my age of magic

Chapter 85

After Katerina finished telling her story, a ray of light appeared on the eastern horizon. It used the pen in its hand to divide the dawn and the night into two, and the star map in the night sky gradually disappeared in the clouds, turning blue The night of the night gradually becomes blue like the sea, and our eyes are accompanied by the morning breeze. Looking around, the green in the field of vision is like a beautiful fairy tale world. I have never been in such close contact with nature. When my five senses are constantly outward Looking at the green grass in the field, smelling the fragrance of nameless wildflowers in the grass, listening to the cry of frogs that just broke out of the ground, the spring breeze gently slid across my fingertips, which made me feel itchy. The tip of the tongue seems to be able to feel the moist breath on the wasteland, ah!There must be a lake not far away, otherwise how could there be such a green scene, how could there be such a pleasant frog cry, how could there be such a humid breeze?
Kuz excitedly stood on the back of the Yagui Beast, pointed to the Ulutu River in the distance like a jade belt on the wasteland, and said to me excitedly: "Jia, here is what I told you. The Ulutu River, this river has passed through the entire northern footland wasteland, through the Yelian Mountains and flowed to my home, the Gurudin tribe. This is my mother river. It will continue to flow westward Go to the Baipu Cliff at the westernmost end of the Pai Plateau, and form hundreds of waterfalls directly on the cliff, rushing down the plateau and merging into the Benma River at the foot of the mountain. Do you know that if there is a strong enough boat, it can withstand hundreds of waterfalls? The impact of the waterfall, if you rush down the river and rush into the Benma River under the plateau, it is almost the shortest way from Pai Plateau to Sloit City. Haha!"

The uneasiness and haze in our hearts for many days has finally been completely diluted by this river. This is the first place we planned to arrive. As long as we walk westward along this Qingshui River, we will never get lost in the wasteland. direction.These days when we entered the wasteland, we have been relying on Qige to perform the water gathering technique to have enough drinking water. I don’t know how other hunters living in the wasteland survived, but the wasteland is really short of water.Those who have not eaten may still be able to dig tree holes in the wasteland to eat grass seeds and grass roots, but if there is no water, it will not work for a day.

In the wilderness, there are several fixed large lakes and several inland rivers. During the period after the ice and snow melt in spring, many dry inland rivers have water, but this Ulutu River is the only one. A river that flows out of the northern footlands.Many hunting orcs walked on the wilderness all the year round, and everyone had a strange map in their hearts. On this map in their hearts, there were countless places where they could camp, and these places were undoubtedly not all close to water sources.

Our Yagui Beast drank enough water on the shallow rocky beach by the river, and began to gnaw eagerly on the green grass that grew along both sides of the river.We unloaded the big luggage from Yagui Beast’s back. The four of us were so tired that we sat on the luggage and looked at the river tens of meters wide in front of us. This shows that the clear river must be at least ten meters deep to the center.This is the first natural moat we set for ourselves, the Ulutu River!

Taking the sheepskin airbags out of the luggage, Kurtz and I started to inflate them.These airbags were all bought in the market in Yemen Town. When we bought them, we checked them one by one. The skinner made them perfectly. The whole sheepskin had only small wounds on the limbs, head and tail, but they were finely polished afterwards. It is sewn and painted several times. The whole sheepskin has only a small opening at the end, which is used for blowing air. A sheepskin bladder is filled with air.

Qiger and Katerina tied these airbags side by side to the wooden poles according to Kurtz's instructions, just like a headless fat sheep tied to a wooden frame.In fact, making a large sheepskin raft does not require very long and thick wood. The orcs in the tribe figured out a way to cross the river in the grassland a long time ago. The rafts made by the wilderness orcs are very special. They use [-] sheepskin airbags These short logs are usually used to support tents, but they are used by orcs to make leather rafts, but they can also be made into five or six meters long, three or four meters long. Wide enough to carry a Yagui beast across the river.

In the wilderness, unless you are close to the mountainous area, you can find large-scale timber, and the entire area of ​​​​the northern foot of the wilderness is divided into two by the Ulutu River, which is formed by melting snow from the snow-capped mountains. It's freezing cold, even good swimmers like Kuz and I don't dare to stay in the river for too long. For the Ulutu River, which is nearly 80 meters wide, there is no good means of crossing the river. It is difficult to cross this river.

We didn't even bother to eat breakfast. Before the sun dried the water droplets on the clover leaves in the pasture, we spent half a day putting together a leather raft that could carry the Yagui beast by the Ulutu River.Qige looked at the wide leather raft and exclaimed: "I never thought that the leather raft can be tied like this, Kurz, are you sure that our Yagui beast will sit on it and the leather raft will not overturn?"

