Chapter 239: Port and Beast Tide

No... Gao De thought about it, and suddenly realized that it was not the only path to take.

There is another direction that is also feasible: Forest Soul.

He came to the Northern Realm to plant trees, and almost forgot his original business.

Apart from ice element energy, wood element is also a route.

Both have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Frost Soul wins in that it can start cultivation now, and in the Northern Realm, it is clearly easier to obtain ice element energy.

The disadvantage lies in the possibility of resource competition and ability homogenization.

Ability overlap refers to the fact that the general environment of the Northern Realm, including humans and ley-line creatures, mostly has abilities based on the ice element side.

Similarly, resistance is also generally pointed toward the ice element direction, such as the fur of snow wolves, which has outstanding resistance to ice element spells.

In such a general environment, Frost Soul is somewhat too popular, while Forest Soul is "taking a side path," but will have more outstanding performance.

Resource competition actually refers to competition with Gao De himself.

The improvement of his Mandra Magic Eye also needs to absorb ice element power.

Resources are always limited, so Gao De will face a problem: should the limited resources be used to improve the Mandra Magic Eye or the Wild Soul?

The two cannot be obtained at the same time, but both are very important to him.

If he takes the Forest Soul route, he can avoid these two drawbacks.

It's just that compared to the Frost Soul route that can be opened now, it is somewhat "drawing a big cake."

After all, until now, let alone planting trees, he hasn't even seen a suitable tree-planting point.

After thinking seriously for a long time, Gao De was ultimately more inclined to the "Forest Soul" route.

After all, self-production and self-use sounds more reliable.

Awakening Month, 3rd day, Gao De's seventh day in the Snow Fall camp.

After a week of learning, he can already use the Ace language to complete daily communication with Northern Realm people in a stumbling way.

The rest is just a process of practicing and becoming familiar.

This made Lana feel a bit embarrassed—because this teaching was truly too easy, and the remuneration Gao De gave was a bit too rich.

"How many times have you migrated with the Snow Fall tribe?" This evening, after ending today's Ace language teaching, Gao De asked casually.

Lana thought for a moment, counted seriously with her fingers, and said: "Our tribe generally migrates twice a year, sometimes only once, and sometimes we have migrated four times a year. We have migrated about thirty times."

Thirty-something times... Gao De thought for a moment and asked again: "Are the locations of every migration new?"

"That's not it." Lana shook her head and explained:

"Our tribe has four or five fixed pastures. Every time the grass in the current pasture is not enough for the reindeer to eat, the tribe will send scouts to check the recovery of grass in other pastures."

"Then, according to the exploration situation, whichever pasture has the best grass growth will be set as the next migration site."

"Unless we encounter some special situation where all our pastures are not suitable as migration sites, the tribe will look for new migration sites."

Very reasonable.

In fact, the migration mode of all nomadic peoples should be this "rotational grazing" mode, following a set of established routes summarized from years of experience, migrating between relatively fixed places.

Fixed migration routes, besides better utilizing natural resources, also help their contact and trade with other tribes.

Four or five pastures... Gao De pondered, the range circled would actually not be particularly large.

After all, for such a large tribe, if the migration distance is too far, it is not very realistic.

"Then in the process of migration, have you seen any places with flat terrain and convenient geographical location, but where no tribe has stationed?" Gao De asked casually again, not holding much hope.

And the answer Lana gave also met expectations; she thought carefully, and then shook her head decisively: "No."

But before Gao De could say anything, Lana paused, hesitated, and said: "However..."

"However what?" Gao De saw that there seemed to be a turning point, and his eyes brightened up instantly.

"Although I don't know what use you have for finding such a place, according to the conditions you put forward now, there are actually many places on the coastline that meet your requirements," she hesitated and said.

To tell the truth, if it weren't for the fact that this "money" was earned too easily, she would definitely not say these things.

"When my father was still alive, he was a scout for the tribe, exploring nomadic lands for the tribe, so he had seen many things in the Northern Realm."

"He once told me that on the coastline of our Northern Realm, there is only one port to this day, which is the Viking Wolf Port built by the Vikings."

