It may be that the raids were rarely thwarted, and the Cretans, as if they had been beaten, did not reappear for half a whole month. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, Hadu is not in a hurry about this, he believes that this brutal early civilization will definitely attack the city again. And indeed as he thought, half a month later, at dawn, Hadu, who was napping in the grass on the hillside, was awakened by a loud and long horn, and when he opened his eyes, the sea in front of him was densely packed with more than 200 spinnaker kayaks, among which the kayaks in the middle of the fleet were particularly slender, and there were dozens of soldiers on the left and right sides of the flanks rocking long oars to speed up the kayaks, which were obviously the flagship of this fleet.

Hadu didn't want to move his body at all, he just let out a simple thought, and walked out of the grass behind him to the Elk King. In this way, one man and one deer did not have the slightest impatience, and quietly waited for the landing of the Cretan army. At this time, Hadu commanded the Elk King to walk proudly to the Cretan outpost, and there was an immediate exclamation from the Cretan army that saw the Elk King—it seemed that the remnants of the Elk King had survived the last battle, and told the leader of the army about the Elk King.

Just look at the Elk King's deer face with a very anthropomorphic expression, it raised its antlers, and pointed its chin at the Cretan warriors, with an expression of extreme contempt in its eyes. The Cretans, on the other hand, were indeed resentful and embarrassed by the Elk King's reaction, and there were constant provocative scolding voices in the ranks, but their leader did not directly order any action, and it seemed that they had some jealousy towards the Elk King - according to the remnants, they may have angered the holy Elk King last time, only to be besieged by a rare pack of wolves, and finally picked up by the human settlement they were supposed to attack.

This time against the Elk King, the Cretans were obviously much more cautious, and instead of rushing after the Elk King, they thought of going around from both sides to attack the camp. Hado would certainly not let them do so, so his previous order was to put the Elk King in the way of the Cretans' advance, and if they insisted on rushing over, let the Elk King summon his companions to block the entire aisle - a gravel shoal jutting out of the river in the delta was the only way to get out of the settlement.

The king elk did just that, and the herd of elk blocked the shallows at his beckon, so airtight that no Cretan could catch the gap. Even the Cretans, who admired brute force and conquest, were now stunned by the elk herd: the other party must be the protector of the human settlement. But in this way, the Cretans were even more determined to conquer each other - to have the protection of animal gods, this settlement is definitely not ordinary, if they can grab such protection, then the Cretans can establish a stable and glorious dynasty, which is a good thing for all generations.

Hadu also predicted that the leaders of the Cretan army would have such greedy expectations, and he knew that the elk herd could not stay in the place for long: the Cretans would always find a way to get there, and if the land route was impossible, they would make a boat detour, and these elk alone would not be able to defend themselves against the attack. Therefore, Hado's real strategy was for the Elk King to force the Cretans to his side, and then he would launch a terrifying lightning attack to destroy the Cretan ranks.

This is to say what happened a few days ago: a dense cloud of cumulonimbus moved south through the Black Sea, forming a vast storm over the Aegean Sea, and when the lightning and thunder roared, Hado flew into the thunder cloud with the iron instrument he carried, and thus gained the ability to control the thunder and lightning. He hadn't been idle for the past few days, but, as the Iger Clan's research had said, he was exploring the limits of his predatory abilities. Among them, he discovers something very special: whether it is controlling thunder and lightning, melting rock, or evoking a violent wind, these powers do not emanate from Hado himself, but "appear" directly within 10 steps of him. The discovery of this trait gave Hadu the ability to attack from the shadows without revealing himself - who knows if there are any Cretans who are more capable than Hado's predatory ability, and in any case, protecting oneself should be the first priority.

Seeing the Cretans being shunned by the advancing elk herd to the hillside where Hadu was, he also ran to the nearby hiding holes, waiting for the Cretans to come up and die. At this time, the Elk King showed a look of "as long as you don't go forward, we won't get in your way" and did not stop the Cretans from going up the hill. The Cretan chieftain breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the land route was still passable—if they were to return to the boat and land on the other side by water, not only would it take more time, but it would also be difficult to find a suitable landing place at the mouth of the river. Since the elk would not hinder them from circumambulating the hillside, the Cretans rushed up the hillside without hesitation.

It may not seem like the slope is very steep, but you still have to walk around the bushes that are stuck at the foot of the mountain. The bushes had been transplanted here specifically by Hadu to prevent the Cretans from descending the mountain, and the moment the Cretans reached the summit, Hadu summoned a lightning bolt like the wrath of heaven and slashed at the Cretan leader. He has experimented many times and found that the use of lightning for a long time to flow through the body will quickly and permanently irreversibly strip the water from the muscle tissue, making the organism instantly become a puddle of coke.

