Northern snowfields

The cold wind is howling, when the Golden Dragon Kingdom has gradually entered the summer, the climate of the snow field is still extreme, the heavy snow is falling every three or five times, and the white wind will blow from time to time, the temperature of this snow field is still around zero degrees during the day, and at night, it can be as low as minus 50 degrees.

When you look up, it's all white, and even the sunlight seems to be cold here, and the light reflected off a white snowfield is a little dazzling, and everything that can survive in this environment, whether it is an animal or a plant, is ruthless.

More than a dozen mammoths are taking advantage of the rare daylight to come out to feed, and the huge tusks are like hoes to turn up the snow on the ground, gradually revealing a large area of bryophytes under the snow layer, and then the tusks hook out, hooking out more than ten meters of moss.

"Aang!"

At this time, a mammoth seven or eight meters tall suddenly roared loudly, as if it had found something that frightened it, and began to run, and the other mammoths also gave up the food in front of them under the reminder of this mammoth and joined the ranks of escape.

There are not many creatures in this snowfield that can make mammoths fear, or there is only one, and that is the overlord of the snowfield, the Snow Giant.

In the harsh natural environment of the snowy fields, the creatures still maintain a delicate balance, and the giant cattle, cattle and mammoth herds that survive on various bryophytes, have maintained a large population.

Giant cattle consumption is just that, but like the mammoth with a shoulder height of six or seven meters after adulthood, it is definitely a hegemon-level creature in the human world, and it is absolutely difficult to solve it without mobilizing a large number of troops, but it is limited by the number of natural enemies on the snow field, and they have a fear of snow giants engraved in their genes, and a few snow giants appear from afar to let them flee in a hurry, fortunately, these snow giants have no intention of chasing them, watching this small group of mammoths disappear into the snowfield.

"Big brother, we don't have enough food."

After the mammoth fled, a small team of snow giants came to their location, these snow giants are the brute bones and others of the Ice Flame Tribe, they searched several places on the snow field according to the map given by Richard, and now it looks like the leather clothes on their bodies are a little tattered, but because of the brute bones with the peak strength of the earth, they have not been reduced for the time being.

"There's a big tribe here, don't make a fuss."

The brute looked at the snow that had been lifted up by the mammoths, picked up the stone shovel on his back and walked over.

"Let's get to work, hurry up and clean up this piece."

The brute's cautiousness is not unreasonable, the snow giants are very sensitive to the hunting ground, and a few of them entering other snow giant's hunting grounds are already a bit provocative, and if they take away the prey, it is easy to cause a conflict.

It's okay to encounter some small tribes, with the strength of the brute bones, they are not afraid of each other at all, and when they encounter medium-sized tribes after showing their strength in the brute bones, they will retreat and expel them, but now this hunting ground is owned by a large tribe, and the snow giants of large tribes like brute bones are at least more than double digits, and there will be fifteen-meter snow giants who are found by this tribe, and they have no good fruit to eat.

Xiao Man can be ignorant, but the brute bone can't, and it is also with this caution that the brute bone can take the warriors of the Bingyan tribe around half of the snow field without attrition.

"Sand, sand, sand..."

With the brute taking the lead, the remaining snow giants also came up and began to search.

Even though the map is extremely accurate and the snow fields are untouched, after all these years, even normal ice and snow accumulation has to cover several meters.

The mammoths just now turned up the new snow in order to eat a few mosses, which saved them a lot of things, but the remaining work is still huge, and it is not something that can be completed in a short time.

"Big brother, when will it be a matter for us to dig like this? Holding a picture from hundreds of years ago to find something, it is also thanks to that group of humans who came up with it! ”

The brute didn't speak, and continued to wave the shovel in his hand, the snow giant's work efficiency was still quite high, and it didn't take long to dig a large pit several meters deep along the new snow that the mammoth had thrown away just now.

"Alas!"

Xiao Man continued to work bently, and after complaining a few words, he didn't lazy, he still continued to work honestly, and the workload of several snow giants was completely worth hundreds of humans.

"Bell!"

"Bell!"

After a while, several sounds of hard objects colliding in the pit came out in succession, which was digging into the ice.

"Big brother, it's all ice down there, I can't dig it, there's something wrong with this map."

After digging into the ice, Xiao Man stopped his movements, and it was futile to dig any further, the ice on the snow field may be tens of meters deep, even if the snow giants have outstanding strength, it is impossible for them to dig up more than ten meters of ice in a short time.

The other snow giants also stopped their movements and looked at the brute bones, obviously thinking that Xiao Man's words made sense, everyone is a person who has lived on the snow field for so long, and naturally knows how difficult these ice layers are to break, and they can't dig a few meters in a day.

