Chapter 238 The Port and the Tide of Beasts
No. Gaode changed his mind and suddenly realized that the Frost Soul was not the only way to go.
There is another direction that is also feasible:
Soul of the Forest.
He came to the north to plant trees, and he almost forgot about his old profession.
In addition to ice elemental energy, wood elemental energy is also a route.
Both have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Frost Soul Sheng can be cultivated now, and it is obviously better to obtain ice elemental energy in the north.
The disadvantage lies in the possibility of competition for resources and homogeneity of capabilities.
The overlapping of abilities means that in the northern environment, including humans and earth-line creatures, most abilities are based on the ice element side.
Similarly, the resistance is generally towards the ice element. For example, the fur of the snow wolf is extremely resistant to ice element spells.
In such a general environment, Frost Soul seems to be a bit too popular, while Forest Soul is a "sword that takes an eccentric approach", but will have a more outstanding performance.
Competition for resources actually refers to competition with AutoNavi itself.
His improvement of Mandela's Magic Eye also requires the absorption of ice elemental power.
Resources are always limited, so Gaode will face a problem. Should the limited resources be used to improve Mandela's Magic Eye or the Soul of the Wilderness?
You cannot have both, but both are important to him.
If you take the Soul of the Forest route, you can avoid these two drawbacks.
Just compared to the Frost Soul route that can be started now, it is more or less like "drawing a big pie" in it.
After all, until now, let alone planting trees, he has not even seen a suitable planting spot.
After careful consideration for a long time, Gothe finally preferred the "Soul of the Forest" route.
After all, it is self-produced and used, so it is more reliable no matter how you listen to it.
· Awakening month, 3rd, the seventh day Gothe came to the Snover clan camp.
After a week of study, he can already use Ace language to complete daily communication with people in the North.
The rest is just a process of practice and familiarity.
This actually makes Lana a little embarrassed - because this teaching is too easy, and the compensation given by Gothe is a bit too rich.
"How many times have you migrated with the Snover tribe?" That night, after finishing today's Ace language teaching, Gothe asked seemingly casually.
Lana thought for a while, counted carefully on her fingers and said: "Our tribe usually migrates twice a year, sometimes only once, sometimes as often as four times a year, almost thirty times."
Thirty times Gothe thought for a while and asked again: "Is the location new every time you move?"
r/> "Then, based on the exploration situation, which pasture has the best growth, it will be designated as the next migration site."
"Unless there are special circumstances, all our pastures are not suitable as migration sites, and the tribe will look for new migration sites."
Very reasonable.
In fact, all nomadic migration patterns should be this "rotational grazing" pattern, migrating between relatively fixed places by following a set of established routes based on years of experience.
Fixed migration routes, in addition to better utilization of natural resources, also help them connect and trade with other tribes.
Four or five pastures. Gaode thought about it for a while, and found that the actual enclosed area was not particularly large.
After all, it would be unrealistic for such a large tribe to migrate too far.
"During the migration, have you ever seen any place with flat terrain and convenient location, but where no tribe has ever been stationed?" Gothe asked casually, without any hope.
Lana's answer was in line with expectations. She thought about it carefully, then shook her head decisively and said, "No."
But before Gothe could say anything, Lana paused, hesitated, and then said: "But."
"Although I don't know what the purpose of looking for such a place is, according to the conditions you have put forward, there seem to be many places on the coastline that meet your requirements." She hesitated and said.
To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that the "money" was earned so easily, she would have felt really guilty and would never have said this.
"When my father was still alive, he was a scout for the tribe, exploring nomadic lands for the tribe, so he traveled to many places and knew a lot about the northern border."
h "He once told me that in our northern border, There is only one port on the coastline, which is the Viking Wolf Port built by the Vikings. "
"With the Viking Wolf Port, the Vikings can take wolf ships to plunder southward when the harbor thaws in the summer. Stealing resources from outsiders. "
"So, the life of the Vikings can be said to be extremely nourishing, unlike us who have to run around for food all day long."
