruit, everyone should eat a little more grilled fish, and eat grilled fish to resist hunger.

This year's winter is just the opposite, there are a lot of fish piled up in the open space outside the cave, only eat fish and eat until the winter has passed, there will be a lot left, everyone can not eat it when they let go of their stomachs, and the fruit has become the food that everyone is fighting for, and they all hope to get more fruits to eat, first eat fish to their heart's content, and then take the fruit as a dessert after dinner.

The leader also strictly limits the daily consumption of fruits, but he doesn't want to eat the fruits before the winter has passed, and how to survive this winter when he only eats fish without the fruits to change the taste.

Children like to play in the snow, small hands pick up a handful of snow and throw it on other friends, and then play with each other with snow, Xiaohua Xiaoyue sisters also joined them, a group of crazy children, last year's Su Yan was also one of the crazy children.

More than a dozen adult males scattered around the clearing, armed with the weapons they usually used to hunt, and they were guarding the surroundings to prevent any beasts from attacking, and if they found a beast coming, they could quickly notify the tribe to retreat to the cave for shelter.

For many carnivores that do not hibernate, winter is the worst season, and snow is the worst weather.

Many animals hibernate in winter, and snow can hide their sights and smells, making it more difficult for them to spot their prey.

However, the "hunter" encounters the "hunter" more likely than the "hunter" encounters the prey, if it is not very hungry, the "hunters" will not fight each other, two "hunters" fight, one injury and one death is a relatively normal result, the injured "hunter" is likely to become the prey of other "hunters".

In the world outside the walls, I don't know how many wild beasts shuttle through the snow, looking for traces of their prey.

Inside the walls, the sound of adults talking, children playing, will attract the attention of wild beasts, and perhaps the next moment a hungry beast that can climb trees will jump into the walls and attack people.

Humans have no sharp claws, no sharp teeth, and many wild beasts will use humans as prey, and if humans have no weapons in their hands and a group of people to walk together, they can easily become the supper of wild beasts.

The fish was roasted, and when it was time to eat, the clansmen took the food one by one to find a place to eat, Su Yan and his adoptive mother and Xiaohua Xiaoyue found a place to squat in the snow and hold the grilled fish and gnaw it.

The voices of the tribesmen spread farther and farther, the smell of grilled fish drifted in the wind, and some beasts were attracted by the sounds of humans and the smell of food.

The first to sneak up on the outside of the fence was a small group of timberwolves, more than a dozen of them, about two meters long, including a tail forty to fifty centimeters long, a shoulder height of more than eighty centimeters, a weight ranging from twenty-five to sixty kilograms, and a silver-gray or gray-brown fur.

The sharp claws and sharp teeth showed that these were a group of powerful hunters, who followed the sound and smell to sneak outside the wall, because the wall blocked the view, and they could only circle the wall to see the prey.

An adult male standing by the fence eating grilled fish had his ears moving, and he seemed to hear something, and he stood on tiptoe and poked his head out of the wall.

"Wolves! Cry wolf! He shouted loudly, and he saw a dozen wolves approaching the wall outside the wall.

The people of the wolf pack and the snake tribe were startled by his shout, and the wolves stopped and looked at the exposed head on the wall, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth, as if to scare him.

The leader of the wall calmly commanded the clansmen: "The child enters the cave, and the adult walks with me with a weapon." ”

Hearing the leader's order, the children quickly ran to the cave, not forgetting to take the food away, after all, the wolf is outside the wall, and the snake tribe is not in danger for the time being.

When building the wall, Su Yan took into account the fact that the beast jumped over the wall from the ground, one way was to increase the height of the wall, and the other was to put the wall as close to the big trees around the open space as possible, so that it would be difficult for beasts that could not climb the tree to jump over the wall from the ground.

However, when it snowed, the height of the wall was relatively shorter because of the snow, so Su Yan decided to end this winter and continue to increase the height of the wall, so that the height of the ground was more than two meters, and then burn some of the woods outside the wall, which could largely resist the invasion of wild beasts.

Now it is also necessary to rely on the people of the snake tribe to a certain extent to defend themselves with the weapons in their hands.

At the order of the chief, about fifty adults quickly approached the wall with weapons.

Hearing the cacophony of voices inside the walls and the discovery of traces, the hungry wolves stopped in place for a moment, not knowing what to continue doing.

After only a few breaths, one head after another popped up on the wall, and some clansmen directly smashed the stones in their hands at the wild wolves, and some of the close clansmen stabbed the wild wolves with their spears.

The grinning wolf wanted to attack, but suddenly he was blinded by the people of the snake tribe.

"Whew!" With a few cries of pain, the wolves fled towards the woods.