The village of Kurgan is located in a flat valley with a small river running through it, and the slopes on both sides of the village are covered with sea buckthorn trees.
The whole village was surrounded by a wooden fence and a man's high earthen wall, and on the edge of the fence and the earth, there were several very simple-looking, but very effective wooden arrow towers, which were also the village lookouts.
It was sunset, and a few wisps of smoke were already wafting from the village.
As soon as Zhang Tie followed Ivan and they approached the edge of the village, they were immediately seen by the people on the arrow tower.
"Ivan and Bourman, they're back, they're all back, and they've all gotten eight iron-toothed hyenas" The man on the arrow tower had sharp eyes, and after just one look, he shouted, with a heartfelt joy in his voice.
With this sound, there was some noise in the village, and many younger children ran out of the village, screaming "brother" and "brother" one by one, rushing over and pulling the corners of the clothes of the young people and young people in the village, and some around the iron-toothed hyena that Ivan was carrying, some drooling, and some shouting to make clothes out of the skin of the iron-toothed hyena, which was very lively.
The people of the entire village have rough skin, but they are very strong, which is also the characteristic of the indigenous people of these tribes who live in the ice and snow wasteland.
The village was not rich, everything looked a little shabby, all the houses in the village were one-story cabins, two or three wooden houses were fenced off as a family's yard, but there was still a lot of laughter and laughter, especially after the return of those who had gone out hunting.
After knowing that Zhang Tie had just saved the eight teenagers in Kurgan Village, Zhang Tie undoubtedly received the warmest welcome.
Uncle Zig, the village chief of Kurgan Village, personally brought Zhang Tie to his home, and then the eight teenagers' families sent all kinds of dried meat, preserved fruits, and wine made from sea buckthorn, and they were all very grateful to Zhang Tie.
The simplicity of the villagers here also moved Zhang Tie a little.
Zhang Tie, who had walked around the village, knew that he was not rich here, but the things that the villagers sent to him here were basically the best things that the village could get out.
For example, on the way to the village, Zhang Tie knew that after Ivan carried the iron-toothed hyena back, in addition to the usefulness of the iron-toothed hyena's fur, their meat also had to be pickled and eaten, although Zhang Tie knew that the taste was not very good, but for these tribesmen living in the ice and snow wasteland, it was not something that could be wasted.
Zig, the village chief of Kurgan Village, is a man in his 50s and 60s, and the wind and frost in the ice and snow wasteland make his face look older than his actual age, which also makes Zhang Tie a little unsure of his specific age.
Zigger's forehead was full of deep wrinkles, but his body was very tall, not only straight, but also tall, almost two meters tall, with thick and broad shoulders, which gave people a sense of being able to bear at a glance.
After handing over the things to the women of the family and taking them to the kitchen for processing, Zig and Zhang Tie sat at the stone table in their courtyard and chatted.
The woman in Zige's family made two cups of hot water for the two of them, looking at the yellow-green leaves floating in her pottery cup and the golden soup, Zhang Tie blinked in disbelief, could it be tea, no, when would these tribes in the ice and snow wasteland live so luxuriously.
If a bag of tea can be transported here, it will definitely be much more expensive than shipping it to Black Flame City.
Zhang Tie picked up the water cup and smelled it, the taste in the water seemed to be a little different from the taste of tea, but it also had a faint fragrance of plants, blew it, and took a small sip, the taste of the soup was slightly sour in the light.
"This isn't tea," Zhang Tie asked.
"This is indeed not tea from the East, this is the sea buckthorn tea we make ourselves here" The village chief of Qige squinted his eyes and took a sip, looking very enjoyable, "The leaves of the sea buckthorn tree can be eaten by both people and livestock, and the livestock are still very fat after eating, just relying on those sea buckthorn trees on the hillside outside the village, since we settled here in Kurgan Village, no one has starved to death for more than two hundred years, as long as the sea buckthorn tree can live, people can live."
The head of Kurgan village said with some pride.
"This thing tastes good" Zhang Tie smiled, and after taking two sips, he also learned from Ziggy, took a big gulp of the leaves in the water, and then chewed and swallowed it.
For Zhang Tie, it was true that he couldn't drink expensive tea drinks anyway, and this kind of thing was really not much different from the "Wild Spring" made by Elder Huaiyuantang when he drank it.
Although the price of a cup of wild spring may be more valuable than all the sea buckthorn on a hillside here, for Zhang Tie, it is never money that measures the value of a thing, and this kind of value has been deeply implanted in Zhang Tie's mind since Brape.
