Chapter 154: The Frozen Wasteland
When night falls, the bonfire in the skull village is burning.
The whole village came to the square to celebrate the return of the ten floating warriors to their hometowns. Lord Cheng Zhai found the ten floating warriors one by one in the crowd and asked them which of them had a cyan birthmark on their backs.
After learning that none of the ten floating warriors had birthmarks on their backs, Master Cheng Zhai was very disappointed. When Su Mo saw the lonely Cheng Zhai lord coming towards him, he suddenly felt that Cheng Zhai's figure looked very similar to Ah Huan. Su Mo immediately stopped the master of Cheng Zhai and told him what he thought.
The master of Cheng Zhai was very excited when he heard this, and he quickly took Su Mo's hand and asked about Ah Huan's situation.
Su Mo told Cheng Zhai that Ah Huan, the lord of Cheng Zhai, was the captain of the Floating Warrior Regiment, and he went to the Central Plains Empire because of a mission, but he didn't know if Ah Huan had a cyan birthmark on his back.
In order to help Master Cheng Zhai figure out Ah Huan's life experience, Su Mo hurriedly summoned all ten floating warriors to ask them if anyone knew if Ah Huan had a cyan birthmark on his back. Everyone said that they didn't know very well, after all, they rarely had the opportunity to take a bath in the snowy region, so there was not much time to be honest with each other. But after being reminded by Su Moyi, everyone also felt that Ah Huan was very similar to Cheng Zhai.
This ignited the hope in the heart of the master of Cheng Zhai. Su Mo hurriedly used the small golden eagle to pass the book to the painting heart far away in the Central Plains Empire, and finally got a reply a few days later, Ah Huan did have a cyan birthmark on his back. Not only that, but Huaxin also painted a portrait of Ah Huan and a map of the birthmark location on the back, and let the little golden eagle be sent to the skeleton village.
Cheng Zhai was speechless with excitement after seeing the two pictures, and he was extremely sure that Ah Huan was his long-lost child.
But Ah Huan must now escort Huaxin to the imperial capital to carry out the mission, and he cannot return to the grassland for the time being. Huaxin promised to let Ah Huan and the other five Floating Warriors return to the Skull Village when they gained a foothold in the imperial capital.
This news has given sustenance to many families in the village who have not yet recognized their relatives. They firmly believe that their children must be in the Floating Warrior Regiment led by Ah Huan.
Through conversation, the owner of Suxing Cheng Village learned that there were as many as thirty children lost in the Skull Village that year, and the entire Floating Warrior Regiment was only sixteen people. It seems that many families are destined not to find their children in the Floating Samurai.
After resting in the Skull Village for a few days, Su Mo decided to leave for the Icefield's exile.
The relatives of the Floating Warrior Order and the Skull Village regretted saying goodbye and followed Su Mo on a new journey.
When parting, the owner of Cheng Zhai came to see him off, and he grabbed Su Mo's hand and said, "Treasure! Bring the children back safely. ”
Su Mo said solemnly: "Don't worry, the owner of the village, we will definitely return safely." ”
The lord of Cheng Zhai handed Su Mo a letter to the commander of the Ice Plains guarding the exiled land. It was a letter of introduction, and the lord of Cheng Zhai instructed the commander of the army to take good care of Su Mo and others. Because many of the supplies in the Exiled Lands were transported through the territory of the Wolf Galloping Division, the Legion Commander of the Exiled Land had to give the Wolves a little face.
It takes another three thousand miles north from the grasslands to the frontier fortress of the Exiled Lands, the City of Ice Peaks. This section of the road is rough and difficult, and the rocky road is quickly drained by horseshoe. Halfway through the journey, the horses could not run. In desperation, Su Mo and the others had no choice but to untie the reins of the war horses and release them all, and they went to the Ice Peak City on foot.
In addition to eating and sleeping, they wore stars and moons, and they couldn't do this all the time if it weren't for the biochemical warriors. After another seven days of arduous trekking, they finally arrived at the Legion Commander's camp, the City of Ice Peaks.
After seeing the letter of introduction from the lord of Cheng Zhai, the corps commander warmly received them. According to the Legion Commander, ninety percent of those exiled here did not survive more than a year, because the winter in the ice field was terrible.
The legion commander promised to take care of Su Mo and his party, so he sent them a beautiful cha.
After thanking the legion commander, Su Mo took the Floating Warriors to his place of exile. There was no detailed concept of distance on the ice field, and the Legion Commander only told them that the city of Icepeak was still half a month away from the Exiled Lands.
Su Mo and the others took the map and arrived at their destination, Shenger Island, in only four days.
Su Mo estimated that the island of Shenger was at least more than 1,200 miles away from the city of Ice Peaks. Located on the shores of the Ice Sea, the island consists of three large islands and countless smaller islands.
It's summer, the snow and ice have melted, and there are many seabirds and seals on the island. Here, they relied on bird hunting, fishing, and hunting seals for food.
But they didn't just feed themselves on the island of S. Il, and the Legion Commander assigned them a difficult task. They had to hunt narwhals for the Red Gold Khanate as offerings, or the legion commander would send troops to capture them and mine in the mountains of the northeast.
