The long eternal night passed quickly, and Lawrence and the others soon ushered in the sun.

At this time, there was still a month and a half before the end of the cold winter, and more than ninety days was too tense for Lawrence.

After a week of eternal night, and daylight hours had returned to about four or five hours, Lawrence quickly began to mobilize.

"I'll go to the north first, and if I can go, I'll take this road, and if not, I'll be back in two days."

Lawrence looked at Losanda, who looked much younger than when he first met him in the valley of Cloda.

Originally, he was not very old, and after two years of pampering and careful dressing, he also had a so-called aristocratic temperament.

"Mother, this spring is still in your hands, I will go to the land that the West has given me to have a look, and build a port there."

Loshanda already knew about Lawrence's plans for this year, and she had no problem with Lawrence's arrangement.

"Just leave it to me, it's not difficult."

Lawrence quickly looked at Emma, "Emma, Candace will take care of Mother, and you and Bull will go to my house in Phumethius Town during this time." ”

"You are responsible for directing the production in the town, and when you encounter a dangerous enemy, send someone to inform your mother, there are not many people in the town of Pumixiu, and you can return to the manor when necessary, mainly to preserve your strength."

Emma said seriously: "Yes, master! I will protect the territory with my sisters in the territory! ”

Lawrence confessed: "There are a large number of babies born in the town and at the estate this year, and pregnant women and children are gathered together, and those who don't have milk are fed formula, and I will be back in about a month and a half. ”

"This year's farming will be fine according to the proportions I said before."

"Kehalan will also stay to assist Mother, and Sariel and Sophia will follow you on the glacier in a sled team, and I will explore the road with Catherine first, and I will leave a mark if I encounter a fork in the road."

Kehalan nodded and said, "I'm fine." ”

Saril and Sophia also said: "We don't have a problem either! ”

Delenn asked, "What about me?" ”

Lawrence considered that he would have a dangerous accident, and in order to prevent himself from being rescued in time after the danger in the front, it was also necessary for Delenn to join in.

"You and Sariel, I will arrange for three teams of sled dogs for you to use, Brick will be responsible for driving and taking care of the dogs, Sophia and Sariel will be in charge of guarding, and Delen you will be in charge of fighting."

Delen said happily: "Okay! ”

Lawrence had already arranged for Andrew's and the others to set off first with the Siddle and the Vakiri.

These men traveled west along the coastline and formed a flotilla of forty boats.

Lawrence had a general idea of the terrain on the other side of Mount Agama, and after eating and drinking enough to make all preparations, he quickly rode on Catherine.

"Let's go!"

Lawrence rode a black horse in a leather suit and rushed out.

The black unicorn's neck, chest, and limbs are covered with a layer of windproof tights made of fish skin.

Not only that, but the black unicorn also wears special tooth marks on its feet, and with Catherine and Lawrence's weight, the teeth marks on the soles can firmly grip the ice and snow without slipping.

Lawrence also donned a windproof leather suit, this time carrying not a sword, but a hoe.

The hoe can be used for climbing, and it can be used to pull two people up from the hole with the rope that you carry with you, and it can be used as a mountaineering hoe.

Hidden in his clothes are sugar cubes and jerky, as well as hay and paper for ignition, as well as a fully charged lighting bead, which can be used to save lives at critical moments.

The black unicorn ran quickly on the ice that had been frozen for more than three months, and the glacier in front of it was constantly crooked, and there were many branches and stones on the ground.

Soon the snow layer in front began to thicken, accumulating more than forty centimeters thick.

Catherine continued to run, but soon lost her bearings, and the place was covered with white snow, and the location of the river could not be seen clearly.

Lawrence, squinting, opened his eyes and observed his surroundings.

A clear outline of a mountain appeared in the north, with a series of uplifted mountains blocking the north, and it was now facing northwest.

"The river is already turning, let's keep walking, I'll show the way."

Lawrence stretched out the long hoe, and the iron of the hoe rested more than a meter in front of the unicorn.

With Lawrence's guidance, Catherine quickly ran in the direction of the hoe.

Lawrence quickly sprinkled a handful of grass ash to give directions to the team behind, then changed the angle of the hoe depending on the surrounding terrain and direction.

The river is crooked, sometimes going around left and right a few times before it goes a little further.

Because of the frozen ground under his feet, Lawrence quickly walked straight on the lawn through these detours.

Instead of going to the end of the river, Lawrence is going to find a shortcut to the kingdom of Hokuriku!

The sky soon darkened, and the black unicorn could not see the road in the distance, so it could only stop and walk slowly.

The sky is not pitch black, there are a large number of bright stars in the starry sky, and there is a colorful aurora that constantly changes in the sky.

Lawrence looked around, and in the distance he could see the outlines of many mountains, and the snow on the ground had very low visibility.

"Let's stop and find a place to rest."