Seeing that Zhang Tie didn't dislike this kind of thing at all, he naturally ate the sea buckthorn leaves that could also be used to feed livestock, and Zige's face finally showed a bright smile and gave Zhang Tie a thumbs up, "You are a true friend of our Kurgan Village" Zhang Tie has now roughly figured out the character of these tribesmen in the Ice and Snow Wasteland, whether it is the young Ivan or the Qige in front of him, they are all the same straightforward, crisp, love and hate, if you are good to them, you can respect them, these people will be doubly good to you, double their respect for you, and show their simple side, but if you dare to provoke them, these people will definitely be able to fight you to the end.
Zhang Tie likes these people.
After turning the thoughts in his heart, Zhang Tie decided not to go around in circles, but directly said the one thing he wanted to know most when he came to Kurgan Village.
"When I came, I heard Ivan say that a few days ago, a person from the Guardian God Sect came to Kurgan Village, can you tell me about that person, I am also a devout disciple of the Guardian God Sect, and I was a little surprised to meet someone from the sect in the Ice and Snow Wasteland."
"Oh, you're a believer in the Guardian God Sect," Village Chief Zig glanced at Zhang Tie in surprise.
"Yes, I used to be a devout devotee of the Guardian God Sect when I was in the Norman Empire, and when I rescued Ivan and them just now, I talked about being a believer in the Guardian God Sect, and Ivan told me that there was also a member of the Guardian God Sect who came here a few days ago."
Listening to Zhang Tie's words, Village Chief Zige no longer had any doubts, "The person who came to Kurgan Village is a powerful guardian of the wilderness of the Guardian God Sect, and he came here to investigate the matter of the Grey Hill Beast Tide" Zhang Tie's heart was shocked, this was the second time he had heard the name of "Guardian of the Wilderness" of the Guardian God Sect, the first time he heard this name was when he was in the Wild Wolf Valley Trial, Jerome had told him that the Guardian of the Guardian God Sect of the Wilderness Guardian had a strong ability to control animals, which was a very powerful and mysterious profession, but he didn't expect to really meet such a person here.
"Is there anything strange about this beast tide?"
Needless to say, there must be something unusual about the events that would attract the Guardians of the Wilderness to investigate, otherwise why would those people be here?
"The last time there was a beast tide in the gray hills was seven years ago, and now it's breaking out again, it's a bit weird," said Chief Zig with a frown.
"Why?"
"Because according to the history of the Ice and Snow Wasteland and the law of the outbreak of the beast tide in the past, the time when the beast tide is adjacent to each other is about twelve to fifteen years, the ice and snow wasteland is too big, and many strong wild creatures with no natural enemies will recuperate after every period of time, and the number of reproduction of their populations will skyrocket, resulting in the beast tide, which is not surprising, but this time, only seven years after the last beast tide began, the second beast tide came, which is very unusual.
It's almost something that has never happened before in the Ice and Snow Wasteland."
"Is that all there is to it?"
"Of course, there are some more strange things," the wrinkles on the forehead of the village chief Zig deepened as he said this, "In the past, the beast tide would not erupt at the same time, and the beast tide of the iron-toothed hyena will not break out when other creatures, such as the Wasteland Giant Wolf and the Hell Demon Mouse, will not erupt, and if they want to erupt, they will generally take turns, and this time, I heard that in different places in the Ice and Snow Wasteland, the beast tide of many different creatures has come."
And what's even more bizarre is that this beast tide has nullified the spells of many tribes around the Grey Hills and the bloody territories on the outskirts of the village."
"Bloody Territory" Seeing that Zhang Tie didn't seem to know what the bloody territory was, the village chief of Qige patiently explained to Zhang Tie, the so-called bloody territory, which is a spell cast by a shaman priest in the ice and snow wasteland using the blood and life of some beasts and dangerous creatures, and the only function of this spell is to make those dangerous creatures dare not easily approach the tribes and villages protected by this spell within a certain range, so as to provide an invisible protection for the people living here.
A kind of bloody territory spell is only against a kind of beast, and around some large tribes, there are often multiple bloody territory spells to protect it, and some dangerous creatures that can threaten the ordinary people in the tribe are expelled, and they dare not approach easily.
For example, in the village of Kurgan, more than forty years ago, there was a shaman who exercised a bloody territory for this place, and that bloody territory was aimed at the iron-toothed hyena that most often appeared near the village, and since that bloody territory, in the past forty years, although Kurgan Village has experienced several animal waves, there has never been an iron-toothed hyena within ten kilometers of the village.
And this time, I don't know if the spells of the bloody territory have lost their effect or the iron-toothed hyenas have gone crazy, and the distance of ten kilometers is no longer the safe line for the iron-toothed hyenas to keep the iron-toothed hyenas out of the Kurgan village.
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