The wind blew across the rolling gray hills in front of me, and the meadows on the hills stirred up green waves in the wind. Everything seemed quiet and harmonious.
In the afternoon, with the sun shining high above our heads, there were several adult wilderness-antlered deer wandering under a low seabuckthorn tree on the edge of the meadow. They lowered their heads, enjoying the sweet berries on the seabuckthorn tree, and looked at the ice and snow wasteland.
For all animals living on earth, this time is the best season of the year.
The wind blowing through the meadow rustled the wild grasses as tall as a person. At the same time, the wind also brought other sounds and smells in the meadow.
As if they felt something, several wilderness horned deer that were eating suddenly stopped moving, raised their necks, looked around, and then started running in panic at the same time.
Several wilderness-antlered deer just started running. After the swishing sound, several javelins were immediately planted around the ground where they were just now. One wilderness-antlered deer was stabbed in the neck by a javelin on the spot and fell to the ground with a mournful cry.
On the ground.
Seven or eight teenagers wearing animal skin clothes suddenly rushed out of the meadow like leopards and began to chase the two fast-running wilderness antlered deer.
"This one can't run away. Let's go chase the ones in front..." The boy who rushed at the front shouted, directing the actions of the other boys. After listening to this boy's words, all the boys who rushed out quickly swooped.
Passing the place where the wilderness antlered deer were, he easily pulled out the javelin stuck in the ground and chased after the fleeing wilderness antlered deer.
These seven or eight teenagers are only thirteen or fourteen years old, but their bodies have grown quite strong. Especially when running, in short distances, the explosive power and speed of the teenagers are very amazing. Those few have just started
The running wilderness deer was unable to completely distance itself from the teenagers for a while.
The teenagers ran while throwing the javelins they carried. The javelins thrown by the teenagers chased the silhouettes of the wilderness antlered deer and kept inserting them into the ground or in the grass, causing the fleeing wilderness antlered deer to speed up even more.
After a young man threw all the javelins he had on him, another wilderness deer running at the end was stabbed by the javelin and fell to the ground injured.
The teenagers ignored the fallen prey and continued to chase the remaining wilderness antlered deer.
The teenagers chased the wilderness antlered deer and rushed out of the seabuckthorn forest. The terrain in front suddenly became flat and open. Seeing that the wilderness antlered deer were getting faster and faster, they were gradually about to overtake the few who were chasing them.
The boy got rid of it completely.
In addition to the javelin, another weapon the teenagers have in their hands is the stumbling block.
"Prepare the stumbling blocks..." the boy running at the front shouted. All the pursuing boys immediately took out the stumbling blocks they carried and waved them quickly while running.
"Let go!" As the first boy threw out the stumbling block in his hand, all the boys also threw out their own stumbling blocks.
The stumbling block tied with a rope left the hands of the teenagers under the acceleration of huge centrifugal force, and made a strange whine in the air, flying towards the horned deer at a speed much faster than the teenagers.
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Most of the stumbling blocks failed, but there was still one stumbling block that accurately wound around the leg of a wilderness-antlered deer while flying, bringing the wilderness-antlered deer to the ground.
The teenagers cheered and caught up. Before the wilderness antlered deer hit by the stumbling block could struggle to stand up, several teenagers had already swarmed up and pushed it to the ground again. They used the rope tied to the stumbling block to pull the deer back to its feet.
The four-horned deer's limbs were tied up and it could no longer move.
"Ha, this is a female wilderness antlered deer. You can bring it back to the village and raise it..." A young man shouted with joy, "Now Ada will have deer milk to drink..."
"Joy, you are such a good brother. Why don't you tell your family that when Ada grows up, let her marry me? I will wait for her for another ten years. Although Ada is only six years old now
, but people in the village say she will be a great beauty when she grows up!" a young man joked.
"Get out!" The young man named Joey waved his fist, "My Ada will marry at least a violent bear warrior in the future. This is what my father said. Let's wait and see when you can become a violent bear warrior!"
The boy named Joey said, but his eyes couldn't help but glance at the boy who took the lead among all the boys. That boy's name was Ivan. He was recognized by the whole village so far as the boy who is most likely to become a violent bear warrior in the future.
He is also the leader of their group.
Do dad and mom want to marry Ada to Ivan? A strange thought flashed through the boy named Joey. No, even if Ivan and I are friends, we can't take Ada away from him easily.
, I also have to work hard to become a violent bear warrior, and then I can protect Ada well...
The boy who was the elder brother was thinking simply. Thinking that Ada might be taken away by a certain man in the future, the boy felt as if his most beloved thing was about to be taken away. In a short period of time,
He once again strengthened his motivation to become a powerful violent bear warrior.
"Pack up your things, let's hurry up and leave here. It's a bit far away from the village..." The boy named Ivan put away his javelin and looked around cautiously, "We have to catch up before we can return to the village.
It’s a long way and we must go back before dark, otherwise we will be in trouble if we encounter a hyena!”
Because the harvest was good this time, everyone was very happy. After listening to Ivan's words, everyone speeded up their actions. The boy named Joey directly held the tied wilderness antlered deer against his body. The antlered deer weighed more than 50 kilograms.
