Chapter 487： From Elonburg to Fiskele Camp and then to Lake Seporava

The Ross hunters enjoyed the host-like service. Most of them rested for a whole day. Although they had **** with the local women, they felt stronger.

Ross has formed an alliance with Balmerk, and most people are very unfamiliar with the tribe of the Western Harbour. They seem to have 20,000 members, and every man has the dream of conquering the endless sea (the Atlantic Ocean). They should not be underestimated.

Rurik came with a strong purpose, and he didn't need to worry too much about the follow-up.

Metzasta took the task. He arranged some people to insist on mining in winter. The furnace of the blacksmith's workshop in Elronburg was completely in charge of Kawei and Kamnier, and the ferrochrome was still being produced.

Rurik's eyes were fixed to the north, which was a winter pasture for deer breeders, a place where bears were infested, and a land of giant trees.

Rurik only knew the macro-geographic outline of Northern Europe, but he also didn't know the precise location of the mineral resources at all.

He is a half-knowledge explorer, and the other people just don't know.

Going north to hunt for precious fur is accompanied by great risks. The cold is more terrible than polar bears.

It is said that the Ross people or other Vikings are not afraid of the cold, and dared to run wildly in the snow shirtless, only a few madmen dare to do so.

Which hunter under Rurik's command is not fully armed? Everyone dressed very thickly, and the weapons in their hands were also very good.

He still took Seporava, and the two of them sat in a sleigh that was warm and sheltered from the wind, and brought a torsion slingshot, a heavy weapon, in the "reindeer army" driven by 300 hunters, Balmerk explorers, and even deer breeders. He rushed to a very clear place violently.

Fort Elrond is a key base in the north and is expected to develop into a prosperous city.

Just considering the new situation, Rurik can no longer count as a frontier fortress. He needs to build a more northern stronghold for winter hunting, and this stronghold must be operated throughout the year to provide a safe and reliable post for the future destined to prosper trade route with new allies.

It must be in the north, it must be adjacent to the river, and it must be self-reliant.

Rurik couldn't rebuild a stronghold, because the Rus had already opened it up.

He didn't need to worry about anything. The army was advancing fast on the frozen river, and the destination was the lake upstream.

The Elon River (Kemi River) originated in the Murmansk plateau, and it flows into a soothing place where many rivers converge. Especially a very critical stream, which comes from the northern part of the central mountain range of Scandinavia. The specific source is a mountain lake. To the west of the lake is the huge Narvik Gorge where the Balmerk tribe is located. Bay.

The confluence of the rivers forms a lake, which is the habitat of many cold-water fishes and the spawning grounds of many salmon populations.

In another era, a Finnish city named Rovaniemi was established here, and now the Rus have conquered it and established seasonal settlements.

Lurik is determined to make it permanent. The so-called summer fishing and winter hunting are used as an inn for welcoming guests throughout the year.

Her destiny is Fiskele Castle, which is the Fisherman's Bastion, and Rurik decided to name it permanently.

Hunting army destination, Fiskele Castle! go ahead!

The deer breeders drove the deer to stop and go, only the deer pulling the sled moving forward faster.

More than 300 people crowded in forty sledges. They brought a batch of food and construction tools. They were confident in building a solid winter. The area they were traveling on was now quite unfamiliar to everyone.

A sleigh is pulled by only two reindeer. Thanks to the smoothness of the glacier, Rülik doesn't feel the reindeer is too tired. People continued to move forward for a while under the curtain of night, and when they were really tired, they camped in the snow by the glacier.

How far is Fiskele?

Rurik counted the time, and their party froze for two full days on the road. They set off early in the morning, and until the evening of the third day, people finally realized that the world ahead was smooth.

The soft light of the setting sun gave a magnificent sunset, and the ice-covered lake was also a glow.

Seeing such a scene, Rurik also indulged in its beauty.

"The world of ice and snow is really beautiful, but it's too cold." An unknown force urged him to jump off the sled, and Rurik stood on the thick ice and commanded loudly: "Find our summer camp and camp there!"

