Chapter Forty-Nine: The Wolves of the Wilderness (Part I...

Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "Okay, I've said it, I've made all the preparations, besides, what are you afraid of with such a field expert as Elena?" You just have to keep an eye on the boat. Liu Junxi looked at Elena, although he was still worried, he couldn't say anything, so he could only pray that the young master would retreat when the time came.

The Wild Continent was relatively inhospitable, with steep mountain walls and gravel-strewn canyons everywhere around Moore Harbor, which was completely impassable for vehicles, and even horses were difficult to use, so Fang Xiaoyu's expedition team traveled on foot. After entering the inland, Fang Xiaoyu began to let Xiaofeng turn on the scan at all times, and all the situations within a radius of six hundred kilometers appeared in Fang Xiaoyu's mind, and the amount of information was so large that Fang Xiaoyu, who was not very adaptable, was in a trance.

With Fang Xiaoyu's humanoid radar, they bypassed the dangerous area and kept advancing inland, because they often had to go around the valley, so they traveled for a whole day and traveled about thirty kilometers in a straight line, but it was these thirty kilometers that Fang Xiaoyu had discovered a large iron mine, a large coal mine and a medium-sized gold mine, but the gold mine was buried deep and not easy to mine, and the iron ore grade was not high. However, the coal mine is very good, it is a highest-quality anthracite mine, the seedlings are not deep from the surface, even open-pit mining is very easy, and Fang Xiaoyu finally found that the wells for Lu are all salt water.

It turns out that the coastline of the Wild Continent is mountainous and the inland is slightly lower than the sea level, so the surface water layer here is connected with the sea. However, ignoring any obstacles, Fang Xiaoyu easily found that the aquifer about two kilometers below the surface had already turned into fresh water, although it was a bit laborious to drill a well, but with a steam engine, it was possible to build a well, and it was not a problem to draw water.

Being able to solve the water source problem developed here makes Fang Xiaoyu very happy. When camping at night, he was very interested in taking a few team members to hunt, but after tossing for a long time, it was a pity that the harvest was not big, and only a few hares were caught. Under Elena's command, the team roasted the hare, and everyone improved their food a little with their own dry food.

Since everyone had drunk all the water in the kettle during the day, Fang Xiaoyu asked them to gather the kettle into a tent, and he secretly took out fresh water from the equipment library to fill the kettle, which surprised the team members, although the team members looked at Fang Xiaoyu with a little strange eyes, Fang Xiaoyu ignored it at all.

These people are all his subordinates, and they are also the slaves he has freed, and they are very loyal to him, as long as he doesn't say it, no one will come to ask, and as for the biography, he is still very conscious of keeping these members of the Iron Guard loyal to him secret, but since then the team members have revered him a little more.

The team members took turns to keep vigil, and due to the large number of people, each person was only on duty for an hour, which did not affect everyone's physical recovery. Since he had brought enough food for a month and a large amount of ammunition, the supplies were still very sufficient, Fang Xiaoyu decided to go to the inland area to take a look, maybe there would be a bigger harvest.

The deeper they went inland, the terrain began to become complicated, Fang Xiaoyu and they climbed the cliff three times in one day, which made the members of the Iron and Blood Guards with excellent physical strength a little unbearable, fortunately, everyone climbed the cliff with ropes, and they were not afraid of someone being in danger, but the speed of advance in such a terrain was not flattering, they only rested twice except for the time to eat, and they only advanced more than ten kilometers in the evening, and Fang Xiaoyu and the team members had no strength to hunt game again that night, Everyone hastily ate some dry food and fell asleep.

For five consecutive days, Fang Xiaoyu and the others had advanced more than 120 kilometers inland, and primeval forests began to appear in the depths of the continent, and there were more wild meats, and they even found a big river. Based on Elena's experience of surviving in the wild, they set out to make their way up the river.

Fang Xiaoyu limped in the middle of the team with a wooden stick, although his body had been transformed by bioelectricity, but he was only eleven years old after all, such a continuous trip was still a little too reluctant for him, and now he could only barely keep up with the team.

