Chapter 155: Metaphysical Hunting
In winter, the congregation is a cat winter, every year, but this year, the conditions are better, they are well fed and warmly dressed. Teng Xueguo exterminated the snowman, and no one hunted in the snowy plains, so I discussed with the elders whether it would be okay to take over this stall in the future.
The elders thought it was feasible, so I sent a message to Wei Mao through He Chao, hoping that the monarch would give us the snowy plains bordering the Demon Sect, of course, the right to hunt.
The monarch thought about it for half a month, but still agreed.
I don't know how heated the discussion was in the court, but in the end I finally gave a satisfactory reply.
The fur of snow wolves, snow foxes, snow hares, snow rats and other animals that live in the snowy plains is a luxury item in the south and can be sold for a high price.
Not to mention the white tiger, a white tiger skin can buy a two-entry courtyard in the city.
The white tiger is fierce, it is too few in number, and it is very good at hiding.
You can't hunt a snowman in a year, and you can't see it.
The animals of the snowy plains are huge, and the adult male snow wolf is the size of a donkey.
Ordinary bows and arrows can't penetrate its fur.
The snowmen deal with them all year round, and if they fight ten times, it would be nice to win three times.
Therefore, the price of the leather here is high, the quantity is small, and the price is high.
After all, scarcity is expensive, and hunters also make money.
It is impossible for ordinary villagers to replace the snowman, they are far inferior to the snowman in terms of size and strength.
Snowmen are naturally frost-resistant and can hunt in the snow for hours wearing only a leather suit.
Ordinary people went, and the animals froze to death before they could hunt people.
Although wearing too thick is warm, it is inconvenient to move, and fighting with wild animals can kill people in minutes.
The members of the Demon Cult are also ordinary people, and they do not have the innate anti-frost constitution of the snowman.
It is estimated that Xiao Guojun and his think tank have agreed to the Demon Sect to take over the hunting rights of the Snowy Plains, as well as the fur business.
Ordinary people can't make any splash in the extremely cold place.
It is not a habitable place, wild beasts are rampant, huddle and eat people, especially snow rats, which are cute and ruthless.
They have recently been attacking other living creatures in droves.
That amount is tantamount to an 'astronomical number' for the ancient people who had backward hunting tools.
There is nowhere to hide in the snow, and even if you go up a tree, a few snow rats can nibble down a large tree in a few minutes.
For this reason, Xiao Wicked wants to train a group of hunters, they have a bit of a hunting background, as long as they improve their physique, there is still hope to bring back the prey.
Xiao Wicked came to ask me, I didn't approve it, the original body of the conditions of the snowy plain knew that she had been there and had a fight with a snow wolf.
At present, there is no one in the martial arts hall who can successfully hunt in that environment.
Improving the body can only reduce casualties, and I don't think it's cost-effective to lose some prey, so I didn't approve it.
And the less prey, the higher the price, as long as the number of wild animals is guaranteed, not so much that they can run away to human villages to eat people.
The elders wondered, what do I want to do when I apply for hunting rights so actively, and the monarch approves it and doesn't go hunting?
I said of course I want to hunt, but I don't need many hunters, I'm enough.
At least this winter, I'll be enough hunter alone.
The elders didn't understand at first, but thinking that the force in the sect was weak now, and they really couldn't sacrifice the seedlings they had just cultivated, they agreed to my risky plan.
The outside world knows about the extermination of the snowman by the Tengxue Army, and they also know that this year's skins will be lacking.
All the snowman's skins were seized by the army and put into the treasury.
There are no new goods on the market, and some anxious villagers have already formed a team to hunt on the snowfield, and they have returned with their feathers.
There were a lot of people who died, and not a single skin was hunted back.
A few years ago, the congregation prepared supplies for the New Year, and I had nothing to do, so I took Yunzhou out of the door.
The others thought we were walking around the Demon Cult, but I took him to the Snowy Plains.
Follow the route in the memory of the original body and come to the edge of the snowy plain.
The temperature here is around minus 30 degrees, and further down, it can reach minus 40 or 50 degrees.
There are few animals in the fringe areas, and the colder the place, the more ferocious beasts there are.
I don't know what the reason is, and no one has investigated it in depth before.
The temperature in the deepest part of the snow is minus 60 or 70 degrees Celsius, or even lower.
The people of this world don't yet have the kind of equipment that allows them to go to the deepest depths.
The temperature values that people think of today are based on experience and speculation, because no one has ever been to the depths of the snow and can come back.
