The next day, when Lawrence got up to eat, a group of people came.

The northern skies are mostly gloomy and gloomy, and the sun is mostly concentrated in summer during the year, and the sun is rarely seen in autumn and winter.

Crops and livestock are stunted for long periods of time, and even the most tenacious northern savages have high mortality rates during the winter months.

In this somewhat dead and gloomy season, the forester and the new soldiers were playing cards and eating in the house.

When Grace and the others approached the forest tribe, most of the people here were eating in the house, and only four or five people patrolled and stood guard outside.

Grace came to the paved street at the entrance of the village, where the snow had been cleared and most of the houses in front of him were filled with white cooking smoke.

The houses are nice and clean, the snow is all clean, and the men guarding the door are wearing thick clothes.

"Let yesterday's people come out! Let's move on! ”

Grace carried a long piece of wood shaped like a human thigh.

The wood is 1.8 meters long, one end is as thick as a waist, and the end is as small as a human foot.

Yesterday he only wore a simple animal skin vest, but today Grister has been preparing for a long time, and he wears a long belt surrounded by animal skin around his waist.

Soon, people from nearby houses came out with rice bowls to watch the excitement.

Grace saw the people eating, all eating hot meals that looked like bread and eggs.

"Come on! I'm going to challenge you! Grace yelled angrily.

Soon, a few people at the door went back with a look of no energy.

"He's coming for Andrew, and when we go in, the soup will freeze."

The hot bread and soup bowls in the hands of the soldiers quickly cooled down in just seven or eight seconds in this weather, and turned from hot to cold when blown by the wind.

Everyone saw yesterday's events, it was Andrew who didn't listen to the prophet and had to fight alone, otherwise everyone would have completed the prophet's task long ago.

Today, everyone doesn't have a good impression of Andrew, those people are here to find Andrew, let Andrew solve it himself.

Unless ordered by the Prophet, these people had no interest in going out to see the excitement.

Andrew quickly walked out, and after seeing Grace outside standing at the entrance of the village with a big stick, he smiled and said, "Wait, I'll go get a weapon!" ”

Grace didn't understand Andrew's words, he just felt that the man was laughing at him and rejected his challenge.

"Coward! Fight me! Don't run! Grace roared loudly.

Turaka explained: "He's back to get his weapons, you wait a minute. ”

Gris understood Turaka's explanation.

At this time, Lawrence walked out of the village.

"Prophet!" The people standing guard and patrolling nearby quickly saluted.

Grace looked at the man, obviously not strong or tall, but he put a lot of pressure on Grace.

At this time, the people in the nearby house also quickly came out.

"Prophet!"

"Prophet!"

More and more soldiers came out of nearby houses with weapons in their hands.

When Lawrence walked from thirty meters away to Turaka, more than two hundred people had gathered nearby.

Lawrence nodded to the crowd, and then looked at Grace, who was obviously afraid, and Grace's men.

"Turaka, take them to dinner first, and after eating I ask them if they are willing to surrender to me."

"If they want to join, let them go back and bring the children and women here, there is enough food here to survive the winter."

"If you don't want to join, go back and prepare when you're full, and we'll attack in the afternoon."

Lawrence finished speaking and turned to leave.

"Yes! Prophet! Turaka quickly responded.

After receiving the Prophet's order, Turaka stood up and looked at Grace, who had been freezing in the cold wind for more than ten minutes.

"Come with me, the Prophet will feed you."

Grace didn't want to accept handouts from these people, but it was too cold at this time, and he watched these people eating.

After hesitating for a second, he said directly: "Okay! When you're full, you'll fight a duel! ”

Seeing this, the rest of the people also went back to their houses one after another, not wanting to freeze here.

Water is splashed into ice here, and limbs can freeze without enough cold items.

Grace quickly entered the warm house.

This warm house is just right for the average barbarian of one meter eight, and the roof is two and a half meters high.

For a little giant like Grace, being able to stand up straight is much better than the thatched hut he used to live in.

Grace stood in the room, his head surrounded by hanging strips of meat and pheasants and swans.

The flame in the house was not large, and there was a pot of broth burning on the fire.

For the first time, Grace's men entered such a warm room, and their eyes were fixed on the strips of meat on the roof, and then at the broth in the pot, and soon showed their eyes that they wanted to rob.

Turaka reassured: "Sit down and eat, if you don't follow the rules, our people here are not weak serfs. ”

Andrew opened the curtain and came in at this time, standing at the door with a giant sword and looking at the few people in the room.

Grace quickly sat down, he wanted to eat first.

Grace's men quickly sat down and waited for dinner.

Turaka began to distribute food to the men, taking pieces of meat from the roof and distributing them to them.

The bacon was quickly eaten, and Grace and the others grabbed the bacon with both hands and bit it without heating it or using a knife.

