After Caterina finished telling her story, a light appeared on the horizon in the east, it used the pen in her hand to divide the dawn and night into two, the star map in the night sky gradually disappeared in the clouds, the dark blue night slowly became blue like the sea, we looked at it with the morning breeze, the field of vision was like a beautiful fairy tale world, I have never been so close to nature, when my five senses continue to extend outward, looking at the tender green grass in the field, smelling the fragrance of the nameless wildflowers in the meadow, Listening to the croaking of the frogs that have just broken through the ground, the spring breeze gently crosses my fingertips, making me feel itchy, and the tip of my tongue seems to be able to feel the moist breath of the wasteland, ah!
There must be a lake not far away, otherwise how could there be such a green scenery, how could there be such a beautiful frog chirping, how could there be such a moist breeze?
Kuzi excitedly stood on the back of the Agui Beast, pointed to the Urutu River in the distance that meandered like a jade belt on the wasteland, and said to me excitedly: "Jia, this is the Urutu River I told you, this river runs through the entire northern foothills of the wasteland, through the Yelian Mountains all the way to my home Guruding tribe, this is my mother river.It will continue to flow westward to the westernmost part of the Pai Plateau, the Hundred Waterfalls Cliff, directly on the cliff to form hundreds of waterfalls straight down the plateau into the Benma River at the foot of the mountain, do you know, if there is a strong enough boat to withstand the impact of hundreds of waterfalls, down the river until the Benma River under the plateau, it is almost the closest road from the Pai Plateau to the city of Sloit.Ha ha!
”The restlessness and gloom in our hearts for many days were finally diluted by this river, and this was the first place we planned to arrive, and as long as we walked along this clear water river to the west, we would not lose our way in the wasteland.In the days since we entered the wasteland, we have relied on Qige's water gathering technique to have enough drinking water, I don't know how the other hunters who live in the wasteland survive, but the wasteland is really very short of water.If you don't have food, you may be able to dig tree holes in the wasteland and eat grass seeds and roots, but if you don't have water, you won't be able to eat grass seeds and roots.In the wasteland, there are several fixed large lakes and several inland rivers, and for some time after the ice melts in the spring, many dry inland rivers have water, but this one is the only one that flows out of the northern foothills of the wasteland.Many hunters walk the wasteland all year round, and each of them has a strange map in their hearts, and in their hearts there are countless places where they can camp, and these places are undoubtedly not very close to the water source.Our Aguimon drank enough water on the shallow rocky beach by the river, and the tender green grass that grew along the banks of the river began to gnaw eagerly.We unloaded the big bags of luggage from the back of the Yagui beast, and the four of them were so tired that they sat on their bags and looked at the river in front of them, which was not turbulent but very deep, and even showed a deep black in the middle of the river, indicating that the clear river should be at least ten meters deep to the center.This is the first trench we set up for ourselves, the Urutu River!
Removing the sheepskin airbags from the luggage, Kuz and I began to inflate the airbags.These airbags were bought in the bazaar of Yemen Town, when we bought them, we checked them one by one, the skinner made it perfectly, the whole sheepskin only has small wounds on the limbs and the head and tail, but they were finely sewn afterwards, and painted several times The whole sheepskin only has a small opening at the tail, which is used to blow, after blowing full air, the inflatable mouth is plugged with a wooden stopper, and then tied with hemp rope, so that the sheepskin airbags are filled with air.Kig and Caterina followed Kuz's instructions and tied the airbags side by side to wooden poles, like headless sheep strapped to a wooden shelf.In fact, making a large sheepskin raft does not need very long and thick wood, the orcs in the tribe have long figured out the way to cross the river in the grassland, the raft tied by the orcs in the wasteland is very special, it is bundled with twenty sheepskin air bags and a bundle of short wood that is strong enough, these short logs are usually used to support the material of the tent, and the orcs use the raft to tie the raft, but it can also make the raft five or six meters long, three or four meters wide, enough to carry a Yagui beast to cross the river.In the wilderness, unless you are close to the mountains, you can find large timber, and the entire area of the northern foot of the wasteland is divided into two by the Urutu River, which is formed by the melting snow from the snow-capped mountains, and the melting snow water from the glacier at the top of the snow-capped mountains is so cold that even good swimmers like Kuzi and I who are not afraid of the cold do not dare to stay in the river for too long, and for the Urutu River, which is nearly seventy or eighty meters wide, it is difficult to cross the river without good crossing tools.Before the sun dried the droplets of alfalfa leaves in the pasture, we put together a raft that was just big enough to carry the Yagui beast by the Urutu River.Kig looked at the wide raft and exclaimed, "I never thought that the raft could be tied like this, Kuz, are you sure that our Agui beast will not overturn when it sits on it?"
