"Tang, you can only bring three days' worth of food into the northern wasteland. This is the rule of our trial!"
Early the next morning, Tang Ping assembled his trial team, and Elder Leif once again explained the rules of the trial.
"no problem!"
Since he agreed to complete the trial and there were still three Vikings in his team, Tang Ping would not lie.
Asking Lao Cui and the others to leave the extra food, Tang Ping and the others walked into the northern wasteland.
In Tang Ping's imagination, the Vikings were that kind of pirate civilization.
Their lives should be full of exciting scenes such as exploration, navigation, and robbery.
After getting to know the results, I realized that the Vikings were actually a farming civilization like the Tang people.
The reason why there will be so many Vikings later is probably because the natural environment is too harsh, so they can only choose to go to sea to plunder.
Hunting is also a part of their lives, and Eriksson is the best hunter among the Karl family.
"The wind direction is quite unfavorable to us. We have to get to the windward position first!" Eriksson first put his thumb in his mouth, then stretched it out and gestured to the air.
This is actually the simplest way to measure the wind direction. You can feel with your fingers that the side where the wind blows is cooler.
And just like what he said, Tang Ping and the others are now at the upper hand.
The wind would carry their scent away, and if the wolves were downwind, they would be spotted first.
So they had to follow the direction of the wind all the way to the edge of the wilderness, and then come back to search for the location of the wolves.
The group of people began to move forward with the wind. Spring had just arrived. There was even some snow in this wilderness. The road was muddy and slippery, making it difficult to walk.
"There is a rabbit in front of you!" Xue Rengui said, raising an arrow in his hand.
Eriksson and the others were still looking where there was a rabbit when they discovered that the rabbit, which looked like a snowball, had been shot through by an arrow. It twitched twice and then fell motionless in the snow.
"How did he find out?" Eriksson asked in surprise. Just now he heard Xue Rengui mutter something without understanding what it was, and then he saw him draw a bow and shoot an arrow to kill the rabbit.
The key is that I have been looking in that direction, but I haven't found anything.
"His eyes are better than ordinary people!" Tang Ping said, taking a telescope from his bag and giving it to Eriksson.
"You can see clearly if you use this."
"What is this??" Eriksson took the telescope, and Tang Ping gestured to him and told him to put it in front of his eyes.
"My God King Odin!" Eriksson used his binoculars to look at the place where the rabbit was shot. He was so frightened that he dropped the binoculars and even fell to the ground and stepped back with his legs staring. took several steps.
"Eriksson!" Carldottir asked: "What's wrong with you?"
Eriksson is a rare warrior of the Karl family. What scares him into being like this?
"Magic... magic!!" He pointed at the telescope and said, "There is magic in it!!"
"Magic?" Karldottir picked it up and looked at it, then looked at Tang Ping with a surprised look on his face and asked, "How did you do it?"
"Well... sometimes when you look at something in the water, you will feel that it is bigger than when you take it out of the water. This is probably the principle. We call it science!" Tang Ping pointed to the telescope and said: "This is in Datang It’s called a telescope, and we will use it to observe the enemy in advance when we fight!!”
If you want the Vikings to believe in you, of course you have to come up with something.
Although Carldottir didn't know anything about science, she could immediately figure out what Tang Ping said about its use in war.
With this thing, the rabbit that was shot just now can clearly see the teeth in its mouth from such a distance. During a war, when the enemy cannot see clearly the situation on your side, you can kill the opponent on your side. See clearly.
This gap is huge.
After knowing that this was not some evil magic, Eriksson and Sol started fighting for it.
Then they discovered that even if they used this, they were still no match for Xue Rengui when they found small prey.
If it weren't for the language barrier, they would all want to ask Xue Rengui if he had something called a telescope installed in his eyes.
Because Xue Rengui was there, they harvested a lot of small prey such as snow foxes, rabbits, and some birds along the way.
We found a sheltered place at noon. We were not allowed to bring more food, but condiments were not prohibited.
