The sky is really blue, and the cold wind is blowing gently. It is noon, and the starlight shines on the earth, making people not feel too cold when the cold wind blows.
About fifteen kilometers away from the west side of the central tribe, Ye Qiong was riding a huge snow-covered demon wolf, galloping towards the canyon base in the west.
The number of monsters and scavengers in this area is increasing.
There are a lot more than in previous years.
Now the monsters and scavengers in the central tribe and around the stone city walls have been cleared away by giant crossbows.
From three kilometers away, you can see some monsters and scavengers continuing to appear. If you move towards the canyon base, this area is now the most concentrated.
Ye Qiong rode on Beibei, making Beibei's speed slow down a little.
Now Beibei's running speed is about fifty yards. With an adult human on his back, he can keep running at this speed for a long time. It is already very easy for ordinary snow-covered demon wolves.
However, Beibei is now in his prime. For creatures like the Snow Demon Wolf, the female beast is generally larger than the male beast. Therefore, the wolves raised by the tribe are basically adult females. The Snow Demon Wolf is the Wolf King...
Of course, there are a few male wolf kings that are very good, but they are relatively rare.
In the wild environment, the proportion of male wolf kings is slightly more.
Although Beibei's body shape is already top-notch compared to the Snow Demon Wolf, even faintly, the hair has undergone some mutations as the body size continues to increase, becoming that rare silver color. grey!
But Beibei's current body size is still less than two meters, and has not yet entered the level of low-level monsters.
In the eyes of those high-level monsters, and even low-level monsters, this man and the wolf are food.
If it is a small team of humans, as long as it has more than ten people and rides ten snowy demon wolves, ordinary high-level demon beasts and even independent guardian beasts will not be easily provoked.
But a combination like Ye Qiong and Beibei becomes a rare fragrant steamed bun in the snowy winter wilderness.
Their intelligence would not allow them to consider what kind of strength a person would have if he dared to go out in the wilds of Snow Star in winter.
Without making any inferences, they just trust their own eyes.
then……
Many monsters and scavengers began to follow Ye Qiong, and they also kept a certain distance from each other.
At this moment, there seems to be a unified goal, which is Ye Qiong and the snowy demon wolf that looks much larger.
Ye Qiong looked back at the monsters and scavengers following him in the distance. At this moment, he had an idea, that is, to take them to the canyon base.
The canyon base has now become a very important base for the central tribe.
It is related to the safety of the generation west of the central tribe, and it is also a backup base for the central tribe to evacuate to the west.
If something happens on the melting defense line, the canyon base must take on the task of being able to accommodate the central tribesmen and warriors for the transition.
Therefore, there is no upper limit to the development of the canyon base, just develop as quickly as possible.
The central tribe has abundant second-line warriors, and many of them have been assigned to the canyon base.
The current canyon base is basically self-sufficient. In addition to coal, other materials and food can be obtained in this area.
When the soldiers at the canyon base went to the central tribe, they were basically transporting some coal.
Coal is the source of happiness in winter.
As more and more monsters and scavengers gathered behind him, Ye Qiong felt some discomfort in Beibei. After all, being targeted by so many monsters and scavengers, as a riding beast, Beibei had already felt it. Some pressure.
However, Beibei could also feel a very calm aura from Ye Qiong's body. All it could do at this moment was to maintain the current speed as much as possible.
A distance of more than ten kilometers, moving at a speed of about fifty yards. If you go slower, you will arrive in about twenty minutes.
If it's faster, it only takes ten minutes.
Galloping all the way, Beibei's speed has been very stable. At this point, it makes those monsters and scavengers who want to catch up as soon as possible. I felt a lot of pressure.
Seeing that the tallest arrow tower in the canyon base had appeared in the distance, Ye Qiong looked back again and found that more than fifty magical beasts had gathered behind him. There were more than ten high-level magical beasts alone. No guardian beast was seen.
As for scavengers, there are hundreds of them.