"If there is a problem, dig it again, you'll know, it's already here, it's hard to explain if you go back like this."

The brute bone really regarded the Ice Flame Tribe as his own blood and bones, otherwise it would not be a problem to pull up a small tribe on the snow field again with his strength, rather than having to be subject to the Hunter family. Now in the face of ice, I have to try to dig it up, and I will have an explanation when I go back.

"Keep digging, the range doesn't need to be expanded so much, just dig a few deep holes and see."

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

The prestige of the brute bone in this group of warriors was still quite high, and after he made a decision, even if it seemed to be a rather unreliable decision, the others continued to bury their heads and dig.

It's just that this time the tools are knocked on the solid ice, and the progress slows down, but after all, this group of snow giants has such a great strength, and with the tools in their hands, they still hit ice splashes everywhere, making small pits.

A few hours later.

Several snow giants, including Xiao Man, all stopped in place with tools and gasped, being able to chisel the ice layer at such a high intensity for several hours is already the snow giant's natural physical strength, but good physical strength does not equal infinite physical strength, and now the snow giants who have exhausted their physical strength can only rest in place, only the stronger brute bones continue to beat the ice, and now the brute bones have knocked out a hole three or four meters deep in front of the ice layer.

"Bell!"

The strength of the brute bone was too great, and the chisel in his hand seemed to have broken off when it touched something hard.

"Big brother, don't dig it, where are the relics here, I guess those humans have also been deceived..."

"Wait a minute, I seem to have found something."

The brute who had not spoken much suddenly made a gesture to silence the little man, and his chisel just now seemed to have dug up some ice, but other solid objects.

He didn't look for a new tool, the brute reached out and grabbed it in the air, and a new ice chisel condensed in his hand, this tool condensed by magic power was even harder.

"Bell! Clang! Clang! ”

After the brute bones were discovered, the other snow giants also rushed up to help, and quickly cleared a small clearing several meters square.

"Really!"

A few meters of square clearing can already be seen in evenly distributed stone slabs, which are clearly man-made rather than naturally formed ground.

According to the urine nature of the snow giant, it is impossible to put this kind of effort on the snow field to lay a layer of stone slabs, and it is even more impossible for humans to go deep into the snow field, and after thinking about it, it will not be anything else except the ruins they are looking for.

"Alright, alright! Don't dig anymore, try to pry a stone slab down, then fill in the snow and ice, make a mark, and get out of here as soon as you're done. ”

The brute still has a very clear understanding of his mission, and after determining the location, he will go back and report, instead of being responsible for exploring the entire ruins, that is not his business, and the nearby environment does not allow him to explore slowly, and he will cause more trouble if he is discovered by the large tribes nearby for a while.

"Yes! Patriarch! ”

Several snow giants around were also very excited after hearing the order of the brute, although there was no attrition along the way, but they were tired enough, poaching in other people's hunting grounds was always frightened, and occasionally they were hungry and full, how could they be comfortable back to the Bingyan tribe, the heat was a little hot, but there was no shortage of food at all.

A few snow giants were very active at this time, filling in the broken ice in a few clicks, and then walked to the snow pit to back up the snow they had dug up.

"Big brother, I'm going to leave anyway, I don't have much food, the prey around here is good, do you want it."

Xiao Man walked up to the brute bone and mentioned the food again, obviously thinking about the abundant prey in the vicinity.

After a moment's consideration, the brute shook his head.

"Forget it, there is a hunting ground on the way back, which is a hunting ground for a medium-sized tribe, shoot some game there and leave, don't risk it around here."

"Okay, listen to Big Brother."

"Let's go help fill the snow back together, and get out of here early and don't get in trouble!"

"Yes!"

…

The matter on the snowfield has not yet reached Richard, and now he is still focusing all his attention on the governance of the territory, this rare time of peace is a good time for the development of the Northland.

After receiving a large amount of financial and material support from the river valley, the entire Northland has developed rapidly like clockwork, and the miracle city has been a day by day in the past half a month, and even the city wall that Viscount Sot is most concerned about is basically nearing completion, and some details are still being processed.

After the main members of the academy and the Hunter family moved into Miracle City, the popularity of the whole city began to rise, after all, after having the main consumer group, the relevant supporting consumption will gradually improve under the adjustment of the market, and now there is a circus entering the city to bring a lot of happiness to Viscount Sott.

However, Richard was more concerned with these things, but with the new things that emerged under his guidance.

"Young Master Richard, the things at Test Site No. 3 are ready to be in place."

"Okay, let's go check it out..."