While asking a few people to barbecue, Tang Ping, Lao Cui and others dug some mud, added water, made it into a thin mud, and wrapped up the birds that were about the same size as pheasants that they had just shot.
"Don! What are you doing?" Eriksson was confused: "Although hunting is much easier with Xue here, you shouldn't waste food like this."
"Waste?" Tang Ping looked at the slime on his hand: "This is very delicious stuff!"
"Delicious? Impossible!" Eriksson and Sol didn't believe it: "You are just mud, no one will eat such a thing!"
"You really don't want to eat?" Tang Ping asked with a smile: "You guarantee that even if you starve to death, die outside, jump from here, you won't eat any of this?"
"I promise!" Eriksson vowed.
And because Sol had been following Tang Ping for a while, he felt it was wrong to see him smiling like this, so he quietly stood aside and said nothing.
Soon the roasted rabbit and other items were ready, with the barbecue ingredients prepared by Xiao Luo in advance on top. Just smelling it made everyone salivate.
After taking a few bites, Eriksson almost swallowed his tongue. He has been eating barbecue for more than 20 years, but he never thought that barbecue could be so delicious.
Just when he thought this was the limit of gourmet food in the world, Tang Ping and the others took out a few lumps of dirt from the ground.
After the lumps of earth cooled down a bit, Tang Ping and the others smashed them open.
An alluring fragrance came out immediately. Just now, these birds had been stripped of their feathers, rubbed with salt on the outside, and stuffed with a lot of spices in their stomachs. Now all the flavors are blended together.
"Gudong!" Sol began to feel lucky at this time. He didn't promise like Eriksson that he would never eat this thing.
Tang Ping and the others tore this "beggar" into pieces. Everyone got a big piece, but Eriksson was left out. Eriksson's eyes nearly popped out when he saw the others eating with their mouths full of oil.
But who told me just now that I would never eat it? Vikings must keep their promises!
"Bah!" Tang Ping looked at Eriksson and stopped teasing him. He wrapped the piece left for him in leaves and threw it to him.
“It smells so good!”
We continued our journey in the afternoon, but what was different from the beginning was that Eriksson and the others also put on the boots brought by Tang Ping and the others.
Because their shoes were really inconvenient on such snowy ground where the snow had just melted, Tang Ping and the others gave them a few pairs of shoes as they had many.
This kind of anti-slip boots is a treasure for Eriksson and Sol.
Coupled with the delicious meal at noon, they even began to wonder, was this here to complete a trial or for an outing?
It turned out that they were in a trial, and just traveling and looking for food every day was enough to exhaust them.
When Tang Ping and the others arrived, everything seemed to become easier.
Even because they changed their shoes to make it easier to walk, they traveled farther in the wilderness than usual.
When it was getting dark, Karldottir said to Tang Ping: "Don, we have to stop and find a place to rest. It's still very cold here. We need to build a temporary camp!"
Tang Ping looked at the time. It was only after four o'clock now, but because of the high latitude here and the fact that it was spring, it got dark very early.
"Let's walk a little longer!" Tang Ping said: "According to what you said, it will take at least three days to reach the edge of the wasteland downwind. Let's try to walk more every day to shorten the time."
"But that would make it difficult to set up a camp!" Karldottir frowned: "The nights here are much colder than you think."
"Don't worry!" Tang Ping said with a smile: "I have the magic of the Tang Dynasty!"
Karldottir saw Tang Ping's insistence and was very curious about the magic of the Tang Dynasty he was talking about, so he agreed.
A group of people continued on their way, and they stopped at six o'clock in the evening when it was completely dark.
A bonfire was lit near a forest.
Dinner was still barbecue, and then the wild vegetables and mushrooms collected along the way were used to make a pot of soup.
Eriksson excitedly cooked the few birds he had hunted in the afternoon in the same way as the beepers he had learned from Tang Ping.