The island of Saint overlaps with the indigenous peoples of the ice fields, so it is often harassed by the Inuit.
The Inuit who live in igloos and ice caves are the indigenous people of this ice field. But now the Red Golden Khan has declared that he is the master of this ice field.
The Inuit are scattered, they have not yet formed a unified tribal union, and they have no concept of a state. So when they heard that there was someone who came to claim to be the owner of the land, they didn't think much of it.
In fact, most of those who entered the ice fields were exiles. These exiles came in droves in the summer, but in the winter they all froze to death.
The cold winter nights of the ice fields are like hell, and even those born in the snowy plateau have never seen such cold weather.
The Inuit come to the island of Sin during the winter and summer to hunt leopards, birds, and fish. May is also the season for the Inuit to hunt narwhals.
Adult narwhals are 4-5 meters long and weigh 800-1600 kilograms. The older they get, the whiter their skin becomes, and pure white is the best quality.
The narwhal's horn is a long tusk that sticks out of its head. This tooth spits out of the lip of the narwhal's left palate and can reach a length of 2-3 meters, spiraling, ready for fighting, and is also a symbol of its status among the whales.
The thicker and longer the horn of the narwhal, the higher the status. They are deep divers who eat flounder and cod under thick ice.
Baby narwhals are born with gray spots, and when they are adults, their skin turns gray, and the black spots become large into black or brown patches. The fully matured Great Narwhal has a snow-white body and snow-white tusks at the ends.
Its tusks are worth a thousand gold and are a treasure that nobles compete to own. It is said that the long tusks of narwhals have the ability to identify poisons, so they are worth 10 times the same weight of gold.
Even the royal family of the Central Plains Empire used it to make tableware. The Inuit believe that it has an aphrodisiac effect, and if you eat a little in winter and do things that are not suitable for children on ice, you will not be afraid of the cold.
When Su Mo came to the island of S. Er, he found that the island was empty. They found the last batch of exiles who had frozen to death in several igloos.
They wrapped the bodies of the exiles and threw them into the sea, and then sorted out some igloos as shelters. According to the Legion Commander, they are not in danger in the summer, as long as they can catch narwhals and bring back the precious unicorns, they can go to the city of ice peaks to spend the winter when winter comes.
If they can't catch narwhals, they'll have to stay on Saint Island this winter. Then they will most likely freeze to death here like the previous exiles.
It was the first time Su Mo had seen the majestic sea, and he was full of awe of the ocean. He had previous experience fishing in the lake, but his experience was obviously not enough to catch narwhals.
None of the surrounding islands found any wood to burn, and the Donghu people's rumor that the ice fields were running out of grass was not alarmist.
They can't make a fire without firewood, and they can't cook things without fire. The members of the Floating Samurai Regiment caught two seabirds and a few nests of eggs on a nearby island, and rushed to retrieve them, only to find that they could not be heated. On their first day on the island of Sir, they were stumped by fuel.
Su Mo told everyone not to be discouraged, and he decided to go a little further to look for the woods. Because once the woods are found, their fuel and diet problems are solved.
Su Mo hiking all the way all the way to a hundred miles without finding a single tree, and when he was desperate and discouraged and about to return to Shenger Island, he heard a woman's urgent cry for help.
A rocky beach in front of us is covered with beautiful greenery, some of which are blooming with bright flowers. One of these green plants is the red fruit known as bearberry, which is one of the most popular foods of ice bears.
Irene, the daughter of the owner of Iceflame Island, is only fifteen years old this year, and she also likes to pick bearberries to eat. In two days it was the day of her sister Melly's wedding, and as everyone on Iceflame Island was preparing for the wedding, Erin secretly rowed to the shore alone to pick bearberries. She didn't expect to meet an adult ice bear here.
The hungry ice bear also came here to find bearberries to eat, and it didn't expect a little human girl to pick them all first. The hungry ice bear isn't just a vegetarian, bearberries are just a snack for it. It specializes in eating seals and even eating people occasionally.
Especially when humans are grabbing food with it.
This is an adult male ice bear, more than three meters long, weighing more than a thousand pounds. Erin was so frightened that she turned around and ran away when she saw that she was being targeted by the ice bear.
The Ice Bear was large but swift, and it could run faster than a fast horse, and Erin let out a desperate roar at the end of the day.
When she saw the giant palm of the ice bear slap down, she was so frightened that she could only close her eyes and wait for death.
The air seemed to freeze in an instant, and the giant palm of the ice bear did not arrive as expected.
Erin was too frightened to open her eyes. She had heard from the old man that ice bears didn't like to eat dead animals, but she was still standing, and it was too late to pretend to be dead. She also wondered why the bear's paw hadn't been photographed, but she didn't dare to open her eyes to see it. She was afraid that if the ice bear didn't eat her because she closed her eyes, then she would be eaten as soon as she opened her eyes.
"Hey! Girl, the ice bear is gone, are you alright? Su Mo said to Erin.