Chapter 709: City of Solid Ice
The further north you go, the colder the weather becomes. When the snowflakes start to fall, Zhao Xinghe has already reached the border between the Ice Bear Tribe and the Alliance.
In front, the Snow Wolf Totem brought people to greet him, showing enough goodwill.
Zhao Xinghe raised his spirits to deal with it. He did not put on a condescending attitude. The education of the Alliance determined that he would not do that.
On the contrary, the Snow Wolf Totem, although it pretended to welcome him, was not very enthusiastic. Perhaps in his opinion, there was no meaning in welcoming a member of the tribe.
Zhao Xinghe saw everything, but he did not care.
The education of the alliance has never been self-contained. In recent years, Zhao Xinghe has been to the tribes and witnessed the tyranny and brutality there. He has also been to the southern border and witnessed the suppression of the people of the southern border by the alliance, and even participated in it personally.
He even applied to cross the sea to enter the East Continent, but unfortunately he was rejected.
Having seen all over the world, he naturally knows that not every tribe regards its people as important as totems.
It is precisely because of what he has seen that he feels more and more that the alliance is good, and he is more and more full of faith in Taichu who created all this.
In recent years, there have been many texts in the alliance praising the alliance system, the totems in the alliance, and the texts praising Taichu.
At the beginning, most people used data to prove the goodness of the alliance, and later they simply wrote it into a story.
There are many story themes, some are written from macro battles, and some are written from micro human relationships, but the most popular ones are the people in the southern border and human tribes who are bullied and run to the Alliance to find happiness.
Compared with the previous ones that are too macro or micro, the pace of the latter ones is obviously faster and more exciting to read.
Moreover, many people in the Alliance can find examples of the experiences of the characters in these books.
In recent years, being able to immigrate to the Alliance has been the happiest thing on the mainland. Even tribes such as the Ice Bear Tribe, which are isolated from the Alliance, often immigrate their children or even the whole family to the Alliance as long as their tribesmen are knowledgeable enough.
In this regard, the Alliance maintains a cautious attitude and has always been very strict in reviewing this aspect.
It is not that they do not want to accept, but they have to consider the ideas of other tribes.
Even in southern Xinjiang, the development of southern Xinjiang must be considered.
With these messy things in his mind, Zhao Xinghe followed the snow wolf totem, who was leading the way but had no mood to talk to him, and walked deeper into the snowfield.
The deeper he went, the more he felt that this place was not suitable for human habitation.
In the endless snowfield, there were no living animals in the winter, and food would become a big problem.
The alliance has developed rapidly in recent years, and the population has exceeded one million, but it is said that there has not been much change here.
It's not that they can't have children, or that they don't want to have children, but that there is no food supply. If they have too many children, they will die.
The problem is that the birth rate has not been controlled in this era, so the only way to control the population is to strengthen the elimination mechanism in childhood.
This caused the people of the Ice Bear Tribe to be extremely savage. At least the people Zhao Xinghe saw looked at him with hostility.
Zhao Xinghe didn't care about the provocation of these totem warriors.
He was someone who could challenge the totems, and he had already surpassed the scope of ordinary totem warriors.
At night, the Snow Wolf Totem took Zhao Xinghe to a small tribe, and he was arranged to rest in an ice cave.
This was a novel experience for him, including the food here, which was equally novel.
His dinner was a large piece of frozen meat and strong liquor bought from the Alliance.
The Alliance had an overproduction of grain, and those grains that had become stale had to be processed in advance, which led to the prosperity of the wine industry in the Alliance.
Strong liquor is not particularly popular in the Alliance, but it has always been favored by the Ice Bear Tribe.
The presence of frozen meat and strong liquor proved that Zhao Xinghe was still valued. After all, this was already a very good food here.
Frozen meat was always very fat. Cutting it directly and eating it with strong liquor gave it a unique flavor.
Zhao Xinghe took a few bites and felt his mouth was greasy and he couldn't fully adapt to it, so he took out some fried rice from his luggage and ate it with the strong liquor.
After dinner, he couldn't help but go out for a walk. Before he left the small tribe, he was stopped by several people.
The leader was the leader of the Snow Wolf Tribe.
"I heard that you are a master of the younger generation in the alliance. Is that true?"
The Snow Wolf leader asked with a little mockery on his face.
"Really."
Zhao Xinghe nodded in response.
"Let's have a fight. Let me see how strong the younger generation of your alliance is."
The Snow Wolf leader drew out his sword and raised his eyebrows.
Zhao Xinghe didn't want to fight him, mainly because it was meaningless. He didn't think the other party could beat him.
So he tried to change the subject: "Your sword is good. You must have exchanged it for a lot of good things."
After hearing this, the Snow Wolf leader knew that Zhao Xinghe didn't want to compete. He nodded vigorously and said, "I used half of my beast skin."
This sword really made him proud. If it weren't for his status, he wouldn't be able to exchange for this sword.
His sword is not an ordinary hard long sword, but one that can add totem power. If you look closely at the blade, you can see a trace of red copper from it.
This is the alliance's recent technology. The new alloy has enhanced hardness and toughness, and can also use totem power.
"Where is your weapon? Why haven't I seen it?"
The Snow Wolf leader changed the subject of the challenge and stopped talking about it. Instead, he asked Zhao Xinghe curiously.
"My weapon is in the package. I haven't assembled it since I didn't fight."
Zhao Xinghe said with a smile, and then asked the Snow Wolf leader to take him around here to experience the scenery here.
The Snow Wolf Chief gave up the idea of ​​challenging, and became more friendly, but his demeanor was still a little fierce.
The people of the Ice Bear Tribe were like this, Zhao Xinghe had come into contact with them a long time ago, and didn't think much of it.
The Snow Wolf Chief took him for a walk, and the two returned to the tribe, and Zhao Xinghe rested early.
The next day they continued on their journey, going back and forth like this day. During this period, the Snow Wolf Chief challenged several times, but Zhao Xinghe refused.
It was still the same reason, there was no need.
They walked like this for more than two months, and into deep winter, they were finally not far from Ice Bear City.
This was because Ice Bear City moved a little to the south, otherwise it would be farther.
On this day, the group walked over a snow hill and saw Ice Bear City shining in the sun from a distance.
The walls of Ice Bear City are made of ice, so it is also called the City of Solid Ice.
The sun shines on the ice, and the light is shining and very dazzling.
"It's so beautiful."
Zhao Xinghe couldn't help but say.
"It was your alliance that proposed to build the city with ice blocks, so we have this Ice Bear City. Otherwise, it would be too difficult to build a city here."
Along the way, the Snow Wolf leader and Zhao Xinghe had a good exchange. The two gradually became familiar with each other and had a good relationship.
"I heard that there are no rocks nearby, so they used solid ice to build the city."
Zhao Xinghe said, but his eyes could not leave the shining Ice Bear City. It was really beautiful.
"Huh? That guy seems to be the youngest son of the Ice Bear Tribe leader. What is he doing here?"
The Snow Wolf leader asked in confusion. Zhao Xinghe followed his gaze and saw a group of people not far to the east of the hillside.
There were only two or three snow houses in that area. These people should be living here temporarily.