Late at night, inside the Bada tribe station.

Although it was the beginning of autumn, there were already two or three snows on the glacial plains. In the howling wind, Roddy's team temporarily found a low slope to gather for warmth. Because the temperature was so low, even in front of the campfire, the soldiers were so cold that they stomped their feet, but fortunately, Roddy was well prepared, and the thickened cloak and specially purchased "cold medicine" were enough to ensure that the soldiers would not lose their combat effectiveness due to the low temperature.

Roddy didn't enter the village immediately after arriving at the station, and the team rested here for a while, just to wait for the tribal leader's reply.

Young Erwin did not yet have the authority to enter the village with a team of 100 men, and Roddy understood this, but he also had a faint worry in his heart: everything in front of him had deviated from expectations, and it seemed that it was unknown whether his plan could be carried out.

Wearing a heavy cloak, the snow was trampled by Roddy, and he looked at the faint houses in the distance, and his heart was inexplicably a little bored.

"The feeling of being out of control... It's really annoying. ”

Meanwhile, in one of the largest round stone houses in the village of Bada, Erwin was standing on the edge of the house with a frown, enduring the rebuke of the tribal leader in front of him...

"Trespassing into the territory of the snow monster without permission, the team almost suffered a loss because of this, and you even have the reason to fight your subordinates? Have you ever heard what I said?!"

The middle-aged man named Avala shouted at Erwin, and his head buzzed with a loud voice, but the young man was not convinced at all, and replied with a stiff neck: "I can't find food in the original hunting area, I have to go farther to find it!" What do you want me to do?"

"And what did you find? Huh, come back empty-handed and have the guts to answer in front of me?"

Avala's cheeks flushed with anger, some from Elwin's backlash, and more... But it was because what the other party said was not wrong: the hunting area of the Bada tribe has been gradually encroached upon by snow monsters, and fruitless hunting has become the norm, and if it continues like this, even the best hunters will probably return empty-handed.

But neither of them thought they were wrong, so they were so stubborn.

As the leader of the tribe, Avala was about the same size as Erwin, but at nearly fifty years old, he had gray hair, and his greatest feature was the hideous scar on his face—his blind left eye was gray, and when he raised his gaze, he had a terrifying aura.

"I didn't bring back food, but I brought back this team from the other side of the mountain! their leader spoke to me and was willing to help!"

Erwin reached out and pulled out a scimitar pinned to his waist - "This is the weapon they use, and the leader named Roddy said that if you use this weapon, it will be absolutely easy to kill the snow monster!"

The current level of the barbarians can only use pig iron, and most of them are shoddy cooking utensils, and there is no level of craftsmanship to make metal swords at all. At this time, the weapon that Erwin took out was only the most common standard scimitar of the Karen Kingdom, but as a natural warrior, Avala could see the power of this weapon at a glance...

He reached out and picked up the scimitar, but with a wave of it, the wooden chair next to him "clicked" and split in half!

Ordinary people who are not trained to do this simply can, but barbarians are natural warriors, and they can master the use of scimitars almost instantly.

Looking at the shattered wooden chair on the floor, Avala's only remaining eyes narrowed... He raised the blade and looked at it carefully, and could barely see that the scimitar still had that cold aura.

The atmosphere in the room changed slightly, and Avala's hand holding the scimitar trembled slightly, and her eyes flickered, and she was a little distracted.

Young Erwin could guess what the tribal leader was thinking.

Ten years ago, Avala was nearly killed in a battle with a snow monster - he and four of his companions encountered three snow monsters on the ice field, and after a lot of fighting, all of them were killed, and he fought his way through it with a stone axe...

On that occasion, Avala had a cut in her abdomen and was blind, and when she walked outside the village, she collapsed directly into the snow due to excessive blood loss, and later survived with tenacious vitality.

As a result, he gained the respect of everyone in the tribe, and eventually became the leader of the Bada tribe.

But what puzzled Erwin was... Avala became famous for the battle with the snow monsters, but since then, his attitude towards the snow monsters has been extremely "negative" - when he became the leader of the tribe, he even issued a death order: if any hunter encounters a snow monster, he must choose to avoid it and do his best to preserve his vitality.

