"Hoo, ho, the scenery here is really good, but it's still a bit cold!"
Tang Ping stood at the bow of the boat, wrapping himself tightly.
Spring in Northern Europe is like a beautiful oil painting, colorful and full of vitality.
Although the harsh winter has made the earth sleep for a long time, the arrival of spring is like the awakening of nature, bringing endless vitality to this cold land.
Tang Ping had been holed up on Waiteanhopu Island for so long, but when he suddenly came out like this, he felt a lot more relaxed.
The place where they are sailing now can be regarded as entering an inland river from the mouth of the sea.
The river bank here is much higher than the river surface. Standing on the bow of the boat is just flush with the river bank. This is the first time for Tang Ping to experience this.
"It's not cold!"
Compared to Tang Ping, who wrapped himself into a rice dumpling, Sol, who was standing on the bow of the boat, even opened his clothes and exposed his chest hair.
"The ice has begun to melt now. In winter, it would be really cold!"
Tang Ping would not argue with a Nordic about what kind of weather is cold. He just asked: "Are you sure some of your escaped tribesmen are here?"
This place seemed like the kind of place where a bird wouldn't poop. Tang Ping really doubted that anyone would choose this place to survive.
"Yes, we heard about it when we were in Selwicks. Wulf once brought people here to hunt down my people, but the cold stopped them in their tracks!"
Thor said with some pride: "Only we Vikings can survive in a place like this."
It can be seen that the closer he gets to this place, the more excited this guy becomes.
Suddenly there was an oohing sound coming from the pine forest on the shore.
Thor's eyes lit up, he put his hands on his mouth to make a trumpet, and shouted to the pine forest: "Oh, oh, oh!"
Immediately, a response came from the pine forest: "Oh, oh, oh!"
Tang Ping knew that this should be their unique way of contacting each other, and sure enough, several figures soon emerged from the pine forest on the shore.
"Who are you?" Seeing that Tang Ping and Alaric were obviously not Vikings, the people on the shore raised their bows and arrows and pointed them at them.
"I am Thor from the Harad tribe!" Thor took a step forward to block Tang Ping: "They are my friends and they are here to help us!"
"Harad tribe? We Vikings don't need friends!" A bald man with a big red beard who was leading the team on the opposite side said to Thor, but he made the others put down their bows and arrows.
"You don't need friends?" Tang Ping stood up and said, "So you are hiding here by yourself like a turtle hiding in its shell, letting your compatriots continue to be slaves in Selwicks, being squeezed, whipped and even beaten. Random massacre?”
"You!" Although the Vikings on the opposite side were surprised by Tang Ping's fluent Viking language, the content of Tang Ping's words made them all raise their bows and arrows and point at him.
"What? Did I say something wrong?" Tang Ping asked without fear: "I can help you defeat Sevex, so I traveled thousands of miles to come here and wanted to invite you to defeat your enemy together, but But you said you don’t need friends! It seems I misjudged your Viking bravery!!”
The big red beard looked at Tang Ping, was silent for a long time and said, "What you said makes some sense, but you have to make us believe that you have such strength."
"Oh?? How can I make you believe it?" Tang Ping asked.
The big red beard nodded to the people around him, and then four people left, and soon four people came over carrying the trunk of a big tree.
Judging from the axes in their hands, these people should be cutting down trees here.
With a bang, one end of the tree trunk was on the shore, and the other end just pressed against the side of the sailboat, causing the entire sailboat to sway.
Then a strong Viking jumped up to the end of the tree trunk with an axe, ripped off his shirt, roared twice, and smashed his chest with his other hand.
Saul said: "This is our tradition here. If you can beat him here, you will be qualified to go ashore."
This is somewhat similar to the scene in the movie and TV series Tang Ping watched where the Vikings put a plank on two ships and then dueled. After Thor finished speaking, he was about to walk up the tree trunk, but was stopped by the big red bearded man: "Thor, you can't do it. You are a Viking, and they have to prove themselves."
Sol looked at Tang Ping, who nodded, and then asked Lao Cui and the others: "Which one of you will come?"
"I!"
"Here I go, I haven't had a fight in a long time!"
"Forget it, Lao Cui, if you can't do it, just leave it to me!"
Lao Cui, Lao Du and Tang Ping's other guards all started fighting over it. My son had a salted fish and he fished for crabs at the pier every day.
They could only follow him on weekdays, and they all felt like their bodies were getting rusty.
How could you let go of such a good opportunity now?
"Rock, paper, scissors, the fairest!!"
"Okay, come on!"
If there is no result from the dispute, then there is only the old rule, rock, paper, scissors.
Two people play guessing games, and the winner continues until the last winner is left.
But what they did made the Vikings on the shore look stupid.
"Thor, what are they doing? A ritual before a duel?"
Thor shook his head and said: "They are competing for the qualifications to play!"
After being together for so long, Thor still knows about rock, paper, scissors.
It's just that his explanation made the Vikings on the opposite side a little angry. Is this looking down on others?
Shouldn't this kind of duel involve choosing the strongest one? ?
The opponent actually relied on this method to choose a warrior to fight them?
After a few rounds on Tang Ping's side, a guard named Wang Qi won the final victory.
"Xiao Qi, you are so lucky!"
"Hahaha, brothers, I accept it."
Wang Qi drew out his long knife and jumped onto the tree trunk.
"Wang Qi, try not to hurt anyone!" Tang Ping warned.
He just said try his best. After all, he didn't know the opponent's strength. If the strength was equal, there would be no need to hold back where he couldn't.
Of course Wang Qi knew, he nodded without looking back, then looked at the opposite side and made a come over gesture.
Although there is a language barrier, these gestures can still be understood.
The Vikings roared and rushed over, and they were familiar with this kind of battle, so they swung their axes in a sweeping motion.
On such a tree trunk, there is no way to dodge left and right. The only way is to retreat. As long as you can rush the opponent back to the sailboat with a few swings, you will be considered a winner.
Wang Qi also took a step back as he expected, but what he didn't expect was that Wang Qi was taking a retreat as an advance.
Take a step back, then put your foot down hard, and rush back with one step.
But at this time, he swung the ax before he could swing it a second time.
Seeing Wang Qi slashing down on the head, he could only try his best to stop the inertia of the swing, and then raised the ax above his head to block.
