Chapter 252： Across the frozen salmon river

With the golden sunlight shining on the white earth, the whole world is so pure and sacred.

Leaving the fjord of Roseburg, Rurik was in the team. He was immersed in the clear air of Northern Europe, seeing the solemn and holy surroundings.

"Huh? No wonder the ancients would describe this as heaven. Because this is heaven."

The world was plunged into ice and snow, and the north wind rumbling incessantly in his ears, Rurik felt that his soul had been completely calmed.

"Shall we continue to drive like this?" Rurik asked his father.

"Of course. This is the only fast road we can choose."

Rurik didn't say much, he wrapped his tight deerskin, paying attention to the magnificence in the distance, and also paying attention to the firm footsteps of the Yufu.

It can be said that the entire huge team is marching on the icy sea.

The roaring north wind blows across the ice, which makes the frozen sea and the snow-covered land very different.

The frozen sea is simply a thoroughfare. People who walk do not need to worry about getting caught in the snow, they can move forward at a faster speed. But they can't break away from the coastline

They need the snow-covered coast and the white land not far away as a perfect guide.

In this era when there is no compass and geomagnetism in Northern Europe, hunters follow this northern hunting path.

People generally wear gray-black leather clothes, and some people wear white fox hats.

The short daylight passed quickly, and under the glow of the northern lights, the team was still moving forward.

Because of the snow and ice covering the entire world, they reflect moonlight, starlight, and even laser light. As long as it is a clear day, the Rus can theoretically travel through the night.

After leaving Roseburg, Rurik felt that his people had been on their way.

Whether it is a short day or a long night, everyone is organized and running along the coastline.

How far can the tribesmen walk in just one day? Rurik cannot calculate with a certain tool, he can only evaluate it with experience.

The young warriors of the selected tribes are generally tall and tall, and this advantage of height and strength makes the Rus generally taller than the Novgorods.

a lot of. Just like Kawei’s wife Lilia, Lilia is too thin compared to Kawei who is good at ironing and has bursting arm muscles. People with a little common sense can see

It came out that the huge difference between the two people's bodies was not at all because of the differences in the sexes, but because the two ethnic groups were different in blood.

However, the Russ and Novgorods are ultimately from the "Indo-European" ethnic group.

Lumia is not a descendant of Indo-European people at all. Although she has a "proof of being a mother" at the age of twelve, she looks more like a child.

child.

She is the kind of woman who doesn't seem to grow up.

For Lumia, her height can exceed 160 meters, it is already commendable.

In the past year, Rurik has grown a lot in height, and his golden growth period is coming soon. Even so, Rurik measured the length of the leather

The rope ruler measured his height to exceed 1.3 stika, which actually broke through 130. In the next few years, Rurik’s height is bound to increase by leaps and bounds.

At the age of twelve, it’s okay to grow into 160.

A boy with this height can already become a sword-wielding warrior.

Not only are boys like this, a girl from the Ross tribe grows up to twelve years old, and her height can almost exceed 1.6 stika.

I am afraid that the traditional age of adulthood for the Russians is set at twelve for this reason.

A group of tall and strong Ross soldiers rushed through the night, like tireless mules and horses, only when the stars in the sky moved to the correct position, Otto announced to stop.

rest.

Only at this time, the people of Beishou began to build their own camps on the snow-filled shore.

They piled up snow, quickly built snow walls, and dug snow pits as their sleeping nests.

Many people excavated a semi-cryptic snow pit. They built a frame on the pit with branches and then covered it with a piece of sackcloth. So, a winter camping tent

Thus formed.

After eating some of the cereal that they carried, Rurik and Lumia took the lead in getting into the tent that could shelter from the wind and cold.

"Hehe, did I become an Eskimo like this? Bah! The indigenous people of North Asia must live like this, even..."

After thinking about it, he couldn't help but ask about the so-called winter life of a deer-raiser by his maid chief Lumia.

"Lumia, did you live in such a pit in the winter?"

"Basically that's the way." Lumia lying on the leather cushion, counting the hands of the master left Rick, answered calmly: "I...I'm a little dazed. It's like, you

Is my brother. "

"Is thinking of the passing days?"

"One thing. I...I'm a little scared. I know, you are not my brother."

"No. Today, you treat me as your own brother." Rurik coaxed his woman and wiped her tears. "Stop crying. Some time in the future

In the meantime, I also want to experience the winter life of a deer breeder. I want to get to know those people better, you know, I want to be kind to them, just as kind to you..."

