Chapter 144 4.4 Katya and the "Wing Guard" (1)
130 miles away from Hanshui Village, Razor Ridge Waterfall.
The entire Scandinavian Peninsula is divided into two from south to north by the endless Tianduan Mountains. Most of these towering stone peaks are rarely visited by people.
The mountains are the home of wild animals and "ancient creatures".
Most Viking hunters wandered in the valleys and plains outside the Tianduan Mountains, hunting "easy-to-kill" creatures such as yaks, dire wolves and antelopes. For them, hunting is a side job they choose to fill their stomachs. As long as they can catch prey and as long as the prey has meat on its body, it is not in vain.
But Katya is not satisfied with this.
After a big battle, she was promoted to the security captain of Hanshui Village. In her position, only the acting village chief Jerome could control her. But Jerome has a gentle temperament and is especially not good at facing this lady with a "wolf-like personality".
Therefore, since the village chief Loki led the fleet to leave Hanshui Village, this Slavic girl who just turned 20 has completely let herself go.
"Eve, Natasha, climb the tree!" The rushing waterfall covered her voice. She raised the spear in her hand and pointed it at a 30-meter-high tree beside her. The two women in tight clothes behind her heard the order, bit their machetes in their mouths, and rushed to the tree with their hands and feet.
"Stand by the tree!"
The two slender women rushed to the tree and looked around. After confirming that there were no traces of wild beasts around, they put down a green ribbon.
"Magda, let's get ready to go up!" Katya called another Viking woman beside her. The two took off their animal leather boots and stood barefoot next to the turbulent waterfall.
At the top of the waterfall, two white snow lotuses bloomed.
The pebbles that had been impacted by the waterfall for a long time were as smooth as eggs. Only women with great strength and light weight could stand on this kind of slippery stone with their feet. The two women took one step at a time and went up the waterfall steadily. Along the way, they pulled out the knives they carried with them and kept harvesting various herbs on the vines at both ends of the waterfall.
Before they climbed to the top of the waterfall, the leather bag behind them was half full.
Katya was born in a mountain tribe in the "Warsaw Province" of the Slavic country. Her family used to herd mammoths for the Slavic king nearly a hundred years ago, so the family members were very familiar with various nourishing herbs growing in cold lands.
This "summer snow lotus" growing on the cliff is the favorite food of the king beasts. As long as ordinary beasts eat a few petals, they will quickly absorb spiritual energy from this rare treasure of heaven and earth. Their body size will become larger, their vitality will become stronger, and even their fur color will change.
Over time, they will evolve into the "white race" in the herd.
Of course, people will also get a lot of benefits from eating it.
Katya climbed in the wild for two days and one night this time, just to get two snow lotus for her weak husband. The reason was very simple: Jerome's body was too weak in Katya's opinion.
The Slavs who made a living by farming, grazing and hunting all day could not imagine that there was a kind of people who could make a living by copying books and giving lectures on the other side of the ocean. Sitting and writing every day and being respected by others was simply impossible in the Slavs.
In this country where "if you don't work, you will starve to death", men like Jerome who don't have two taels of muscle in their body simply don't exist.
Katya felt that she had to change this situation.
For this, she was willing to take risks.
The Tianduan Mountains were still cold in midsummer, and the cold waterfall water that poured down mercilessly washed Katya and Magda's cheeks, making it almost impossible for her to open her eyes. She could see that the top of the cliff was not far ahead.
But the closer she got, the more careful she told herself.
When there was about 20 meters away, the two took out the ropes from their waists and tied them to the vines growing by the waterfall.
"Magda, you stay here and be on guard, and kill all the beasts that try to climb up the vines! I'll go up the last section of the land by myself!"
Katya said this because there was only a slippery stone pillar leading to the top of the waterfall. She had to hold on to the stone pillar and resist the scouring of the waterfall to climb to the top.
At this time, she needed to rely on the extraordinary power given to her by the god king Odin.
There has never been a shortage of women in the Viking army, because many gods in Valhalla: Valkyrie, Frigga, Freya, etc. are women. As the chosen one who directly ascended to the "Valkyrie Path" sequence 7, Katya's two months of hunting have made him basically familiar with how to use this power from the gods.
Holding the stone pillar like a snow-white python, she used all her strength to resist the scouring of the waterfall, leaving several claw marks on the slippery stone pillar and stubbornly going upstream. This is the last section of the journey, as long as you can climb up. Not only did she harvest two summer snow lotuses, but there seemed to be several groups of fiery red saffron next to the snow lotuses. This thing is a great tonic for women with insufficient qi and blood, and it is a precious tonic that you may not be able to buy even if you have money on weekdays.
In the past two months, Katya has keenly noticed that the number of pregnant women in the village has suddenly increased a lot.
After Hanshui Village survived a disaster that almost overturned it, all the villagers are very yearning for the bright future led by Village Chief Loki. Once the household contract responsibility system was introduced, the workers of the production brigade burst out with unprecedented work passion.
"As long as I work hard, I can become a superior person. Whether it is a self-employed farmer or a merchant traveling in major cities, the former serfs can live the way they like by sweating."
Once the seed of hope was planted, the fiery work enthusiasm was immediately stimulated.
The baby boom also came.
Katya saw it with her eyes and was anxious in her heart. Her husband was already old, but her belly was still not moving despite working hard every day. This strong woman certainly thought that the problem was with Jerome.
These days, she could no longer bear to sit on the sentry post in the village, and led a group of women who were equally unwilling to be lonely to form an alternative collection team and began to enter the depths of the Tianduan Mountains. Compared with men, Eastern European women are petite and lighter, but their climbing ability is not weaker than them.
Using these advantages, Katya led the team deep into the mountains that almost no one had entered for hundreds of years, and made a lot of money in just a few turns.
If we can pick the summer snow lotus and saffron at the top of the waterfall, today will be the biggest harvest.
The water rolling down from the top of the cliff hit Katya's head, bringing her great resistance. She climbed this less than 10 meters for half an hour. When she climbed to the top of the waterfall tenaciously, she was panting and almost completely out of it.
However, when she put these two huge snow lotus and a large bunch of saffron into her bag, she felt very satisfied. The village chief rejected all the opinions and gave her the position of garrison captain. She had to prove to everyone that she deserved this trust before the village chief came back.
The altitude of Razor Ridge is nearly a thousand meters above sea level. Even in midsummer, standing on the top of the waterfall with her whole body wet still made her shiver twice. Just when she turned over and wanted to jump off the waterfall, Katya suddenly fell into the water.
She saw two dark figures at the bottom of the waterfall.