Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

A Ze was called out by A Zhang early the next morning. When he came back, his handsome face flushed red, and when his eyes caught sight of Chen Qi, there was still a little dodge, and Chen Qi asked strangely, "A Zhang so early. What are you doing for you?"

"I didn't do anything." A Ze waved his hands in a panic, "Uncle Ali said that he would help me make a new quilt, and I will send the animal skins first."

Looking at A Ze who picked up the animal skin and walked away without looking back, if he read it right, it was the two quilts he covered last night, right? Okay, do you need to do it all over again? Chen Qi looked at the heated kang bed that had become empty and shook his head. There is nothing to do in winter. They can toss if they like.

After breakfast, A Jing came back with the little wolf cub. The cub was very lively when he didn't sleep, and started running around when he got home. Chen Qizhen was worried that it would accidentally sneak into the fire.

"Chen Qi, I can also help clear the snow." A Jing followed closely behind Chen Qi.

After a week of snowstorms, a thick layer of snow had accumulated on the fence. A Ze was watering the fence, and A Zhang followed behind to help flatten the snow. The snow below had been frozen into Bing, Chen Qi tried to poke it with a wooden stick, but it could only scratch a layer of snowflakes on the surface. Of course, if it were replaced by Azerai, I would be able to poke a big hole.

Chen Qi looked at A Jing's small body. Now the snow in the yard was so thick that if he stepped in, he could drown half of his body. Chen Qi pointed to the little wolf cub who was testing by the fire. , "It's going to run into the fire."

Ajing turned his head back and was so frightened that he ran over and hugged the little wolf cub. The little wolf cub stared at him innocently with big round eyes, and then stuck out his tongue and licked Ajing's slightly cold fingers.

"You are responsible for taking care of the little wolf cub. How about you help clear the snow when the little wolf cub grows up?" Chen Qi touched A Jing's little head and coaxed patiently.

A Jing frowned tightly, and finally nodded reluctantly, "Okay, I will take good care of the little wolf."

"It's so good." Chen Qi praised with a smile.

The height of the ice fence can no longer stand under the fence and use a wooden shovel to pick up the snow. Chen Qi made several wooden ladders. These wooden ladders are directly tied with ropes, but they do not need to be like a table. Wait until the pomegranate is dry before using it.

Chen Qi disliked that the animal skin was too heavy, and the props for the snow were big bags made of cloth. Carlo and Ali stood on the fence and poured out the snow, and then flattened them with wooden shovels. The other three females were Responsible for packing the snow in the yard and transporting it to the fence. Chen Qi packed the melted snow into wooden buckets at home, and then took it to the newly built fence and sprinkled it again, which was conducive to reducing the space in the snowflakes. to make the wall stronger.

A Jing, who was helping to watch the fire, suddenly moved the tips of his ears, and the little wolf cub lying in his arms also stood up and arched his body, his snow-white hair exploded into balls, and then Chen Qi heard a distant voice. There was a dull rumbling sound.

Chen Qi quickly put down the wooden barrel in his hand, opened the curtain to go out, and saw other people standing by the wall with a solemn expression and looking out.

Seeing Chen Qi coming out, A Zhang hurriedly made a silent gesture to him, Chen Qi comforted A Jing and told him to stay in the room with the little wolf cub and not come out, and then walked over. "What happened?" Chen Qi asked Aze in a low voice. His height was just flush with the wall. Even if he stepped on his feet, he could only see the snow on the top of the wall, so he could only ask.

A Ze moved the wooden ladder next to him and motioned Chen Qi to climb the two ladders to look out. Chen Qi climbed up suspiciously and looked outside. There were several tall trees outside the fence. Except for the always green fig tree, all the other trees had become bare, but it was easy to see the situation outside.

About a few hundred meters away, an acacia tree pole that was almost 20 meters high collapsed. A young locust dragon was gnawing at the root with its head down, and the other female locust dragon, about half a meter taller than it, was dissatisfied with its tentacles. The ground wrapped around its forelimbs, signaling it to hurry up, and around them, there were hundreds of locust dragons slowly moving forward.

Chen Qi quickly retracted his head under the fence, lowered his voice a little worriedly and asked, "Why did the Locust Dragon come here? Are they not vegetarian? There should be enough food for them in the forest to survive the winter."

Aze shook his head, "I don't know why the locust dragons appeared here, but the direction they are heading is not our side, and there should be no danger."

Chen Qi nodded. Although he was still a little uneasy in his heart, there was nothing he could do about it. With so many locust dragons, a young adult can easily knock down a locust tree tens of meters high. If they came directly to them, the wall would probably not hold back. Their footsteps.

The speed of the Locust Dragon was very slow, and it didn't take long for Chen Qi to hear a dull loud noise. It should be another unfortunate tree that just blocked the path of the Locust Dragon and was pushed down.

The process of waiting for the locust dragon swarm to leave is worrying. In the middle of it, a little locust dragon sees the tall green fig tree and wants to leave the team and walk here. The few orc females in the wall are all tense. , be prepared to carry the people around him and flee as soon as the locust dragon breaks through the wall.

