Mountain and Forest Kingdom

The next day, when Lawrence got up to eat, a group of people came.

Most of the sky in the north is gloomy and dark. The sun rises mainly in summer, and the sun is rarely seen in autumn and winter.

Being in this environment for a long time, both crops and livestock have become stunted. Even the most tenacious northern barbarians have high mortality rates in winter.

In this somewhat dead and pessimistic season, the foresters and the newly arrived soldiers were playing cards and eating in the house.

When Gris and others approached the forest tribe, most of the people here were eating in the house, and only four or five people were patrolling and standing guard outside.

Gris came to the flat street at the entrance of the village. The snow here had been cleared away, and white cooking smoke was rising from most of the houses in front.

The house is beautiful and clean, the snow has been swept away, and the man guarding the door wears thick clothes.

"Let the people from yesterday come out! Let's continue!"

Gris was carrying a long piece of wood shaped like a human thigh.

The wood is 1.8 meters long, with one end as thick as a waist, and the tail end as small as a human foot.

Yesterday, he only wore a simple animal skin vest. Today, Gliss prepared for a long time and wore a long belt made of animal skin around his waist.

Soon people from nearby houses came out with their rice bowls to watch the fun.

Gris saw these people eating. They were all eating hot meals, which seemed to include bread and eggs.

"Come! I want to challenge you!" Gris yelled angrily.

Soon the people at the door went back looking listless.

"He came to see Andrew. When we went in, the soup was almost frozen."

The hot bread and soup bowls in the hands of the soldiers cooled down quickly in only seven or eight seconds in this weather. When the wind blew, they changed from hot rice to cold rice.

Everyone saw what happened yesterday. It was Andrew who refused to listen to the prophet and insisted on single-handedly challenging him. Otherwise, everyone would have completed the prophet's task long ago.

No one has a good impression of Andrew today. Those people came to Andrew and asked Andrew to solve it himself.

Unless the Prophet gives an order, these people have no interest in going out to watch the excitement.

Andrew quickly walked out. After seeing Gris standing at the entrance of the village with a big stick outside, he smiled and said: "Wait, I'll get the weapon!"

Gris couldn't understand Andrew's words and felt that this man was laughing at him and rejected his challenge.

"Coward! Fight with me! Don't run away!" Gris roared loudly.

Turaka explained: "He went back to get the weapon, please wait for a while."

Gris understood Turaka's explanation.

At this time Lawrence came out of the village.

"Prophet!" The people on patrol nearby saluted quickly.

Gris looked at this man. He was obviously not strong or tall, but it put a lot of pressure on Gris.

At this time, people in nearby houses also came out quickly.

"prophet!"

"prophet!"

More and more soldiers came out of nearby houses, weapons in hand.

When Lawrence walked to Turaka from thirty meters away, more than two hundred people had gathered nearby.

Lawrence nodded to everyone, and then looked at Gris and Gris' men who were clearly showing fear.

"Tulaka, take them to dinner first, and after dinner, ask them if they are willing to surrender to me."

"If they are willing to join, let them go back and bring their children and women. There is enough food here to allow them to survive the winter safely."

"If you don't want to join, go back and prepare after eating. We will attack in the afternoon."

After Lawrence finished speaking, he turned and left.

"Yes! Prophet!" Turaka responded quickly.

After receiving the prophet's order, Turaka stood up and looked at Gris who had been freezing in the cold wind for more than ten minutes.

"Follow me and the Prophet will feed you."

Gris didn't want to accept the charity from these people, but it was too cold at this time, and he watched these people eating.

After hesitating for a second, he said directly: "Okay! I'll have a duel with you when I'm full!"

Seeing this, the others also went back to their houses one after another, not wanting to be cold here.

Splashing water here turns into ice, and without enough protection against the cold, limbs can freeze to pieces.

Gris quickly entered the greenhouse.

This hot house is just right for an average 1.8 meter savage, and the roof is two and a half meters high.

For a little giant like Gris, he can stand up straight, which is much better than the thatched cottage he lived in before.

Gris stood in the room, his head surrounded by hanging strips of meat, pheasants and swans.

The fire in the house was not big, and there was a pot of broth burning on the fire.

It was the first time for Gris' men to enter such a warm room. They stared at the meat strips on the roof and the broth in the pot, and soon showed their desire to rob.

Turaka comforted him: "If you sit down to eat and don't follow the rules, the people here are not weak serfs."

Andrew opened the curtain and came in at this time, standing at the door with a giant sword and looking at the people in the room.

Gris sat down quickly. He wanted to eat first.

Gris' men quickly sat down and waited for their meal.

Turaka began to distribute food to these people, and took pieces of meat from various beasts from the roof to distribute to these people.

The bacon was eaten quickly. Gris and others did not need to heat it or use knives. They grabbed the bacon with both hands and started to bite it.

