Chapter 155: The Lord of the Moby Dick Cave
Su Mo looked at the little girl in Inuit costume in front of him, and asked her with a smile, "Can you understand what I said?" ”
Erin looked at Su Mo timidly, thinking to herself how the ice bear had become a human being, she turned her head and ran. Su Mo was afraid of scaring the little girl, so he followed behind Erin without hurrying.
Erin ran to the beach, where there was a small boat, and she hurriedly jumped on the boat and rowed away from the shore. The little girl rowed bravely, tired and sweaty, until she came to the Ice Flame Island.
After she got to the island, she looked back at the sea. When she turned around again, she found that Su Mo was also standing on the shore watching her. Erin was so frightened that her hair stood upside down and she ran away.
There is an igloo on Iceflame Island, where more than fifty Inuit live, all of whom are members of Irene's family.
The owner of the island, named Jacob, is a middle-aged man in his forties. Jacob heard Erin's cry and walked out of the igloo. As soon as he opened his mouth, he scolded Erin: "You little girl, you don't work at home, where are you going crazy." ”
Erin quickly hid behind Jacob, and then looked at Su Mo with confidence.
She said to Jacob, "Abba, there was an ice bear that turned into a man and kept chasing me. ”
Jacob saw Su Mo walking slowly, and it was clearly just a person, where it looked like an ice bear. Su Mo discovered that this group of Inuit actually spoke the lingua franca of the mainland. He quickly explained to Jacob how he had met Erin and how he had saved her from the claws of the ice bear.
Seeing that Su Mo was of average stature, Jacob did not believe that he could drive away an adult ice bear.
Su Mo said: "How can the island lord believe me? ”
Jacob said, "We also have an ice bear on our island, and if you can subdue it in front of me, we will believe you." ”
At this time, many people came out of the igloo one after another. They looked at Su Shi with curious eyes. Su Shi said, "Okay, take me to see your ice bear." ”
Jacob picked up a Xiaoice bear while hunting a few years ago, and his eldest daughter, Melly, was reluctant to kill the white bear cub and raised it. Over the years, this ice bear has grown to more than two meters tall and weighs more than eight hundred pounds.
Several young and strong hunters on Iceflame Island escorted Su Mo to Merry's igloo with bone spears in hand.
Melly hears that they are going to send Su Mo to her Ice Bear. She flatly refused, because she was afraid that her ice bear would hurt Su Mo.
When Su Mo heard Mei Li's words, he thought to himself that Mei Li was really a kind-hearted girl, and it was quite lucky for anyone to marry her.
Melly had just turned eighteen, and she was also very beautiful, with skin whiter than snow and surprisingly beautiful blue eyes.
Su Mo said to Merry, "Beautiful bride, you are really a kind girl, but please don't worry about me. Because I am a powerful samurai, it is easy to subdue a bear. ”
Jacob said, "Melly, call your ice bear out, if he can't beat your bear, we won't do anything to the guest, or send him away safely." ”
Seeing her father's insistence, Melly took out a screw horn and blew it softly, and began to summon the ice bear. In a cave on Iceflame Island, a female ice bear heard the sound of a horn, suddenly burst out and came to Merry's igloo in an instant.
Melly stood in front of the tall ice bear and looked like a filial piety, but she stroked the ice bear affectionately. The ice bear became docile under her comfort.
Merry said to Su Mo: "This is the ice bear, although it is still a little girl, but its strength can kill a seal with one palm. I advise you not to compare it to it. ”
Su Mo said: "He is much smaller than the ice bear I drove away before. Don't believe you, ask that little girl. ”
When Melly saw Su Mo pointing at Erin and talking, she asked Erin if what Su Mo said was true.
Erin didn't lie at this time, and told how big the ice bear was that she had seen before.
Melly still doesn't believe anyone can scare off an adult male ice bear. She said to Su Mo: "Then you should be careful. ”
Su Mo pointed at the ice bear and said, "It's this little girl of yours who should be careful." ”
Seeing that Su Mo insisted on competing with the Ice Bear, everyone flashed to the side, making room for the Ice Bear and Su Mo.
Ice Bear sees that a stranger dares to provoke him, and Melly signals that he can attack the stranger. The ice bear roared angrily and charged at Su Mo.
Su Mo also shouted, and a phantom of an ice bear seemed to appear behind him, which was more than ten meters long, imposing and breathtaking.
Mei Li's ice bear felt that the phantom behind Su Mo suddenly stopped in front of Su Mo, and obediently stretched out his claws to Su Mo like a little brother, Su Mo also raised his hand, they just shook hands, and then the ice bear quickly ran behind Mei Li, not daring to face Su Mo again. Melly tried a few times to let the ice bear go to Su Mo's presence, but the more she did that, the more the ice bear retreated, and finally ran back to the cave with a smoke.
After this competition, Jacob believed that Sumo was indeed a man with magical abilities. He immediately treated Su Mo with courtesy, and invited him to his igloo as a guest.
Su Mo was straightforward and soon became friends with the bold Jacob. Erin also took out bearberries to entertain Su Mo, who ate fresh fruit for the first time in the ice field and immediately felt sweet.
Jacob preached: "My little daughter is very naughty. She knew that the ice bear liked to eat this wild fruit the most, and secretly ran to pick it. If she hadn't met you this time, she wouldn't have come back.