Kurtz and I tried our best to push the raft into the water. The two of us stood in the icy cold water and tried to hold the raft, but such a huge raft was ups and downs on the water, and I couldn't stand still.Seeing that my short body could not stabilize the raft, Katerina jumped into the icy river without hesitation, and lifted me onto the raft, and she took my place.The river water submerged her round and slender legs wrapped in leather armor, and her face turned pale from the cold in an instant.I couldn't bear to let her stand in the icy water and wanted to tell her to climb up.After all, my body has the fire poison of burning fruit, even if I really jump into the ice water, it just feels cool, but she definitely can't.

"Caterina, come up quickly, the river is too cold, it will freeze you to death!" I lay down on the raft and leaned over to grab her blue hand, but I was stopped by her pleading eyes. Yes, I told her that she seemed eager to prove the value of her existence!Or maybe I feel a little guilty for not being able to participate in the battle. I think she is a rare good girl. Even in the Green Empire, women enjoy the same right not to join the army. There is really nothing to blame.Seeing that I didn't continue to object, she stood in the cold river and tried her best to smile sweetly at me. I could clearly see her teeth chattering, but those stubborn eyes seemed to say to me: I am willing to do it for you. These things.

I was a little hesitant, but she followed Kurtz to a deeper place.

Seeing that the raft had just stabilized, Kuz hurriedly shouted to me: "Jia, hurry up and catch Yagui Beast."

If it wasn't for it, there would be no need for our rafts to be so big.When buying livestock, I thought that Kurtz would choose the small and young Yagui as much as possible to save money. Later, we chose this young and strong one, and he was a little reluctant. On the bank of the Lutu River, I found that if we bought back another smaller Yagui beast, maybe the current situation would be much better.At least I don't have to push it so hard to get onto the rickety raft.

I took the reins of Yagui Beast, and Qige rode on Yagui Beast's neck like a knight showing off his might, commanding Yagui Beast to walk slowly onto the leather raft, and saw the beast floating in the river. The raft sank suddenly, and most of the sheepskin airbags sank into the river.I squatted on the skin raft and watched carefully to see if the skin tied with hemp rope fell apart, but it looked pretty good so far. The method handed down by the orcs to tie the skin raft is still very reliable. I stood in front of the skin raft the most At the edge, he held an oar converted from a flying spear in his hand, and tried hard to adjust the direction of the raft, but it was of little use.

Sitting on Yagui Beast's back, Qige sighed to me and said, "If I had learned the Wind Control Technique in the academy, I wouldn't have such a trouble now. At least I can save some effort."

Kurtz was soaked like an agile otter, with both hands supporting the edge of the raft, he leaped up with a graceful flip of his body.Like a wolf dog that fell into the water, it was desperately trying to shake off the fur on its body, wrapped the thick leather jacket around its body, and lay down at Yagui Beast's feet, panting heavily.Katerina also climbed onto the raft with Kurtz, Qige threw a blanket from Katerina's head, Katerina wrapped it around her body without hesitation, seeing her wet and embarrassed appearance, I He yelled at her with some distress: "Don't be like Kurtz, this guy has never been afraid of the cold, you'd better change out of your wet clothes, it's no joke to get sick from the icy water dripping from the snow mountain Yes! This is a wasteland, not a Yemen town, let alone a prosperous imperial capital!"

In my original world, girls have always been the object of protection. Faced with such a predicament, they are considered strong if they don’t collapse. How can I have the courage to jump into the glacier to stabilize the raft for a big animal? .Katerina's face turned blue from the cold, but she didn't show aggrieved or embarrassed expression at all when she listened to my scolding. She even blinked her red eyes at me and ran to the back of the raft, trembling to relieve her pain. Belt buckles for leather armor.Seeing me standing still, he handed the blanket to me shyly and whispered: "When I was a child picking up garbage in the small town of Noni Mountain (an open-pit coal mine in the outer suburbs of Greenland), it was so cold in winter. I don’t feel cold when I only wear a tattered dress I picked up, don’t underestimate me, my physique is very good, just like my mother!”

I took the blanket without saying a word, and she had already untied the buckle of the wet leather armor, because this set of leather armor was customized according to Qige's figure. For Katerina's plump body, which is nearly 170 five centimeters tall, It seems very small, but fortunately the elasticity of the leather armor is not bad, and it can barely be worn.It's just that in order to put on the leather armor with fairly good defense, the leather armor didn't even wear a regular petticoat. Once the leather greaves were untied, a large piece of frozen blue-purple skin was directly exposed inside, round and round. Her thighs were like zongzi that had been peeled open. Even though I was used to seeing Katerina wandering around in the caravan wearing hot pants, I was a little blushing at this moment.I quickly wrapped her in a blanket, and she gave me a grateful look.

The raft carried us down the river, and the river was slowly flowing westward. In fact, we wanted to row to the other side of the river, but now even if the four of us paddled hard with oars made of flying spears, But the raft was still brought into the center of the river by the current.Sometimes it can only approach the shore on the other side a little bit.

I think in the current state, if you want to get to the other side, you have to go downstream for at least a few kilometers.

(End of this chapter)