596 Vikings' Snow Wolf Trial (M)
"Tang, you can only bring three days of grain into the Northern Wasteland, this is the rule of our trial!"
Early the next morning, Tang Ping assembled his own trial team, and Elder Leif once again explained the rules of the trial.
"No problem!"
Since he agreed to complete the trial, there are still three Vikings in his team, and Tang Ping will not cheat.
Asked Lao Cui to leave more food behind, and Tang Ping and the others walked into the northern wasteland.
In Tang Ping's imagination, the Vikings were that kind of pirate civilization.
Their lives should be full of exciting scenes such as exploration, sailing, and plundering.
As a result, after learning about it, I learned that the Vikings were actually an agrarian civilization like the Tang people.
The reason why there will be so many Viking pirates in the future is probably because the natural environment is too harsh, so they can only choose to go to sea to plunder.
Hunting is also a part of their lives, and Eriksson is the best hunter in the Karl family.
"The wind is quite unfavorable for us, we have to get to the upper wind first!" Eriksson put his thumb in his mouth and then stretched it out to the air with a thumbs up.
This is actually the easiest way to measure the direction of the wind, and your fingers can feel that the side where the wind blows is cooler.
And just like he said, now Tang Ping and they are in the upper hand.
The wind will take their smell away, and if the wolves are downwind, they will be detected first.
So they had to follow the direction of the wind, all the way to the edge of the moor, and then come back to search for the location of the wolves.
The group began to follow the wind, spring had just arrived, and there was even some snow in the wasteland, and the roads were muddy and slippery.
"There's a rabbit up ahead!" Xue Rengui said, his hand rising and falling.
Eriksson and the others were still looking for rabbits, when they noticed that the rabbit, which looked like a snowball, had been pierced by an arrow, and after two convulsions, it fell motionless in the snow.
"How did he find out?" Eriksson asked in surprise, he had heard Xue Rengui muttering just now, but he didn't understand what it was, and then he saw him pull his bow and shoot an arrow and shoot the rabbit to death.
The point is that I have been looking in that direction, but I have not found anything.
"His eyes are better than the average person!" Tang Ping said, taking a telescope out of his bag and giving it to Eriksson.
"If you look at it with this, you can see it clearly."
"What is this??" Eriksson took the telescope, and Tang Ping made a gesture for him and told him to put it in front of him.
"My god king Odin!" Eriksson looked at the place where the rabbit had been shot with a telescope, and was so frightened that he lost the telescope directly, and even fell to the ground with his legs staring back several steps.
"Eriksson!" Cardottir asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”
Eriksson is a rare warrior of the Karl clan, what scared him like this?
"Magic ...... Magic!! He pointed to the telescope and said, "There's magic in there!" ”
"Magic?" Caldottir picked it up and looked at it, then looked at Tang Ping with a look of surprise and asked, "How did you do it?" ”
"Hmm...... It's that sometimes when you look at something in the water, you will think that it is bigger than when it comes out of the water, and that's probably the principle, we call it science! Tang Ping pointed to the telescope and said: "This is called a telescope in the Tang Dynasty, and we will use it to observe the enemy army in advance when we are fighting!" ”
To convince the Vikings of themselves, of course, they have to get something out.
Although Cardottir didn't know anything about science or anything, she could figure out the usefulness of what Tang Ping said when fighting a war.
With this thing, the rabbit that was shot just now can even see the teeth in its mouth clearly from such a distance, and when the enemy can't see the situation on his side clearly during the battle, his own side can see the other party clearly.
That's a big gap.
Knowing that this wasn't some evil magic, Eriksson and Thor fought for it.
Then they found that even if they used this, when they found the little prey, they were still not Xue Rengui's opponents.
If it weren't for the language barrier, they would all want to ask Xue Rengui if he had a telescope like this in his eyes.
Because of Xue Rengui's prey, they have gained a lot of snow foxes, rabbits, and some birds along the way.
At noon, I found a sheltered place and didn't let me bring more food, but condiments were not prohibited.
