Chapter 255: The Adventures of the King's Cellar
The delay in winter can really do a lot. Although it is relatively cold now www.biquge.info and the frost in the morning and evening freezes the leaves to pieces, but without the obstruction of ice and snow, it is still more convenient for people to walk in the forest.
Wang Jiao walked in the forest with the team, hoping that the snow would be delayed for a few more days. In this way, he may be able to complete this mission.
He had previously been a subordinate who had traveled to the forest with the Rapid Expedition, and was made a Captain of Ten during the Great Celebration. Now he has six men under him. The Captain of Ten was supposed to have ten men, but the tribe did not have enough men at the moment, so he was not given a full number. Elder Chuan said that as long as he made meritorious contributions, he would be added, and it was possible for more than ten people to end up. This gave him a lot of fighting spirit, and he wanted to try to get more than ten of his men as soon as possible, so that he could go further afield.
He was one of the envoys, so his current job was to go out to communicate and explore.
The main purpose of his team this time was to find a small tribe called the Vultures.
This tribe is said to be a small tribe like the original River tribe. The place where they were was three days to the northeast of the Vulcan tribe. This tribe has only a few dozen people and does not make fires and does not preserve tinder. Every year, you have to go to the Vulcan tribe to exchange fire, in exchange for salt or kinship. But this year, before the Vulcan tribe was destroyed, this tribe did not go to the Vulcan tribe to exchange. The other tribes who came to watch the ceremony did not see anyone from this tribe.
Wang Chuan said that such a tribe should also be taken care of, and this tribe should be found to see what their current situation is, and confirm that they are still there. If they are still there and can survive the winter on their own, befriend them and help them. If they can't survive the winter, take them back to the River tribe and absorb them.
Mother is very affectionate for this small tribe, and she also agrees with Wang Chuan's approach. So the tribe filmed him.
Wang Jiao liked to go to any strange place, and although he knew that the snow was about to fall at this time, he did not complain. No one knows, in the process of exploring, in fact, he is also searching, looking for his original tribe.
He was one of the first people Winter Bear had exchanged with the River Tribe last year. But he was not from the Ransom Salt Clan. He remembered that when he was about ten years old, he was taken captive from his original tribe. After several exchanges, it was in the hands of the Ransom Salt Clan.
Before entering the River Tribe, he could only work and carry under sticks for the little food he had every day. Even if he was ransoming the salt clan, he had barely eaten enough, so he was not strong at that time. During that time, he almost forgot the memories of his childhood.
It wasn't until he entered the River Tribe that he knew what a happy life was like. Food, security, and dignity were the lives he never thought about. He became a relative in the River Tribe, changed his cowardly temperament, and also practiced a good skill. Thinking of his past, he really wanted to find the original tribe and find the mother who kept stuffing his mouth with all kinds of edible things when he was a child. wants the woman who loves him to live the same life.
But when he came out, he was too young, and he tossed and turned many times, which also disturbed his memories of the time when he was taken captive. Now all he remembered was that the original tribe had a small oak forest. In autumn, they can find countless oak bellies in the woods, which is almost the most joyous time of the year. Every time he came out now, he hoped to find a wood, and then find his mother inside.
But where is this oak grove? He didn't know. At the time of the big celebration, he asked about the winter bear. The Winter Bear, who had been high up before, looked at him with great respect for his red belt. Winter Bear doesn't remember where he got him from, though. Winter Bear said to help go back and ask the person in charge of the exchange, and if there is any information, he will come and tell him later.
Wang Jiao knew that there weren't many things that Winter Bear could ask, so he still had to keep looking. He hoped that the small tribe he was looking for now would have some kind of oak forest. However, a man from the Vulcan tribe who had been to this tribe in the team said that there were no oak trees here, but many pine trees.
Walking in the forest, sometimes walking the wrong col will take an extra day or two, the people from the Vulcan tribe have people from the Vulcan tribe to lead the way every time they come, so they are not familiar with the road, and by the time they found this pine forest, it had already taken three days longer than planned.
