The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 395 Hunting and Ambush

Not long after Ergou led the high elves out of the valley, the Bronze Bull Warrior arrived here breathlessly with a group of war blood followers.

However, what greeted them was not the hearty fight that the blood followers had expected, but a dead silent valley and corpses all over the ground. Only a few scavengers feasted here, and then became targets for the war blood followers to vent their anger.

The war blood followers came up empty-handed, and the brutality and anger that had accumulated along the way could not be vented. Silent turmoil and dissatisfaction began to spread among the evil followers.

Soon, several war bloods came into conflict over some minor frictions, and this conflict even had a tendency to gradually spread.

But this is also the norm for war bloods.

When these lunatics can't find enemies to fight, venting their violent desires through internal fighting is their only option.

Many times, it is common for a Blood Cult group to lose some or even half of its men in internal fighting because they cannot find a target to kill.

The war blood bandits who had come up empty-handed in the valley were about to fall into this state.

However, for the Bronze Bull Blood Warrior, who was the leader, the infighting at this time was somewhat inappropriate.

After all, it had received an order from the Lord of Blood and had a specific target to hunt down.

The internal conflicts among his subordinates would only slow down his pace in completing the task of becoming the Lord of Blood, something the Bronze Bull Blood Warrior could not tolerate.

So when he found that more of his men were involved in infighting, the Bronze Bull Warrior urged the bronze bull under his seat without hesitation and crushed the men who were fighting most fiercely.

The Bronze Bull is a demonic mount used exclusively by the followers of the Lord of Blood. It looks like a cross between a dog, a rhino, and a bull. Its body is covered with armor made of brass, steel, and other mechanical parts, and its interior is fueled by burning molten blood.

This demonic mount is incredibly powerful, and when it goes mad it's enough to smash through even the strongest city walls.

When it charged towards the blood followers who were fighting each other, even the most violent war blood followers had to jump away to avoid it.

Of course, any unlucky person who fails to dodge in time will become a pendant on the bronze bull's horns, and then be torn to pieces and devoured by its steel fangs.

During the charge of the bronze bull, the bronze bull warrior also used the serrated axe in his hand to chopped off the heads of two unlucky guys.

As the elite among the war blood bandits, the most powerful individual in the entire blood bandit group, and also the one who committed the most murders, the Bronze Bull Warrior quickly quelled the turmoil in the team with such tough measures.

Faced with the tyranny of the Bronze Bull Warrior, those dissatisfied blood disciples had to temporarily hide their anger and resentment in their hearts.

With any luck, this resentment will be vented on the Warbloods' opponents in the next battle.

If we are not lucky enough, the previous situation will happen again in a more intense way.

However, at this moment, these war bloods, led by the Bronze Bull Warrior, set out again on the journey to pursue their target.

After all, the traces of Ergou and his group's departure were very obvious, and the War Bloods didn't even need very good tracking technology to find where they went.

So this group of brutal killers fell behind Ergou and his group, and the distance between them was shortening rapidly, but the people being tracked seemed to be unaware of it.

The strangulation of the opportunistic hunter slightly slowed down the progress of Ergou and others, but this was not the most important thing.

What really prevented the team from moving fast was that the short legs of the gray-haired elves were not strong enough to move in the snow. In comparison, they were better at diving or digging holes in the soil.

Ergou had thought about abandoning these guys who were holding him back, but after weighing the pros and cons, Ergou gave up this overly utilitarian and cruel idea.

The Ice Crown Tree is at least seven or eight hundred kilometers away from the valley where Ergou and his companions set out. There are definitely many difficulties and obstacles along the way, including severe cold, wild beasts, monsters, demons, and other alien races.

The length of day and night on Yujian Star is almost several times that of Lishan Main Star (the length of day and night on Lishan Main Star is about the same as that of the planet where Dasong is located). Even though the sky is still bright, Ergou still insists on resting every time he travels a certain distance.

Neither the high elves under his command nor their servants, the goblins, had any objection to this. After all, if all members of the entire team were too tired, it would be difficult for them to deal with these crises.

And every time they are repairing, the goblins always show the value of their existence in time.

