Chapter 1195 Whalefall 【Subscription】

When a giant dies.

Its flesh and blood will nourish the insects of the earth.

The skeleton will become a silent fossil and become a part of the earth.

A whole new micro-ecosystem may even be born from this.

Nutrients from giants can be circulated to meet the needs of many microorganisms.

Before the arrival of the earth, there was a saying that whales fell.

The so-called one whale falls, all things live is the same reason.

Whale fall refers to the phenomenon that a whale sinks to the bottom of the sea after it dies.

When a whale dies in the ocean, its carcass will eventually sink to the bottom of the ocean.

Biologists have dubbed this process whale fall.

A whale carcass can support a circulatory system dominated by decomposers for hundreds of years.

Whalefall is a long process.

Feeding the body of the whale is just the beginning of this gluttonous feast.

When the large pieces of whale meat are preyed clean, deep-sea sharks, ratfish and other scavengers will disperse contentedly.

Afterwards, polychaetes and crustaceans would gather on tiptoe, and they directly used the whalebone and nearby nutrient-rich sediments to live and reproduce and expand rapidly.

Slowly, the body of the whale quietly released sulfide during the anaerobic decomposition process in the deep sea, and the bacteria that lived on the sulfide converted it into organic matter, creating a biological community that relied on these chemoautotrophic microorganisms.

Ultimately, the remains of the whalebone serve as reefs for biological joy. The whole process is seamless and interlocking, lasting decades or even hundreds of years.

Of course, the growth of a whale often takes a long time.

During this period, the power it seized will eventually be returned to sentient beings.

Today's giant city of Lentax is performing a scene like a whale falling.

The giant city itself is the dying giant.

The countless lords around are like microbes waiting for carrion to come.

The Calamity Raven Church acts as a whale hunter, promoting the fall of the giant city.

At this time, the third circle was burning everywhere.

Civilians tried to leave the city, but there was nowhere to go.

They were coerced in groups to the bottom of the transmission channel, waiting to be escorted to Jackdaw Valley in batches.

The streets were full of chasing, crying and shouting.

A large number of ownerless horses, mules and pack cattle neighed helplessly in the burning shed.

But fear not, as the livestock will soon be smuggled away by the lords of chicken thieves.

No matter how bad it is to slaughter it on the spot, it will be a good ration if it is stored in the storage compartment.

When all the aborigines were trying to escape from the giant city, the only ones going upstream were the lords.

As the situation in the giant city deteriorated, more and more lords got the news.

They sent messages to each other in the [legion] channel, and even the [channels] in several nearby areas exploded.

Therefore, in the past few hours, the surrounding lords are like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea to show their magical powers, rushing to the giant city of Lentax, and more than a thousand lords who were originally discussing life in the city are conducting in the [channel] in their respective regions. The real-time "live broadcast" intensified the madness of the crowd.

No matter how many trials and challenges he has experienced, the lord will never change his greedy nature.

This is also the essence of the fourth natural disaster.

The only difference is that most lords only have one life.

Of course, this is not absolute, after all, there is the resurrection authority, just like Zong Shen revived Jiang Yi.

It is not guaranteed that other lords will have similar opportunities.

But all in all, the actions of the lords are risky.

It's just that under the herd effect, most people will forget the risk.

In fact, the issue of survivor bias is also involved here.

Those lords who were killed could not speak.

Those who can speak in [Channel] are basically vested interests.

The third circle of Lentax is the urban area with the largest area.

Even with millions of people, the church cannot quickly occupy every corner.

There are always a few blocks that slip through the cracks.

As far as the lord is concerned, there are resources everywhere, and scattered supplies and dinars can be seen everywhere.

Even if you just looted a shop at random, you could make a lot of money.

Because this kind of harvest happens to match the progress of most lords.

They don't have much ambition, they just want to pick up the loopholes. It would be even better if they can get back a thousand or eight hundred people by the way.

Loot shops, people, livestock, and even clothing and equipment from corpses.

The lords are like locusts that enter the country, able to devour everything.

Of course, it is difficult for them to shake the pattern of the giant city.