The pine trees of the pine forest are skyscrapers and tall and incomparably tall. The autumn wind blew through the pine forest, blowing the pine leaves and dead branches to the ground, and the thick pine leaves fell on the ground, stepping on them as if they were stepping on a blanket.
From the moment you enter the pine forest, it is as if there is nothing else in the world except the sound of the wind and the pine trees.
Wang Jiao couldn't help but hold his bow in his hand and draw his arrow at the same time. The pine forest was so strange that the whirring wind made it impossible for them to hear anything else. If there is a beast hidden, it is difficult to detect it in advance.
"Are you sure this is it?" Wang Jiao asked.
The person from the Vulcan tribe was only a person selected by Liang Su, and he was not yet an official member, so he replied very carefully and in detail: "It should be here." But they didn't live in this pine forest, they lived in a mountain stream behind this pine forest. This kind of pine forest is not found anywhere else. The people of the Wu tribe rely on the pine nuts of these pine trees for winter, and they come to exchange them every year, and they also use the pine nuts here. This kind of pine nut is fragrant. ”
As he spoke, he picked up a pine cone and peeled the pine nuts from it.
Wang Jiao looked at the pine nuts that could be seen everywhere on the ground, and the uneasiness in his heart increased a little. When he was a child, he lived by picking oaks for the winter, and the situation should be similar to that of this tribe. The tribes that live on this kind of fruit will basically pack them back as soon as these fruits are ripe, even if they don't land on the ground, they will go up to the tree to pick them, how can they leave so much on the ground?
Wang Jiao felt that either this tribe had disappeared, or there were some terrifying beasts in this pine forest, which made the people of this tribe dare not step in. But the thick pine leaves on the ground left no trace of the beast. Fortunately, a lot of pine leaves have fallen, and the pine forest is empty, so as not to make the forest too gloomy, and the sight is not bad.
"Prepare your weapons and watch out." Wang Jiao gave an order to cheer everyone up.
There are seven people on their side, all of them have iron bows and crossbows and leather armor, and they can deal with it in a small tribe, and ordinary beasts are basically no problem as long as they are careful.
Everyone cautiously walked all the way forward, but after walking for a long time, let alone the beasts, there was not even a bird in the pine forest.
At a certain moment, several people walked to an open place, the wind was light, and Lin Tao was quiet for a while. At this time, a terrible carving sound sounded in the air, and the next moment, the fierce wind blew through the pine forest, and the pine waves seemed to recover in an instant, Wang Jiao suddenly remembered what Wang Chuan had said, "Birds of prey can eat people in this era", and immediately shouted loudly: "Pay attention to your head!" ”
As he spoke, he also raised his head and drew his bow, and sure enough, he saw a huge black and white shadow rushing down from the air. He quickly loosened the string, but the shadow pounced too fast, and the arrow actually missed.
In the blink of an eye, the shadow pounced into the crowd, and before he had time to think about it, Wang Jiao's whole person pounced on the shadow. He has the best skills in the team, and the leather armor is also two layers of crocodile skin, if he can't control this black shadow in the first time and buy time for the team members to react, God knows how much damage this black shadow will bring to them?
He pounced on a bird that was almost as tall as a man. This was Wang Jiao's first reaction. At that moment, the large bird grabbed one of the team members and was about to peck at his head. was pounced by Wang Jiao, and just knocked down the big bird. The big bird's beak pecked at the ground, pecking out finger-deep pits from the hard sandy ground on the ground. A pecking in the head shouldn't be much better.
The captured team member took the opportunity to retreat, but his leather armor was torn open by the big bird.
The big bird was very large in size and great in strength, and Wang Jiao's pounce obviously angered it, and after knocking it down, it turned its head and pecked wildly, scratching its claws indiscriminately, and flapping its wings indiscriminately at the same time. Wang Jiao hurriedly grabbed one of the big bird's wings with his foot, grabbed the big bird's neck with both hands, and didn't dare to let it peck it, and at the same time shouted to the people behind: "Cut off the head, quickly!" ”