Quickly gnaw at the piece of meat in your hand like a wild beast.

Turaka didn't bother to entertain, "You guys in the pot share it yourself." ”

When Tig heard this, he was about to reach out and grab the piece of meat in the hot pan, when a large hand grabbed Tig by the hair and dragged the man to the ground.

Grace bit the fox's flesh, and his eyes glowed with a warning of danger.

The rest of the people were afraid of Gris's brute force, and could only continue to salvage the bacon from the house as if it were inexhaustible.

Andrew and Turaka both looked at the wild men in silence, as if they were looking at inferior creatures.

Grace quickly picked up the hot pan with both hands, blew it a few times, and then gulped down the broth and pieces of meat in the hot pan.

The pieces of meat and bones were crushed by Grace, and then swallowed slowly.

Turaka at this time began to announce the Prophet's decision.

"Now tell me your choice, if you choose to submit to the great Ravenfeather Prophet, then go back now and send the women and children of the tribe over, and we will let them survive this winter."

"If you don't want to, then go back now, and we'll attack your tribe in the afternoon! You can choose to run, we won't chase. ”

Grace looked at Tukara and Andrew in silence.

Choosing to relocate and escape this season is bound to be a dead end.

Grace asked, "Will your prophet kill us?" ”

As long as there are women and children, this makes Grace and the others feel very bad.

Grace was confident that he had beaten this man named Andrew, but the presence of that prophet made Grace very afraid.

Turaka knew Lawrence's strategy, "No, the Prophet needs you to believe in the Church of the Stars in the future and become soldiers of the Church of the Stars. ”

"Your women and children, in the spring, will go back and starve and freeze with you, and many of them will die."

Grace and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

"Just like you?" Grace looked at Turaka, knowing very well that this was Turaka's house.

It was full of food, and the people here were dressed and armed.

"Yes," Turaka said, "the amount of food you can get depends on whether you are obedient and whether you can fight. ”

Grace no longer has any hesitation, he will definitely not be able to beat these people, the people here eat well, live well, and surrender is the only way out.

The extreme environment in the north determines that the winner is king.

Humans are inherently group-dependent creatures, and choosing to join a powerful tribe is a good thing for the whole race.

"Okay, let's surrender!"

Andrew has no opinion, he is here for conquest, and after this person joins, he can continue to fight.

Soon Grace and the others returned with five baskets of potatoes, and in the afternoon they sent the young children and the woman who took care of them as hostages.

There was enough room and food in the village to take care of these people, but they had to start as slaves and follow the rules here.

Turaka asked ten baskets of potatoes to be carried out, and said to Glis:

"The rest of you will come to eat tomorrow morning, and now bring these potatoes back to eat, and the Prophet will not let you starve to death."

Grace and the others carried the potatoes back, the people of the Black Goat Tribe and the Viper Tribe are both in the same language, and there are people from the Black Goat Tribe as a guide, and they soon know the rules here.

Those who want to go back are not hindered, whether it is a woman or a child, it doesn't matter if they are willing to run away in winter.

After another day's delay, when more than 200 people from the Viper tribe came over for dinner the next day, Lawrence made the next arrangement.

"Go hunt big game hibernating nearby, like bears and snakes, today!"

Turaka had already learned about these things.

"Prophet, there are bears nearby, but they are smaller pig bears, and they are only two or three meters tall when they stand up."

"There are also giant snakes that eat people near the viper tribe, and they eat people every year."

Lawrence asked, "Do they accept it if we kill this snake?" ”

Andrew said directly: "If you don't accept it, you will kill them together!" ”

Lawrence ignored Andrew and still looked at Turaka.

Turaka replied, "No, Glis they are just afraid of this snake, if we are willing to kill the snake, they will help us." ”

Lawrence had no worries, and originally planned to go directly to the giant snake, but now there are a bit more people, and they can do it at the same time.

"Who can hunt bears?" Lawrence asked the crowd in the big room.

"I will!" Andrew quickly agreed.

"I will!" Fryce will too.

Not only the two men, but many people in the room raised their hands.

"I will!"

"Me too!"

"It's easy!"

……

Turaka said, "I will too!" ”

In fact, both the Durellians and the barbarians have a wealth of experience in fighting, and many of them have learned from the older generation.

The people in the Black Goat tribe also hunt bears, as well as Grace and others.

Snake hunting is rare, because it is too rare, and everyone will not do this kind of thing.

Lawrence said, "The soldiers are divided into five routes, and each man leads thirty people to different areas!" Break up the Viper tribe and divide them into various units. ”

"Twenty soldiers with ten forest men, and twenty new men."

After the group finished eating, they quickly moved into action, and several leaders selected the soldiers they needed from among the men of the Viper tribe as if they were buying vegetables in the vegetable market.

(End of chapter)