If Ye Qiong hadn't been riding Beibei in front, those monsters and scavengers might have started to prey on each other. In the depths of winter, it seems that more than half of winter has passed...
In early winter, some food can still be found on and under the ground. After this point in time, heavy snow has covered the earth with dust for nearly ten months. Basically, the carnivores above the ground can eat it. After all the food is exhausted, the frozen soil beneath the ground means that no matter how sensitive the sense of smell is, the monsters and scavengers cannot smell the food more than one meter deep underground.
There are hibernating little beasts under the frozen soil, but digging them out requires a lot of energy. Compared with the energy those little beasts can provide, it is not cost-effective at all.
The tension over food gradually made the relationship between the monsters and the scavengers become tense.
Warcraft and Warcraft will prey on each other without a King Beast to lead them. Some guard-level Warcraft, relying on their huge size and strength, can also command some Warcraft, but this number is limited. , only a dozen to dozens.
Their method of controlling monsters is completely different from that of king beasts. King beasts rely on the suppressive power of their bloodline after awakening. As for guardian beasts, their bloodline has not yet awakened, so they can only rely on their own body and strength to suppress them. Some ordinary monsters gather together to hunt the lone monsters and scavengers.
After the king beasts gathered the beast tide, their purpose was very unified, which was to launch an attack on the human tribe.
It's like some kind of destined law of nature.
Or maybe it's a kind of consciousness, the kind of ideology that humans can't understand...
After all, the world that humans can perceive through the five senses, that is, vision, hearing, smell, touch and taste, is less than five percent of the material world, or even less. What are the physical elements that cannot be perceived? The only connection between the forms that exist is a very difficult or almost impossible thing to understand.
If you think of getting in touch with those invisible material elements, maybe you can only use things other than the five senses.
Such as the sixth sense and the seven senses and eight consciousnesses.
When Ye Qiong and Beibei appeared three kilometers away from the canyon base, the police whistle inside rang.
"Chirp, chirp, chirp! Chirp!"
The moment the police whistle sounded, all the soldiers on duty and resting in the canyon base immediately entered a combat state. Adrenaline hormones began to be secreted slowly, and a feeling of tension appeared at the same time.
After picking up the weapons, they gathered in the central square of the canyon base in just a few dozen seconds.
Except for the soldiers on duty in the arrow tower and those who went out, all the active forces in the canyon base were gathered together.
The bases here are all first- and second-line warriors, and there are no tribesmen living here, so everything is managed militarically.
Just the number of soldiers gathered in the canyon base now exceeds 100, and there are still some small teams patrolling outside.
The current total number of soldiers in the entire canyon base is one hundred and fifty-seven.
As long as there is no large-scale beast attack, with the current defense of the canyon base, there will be no problem with safety.
Now, giant crossbows have begun to be set up in the canyon base. Five giant crossbows were transported here one after another in early winter.
Kuang Beili was still the supreme commander of the canyon base. After the police whistle sounded in the east, the team gathered as quickly as possible and then rushed directly towards the eastern defensive wall.
The fortifications built in the sub-bases of the central tribe must have city walls.
On land, the city wall's blocking effect on the beast tide is very significant.
Small tribes will also build ice walls as high as possible in winter. However, because they must migrate all year round, the height of ice walls is limited.
The current bases and city walls are built to the same level as the stone city walls of the central tribe. The ultimate goal is still about 30 meters, which can effectively defend against king-level monsters.
Only in this way can the threat of beast attacks be completely resolved.
After the city wall reaches thirty meters, even a beast tide of tens of thousands can only break through the city wall by stacking Arhats on top of each other.
Judging from the defense of the embankment base of the Na Ning tribe within the Dinglong Mountains, the height of the city wall determines the combat effectiveness that the warriors can exert through their geographical advantages.
From a height of tens of meters, a stone the size of a palm can smash the head of a high-level monster.
However, arrows pose a greater threat to Warcraft.