Due to the environment of Yujian Star, there is little vegetation on the surface of the planet. Therefore, it has become an extremely luxurious thing for the residents of Yujian Star to obtain natural firewood.

Fortunately, underground on Yujian Star, there is a mineral similar to coal. The physical properties of this mineral are very similar to those of asphalt. Higher temperatures (around minus seventeen degrees Celsius) will cause it to melt into liquid. In solid state, it is as hard as rock and as light as cork.

This unique fuel is very special. In solid state, it can burn as quietly as a candle; if it is in liquid state, the burning speed of this fuel will become extremely violent and may even cause a terrible explosion.

The residents of Yujian Star often call this fuel black blood, angry blood, phlogiston, etc., while the goblins affectionately call it "Mother Earth's milk."

The goblins are extremely skilled at finding and mining the black blood beneath the ground.

In the wild, other intelligent creatures may try their best to find no trace of this black blood, but the goblins can find it just by digging underground.

There was once an alien civilization with a highly advanced level of technology that attempted to develop black blood on the Yujian Star. They used very advanced equipment to explore and excavate the surface of the Yujian Star, but until the excavation team was slaughtered by the war blood followers, they had not excavated even a drop of black blood.

When a group of goblins came to the excavated ruins of the alien civilization and dug a few times in the frozen soil under the snow, a large amount of black blood gushed out like a fountain.

At first, there were alien civilizations that regarded this as some kind of conspiracy.

When similar strange events occurred one after another on Yujian Star, all alien civilizations became accustomed to it and began to treat it as normal.

As a result, the little goblins became the most indispensable producers among all the intelligent groups on Yujian Star, without a doubt.

It is precisely because of the irreplaceable producer status of the goblins that the high elves, as the only managers who can control the goblins, have also gained a place among all the intelligent groups on Yujianxing.

Otherwise, these descendants of the Aidari who had lost their heritage would have long been slaughtered by other alien civilizations.

Whenever Ergou and the others stopped to rest, these little goblins would crawl under the snow and tinker with it, then climb out of the snow holding some black lumps the size of a human head.

Soon, a warm bonfire was burning on the snowy field where the breath turned into frost.

At first, Ergou was full of surprise and curiosity about the appearance of the bonfire and the existence of black blood phlogiston.

When he understood some of the inside story, a vague understanding arose in Ergou's heart.

Ergou knows the biggest secret on Yujian Star, which is the second phase of the most advanced Genesis system of the Aidari civilization.

The special connection between the goblins and the black blood phlogiston made Ergou wonder if there was any intrinsic connection between their existence and the Genesis system. It was precisely because of this conjecture that Ergou would rather take some risks and take the goblins on the road.

It’s nice to have a bonfire!
Ergou used his spiritual power to shape the seized copper and iron objects into a marching pot, an iron pot that was similar in shape to some kind of enamel pot in his previous life.

Set up a cleaned camping pot, put in clean snow, melt it, boil it, throw in some dried meat, and add seasoning salt...
Before long, Ergou could hold a jar of bacon soup and sip it happily.

By the way, the fact that salt can be found on Yujian Star is thanks to the goblins, and no one can deny that.

Being able to eat hot bacon soup in the freezing snow is an irresistible temptation for anyone.

When Ergou did this for the first time, the high elves were still a little hesitant. Even when Ergou invited them to drink together, these ignorant bumpkins avoided him like the plague.

Only the amnesiac Sariel (the name given by her high elf companions) was willing to accept Ergou's sharing.

When the terrified high elves found that nothing happened to them after enjoying the boiling "poison soup", their psychological defenses began to loosen a little.

When they stopped to rest for the second time, the high elves still refused to accept Ergou's sharing of the broth, but they no longer avoided it. Instead, they scratched their heads curiously and even had the urge to try it.

Of course, what really attracted the high elves was that after drinking the broth twice, the amnesiac Salir showed physical and mental state that was obviously better than that of other high elves.

As descendants of the Aidari, the High Elves inherited their ancestors' extremely vigorous metabolic rate, which not only made them extremely powerful in martial arts, but also made them extremely efficient in utilizing food nutrients.