The girl suddenly remembered last year's cold night, a boy holding a sword, desperately defending his heroic posture. Lumia cried more fiercely, she was also very bold and straight

He hugged his master, his younger brother. It's as if the two are real brothers and sisters.

Rurik had the unique experience of sleeping in the snow for the first time, and when it was dark, he woke up peacefully.

He and Lumia climbed out of the snow nest and easily smelled the aroma of barbecue in the air.

Because just in the early hours of the morning, the traps built by some tribesmen with special tools came to fruition. The ignorant Snow Fox and Snow Rabbit tried to chew on the bait and fell into a trip net.

It is better to set up traps than to shoot these animals with bows and arrows, which is what most hunters think.

Although the purpose of everyone's action is to fight a fateful battle with an unknown enemy, the action still has the name "North Hunter", of course everyone has to take the opportunity to hunt.

If everyone stepped into a truly unknown place and caught a large number of ferrets, everyone would have truly made a fortune.

Otto gnaws on the roasted snow rabbits offered by the tribe. He guts at the half-cooked rabbit meat, not forgetting to take a sip of the spirits in the glass bottle. He ate some of the cereal he was carrying,

This breakfast is really delicious.

Otto also threw a skewer of roast rabbit to his son.

The oily roasted rabbit had a hideous face, and Rurik didn't think much about it, and then ate it, not forgetting to tore off the rabbit's legs to Lumia.

Otto clearly saw this scene, thinking that the two children slept in the same nest yesterday, he couldn't help but teased; "Rurik, you are still too young.

do you know? Your Lumia has reached the age to be engaged. It's a pity that you are not yet twelve years old. "

"I will be twelve years old soon. Dad, do you mean that I will be a real man when I am twelve?"

Otto deliberately said: "Becoming a real man is not only to make your woman pregnant, but also that you need some merit. Listen, the more noble person, the more you need

Merit. Just... If you can make Lumia pregnant, I'm very happy. "

As soon as she said this, Lu Mia's heart was shaken strongly, she had a dull face on her bright face, and she immediately thought of many things in her mind.

"But she was a deer breeder. If she were my high priest, would it be..."

Otto understood what his son meant, and immediately said: "She can be your high priest or your wife. We are not the Franks from the south.

There are no restrictions in this area. "

Rurik let out a cry, and gave some of the rabbit meat in his hand to Lumia.

"In this case, I want to treat my women better."

Otto was holding the glass bottle, and he felt that his son's actions had a deeper meaning.

"We'll be on our way again in a while. Rurik, you know that prophecy. Veria's prophecy has never been wrong. This time our enemy is not raising deer.

People, but the enemy is very mysterious, we need to be vigilant. "

"I understand." Rurik said perfunctorily: "I hope there will be some mysterious enemies that must be easy to deal with. By then, my mercenaries will be the first to attack."

Soon, the team set off again.

Lumia is very relieved that the primary target of the Ruth is no longer the deer breeder. Besides, if the Rus’ army continues along the coastline like this

In, the team basically never met a deer breeder.

Lumia, she had already revealed some information about the northern world to Otto, and she also had reservations.

Because of the appearance of Lumia, Otto has a new understanding of the unknown places in the north, such as the sea at the end of the world is real.

Lumia claimed that when she was a child, she and her family looked at the northern sea. It is said that the end of that icy sea is the edge of the world. Only when winter comes,

The night will completely cover the world, and the sea will be completely covered by ice and snow. At this time the brave can step on the ice to explore the end of the world.

Of course Otto believed Lumia's words, after all, the deer-raiser girl's statement coincided with the information provided by Veria.

Regarding this information, Rurik certainly has greater reservations.

Rurik didn't explain that the so-called sea at the end of the world was the eye of the ice, let alone tell his father and all his people the details of the whole world. For example,

He did not specify the true coastline of the Baltic World where Roseburg is located.

Rurik felt that sometimes the words were too detailed, and the people of the tribe couldn't understand the huge amount of information. In short, if they can believe that they have been left, they can see the "world

"The Sea at the End of the World" is enough.

If the army of the tribe continues north, encountering the deer-raising clan grazing in winter is almost a certainty.

Lumia knows that the deer breeders will not venture into the southern coast, and they do not want to meet the Vikings, nor do they want to have too much contact with the Finns.