It didn't seem difficult to resist against a young man.
Everyone returned along the original route, and after quickly killing the two injured wilderness antlered deer that had lost the ability to move, the teenagers happily prepared to return to the village.
It is still more than thirty kilometers away from the village. If we don't waste time, everyone should be able to return to the village before the sun sets.
Because the color of the surface soil and stones here is gray, from a distance, except for those areas covered by vegetation, the color of the entire hills is gray. No one knows why this strange color appears here.
There is just a saying that the soil here and the stones on the surface were originally underground and seemed to have a history of hundreds of millions of years. However, after the catastrophe, they were turned up from the ground like plows due to violent geological actions.
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And because of this, the soil here seems to contain some strange elements and nutrients that are rare in other places, so some special or higher-value plants will grow here, although not all plants are.
It is suitable to grow here, but the plants that can grow here will grow very well, and there will even be some mutated plant species that can only be seen in this place.
And even in winter, the surface temperature here will be relatively higher than in other places, and many plants that cannot survive in other places can still grow here. This is the magic of this place.
There is more than one place like this in the entire ice and snow wasteland, but because it is relatively close to Eskil City. The straight-line distance is only more than 300 kilometers, so this place has become the most famous large medicinal material warehouse in the entire ice and snow wasteland.
For example, the seabuckthorn forest that the teenagers saw just now when they were hunting those wilderness antlered deer. The roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits of common seabuckthorn all have very high medicinal and edible value, and the ones on the gray hills
Sea buckthorn is a variant of sea buckthorn that lives on this land, so it is more valuable.
Especially the sea buckthorn oil here. The sea buckthorn oil produced in the ice and snow wasteland is the best in the entire Hawaii subcontinent. It is also the most precious sea buckthorn oil. The sea buckthorn oil here is one of the most important export materials of Eskil City. Ice and Snow
Sea buckthorn oil from the wasteland is a must-have item for almost every alchemist on the continent in their elixir shop or raw material warehouse.
The teenagers walked quickly through the gray hills carrying today's harvest. In just one hour, they walked seven or eight kilometers. The harvested prey was carried by several people in turns.
The young man who was hunting the prey held the weapon in his hand and walked vigilantly at the front and back of the team.
The long-term cooperation has allowed the teenagers to develop a tacit understanding and know when to change shifts. Among all the teenagers, only Joey, who had just made up his mind again to become a violent bear warrior, was particularly persistent today. He carried the prey back to the
The village regarded it as an opportunity to train oneself.
As the saying goes, whatever scares you comes. The teenagers had just been walking for more than an hour when the thing that worried them most happened - they were targeted by a group of iron-toothed hyenas.
The iron-toothed hyena is very sensitive to the smell of dead animals. It is nicknamed the Shark of the Wasteland. An iron-toothed hyena can smell the blood of other animals from a distance of one or two kilometers, and can follow that smell to find itself.
of prey.
There were only five or six iron-toothed hyenas that appeared behind this group of teenagers at first. After they appeared, they followed the teenagers carrying the prey in a leisurely manner. The number of teenagers and the weapons in their hands did not allow them to get too close.
He followed me slowly and leisurely.
These iron-toothed hyenas look a bit like dogs, but their heads are shorter than dogs, and they look rounder and have thicker skulls. Their front half is stronger than the back half, and their body hair is rough and hard, with gray bodies.
It has dark brown spots, which are particularly easy to hide under the background color of this hill. It is difficult to detect without getting close.
Of course, if anyone wants to treat them as dogs, they will definitely eat them till they leave no bones. Really, there will be no bones left. This is no joke. Everyone in the ice and snow wasteland knows how strong the iron-toothed hyena is.
The sharp jaw teeth are best at crushing hard bones, and then allowing them to lick the marrow inside the bones.
Bone marrow is the hyena's favorite.
The iron-toothed hyenas that appeared behind the teenagers were all over 1.6 meters in length, and each one exuded a cunning and ferocious aura.
After being followed by the iron-toothed hyenas for several minutes, and seeing that they could not get rid of them or kill them, Ivan, one of the young men in the team, gave a decisive order.
"Leave a moorland deer behind!"
Although somewhat reluctant to part with it, a wilderness-antlered deer that was killed by the teenagers was quickly thrown behind them. Leaving a wilderness-antlered deer could increase the speed of action of the teenagers and free up one or two people.
It also allowed the few iron-toothed hyenas behind them to temporarily follow their footsteps.
It's best to get rid of these iron-toothed hyenas like this.
This is the most real thought in every teenager's mind when leaving behind the antlered deer in the wilderness. No one understands the terror of these iron-toothed hyenas better than them.
After leaving behind the wilderness antlered deer, the teenagers started running, and the still-living prey on Joey was picked up by another person.
Just after the teenagers ran a short distance, they all heard a terrifying sound of teeth breaking bones behind them.
The teenagers did not escape the pursuit of the iron-toothed hyenas. Less than five minutes after those iron-toothed hyenas disappeared, more iron-toothed hyenas began to appear behind the teenagers. The iron-toothed hyenas that appeared this time had already
Not five, but a large, shadowy group, at least twenty or thirty.