And no lord would unwisely set his sights on the entire giant city.

Such an idea is no less unrealistic than trying to become a king in one step when a toddler!

Thousands of lords turned into marauders, each with their subordinates rampaging across the third circle.

This made the situation here even more chaotic.

In the third circle at this time, there are not only a small number of scattered garrison troops withdrawn from the outer city towers, the total number is about 70,000 to 80,000, but also various small and medium-sized forces that need to be developed in the third circle, including some chambers of commerce and small organizations. Relying on strongholds for small-scale resistance.

They all had foundations in the city, and asking them to give up their fortunes and even be taken captive to Jackdaw Valley to become slaves of faith was more uncomfortable than killing them.

In such a chaotic situation, farmers and ranchers living outside the city are the least affected.

But this is only temporary.

There are no eggs under the nest, and it will be a matter of time before the flames of war spread outside the city.

There have been wise farmers who picked up the treasures and the wealth accumulated over the years and chose to run away.

Family members and guards add up to be a huge group.

The land will not grow feet, but the war is merciless.

The fate of sticking to the land is unbearable for them.

With the wealth at hand, these farmers have the capital to re-establish themselves wherever they are.

But not everyone can figure it out.

Anyone who has dealt with the land all the year round knows that over time, a special sense of belonging will be created in the land.

In times of crisis, there are always many people who are reluctant to part with their land.

Different choices lead to different encounters, but they all reveal the fall of the giant city.

The chaos broke out in the afternoon, and it was almost dusk at this moment.

When Zong Shen and Penny entered the city on Nightmare, they happened to witness the most chaotic scene.

The main body of the towering third tower has been occupied by the church's troops.

But the cables and winches controlling the rune gates have been destroyed.

The wreckage of burning carriages is piled up in the passage of the city gate, and there are many corpses of the guards who have been stripped of their equipment.

From time to time, small groups of aborigines hurried across the burning ruins and left the city with their bags on their backs.

But if you don't go far, you will be caught by the lord who is guarding outside with a mask.

Nightmare shuttles at a very fast speed. The speed of 1350 kilometers per hour is converted to 375 meters per second.

This speed is an afterimage in the eyes of most people.

Not to mention that [Nightmare Shuttle] also has the effect of Tier 6 Stealth, coupled with the advantage of being able to ignore some terrain, it allows it to travel unimpeded in the chaotic city.

Passing through the nearly blocked city tower, officially entered the range of the third circle.

Looking back, some of the towers that surrounded the city like black had collapsed.

God knows how many battles, large and small, broke out in the city during this period of time.

The streets in the urban area are roughly complete, at least the stone ground is not easily damaged.

The air is filled with the smell of blood and burnt, and the corpses that can be seen everywhere are still exuding the stench of fresh internal organs.

Burning houses released billowing heat that twisted the air above.

From time to time, a team of lords can be seen passing by.

In order to plunder the giant city, they almost all brought their own elite.

Basically, there are teams of more than a hundred people, mainly soldiers from the second to fourth ranks.

Zong Shen could know which group was the lord and which group was the aborigines without even launching an insight.

The team led by the lord has a characteristic, that is, the arms are mixed.

The arms in the team can be described as diverse, and it can be called the "Wan Guohui".

Many lords also brought their subdued war pets or those alien races living in the wild.

For example, a lord actually led a squadron of goblins under his command, which opened Zong Shen's eyes.

Although he has been at the forefront of development, the base of the lord is there after all.

The actions and encounters of the lord at every moment are difficult to fathom.

They can always come up with something new for you.

Among them are also some courageous, lucky guys who like to find new ways.

Besides the goblins, there were centaurs, murlocs, and even a guy riding on the shoulders of furbolg warriors.

Just as Zong Shen believed, everything in the Endless Continent has no fixed distinction between good and evil for the lord, only the difference between usable or unusable.

Nightmare Khamis moved extremely fast, making Zong Shen and Penny feel like they were flying.

At this time, Penny looked at the not-too-fuzzy distant view and witnessed the chaos of the third circle, tears streaming down the corners of her eyes.

