"I have decided to take everyone to stay in the Vine Tribe for the winter."
"Don't regret it? Let me remind you that the Vine Tribe can only provide winter rations for a maximum of thirty people. If anyone can't survive this winter, they will die!"
Jingjie said with firm eyes: "I don't regret it."
In fact, Nepeta has no room for regret.
If you choose thirty people to join the Vine tribe, the others will die. If you continue to look for other tribes, more people will die.
After eliminating these options, it actually became the best choice for everyone to stay in the Vine Tribe to survive the winter.
"Okay, now that you have decided, I will immediately gather people to help you build houses for the winter."
Just as Jiang Xuan was about to turn around, Jingjie grabbed Jiang Xuan's sleeve.
Jiang Xuan glanced at him, and the tall Jingjie slowly let go of his hand and asked in a low voice: "Chief, you said that there is a way for us to find food in winter, is that true?"
Jiang Xuan looked at Jingjie's expectant eyes, nodded, and said: "Of course it's true, it won't do me any good if you freeze to death or starve to death."
Nepeta let out a long breath and said: "That's good, that's good..."
"Is there anything else?"
"No more."
"Then I will inform the tribe to help you build a house. In addition, you need to stock up on a lot of dry firewood to survive the cold winter."
"Okay." The Nepeta Chicken nodded like it was pecking at rice.
Jiang Xuan turned and left, sighing slightly in his heart. In this dangerous wild world, it is too difficult to survive. Even warriors like Jing Jie have to lower their heads and be careful to survive.
If given a choice, who would be willing to be coy?
Jiang Xuan shook his head and went to find someone to build a house.
In the next ten days, the Teng tribe worked hard to build houses for these tourists.
In order to build faster, in addition to bamboo, a large number of trees, stones, etc. were used to build the houses. Jiang Xuan only had one requirement for these houses, and that was to be strong.
In addition to building houses, tourists also work hard to collect all kinds of dry firewood whenever they have free time to prepare for winter heating needs.
Jiang Xuan, Uncaria and others hunted as much as possible, fished as much as possible every day, and stocked up on food like crazy.
Some small prey that were looked down upon in the past are now easily caught for winter.
On September 23, all ten houses for tourists were built, and firewood was piled into a hill, enough to burn for a long time.
September 25th, night.
"Woo woo woo..."
The cold wind howled outside, making the branches and leaves rustle.
Fortunately, Jiang Xuan used mud to seal the gaps in the bamboo house in advance. Otherwise, the little warmth generated by the burning fire pit in the house would be taken away by the cold wind.
"It's probably going to snow."
Jiang Xuan muttered, tightened the animal skin mattress covering his body, and then continued to sleep.
In the second half of the night, the wind outside gradually stopped, but snowflakes began to float in the sky. At first, there were just a few scattered ones, but then they became bigger and bigger, flying all over the sky.
That night, many people did not sleep well because it was too cold.
The next morning, Jiang Xuan woke up. After putting on his animal skin clothes, he was about to wash his face as usual. However, when he opened the door, he saw that the earth had turned into a vast white scene.
"It's really snowing!"
Jiang Xuan returned to the bamboo house, blocked the door, found the calendar bamboo tube, and engraved the word "Xiao Xue" next to today's date.
It's snowing, which means the long winter has officially begun. For the tribal people, the cold winter with lack of food and clothing is undoubtedly a nightmare.
Jiang Xuan replaced the calendar bamboo tube and walked outside again.
He is already a two-color warrior, and his physical fitness is much stronger than that of ordinary people. It is like there is a burning furnace in his body, and he is not afraid of the cold.
He turned around and looked towards the stone mountain, only to see that the stone mountain and the ancient vines were also covered with a thick layer of white snow. Halfway up the mountain, the giant dragonfly that had almost lost its strength had been frozen to death last night.
The corpse of the giant dragonfly became an ice sculpture, and together with the ancient vines on the stone mountain, it became part of the winter snow scene.
"After all, I still couldn't get over it."
Jiang Xuan sighed slightly. Although he had already guessed that this giant dragonfly would die, he still felt uncomfortable when he saw it die with his own eyes.
Jiang Xuan looked at it for a while, then walked somewhere else, leaving a line of deep footprints in the snow...
In the visitor's house, Nepeta got up early and sat by the firepit, his eyes very melancholy.
"I hope everyone can live until spring."
Although he said so, past experience told him that even if the previous tribe was well prepared, people would die every winter.
Some people died because of disease, some people died because of cold, some people died because of hunger...
It is simply a dream to take all these more than 100 tourists through the winter.
Nepeta said to the tourists in the room: "You stay here and hug together to keep warm. I'll go find the leader of the Teng tribe."
The tourists nodded one after another. In this weather, the animal skins they wore were thin, and no one wanted to go out and get cold.
Jingjie wrapped her animal skin clothes tightly and opened the door. She shivered from the cold at first, then gritted her teeth and walked out resolutely.
It's a pity that in this severe cold weather, he was still barefoot. If the warrior's body was not stronger, his feet would have been frozen.
After he left, the tourists near the door quickly blocked the door again and propped it up with wooden sticks to prevent it from being blown open by the wind.
After Jie Jie left the house, she immediately saw Jiang Xuan who was walking in the crop field. He braved the cold wind and heavy snow, barefooted, and chased after him.
"Chief, leader..."
Soon after, Nepeta caught up with Jiang Xuan by the pond.
Jiang Xuan took a look at his tattered animal skin clothes and bare feet. He felt a little sad for a moment, but he had to harden his heart.
"What do you want from me when you come out in such a cold weather?"
Jiang Xuan held a bone spear in his hand and poked it at the water surface of the pond. A hole was poked in the snow on the water surface, and the thin ice under the snow was also punctured.
Nepeta said anxiously: "Chief, it's snowing now. It's hard for us to find food. If this continues, everyone will starve."
"Didn't you say before that there is a way for us to find food in winter? We want to find it now."
However, facing Jie Jie's expectant gaze, Jiang Xuan shook his head and said, "Not yet, it just snowed today, the animals in the forest are not hungry yet, and the ice in the water is too thin."<
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"Then...what should we do with our food?"
Nepeta suddenly became anxious. If Jiang Xuan was deceived, more than a hundred tourists would probably die.
"Don't worry, I'll have someone send you some extra food. Plus some of the food you stored before the snow started, we should be able to last for seven or eight days."
"When the animals in the forest start to starve, and when the ice in the water freezes thick enough, I will naturally take you to catch food."
"Chief, you can't lie to us... people will die..."
Jingjie's tone was close to pleading. He was obviously a very tall man, but now he felt like a little wife.
Jiang Xuan patted him on the shoulder and said: "As I said before, it won't do me any good if you starve to death, believe me."
"The weather is so cold, let's go back and warm ourselves by the fire first, and take a walk..."
Jiang Xuan pushed Jing Jie back, but Jing Jie was very uneasy. He didn't know what fate was waiting for him, but he could only wait.
This is a very torturous process.
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