The fishing camp that was built in the summer was right by the lake. Rülik looked around and didn't bother to search for it. He quickly found the wooden buildings.

The team quickly went to the final destination. Some people who had fished here in the summer returned. They could not recognize the wooden houses covered with thick snow for a while.

Look at all of this.

Rurik pinched his waist and was pleased with the struggle of the tribe: "It's really great. I thought I had to build a lot of houses. I really couldn't think of it! I only need to build a wind-shielding wooden wall?"

Biyuni stepped forward: "I've been here before, and that's where I met your people."

"Oh?" Rurik patted his forehead: "I remember, you said about it. What do you think of this place now?"

Biyuni shrugged: "There is too much snow, and you can still live in it after cleaning. The house is simple and we can build it right away. At least it should be used as a stable camp. I don't want to sleep outside."

"Alright. We will start logging now, and then the brothers will spread out and hunt freely."

"Free hunting?" Biyuni was taken aback: "I thought your army was going to carry out cooperative hunting. Bears can't be killed by one person. Could it be..."

Rurik laughed confidently: "My people like to hunt freely. When you meet a bear, kill it or be killed by it. Real warriors don't fear the cold and wild beasts. If they die, it is also destiny. . You should understand that the bravest fighters need this kind of experience."

Biyuni had nothing to say, he still felt that Rurik was reckless in his indulgence to the tribe, because the bear was very dangerous.

Rurik had just settled down, and he even had a few words with Bijuni, when the crisis came suddenly.

In a wild world, danger always happens suddenly.

Some hunters saw weird scratches on the wood of the old camp. They instinctively became vigilant and drew out long swords or picked up crossbows with arrows.

There seemed to be a monster hidden in the concealed wooden door. Several hunters walked cautiously, opened the wooden door and saw the monster nestled inside.

The monster began to roar, then rushed out yelling, and finally its huge figure was exposed to the setting sun.

Many hunters were knocked down, thanks to the very thick leather clothing for protection, and the snow in the surrounding world, let everyone save their lives. They got up, picked up the sword, and were about to fight the monster.

More hunters took action. Hundreds of pairs of eyes saw it. A brown bear that had stolen from the camp's house to hibernate rushed out, and more than a dozen hunters used their spears as a marching rod to stab the bear. The bear was struggling madly while crying in pain, and the Rose hunters did not dare to attack rashly. They had a safer way to kill the bear.

The hunters in the team in charge of the deadly steel-armed crossbow, they used all their strength to wind up, installed cone-head piercing arrows, and hit the shooting bear's head at close range. Is the bear's skull an iron plate? The arrow is stuck in the bear's forehead, and the beast is dead...

Such a crazy bear hunting scene was clearly seen by Bijuni.

He focused on the last attack of the Rose Hunter, and immediately stunned: "Your kind of crossbow, actually..."

"How?" Rurik's heart was beating wildly, and he knew that the threat was lifted instantly, but his trembling could not be controlled at all. He tried his best to cover up his nervousness with a smile: "This is how we hunt bears. You can hunt bears on the crossbow and kill squirrels on the bottom."

"It was killed by you like this? It's amazing. Rurik!" Biyunni slapped Rurik's shoulder directly: "My brother, I beg you to send some crossbows to our tribe. Oh no, we Willing to exchange it with salt."

Should we send weapons to new allies? Rurik couldn't answer for a while.

He simply stayed silent, and Bijuni didn't ask much when he saw it. The crossbow of the Ross people has completely changed Bijuni's understanding of bows and arrows. In the harbour of their hometown, the tribesmen know how to make bows and arrows, but the power of a hunter's bow is average. It can hunt wild deer at best. Don't think about hunting bears except for other things.

Many of the people who were knocked down by the bear had their mouths broken. They were slapped by the tribesmen, praising that "God protects you well."

