Chapter 1382 What I Saw
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"Captain, another piece of the same information..." The clown walked to Hill Fox holding a piece of paper.
Even though several years have passed since the incident, the first few circus partners still habitually call him the leader.
"Where did it come from?" Hill took the note and scanned it at a glance, "Can it be traced back to the source?"
"The messenger's location is in the southern part of Eternal Winter. There are three cities there. Other than that, there are no other reminders on the seal."
Hill frowned and pondered for a moment, then stood up abruptly, "Help me inform Master Iron Ax and Lady Edith that we may be in trouble."
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Fifteen minutes later.
Edith put down the information and tapped the table gently, "...In other words, this incident happened all over Eternal Winter at the same time?
Hill nodded, "Although it is impossible to confirm which cities are executing this order, judging from the distribution of intelligence, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an overall trend."
In the past few days, the intelligence department has received several secret letters with similar content.
The letter showed that the nobles were using force to relocate local residents.
And their movement direction is all northward.
The similarities are so consistent, but the intelligence from different regions is almost impossible to be misinformation or forgery. In other words, the nobles of Eternal Winter are launching a unified action.
Although the word "migration" is only briefly mentioned on MeSign, it is by no means a small matter. There are limits to a city's carrying capacity, and too few or too many people will cripple it. There are many more things that need to be taken into consideration during the migration, such as food for people to eat, temporary shelter, belongings to carry, etc... Neverwinter City definitely understands this very well. It can even be said that the city ruled by the old aristocracy has no ability to complete a large-scale migration. Without strong strength and material support, the so-called migration is nothing but a road to death.
It is true that most nobles do not care about the life and death of civilians, but that is only when civilians are "individuals". The lord's taxation and rule are inseparable from the civilian population. If there is no one under the rule, no matter how powerful the power is, it will be meaningless. Once these civilians find that they cannot benefit from migration, they are bound to lose all hearts and minds. What's more, gathering a large number of people together can easily cause riots, so even the most domineering nobles will not do such shocking things easily.
But now it's not just one noble who is doing this, but the entire north is doing this, clearly under the instruction of other forces.
The only person in the Kingdom of Everwinter who has the ability to do this is the devil.
"But why would the devil do this?" Edith said to herself doubtfully, "If you just want to weaken Graycastle's war potential, you can kill all the civilians... If there is a spider demon, even if the nobles are not willing, they can There’s nothing we can do to stop it.”
"Maybe the devil thinks... they are still useful." Dawn Dawn tried to speculate.
"If they are useful, they should not be forcibly relocated." Hill shook his head. "Eternal Winter is the smallest city among the four kingdoms. Even the royal capital can only accommodate 20,000 to 30,000 people without advance preparation, let alone them. The movement route does not end in the royal capital.”
"The northernmost big city is..." Edith looked at the map.
"Xueying Castle, backed by the source of the Impasse Mountain Range, is only half the size of the royal capital." Feilin immediately added the relevant information, "Due to its unique terrain, the permanent population is lower, and it is also the first place where the red mist appears."
"If the devil was going to move everyone here, it would be no different than just killing them," Hill said.
"And the enemy will never do anything unnecessary," Edith nodded in agreement. "I think something must have happened that we haven't noticed yet, which caused the devil to take this seemingly unexplainable action."
"What could be the accident?" Tie Ax asked.
"I don't know..." Edith said slowly, "But it shouldn't be good news. Let's notify the front line first and let them be more vigilant."
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"This red cloud...could it be where the Devil's Obelisk is?" Tilly murmured.
"No," Lightning replied solemnly, "From this distance, we shouldn't be able to see the red mist..."
"Can't see? Why?"
"Because the red mist is all flowing downward!" It was Maisie who answered her. "I have seen the mist pouring down from the edge of the Impasse Mountain, just like a waterfall!"
"Yes, I don't know if it is because the red mist is heavier than the air, which makes it easier for them to gather at low altitudes, but one thing is certain. When the red mist invades the Everwinter Kingdom from the spine of the continent, it is not a blanket on the top of the mountain. Red." Lightning added.
"You mean they flowed down the ravine?" Tilly raised an eyebrow.
That's why she said that the red mist cannot be seen within this distance - now they are hundreds of kilometers away from the highest mountain range on the continent. If the red mist does not rise, it will inevitably be blocked by the mountains and mountains.
"More than that," Lightning confirmed, "a month ago I patrolled north along the Impasse Mountains and approached the edge of the red fog area, but at that time there was no red cloud on the spine of the continent. It... didn't seem to be Like something rising from the Great Rift Valley.”
Tilly couldn't help but feel a chill rising from behind. At this time, she gradually noticed that the red on the mountain was not a thin layer, but a whole from top to bottom. To be more precise, it looked like it was from top to bottom. A huge cloud pillar pouring down from the clouds.
She stared at the vision in front of her and was silent for a while before she said, "There is a way that might allow us to see more clearly."
Lightning raised his head and looked at the dark clouds above his head, "I think so too."
The higher you fly, the further you see.
As long as they could take the continent's spine into their eyes, they might be able to see the true face of that red cloud.
"In that case, let's give it a try -" Tilly increased the throttle to the maximum again, pulled up the nose of the plane and climbed towards the clouds, while Lightning followed closely beside the cockpit, trying to cover Tilly with the magic synchronization as much as possible .
With the cooperation of the two people, the altimeter pointer on the Phoenix deflected little by little toward the end.
When it rose to an altitude of 7,500 meters, the earth had already shown a clear arc, the dark clouds became intermittent and no longer a whole piece, and a light blue appeared at the edge of the earth.
Dense beads of sweat broke out on Lightning's forehead. It was obvious that the high altitude had put a heavy burden on her synchronization barrier. Through the glass window, Tilly found that there were patches of white frost on the fuselage. If it hadn't been for the other party, She has been using magical synchronization to alleviate her discomfort, and I am afraid that she will not be able to focus on flying the plane as she is now.
"It's almost done." Tilly could clearly feel that the thrust of the engine was rapidly weakening, "Let's find a gap here."
"Leave it to me Gu!" Maisie stuck her head out and transformed into eagle eye mode.
In about half an hour, she found an excellent viewing point - through the gap between the clouds, she could just see a small outline of the spine of the continent in the distance.
However, when the scene above the red mist was reflected in the lookout mirror, the three of them could hardly believe their eyes.
They saw a floating piece of land.