Chapter 27: Hard winter

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After the autumn, heavy rains continued for several days around Mangyaling. The water in the Yema Creek soared. Floodwater poured in from the mountain pass and submerged all the valleys on the north side of Wumengshizhai.
But the flood did not recede, and the piercing cold wave hit again. Almost within two days, the long and narrow flooded valley nearly twenty miles deep was frozen hard and covered with a layer of ice.
The heavy rain turned into heavy snow the next day, covering the deep valley of Chongshan Mountain in Mangyaling into a white snow.
After the Yema Creek froze, it became very easy for the Black Mountain tribes on the north bank to come over to make a surprise attack; Chen Xun could only temporarily put down his training, and went to Gukou on the south bank of Yema Creek to guard against the wind and snow with Zong Sang and other Wu Mang martial arts. .
This is the fourth cold winter that Chen Xun has experienced in this world. I feel that this year's cold wave came very early, and the cold wind that poured in from Taniguchi was also exceptionally bitter.
He almost has the cultivation base of the fifth-level peak of brutal martial arts. His body is wrapped in animal skins, he wears scales, and his bare hands and feet are still painfully cut by the piercing cold wind. This is just the beginning of winter, and I don’t know this winter. , How many people in the stockade can't survive.
Under the ice sheet that was frozen overnight, there were many corpses of birds and beasts, as well as many drowned wild tribesmen. I don’t know where from the upper reaches of the Wild Horse Creek was washed over by the flood, and under the ice sheet there was a desperate struggle before drowning. look.
The mouth of the valley is about six to seven hundred meters wide, and from the valley is the Yema Creek. The naturally formed mud dam has long been shattered by the soaring flood.
Chen Xun placed the heavy front spear across his knees and squatted on a boulder, watching the ice and snow go down to Taniguchi, thinking that if the black python could organize the manpower, he would build a stone embankment six to seven hundred meters long, nearly twenty miles deep. The gorge will become a treasure land of droughts and floods.
Although Wumang took the mountains within a radius of tens of miles on the south bank of the Yema Creek as its own at this time, and could enter the Mangyaling deep mountain hunting without restrictions, but most of these hunting areas are rugged deep valleys in the mountains. , Only a small piece of gentle to the south of Shizhai and this gorge is a rare dam flat land in Mangyaling.
This gorge is nearly 20 miles deep, the narrowest part of the valley mouth is only 600 to 700 meters wide, and the widest part is only three or four miles, but the bottom of the valley is flat and open, which is a rare flat land in the mountains for farming.
The floods of the Wild Horse Creek all the year round bring a lot of fertile soil, which is extremely precious.
Chen Xun read "Canglan Miscellaneous Records" and learned that thousands of years ago, the Canglan ancestors had tribes collecting wild grains and cultivating them on flat slopes, and they had a longer history of raising herbivorous animals.
If you really want to make good use of this canyon flat dam, the Wumeng people don't have to worry about the food problems of the thousands of people.
However, the biggest problem currently facing Wumang is that its strength is not enough.
Even if Wumang has the ability to build stone embankments at Tanikou at this time to block the floods that erupted from the upper reaches of the Yema Creek in summer and autumn, grow grains and raise animals, but in addition to the coveting of the Black Mountains on the north bank of the Yema Creek, it also hunts in the deep mountains. The gathering of birds and beasts is a serious threat.
Seeing Grandpa's Tu and Nan Li walking by, Chen Xun vibrated the snow particles on his armor, jumped off the boulder, walked over, and said, "Grandpa, this winter is really cold. It's such a heavy snowstorm. I am afraid that the stockade will have to do more preparations."
"The cold wave once in ten years is not easy to survive!" Wu Gong Zongtu frowned, with old faces like old trees huddled together, with indescribable worries.
"Cold wave?" Chen Xun had only experienced the fourth winter in this world. He didn't know how threatening the savage tribes living north of Mangyaling would be.
"Axun, from today on until the beginning of spring, you don't want to enter the mountains anymore," Wu Gong Zongtu said seriously, "this cold wave is a bit worse than in previous years. I don't know how many wild beasts will follow. Going out in the deep mountains to search for food, the stone walls of the stockade will have to be repaired and repaired..."
Although Mangyaling is only a branch of Tushan Mountain, the main peak at the deepest point is also high into the clouds. The deepest part of the top of the mountain and the deep part of the mountain are covered with snow and ice all year round, and the distance is white.
When the cold wave hits, all the Shizhai in the canyon drips into ice. What kind of cold will it be on the lofty mountains above Yunxiao?
It has just entered winter, and the entire long winter will last for five or six months.
In order to avoid the severe cold, a large number of birds and beasts will migrate from the severely cold mountains to the mountains that can shelter from the wind, and those wild animals that do not go out of the deep mountains all year round, although they are not afraid of the severe cold, but for food, they will also appear more frequently in the cold winter. The fringe area of ​​Yaling.
As the cold wave hits from the north, the northern Huze Wasteland will be subjected to a more cruel test. A large number of ferocious birds and beasts living in the northern Huze District and even further north will move south to avoid the cold, which will bring more to the surrounding tribes. A deadly threat.
"Canglan Miscellaneous Records" has many records of entire village tribes being swallowed by beasts.
As if to confirm Chen Xun’s concern, at this moment two screams came from the far north of the sky. Chen Xun turned his head and saw that there were two dark shadows coming from the distance. In the blink of an eye, he saw two giant giants. The eagle swooped down into the valley from the blue sky.
In the blink of an eye, a giant eagle grabbed a mountain leopard and leaped into the sky again. The other giant eagle quickly grabbed a giant snake from the mountain and soared into the sky, and flew to the depths of Mangya Ridge to the south.