Zong Shen remained silent, he just sympathized with the civilians living in the third circle.

They are the biggest victims. Many of them live their lives in the city according to their duties, but they have suffered indiscriminate disasters and become resources for all parties to compete for.

In one sense there is not much difference between the competition for people and the competition for livestock.

The entire third circle occupies the largest area and accommodates the largest population.

Most of them are the middle and bottom population in the giant city.

Most of them were wrapped up by the Calamity Raven Church and sent back to Jackdaw Valley one after another.

About a third of the civilian population fled the city, but it is unclear how many eventually escaped.

But some of them can definitely escape, after all, the total number is here.

Even if the arrest of the church is like a net bag, there are always loopholes.

Against such a background, there are scattered lord forces with a total of three or four thousand.

The population they could plunder was not too impressive, most of them only had a few hundred people, but there were also a few lucky ones who could rob thousands of people.

The total population plundered is less than one million.

The total population of the third circle is at least 20 million.

However, those aborigines who fled out of the city may soon be intercepted by the lords who came from the surrounding area one after another.

This is all things born from one whale.

The total population of the third circle seems huge, but Zong Shen is not in a hurry about it.

The catastrophe raven church was the one that plundered the most people, and he would just take it from the church when the time came.

After all, it can be regarded as a concentration of the population.

As for wealth, in fact 80% of the wealth and precious materials in the city are concentrated in the first circle.

15% concentrated in the second circle.

Less than 5% of the wealth is scattered in the hands of tens of millions of civilians in the third circle.

This is the biggest consequence of class solidification.

Zong Shen didn't worry at all that his interests would be damaged when the second and first circles were not breached.

Riding Nightmare, they quickly passed through a smoky neighborhood.

It was not detected during this period.

Sixth-level stealth is not a rotten ability. Unless there are corresponding high-level scouts or detection spells, most fighters will not be able to see through it.

Khamis did not rush into the city according to Zong Shen's order.

Instead, they came to the home field of the construction node of the Calamity Raven Church.

In the outer area there, Zong Shen saw the bones of the ancestral frost dragon that was attracting light particles from the void from a long distance away.

Little Heizi did not enter the city, but wandered outside the city to intercept several wealthy caravans and farmers according to his orders.

These are smart people who left the city decisively at the beginning of the chaos.

There is space to store props, and many materials can be packed and taken away.

At the moment, when many lords are intercepting these aborigines running away, Zong Shen asked the little blackie to go out with [Pascal's Big Pocket of Contract (Golden)] to rob the richer guys among them. wrong.

Don't let the fat water flow to outsiders' fields, let them escape, and in the end they cannot escape the fate of being robbed by other lords.

It is better to be cheaper than yourself than to be cheap to outsiders.

Winning these teams will not only obtain a group of business talents, but also capture a large amount of food, supplies and dinars, which can be directly used to supplement the development consumption of the territory.

And he himself continued to sit in the city.

At this moment, the super-large dragon skeleton in the distance is floating at a height of about 100 meters above the ground.

It is filled with rays of light, and those rays of light constitute its body.

And until now, there are still particles of light bubbling around.

You must know that it has been more than two hours since the dragon skeleton arrived and the sacrificial ceremony was launched.

Such a long lead-in cycle also confirmed the strength of this projection of God.

Zong Shen and Penny rode Nightmare on the high point of a half-collapsed tower.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, and a countdown in gold appeared in his vision.

[13 minutes and 35 seconds]

This is the countdown to the arrival of the projection of God, which means that there are still 13 minutes before the projection of the God of Frost and Calamity Raven will be attached to this ancestral dragon skeleton with explosive strength.

Taking out the [Communication Crystal], Zong Shen first communicated with Earl Rice and Ingram who were staying in the second circle.

The battle there was fierce, the church used large-scale mana siege equipment, and the durability of the mana shield was rapidly depleting.

After the communication was connected, Earl Rice briefly reported the situation to him.

The attack in the direction guarded by the law and order army is not too fierce, but the shield generating device has been overclocked.

It can only be maintained for another hour or so at most before it will be completely shattered!

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