Mountain and Forest Kingdom

There are two roads leading to the Valkyrie territory in the Ice Sea.

One is land transportation from the Kur village, and the other is sea transportation from Dumu village.

There are mountains, rocks and other obstacles along the coastline, and there are few beaches suitable for landing.

Cold northern areas generally have fewer beaches and more rocks.

Fishermen will also choose to live and fish near the gentle slopes of the beach. Too steep cliffs and stone beaches are not suitable for survival.

The village of Dumu was established because of this habitable coastal beach, but pirates would also choose this area suitable for landing.

At the same time, not just any place along the coast is suitable for a port. Beach areas and port areas are different.

Dumu Village is not suitable as a port. The beach here is more suitable for pirate boats to land.

Every time a big ship comes over, it has to land when the tide is low, but in this era, there is no need to make too complicated distinctions. It is already very lucky to get here smoothly.

Lawrence took Kehalan in a small boat to the rocky sea between Dumu Village and the Wakili tribe, followed by a small boat loaded with manure.

The depth of the sea water here reaches ten meters, and there are reefs nearby, which is very suitable for the growth of kelp.

Kehalan looked at the wild sea vegetables nearby. There were many kinds of sea vegetables, most of which looked like hair floating loosely on the sea.

Without Kharan's witchcraft, these terrifying marine algae like devil's hair have already occupied a large area.

Lawrence sat on the boat and looked at the terrifying seaweed around him. The seaweed community in front of him was at least ten square meters in area, and the larger one could be as wide as a basketball court.

The waves hit the seaweed, creating turbid green sewage and white spray.

Also taking the boat out were nearby fishermen, including the first captive Dum slaves.

Arif, a native of Dum, said: "Under these seaweeds there are huge crabs, one-meter-long fish, seals, seabirds, and arowanas that can eat people."

It’s no surprise that seals are here. This is an area where seals are active, and snow cave people also come here to hunt in winter.

During the food crisis, Doug and others also caught easy-to-catch big fish here, relying on the seaweed community in winter and the active fish schools in this marine forest.

There is not much crab meat, cooking is troublesome, and fuel is extremely precious in winter, so the savages will not eat it even if it is lost.

Sea crabs, lobsters and lobsters are considered junk food in this era, regardless of north or south.

Lawrence asked: "What is an arowana?"

Arif looked around and said, "It's a very long fish, longer than the sea vegetables over there. Its body is as thick as this boat. Its mouth is full of teeth. It will suddenly bite people on the boat!"

Lawrence looked at the nearby seaweed, which was about sixteen or seventeen meters long.

Kehalan smiled and said: "I know what kind of fish he is talking about. It is a sea snake with a flat body."

Lawrence asked: "Is it dangerous?"

"It's very dangerous, but if your luck is not too bad, you generally won't encounter it." Kharan explained: "It doesn't matter if you encounter it. This kind of fish needs to circle in order to turn around. Its body cannot turn too fast. Generally, if you miss it, you will not be able to turn around." Won't look back."

Lawrence nodded, feeling that the ocean in this era is still very dangerous.

"Let's begin." Lawrence waved to his men.

Sailors on the other boat quickly pushed two barrels into the sea, and then continued to push down more buckets of dung.

The water soon became murky.

"I probably won't eat fish or sea vegetables for a long time," Kohalan said, covering his nose with a linen soaked in herbs.

"Me too," Lawrence said.

After the workers rowed back, Khalan also recited a spell that could mobilize his own witchcraft when the boat under him was about to leave the outermost kelp forest.

The seaweed that looked like witch's hair instantly turned into a swimming sea snake, dancing wildly in the water.

Seaweed itself grows extremely fast. After being ripened, it begins to grow wildly and expand wildly.

The fragile seagrass quickly wilts, curls up, crumbles, and settles on the ocean floor.

The strong seagrass quickly absorbs nearby nutrients and becomes longer, wider, thicker and more massive.

The fish in the ocean forest began to escape, and many fish were pushed directly to the sea by the seaweed. They kept jumping on the dense and terrifying swamp seaweed. It didn't take long for them to dehydrate and die from exposure.

Lawrence and the rest of the sailors rowed away from this place quickly. The ripened kelp forest will not end with Kharan's departure, but will continue to absorb nutrients to strengthen itself.

It's like a started machine, running with a little stimulation, forming a set of work that is constantly attenuating, but can last for a long time.

Nutrients in the nearby seawater, as well as dead algae, fish and other corpses, will form fuel for burning life.

At this time, whether it is sea urchins, fish and shrimps that eat seaweed, or large fish and small fish that live in the kelp forest, they will all become food for the seaweed.

The smell of a large number of dead fish, shrimp, shellfish and seaweed can quickly form a new poisonous mountain at sea.

Lawrence and others quickly left the vicinity of Poison Mountain.

After more than ten minutes of rowing out, you can still see the seaweed mountains in the distance.

It was so dark there, and seabirds fell from the sky from time to time and landed on the seaweed.

Lawrence watched for a long time. Except for a few birds that flew up quickly as soon as they landed, most of the seabirds that landed to eat fish never took off again.

These overexpanded algae can have a dramatic impact on nearby fish stocks and ecosystems.

After getting away from there, Kehalan still covered his nose and said vaguely: "What are you going to do? Our fishing ground here has been destroyed. In the future, if those people on the beach want to eat fish, they will have to go further. "

Lawrence said indifferently: "It's different in the sea and on land. These seaweeds will decompose in a year at most, and there are many giant beasts in the ocean."

"It doesn't matter if we lose a year of fish there. There are only one hundred and fifty people on the beach, and they are all busy building villages and fortifications. There is no need to go out to sea to fish."

"Especially since the new slaves in the Water City have not stabilized yet, it will be more troublesome for them to go to sea."

Khalan understood Lawrence's thinking.

Now we don't rely on food from the ocean. Except for trade, we don't want to go to the sea at all other times.

On the contrary, the Wakili people near the ice sea are more dependent on the fish in the nearby sea.

Their small warships are suitable for offshore areas. If they are too far from the coast, they are easily attacked by deep sea monsters.

Small and medium-sized sea beasts like to move in sea areas above 20 meters, and marine giants are basically active in sea areas above 100 meters.

Seaweeds like to expand along the accessible seabed reefs in offshore areas.

Because of their rich marine resources, the Wakili people have been fishing for fish and shrimps in offshore areas for generations. Their navigation skills are excellent, but their fishing technology is very primitive and simple, so only one can be used.

If you can easily catch big fish over one meter long, there is no need to upgrade your fishing skills, and you won’t be able to eat all the fish you want.

Basically, people in the mountains are not afraid of heights, but most of the Vakiri people have severe phobia of the deep sea.

Except for a handful of people who are forced to act out their wild instincts without fear of death, many others will be in extreme fear for a considerable period of time after encountering a giant creature.

The main reason is that in this era, there are really ocean monsters active under the ships. If you encounter them once, you will never want to encounter them again.

Their usual whaling mainly involves hunting groups of small whales, and the slightly larger ones mainly rely on picking up.

Not only the Valkyries, but also the barbarians of the Luofen Kingdom like to brag about how huge monsters they have killed, but in fact these barbarians are extremely afraid of giant monsters!

The fifty-meter-long Crow Feather Colossus not only impacted the barbarians' eyes, but also their brains.