Chapter 233 The idea of heading to the central part of the Southern Wilderness
On October 15th, the snow fell thicker and thicker. Except for some soldiers, most people were hiding in their houses and doing whatever work they could.
After Jiang Xuan finished drawing the map from Feiyu River to the Otter tribe on the animal skin scroll, he had nothing else to do for the time being.
Jiang Xuan felt a little depressed when he thought that winter had just begun.
Staying in the house every day and doing unimportant things will not make him happy.
"What can you do in winter? There is heavy snow everywhere."
Jiang Xuan thought carefully for a long time, then his eyes suddenly lit up and he said: "The old witch said that south of the central part of the Southern Wasteland, it doesn't seem to snow!"
Thinking of this, Jiang Xuan's heart became hot.
Now, the mountains around the Vine Tribe are blocked by heavy snow, and each tribe will try to avoid going out as much as possible. In addition, with a great god sitting in charge, the Vine Tribe is very safe.
At this time, whether he, the leader, is present in the tribe does not have much impact.
He has always wanted to go to the central part of the Southern Wilderness, or even further afield. Now that he has some free time, why not go?
Thinking of this, Jiang Xuan immediately put on an animal skin coat, opened the door, and walked to the place where the old witch lived.
The snow has fallen thicker and thicker. Every time Jiang Xuan takes a step, his knees will be submerged in the thick snow.
But he is a five-color warrior and his limbs are extremely strong. Even walking in such an environment does not feel difficult.
Not long after, he walked to the front of the house where the old witch lived.
The old witch's house is no longer the low bamboo house it was originally, but has been replaced by a spacious mud-brick house. There is even a yard on the left side of the house.
To the right of the house is a giant eagle's nest built in the open space.
The giant eagle was sleeping. After Jiang Xuan arrived, it just glanced at it, then shook the snow off its feathers and continued to sleep.
"Dong dong dong..."
Jiang Xuan knocked on the old witch's door.
"Who is it?"
"It's me, Xuan."
There were footsteps in the house, and then the door was pulled a few times and opened.
Because it snows every year where the Vine Tribe is located, when the construction team built the house, the doors opened inward to avoid the situation where the snow was too thick and the door could not be pushed open.
"Come in and close the door."
After the old witch opened the door, he returned to the fire pit.
When he is not using his witchcraft, he is just an ordinary old man. On such a cold day, it is warmer by the firepit.
Jiang Xuan pushed the snow outside the door with his feet, and then quickly closed the door to block the cold wind that poured into the house.
He walked to the fire pit, sat on a low stool polished with wood piles, and watched the old witch using a wooden stick to scoop out a few round potatoes with a burnt skin in the fire pit.
"Do you want to eat or not?"
"eat."
The old witch pulled a roasted round potato over to Jiang Xuan, picked up one himself, blew on it, and peeled off the charred outer shell, revealing the round potato's light red flesh, which was full of fragrance.
Jiang Xuan himself also picked up the round potato, peeled it open and ate it.
Round potatoes look like round balls, with dark red skin and light red flesh. They are a bit like sweet potatoes, but they are much larger and taste better than sweet potatoes.
Jiang Xuan took a bite and felt very hot, but he couldn't bear to spit it out, so he breathed and inhaled through his teeth to cool down in this way.
After it cooled down a bit, I chewed it and swallowed it.
When he took the second bite, he was not so anxious. He blew it to cool it before putting it in his mouth.
"Old Witch, you said before that it doesn't snow in the central part of the Southern Wasteland, right?"
"That's right."
"I want to go there, can you tell me in detail?"
The old witch was not very surprised by this, because with Jiang Xuan's character, he would go sooner or later.
"The central part of the Southern Wilderness is a very lively and dangerous place..."
The old witch recalled it for a while, and then told Jiang Xuan in a leisurely manner what he knew about the central part of the Southern Wilderness.
Including the tribes he visited, the dangers he encountered, and some more peculiar places.
Jiang Xuan's eyes were shining as he listened to the old witch's description.
He couldn't wait to go over and see it with his own eyes.
The old witch talked for a long time and in detail, including which tribes were easier to deal with, which tribe was more hostile to outsiders, etc.