The large army rushed to the defensive wall of the canyon base as quickly as possible.
The height of the defensive wall here is only about seven meters, which is not very high. It can only prevent low-level monsters from jumping up. High-level monsters that can reach four meters in size can easily jump up.
After Kuang Beili climbed to the defensive wall, he immediately looked towards the east, that is, towards the central tribe.
Soon, I saw the figure rushing at the front, as well as the monsters and scavengers following behind.
I originally thought that a beast tide was attacking. Kuang Beili and many soldiers at the canyon base were already ready for battle. However, when they saw the monsters and scavengers in the distance, they knew that it was not a big battle.
These warriors had all fought against the tide of beasts and madmen brought by the Thunder Madman King in early winter. After witnessing such a big scene, they were already familiar with this kind of warcraft and scavenger beasts that numbered less than a hundred in size. There is no such passionate feeling anymore.
However, to the naked eye, there are now nearly a hundred Warcraft and those scavengers, which is still quite large.
With so many monsters and scavengers gathering together, the trigger was the figure at the front.
A human figure riding a huge snowy demon wolf.
Kuang Beili and the soldiers on the defensive city wall all saw that figure, but the distance of more than two thousand meters meant that the soldiers could only see that figure. No matter how good their eyesight was, they could only see that figure. It's a vague figure, and it's definitely impossible to see the face clearly.
No one dared to recognize that the figure was Ye Qiong. They could only speculate at this moment.
In an era without instant messaging, everything could only be guessed. There were even some warriors who felt that something had happened to the central tribe, and that they might have been attacked, and that figure was the only one who survived.
They all thought about it, but the unified thing was that they had to be ready for battle now. Judging from their posture, those monsters and scavengers didn't seem to want to stop.
It stands to reason that with such a person and a wolf, the weight is simply not enough for the warcraft and scavengers.
The gathered Warcraft and Scavengers were completely trapped in a leader effect, subconsciously following the others in front of them and running wildly. Many of their sights were blocked.
As the saying goes, the authorities are confused but the onlookers are clear. Some monsters further away, such as those on the mountainside, are very aware of the current situation.
After hearing the movement at the canyon base, Ye Qiong began to think in time.
When he saw the figures appearing on the defensive wall, Ye Qiong also smiled with satisfaction. Time was already running out. In just tens of seconds, in less than a minute, the soldiers were already in place on the defensive wall. !
This result is very good...
Ye Qiong wanted to bring the monsters and scavengers on the road this time. The purpose was actually very simple, which was to test the reaction time of the canyon base.
Different from the central tribe, it is difficult to get follow-up support at the canyon base. The soldiers must gather all at the first time, and then formulate a fighting strategy, or maybe just abandon the place and evacuate.
A base without tribesmen has low defensive value. If a large beast wave appears, then choosing to evacuate and give early warning to the tribe is the biggest task of the canyon base.
The monsters and scavengers behind them naturally do not pose much of a threat to the current canyon base.
What Ye Qiong didn't expect was that the soldiers from the canyon base were not the only ones gathering at this moment.
Halfway up a mountain in the distance, Yang Erqian was leading his patrol team to roast two newly captured scavengers.
Originally, he was going to spend the night at the canyon base tonight, but Yang Erqian had no intention of doing so. He directly led the soldiers to dig a snow cave on the side of the mountain, halfway up the canyon base, and planned to spend the night here. .
It's not that Yang Ergan has any prejudice against the canyon base, it's just that this guy is idle and feels that staying in the canyon base is boring. After getting used to it in the wild, Yang Erqian left the central tribe and led the soldiers to live there. After living as a homeless man, wandering around the outer areas of the central tribe, when passing by those bases, I didn't bother to live in them. I picked up the supplies and food and left immediately.
As long as there is sufficient coal to provide a heat source, and you have the strength to fight the monsters, surviving in the snowy winter wilderness is a very interesting thing, and it is very spiritually fulfilling...
