The temporary door connected to the main world did not experience delays or other abnormalities and disappeared at the scheduled time.
When the temporary door disappears, the local area will not completely return to normal, and there will be more or less ordinary people living in other worlds.
This time, the gate is within the territory of Fatel, so statistical work cannot be carried out.
Without the temporary gate, the demons have also calmed down a bit. Although small movements continue, the scale of activities has been reduced, and the armed forces in various places can more easily carry out daily defense.
The intermission period is still dominated by environmental confrontation.
If the current environment were placed in a world without the Phoenix Kingdom, it would definitely be a super disaster that could destroy the dynasty. Even if the kingdom started laying out many years ago, people would still be starving to death in the penal colony.
In terms of temperature, for the past fifteen consecutive days, the highest daytime temperature has been 13 to 18 degrees, the lowest temperature at night has been 0 to 4 degrees, and most of the time the temperature has been 8 to 10 degrees.
Although it has not yet reached freezing temperatures throughout the day, it is still devastating to native vegetation.
At this temperature, you can tell which plants are experienced players and which are newbies.
Solaris said that the current environment is the original state of the world. If there were vegetation at the beginning, then there must be some that maintain their original traits and can adapt to the existing environment. They will not perform well in the warm period, and when the heat-loving plants are fully Death Ray appeared.
The statistical results of exploration expeditions were mixed.
The good news is that there are still about thirty species of trees and a dozen species of shrubs, and the grasses in the prairie areas have been minimally affected.
The bad news is that the grass in woodlands and swamp areas is dying, the risk of landslides is increasing, and the ecology of swamps and wetlands is completely paralyzed.
The risk of landslides is not a big deal, because the probability of continuous rain will decrease with the moisture content of the air. Some mountains close to buildings can also be reinforced with engineering means.
On the contrary, the swamp is more involved.
Swamp ecology has little presence in the Phoenix Kingdom and is mainly used as a protected area and natural water purification area. But many of the swamps outside the country are hunting and fishing grounds in surrounding cities.
The nutrients and water in the swamp are mainly stored in the vegetation above the surface. The ecological destruction of the vegetation leaves these areas with shallow water directly exposed to the sun, and will dry out in a short time. Wild animals will not be able to survive, and fish will die out. Maybe some can be hidden in the mud, but it cannot be used as a sustainable food source.
In times of drastic climate change, the swamp's situation is only an inconspicuous corner. After all, open farmland is useless, and the little food in the swamp cannot feed a few people even if it survives.
At this stage, a large number of trees and shrubs have died, but they have not completely given way to the light. It will take a long time for the original species to complete their replacement. I don't know if it will be too late for the floating island to fall back.
Fortunately, the vegetation in the grassland terrain has survived well.
The grass is not the same kind of grass. Just like the tall grass turned into ordinary grass during the floating island period, the grassland is undergoing a new round of renewal. It is expected that the average height of wild grass in the grassland will drop to less than 20 centimeters in the future. But at least they are here to stay, and livestock farming can still maintain a certain scale. This will make the survival situation in the Wengji area and other important areas of pastoralism better.
Along with the environmental evolution report, there is also news from the military.
It has been confirmed that the little devil's activity dropped to a very low level with the temperature.
There are one to four little devils in a litter, and the gestation period is three months. The newborn individuals will begin to reproduce within a year, so even if they die quickly, they will never be cleared away.
Low temperature is not only the enemy of humans, but also little devils. As a creature that can fly and does not have dense hair, little devils need to absorb more calories in low temperature environments. However, as the vegetation changes, they cannot find fruits. , can only eat those nutritious things raw, this progress increases the cost of foraging.
In addition, in cooler nighttime temperatures, they are largely immobile and their fecundity is reduced.
Although it has not reached the point of population decline, at least the proliferation rate has slowed down and the activity range has shrunk.
great influence.
Outside of the Phoenix Kingdom, the one most affected by Little Devil is Pilates.
South of Pilates is the Eastern Floating Island, which has been conducting targeted rescue missions for many years. After this area was emptied of population, it became a military exercise and training ground for the Phoenix Kingdom, without large groups of little devils. A group of one to two hundred has never been eradicated, and there is a tendency for the population to develop again in the wild areas of Pilates Floating Island.
Although the little devils are very weak, so weak that fireballs cannot even ignite living grass, they rely on their ability to fly and have a wide range of activities. They will harass everything that moves. They can be said to be the biggest obstacle to the development of the Pilates industry.
In this area, any farmer who lives on the edge of the city will see little devils once every three to five days on average. Sometimes there are a few, and sometimes there are hundreds. Although farmers rarely have direct conflicts with little devils, this frequency The degree is enough to explain the problem.
The little devil problem has even caused tractors and wood gas trucks in the Pilates area to be fully cabined.
Now that the little devil has become weaker due to the influence of the environment, and the local defense pressure is reduced, manpower can be squeezed out to search and attack the little devil's lair.
I heard from people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that cities in Pilates are discussing a joint defense line.
That kind of defense line cannot be compared with the border line of the Phoenix Kingdom, because they do not plan to deal with the attack of the demon swarm head-on in the wild. It is specially used to clear out the little demons and improve the transportation environment. It is mainly in the form of small team patrols, and the floating island is Several cities are circled.
When the temperature is high, the little devils can move about 80 kilometers a day, and the radius of activity after building a nest is 30 kilometers. Occasionally, a few will fly out 40 to 50 kilometers.
We haven't received a detailed report at this stage, but the radius of activity must have shrunk somewhat. The joint Pilates defense line only needs to ensure that the distance between the city and the patrol line is greater than the radius of activity of the little devil.
Wang Qi found a map and drew a circle of 30 kilometers. He found that after the drawing, the remaining land in the Pilates area only amounted to more than a thousand square kilometers.
When the vegetation is withered, high-density aerial reconnaissance can easily find all the nests inside.
This can help.
After their defense lines are cleared, I will provide some intelligence support to try to rid Pilates Floating Island of the little devil.
You can even help build some fortifications later.
There will be many problems when the loose lords unite to defend a line of defense, such as how much effort to contribute, how to share the expenses, etc. Don't have any expectations until the power of the floating island is unified.
Therefore, even if the cleanup work of the entire island is completed, the outer perimeter will be mainly in the form of sentry towers and beacon towers. It seems that pulling telephone lines will also work. The overall project volume will not be too large. Maybe we can just discount the aid.