While calling a few people to barbecue, Tang Ping and Lao Cui dug up some mud, added water, and made a thin mud to wrap up a few birds about the same size as pheasants that they had just hit.
"Don! What are you doing here? Eriksson was a little puzzled: "Although Xue is here, hunting is much easier, but you shouldn't waste food like this." ”
"Waste?" Tang Ping looked at the mud in his hand: "This is a very delicious thing!" ”
"Delicious? No way! Eriksson and Saul didn't believe it: "You're a sludge, no one would eat anything like this!" ”
"You really don't want to eat?" Tang Ping asked with a smile: "You guarantee that you will starve to death, die outside, jump from here, and you won't eat a little of this thing?" ”
"I promise!" Eriksson swore by it.
And Thor had been following Tang Ping for a while, and he felt that it was wrong to see him laughing like this, so he quietly stood aside and did not speak.
Soon the roasted rabbit and everything were ready, and the barbecue sauce prepared by Xiao Luo in advance was put on it, and just smelling it made everyone swallow their saliva.
Eriksson almost swallowed his tongue after a few bites, and he had eaten barbecue for more than 20 years, but he never thought that barbecue could be so delicious.
Just when he thought that this was already the limit of food in the world, Tang Ping and the others pulled out a few lumps of dirt from the ground.
After those lumps of dirt were a little cooler, Tang Ping and the others directly smashed it open.
An enticing scent came straight out, just now the birds had been stripped of their feathers, smeared with salt on the outside, and stuffed with a lot of spices in their stomachs, and now all the flavors were blended together.
"Goo-dong!" Thor began to rejoice that he hadn't promised that he would never eat this thing, as Eriksson did.
Tang Ping and they tore this "called flower and bird" into pieces, and everyone divided a large piece, but it missed Eriksson. Eriksson watched the others eat with their mouths full of oil, and their eyes almost fell out.
But who said they would never eat it? Vikings must keep their word!
"Smack!" Tang Ping looked at Eriksson's appearance, and no longer teased him, and threw the piece that had been left for him wrapped in leaves.
"It smells so good!"
In the afternoon, they continued to hurry, but unlike at the beginning, it was Eriksson who also changed into the boots that Tang Ping and they brought.
Because their shoes were really inconvenient on this kind of snow that had just melted, Tang Ping gave them a few pairs of shoes with a lot of them.
These non-slip boots are a treasure trove for Eriksson and Saul.
Coupled with that gourmet meal at noon, they even began to wonder if they were here to complete the trial or to go on an outing?
It turned out that they were tried, and the daily rush and search for food was enough to exhaust them.
When they arrived at Tang Ping's place, it seemed that everything had become easier.
Even because it was easier to walk with a change of shoes, they traveled farther than usual on the wasteland.
When it was almost dark, Caldottir said to Tang Ping: "Don, we have to stop and find a place to rest, it's still very cold here, we need to set up a makeshift camp!" ”
Tang Ping looked at the time, it was only four o'clock now, but because of the high latitude here, and it was spring, it was dark early.
"Let's go a little longer!" Tang Ping said: "According to what you said, it will take at least three days to reach the boundary of the wasteland downwind, so we will try to walk more every day to shorten the time." ”
"But then it's going to be hard to set up camp!" Caldottir frowned: "The nights here are much colder than you think. ”
"Don't worry!" Tang Ping smiled and said, "I have the magic of the Tang Dynasty!" ”
Cardottir saw Tang Ping's insistence, and was also very curious about the Tang magic he said, so he agreed.
The group continued on their way, and did not stop until six o'clock in the evening, when it was completely dark.
Near a wooded area, a bonfire was lit.
Dinner is still a barbecue, and then the wild vegetables and mushrooms collected along the way are used to make a pot of soup.
Eriksson excitedly made the birds he had hunted in the afternoon in the same way as he had learned from Tang Ping to call them flowers and birds.
Now in his mind, this is the world's number one cuisine.