"In fact, there are many places suitable for establishing ports on our northern coastline, and it is by no means the only Viking Wolf Port."
"The reason why there is only one Viking Wolf Port so far is mainly for three reasons."
"One is because of our nomadic lifestyle, we rarely stay in one place for a long time, and the coastline is not suitable for grazing."
Nomads and ports, these two terms are inherently contradictory and difficult to connect.
"Secondly, we do not have the shipbuilding technology. At the same time, when food is limited, we cannot devote a large number of manpower to build a port."
For the people in the north, they have to run around for food most of the day.
The establishment of a port is undoubtedly a big project, time-consuming and manpower-consuming. Who will provide food for such a long period of "off-the-job" work?
This is a very real problem.
“The last thing is that whether you build a port or build a ship, you need a lot of high-quality wood, and it is difficult to find these things in the snowfields.”
The north is also called the permafrost tundra. The vegetation here is limited to moss, lichen, and occasionally some low shrubs.
Leave no mention of fine wood, even large trees are almost invisible.
The northern territory is isolated from the world, and it is almost impossible to obtain these resources from the outside world.
Hence, the necessary material conditions for establishing a port cannot be met here.
"The reason why the Vikings were able to establish a port was because there was a special tree growing in their territory, called the cedar."
"This is the only large tree found in the North that can grow, and it is also a superior shipbuilding material."
"But it only appears and grows in Viking territory, and its output is extremely limited, so Viking Wolf Harbor has become the only port in the North."
Speaking of this, Lana couldn't help but sigh,
Then, she glanced at Gothe, and said: "You are a foreigner, and the outside is not as barren as our northern border, with many ports."
"So, you should know that places suitable for establishing ports generally require a large amount of flat land, sufficiently stable geology, and a good geographical location. This should meet your requirements."
"Furthermore, the coastline is not suitable for nomadism, so most of the coastal areas are sparsely populated, and no tribes have ever been stationed there." Lana finished what she knew in one breath, but Gothe's eyes lit up again and again following her words.
In addition to what Lana said, the coastal area just met his requirements and was an ideal place to plant trees. Gothe also discovered a point that he had previously ignored:
Trees, in the north, are themselves a scarce resource.
As for him, it is possible to continuously produce this scarce resource.
· In addition to being used as fuel, wood is also more important in "industry".
We can even go a step further and build a second port in the north besides Viking Wolf Harbor.
What are the most important raw materials for building ships and establishing ports?
It is wood.
What is he going to do?
Plant a tree!
There is a natural fit between the two.
Although having wood does not mean that you can build a port and a large number of ships, after all, there are still technical, manpower and other difficulties that need to be overcome.
But at least once the basic conditions are met, the following things will no longer be castles in the air, and you can start planning slowly.
Almost instantly, Gaode determined the choice of tree planting site:
The ideal port location on the northern coastline.
Plant trees first, then get rich.
“Is our place far from the coastline?” Gothe asked again.
"I don't know," Lana shook her head, and then added: "It should be very far away. No one in the tribe has ever seen the sea."
It is inconvenient to have no map after all.
When thinking of this, Gaode had a headache again.
But it’s useless to have another headache.
He is a foreigner and only a first-level mage. He really can't think of any way to make the Snover clan willing to trade maps with him.
If it doesn't work, just look for it yourself. Anyway, we have the general direction. Gothe thought secretly in his heart.
Don’t dive into a dead end.
Having a map is certainly convenient and saves a lot of time, but if you don’t have a map, it doesn’t mean you can’t do anything.
With various thoughts running through his mind, Gaode reached out to pick up the water cup placed next to the fire pit to keep warm and take a sip of water, but he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
The water in the water cup automatically flows without wind.
Circles of tiny ripples rippled in the small glass of water.
What is going on?
Gothe didn't even react at the first moment and was a little confused.