Unexpectedly, the action of hunting bears started like this. The first bear to be killed was a brown bear. It seems that in this frozen world, there must be a number of caves hiding bears in hidden corners of the forest.

The leather of the brown bear is not as valuable as the polar bear. The former hibernates and the latter wanders around.

In this era, polar bears wandering on land would even use ambushes to kill wandering reindeer. As for the ice caps of the Arctic Ocean, hunting seals is another option. The world the Russ entered is no different from no man's land. In the vast world, a group of deer breeders who are still living freely cannot have any impact on the ecology of this world.

Polar bears are still wandering in this area, which the Ross people are very convinced. Now everyone has a new choice-find a cave to shoot the hibernating brown bear.

Bear bile seems to make a man a hundred times stronger, Rurik doesn't believe it at all. Some hunters are interested in the internal organs of brown bears, especially the liver of bears. As for the bear meat, it is naturally divided among everyone. Everyone gets a piece of bear meat, and everyone grills it and eats it as the beginning of the hunting event.

The Ross people settled in the old camp in summer. They carried an axe and a double saw to cut down the surrounding pine forests and reinforce their houses with wood.

A house selected by Rurik has been reinforced, and in the future this will be a storage warehouse for bear skins or other leathers.

The construction work lasted for three days. Except for the more than 50 people who took care of the sled reindeer and continued to build the wall, the other 200 people were scattered around the Fiskele stronghold. Hunters spontaneously formed a hunting team. They mostly used relatives and friends as a bond, mostly in groups of ten, dragging a small sleigh made temporarily with important supplies and weapons to the depths of the pine forest.

Rurik is among them!

Perhaps the most noble leader of the Ross people should not venture into the unknown ice and snow to hunt bears. It is estimated that the public opinion and the attention of the "Prince" of Balmerk, he consciously must shoot and kill a few bears personally to prove to everyone He has the ability to fight personally at a young age.

The tribe’s daily life lacks entertainment. Fighting with wives, concubines and brothers is probably the most interesting entertainment. As for the game of "Grab the Pottery Urn" (the original football), it is no different from fighting. People need all kinds of interesting news, so please get together and chew your tongue. Rurik concluded that people would not care how he hunted bears. They only looked at the results. It was enough that Lord Rurik shot the bear himself. Because the group of "wild story kings" in the tribe will spontaneously add fuel and jealousy, adding various buffs to their Lord Rurik, describing them as heroes and warriors.

How does Rurik hunt bears? The torsion slingshot on that sleigh is his weapon!

He took Sepolawa, joined more than ten elite mercenaries such as Jeflo, and 13 Balmerks such as Bijuni to form a bear hunting team and ran to the eastern world.

They marched along an ice river, and the world in front was very strange to everyone.

Not at all. Rurik knew that Murmansk would continue to the east. Maybe he would meet a new family of deer breeders on the journey?

They have been marching, it seems that only a handful of living creatures are moving in the frozen world.

The ice and snow absorbed too much sound, and the world was extremely quiet every night when camping. For this reason, people could only continue to light campfires, first to keep warm, and second, to avoid attacks by unknown monsters.

Rurik has been advancing along the frozen Elon River, and his bear hunting team has essentially become the first expedition to explore the source of the river.

The group of nearly thirty people and six reindeer walked on the ice for another three days. Polar bear? No trace at all! The world is quiet and serene and extremely cold, everything is like the realm of the legendary gods.

A new area of ​​frozen lake appeared.

Wrapped in the snow-covered pine forest, the huge world ahead is actually full of ice? It's as if there should be a sea here!

It is not a sea, but a lake!

Biyuni and Frocky, these two Balmerks saw such a magnificent lake for the first time, and then an inexplicable sense of fear affected the whole body.

The group was stunned. Bijuni had a lingering fear. He asked Rurik: "Maybe the bear is not here, we should change the route. The world of ice and snow in front is very dangerous. Look at this big lake. There may be ice monsters hidden in it. We will probably fall into the ice water and be dragged down by the monster to eat."