Lawrence got off the unicorn and pulled it on the ground with his hoe, and found that the snow on the ground was frozen solid.

The snow is soft when it first falls, and the snow that has been frozen for two months will be hard like mud.

With no trees in sight all around, Lawrence could feel that he was in a downstream position, and he felt that he should not be far from the Kingdom of Hokuriku.

But combined with the report of Brick and others last time, I feel that there must be a problem!

The last time Brick spent two months round trip, it was still when the river was still not frozen and was going down the river.

I haven't explored useful information for two months back and forth, and I just came out five or six hours before I arrived?

Lawrence felt that something must be wrong, and walked to the hills to the far north, intending to see what was on the other side of the mountain.

The unicorn is waiting at the foot of the mountain, and this sloping slope is not suitable for the unicorn's body structure.

Lawrence quickly climbed the slope of the hill at a height of more than 60 meters, about 40 degrees, but there were some places to tread, and it was not particularly steep.

After climbing up the hillside, Lawrence leaned on the rocks and looked at the outside world, and soon saw a vast forest.

Lawrence pondered where he was.

"I'm not facing the north, I'm facing the west, and I'm probably facing the west."

"At first it was going north, then it took a lot of turns, and now Catherine is going south, I'm facing west, and the real north is the direction we're coming from."

"Then I should be in the area close to the Hokuriku Kingdom right now."

"If that's the case, was it ...... last time Brick's group Lazy? ”

Lawrence thought of the most likely possibility, and suddenly there was a burst of fire!

The efficiency of the snow cave people is already slow, and the speed at which these people row and escape is indeed fast, but in fact, they have survived in the ice and snow for a long time, which makes them good at saving physical strength.

"No, Catherine's speed is more than ten times that of a normal domestic, and considering the speed of rafting and the obstacles in the river, Catherine's six-hour journey is at least more than three hundred kilometers."

Lawrence felt a little better, not because Brick and the others were too wasteful, but because Catherine was too fast, roughly equivalent to the speed of a normal motorcycle.

If you sail by boat, it's actually a distance of more than a day, so if you calculate this distance, the forest in front of you should be the direction of the Hokriku Kingdom.

Lawrence felt that Sariel and the others would not be able to come over until at least tomorrow morning, and the speed of the sled dogs was not low, at most five or six hours away, but he was afraid that they would get lost halfway.

Lawrence quickly descended the hillside and used his hoe to increase the volume near a pit wall on the hillside.

The black unicorn behind him quickly turned into a white, pure black-haired beauty, and Lawrence spread the bearskin coat he was wearing.

Catherine spread her leather coat in the pit and then slipped into Lawrence's bearskin coat, and the two spent the long night huddled in the hole.

After dawn the next day, Lawrence went outside into the forest to check on the situation, while Catherine went back to look for someone.

Lawrence climbed the hillside into the forest.

Looking at the quaint and quiet forest in front of him, Lawrence was even more sure that he was in the southeastern region of the Hokuriku Kingdom.

It is full of tall and straight spruce trees, which are green even in winter.

Picking up a large bundle of branches a little, Lawrence quickly retreated.

Before the arrival of several generals in the rear, it is better not to stay in this primeval forest for too long, the bears of this world are not protected animals, and they are very rampant.

Lawrence, who had determined the location, had a lot of patience and quickly raised the flames to wait for reinforcements from the rear, while he himself climbed high to continue to check the appearance of the area.

Forests stretch from the south to the north, and to the north there is no sea, only rivers and forests, and mountains!

"The territory of the blonde Mercia is the high mountain region, and the terrain of the Kogico kingdom is high in the north and low in the south, so the rivers are to the south and the mountains are to the north."

"That's right! This is it! ”

Lawrence was excited, if he could get to the new territory from the north in only five or six hours, then the construction of the new port and the new territory would be several times faster!

Unfortunately, this route can only be taken in the cold winter months, and in the spring, when the snow melts, you can only use the longer and only one-way water and land.

Lawrence quickly waited for Catherine to return, and after another three or four hours for the sled dog team that was running.

Sariel climbed out of the bed on the sleigh and stood up and asked, "Lawrence, why don't you go?" ”

Lawrence said directly: "It's here, and behind it is the Hokuriku Kingdom, and we'll go there now." ”

This time, I was planning to take a boat if I didn't succeed in exploring the way, and since I was successful, I would go directly to the port and wait for someone.

Andrew's fleet would arrive in three or four days, and he was already a day and a half late.

Sariel and the others thought that it would take more than a month to reach their destination, but they didn't expect it to take just over a day to arrive.

"Lawrence, are you not mistaken?" Sariel looked at Lawrence quizzically.

Lawrence didn't talk nonsense, and led everyone over the mountains and mountains, and soon approached the mountains in the north.

After reaching the end of the evening, the group saw a village with smoke coming from the cooking. (End of chapter)