The giant vulture flicked above, spreading its fleshy wings, which was bigger than that of a bull. It was covered with blue-gray carapace scales, without a single feather. The huge bird's body seemed to be made of iron, scatter the cold under the white cold sun. Light.
Gryphon!
Both "Canglan Miscellaneous Records" and "Western Wilderness Classics" mentioned that this kind of alien bird is the overlord of the sky a hundred times more powerful than the blue-eyed eagle. The sturdy and fierce mountain leopard, under the iron claws of the scale eagle, There is no room for struggle.
Seeing this situation, Chen Xun was secretly surprised.
"It seems that the stockade also needs to prepare more live beasts..." Wu Gongzongtu said to Nan Li worriedly, looking at the scaly eagle that swept into the depths of Mangyaling from the sky.
Even if the strength of the barbarians of the whole village is combined, it will inevitably suffer heavy casualties if they can capture and kill such a ferocious beast, but there are only 20 people in the village of barbarians and enlightened souls, and no one can afford to lose.
If such ferocious beasts come to attack the village, what the black python can do is to throw out the living beasts that have been prepared for a long time to protect the people of the clan.
"Grandpa, there is still a month before the cold winter really arrives. I want to take a trip to the Huze District to the north..." Chen Xun said to Grandpa Zongtu.
Before Chen Xun was unable to walk out of the surrounding mountains, he could only confine his activities in the black python hunting area, and even the Huze Plain, fifty or sixty miles to the north, had no chance to take a look.
Now the various tribes in Beishan are busy preparing for the cold, and hunting teams are rarely deployed on a large scale. It is extremely unlikely that Chen Xun will encounter the Black Mountain brutal forces in the wilderness.
Even if he unfortunately encounters an advanced brute like Gu Hu in the wild, who is not capable of the enemy, it is not without a chance to escape.
After the spring of next year, Su Qingfeng, deputy lieutenant of Su Wu, will send people to Mangyaling to select the tribe's children who are recommended to enter the Canglan Academy. Chen Xun considered it twice and decided to give it a try.
Although Wu Mang’s Nine Nether War Spear is profound and profound, it is far beyond the reach of Dapeng’s Secret Fist, but it’s not to say that there is no secret technique after Tian Man in the training of Barbarian Soul. Even the true blood of the first man should be condensed. There is no detailed practice method.
For the moment, Chen Xun wanted to practice advanced barbaric martial arts or other profound arts, and Canglan Academy was the only way.
However, after seeing the deeds of Su Ling and Su Yi, the two dudes of the Su clan, Chen Xun also knew that Canglan was not a place to live easily, and the Su clan was definitely not a believing man.
He wants to go to Canglan after the spring, and his own strength will continue to be strengthened to be more confident.
Although there are still ten Ju Yuan Pills in his hand, ten Ju Yuan Pills are only enough for him to practice for a month.
Now the wild beasts in the depths of Mangyaling are beginning to be restless, and going to the mountains to collect medicine will become extremely dangerous. He wants to find more elixir for training, so he can only hit the Huze area in the north. Hit luck.
"Canglan Miscellaneous Records" records that there will be a lag of one or two months from the beginning of the cold wave to the large-scale southward migration of the herd. Chen Xun wanted to take this time to take a trip to the northern Huze District to see if it could be harvested. What kind of panacea.
Although the cold wave was bitterly cold, Chen Xun had cultivated to the fifth level of Barbaric Martial at this time, and he needed such painstaking practice to temper the bones of his entire body.

On this trip to the north, Chen Xun did not expect to fight with people. The heavy spears and scale armor were placed in the shack, with a black sheath long knife, iron bow and a pot of iron arrows, and a special medicine basket on his back. Facing the bitter cold wind, he crossed the Yema Creek and climbed northward.
The Huze area to the north of Mangyaling was frozen into a vast ice field at this time, and a large number of weeds and weeds were buried under the ice and snow.
Although Huze District has a flat terrain, lush vegetation and large primitive dense forests, there are many birds and beasts, but in spring, summer and autumn, the volatile rainstorms and a large amount of glacial melt water will flow from Mangyaling and Tushanxiling. When the surrounding mountains and ridges rush out, criss-cross rivers and lakes are formed in the plain area.
In these areas, wild tribes can occasionally enter hunting, but no tribe can survive for a long time in the floods that flood everywhere. In Huze District, the wild animals living in the large primitive dense forests are not necessarily better than others. The ferocious beasts in the steep valleys are slightly weaker.
There are only scattered tribes, and they are struggling to survive according to the high mountains and hills distributed by the stars in Huze District.
The cold snap is not without any benefit.
The deep lake swamp at the edge of the original dense forest was originally a fierce place, but at this time it was severely frozen by the cold current. A large number of poisonous insects and snakes hibernated under the ice and entered hibernation, easily not breaking the ice and hurting people.
On the ice-covered snowfield, there is a flat river without any obstacles on the terrain.
Of course, not wanting to become the prey of birds of prey, Chen Xun did not dare to walk on the snowy field with great care. Instead, he walked carefully northward along the sparse forest area at the junction of the lake and the primitive dense forest.
He came out of Mangyaling, with a white fur animal skin hat on his head, a white fur animal coat, a giant iron bow and a black sheath long knife, and a camouflage wrapped in white animal fur, blending with ice and snow, so that he can be called him. More focused on finding the elixir and exotic herbs needed for training in the ice and snow.
Some elixir and weeds are usually accompanied by venomous insects and snakes, and rare drug users dare to go deep into the lake to collect them.
After winter, the venomous snake and snake either burrow into the mud hole or into the depths of the lake to lie dormant, on the edge of the lake, under the ice and snow, as long as you are patiently looking for it, Chen Xun’s trip will gain more than going into the deep mountains of Mangyaling. Much.