Volume 3 The Hundred Sons of the Earth Chapter 80 The Journey to Dawn (End)
Trist didn't think much about it, and he got up early this morning, and sat on the empty riverside training ground before dawn, thinking about food.
The current hunting alone cannot meet the food needs of more than 20,000 people of the Red Maple Tribe, and as for farming, the Red Maple Tribe, whose farmland has been destroyed, will not be able to wait for a bumper harvest at all. The first few times I talked to Eric about the experience of going to sea, in fact, since then, Trist had the idea of going to sea to fish, but he was delayed by the recent chores. The place where the ancestors of the Guanghu tribe found a lot of fish according to Eric is not surprisingly the Newfoundland fishing grounds in Quebec before the nuclear war, because of the ocean currents, a large number of fish can always be caught, plus the iron boats owned by Luna can supplement the transportation shortcomings of small boats, which can greatly alleviate the food shortage crisis of the tribe.
Recalling his words to Eric a few days ago, Trist thought of Eric's compass, which he had taken from Eric and studied it carefully. From the memories of the time, it can be seen that the compass has a retro shape, which is neither like the product of modern civilization, nor like the surface people who have regressed civilization. The compass was a gift from the Ice Nation to the Guanghu tribe many years ago, they wanted to unite the Guanghu tribe to attack the Red Maple tribe, but the leader of the Guanghu tribe refused, but the leader of the Guanghu tribe still accepted the gift and returned the gift with his own collection of whale oil lamps.
There is also the unique English broadsword of the Ice Nation Overseer, and the unique style of Derek mentioned in Eric's story, with a wide back and thin blade, with a curved edge, is likely to be the sword of the 19th century cavalry saber.
"Your weapon...... It's not the same as what the tribe is used to......", the terrible woman in the memory looked at Trist with some surprise, "You found out?" ”
"Brush!" In her memory, she drew her English broadsword and said proudly, "Our ancestors got it in a ruin in the northern part of the Sacred Lake Forest...... Do you want to check it out? ”
Trist decided to check it out.
The ruins that the woman was talking about were most likely the ruins of the pre-nuclear war of the annihilation, and since the Ice Nation had obtained all kinds of retro swords and compasses from them (Trist thought that eighty percent of them had dug up some pre-nuclear museum), then it is very likely that Trist would have gained something useful from it. The current grain can last for a while, and the weather has just entered autumn, which is a good season for forest hunting. Since the current food can still cope with the present, the matter of going to sea needs to be well summed up with Old Man Luther, so you can take this opportunity to go to the ruins mentioned by Aiko.
According to Echo, the ruins are located in the misty swamp area north of the Sacred Lake Forest, which is perennially filled with a poisonous mist, so it is rarely visited during normal times. At the same time, the sparse human track makes the animals over there live and reproduce, and for the possible mutant animals, Trist, who has lived alone in the primeval forest for three months as soon as he landed, said that it is not a problem, all in all, he still has a certain degree of self-confidence.
It's just that according to Echo, forty or fifty years ago, the poisonous mist over there intensified a lot, and several groups of people from the Ice Country never returned, and they gradually gave up the excavation of the ruins...... As for how the ancestors of the Ice Country passed, Trist almost had a guess, nothing more than that the concentration of fog was not enough to be lethal at that time, and the previous generation of tribesmen with strong bodies used what may be simple filter objects, maybe wet cloths and the like to pass through the mist swamp to reach the ruins, plus there was no description of the radiation mutant creatures at that time, it can almost be guessed that the first generation of radiation mutant creatures at that time should not be so dangerous. Later, the Misty Swamp area was inaccessible because of the perennial poisonous fog, which made the mutated animals there live and reproduce by natural selection, and the beneficial part of the radiation mutation was inherited through natural selection, forming the ferocious beasts that are now legendary by the tribesmen......
Of course, the above is purely Triste's crankiness, and Trist's biggest reliance is because there are no transcendent elements in the world of "Hundred Sons of the Earth", and there are years of precautionary physical training and jungle training. The most dangerous mutant creature he encountered was the six-armed bear he encountered three months after landing. As for the aggravation of the fog and the increasing regularity of the poisonous gas, Trist combined the original plot to speculate on the methods used by the mountain people at the Meteorological Mountain Base to deal with the tribesmen.