At the end of the sentence, the old witch solemnly reminded: "If you meet people from the Red Ant Tribe, you must not mention anything about the Mountain Turtle Tribe, and don't deliberately inquire about it."
"Don't worry, I won't mention it."
The old witch nodded and said nothing more. He believed that with Jiang Xuan's intelligence, he would definitely be able to grasp the right balance.
After understanding the general situation in the central part of the Southern Wilderness, Jiang Xuan also ate two roasted round potatoes, stood up and left.
After coming out of the old witch's house, Jiang Xuan went to find Red Shao, Uncaria and others respectively, and told them his idea of going to the central part of the Southern Wilderness.
Undo and others were worried about Jiang Xuan's safety and wanted to follow, but Jiang Xuan refused.
The leader left the tribe. If these leaders also left, would the tribe still be in chaos?
Two days later, Jiang Xuan arranged the affairs of the tribe and prepared a large amount of witchcraft medicine, food, weapons and other things that were used in daily life.
Finally, just to be on the safe side, Jiang Xuan went to the altar and asked Shen Teng for life-saving means.
"Kakaka..."
A frozen vine twisted, the ice cubes on it shattered, and then fell down with a "rustling" sound.
"Click..."
This vine bloomed with green divine light, fell off from the main body, and then wrapped around Jiang Xuan's arm. The light flashed and the vine disappeared into the arm. After the light disappeared, it looked like a tattoo.
"Thank you Fujigami."
Jiang Xuan thanked Shen Teng, then returned to his yard, took all his belongings, left the Teng tribe in a glutinous rice ball, and flew to the distant and unknown central part of the Southern Wilderness.
He did not fly directly south, but headed along the Feiyu River, because Shanjia once said that it was along this river that the Mountain Turtle tribe came to the Great Swamp from the middle.
One of Jiang Xuan's purposes for going to the Southern Wilderness this time was to draw a navigation chart for the fleet to prepare for the trip of the Goteng tribe's fleet.
Therefore, every time the glutinous rice ball flies a certain distance, Jiang Xuan will make it stop and draw the changes in the river course and the iconic landforms on both sides.
If there is a tribe on the river bank, Jiang Xuan will also mark the tribe's totem pattern on it.
Jiang Xuan had already drawn the section of the river from the Teng Tribe to the Otter Tribe. He continued to fly very far and did not find any other tribes settling on the river bank.
In this primitive continent, deep water is very dangerous. Except for tribes like the Mountain Turtle Tribe whose totem gods are not afraid of water, most tribes will not settle near the water.
Just walking around like this, a few days later, Jiang Xuan was already far away from the Teng tribe.
At the same time, he discovered a detail, that is, the further forward he flew, the thinner the snow on the ground became.
"The old witch is right. As expected, the further south you go, the warmer the weather will be."
After flying for a few more days, the snow on the ground gradually disappeared.
Looking down from the sky, it is like an invisible line cutting the forest into two large pieces. The northern piece is covered with snow, while the southern piece has no ice or snow at all, with lush evergreen trees.
Jiang Xuan let the glutinous rice balls land at this dividing point and recorded the incident on the animal skin scroll.
He marked snowflakes on the side where it snows, and a sun on the side where it doesn't snow, which is easy to understand.
After taking a short rest and eating something, Jiang Xuan set off again on his glutinous rice balls.
The glutinous rice balls flew so fast that Jiang Xuan felt like flying on an airplane. If they hadn't stopped and stopped and had to rest and sleep at night, they might have reached the middle of the Southern Wilderness long ago.
In addition to climate changes, when Jiang Xuan was drawing the map, he discovered that the terrain had also changed a lot.
The further you fly south, the more flat and wider the terrain becomes. Even if there are some mountains, they are not as steep as the northwest of the Southern Wilderness.
Jiang Xuan looked at the flat forest and sighed: "No wonder the larger tribes have to go to the central part of the Southern Wilderness. In this flat place, whether it is hunting or land reclamation, it is much easier than that in the great swamp!"
Tangyuan continued to fly forward, and the river in front gradually became wider, and many tributaries appeared along the way, and the number of tribes on the ground gradually increased.
A few days later, Jiang Xuan finally met another tribe living on the river bank.
He thought for a while and decided to go to this tribe to find out how far it was from the central part of the Southern Wilderness.