Chapter 3 1.3 Homecoming

When the hunters of Hanshui Village returned to the coast, more than 30 slender longboats were neatly arranged on the shore. On the beach, more than a dozen tall Viking warriors in fine steel armor guarded the boats.

These Viking warriors looked ordinary. But in fact, they were the chosen ones who practiced the "Sea Giant" sequence in Valhalla, and they were the precious fighting force that Duke Bernard was reluctant to use on weekdays.

In order to train these dozen "chosen ones", he needed to select hundreds of strong warriors from the residents in the territory and spend a lot of money to send them to Valhalla in the mountains. After a long period of practice, fighting and prayer, they would be given the potion to enter the "Sea Giant Path" by the "Storm Acolyte" who guarded the temple.

However, obtaining the potion is just the beginning.

The "Sea Giant" is the most powerful one in the 8 upgrade paths of Valhalla. After drinking the potion, nearly 70% of the Viking warriors could not resist the violent impact of the potion on their bodies and would explode and die! The remaining 30% of the potion will completely transform their bodies! Their height will exceed two meters, and their strength will become greater than that of ordinary people.

Duke Bernard only left a dozen people to guard the ship, which was enough to ensure that there was no worry. The leader was the captain of the garrison who had cultivated to the sequence seven ‘wavebreaker’: Blind Mountain Blood Pigeon.

He was also the young city lord of the “Blood Pigeon Town”, the largest village in the “River Valley”.

“Brother Blind Mountain, thank you for your hard work!” Loki looked up at his tall figure of two and a half meters, took out a not-so-full purse from his arms and threw it over.

This was the customary rule of the Viking raiders. The returning pirates had to share a share of the pie with the guards guarding the ship. Blind Mountain grabbed it, laughed, weighed it twice, and threw it back to Loki.

"My brother Loki! Everyone knows that the hunting grounds of Hanshui Village are the poorest mountain tribes! Others robbed rich farmers and nobles, but you robbed exiles and savages."

"It's not easy to earn a few pieces of silver, you should keep them for yourself!"

Loki raised his mouth and showed a kind smile, "A few pieces of silver are useless to me, but it's more important for Blind Mountain Brother to collect enough money and go to Valhalla to exchange for the sequence 6 'Storm Warrior' potion as soon as possible!"

Loki, a young man from the Red Country, is a deep-rooted atheist. In his opinion, Odin, Loki, and Valkyrie are all tricks made up by the storm monks of Valhalla. Drinking potions to gain strength is even more like nonsense.

You know, those who enter the temple are all half-grown children of twelve or thirteen years old. As long as the teenagers of this age are given sufficient nutrition, the genes belonging to the Vikings will give them "tall bodies" and "powerful strength", and there is no need to drink the "potion" that is as dangerous as poison.

Loki walked to Blind Mountain and stuffed the animal skin purse into his pocket. He also took out a large bag of strong liquor from the carriage behind him and handed it to him.

Blind Mountain Blood Pigeon is one of the few brothers Loki has in this cold and strange world. On weekdays, he is kind to Loki.

Blood Pigeon Town and Hanshui Village are separated by a not-too-deep canyon. As a "seaman" among the Vikings, Blind Mountain serves as the hunting captain of the Blood Pigeon tribe and has never crossed the border into the forest area of ​​Hanshui Village for many years. In times of disaster, they will even intentionally or unintentionally drive some of the prey they can't finish eating into the forest area of ​​Hanshui Village for Hanshui hunters to hunt.

Next, Loki wants to find a route to the English Isles, and a strong and loyal thug is essential.

Blind Mountain Blood Pigeon is the first candidate on his list.

"There are still two days before the return date. In all these years, I have only seen late pirates. It is rare for you to come back two days early." After receiving the money, Blind Mountain grabbed three animal skin bags full of food with one hand and helped them load them onto the ship.

"There are still two days, why don't we catch a shark for a snack?" When all the goods were loaded onto the longboat, Blind Mountain stood on the shore and looked at the setting sun gradually setting in the sky, and lit the campfire beside him.

"No, there are only the elderly, the weak, women and children at home. We should take the food back earlier, so that the women in the village can feel at ease earlier!"

"But, you don't have a navigator under the 'sailor' path, aren't you afraid of getting lost in the dark sea!"

"Don't worry, my brother, it's not only the chosen ones who know how to sail! Tonight, the sky is clear and the stars will show me the way home!"

The starry sky in the other world is no different from before the crossing. According to what I learned in the junior high school geography textbook, the two stars in the spoon direction of the Big Dipper always point to the North Star.

The direction of the North Star is due north.

Moreover, the Baltic Sea is an inland sea with a narrow diameter. Even if a longboat sails against the wind, it will definitely reach the other side of the inland sea within two days. Compared with the sea, what really frightens Loki is the well-equipped private army of Duke Bernard.