Rurik didn't feel scared at all, but he didn't even notice the bear's footprints along the way, which was really annoying.

"Why? Are you afraid? The dignified future leader of Balmerk, a strong warrior, is actually afraid?"

Rurik's words were full of disdain, and Biyonni simply stopped complaining. He asked: "What do you want to do? Keep going? If you can predict the general situation ahead, I'm willing to fight."

"Go ahead! Can't kill a bear, I will never go back."

Rurik was baring his teeth, how could Bijuni question such a firm language? He pounded his brother: "Froki, see if your Rurik brothers are persevering, you have to learn."

"My attitude is to keep going." Froggy also slapped Rurik on the shoulder: "We are brothers, and we naturally have to face any challenges together."

Is this a word of encouragement? Rurik didn't care at all, he was holding his breath. After all, he is the commander-in-chief of the entire North Hunter. The vast number of Ross hunters have already taken Fiskeleburg as a base, or headed north or west. These directions are all areas that everyone has explored. What prey brothers are there? All clear.

So what is in front of me?

"Keep walking! There is no difficulty in front of you, but a frozen sea." Rurik continued to bark his teeth, and said astonishingly: "It's not right, maybe the sea is not completely frozen. Bijuni , Did you know? When we saw that piece of sea, if we dropped the boat and drifted west along the coastline, it would probably take only seven days to reach your harbor."

"What? It's true? Are you sure?" Bijuni confirmed again and again, and Rurik was waiting again and again. He still felt that Rurik was too much in his sleep.

Froky raised his head, it was not his brother's questioning at all: "I believe Rurik is right. I want to follow him to see the sea."

"Let's go." Bijuni didn't want to have any more doubts. He only asked about a very realistic thing: "We found this huge lake, Rurik, give it a name."

"Name?" Rurik didn't really think about it. He suddenly dragged Seporava, who was standing next to him and dressed like a bear, to his side: "Just named after her, Lake Seporava. ."

But this lake is essentially Lake Kemi. It is indeed the upper reaches of the Ailong River (Kemi River), but the actual source of the river is still in the north.

It was a tundra swamp at a high altitude. Under the combined action of groundwater and melting ice on the hills, it became a "water tower" in Northern Europe.

It was also here that the prey that Rurik longed for finally appeared! It is not a bear, but a small group of wandering wild reindeer.

Ruriek, suffocated, rode a reindeer sleigh close to the herd. The deer also clearly saw a group of dark things approaching themselves on the ice lake. They all just chewed the grass roots in their mouths and held up their heads to wait and see, and then encountered a fatal attack.

Rurik personally manipulated the torsion slingshot and adjusted the wooden ruler with the mechanical aiming mechanism set up. It showed a fixed firing angle. A javelin flew up, which flew nearly a hundred meters and crossed a beautiful parabola~www.novelhall .com~Accurately in the herd. A deer with big horns was directly pierced through its neck and nailed to the snow.

The rest of the deer only thought of running away, but unfortunately it was too late.

There were ten reindeer in total. Except for the three that ran away, the rest were killed by the long-range weapons of the Ross people.

Jeflo put down the steel-armed crossbow and exhaled happily: "Master, you shot a deer precisely, you are an elite warrior."

"Don't talk nonsense, we have been away for so many days and we have achieved results." Rurik smiled happily: "Now we have a key supply, and the deer is rewarded by the gods. Jeflo, take it with you. Brothers reclaimed the arrows, peeled off the deer skins, and cut the venison for roasting. We will camp here, rest for a night and continue to go tomorrow."

In the deer hunting, all Balmerks are spectators. Bijuni was so shocked that he was speechless. Ruri Keming was still a child, and he easily succeeded in hunting the deer by manipulating the strange "giant bow" on the sleigh! Now Bijuni is interested in the torsion slingshot again.

As for Frocky, the kid doesn't care about hunting bears and deer anymore. He just wants to see a whole new sea and the so-called magnificence of the Arctic Ocean this winter.