Lawrence rode the unicorn, followed by Sophia and Sariel, thirty soldiers, and ten newcomers.

The ten newcomers are all the more capable of fighting in the Viper tribe, and the most capable Gliss followed Turaka to hunt the giant serpent, and did not follow Lawrence.

Lawrence walked more than five hundred meters to the south of the Viper Tribe, stopping at what appeared to be a basin in a snowy area.

Sophia closed her eyes and sensed the magnetic field around her, and quickly got off the sheep's back and took a few steps to the side.

"Master, I found a hibernating bear."

Sophia opened her eyes and pointed to the mountain wall in front of her, "There's a hole over there, about twenty meters!" ”

Saril jumped down from the sheep and cautiously approached with an axe.

Saliel soon came to the place where Sophia was pointing, and saw a sloping hole in the ground here.

The entrance to the cave was covered with snow, and at the edge of the cave was a ring of melted snow and ice.

Saliel reached out and touched the hole opening, and quickly and carefully retreated to Lawrence's side.

"The snow at the entrance of the cave has melted, and this opening must have been slowly blocked by snow when the bear slept, and it may have been a wild boar cave before!"

Lawrence nodded and said to the crowd behind him, "Let's get started." ”

The crowd quickly cut down some branches from a hundred meters away and dragged them over.

The branches are all three or four centimeters thick and two or three meters long.

Branch after branch was poked into by the soldiers, and soon the hole was filled.

Sariel used a stick to remove the snow from the vicinity, and moved a fifty-pound stone to crush the branches.

The rest of the people were not idle, and brought in a large number of stones to seal most of the cave, which should have been a meter and a half wide.

After this was done, a fire was made with dry firewood and hay, and the flames were put into the cave.

The damp branches emitted a lot of smoke, and the branches that had reached into them narrowed the space of the cave.

The soldiers fanned the wind against the cave with wooden planks, and the damp pine branches emitted a choking smell.

The pig bear in the cave quickly wakes up from its hibernation and growls with a whoa-woo-wow roar.

The bear wanted to get out of the burrow, but there were things in front of him, left and right, especially a large amount of black smoke pouring in from the front, which made his eyes and nose very uncomfortable.

At this point, the bear in the cave began to waste its strength in a narrow cave like a laundry bucket.

Lawrence looked at the soldiers at the entrance of the cave with weapons in hand, and quickly rode away.

As long as you can find the location of the bear, it is basically not very difficult to hunt bears in winter.

Especially in this place, as long as there are sharp weapons and more than two adult hunters, a hibernating bear is a dead end.

After more than ten minutes, the bear in the cave was quiet.

The smoke continued, and Lawrence left five men here to continue to smoke the unconscious bear inside, while the rest explored the rest of the area.

Where there are many fish, there are bears, and most of the bears' prey comes from river beaches and beaches.

The upstream and downstream of the river have been thrown away from various things upstream, causing the fish in the river to multiply and attract many dangerous beasts.

If it was garbage from the industrial period, the fish in the river would have died long ago.

But in this era, in addition to feces, it is the blood of various poultry, and then there is some bath water, which is a harmless substance to most aquatic animals.

There is more than one bear in this vicinity, and if it is not controlled, it will pose a threat to nearby humans in the future.

If you attract a giant beast like the Earth Storm Bear, you will definitely lose a lot of people here.

While Lawrence was thinking about things, Sophia quickly stopped.

"The hosts! There's a bear in the pit ahead! Be careful, the place where it hibernates is a pit! ”

Lawrence paused and motioned for the crowd to surround him.

Not every bear can find a cave to hibernate in, some will choose near the roots of large trees, some will choose a rock crevice under the cliff, and some bears can find a fallen log in the forest to use as a hibernation place.

However, these bears are very dangerous, because the environment is very arbitrary, and most of these bears will be woken up by freezing, or by people and animals nearby.

Bears that wake up hungry from hibernation are certainly more dangerous.

"Ready!"

Lawrence gave the order.

Several muscular soldiers raised their axes and approached the hibernating bear.

"Hit!"

Six axes quickly smashed into the sleeping bear's head, and before the bear in the pit could react, the head was beaten violently.

The bear was just about to get up, but there was another quick beating, and soon his head fell to the ground.

A large amount of blood came out of the bear's mouth, nose, eyes, and scalp, which melted the nearby snow slag.

"Go on, next."

The hunting party continued on their journey and finally found a giant snake hibernating a kilometer away.

The serpent had frozen to death in the snow, and it was Fryce who found it.

Lawrence looked at the dirt pit near the river, where the snake hibernated in a hole at the edge of a low riverbed.

In winter, due to the freezing of the upstream, the water of the river downstream is lowered a lot, revealing the soil layer by the river, and this twelve-meter-long python is hidden in the cave inside.

Because of its size, the cave is easy to spot.

Fryce came over and said, "Prophet, this snake has frozen to death. ”

Lawrence looked at the giant snake that was no longer moving, "Very well, just put this snake here, let's go back." ”

Fryce felt that it was not safe to keep his prey outside.

"Prophet, this will be dragged away by other wild beasts."

Lawrence doesn't mind this kind of thing.

"It doesn't matter, if it's not here tomorrow, it means that there is still prey that we need to remove, and it is dangerous prey that is active in winter."

Fryce quickly figured it out, and it was true.

"Yes, Prophet."

It's all the territory of the Church of the Stars, the property of the Prophet, and whoever dares to take it will have to pay the price!

Lawrence returned to the village and explained the prey distribution to Tukara, who had also returned from a bear hunt.

"Let the Viper tribe take the carcass of a bear and give them another barrel of wine, and the rest of the prey will be ours, and tomorrow we will continue the hunt."

Turaka replied, "Yes, Prophet! ”

The Viper tribe lacks iron tools, both for cooking and for fighting.

Their mode of survival is mainly hunting and fishing, and most of them have a very short lifespan.

Because of the abundance of food, most of these people are reluctant to leave their places of residence and do not want to go outside.

But they lacked fuel, clothing, and wood for construction.

Without enough sharp iron tools, these people could not cut down the wood, and naturally they did not build wooden houses.

And the inertia of thinking makes these people more willing to sleep and rest when they have time, rather than studying how to build a house.

Like the foresters, Lawrence does not force all foresters to serve in war, but some of them must go out and receive civilized education.

Assisting in the hunt is just the beginning, and more tasks will be gradually arranged in the later stages.

Now Lawrence is not going to give these people much things, except for firewood and potatoes and grain, the rest of the clothing and weapons will not be given.

More things need to be exchanged for war exploits.

Further south, there are not only bears and snakes, but also many more unknown humans and beasts. (End of chapter)