Mountain and Forest Kingdom

Lawrence was riding the unicorn, accompanied by Sophia and Salil, thirty soldiers and ten newcomers.

The ten newcomers are all relatively good fighters in the Viper tribe. The most powerful fighter, Gris, followed Turaka to hunt giant snakes instead of Lawrence.

Lawrence walked more than five hundred meters south of the Viper tribe and stopped in a snowy area that looked like a basin.

Sophia closed her eyes and sensed the magnetic field around her. She quickly got off the sheep's back and took a few steps to the side.

"Master, I found a hibernating bear."

Sofia opened her eyes and pointed to the mountain wall in front of her, "There is a hole over there, about twenty meters away!"

Sariel jumped down from the sheep and approached carefully with an ax.

Sariel quickly came to the place pointed by Sophia and saw a sloping hole on the ground here.

There is snow above and below the cave entrance, and there is a circle of melted ice and snow at the edge of the cave entrance.

Salil stretched out her hand and touched the entrance of the hole, and quickly and carefully stepped back to Lawrence's side.

"The snow at the entrance of the cave has melted. This hole must have been slowly blocked by snow while the bear was sleeping. It might have been a wild boar hole before!"

Lawrence nodded and said to the people behind him: "Let's get started."

Everyone quickly cut down some branches from a hundred meters away and dragged them over.

These branches are three to four centimeters thick and two to three meters long.

One branch after another the soldiers penetrated, and soon the hole was filled.

Salil used a wooden stick to clear away the nearby snow, and moved a fifty-pound stone to hold down the branches.

The others were not idle either and moved a large amount of stones to seal most of the cave that was supposed to be one and a half meters wide.

After completing this, they used dry wood and hay to light a fire and put the flame into the cave.

The damp branches gave off a lot of smoke, and the branches that originally stretched in also reduced the space of the cave.

The soldiers used wooden boards to fan the wind inside the cave, and the damp pine branches gave off a choking smell.

The pig bear in the cave quickly woke up from hibernation and roared.

The bear wanted to leave the cave, but there were things in front, back, left and right, especially a large amount of black smoke pouring in from the front, which made its eyes and nose very uncomfortable.

At this time, the bear in the cave began to waste energy in the cave as narrow as a washing bucket.

Lawrence looked at the soldiers waiting with weapons at the entrance of the cave, and quickly rode away elsewhere.

Bear hunting in winter is basically not difficult as long as you can find the location of the bear.

Especially in this place, as long as there are sharp weapons and more than two adult hunters, a hibernating bear is a dead end.

After more than ten minutes, the bears in the cave became quiet.

The smoke continued, and Lawrence left five people here to continue to smoke out the unconscious bear inside, while the others explored the rest of the area.

Where there are plenty of fish, there are bears, and most of their prey comes from rivers and beaches.

Due to the various things thrown upstream, the fish in the river began to multiply wildly, and many dangerous beasts were attracted.

If it were garbage from the industrial era, the fish in the river would have died long ago.

But in this era, in addition to feces, there is blood from various poultry, and some bath water, which are harmless substances to most aquatic animals.

There is more than one bear here, and if it is not controlled, it will pose a threat to nearby humans in the future.

If it attracts a giant beast like the Earth Dire Bear, the people here will definitely suffer a lot.

While Lawrence was thinking about something, Sophia quickly stopped.

"Master! There is a bear in the pit ahead! Be careful, the place where it hibernates is a pit!"

Lawrence stopped and motioned for the crowd to surround him.

Not every bear can find a cave to hibernate. Some bears will choose to be near the roots of big trees, some will choose rock crevices under cliffs, and some bears will just find a fallen log in the forest. As a hibernation place.

However, these bears are very dangerous. Because the environment is randomly selected, most of these bears will be awakened by the cold or by nearby people and animals.

Bears awakening from hibernation are certainly more dangerous.

"Prepare!"

Lawrence gave the order.

Several strong soldiers raised their axes and approached the hibernating giant bear.

"beat!"

Six axes were quickly hit on the sleeping bear's head. Before the bear in the pit could react, his head was severely beaten.

Just as the bear was about to get up, he was given another quick beating, and soon his head dropped to the ground and died.

A large amount of blood came out of the bear's mouth, nose, eyes, and scalp, and the blood melted nearby snow residue.

"Go on, next one."

The hunting team continued to set off and finally found a hibernating giant snake one kilometer away.

The giant snake had been frozen to death on the snow, and it was Fleiss who discovered it.

Lawrence looked at the pit near the river where the snake hibernated, a burrow at the edge of the low river bed.

In winter, due to the ice in the upper reaches, the river water in the lower reaches drops a lot, exposing the soil layer along the river, and this twelve-meter-long python is hidden in the cave inside.

Because of its size, this cave is easily discovered by humans.

Fleiss came over and said, "Prophet, this snake has frozen to death."

Lawrence looked at the giant snake that had stopped moving and said, "Very good, just put this snake here and let's go back."

Fleiss felt the prey was unsafe to leave outside.

"Prophet, if we do this, our prey will be dragged away by other beasts."

Lawrence didn't mind this kind of thing.

"It doesn't matter. If it's not here tomorrow, it means there are still prey that we need to remove, and they are dangerous prey that are also active in winter."

Fleiss quickly figured out that this was indeed true.

"Yes, Prophet."

All of this is the territory of the Church of the Stars and the property of the Prophet. Whoever dares to take it away will have to pay the price!

Lawrence returned to the village and explained the prey distribution ratio to Tukara, who had also returned from hunting bears.

"Let the Viper tribe take away the body of a bear and give them a barrel of wine. The rest of the prey belongs to us. We will continue hunting tomorrow."

Turaka responded: "Yes, Prophet!"

The Viper Tribe lacked iron tools, both for cooking and fighting.

Their way of survival is mainly hunting and fishing, and most of them have very short lifespans.

Because there is plenty of food, most of these people are unwilling to leave their places of residence and do not want to go outside.

But they lacked fuel, clothing, and wood for construction.

Without sharp enough iron tools, these people couldn't cut pieces of wood, and naturally they couldn't build wooden houses.

Moreover, the inertia of their thinking makes these people prefer to sleep and rest when they have time instead of studying how to build a house.

Just like the forest people, Lawrence does not force all forest people to serve in the war, but some must go out and accept the enlightenment of civilization.

Assisting in hunting is just the beginning, and more tasks will be gradually arranged later.

Now Lawrence is not going to give these people much. Except for firewood and potatoes and grain, he will not give any other clothing or weapons.

More things need to be exchanged for military exploits.

The areas further south contain not only bears and snakes, but also more unknown humans and beasts. (End of chapter)