And in the specially arranged bushes, Hadu evenly sprinkled enough iron powder, and it stretched all the way to the place where the Cretans had landed. Experiments have shown that electric current can be transmitted in the iron powder, and will attract the flora and fauna in the vicinity of the iron powder, and naturally flow towards these targets. In this way, Hadu summoned lightning, and with a single blow the electricity went all the way from the hillside to the landing point of the Cretans, and the electricity pulled at the savage warriors without giving them time to cry, and burned them to ashes and scattered them on the hillside.

In just an instant, the Cretan army, totaling 20,000 men, was reduced to ashes. Hadu came out of the hiding hole and looked at the hillside blackened by lightning and ashes, but nodded with satisfaction, feeling very satisfied with his "masterpiece".

For the rest of the month, no Cretan army was seen landing, and it is not clear whether it was because they were too frightened to attack, or because no one reported that they did not know what was happening here, or whether it was the entire strength of the other side. In either case, at least it cleared Hado's next path - since the Cretans would plunder even the mainland, there would be frequent wars on other islands, which would definitely slow down Hado's search, and there was no need to worry about it now.

Before leaving Asia Minor, Hado and the Elk King had a lot of intimacy, and two months made this person have some feelings, but Hadu still needed to move forward, so he could only say goodbye to the Elk King.

In the rest of the time, Hado had to go back to the route he had explored, the same route that Prisseff had taken, the Volga-Northern Ridge-East European Plain route. It was a little far away for him, but the route was relatively reliable, and Hadu had not felt significant geological activity (mainly earthquakes and tsunamis) for thousands of years, so the terrain would not change much.

Crossing the Dardanelles, Hadu officially began his search for the Egger Clan, but as the exploration progressed, something unexpected began to emerge.

- Yang Gao, with a crescent moon down, northeastward, in the plain of the Black Sea coast, primitive fishing nets (made of rattan and bark) for fishing, no fishing boats or other vessels, no writing or mural information;

- Yanggao, Lower Crescent, southbound, on the coast of the Sea of Azov, small burial complexes were found, with simple carved imprints, which were recognized as primitive counting symbols, non-literal;

- Yanggao, on the full moon, continuing southward, avoiding the Donets Ridge and approaching the Caspian coast of the original route, found the remains of larger villages, mainly made of natural boulders and core materials (wood with the bark removed and burned to prevent moths), relatively fine stone utensils and hand axes, no metal artifacts found;

- Yang Gao, under the full moon, returned to the original route along the Caspian Sea, groped along the Volga River, found stone camps abandoned in large scales, found obvious traces of the battle between the two armies outside the camp, and further search of the camp found strange phenomena: the ground of the original camp showed signs of being leveled twice, and it should be that the latecomers demolished the original camp and then built stone houses on it;

- Yang Gao, under the full moon, delved deep into the camps along the Volga River, and found two completely different kinds of note: one is the more primitive single-character linear script, and the other is the more complete and advanced symbol-like script. This script has a number of similarities with simplified characters, such as the most important "modular composition" that is the same as simplified characters, but even then Hadu could not directly read the meaning of the description. In order to facilitate research, Hadu plundered the words recorded on this stone tablet and placed it in the space of consciousness for preservation.

- Burning Yu, on the crescent, traveling north along the Volga River, it can be found that the signs of the old camp are beginning to decrease, and the stone houses of the new camp are beginning to increase, and more record slabs are searched from them, and after comparison, it is found that the slate carried by Hadu is relatively old, and the slate is newer the further upstream. Hadu thinks it has something to do with climate change, and that the settlement was supposed to live in the warm zone of the lower Volga River, but then the lower reaches started to get hotter and the people began to move north. The slate inscriptions in the middle reaches of the Volga are vague and hastily depicted, and are likely to have been made at the time of the settlement migration, while the slate tablets in the lower and upper reaches are clearer and apparently made after settlement;

- Burning Yu, the crescent moon, traveling north along the Ural Mountains, found more stone houses in the northern ridges, and also found traces of many houses being crushed by brute force. On the hill a little further from the camp, Hadu saw a number of half-human-high stone balls, which had obvious signs of human polishing, and the subsequent excavation marks indicated that these stone balls were made from the mountain stone here. The stone balls were overgrown with grass and did not resemble a quarry (the quarry had only stones and no dirt, and could not grow plants), and Hadu judged that they were large stone projectiles that had been improvised and polished for use in the attack of the foreign tribes when they attacked the camp;

- Blazing Yu, under the crescent moon, traces of large wheeled vehicles were found in the northeast direction, and even after at least a few hundred years, these ruts were not covered. When the ruts were excavated, Hado discovered that underneath the ruts were specially laid sleepers, sprinkled with gravel and fine sand to absorb the pressure of the vehicle. He took a great interest in the man-made road and headed north-east along it;