Like a wild beast, he quickly gnawed the piece of meat in his hand.

Tulaka was too lazy to entertain, "You share the pot among yourselves."

After hearing this, Teague was about to reach out to grab the meat in the hot pot. At this time, a big hand grabbed Teague's hair and pulled the man to the ground.

Gris bit the fox's meat strips, his eyes radiating a cold warning of danger.

The others were afraid of Gris' brute force and could only continue to salvage the seemingly endless bacon from the house.

Both Andrew and Turaka looked at these savages quietly, as if they were looking at inferior creatures.

Gris quickly picked up the hot pot with both hands, blew on it a few times, and then gulped down the broth and meat in the hot pot.

The pieces of meat and bones were bitten into pieces by Gris, and then he slowly swallowed them.

Turaka then began to announce the Prophet's decision.

"Now tell me your choice. If you choose to surrender to the great Crow Feather Prophet, then you can go back and send the women and children from the tribe here, and we will let them survive this winter."

"If you are unwilling, then go back now and we will attack your tribe in the afternoon! You can choose to run, we will not chase you."

Gris looked at Tukara and Andrew in silence.

Choosing to relocate and escape during this season will definitely lead to a dead end.

Gris asked: "Will your prophet kill us?"

As long as there are women and children, this makes Gris and others feel very bad.

Gris was confident that he could beat the man named Andrew, but the presence of the prophet made Gris very scared.

Turaka knew Lawrence's strategy, "No, the prophet needs you to believe in the Church of the Stars and become soldiers of the Church of the Stars."

"Your women and children will return in the spring and starve and freeze with you, and many of them will die."

Gris and others breathed a sigh of relief.

"Just like you?" Gris looked at Tulaka, knowing very well that this should be Tulaka's house.

There is food hanging here, and the people here are wearing clothes and have various weapons.

Turaka said: "Yes, how much food you can get depends on whether you are obedient and able to fight."

Gris no longer had any hesitation. He would definitely not be able to defeat these people. The people here had good food and good housing. Surrender was the only way out.

The extreme environment in the north determines who wins.

Humans themselves are creatures that must rely on groups. Choosing to join a powerful tribe is a good thing for the entire group.

"Okay, we surrender!"

Andrew has no objection. He came here just to conquer, and after this person joins, he can continue to discuss it.

Soon Gris and others returned with five baskets of potatoes, and in the afternoon they sent young children and the women who took care of them as hostages.

There are enough vacant houses and food in the village to take care of these people, but these people need to start as slaves and follow the rules here.

Turaka asked people to bring out ten baskets of potatoes and said to Gris:

"The rest of you are coming to eat tomorrow morning. Now take these potatoes back and eat them. The Prophet will not let you starve to death."

Gris and others carried the potatoes back. The people of the Black Goat Tribe and the Viper Tribe spoke the same language, and with the people of the Black Goat Tribe as their guide, they quickly learned the rules here.

There is no stopping anyone who wants to go back, whether it is a woman or a child, it doesn't matter if they are willing to run away in the middle of winter.

After another day's delay, Lawrence made the next step of arrangements when more than two hundred people from the Viper tribe came over for dinner the next day.

"Today we go hunting for large prey that are hibernating nearby, such as bears and snakes!"

Turaka already knew these things.

"Prophet, there are bears nearby, but they are smaller pig bears, standing only two or three meters tall."

"There are also giant man-eating snakes near the Viper tribe, and they eat people every year."

Lawrence asked: "Would they accept it if we killed this snake?"

Andrew said directly: "If you don't accept it, kill them too!"

Lawrence ignored Andrew and still looked at Turaka.

Turaka replied: "No, Gris and the others are just afraid of this kind of snake. If we are willing to kill the snake, they will assist us."

Lawrence no longer had any worries, and originally planned to go directly to the giant snake, but now there were a lot of people, so they could do it at the same time.

"Who knows how to hunt bears?" Lawrence asked everyone in the big room.

"I will!" Andrew agreed quickly.

"I will!" So will Fleiss.

Not only these two people, but many people in the room raised their hands.

"I can!"

"I can do it too!"

"very simple!"

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Turaka said: "I will too!"

In fact, both Durila people and barbarians have rich fighting experience, and many of them were learned from the older generation.

People in the Black Goat tribe can also hunt bears, as can Gris and others.

Snake hunting is rare, because it is so rare that no one would do it.

Lawrence said: "The troops are divided into five groups, each leading thirty people to different areas! Disperse the people from the Viper tribe and divide them into various units."

"Twenty soldiers will take ten foresters, and then take twenty newcomers."

After everyone finished eating, they quickly took action. Several leaders selected the soldiers they needed from the men of the Viper tribe like they were buying vegetables at the market.