The farthest people can go is colder than the periphery, so they infer that the deeper they go, the colder it gets.
Yeti also only hunt in the middle of the ground and live near the edges.
The snow is not affected by the four seasons, and the temperature does not change throughout the year.
Some of the natural phenomena or animals and plants in this world are very different from my original world.
I'm not making a fuss about it, thinking that they must have a reason for that.
Yunzhou seemed to be the first time to come to the snowy plains, and when he saw the endless snowfield, he wrapped his cloak tightly and rolled in the snow.
His cloak was made of snow fox skin, and he would not freeze even if he lay in the snow.
The two of us went out alone, riding only one fast horse, and the horse remained in the village on the edge of the snowfield.
We walked deep into the snowfield, and light work was a must.
Yunzhou played 'treading snow without a trace' on the snow.
He can't really be traceless, and will leave a shallow mark.
I'm not afraid of his frostbite, my healing breath is protecting him in his body.
Although this qi is easy to use, it is not a good thing to use it too much and use it too widely.
People who are not familiar with it can't use it all the time and at any time, and it's okay to save people at the moment of danger.
Like Yunzhou, who is already very familiar with me, and knows that he will not harm me, of course he can use it.
The edge of the snowy plain, all the way to the middle, is an endless snowfield, which is fresh at first glance, but will be blind after a long time.
Going deeper through the middle, there are mountains connected together, but no one goes and returns, and there is no return, so no one knows what the mountains are like.
Hunting with abilities is simple, as long as you can meet your prey.
I'm not afraid that there are many of them, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to meet them.
We walked around the snowfield for three days, and on the way back, I came across a pack of snow wolves.
Eleven snow wolves met us head-on, and both stopped where they were.
I am arranging gas nets and air shields, and they are observing and judging our strength.
Snowmen often come to brush up on their presence, and the wildlife here should be no stranger to humans.
There were only two of us, and we didn't have hunting tools in our hands, so the snow wolves decided to attack us.
They didn't see that there was an air shield around me and Yunzhou, and the snow wolf collided with the air shield, and at the same time, it was also penetrated by the air filament, and the previous battle scene did not appear, and the wolves collectively pounced and died.
There were no injuries or bloodshed, and I didn't have to worry about other beasts coming to me, tying the snow wolves' legs with air ropes and dragging them through the snow.
Yunzhou tied a snow wolf with a real rope and dragged it with me.
I told him to keep his mouth shut and be careful of choking the wind, which was hard as a stone and sharp as a knife on the snowy field.
No matter how hard he was, he never survived in this environment.
It was impossible to make a fire on such a great plain, and we had no tents or any other equipment to keep out the wind.
There are no windproof lighters in this world, so the snowman hunt is a large group of people, and you have to bring two or three cars just for the equipment.
Yunzhou and I were protected by the healing ability to avoid dying of hypothermia.
After walking in the wind and snow for several days, I could not see a stone that was more than a person's knee high.
The snow wolf's corpse was frozen to the ground, and finally we piled the corpse on the edge of the snowfield and signaled to the people waiting in the village.
Since the two of us couldn't transport the wolf corpses back to the Demon Cult, we only rode a horse, and transporting a large number of wolf corpses required the 'big truck' of this world.
I had made an agreement with the people in the village that when I came back, I would send them a signal, and they would send someone to carry the goods for us.
The whole village did not have enough cars, and they used special climbing plows, which were pulled by animals.
The villagers only knew that we were here to hunt, and they advised me not to die.
I didn't want to explain too much, so I promised them to come back as soon as I went shopping.
Therefore, when the villagers saw a pile of snow wolf corpses, they could no longer describe me in a strange way, they were completely looking at monsters.
I asked them to come and pick them up because I paid a deposit and promised to pay them handsomely.
There's no reason for them to have trouble with money, even if I'm a monster, for money's sake, they'll continue to work for me.
The villagers didn't have much income during the winter months, so they organized someone to transport the wolf corpse for me and send it straight to the place where the Demon Sect disciples picked us up.
I paid for the demon cult to carry the wolf corpse to our van.
In winter, the temperature is low, and the wolf carcass freezes so hard that it will not melt on the road.
There are no people in the Demon Cult who can handle skins, but there are experts in the town.
I sent someone to invite the cobbler into the Demon Sect, and the cobbler was dumbfounded, he didn't expect so many skins before he came.
As far as the snow wolf is concerned, the snowmen save for a year, and when it comes to shipping, they don't have this amount.
