Chapter 59: The Unlucky and the Lucky
The matter of stockpiling food for the return trip lasted for several days.
During this period, Blade Fang also planned to arrange a witch doctor, in addition to planting fruit trees, and cooperate with the witch doctor of the Fina Department to sort out the inheritance of the department.
The process is roughly the same as the work done when the front blade was an apprentice.
In the stumbling explanations of the witch doctors of the Phina tribe, understand the meaning of their abstract drawings, and then convert the fragmented content into the words of the teeth, and find suitable clay to make clay tablets to record them.
In the end, he had to follow these original Finet records and teach the two witch doctors a new language and a new script.
It is foreseeable that this will be a work that will continue for quite some time, and it is estimated that it will take some time here.
Tuya, who was assigned to work, almost accepted it with a sad face.
However, he found a lot of valuable things in the process, such as the nearby terrain.... Wait a minute.
The most important of these is the traces of another tribe of trolls recorded in the Fina Tribe's lineage.
After receiving the report from Tuya, Blade Fang carefully inquired about the relevant information, and learned that it was a small tribe located further upstream of the White River, much weaker than Feinai, and it was about a five-day trip from here.
The news left Bladefang in a dilemma, not knowing whether to return as he had planned, or make another trip north.
After thinking about it left and right, he finally decided to make another trip north, otherwise he would have to make another round trip, wasting a lot of food.
In this way, after some leaders temporarily changed their minds at the first click of the head, the ordinary trolls who were out hunting had a lot more work to do.
Fortunately, these trolls don't have a concept of 'labor law', and they are very obedient and take on all of them.
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This time, Bladefang didn't plan to bring all the trolls with him, and the Hunter team would only have a small half of them, except for all the soldiers who followed.
In this way, although the trip is better than when it came, the daily consumption is also much less;
Moreover, as a result of the previous lesson, the troops will carry only 7 of the 10 days of food back and forth, or about 23 tons, and the rest will be settled on the spot, as was done on the Finay side.
Soon, after several days of busy work with two troll hunters totaling nearly 1,500, 23 tons of food in addition to rations were finally collected.
Start the oven, light the fire, chop the meat and fruits and mix them into a filling, add them to the fat that has been boiled into a paste, and stir so that the fat is evenly distributed everywhere.
After that, they are poured into pieces of square 'patties' of the same size as possible, and after being roughly shaped at room temperature, they are all stuffed into the 'freezer' and frozen overnight.
On the second day, the 325 trolls assigned to the Second Expedition were neatly stacked into their vine backpacks and happily set out on the journey again with their weapons in hand.
As a leader who came up with ideas blindly, Blade still has some conscience, so he naturally led the army with his wife in person.
Before leaving, he ignored Tuya's expression of 'I want to go too', patted him on the shoulder and said, 'I'll leave it to you here'.
Then, simply leave.
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Still walking along the river, on the way, Blade Fang looked at the white river flowing quietly not far away, his eyes rolled, and he had some new ideas....
Next to him, she was looking for an excuse to report the military situation to her husband and came to her husband, relying on the faint contact of her body to relieve the 'loneliness' of Meiya.
These days, because of the bad rule of 'you can't mate during the march' set by Bladefang, these two have actually endured a lot of hardship.
Thanks to the buffer in the Fina Department before, otherwise they might have been suffocated.
Of course, the warriors and hunters also took a good cushion in the Fina Department.
The powerful power of the teeth makes these individuals in the whole body much taller and stronger in the eyes of the external trolls, whether they are male or female trolls, as long as the male and female trolls in the tooth 'army' beckon, they are very willing to 'communicate' in a friendly way.
"What are you thinking?" Mia asked as if she pretended to care about the question, and took the opportunity to get closer.
Addicted to 'national affairs' and unable to extricate his teeth, he obviously didn't notice his wife's careful thinking at this time, and responded to her question very seriously.
"You see, although the White River has a lot of water, because the Black Forest region through which it flows is very flat, so although it is wide and deep, it is not very turbulent."
"Hmm... Well, yes... This. ”
"Does that mean that if we can find something that floats on the water... Wood, for example, connect them to each other to make them big enough to carry several trolls. On the way back, will you be able to ride them down the river? ”
"Hmm.... Right.... ”
"yes, yes, the river is faster than hiking, it saves a lot of time."
Getting his wife's approval, Blade Tooth was obviously more excited, and stepped up to show off,
"Anyway, there are not many other trees in the Black Forest, so let's cut more wood and find some vines to tie it up; If you're worried about it, then we'll work harder and make some tough magic vines when the time comes. ”
"Uh-huh... Hmm—" Mia's voice was a little weird and quick.
Although Blade Fang is a little concerned, why is this road getting more and more crowded?
Besides, the arms seem to be tightened a little tighter?
But he, who was indulging in 'knowledge', thought that Meiya wanted to hear it more clearly, so he continued to talk endlessly.
At this time, the moose leader, who had been following him, seemed to be a little unbearable.
It took a few quick steps to the side of the two 'men', just enough to block the view of the large army on the right.
swept the beauty of this scene with her afterglow, and when she saw this turn of her eyes, her movements became more and more bold......
"I'll tell you, once this idea is feasible, it will not only reduce the burden of this return trip; Even the Fina Division, as well as the Noble Division, which is destined to be conquered, will be able to deliver food to the headquarters more easily after becoming the headquarters of our hunting team. Looking at the other tribes, there are several that seem to be on the edge of the Black River in the other direction, so let's clean them up next time. ”
"Hmm...... Hmm..."The mosquito-like snort came intermittently in his ears, and the warm and moist breath was spit in the ears of the blades...
No matter how indulgent you are in 'showing', you should reflect that the situation is not right.
When I turned my head, I was met with a pair of misty eyes that seemed to have been overwhelmed by drunkenness.....
'Ahh
As a thief's weak blade, for fear that the soldiers would misunderstand that he did not abide by the rules he had set, he hurriedly looked to the right, but his vision was tightly obscured by a huge figure.
He patted the clever mount with relief, turned his head and began to care about his wife's condition.
"Mia, Mia." I called softly twice, but my wife, who seemed to have fallen into some kind of intoxication, did not respond at all.
Seeing that if it continued like this, sooner or later he would be aroused, so he had to stop doing it, turned around and walked backwards, and slapped her on the waist.
'Smack! The loud voice was heard far away, attracting a large army that was marching not far away.
"Your Excellency the Witch Doctor! What's going on? ”
"It's okay, it's okay, there's a big bug on the mount, and I shot it to death!" Bladefang lied to the moose leader's disgruntled snort.
"Oh, be careful, then."
Attention returned to Meiya again, and under the slap just now, she naturally woke up.
At this time, he was rubbing the part that was being patted and complained angrily,
"Who made you set such a broken rule! What's wrong with mating! Why not! ”
"Don't.. Be quiet.... All right... You just need to scold a couple of sentences... Not here.. The rules are set by me... It can't be like this.... Yes.... Don't dig me. ”
"You stupid male, I'm going to stay away from you, don't touch me again if you have the ability in the future!"
After scolding in a low voice, the rejected Meiya turned around and left angrily.
Under the unaware gaze of the trolls, she stomped heavily on the ground and followed the back of the line like a choked breath.