"By virtue of the Viking Wolf Port, Vikings can take wolf ships south to plunder in the summer when the port thaws, plundering the resources of outsiders."

"So, the lives of Vikings can be said to be extremely comfortable, unlike us who need to run for food all day."

"In fact, on the coastline of our Northern Realm, there are still many places suitable for building ports, definitely not just one Viking Wolf Port."

"The reason why there is only one Viking Wolf Port to this day is mainly for three reasons."

"One is because of our nomadic lifestyle, we rarely stay in one place for a long time, and the vicinity of the coastline is not suitable for grazing."

Nomadic people, ports, these two nouns naturally carry a contradictory temperament, very difficult to connect together.

"Second is that we don't have the technology to build ships, and at the same time, under the condition of limited food, it is impossible for us to take out a large number of people to build a port."

For Northern Realm people, they have to run for food most of the time in a day.

And building a port is undoubtedly a major project, time-consuming, labor-intensive, and who will provide food for such a long time of "non-productive" work? This is a very realistic problem.

"The last is that whether it is building a port or building ships, a large amount of top-notch wood is needed, and on the snowfield, it is very difficult to find these things."

The Northern Realm, also known as the Permafrost Tundra, has vegetation limited to moss, lichens, and some low shrubs.

Let alone top-notch wood, even large trees are almost invisible.

And the Northern Realm is isolated from the world, and wanting to obtain these resources from the outside world is almost impossible.

So, the necessary material conditions for building a port cannot be met here either.

"The reason why Vikings can build a port is because a special tree grows in their territory, named Norway Snow Cedar."

"This is the only large tree discovered in the Northern Realm, and it is also a top-notch shipbuilding material."

"But it only appears and grows in the Viking territory, and the output is extremely limited, so the Viking Wolf Port became the only port in the Northern Realm."

Speaking of this, Lana couldn't help but sigh, and then, she looked at Gao De and said: "You are an outsider, the outside is not as barren as our Northern Realm, and there are many ports."

"So, you should know that places suitable for building ports generally need a large amount of flat land, sufficiently stable geology, and a good geographical location... This should just meet your requirements."

"And, the area around the coastline is not suitable for grazing, so most of the coastal areas have few people, and no tribe has stationed there."

Lana finished saying everything she knew in one breath, but Gao De's eyes brightened again and again following her words.

Besides what Lana said, the coastal area just happens to meet his requirements and is an ideal place for planting trees, Gao De also discovered a point he had been ignoring:

Trees, in the Northern Realm, are themselves scarce resources.

And he is someone who can constantly produce this scarce resource.

Besides being used as fuel, the more important use of wood lies in "industry."

It can even go further, establishing a second port in the Northern Realm besides the Viking Wolf Port... What are the most important raw materials for shipbuilding and building ports? Wood.

What is he doing? Planting trees!

The two are naturally adapted to each other. Although having wood doesn't mean being able to build a port and a large number of ships, after all, there are still technical, human, and other difficulties that need to be overcome.

But at least after the basic conditions are met, the things behind are no longer castles in the air and can be planned slowly.

Almost in an instant, Gao De determined the choice of the tree-planting point:

The ideal port location on the Northern Realm coastline.

Plant trees first, then get rich.

"Is it far from the coastline here?" Gao De asked again.

"Don't know," Lana shook her head, and then said: "It should be very far. People in the tribe have never seen the sea."

Without a map, it is ultimately inconvenient.

Thinking of this, Gao De had a headache again.

But having a headache is useless.

He is an outsider, and only a first-circle magic user, so he really can't think of any way to make the Snow Fall Clan willing to trade a map with him.

If it really doesn't work, just go find it yourself, anyway, there is a general direction... Gao De thought secretly in his heart.

Don't drill into a dead end.

Having a map will certainly be much more convenient and time-saving, but if you really can't get a map, it doesn't mean you can't get things done.

While various ideas were turning in his mind, Gao De reached out to pick up the water cup placed by the fire pit to take a sip of water, but couldn't help but be stunned.

The water in the cup moved without wind.

Ripples of circles were rippling in the small water cup.

