Old fisherman Quida is very experienced...

He set up a white light on the shore, then took an iron pin and walked onto the ice, testing the thickness of the ice by poking it heavily as he moved forward.

After walking about three hundred meters, Quida left a mark on the ice and then returned to the shore to call Old Qiao and Mountain Eagle to help drag several sleds onto the ice.

Mountain Eagle has witnessed the Inuit's outdoor camping methods. Their traditional tents, called 'Tu Pique,' are made with more than ten birch logs about six meters long, covered with animal skins to help them resist the cold when hunting in the extreme cold outdoors in winter.

However, now the camp's supplies are very ample, so even Quida has become more luxurious. He used the leftover materials from the camp to make a detachable 'Tu Pique' frame...

15 steel pipes assembled to reach a length of about 8 meters, along with a rather rough welded top fixture, and in just over ten minutes, a tent frame capable of accommodating 10 people was erected.

Next, the tent was covered with an oilcloth and then a layer of animal skin, with snow compacted around the tent to prevent drafts, completing an Inuit traditional 'Tu Pique.'

The top of the 'Tu Pique' tent is open to allow ventilation and smoke release, but Quida, concerned with practicality, glued a piece of transparent acrylic above the top fixture to fend off rain and snow.

The whole process seems simple, but it took nearly two hours with so many people working together to complete the tent construction.

The children helped more as a hindrance, slowing down the progress a bit, but they were still eager to work.

Everyone encouraged them to learn more, from tying knots to making holes on the ice, instilling all the details and safety principles into their minds during the work.

Teaching a few kids to set up a tent through a single practice session is certainly insufficient, but whether it's natives like Old Qiao and Quida or parents like Mountain Eagle, they maintained patience with the children...

Slowly, step by step, even if they can't learn it temporarily, it doesn't matter, as long as they have gone through it and left an impression, things will get better next time.

Once the tent was set up, Quida used a drilling machine to drill 8 holes with a diameter of about 20 centimeters on the ice as fishing spots...

The interior of the tent was very spacious. Mountain Eagle calculated slightly, and moved 8 foldable army cots from the sled into the wide tent, spreading them along the tent's edge, and then covered them with thick fur and sleeping bags.

Old Qiao dragged some stones and firewood from the shore using a sled, then set up a large heating hearth in the middle of the tent, also setting an iron tripod above the hearth, hanging a large kettle to start boiling water.

As the flames rose, smoke quickly gathered towards the tent top due to the chimney effect, escaping through the open tent top, while the heat spread around, quickly warming up the tent interior.

Of course, this warmth cannot compare with that of a fireplace or air conditioning; it's only barely enough to resist the external severe cold.

After setting everything up, Yue Yi took out a two-foot-long whale bone fishing pole, wisely choosing not to compete with Luna for his father's affection, but smartly pulling Quida to help him attach fishing lines and bait, then he sat on a small stool by the ice hole to start fishing.

Marta, who loves fun, warmed herself at the Hunter's Lodge and then snuck into the tent, wanting to experience the fun of ice fishing together. But she was soon caught by Tiffany, who said they should go to the surrounding woods to feel it and learn a bit about polar survival.

Upon hearing Tiffany's idea to give up the Hunter's Lodge and Tu Pique tent, and camp by the shore woods overnight, Marta was almost crying...

She pulled at boss Mountain Eagle, acting spoiled and unreasonable, trying to stay until Tiffany threatened her with dismissal, which made the girl obediently under Old Qiao's guidance to change into thicker clothes, got a waterproof fur from Quida, took a double-layer sleeping bag, and reluctantly followed Tiffany into the woods against the severe cold.

Mountain Eagle wasn't concerned about this young lady determined to become a mercenary...

He herded Marta out of the tent like a sheep and loudly praised Tiffany's idea of self-improvement.

After sending them away, Mountain Eagle fed two armed Magengxi wolves and checked their equipment again, then ordered them to set off north...

Balang then took the remaining 4 Magengxi wolves into the tent, and the four half-grown Magengxi wolves, which were already similar in size to Black Back, cuddled next to several children...

The wolves showed great intelligence, helping warm the children while their eyes were fixed on the ice holes, wanting to get some food when their young masters had a catch.

Balang sat beside Mountain Eagle, resting his big head on Mountain Eagle's lap, replacing his distracted owner, and staring at the ice hole ahead...

While the children were laughing and competing in ice fishing, Mountain Eagle's attention had shifted to the tactical glasses...