When they saw the twenty or thirty iron-toothed hyenas, the faces of the teenagers suddenly changed. They knew that this time, it was really bad. Iron-toothed hyenas are used to hunting in groups. The iron-toothed hyenas they encountered this time
.Not three or five, but a herd of twenty or thirty iron-toothed hyenas.
This time, Ivan didn't even need to say anything. All the teenagers threw away the two wilderness antlered deer they were still holding without thinking, and then started running with all their strength. Even Joey didn't say anything. Because people are alive,
More important than anything else. There are no more milk-producing wilderness antlered deer to catch, and once a person dies, there is nothing. The iron-toothed hyenas that appear behind them now have exceeded the limit they can handle.
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None of the teenagers expected that they would actually encounter a beast tide this time, and that so many iron-toothed hyenas would appear so close to the village at once. This was something that had never happened before, and it was no longer close to their village.
Far away is the traditional hunting range in their village. In the past, this area had a strong deterrent effect on those beasts even when a beast tide broke out. But this time, so many iron-toothed hyenas appeared here at once, and it was threatening.
, it is no longer them. It is the safety of their entire village.
The teenagers tried their best to start running in the direction of their own village. They were all panting. But before the teenagers could run two kilometers away, the iron-toothed hyenas behind them appeared again, and each of them looked at them fiercely.
Looking at them...
People can never outrun the iron-toothed hounds in the wild. If they continue to run, those iron-toothed hounds will only wait for them to be exhausted, then rush up and easily suck out not a drop of their bone marrow.
The formation of iron-toothed hounds following the teenagers began to spread out, and there was already a tendency to outflank them from both sides.
Seeing a mountain wall in front of him, Ivan immediately shouted, "Where can we form a formation..."
A few minutes later, the teenagers stood tightly together with their backs against a mountain wall, each holding their weapons tightly. In front of them, a large group of iron-toothed hyenas slowly surrounded them.
Looking at those hyenas, the faces of the teenagers all turned pale. They knew that this time it would be more dangerous, but they just didn't know how many iron-toothed hyenas they could catch to support themselves this time.
"Joy, think about it, what I just said was serious!" The boy who was joking with Joey more than an hour ago didn't forget to add another sentence at this juncture.
"Damn it, let's wait until you survive!" Joey glared at that bastard fiercely.
"Shut up, you two!" Ivan shouted.
Just when the group of iron-toothed hyenas were getting closer and closer, and the palms of the young men holding the javelins were soaked with sweat, everyone suddenly heard a voice with obvious surprise.
"Wow, so many treasures, you are all mine..."
The sound was full of surprise and sounded from a distance, like a tomb robber seeing a pile of treasures when opening a coffin, or a traveler who had been in the desert for a long time seeing a vibrant oasis.
Hearing this voice, teenagers like Ivan and Joey were stunned for a moment. It was indeed shocking for such a voice to appear on such an occasion. What was even more difficult to understand was the meaning of these words - baby?
Is there any treasure here? Are they these iron-toothed hyenas or something else?
Just when the teenagers thought they were hallucinating, a sound sounded. It was like a buzzing, and a little like the subtle friction of a gear mechanism. It was very pleasant to the ears...
As soon as this sound rang out, one of the group of iron-toothed hyenas surrounding several teenagers suddenly burst into a ball of bright blood without even barking. A big hole appeared in his whole body, and he was instantly hit by a burst of blood.
A metal crossbow arrow penetrated and killed him.
The force of the metal crossbow arrow was very great and extremely powerful. After killing the iron-toothed hyena, the crossbow arrow remained powerful and completely submerged into the ground. Such power frightened several teenagers.
From this moment on, in front of several teenagers, the strange buzzing sound began to sound intensively and very quickly. On average, it sounded about three or four times per second, and every time the sound sounded, several people were surrounded by it.
One of the boy's iron-toothed hyenas would have a snowflake bursting from his body, and then fall down in a bloody mess.
Everything that just happened happened so fast. Not to mention a few teenagers, not even the iron-toothed hyenas could react. By the time those iron-toothed hyenas reacted, seventeen or eighteen of them had already been killed.
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In the eyes of several teenagers, a guy rushed down from the hillside in the distance. The man was very fast, and he was holding a huge crossbow-like thing in his hand. None of the teenagers had ever seen something so big and that big.
The strange crossbow and the strange buzzing sound came from the thing that the man was holding,
While the man rushed over quickly, he took that thing and shot at the iron-toothed hyenas. The arrows were accurate and accurate. It was chilling. In the blink of an eye, several more iron-toothed hyenas were killed. Just now
The iron-toothed hyenas, who were still staring at the teenagers, whined and turned and ran away one by one. The man seemed to have not seen the teenagers at all, without even saying hello, he took the thing in his hand and headed towards it.
Those iron-toothed hyenas chased away...
In the blink of an eye, a few more escaping iron-toothed hyenas burst into blood.
"Baby, don't run away..." the man shouted...
The teenagers looked at each other, wondering who this strange guy was...