To talk about how outstanding the high elves' military power is, we can make a comparison with Gao Gongji, who was once the most powerful man in the military of the Song Dynasty.

For human beings, Gao Gongji is definitely a heroic warrior who can only be found among millions of people.

The entire Song Dynasty has a population of tens of millions, but there are no more than ten top masters like Gao Gongji.

As for the high-elf race, it is no exaggeration to say that the average high-elf is of high rank.

Take the four high elves who were killed in a duel with the War Bloods earlier. They were originally in custody and their fighting power level had been greatly reduced.

Even though the high elves in the cages were fed by the little goblins, they were always in a state of hunger - only when the high elves were in this state would the little goblins search for food more efficiently, and then the ice and snow aliens would get more from exploiting them - their physical strength was also insufficient.

Even so, the high-elite warriors that the servant has released can still fight against the war blood disciples with the combat power level of Arhat of Daxiangguo Temple in a one-for-two or even one-for-three manner.

Think about it, if Gao Gongji was in a difficult situation and lacked physical strength and faced the Arhat monks of Daxiangguo Temple, would he be able to achieve a one-for-all exchange?
However, although the high elves are extremely powerful in terms of martial arts, they are somewhat lagging behind in the inheritance of civilization.

Today, the civilization of the high elves has basically declined to the point where they have to eat raw meat and drink blood. Without the food provided by the little goblins, they would even have forgotten what cooked food is.

Of course, the reason why the high elves can bear to eat raw meat and drink blood is also because their digestive system can withstand raw meat and even rotten meat as food.

Although those raw foods can sustain the lives of the high elves, they are ultimately not as consistent with the physiological evolutionary trends of civilized races as cooked foods. This is also true for the remnants of a civilization like the high elves.

After drinking the hot salty broth, Salir's physical strength naturally recovered much faster than those of her companions, not to mention that the broth also contained salt.

Here is a little piece of knowledge.

Why did salt become popular in ancient China, while other civilizations of the same period did not develop until modern times?

All of this is inseparable from a very important type of food - soup.

We all know that salt is an indispensable nutrient for human physiology, and the most common way for the human body to absorb salt is to eat.

You have to know that the pure taste of salt is salty. If there are some impurities, bitterness is inevitable.

How can people normally eat salt that is both salty and bitter?

Even without knowing the benefits of salt, why would a person sprinkle salt, which is like poison, on dry food as a seasoning?
At this time, the most suitable way to eat salt in accordance with human taste and physiological needs is salty soup.

Eating salt is a pain in the taste buds, while drinking salty soup is a dietary enjoyment.

If you want to drink soup, you need utensils to cook the soup.

Stoneware, pottery, porcelain, bronze tripods, cauldrons and pots are all derivatives of this thread.

It was the emergence of the "soup" diet that fundamentally changed the history of human salt consumption and even the form of civilization.

Back to the high elves, although the goblins can provide salt, the high elves who are accustomed to eating raw meat rarely use salt for seasoning, which leads to most of them being in a state of physiological salt deficiency.

Ergou gave Salir two bowls of bacon soup, and her physical nutritional deficiency was naturally alleviated.

As reflected in her physical condition, Sally became stronger and more energetic.

So, when everyone was resting for the third time, all the high-level clubs no longer refused to enjoy the delicious bacon soup in an iron pot.

After drinking the bacon soup, the physiological feedback given to the high elves further solidified their superstition about this food.

They respectfully called the bacon soup the wine of the gods and regarded the iron pot that Ergou molded for them as a gift from God.

That's right! The descendants of the Eldari on Yujian are just that ignorant.

After many repairs, the physical strength and fighting spirit of the high elves have returned to their peak state, or it should be said that their condition has never been so good.

At this time, Ergou felt the malice coming from behind him.

The war blood warriors led by the Bronze Bull Warrior caught up.

Although the two sides have not yet entered each other's line of sight, the detection system built into the Spirit Bone Armor has provided Ergou with general intelligence about the attackers.

Comparing the number of fighters on both sides, Ergou realized that he could not fight head-on, and he needed to develop some more special tactics.

The first thing to do is to ambush the enemy and hurt them.

(End of this chapter)