It is too strange to have a brown-haired and black-eyed missionary in his team, and Duke Bernard is a man with a careful mind. If Old Walder attracts his attention, it will be very troublesome for him to explain. What if this old guy falls into the hands of the Duke and gives out the Han book with maps drawn on it

If he loses the map, I am afraid that he will really lose everything!

As long as he can pry open Old Walder's mouth and grasp the westbound route, gold, silver and treasures will be at hand!

When dusk just fell, the hunters of Hanshui Village set off on time.

Nearly 500 kilograms of corn, quinoa, potatoes and sweet potatoes. More than 50 dried bacon and salted fish, more than a dozen bags of strong liquor, more than 20 kilograms of pig iron, about 5 kilograms of copper, less than a kilogram of loose silver, plus two black goats, seven or eight old hens, three geese

6 women of childbearing age and 8 children under 10 years old.

This is all the harvest of the hunters in Hanshui Village in this round of autumn robbery.

He secretly glanced at the ancient book in his arms, and then looked at the old priest Wadloki lying comfortably on the top of the long boat, who was like a livestock in his hand.

Strange powers and chaos are all feudal superstitions, and only the word "knowledge" is his true belief. Nearly 20 years later, he finally got the first knowledge in this alien continent!

This is the real harvest of this sea robbery trip!

**

After landing on land, returning the ship, and driving the carriage on the rugged mountain road for nearly ten days, Loki finally returned to the Hanshui Village where he was raised.

This is a small village with mountains behind and the sea. Under the towering snow-capped mountains shrouded in clouds and mist, dozens of families surround a huge wooden castle. The castle is not large, covering an area of ​​about 1,000 square meters, with three floors above ground and two floors underground, with a total of about 50 rooms.

This is Loki's home and the only property left to him by his dead father.

Although the castle is made entirely of wood, the material is iron pine at the foot of the snow-capped mountains, which is strong and durable. In winter, the thick wooden walls with a thickness of half a meter are enough to withstand the severe cold of minus 50 degrees Celsius. In the event of foreign invasion, the walls of the village can also withstand the onslaught of ordinary siege equipment.

Since adulthood, Loki has used the remaining knowledge in his brain to make many improvements to Hanshui Village.

First, he directed his tribesmen to pick up hoes and dig up the cold and hard frozen soil, turning the wooden houses originally built on the ground into a half-ground, half-underground, pyramid-shaped "Kahong". The Vikings are generally 1.89 meters tall, but the door of Kahong is only 1.2 meters high.

This brings two benefits: 1. Minimize the heat dissipation area of ​​the gate and the extra building outer wall to further increase the indoor temperature in winter. 2. One meter and two meters is the height that small livestock such as pigs and sheep that cannot withstand the severe cold can enter the house.

Humanoid creatures can only crawl in if they want to enter the house.

It may not be convenient to go out at ordinary times, but this design is very effective when the village defends against foreign enemies. When the villagers of Hanshui Village guard their homes, no matter whether the invaders crawl in with their heads or legs first, even weak women holding axes and guarding the door are enough to defend the pass.

The fastest way to break through Kahong is to throw torches from outside the door, but no Viking would do this. Ninety percent of the wars in Scandinavia are for plundering survival resources. The houses burned by the fire are destroyed, and nothing will be left of steel, gold, silver, and food.

"Kahong" is almost invincible for defending against robbers.

In the past two years, there have been many wars in the fiefdom of Duke Bernard, but fewer and fewer invaders have traveled long distances to plunder Hanshui Village. It is an open secret that this place is extremely poor and difficult to fight.

Not only that, Loki also built the first public bath in this wild land.

He burned and smashed all the ancestral statues and tablets in the caves at the bottom of the castle, dug three feet into the ground to attract natural hot springs from deeper underground, and used the underground hot springs as the source, supplemented by a water purification device made of plant ash and charcoal. He built a public bath with an area of ​​more than 200 square meters at the bottom of the castle.

The men's and women's baths are separated, and the bath is open all day.

Relying on this large bathhouse that symbolizes civilization, the incidence of illness among the villagers in Hanshui Village is extremely low. In this era of lack of medicine and bloodletting for treatment, any flu can take away half of the young laborers in the village.

The large bath ensures that residents can clean the bacteria attached to their body surface on a daily basis, not to mention that bathing can also drive away the fatigue of several days of hunting.

There are also many time-saving measures in the village. For example, the chef in the castle will collect flour from the whole village, and then make bread for the whole village.

This avoids the long time of going from house to house to make fire and heat the stove, and wasting dough. Women can have more time to fish, raise chickens, and grow wheat, while men can focus on hunting. It saves the daily woodcutting and chopping.

Secondly, the few acres of thin land outside the village are sown with his advanced "Longgen Planting Method", and the effect is doubled compared with the traditional "directly planting seeds in the ground".

So many ideas from time travelers made all the villagers in Hanshui Village couldn't help but give him a thumbs up, praising his father for not giving him the wrong name. Loki is really as wise as the god in Valhalla.

However, even so, Hanshui Village still has only 42 households and more than 170 people.

The reason is simple: it is too poor.