Ye An

Everything was ready, and Ye An's team set off early in the morning.

The fully fueled caravan leads the way, and three reinforced trailers are connected by iron cables. Behind the trailers are rush-made sleds, which are lined up in the snow like a long queue.

The goods in the box are removed, loaded and bundled onto the sled, and the remaining space is covered with bark and animal skins, leaving it for people to ride.

Before setting off, Ye An specially bought enough fuel from Zhao Weng to ensure that the convoy can move forward smoothly and not get stuck on the way due to lack of fuel.

A trailer compartment has been modified, and Xiao Wei and the teenager who take care of her are sitting in it.

Mu Mian led the rest of the people to jump on the truck, and used the high-pile goods to resist the cold wind, wrapped the animal skins tightly around his body, and held a heat-conducting water bottle. Even if he was moving forward in the wind and snow, he would not feel too cold .

The mutated tiger mother and child and the dog group were lying on the sled, the bird and the osprey were parked on the roof, and the ferret followed Ye An to board the RV.

Ye An rubbed his hands and held the steering wheel. With the roar of the engine, the chain-wrapped wheels rolled over the snow, the RV moved forward, and the chains pulling the cart tightened successively, making creaking noises.

The speed of the vehicle gradually increased, and the sled behind the vehicle slid across the snow, bringing up large splashes of ice particles.

The cub pawed at the snow particles and almost fell out of the sled.Pressed down by the tigress' paws, she growled twice before daring to continue being mischievous.

Zhao Weng bid farewell to Ye An in front of the camp, and watched the caravan drive away before turning around to gather his men and preparing to march towards Qiancheng.

According to the previous agreement, Xiao Yun was supposed to send Ye An back to the isolated island, but just yesterday, news came from Qiancheng that the elders in the city died violently one after another, and the death conditions were horrific.The reason for the murder has not yet been ascertained. The Lord of Qiancheng suddenly imprisoned the elder who was still alive, intending to take the opportunity to seize power.

The surviving elders were unwilling to be kicked out, and used their power to confront the city lord's power, and the whole city fell into melee.

In the chaos, an earthquake suddenly occurred in Qiancheng, a rift ran across the city, half of the city fell into the ground, and countless people were killed or injured.

The commotion in Qiancheng was so great that even cities and settlements thousands of miles away had heard of it.

Xiao Yun and Zhao Weng had an agreement a long time ago, and the two sides will jointly destroy Qiancheng.This turn of events happened too fast and very suddenly. Wanting to find out the source of the incident and avoid missing a good opportunity, Xiao Yun had to break his promise and was unable to send Ye An back to Delta.

Ye An didn't care about this, after finishing the general situation, he retrieved the turtle shell from the city lord's mansion, and when Mu Mian and his party arrived, they set off according to the original plan.

Before leaving, Ye An informed Xiao Yun of some of his discoveries, mainly about the origin of the spar.Xiao Yun made an agreement with Ye An that when the matter of Qiancheng was resolved, he would immediately lead his men to capture snapping turtles, and try to reach the isolated island before the rainy season came, fulfilling his promise.

"It will not exceed the rainy season at the latest." Xiao Yun said.

Ye An originally wanted to say that there was no need to be in such a hurry, but sensing Xiao Yun's thoughts, he swallowed back the words that came to his lips.

After leaving the trade zone, Ye An's convoy traveled all the way, rarely stopping when encountering snowstorms.With the help of the modified body, the convoy can open a channel in the snow more than half a meter deep and maintain a certain speed.

On the way, the convoy passed by the frozen lake where they had once camped, and found that there was already a team stationed by the lake. Ye An didn't intend to approach, so he told Mu Mian and others to rest in the car and take turns to keep vigilant.

During the march, in order to resist the snowstorm, Kapok and others pooled their wisdom and made use of their expertise to simply modify the car body, use the materials at hand to support the tall carport, cover the supports with animal skins and hay, and then tie them tightly with ropes.Such a carport is no different from a flat-top tent except that it cannot light a fire, and this tent can be moved.

Even though it was cold at night in the wind and snow, everyone wrapped up in animal skins and huddled together, warmed up with kettles filled with hot water, and took turns to rest, which also kept them in good spirits.

There are five tin stoves in Ye An's RV, and the stoves are mounted on kettles, and the hot water in the kettles has never been cut off.

Ferrets watch over the stove and add wood to it from time to time.

When white steam comes out of any kettle and the whistle sounds from the spout, the ferret will pull the rope hanging from the roof of the car and send the kettle to the trailer behind with the help of a pulley made by kapok.After a while, the empty jug will be sent back, already filled with clean snow.

Every half a day, the ferrets would get dried meat or a small spar, which was Ye An's promise and reward to them.

The convoy stopped about [-] meters away from the frozen lake. Mu Mian led people to jump out of the trailer, knocked on the door of the RV, and when Ye An probed, he said, "My lord, I'm going to take people to catch some fish in the lake."

Ye An looked up at the lake, and there were only a few scattered people near the lake, who seemed to be digging ice for fishing.He looked at the tent by the lake again, estimated the number of people on the other side, and nodded to Kapok.

"Be careful."

"Don't worry, my lord."

Kapok's mobility is amazing. Under her organization, more than a dozen women stepped on the sled, slid up the lake with tools, kept a certain distance from other people, took off their armguards and started digging ice.