Fortunately, after the little locust dragon walked out a few dozen meters, its mother pulled it back into the team in time, and arched its body with a huge head, and kept arching the little locust dragon to the middle of the team before reaching out its tentacles. On the small tentacles of the little locust dragon, take it forward. Everyone in the fence secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but still did not dare to relax their vigilance.

The locust dragon swarm walked for almost four or five hours before finally passing the distance. Seeing the locust dragon leaving, Carlo's tense body relaxed, and he was not afraid of the cold snow under his feet. He collapsed directly on the snow, "It scared me to death. It was the first time I saw so many locust dragons, and I almost forgot to breathe just now."

"I'll take a look at it." Ah Zhang pondered for a while and said to the crowd.

"You have to be careful." Ali warned a little worriedly. Locust dragons are almost solitary creatures, so it is too abnormal for a large group to leave the forest and appear on the plain.

A Zhang nodded and chased in the direction the Locust Dragon left.

Ake looked at the ice wall that was already one person high, "I'm afraid this wall can't stop the Locust Dragon."

Chen Qi looked up and saw that the width of the wall was only about half a meter. Before, he only considered the defense of a small dragon like the Hyena dragon, such as an adult locust dragon, a giant creature that can be as high as four or five meters and is extremely powerful. Not at all within the defensive range of the wall.

"Let's expand the wall, and then put some defensive weapons on it." He clearly knew that the world was very dangerous, but he underestimated the degree of danger here.

"Weapon?" Ake and Aze looked at each other, but he didn't expect that he just asked a question, and Chen Qi could find a solution right away.

Chen Qi sent Aze to bring some wood over, and then sharpened it for later use. Because the half-built wall was frozen enough, the only way to insert wood into the wall was to extend it outwards.

I was worried that the locust dragon would find out what was going on here. Only a few people opened the wooden door and went out until the locust dragon could not be seen at all. There was more snow outside the fence than in the yard. This time the expansion has increased by about one and a half meters Width, every time the snow is raised a certain height, a sharpened wooden stake is buried in it. The wooden stake is thick or thin. Chen Qi was worried that it would not be enough, and asked Aze to go to the trees that the Locust Dragon pushed down. dragged back.

In the evening, when a few people were busy, A Zhang, who followed Locust Dragon to check, finally came back.

"Why did it take so long? How's it going? Did you see where the Locust Dragon went?" Ali asked worriedly.

A Zhang shook his head, his face was a little ugly, "They crossed the Chishui River, and then kept moving forward. I followed to the river and watched them all come back after crossing the river."

"At least don't have to worry about them coming here." Carlo patted his chest and said.

Ake replied: "If you cross the Chishui River, I'm afraid they will go in the direction of the Lion and Wolf tribe."

A few people fell silent when they heard Ake's words, A Zhang smiled and comforted: "No need to worry about this, the Lion and Wolf tribe will arrange guards nearby to guard against the attack of the Hyena Dragon in winter. The speed of the Locust Dragon So slow, enough for the guards to find them." After a pause, "And if the locust dragon really attacked the lion and wolf tribe, our ability can't help much."

A few people didn't answer the call, and took advantage of the last light of the sunset to raise the ice wall a bit higher.

Just the one-meter-high fence used for defensive wooden stakes consumed a lot of firewood, and some dolphin dragon bones that were saved before were also used by Chen Qi, but it was not so easy to polish the bones. Ali and Carlo directly took over the job.

The wall needs to be further raised. The firewood stored before is not enough, and it will get colder and colder in winter. A Zhang and A Ze plan to get some firewood back when there is no snow in the past few days.

After a busy day, Ali naturally didn't have time to sew a new quilt for Aze. Even Chen Qi planned to roast or stew the meat for dinner. He didn't know where Carlo got his energy, so he insisted on making a fried meal. After eating dinner in a hurry, he was so tired that Ake had to carry him home to sleep.

Aze dug out two new animal skins and put them on the heated kang bed. He looked up and saw that Chen Qi had actually taken a pottery plate to dye the fruit.

"If you're so tired today, don't practice calligraphy. Let's take a night's rest." Recently, Chen Qi had to practice calligraphy for a while before going to bed, and Aze was worried that he was too tired.

"Well, I'll go to sleep after I finish this." Chen Qi dipped a little bit of the prepared fruit dye onto the white cloth, and the white cloth was quickly dyed a small piece of light red, and Chen Qi added a little more in dissatisfaction. Thick red colored fruit.

Seeing that Chen Qi didn't want to practice calligraphy, Aze made the bed and leaned over, "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to make a new quilt."

"New quilt?" What does the new quilt have to do with dyeing fruit? Shouldn't it be sewn from animal skins?

"Yeah." Chen Qi replied vaguely, dripping the newly adjusted colored fruit onto the other side of the white cloth. This time, the white cloth quickly smudged a small piece of beautiful red, and Chen Qi finally tried the color with satisfaction. Put the used white cloth aside, pick up a piece of cloth that has been cut and dip it into a pottery plate filled with fruit dyeing liquid, and keep stirring with a wooden stick to allow the cloth to be fully colored.

Chen Qi smiled mysteriously at Aze, "You'll know when I'm done."