Upon departure, he released the newly made Peregrine Falcons and Snowy Owls and swapped back the requiring charge Crows.

Due to their strong concealment, Snowy Owls serve as fixed sentries, pushing the camp's surveillance radius outward to about 25 kilometers. They can enhance their endurance through staking while simultaneously boosting other mimic birds' flying range by serving as signal relays.

The peregrine falcons would pair with snowy owls, two by two, and once the radar sounded an alert, the peregrine falcons would take off to conduct on-site reconnaissance.

Now, one peregrine falcon had already found the paratrooper team and perched on a large tree nearby.

A team of 12 people, having trekked for several hours during the day, had moved several kilometers south...

Now they dug a snow nest on the ground, piled up a circular windbreak wall with snow, lit a bonfire in the middle, ate something, and then lay down in sleeping bags against the windbreak wall and slept.

Mountain Eagle scrutinized these guys carefully through the peregrine falcon's perspective...

His first impression was that this group was equipped with very advanced gear…

Because judging from their appearance, although they were wearing thick clothes, they were far from being bulky, and relying on a simple snow wall and a bonfire to sleep in temperatures around minus 20 degrees suggested that they had excellent thermal equipment, and these people had surely undergone training for such extreme cold.

Their weapons were nothing noteworthy, American-made M4A1s, M110A1s—nothing particularly advanced—but what caught Mountain Eagle's attention was the items on the sleds outside the snow wall.

The sleds not only carried various ammunition and supplies but also two MANPADS. What surprised Mountain Eagle even more was that these guys also carried more than a dozen Spring Knife drones.

Mountain Eagle almost instantly concluded that this group was targeting the Brown Bear Camp, and the aftermath of his previous mountain top confrontation with the Levinston family in Los Angeles resurfaced...

The other side was aware that he possessed extremely advanced airstrike capabilities. They might not have found a defense against it yet, but they had the resources to mount a similar attack.

At this stage, the Spring Knife 300's operational range was just 10~15 kilometers, with a flight time of about 15 minutes, and its power, honestly, was quite average.

But this phenomenon gave Mountain Eagle a start, because this was just a small squad, and their behavior made him both puzzled and a bit worried.

Because if they really intended to use those Spring Knives to attack the camp, they shouldn't have parachuted so far away, and there was no need to carry MANPADS, as such heavy weapons are more efficiently transported by water.

What the hell are they planning?

For Mountain Eagle, intercepting these people wasn't difficult. The challenge lay in not knowing their purpose, making it hard to judge what other arrangements their backers might have.

Their goal was certainly the Brown Bear Camp, but their actions didn't seem to plan a direct attack...

Mountain Eagle wanted to figure out their target, as this was crucial for countering subsequent attacks!

As Mountain Eagle was carefully observing through the peregrine falcon's perspective, Zack, who had been focused on fishing, suddenly cheered, gave a strong pull on the two-foot-long fishing pole, and then began hauling the line up with force...

Quida found the fishing spot; he not only selected the location for the ice hole, but also hung a small LED light over each ice hole to attract the unique black fish of Alaska's lakes.

But unexpectedly, Zack caught a rainbow trout about a foot and a half long...

Zack, with great effort, pulled the fish to the hole's edge and then called some friends to help pull the big fish out of the ice hole.

Yue Yi looked at the big rainbow trout with the red stripe running from its gills to its tail, gestured to its size enviously, then sniffed and gave Zack a high five to celebrate, saying, "Zack, Dad brought spices; let's grill it and eat it...

I didn't eat much tonight, this big guy must be delicious..."

Zack happily removed the fishhook and threw the bait, glowing green, back into the ice hole, then with his hands, lifted the big fish, joyfully saying, "I'll clean the fish, just wait, we're having grilled fish..."

Quida, watching Zack drag the big fish to the fire, took out a Swiss Army knife and started gesturing. He laughed and took out an Inuit traditional knife shaped like a shovel and said to Zack, "Kid, this is a traditional Inuit treasure, let me teach you how the Inuit handle big fish..."

Mountain Eagle froze upon hearing 'native,' then his gaze suddenly hardened...

He refocused on the team, commanded the peregrine falcon to fly high, and after confirming their travel direction via the snow tracks, he muttered to himself, "So they want to encircle and attack the reinforcements...

Only, the point isn't me, but Wayne's tribe...

This group wants to mobilize our manpower, if we take helicopters to support, then...

fuck, they must have arranged more than one team..."