Elena, who had been following Fang Xiaoyu's side, said to him, "Young Master, carry your things to me." Fang Xiaoyu straightened his chest and said, "It's okay, I can still go." Besides, let a girl help me carry things, how will you let me meet people in the future? ”

The corners of Elena's mouth curled up slightly: "Is it a shame to let girls help?" But you're only eleven years old, and you're still a child. Fang Xiaoyu said: "Don't always be a child, a child." You're only fourteen years old. "But I grew up in the wilderness, and when I was ten years old, I could carry a weight of 100 kilograms and cross the country. ”

Fang Xiaoyu was surprised: "Good girl, are you elves so strong?" But seeing that your figure is also very slim, why don't you feel powerful? Elena said with some gloom: "This is the result of survival of the fittest, all the elves who are not strong enough have only one way to die." We are so short of supplies that only the strongest elves will survive, and only one of our ten children will survive, so our numbers have been small, less than a million even after thousands of years of reproduction. As for being slim, that's a characteristic of our elves, and it has nothing to do with the amount of strength, because most of our strength comes from bones rather than muscles. ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded as if he didn't understand, he knew the social structure of the elves, the elves were very similar to the Spartans on the earth, they were born to fight, each elf was born to train, and then put it into the wild, so that nature could be eliminated, so that they could get stronger elves. Unlike the Spartans, they focused more on training for survival and hunting in the wild, both men and women. "It will be fine in the future, and in my lifetime, I will definitely let the elven children grow up as safe as humans." Fang Xiaoyu can only comfort her like this now.

As she walked, Elena suddenly signaled for the group to stop. She cautiously walked over to a pile of black objects, pinched some and put them under her nose and sniffed, "We must be vigilant, there are big wolves here, and this wolf droppings do not take more than five hours to excrete. Everyone nervous when they heard Elena's warning.

Fang Xiaoyu immediately asked Xiao Feng to search for the wolves with all his might, and sure enough, a group of about a thousand or more wild wolves were approaching them, although these wolves did not find them, they were in their way. Looking at the nearby terrain, this is a valley with a relatively narrow pathway, which is very conducive to defense.

After observing the surrounding situation, Fang Xiaoyu immediately arranged: "You immediately start digging a trench along the valley, the trench should be at least two meters deep and five meters wide, and after a few people go to cut wood, we will build improvised fortifications to prepare against the wolves." ”

Fortunately, for this expedition, everyone was fully equipped, and the team members not only brought folding shovels but also a lot of axes. The trench soon began to be excavated, this is the valley, the narrowest point between the two mountains is only more than 70 meters, and the wood is also quickly cut down, Fang Xiaoyu led people to make the wood into a simple breast wall and pile it behind the trench.

Fang Xiaoyu was still staring at the wolves all the time during his work, the wolves were getting closer and closer, and the speed began to increase, it was obvious that these wild wolves had discovered their existence, Fang Xiaoyu felt it, and found that he was on the windward side of the wolves, and those wild wolves who were downwind must have smelled the breath of living people before moving towards this side.

Fang Xiaoyu was sweating profusely, the current breastwork had just been half built, and the trench had only been dug for more than a meter, with the agility of a wild wolf, it only took one or two vertical crossings to cross over. The wild wolves were getting closer and closer, and they were already only a kilometer away, Fang Xiaoyu immediately ordered everyone to stop, line up behind the breastwork, and fill all the guns with ammunition. As soon as the team members lined up, wolves appeared in the distance.

There were thousands of wolves, but there were only thirty-two people on Fang Xiaoyu's side, and now all they could hope for was the lever rifle and revolver in their hands. The first temptation of the wolves soon began, and more than thirty wild wolves moved towards them, hesitate as they approached the trench.

Seeing that the speed of the wolves slowed down, Fang Xiaoyu immediately ordered to fire, and thirty-two rifles fired together, quickly killing all these wild wolves. Fang Xiaoyu's side took the lead, but unfortunately this performance did not suppress the wolves that were about to move, seeing that there were few people on Fang Xiaoyu's side, the wild wolves began a large-scale attack, Fang Xiaoyu and their firing frequency became faster and faster, fortunately, the Lanting Type 1 rifle had a loading port on the side, which could be loaded at any time, relying on intensive firepower to barely stop the attack of the wild wolf pack, and at this time there were already more than a hundred wolves lying on the ground.