Only the army of the Rus people walked along the coast, and their army encountered new deer breeders, but what was the mysterious enemy?

Lumia, she was even more convinced of the prophecy of the high priest. The thought of the high priest not very vaguely pointed out that this action was actually his own master, Rurik

In the first battle, she was even more nervous.

The first battle? Who is the enemy? Is it necessary to fight an unknown enemy? Will something go wrong? He... will never get hurt.

Changes in things cannot tolerate Lu Mia's control, and even the route of the Rus tribe's march is not controlled by human will.

The march lasted for four full and short days.

On the way, they marched and hunted by the way.

In the past days, many tribes have gained a lot. On the sledges dragged by some people, the supplies increased.

If it is not particularly necessary, the Ross people do not like to consume precious wheat. They try their best to fill their hunger with the snow rabbits and foxes they hunt, peel off their furs and keep them for sale.

And pay special attention to the preservation of the fox's leg bones, so-called processing into special tools.

Compared to tribal warriors with short wooden bows, Rurik's crossbow can be said to have gained a lot. Because you can aim and shoot, the powerful arrows fired are very powerful, and the people of the tribe

What I saw was that hunting suddenly became easier.

Jeflo took his men and lost five crossbow arrows in Israel (flew into the thick snow and really couldn't find them), stupefied and hunted more than fifty snow rabbits, and

Ten white foxes.

It's funny to say, those white foxes deliberately stopped and saw strange things approaching themselves. They feel that the distance is still safe, their bodies just made an escape

To prepare, he was suddenly shot by a crossbow arrow. The arrow can even penetrate the body of the fox, and the snow fox is killed on the spot. This is the fox's fur with two huge holes.

, Making it poorly sold.

But it really proved the lethality of heavy crossbow arrows on flesh and blood.

According to Evlo’s claim, everyone who tried their luck in the nearby woods also encountered a group of Arctic wolves. However, the wolves chose to retreat, making Rurik missed one.

An opportunity to fish for wolf skins.

Rurik's mercenaries did not succeed in hunting the wolves, but some members of the tribe succeeded.

The warrior who killed the Arctic wolf cut off the wolf's head and inserted it on the spearhead of the short spear that he used as a marching stick. Such a person has no limit to trouble, just to show the wolf

Show off your strength to others.

For four or five days, the army of the Rus tribe continued to move out towards the end of the so-called "explored world." Beishou’s actions so far are in the true sense.

Hunting.

Some experienced young hunters who used bows and arrows to avenge the Gotland at the end of April, they held poor hunting bows, and let them snow

A large amount of rabbit skin was piled up on the sled.

Along the way, the team crossed several icy creeks, and soon the team made a significant geographic turn.

The team is no longer a road straight to the north, but straight to the east along the coastline.

Soon, the fishermen who accompanied the team recognized a large river that was frozen by ice.

The fishermen of the Ross tribe had long believed that the waters north of Roseburg lacked fish resources, but some brave fishermen decided to take a field trip. Just investigated

As a result, there are indeed few fish in the northern waters, but there are a large number of salmon and trout in the nearby rivers.

The mouth of the river in this area is a bit far from Roseburg, and the migration of salmon happens to be in September, which is already very cold. Fishermen generally don’t want to take risks and are afraid

I caught my own fish, and the fishing boat was frozen on the sea as a result.

This time, after a group of accompanying young fishermen exchanged opinions, they clearly informed the leader Otto: "This is the Salmon River that has been explored by the brave."

"Salmon River"? A very strange and unfamiliar name.

Otto thought for a while, maybe in last year’s adventure north hunting, the team passed the upper reaches of the river but at that time everyone helped on the way, and they saw the so-called scenery

To all is brand new. Under the harsh conditions of that extreme cold, the explorers are full of fear of the unknown world.

After learning that his people had actually explored this place in the summer, Otto no longer felt that the road he had traveled before was the so-called road of adventure.

But the route that was supposed to be traveled by ships in the past has become the feet of the brave this time.

Facing the wide ice-bound river, under the “scorching sun” of the short day, Otto held up his long sword and shouted: “Brothers! This salmon river is ours.

The limit of Sri Lankan exploration! Let us cross this river and explore the unknown world. Fight against unknown enemies! Bros! Come with me! "

Otto didn't say any more, not even the sled.

Holding the Damascus steel sword full of patterns, he took the lead in selling the first step across the river in the name of the big boss.

Upon seeing this, the inspired people followed closely.