And Tang Ping took a few people and started to set up a tent.
"That's your magic?" Caldottir frowned: "Don, sleeping in such a tent may make us freeze to death." ”
"Don't worry, Cardottir, I'm not going to joke with my life." Tang Ping pointed to the sleeping bag and said, "We brought a sleeping bag, and you will only sweat hot when you sleep in it at night." ”
"Sleeping bag?" Caldottir picked up a sleeping bag, she couldn't imagine how such a thin thing could keep warm.
Seeing her disbelieving eyes, Tang Ping said: "You can try it yourself, it's very warm to sleep in it without clothes!" ”
After Tang Ping finished speaking, he didn't expect Caldottir to start undressing directly!
"Stop! Stoop! Tang Ping shouted: "Caldotir, this tent is yours, you can interview in it!" ”
As if he had discovered a new continent, Cardottir burst out laughing: "Hahahaha, Don, is this your weakness?" ”
Tang Ping was speechless, and directly left Caldottir and went to the campfire to help cook.
Caldottir interviewed Tang Ping in the tent to try the sleeping bag that Tang Ping said, and sure enough, although this thing was light and thin to pick up, it was unusually warm to sleep in.
After getting dressed, she walked out of the tent, Tang Ping saw that her face was red, this woman is a little stronger, but her figure is really good!
"Don, you have sleeping bags like this, why don't you use them to make clothes? Wouldn't it be very convenient in winter? ”
"We have clothes like this!" Tang Ping said angrily: "It's just that we didn't expect to come to such a cold place, so our winter clothes were bought in Porto, and these sleeping bags were just placed in the warehouse on our ship, and they happened to be used this time." ”
When Eriksson heard that something like a sleeping bag was actually stripped naked, it didn't feel cold at all to sleep in it, so he had to try it on the spot, and even like Caldottir, he started to undress in front of everyone.
Tang Ping had a headache and asked Lao Cui to put him in the tent as well, as a person who is not in the south but not in the north, he can't accept the frank and relative bathing culture in the north, so the situation of stripping naked in front of him really makes him very embarrassed.
When Erikson came out of his sleeping bag sweating profusely, he bluntly said that he was willing to exchange the bear skin for the sleeping bag with Tang Ping.
Although the bear skin is also warm, it weighs it, and if you have such a light sleeping bag, it will be much easier to go out in the future.
After dinner, there was no entertainment, and I had to hurry tomorrow, so I naturally had to rest early.
Tang Ping arranged for several people to keep vigil, and Eriksson also volunteered to ask for a vigil.
Tang Ping looked at him and said, "Give him a night vision device, let him and Wang Qi stay in the middle of the night!" ”
Lao Cui threw a night vision device to him, and Eriksson looked at the lens above that looked like a telescope and asked Tang Ping: "What is this?" Is it your Datang magic again? ”
Tang Ping demonstrated it and said, "You can put it on and try it yourself." ”
Eriksson was mentally prepared this time, but after putting it on, he was still frozen.
"What is this? I can see outside! He exclaimed loudly, then took off his night vision device, looked outside, and put it back on.
In his line of sight, as long as he wears this thing, the originally dark outside can actually be seen.
Everything turned green, and he even saw a rat passing by on the ground not far away.
Caldottir and Thor were also attracted to him, and after taking turns trying this thing, Caldottir sighed and said, "Don, I now know why you are confident that you can lead us eight hundred Viking warriors to overthrow the rule of the Kingdom of Severx. ”
"Your magic is amazing, and it feels like with these things, even the most ferocious enemies will become powerless children."
"I can't even imagine how powerful it would be if it were a warrior of your homeland! How much more powerful magic do you have? ”
Tang Ping laughed: "Actually, our most powerful magic is a thing called the Great Tang Divine Cannon!" ”
"It can only be said that Sywix is very lucky, it is too far away from our Datang. Otherwise, our fleet should be able to defeat Syvix in three days! I really want to bombard England. ”