”Kuz and I pushed the raft into the water with all our might, and the two of us stood in the icy river and tried to hold on to the raft, but I couldn't stand still on such a huge raft as it rose and fell on the water.Seeing that my diminutive body could not hold the raft steady, Caterina jumped into the icy water without hesitation and lifted me onto the raft, taking my place.The river did not pass her round and slender thighs under the leather armor, and in an instant her face turned pale from the cold.I couldn't bear to let her stand in the icy water, and I wanted to call her to climb up.After all, I have the fire poison of the burning fruit in my body, and even if I do jump into the ice water, I just feel cool, but she definitely can't."
Katarina, come up, the river is too cold, it will freeze you!"
I leaned over the raft to tug at her cold hand, but was stopped by her pleading look, and I seemed to be anxious to prove her existence!
Or maybe it's a little indebted to me for not participating in the battle, I think she's a rare good girl, even if a woman in the Grimm Empire has the same power as not to join the army, there's really nothing to blame yourself for.Seeing that I did not continue to object, she stood in the cold river and tried to smile sweetly at me, I could clearly see her teeth chattering, but her stubborn eyes seemed to say to me: I am willing to do these things for you.I hesitated, but she followed Kuz deeper into the area.Seeing that the raft had just stabilized, Kuz hurriedly shouted to me, "Jia, hurry up and catch up with the Yagui Beast." ”If it weren't for it, there would be no need for our raft to be so big.When I bought the livestock, I thought that Kuz would try to save money and choose the small young Aguimon to buy, but then we chose this young and sturdy one, and he was a little reluctant, but I didn't expect that on the Urutu River, I found that if we had bought back another smaller Aguimon, maybe the situation would be much better now.At least I didn't have to drive it up the rickety raft so hard.I held the reins of the Agui Beast, and Qige rode on the neck of the Agui Beast like a warrior who showed off his might, and commanded the Agui Beast to slowly walk to the raft, only to see the raft floating in the river sink down sharply, and most of the sheepskin air bags sank into the river.I squatted on the raft and carefully watched to see if the raft tied with hemp rope had fallen apart, but it looked pretty good at the moment, and the method of tying the raft handed down by the orcs was still very reliable, and I stood at the very edge of the front of the raft, holding an oar made of a flying spear in my hand, trying to adjust the direction of the raft, which was not very useful.Kig sat on the back of the Agui Beast and sighed at me, "If I had learned the Wind Resist in the Academy, I wouldn't have been in such trouble now.At least you can save a little effort. ”Wet like an agile otter, Kuz held the edge of the raft with his hands, and his body sprang up gracefully.Like a wolf dog in the water, he tried his best to dry the fur on his body, wrapped the thick leather jacket around his body, and lay at the feet of the Yagui beast gasping for breath.Caterina also climbed onto the raft with Kuz, Zig threw a blanket down from the top of Katerina's head, Katerina wrapped herself around her without hesitation, looking at her wet and embarrassed appearance, I yelled at her with some distress: "Don't learn from Kuz, this guy has never been afraid of the cold, you'd better change your wet clothes, it's not a joke to be frozen by the ice water dripping from this snowy mountain!"
This is a wasteland, not a Yemeni town, and not a bustling imperial capital!
”In my original world, girls have always been the object of protection, and if they do not collapse in the face of such a predicament, they will be strong, and where will they have the courage to jump into the ice river to hold up the raft for a large animal.Caterina's face was a little blue from the cold, but she listened to my scolding without any expression of grievance or shame, and even her red eyes winked at me and ran to the back of the raft, trembling to unbuckle the leather armor.Seeing that I stood still, he handed me the blanket and whispered: "When I used to pick up garbage in an open-pit coal mining town on the outskirts of the Greene Capital in Noni Mountain, it was so cold in winter, and I didn't feel cold when I only wore a tattered dress that I picked up, don't underestimate me, my physique is very good, like my mother!"
”I took the blanket without saying a word, and she had already unfastened the soaking of the wet leather armor, because this leather armor was customized according to Qige's figure, which was very small for the plump body of Caterina, who was nearly one hundred and seventy-five centimeters tall, but fortunately, the elasticity of the leather armor was not bad, and it could barely be worn.It's just that in order to put on this leather armor with decent defense, I didn't even wear a regular petticoat in the leather armor, and as soon as the leather shin armor was untied, a large area of frozen blue and purple skin was directly exposed, and the round thighs were like rice dumplings that had been peeled off.Quickly wrapped her in a blanket, and she glanced at me gratefully.The raft carried us down the river, and the river flowed slowly to the west, in fact, we wanted to paddle to the other side of the river, but now even though the four of us rowed hard with the oars made of flying spears, the raft was still carried into the center of the river.Sometimes you can only get closer to the shore on the other side.I think that in my current state, if I want to get to the other side, I have to go at least a few kilometers downstream.