As for how to get through the poisonous fog area of the Misty Swamp, Trist thought of the spacesuit he was wearing when he landed, which, along with the electronic radar he had repaired and the remnants of the missile, were hidden by Trist by the lake where he landed in the Sacred Lake Forest. A spacesuit that can withstand space radiation and support spacewalking, and cope with ordinary toxic fog, should be ...... Yes...... Bar......
With the idea that basically everything had been considered, Trist returned to the hut after setting up the flag.
Strangely, Elder Luthel didn't sleep, and he could see that he had something to say.
Earlier, according to Trist's suggestion, Luthel organized people to go to the Red Maple Great Plains to help, so during the day today, the busy new leader Sabaton also came to the door to thank Luthel in person. As the new leader, Sabaton has neither the wisdom of Elder Lake nor the courage of his former leader, Frus, but his greatest strength is that he is self-aware and knows his shortcomings and makes trade-offs. Sabaton also invited Luther and his clan to move into the Red Maple Plains, as the invasion of the Ice Nation and the migration of Elder Lake had left many villages in the Red Maple Plains empty, more than enough to house the people from the north. However, this proposal was politely rejected by Elder Luthel on the grounds that everything was undecided, and he actually wanted to wait for Trist to return and hear what Trist had to say. The land between the tributaries of the Chengguang River in the north is the original site of more than a dozen villages such as Qinghu Village, which is always facing the threat of the Ice Country, so they can all migrate to the Red Maple Great Plain, so they can avoid the danger of being attacked by the Ice Country, and for Sabaton, the new leader of the Red Maple Tribe, it is even more happy to see it be able to enrich the population at the core of the Red Maple Tribe. Elder Luthel didn't make a decision, wanting to wait for Trist to come back and go into details, but he didn't realize that he was more dependent on Trist.
"Are you reluctant to leave the Chengguang Glacier?" Trist hit the nail on the head to the heart of the matter.
Luthor didn't speak, just nodded.
Trist continued: "What's there to think about? Do you think people or land are important? ”
Luthor continued to nod, "The people are more important, but ...... over there"
"After the loss of that night in Silvermoon Bay, the Land of Ice will not be able to make trouble for three or four years, but it is still certain ...... to organize a small force to attack and harass at the border", Trist ruthlessly punctured the illusion of the one-legged elder, and said with a pun, "Winter is coming, it is better for everyone to huddle together to keep warm......
Luther: "......", it's only September, September!
However, Luthel finally understood what Trist meant, and adopted Trist's suggestion as always, deciding to move after assisting the people of the Red Maple Great Plains to clean up the ruins, which showed a bit of the tribal elder's resoluteness.
"I'm here to leave," Elder Luthor said his purpose when he saw that Elder Luthel was preoccupied and wanted to go back to catch up on sleep.
Luthor was just about to climb up to the wooden slump to rest, when he heard this, he suddenly stumbled and almost fell, but fortunately he was helped by Trist, who was quick to see.
"Hey~Hey~Hey~ Slow down!" , Without waiting for Luthel to speak, Trist was afraid of irritating the old man again, so he hurriedly finished the rest of the words in one breath, "I want to go to the Holy Lake Forest to retrieve my own things, I can come back in less than ten days, the tribe's food crisis has not been solved, and in winter, I am still ready to go to sea with the people of the Guanghu tribe!" ”
When it comes to the Guanghu tribe, Luthor has a toothache like a convulsion, and Lake took more than 10,000 people to the Guanghu tribe, because of the Guanghu tribe's previous charcoal in the snow, Luthor can't say anything.
Thinking of this, the depressed elder picked up his cane and knocked on Trist's head, "I'll talk about the matter of the Guanghu tribe later, go early and return early!" The one-legged elder's attitude was completely like he was teaching his own children and nephews. Trist was stunned, but didn't dodge, and smiled at the worried Luthel and said, "Wait until I get back, Daddy Luthel." ”
The dawn was a little brighter, and as dawn appeared, Trist carried his parcel and disappeared at the end of the road on horseback.