Su Mo said: "What a lot of effort to raise your hands! The reason why I followed Erin to Ice Flame Island was because I had something to ask for, and I hoped that the island owner would help me. ”
Jacob preached, "If there is anything we need our help with, the warrior will say it is all right. ”
Su Mo told Jacob about the current situation of their Floating Warrior Order.
Jacob said, "So you're from the snowy lands." Your snowy region is also cold in winter, but it is much worse than the ice field. I've seen many people come to the snowy region and freeze to death in the winter. ”
Su Mo said: "I saw that the people who came before also imitated you to build an igloo, but why can't their igloo let them survive the winter?" ”
Jacob preached, "Because they have only learned the surface, but not the essence." There are many tricks to building an igloo, not only by looking at the appearance, but also by choosing the location and maintaining it. Our igloos are built on geothermal ice rocks, and when the cold wind blows outside, the igloo can keep the wind out, and the geothermal heat can prevent the cold from turning the ground of the igloo into extremely cold frozen soil. ”
When Su Mo heard this, it suddenly dawned on him, no wonder those exiles were frozen to death in the igloo. It turned out that the cold did not penetrate the igloo from above, but from the frozen ground below.
In addition, the Inuit also know how to use fire to keep warm. They use special grease as fuel for lighting and heating, and their igloo ventilation facilities are well designed to be comfortable inside, although not as warm as spring.
Jacob promised to help them rebuild some igloos before winter set in so they could survive the winter. He also promised that Su Mo would teach them how to live in the ice field.
Sumo was grateful for Jacob's help, but he did not ask Jacob for their help in finding the narwhal.
Jacob also invited Su Mo to attend Melly's wedding, and Su Mo readily agreed.
Eventually, Jacob had Sumo sent back to the island of Saint by boat.
The Inuit lacked wood, so their boats were framed with whale bones and seal tendons, and covered with several sealskins or walrus skins.
This hull was light and waterproof, and they called this convertible boat a housemiak.
When Sumo returned to the island of S. Il, he brought back a lot of fine whale fat. The sinister warriors melted some ice with fat to cook meat and eggs, and although the meal came a little later, everyone ate deliciously.
Su Mo told everyone that it is the season of a hundred flowers, and there are many wild fruits to pick, some of which are particularly delicious in bearberries, and some dried fruits can be stored until winter before eating.
The icefields have even longer winters, and they have to prepare enough supplies to survive the winter in the summer.
After solving the problem of food and lodging, the Fusheng warriors were full of energy, and under the leadership of Su Mo, they all threw themselves into intense training.
Two days later, Irene personally rowed a boat to Sir Island to pick up Su Mo to attend Melly's wedding, and Su Mo happily went.
When Su Mo arrives on Iceflame Island, he finds that its inhabitants have gathered under the sun to sing and dance and celebrate the beautiful scenery. People from several nearby islands also came to preach to Jacob. They all brought their own gifts. Most of these gifts are rare prey that they usually hunt, such as seal skins, seabird feathers, sea shells and sea pearls.
Su Mo had nothing but the dragon sword, and he gritted his teeth and took out a beautiful dagger and gave it to Mei Li as a gift. Melly had never seen a dagger so delicately made. The people of their tribe used to use spearheads and arrows made of bone, so when they saw Su Mo's dagger, Merry immediately fell in love with it.
Seeing that Melly liked her dagger very much, Su Mo was also very pleased.
Jacob brought out their treasured wild fruit wine to entertain the guests. The wild fruit wine has a long and sweet aftertaste, and it is very appetizing with sashimi.
While everyone was having a good drink, a medium-sized sea boat carrying eight black-clad masked men arrived on Iceflame Island. They were soldiers from Moby Dick Cave.
When Jacob saw the soldiers in Moby Dick Cave, his face immediately turned pale. The Moby Dick Cave Master was also an exile from the Red Gold Khanate. He was also a powerful samurai and lord of the region.
The Moby Dick Cave Master pays the Legion Commander many precious treasures every year, so the Legion Commander has entrusted the task of managing the nearby Inuit and Exiles to the Moby Dick Cave Master.
The Moby Dick Cave Lord is powerful in this area, and no one dares to take care of it. He was greedy for money and pleasure, extremely vicious, and did all kinds of bad things, and in the Moby Dick Cave he raised more than 500 soldiers, specializing in looting and collecting protection money for a living.
He declared himself to be the emissary of the Red Gold Khanate in this region, and therefore had to enjoy all the good things that the region had to produce, including people.
Here, newborn babies must be baptized by the Moby Dick Cave Lord until they reach the age of six. The Moby Dick Cave Master will keep the strong children with him and train them to serve him as soldiers.
Once these children are selected as soldiers, they will never see their biological parents again for the rest of their lives. Such a brutal decision has resulted in the separation of many families.
The Moby Dick Cave Lord also shamelessly declared that he had the right to the first night of all brides in the area.
Every couple should receive the blessing of the Moby Dick Cave Lord before they get married. The blessing is the bride's first time and must be enjoyed by the Moby Dick Cave owner.
When Su Mo heard that someone among the guests had introduced him to the Moby Dick Cave Master, he understood why Jacob was so upset when he saw the Moby Dick Cave Master's soldiers.
When Melly saw the soldiers of the Moby Dick Cave Master, she couldn't help but take out the dagger that Su Mo had just given her, and held it tightly in her hand, her eyes firm and unyielding.