The improved arm guard is no less than a sharp cone, it can penetrate the ice surface in a few strokes and cut a circular hole.Schools of fish under the ice quickly gather, competing for the oxygen pouring in from the breach.

The women continued to widen the ice cave, tested the size with their fists, and when they were almost the same, they put the armguards aside, held sharpened wooden sticks, and picked the underwater fish onto the ice one after another.

The mutated fish in the lake are very big, each of them is bigger than a woman's arm.The largest one was close to two meters, and it escaped after breaking three wooden sticks in a row.

"Do you still want to run?"

Kapok simply threw away the tools and rolled up his sleeves to fish with his bare hands.

Her injury has not yet healed, and it is difficult to exert force on one arm. When she clamped the gills of the fish with one hand, the women immediately helped, grabbed the fins and tail of the fish, and dragged a mutant silver carp nearly two meters long onto the ice. .

The silver carp has a strong vitality. Even if it is exposed to the cold wind, it does not freeze immediately. Instead, it keeps flicking its tail and bending its body. The powerful tail hits the ice with a crackling sound, and the sharp fins blow up a lot of ice chips .

Kapok didn't waste any time, picked up the armguard and smashed it on the silver carp's head.

After two strokes, the silver carp did not move, maintaining the posture of flicking its tail, frozen stiff in the cold wind.

"Take it back and let someone clear out a place to start a fire."

After counting the catch this time, Kapok was quite satisfied, shook his arm, put the armguard back on, and organized people to take the spoils back.

The team by the lake witnessed the whole process and saw the strength of the women. Even a little bit of greed was suppressed, and they turned their eyes away from the catches piled up in the hills, and continued to chisel the ice, catching fish in their own way. fish.

Just when Mu Mian and the others were about to go ashore, the ice surface under their feet suddenly shook, and one after another, cracks appeared on the thick ice surface, surrounding the ice cave they dug before, spreading to the entire lake, and spreading rapidly.

"what happened?!"

The crowd was shocked.

It is not the first time for them to fish in the ice lake, but they have never encountered a similar situation.According to the speed at which the ice breaks, there must be a huge and ferocious creature hidden under the lake!

Ye An noticed the abnormality, let the ferret stay in the car, picked up the dagger, jumped out of the RV, and ran towards the frozen lake where the abnormality appeared.

The cracks on the surface of the lake became more and more dense, and the white marks intertwined with each other, spreading rapidly like a spider web.The ice layer has already broken and shattered, and the ice blocks are floating on the water, lifted by the waves, like a boat bumping in the waves.

Regardless of the catch, Mu Mian and the others quickly ran across the ice, stepped over the unbroken ice, and ran back to the shore as fast as they could.

Almost at the same time as they escaped from danger, a huge wave surged in the center of the lake, and a huge, hill-like figure emerged from the lake.

There are sharp fins erected on the back of the black shadow, and the exoskeleton is extremely hard. The whole body is pitch black and covered with irregular spots. The mouth grows under the head, and when it opens, it reveals densely packed teeth, like a terrifying meat grinder.

This is a mutant catfish with a body length of more than four meters. It usually hides at the bottom of the lake to catch other fish, and rarely appears on the water surface.It suddenly appeared at this time, obviously something attracted it.

There was not just one catfish, but as many as seven or eight, breaking through the ice one after another, setting off huge waves in the lake.The catfish that appeared later were of different sizes, the smallest one was only about one meter, but they were equally ferocious and frightening.

The mutant catfish can not only live in the water, but also can stay out of the water for a long time, using its fins to crawl on the ground at a fairly fast speed.

The tents by the lake were the first to suffer. In order to escape for their lives, the people in the tents had to abandon their cargo and struggle to climb over the mounds to avoid the terrifying teeth of the catfish.

Thankfully, they're not the main target of the catfish.

After these strange fish came ashore, they immediately locked on to the target and rushed towards the convoy carrying the spar.

Ye An, Mu Mian and the others happened to stop the catfish on the way. The first catfish propped up its fins and used its tail to support it. It slithered on the ground like a mutated snake. People bite into pieces and devour them.

The birds in the sky sang loudly, and the mutated dog rushed over when the catfish landed on the shore. Its sharp teeth bit the fish, but it could only penetrate a layer of fish skin, and it could not do anything to the hard exoskeleton.

The mutated tiger roared, tearing through the wind and snow with its roar, the tiger was mighty, but it couldn't stop the group of catfish.

"spread!"

The group of catfish had already rushed forward, Ye An immediately let the crowd disperse, while holding the short knife tightly, avoiding the sharp teeth and fins of the catfish, pressed one hand above the eyes of the catfish, turned over and landed on the top of the catfish.

Relying on the experience accumulated in hunting and fighting, Ye An squatted on one knee, trying to stabilize his body, while holding the knife in both hands and pressing down suddenly.

With his strength, the skulls of tigers, brown bears, and bison can easily penetrate, not to mention the slightest bit.But at this moment, the blade wedged less than half of the palm, and was stuck by the bone of the catfish. Not only could it not cut it, it couldn't even pull it out!

This kind of injury was not fatal, but it made the catfish go berserk, and the four-meter-long strange fish began to twist and roll in the snow.Ye An firmly held the handle of the knife, but was still inevitably thrown off by the catfish.

Jiayu didn't intend to give up, let the short knife stay on the head, locked onto Ye An who was trapped in the snow, rushed forward fiercely, opened his huge mouth full of sharp teeth, and bit down even the snow!