The barbarians have a fiery temper, but that doesn't mean they're all outlaws, and Avala was right: he wanted his people to avoid casualties, and he believed that only when the tribe's population grew would he have the capital to deal with the ferocious snow monsters.

So this order has been observed for ten years, and now, although the population of the Bada tribe has increased a lot, when facing the snow monsters, no one will think of "fighting head-on".

Originally, they were not afraid of snow monsters, but when they hid, their inner thoughts gradually changed - a warrior should never be afraid to fight, because once "dodging" becomes a habit... The lost fighting spirit cannot be rebuilt with a few commands.

In today's Bada tribe, only a young warrior like Erwin will maintain a desire to challenge and kill the snow monster, and those old hunters who have been abiding by the "rules" for ten years have long lost the blood to fight the snow monster.

Avala stood there in deep thought, holding the scimitar and observing it several times, and after nearly three minutes, he asked, "How many of them are there?"

Erwin answered truthfully, but he didn't mention the encounter with a snow monster on the road, Avala thought for a moment and raised the scimitar in his hand: "The leader named Roddy said to give you this weapon?"

"No, he just said that if we are willing to provide them with suitable resting areas and food, they will be willing to exchange these weapons. ”

The young lad didn't notice the glint in Avala's eyes, and continued to himself, "The leader also said that he had carried a lot of similar weapons this time, enough to arm all the hunters in the clan. ”

"You've finally done a good thing. ”

Avala seemed to lose his anger in an instant, and he patted Elson on the shoulder, "Let's go back and rest first." ”

"That's... I don't have to go to them?"

"No, I'll just go and get them informed. ”

Erwin touched his head, he thought he would continue to argue a few more words, but things seemed to go unexpectedly well, and there was nothing to say about it, so he turned around and left.

When Avala was the only one left in the room, the barbarian leader lowered his head and rubbed his fingers against the edge of the scimitar, and whispered to himself, "If all the food is provided to you... And what do the people of Bada eat?"

As midnight approached, Roddy finally waited for a reply.

However, the person who came was no longer the energetic Erwin, but an old soldier about forty years old, and the other party spoke in an urn of anger, and after the two of them exchanged for a long time, Roddy figured out what the other party meant: "You mean, let's go to the col on the other side of the village?"

"That's what the chief of Avala said, and the village had migrated from there before, leaving behind a lot of houses to keep warm. ”

This result was not unexpected, and Roddy couldn't think of a reason for the other party's refusal, so after expressing his gratitude at this time, he immediately asked Sodrol to lead the team to move and try to get there as soon as possible.

Although the cloak was thickened and heavier, no one could carry it for long in the temperature of minus twenty or thirty degrees, and those thin tents were not as insulated as the barbarian houses, Sodrol understood this, but he still asked more: "The abandoned building?

"What difference can there be in the snow? It's less than four kilometers away, and the soldiers are freezing enough, so let's go there as soon as possible. ”

Now that Roddy had spoken, he said no more, turned around and began to ask the soldiers to clean up their tents.

"Nata, don't forget to drink the cold elixir, don't hold on in such an environment. ”

Roddy saw that her cold lips were a little purple, and hurriedly handed over the potion bottle, and then turned his head to help Akasha tie the strap of the hood: "It's good to hold on for a while, let's go over as soon as possible." ”

"There won't be snow monsters over there, will they?"

Akasha remembered what happened during the day and couldn't help but be a little worried.

"The snow monsters will not come close to the barbarian territory, besides, our troops are still afraid of the snow monsters?" Roddy was confident about this.

[Two things: Today is the Nanjing Massacre Remembrance Day, and we have not experienced that period of history, but we all understand what that period of history means. Don't forget the national shame, work hard and strive for self-improvement, a strong country is not a slogan, starting from yourself is the first, fortunately, after graduation, the manuscript fee is really deducted from the country's taxes, and now I can shout harder.

The other thing is about the recent state, these days I really feel "brain exhaustion", the code words are always wandering, the memory is starting to deteriorate, and even the driving is always going the wrong way. For the first time in more than three years of writing a book, I felt that I was unable to do anything, and I considered taking a three- to five-day vacation to relax completely, because if I continued to write like this, I felt that the book would be ruined.

Of course, this is just an idea, and I haven't decided yet, maybe I will wake up tomorrow and recover. 】