Chapter 985 Winter Festival

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The cold wind from the north, carrying crystal-like and fine snow foam, whimpering and drifting between heaven and earth.

The soil on the ground was frozen as hard as the exposed stone, showing a clear gray color.

Wang Yan stood on a protruding rock with a hairy crab, looking around. The whole land was like an ice-covered desert. Except for the sound of the wind, there was silence.

"Siberia, a peaceful land, the ancients did give it a name."

Feeling the pure wilderness of the surrounding nature, Wang Yan was not only a little emotional. In the ancient Turkic language, "Siberia" means "peaceful land", which is really appropriate for the current environment.

"Click, click!"

The hairy crab behind Wang Yan was shivering with cold, swinging its eight claws and running around Wang Yan non-stop, as if protesting to its owner. As a hairy crab with dignity, it must not go out hunting in such a cold weather!

"Come on, this low temperature won't hurt you at all. If you keep pretending, I'll use you as bait to catch sea monsters!"

Wang Yan glared at the hairy crab unhappily. Other pets were full of fighting spirit and fierce, but what was the name of the one he raised? Greedy and lustful, and he even fed it an evolution crystal.

The hairy crab trembled all over after hearing this, and was stunned for a moment. Then the crab claws rose and fell, and it ran forward like a hound to explore the way.

"This young master is an excellent pet, and he must not be used as bait to catch sea monsters!"

Wang Yan shook his head helplessly. Speaking of it, time really passed quickly.

Three days ago, he was still in the Winter God Clan, celebrating the Winter Festival, and today he has embarked on the hunting road.

The Winter Festival, as a festival to welcome the arrival of the Winter Goddess and a symbol of the beginning of the next eight-month winter. In the eyes of the Winter God Clan, the importance is no less than the New Year of China.

On this day, the Winter God people will use round pancakes symbolizing the sun and various foods to worship the sun that brings warmth to people. In their eyes, the sun is the god of fire that represents fire and hope.

Later in the evening, the tribe will light a huge bonfire in the central square and hold various ceremonies to welcome the awakening of the Winter Goddess and the beginning of a new winter.

After a series of symbolic ceremonies that night, all kinds of delicious food will come, including caviar, berry juice, yogurt, vegetable soup, and a variety of meat and fine wine, etc., for the tribe members and their guests to enjoy at will.

This is a festival of national jubilation. Everyone starts to revel and drink, as if to unload the hard work and fatigue of the whole year.

After worshiping the Winter Goddess, the next day they will also worship Mother Earth and the Ocean Spirit. After these collective activities of the whole tribe are over, the Winter God people will start to redecorate their homes and start their own family celebrations.

Therefore, during this period of time, the festival also provides an opportunity for unmarried men and women in the Winter God tribe to match up.

Unmarried men and women will have fun together and get to know each other at the invitation and introduction of relatives and friends. If they are attracted to each other, the man can go to the woman's house to propose marriage after the Winter God Festival celebrations that lasted for several days.

Wang Yan, Nan Lian, and Red Tank, led by Bo Lisa, went around to join in the fun and experienced many interesting things full of life.

It was found that this blind date model was the same as the blind date conference during the Chinese New Year. It seems that no matter where you are, blind dates and forced marriages are unavoidable pressures.

After the Winter Festival celebrations, the hunting trial officially began.

This trial custom comes from the early hunting activities related to the survival of the entire tribe.

In the cold far north, if there is not enough food stored for the winter, the entire tribe may perish. Therefore, hunting and gathering are particularly important before the arrival of midwinter.

Therefore, after the Winter Goddess saved this tribe and taught this tribe how to hunt and survive, this activity full of respect for the Winter Goddess was completely preserved. The performance of the hunting trial is a reflection of the personal ability of the Winter God Clan.

"The hunting activity lasts for ten days. Except for personal weapons and pets, no other supplies or items are allowed!"

As Perissa stood on the high platform in the center of the tribal square, she waved her hand and said, "The hunting trial begins now!"

This hunting trial was hosted by Perissa. As the hunting god of this generation, her personal strength has been proven and she does not need to participate in the trial again. Unless someone can surpass her or wait for her to become the new generation of patriarch, she will always retain this glorious title.

"Old Wang, I believe that according to the hunting skills taught by the patriarch and Perissa, we should all be able to pass."

"Come on, Xiao Yan, see you in ten days."

"Sister Nanlian, Brother Tank, see you in ten days."

After parting with Nanlian and Red Tank, Wang Yan wore a hairy crab and went deep into the heart of the northern tundra, starting a hunting trip alone.

The scope of the hunting activity is extremely wide, covering the entire northern Siberia, the autonomous region of the Winter God Clan, which is larger than several European countries combined.

The terrain here is complex, perfectly preserving the original and pure wilderness environment, ranging from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the frozen tundra in the south. There are also large areas of continuous mountain gullies, swamps and cold deserts in the east, west and center.