-On the last full moon, the rut disappeared in a wide cave in the Ural Mountains, Hadu cautiously entered the cave and found a large number of stone tools and weapons left behind, and also saw man-made cave facilities near the underground river deep in the cave - stalactites and stalagmites were cleared, and grooves were carved along the cave wall for diversion, and all kinds of evidence indicate that the human settlement lived in this cave for at least 300 years after migration. The underground part of the cave was so large that it took Hado two ascending and falling times to emerge from the other side of the mountain - a vertically opened patio with not only a man-made climbing gap, but also a transport structure using levers and pulleys. This structural remnant was a great inspiration to Hadu, who used his predatory ability on papyrus to rub the "shape" and "composition" of the pulley block structure for later study;

-The sun is shining, the moon is falling, and after the vertical patio is released, the temperature drops suddenly, revealing a vast and barren tundra in front of Hado's eyes. Around the patio, it is found that wheat fields that were once specially cultivated, but where the barley are now wild and degraded. Heading east, felled coniferous forests were found along the Ob River, and along the river north, the density of coniferous forests dropped dramatically, and several dilapidated stone houses were found. When some of the stone tablets with the inscription were found and compared with the stone tablets on the other side of the mountain, it can be found that the characters on the new stone tablets began to diverge: the god-like runes began to be simplified, the decorative elements became fewer, and the more difficult circles began to appear with easily carved triangles; ordinary runes began to add strokes about tense and voice; the overall characters began to become larger, and the carving marks became rougher, and the surface of the slate was no longer polished like the old stone slabs. Such changes should be related to the climate - cold regions are inconvenient for stone carving;

- Gu Shuo, on the crescent moon, towards the mouth of the sea north of the Ob River, the ruins of the camp began to become more and more sparse, and the burial mounds began to appear in patches, which can be judged to be a period of severe attrition. Judging by the distribution of camps, it is likely that this settlement wanted to go around the northern ridge from the northernmost part of the Ural Mountains. Judging from the nearby wheat field sites, barley can no longer be cultivated on the tundra that is too cold, and the farther north you go, the more permafrost appears, and the wheat fields have changed from barley to winter wheat with better cold tolerance, but the yield and seed retention have also decreased;

- Gu Shuo, Lower Crescent, the northern end of the Ural Mountains, in the permafrost off the bay of Baidarats, a large group of relatively well-preserved human bones were found, judging from the shape of the bones, the majority of them are elderly, and it is possible that they are slow-moving elderly people left behind by settlements that cannot survive the winter. To the west, you can see a semi-open stone house built on the mountain, where the stone slabs began to be dominated by short records the size of palms, the text was more simplified, and the decorative strokes basically disappeared, and the depiction method is consistent with the stone slabs found several times before, and it may be that the chief or priest of the same line was carrying out the main carving work;

- Gu Shuo, under the crescent moon, bypassing the Ural Mountains, entering the tundra, finding scattered human remains along the Usa River, advancing towards the Pafanra River, finding traces of wooden foundations;

- Gu Shuo, on the full moon, walked southwest across the Jiman Ridge, and found that the remains of stone houses began to increase again, along the White Sea-Lake Onega-Ladoga Lake, the remains of wheat field planting areas increased, the remains of stone houses gradually decreased, and the remains of the foundations of wooden houses began to increase; the stone records began to change to wooden records, and the early standard wooden planks were found to be 1 arm square;

- Locusts rise, the full moon sets, and they travel west to the vicinity of the cold moraine ridge in Finland, where they find a patch of wooden houses built beside lakes of all sizes, where the plant species are relatively simple, mostly pine and spruce, scattered oat cultivation areas, and about 4 or 5 herds of wild tamed cattle with a number of about 300 are found in some gentle areas; the writing on the wooden board begins to come alive, but no retouching strokes appear, and the triangular strokes in the ordinary runes are changed back to circular strokes;

- Harvest, on the crescent moon, along the Gulf of Bothnia, along the way began to see the scene of newly abandoned wooden houses and stone houses. After a closer examination of the dwellings, Hado believed that they had been abandoned a hundred years ago, and that even the wooden houses were not very rotten due to the cold it had been so perennial, and that near Scandinavia, Hadu had discovered the habitat of the indigenous people, but did not bother to investigate them—the natives lived in small fur-covered villages, which were not the target of his search;

- Harvest, the new moon, as he walks south, encounters with the natives here. To Hadu's surprise, the natives here actually looked so similar to the people of their own tribe, and the language of the other party was very close to the runes, but the meaning was different.

Hadu tried to communicate with the other party, and got a fact that shocked him: the natives of this place were-

- The Zikern Clan.