The frequency of ripples in the water glass is accelerating.
The next moment, tiny water droplets jumped out slightly.
Gaode's heart skipped a beat, as if he thought of something.
He stood up suddenly, opened the animal skin curtain of the tent, and looked into the distance.
The next moment, a circle of deep blue fluorescent light appeared in the pupil of Gothe's left eye.
Mandela's magic eye.
It had been more than two hours since dark.
The sky on the snowfield darkens very quickly, with almost no dusk process, so it can already be regarded as night.
But Gothe had already adapted to the extremely high ability to see in the dark in Saint-Sean Prison. With the enhanced vision of Mandela's magic eye, he could easily see a blurry but huge figure through the night.
The figure jumped up and arrived on the snow hill. It was not clear in the night, but the golden pupils were extremely conspicuous.
Then, behind the figure standing proudly on the snow hill, another black shadow emerged one after another.
These black shadows are much smaller, but there are too many of them, and they are still increasing.
These black figures have blue eyes, twinkling like stars in the night, but they are not beautiful. Just looking at them can make people feel chilled all over and their scalp numb.
This is
Snow Wolf!
In just a moment, Gothe realized the identity of the other party.
Groups of snow wolves.
His mere glance was enough to confirm that the number of the snow wolves definitely exceeded a thousand, or even more.
Such a large group of snow wolves can no longer simply be called a snow wolf attack, but should be called
Tide of beasts!
As soon as this term popped out of Gothe's mind, his scalp couldn't help but tingle.
The next moment.
The largest figure standing on the snow hill, the so-called alpha wolf, raised his head high and howled at the moon in the sky.
Ouch! ! !
The rest of the snow wolves also roared.
The sound of howling wolves echoed one after another, exploding like thunder in the dark night.
After the pack of wolves howled at the moon, the black shadows jumped up from the snow hills towards the camp of the Snover clan.
They were running wildly and roaring, and the black shadows like the tide directly covered the snow hills.
The connected blue wolf eyes showed not only hunger but also ferocity.
After seeing this scene, Gothe was convinced that these hungry snow wolves would eat up all the living people.
This is a horrifying and shocking scene.
Gaode withdrew his gaze.
Lana's face in the tent has turned pale.
She does not have the ability to see in the dark and the Mandela Magic Eye like Gothe.
But the sound of howling wolves still reached her ears clearly. As a native of the north, she naturally knew what it meant.
Tide of beasts.
Even if the Snover clan is not a small tribe like Duoerbian, facing the beast tide, it will not be easily destroyed, but it will definitely suffer heavy losses.
"How could it be so sudden? The tribe's investigators didn't notice it in advance," Lana muttered in a daze.
It is impossible for a medium-sized tribe like the Snover clan, with a population of tens of thousands, to have no sense of crisis at all.
They have dedicated personnel responsible for detecting the surrounding situation. Once a herd is discovered, they will immediately notify the tribe so that the tribe can prepare as early as possible to resist the attack of the herd.
But this time, before the beast tide hit, they did not receive any warning.
Woo~~~
Woo~~~
Horn made of rhinoceros horns has sounded in the Snover camp.
Gaode looked solemn.
“Hurry up and pack some simple greetings, and then prepare to run away.” He turned to Lana and reminded him.
"The hunters and iceborn mages in the tribe will repel the beast tide." Lana said subconsciously.
"No, they probably won't be able to do it this time." Gothe said.
Because in Gothe's field of vision, there are still black shadows constantly emerging from the snow hills.
This number is roughly estimated to be close to two thousand, and it is not over yet, it is still increasing.
But Gaode has no intention of waiting and watching anymore.
The scale of this beast wave far exceeded Lana's imagination.
At this moment, the most important thing is to run away quickly.
At the same time, Gothe had already picked up his package.
To be honest, apart from "Breath of the Wild", there is nothing he can't throw away, so he can pack it up quickly.
(End of this chapter)