In addition, the Winter God Clan never over-hunts, so the monsters and prey that can be captured here are very abundant, including some high-level beast-king awakened spiritual beasts like Bear King Reynolds.

Although there are two to three hundred contestants, once they are all dispersed in this vast area, the chance of meeting them is very small. In addition, they are focused on tracking and hunting. Unless two people track the same prey, it will be up to them to decide who is the best. If you grab the prey first, you have to cooperate with each other, or you can do evil to your fellow tribesmen. This is not allowed here.

After Wang Yan set off, he made a brief analysis.

Hunting seems simple, and at his level, it can be said that it is no problem to deal with any prey. What is really difficult is that after arriving in the wilderness, finding and tracking prey is a technical job.

If you can't find prey, you won't be able to use your skills.

Therefore, after considering his own advantages, Wang Yan chose to go all the way south to a slightly warmer area.

In a blink of an eye, it was three days.

Although we caught a few alpine rats, hares, muskrats, hairy crabs, and some small prey such as mergansers with water arrows along the way, we couldn't win the trial with these small animals. In the end, they all became dinner for Wang Yan and the hairy crabs. .

No real prey was found.

"Puff! Puff!"

The hairy crab that ran ahead to investigate came back in a flash. Even though it was walking sideways, with its current strength, it could run faster than a car.

"What's the matter? Is there something wrong?" Wang Yan raised his brows slightly.

The hairy crabs were dancing in front of him, spitting bubbles, and speaking hairy crab language that humans simply couldn't understand.

However, Wang Yan had a master-servant relationship with it, so he understood its meaning naturally.

"You mean, someone is digging in the mud ahead?"

Wang Yan didn't understand what the hairy crab was talking about, so he simply decided to take a look.

At this time, Wang Yan was dressed as an ordinary person. With his strength reaching his level, he had already become profound and calm, returning to his original nature. After he restrained himself, outsiders could not detect it at all.

The distance was not far, about seven or eight kilometers. Wang Yan and the others quickly reached their destination without anyone noticing.

After arriving here, I found that the permafrost here was thawing.

The originally hard black mud and tundra on the surface were now like jelly, undulating when stepped on, and making a "pop, pop" sound when stepped on.

Wang Yan is very aware of this situation.

This is due to the adverse consequences of the earth's greenhouse effect. The gradually warming climate has caused some permafrost in Siberia and even around the Arctic Circle to melt.

The semi-thawed tundra grassland has become like jelly, and the gas coming out of it is methane gas trapped under the permafrost layer. This leaked methane gas will further deepen the greenhouse effect, creating a vicious cycle for the environment.

On this half-melted tundra, a dozen men were digging hard with tools. There were many large pits dug by them around them.

When these people saw Wang Yan approaching, they all stopped what they were doing and their eyes were full of hostility.

"What are you guys busy with?"

Wang Yan glanced at everyone present disapprovingly and said hello familiarly.

He discovered that these young and middle-aged men were all low-level superpowers. The leader was a vicious middle-aged bearded man with pretty good strength, with a B+ level.

"Boy, why are you in a place like this?" The bearded man stood on the edge of the pit and gave Wang Yan a serious look.

The bearded man took a breath of surprise when he discovered that this young man who seemed to be from southern China looked ordinary, but instead was the somewhat dull-looking river crab next to him.

This river crab is actually a high-level spiritual beast!

Big Beard immediately firmly speculated that the kid in front of him was definitely a rich second generation, and he was also the kind of rich second generation superpower who had never seen the world and was doing mischief all day long!

The reason why he was so determined was precisely because of the river crab spirit beast.

He has never seen a river crab that is usually eaten as soon as it is found, can evolve to such a high level. If this were not a special hobby of the rich and wealthy, who would spend huge resources and wealth to cultivate a hairy crab?

"Sure enough, outsiders don't understand the thoughts of those rich tycoons." When he thought of this, the bearded man felt a twinge of pain in his heart.

Of course, if he knew that Wang Yan not only spent a lot of resources on the hairy crab, but also fed it a priceless evolution crystal, his heart would probably bleed, right?

"Me? I'm also a superpower. I recently went out to practice and hunt." Wang Yan gave a nonsense reason and threw a pack of cigarettes to the bearded man. "It's fate that we meet outside. Let's make friends. friend."

Although Wang Yan has quit smoking, he still carries some with him for social purposes.

When the bearded man caught the cigarette, his eyes suddenly lit up, and his expression softened a little, "It's easy to talk, easy to talk."

At the same time, I thought to myself that this guy is indeed a rich man, and he has all these cigarettes!

Wang Yan smiled casually and glanced at a huge black cloth bag at the bearded feet. Taking advantage of the opponent's back, he stretched out his hand seemingly casually, and with a "squeak" sound, he opened the zipper, revealing a huge piece of ivory still covered in dirt from the bag.

"Hey, ivory? Are you poaching?" Wang Yan's eyes narrowed.

As soon as these words came out, the bearded man's face changed slightly.

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