What is the situation? At the first moment, Gao De didn't react and was a bit confused.

And the frequency of ripples in the water cup was accelerating.

The next moment, tiny water droplets jumped out slightly.

Gao De's heart jumped, as if thinking of something.

He stood up abruptly, lifted the animal skin curtain of the tent, and looked into the distance.

The next instant, the pupil of Gao De's left eye immediately revealed a circle of deep blue fluorescence.

Mandra Magic Eye.

It has been more than two hours since dark.

The sky on the snowfield darkens very quickly, almost without the process of dusk, so it can already be counted as night.

But Gao De had long adapted to the extremely high dark vision ability in the Saint Xi En prison, and with the vision enhancement of the Mandra Magic Eye, he easily saw a blurry but huge figure through the night.

That figure leaped up, came to the snow mound, and couldn't be seen clearly in the night, but those golden pupils were unusually conspicuous.

Subsequently, behind that figure standing proudly on the snow mound, one black shadow after another emerged.

These black shadows were much smaller, but the number was truly too many, and they were still increasing.

These black shadows had blue pupils, twinkling like stars in the night, but they were not beautiful, just making people feel cold and scalp-numbing at a glance.

This is a snow wolf!

In just an instant, Gao De reacted to the other party's identity.

Packs and packs of snow wolves.

He just glanced at it and was enough to determine that the number of this snow wolf pack was definitely over a thousand, or even more.

With such a number of snow wolf packs, it cannot be simply called a snow wolf attack, but should be called a beast tide!

As soon as this noun jumped out of Gao De's mind, his scalp couldn't help but go numb.

The next moment.

That largest figure standing on the snow mound, the so-called head wolf, raised its head high and let out a long howl toward the moon in the sky.

Awoo!!!

The remaining snow wolves also followed and howled.

The sound of wolves howling one after another sounded into a piece, exploding like thunder in the dark night.

After the pack of wolves howled at the moon, those black shadows leaped up and leaped from the snow mound toward the Snow Fall camp.

They were galloping, roaring, and the black shadows like a tide directly covered the snow mound.

In those blue wolf pupils connected into a piece, besides hunger, there was ferocity.

Seeing this scene, Gao De was convinced that these hungry snow wolves would eat all the living people.

This is a shocking scene.

Gao De withdrew his gaze.

Lana in the tent had already turned pale.

She didn't have the ability to see in the dark like Gao De and the Mandra Magic Eye.

But the sound of the pack of wolves howling still clearly entered her ears, and as a Northern Realm native, she naturally knew what this represented.

Beast tide.

Even if the Snow Fall Clan is not a small tribe like the Duo'erbian Tribe, facing a beast tide, not to mention being easily destroyed, it will definitely be a heavy loss.

"How could it be so sudden? The tribe's scouts didn't discover it beforehand..." Lana muttered in a daze.

A medium-sized tribe with a population of over ten thousand like the Snow Fall Clan cannot have no sense of crisis at all.

They have specialized personnel responsible for scouting the surrounding situation, and once a beast pack is discovered, they will immediately notify the tribe so that the tribe can make preparations to resist the beast pack attack as early as possible.

But this time, before the beast tide arrived, they didn't receive any warning.

Woo~~~ Woo~~~ The sound of the cow horn made of rhino horn had already sounded in the Snow Fall camp.

Gao De's expression was solemn.

"Hurry up and pack some luggage simply, and then prepare to run," he reminded Lana.

"The hunters and Ice-Born magic users in the tribe will repel the beast tide..." Lana said subconsciously.

"No, they shouldn't be able to do that this time," Gao De said.

Because in Gao De's field of vision, black shadows were still continuously darting out from atop that snow mound.

This number, roughly estimated, was already approaching two thousand, and it wasn't over yet; it was still increasing.

However, Gao De no longer had the heart to keep watching.

The scale of this beast tide far exceeded Lana's imagination.

At this moment, the most important thing was to hurry up and run.

At the same time, Gao De had already picked up his pack.

To be honest, aside from "Breath of the Wilderness," he had nothing that couldn't be abandoned, so packing up was naturally very quick.

(End of chapter)