Now in his heart, this is the best food in the world.
Tang Ping, on the other hand, started to set up tents with a few people.
"Is this your magic?" Carldottir frowned: "Don, sleeping in a tent like this might freeze us to death."
"Don't worry, Karldottir, I won't joke with my life." Tang Ping pointed to the sleeping bag and said: "We brought sleeping bags, and you will only get hot and sweat if you sleep in them at night."
"Sleeping bag?" Karldottir picked up a sleeping bag. She really couldn't imagine how such a thin thing could keep warm?
Seeing her disbelieving look, Tang Ping said, "You can try it yourself, it's very warm even if you sleep in it without any clothes on!"
After Tang Ping finished speaking, he didn't expect Karldottir to start taking off his clothes directly!
"Stop! Stop!" Tang Ping shouted: "Karldottir, this tent is yours, you can interview in it!"
Karldottir laughed as if he had discovered a new world: "Hahahaha, Don, is this your weakness?"
Tang Ping was speechless and left Karldottir directly to the campfire to help cook.
Carldottir tried the sleeping bag Tang Ping mentioned in the tent. Sure enough, although this thing was light and thin, it was extremely warm when sleeping in it.
After getting dressed, she walked out of the tent. Tang Ping blushed when he saw her. This woman was a bit strong, but she also had a really good figure!
"Don, you have a sleeping bag like this, why don't you use it to make clothes? Wouldn't it be very convenient in winter?"
"We have such clothes!" Tang Ping said angrily: "It's just that we didn't expect to come to such a cold place, so we bought our winter clothes in Porto, and these sleeping bags were just stored in our ship's warehouse. It’s inside, I just needed it when I came here this time.”
Eriksson heard that sleeping bags were a thing where you could take off your clothes and sleep in them without feeling cold at all. He wanted to try it out on the spot, and even started to take off his clothes in front of everyone like Carldottir.
Tang Ping had a headache and asked Lao Cui and the others to set up a tent for him. As a person who is not from the south but not from the north either, he was not very able to accept the frank bathing culture of the north, so in front of He was really embarrassed to be naked.
When Eriksson got out of the sleeping bag sweating profusely, he said frankly that he was willing to trade the bearskin with Tang Ping for the sleeping bag.
Although the bearskin was warm, it was heavy. If I had such a thin sleeping bag, it would be much easier to go out in the future.
After dinner, there were no entertainment activities, and since we had to travel tomorrow, we naturally had to go to bed early.
Tang Ping arranged for several people to keep vigil, and Eriksson also volunteered to stay vigil.
Tang Ping looked at him and said, "Give him a night vision goggle and let him and Wang Qi watch for half the night!"
Lao Cui threw him a night vision goggle. Eriksson looked at the lens that looked like a telescope and asked Tang Ping, "What is this? Is it Tang Ping's magic again?"
Tang Ping demonstrated it and said, "You will know after you try it on yourself."
Eriksson was mentally prepared this time, but after putting it on, he was still stunned.
"What is this? I can see outside!" He exclaimed loudly, then took off the night vision goggles, looked outside, and put the night vision goggles on again.
In his sight, as long as he put on this thing, the darkness outside could actually be seen.
But everything turned green, and he even saw a rat passing by on the ground not far away.
Karldottir and Sol were also attracted by him. After taking turns to try this thing, Karldottir sighed and said: "Don, I now know why you are confident that you can take us eight hundred Viking warriors set out to overthrow the kingdom of Thevix."
"These magics of yours are so amazing. I feel like with these things, no matter how ferocious the enemy is, they will turn into children who are helpless to fight back."
"I can't even imagine how powerful the warriors of your motherland would be! How much powerful magic do you still have?"
Tang Ping laughed: "Actually, our most powerful magic is something called the Tang Power Cannon!"
"I can only say that Selwick is very lucky, it is too far away from us in the Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, our fleet should be able to break through Selwick in three days! I really want to bombard England."
