The white world, snow, is the only melody.
For the Cangwu Icefield, which is located in the northwest of the Great Xia Empire and is also the northwest boundary of Central Continent, it is a world of snow.
The Cangwu Icefield is extremely vast, but since most of the area is covered with heavy snow all year round, there are very few areas suitable for human habitation. Except for some [God-given soil] that has changed its position every once in a while since ancient times, There are only some areas where frozen soil has not frozen for unknown reasons.
In the long course of history, those God-given soils that periodically changed their positions gave birth to nomadic civilizations that were completely different from the farming civilization of the Central Plains Dynasty.
For example, the Turkic Khanate now has millions of string masters.
The Turkic kings of the past dynasties, or the kings of the God-given land, all looked covetously at the Central Plains Dynasty. As long as there was a slight chance, they would almost certainly send troops to the east, just to occupy the extremely rich land of the Central Plains Dynasty.
If the occupation failed, they would instead plunder, snatching the population, food, natural materials, treasures and other resources of the Central Plains back to the God-given land, so as to accumulate resources for the next troop dispatch.
The Central Plains Dynasty even had a record of being wiped out by aliens from the heavenly soil.
It was an extremely dark time.
Thousands of miles of land and mountains fell, and the Xuanyan nation was reduced to a two-legged sheep. They struggled to death under the cruel grins and heavy iron hooves of the aliens, and were almost wiped out.
Therefore, facing the huge threat from the northwest, every Central Plains dynasty would deploy heavy troops in the military towns established in the frozen soil zone to block the threat from the Central Plains.
The same is true for Daxia.
After the founding of the country, Taizu Taizu of Great Xia established the unfrozen land as a wilderness state, and at the same time forcibly moved millions of people there. He then ordered a great general of the Zhu Kingdom, who had great military exploits at that time, to unite the army to guard the wasteland state and take charge of the military and political power of the wilderness state. Except for the emperor, Other than that, it is not controlled by anyone.
Then, it became the ancestral system for Shangzhu, who had only eight people in the empire, to guard Huangzhou.
Nearly a thousand years have passed, and now, as the largest and most desolate barren state in the Daxia administrative region, Motian City still lacks the most basic feature of a heaven-level city - prosperity. On the contrary, the population here is not as good as that of a Xuan-level city. city.
Ice and snow hinder the steps of serious businessmen who are not afraid of hardships. After all, no one is willing to travel all the way to such a place with basically no commercial value.
Moreover, the land in Huangzhou is extremely barren. It is difficult to grow ordinary food, let alone spiritual food. The annual food output is very low. The only way to earn money is through hunting or fishing, otherwise it will not be able to feed many people at all.
Although the imperial court transported food, the journey was long, consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, and the cost was extremely high, which was a great test of national strength; secondly, the road was not peaceful, with monsters, monsters, aliens, and bandits running rampant. Even if there was an army escort, There is no guarantee that anything will go wrong.
There is also the threat of foreign races here, so it is not very attractive to the people. Unless it is a last resort, no people will be willing to move to such a ghost place to settle down.
At the same time, because it is located in the northwest corner of Central Continent, and is only separated from the world of swords and magic in Western Continent by a sea, there are some areas in the Blue Mist Icefield that are not suitable for human habitation, but they are inhabited by dwarves, orcs, trolls, and even dragons. A paradise for many non-human races.
Therefore, the living environment here can be described as extremely harsh.
It is simply a world where the strong are respected.
At this time, inside Motian City.
In the silent streets, there are only the whistling sounds of the cold wind and the sound of scattered footsteps.
Even in the coldest month of winter, there are still some pedestrians on the street, but there is no joy and laughter in the human world on their faces. Instead, there is only indifference and indifference in the face of an unknown fate.
Originally, their life was fairly decent, but since the Queen Mother came into power, less and less supplies have been shipped to Huangzhou.
Supplies are running low, and priority must be given to supplying the army. Naturally, the lives of the people are becoming more and more difficult.
Without enough food, they had to take greater risks and hunt and fish more.
Fight with the sky, fight with the earth, fight with people, and fight with beasts.
If you win the fight, you will lie down for a few days; if you lose the fight, you will lie down for a lifetime.
In this city where hope is increasingly lost, the despair of the people has gradually become the mainstream. No one knows that one day they will encounter a powerful monster while hunting, or they will not be able to find the prey and they will run out of energy and freeze to death in the ice field. Go up and become the meal of a certain monster.
Maybe it's a giant ice bear, maybe it's a saber-toothed tiger, and if you're lucky, it can turn into a pile of dragon dung. With such a fate, who knows which one it will be?
The highest point of Motian City is the watchtower of the City Lord's Mansion. From here, you can see a complete white city.
Gu Simiao, who was wearing light armor, had her hands clasped behind her hands and stared into the distance. Under her silver-white hair, which she had practiced unknown techniques, there was an inexplicable trace of determination in her cold and solemn eyes.
She was once known as the most beautiful woman in Northern Hebei. Although she has been in the army for two years, she is still as beautiful as she was two years ago. She is even a little more heroic than two years ago. It's just that she has , there is always a cold air that repels people from thousands of miles away, making people instinctively afraid to approach.
As a general of the Zhu Kingdom who commands an army of 700,000 Cang Ling, there is no doubt about her strength.
After all, she is not only the youngest person in the history of Shangzhu Kingdom, but also the only genius who broke through the Guiyi Realm before the age of twenty in the millennium since the founding of Daxia.
Coupled with the battle formations, tactics, and military strategies passed down from generation to generation by the general family, this created the [Wushuang Pillar Kingdom] that was already powerful in the Cangwu Icefield at a young age.
However, even as powerful as she is, there is still an imperceptible sadness lurking in her eyes.
Da da da…
At this time, there was a sudden sound of footsteps behind him.
Then a woman wearing light armor appeared at the entrance of the aisle.
"Miss…"
The person who came was Lu Luo, the personal maid who had been with Gu Simiao since she could remember.
In Huangzhou, only Luluo could call her that.
Gu Simiao calmed down, then turned around, looked at Luluo, and said calmly: "Luluo, have everything been done?"
Luoluo nodded.
"It's all done, miss."
"Well, that's good, thank you for your hard work."
As she spoke, Gu Simiao gently patted the white snow off her shoulders, then closed her eyes for no reason and took a deep breath.
When she opened her eyes again, there was no trace of distracting thoughts in her eyes, which were clear and firm.
"Then it's time to take action."
As soon as she finished speaking, she turned around and walked firmly towards the exit.
Looking at Gu Simiao's back, Luluo showed an inexplicable look of confusion on her face. Then, she hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth.
"Miss."
"Um?"
Gu Simiao paused slightly.
"What's wrong?"
Luluo mustered up her courage and asked in a deep voice: "Miss, do you really want to do this? Master and the others..."
"I know, Pothos."
Before she could finish her words, Gu Simiao interrupted expressionlessly.
"I know what you want to say and what it means, but..."
The steps that had stopped briefly lifted up again, this time without any pause.
"I have no choice."
As she said these words, a blue butterfly suddenly appeared around her body.
The next second, the butterfly suddenly bloomed with a blue light. At the same time, her figure gradually became blurred, and the surrounding air began to distort.
In just a moment, her figure disappeared completely with the disappearance of the butterfly, as if she had never appeared.
There is only a faint scent left in the air, telling what happened just now.
Illusive yet real.