Not to mention that the villagers are stunned and the cobbler is dumbfounded, it is the people of the Demon Sect, and they have been gossiping for a while when they see so many snow wolf skins shipped back.
Yunzhou and I didn't look strong, we were all tall and slender, and we came from the south, and we had just lived in the north not long ago.
There are so many things that I can't figure out about this hunt that they don't want to think about it, just boil it down to metaphysics.
So it didn't bother them for long, and all they thought about was whether they could get a bite of wolf meat.
Unlike other wolves or wolves from my original world, the snow wolf has very delicious meat that is suitable for shabu-shabu.
More than a dozen snow wolves are equivalent to the 'meat volume' of a dozen donkeys.
The ordinary people don't have this blessing, only the hall masters of each hall think about it all day long.
However, there are few wolves and many people, and although I want to make everyone have a share, it is really not enough.
In the end, no one ate it, and it was all sold.
With the money from the sale of the snow wolf, it is enough for everyone to buy things for the New Year.
I didn't eat wolf meat, but I did eat pork, and most people were satisfied.
In the past, ordinary congregants could only eat minced meat snacks during the New Year, but this year, everyone has divided two pieces of meat, which can be stewed and eaten.
Things like candy are still in very small demand within the church.
The shopkeepers in the town had already stocked up on my orders.
I was afraid of trouble and the distribution of manpower, so I asked them to be middlemen, and they were all responsible for the materials for the New Year in the church this year.
More than 2,000 people received clothing, food, and daily necessities, which is not a small amount.
The money was borrowed from me, from my personal loan, and I didn't take the account of the Demon Sect.
Because the elders are reluctant to have money in the treasury, they only want to get in and not out.
Salary payment is a must-pay, and they can't help it, and they can choose not to borrow money when they borrow money from abroad.
I had no choice but to pay for the goods in my own name.
Time is tight, as long as they get together the goods within the specified time and return the principal to me, they don't have to pay me interest.
Xiaojiao and the guard Jia went to the town to play, and heard that the shop owner called the seven aunts and eight aunts who had not been in contact for many years in order to prepare supplies.
The town has been depressed for a long time, and it is not only out of stock, but also short of manpower.
Farmers from nearby villages rushed to the town to do odd jobs on a daily basis.
The town's buildings are still dilapidated, but the atmosphere is lively, and the empty shop Demon Cult has bought it and is ready to rent it out in the future.
Therefore, the congregants who were willing to make more money took over the cleaning work and cleaned the old shops that had been idle for many years, replaced the doors and windows, and repaired the interior and exterior walls.
The inns in the town all closed down in the 'Demon Cult Purge' turmoil, and I asked the new house renovation team of Ximen Wuxian to come over and renovate the inn, and I plan to make Xiaojiao the boss in the future.
Xiaojiao didn't agree, she was dedicated to being my assistant and didn't want to leave my side.
I said that I would ask her to work for a while, and when the internal stability of the Demon Sect was stable, I would send someone to replace her.
The inn has a lot of information, and I am more at ease with my own people.
Xiaojiao listened to the reason before nodding in agreement.
The New Year in Tengxue Country is not the first day of the new year, nor is it the Spring Festival, it is the coldest day of winter.
This day is very accurate, on the same day every year, and the temperature drops to the lowest value.
As for what is important, no one can say clearly, only that it is the rules set by the ancestors.
Maybe it's a celebration that they survived another winter and didn't freeze to death on the coldest day?
Therefore, on the day of the 'Chinese New Year', the people of Tengxue Country are not setting off firecrackers, but setting fires.
Every house will light a special brazier, the flame is three feet high, and the pot is placed in the courtyard or in front of the house.
Whoever has a big brazier with a high flame will be 'happy'.
The guards came up with a trick and set up a 'torch' at the gate of the courtyard where we lived.
Cover the top with a lampshade, afraid that the torch will not be independent, and a stone statue is placed under the torch.
I came back from outside, and at first glance I thought it was 'Freedom' nvshen.
It's just that the stone statue they brought was a man, and it was a short and fat man, and the torch was long and thin.
I told them to leave, and Wan'er ran over and pulled my sleeve to sell cuteness, and pitifully persuaded me to stay, because the brazier had another meaning.
"What does it mean?" I have a hunch that this will not be a good thing.
"Many children, many blessings!" Wan'er leaned close to my ear and whispered.
"Oh? But the meaning of this thing you set up is more like a lone seedling, and the people are thin. I glanced at the slender torch and poured out a basin of cold water.